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Chapter 766: Chapter 149: Taboo and Amber Chapter 766: Chapter 149: Taboo and Amber Change the future.

For the future too will eventually become the past.

The future also has the potential for a second chance—

Professor Moriarty’s voice was as if laced with a bewitching charm, “Even if you have no regrets now…

are you so certain the future will be the same?

“As I’ve said—necessary evils, deaths that come too soon.

If the advance time is infinitely reduced, then it essentially amounts to having done nothing; and if the time of rewind is infinitesimally short, it also means that nothing has been lost.

“All it takes is for time to be rewound just in time for regret.

Then no tragedy would ever occur.

“It’s like those mortals buying insurance.

Insurance can’t prevent accidents from happening, it can only reduce the loss.

Because they can’t stop things that have happened from changing, nor can they ensure that something will definitely not happen in the future…

but we can.

“Are you so confident that neither you nor your loved ones and friends will ever meet with any accident?

Do you believe that the future you will not regret anything at all?

“Even if history is shattered to pieces, what we can change is only one layer of history’s past… However, at least that changes the tragedy of the layer of history we are in, preventing us from accepting a future we don’t want to accept.

Although this power was abandoned by the Reincarnation Celestial Marshal, it was once held by a Celestial Marshal—especially one from the Path of Balance.

This means that this power itself is justifiable and legitimate.”

Professor Moriarty whispered persuasively, “Or are you truly so unafraid of the ‘unknown’?

“Even if you don’t fear it yourself.

When those you cherish’s ‘now’ meets with an accident or misfortune, will you truly not regret refusing me today?”

This time, Aiwass remained silent.

Unlike before, this time he was silent for a long time.

“…I don’t trust you.”

Aiwass finally spoke softly.

His voice was somewhat hoarse, but his expression was extremely serious.

He no longer used honorifics, nor did he call Professor Moriarty father.

This time he spoke the truth—the real reason he disagreed with Professor Moriarty’s plan: “You just want to use me.

With your ‘Spider’s Silk Sensing’… with your power that can steal the essence of others.

“Give it up.

Although I don’t know where that power is, I would never give the key to someone like you.

“If I am a key, then I shall ultimately be the Key of Predation.”

Nevertheless, hearing Aiwass’s words, Professor Moriarty laughed with delight.

For he knew that Aiwass was already wavering at that moment.@@novelbin@@

James never lied, nor did he deceive.

The purpose of a lie is to persuade others to believe in oneself and to act on one’s own behalf…

hence, the biggest lie is the truth.

No lie is more potent than the truth.

Psychological influences, emotional provocations, logical fallacies…

nothing compares to pointing out the truth that one’s opponent already knows deep down but refuses to acknowledge.

To do or not to do—when people hesitate and ponder within their hearts, they actually already have an answer.

It’s just that the answer has yet to surface.

And what James does is not to continue to suppress this answer.

Rather, it is to help others bring to the surface those “answers” that should rise, but are suppressed by reason, morality, shame, emotions, dignity.

It is what they are meant to do.

He merely accelerates the time for that moment to arrive, or spares those hesitating in regret from regretting that moment in the future—he doesn’t offer deception, but wisdom and courage instead.

The wisdom to point out the truth, and the courage to face the truth.

And precisely because of this…

when people are seduced by James, they only feel an immense relief within.

Aiwass was no exception.

Just as he said, Aiwass was too timid.

Knowing too much, treasuring too much, he always waited for the best moment…

a moment with the least sacrifice and the greatest opportunity.

And this destined him to fear the unknown.

He couldn’t refuse the terms offered by Moriarty.

“Let me put it more straightforwardly.”

Professor Moriarty said softly, “You should know…

the owner of Spider’s Silk Sensing will see spider silk emerge whenever they lie.

I hardly ever use this power, as I use it to keep myself in check—why do I lie?

Why do I choose to lie?

Why have I fallen to the point where I must lie?

“For me, it’s not just a power…

it is a guide, a supervisor.”

His implication was an admission that he possessed the Spider’s Silk Sensing, and a tacit acknowledgment that he wanted to steal something from Aiwass.

“However, Aiwass.

The Spider’s Silk Sensing comes with a condition—there are things it cannot steal, only parasitize.

As long as you don’t agree, I can’t transfer your special nature into myself.

This isn’t ‘stealing’, but ‘borrowing’.

“The god adorned in scales and feathers, their scales and feathers, weren’t they also ‘borrowed’ from others?

