Chapter 2947 The morning that will never return (twenty-two)
Albert walked up the stairs slowly and reached the upper floor.
He walked very carefully all the way, for fear of stepping on some trap. He had to be careful, because his next opponent was most likely the trap master [Annihilation of the Caucasus], and that guy was famous for setting traps, so it was impossible Don't lay a lot of traps on the road.
However, he didn't step on anything. The strange thing was that Caucasus didn't set any traps on the stairs, not even one.
When Albert climbed to the upper floor, the fifth floor of the Guardian Tower, Caucasus was waiting silently in the middle of the floor hall.
"You know meow," the tiger man young man asked when he came up, "you could have set up traps on the road to cause trouble for me. But you didn't. As a trap master, you missed the best opportunity to set up traps. Are you going to duke it out with me openly in a place like this, meow? Is it the person who is manipulating everything behind the scenes who ordered you to do this?"
"Just take it as such." The leopard man in the distance narrowed one eye and answered vaguely.
"Before we start the fight, I have some questions to ask you." Albert approached cautiously, being wary of various possible traps along the way - even though the surrounding ground looked very clean.
"Ask." Caucasus responded coldly. He didn't pick up a weapon when Albert approached, as if he didn't want to fight Albert at all - or maybe he didn't use weapons to fight at all.
"Are you Caucasus himself, or his artificial replica?"
"Copy." Leopard Man said bluntly.
"When did you replace the real person? Could it be that it was replaced a long time ago? Before the Great Hunting Festival started?...No, before you became a special G-level hunter Caucasus?"
"Ah, I'm glad you can see it." The leopard man squinted his other eye, and the originally squinted eye opened.
"Because you have been paying attention to me a long time ago, and your behavior has been very suspicious since then. I guess you have been a spy in the hunter organization from the beginning." Albert analyzed: "Other special G-class The hunter will be replaced by a copy, and it's probably you who are behind it."
"Exactly right."
"Those replicas attacked my master Castro and caused his death. Was that part of your plan?"
"Yes."
"Castro dealt with the special G-class hunter replicas in Lviv, but you were the only one who slipped through the net." The tiger man analyzed calmly, but there was a fire of revenge burning in his eyes: "It was you who assassinated President Nitro after I left Lviv. It was you who made Nina look like that, made the [Summer of Love] go out of control, and made the whole [Great Hunting Festival] ruined. You are the culprit, right?"
"I admit most of them." Leopard Man replied disapprovingly: "But I didn't let the [Great Hunting Festival] go to waste. It should be said that this is the original appearance of the [Great Hunting Festival]. It was supposed to be a large-scale sacrifice." "Sacrifice, countless Warcraft hunters should have died. But because of your actions, the plan deviated greatly. Fortunately, I was here to finally get the plan back on track. You should thank me."
"Ha, thank you. What a hypocritical guy." Albert clenched the weapon in his hand and almost wanted to rush forward and kill the trap master Caucasus directly. But he still suppressed his anger and hatred with reason and continued to trap. What the other party said: "What's the point of doing such a thing? Would you rather sacrifice the lives of a large number of orcs and continue to be the lackeys of the ancients?"
"You don't understand at all, kid." Caucasus suddenly laughed. He opened his arms and preached without warning, like a preacher intoxicated in his speech: "You are destroying the whole world, and I am
Saving it. You never know how right I was in everything I did.
This world has already sunk deep into the mud, and half of the earth has fallen into the hands of dark creatures. It won’t be long before the walls that protect our world will collapse, and dark creatures will sweep everything away, eat us up, and plunge the entire earth into eternity.
In the dark!
The one who can save us from suffering is not King Arthur, nor the Knights of the Round Table, nor you, Sothenes; the only one who can save us from suffering is our true creators, those who once were at the center of order and controlled the entire world. Only let
Only when they return from the abyss to the present world can we be saved; only by obeying them can we continue to live.
