The villain's way to tame the protagonist

Ming Furo was silent for a moment, but still did not say anything capricious like "I said I don't need it, so I don't need it", because that would make her look like a jealous idiot woman - although she was forced to listen to the conversation between Ansher and Xitana, she was not jealous at all, not at all.

It’s not like I haven’t heard that damn brat tell me that.

She snorted coldly, then glanced at Ji who was standing still, the disgust and contempt in her eyes even greater than that of Shitana just now.

"I was wondering why the study of divine arts always stops at a certain key form and cannot be analyzed to find the correct solution. It turns out that it is just a boring trick. And your so-called faith, huh... It is really, complete garbage."

In the general direction, Ming Furo, who inherited Erion's legacy, can be said to be incompatible with the church to some extent.

"You banished ignorant people from a more perfect world to a barren and unknown world, leaving them to fend for themselves, and claiming that this is their only salvation... I agree with Xitana's point of view. You all have problems with your brains."

"… Would you call such a world perfect, Ms. Zeg?"

The only thing Ji couldn't stand was the debate on faith. He instinctively retorted: "With your wisdom, I don't believe you can't see the predicament and difficulties of mortals in this world."

"Xitana has said everything she needs to say - you think you are right, I think I am right, that's all."

Ming Fuluo was too lazy to debate with Ji. In her opinion, the so-called beliefs of this group of people were even more fragile than Lian De's ideas - at least when facing Lian De's questioning, she was really confused and doubted her own correctness.

But the people in the church? A group of escapists who think they are saviors and do great things, but are actually backward, ignorant, pessimistic and negative. What qualifications do they have to talk about ideals in front of her?

"You would rather spend eight hundred years on how to exile mortals than study how to enable mortals to control the supernatural. You are bound by the will of a group of dead souls until now, and you are still moved by yourselves all day long... I have nothing to say to people like you. Let's go, Xitana, let's solve another problem."

Ming Fuluo turned around and walked away. Xitana, who was a little confused, came to her senses and hurried to catch up: "So where are we going? What is the church doing to delay time?"

"If nothing unexpected happens, they are probably preparing to shove people in." Ming Fuluo raised her hand nonchalantly, and the black cloud of insect swarms created by Nidhogg surged out and quickly swept outside the tower. "They must be making final preparations."

"Stuff people in..." Sitana muttered thoughtfully, "Are they planning to transfer people to this tower? Can they force people in?"

"The common people of the empire cannot afford their 'salvation'"

Ming Fuluo sneered sarcastically: "No matter how much this tower is expanded, it can't accommodate all the mortals on this continent. The lucky ones who can go to that so-called paradise can only be people from the Theocracy, or even only a certain part of the mortals in the Theocracy."

Ming Fuluo was more sensitive to some details of the church's plan. When most of the information was laid out on the table, even though she knew nothing before, she still deduced a lot of things.

"It is definitely not something that Ji can control the weakened and ownerless Feasting Flame, even if it is only a little bit. Even with a bishop as a helper, it is impossible. If nothing unexpected happens... all the bishops should have secretly arrived in the North a long time ago. But if they arrived via the flight route, Marina would not be unaware of it, so the biggest possibility is... they have some special space jump method to forcibly cross the Tiantu Mountains."

"Since this method can allow more than ten fifth-level bishops to cross the mountains, it is definitely not a problem to allow mortals to transfer directly."

"Oh……"

Xitana nodded in understanding, an expression of excitement gradually emerged on her face. She licked her lips and crackled her fingers: "So we are going to find those dozen bishops and kill them all, right!"

Ming Fuluo looked at her with dead fish eyes: "If someone doesn't know, they would think you are already level five. Do you think that's a dozen chickens?"

"Hmm? Is there a difference?"

"Our opponents are not them. Anser will definitely be able to deal with that group of guys... What a crude construction of the ether circuit. Because the divine arts are too convenient, have they ignored the essential details of ether control?"

crunch--

Ming Fuluo just stood in front of the door, a few streaks of light flashed through her lenses, and the Tower of Wild Flame, which had been taken over by the church, slowly opened its door after a few seconds.

She looked back at Anser who was confronting Ji, and seemed to be thinking:

"If nothing unexpected happens, the key point lies with that woman. Anser was right to ask us to avoid her."

"Who are we going to beat up then?" Sitana said with an unhappy look on her face. "I've been holding it in for a long time, okay?"

“……” Ming Fuluo supported her forehead and sighed deeply.

"Have you forgotten that a cat escaped from our house?"

*

Looking at Anser who was smiling calmly, Ji was silent for a long time before he slowly spoke:

"It seems that His Royal Highness the Regent is very confident in Lord Lance and Ms. Zeger."

“Even the most perfect plan needs the right executors, and if the executors are good enough, it doesn’t matter if the plan is flawed.”

