I'll kill you after I finish this game!

why?

Because the God of Divine Punishment, that leech, was rejected but still followed Matilda around.

Having learned of the existence of the Eternal Calamity Demon, Tianrang Jiehuo couldn't help but feel a strange mix of emotions and goodwill upon seeing Matilda's appearance.

The secret technique of eternal destruction was something even Tianrang Jiehuo had heard of; it was a great secret technique that even some demon kings who were proficient in the art of liberation could not fathom.

However, limited information allowed Tianrang Jiehuo to know that this secret method could draw out the truth that people yearn for and materialize it.

Yanfa's dazzling appearance was too similar to the manifestation of the Heavenly Calamity Fire's power, and he had been following Matilda around like a shadow. The Heavenly Calamity Fire also decided that this woman was the most suitable for him.

He was inspired by this woman's single-minded thirst for battle, captivated by Matilda's fighting spirit, and her indomitable will to fight made Tianrang Jiehuo even more fond of this warlike woman.

The apostles knew that the Heavenly Calamity Fire, this avatar that didn't even have a physical form, had little combat power.

But if one day an apostle pushes Matilda too far and she directly makes a pact with the God of Punishment, the consequences will be far more severe than a bomb exploding.

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Time flies by in this era, and before we know it, hundreds of springs and autumns have passed in the eyes of some fireflies.

Matilda was in a bad mood. Ever since Rhine left a letter and a gift on his own initiative, her delicate and resolute face had been filled with a sense of indifferent emptiness, except when she was in battle and showed joy.

No one shared the joy of battle with her, no one shared the glory of her progress. As she grew stronger, the pleasure and honor were fleeting.

When Matilda learned that a demon like herself had been born, she kept searching for Rhine and tried to find out about his existence from other demons.

However, most demons are either working to annihilate the apostles or hunting them down to accumulate power.

Although they had also received Rhine's favor, most of them were Avengers, and they felt nothing but basic respect and fear towards Rhine.

It seems that Rhine's training methods were too cruel, and there was no intention to pursue Rhine. No one knows where he went, given his mysterious whereabouts.

The only information obtained from other demons was that a man named Rhine could travel through space and could appear in any corner of the world, making it extremely difficult to find him.

But Matilda continues her relentless pursuit of the man who abandoned her, and there has been some news about Rhine recently.

For example, where did the demons appear, and where did the Noble Phantasms created by Rhine appear? The most obvious piece of information is that Rhine transmitted a spatial freedom called the Sealed Boundary to all the demons.

Make sure the demons fight in a mirror space that is different from reality in the future, instead of always plowing the land for hundreds of miles.

This Free Style was spread by Razor. The first version of the Seal was a spatial technique that Razor had ingeniously modified, making it somewhat complex and difficult to learn.

As for why the original seal wasn't used directly, that seal was full of malice towards humanity, and Lei Zhe didn't spread it, although it would still appear according to historical corrections.

In this era, there is no concept of sealing off; all battles take place in reality, and the resulting distortion of reality is quite obvious.

The reason why Lei Zhe didn't create the original seal was because that seal would simply provide the apostles with a convenient way to eat people.

The original version of the seal is so tight that once you enter, you will be completely "frozen" like everything else.

They are frozen in place, losing the ability to move independently and all consciousness (including perception).

In other words, the time between entering and exiting the sealed realm is nonexistent in the eyes of ordinary people, which provides a perfect haven for the Crimson World to devour the power of human existence.

I really don't know what the guy who created the seal was thinking.

Is freezing ordinary people and allowing them to enter the sealed area so that the apostles can easily devour them? Or is it so that the apostles will be affected in battle with the fire mist and unable to escape?

"Matilda, lost in thought again?"

High in the mountains of Europe, a woman dressed as a princess approached Matilda, who was sitting on a cliff in deep thought, and asked her in a voice devoid of any emotion.

The woman was about twenty years old, with shoulder-length, slightly upturned, straight cherry-colored hair, a beautiful face, and a noble and aloof temperament, but her face remained expressionless throughout.

"One-sided love?"

The crown on the woman's cherry-pink hair, representing the manifestation of the Crimson World Demon King's divine artifact will, uttered a very indifferent and questioning judgment.

The Dream Crown Tiamat, this is the Crimson World Demon Lord residing within her Flame Mist body.

She mostly speaks in four-character phrases or rarely uses words, which usually serve as her headdress.

After the Dreamy Crown spoke, Matilda, who was sitting cross-legged on the cliff, trembled. She turned her head with a deep gaze to the woman behind her and said:

"Wilhelmina Carmel, can't you control your contracted demon king? Although he is taciturn, his mouth is really annoying."

"That's none of my business."

The woman Matilda called Wilhelmina curled her lips expressionlessly. How could she possibly control her contracted demon lord? And wasn't she just angry because her secret had been exposed?

At that moment, a fiery meteor flew up from in front of Matilda's cliff and landed between Wilhelmina and Matilda.

Matilda clicked her tongue in annoyance at the sight of the fireball and bluntly stated without reservation:

"Alastor, how many times have I told you? I will not sign a contract with you. I have no interest in becoming a Flame Haze!"

Despite Matilda managing to shake off Tianrang Jiehuo, he always managed to catch up using his own methods.

This really annoyed Matilda. She was clearly a demon god of the Crimson World, so why did they have to make her, a woman, into a Flame Mist? There are so many people in the world, couldn't you find a contractor you liked?

Wilhelmina glanced at the flickering fireball and said coldly:

"Perseverance is key!"

"A rare sight indeed!" Dreamy Crown also exclaimed, after all, this was a demon god of the Crimson World, and followed up with a four-word statement.

"Um..."

