"Well, at the beginning, let's find out one thing first."

In the quiet night, the faint candlelight and the boy looming behind the lights raised the index finger of his right hand in front of the smiling lips:

"Dear Loren, evil god... What should it be in your impression?"

For a moment of silence, the dark haired wizard fell into meditation.

He met mazka, who was as "stupid" as a beast but could control the ogre;

I have seen the body of an evil god without "consciousness" and empty body;

He had a face-to-face meeting with the living dead named faoda, an apostle of the evil god lemantes, who represented "death";

He was killed and acquainted with the "old acquaintance" of the black Duke and the female martial god worshipped by the Boyi and Byrne people;

I saw with my own eyes that serliol was completely eroded by the "black cross", and the fascists who once dreamed of ruling the Empire fought several times;

Of course, we can't forget a cunning and treacherous, an extremely paranoid "twin" Asriel;

What do they... Or what do they have in common?

"... they exist in the void, but they can exist in the world in a way close to 'Legend'." after thinking for a moment, Loren frowned:

"The Byrne people believe in the nobility of glory and sacrifice, so Brunhild is a female martial god wielding a spear and sword; the loterians have the tradition of blood sacrifice and the deceitful goblins spread by the mountain people, so Asriel appeared."

"Everyone is afraid of death. The evil god 'lemantes' from the north is so invincible... And so on."

Asriel gently pursed the corners of his mouth, blinked his eyes, and did not judge the answer.

"But all this has nothing to do with themselves, 'Legend' is like a mask, a title, or even a... Well, an account." Loren raised his eyebrows and looked at the boy opposite the candlelight. "You know what I mean."

"Of course, because we are friends, best friends." the blonde nodded approvingly and seemed to enjoy this "natural" tacit understanding: "but..."

"But... 'Legends' have nothing to do with themselves, or have a certain connection, but they are not their essence." the black haired wizard said, "just like their names, these are just' stories', 'codes' and' Legends'."

"There are always people who worship heroes as idols, and there are always people who believe stories as true... Of course, maybe the stories are true." Asriel leaned against the back of his chair and spread his small hand:

"A noble title will make people in power, and noble blood will be awesome, but in the final analysis, what is the real difference between these born noble people and traffickers and pawns?"

Lauren squinted slightly.

Order, idolatry, title and essence

"According to this statement, evil gods from the void should not only let themselves exist in some way of... Title," Loren continued, "but also make others aware of its existence."

"Well... Sometimes it's not that troublesome," Asriel added in a smooth tone. "There are always some particularly 'smart' fools who connect themselves with something objectively existing in the material world."

"Then these 'smart' fools find themselves stuck in the mud and can't pull it out... As for the worse, well, it's probably too late to realize it."

"You mean..." chewing the information revealed in the blonde's words, Loren frowned slightly: "Legend... Will it affect the evil god itself?"

"Of course, those close to Zhu are red and those close to ink are black."

Asriel said happily, his scarlet eyes flashing.

"But on the contrary, the evil gods that do not rely on the material or image objectively existing in the world, but simply rely on their own 'Legends' also exist?" Loren thought.

"There will always be such a group of non mainstream aliens who don't like to follow the crowd ~" the blonde boy shook his head happily.

"So... There are no legends of their own, even unknown to the world, almost undetected by the material world, and the recognized evil gods... Also exist?"

Lauren leaned back and leaned back on the back of the chair.

"Yes, yes, is it a guy who has never been seen, recorded in words or rumors, and has never had any impact on the world... Do we have to say that he doesn't exist?" Asriel smiled more happily.

The dark haired wizard frowned again and fell into deep thought.

"Now, dear Loren, you should have the most basic concept in your mind, or... Story setting." with a provocative tone, Asriel is like an author who is good at breaking chapters and can annoy readers to death:

"For the evil gods, 'Legend' is just a title, a suit of clothes, a thing that is absolutely dispensable to them - of course, it is a very shameful and embarrassing thing to go on the street without clothes, so the evil gods who once appeared one by one in front of us are all dressed."

"They wear colorful clothes and dress themselves up, or they are gorgeous and moving, or they are hunting strange, scary and scary ghost animals... In short, clothes are not themselves."

Asriel paused, slowed down his tone like a skilled storyteller, and his scarlet eyes glittered with soul stirring Charm:

"So, after taking off their clothes, what is the essence of evil gods?"

Loren, who was completely "trapped" in the story, took a deep breath and pondered for a moment. He still didn't have the courage to speak, but just raised his eyebrows:

"The existence of... In the void?"

"This vague setting is no longer popular. Now there are many party members."

"I think readers hate the water army who makes up the number of words more than the vague setting..."

The black haired wizard shrugged and looked indifferent: "you are an evil god. Just tell me directly, won't you?"

"Of course Asriel can tell Loren, but..."

With a sunny smile on his face, Asriel scratched his head embarrassed: "but Asriel is only a child. How can he answer such a difficult question?"

Once again, he avoided answering.

"Dear Loren, have you ever seen the sea?" the blonde asked seriously, changing the topic again.

The dark haired wizard turned his head and pretended not to care about him.

