Chapter 503: Tonight the Moonlight is Like Blood (Part 1)

"Creak... creak... creak..."

The wind blew the windows, making eerie light sounds, and the curtains danced with the wind. Unknown light passed through the windows, casting bright squares one after another on the floor. When Khonshu followed Schiller through the corridors of the asylum, it was like fingers brushing over black and white piano keys.

Khonshu is different from other cosmic deities. He will possess Moon Knight in the form of moonlight power and adventure with them in human society. Therefore, he is not ignorant of things in human society; at least he can recognize that this is the corridor of a human hospital.

But at the same time, this corridor made him feel a bit strange. There were no winding alphabetic characters here; instead, they were replaced by square characters that made Khonshu feel familiar, just like the ancient Egyptian characters he once often used—complex lines, like a painting.

Vaguely, Khonshu recalled that he seemed to have seen this kind of character in the mind of a certain agent. It came from a distant Eastern country, as ancient as the ancient Egypt where Khonshu resided.

Khonshu walked forward while turning his head to look at the walls of the hospital corridor. The lower half of the wall was blue-green wall paint, and further down was white baseboard, but the colored wall paint was already very mottled, appearing a bit dilapidated.

Khonshu is an ancient cosmic deity, but at the same time, he is also the one closest to humans among all cosmic deities. He gained faith from the ancient Egyptians, and at the same time, he has always been guarding that ancient country and its people in the temple.

His way of thinking is different from humans, but precisely because he is close to humans, he can better understand this group of tiny lives.

In his view, humans all have endless beautiful fantasies. They will exhaust all their imagination to build a utopia for themselves in their minds. Previous Moon Knights would all do this.

But now it seems that the person walking in front of him is a bit different. Khonshu doesn't understand why there would be a slightly dilapidated mental hospital in Schiller's mind?

Window frames yellowed by the sun, peeling wall paint, pitted baseboards, small advertisements with words and numbers written on the doors and walls, even the glass and tile floors looked misty, obviously not having been wiped for a long time.

"Where are we going?" Khonshu asked. "Where is your strongest personality?"

"Don't be anxious. Before that, we must agree on the conditions." Schiller said while walking forward.

"Yes, you humans like to negotiate conditions the most. Everyone I have met is like this." Khonshu was not surprised.

"Before that, shouldn't you introduce yourself to me? Moon God Khonshu, who exactly are you? Why choose an agent with multiple personality disorder?"

"I don't know if you have any understanding of godhood, but if the organization you call the Sanctum Sanctorum has contacted many cosmic deities, then you should know that human faith is very important to us."

"To obtain human faith, there are two methods. The first is to descend into the human world, display the powerful strength you possess, show your true name, and let people believe in you as a god."

"The other method is to incarnate as natural phenomena that humans already have faith in, such as the sun, moon, birth, death, spring, winter, etc."

"You chose the latter?" Schiller turned his head slightly and asked.

"That's right. However, many cosmic deities have chosen this path. These natural phenomena themselves will also give birth to some conceptual cosmic deities, but the phenomena that humans worship are not many, so godhood will inevitably overlap."

"As far as I know, the sun god, thunder god, fire god, water god, and other godhoods, almost every pantheon has one. Their divine duties are the same. So how is faith distributed?"

"This is exactly what I want to say." Khonshu's low voice echoed in the corridor. Precisely because of Schiller's uniqueness, he had the patience to explain more. He said, "There are many sun gods and moon gods on Earth, but we are in charge of different aspects."

"I represent the changes of the moon. Ancient Egyptians carved the different forms of the moon in the form of patterns on the walls and integrated them into their characters. They used the changes in the moon's form to represent the passage of time. Therefore, I became the godhood representing every form of the moon."

"This is also why, unlike other cosmic deities who only give agents power, I can reside in the host's mind and descend anytime, anywhere."

"There are as many of me as there are forms of the moon. I am constantly changing among several forms at all times, and there is no definite main body."

"So, I chose an agent similar to my state, chose them to become Moon Knight, because I am uncertain, and they are also uncertain. In this state, they can better use my power."

"Then, if you choose me as your agent and project power onto me, what do you want me to do?"

Schiller's question made Khonshu silent. It was the first time he had heard a human actively ask about the price of his power, but after being silent for a while, he still said, "In fact, this is also what you should have done, because all of this happened because of the Sanctum Sanctorum."

