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"What did you do then?"

"I killed the Knight Commander. As long as he was there, he would force the soldiers to continue fighting. More soldiers died at his hands than at the hands of the enemy." The Pope folded his hands across his chest, leaning against the door frame with a calm expression.

"Heir Blaze, you appear here, it seems I lose."

Blaze spread his hands and said nothing. His presence here was the answer.

Although he acted calm, he still had a headache when he saw the illusory body of the Pope in front of him, and he couldn't help complaining.

"There really is a backup, please..."

"I'm not a backup, nor am I a simulated personality. I'm just a question-and-answer program used to... pass on knowledge after [I] fail."

"Really……"

Blaze did not doubt the Pope because the Age of Gods had always been shrouded in an atmosphere of pessimism, as if everyone was a pessimist.

They cannot imagine a bright future, and are always prepared for "what to do if they fail". The Age of Gods is a civilization built on "failures", so...

terrible.

It was very easy to defeat Kamijou once or twice, but it was hard to say about the third and fourth times.

Blaze was willing to believe that the Titan Evil God was able to destroy the Age of Gods not because of its power to destroy heaven and earth, but because it destroyed all the living forces of the Age of Gods in one breath, leaving the Age of Gods no chance to accumulate failure.

As long as humans in the Age of Gods can catch their breath, the evil Titans will fall to the ground.

"...Then will you be prejudiced against me? For example, will you deceive me with lies, or not give me key information? After all, I have ruined your plan."

"No, I will answer all your questions truthfully, but this privilege is limited to the heirs."

The Pope waved his hand, and blue bricks replaced the grass. The corpses on the ground disappeared, and the surrounding environment changed rapidly and turned back into the memory palace.

"Please tell me what you want to know?"

"The wreckage of the Ark."

"Ark wreckage..." The Pope paused, his voice still emotionless and full of official meaning, "There are several previous files before the relevant records. Do you want to read them?"

"Read, of course I have to read." Blaze didn't want to miss important information because of his anxiety.

"File 457: The wars in the region now known as the Third Kingdom are becoming increasingly frequent and reckless. If nothing is done, this region will become a deadly part of the world, gradually infecting the entire world."

The Pope walked slowly forward, and the surrounding environment changed accordingly, with frozen scenes of the battlefield unfolding around him.

The soldiers in the picture have slight differences in race, equipment, but they all have one thing in common, that is, they are bloodthirsty and will kill no matter whether the opponent is a man, a woman, or a child.

Such a war is terrible, but what is even more terrible is that the emotions in it are like flames, igniting and devouring people one by one as firewood, gradually devouring the entire world.

"Using the World Engine to cause a huge upheaval will consume a large amount of faith energy and greatly delay the [Restoration Plan], so I think that manual intervention is the only option."

"Your [Restoration Plan] is not a good thing either." Blaze followed the Pope. When he thought of Theresa's [Restoration Plan], he felt scared.

Fortunately, Theresa was exposed in advance. If she had been hiding in the dark and collected a lot of information, it would have been really difficult to deal with her.

We have to thank Balder for his help here. If it weren't for the desperate fight between Balder and Theresa, Theresa might not have told him where Chiron was. She might even have turned around and thought about it and then ignored his words and continued to complete her plan.

"Destruction is always easier than creation, just like what happened in the Third Kingdom region. It is easier to destroy the enemy than to conquer him."

With every step the Pope took, the scale of the war increased, until it reached a point where flames set the towns on fire and black smoke covered the sky.

The scene was exactly the same as what the hundred-eyed Argus saw.

"Even I couldn't think of a way to quickly end the war and chaos without using force. I hid in the dark, looking for the right opportunity, and it was at this time that the situation took a turn for the better." The Pope stopped at one place and turned to show Blaze a castle.

This castle looked extremely familiar to Blaze, not only because of the flag fluttering on it that looked like a dragon head, but also because of its architectural style. This was Camelot.

"The most aggressive kingdom in the Third Kingdom stopped its offensive. Their king, Dragon Head, had an incurable disease and was dying. Perhaps it was because a dying man's words were kind. Dragon Head stopped his aggression and chose to recuperate. The war in the Third Kingdom also slowed down."

"Wait, isn't the King of Camelot the Everlasting King at this time?"

"Not really. I had been active in the territory of the Third Kingdom long before the Eternal King appeared. Of course, I also tried to pull out the Sword in the Stone." The Pope paused, without explaining too much, and waved his hand to change the surrounding environment.

"The changes in the Dragon Head made me feel a little unusual. Many of his policies far surpassed the current human civilization, and many of the terms that only existed in the Age of Gods appeared. This made me realize the problem."

"Unfortunately, the Dragon Head died very quickly, and I didn't have the chance to interrogate him. After the Dragon Head died, two things appeared."

