Chapter 2452

2452 – Thoughts

"Of course there are clues!!" Helmor replied quickly and joyfully, "Honestly, I didn't ask them for it because I know it will cost a price I cannot pay, and they themselves will exhaust themselves trying to find clues about what happened to you specifically. You are not a historical figure they are excavating for, but rather you are alive, and you are the Current Candidate, and your threads of fate with the All-seeing God are still strong."

Then he continued, "But if you asked either of them, they would not delay, and without compensation. All of this in order to clarify the facts to you about a common enemy, for both of them have tasted from the same cup. If you want, we can arrange a meeting immediately."

"….." Robin continued looking downward slowly.

Both of them have tasted from the same cup, and that is why they will give him the clues for free?

Is this a gathering club for those with psychological problems?

Qarun and Sevar, each one of them sits atop a complex web of power, followers, and interests — so will they help him because they feel the same feelings and are worried about him?

No…

Because they want to sow discord between him and the All-seeing God, their explicit enemy.

This is what Helmor is doing right now with his history lesson.

Is Helmor's speech trustworthy? No.

Are the clues that Qarun and Sevar will bring trustworthy?

No.

What would the evidence be? The All-seeing God's fingerprints on the whip his son was struck with? Of course not. The evidence would be the possibility of tampering in a certain event.

Neither of them would be able to determine who tampered, or what exactly happened.

If Causality had this absolute ability to see into the past, it would have transcended the human barrier and deified its owner. But everything has limits, even the Master Laws.

Therefore, he would meet Qarun, and tell him that the place where his wife appeared was unnatural, or that the Flame Empire's declaration of war on the Burton Duchy and their cruelty were both unnatural… Well, he knew this already. What next?

Join the club of those angry at The All-seeing God?

As the pressure of thinking mounted, Robin raised his hand and began rubbing his forehead slowly.

"…It's easier than all this thinking. What makes you hesitate to hear the truth?" Helmor reminded him. "You won't lose anything by listening to them. Even by following The All-seeing God, you won't gain. No matter what Master Laws and benefits he gives you, everything will end with the end of the Cycle."

"….." Robin raised his head slowly. "What do you think of The All-seeing God, Helmor?"

"What kind of question is that?" Helmor showed half a smile. "He's a charlatan who absorbed his patron, then took his place, and now he's dragging the entire universe to the gutter. It's only a matter of time before he becomes rubble or gets imprisoned, and we become a wandering universe with no owner." Then he raised his head slightly. "A failure who lost his luck, in short."

"Hmm, a point of view…" Robin sighed. "I see a human who managed to deceive his Transcendent patron until he reached what he wanted and became stronger, managed to carve his way to the Eternal Sanctuary as he wished, managed to ally with other Transcendents against his patron, the Warden, and took the universe from him as he pleased, managed to uproot all the seals that the Warden earned from the Cycle because of him as he planned, and somehow finished his scheme without being imprisoned or sealed himself… From a human to a Transcendent who has enemies and haters, and he entered the Wager during the short period between the Cycle and the next one. That doesn't seem like a failure to me. What do you think?"

"…." Helmor furrowed his brows tightly. "The All-seeing God is truly not easy. He reached a terrifying level with Causality and has some standing because of that in the upper ranks…" Then he smiled. "But is that something that makes you afraid of him? In his eyes, you're dead either way. Whether you disobey or obey, you're finished at the end of the Cycle, so why do you care about him?"

"..." Robin nodded and did not reply directly.

Hanging the label of enmity toward The All-seeing God on him without giving him a chance to defend himself would be pure stupidity... especially since the two pieces of information he had against him came from Helmor and his daughter, and they were utterly unreliable sources.

And if it turned out and was confirmed that he was the perpetrator...

Well, at that time he would not hide from him in a cave called Avoiding the Sky, nor resort to another Patron to protect him from The All-seeing God.

If he was the perpetrator, then this would be a personal matter, extremely personal.

Hiding? Resorting?

No, no... only blood.

A lot of it.

After minutes of silence, Robin said, "What do you think of the fate of the inhabitants of this universe, Helmor?"

"...?" Helmor was surprised by the sudden shift, "You mean the rehabilitation process at the end of every Cycle? What about it?"

"Rehabilitation, yes..." Robin nodded, "That process in which countless humans perish, a number that has not yet been called with a numerical name, each one of them has a name and a family and a dream... what do you think of that?"

"You speak as if I am the one who will kill them with my own hands at the end of the Cycle." Helmor laughed at the naivety of the words, "It is a fixed truth and something that will inevitably happen. During the rehabilitation process, all living beings will perish, whether intelligent or not, and all traces of civilization will vanish, and the planets will be returned to the Primordial Chaos Core to be rehabilitated after the destruction that befell them at the hands of humans."

"…Only the Planet Spirits survive that process, those that retain the memories of all the Cycles, and they communicate through bonds they establish during their time together in Primordial Chaos. But in the era of the All-seeing God, all of them have orders not to utter a word about anything except the current Cycle, or anything concerning him."

Then he continued, "The other thing that survives is the artifacts. They are the gear, weapons, and ammunition that the Transcendents secretly cast into the universes over the course of the Cycles—gear of the Seventh Level and above. These artifacts cannot be digested by the Primordial Chaos within the universes, so they create great traces around them: pyramids, obelisks, and strange walls. Strict conditions are placed on whoever wishes to solve the riddle of the artifact and recover what is inside it, because they do not belong to us… I trust you have come across some of them."

"....." Robin immediately thought of the Orphan's Blood, the Valley of Ghosts, and the Seraphim Pen.

Then he nodded, "I spoke to you about your opinion on humanity's fate at the end of the Cycle, but somehow the conversation shifted to weapons... I believe I got my answer."