Chapter 524: The Fate Weaver favored by [Fate]

... The Fate Weaver favored by 【Fate】

Cheng Shi took in the reactions of many people, smiled silently, and spoke again. The second sentence made the entire square fall into deathly silence.

"I know, the Rosna Empire has never had piety. He also knows this."

"......"

As soon as the words fell, the fear floating above the square became even more intense. Cheng Shi even felt Gong Yang Horn in his ring trying to resurrect, perhaps out of fear of Cheng Shi's identity, or perhaps resurrecting in the Fun Ring wasn't as simple as this Count of Screams originally thought. In short, his desire to resurrect was very strong, but he didn't put it into practice.

Cheng Shi hadn't paid attention to him. He could kill him once, he could kill him a second time. He wasn't concerned about Gong Yang now, but about the target who might exist in the field.

Don't forget, this is a fishing game. The bait has been thrown, but the fish hasn't surfaced.

The other "fisherman", Da Yi, wasn't with Cheng Shi. Following Cheng Shi's instructions, he was currently shuttling through the shadows of the square, looking for suspicious targets. But from the perspective of an assassin's keen perception, the vast majority of people in this square seemed to have problems.

The biggest problem was that they didn't dare to look directly at the God's messenger, their expressions panicked, fearing that raising their heads would attract the other party's attention.

Da Yi was very shrewd. He quickly thought of the reason for this phenomenon, which was... lack of piety, as Lord Ultraman said.

These masses were not pious to 【Decay】.

Also right, at the moment of facing the Annihilators, looking at the current national situation of Rosna, wanting piety meant no combat power; wanting combat power meant no piety.

The citizens who were eager to live had been struggling in the cracks of faith and piety, dragged step by step to now.

They might really be waiting for a "pro-war" First Prince to tell them they didn't need to be pious anymore, that we must use our own power to resist the Annihilators. But waiting and waiting, the First Prince was gone.

So many people started to be "pious" again, but this piety was just to let Him, who had never gazed here, show mercy, and not pure, clean faith.

And this was the reason why a large amount of fear arose in the hearts of the masses in this square.

Wanting to live, but also afraid of death.

So when Lord Ultraman said the sentence "The Rosna Empire has never had piety", they were terrified.

Seeing this, Da Yi sneered: Be afraid. Fear will also catalyze chaos. The more afraid you are, the more Lord Ultraman might like it.

But under the confusion of such a huge suspicious group, wanting to find a more suspicious person was undoubtedly like looking for a needle in a haystack. However, Da Yi didn't dare to complain and could only bury his head and work hard.

Cheng Shi was also very patient. He had enough time to wait. Even if Da Yi didn't find it, he had other methods to continue fishing. And this method was not only effective but could even win this trial along the way.

As for the method to win the trial, everything was in this double act.

"No need to fear, people of Rosna. He has never been angry because of this, nor has He ever intended to descend divine punishment.

My Lord is benevolent, compassionate, and merciful. He cannot gaze at a group of unpious believers, yet He also doesn't want the Rosna Empire to gradually perish in this unpiety. So He sent me here to bring you His forgiveness.

People of Rosna, you don't need to believe in Him anymore, nor do you need to offer Him insignificant flesh and blood suffering. He allows you to break the promises you made, break away from 【Decay】, and return to yourself.

Yes, you didn't hear wrong. Now, the Rosna Empire... is free.

You don't need to worry about the divine punishment of breaking oaths, nor do you need to worry about the sin of blasphemy. He has never targeted you. Although 【Decay】 is the final tomb of the universe, there is also benevolence and mercy deep in that final tomb.

Praise 【Decay】, people of Rosna.

Build walls with your no longer weak bodies, and take up the weapons in your hands to defend your homeland.

I will bless you on behalf of my Lord, as the final feedback for the piety of the Rosna Empire over the past hundred years."

As he spoke, Cheng Shi took off his mask, quietly pointed at the shadow beneath him, and then cast a healing chain with the effect of bathing in divine grace toward Qu Yan in the center of the square.

The healing chain passed from one to ten, from ten to a hundred. In the blink of an eye, the rich healing power covered the entire square.

The masses, who were too shocked to speak, felt the recovery of their body's vitality. One by one, they widened their eyes, dropped their jaws, and revealed unbelievable ecstasy. They ignored the biting wind and bone-chilling snow, took off their clothes one after another, and then discovered that the sin-cleansing rings on each other's backs were really slowly dissolving.

