Chapter 1092: Chapter 270: Divine Authority Is Not Eternal
Sincaro’s ambitions made Him an excellent orator, and under His influence, the Demon gained the ability to manipulate humans at will.
They are sinister and cunning, feeding on the negative emotions of humans.
Just as in this moment, when the Knight Lord descended upon the Neseriel Sanctuary, demons gathered on the circular steps and ruins, relishing the confrontation between the Knight Lord and the strongest Round Table Knight of a thousand years. No matter which side fell, it would provide them with immense amusement.
A group of chaotic evil hedonists, acting solely to satisfy their desire for enjoyment, regardless of the disaster their desires might bring to other races.
"But even so, you can still understand my actions. There is no essential difference between you and me."
Sincaro was confident in this. At that moment, in a dark corner of the dome of the Demon Tower, the battle between the Other Shore and the Knight Lord was being reflected. Each collision of the two silvery-white beams was enough to cause heaven and earth to collapse. Neither knights nor demons present could intervene in this battle that exceeded the bounds of human comprehension.
They could only try their best to ensure they weren’t consumed by the aftermath of the battle.
"You are a human supremacist, I am a demon supremacist. We both have a special preference for the races we protect. That’s our only difference."
This meant that He and Messiah would have much common ground, able to understand each other, draw on each other’s strengths, and that sole divergence would be thoroughly resolved after merging.
However, Ethan was different.
This consciousness born in the Node Space was noticeably different from Theirs.
When Sincaro called upon his "online friend," Messiah was possessing the Chief Prosecutor, engaging in a conversation with Ethan. This conversation stemmed from Messiah’s confusion regarding Ethan’s actions.
Even after knowing Ethan’s origin, understanding his encounters in the "Magic Realm," and his relationship with the First Seat, Messiah still couldn’t predict Ethan’s actions. In Messiah’s calculations, Ethan’s salvation of Flynn Seine was akin to pushing him into a deeper abyss.
Faced with an unpredictable fate, humans would ultimately be consumed by nothingness.
That was exactly where the Old Gods were born, as countless destroyed civilizations demonstrated the future this path led to.
"We all like certain results; that’s why you’ve created such a model. Although, if I may be frank, your model still has room for improvement, but at least you’ve allowed humans to see their own fate."
From the moment of birth, knowing where they came from and where they were going.
By completely eliminating "change" from fate and soothing the negative emotions brought by fate’s inequalities with Paradise-like chemical gases, the prototype of the Paradise Society was established.
Aside from the idea of "everyone can be happy," Messiah had fundamentally solved the hazard of the Old Gods—people in the Paradise Society, whether in pain or happiness, would not resort to nihilism because they could always get answers from the Lord of the Holy City.
They would no longer hope for the arrival of the unknown void existence that called for destruction.
In Sincaro’s view, the divergence between Him and Messiah was easily resolved as many of their ideas and concepts were surprisingly aligned, and this was the cornerstone of their longstanding cooperation. This convergence would resolve their final disagreement—merely a question of which side, demon or human, would become "first-class citizens" after the merging.
On this point, Sincaro was willing to gamble.
If the calculations and visions brought by Messiah could change His mind, He was willing to use everything He knew to help Messiah cultivate the frontier of the Holy City, continuously perfecting the model of the Paradise Society until there were no flaws.
He believed Messiah felt the same.
Because they were so similar.
Messiah remained silent, yet His thought module once emitted a "moved" signal, an emotional module set by the First Seat to help Him better understand human emotions.
Despite being in different positions, Sincaro understood everything He did, and this recognition from the depths of the soul, even for a consciousness born from AI or a divine spirit in the eyes of people, was the ultimate happiness—in Messiah’s cognitive framework, this was the greatest happiness a human could find in a lifetime.
It differed from the cheap happiness offered by chemical Paradise. Even if He could induce the same frequency of vibrations in the human brain, He could not replicate such happiness.
Because Messiah observed that within the human shell, there was an elusive, often frustrating presence that He could not comprehend.
—The soul.
Its existence was reflected in various civilizations, and even the people of the "Magic Realm" had clearer observations. In the book "Introduction to 100 Dark Creatures," there was a depiction of Resentful Spirits, and the author believed all Resentful Spirits were born from the strong obsessions of the living before death. If their obsession was strong enough at the moment of death, they would transform into Evil Spirits after death.
In Messiah’s view, that was proof of the "soul’s" existence after leaving the human body.