What’s borrowed must be returned…

it ultimately belongs to you, that’s why I always say ‘we’.”

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“…don’t lump us together, I am not one of your kind.”

Thus, Aiwass warned again, “Now that the Beast Master and Supreme Heaven have left their seats, the Nine Pillar Gods are close to being satisfied with the current situation, and the top layer of the Dream Realm is basically in a stable state.

If this happens again, I’m afraid the outcome may not reach this level, so They would surely oppose this plan.

Not to mention the hostility of the Silver-Crowned Dragon and the Eternal Self towards this plan…

Do you think you can withstand the Nine Pillar Gods?”

“You’re saying…

stability?”

Upon hearing this, Professor Moriarty couldn’t help but laugh, “Then what’s the deal with the Serpent Celestial Marshal?

“When the Ouroboros finally transcends the Serpent Father, completing the final practice of The Path of Transcendence…

and thus gains recognition from the Source River of Evolution, transforming the Path into Evolution.

If the environment of the Nine Pillar Gods were truly stable and peaceful, how would such a future be determined?”

Aiwass’s expression changed instantly.

How does he even know about this kind of thing?!

The ambition of the Serpent Celestial Marshal, though not a secret, is at least something that many Celestial Marshals do not know about—let alone, Supreme Heaven definitely doesn’t know.

Not to mention that Professor Moriarty even clearly mentioned the specific name of the Path, Evolution.

In the current status of the Serpent Celestial Marshal, within His power and esteemed name, that term does not exist!

Aiwass remembered that the Prophet’s vision of the future could be disturbed.

When they foresaw the future, if the person involved was entangled with too many, too high-level causal relationships, divination would become very difficult.

The divination that Mina performed for Aiwass was just like this.

Yet Professor Moriarty knew the kind of future involving the Pillar God’s Evolution.

…

Is “The Spider’s Silk Continuations” that powerful?

Or is it because…

“Have you guessed it?

Or do you recoil from the truth?”

The Jewel Bird smiled, “I think the hints I’ve given are clear enough.

You’ve told me a lot, and in a fair exchange, it’s only fair that I share some of my secrets as well.

After all, you are my child.

“So I’ll just say it outright, Aiwass.”

Professor Moriarty declared, “I…

or rather, a part of me comes from another world.”

At these words, Aiwass’s eyes widened.

…

What?

“Or to be more precise, I originate from another layer of history over which the Nine Pillar Gods preside.

“London, 1999—in the history of my world, that is the capital of the United Kingdom of Camelot.”

Professor Moriarty spoke slowly, “It’s one hundred years in the future.

From now, exactly one hundred years.

“In the history I come from, the Serpent Father had already been replaced.

That was called the fourth historical event of Pillar God’s Evolution by historians, termed ‘Patricide’…

That is already a past of a hundred years ago.

“Yes, in this year.

1899.”

Professor Moriarty calmly declared, “And in the history where I was born…

“—the world, ultimately perished.”

The world…?

Aiwass widened his eyes.

He suddenly remembered the madness of Professor Moriarty in the game’s world line.

When he first appeared, he was calm, elegant and profound.

But when he appeared again, he aged like a bald, mad scientist.

What had he gone through in between?

Aiwass originally thought, was he possessed by some evil god…

But now, he thinks, there’s no way Edward wouldn’t recognize it.

He’s a silent good man, who’d swallow all the blood within.

If Edward was so resolute in following Professor Moriarty, even enduring the pain of merging with Dragon’s Heart, and even tacitly allowing him to use Aiwass as a pawn or even a sacrifice.

That could only mean that Professor Moriarty had a reason that he had to follow and unconditionally accept.

Such as…

Saving the world, in a way that nobody else understands.

“I don’t know what caused this.

Is it because fragments of reincarnation were lost outside?

Is it because the thickness of a layer of history is limited?

Is it because the amber swallowed up the possibilities of the future?

Or am I just an existence within the virtual?

I don’t know.

“All I know is, at that time, there was no road left for history.

“The instant after December 31, 1999, at 23:59:59—

“The whole world was nothing but a dim void.”

Professor Moriarty stated, word by word, “That layer of history collapsed and disintegrated before my very eyes, returning to the very first day…

“—the disappearance of the ‘Taboo’ Path, the birth of the ‘Twilight’ Path; the new successor of the Source River of Errors, ‘Amber’ was born and ascended to the Seat of the Pillar God that day.”

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