The fact is, Anser's plan is flawless, and the executors cannot be simply described as "excellent".

"Even if the enemy is likely to open fire at full capacity, Your Highness the Crown Princess?" Ji asked.

Anser laughed happily. "If you think that Ivora, who just secretly swallowed some ether, can be called full of firepower, then I will just symbolically worry about them."

...As expected, even this has been taken into consideration.

Not surprisingly, all the arrangements of the church have been seen through by this devil.

Ji held the Ouroboros pendant that symbolized his belief and slowly calmed down.

“But taking them away from your care is not an option.”

Even so, Ji still wanted to make one last attempt.

He stared at the handsome yet majestic young man in front of him. The figure that could make the world fall in love with him and worship him, in Ji's eyes... seemed to have been twisted into a dancing nine-headed demon snake.

"The Saint... She cannot shake your soul, but that doesn't mean she cannot shake those two ladies'."

When all verbal exhortations have become useless, such pure threats are the final resort that the church can take.

If possible, Ji didn't want to do this at all, not because it was despicable, but because he didn't dare to imagine what kind of monster they would face if Hydra was enraged.

"Of course I know, that's why I asked them to deal with the cat you kidnapped from my house."

Amid the pleasant tune played by the machines, Gleipnir transformed into a chain blade that looked like a work of art. Anther, who had not used it in this form for a long time, gently stroked the blade. The breath of the monster from the Abyss of the End dissipated from behind him bit by bit.

"I also know that Xin is here to complete your plan. All her actions are based on this. In other words...she will definitely target the person who poses the greatest threat."

"Of course." Anser paused, "Since it is your greatest masterpiece, she is certainly not a rigid machine. It is natural that she would consider using Xi'er and A Luo's souls to coerce me, but——"

His voice changed.

"If my threat level exceeds that, she will definitely focus everything on dealing with me."

Nine overlapping voice lines echoed in the vast space. In Ji's suddenly contracted pupils, what was reflected was not an illusion, but a real twisted and crazy doomsday beast, as well as a shadow that covered the sky and swallowed up everything!

Endless, limitless, absolutely deep annihilation and darkness, engulfing everything in the tower at an extremely terrifying speed, ravaging and devouring this tower that could bear the burning of the Flame of Feast. The ether circuits engraved in the tower, which had been carved with countless hundreds of years of hard work by all the bishops of the church, were like grass under this power. What awaited this hope was only... destruction!

Almost at the same moment, the terrifying shock wave that bypassed all means and restrictions and directly bombarded the soul exploded with unprecedented lethality, causing the spread of the shadow to stagnate for a moment.

The head in the middle of the nine-headed demon snake slowly spit out its tongue: "This is really... an incredible power. Are you okay, Marina?"

"I'm fine, Mr. Anser."

On this head, the dark witch only showed half of her body. She bent down intimately and leaned against the huge snake head, closing her eyes and muttering peacefully:

"Mr. Anser's soul... is very warm and is protecting me."

When Ji came to his senses, almost all the color disappeared from his face.

He didn't know how long it had been since he had felt the emotion called "panic", but at this moment, the devil called fear really captured his mind.

Why... is it so strong!

Ansel's idea was indeed correct. If he really showed overwhelming power, so overwhelming that Xin would not have time to evaluate what the most appropriate means was and would have to take immediate protective measures, then Xin would not have the time to threaten Shitana and Ming Furo.

But, but this is impossible! They have estimated Hydra's power many times. Without the Deus Ex Machina, he can't be this strong!

Even with the backup of the Devourer Lord... Marina's qualifications as the Devourer Lord are not strong. How much can she devour and how much power can she convert into for Anser?

[Warning, Hydra's daughter, Crow, ether absorption rate, 3,627%, conversion rate with Hydra's main body, percent... cannot be calculated, cannot be calculated]

[The souls of the two have a special connection that transcends the contract, and there is a possibility of energy conversion without loss.]

Lossless?! Are you kidding me? Could it be that Marina Lancemalos has become a part of Hydra's soul?

"It's not easy to deal with me now, Miss Xin, what do you think?"

That terrifying and eerie laughter echoed in the ship that was supposed to have reached paradise.

[Evaluation in progress... It will take time for individual·sense to completely distort the thinking of individual·beast and individual·machine. Three minutes and seven seconds, or... more than twelve hours.]

[The time required for individual Hydra to destroy Paradise is within two minutes]

[Judgment, Plan No. 3, rejected; there are currently no options available, and subsequent actions will be determined by the individual.]

"..."

Ji was trembling all over and almost fell to his knees.

The old man looked up at the monster that blocked out the sky and the sun. Even though he had lost hope from Xitana and was refuted by Ming Fuluo, he did not lose his composure. Now he roared at the top of his lungs:

"Hydra...what on earth are you going to do!?"

