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Nothing was left here except for the scorched, flat land.

Lina and Melissa have long since perished.

Caesar instinctively clutched his chest, suddenly feeling an emptiness within.

It was as if the land had turned into a scorched plain... nothing was left.

He dragged his weary body forward, walking instinctively, aimlessly, his eyes filled with nothing but charred remains.

The remains of Longxi Village, left behind after the soldiers' massacre, also disappeared in the aftermath of the previous battle.

Finally, the true King Caesar reached the sea and arrived at the lighthouse.

Unable to bear the dual exhaustion of body and mind any longer, he fell asleep under the lighthouse as if trying to escape.

In a daze, he seemed to have fallen into a beautiful dream.

Without the support of his will, his abilities began to run rampant, and his body began to disintegrate inch by inch, dispersing into tiny, wriggling worms that seeped into the ground and merged into the sea...

Chapter 436 The Real Way to Clear the Game

5:00 PM.

Fan Xiao and the hooded girl arrived at the lighthouse on the Longxi coast.

As they watched Caesar's body dissolve and disappear, the two fell silent for a moment.

It is now almost certain that the outside world is a repetition of the past, while hell is the present.

The birth of Hell... is most directly related to the true King Caesar.

Or rather, hell was created by the true king Caesar.

The hooded girl's pretty face still held a hint of anger.

She was furious that the innocent and kind-hearted Lina and Melissa had been killed by soldiers.

She was angry that she could only watch, and could do nothing about it.

She was furious that King Caesar was blocking Carmen from avenging her daughter... but at the same time, she also felt a deep sense of helplessness.

If it were her, what would she do?

Carmen has gone berserk and has completely lost control due to her rage.

He probably wouldn't be able to quell his hatred until he slaughtered most of humanity.

And how many innocent people will die tragically because of this?

If this really happens, who can these powerless ordinary people, who don't even have the chance to take revenge, turn to to express their outrageous grievances?

She knew in her heart that... the actions of the true King Caesar were, in fact, correct.

The two sides simply have different positions and perspectives.

"The true King Caesar ultimately fell beneath the lighthouse, which is probably why the fixed entrance to Hell appears beneath the lighthouse."

Looking at the spot where Caesar the True King had disappeared, Fan Xiao speculated.

"Is Caesar truly dead, or still alive?" The hooded girl was a little confused. "His body has dissolved and disappeared, but if he's dead... then how did Hell come about?"

"How could a normal person's body dissolve and disappear upon death? He should still be considered alive, and his body hasn't disappeared; it has simply turned into smaller particles and merged into the sea and the earth. This must be... the result of his ability going out of control?"

Fan Xiao wasn't entirely sure either, and could only speculate: "Looking back at the ending of Hell... I guess his consciousness might have split into two."

"The main consciousness is his primary personality, which has fallen into a dormant state due to escapism, while the secondary consciousness... is likely a collection of negative emotions arising from immense guilt."

“Otherwise, he killed his own friend to protect humanity, so it doesn’t make sense that he would destroy the world out of guilt.

"Schizophrenia?" The hooded girl settled on the concept.

"Pretty much. The true king Caesar can make flesh and blood awaken their own consciousness. His ability... just hearing about it sounds a bit like schizophrenia."

Fan Xiao glanced at the sea not far away and said, "If things continue to develop at this rate, the sea, the land, humans, the Celestial Race, the Demon Race... will eventually be polluted and assimilated by the flesh and blood dissolved by the True King Caesar."

"Heaven, hell... in the end they will all be in flesh and blood."

"This is probably why we can't find any trace of the past in hell."

"As for the disappearance of the sea... it's probably because it was contaminated by the flesh and blood of the True King and solidified into flesh and blood earth."

After a pause, he concluded, "The true king Caesar is hell."

"Have the two become one...? But is that even possible?"

The hooded girl frowned and said, "Turning the ocean into flesh and blood is a bit too much."

"That's because you're inexperienced. There are people who can directly destroy a dungeon... cough, don't glare at me yet."

Fan Xiao offered his speculation: "A dungeon world isn't a real planet. I think this C-level dungeon, while large in area, is still far from being a planet. Given the power Caesar True King has displayed, to pollute this world... the workload would be enormous, but it's not impossible."

"Furthermore... do you know how many years have passed between hell and the outside world?"

“It could be tens, hundreds… or even thousands of years.”

"Such a long time, the world has changed, enough for Caesar the True King to erode and corrupt everything."

"..."

The hooded girl remained silent for a few seconds, then a sudden feeling of sorrow welled up inside her.

Carmen, the Demon King, always believed in the goodness of humanity, but was ultimately betrayed by the evil of humanity.

The true king Caesar was determined to protect humanity, but in the end, he slaughtered the entire human race.

She felt a profound sense of irony.

She shook her head slightly to bring her thoughts back to a more focused state, and speculated, "According to this conclusion, eliminating the true King Caesar should refer to eliminating his subconscious."

"But he has already merged with Hell. To destroy him, wouldn't we have to destroy the entire instance world?"

"How...how can this be done?"

Although she was very confident in her abilities, that was only in combat against individuals. As for large-scale destruction... she didn't have any tools specifically designed for such destruction.

Even if they did, their level would have to be at least A to have any chance of destroying a dungeon world of that size.

“Destroying the instance is like flipping the chessboard, which is definitely not the correct way to clear the game… even though it may lead to the correct result.”

Fan Xiao pondered, "There must be other methods... Schizophrenia... Guilt... Even a group of players can't beat them..."

Taking all these factors into account, he deduced a conclusion: "Perhaps the real way to eliminate the true King Caesar is to untie the knot in his heart?"