A somewhat embarrassed and apologetic low voice came from the fireball. For hundreds of years, he had followed Matilda and witnessed the growth and immense power of this strong woman.

Alastor actually harbored a secret crush on Matilda, a feeling unique to humans, but no one else, including his fellow human beings, could see it.

Such interspecies romances are not uncommon. Some Flame Haze have developed interspecies relationships with their contractors. For example, the Ring of the Underworld, Assis, and his contractor, Dis, are a couple.

Alastor has a strong desire to form a contract with Matilda, and he longs to build a bond with her.

Although he was always rejected by Matilda, Matilda's strong and indomitable Valkyrie spirit, and her determination to live and walk the world by her own strength, were also a kind of allure that attracted Alastor.

The opponent's fiery, burning eyes are actually the fighting stance that their heart yearns for; the dazzling appearance and the scorching flames are all their most authentic selves.

That's why Alastor was so fascinated by him, as if she had found her other half and felt a strong connection with him.

"Matilda, as your friend, I really want to ask you, what exactly is the reason you pursue that mysterious Rhine?"

Seeing that Tianrang Jiehuo was silent, Wilhelmina, as a friend and comrade-in-arms who could talk to Matilda, was very curious about what kind of pursuit her friend had.

She knew she craved battle, and she knew she was searching for the legendary creator of the demons, Rhine, but she didn't know what the ultimate goal was.

Is it longing? Or yearning?

Even Alastor and the Dream Crown pricked up their non-existent ears, wanting to listen to the mysterious being who trained Matilda.

There are so many legends about Rhine, after all, all the demons know of his existence now. He is the mentor of all demons and the father of their rebirth.

The other party is elusive and cannot be found unless they show themselves, even at elaborate masquerade balls.

The only being who knew the most about the Rhine was the first and strongest, the first demon to be born, Matilda.

"......"

Matilda paused for a moment. If it were anyone else, she would have ignored them completely, but Wilhelmina was a rare good friend of hers.

Do you believe that there are unimaginably powerful deities in realms beyond our reach and comprehension?

Suddenly, Matilda uttered a strange question.

Unimaginable deities? Isn't there an incarnation of a god of divine punishment right here?

Wilhelmina and the Dream Crown both looked at the little fireball, which flickered with firelight, also puzzled. The Heavenly Calamity Fire was a god.

But he didn't understand what Matilda meant, and he vaguely felt that the god she was talking about was not him.

"Rhine showed me the cruel reality of the world, making the so-called Crimson World seem insignificant in comparison."

These were very rude and offensive words, but neither Tianrang Jiehuo nor the two Crimson World beings, Dream Crown, spoke, and continued to listen to Matilda's story.

Wilhelmina knew Matilda's character; she was not someone who would deceive her with foolish words. Even if what Matilda said was outrageous, to Wilhelmina, who had come to know the Crimson Denizens, it was just another experience that would reshape her worldview.

"In the abyss of all things, in a place more profound than the universe, there is a 'god' who rules over countless worlds and sits on a divine throne. Rhine wants me to challenge him."

Matilda reflected on what she had witnessed and felt a sense of anticipation for the future, an anticipation of fighting against God in the future.

Besides the demands she made after losing to Rhine, Matilda also disliked the god on the throne, feeling repulsed by the laws governing the world that the god held.

"As for the question, putting aside whether such a god exists, why did Rhine ask you to challenge him?"

Wilhelmina found it absurd, but seeing Matilda's serious expression, she believed her and asked the question that puzzled her.

The Dream Crown and the Heavenly Blaze are silent; Rhine made Matilda challenge the gods? Is that why she wants to become stronger?

As for gods, the God of Divine Punishment is one, and besides him, there are two other gods existing in the Crimson World. However, the gods that Matilda mentioned are clearly not beings from the Crimson World.

The mere fact that it controls countless worlds makes Tianrang Jiehuo somewhat questionable.

"Besides repaying Rhine, I personally dislike that god because I find his laws of governance very repulsive!"

Matilda frowned and brought up the concept of eternal recurrence to the beings present.

In a world ruled by gods, everything is in a constant cycle. The timeline of the universe is a closed loop, and all things are cyclical, automatically restarting at a certain point.

"After death, living beings return to the mother's womb and repeat their unique lives forever. The happy ones will always be happy, and the unhappy ones will always be unhappy. In our next life, we will only return to the past and start over."

Wilhelmina broke out in a cold sweat; it was the first time she had ever heard of the concept of eternal recurrence.

A Nietzsche has not yet appeared, and Matilda's law of eternal recurrence is what she is talking about.

The life you experience will form a pattern, and you will repeat this pattern countless times without anything new. The pain and joy, smiles and tears you experience in life are all just a closed loop.

"So, Matilda, you mean that all our lives are just a fixed circle, and when it ends, it's a new beginning, and whether it's the human world or the mortal world, we are all ruled by fate?"

The deep, thunderous sound of the Heavenly Calamity Fire echoed. The gods and laws that Matilda spoke of were too terrifying and frightening; he couldn't imagine what kind of beings they were.

If such a rule truly exists, it is a rule that is imperceptible to everyone.

Or to put it another way, the other side never intended to rule any living beings; what they ruled and dominated was the world itself, and the others were merely superfluous beings in this prison.

"Unbelievable." The Dream Crown remained silent, but this time there was a hint of surprise in its words.

"Heh, do you know the name of the secret technique that a demon like me practices?"

Matilda didn't care about the other party's attitude, but instead asked Wilhelmina and Tianrang Jiehuo with interest.

"...Eternal Destruction!" x3.

Wilhelmina, along with the Dream Crown and the Heavenly Blaze, finally spoke up, trembling.

Challenging the gods, eternal destruction—all the irrationality now seems reasonable when connected, forcing them to believe.