MTL - High Above-v2 Chapter 798 Just be prepared and death won't catch up with you (

   Chapter 798 As long as you are prepared, death will not catch up with you (6200)

   "Demons are part of that stuff. But quite a special part."

   After saying this, Carlos's aura restrained, the light in his eyes completely faded, and he returned to the comfortable and relaxed appearance before.

The eldest prince smiled at Ian and raised the bottle: "I'm sorry, I should have scared you just now - in fact, ordinary people would not be scared by me, but because you are too strong among your peers, and you are as keen as a prophet The psychic power, that's why I perceive some extra things that shouldn't be perceived... This is my fault, I punish myself with half a bottle."

  After speaking, he actually drank half of the bottle in one gulp—Ian seriously suspected that he was just looking for an excuse to drink.

   "Hey. When I see you, I think of my younger brother. He is as cautious as you, careful, and can't let go when he should."

Putting down the bottle, Carlos glanced at Ian and said, "Shouldn't you be criticizing me just because I want to drink at this time? Although you didn't show any flaws in your expression, you didn't reveal any expression or emotion." , but I can't guess what a person like you would think?"

"Brothers and younger brothers need to communicate with each other in this way in order to enhance their relationship... the same is true between us." He shook his head rather displeased: "But don't be like Mikhail, even if a person like him can succeed in the future, he will only be a Second grandfather."

   "This is a bit outrageous." Ian couldn't help complaining: "No wonder His Highness Mikael didn't want to discuss you at all when he chatted with me."

"I said don't let my brother make the same mistakes and follow the old ways of grandpa. What's so rebellious?" Carlos looked at Ian rather strangely, and he shook his head, "You outsiders always call grandpa a black king and a pioneer. He is the Great Emperor, but to us, he is just a very strong and kind grandfather... Mikael just didn't regard his grandfather as a grandfather, but regarded him as a... um, myths and legends? Legendary ancestors?"

   "Who is weirder?" He looked up at the ceiling: "Grandpa failed, we have to learn the lessons he learned from his life."

   “First of all, making more people into us is the most important point.”

At this point, Carlos narrowed his eyes, lowered his head, and stared at Ian seriously, until Ian felt a little hairy, the prince said: "Of course, this is indeed the means I use to collect information …When I was walking around in the past, I often used this bold and unrestrained appearance to recruit people, and guide those cautious, even autistic people to expose their true nature, and then pry into their hearts."

  “I will communicate with them and make friends from the bottom of my heart, and then I will know their wishes, their desires, their ambitions and desires.”

   "Over time, when I awaken my psychic powers, I will be able to see through the real 'dreams' and 'thoughts' in their hearts."

  Carlos openly revealed the truth about his psychic abilities, but Ian actually knew it long ago.

dream. This is the truth about Carlos' psychic power. The specific ability is not known yet, but probably, it can lead to the limit of a person's power in dreams, and use special emotional bonds or thinking relationships to separate himself from thousands of miles away. His psychic powers are invested in those who need his psychic powers to strengthen.

   This is even a semi-automatic psionic ability, which can be guided and transmitted spontaneously without Carlos actively controlling it himself.

  In other words... If nothing else, Carlos's skills in psychic energy are not simple at all-he can interfere with the use mechanism of his own psychic energy and program his own psychic energy!

  The person in front of him is a strong person who can research the technology of 'divine power transmission'! If I have to say, Carlos has accumulated far more skills in the aspect of gods and spirits than Ian!

   Even, the other party's divine power transmission technology is the most important factor for Ian, the spiritual disaster, to expand the spirit and **** system in the first time and popularize the whole Terra on the way of the spiritual disaster.

  —In another parallel time and space, I must have worked with him. Moreover, it is a very in-depth cooperation, and Carlos is indeed very easy to attract other people to vote for him.

   But he is not a 'nice guy' either.

After Ian actually met Carlos, he understood why the Magneto-Optical Knight would betray the Marquis of Barton to serve him, and why there were his dark hands in the Gnosis Academy... This is what should be done, and he With his status and ability to act, so many people should surround him and become his 'friends'.

   It's just that, like most of the high-level people in the Terra world, Carlos is a figure standing on the top of the mountain.

   Not high enough, not low enough.

   Therefore, the purity is not enough.

   "So, Ian."

At this moment, while Ian was silently dissecting Carlos, the eldest prince smiled and raised the wine bottle to the white-haired boy: "If I have to say it, the dream of ordinary people is to drink wine when they are happy at parties. When you are ignorant , things that I think about in a daze, desires derived from instinct, thoughts that slowly take shape as I grow up, gradually deformed under the beating of reality, and become a real appearance."

