Life has dealt a heavy hand to a weak demigod like me.

Faced with his temptation, Morin just smacked his lips, as if surprised by Charles' generosity.

However, thinking of the message revealed in his words just now, Morin no longer cared about the other things that Charles said. To him, those things might be attractive, but they were definitely not as important as the answer he got from Charles!

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Chapter 213: Temptation, the Value of Words

Charles tapped his fingers on the table in the carriage, and looked at Morin, who was getting more and more excited because he knew too much, and his mood was a little complicated.

For extraordinary people, extraordinary sequence potions are everything.

If there is a chance to obtain an advanced potion of one's own sequence, everyone will fight for it.

Charles had fought countless times to become a demigod.

After all, even in the church, perhaps extraordinary traits and potions require merit.

At the same time, in his own plan, all the extraordinary characteristics of the church path except the first two have been abandoned.

But even if he gave up, in order to improve his status in the church and disguise himself, he not only needed to find extraordinary characteristics and potions suitable for himself from the outside world, but also make contributions within the church.

For decades during the Five Gods Era, Charles was basically always busy.

This is also why he started thinking about "retirement" after becoming a demigod.

That kind of life was too tiring for him, with all the disguises, all the worries, and all the dancing on a tightrope.

If becoming a high priest had not given him a religious state to do as he pleased, Charles probably wouldn't have advanced so quickly.

But what awaited him was such a sinister fate.

Therefore, in this era, although he can rely on his own strength to regain a country and make changes according to his own ideas.

but...

He was too lazy to do it.

However, I am too lazy to do this only for some previous ideas, such as transforming the Church into a country similar to the one in my previous life.

He will still pay attention to the advancement of the extraordinary sequence.

When he discovered that Reiner had the extraordinary ability to create Sequence 2, he went to him without hesitation.

He used threats and inducements to make him agree to some of his conditions.

At that time, in order to obtain the main material of truth [Heart of Omniscience], Ciel even considered plundering everything from Reiner.

You know, in the early days of coming to this world, or after leaving the village, Charles was wavering and did many wrong things.

But after joining the Church of the Earth and being redeemed by Mernade, his behavior was qualitatively different from before.

He cannot be said to be completely kind and innocent, but his attitude towards life and interests has changed greatly, as can be seen from the historical evaluation of him.

Throughout history, the negative comments about Charles have almost always revolved around his personal morality or his relationship with women. In other respects, Charles has been hailed as a "sage" by countless people.

In this state, he would have been tempted to go further if it weren't for Mernadette's great influence on him.

When Ciel realized Reiner's ability, everything he had would be taken away from him almost instantly.

But Morin was different from him. Although he was also facing the temptation to go further, he didn't care at all.

You know, even if an ordinary person has just received everything he prayed for from Charles, he will still feel greedy when faced with the other two options.

But Morin... was just a little surprised, and then he threw away those temptations and wholeheartedly sorted out the gains from Charles's words.

Charles always knew that this guy was very special, but he never thought he would be this special.

"There must be many things in your past that you want to change, or people you cherish. At the same time, as a transcendent, you should understand the power of demigods." Charles couldn't help but speak.

"Are you asking me why I'm not interested in those things?" Morin scratched his head.

"Indeed, your behavior is very abnormal."

"Because I've already made my choice~" Morin said cheerfully, "If you had told me what the three choices meant before I made my choice, I might have hesitated for a moment."

"But I've already received my reward. No matter how good the other options are, they don't belong to me. Wouldn't it be foolish to let something that doesn't belong to me affect my time to sort out the reward that belongs to me?"

His reward at this time was the information revealed in Charles' words.

If what he said was true, then Morin could get a lot from it.

Strength, personality, people he cares about, the way he does things, and most importantly, the "humanity" he displays.

To Morin, demigods and even sub-gods were not without flaws.

The entanglement of divinity and humanity is their flaw.

For a person with a strong divine nature, Morin can do many tricks as long as his interests are not affected.

The same is true for people with strong human nature.

But there is a balance between humanity and divinity.

If you handle it well, you can let him jump around in all kinds of ways without being held accountable.

If you are not sure, you can reserve a cemetery location in advance.

Charles' words may seem insignificant, but they are of great value to Morin.

It concerns his position in Charles' heart in the future, or what kind of storm he can stir up with the help of Charles' power.

In comparison, the other conditions, although tempting, are just that.

"I thought you would care more about your family." Charles asked thoughtfully.

Charles did not mention this for no reason. He always remembered the strange changes in the souls of Morin and other extraordinary people of this era.

There were some things he could see, or rather deduce.

But Charles wanted to see if they themselves had noticed any changes in themselves.

Take Maureen, for example.

He started to become abnormal because of the death of important people and the ugly faces of his relatives. So in his heart, his mother has always been irreplaceable and the only light left in his heart.

The changes in the soul also exist in the light in the heart. What do these collisions mean to him?

Ciel was curious.

"I do care very much. There are some things in my heart that I can never forget." Morin was stunned at first, then looked at Charles and roughly understood that he saw his past in a special way.

