Chapter 1099: World Destroyer: [Time]!

World-Ender: 【Time】!

"The workings of 【Time】 are like the changes of 【Fate】.

He has always been using countless workings to depict the 【Existence】 in His eyes, but from my observation, apart from His own workings, He resists all outside changes.

These changes come not only from 【Fate】, but also include countless accidents that seek to break free from the control of evolution.

He wants to ensure that every 【Existence】 exists as He wishes!"

Cheng Shi naturally had his reasons for saying this. He had learned from Luo Luo Bosi the general reason why 【Time】 had imprisoned Afluos, so these words were naturally meant to strike a chord with Afluos.

In a certain sense, Afluos's attempt to desecrate 【Existence】 was exactly one of the so-called accidents.

"But stumbling upon another sky clearly far exceeded His perception.

I have to say, when I first learned of this secret, I was even more shocked than you.

I find it hard to imagine that beyond this world there is another world independent of us yet identical to us. Of course, sixteen more deities isn't impossible to accept, but what's more thought-provoking is......

That 【He】...... how many are there!?"

"Enough!"

Afluos, his face drenched in cold sweat, decisively cut off Cheng Shi's words. Things were getting somewhat beyond his expectations. He had only wanted to find the origin of the 【Corruption】 vessel from Cheng Shi, but had never imagined that chatting could lead to 【Origin】.

A single 【Time】 could imprison him in this cage for tens of millions of years; if idle talk here offended 【Origin】......

What the consequences would be, Afluos didn't dare to imagine.

His greatest vision was nothing more than creating a paradise belonging to 【Nurture】 and 【Corruption】, carrying his own devotion, merging the wills of his two patrons into one.

As for anything else, he didn't care, nor was he interested.

Compared to other Emissaries, you can only say Afluos's ambition is "strange," but you can't say his ambition is great!

But no matter how small the ambition, curiosity still exists.

Though he didn't dare to discuss that existence, he was very interested in the secrets of 【Time】. So after calming himself, he looked at Cheng Shi again with a complicated gaze and asked how he had discovered this matter.

Cheng Shi's answer was watertight.

"I, a mere subordinate god, how could I pry into the secrets of a true god?

Naturally it was my patron who told me. Do you still remember what I said?

Getting close to the enemy is how you understand the enemy. Back then my patron helped me get close to 【Time】, and in the process of stealing authority, He discovered the secret that 【Time】 had discovered.

You should feel fortunate—no, we should feel fortunate. Any deity other than my patron, upon learning of this, might have become 【Time】's accomplice or a silent keeper of the secret, but 【Deceit】 is different.

He fears nothing more than that the fun in this cosmos isn't enough, isn't big enough!

So He told me at the first opportunity, and told me that 【Void】 holds the leverage over 【Time】.

【Time】 doesn't want a second 【Existence】 to exist in the cosmos. He wants to ensure His own uniqueness, so while the other gods still don't know of that sky, He is silently planning to destroy that world!

Yes, you heard right, Afluos, 【Time】 is an out-and-out world-ender!

And the reason I'm certain that what my patron 【Deceit】 told me is truth rather than lie is precisely because on the day you saw me deceive Luo Luo Bosi, I ran into a subordinate god from another world, an Emissary of 【Decay】—Yuge!

A deduced Ping Xing Shi Jie wouldn't have a second Yuge!

I not only saw Yuge, but from his hand I obtained a 【Decay】 vessel from beyond the cosmos!"

At this point, Cheng Shi once again took back the 【Deceit】 vessel on the table, except his motion of retrieving it was very casual, more like fiddling with a symbol representing status.

Afluos, bombarded by chaotic information, had already completely fallen into Cheng Shi's rhythm. Taking this opportunity, he glanced at Cheng Shi's desire again, and the conclusion he reached was:

No lies.

With this back-and-forth all being truth, he had no more doubts about his brother's candor.

"You killed the Yuge from another world?" Afluos's shock continued.

"No, I didn't kill him. He took the vessel in his hand and gave it to me of his own accord."

"Give? He gave up his own divine seat—why would he give it to you, and why to you, who to him belongs to another world?"

Hearing this question, Cheng Shi knew Afluos had been taken in.

The other party had lost his composure, completely sinking into his own lies.

But Cheng Shi didn't seize the moment to increase the "dosage." Instead, he deliberately pointed this out, to awaken Afluos's shrewdness and continue to win his trust.