Until witnessing the retreat of 【Decay】 with their own eyes, the most excited and joyful cheers finally erupted in the square:

"Praise 【Decay】! Praise 【Decay】!"

It must be said, this was perhaps the most pious time the citizens of Kanna City had shown toward 【Decay】 since the founding of the Rosna Empire.

But what was absurd was that this most pious moment happened when they thought they had broken free from the shackles of 【Decay】's faith.

When the tide of faith receded, the sea foam remaining on the beach gradually shattered, crackling. But whether this sound was a plea for the waves to stay or a cheer for their own reappearance, no one could tell clearly.

As the mastermind behind all this, after seeing this scene, Cheng Shi smiled, smiling brilliantly and happily. How similar was the scene of this moment to the scene Poison described? Is this a coincidence?

No, this was intentional.

Cheng Shi's roleplay plan was never a simple roleplay. When he didn't fish out that Rosna anti-"leader" in this roleplay, the target he was fishing for had already changed, from a Rosna citizen to a... 【Him】, or rather, two Hims.

He wasn't sure who would gaze into this trial, but he was sure that at least one or even two 【Hims】 would be very interested in this scene right now.

Don't forget, this scene was almost a 1:1 reproduction of the historical scene Poison discovered. Such a bridge of interpreting the past with the future, whether it was 【Deception】 constantly seeking fun, or 【Fate】 advocating the predetermined path, one would think They would like it very much!

And Cheng Shi, this clown hidden behind the scenes, needed Their liking!

Yes, the target he was calculating wasn't anyone else, but his two patrons, the pair of sibling Gods in the 【Nothingness】 path!

He wanted these two to add a variable to this aimless search, letting Them play against 【Existence】, and under the game of Gods, see if he could pick up a leak.

One must know, 【Existence】 doesn't like distorting existence, but 【Nothingness】 does. And when 【Nothingness】 corrodes existence, in order to correct and complete, 【Existence】 will undergo some wonderful changes. And these changes were what Cheng Shi truly wanted!

Just like right now, this 1:1 reproduction is a great opportunity to paint over the past. To make this coincidental scene more reasonable, Cheng Shi even specially left Old Jialun's life, just to give the historian a chance to record the present.

But one must know, just relying on the three players on the scene, it was impossible to tamper with this scene into history, because there was no 【Memory】 among them.

But!

Not having it now doesn't mean not having it forever.

If one of 【Nothingness】 really wanted to see the clown take the stage and intervened in this trial, then 【Existence】 would always derive differences, reasonably turning this scene into history.

And Cheng Shi was also waiting for this scene.

However, whether the Gods intervened was hard for him to perceive, and out of caution, he could only wait. But when he couldn't wait for the change even after the cheers in the square became more and more intense, the clown became a bit anxious.

He frowned slightly, grabbed a shirtless Kanna citizen, and asked:

"How does your Rosna historian... record history?"

This ecstatic Kanna citizen didn't realize at all that Cheng Shi's question didn't sound like his compatriot. He was immersed in the joy of liberation and nodded frantically:

"Of course it's human skin!

Otherwise, why would historians be called skinners? They are also offering to Him while recording history. But now they don't have to anymore!

We are liberated!

Praise 【Decay】! He is so benevolent and compassionate!

Sigh, right, who are you?"

"......"

Cheng Shi raised an eyebrow, pushed this person back into the crowd, and looked at the high wall where Old Jialun was, curling his lips:

"It seems... it's 【Fate】. The story has closed the loop again.

Sigh, since you have looked over, I think 【Nothingness】 has already corroded 【Existence】. Since that's the case, where exactly are the changes that 【Existence】 made up for?"

As soon as the words fell, five bloody figures appeared on the high wall of the Imperial Court against the wind and snow. They looked at the square beneath their feet with faces full of shock. One of the tall, thin men even squatted down and picked up the human skin depicting the scene of the present moment from the hands of an old man covered in blood.

"It really is here, Pelaya's experiment was correct, we really came back!"

At the same time, another person pointed to Qu Yan in the center of the square and shouted excitedly:

"【Gift of Scars】! That dagger is in the hands of that NPC!" ===== CHAPTER 525 =====