"The purpose of the second instance mission is not to have us fight the true king, but to end this regret?"

"Unraveling one's inner conflicts is not the same as eliminating them."

The hooded girl felt that this explanation was a bit far-fetched.

“Unraveling the knot in his heart does not equate to eliminating it,” Fan Xiao cautioned. “However, if the knot in his primary personality is untied, his guilt will lessen or even disappear. In that case, his secondary personality may automatically collapse, which is equivalent to eliminating his evil secondary personality.”

"Eliminate the alternate personality..."

The hooded girl thought about it and felt that the logic made sense.

The one who destroyed the world was the alternate personality of the true King Caesar, which fits the character of the "final boss".

This "final boss" is so powerful that even a team of players can't defeat it; the only way to beat it is through verbal sparring.

Using words to awaken the conscience of the other person's primary personality, thereby causing the secondary personality to automatically collapse... Hmm, that makes perfect sense.

"Besides that, I have another guess."

Fan Xiao then added, "I've been wondering about something before—hell and the outside world represent the present and the past, so how many years are there between them?"

"For this reason, I specifically asked an old scholar in Longxi Village who was good at enlightening people. He told me that even the lifespan of two kings is not eternal. It is said that the previous king of the Celestial Race only lived for a thousand years."

"What if the time interval between hell and the outside world has exceeded a thousand years...?"

"You mean that the true King Caesar may have already died of old age?"

The hooded girl asked, quite surprised.

That's... a novel perspective.

She had never considered the issue of lifespan before.

After all... it's really hard to imagine that such a powerful being would also die of old age.

"Whether he died of old age or not is hard to say at the moment. However... we can assume that he died of old age first, and then reason along this line of thought to see if the final result corresponds to the current situation."

As Fan Xiao pondered, he murmured, "If... well, if Hell has existed for over a thousand years, then the true King Caesar would surely have died of old age long ago."

"But the instance issued a mission to eliminate him, which contradicts this assumption... We can naturally use the mission as a basis for reasoning."

"So, this conclusion is wrong?"

"Don't interrupt."

Fan Xiao waved to the hooded girl, then continued to ponder, murmuring, "If... well, if there were a reason that could support the simultaneous and reasonable existence of these two contradictory sides..."

"To break this deadlock, we need to introduce new theories, such as... that the true King Caesar has indeed died of old age, and what remains in Hell is merely his obsession born of guilt... Hmm, similar to the theory of ghosts, where ghosts become Buddhas once their inner knots are untied."

"His obsessive guilt is rooted in the earth, lingering like a ghost, neither human nor ghost. Once the player resolves his inner conflict, he will disappear. With the disappearance of the primary personality, the secondary personality will naturally perish as well."

"..."

The hooded girl did not refute Fan Xiao's guess.

To verify this, we must know exactly how many years are separated between hell and the outside world—since this cannot be verified, this guess has a 50% chance of being correct.

So she didn't refute it.

There's no point in refuting it.

Because regardless of which conclusion is correct, they all have the same goal—to untangle the knot in the heart of the true King Caesar's personality.

The hooded girl reminded Fan Xiao, "Your reasoning has a fatal flaw—the true King Caesar has clearly been completely integrated into this world, has no physical form, and his main consciousness is asleep... We can't even wake him up, so how can we untangle his inner knot?"

"Perhaps we'll have to rely on the 'Grave of Guilt'."

Fan Xiao sighed softly, "I was wrong before. I thought the Tomb of Guilt was an existing tomb, or maybe it wasn't a tomb at all, but rather something else... Anyway, whatever it was, it existed in this instance. But..."

He shook his head and said, "Before Carmen died, he entrusted Caesar to help him bury his two daughters properly—this was the last thing we heard after we arrived at the center of the battlefield."

"But the riverside cabin... not to mention the cabin, the surrounding forests were completely destroyed because of the battle between the two kings, and the bodies of Lina and Melissa have long since turned to dust."

"Not only did King Caesar kill his friend with his own hands, but he also couldn't fulfill his friend's last wish. This will most likely become his eternal guilt."

"I thought the Tomb of Guilt referred to the tomb that Caesar built for the Demon King, but it seems that's not the case. The Demon King's body has disappeared."

He turned his gaze toward the original Longxi Village and continued, "The grave refers to the graves of Lina and Melissa."

"The reason we can't find this tomb is because it never existed."

"It needs to be built by us players."

"In other words... the player will be a corpse collector?"

Although the hooded girl was asking the question, she had already accepted the conclusion in her mind.

"If nothing unexpected happens, that should be the case." Fan Xiao nodded.

“Building a tomb of guilt and awakening the true consciousness of Caesar… these two things seem unrelated.”

The hooded girl reminded her.

Fan Xiao explained, "I previously said that the outside world is a repeat of history, but that statement may be somewhat incorrect, so I'm correcting it."

"The outside world is likely a space that manifests based on the dreams and memories of the true King Caesar, under the influence of the rules of the instance."

"I've encountered this situation before in other instances."

"Based on this, it is highly likely that the true consciousness of Caesar is dormant in this space—he is having a recurring 'historical dream'."

“If we can build a ‘tomb of guilt,’ it would be equivalent to making up for his guilt, and he might wake up from his dream because of this emotional fluctuation.”

"That was a bit of an assumption."

The hooded girl commented, "Even if it's true, it's impossible to do this in this cycle of reincarnation."

“Yes, there’s no other way.” Fan Xiao turned his gaze away from Longxi Village. “Besides that… we might have another option.”

"What choice?"

"Change the course of history and save Lina and Melissa."