People are in Hakoba, the final trial at the beginning

Probably wondering what the relationship between Su Qing and Astoria is.

Astoria closed her eyes slightly and took a deep breath.

Maybe this will destroy her image in Liu's heart, but she has already made that kind of awareness, and now, she can only make awareness.

"Lyu, what is justice in your heart?"

Liu Wenyan was startled, his face was full of confusion.

"Master Astoria, I am addicted to revenge, how can I have the right to talk about the so-called justice?"

"—Then neither do I!" Astoria put her finger on Lyu's mouth and said softly, "Do you still remember Erebus?"

"That evil god?" Lyu was a little puzzled.

"Back then, didn't you come up with your own answer when facing the evil god who questioned what justice is?" Astoria guided Liu carefully: "Justice circulates."

Some people may die because of justice, but justice will continue to be passed on like fire.

Astoria let out a long breath: "Erebos is very satisfied with your answer, he understands your justice, but Lyu, you don't seem to understand his thoughts at all?"

"The idea of ​​the evil god?" Lyu was very puzzled: "Is there anything to investigate?"

Astoria covered her face, looked at Su Qing and said, "My child's brain is not working well, I'm laughing at you!"

"...Where did I say something wrong!" Lyu blushed slightly.

"That is to say, until now, you feel that Alfia really wanted to destroy Olalie, instead of giving you experience by destroying Olalie?"

"what?"

Lyu was startled again.

The smile on Astoria's face was a little bit awkward, trying not to lose her appearance, she explained softly: "What did Alfia tell you?"

Lyu frowned and recalled the memories of the past, and said while thinking: "The Hera family attacked the black dragon. There is no possibility for Olali to attack the black dragon. The system of adventurers must end and destroy the current peace. Going back to the era of heroes... like this?"

"Then let me ask you, Lyu, how to return to the age of heroes?" Astoria looked at Lyu tenderly, as if she was guiding her child who just knew numbers to calculate addition and subtraction within ten.

Liu looked a little embarrassed, looked at himself, and wanted to get the correct answer as much as possible. After thinking for a while, he said, "Isn't it enough to destroy the current age of the gods?"

Astoria: "..."

Stretch, this is the child I chose, if it weren't for this kind of brain, she wouldn't have joined the so-called righteous family!

endure.

Taking a deep breath, the smile on Astoria's face became brighter, and Lyu felt a little flustered in her heart.

"Back to the age of heroes... The key is the fairy spirit!"

"The fairy spirit is the avatar of the gods. After destroying Orari, the gods were sent back to the heavens, and the gods passed away. The era of adventurers is indeed over!"

"Where's the fairy?"

"The gods are repatriated by humans to the sky, so they will definitely re-differentiate into fairy clones? Let the natural transition back to the age of heroes?"

"Annoyed the gods and didn't divide the fairy spirits, what can Alfia and the others do?"

"If the gods were so harmless and wouldn't get angry when they were beaten, there would be no agreement at all. The gods would have personally descended to wipe out the monsters in the dungeon, so would they still seal the lower realm of divine power?"

Astoria concluded: "At that time, Alfia and others' so-called evil deeds to destroy Olalie were to become your stepping stones and give you experience!"

Astoria sighed faintly, and her own children have not reacted now...

The truth that is close at hand - knowing that Alfia is looking forward to a hero who can surpass her to defeat the black dragon, and knowing that if there are no heroes who can surpass her, she will plan to destroy Orari and bring the world back to the age of heroes, but I didn't realize that Alfia had let the water go from the very beginning, holding back time and time again, giving the new generation a chance to surpass themselves.

Astoria was also there at the time, and it was clear that when Alfia told her reasons for fighting during the battle, Rivilia, who was present, sensed something was wrong, and vaguely stopped in the follow-up battle.

At that time, Rivilia didn't believe it all, but she just thought that it might be Alfia's tactic to keep her hand. She only kept a little strength on the spot to ensure that if it was Alfia's tactic, she could explode immediately. Do your best to rescue Astoria's newcomers and Ais who are present.

