But if you have to choose between a "coward" and a "madman", Annan will definitely not be the former.
If at that moment, the "people similar to me" that Annan saw were really worms, then Annan would never be so fearful, angry, and desperate.
Later, Annan regained his lost memory and the personality of "Black Annan".
However, Annan's personality has not undergone drastic changes. This means that even if the negative emotions are not blocked by the reversed Heart of Winter, Annan will never become a mortal who goes crazy in the face of indescribable terror.
But Annan was not aware of this at that time.
He elevated the existence of worms infinitely higher in his heart because Annan had heard too many people describe this existence.
The invisible enemy, the transforming beast, the snake that is not a snake, the self-devourer, the shadow of the heavenly chariot. Many, many people kept repeating in Annan’s ears that the worm is powerful and irresistible.
Isn’t this a [cognition] of worms?
"These remarks distorted my senses and affected my rationality. Unknowingly, I also became the 'culture medium' carrying the knowledge of worms. But if now, I calm down and think again...
"When did I start thinking, 'The worm has taken on a physical form'?"
Following Annan's words.
Light gradually ignited beneath him.
Behind Annan, the majestic Valkyrie emerged.
——But in the mirror in front of Annan.
Behind "Annan" in the mirror, there is no noble false body consistent with Annan's behind.
But it's empty.
"Yes, it started when you came into contact with me."
Annan replied: "Tell me, the person you have obtained the entity is yourself."
[Lend me your wisdom and body... Sky Crane]
The worm used the image of Annan to say this to Annan.
After losing his memory of specific details, when Annan returned to the world, he told the news that the worm had gained its own intelligence and entity.
——Because of this information, the plans of the righteous gods changed.
They believe that since the worm has obtained Annan's wisdom and entity, it is not suitable for Annan to ascend first and then go to the future.
Because the worm will definitely be dormant quietly in the future, waiting for the moment when Annan ascends - to swim upstream from the future and completely destroy the sky carriage from the level of destiny.
If you want to avoid being destroyed by the worm with the power of time and fate, you can only appear in the same time period as the worm, and be so close to the worm that you are close to it. This is the only time point where the worm cannot take advantage of the situation at all.
But when Annan comes to the future.
People in the future will be so happy and peaceful.
Even this "theocracy", which was specially created to imprison worms, did not become chaotic and disorderly because of this. But it is clear that as long as the worms exist, they will change the surrounding atmosphere...
Then there is only one answer.
"You lied to me, worm."
Annan replied: "You didn't get my 'body' at all, you just got my wisdom.
"Because you are me. You knew that I would see through this level of deception, so you attacked me and flooded my mind with overwhelming negative emotions, making me forget the details.
"Let me use my credibility and my wisdom to vouch for you... Let me personally tell the gods that 'the worm has obtained a physical body'. Make such words credible.
"You let me grow up enough to kill Fufu, and then let Fufu kill me. So Fufu's information came to me, and I will analyze it myself to the result you want me to analyze - that is
I have to come here or I will be killed by you.
"But Daryl told me another thing. Even if the sky wheel does not exist, it is possible for mortals to ascend to the gods. If there really are worms that can affect the past from the future, then they will not even have one
It's impossible for them to survive.
“Will be like Sisyphus—fall like fire.”
Annan stared at the mirror and narrated calmly.
In the mirror, the corners of his mouth began to rise slightly.
"Why should we be aware of such a thing?"
"Annan" in the mirror sighed: "We could have been quiet and united as one.
"Just like I promised you... Lend me your wisdom and body."
It gradually revealed a cheerful and exaggerated smile.
The corners of the mouth have expanded to an angle that is impossible for humans - it is more than half the size of the face. And in the smile, there is no mouth and tongue at all, but a dark abyss.
The eyes that were as beautiful as the crescent moon turned into pitch black.
There are no pupils, no eyeballs. Just an abyss of nothingness and chaos.
Like a pair of deep black narrow moons.
"But I didn't promise... When will I borrow half of it, and when will I borrow the remaining half. This can't be considered a lie."
"Annan" in the mirror said this.
The fingers that were in contact with Annan outside the mirror gradually moved away.
It was slightly staggered and poked out of the mirror, as if it was about to interlock with Annan's fingers.
Annan slapped away Worm's hand without hesitation.
The noble avatar behind him pierced the sword of light into the floor-to-ceiling mirror.
The high heat instantly exploded the mirror and surrounding walls.
But the "other Annan" who still smiled strangely, but whose facial features were full of abyss, stood intact where the mirror originally was.
It's like it's not a mirror, but a glass window.
"You should have realized this a long time ago, Annan."
A voice exactly like Annan's sounded: "I left you a clue.
"Chiron once saw the future... He saw that I got my body again. But I don't know why I got it. And this is the moment you are closest to victory.
"That idiot Fufu also leaked key information to you."
[As long as you fell into despair and committed suicide at that time, he could recreate the past history. He would cross the ages as the 'Son of the Sky Chariot', burst out of your body, and be resurrected in this era with a physical body and wisdom]
That's what Chiron said at the time.
[Then let me make you more convinced. Your Majesty's ability is like this: the further away from Him in history, the greater his control over that history. Except for 'history that cannot be modified', He can change all history.
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And that's what Fufu said.
In this way, the farther the worm is from the "real world", the more powerful it is. If the worm has really obtained a body, why should it be reborn and resurrected to its weaker old age?
"If killing me can make you reborn, then Fu Fu would have killed me long ago. He would not give me any chance at all - because you can affect the earlier past."
Annan said slowly: "The reason why you didn't do this... is because you don't actually want me to die. You want me to come here.
"You started planning very early on. If you analyze it from now on, your earliest clues are not yet here.
"——Eye of Delay, Michelangelo. In other words, the man in the mirror...why was his sublimation ceremony successful? Because you helped him secretly. The purpose was to let him possess the realm of the 'mirror', so that
Hiding a word. A word that I have said countless times but forgotten—"
"'Light emerges from the mirror'."
Annan and "Annan" said in unison.
In the past, when Annan defeated the seven mirrors and became a heavenly chariot, the "mirror" was a very key element. But because of the sublimation of the man in the mirror, he had control over the field of "mirrors"... Annan would subconsciously
They believe that this is a security force that has been controlled by them.
But just as the man in the mirror will not affect the already established Mirror Ceremony... Annan collected the mirrors after he became a god.
The Mirror Ceremony set up by the worm was in the distant future - and also in the past when the chariot driver fell.
"The reason why it's me... is because I am of dragon blood. And dragons are two-phase species."
Annan replied in a low voice: "Like the pure dragon, a scaleless and sinless beast - it originally existed opposite the fallen dragon, just like a mirror. But because of the existence of the chariot driver who also has the power of purity,
He became the mirror of the chariot driver and the collection of all the 'male' forces in this world.
"You are the mirror of the chariot driver, but you can also be my mirror. Ingrid has your characteristics. When I defeat Ingrid, I will be the opposite of her.
"At that time, I will be the opposite of you - you and I will form a mirror ritual.
"Like my seven mirrors. Like the Twin Towers of the past. Like the reflection in Benjamin's nightmare. Like the ritual of the man in the mirror. Like you and the chariot driver are at opposite ends of history. And like we are so close now."
"I use them to obtain the sublimated soul...and you use me to obtain the physical body.
"——Because [light emerges from the mirror]. I originally thought that you would be a darkness that is completely incompatible with me, but I didn't expect... that you would actually be another kind of light."
"If we say, you are the dawn, the light of morning."
The worm whispered in the same voice: "Then I am the light of dusk.
"I was born in the dusk when dawn dies. I am the dusk when all things end.