After hearing the words of the fully sighted Hercules, Mutt was stunned for ten minutes.
When he remembered what to say, he stammered: "You, you, are you serious? You...are you not the champion of the creator race...a warrior who fights on behalf of their interests?"
Why, why do you do this?...You betrayed your people?!"
"No. It is because I love them that I do this." Hercules replied.
"I do not understand……"
"I love this world and my people equally." Iron Wolf added: "Once in two hundred years, my substitute will observe this world on my behalf - this beautiful and ugly, chaotic and orderly, colorful world."
, an ever-changing world, a world that is not controlled by my people.
And I know that as long as my people return to this world, they will definitely impose high-pressure rule on this world. Humans and orcs will once again become the slaves of my people, and the demons will become the tools of my people. The original nations of this world
will be destroyed, leaving only a political power controlled by our race of creators. Then this world that has developed freely for tens of thousands of years without any control will lose its proper color. It will turn gray,
The boring world is no longer worthy of my observation.
——Are you willing to see such a world? Anyway, I’m not willing.”
Mutt swallowed his saliva. Although it was only a verbal description from Hercules, the cat boy could more or less imagine what a terrifying world it was.
Because, the ancient gods and humans were a race that treated life as a show and casually sacrificed humans and orcs to the abyss. Their ruthlessness was unimaginable.
If the ancient gods and humans win this duel, first hundreds of millions of people will be sacrificed to the abyss; then the ancient people will get the help of the abyss, return to the world, and rule everything. Then they will become Hercule.
As Si just described, the world will be ruled by the ancient gods and humans with high pressure, and humans and orcs will be reduced to hard work forever, and they will never have the freedom and excitement they have now.
But why would Hercules want the world to retain its original splendor? He was obviously on the side of the ancients...
"Through my avatar, I have observed thousands of lives, just as I myself have lived thousands of lives." Hercules continued: "The more I live in your world, the more I live in your world."
The more I understand that the splendor of your world is irreplaceable. I will not allow my people to destroy this splendor."
"In that case...can't you just resist?" Mutt asked in confusion.
"Ah, resistance." Heracles, the all-seeing one, said with all his thoughts: "What you said is absolutely correct. Even among my people, there are still some opinions on whether to use the power of the abyss to solve [the decline of the soul] and return to the world.
, there have been disagreements.
Some people think that humans and orcs are just our creations, just like domestic animals, they must be sacrificed when they should be sacrificed. Most of my people think this way. They sleep with me in this abyss, waiting.
A chance for a comeback.
But there are also some tribesmen, a very small part, who believe that we are already a very ancient race and should have been destroyed. They accepted their fate that they should be destroyed, and placed their hopes on the next generation - our creation: human beings.
Orcs, demons.
The former is the so-called [Hawk], and the latter is the so-called [Dove]. Our tribe has always been in conflict on this matter. The doves not only refuse to trade with the abyss, they even try their best to obstruct our
Plan, I hope we will not interfere with the survival and development of this world.
Of course I also thought about joining the [Dove Faction].
But no. I will not join them. I love this world, and I also love my people. I cannot sit back and watch my people disappear silently. My people and I should also have the right to live in this world, without anyone
It is destined to perish."
Mutt looked at Hercules in even more confusion: "So is it okay to sacrifice us? Sacrifice a large number of people just to allow your creator race to survive?"
"That's exactly what makes me extremely distressed." Hercules shook his head.
He did not answer Mutt's question. The cat-man boy frowned.
"As you can see, [the decay of the soul] is eroding me and my people. Even at this moment, as long as I stay [awake], the decay of the soul will eat away at my soul body bit by bit,
In the end, I will die completely." The All-Seeing One continued: "The only way to survive is to use the power of the abyss to sleep in the abyss. Only wake up for a short time when necessary and do what is necessary. However,
That's not living, it's just trying to survive by sleeping.
The contract with the Abyss is for us to offer enough sacrifices. In this case, the Abyss will use special methods to repair the souls of me and my people, so that we can live in this world and no longer suffer [soul decay]
Impact. However, many people will also die because of this - the living people in your world that I have been watching."
"I basically know all of this." Mutt said, "I know there won't be the best of both worlds, either you die or I die. I also know that you have sacrificed many people and killed many innocent people in order to be resurrected.
Life. What else do you want to do now? You can either help your people to resurrect and sacrifice to us, or you can prevent your people from resurrecting and betray them. What else can you do?"
"I think there is a third way to go. That is only a possibility at best, but I believe this possibility exists." The ancient warrior replied: "Because I saw it through Bediwell's eyes.
Yes. There are such people who survived by some means and escaped [the decay of the soul]."
"Is there any evidence?"
"I really don't have any concrete evidence. But I know an interesting special case - Menes."
Mut frowned: "Menes? Is that... the Pharaoh's Menes?"
They were ancient people from many years ago, and Mutt only had a rough idea of them. Although it was not his intention, he lived in Egypt and would at least know some of Egypt's ancient history.
"Strictly speaking, that is my great-great-great-great-grandson." Hercules said: "The creator race cannot combine with humans and give birth to offspring. In fact, the creator race cannot.
To produce offspring. However, as an experiment, they still took some of my genetic material and combined it with human genetic material to produce offspring.
