Nightmare Temple

[System alert: Player Bai Liu has won the final game.]

[Please ask player Bai Liu to look into the pool.]

Bai Liu lowered his head, the smashed and bloodied pool parted from both sides, and a rhythmic clapping sound came from inside.

"A wonderful duel." Bai Liu, standing next to the suspended Fang Dian, smiles and says, "The way you executed her lover, you're already a bit like me."

"I've just had her merge with the memories of this world line, and watch with me the entire execution of her lover, the Seer."

"It just so happens that the Prophet lost the game too, and you saved me a few moments of work by helping me execute her in front of her."

Dian Fang looked up slowly, tears still in her eyes.

Bai Liu looked at the suspended Fang Dian, and the moment he met her eyes, he completely froze.

[God gives creatures, lovers, friends and loved ones.]

[And then deprive it thus from the creation oh which creates pain and brews the soul.]

"Catching up is over, now let's enter the Evil God Inheritance Ceremony." Bai Liu slides his finger downwards, and an old carved door appears at the bottom of the pool. Bai Liu opens the door a crack, and countless silver-blue orbs of light instantly emerge from behind it.

Bai Liu instantly merged into these spheres, leaving only his laughter-laden voice: "That is, kill me, the old god, and you can become a true god."

"But your current power is far from arriving at the point of killing me."

"You've come this far so I can talk to you about the duties of working as an evil god."

"As I'm sure you already know, I'm a product of the Gate, I was born to guard it, and on one side of the Gate are endless silver-blue tainted heresies, and on the other end are the worldlines that are constantly being born from my body."

"But do you want to know how doors are created?"

Bai Liu half squinted his eyes, a large number of spheres were enveloped in front of him, the halo of these spheres converged and dazzled him to the point that he couldn't open his eyes, he looked in the direction of Fang Dian and reached out to grab it, but Fang Dian was instantly engulfed by these dense spheres and could no longer be seen.

The last of the people around him had disappeared.

These spheres form a wall that clusters and confines Bai Liu, making it impossible for him to move, and Bai Liu's voice is hidden in these spheres, coming out with a smile or a laugh.

"Originally there was no door, the more ancient gods, when creating the world line, realized that human desires would always lead to the destruction of the world, their desires would give birth to strange heresies that would pollute the world, in order for the world line to function peacefully, and also in order for the guardians of the human race to be able to guard the human race, they spoke of the dangerous desires that were generated by the human population of all the world lines being brought together. "

"And in order to imprison these desires, they created the Gate and me, and I am the Keeper of the Gate, the embodiment of the Gate, and all I have to do is to purify and bear the desires of mankind, as well as imprison the dangerous desires of mankind forever on this side of the Gate."

"And so this side of the door is light and order, and the other side is chaos and darkness, and I can only allow the world line of light to come to the side of light and the world line of darkness to come to the side of darkness."

"But in time, these gods also fell, and only I still exist, for the desires of mankind are endless, and as long as their evil desires exist for a moment, I exist for a moment."

Bai Liu's eyes drooped, and he looked at the orb of light around him, and gave a sighing nudge:

"I've existed alone for too long and began to grow bored with this whole guarding humans thing, so I let loose the dangerous desires and heresies on the other side of the door."

"Sure enough something interesting happened." Bai Liu's laughter drifted further and further, "I realized that in the absence of a door as an objective constraint, there is no difference between the world lines on either side of the door."

"Everyone produces the same evil desires."

"I'm getting more and more bored with this whole guarding humans thing, but when I was created, I couldn't leave the door, and unless a more suitable candidate comes along, I'll just have to stay as a door."

"But to guard the door, one needs to be able to stay awake and sane all the way through the desires and the pollution, and one's own soul needs to be strong enough."

"I've tried a lot of things in different world lines and have found that pain is an important criterion for selecting the quality of a soul. "

"The more agonized the soul, the more it is able to stay awake in the midst of its desires."

Bai Liu laughed softly, "And after searching for so long, I finally found you, Bai Liu."

The sphere dispersed in an instant, and Bai Liu appeared in front of him, smiling softly as he looked at Bai Liu, whose pupils clenched for a moment:

"Your soul is strong enough to take on the desires of all worldlines, and you are a better evil god to guard the gates than I am."

"Now that I've opened the door, the heretics and monsters on this side of the door will swarm wildly to the other side, and on the other side, all the normal world lines, of course-"

"--including the 658 world line where you are."

Bai Liu nodded the door, and the door that was originally just gaping open a crack opened completely, and the silvery-blue mass of light inside instantly rushed out.

The moment Bai Liu saw the door open, the silver-blue dust inside quickly coalesced into a ball of light, in which flowed all kinds of strange and heretical scenes, with hideous and twisted faces, while on the other side, those 657 world lines that had already been contaminated by Bai Liu were slowly drawing closer to the door, which was interspersed with that ball of light and darkness - - His 658 world line was slowly approaching. -The 658 world line where he was.

"The replacement of the Evil God requires the opening of a door, and after the door is opened, the world lines of both sides will converge towards the center of the door." Bai Liu smiled softly, "Because the last Evil God, that is me, is about to fall, and the moment I fall, the door will disappear and the two sides will merge, and the darkness will come to the side of the light, and the light will come to the side of the darkness."

"That is, the sides of the door will be inverted."

"And all you have to do is to absorb all the worldline desires in this moment of inversion and stay awake, and the turnover is complete."

