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Chapter 596: Chapter 15: The Death of Aiwass_2 Chapter 596: Chapter 15: The Death of Aiwass_2 The players had to set up the Gemini Mirror, a Divine Artifact, to create overlapping and intersecting chaotic spaces, and they couldn’t let Edward’s other spells destroy those fragile spaces—if the angle of the mirror was too large, it would be directly destroyed by the rays.

Ultimately, the immediate death ray that Edward’s main body would release was to be diverted by multiple refractions to hit another avatar of Edward who was also present.

If hit by this ray, the player character would die instantly, ignoring any resistance, and would be unable to resurrect during the fight.

Because the ray would disappear after it killed someone, players could sacrifice a summoned creature to block the ray if the angle of the mirrors was incorrect or if there weren’t enough mirrors.

Even if it was a summoned creature, after it blocked the ray and died, it could not be summoned again in that battle.

In game terms, it was “permanently killed.”

Based on this feature, the mechanics could be deciphered—if an avatar hit by this ray could no longer be summoned by Edward again, then one avatar would be permanently killed.

By repeating this six times and eliminating all the avatars, players could finally damage the main body.

Afterwards Edward would transform into a Demon Dragon with a stronger desire to attack…

but without the special mechanics, it became much easier to defeat, and the players soon overwhelmed him, leading to an inescapable result CG—this is the part where James makes his appearance.

Edward’s death ray got its power from the Calamity Demon Dragon—which was the corrupted self of the Silver-Crowned Dragon that had been excised.

Its power could not be resisted even by the Divine Artifacts gifted from the Hourglass.

At that moment, Aiwass, who was standing aside unsure of what to do, abruptly noticed this scene.

He could have put Edward out of his misery to interrupt the spellcasting, but Aiwass did not want to kill Edward, nor did he have the power to stop the spell.

Because the Gemini Mirror capable of refracting the death ray was in the players’ possession, not in “Aiwass’s.”

So, after hesitating, Aiwass made a decisive move at the last moment to shield the players, intercepting the attack with his own body.

Professor Moriarty was immediately enraged, and before he could go berserk, the players were urgently teleported away by another powerful ally—in the storyline, there was only one player, not players.

The enemies were in fact all defeated by one single person.

Thus, after Aiwass had died, there was only one person left in the team, but there was still a chance to save that one individual.

Therefore, at the instant Aiwass’s protective barrier shattered, isolating them from the outside, he was teleported away by the powerful ally.

—This was all that Aiwass remembered of the incident of “Aiwass’s Death.”

It was engraved in Aiwass’s heart as if scored by knives and chisels.

Aiwass actually did not know about Professor Moriarty’s motives and abilities.

Clearly, this was content for the sequels in version 6.X…

but when Aiwass had crossed over, the game hadn’t been updated to that point yet.

If one could only be certain of death when confirming the last breath, even he couldn’t be sure if “Aiwass” was truly dead—since the player didn’t even have the time to hold Aiwass’s body and shout a few words, only catching a glimpse of that back, which had become tattered and shattered in a moment…

Players generally believed Aiwass was dead, mainly because the background music suddenly turned sad and they were given a slow-motion close-up.

Although the death seemed abrupt, with the atmosphere built up to that point, it would have been disrespectful if he hadn’t died.

For Aiwass, who had an almost prophetic view of the future, there remained a complete lack of knowledge only about his foster father.

And with the unknown came fear.

Ever since Aiwass had awakened his memories from a previous life, he had been very wary of his foster father.

In the current timeline of Aiwass, Edward had not been taken away by Professor Moriarty.

As it turned out, he seemed to be just an ordinary Legal Mage at the fourth energy level, without any apparent specialties.

That made it obvious—the special one was Moriarty, not Edward.

Looking back, it seemed that Professor Moriarty had also been involved in the “Cruel Autumn” incident of the past.

Did the foster father suddenly fake his death and leave Avalon because he saw through Aiwass’s transformation and decided not to get involved in this plan anymore?

Or did he wish to distance himself from Aiwass to allow him the freedom to act on his own and observe his changes?

Seeing that Aiwass did not reply for a long time, Professor Moriarty simply showed a gentle smile, “I see, then I understand.”

“—Is there anything I can help you with, Aiwass?”

Now, hearing his foster father’s words, Aiwass only felt a chill throughout his body.

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His foster father may have even guessed that he himself was another “Aiwass”…

Now, all he needed to do was to announce his identity as an ascender, and he would die because of it.

In the ritual of ascension, Professor Moriarty, only because Aiwass’s refusal was so determined, immediately realized something was off with Aiwass.

Yet, he was still kindly asking Aiwass what he should do, just like a father playing a game with his child…

If the simulated Professor Moriarty could easily detect that “Aiwass,” who was the same at the core as Aiwass, had been replaced,

Then, the real Professor Moriarty…

…could he really have failed to notice when Aiwass awakened his past life’s memories that day?

Aiwass recalled the time when he had just awakened his past life’s memories, and even before he had sorted them out, he had asked his foster father to help him find the rope from the gallows and the nails from the decapitated corpses, claiming it was a ritual to seal the Shadow Demon he had read about in an ancient tome.

At the time, he was quite pleased with his understanding of the transcendent version, believing his foster father could not possibly know how to seal the Shadow Demon—because even the Star Antimony people didn’t know.

Aiwass was quite audacious and unbridled in his actions then.

It wasn’t until his foster father and Sherlock faked their deaths, and Oswald disappeared, that he began to feel the pressure and restrained himself a bit.

…But now, thinking back, his foster father had specifically hinted to him not to use human materials, as it would trigger the sin of “Heaven’s Scourge.”

At that time, Aiwass could only interpret it as a coincidence.

Now thinking back…

Perhaps even then, his foster father should have realized something was wrong with Aiwass.

But he said nothing.

Just like now, he watched Aiwass with a calm smile.

Did he not care?

Or was Aiwass of no consequence to him?

Or perhaps, all this was still within his control?

Aiwass didn’t know how strong his foster father was, didn’t know what he intended to do, and didn’t know what he knew.

He sent Diomedes away both to protect Aiwass and to keep the matter to himself.

…Such an intense oppression.

Aiwass felt like he was about to sweat.

He didn’t even know if he should respond to Professor Moriarty’s question.

If Moriarty was the chess player…

who then would be his opponent?

For some reason, the name of his grandfather suddenly came to Aiwass’s mind.

—Jacob.

If there was someone that the professor could neither predict nor control, it had to be him…

Aiwass hesitated for a moment, then slowly nodded and said, “Indeed, there is something…

if father is willing.”

“Tell me, Aiwass,”

Professor Moriarty smiled gently, “If possible, daddy will help you as much as he can.

If not…”

He smiled, speaking slowly, “Daddy will also tell you why it’s not possible.”

“Mr.

Aiwass Moriarty…

my dear little key.”