But after Alfia died, Rivilia compared the battle process in his heart, and probably guessed the truth immediately.

Her own children have not been able to perceive the truth that is close at hand, and Astoria really doesn't know what expression to show.

Lyu opened her mouth, feeling a little confused.

No, she was beaten up by Alfia back then, and diss+pua by Erebus. You told me now that Alfia deliberately tested her and planned to give her experience?

—Wait a minute?

Lyu noticed something was wrong, and quickly opened her mouth to ask, "Then, where's Erebus?"

"It's just what you think." Astoria said quietly: "Play the necessary evil, destroy Olalie by yourself, wait for a hero who can surpass yourself, and use your own evil as a stepping stone for the new generation of heroes."

"Lyu, when you faced the question from the time evil god, you got your own answer."

"Justice circulates."

"Justice is fragile and perishable, but the living will bear everything of their predecessors. Even if it is justice that has been destroyed, there must be something in it that can be passed on to future generations."

"Handed down from generation to generation, and the cycle continues from generation to generation, even if it is not satisfactory, even if it is not yourself who has accomplished justice, but one day, the world will reach the so-called justice."

"But now, you haven't seen the other half that the evil god read from your words."

"...Justice is circulating, but as the cornerstone of justice in the eyes of later generations, it is not only the justice of the past, but also the necessary evil."

"Before reaching the ideal, justice or evil are just stepping stones in the process."

"The evil god has the consciousness to become a stepping stone for the new generation of heroes for his own ideals."

"But Lyu, you don't seem to have this awareness."

Astoria sighed slightly, and said, "Lyu, do you still remember what I said to you when I left Olalie?"

Liu Nannan said: "...Throw away 'justice'!"

Lyu remembered this sentence until now, but she never understood the meaning of it.

Is it because Master Astoria feels that he is not worthy of being her family member?Unworthy of the name of justice?

——Lyu felt so in his heart, but he didn't feel that Astoria was such a heartless person, and he had been entangled like this for several years.

Astoria was also dumbfounded.

At that time, he and Lyu were probably talking across servers.

"...I mean, you, with the blood of innocent people on your hands, can't convince yourself to be righteous."

"If you can't uphold justice from the process to the result, it's better to throw off the shackles of so-called justice."

"It's not about doing what is right, it's about doing what is right."

"Even if your hands are stained with the blood of innocent people in the process, it doesn't matter. If justice wants to be passed on, there must be no light in the process."

"Necessary evil, even if it is evil, becomes the cornerstone of justice."

"This is the answer you came up with, Leon!"

Astoria sighed.

She felt that there was no need to remind Leon at that time. As early as two years before she left Olalie, Lyu had come up with the answer to what justice was. She believed that justice would be passed on from generation to generation.

As long as she realizes that Alfia released the water, Lyu will be able to guess Erebus' true meaning back then, and the meaning of her phrase 'abandon justice'.

It's not for Lyu to give up justice, but for Lyu to give up insisting on justice, and to let Lyu give up insisting on red tape. As long as the correct result can be achieved, it doesn't matter if you make a little mistake in the process.

——Anyway, they have already killed innocent people indiscriminately, and it is absolutely impossible for Lyu to be completely serious, even if there is even the slightest violation of the process, he will stare at it.

Even if Lyu didn't know that Alfia released the water, as long as she realized that she was exiled for helping Lyu take the blame, Lyu would never think that at that time, she thought Lyu was not worthy of being her family member.

But Lyu has been struggling with this for several years.

A coincidence that seemed to be tricked by fate, and... Freya's plastic best friend was protecting Lyu, so she never had a chance to explain to Lyu!

Now, she really wanted to take the sword of justice and stab Freya a few times.

Among the things she wanted to do when she returned to Olalie this time, wanting to stab Freya a few times ranked third.

Astoria took a deep breath.

The top two include dealing with Lyu's inner problems, and——

Astoria looked at Su Qing and said, "Sir... This is the answer I gave to Liu, and it is also my own answer."

"It's not like sticking to justice. Even if it is an occasional act that deviates from justice, if it is a necessary evil, I can do it."