They are gods. Only they can fight against darkness, repel and purify darkness, and give us hope to live again. Only they can bring true order and completely resolve the chaos and disputes in this world.
It's obviously such a simple truth, why don't you people understand it?!"
"So only you understand. Ha." Albert sarcastically said: "In order to save yourself, bring the ancient creators back to the world. In order to save yourself, you would rather be their lackeys, slaves, or even animals. You
Not only are your life and memories borrowed, you don’t even have your own backbone!”
"Just think you are right." Caucasus asked in turn: "But what can I do? No one can disobey those creators, even if they are just sleeping in the abyss and have never fully awakened! There is no one who can disobey those creators.
You know that people can fight [boundless darkness]! You have seen it with your own eyes! How despairing the darkness from the Eastern Dark Continent is!
Do you really think that you are Sothenes, the savior, who can fight against the gods and defeat the darkness that destroys the world?
No! You are nothing! The savior Sotnis is just a false title! You can't do anything, you are just a little tiger with a little special power! Just a child!"
"Perhaps." The tiger stripes on the tiger man's body are glowing. He has entered a state of transcendence and sainthood, and is ready to attack at any time: "But I [child] have killed all your companions, and you are the last one. If you still think
I don’t have the power to reverse all this, so just try to stop me. And I will make you unable to eat and walk around in circles!"
"Hahahahahaha!" The trap master laughed, he laughed so wildly that he even bent over.
"What's so funny?"
"You said you would make me walk around without food? Seriously?" The Leopard Man covered his face and continued to laugh: "Don't be ridiculous. You can't beat me. You don't even know that the battle has already started, and you -
—I have already fallen into a trap!"
"What the hell?!"
When Albert noticed it, the surrounding scene was already a bit strange. In other words, the scenery in front of him was stretching.
"What the hell...?" He tried to move forward, but he was pushed back by the stretching scene. He was getting further and further away from the trap master Caucasus.
"I know that ordinary traps can't deal with you." Caucasus Road: "Any physical trap may be avoided or defended by you. However, you cannot avoid non-physical traps."
Albert frowned. He had no idea what kind of trap he had fallen into. He only knew that what he saw in front of him was unusual.
"[Causal Weapon - Black Friday]." Caucasus hummed: "This is the strongest logical trap I have prepared for you. As long as you fall into this trap, you will never be able to achieve [truth]."
You will always be lingering in front of the door of truth, but you will not be able to get in. Now, I am tired of seeing your cat face, get out of here!"
"Huh?!" Before Albert could figure out what was going on, the scene in front of him stretched at a high speed in an instant. The Caucasus, which originally seemed to be thirty yards away from him, was already a hundred yards away!
The next second, he was even a thousand yards away, turning into an invisible point! And the world around him transformed into a huge, infinitely extending world, constantly pushing Albert "backward"!
Until he couldn't even understand the definition of "rear area"!
"...Huh?" Albert came back to his senses and found himself standing next to a headless body. That was the body of [Destruction Master], the White Elephant Deidara.
Albert didn't know what he was doing, why he was in a daze in a place like this. He had obviously wasted enough time, he should continue to the upper level of the Guardian Tower to face the final enemy——[Trap
Master Caucasus].
He shook his head and walked towards the stairs. Carefully, he climbed up step by step.
There was a strange sense of déjà vu lingering in his mind, but he couldn't figure out what was going on... He probably hadn't climbed this staircase yet, right? He knew that Caucasus was a [Trap Master] and was famous for setting traps.
, it stands to reason that various traps will be placed on this staircase to hinder Albert's progress.
But why? He seemed to have a vague feeling that the stairs were "clean" and there would be no traps. Is this intuition? Or did he suddenly awaken to the ability to predict the future?
Stop joking.
He put aside the strange thoughts in his mind and climbed up the stairs at a constant speed but with caution. He soon reached the fifth floor of the Guardian Tower. In the middle of that floor, [Trap Master
Caucasus] is waiting for Albert.
