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Chapter 769: Chapter 152 What, the intelligence is fake?

Chapter 769: Chapter 152 What, the intelligence is fake?

Watching the sapphire Mockingbird flutter away leisurely, Aiwass merely revealed a lighthearted smile.

Now, Aiwass was no longer that afraid of Moriarty.

——That’s how the intelligence war is, seemingly calm but actually perilous.

A mere issue in the phrasing of a word could be torn open by a keen hunter, exposing such a huge flaw; just a difference in the information contained in a single sentence could instantly reverse the positions of strength and weakness between two people.

Although “knowledge is poisonous”… from another perspective, cognition itself is also a form of strength.

In a certain sense, “intelligence” is an extremely dangerous and twisted mystical power—on one hand, it can allow one to always take the lead, untraceably exploit others, see through others’ weaknesses, and leave people dizzy and frightened without even a trace of the enemy; but on the other hand, over-reliance on this power can poison the mind and make one arrogant, bind one’s hands and feet and gradually lose courage, and eventually backfire on oneself.

The moment Aiwass saw through the weakness in Professor Moriarty’s information, his heart immediately gave birth to a strong premonition that “I might be able to control and use him.”

“…I better not turn into the next James.”@@novelbin@@

He murmured softly, warning himself.

Although he had been imitating his foster father since childhood, Aiwass found that the more he grew, the more he resembled him.

His habits, temperament, and style were gradually converging.

Now his feelings toward his foster father were a mix of respect, pity, and caution.

Although not hateful, the professor was undoubtedly Aiwass’s greatest enemy—if there was a button that could kill Professor Moriarty with a press, Aiwass would press it immediately.

——Because the professor would really lay hands on the people around Aiwass, and Aiwass dared not act against him without clarity on the professor’s trump cards.

Although the Night Fiend was also of the Sixth Power Level, its combat time was limited.

If the professor didn’t die, or simply had the ability to resurrect—then once he became cautious and elevated his vigilance toward Aiwass, he might seriously start to engage in guerrilla warfare.

He could not attack Aiwass.

But he would definitely start to harass those close to Aiwass.

For a paranoid savior, all trash talk is ineffective.

And as a soul who once returned to the “Cicada Slough” period, Aiwass had no idea how many trump cards he had.

He didn’t have the talent for the Path of Beauty, yet he was able to stay in the Fairy Kingdom for so long.

It was probably because of his past life’s Extraordinary Profession as an “Elemental Instructor” or “Elemental Shaman,” after all, this was originally a professional system related to fairies.

It’s even possible that the Fairy Queen, a Celestial Marshal-level deity, was also on his side!

Therefore, Aiwass chose to hide all his trump cards in front of Professor Moriarty.

He would wait for the opportunity, understand the professor’s details thoroughly, and then launch a preemptive strike to take him down in one fell swoop!

With such a person, once you make a move, you absolutely must not give them a chance to escape!

However, speaking of the Fairy Queen…

Aiwass glanced over, and the Fairy Queen Titania had not awakened yet.

She leisurely leaned on her huge throne, curling up as if on a single-person sofa.

Even so, she still maintained elegance and beauty.

Since she hadn’t woken up yet, Aiwass felt no need to hurry out of this birdcage.

He simply sat cross-legged on the ground, sorting through the intelligence he had just acquired.

“…So, my foster father is indeed a ‘savior,’ a ‘traveler’ reborn from the apocalypse.

But the future he knows is completely different from what I am aware of.”

Aiwass had previously vaguely felt some sense of disharmony but was never quite clear on the issue.

Now he finally understood.

In the game, he had seen Professor Moriarty go mad in the end and become the final boss, which means the professor in the game had actually already implemented his salvation plan.

In other words, his known history was at least one round earlier than the players’.

But in his words, he was unaware of the “Ring of Ouroboros” ritual—he said “even one Elementalist has advanced to the Sixth Power Level,” which means that the Transcendents of the “Sixth Power Level” were rare in his understanding.

…It’s like playing a game where the professor participated in the closed beta and, due to lack of information, struggled in the exploration.

When the game entered internal testing or open beta, he learned from his own past lessons and seriously studied all the data from the closed beta to plan his growth.

And then found out that the data, mechanics, and growth paths were all changed!

——Nani?

The information is fake?

“No wonder, although Professor Moriarty has returned to the past long ago, he doesn’t have that sense of urgency…”

…That sense of urgency necessary for the battle against the Celestial Marshals.

His schemes are intricate and sprawling, covering multiple countries and spanning decades, with targets directly manipulated and influenced probably numbering over a thousand; but he hasn’t formed a truly elite team of his own, hasn’t considered how to deal with the battle against the Celestial Marshals, what benefits he could seize from it… let alone the distribution issue of the Celestial Marshal Shards, and the specific time and location of the Celestial Marshal’s summoning.

As a traveler, this is neither reasonable nor qualified.

——Unless the information provided by the professor did not include these things at all.

In his perception, the Sixth Power Level was the pinnacle of strength, and therefore, there was no need for him, who had reached the peak of the Fifth Power Level, to continue enhancing his power.

