Chapter 838 Never Had Such a Wonderful Experience
Chapter 838 Never Had Such a Wonderful Experience
If the Great Witch King dies without going through the Witch King Ritual, he will become a ghost that has lost time and can only wander in the past forever?
After listening to the truth told by Wu Youzhi, Leon's eyebrows couldn't help but raise slightly. Some parts that seemed weird before finally got reasonable explanations at this moment.
If the situation was really as the Great Witch King said, and she only needed to live a few dozen hours less, then she could have discussed it directly with herself and Princess Cat Cat. There was no need to secretly put Princess Cat Cat to sleep and deliberately let her avoid this conversation.
Later, I discussed with myself my views on the world, reminded myself that there were still things I wanted to do, and hinted that I might not be able to defeat the theory of nothingness, etc. All of these were paving the way for this moment.
And she probably saw something from the future, so she was prepared to sacrifice herself to send Princess Cat and herself out of "Bedtime Story" so as to reach what she thought was the most perfect ending.
"So…Caitlin and I actually lost?"
After looking up at the crows hiding far away in the tree, and then looking back at the helpless Great Witch Queen, Leon asked thoughtfully:
"She and I failed to defeat the Unknown and died in the Bedtime Story? Or did we succeed, but it was only a hard-fought victory, at an enormous cost? Or... although we won, the entire Miko Country suffered heavy casualties?"
"..."
It’s over.
Looking at Lyon who immediately determined who was telling the truth between him and Wu Youzhishu and directly guessed most of the reasons, the Great Witch King couldn't help but close his eyes slightly and reluctantly gave up the idea of continuing to lie.
The new Aquarius director of the Cleanup Bureau is extremely suspicious. Even when facing an absolutely reliable ally like himself, he will not completely believe what he says. He will immediately become suspicious if he sees the slightest bit of strangeness.
Before Wu Youzhishu arrived, he could still rely on his unfamiliarity with the Witch King's rituals and his ability to peek into the future and try again and again to temporarily appease him. But after Wu Youzhishu arrived and shouted at him, he finally reacted and it was impossible for him to believe his previous words anymore.
"I can't be too specific, but your and Caitlin's future...is indeed not very optimistic."
After implicitly admitting that Wu Youzhishu was telling the truth, the Great Wizard King, whose plan had failed, couldn't help but smile bitterly at Leon, who looked as if it was true. Then he tried to persuade him:
“Sir Leon, you don’t have to feel any psychological burden. I did all this voluntarily. Besides, losing the time I had with the Heart of the Great Court and returning to the past is actually not that painful…”
"That is indeed not a painful thing, because if your time is devoured by the Heart of the Great Court, you will even be deprived of the ability to feel pain."
After interrupting the Great Wizard King, the black crow on the treetop said sinisterly:
“Unable to move, unable to touch, without a body or soul, not even qualified to collapse or go crazy, only able to be a bystander who can’t change anything, wandering forever in the fixed past... This is definitely the most terrible punishment in the world!
Beckinsale, if your daughter knew that you chose to accept this future in order to save her, she would... well."
Under Lyon's astonished gaze, the tree where the black crows were perched seemed to be caught in a time turbulence, and the huge tree canopy was instantly torn into dozens of different areas.
Some buds sprouted, some shriveled and withered, some were lush and green, and some were dim and withered... As for the black crows on the treetops, they were forcibly torn into dozens of different postures, from flapping their wings to flying to closing their eyes and standing alone, amid the sudden intense heartbeats around them.
As the time he was in became unstable, Wu Youzhishu's originally fluent language was also torn apart synchronously, completely losing its coherence and logic, and turning into a large number of scattered and incomprehensible messy words.
"I can't...your daughter...punishment...God of Food...I see!"
As if it had discovered something was wrong with its own time, the black crow flapped its wings and detached itself from the treetops, flying back into the sky, freeing itself from the shattered time around it. It then looked down at the Great Wizard King, who was filled with anger, and shrilly, sneering, “I’m not going to say it to you, are you?”
"Beckinsale, if you had agreed to my conditions and become the God of Time, you might have been able to disrupt my time. But now you are just a half-blood human who is about to die of old age. Even with the blessing of the Heart of the Court..."
"boom!"
After he shot the crows circling in the sky into a large cloud of black smoke, Leon put away the sniper rifle that had been gathering dust for several months, and then turned to look at the Great Witch King who was holding his heart beside him. "You have temporarily freed yourself from the constraints of [Bedtime Story]? Is this the power of the Great Court Heart?"
"Correct."
After suppressing his increasingly fast-beating heart, the Great Wizard King, whose age changed from twenty to one hundred and fifty, nodded and panted with a slightly painful expression, saying:
"Sir Leon, please believe... believe the future I see. I will not hurt you and Caitlin, so... so doing as we discussed before is the best... the best future!"
Is it the only way to have the best future if we do what you said?
Looking at the Great Witch King in front of him with a painful expression, and then looking at the Cat Princess who had fallen to the ground at some point and was still sleeping soundly, Leon suddenly fell into silence.
If someone else said this, I would definitely sneer at him, saying that the future is just one of countless possibilities, and what it will be like depends on what I do.
But the Great Witch King is different.
She has mastered the Heart of the Court and has profound attainments in the power of [Time]. She is probably the most powerful prophet in all of humanity. Her judgment of the future is no longer just a "possibility".
If even she felt that there was a high chance that she would fail...
After frowning and thinking for a while, Leon felt that the situation was getting more and more difficult, and couldn't help but frown and ask:
"Your Majesty, in the futures you saw, are Catelyn and I really powerless to fight back?"
“Yes, but it’s really difficult.”
The Great Wizard King smiled bitterly upon hearing this:
“Like I said before, Wuyouzhishu and the King-killing Society have already gone all out. Even if you bring in all the societies in the Witch Country, they will continue to increase their stakes.
The probability that you and Caitlin can beat him is only 50%, and most of them are pyrrhic victories. The probability that both of you survive is less than one in five.
And even if you two manage to survive in the future, the entire Mystic City will be reduced to ruins, and the Witch Country will suffer countless casualties under their constant attacks. Sacrificing only me is the best outcome."
The number of casualties continues to rise...
After hearing the words of the Great Wizard King, Leon's brows suddenly furrowed tighter and tighter, but he still asked unwillingly:
"Your Majesty, what do you mean by 'adding more'?"
"It is the true God who constantly adds to the [Bedtime Story] with the help of the truth of the Novel."
Recalling the vague future he had seen, the Great Witch King couldn't help but sigh. Facing the huge backlash from time, he said helplessly:
“Although you have done well enough, the more people you pull into [Bedtime Story], the more True Gods the Slayer Society will order into the Bedtime Story, forcibly balancing the constraints of [Bedtime Story].
Moreover, even if you find a way to send out a signal and pull in the Pisces Branch guarding outside the Secret City, the King-Slaying Society and Wuyouzhishu will continue to increase the stakes. By the end, the number of true gods descending in the flesh will even be close to forty, so..."
"and many more!"
Lyon's eyes suddenly lit up after catching some crucial information from the words of the Great Witch King.
"You mean, in the future there might be forty true gods descending? And not only will they descend in the flesh, but they will even be locked in a [Bedtime Story]. As long as the story is not finished, they can't run away?"
(End of this chapter)