He had experienced being seen through many times, but he had never heard words like Ciel's that could help him reverse some of his regrets.

Faced with this thing that should have made him excited, unexpectedly he felt that there was not a single ripple in his heart.

A gentle, sunny smile appeared on Morin's face as he continued, "However, even though it's extremely precious, among the three choices, the first one is probably the one I'm least likely to make."

"My mother's death wasn't just about family, profit, or human nature."

"Her death was more due to the cruelty of the world itself."

"If the world doesn't change, then even if she comes back to me, she won't be able to escape the fate of suffering."

"So, I miss her very much. But I definitely don't want her to come back to me."

"Because... this is a very happy thing for me, but very cruel for her."

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Chapter 214: Ciel's Experiment

Morin's smile was bright, but his words made Charles feel a little strange.

Charles seemed to have grasped something vaguely. He seemed to have confused some concepts in Morin's words.

"If you have the power to shake the entire world, how would you face this world?" Charles suddenly asked.

"I don't quite understand what you mean." Morin twitched his lips and looked at Charles with a strange expression. His question was a bit too abrupt and had nothing to do with the previous topic.

"If one day you become a true God, facing this world, will you choose to change, destroy, or leave?" Charles simply said it more bluntly.

"Change? Destroy? Leave?"

Morin scratched his head. "It should be about change. After all, it's very interesting to transform the world into what you imagine it to be."

Family members know their own business. Although he would occasionally have thoughts like "It's better to destroy such a boring world", it was just a thought.

If he really had similar power, he would definitely use it perfectly to make the world more interesting and more in line with the beautiful world he imagined in his mind.

Charles nodded, and then stole all the thoughts in Morin's mind at that moment as usual.

His expression changed slightly, and then he looked at Morin thoughtfully.

"Let's end our conversation today. Later, you will design a story for Molly's exit, and then end this identity in a complete manner without affecting other people's moods." Looking at the looming door of Rocks Manor, Charles said calmly.

Mo Lin felt a little regretful, but still nodded, "Please rest assured, I thought about this a long time ago."

Morin did not lie about this, although most of the time he was a person who started well but ended badly, killing but not burying.

But in the identity of Molly, he still thought carefully about "her" ending.

If Molly suddenly disappeared, Mernadette would be worried, and then Floyd would be angry. If Floyd was angry, he would probably suffer for a long time.

If it were any other time, he wouldn't care about this. After all, the battle of wits and courage with Floyds was quite interesting.

but now...

With such an interesting target or material as Charles, he didn't want to waste time arguing with Floyds.

At the same time... thinking of the conversation that day, Maureen didn't want to see Mernadette feel sad because of him.

After getting off the carriage, Charles slowly walked into the study under Morin's reluctant gaze.

"Is this fleeting thought due to his eccentric nature, or is it a universal and subtle influence?" In the study, Charles's eyes did not move away from Morin.

The extraordinary people are "rational madmen". While achieving extraordinary things, they gradually establish a connection with magic power and even rules.

Therefore, for extraordinary people, the world they see is different from the world ordinary people see.

It's like the difference between smooth and blue-ray when watching videos.

Therefore, extraordinary people have always been very rational in their attitude towards the world, and at the same time they will distinguish the human race from the world.

Throughout history, there have been many dangerous elements who have attempted to "destroy the world."

But in fact, the statement of "destroying the world" is not accurate.

What they want to destroy is only humanity itself, not the world.

But for ordinary people, humanity itself is the world. So this statement is not wrong for ordinary people.

But for the extraordinary people, destroying the world and destroying humanity are two completely different concepts.

Human beings themselves have many flaws, but the world is perfect.

This is how most extraordinary people perceive the world.

Perhaps some people may have the urge to destroy the human race due to human nature or other reasons, but few people will have the urge to destroy the world because of the heaven and earth itself.

And just now, although it was fleeting, when Morin was answering Charles' question, some thoughts about destroying the world did emerge in his mind.

This is a very abnormal thing.

Ciel wanted to know if this was a "misunderstanding" caused by Morin's eccentric personality and his own experiences, or if it was a "common phenomenon" among high-level transcendents.

Charles began his own experiment to confirm his hypothesis.

Not only the high-level transcendents entering the Kingdom of York, Charles has set his sights on the entire world.

In order to conduct experiments more conveniently, he "borrowed" a good base from a demigod.

Soon, he got some data.

The souls of all the high-level transcendents he had experimented on were affected.

More than half of these high-level transcendents were unable to distinguish between the world and humanity itself, confusing the two and inflicting the resentment generated by humans on the world.

However, most of those who had similar thoughts, like Morin, had only fleeting thoughts and basically just thought about it.

A very small number of them are like those who have confused the world and human beings themselves, constantly magnifying their inner resentment, and have developed the idea of ​​destroying humanity, or even destroying the world, and actually carry out plans according to their own ideas.

"Is this erosion of the soul and the past intended to confuse the concepts of the extraordinary, while subtly leading the extraordinary and the world to stand in opposition?"

Ciel looked at the experimental data samples and made some guesses.