Versatile Mage: Summoning Black Dragon, the pinnacle of divine power

Chapter 275 Choosing Destiny
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"What about them?" Yinglong asked.

Why are you the only one here?

"And your divine essence... you're injured?"

Consciousness is awake, but the divine essence is dormant. What's going on?
“They must be watching the show,” Caesar said.

"As for me, there's something I'd like to ask you for help with."

"Help?" Yinglong paused.

"You want to rebuild theocracy?"

“I don’t have that idea yet,” Caesar said.

“A group of sirens is causing trouble where I live. I would like to ask you to help me fend them off.”

"A siren?" Yinglong was taken aback.

"Didn't the black dragon wipe them out?"

“Not this world,” Caesar said.

“It’s another world.”

"Another world?" Yinglong sensed the aura emanating from Caesar.

"A strange world..."

……

"Your idea isn't just a way to get him out of there, is it?"

As the densely packed army of sea monsters surged in from the waves, Asha'ruya began to have thoughts of retreating.

There are too many to count; even if she awakens the soul of a fallen angel, it won't change anything.

This was never her war; if it weren't for Caesar, she wouldn't have bothered getting involved.

“Some of them,” Xin Yuekui said.

“If he gets impulsive again in his current state, he might really fall into a deep sleep, and I don’t know how long he will sleep.”

"Once he falls asleep, the world will lose its meaning."

“But you don’t seem very worried,” Asha’s said.

"Can he really awaken that ancient divine beast?"

“Awakening him is not difficult for him; the problem is how he can get Yinglong to help him,” Xin Yuekui said.

After Yinglong became the guardian of the ancient gods, the ancient divine authority was officially established. After Tian chose to completely retire and no longer interfere in the human world, Yinglong also chose to leave and enter the sea to sleep. It can almost be said to be a symbol of half of the divine authority.

"What do you mean?" Asha'ruya asked.

“The foundation of divine authority lies in the realm of the dragon race. Heaven symbolizes the absolute military power of the dragon race, while Yinglong represents the protective power of the gods,” Xin Yuekui said.

"When Heaven chose to retreat, the very foundation of divine authority disappeared, and Yinglong also chose to leave."

"If Caesar wants Yinglong to reappear, he must demonstrate sufficient power to prove that he has the strength to be a new pillar of divine authority!"

After the divine order disappeared, Yinglong was no longer the guardian of the gods. It was an ancient dragon, the most powerful ancient divine beast!
If it is Tian who goes to find Yinglong, it will naturally follow.

But now it is Caesar who is going to it. Heaven cannot possibly be unaware of this, yet he has not intervened. Clearly, Heaven has lost interest in divine authority and will not get involved in this matter.

In this situation, whether Yinglong helps or not depends entirely on whether Caesar has the ability.

“But he doesn’t seem to have much interest in divine authority,” Azharia said.

“But this thing is necessary now,” Kokoro said.

"Just like the totem tribes of this land in the past, who established an order that all races here must abide by with their absolute military might."

"If Caesar wants to bring peace to the world, he has to re-establish the order, with his absolute military force as the fundamental order."

This world is just like their world before, a chaotic place where demons run rampant, and various demon empires, as well as sea monsters, undead, and the demon kings of the dark hell are also eyeing it covetously.

The Heavenly One once destroyed everything with his own power and established his own divine authority, not only to resurrect the White Dragon, but also because he disliked the chaotic world.

Heaven is merely warlike, but he dislikes war; what he needs are adversaries, not chaos.

Heaven doesn't actually like this world, but this isn't his world; it's Caesar's world.

How to change things was Caesar's own business.

“What if he doesn’t want to?” Asha Ruya asked.

"You know who he is."

Caesar had little desire to rule; he was lazy and disliked oppression, whether it was him oppressing others or others oppressing him.

He has always tried his best to create an environment where everyone is as "equal" as possible, where no one is arrogant and no one is subservient.

