Ascension journey - 647. Chapter 642 the mystery of the king, there is no sorrow

It is hard to say how much the current Diablo has to do with the “Diablo” and “Tobio” before the ceremony.

In the change of personality level, Tobio, who was weaker-willed, was the first to fall under the active “erosion” of the Scarlet King, while Diablo, as the “boss”, was stabbed by the back of the parasitic subject’s personality. It didn’t last long.

Originally, Diablo, with a mission, should shape Tobio’s soul into what the Crimson King needs and adapt in decades, and let the “boss” as the underground emperor become the Crimson King. The fulcrum and incarnation on this world line.

However, due to some changes both inside and outside the world, this soul forging ritual that has lasted for nearly thirty years has not achieved full results, so that the Scarlet King violently intervened in the face of anomalies and forcibly reshaped the “boss” into him. A crude carrier of consciousness.

As far as the results are concerned, the two situations seem to be roughly the same, but a gear that can be perfectly embedded in the main machine to operate after running in, provide its own strength and realize the value of existence, and a need to invest more costs outside the main system. There are essential differences between the remodeling and maintenance of disposable parts.

For Diablo, the most obvious manifestation of this difference in essence is his soul and personality——

If it grows smoothly and connects perfectly with the Scarlet King, the “boss” who is equivalent to being integrated by the larger system can actually retain all of his own consciousness. He can slowly and gradually carry out higher levels in the realm of transcendence. Adaptation and running-in.

However, Diablo, who is now forced to complete the ritual, is fading and diluting the emotions and desires that originally belonged to human beings at a speed that can be seen by the naked eye. The consciousness is completely obliterated and covered.

When this assimilation process is completely over, he will completely lose the name “Diablo” which is more similar to the code name, lose the last point as the soul of human beings, and naturally call himself the “Crimson King”.

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“Actually, the saddest thing is that I am not at all sad about it…”

In the twilight wilderness, Diablo, who was measuring the earth on foot, twirled a long crimson hair at his fingertips, smiled self-deprecatingly.

His stand-in ability allows his eyes to look directly at the unpredictable time, and his hands to play with fate freely, but all of this comes at a price——

The Crimson King is quite “stingy” and does not want to invest more off-site costs in this world, so using the Crimson King’s timeline editing ability consumes its existing power in this world.

To put it simply… Diablo’s “life” is consumed.

This life span is not determined by the body or cells, but the length of the time axis occupied by the power of the Scarlet King in this world, and the depth and breadth of the things affected.

In this crazy world full of double messengers, pushed together by fate, their life trajectory is full of traces of manipulation by higher-level forces. It is often not them that determine how long they can live and what they live. Own–

In other words, it is not “completely” the “self” they subjectively identified.

Ripple messenger, stand-in messenger… The word “messenger” in the middle has already understood everything-they are not just users of power, but also the messengers of the will behind the power.

Although…many messengers, even the power represented behind many messengers, don’t know their true situation.

Compared with those of the same kind who are confused, and actively exert influence in various parallel worlds to expand their own territory, the Crimson King who continues to grow is quite powerful.

However, this kind of strength will not change Diablo’s current situation in the slightest—

Completing the ritual and realizing the initial awakening has consumed his two or three years in the future. Among the available resources, the time in the future is only a mere one year… When the “lifespan” resources on his hand are exhausted, even if he is physically long. The vampire, who is so long, can’t escape the sudden and sudden death——

Outside of the power radiation range of the Scarlet King, the malice overflowing in fate will swarm like sharks smelling blood, swallowing his future with all kinds of unavoidable “coincidences”. No gap of milliseconds will be left to him.

Especially, the lingering soul, the King of Gold, who has always been fighting for territory with the Scarlet King, and who has great causal connections with him in various worlds… That guy will definitely use his true power without hesitation. Completely obliterate.

From another perspective, in fact, this kind of “obliteration” has always existed at the downstream end of the “territory” of the Scarlet King timeline, and the King of Gold is just trying to push this time node upstream.

Unfortunately, before Diablo was completely assimilated by the Scarlet King and learned all the secrets, he couldn’t see anything so far away. Even if he could see it, it was impossible to see the specific situation at the end of the chaos.

But when he thinks about it, he knows that if he can die in a fair and honest battle at the time when the demons are dancing, it would be a very rare and decent thing.

“However, the so-called death of a normal person is completely meaningless to me now, so…I will definitely be ugly to die. I’m really curious about how much money those guys will pay, and I won’t even personally. Will it end?”

Speaking of life and death, Diablo inadvertently remembered the question that the guy named Cheng Bin asked him curiously not long ago-“Why, you didn’t have the slightest reaction to the word’immortality’ ?”

When he faced this question at the beginning, he was completely at a loss, but now he can give the answer–

For a life whose traces on the time axis are equivalent to “alive”, there is no essential difference whether the “death” in the downstream of the field comes earlier or later.

As long as the Crimson King still occupies one second in this world, Diablo will live forever in that second. Moreover, in order to maintain his own “occupation”, the Crimson King must at least support Dia. Twenty years before the life of Polo’s soul formed?

He had already held immortality in his hand, so how could he be interested in the low-level immortality of vampires?

Unfortunately, no matter what kind of immortality, you have to face the threats of the environment and external forces, and the powerful ability brought by the Scarlet King also brings the same level of consumption…

“…In order to make better use of the limited resources at hand, we must first ensure that the power internally works well, and we must… pull out the nails from the upper reaches of the timeline in the field in turn…”

In the leap of timeline, Diablo’s footsteps fell outside the huge base in the depths of the German wilderness. He looked up at the various buildings outcropping within the towering walls, and there was a memory in his heart——

That was a long time ago, “Diablo” in the inexplicable restlessness originating from the Scarlet King, eliminated the power of the organization, personally traced and shot the memory of defeating Polunaev.

“The pitch black marshal of the alliance, the silver chariot·Soul Song…what choice will you make if you take the initiative to liberate the odd number?”