The baby who was first born couldn't survive even a day. It seemed to be affected by the same "soul decay" and was an unconscious vegetative state when he was born. However, they took out the genetic material from that baby, and half of it belonged to humans and half to gods.
genetic material, and then use that to combine it with human genetic material to produce a person with a quarter of the Creator's racial ancestry.
As a result, people with a quarter of the Creator's racial blood can survive successfully. No matter how their descendants marry humans, the Creator's racial blood in their blood will never be diluted and will always remain one-quarter.
Creator race lineage.
Menes is a descendant of that bloodline. It is not an exaggeration to call him a [demigod], but strictly speaking he is a quarter of a god."
Mutt was speechless.
"These [demigods] have powerful abilities that surpass mortals and will always be superior to humans. Moreover, they are all very long-lived and can easily live over two hundred years."
However, they still carry a quarter of the Creator's racial blood in their bodies, and [soul decay] has been lingering around them like a curse. Although they can easily live for two hundred years, without exception, they will die within two hundred years.
Gradually die after many years...die due to [the decay of the soul]."
"But Menes is an exception...?" Mut asked in a low voice.
"Yes. He is an exception. I don't know how he did it, but I have every reason to believe that he is still alive today. If I remember correctly, he has lived for at least a thousand years. As a demigod, he should have died long ago.
He died because of [Degeneration of Soul]. However, he did not. He has been engaged in research on immortality. He must have found some way to overcome the two hundred years limit of [Degeneration of Soul] and survived."
"It's unbelievable..." the cat-man boy muttered. Although it was unbelievable, he couldn't feel any falsehood in the other person's tone. Hercules' statement might be true.
"It is precisely because of this that even if Menis is related to the [Doves] of my clan and has a hostile relationship with the [Hawks], I have left him alone. I have never submitted his information to my superiors - unless I conceal it.
"I can't help it." Hercules added: "But I believe that as long as Bedivere continues to contact Menes, he will eventually be able to locate Menes' location and ask him about the real secret of the art of immortality."
That must be the true path to salvation for our race to be liberated from [the decay of the soul]."
"...You want us to keep waiting." Mutt then said: "Instead of deciding the outcome in this abyss arena, let the outcome be postponed indefinitely until you find a way to get the best of both worlds."
"
"You understand quickly." The All-Seeing One nodded: "I am neither willing to see your world lose hundreds of millions of lives due to sacrifices, nor am I willing to see my people wiped out by [Degeneration of Souls]
.If you want to protect everyone, you can only seek another answer from Menes. But this is not something that can be done overnight."
"So what exactly do you want us to do?" Mutt was a little confused: "Cooperate with your ridiculous plan? How to do it specifically?"
"No. I want you to do nothing." Hercules said, staring at the cat boy: "I know you have other plans. Maybe they are stupid calculations. I advise you not to act rashly. If you anger the abyss,
It will only make you walk around without food."
The cat boy pouted in dissatisfaction. He could feel that the other party was testing them. Hercules didn't know Mutt's plan, but he vaguely knew that Mutt was planning a plan. But Mutt couldn't be that simple.
Show your trump card. In this case, you must remain silent no matter what you say.
"Aren't you talking? Not talking means that you really have a plan." The other party said: "No matter what, no matter what you do, it's useless. You can just wait here silently for the time to pass. I will do it in a month
When the period is about to end, stop this ridiculous competition and destroy this different space together. If you don’t want to die, you should be prepared to escape from here before then."
He actually wanted to destroy the big hollow alien space. Mutt was shocked. Isn't this consistent with their goal?... Or is it all a lie, and Hercules is just trying to trick Mutt?
, or do you want to deceive the favor of the cat boy and let Mutt take the initiative to leak the information about the plan?
No matter what, just keep silent.
"Why me?" Mutt asked in a low voice: "You didn't talk to Mr. Albert about this, but you came to talk to me?"
"Isn't this obvious?" Hercules, the all-seeing one, said with a smile: "Because you are not from their world. You belong to the abyss, and your stance is more neutral."
Before Mutt could react, Hercules grabbed the cat-man boy's right hand, brushed the hair on Mutt's arm with his fingers, and stared at the crystal block hidden under the hair.
"After dealing with you abyssal creatures for a long time, I can easily smell your unique breath." The ancient warrior continued: "You are not from the abyss time realm. You are from another realm, right? A higher dimension.
existence? They are all guarding against you."
Mutt frowned dissatisfied and tried to pull his arm back. However, Hercules' strength was very strong. No matter how hard Mutt tried, his arm was tightly grasped and motionless.
"The master of the Abyss Time Realm is moody. He simply thought you were interesting, so he agreed to your unreasonable request and changed the duel rules to what they are now." Hercules added: "But don't push yourself too far, kid."
He let go of his hand, and Mutt, who was still exerting force, pulled his arm back in an instant, and almost hit himself in the face with the arm.
"That's all I have to say. Staying awake will shorten my life span, so I'm going back." Hercules stood up and said, turned around and left.
"Wait! What's your plan?" Mutt still wanted to ask.
"Do you still want me to share that plan with you, child?" Hercules, the all-seeing one, sneered: "You can't do anything, you are just like ants. Take care of yourselves first and live well."
Without saying anything else, he quickly left the village house.