   "Wanting wealth and status, wanting to be respected, or even simply wanting to have more women and men in this life-this kind of instinctive desire can also be regarded as a dream."

  "The dream of resentment and hatred is to use alcohol to relieve sorrow, even to sober the alcohol and quench the hatred, and when the self is paralyzed, it emerges from the depths of the soul, shattering all wishes."

   "Wine is a void."

  The eldest prince knocked on the wine bottle, and the little liquor left in the bottle spewed out from the mouth of the bottle, floating in mid-air, and turned into a cloud of golden mist, just like the mist of the ocean.

"People in the world often say that the Void is a mirror. The good and evil of people will be reflected in the mirror and be sublimated. The good will become angels, and the evil will become demons - this is a legend. We all know that there are no angels in the Void, only machines. God. But in a sense, machine gods are no different from angels, except that they are not composed of human goodness, but people's desire for order, so they actively use technology, wisdom and axiom to shape spiritual machines."

   "The devil, in fact, is the same."

   Carlos snapped his fingers at the sea of ​​wine mist in front of the two of them, and immediately the relatively transparent bubbles in the wine floated up, condensing into the appearance of machine gods.

  Each of these machine gods is very different, but they all have a unique aesthetic feeling. This is obviously not shaped by Carlos at will, but the reflection of many machine gods he has seen in the past.

   Soon, the relatively turbid foam in the wine mist began to fall, and gradually condensed into groups of indescribable groups. I don't know if they are hideous and terrifying, or chaotic things that cannot be recognized by human geometry.

"Demons didn't actually exist in the first place." The eldest prince stared at the chaotic things and said, "In ancient times, during the civilization of the pre-epoch, these things were pure imagination. They were just sporadic evil thoughts that existed in the subspace. Some people Wraiths after death, black mist made up of cursed dreams... They will pollute the psykers who sneak into the void, distort these psykers, change their temperament drastically, and get infected with demons, so there are legends of demons and devils appearing The Void Mechanics are the 'cleaners' who clean up these pollutions, they will clean up these pollutions from thousands of angles, just like cleaning up the garbage at home."

   "But a demon with a specific image did not originally exist."

   "But after the disaster from the sky, demons really appeared. Just like humans created machine gods, some existence created demons in the void."

Having said this, Carlos looked solemn: "The Void is not a mirror. The Void is the sea. Whether it is a machine **** or a demon, an angel or a devil, it is all the bubbles of people's dreams rising from the bottom of their hearts, floating on the sea and gathering together. part of a larger bubble."

   "But just like humans shape the Mechanics, the shapers behind the demons are the most important."

   "Ian, when you seek knowledge about demons, you must pay attention to this point... The existence that is the enemy of us humans and Dragon Island is not those shadows, but the real darkness itself hidden behind the shadows."

"…I see."

  Ian also had a solemn expression on his face. This was not a pretense, but a sincere one.

   And he also understood the true nature of the existence of demons.

  —Isn’t this the individual of some kind of extraterrestrial psychic civilization, or the fire creation they made? !

   Immediately, Ian thought of the flower of Karin.

Rooted in the dreamland and the sea of ​​human souls, it absorbs the souls of all living beings and turns them into itself, and connects all things. Strictly speaking, the flower of Karin is actually a demon—it is the most evil demon mother tree, and it is the tree that devours human souls. An extremely evil existence that creates false things.

  Similarly, He is also a fire made by a spiritual civilization.

   And other demons, regardless of their type, probably have a similar origin behind them? Even, like the virtual machine gods, they have already begun to derive their own ecology in the virtual world, becoming a phenomenon and race that can be spontaneously generated and evolved...

  When demons appeared in Terra’s void, they completely changed the rules of this void and became a phenomenon and race in the void...

  A virtual fire that is far easier to 'continue' than a physical fire.

Just like the 'Blood River Armor' held by Ian, it can gradually transform the user into a blood demon during the process of the user's death and resurrection-this is a nearly phenomenal transformation, turning other creatures The resentment and hatred of his own side became the 'virtual demon' on his side.

  The Blood River Armed Forces was brought by Ian this time, ready to be used by his other identity 'Mahdi, the Knight of the Valley'.

   "It seems that you can understand it well."

   Carlos is also very satisfied.

  The reason why he told Ian so many confidential information is precisely because he has already cooperated with Ian. His support for Ian's sect is his investment, so Ian's sect will naturally provide him with some help.

  The information related to the Void Realm and demons is a necessary link. Ian will eventually have access to this information. Instead of letting Huaiguang or Suming come over, it is better for him to sell this favor.

   Moreover, it seems that Ian is not ignorant of Void Realm...

   "Is it a fairy?"

