Anna, now a monster, stood guard on the River of Time, ignoring everything.

Humanity gradually forgot about her as an emperor, and forgot about her as a deity.

The church that believed in Yahweh disappeared and became dust in history.

The world has forgotten Anna.

They also forgot about Fan Xiao, the evil god.

By the time the war subsided, human civilization had already regressed significantly, but a new ruling class had emerged.

However, the new regime only lasted a thousand years before it became corrupt.

Thus, a new war began.

History has begun to repeat itself.

Fan Xiao awoke at this moment and obtained all the historical information through his psychic powers. After learning that the human empire had long since disappeared, he remained silent for several days.

He then went to the Imperial Heroes Square, where heroes were once buried.

Nothing was left there; even the planet itself had been destroyed in an ancient war.

No empire, no heroes, no coffins scattered across the planet... nothing has left a trace.

He became the only one who remembered everything.

After watching for a while, Fan Xiao looked away, abandoned his plan to restore the burial site, and disappeared from the spot.

It doesn't make any sense.

Anna remains on the timeline.

He, on the other hand, experienced the boredom of life.

An extreme form of boredom.

The new war continues. As Fan Xiao travels through the universe, he sees the flames of war spreading to every corner of the world. The endless sorrow of the victims is mixed in with the flames of war, and with each cry of agony, the world is shrouded in cruelty.

Some were terrified, some were desperate, some prayed to gods and Buddhas... Fan Xiao saw everything, but he couldn't muster much thought in his heart to stop the war, and became a simple witness.

He knew that he had never truly integrated into this world.

They also refused to integrate.

After watching too much, Fan Xiao felt annoyed and tired, so he went to sleep again.

When they woke up, the war was over, and the human world had entered a new era.

Fan Xiao once again moved through the universe to take a look at this new era.

Nothing but unfamiliarity.

In a world where all acquaintances and enemies have vanished, he cannot find the slightest sense of familiarity or belonging.

He had no interest in anything.

So he went to sleep again.

……

And so, Fan Xiao developed a liking for sleeping.

He slept for many years.

During this period, the human world entered into one historically recurring war after another.

Each time he wakes up, he travels throughout the universe, witnessing worlds that are either ravaged by war or transformed, and all sorts of people and events.

It seemed that only in this way could he add a little bit of novelty to his dull and monotonous life.

But he was only a witness from beginning to end and did not participate.

He seemed to have truly become a ghost.

After waking up for what seemed like the umpteenth time, Fan Xiao opened his eyes with a look of surprise on his face.

Even his weathered mindset was shaken considerably.

He sensed something was amiss on the timeline.

Anna has moved to the material world and is no longer confined to the timeline.

Anna... has woken up.

……

Vanshaw had imagined many times what would happen when he met Anna.

For example, remain silent and indifferent, or launch a direct attack.

For example, displaying anger and murderous intent, or revealing a hysterical side.

For example, they resort to overwhelming resentment, denouncing the other party as unworthy of being called the guardian of humanity, easily sacrificing another era to protect their own, without ever considering or exploring ways for coexistence...

All the predictions turned out to be negative.

But he never imagined that when he actually met Anna, he would be...so calm.

He was so calm, unlike his usual self.

At that moment, he suddenly understood something.

Time can erase everything.

Even the most unforgivable hatred.

……

"Why do you dare to come see me?"

Anna did not sit on the throne, but instead sat on a bench at the edge of the fountain square, looking up at the unfamiliar architectural complex in front of her. Although her expression was cold, her eyes were somewhat dazed.

Fan Xiao's arrival did not attract her attention. Without even turning her head, she said, "Aren't you afraid I'll kill you?"

"When you were a monster, you didn't have the instinct to attack me. Now that you've awakened, why would you be my enemy?"

Fan Xiao walked to the bench, sat down next to Anna, and asked, "How does it feel to see things changed?"

Anna did not answer.

After a long silence, she continued to look at the buildings in front of her and said, "There used to be my temple there. I sat on my throne and gave orders to the empire. The priests of the church collected and organized the wishes of the believers for me. The Inquisition followed my will and went to war to clear up the internal conflicts of mankind. The Pan-Cosmic United Legion was there to punish all the divine races that invaded the human empire."