Although every word spoken by Professor Moriarty was the truth.

But this didn’t mean he couldn’t use the truth to mislead others, nor did it mean that what he knew was the absolute truth…

For instance, he once told Aiwass that the Ouroboros had obtained the Endless Knot at the beginning of its “Cicada Slough,” and later on, it too evolved into the “Endless Knot,” commanding the six elements.

Therefore, when Aiwass first took on the role of Demon Scholar, his foster father specifically warned him, “Don’t use materials from your own kind.”

——This was not because he was worried that Aiwass could not advance to Great Sin Scholar; but rather, he was concerned that if Aiwass became a Demon Incarnation, it would crumble along with the Fallen Celestial Marshal after its demise!

Ironically, whether Aiwass advanced or not had nothing to do with him.

On the contrary, whether Aiwass lived or died was very much his concern…

It’s just that Aiwass was too terrified at the time to think it through.

Only Aiwass knew that what the Ouroboros eventually ascended to was the “Ring of Ouroboros”!

In the game’s storyline, the Demon did not perish or break apart, and even after Its ascension, It still existed.

There was no new profession of Elementalist that alchemists switched to across paths; instead, they took over the role of Demon Scholar and advanced to become Great Sin Scholars.

In that version of the future, regardless of whether the “Holy Entity”—or the “Reincarnation Shard”—was Aiwass or the player, the Serpent Celestial Marshal did not succeed in devouring them.

In another future shown to Aiwass by the Lord of Scalefeather, the Ring of Ouroboros devoured Aiwass and returned to its perfect state.

At that time, the halo behind him was half-red, half-purple, the balance of Dedication and Transcendence achieved.

This obviously didn’t match up with the six elements.

Instead, it was somewhat similar to that future in the game.

In Professor Moriarty’s perception, the Serpent Celestial Marshal was always a part of the Path of Balance.

That profession series of “Elementalist” that transforms the six elements looked entirely like the flavor of Balance.

The power of Balance within It was probably denser than the power of Transcendence.

“The Ring of Ouroboros” signified that those who ascend will eventually descend, and those who descend will eventually ascend, like the sun rising and the moon setting; whereas “The Endless Knot” neither ascended nor descended, but constantly underwent chaotic transformations within the grand unified field.

If the Ring of Ouroboros cut out Aiwass because It contained too much Transcendence within,

then the Endless Knot, originally having more Balance than Transcendence, how could It possibly cut out a fragment that was adept in both Transcendence and Dedication like Aiwass?

Moreover, according to the professor, the power structure of the “Endless Knot” did not seem to include “Dedication” at all.

——As it stands, this is the biggest difference between the “Professor’s line” and the “Ring of Ouroboros line”!

“Could it be…

Candle Master has also intervened?”

Aiwass muttered to himself in a low voice.

But in this situation, it would be a good thing if the Pillar God intervened.

It meant that the scenario the foster father was aware of, which is the Pillar God turning a blind eye to the end of the world, didn’t actually exist.

The world might indeed be facing a crisis, but the “savior” was not just him alone.

At least some of the Pillar Gods were aware of the situation and were taking measures.

Maybe those Pillar Gods took an interest and provided protection to Aiwass precisely because he was a “variable”!

“But if that’s the case…”

Aiwass slightly furrowed his brow: “Why then did Bear Celestial Marshal still attack me, even attempting to kill me?”

Although It is now a Celestial Marshal, It was once one of the Pillar Gods, a member of “Supreme Heaven”!

Aiwass’s eyes lit up as he realized something:

——All the Pillar Gods that had shown favor to Aiwass were those who survived until the end!

Neither the previously defeated Bear Celestial Marshal nor the Serpent Father who would be “slain” in the future, none of them had made it to the “end of days” as described by Professor Moriarty.

Keep in mind, Aiwass’s adaptability on the Path of Transcendence was quite high.

Influenced by Queen Sofia before, he even lost control for a while, veering entirely toward the Path of Transcendence.

Moreover, at the very beginning, Aiwass autonomously awoke the hunger for the Path of Transcendence.

Not to mention, he might inherently be a fragment of the Ouroboros…

and the Ouroboros is legitimately the progeny of the Serpent Father.

Yet, not only the Candle Master from the Path of Devotion but even the Pillar Gods of the Path of Beauty, Path of Adaptation, Path of Authority, all came to him—still, the Serpent Father paid no attention to Aiwass at all.

Of course, this wasn’t a problem at all, quite the opposite, it was the normal state of affairs.

On the other hand, it was highly irregular for the Serpent Celestial Marshal to visit Aiwass all the time for no apparent reason.

And it was even more abnormal that a host of Pillar Gods were eyeing him when he hadn’t even set foot in their paths!

Perhaps, it wasn’t just Professor Moriarty who had returned at that time, but all the Pillar Gods of that era!

“It seems that the professor’s return and rebirth was no accident; he must have been a chess piece for some entity as well…”

Aiwass pondered.

Who could it be?

Candle Master?

Hourglass?

My new boss ‘Colorful Black,’ or…

…Amber?