“I know, he’s just like Shi Xing before,” Xin Yuekui said.

"They yearn for equality and abhor oppression, but reality does not allow for such naive ideas."

"The more a plant grows towards the sun, the deeper its roots will extend into the earth."

"Some darkness is necessary; without that darkness, there would be no light."

He has to make a decision now.

Caesar should have made decisions on these matters long ago, but he was always interrupted by unexpected events. He always felt that things were fine as they were, and he would only think about solving them when new troubles arose.

Ultimately, Caesar wasn't selfish enough; he could never bring himself to be ruthless. But now, he had to make the decision he had been reluctant to face.

The state of this world is not determined by those below, but by those at the top!
It's decided by those who possess military power!

He wants the world to become the way he wants it to be, so he has to become that dictator!
Expecting people below to improve themselves is wishful thinking!
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"You are neither kind nor selfish enough."

Yinglong twisted its huge body, and the ocean currents that had been disrupted by the underwater volcanic eruption gradually stabilized and returned to their previous state.

The raging volcanic energy gradually subsided, and the restless deep sea returned to calm.

"You won't get what you want; you'll only lose more."

"You're too greedy."

They want the stability that order brings, but they don't want the constraints that order brings.

They want peace, but they don't want to end the fighting.

Just like the ten punishments of the past.

They wanted light to illuminate the darkness they saw, but they overlooked a real problem: without darkness, would light still be light?
The collapse of the theocratic order did not bring about a better world.

Without the oppression of the gods, humanity began to oppress each other, and the Underworld race also started a war once again.

Now, Shi Xing is also lost, watching the peace he fought for gradually fade away.

Zhen Chan suffered because of this, and an indelible inner demon was born.

But it's not that he doesn't know the answer; it's just that he's unwilling to face it.

Just like this child now.

Light needs the means of darkness to be maintained, and peace needs the support of violence to exist; these opposites can never exist alone.

"You're not willing to help me?" Caesar asked.

“It’s not that I’m unwilling, it’s that you are,” Yinglong said.

"Your heart is still confused, you are not firm enough, you are running away, you doubt yourself, so your spirit is dormant."

"Like right now, do you really want me to help you?"

Yinglong slowly approached, its ancient divine power slowly overflowing and merging into the colorless wall surrounding Caesar.

"You should have been invincible, but you hesitated."

"You are afraid of losing, so you are unwilling to move forward and only want to maintain the status quo."

"But why are you afraid?"

What in this world is there for you to be afraid of?

“Change may not necessarily make things better, and could even make them worse,” Caesar said.

"So you're going to leave the decision to fate?" Yinglong asked.

"If fate were to take everything from you, would you accept it calmly?"

“Isn’t he the same?” Caesar said.

“Fate decreed that divine authority would collapse, and he chose to give it up.”

“He chose his destiny,” Yinglong said.

"But you don't even have the courage to face your fate."

"Someone like you is destined to fail."

Yinglong turned its head, and its huge body began to swim and circle again.

"Since you are destined to lose everything, why waste your energy?"

"Leave this place and enjoy your last moments before fate arrives."

"..."

"Is Yinglong provoking him?" Bailong looked at Caesar, whose divine power was beginning to waver, with some concern.

“Isn’t everything it says the truth?” Tian said.

"You did this on purpose?" Bai Long asked suspiciously.

“If we don’t push him, he won’t budge at all,” Tian said.

"He's not incapable, he just doesn't believe in himself."

"And anger can make him temporarily forget his self-doubt."

“Look, his divine essence is beginning to awaken.”

"..."

Waves of violent divine power spread through the deep sea, creating an atmosphere of extreme oppression without any disturbance.

Yinglong opened his eyes and turned his head.

This seemingly limitless limit of divine power actually appeared in a second person...

"If you're trying to provoke me." Caesar opened his eyes, his body covered in faint black and white dragon scales, and an unshakeable white wall of intense white light pressed down on the sea.

"Then you succeeded!"

(End of this chapter)