Their commission was suspicious.

Do you want to listen to what you're saying?

“In your bar, you could easily kick me out because you have absolute control, but this is my turf.”

“You still have an unused source aura deep within your soul. Our two source auras are like communicators. It might not be possible to contact you elsewhere, but it’s definitely no problem in my home.” The source aura stood with his hands on his hips, looking incredibly powerful.

However, without Chen Luo as a medium, the Root would never have been able to appear in this world in this form before the beings of this world.

"Chen Luo, who is this? I've never seen him before." Merlin looked the ghost-like source up and down.

Merlin was not entirely unaware of Ryougi Shiki's appearance. As the possessor of the highest level of Clairvoyance, even though he could only see the present, Merlin had lived long enough to reach the modern era, and thus had also seen Ryougi Shiki.

In general, Merlin's gaze is present wherever there is activity.

But the ghost before them was clearly not Ryougi Shiki herself.

They could see it but couldn't touch it, and none of the people present noticed its presence before it spoke.

“This is the source, you can also call him the world consciousness,” Chen Luo explained.

Chen Luo wasn't worried about whether Root was satisfied with or agreed with his introduction. After Chen Luo finished introducing himself, whether Merlin and Gilgamesh would have an impression of Root depended entirely on whether Root was willing to do so.

Although the World Consciousness rarely interferes with any individual in the world, absolute amnesia is one of its privileges.

"!!!" Merlin, who was curiously tracing the head of the source with his hand and feeling that the person in front of him was more like a phantom than a ghost, froze instantly.

Could you please tell me about something this important earlier next time?

Merlin forced a smile that looked more like a grimace.

"Um... I've heard so much about you."

Chen Luo never mentioned that the root cause was the world consciousness, since he had never encountered this world consciousness before, and Merlin and the others naturally hadn't either.

Merlin only found out now, but it was a little too late.

Seeing Merlin so frightened, Root gradually revealed a somewhat exaggerated smile.

"You dare offend me in my world, kid? You're pretty brave. I'll arrange a plot later so that Artoria can twist your head off!" Genyuan said with no shortage of malice.

"I'm sorry, I was wrong!" Merlin immediately raised his hands in surrender.

This is no longer a question of whether or not someone has offended a powerful figure; it's a question of whether a character in the book has offended the author.

Even on his deathbed, Xiangzi, the rickshaw boy, believed that he hadn't lived a good life because he hadn't worked hard enough.

As for Merlin... he actually feels that his life is pretty good right now.

Although offending the world's consciousness allows one to flee to other worlds or even the dimensional sea, no one is willing to leave their homeland.

Without me, how will Artoria and Fou survive?

"Ahem, let's talk about your suggestion from earlier." Chen Luo coughed twice, changing the subject for Merlin.

Generally, if a character in an author's work offends the author, there are usually two possible outcomes.

One possibility is that the author found the character quite interesting, smiled, and then looked away. Another possibility is that the author wrote the character to the point of death.

Chen Luo felt that Genyuan wasn't the type to hold grudges, but he strongly suspected that Genyuan really wanted to see Merlin have his fun.

"Oh right, a suggestion. When you guys were discussing how to kill the Grail holder on the other side, did you even consider my feelings?" Root crossed his arms.

"Hmm, how do you feel?"

“Yes, that’s how I feel. You guys have ruined the script terribly, I’m going to lose money,” Genyuan said.

Earning less is a loss!

"So... the reason Uruk is in this predicament is because of you?" Gilgamesh, who had been trying to understand what was happening, suddenly spoke up.

While Chen Luo and Genyuan were discussing suggestions, Merlin also quietly and quickly explained the concept of world consciousness to Gilgamesh.

In short, world consciousness is the author of this book called "The World".

"To make the plot more dramatic, there are always victims... Could that be the reason you created this script?" Gilgamesh's tone was very calm, making it impossible to tell what he was thinking.

However, Gilgamesh's question instantly reminded Chen Luo of the world of the creator that he was about to travel to.

Perhaps Gilgamesh's feelings now when facing the Root are similar to those of a character in the Creator World who comes out of a book and sees the author.

The difference is that those writers didn't actually know that their books would become a real world on another level, but the world consciousness did.

To create such suffering simply to make a book a bestseller...

“No, it’s none of my business.” Genyuan shook his head.

