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"The devil is part of that thing. But a very special part."

After saying these words, Carlos' momentum subsided, the light in his eyes completely faded, and he returned to the comfortable and relaxed look before.

The eldest prince smiled at Ian and raised the bottle: "I'm sorry, I should have scared you just now - in fact, ordinary people will not be scared by me, but because you are too strong among your peers and you are a prophet,

I have a keen psychic ability, so I can perceive some extra things that I shouldn’t be aware of... This is my fault, and I will punish myself half a bottle."

After he finished speaking, he actually drank half the bottle in one go - Ian seriously suspected that he was just looking for an excuse to drink.

"Hey. When I see you, I think of my brother. He is just as cautious and careful as you, and can't let go when he should."

Putting the bottle down, Carlos glanced at Ian and said: "At this time, shouldn't you be criticizing me for wanting to drink? Although you haven't shown any flaws in your demeanor, you haven't leaked any expression or emotion.

, but can’t I guess what a person like you would be thinking?”

"Brothers and younger brothers need to communicate with each other in this way to enhance their relationship... The same is true between us." He shook his head unhappily: "Don't imitate Mikael. Even if people like him can succeed in the future, they will only be successful.

It’s the second grandfather.”

"This is a bit treasonous." Ian couldn't help complaining: "No wonder His Highness Mikael didn't want to discuss you at all when he chatted with me."

"I said not to let my brother make the same mistakes and follow my grandfather's old path. What's so treasonous about this?" Carlos looked at Ian quite strangely. He shook his head and said, "You outsiders always call grandpa some kind of black king and pioneer."

The Great Emperor, but to us, he is just a very strong and kind grandfather... Mikael just doesn't regard his grandfather as a grandfather, but regards his grandfather as a... well, a myth and legend? A legendary ancestor? "

"Who is weirder?" He looked up at the ceiling: "Grandpa failed, we must learn the lessons he learned through life."

"First of all, turning more people into ours is the most important thing."

At this point, Carlos narrowed his eyes. He lowered his head and stared at Ian seriously. It wasn't until Ian felt a little hairy that the prince spoke: "Of course, this is indeed the method I use to collect intelligence.

…When I used to travel around various places, I often used this bold and uninhibited appearance to recruit people, guiding those who were cautious or even autistic to reveal their true nature, and then gain a glimpse into their hearts.”

"I will communicate with them and make friends from the heart, and then I will know their wishes, their desires, their ambitions and desires."

"Over time, when I awakened my spiritual power, I was able to see through the real 'dreams' and 'thoughts' in their hearts."

Carlos openly revealed the truth about his psychic powers, but Ian had actually known it for a long time.

Dreams. This is the truth about Carlos's spiritual power. The specific ability is not yet known, but it is probably that it can lead to the limit of a person's power in dreams, and use special emotional bonds or thinking relationships, across thousands of miles, to

Invest your own spiritual energy in those who need the strengthening of his spiritual energy.

This is even a semi-automatic psychic energy that can be guided and transmitted spontaneously without the need for Carlos to actively control it.

In other words... if nothing else, Carlos's psychic skills are not simple at all - he can interfere with the mechanism of using his own psychic powers and program his own psychic powers!

The person in front of me is a strong man who can research the technology of 'divine power transmission'! If I have to say it, in terms of the technology of gods and spirits, Carlos's current accumulation is far deeper than that of Ian!

In fact, the other party's divine power transmission technology was the most important factor that allowed Ian, the spiritual disaster, to expand the spiritual god system in the first place and popularize it throughout Terra.

——In another parallel time and space, I must have cooperated with him. And it was a very in-depth cooperation. Carlos is indeed a person who can easily attract others to him.

But he's not a 'good guy' either.

After Ian actually met Carlos, he understood why the Magnet Knight betrayed Marquis Barton and served him, and why there were secret hands of his in the Gnosis Academy... This is what should be done.

With his status and ability, he should have so many people surrounding him and becoming his 'friends'.

However, like most of the top executives in the world of Terra, Carlos is a figure standing on the top of the mountain.

Not high enough, not low enough.

Therefore, the purity is not enough.

"So, Ian."

At this moment, while Ian was silently analyzing Carlos, the eldest prince smiled and raised the bottle of wine to the white-haired boy: "If I have to say it, the dream of ordinary people is to drink wine when they are having fun at a party. When they are ignorant,

, something that is vaguely thought about, a desire derived from instinct, an idea that slowly takes shape as it grows, and gradually deforms under the impact of reality, becoming what it really is."

"Wanting wealth and status, wanting to be respected by others, or even simply wanting to have more women and men in this life - these kinds of things that come from instinctive desires can also be considered dreams."

"And the dream of resentment is the desire to destroy all the wishes that emerge from the depths of the soul when you use alcohol to drown your sorrows, or even to relieve your hatred and paralyze yourself."

"Wine is the virtual realm."

The eldest prince knocked on the wine bottle, and the little remaining liquid in the bottle spurted out from the mouth of the bottle, floating in the air and turning into a golden mist, like an ocean-like mist.

"People often say that the virtual realm is a mirror. People's good and evil will be reflected in the mirror and be sublimated. The good ones become angels and the evil ones become demons. This is a legend. We all know that there are no angels in the virtual realm, only angels.