"This kind of answer..."

"Are you satisfied?"

Chapter 41

Astoria felt a little apprehensive.

As the goddess of justice, she chose to stick to the path of justice no matter what.

If justice is divided into process justice and result justice, then Astoria is the type who insists on process justice.

It's not that she wants to do it, but that she can only do it. This is a multiple-choice question.

As for the rotten gods in the heavens, she is a mere goddess of justice, what can she do to insist on justice?

Just as Hestia, the patron saint of the family, became a squat at home after schizophrenia, Hestia has no ability to choose to protect the family of life in the upper world, and Astria has no ability to uphold justice in the upper world.

Hestia was schizophrenic and created a personality named Vesta to carry her side, hiding in the temple and not caring about the world.

As the god of travel, Hermes changed his goal to create a world where no god would hinder his travel because there was no place worthy of his travel in the heavens, and joined Uranus' plan.

Relatively speaking, Astoria was much luckier.

Something like justice is inherently too subjective.

If it is a goddess in charge of justice, it is natural to have justice in the process and justice in the result, then it can be called healthy, but if this cannot be done, then it is okay to choose one side.

If there is no way to uphold justice when you see evil and injustice, then at least you should be alone, make sure that you will never participate in it, and make sure that your actions do not contain a trace of haze.

When the evil god harms others, if she has the ability to stop it, she will stop it. If she doesn't have the ability, then she has nothing to do, whether it is to comfort the victim in the future, or to make up for the victim as much as possible... Just do your part.

Astoria has always done this.

Or maybe, this is the sorrow of Astria, giving up completely like Hestia, or changing the goal like Hermes. Although the process is very difficult and painful, after making up your mind, it may not be a relief.

But Astria's justice, as long as she continues to endure guilt and pain, can barely persevere.

Reluctantly being able to persevere is sometimes a kind of torture.

After all, Astoria is a god, and she is also accompanied by the heavens, an eternal and immortal existence-this is also her sorrow, even if she wants to die for justice, she does not have the ability.

Obviously she is the goddess of justice, but if Astoria is really asked to talk about the so-called justice, Astoria certainly feels that she can explain a few words, but she is very confused in her heart.

The justice she upholds is not the justice she wants to recognize, but the justice she can only choose.

So much so that after she returned to Olali this time, after learning some inside information from Uranus, she didn't hesitate in her heart.

After learning of Su Qing's existence, the first thought in her mind was that she must seize this opportunity no matter what.

What kind of thing is a goddess of justice who can't decide what justice is?

A goddess of justice who can only be alone, helpless in the face of evil and injustice?Seeing evil gods oppressing others, but unable to uphold justice at all, the goddess of justice who can only mourn the relatives and friends of the casualties?

It would be better to die in the first place and not be born in the world!

Among the Astoria family, Lyu is the favorite of the whole family, because Lyu is extremely steadfast in justice, just like the former Astoria.

In the face of Erebus, Lyu was deceived all over the place, and Astoria could only say that it would be nice to be hanged by reality a few more times.

Being slapped in the face by reality once or twice, a hundred times or two hundred times, after hundreds of millions of years, she will be the same as she is now. While adhering to the ideal called justice in her heart, she also recognizes the cruel boundaries called reality.

Sometimes, Astoria is very envious of the humans in the lower world, not just her, probably Erebus as well.

Human beings in the lower world have short and perishable lives. Because of this, the lower world people can maintain their pure ideals.

When faced with Erebus' question of "what is justice", Lyu finally gave the answer that "justice circulates", and Erebus and Astria who were on the side were very pleased.

Justice is short-lived and fragile, but despite its fragility, those blazes can be passed on from generation to generation and will never dissipate. A person's justice may deteriorate, but the blaze that is passed on is the purest.

Perhaps one day, the ideal of upholding justice in the individual's heart will no longer flicker, but there must be newcomers who still adhere to this ideal.

But while gratifying, Astoria and Erebus felt deeply helpless in their hearts.

Lyu's answer doesn't apply to gods.

The gods are eternal.