Only when speaking, he casually pushed the 【Deceit】 vessel out again.

"This isn't like you, Afluos.

Where has your shrewdness gone.

I told you, 【Time】 wants to destroy that world to guarantee the uniqueness of 【Existence】. Yuge somehow learned of this, so he fled.

Though timid, he is also clever. He knows that as long as he gives up the divine seat, he might escape 【Time】's butcher's blade.

So when he gave me the vessel, for him there was only benefit, no harm. Rather, it was I, in order to gather evidence to bring down 【Time】 before the gods, who had no choice but to accept this hot potato.

Afluos, to oppose 【Time】, I have never betrayed our friendship."

The moment these words fell, Afluos spun on the spot and stripped off his clothes.

"......"

Cheng Shi's expression changed in an instant.

Damn, fooled him too hard, forgot about that.

Seeing Afluos's desire "drooling with hunger," Cheng Shi silently leaned back in his chair to put distance between them, and said in a strange tone:

"That's enough, I've seen your trust, but if you still want to know what 【Time】 has done, control your desire.

My patron can tolerate me getting close to 【Corruption】 to oppose 【Existence】, but He will not tolerate me embracing 【Corruption】.

If you still want to oppose 【Time】, don't make me the next prisoner."

Afluos was merely slightly expressing his mood, and incidentally showing his appreciation. Of course he didn't dare to actually make a move. After all, 【Fate】's threat was still fresh in his mind, and he didn't want to add another chain to his own ankle.

But hearing that Cheng Shi was still, as always, striving to oppose 【Time】, he had already begun to convince himself.

That 【Corruption】 vessel probably had a similar story. In any case, the Fool's play would certainly not slaughter an Emissary of 【Corruption】.

Afloros stared at Cheng Shi with shining eyes for a long while, until Cheng Shi was gazing up at the sky in exasperation, before reluctantly picking up the clothes on the ground and reverting to his male form.

Having returned to composure after his excitement, He once again asked a key question:

"Where is Yuge's vessel, and how does a vessel from another world differ from one in this world?"

Cheng Shi seemed to have anticipated this question long ago. He shook his head and chuckled lightly:

"I can't say where the vessel of 【Decay】 is, because this is the most crucial evidence for exposing 【Time】 in the future.

Sorry, Afloros, it's not that I don't trust you, but I can't guarantee whether 【Time】 will learn of our plan through you. You should know that His sibling-gods possess every memory beneath this starry sky, and you have indeed offended Them."

"......"

Afloros seemed to recall the past. He was silent for a moment, then said with a touch of ruefulness:

"You're right. No matter what, my brother, you truly haven't betrayed my trust in you.

I don't care whether 【Time】 is truly destroying another world, nor do I care what your patron has done to target 【Existence】, because I know that all schemes and plots will become the past once the next era arrives.

【Nihility】 will end up as a spectator just like 【Existence】, witnessing from the audience the arrival of the next era's dominator.

Even if 【His】 existence... is more complicated than I imagined, the laws governing the world's operation will never change.

The past eras have already proven everything."

"......"

To be fair, although Afloros's perspective had never risen above this starry sky, his understanding of the world's operating rules was indeed clearer than that of the vast majority of living beings.

Indeed, eras and epochs operated just like that, stable as if they were pre-designed programs.

But the problem was, no one knew where this program would terminate, and using the past to predict the future was utterly meaningless.

Cheng Shi's thoughts drifted outward because of Afloros's words, and at this moment Afloros asked again:

"But I'm still very curious, why do you have His vessel in your hands?

Could it also be the Him from another world?"

Cheng Shi was taken aback, but he caught that the vessel the other party was referring to was the 【Corruption】 vessel. Knowing that Afloros was still suspicious of the vessel's origin, he "truthfully" explained:

"After Lele'er died, someone picked up His vessel by the side of the Sea of Desire, and I snatched it away."

Afloros furrowed his brow: "What does this have to do with Lele'er?"

"?" Cheng Shi was baffled. "How could Lele'er's vessel have nothing to do with Lele'er?"

"Lele'er's vessel?

Could it be that you also have a 【Prosperity】 vessel?

But what I was clearly asking about was the 【Corruption】 vessel—the one belonging to Teliya."

"???"

Cheng Shi blinked.

Who?