"The Sword in the Stone, and Archmage Merlin." Blaze spoke for the Pope, crossing his arms. "We suspect Archmage Merlin may be a survivor of the destruction of the Ark. It's time to get to the point. You should have discovered the wreckage of the Ark."

The Pope snapped his fingers, and the surrounding environment changed again.

For a moment Blaze felt like he was back in the Pope's laboratory, but a huge, damaged glass tube in front of him told him that he was still in the memory palace.

Red lights were flashing all around and shrill alarms were ringing all around.

"He broke the container and tried to gain freedom." The Pope said darkly behind Blaze.

"Merlin? Wasn't he a passenger on this Ark? Why did he break the container?"

"Because he is not a human, but an Ark AI."

Chapter 1233 The huge body is being born

【Ark AI】

This answer did not surprise Blazer too much, although he still did not understand what "AI" meant. He simply understood it as a man-made ghost that could only operate within some Age of Gods technology.

In fact, Blaze had already vaguely anticipated this answer, as it was hinted at in Lancelot's words praising Merlin.

[Merlin took a few coins and some fruits, and made several cities surrender without bloodshed] This sentence seems to be that Merlin used some magical means, but another existence said something similar.

During the first confrontation with the [Hermes' Traveling Hat], Chiron said in a calm tone that he would use the magical power called [Finance] to dismantle the [Hermes' Traveling Hat], which was no different from Merlin's [Currency and Fruit] magic.

The reason why Chiron did not use violence was because he was proud of the mission and rules given to him by the gods and humans - [Do not harm humans].

Although the top executives of [Hermes' Traveling Hat] that appeared before them that day were not human, the middle and lower levels were almost all ordinary humans. The method of dismantling that Chiron mentioned was to poach those employees with better treatment.

Therefore, Merlin's victory without bloodshed may be due to a simpler reason, that is, he cannot harm humans and human interests. It is not surprising that he is the [Ark AI].

Moreover, it is obviously easier for [Ark AI] to survive from the destruction of the Age of Gods to the present day than for humans in the Age of Gods.

There is another problem at hand, which is also what confuses Blazer the most.

"If Merlin is the Ark AI, then he should obey your orders completely. Why did you lose even with Merlin's help?"

Theresa spent a hundred years dismantling half of the Ark's wreckage into materials, and spent even more time utilizing these materials to build her own nearly endless technological support for the Age of Gods.

The amount of these technologies from the Age of Gods was directly equated with the battle between Theresa and the Pope. During the crisis of the arrival of Adam from the Planet of Destruction, Theresa borrowed the arsenal of the Age of Gods, and the Pope's final defeat was due to the fact that he could not keep up with the consumption of the technologies from the Age of Gods.

But that was only the material from half of the wreckage of the Ark that Teresa owned. If the Pope owned all of the wreckage of the Ark, the result might be different.

"The answer is obvious. The Ark AI is breaking the container. It refuses my orders."

The Pope looked to the side, and Blazer followed the Pope's gaze. Over there was a young-looking Pope, and opposite the young Pope was an old man wearing a robe and a big beard.

Morgan compares Merlin to a non-existent person, and this is not a metaphor, but an adjective.

The old man's body seemed to be in a state of both existence and non-existence. He looked like a ghost, but he had a strange sense of weight.

Blaze thought of the soldiers who attacked him before. They were stored memories, but they had entities and could cause real damage. Perhaps Merlin Road used a similar method to materialize himself, but it was not very stable.

The atmosphere between the young Pope and Merlin was not good, but the sound of their conversation was very vague. Just when Blaze was about to move closer to hear clearly, Merlin's eyes slowly shifted, staring at Blaze, his mouth moved a few times, and he seemed to say something.

Then the entire memory began to twist, shattering layer by layer, and finally returning to the original state of the memory palace.

"It seems the Ark AI calculated that I would preserve this memory, and left a virus in my language that affects the Memory Palace."

"That's okay too!?"

"...The Ark AI is responsible for all matters concerning the entire Ark and its passengers. It shoulders the mission of post-disaster reconstruction and building a new home. Therefore, it is the most advanced AI in the Age of Gods. Its creator is known as a genius that even the Creator cannot create..."

The Pope, who had been speaking without any fluctuation or change in expression, paused for a rare moment. His lips moved, but he never uttered the name of the genius.

But as if affected by the Pope's pause, a door deep in the memory palace opened, and warm light and gentle wind filled the entire cold memory palace.

She was a blonde girl in a white coat. She was very beautiful, with big eyes that had droopy corners, making her look soft and full of maternal nature.

But although she looked very maternal, her movements were clumsy.

