Chapter 2037: Betraying the World

Aleikesa's physical body, the only remaining large head of Luke, and the other Demon Descendant Mages have already been sent to the Northland Alliance Headquarters.

Among them, because Luke's consciousness was so tightly bound to his demon body and his will to resist was extremely strong, Xia Duo tried several times, but the Consciousness Copies he collected were all very incomplete, filled almost entirely with various meaningless insults, clamoring, and provocations, making it difficult to parse out any useful information.

As for the other Demon Descendant Mages, because the number of Consciousness Cages was limited, Xia Duo simply gave up on them and instead focused on Aleikesa, the High Mage who was once a close follower of Yilisaier.

Because Aleikesa's physical body was no longer nearby and the Consciousness Copies collected were limited, Xia Duo could not use the violent parsing method he had used on that High Mage of the Long-lived Family in the Projection Plane.

Instead, he had to focus on tricking information out of him; violent parsing could only be used as a last resort.

……

Inside the Consciousness Cage.

Xia Duo projected himself here once again, immediately creating a tense atmosphere: "Aleikesa, the higher-ups sent me to save you, hurry and come with me!"

"Heh—" Aleikesa laughed disdainfully.

Regarding this, Xia Duo was not angry; one could even say he had no emotional fluctuation at all, because he had already encountered this kind of reaction from the other party countless times.

——Reset

"Aleikesa, the higher-ups are very dissatisfied with you and have ordered me to kill you!"

"Heh—"

——Reset

"Aleikesa, the higher-ups have a new mission for you!"

"Heh—"

……

Basically, in order to collect information about the existence behind the Demon Descendants more broadly, Xia Duo had tried almost every possibility and every line of questioning, but Aleikesa's Consciousness Copy acted as if it had known his purpose in advance, never revealing any news about the existence behind them.

He did not even reveal the slightest bit of such obvious information as whether the "existence behind the Demon Descendants" even existed, behaving as if all of this was something he had orchestrated himself.

However, this Midian that gathered Demon Descendants from many countries was clearly not something he, a single High Mage, could have created; there must be a deeper organization.

Just from the information collected from the Main Plane, it was basically certain that there was no way to make Aleikesa submit, so Xia Duo "cheated" without any surprise.

Some information obtained from the consciousness of the High Mage of the Demon Descendant Family in the Projection Plane might become the key to breaking through Aleikesa's psychological defenses.

In the Consciousness Cage, Xia Duo projected himself again. This time, he did not disguise himself as another identity or create any special atmosphere; he simply appeared in his own image very plainly, and then said something that could be called earth-shattering to Aleikesa:

"Your true purpose must be to distort the Reality of history, making Reality first become another possibility where Demon Descendants occupy absolute dominance, right!"

"Who are you?!"

Aleikesa's expression changed drastically at once; no one would remain calm when the deepest secret hidden in their heart was pointed out, "Are you also a Demon Descendant? Why betray us?"

"You think I am betraying? Betraying what? Betraying the country I belong to? Or the people I belong to? Or perhaps those Demon Descendants you think want to subvert Reality?"

"No, you are not a Demon Descendant! Who are you? Who exactly are you?"

Seeing Aleikesa fall into a state of repeated questioning—whether it was a disguise or true madness, he could not tell—Xia Duo sighed and dispelled the projection.

Returning to the outside world, he did not continue to reset and probe, but instead fell into deep anxiety.

Although Aleikesa had not directly admitted anything just now, it was very clear that there was indeed some mysterious power behind the Demon Descendants that was attempting to subvert Reality.

It was highly likely that they were Demon Descendants from another Time Line where Demon Descendants had unified the Main Plane!

This brought great psychological pressure to Xia Duo. Things like Time Lines and parallel universes could not be verified for the time being; perhaps to him, those Demon Descendants who had unified the Main Plane were still a kind of illusory existence.

But the influence of those illusory existences on the Main Plane was real and undeniable!

Xia Duo did not want to, nor did he have the strength to, investigate the true reason behind all this for the moment, but this tangible threat could not be ignored.

Finding a Habitable Plane and then fleeing the Main Plane was one way to cope, but he was not sure how great the impact of the Main Plane's Time Line alteration would be. If it could affect everything that had ever existed on the Main Plane, then even if he ran to another Plane, he would still be affected.

Moreover, Xia Duo did not want to escape so passively; he wanted to face the threat of the Demon Descendants directly, especially since he had the ability to threaten the other party.

After sorting out his thoughts slightly, Xia Duo projected himself back into the Consciousness Cage.

"Aleikesa, I know you want to fix certain specific historical Nodes, thereby reversing the Main Plane's Time Line in one stroke to reach a state of space-time that you desire, but I have a way to stop you!"

"You, who exactly are you?"

Because he had already been reset once, hearing such words suddenly made Aleikesa look at Xia Duo as if he were seeing some unspeakable monster; shock, worry, fear—countless negative emotions surged into his heart at once.

But Xia Duo ignored Aleikesa's reaction and continued: "You should know the power of a Floating Fortress. Next, I will start with Cormanthor and erase the traces of the Elves' existence bit by bit, so that the specific historical Nodes you want will never have a chance to appear again!"

"Oh, right, you Demon Descendants seem to care quite a bit about Siluwende. Believe me, even if I cannot erase Cormanthor, I will definitely be able to wipe Siluwende from the Main Plane completely—in the literal sense—erasing them along with the land."

Xia Duo spoke very calmly about a cruel plan that seemed to have nothing to do with him, but to Aleikesa, this was truly the whisper of a demon.

He guessed that Xia Duo might have grasped some crucial information, which made this threat seem even more real.

"No, you cannot—"

Aleikesa groaned in pain, as if the end of the world had already arrived, and everything he cherished and looked forward to was about to be destroyed.

Because he had personally experienced the power of a Floating City, Aleikesa understood better how likely this threat was to become reality; it could be said that even Cormanthor, unless it exhausted all its foundations, would find it difficult to resist.

"Who exactly are you?!"

"Who am I? I am one of the countless beings of the Main Plane whom you ignore, only I happen to possess a bit of power to fight back!"

Xia Duo said disdainfully.

By this time, Aleikesa was no longer saying things like how everyone converting to Demon Descendants could eliminate estrangement and prejudice, as he had just done when talking to Suweilisi in the Midian, because Xia Duo already knew the truth behind the Demon Descendants—

It was by no means a simple replacement of old and new ideas or old and new forces, but the complete destruction of all life in Reality to shape another possibility that had nothing to do with the current life of the Main Plane.

"What? Nothing to say? Now it is my turn to ask you, why do you betray?"

Previously in the Midian, Suweilisi had also asked the same question, only at that time Suweilisi was asking why Aleikesa wanted to betray Cormanthor and betray the Elves, but now, what Xia Duo was asking was—

Why betray the Main Plane.

If betraying Cormanthor and betraying the Elves was because one could convert into a Demon Descendant, then what could Aleikesa gain by betraying the Main Plane?

The other Time Line had nothing to do with him either; using the control of Demon Descendants in a parallel universe to explain it alone could not satisfy Xia Duo.