Chapter 73: The Demon King Named Blacklight (Please Follow)

"Qili, have you found any clues regarding Him?"

In Fuyuki City, inside the Holy Church, the elderly priest stood with his back to his son, asking him for news about the target they were commissioned by the Counter Force to subjugate.

Unlike those mages who pursue the Root, the Holy Church, as an institution, attaches great importance to potential world-ending crises.

Even this elderly priest and his son had been entrusted with the responsibility of dealing with a world-ending crisis at this time.

If they failed, the Holy Church would dispatch an Executor from the Burial Agency to handle it.

"I have exhausted all means, yet I have still not found a single clue."

Kirei Kotomine said dully; he had already sent out all the forces of the Fuyuki City Holy Church to search as much as possible, yet he had not found the slightest trace.

Fuyuki City was as peaceful as it had always been.

But at a juncture like this, the more peaceful it was, the more it made people feel dread and fear.

Rizei Kotomine looked at the empty church, feeling a faint sense of unease in his heart.

"Slow, it is simply too slow."

Looking at the mass of Blacklight Virus before him, which was constantly writhing and mixed with black-red flesh.

Su Nian sighed helplessly, speaking with some silence.

"It has been so long, and it hasn't even been able to finish devouring and digesting the life factors of the most ordinary magical beast?"

It was different from what he had envisioned; logically, the evolution speed of the Blacklight Virus, having become a Humanity's Final Trial, should not be this slow.

But the factual result was that the evolution and infection capabilities of the Blacklight Virus were not satisfactory.

Or rather, the Blacklight Virus had put all its points into infection and mass-producing troops; it could easily devour and infect Seven-digit beings, but it was stretched thin when facing Six-digit ones.

And the genes after digestion were all recorded within every virus; as long as it infected, it could allow all infected to be in their strongest form.

It fit the non-magical sci-fi worldview well, but it was helpless when facing things that exceeded the non-magical sci-fi worldview.

For example, with the most ordinary magical beasts that could use Magic, even if the Blacklight Virus completely devoured the corpse of the magical beast, it could not evolve a source of mana.

"The limitations shouldn't be this great."

"Wait a moment, could it be because of other things—Spirit Status, worldview, and Merit?"

The Blacklight Virus, which obtained the Spirit Status of a Humanity's Final Trial because a few high-ranking individuals created a world-destroying virus out of pure selfishness.

And Azi Dahaka, who was born due to a 'superweapon capable of destroying even the planetary environment' and the 'malicious power-holders who used the superweapon,' leading to the destruction of the world.

The overlap between the Spirit Status of Blacklight and Azi Dahaka was too high; one could even say the birth of the Blacklight Virus was another form of 【Absolute Evil】.

And now, the Spirit Status of 【Absolute Evil】 was completely controlled by Azi Dahaka; naturally, the Merit generated by 【Absolute Evil】 flowed toward Azi Dahaka.

This caused the continuous expansion of Azi Dahaka's Spirit Status.

Conversely, Blacklight had nothing but the title of Humanity's Final Trial, with no other support from Human History.

And without the acceleration of Merit and the support of Human History, was the consequence that Blacklight's growth relied entirely on its inherent abilities?

I never expected that the growth of a Humanity's Final Trial would involve competing for resources.

Blacklight is 【Absolute Evil】, and Azi Dahaka is also 【Absolute Evil】, but the Absolute Evil is Azi Dahaka.

This resulted in the Merit generated by 【Absolute Evil】, which Blacklight needed for growth, flowing entirely to Azi Dahaka instead of the Blacklight Virus.

It is just like Dystopia and Absolute Evil, both of which were Humanity's Final Trials born because of the Third Perpetual Motion Machine.

It was precisely after Dystopia disappeared that Absolute Evil had the possibility to grow.

The relationship between Blacklight and Azi Dahaka right now is exactly like that.

After clarifying the relationship, Su Nian also felt a headache.

As expected, being a Humanity's Final Trial is not so easy to play with.

Suddenly, a pair of cold hands pressed against Su Nian's temples, gently massaging them for him.

Su Nian also took the opportunity to lie down on Aika's lap, accepting the girl's lap pillow and massage.

