Nightmare Light

Chapter 226 God's Conversation
The Shadow Orphanage, in the dining hall.

Dark purple starlight and bright divine magic shimmered together.

The ear-piercing screams and explosions rang out continuously amidst the priests' loud chanting and singing.

In the midst of such a fierce battle, Bishop Du heard Lin Wang's words and turned his head in surprise and confusion, looking at him with bewilderment.

The light from the surrounding divine magic caused his face to flicker between light and shadow.

"Lin Wang! Do you know what you're saying?!"

He raised an eyebrow: "We've tried our best and still can't hurt this evil god, and you're telling us to stop?"

"Since you can't hurt Him even when you're going all out, why don't you let me try?"

"What... are you going to do?" Bishop Du frowned, looking at Lin Wang with confusion. But before Lin Wang could finish explaining, he gestured and shouted to the surrounding Crusaders, "Cease fire!"

The priests were very disciplined; although they all looked puzzled upon hearing the order, they still stopped brandishing their weapons.

Bishop Du lowered his hand, pointed his scepter at Lord Qunshan: "Lin Wang, what are you doing?"

Are you being so accommodating? Stopping the attack without asking anything?

Lin Wang nodded to him and said, "I think there is a possibility of communication with the Mountain Lord... I want to talk to Him."

"You? You want to talk to a madman...?" Bishop Du's voice changed. "Lin Wang, are you still stuck in your previous illusions and haven't woken up yet?"

“If I hadn’t woken up, I would have thrown ice at your feet and made you all fall down instead of waking you up.”

"He is a new god, a combination of shadow power and the thoughts of a dead deity! He is either a mindless, godlike being, or..."

"Am I beautiful?" Gunzan-kun spoke again, the grating friction almost causing everyone to hallucinate once more.

"She's still quite vain."

Shi Xiong said, "I think we can let Brother Lin Wang give it a try... I have confidence in him."

"This isn't about faith...this is..."

"Do you have a better idea?" Lin Wang interrupted Bishop Du's dilemma.

The middle-aged bishop twitched his eyebrows a few times before sighing, "Then go, but be careful."

Lin Wang turned to leave, but Bishop Du called him back.

The middle-aged protagonist looked up at the young northerner, his lips moved a few times, but in the end he said nothing, only sighed: "Lin Wang... the temple owes you a lot."

"Don't say things like that again." Lin Wang turned his head and looked at the mad god in front of him. "This world doesn't belong to the temple; it belongs to everyone."

“...Everyone?” Bishop Du murmured.

Mother... I understand now why you chose him.

Lin Wang walked toward the Mountain Lord, who tilted his head and glanced at him. Stars seemed to flow across his dark face. Lin Wang controlled his mental energy, trying his best not to be affected by the latter.

"Servo function".

[Server function is ready.]

"Help me tune in and find a channel that resonates with the mental energy of this guy in front of me."

[Server notification received, but the server must warn the administrator that this action is extremely dangerous! Extremely dangerous!]

"neglect."

[Note: This action violates at least 426 regulations...]

Ignore everything.

[Server function received, frequency adjustment initiated... However, the server function recommends that the administrator review all administrator regulations after this event concludes...]

"If you say another word, I'll format you up."

[Tuning frequency, please wait...]

Lin Wang took a breath, focused on the "mad god" in front of him, and began to concentrate all his attention.

Come here, Lord of the Mountains, let me see what you're thinking...

Let me see just how powerful the spiritual energy of a "King" level deity really is.

[Frequency tuning complete, synchronization successful, connecting...]

hum!
Lin Wang's vision went black as he discovered that his mental energy was completely connected to a vast, empty mental space. He felt as if he were standing in a void universe, with his own mental world behind him and a pitch-black universe in front of him.

Initially, there was nothing in this space.

It was like a completely dead mental space. Lin Wang tried calling out several times, but no one answered.

A few seconds later, a voice suddenly rang out.

At first, the sound was chaotic, but gradually it became discernible.

It's like an unconscious intelligent being, starting from scratch and learning human language.

"Who...are you?"

"Are you... a new god? Or the Lord of the Mountains?"

"The Lord of the Mountains? I vaguely recognize that name... but am I the Lord of the Mountains? I seem to be..."

"Don't you remember who you are?"

"I am... but I am not," the voice said hesitantly.

"Why do you say that?"

"Because I remember, I, as the Lord of the Mountains, have already died in battle," the voice said. "Now, I have been reborn, possessing divine rank, yet without authority... Mortal, do you think I am still the god who commands the mountains?"

"I see." Lin Wang nodded. "Then, Vice-Bishop Zhao, that body..."

"Oh! You want to know about the mortal who awakened me?" the new god asked calmly. "She is not dead; I can still feel her presence... a miraculous life."

He paused, somewhat puzzled, and asked Lin Wang, "However, there's something she keeps saying that I'm a little confused about."

"what did she say?"

“She would say ‘mother’… I understand what that means, but what about the other sentence… ‘Am I beautiful?’”

"...Don't take that statement to heart; it's just nonsense uttered when someone's soul is unstable." If Lin Wang were in real life, he would definitely be sweating profusely.

“Oh,” the new god replied. “Human, you have come to me, but why… ah, no!”

"Hmm? What's wrong?"

The new god's voice brightened: "I remember now! According to the rules, you have already asked me a question; now it's my turn to ask one!"

"...Okay, what do you want to ask?"

Lin Wang thought to himself: This new god's thought process is almost as bad as that girl Tian Taozi's.

"What era is this? Is Luo He dead? Has the war with Yuan Sheng ended? Zhi... oh, no, these are questions that mortals shouldn't be asked." The new god's voice was tinged with annoyance. "I just woke up, and there are some things I've forgotten."

Lin Wang's heart began to pound.

He clearly knows many things... Can I ask Him some questions?
Then he heard the new god say to him, "Human, I've finished asking my questions. Now it's your turn to ask."

Lin Wang composed himself and said to the new god, "I wanted to ask you... could you end your mythological form, or..."

"Oh, are you afraid that my mythical form will urge me back to this fragile... world?" He paused suddenly as He spoke, but still conveyed the full meaning.

"If you can control your emotions, you should be able to, right?" Lin Wang pondered, trying to control his mental energy.

"No, you don't understand—when a new god appears, the old world is thrown into turmoil; this is the natural order." The new god's voice was steady, even somewhat cheerful. "As long as I regain control of the world, the resulting upheaval will inevitably create enormous natural disasters—this has nothing to do with whether my emotions are stable or not."

"That's troublesome." Lin Wang's expression was somewhat grim.

A new god with stable emotions, forced to commit suicide? That's not fair to Him...

The spiritual power of the new god seemed to sense Lin Wang's thoughts.

He said, “No, it’s not a question of whether I want to commit suicide or not—the gods hold the authority of rules, and rules cannot negate rules, so the gods cannot kill themselves.”

Lin Wang fell silent.

Even he couldn't come up with a perfect solution at that moment.

At that moment, the voice of the new god rang out once again.

"Ah! I've got an idea!"

(End of this chapter)