She was holding a pile of papers in her arms, and one of the papers fell to the ground. She could obviously put the things in her hands on the table beside her and then pick up the paper, but she chose to hold the pile of papers to pick up the paper that fell on the ground. As expected, the pile of papers in her arms scattered all over the ground, and she stepped on one of the papers in a panic and fell down.

She covered her buttocks, looked at the paper with a footprint with tears in her eyes, and kept muttering a name.

Blaze had seen her before. That was what Theresa looked like now, but it was not the same person in the body after all. Theresa's eyes were much sharper, like the cold and arrogant sister of the blonde girl.

The Pope, who claimed to be a question-and-answer system, looked at the girl with trembling lips.

"Maria..."

Blaze pretended not to notice this, put his hands on his hips, and looked at a huge glass jar not far from Maria, which contained a vague phantom.

As expected, the person in the glass jar was Merlin.

"So she was the one who created Merlin?"

"...Yes, this genius is in charge of the Ark Project, and she spent a lot of effort to create the Ark AI. She treats Merlin like her own child." The Pope looked at Maria with nostalgia, then closed his eyes and waved his hand. The girl named Maria and her comfortable feeling were locked behind a door, and this door was placed in the deepest place.

"Because of these unimportant emotional interferences, I couldn't hurt it. But I still found the wreckage of the Ark and discovered that it was trying to break through the container and possess a body."

The surrounding scene returned to the damaged glass jar, but as the distance increased, the surrounding environment became weird due to the overall observation.

"Although I know nothing about the technology of the Age of Gods, this thing doesn't look like a ship at all." Blaze's eyes twitched and he pointed at the thing in front of him.

"It looks more like a coiled-up person."

"Yes, it has been observing Adam of the Destroyer Planet for countless years. I have obtained a large amount of data from it for studying Perfect Man, and it intends to simulate Adam of the Destroyer Planet and build a huge body."

Chapter 1234 Retribution

Now there is bad news and even worse news.

The bad news is that the giant in the fire and black smoke that Argus saw was not some kind of imagination, but a real giant.

The worse news is that the remains of half of the Ark are not enough to complete the huge body planned by Merlin, only half, so that half of the giant will go to find the other half of its body.

And a certain diligent and cautious survivor of the Age of Gods spent a very long time dismantling that half of the body and evenly distributing it throughout the territory of the Holy Cross Kingdom.

In order to collect those materials, half of the giant will evenly roll over the entire Holy Cross Kingdom.

"That guy, even if it was unintentional, did he have to cause so much trouble?!"

"Don't worry, only half of the Ark is left, and the Ark's AI's permissions are incomplete. It can't even activate the Ark's self-repair function. You have plenty of time to stop it."

"Oh, this is great news!"

"Unless..." The Pope landed on the God-era Weaponry on Blaze's wrist, and a half-smile appeared on his cold face, "The emergency protocol is not triggered."

The corner of Blazer's eye twitched. He had said so many bad things about Theresa in his heart, and now he was getting his retribution.

"Chiron said that if the fangs of the godslayer were destroyed, the plan would be a failure..."

"It symbolizes the defeat of the war faction. Then the Ark is the hope of everything. All functions will be opened for the Ark AI, including the self-repair system that can dismantle surrounding materials to repair itself, and the right to change the structure of the Ark."

"Me!" Blaze slapped his mouth hard. He would definitely control himself in the future.

"It seems the situation is critical, but I started preparing a response plan after I met the Ark AI and learned about its actions."

As the Pope finished his words, the entire memory palace began to shrink. The rooms overlapped each other, and finally the entire memory palace shrank into a palm-sized cube.

"As long as we put this thing in the thinking area of ​​the Ark AI, we can resolve the crisis."

"..." Blaze glanced at the cube in the Pope's hand, then raised his finger and pointed at himself, "Do you think I'm an idiot? I believe whatever you say."

"No matter how I look at it, this seems like a complete backup of your mind. And you plan to use me to kick Merlin out and take over the body of the Ark Giant instead."

The Pope was silent for a while. To be honest, Blazer felt that compared to the Pope treating him like a fool, his silence was more hurtful. It was like he was trying to think of a trick that a fool could understand.

However, being able to make this group of extremely intelligent descendants of the Age of Gods at a loss for words might be a sign of intelligence.

"...driving a tiger to devour a wolf." After being silent for a long time, the Pope came up with an idiom and gave up on fooling people.

"Don't use such high-brow idioms." Blaze touched the back of his head and snatched the cube from the Pope's hand.

【Standby Database XII】

Blaze grinned, no longer pretending.

"Just throw this thing in there? If there's some strict manual to follow, I can't do it."

"You have eyes. If that moment really comes, you will know what to do." The Pope's body slowly decomposed, and his self-proclaimed question-and-answer system seemed to be disappearing.

"I have another question. Why would Merlin help the Eternal King when he claims to be the one who can't save the world."

"Because he is the Ark AI."