Hugo does not have a close relationship with the gods. Those who know that Annan is a heavenly chariot are basically true gods, false gods, or people directly related to the gods.
Even the gods cannot know things that have nothing to do with them. The fact that they have some information about Annan is related to the connection between "Black Annan" and the righteous gods during the first week.
Logically speaking, the owner of Hugo Tower should not know that Annan is the sky crane.
But Annan soon realized...this should be what Bernardino told Hugo. The relationship between them does not seem to be completely hostile.
Just as Annan explained to Shi Sanxiang before - young wizards basically make friends based on "talent". Because if the talent gap is too big, the lives of two people after graduation will almost not be the same.
No more interactions.
Considering that both Hugo and Bernardino will become gold-level in the future, and their ages are also about the same.
Maybe they had a good relationship when they were young...but as they grew older, they ended up on completely opposite paths.
"...Now that the books of the Heavenly Chariot have been collected, it means that the light of the seventh ray is finally coming."
Hugo was silent for a long time, and then whispered: "It's a pity that I couldn't catch up."
Annan knew what he was talking about.
With Hugo's desire and ability, he should have been recognized by the Book of Truth long ago. But just like the reason why Annan came here - the old truth stored in the sky wheel is no longer enough to be compiled into a book.
But... it's too late.
If he hadn't had that fight with Bernardino, he might have been able to wait until Annan completed the sublimation ceremony. As long as Annan sublimated into a new heavenly carriage, he would definitely be able to get the fragment of truth as soon as possible... and be promoted to the truth level immediately.
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Even if you become a god and gain eternal life and immortal authority, it is only a matter of time.
But it was too late.
"I can live for another two months at most."
The slender ghost said calmly: "This is a maximum value. Because the soul is too empty, about forty days later, I will gradually lose my mind due to the lack of soul.
"Even if you can immediately reach the gold level and ascend quickly... it is already too late. My remaining life is not enough for me to collect all the books of truth.
"That is to say...I can't catch up anymore."
Hugo is about the same level of extraordinary person as the man in the mirror.
Whether it's talent, desire or anything else, it's all of the highest quality.
The difference between them is that the man in the mirror can let go of the inheritance of the Cold Wind White Tower - using the inheritance of the Wizard Tower as bait to lure other wizards to help him complete the sublimation ceremony.
For the man in the mirror, it is undoubtedly worthwhile to use his life, future, dignity, the inheritance of the Wizard Tower and everything he can give to verify whether his ritual is correct.
This ritual was originally invented by Lord Skeleton and used once by Fu Fu. The Man in the Mirror believes that it has room for optimization. However, this ritual that replaces the Book of Truth only has the highest level of the gold rank and completes all the functions except "truth".
Only an extraordinary person who has achieved all the achievements other than the "prototype" can complete it.
There is no possibility of his theory being put into practice.
The person in the mirror thought - let's do the experiment on ourselves.
Fortunately, he succeeded in the end.
If he had failed... I am afraid that his soul would have been wandering in the gap between life and death, entangled in the pain of immortality for the rest of his life. Until he was tortured to the point of forgetting everything, and became a resentful soul that would never rest in peace.
For the man in the mirror, he is first a wizard and a ritual master, and secondly the master of the tower.
But for Hugo, it was the opposite.
He is Lord of the Tower first—and a wizard second.
It was only later that Annan learned from Salvatore... that the holy fire passed down from generation to generation in the Black Tower of Zedi even had properties similar to the Philosopher's Stone.
It can be directly fueled by "wisdom".
This means...if the owner of Hugo Tower at that time could be cruel enough to burn all the wizards in the Zedi Black Tower to death.
Not only would they not be the material Bernardino used to make the "Philosopher's Stone".
Instead, the soul that can replace Hugo's Tower Master is burning... and easily defeats Bernardino.
But the master of Hugo Tower failed to be cruel in the end.
He would rather watch the wizards he taught being killed by Bernardino, and then go to Bernardino to fight for their lives... than he would rather burn them to death in advance as his own "fuel".
"Vatore-senpai" thinks this is a pointless and weak move.
She believes that this is human "emotion" that restrains the master of Hugo Tower and makes him make a judgment that is not rational and should not belong to a superior.
But Annan and Salvatore both believed that Hugo Tower Master was right.
Although in terms of results, you can undoubtedly get better results by doing it yourself...but not everything in this world can have results.
This is a classic trolley problem.
If you take away the lives of some people to save others just for the sake of "better results", you are actually turning yourself into a scale and the supreme judge, judging right and wrong on behalf of heaven.
That is undoubtedly an act of arrogance.
The fundamental reason is that these students and mentors are not the "property" of Hugo Tower Master. He does not have the right to sacrifice things that do not belong to him to save others.
They can indeed choose to sacrifice themselves, but Hugo cannot sacrifice for them. Although in terms of consequentialism, there is no difference... but there is still a difference between killing people to save people and saving people to kill people.
It is precisely because of this that Annan sat here calmly and discussed "things that cannot be heard by Salvatore for the time being" with the owner of Hugo Tower.
"I'm sorry, I can't help you."
Annan said slowly: "It's too late...it's too late."
There was no guilt in his voice, just real and rational regret.
It wasn't because Salvatore's mentor lost the chance to become a god.
But the world has lost a reliable "living pillar".
Annan is feeling sorry for this world.
"It doesn't matter."
Hugo just shook his head and took his death indifferently: "When people live, they have to die. Even if I can't become a god, it doesn't mean that my life is meaningless.
"The fire is passed down from generation to generation - as long as the initial flame is still burning until the end, we "succeeders" in the middle are valuable.
"I asked you to come...to seek some possibility."
He said seriously: "You know, Your Majesty, the next generation of [Fire Stealer] was originally supposed to be inherited by Benjamin Foster."