Chapter 253

"So, I really am Li En Sudar."

Pulled out of these memories, Li En gagged twice, feeling nauseous.

It wasn't just confusion of memory and sensation—he remembered his own transmigration.

He recalled how he stripped the "lizard-man's" clothes, took its scales and horns from its corpse, and pasted them onto his own face. What the hell was that? Did he rob his own corpse? Stick parts of himself onto himself?

Thinking of it, Li En felt even more sick—he remembered his own "death face."

"My cause of death? The Hero found the evil dragon." That's just ridiculous.

Fortunately, at least I got to be human—I buried myself properly and even carved a stone tombstone.

"Next time, I should visit my own grave. Seems it's not too far away."

By the way, if I'm Li En, then there's no need to hesitate about my relationship with Sallyman—my earlier concerns about "stealing someone's love" have become complete nonsense.

Li En saw clearly: he had merely been "awakened," and part of his "Li En" memories had been stripped away—this engagement had always been his from the start.

"Li En!"

"Yeah, in that predicted future, Li En was also with Sallyman."

"Li En! Stop running away!"

"Laina" crossed her arms, glaring at Li En, pulling him back to reality.

Li En sighed, staring at the "ashes of memory" still burning in his hand, his mood growing increasingly strange.

This feeling—that the final boss was myself—was utterly terrible.

He could feel it: countless troubles awaited him, too many karmic threads destined to tangle forever.

For such a being to reincarnate endlessly, it couldn't possibly be just for "fun."

Don't end up with a D-XX number, lying somewhere in obscurity.

"Hmm, I understand. Let me organize the information."

The dragon and hero's contract lasted less than fifteen minutes, but the information within was overwhelming.

First was the state of the Thousand-Faced Dragon—the Codex's records and the Great Red Dragon's words were both clear.

"It seems there are two states: one is 'dreaming,' the other is 'awake.'"

The former is the usual spirit form of Kuku, Lex, and Suer—during this time, Li Ensu was a normal reincarnator.

Among them, the most outstanding should be the spirits recorded in the Codex.

Considering they also possess fragments of Li Ensu's soul and memories, even full natives stand a decent chance of rising to prominence.

"It seems like a state of accumulating power, gathering memories and knowledge. No—they changed the world too. Kuku and the others may not have been worse than awake Li Ensu."

The other state is what's called "awake." From the Great Red Dragon's expert handling, this was clearly not his first time.

He expertly created a "transmigrant Li Ensu," even giving him a template for bloodline and abilities.

Why "transmigrant Li Ensu"? After his initial shock, Li En figured out the answer himself.

Li En himself could see it: in this strange world, a transmigrant Li Ensu with even a little power would inevitably cause chaos—he knew himself best.

Perhaps this utterly empty transmigrant state was the only way to maximize motivation and drive to reshape this damn, fucked-up world.

Li Ensu remembered his early days in Huicheng—everything was unbearable chaos, that predator-prey state made him sick.

So, if Li Ensu gradually gained power, would he do something?

"If it were me, I'd definitely do something."

Erasing "Li En's" memories and awakening him as the transmigrant Li Ensu was like planting a time bomb in this era.

He might be assimilated by the world, or fully absorbed into its chaos and old order—but there was still a slim chance.

"I, Li Ensu, if I ever faced a time of utter darkness, might just pierce the heavens."

Just as the Great Red Dragon told Laina, the awakened "transmigrant Li Ensu" was merely a possibility, a random number.

A possibility that could reverse everything, turning fate into a joke.

If he gained power, he would inevitably shake the entire world.

But if he despised the world, would he go to extremes? Li En thought that possibility existed too.

Perhaps this uncertainty was the root of the Thousand-Faced Dragon's endless reincarnations.

"That Great Red Dragon is probably 'awake' too."

The awakened "Li Ensu" still dies, still evolves—would he be recorded in the Spirit Codex?

Merely by witnessing, Li En knew the Great Red Dragon was nothing like Suer and the others—he had been alien from the start, his loneliness and rage thick with the scent of a transmigrant.