The eldest prince opened his mouth and swallowed all the wine mist in mid-air, and he put down the bottle: "Did the goblin tell you the truth of the virtual world, right? This is very useful for the development of sects, even those local sects in small countries, and even As for cults, they can rely on the dreams and teachings of people's hearts to cultivate their own virtual machine gods... On the side of the dark mountains, it seems to be called totem ancestral spirits or something? Anyway, the artificially created primitive machine gods are not as good as the civilization of the pre-epoch The legacy that has been reproduced is powerful, but it has its own spirituality."

"It is also by virtue of the power of these virtual machine gods that they have the special inheritance and spiritual power unique to the sect. Although the cost is high, it is indeed a way that allows us to better improve our own sublimation. road."

   "Your Highness said so."

  This is another point. Ian bowed his head earnestly to thank. Although he had inferred before, he never expected that the sect would create a corresponding virtual machine **** in the virtual world by virtue of its teachings and guiding people's hearts.

  This kind of process...isn’t it just that the primitive people used the open-source virtual world AI manufacturing program to forcibly knock out a psionic R artificial intelligence that serves them!

  —This is outrageous, Tyra.

  Ian sighed deeply in his heart.

   The wine is over, the time for the private meeting has passed, and the next thing to talk about is business.

"Master Gesai and my nephew will act together with you. That's no problem. You have won more explorers for the empire. This is the privilege you deserve—and with Yisen here, it is also convenient for us to communicate with each other. If there is an accident, I will help you."

The eldest prince Carlos held the personnel file in his hand and muttered: "Yamok Nosdil (King of the Mountain) is your protector, strong is strong, but he may not beat me, and his speed is definitely faster in the maze. It will slow down, and then don't look outside, and don't give him face, just call me."

"of course not."

  Ian said, at this moment he is really a little curious: "You seem to have a good relationship with the King of the Mountain, I remember that the real dragon will not tell other people's real name casually..."

   "After all, I have fought side by side for a while, so I have some affection."

   Carlos smiled: "Speaking of which, you have a second energy level, and it will be convenient for Yamo to take you to Dragon Island, but don't embarrass our imperial people in front of the real dragons."

   "Is there no formalities required?" Ian raised his brows, he thought he had to report to the empire: "I've been thinking about who to file with."

   "No need." Carlos waved his hand, indifferently said: "Places like Dragon Island are open to all human beings and all intelligent creatures... It's just that ordinary people can't get close at all."

   "In the final analysis, it is located in the sky, a place higher than the top of the mountain."

"I see…"

  Ian nodded thoughtfully. He really wanted to insinuate and get the empire's perspective on the real dragon camp from the mouth of the first prince, but so far, it seems to be very friendly?

Ok. Indeed, if it is said that the real dragons are really the guardians of civilization, and they are the creations of the star gods...then they are indeed the friends of all living beings and all civilized creatures.

   "Speaking of this."

   Talked with Ian about the next cooperation procedures and related matters. When everything was about to end, Carlos suddenly remembered something before saying goodbye.

  He smiled and said to Ian: "What kind of prophecy is your prophetic ability? Forgive my curiosity, even if I haven't met a few prophets, I really want to know."

  —It seems that you have encountered other prophets, right?

  Ian accepted the information silently, and then slowly said: "I can see the 'future signs' that may appear when someone targets something."

   "Huh? Very specific and loose prophetic powers... No wonder the result is just such a vague sign, it's very strong!"

  Carlos obviously knows some standards related to prophetic psychic powers. Judging from the inference, the more specific the conditions, the looser and more vague the results-it is indeed in line with the situation that the prophetic horizon can basically see nothing, and everything is a cloud of fog.

  Moreover, the retrospective vision with unclear conditions and extremely harsh conditions is launched for extremely special emotional boarding, but it is clearly like watching a video tape of the past.

   "Can you predict me? Regarding this exploration of the Alien Research Institute, I know that there may be backlash. If you don't want to, forget it. I'm just curious and don't want you to get really hurt."

This is probably something that everyone who meets the Prophet, no matter the prince, emperor, scholar or warrior, wants to do it—the eldest prince Carlos looked at Ian curiously, and he pointed his finger at his face with a smile .

  He wanted the prophet to prophesy for him.

   "No problem, Your Highness."

Ian lowered his eyes and said with a chuckle: "Backlash is nothing more than pain in the eyes. It is predicted that the fourth and fifth energy levels will bleed. It may be more serious for ordinary people. For me, a second energy level sublimator... It’s nothing more than ten minutes of discomfort.”

   "What's more, you are our security backing, and you have given me so many pointers today. I have to help to see whether it is public or private."

  After speaking, Ian raised his eyes, and the faint water-colored aura flickered around the boy's pupils, releasing light as clear as a stream.