"Although my comrades-in-arms have all become my subordinates, the relationship between us is not as hierarchical as others might imagine."

"The temple carries my joys and sorrows, as well as everyone's shared wishes."

"now……"

Anna finally turned to look at Fan Xiao: "The only person I know left is you."

"You're the only person I know left... Please accept my condolences."

Fan Xiao looked at Anna and suddenly remembered something: "Oh, right, Condé, I have a message for you. He said the war is over, you no longer need to dedicate everything to humanity, and he hopes you will start your own life."

"Kant... that's what he said?"

"That's what they say."

"He still doesn't understand me."

Anna spoke calmly, but her voice seemed heavy with weariness: "Back then, when I forcibly fused with that half of the authority using my divinity, perhaps I was blessed by the heavens, and I succeeded."

"My consciousness has not fallen into complete madness. I can clearly feel that I can pull through and become the strongest being who wields dual powers."

"A perfect victory is within reach."

"And I...in the end, I fell before victory."

"Why?" Fan Xiao asked in surprise.

"Kant knew me after my psychic powers were fully awakened, and so did everyone else."

Anna said, "Before my psychic awakening, I had already gone through a long struggle."

"During this period, in order to achieve victory, I have always done the right thing and have always done things by any means necessary to achieve my goals."

"I have personally killed many friends simply because they clashed with my ideals and opposed me; I have periodically selected batches of people from generation to generation of imperial subjects who volunteered to sacrifice their lives, and carried them out to massacre them, using them as nourishment for me, simply because I needed to restore my strength, completely eliminate any periods of weakness, and not give the gods any opportunity to exploit me; I have destroyed tens of thousands of inhabited planets in a fit of rage, simply because ideologies that could cause turmoil were spreading on these planets, and I had no time to deal with these issues in detail; I have..."

She listed the heinous crimes she had committed.

She remembers everything clearly.

And this is the root of her suffering.

"Ultimately, a stable, vast, and orderly human empire was born and took shape, my psychic powers were fully awakened, and the world entered a new era."

“Those who knew what I had done grew old and died, keeping the secret to themselves and taking it to their graves, never revealing it to anyone.”

"In the new era, I became the guardian deity of humanity, representing all that is true, good, and beautiful. I am worshipped by everyone, and even the path I walk is kissed by believers..."

And so, she weathered the darkest period and ushered in an era full of hope.

As she successfully merged the two powers and was about to weather the conflict between the two psychic energies, a ray of hope shone into her heart.

Dawn is just around the corner.

Then, bathed in the light of hope... she went mad.

The impending victory, the opening of a wonderful world, brought her a slight sense of relaxation for the first time in years, a feeling that had kept her tense for countless years.

It was this brief moment of relaxation that caused her to lose all her composure and rationality.

As she relaxed, she recalled everything that had happened.

It brought back the deepest darkness of my memory.

Those abyssal emotions suppressed in her heart, those human emotions, erupted in that instant, engulfing her.

She survived the darkest period; countless desperate situations could not break her will. Like the sharpest sword in the world, she cut through thorns and brambles, piercing through all despair and guiding humanity to break through the darkness and move towards the dawn.

However... she collapsed before dawn.

Having overcome countless moments of despair, she collapsed before hope.

The light called hope failed to illuminate the darkness in her heart.

"Isn't it both ridiculous and ironic?"

Anna looked at Van Shaw.

Fan Xiao did not answer.

If Anna were a purely evil person, she certainly wouldn't have acted this way.

But a purely evil person cannot become a master served by angels.

Fan Xiao stood up, ready to leave.

Anna said, "Aren't you going to tell me why you came to see me?"

"You won't agree."

"Talk to me a little longer."

There's nothing more to say.

Fan Xiao shook his head and disappeared from the spot.

He wanted to overturn everything that existed and bring his own era back into being.

He wants to go home.

And Anna... how could she sit idly by and watch the world she had sacrificed so much to create be destroyed in his hands?

His wish... may never be fulfilled.

……

Fan Xiao did not continue sleeping.

Sleeping can no longer alleviate his mental exhaustion.

So he started traveling.

He deliberately sealed away his power and traveled like an ordinary person.

Over the years, he has either been gathering strength to fight Anna, who has turned into a monster, or sleeping to relieve his fatigue, and has never had the chance to properly see the world.

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