"Poor Asriel has only seen the sea once. Alas, beach, sea breeze, seafood..." the blonde boy lay on the table with an aggrieved tone: "I really want to lie under the sun umbrella now and let the beautiful and lovely big sister wipe olive oil for Asriel..."

"..." Loren Turin.

"So, dear Loren, what do you like?" Asriel's eyes twinkled with some meaningful temptation: "rum? Fruit? Sea breeze barbecue? Beautiful and lovely big sister or more lovely..."

"Wait!"

The black haired wizard interrupted the boy who wanted to continue: "do you mean... Every evil god is different?"

"Or rather, every guy has his own unique taste." the blonde shrugged and grinned, "not to mention... Dear Loren, how do you know Asriel didn't tell you his answer?"

"Maybe... Asriel has told you the answer in his own way."

Noticing the boy's expression, Lauren nodded slightly.

That's right... Maybe even if he said it, he couldn't understand it at all.

Perhaps each evil god is a completely unique existence that cannot be compared. Each is a complete and unique individual, which can not be divided by intersection and union, and can be classified by the outline of the boundary gate.

Each is a unique existence

Each is a separate species

Only in this way can we name it with "God", because it is a group of "existence" that can not be understood by human beings, so we can only use such a superficial and vague metaphor.

Just because they come from another completely opposite world, just because they have extraordinary power, they are compared to "God".

No, maybe more than that.

As a species and an ethnic group, human beings have their own unique way of thinking. All observations and judgments must be based on themselves - whether it is metaphorical personification in the form of literature and art or the elaboration of objective physics, they are judged by their own standards.

Even the wizards who have the most contact with the void are still human beings. Even if they face the void at the same time, their attitude is completely different from the evil gods. They can't simply equate the answers obtained under the two ways of thinking.

This is the important reason why so many wizards end up crazy after years of contact with the void... Based on human thinking, they are delusional to understand another knowledge that does not belong to them.

In this thinking loop, of course, it is impossible to understand another way, another standard "language".

It must be expounded in its own unique point of view and way in order to understand its form of existence.

Man is the yardstick of all things - this sentence, on the contrary, means that man can understand the world only by taking himself as the standard; Weak, strong, terrible, ridiculous, funny, humorous

All are measured by their own standards.

Wait a minute

Evil gods, human beings, unique way of thinking?

It is said that it is only the "clothes" worn by evil gods to prove their "title"; If each of them is unique, where is their unique "place"?

To put it another way, if each of them is unique, where were they born?

"I remember... On the way to the Dragon King City, you said this when you rescued me from the avalanche." Loren looked up with a meaningful look:

"If the person who has mastered the 'valve' is killed, the spirit will force him into a state of 'meditation', and then enter the void through the 'valve', which will become... Similar to your existence?"

The black haired wizard who deliberately slowed down his speech stared at the blonde boy at the other end of the candle: "that is to say... The person who opens the 'valve' has become a 'similar' evil god?"

At that moment, Asriel's smile suddenly paused and was captured by Loren's keen.

"Really? It may be, or it may not be." the blonde boy slowly opened his eyes and explained vaguely: "maybe it's just Asriel lying again?"

"No, no... only once, you have no reason to lie." Loren stared into his scarlet eyes and carefully observed every change:

"Your tone was obviously trying to warn me of the danger of sudden death in that state."

"In other words, human beings... Even if the probability is very small... Even if no one has ever succeeded... Can become evil gods?"

Asriel was stunned at first, and then showed a cunning smile.

"Good... Dear Lauren, you're beginning to put yourself into the story." the smile on the blonde's face gradually disappeared and was replaced by a low voice completely different from that at the beginning:

"So... This is the beginning of our first story - evil gods can not only appear from the void."

"Human beings, or intelligent creatures like human beings, try to become evil gods in some way or way."

At this moment, Asriel's tone and attitude have become completely different.

Elegant and simple smile, become strange and gloomy.

"This will be a story full of variables and even multiple-choice questions; as Asriel said - it is up to dear Loren to judge and choose what you are going to believe is the truth and what is just a fabricated lie to speculate on the next development."

The scarlet eyes became sharp and breathtaking.

"Hear every word Asriel said... Remember every detail..."

"Because after a story is told, Asriel won't repeat it a second time."

Lauren raised her eyebrows and nodded slightly.

"According to the setting we have just written, from the beginning, there is a name... Um... Let's assume that his name is' Turin 'to facilitate the next development," Asriel said in a very ambiguous tone:

"A wizard named 'Turin', who practiced in a college in niederhogg, after a long study with other wizards, found that through 'runes', they could be exposed to a spiritual vision completely opposite to the material level."

"Because the 'Rune' is the carrier of meaning and the presentation of spiritual externalization - this very special academic makes the two completely incompatible worlds connected in a completely predictable way."

"But soon 'Turin' found the defect of this way - runes can help them explain the world from the perspective of spiritual vision and enable them to use extraordinary power; however, as a material world, the upper limit they can bear is extremely limited."

"So they thought there was something that could lift all these restrictions and make the material and spirit no longer separate..."

"The nine pointed star Holy Grail?" Loren interrupted coldly.

"Dear Loren..." Asriel, with a naive face, accidentally glanced at the black haired Wizard:

"I didn't expect you to get started very quickly."