"To put it another way, I am indeed the author now, but because of what the previous author did, the pen that writes books has become sentient... That pen is already a mature pen; it can write stories on its own," Genyuan explained.

The connection between the origin and the "pen" in this world is somewhat like that of a clumsy player and his bionic teardrop (the effect of which is to summon a clone of himself with the exact same items and stats as the player, but also like a robot, without making mistakes and extremely powerful).

The greatest contribution one can make to the world is simply to do nothing and ensure one doesn't die.

“I see…” Gilgamesh nodded.

Although Gilgamesh's expression remained unchanged, Chen Luo could sense that the atmosphere had shifted from tense to calm.

"So what suggestions do you, the author, have?" Gilgamesh's tone was not overly respectful, but it was not hostile either.

“Although I’m not involved in creating the world scenario now, I know what you’re doing that will make me lose money. So, for my sake… at least wait until the Chaldea group arrives before restoring this singularity to normal, okay?” Root said.

"What if I don't agree?" Gilgamesh asked.

"Hmm...you know what human evil is, right? It's like beast. Like Tiamat in this singularity."

“Yes.” Gilgamesh nodded.

Beast, the beast of original sin, also known as human evil. There are 7 in total.

"Theoretically speaking, I could make 108 or even more evil humans appear in this seventh singularity."

"..."

“But I won’t do that. I’ll just have him come to Genyuan to play games with me,” Genyuan said, pointing at Chen Luo.

"...Let's discuss increasing Chaldea's participation rate. Soaking in the Root is very painful," Chen Luo said, raising his hand.

Chapter 2139 Wise King Shan: Chen Luo, are you interested in becoming the guardian deity of Uruk?

The root cause is not exaggerated.

As the author of this book, who is also a global consciousness, he could do whatever he wanted if he didn't care about sales.

From the perspective of global consciousness, the source of the world is sales volume.

Although it doesn't need to be sold to anyone, getting the world on the right track will make the world grow.

The world was complete from the beginning, so it did not need to grow; therefore, this growth became the source of the world.

The world is a house that was built from the beginning, but you can use the World Source to buy various items to increase the world's value and make it more durable.

However, if a world's sturdiness is too low, even to the point of being unable to make ends meet, then the world will become a leaky house. The demonic winds of the dimensional sea will then blow away the world, making it uninhabitable.

Although the probability of such an event is extremely low, it has happened before.

That's why things like the World Consciousness Headquarters came into being.

Some of the World Sources they obtained from various channels were used to subsidize worlds that might fall into ruin due to poor management.

“Now you understand, right? Just like you're resisting Tiamat in this Seventh Singularity, the world also needs constant patching and repair to resist the Dimensional Sea. Saying it resists isn't entirely accurate, since even if the Dimensional Sea's waters flood into the world, the world won't die, but the situation for the creatures within it will become increasingly difficult,” Root explained.

“I understand. It’s probably similar to the relationship between the civilizations of Mesopotamia and Earth. Whether the civilizations of Mesopotamia will be destroyed or not is not important to Earth. After all, Earth will exist forever.” Gilgamesh nodded.

"Pretty much. When you were fighting the monsters in the Seventh Singularity, someone would always be sacrificed in Uruk. And if you expand Uruk to the world level, that's pretty much my perspective."

“So it seems that maintaining the profits from the Source of the World is crucial to prevent this small boat adrift in the Dimensional Sea from leaking. And the Seventh Singularity is just a small part of those profits? I understand. Since Chen Luo can use his River God abilities to cover the entire Mesopotamia region, giving everyone there two lives, I will try my best to drag the battle line out until Chaldea arrives,” Gilgamesh said.

"That's true... but you don't need to look so determined. In fact, given the current state of our world, even if we had ten spendthrift children who squandered their wealth for ten lifetimes, our world wouldn't capsize. The premise is that you don't start a business..."

"..."

Gilgamesh felt that his emotions had been wasted.

"Anyway, you've already agreed, so you can't go back on your word, or I'll send 108 human villains to the Seventh Singularity for a team-building exercise." Seeing Gilgamesh's expression, Root quickly said.

“…” Gilgamesh.

Let alone 108 human evil spirits having a team-building event, even if only 7, no... two! Even if there are only two, the Seventh Singularity can't hold up.

