Chapter 1103: The Broken [Mirror of Memory and Delusion]

The Broken 【Mirror of Memory and Delusion】

"When an organization grows to a certain extent, due to different advocated wills, its members will inevitably fall into a power struggle.

At that time, because of the surging desires in their hearts, the People in the Mirror completely split into two factions with different thoughts.

One faction leaned toward tradition, believing that piety was the only key to opening the gate of god. They decided to continue spreading faith and praying day and night according to the existing guidelines of the People in the Mirror, carrying the purest path of memory to the end.

While the other faction believed that the scale of faith was not enough to summon the gaze of the Benefactor.

But the reality at that time was cruel. 【Memory】 had never appeared, and the followers of faith were gradually withering. In this situation, the People in the Mirror could not expand the scale of faith at all, let alone use more piety to call for the gods' pity.

So, the radical faction thought of a way. They decided to...

Fake a divine descent!"

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Faking a divine descent is okay...

Since ancient times, the conservative faction might not necessarily be conservative, but the radical faction really has its own radicalness.

Although their original intention was also for piety, using the piety of 【Memory】 to perform the grand feat of 【Deception】... Sure enough, piety to the extreme is blasphemy!

I wonder what the God of Fun thinks of this?

Although he didn't descend in that era, when the scene was reproduced in the Era of Nothingness, I think he would be very happy.

Cheng Shi's mind wandered, and he continued to listen to Avlos:

"Only when the gods truly manifest in the world will more believers come to worship, and once the scale of believers expands again, the gods might truly come in response to the call.

This group of radical People in the Mirror were deeply immersed in extreme piety, as if they had already seen the moment when the new god descended.

They constantly persuaded people around them to join them, but this act, which looked exactly like blasphemy, made the traditional People in the Mirror terrified, and they resisted and refused one after another.

Countless old-timers among the People in the Mirror came forward to persuade them, not wanting the blasphemy of the radical faction to ruin the piety of the conservative faction, and the radical faction did indeed quiet down and took no further action.

But all this was an illusion. They knew that the shackles of tradition had long made the conservative faction rigid, so they no longer publicized their own will, but secretly planned in the dark.

They prepared for a year, until the most grand collective prayer day of the second year arrived. On that day, they launched the God Descent Plan!

Coincidentally, perhaps the piety accumulated over the years moved the gods, or perhaps he finally felt that this memory was worth remembering. In short, on the same day, in the collective prayer of all the People in the Mirror, when the radical divine mirror guardian sprinkled the manifestation potion onto the mirror surface, 【Memory】 truly cast his gaze.

A divine descent appeared.

A ray of holy light fell on the altar, affirming the huge mirror that condensed countless piety, and bestowed upon it true religious significance.

【Memory and Delusion】 was born.

But the conservative faction who saw this scene didn't think it was a true divine descent, but thought that the radical faction had revived in the organization and planned all this, only the effect was incredibly shocking.

The radical faction was the same. Most participants thought this was the result of their year of planning, just didn't expect the effect to far exceed their expectations.

Only the leader of the radical faction knew that all this was true, that the gods had truly descended. He piously prostrated on the ground, shouting the name of 【Memory】, and asked everyone to see the true god with him. However, the conservative faction didn't want the farce to continue; they had to ensure that this scandal was strangled in the 'home' of the People in the Mirror before it spread.

Thus, a struggle for position began, and the goal of both sides was that huge mirror.

They didn't know that the mirror had long been given new significance. The conservative faction wanted to erase the stain of faith and re-prove piety to redeem their sins, while the radical faction, led by the leader, was even more excited, wanting to occupy this mirror of divine descent and become the orthodoxy of communicating with gods from then on.

Both sides had already formed obsessions, and in the chaos, they smashed the mirror.

The conservative faction and the radical faction each got a piece. From then on, 【Memory and Delusion】 shattered into two pieces on its first day in the world.

And the names of those two fragments are naturally the best annotations he has for this memory."

Cheng Shi was shocked.

【Mirror of No-Loss Dream】 and 【Nightmare of the Other Dream, My Dream】!

The former represents the piety of the conservative faction. The memory offering that never erred gave 【Mirror of No-Loss Dream】 the power of memory reproduction without any omissions.

And the latter naturally represents the ambition of the radical faction. What a "Nightmare of the Other Dream, My Dream." The 【Memory】 believers influenced by desire indeed had a pious dream, but everything they did was a true "nightmare" in the eyes of 【Memory】. Even if 【Deception】 had not yet been named by 【Origin】 in that era, the opposition of faith had already left enough traces in history.

So this is the truth about the shattering of 【Mirror of Memory and Delusion】. No wonder those nightmare shadows in 【Nightmare of the Other Dream, My Dream】 had a taste of 【Filth and Corruption】. It turns out it was really influenced by 【Filth and Corruption】.

Hearing this, Cheng Shi finally understood why Avlos almost "destroyed" the People in the Mirror but still wasn't held accountable by 【Memory】.

Because when he split 【Memory and Delusion】 into two and bestowed them upon both sides, he had already turned the page on this memory and moved it into his collection hall. After all, to him, the blasphemy of faith was also a kind of memory.

And, Avlos had no "malice" in this matter; the desire he pushed was just to make the way of piety more intense.

Since 【Memory】 had already turned the page on this matter, why did 【Time】 imprison Avlos?

Cheng Shi looked at the other party in confusion. Avlos saw Cheng Shi's doubt, his expression complex and slightly bitter:

"After this matter, I originally thought that the master of the era did not reject my identity and actions, so hundreds of years later, when I saw a group of wandering poets gathered together because of their pious faith..."

"......"

No, brother, you are still doing it?

Cheng Shi's scalp was numb.

A person repeatedly jumping on the edge of death and not dying is not because he shouldn't die, but can only say he is lucky.

But once is lucky, how can you still think you can have a second time?

Do you think you are an offering blessed by 【Fate】 like me!?

Besides, 【Time】 is not 【Memory】. 【Memory】 will pick up the past he is interested in, while 【Time】, once he sees the existence he evolved being distorted by desire...

You have seen the result.

Cheng Shi twitched his mouth and asked with a half-smile: "Helped again?"

Avlos gave a bitter laugh and shook his head:

"Before I could, I was locked into this eternal prison by him.

He said:

Filthy world with desire, muddy piety with joy. The paradise you seek is not within existence, and the place this 【Gate of Joy and Desire】 leads to is definitely not the reality that the world likes to see.

Since you are so interested in 【Memory】 and 【Time】, then stay here and experience memory and time eternally."

Avlos became more and more excited as he spoke. By the end, he had completely thrown away the bitterness on his face and was full of anger:

"Even if I had the heart to help, I clearly hadn't influenced his believers yet. Why did he imprison me here on trumped-up charges!?

I, am not convinced!"

"......"

Cheng Shi could understand what Avlos meant, but buddy, the one you "provoked" is 【Time】!

Still the same saying, the future and the past are just 【Time】's annotations on existence, so perhaps he had already seen the future of those wandering poets, or perhaps the evil consequences of your actions had already been fulfilled in one of his deductions.

So locking you up, while seemingly "trumped-up," isn't it also a precaution?

But Cheng Shi couldn't say any of this, because saying it would be equivalent to defending 【Time】.

Even if he was a believer of 【Time】, even if the answer he was seeking was on 【Time】, here, on this land of Dolgode, he could only be Avlos's ally. All means of approaching 【Time】 must be for the sake of dealing with 【Time】, this world-destroying demon king, together with Avlos. ===== CHAPTER 1104 =====