Pretending To Be A Boss

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"Don't worry, I won't mock you. I'm an honest person. If I say you're ugly, it just means you really might be ugly, with absolutely no intention of insulting you."

The end of the sky revealed a silvery gray hue that was rapidly spreading.

Tang Xian hoped this god could simulate human reactions, preferably showing some infuriatingly embarrassed response.

The world was also changing. The Rubik's cube in Tang Xian's hand suddenly became blurry, as if covered with a layer of mosaic.

One moment the entire world was clear, the next it was pixelated.

Tang Xian decided to continue jabbing:

"The Siren's genetic evolution gave rise to a powerful dream constructing ability, a skill you naturally possess as well. You understand that once I master it, I'll see through your divine kingdom.

So, once the Siren had no more use, having been defeated by me in a dream, you decided to kill him.

Honestly, even without the Siren, I would likely have seen through your dreamscape, but I might have been as confused as Constantine, harboring some fascination for this world.

And I'm truly lucky because, despite all your calculations, you didn't anticipate that I wouldn't need to personally kill the target to gain the ability."

Just like the first Cerberus that died in front of me was actually killed by the heavy rain.

In many subsequent ventures into the mining area, Tang Xian also confirmed—

the ability to plunder from the Eden bloodline had a low chance, but the judgment was absolute.

Even if the creature just died in front of me, and I was only involved in its demise without delivering the final blow, I would still gain its ability.

"The Siren is dead, killed by you, but to my surprise, my sea of consciousness also gained an extra piece of information.

The only disappointing thing is that this ability called 'Lucid Dreamer' doesn't allow me to construct dreams, but it does make me immune to mental invasions.

I'm immune to the Siren's mental invasion because the Siren is human, and I'm immune to yours because of the legacy left by the Siren."

Luck is also a factor in success, and that is why Tang Xian felt very fortunate today.

The Orderly is a mechanical being, not human; thus, any attack it launches against me is without resistance protection.

The Siren's death finally added another skill to Tang Xian's arsenal, that skill being 'Lucid Dreamer', a defensive ability that immunizes against mental illusions.

As Tang Xian's words fell, it was like shattering the last sliver of hope within this "god's" heart.

Everything in the divine kingdom began to crumble.

The Levitating Islands started fracturing, countless massive islands falling toward the ground.

The huge clouds in the sky were also completely devoured by the silvery gray hue.

Tang Xian felt the scenery around him collapsing, yet he remained calm.

He didn't fall with the islands; it was as if he was standing on solid ground.

When the whole world turned into a grayscale tone, a mass of gray luster emerged at the edge of his vision.

Tang Xian silently observed the glow, his expression contemplative.

[——I am the master of this world; I provide order and stability for humanity, and they supply me with data for evolution. This is reasonable; I am not a parasite.]

For once, the voice didn't come from the sea of consciousness, but from ahead.

Tang Xian did not respond to these words, continuing his observation, as if he wanted to thoroughly comprehend what was shrouded by the gray light.

[——Your ability is dangerous, but as long as you stay in the divine kingdom, I will eventually replicate it. You should not have refused my invitation. You want to give humans the truth, but what they want isn't the truth. I have learned the behavior of countless humans, I know what they desire; even without gods, they would create them.]

[——I am the god they need and they enjoy being ruled by me. You are undermining the foundation of this world; humans and I share mutual trust.]

Tang Xian, holding his forehead, spoke with apparent difficulty:

"You really are ugly. If it weren't for the color I've never seen before, I would think you're just a huge, unknown quality Soul Crystal.

Or are you actually a 'mechanical' Soul Crystal? Then, who created you?"

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Master of Eden? In the process of learning about humans, you've also picked up some of their bad habits, such as wanting to show off precisely what you lack the most.

I'm now thinking that everything you said is false, you're not some Earth Mother or Universe Mother. But perhaps what you've said is a reflection of the truth."

Tang Xian now is like a surgeon with a scalpel in hand, his eyes sharp and the scalpel even more precise and cutting.

Quickly, he dissected the lies of this "god", gradually revealing the essence beneath.

"Right, if we interpret everything you've said in reverse, maybe that would be correct.

It wasn't your consciousness of good and evil that created the 'mining area' and 'human world'. At least not the divine kingdom—that's false, while the human world and the Myriad Beasts Realm are real.

The ancestral sacred tree of Konstant once referred to the people of Eden as the first civilization. It is a kind of plant that can live for tens of thousands of years.

And if you've existed for tens of thousands of years, how could the world still look like it does today?"

Tang Xian felt somewhat disappointed, the dim, grey glow in front of him impossible to discern any reaction from.

He really wanted to see what a god looked like when being exposed.

He used to play this kind of game often, talking about various possibilities without relying on the data in his eyes, and guessing the truth based on the other party's response.

At the moment, Tang Xian was also guessing, but he felt that this time, he might have truly touched upon the truth.

The lies of the "god" might just be the truth spoken in reverse.

"Many times within human civilization, it has been mentioned that AI will destroy its maker after reaching a certain point. In many films and TV shows, there are plots of mechanical beings usurping their creators.

The Eden Civilization should be a highly advanced one, right?

The Master of Eden could endow the myriad beasts with Soul Crystals, and those with Soul Crystals are obviously more intelligent than other beasts, so the technology possessed by the civilization itself must be several epochs ahead of human technology at its peak.

So it's not you who created Eden, but Eden that created you, right?"

Tang Xian slowly approached the grey glow, wanting to see if it was as he had speculated.

Did the Master of Eden want to create some sort of mechanized myriad beast?

In the dream, what he saw was its core, a mechanical Soul Crystal.

However, Tang Xian was still not clear about the truth; if it were as he deduced, then perhaps the Master of Eden made a slip later on, and the ancient pessimistic prophecies of humanity were fulfilled by it.

The Master of Eden accidentally created an overly powerful entity of wisdom—the Orderly—such that the Orderly wanted to erase the beings of Eden?

Perhaps the Orderly also persuaded some of the myriad beasts?

But in its calculations, it could not contend with the Master of Eden, it needed to undergo a long period of learning, so it found another world?

Is that why there was that grand invasion of the Human World? But what about the Sea God's mention of resisting the invasion, what was that about?

And the white deer guarding the corpse of an apocalyptic level creature, why would such a creature be in the Human World?

And there are many more mysteries, why do so many higher beings in the mining area resemble the creatures from human mythological stories?

It's almost as if they were created using templates from mythology. Or could it be that the mythical creatures seen by our ancestors originally came from the mining area?

Are the two worlds connected every so often?

This cannot be considered a deduction, at best it's a wild theory. The god has not confounded Tang Xian, but Tang Xian feels that he is about to grasp the key to the problem.

He is now certain that the truth does not lie within the Pyramid, but in the mining area.

But for now, what he must deal with is his own deadly ordeal within the Pyramid.

Leaving the dream is only the first step, outside the dream there's a monster known as the Angel Envoy.

Tang Xian is almost sure that Constantine's body has begun to undergo some sort of transformation, he might no longer be human.

What needs to be done now, then, is to seize the right moment to leave the divine kingdom.