"Is this seventh singularity really that important? Why would you go to the trouble of coming out in person?" Chen Luo asked from the side.

The root cause never appeared when Chen Luo was disrupting the plot before.

"Isn't this because of you? Other world consciousnesses don't have a world source that's almost soul-connected to you as a communicator, while I have this opportunity to come down at any time, so why not use this privilege?"

"And you don't actually think that the Fate/Grand Order IP is unimportant to me, do you?" Root asked rhetorically.

"..."

Although the acquisition of the World Source may not have a direct relationship with the sales of the work in the other world, the Fate/Grand Order brand is indeed one of the mainstays of the Moon World in Chen Luo's world.

In this world, Holy Grail Wars are everywhere; any parallel world that doesn't have a Holy Grail War wouldn't dare call itself a parallel world.

However, the combination of singularities, Lostbelts, and saving humanity is indeed a unique feature of this parallel world.

Chen Luo is not the world consciousness, nor does he know how much the loss of this world's plot will cause the world consciousness to suffer, but for the usually very generous Root to come down once, the loss must be considerable.

“A single Seventh Singularity might not have a significant impact. However, the seven Singularities form the foundation of this parallel world,” Root emphasized.

Chen Luo can modify or even fine-tune the seven singularities, but he cannot eliminate any of them.

Even if Chen Luo made the seven singularities unrecognizable, adding a beauty filter and a little artistic enhancement...

As long as the seven singularities aren't modified to the point of losing their human form, they'll still appear as electronic beauties on camera!

Don't underestimate the bond between "beauty filters" and livestreamers! Damn it!

Moreover, how can you call the affairs of scholars fake? That's called artistic embellishment!

"So... in theory, Chen Luo could help you quickly pass through the Seventh Singularity, but because Chen Luo appeared in this world, allowing you to directly connect to him, it also prevents you from quickly passing through the Seventh Singularity, right?" Merlin asked.

“Although you didn’t get to the point, you’re right.” Genyuan glanced at Merlin.

"So it was you who led the Imperial Army here..." Merlin jumped up and pointed at Chen Luo.

"Pfft!"

Before Merlin could finish speaking, he clutched his bleeding kidney and squatted down on the ground.

"I knew Merlin's mouth wouldn't produce anything virtuous." Chen Luo used Merlin's clothes to wipe the blood from the sword that had been used to stab someone.

Although it was indeed Chen Luo who brought the source here.

but……

Without Chen Luo, Uruk in the Seventh Singularity would have had to struggle against the monsters for half a year, suffering countless casualties.

With Chen Luo, the Seventh Singularity will have to hold on for a while, but not for half a year. Moreover, everyone has two extra lives, so as long as they don't deliberately court death, they won't die.

"In short, things have turned out this way due to some strange developments, so I probably can't help you directly deal with the Beast Mother Goddess and Tiamat." After stabbing Merlin, Chen Luo said to Gilgamesh.

"However, in return, I will extend the influence of the River God's power to the entire Mesopotamia. From now on, everyone will have two lives, and I will also send Paradise Adventurers to cities that may be attacked by monsters, hoping that they can hold out until reinforcements arrive before their two lives run out."

As Chen Luo spoke, he took out Gungnir and fired them one by one into the distance.

Each Gungnir is wrapped with a silk thread, which is an inexpensive doll positioning device that can hold 5 to 10 dolls and use the thread to teleport them to the location of the thread.

Although there aren't many puppets (5-10), Paradise Adventurers are like cockroaches. When you see one Paradise Adventurer, it means that he is already surrounded by Paradise Adventurers.

Each adventurer in the park can be used as a coordinate for teleportation, and there is no limit to the number of times.

Dozens of red meteors shot towards the sky.

The departing Gungnir can not only temporarily intimidate those magical beasts and serve as a teleportation point for the adventurers of the Paradise, but also act as a medium for Chen Luohe's divine abilities.

Chen Luo was located in Mesopotamia, which was the ancient Greek name for the land between the two rivers, meaning the land between the two rivers.

The two rivers refer to the Euphrates and the Tigris.

This location is the earliest origin of West Asian culture.

Ancient people often lived along rivers, which means that these two rivers basically covered the entire Mesopotamian civilization.

and so……

"Splash!" The sound of the rushing river resounded in everyone's hearts.