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“Ethan is dead, but I must carry out the mission he left behind. Were you really sent by the Academy to assist me after receiving my distress signal?” it asked again.

Li Ge did not answer.

The school didn't receive its distress call at all. Not to mention the school, even when Li Ge returned to this world last time, they didn't receive your distress call.

Karl and Herman probably received it, but they would never proactively contact the school.

"Looks like not... Well, we've been trapped for a while now." The system's voice sounded. "I also sent SOS signals to Jupiter, Karl, Nyarlathotep, and Herman, but they didn't receive them either?"

Li Ge was taken aback, then suddenly realized something.

"Wait, you sent them all? When?" Li Ge suddenly asked.

"Seventeen years ago, around the time your parents first arrived here."

At this moment, Li Ge only felt some kind of strange coincidence.

In that instant, many things came to mind.

If it really was a signal sent by this system seventeen years ago, then nothing is a coincidence...

At seventeen, she entered the academy because of Ethan's mask. Among her classmates, Fairy Daphne was Herman's successor, Valerie was Nyarlathotep's successor, and Yilian was Karl's successor...

So, am I Ethan's successor?

Each member of their team was, to varying degrees, connected to the fate of the Hero Squad. Except for Saya, whose connection to them seemed to be solely due to the divine blood experiments that the Magical Biotechnology Company had conducted on Ranpo Ye.

This was not a mere coincidence; perhaps it was simply that the distress signal it sent at that exact moment triggered the fact that this group of people happened to be students from the same year who had entered the magic academy.

Perhaps it was because they shared similar bloodlines that they were ultimately drawn to each other and came together.

At this moment, Li Ge was unaware that Luan Po Ye's ancestor had actually had a relationship with the members of the Hero Squad, but he easily came to that conclusion.

That means there might be a final descendant or successor left behind by the man named "Jupiter" who sealed away the god of war.

It's even highly likely that it will be one of my classmates?

Li Ge felt he was gradually understanding everything. He looked at the system in front of him, but beside it, another projection of the system was looking at the corpses on the ground. For some reason, Li Ge actually saw a trace of desolation and nostalgia in this projection.

That remains, named "Ethan".

“Ethan, I’ve messed things up again. I’m so sorry, Ethan, it’s all my fault. Maybe if I’m still of any use, you can survive in the end, and I can take your soul back to the World Tree and let you enter the Pure Land…”

“Ethan…”

It kept murmuring, and the wristwatch on the corpse flashed.

"So, who did Ethan seal?" Li Ge asked.

"Look at the moon!"

The projection pointed into the distance. The next moment, Li Ge suddenly had a feeling that the moon seemed to come alive; it seemed to begin breathing, as if it had a life of its own.

"Ethan naively thought that if he could seal the God of Life in the inorganic land, there wouldn't be any problems. But now it seems..." The system seemed to be saying with a hint of sarcasm and a touch of pity.

“We are too weak and powerless. And Ethan just happened to be unlucky and chose the strongest evil god who had regained his power and was one of the top four gods.”

"Even with the seal left by the principal, we are still as insignificant as insects when facing this monster," it sighed, looking at Ethan on the ground. At that moment, Li Ge saw even more complex emotions in that desolate gaze.

Does a system possess this level of intelligence?

"So, who is it?" Li Ge asked.

"Typhon." At this moment, the system directly recited his true name. The next moment, Li Ge suddenly saw a terrifying crack appear on the moon, like a giant mouth.

"Typhon, the star of calamity!" the system said slowly, almost word by word.

"I will tell you the whole story."

The system slowly began transmitting the data it had recorded to Li Ge.

……

Ethan was the last person to take the ring. He was actually the one in the team who least wanted to take on this trouble and most wanted to retire and live his own life.

But in the end, he still carried the ring and, together with Rin, found the enemy that the ring had sensed.

However, when they arrived, they discovered that the entire world had been completely distorted by Typhon. Monsters with divine blood were everywhere, and divine blood had permeated the world, leaving only a faint world consciousness struggling to stay afloat.

Unlike other evil gods, Typhon already possessed sufficient power at this point. He was able to resist even the principal's seal.

Moreover, Typhon himself is one of the strongest of the Four Gods. In Ethan's subsequent investigation, it was discovered that both the Bloodthirsty Elves and the Corruption originated from Typhon, the God of Life.

The other four gods can now also use this power simply because their own power has not yet recovered, so they are forcibly using Typhon's power.

That was the source of all calamities. The leaked power nearly wiped out the entire fairy race, forcing them to flee as a whole, leaving only the Golden Emperor on Fairy Star, which allowed the four of them to break free of their seal.

It is also the source of all divine blood and pollution, and the ultimate end of the evolution of all bloodthirsty monsters and divine blood abominations.

At that time, not only did organic matter turn into bloodthirsty monsters, but even inorganic matter began to evolve in the direction of life.

He had no choice but to resort to a desperate measure: forcibly uniting with the world's consciousness and using the ring's seal to imprison Typhon on the moon.

On that lifeless planet, this god of life should finally be able to live in peace, right?

But this was impossible. Powerful meteorites continued to rain down on the planet relentlessly. Finally, seeing the dying planet, and at the desperate pleas of the world's consciousness, Ethan decided to use his own power to create this barrier that spanned the entire world.

Then, the God of Life was completely sealed in the inorganic land.

Then, Rin also used her power. Her Noble Phantasm was "Life Control," which forcibly stabilized this civilization that was already considered extinct, and under the manipulation of the world's consciousness, refreshed their lives.