Bai Liu lifted his head, blood dripping from his jaw, his voice hoarse, "What about you, don't I have to kill you?"

"No need." Bai Liu finally smiled and stepped out of the ball of light completely, "I myself am the embodiment of desire."

"When you absorbed all your desires, I ceased to exist, or rather, you came into being in my place."

"But accordingly, all the memories of my existence, all the memories of what my derivatives have done in the 658 world lines will also be absorbed by you, which is equivalent to you becoming a collection of us."

Bai Liu smiled in a very friendly way, "And I don't know if it will still be you at that time."

"--Or maybe, you become the next me, too."

"Now the turnover begins."

"Oh, forgot the friendly reminder." Bai Liu looks over at Bai Liu with a smirk, "During the turnover, you, as a Gate, are immovable."

"- You can only be alone, watching all the world-lines be polluted, corrupted, and destroyed before you."

"Who said he was alone!" A heavy sword was flung out from amongst the sphere of light, severing the sphere that imprisoned Bai Liu, and a lingering, crisp female voice came from the sphere, "And I'm beside him!"

Bai Liu's expression was stunned the moment he fell from the wall of light orbs, he even stumbled a bit when he fell because of his injury, and was helped to stand up.

"Is everything alright?" Fang Dian's voice and smile were the same as always, "I'm not late, am I?"

"Why ......" Bai Liu tilted his head incredulously, and for the first time he could hardly contain it, kept dropping tears, "still on my side?"

"I'm going to be an evil god."

"So what?" Dian Fang said calmly, "Evil gods are people too."

"Evil gods can be good and bad."

"If you do become an evil god, I'm sure you'll be a good one."

[I think Bai Liu will be a good boy.]

"A good evil god?" Bai Liu let out a soft laugh, "Nonsense."

He lowered his eyes and waved his hand downward, and the door opened completely against Bai Liu, and the silvery-blue dust inside came swiftly against Bai Liu's face like a blizzard, instantly transforming into all sorts of monsters and heretics, hideously infesting the worldline on this side of the door.

In just a moment, Bai Liu's eyes turned silver-blue as the desires and dreams of countless people flooded into his brain, pounding his soul into vaporization and immobility.

...... don't.

It took almost all of Bai Liu's strength to turn his head sideways and look at the glowing 658 worldline, which had become dark and dull in its silvery-blue glow and was about to go to the other side of the door.

...... He doesn't want to forget this world line.

He didn't want to see this world line destroyed in front of him.

Even if he became an Evil God, even if he would have endless world lines in the future, the world line that had brought him to this point, he didn't want to have to just watch it destroy like this.

"I won't let any of the worldlines be tainted." Fang Dian raised her heavy sword and stepped in front of Bai Liu, standing in front of the door to the endless stream of heretics coming through, she tilted her head up with a grim and determined look, and swung down with her heavy sword raised high, "I won't let Bai Liu see his worldline contaminated either!"

"Judgment of Light!"

A huge halo of pure white light erupted from the heavy sword that Fang Dian chopped down, forcing all the monsters to scream and retreat back behind the door, while Bai Liu stared blankly at Fang Dian's back against the light.

She held her heavy sword flat in her right hand, her voice firm and calm in the dense halo of light, "I will never let a heretic take a step past the door."

In the midst of all the chaos, Bai Liu was already somewhat blurred by lust, and all he could remember was that he saw the heretic on the other side of the door keep crawling out and being hissed back at by Fang Dian, who stood beside him again and again, tapping him on the shoulder to keep him awake, and again and again, putting her body in front of the world line and him to protect them.

Never back down, never admit defeat.

Bai Liu sighs, "You are truly the most defiant human I have ever met."

"Ahem ......" Fang Dian wiped the blood from the side of her mouth and looked up with a smile, "It's not like I'm not convinced."

"I know I can't win against you, so I just don't want to lose."

"The people I love are standing behind me, their souls, their faith are holding me up, and if I admit defeat so easily--"

Dian Fang's eyes reddened as she laughed and swung down her heavy sword, "--Wouldn't that make their sacrifices truly as worthless as you, the Evil God, say they are?"

At the end of the battle, Fang Dian, bruised and bloodied, stood in front of Bai Liu, who looked up at her and said softly, "I killed Lu Yizhan."

"I know, I saw it." Fang Dian paused for a moment as she hefted her heavy sword to her shoulder once more and let out a deep breath, "But I didn't just see you kill him, I saw the letter he left me."

"Lu Yizhan's letter tells me that he has known this ending for a long time and he accepts it."

"So I'm sure you know that as well." Dian Fang turned her head, the blood covered woman was actually smiling brightly at the moment, she even winked at Bai Liu, "So I'm guessing that this is just friends banding together to play a little out of the box game on the Evil God is it?"

"You have little secrets I don't want to pry into."

Dian Fang swung her heavy sword once more to cut down the heretics, her voice becoming heavy and strong, "But when it's all over, there's going to be no more fooling around like this!"

The door was getting closer and closer to Fang Dian, Bai Liu saw Fang Dian staggering to her feet, holding on to her heavy sword, her shoulders and back covered with wounds, and she looked back at Bai Liu as if she suddenly had a heart to heart at that moment, she smiled a little, the wind ruffled her long hair, and she smiled with her mouth and said to Bai Liu:

[Don't be afraid to part with the ones you love, Bai Liu.]

[We'll meet again eventually.]

[I'm sure you'll bring us all back to this world.]]