"We meet again." Caucasus said calmly.
"Again?" Albert frowned, not understanding what was going on. "Again", maybe it refers to meeting again after the previous farewell in Lviv? - Whatever. Never mind.
.
"You know meow," the tiger man young man asked when he came up, "you could have set up traps on the road to cause trouble for me. But you didn't. As a trap master, you missed the best opportunity to set up traps.
Are you going to duke it out with me openly in a place like this, meow? Did the person behind everything command you to do this?"
"It's this kind of question again. Why do I have to answer it again." The leopard man in the distance squinted one eye and replied with a little boredom. The answer was ambiguous: "Forget it. Just take it as yes."
A strange sense of déjà vu came to Albert's mind, but he didn't realize the problem.
"Before we start the fight, I have some questions to ask you." Albert approached cautiously, being wary of various possible traps along the way - even though the surrounding ground looked very clean.
"Yes. Duplicates. I have been replaced from the beginning. Their deaths were all planned by me." Caucasus responded coldly, as if he knew what Albert wanted to ask from the beginning and was ready at the same time.
All the answers.
Albert opened his mouth and was speechless for a long time.
"Can you read minds?"
"I think I have similar abilities." Caucasus laughed and said, "No need to talk nonsense. You want to find the real culprit that caused the failure of the [Great Hunting Festival], and I am. But I also said that everything I did was
It is to save the world. The ancient people must return, and this world that is about to be swallowed by darkness can be saved. Just relying on you, a motley army of humans and orcs, there is no way we can win that [boundless darkness]."
The young tiger man frowned. The topic of Trap Master Caucasus was very jumpy, and there was a bit of confusion in the beginning and the end. But the amazing thing was that Albert could actually understand it, as if he had heard a more detailed version before.
But the problem is that he has no memory of all this. This is obviously the first time he has met Caucasus in this tower.
What happened? Where did this unusual sense of dissonance come from?
"I've advised you, Sotnis." Caucasus continued: "Turn back, don't go forward. Everything you do is meaningless, has made no contribution to the world, and may even push the world into chaos."
The abyss of destruction. You think you are the savior Soltness, but in fact you are just an immature child. Look back. You still have this opportunity. Not everyone in the world has this opportunity, you should cherish it."
"I don't know what you are talking about." Albert said angrily: "If it was your plan to anger me, then you did it. Stop talking nonsense and start a war! You will pay the price for your arrogance."
!"
Caucasus shook his head: "You still don't understand, Mr. Albert. There is no difference between starting a war and not starting a war. You have already lost from the beginning. You have fallen into my trap and are now trapped in it."
"...What meow?"
Once again, the surrounding scene became strange, and everything in front of him was stretching. The trap master Caucasus, who was originally only ten yards away from him, moved to a distance of thirty yards along with the entire stretching scene. And next
In a second, he moved further away, almost out of sight.
"You will never reach [truth]. Just wander endlessly in front of the door of truth and waste your time." The voice of Caucasus echoed in Albert's mind, both far and near.
Albert knew that he had fallen into the opponent's trap, but he had no idea what kind of trap he had fallen into. He only knew that the trap dragged him "far away", and that he was getting further and further away from his target, the Caucasus.
.When the Caucasus shrank to only a dot in his field of vision, he knew that he "could not go back."
"Huh?" Albert came back to his senses and found himself in a daze next to the headless body of the white elephant man Deidara.
It's so strange, why are you hanging out in a place like this? There are obviously more important things that need to be done.
He turned his head and looked at the stairway not far away, the familiar yet unfamiliar stairway. He was confused, but he couldn't stop there, so he made up his mind to run towards the stairway and move towards the upper floor of the Guardian Tower.
There, the special G-class hunter and trap master [Annihilation of the Caucasus] was silently waiting for Albert's arrival.