"Na na, what is Prince worrying about?"

"Perhaps Aika can help you."

"It's nothing, just worrying that I wanted to raise a pet, but the status of this pet has been occupied by another existence."

"If that's the case, wouldn't it be fine to just cut off that existence's status, or even kill Him?"

Sajyou Ayaka said without the slightest hesitation, her sweet voice carrying a hint of cruelty.

In the eyes of her, the Huang Nu of the Root, there was nothing in this world more important than Su Nian.

"By the way, what kind of pet does Prince want to raise? Does Prince need Aika's help?"

"Cut off the status?"

Su Nian murmured softly, but his eyes grew brighter and brighter; he had an idea.

Conflict with Azi Dahaka—this was both a disadvantage and an advantage.

After all, Azi Dahaka does not need to continue growing now; when His Spirit Status expands to the limit, when the Decadent Wind appears.

The entire Little Garden, along with the Pan-Human History of countless worlds, will be destroyed together by the Decadent Wind.

Azi Dahaka does not want the Merit of Absolute Evil, does not need the support of Human History, but Blacklight does.

Then, this is the time when Blacklight needs to make its appearance.

"Thank you, Aika, I have found a way."

Su Nian said very excitedly, even kissing Sajyou Ayaka on the face in his agitation.

However, the method did carry a certain amount of risk.

It might even cause the Decadent Wind to blow once more.

At that time, it would be the moment for All the World's Evils and Angra Mainyu to appear.

Reconstruct the Spirit Status of Blacklight based on All the World's Evils, and use Angra Mainyu to attract the attention of the Mother of Evil Gods.

Su Nian does not believe that the Two-digit Humanity's Evil, the Mother of Evil Gods, would die so easily; she is likely severely injured now, sleeping somewhere unknown.

And Xiao An, who bears the name of the Mother of Evil Gods, can easily awaken the Mother of Evil Gods.

Things become simple after the awakening, because Absolute Evil will inevitably lead to the destruction of humanity.

It is precisely because the Mother of Evil Gods does not want humanity to be destroyed that she let Azi Dahaka bear the name of Absolute Evil, becoming a flawed Humanity's Final Trial.

However, even so, it is still impossible to avoid the expansion of the Spirit Status of Absolute Evil.

Even three years later, not even Ouroboros can avoid releasing Absolute Evil to be subjugated.

Su Nian can boldly speculate that it will likely take no more than a few years for the Spirit Status of Absolute Evil to expand to its limit and trigger the Decadent Wind.

The basis for this speculation is the birth of Kalki the Savior; if Little Garden were not truly nearing its end, why would Kalki the Savior be born?

After all, the Little Garden Central would not bestow the Spirit Status of a Savior so easily.

The Savior Spirit Status here is not the Merit and title that Su Nian obtained for having saved the world.

Rather, it is the fated heroic Savior who is destined to save the world.

The closer it is to the end of the world, the more powerful the support the Savior receives from Little Garden Central, even reaching the level of a Two-digit.

Moreover, the Simulated Star Creation Chart: Avatar, which contains ten different cosmologies of Kalki, may well be an attempt by the Sun King Group on the 【Preserver God Vishnu】.

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The Ten Avatars of Vishnu, the First Avatar 【Fish】, the Second Avatar 【World Dragon Kurma】, the Eighth Avatar 【Heitian】, and the Ninth Avatar 【Liberator Siddhartha】, are all Two-digit big shots.

Among them, Siddhartha is an alias of Shakyamuni.

The Preserver God Vishnu has no relation to the Vishnu within Little Garden; it is just that Hinduism blew things out of proportion when they were boasting back then.

However, this Spirit Status happens to have a not-insignificant possibility of realization, so Vishnu is the type who has had terrible luck.

Four Two-digits are wearing the aliases of his Avatars and causing trouble in his name; now, Vishnu has completely given up.

Sharing a similar fate is the 【Thrice-Greatest Hermes】 of Hermes, which is also a One-digit Spirit Status once completed.

But Hermes did not go around boasting that others were his Avatars like Vishnu or Hinduism did.

Therefore, he did not become a test subject for the big shots.

(End of this chapter)