   Then, he saw it.

   The pitch-black mist, like a thick rain cloud, surrounds Prince Carlos!

"This…"

  At this moment, Ian was really shocked, and he looked at Carlos in disbelief.

  The black mist represents a certain death situation—but how is this possible? What kind of thing, what kind of monster, what kind of enemy can make the eldest prince Carlos, who is inherited from the Sun God Bird, fall into a doomsday situation? !

   Carlos also noticed the meaning of Ian's expression, and his expression changed from relaxed to serious.

"Oh?"

  He narrowed his eyes, looked at his hands, and murmured: "It seems...isn't it a good ending?"

   "Even I will die?"

  He was silent for a while, but smiled: "No. I already know."

   "As long as I'm prepared, death won't come to me...Deception, will even I be tricked?"

   "Ian."

  Carlos raised his head, and he looked at Ian with piercing eyes: "Do you still have the strength to look at it again?"

"certainly."

  Ian rubbed his eyes, and he solemnly activated his vision vision again, looking at the First Prince.

   But, astonishingly so.

  The pitch-black mist is rapidly fading away.

  The black recedes, just like the dark night is illuminated by light; the blood color recedes, just like the shadows receding in front of the noon sun.

  When Carlos was sitting in front of Ian, like a majestic statue, there was no black fog around his body... only a little reddish blood lingered.

   "There is still danger."

  Ian admired from the bottom of his heart: "But it's like a miracle—death retreated!"

   "Scars, damage, bloodshed or defeat... At most, that's the case. In just a moment, Your Highness, you have come from the place of death to the place of life!"

   Carlos didn't answer, he just stood up, came to Ian, and hugged the white-haired boy heavily.

   "You saved my life, Minor Prophet."

He said sincerely, without the slightest doubt that Ian was exaggerating before, deliberately pretending to be dangerous to deceive: "If I were Alegria's old sister, I would definitely hug you a lot and kiss you hard One bite—but I'll let it go."

Letting go, he laughed loudly, patted Ian on the shoulder, and then walked towards the door of the living room, quite fascinated: "It's really interesting, sure enough, if you can't stay in the imperial capital all the time, people will get rusty. Even I will also die due to various accidents, Terra is such a world!"

  —You mean that Princess Alegria will take advantage of me? And try again!

  Ian suffered a bit of shoulder pain from being photographed. Fortunately, he took the initiative to remove most of the defensive essence on his shoulders. Otherwise, the power of the Herald of Steel would have been discovered!

   Communicating with these high-energy levels, you really can't be careless at all!

   "Ian, remember!"

  Before opening the door, Carlos left the last sentence: "As long as you are prepared, death will not come to you...As a prophet, you must keep this in mind!"

   "Besides, since everyone has arrived, we will set off the day after tomorrow."

   "Isengard will probably be preparing to advance to the second energy level tomorrow. He will catch up with you and guide him well—there are not many nephews I can fancy."

  After speaking, the eldest prince Carlos left. He didn't leave in a hurry, but obviously, knowing the dangers of the exploration trip, he needed to make some preparations immediately.

  He didn't ask about Ian's dream, maybe he has seen it clearly, maybe all prophets will have such ambitions that don't need to be said, but everyone can understand.

  Ian sat where he was, lying on the sofa, and didn't leave right away.

"Interesting... The First Prince is really an interesting person. All the things he said in the audience were both true and false, and the truth is uncertain... I also understand the reason why the Marquis of Barton couldn't chat with him. This is an obvious repulsion of the same kind I really want to see them sitting at a table chatting, it must be interesting."

The young man muttered to himself, as if deliberately speaking to others, but also as if he was just talking to himself: "The art of deception... demons, and dragons. There are countless fogs lurking behind history, and I learned a lot this time , it’s really unbearable.”

   "Even a prophet cannot see through this fog."

   "But it's also a good thing—if you know everything and understand everything, then there is no fun in exploring."

  At this moment, Ian felt emotional from the bottom of his heart.

   It is indeed the Alien Research Institute of the pre-epoch civilization, the birthplace of the way of sublimation—everything seems to be gathered here.

  Danger, death, a big crisis that is almost unavoidable even at the fourth energy level.

  Even the most stupid fool will know that there are mysteries in that place that it is difficult for anyone to find the truth, and there are traps that can make everyone fall into the maze.

   But also because of this.

   is itching.

   Standing up, Ian stretched his waist, shook his head and said, "It's time to go back and make more preparations."

  He left the imperial embassy, ​​and returned to the Jindeng family mansion on the fourth floor under the awed and curious eyes of all the staff and members of the exploration team.

  As the eldest prince Carlos said, his best friend Isengard will advance to the second energy level today.

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  (end of this chapter)