Chapter 251: This Position Was Originally Meant to Belong to You

This position was originally meant to belong to you.

The end of the long staircase was not another void, but a palace resplendent with gold and splendor.

It was very sinister; at the terminus of the 【Chaos Divine Staircase】, there actually stood a palace more magnificent and awe-inspiring than any structure in the world.

The palace's gates were so high they seemed to have no top; Cheng Shi felt only a glance, and was met with endless oppressive force surging from all directions.

This was the first time he had felt small in the presence of a 【Deity】.

Whether it was the two different pairs of eyes of 【Void】, or the massive skull atop the torrent of white bones, though they were high above, they were heavily stained with the breath of humanity; thus, under their gaze, Cheng Shi felt only fear, not the smallness of humanity.

As for 【Memory】, there was no need to mention it; now that he mentioned Her, Cheng Shi's mind was filled with the image of his boss...

This feeling was like a nightmare, impossible to shake off.

So, when he arrived outside the temple of 【Chaos】 and truly realized the distinction between gods and humans, that humans were merely a speck of dust beneath the feet of 【Deities】, his legs went weak.

Weak in both body and mind.

He dared not imagine how utterly unlookable the One standing or sitting within the palace might be; he even thought that if he had known appearing before 【Chaos】 would be like this, he should have prepared more diapers in his previous prayers and put them on before coming.

"......"

Forget it; sticking one's head out is a chop, pulling it back is also a chop; what's there to fear?

Cheng Shi gritted his teeth, puffed out his chest, lifted his head, and walked in.

However, when he stepped into the hall covered entirely in graffiti-style divine runes, he saw no unlookable 【It】, but rather a person who should not have been here, yet seemed like they should have been here.

When he clearly saw the human face of the person standing on one side of the hall, smiling and bowing to signal him, Cheng Shi's spine suddenly tightened, and he froze in place.

"My Lord Ultraman, long time no see."

"It's you..." Cheng Shi widened his eyes, unable to believe it, "You actually... you are only... you are also Her... Envoy?"

"I do not have that honor, My Lord Ultraman, because the position I stand in was originally meant to belong to you!"

"!!!"

Cheng Shi was shocked.

Because the one standing in this 【Chaos Temple】 speaking with him was none other than one of the 【Chaos Sprout Believers】 who had disappeared from the Ever-Blooming Town under the protection of 【Prosperity】, the junior scholar of Ados of the Tower of Reason, the scholar who had also refined himself into a puppet, Katalo!

Chenosli had once told Cheng Shi that Katalo would prove to the outside world at the right moment that Cheng Shi was not the murderer.

But since Cheng Shi returned to the inn, he had vanished; moreover, at the very end of that 【Death】 trial, Cheng Shi himself had impersonated Katalo and gone to jail.

So seeing him here, at this place of appearing before 【Chaos】, Cheng Shi naturally felt he was not him, but rather It.

"Belong... to me?"

Cheng Shi was confused again.

To be honest, Cheng Shi didn't not want the identity of 【Chaos】 Envoy; he was afraid he couldn't bear the burden, so from beginning to end he only dared to joke, not to act rashly.

Even though he knew this was an identity bestowed upon him by 【Deceit】, before receiving confirmation from 【Chaos】, he still dared not cause trouble.

But now, judging by what Katalo meant...

What's this?

A new employee who just entered the door gets promoted to director without going through the process?

"Wait, hold on..." Seeing there was no 【God】 in the hall, only a human, Cheng Shi's backbone somehow returned; he frowned deeply, thinking as he asked, "Do you mean I am Her Envoy, Ultraman? She acknowledged it?"

Katalo smiled, nodded, and said very affirmatively:

"You have always been; the moment you struck the first syllable of 【Chaos】 on the Continent of Hope, your identity was already settled."

"Then why are you standing in my position?"

"......"

Katalo was also confused; he hadn't expected the Envoy's thinking to be so erratic, but he wasn't confused for long; instead, he immediately walked over to Cheng Shi, dragged Cheng Shi to the spot where he had originally been standing, and then, with a smile on his face, stood below the hall.

Hiss—

Doesn't look fake!

Did I really become an Envoy?

So simple?

Doesn't She need to nod?

Besides, I don't feel 【Chaos】's divine power filling my body!

Cheng Shi's small eyes darted around, surveying the surroundings; after finding no second person and no goddess in the hall, he poked his head out and asked quietly:

"You... what's going on? Didn't you refine yourself into a puppet? How did you appear here again?

Back then in the Ever-Blooming Town, when I returned to the inn, I couldn't find you..."

Cheng Shi's question carried doubt; Katalo didn't mind such a direct interrogation at all and replied respectfully:

"Yes, at that time I was indeed a puppet. According to Chenosli's plan, I was supposed to commit acts of slaughter to clear your name when you were imprisoned; however, you seemed to have a better plan, so I quietly left.

I thought, if you were not in danger, there might be a use for me later.

But I didn't expect you to be different from us; so... when you left that 'trial', because your person was missing from history, 【Memory】, according to Her aesthetics, automatically completed that segment of history, patching up the loophole of your disappearance.

And I was the lucky one awakened by the Benefactor and pushed to the forefront."

【Memory】!

Cheng Shi's gaze sharpened; he hadn't expected it to be this reason.

"【Memory】 also intervened?"

"That was not the true Her, but... this is inconvenient to say; you can understand it as the divine power left by Her within an agreement!"

As soon as Katalo finished speaking, a word popped into Cheng Shi's mind, a word players should not know: 【Covenant】!

It seems the power of 【Memory】 within the 【Covenant】 completed history!

So historically, Ultraman did indeed always exist, but not himself, but a substitute created to patch up historical errors.

It was Katalo who was "acting" as 【Chaos】 Envoy on his behalf!

No wonder he would stand here.

However......

"You know about the Trial?

Oh, that's right. After all, this isn't during a Trial now. Come to think of it, this is the first time I've run into someone from Zhizhou outside of a Trial.

Then...... do you know that Zhizhou has already been destroyed in history?"

Ketaro smiled and said: "In the mortal dimension, it has indeed vanished, but in Their eyes, the cosmos has never changed."

"Pfft, you don't sound like a scholar anymore, more like a charlatan."

"Uh...... all paths lead to the same destination."

Indeed, all paths lead to the same destination, except these two characters were approaching their respective 【Deities】 in different ways.

With just that one sentence, Cheng Shi was filled with sudden respect for Ketaro.

This old acquaintance seemed to have had an epiphany, and his level of faith had risen to an astonishing height.

As they chatted, Cheng Shi gradually relaxed. He looked around and asked again:

"This really is Tadeshendian?

Uh...... pardon the irreverence, ahem, I'm just curious—isn't this place a little too orderly?"

Ketaro explained with a smile:

"My lord, what do you mean by orderly?"

Cheng Shi was taken aback, pointed at everything in the great hall, and said:

"Isn't this orderly? I felt all kinds of chaos on the divine stairs below, but here......

Look—regular space, symmetrical Shi Zhu, echoing engravings. This is even more orderly than the Great Judgment...... ahem, ahem.

Isn't it?"

"My lord, by the human understanding of order on Zhizhou, what you say is indeed correct."

"?" Hearing this, Cheng Shi's mind went "Buzz—" and he suddenly thought of something.

But at that moment Ketaro also offered his explanation:

"But on the scale of the entire cosmos, or going higher, in the eyes of those 【They】, human notions of order may well be meaningless."

Listen to that—it's practically the ultimate blasphemy against 【Order】!