This is the origin of their strange "blood-thirsty disease".

They had long been corrupted by divine blood, but the world consciousness and Rin's Noble Phantasm forcibly anchored the part of them that was human, but they remained perpetually in a state of blood thirst.

World consciousness is not saving humanity, but rather saving itself. Every intelligent life form is a neuron, and when a large number of neurons die, world consciousness will also weaken, fall into a slumber, or even disappear.

"In this world, there are no dead people, no newborns," the system slowly narrated.

At that moment, Li Ge's lips twitched uncontrollably.

"Because after each person dies, their state is refreshed in the world consciousness, and then they are put into the process of 'reincarnation'. Everyone goes through this cycle of reincarnation and is born again. So every once in a while, similar things will happen repeatedly, because even though their state is refreshed, the fundamental nature of their souls has not changed."

"This is the world, coexisting with blood thirst disease."

The system slowly revealed the truth of the world, and another truth...

"This tower is alive. Because over such a long period of time, it has also been corrupted by the God of Life, becoming a living thing that devours all matter that falls on the barrier. And I, perhaps, was also born because of the God of Life."

"Perhaps in a few hundred or a few thousand years, Ethan, who has long since become a corpse, or even your parents, might stand up and 'come back to life.' Because the God of Life is just that unreasonable; He can give life to everything..."

At this moment, Li Ge fell silent.

"So, those contained objects were originally inorganic entities that were influenced by the God of Life and transformed into life?" Li Ge said with a smile.

So far, he has only seen three containment objects: himself, the Twilight Giant, and Nightmare Town.

In this light, everything except myself is a masterpiece of the God of Life…

As for why his aunt and the others were able to cure their blood-thirsty disease... Li Ge naturally thought of another very important character, but one that had almost never appeared in the system.

bell.

Ethan's girlfriend is also their benefactor. Without her magic, this world would probably have become a dead zone long ago. And could it be that their aunt and the others escaped the Bloodthirst Disease because they came into contact with some kind of backup plan left behind by Rin?

As for the final question.

Li Ge took a deep breath and said, "What should I do?"

"Destroy the moon and reseal the God of Life." At this moment, the system offered a straightforward solution: "The ring is in my hands, and only you can do this now. I don't know any other way, and I don't even know what my birth was for, what I can do, or whether my birth was deliberately arranged by someone."

"But in the end, this is all I can do..." it rambled on. It was completely unexpected that the school's taciturn system, if it possessed intelligence, would become like this.

“I understand.” Li Ge took a deep breath. “Finally, can you tell me about my parents? This is the last question.”

"Sigh, I really can't do anything with you. Well then, sit down." The system slowly materialized into a figure and said, "Then let me tell you their story."

……

Meanwhile, a figure who had been watching this place all along witnessed everything as if he were a spectator, and applauded as if he were a spectator as well.

Everything went as he predicted; his plan had essentially succeeded. Finally, all that remained was for the God of Life to devour the child, and all the tragedy and calamity would end. Then, everything would be reversed, and a new world would be created!

Chapter 308 Anchored Future

Even the world's consciousness couldn't understand why it had ultimately calculated such an outcome. This was merely a string of spiritual particles that it had casually retrieved from the subspace, so why did it contain a future that it had never foreseen before, a future capable of truly saving the world?

That was a monster that, even if those two sealed it on the moon, could assimilate the moon and even revive the entire moon into a calamity-ridden star.

At the same time, it is an enemy that can never be defeated.

The world's consciousness recalled the scene of the monster's first attack and its arrival beside it.

On that day, he immediately issued orders to all the little creatures on his body, and at the same time, he strengthened and amplified them all without reservation.

Then, they were all wiped out.

All the attacks were devoured by the monster called Typhon. The earth came alive, the missiles came alive, and even simple explosions came alive.

Countless heroes who charged toward the monster, those who shone with unwavering faith and purpose, could accomplish nothing.

They were all people filled with a golden spirit and flowing with golden blood, but before that god, they were like a mantis trying to stop a chariot.

The world's consciousness still remembers those who were rigorously selected, infused with the strongest blessings, and possessed the most unwavering will and determination. Some of them were pierced by bone spurs, dying from being riddled with countless bones, only to be assimilated and resurrected, transforming into a wandering bone spur monster.

Someone channeled all their psionic energy into a single explosive device, attempting to perish together with it. In the end, the flames and explosions were easily absorbed and assimilated into an inextinguishable fire giant…

Someone was flying through the sky when they were brutally cut in half at the waist...

Some stood tall on the earth, only to be crushed and turned into minced meat...

Those children, one by one, died in the most tragic way. Those children who belonged to the gods were assimilated, transformed into those abominations of divine blood.

That day is still etched in my memory.

Until the two men wearing clown masks arrived.

Ultimately, the God of Life was sealed on the moon, leaving behind only those worlds still under the influence of power, filled with all sorts of animated monsters.

After that day, the world's consciousness felt it could no longer possess any mercy. It realized that mercy could not solve any problems. When truly facing dire straits, only the most drastic measures could be taken.

However, even the outsider child couldn't solve all the problems.

He stated bluntly that this thing was completely beyond their capabilities. This person's strength suddenly seemed to have created a significant gap between them and the others.

Perhaps it's because the bloodthirsty fairy race, which was already extinct, had actually restored Typhon's power. So, unlike the god of love and the god of the sea, whose powers had not yet been restored, they were facing a four gods who had almost fully recovered their powers and were at their peak.