Schiller felt as if he had heard a sigh from Khonshu, and immediately after, he heard Khonshu say:

"The Egyptian gods who participated in the Sanctum Sanctorum broke the peace of the Heavenly Realm. They obtained more powerful strength, and therefore sought higher status."

"Although, a long time ago, I was banished by the Heavenly Realm, there were other existences who were also banished. Among them, there is Ammit, who shares the responsibility of punishing sinners with me."

"He made a deal with the gods of the Heavenly Realm, obtained more powerful strength, and made his followers walk in the human world, establish sects, and obtain faith. But I cannot sit idly by and watch such things happen..."

"Why? Because his divine duties overlapped with yours?"

Khonshu shook his head and said, "We have some old grudges, but more of it is a disagreement in philosophy. Moonlight is a supplement to sunlight. Darkness and light follow each other like shadows. I am just punishing sinners walking in the darkness in places where light cannot see..."

"Then what about Ammit?"

"He wants to destroy all sinners in this world."

"How does he define a sinner?"

"This is the problem. In Ammit's view, as long as you have the potential to commit a crime, or even as long as you have had a thought of committing a crime, then you deserve to die."

"He should be under the Death God, right? Wanting to help his boss boost performance?"

After Schiller said this, he could clearly see that Khonshu was stunned for a moment, and then Khonshu continued, "I don't understand what performance you are talking about, but he is indeed related to the Death God."

"The relationship between the gods of the Heavenly Realm is very complex, and the power provided by the Sanctum Sanctorum to some of the gods broke the original balance. If Ammit really breaks free completely, it will be a disaster for humanity."

"You want me to eliminate Ammit?"

Khonshu nodded, but then shook his head and said, "I will give you the power of Moon Knight, and you only need to ensure that Ammit will not truly break free."

"Deal." Schiller agreed without hesitation.

They kept walking forward. Looking from the window, Schiller's figure was made to look a bit small by the tall Khonshu.

Two figures, one tall and one short, moved forward slowly in the corridor. The terrifying skull falcon head floated slightly in mid-air, but the human in front seemed to be completely unaware, just walking forward without looking back.

This scene looked eerie and mysterious. Accompanying their movement from one end of the window to the other, Schiller finally stopped his footsteps. He stopped in front of a room door, and the doorplate above it read "1003".

Khonshu stood behind Schiller. Through the surveillance window on the door, he could see that the room was pitch black, with only a small light bulb on the ceiling emitting a faint light. In the hazy light, one could see a person's figure standing in the center of the room.

But Schiller did not open the door, instead standing in front of the door for a while in silence, then saying to himself:

"A person's growth experience will shape their personality. A certain special experience may add certain traits to their personality."

"And it is these traits that constitute a complete personality: honesty, shyness, enthusiasm, indifference, gentleness, violence..."

"I and him..." Schiller reached out and pointed at the figure in the room, then said, "Including all the Schillers you see here, we are different traits of one personality."

"There is actually only one personality here, and that is the high tower you once saw."

"I have never seen such a person." Khonshu's words were always very straightforward, sounding a bit weird and naive.

Schiller reached out and pressed his finger on the surveillance window of the room door, saying, "Any personality trait that appears here does not appear out of thin air. They are born from a certain experience in my life..."

"Then what do you represent?" Khonshu asked.

"Greed." Schiller, wearing a white coat, replied.

Seeming as if he hadn't discussed similar questions with anyone for a long time, Schiller seemed quite talkative. He said, "When I first came to this world, the emotion I felt was not fear, not confusion, but greed..."

"What are you greedy for?"

"Power." Schiller replied without hesitation. He said, "But not the kind of power used for fighting."

"A long time ago, I discovered that I could obtain the internal driving force that makes me feel satisfied and allows me to carry out activities from communicating with others, from pondering their psychological states, and analyzing their personalities."

"After just arriving in such a new world, I knew that there were too many people and things here that I was interested in. How exactly did they grow up to be what they are today, and what kind of mentality did they hold to carry out their careers? These questions made me feel curious."

"So, when I first came into contact with someone I was very interested in, the trait of greed surfaced and became the current me." ===== CHAPTER 504 =====