Yes... What on earth was he going to do? He already had this kind of power, and he could make everything in the world submit to his will. Why did he still need to sharpen his sword, and create such trouble for himself?

He clearly possessed this power and knew almost everything, but he still allowed the church to push the entire plan to the final step. Ji originally thought that this was Ansor's training of Hitana, but the fact is... for Hydra, who was already so powerful, he didn't need to spend so much time and effort training his own sword.

Is there any enemy in this world that is worth him doing this?

The monster that brought destruction didn't even look at him, but just whispered slowly like thunder:

"Ms. Xin, since you know that violence won't work, then... let's have a good talk."

A few seconds later, in this space that was almost half eroded by Ansher, on the opposite side of the shadow and darkness that engulfed everything, an extremely pure glow was born from nothingness and then condensed into a slender figure.

The flawless glow outlined a figure that embodied absolute beauty. The white robe that fit her skin perfectly was more like a second skin than just clothing. The difference between this white robe and the past was... there were no thorns on it, not even a trace of black spots.

Absolutely flawless and pure, uncontaminated, or in other words...

Return to the origin, the soul.

"Long time no see, Miss Xin."

The sacred figure that seemed so tiny compared to this body was reflected in the snake's pupils. Hydra sighed with regret: "I didn't expect to see you like this when we meet again."

Those ethereal and holy blue eyes also accommodated the huge figure of the monster. At this moment, was she the Saint Xin of the church, or was she... Jue who had been sublimated into a god?

"It's been a long time." She replied calmly, "Mr. Devil."

"……Um?"

Both Ansor and Marina were slightly surprised, and Ji looked at Xin, who was surrounded by holy light, in disbelief.

"I thought you would behave more... rationally and colder." Hydra exhaled dark demonic energy and looked somewhat pleased.

"I will adjust the necessary way of conversation according to the person I'm talking to." Xin... or maybe it was Xin, his expression was still calm and composed, just like... the very first saint.

No, even the saint at the very beginning still had the most basic emotional feedback, which was used to understand people, but not the kind of feedback to empathize with people. But even this kind of emotional feedback is not available to Xin now.

A kind of machine that is more human than a machine, but definitely not human... It reminds Anser of the strange existence called artificial intelligence in that world.

Hydra looked at her indifferently and calmly. Both his solid head and his still illusory head were rising and falling restlessly.

"Because, the mission?"

The low sound that overlapped nine times echoed in the world divided by darkness and light.

"Because of the mission." Xin's tone remained calm.

“Hehehe…hahahahahaha—”

The crazy laughter that seemed to be soaked in the devil and chaos of the abyss echoed in this space. Just because of the ups and downs of emotions, the shadow of a living creature squirmed and forcibly occupied a little more space. The breath of the abyss rose more and more wantonly and wildly, and Ji might have understood why Hydra had become so strong.

He is exchanging... exchanging and seeking power from the abyss in advance. He is completely... crazy!

Ivora was not lying, Hydra was indeed crazy! He had no enemies, no opponents, and it was basically impossible for him to reach the sixth level, and he would not be completely corroded by the abyss to go crazy, and he did not have to walk down that strange road, but he still took the initiative to ask for it from the abyss!

Who is he doing this for, or does he just want to... die?

"Mission... Mission."

Hydra's hoarse whispers are all cursed. Even if an ordinary extraordinary person hears its voice, his soul will be eroded and destroyed by madness.

"Xin, do you know how you were born?"

"I know." Xin's gaze was still completely fixed on Hydra's eyes without any wavering. "Do you need me to narrate it for you, Mr. Devil?"

It's obviously the same name, but Anser now only feels disgusted and... funny.

Then, it laughed teasingly and maliciously: "Okay, tell me about it."

"Let me hear what a pathetic creature you are."

"The first bishop, Zerui, possessed a spiritual essence called 'Awakening', which gave him a power second only to that of the Gods, specifically targeting the soul. With this as the foundation, he transformed himself into an unconscious soul body that was eroded by divine arts, and continued the existence of this huge soul body by subsequently merging with the souls of other bishops."

"And I, the Saint of All Saints, am a special individual created based on this soul body. The purpose is to restore the spiritual essence of Bishop Zerui and create a pure soul individual that is not affected in any way and also has 'awareness'."

"Well... I can guess it from the story of that pioneer."

The snake spit out its tongue leisurely, and it seemed to enjoy hearing Xin reveal his own scars.

"However, you are not the product of the transformation of that soul body. You have no essential connection with that chaotic stitched thing that has become something unknown, right?"

The church needs a new owner of the spiritual "awareness", but definitely not a second Zerri. Since the goal is to create God, both acquired education and innate nature must remain absolutely...pure.