Machine gods. But in a sense, machine gods are no different from angels, except that they are not composed of human goodness, but people's desire for order, so they actively use technology, wisdom and axioms to shape spiritual machines.

"

"Devil, actually the same is true."

Carlos snapped his fingers at the sea of ​​wine mist in front of the two of them, and immediately the relatively transparent foam in the wine floated and condensed into the appearance of a machine.

Each of these Mechas are very different, but they all have a unique sense of beauty. This is obviously not a random creation by Carlos, but a reflection of many Mechas he has seen in the past.

Then soon, the turbid bubbles in the wine mist began to fall, gradually condensing into groups of indescribable things. I don't know whether they are ferocious and terrifying, or chaotic things that are difficult to identify with human geometry.

"Devils actually did not exist originally." The eldest prince stared at those chaotic things and said: "In ancient times, during the pre-epoch civilization, these things were pure imagination. They were just sporadic evil thoughts that existed in the subspace. Some people

The ghosts after death, the black mist formed by some cursed dreams... They will pollute the psykers who sneak into the virtual realm, causing these psykers to twist, change their temperament, and become infected with inner demons, so there are legends about demons and devils.

Appear. The virtual realm machine gods are the 'cleaners' that sweep away these pollutions. They will sweep away these pollutions from thousands of angles, just like cleaning up the garbage at home."

"But the devil with a specific image did not originally exist."

"But after the disaster of falling from the sky, demons really appeared. Just like humans created the gods of machines, some existence created demons in the virtual realm."

As he said this, Carlos looked solemn: "The virtual world is not a mirror. The virtual world is the sea. Whether it is a machine god or a demon, an angel or a devil, they are all bubbles of human dreams rising from the bottom of the heart and floating on the sea.

part of the big bubble."

"But just as humans shape the gods, the shaper behind the demon is the most important."

"Ian, when you seek knowledge about demons, you must pay attention to this...the existence that is the enemy of us humans and Dragon Island is not the shadows, but the real darkness itself hidden behind the shadows."

"……I see."

Ian also had a solemn look on his face. This was not a disguise, but a sincerity.

And he also understood the true nature of the existence of demons.

——Isn’t this the individual of some kind of extraterrestrial spiritual civilization, or the fire creation created by them?!

At the first moment, Ian thought of the Flower of Karin.

Rooted in the imaginary realm of dreams, in the sea of ​​human souls, it absorbs the souls of all living beings and turns them into itself, and is a sacred tree that connects all things. Strictly speaking, the flower of Karin is actually a devil - it is the most evil mother tree of devils, a tree that devours people.

The extremely evil existence where the soul creates false things.

Likewise, He is also a fire created by a spiritual civilization.

And other demons, regardless of their species, may have similar origins behind them? Even the virtual realm machine gods have begun to derive their own ecology in the virtual realm and become something that can spontaneously generate and evolve spontaneously.

Phenomenon and race...

When demons appeared in the virtual realm of Terra, they completely changed the rules of this virtual realm and became a phenomenon and race in the virtual realm...

A kind of virtual fire that is far easier to 'sustain' than physical fire.

Just like the 'Blood River Arms' held by Ian, it can gradually transform the user into a blood demon during the process of the user's death and resurrection - this is a transformation that is almost a phenomenon, transforming other

The resentment and hatred of living creatures become the 'virtual demon' on their side.

As for the Blood River Arms, Ian was taking them with him this time, preparing to use them for his other identity, the Knight of the Glen, Mahdi.

"It seems you understand well."

Carlos is also very satisfied.

The reason why he told Ian so much confidential information was precisely because he had already cooperated with Ian. His support of Ian's sect was his investment, so naturally Ian's sect had to provide him with some help.

The information related to the virtual realm and demons is a necessary part. Ian will eventually have access to this information. Instead of letting Huaiguang or Sui Ming come over, it is better for him to sell this favor.

Moreover, it seems that Ian is not ignorant of the virtual realm...

"Is it a fairy?"

The eldest prince opened his mouth and swallowed all the wine mist in the air. He put down the wine bottle: "The fairy told you the truth about the virtual realm, right? This is very useful for the development of sects, even those local sects in small countries, and even

Even cults can cultivate their own virtual machine gods based on the dreams and teachings of the human heart... Over there in the Dark Mountains, they seem to be called totem ancestral spirits or something? Anyway, the artificially created primitive machine gods are not as good as those in previous eras.

The legacy of civilization is powerful and multiplied, but it has its own spirituality."

"It is precisely with the power of these virtual realm machine gods that they have the special inheritance and spiritual power unique to the sect. Although the cost is high, it is indeed a way that allows us to better improve our own sublimation process.

road."

"That's what His Highness said."

This was another reminder. Ian bowed his head seriously and thanked him. Although he had inferred it before, he never expected that the sect would create a corresponding virtual realm machine god in the virtual realm by relying on its doctrines and guiding people's hearts.

This kind of process... isn't it just that primitive people used the open source Virtual Realm AI manufacturing program to create a psychic R artificial intelligence that serves them!

--That's outrageous, Tyra.

Ian sighed deeply in his heart.
To be continued...