Chapter 68

"Haha, Lei Nei, don't joke."

"Tsk, didn't you go watch my lord Furina's performance today?"

"How could Su Bai not go? He never misses a single show."

"Hey, you kid, don't tell me you have a secret crush on our Hydro Archon, do you? No way, no way."

"So bold?"

"Hey, what are you saying? You want to innovate and establish a church?"

"Come on, haven't you forgotten the disaster that Fontaine is about to face?"

"The prophecy cannot be wrong. Both Jacob and I calculated that a disaster will descend upon Fontaine; everyone will die then."

"We should unite our strength to solve all this, right, Su Bai? We are friends."

"Trust the Hydro Archon?"

"Hehehe, why did the church disperse? Isn't it because she never cared about Fontaine at all?"

"What can you do by going to the church? Do you mean to create your own personal church?"

"Ridiculous."

"Su Bai."

"Come, I'll take you to see the new progress Lei Nei and I have made."

"Haha, don't be so stingy. We are friends; last time was just a quarrel over differing opinions."

"Regarding your desire to go to the church, in the end, didn't we stop you?"

"How about it? Scared?"

"This matter was indeed our fault. We hid it from you back then. Actually, on the way back to Fontaine from Sumeru, my body was already near death."

"It was Lei Nei who used the power of the Abyss to transform me, allowing me to live until now. Don't look at how strange I appear now, but I am still Jacob."

"Just as you see now, this fellow who also looks very strange."

"Natzisencruz."

"But it is Lei Nei."

Arataki Itto: "My heavens, you scared me again. Why did that person named Jacob suddenly turn into an Abyss Herald?"

Ororon: "I can also change from an Abyss Herald into a human. Before Jacob met Su Bai, he must have already been transformed by Lei Nei using Abyss power."

Aether: "Lei Nei, as a Fontaine native, can actually use Abyss power?"

Dai Yin: "It shouldn't be called 'using'; it should be 'utilizing'."

Amber: "Oh my, they are Fontaine natives, why did they turn themselves into this state?"

Klee: "Amber, they said it was to save Fontaine from the prophecy."

Klee: "Why did Brother Lei Nei turn into a monster?"

Lisa: "Did they also utilize the power of the Abyss to transform themselves?"

"Su Bai, actually, I am very sorry. Lei Nei failed in the final experiment."

"He came up with a method to separate his consciousness from his body, attempting to survive as consciousness alone. Unfortunately, he failed."

"But it doesn't matter; my experiment succeeded. Natzisencruz was born from the fusion of Lei Nei's consciousness and many others'."

"We only need to fuse everyone's consciousness, and we can resist the prophecy. Everyone in Fontaine can retain their individual consciousness."

"What did you say?"

"You say that surviving solely as consciousness does not count as living?"

"You want us to stop this kind of experiment."

"You... you are not one of us Fontaine natives; you don't understand our feelings."

"It's bad, my lord Jacob."

"Neuvillette is bringing people from the Court of Justice to raid our Order of the Hydro Crux."

"Damn it, did Su Bai betray us? That guy."

"No need to panic. You take people and lead Neuvillette and the others into Ororon's body."

"Lei Nei and I will leave from another place."

Jacob led Lei Nei, who had become Natzisencruz, to escape via another path.

Halfway, they encountered Su Bai blocking the way.

"It's you, Su Bai..."

"You betrayed us."

"Do you know that the birth of Natzisencruz, this multi-consciousness conglomerate, is the key to saving Fontaine?"

"If we can save fifty percent of the people of Fontaine, we will try every possible method to turn fifty percent into sixty percent, seventy percent..."

"Why do you destroy our rescue plan? You are not a friend, not a friend at all."

No wonder Su Bai in his past life said that Neuvillette's reminder made him recall the memory of having slain friends.

Jacob, transformed into an Abyss Herald, and the monster Natzisencruz born from a multi-consciousness fusion, were both personally destroyed by Su Bai.

However, only Neuvillette, who arrived later, knew this scene.

People do not understand why Jacob would show their research results to Su Bai, who had already become a member of the church.

Perhaps, in the hearts of Jacob and Lei Nei,

Su Bai, who conducted scientific research with them back then, was not only a friend but also an outlander who wanted to save Fontaine.

They wanted to gain their friends' recognition of the savior, and perhaps they also wanted Su Bai to rejoin their research into the prophecy of resistance.

Unfortunately, the final outcome was that Su Bai did not stand on their side.

Su Bai did not approve of this Method of consciousness that strips others of their consciousness.

In other words.

Su Bai of his past life had already understood the prophecy of the Sultan before becoming the Pope.

【The old Fontaine of several hundred years ago.】

【During the process of destroying the Hydrocrucible Cross Society.】

【Su Bai made great contributions and received praise from all sides.】

【Even his solitary Papacy welcomed new recruits.】

【And during that battle with the Hydrocrucible Cross Society, Elynas's body suffered injuries, giving birth to a new species called Melusine.】

【They deeply loved Neuvillette, and Neuvillette felt the same.】

【He very much liked the Melusines.】

【But as Fontaine's highest judge, Neuvillette was ostracized by the old nobility.】

【They wanted to use this foreign species, the Melusines, to attack Neuvillette.】

【In the end, the Papacy resolved it and helped Neuvillette overthrow the old nobility.】

【"You are merely an outsider..."】

【"Damn outsider, do you want to destroy Fontaine?"】

【"... Su Bai, you traitor to your friends, you power-hungry scoundrel."】

【"Sinner, you are Fontaine's sinner."】

【"....."】

【Countless accusations echoed in the dream.】

【From former friends, from nobles of the old era.】

【The sleeping Su Bai could no longer distinguish who each sentence came from.】

【He slowly woke up.】

【Su Bai's face showed no emotional fluctuation.】

【He walked to the table and poured himself a cup of warm water.】

【His gaze fell upon Furina's room, where the lights were already out.】

【"What exactly are you thinking?"】

【"Focalors."】