Chapter 357 : Chapter 357

Chapter 357: Anything Forced Upon Me is a Shackle

"Damn it! What does the main world's consciousness mean by this!"

In the Abyssal Demon Transcendent Great World, the abyssal lords responsible for infiltrating the main world had now gathered.

Or rather, after that Witch of Weakening, Mei Linde, descended upon the abyss world, they had abandoned that abyssal lord who had acted on his own accord, and then gathered here to start a new round of information exchange.

To be attacked in their own world by a Transcendent Witch and not react, would they lose face?

They, the Abyssal Demons, didn't care.

How much was face worth?

To risk their own lives for a bit of face, even if it was just a small demon under their command, was not worth it for these demon lords.

Even among the demon lords gathered here, if anyone involved their own or the majority of the demons' interests, then they would be abandoned as quickly as possible.

Betrayal, selling out, isolation, bullying the few and fearing the many, preying on the weak... were common among the Abyssal Demons.

But when it came to a common interest, they would symbolically exchange their intelligence or information like this.

Such a gathering was not just for mutual sharing of intelligence, but to probe the details of other abyssal demon lords.

The demon lords of the abyss were indeed disgusting, not only to the outside, but also to the inside.

Whenever any Abyssal Demon wanted to make a move, the first thing to guard against was the "neighbor."

And now, they had originally just wanted to discuss how to make a final summary of the failure in the struggle for the main world's Destiny this time.

They just happened to take this opportunity to see how the final struggle for Destiny was going.

After all, a certain demon lord had used his own life as a price to stir up some trouble.

Now, he should be being eaten by his own subordinates in his own territory.

But they hadn't watched those scenes for long before they saw such a scene.

The main world's consciousness was actually going to abandon the other Seeds of Destiny for a single little one!

God knew how much it had cost them to interfere in the affairs of the main world, and by chance, after encountering the script, to put in so many Seeds of Destiny to muddy the waters?

If the world consciousness made such a decision on its own, then all their efforts would be in vain.

Of course, it couldn't be considered a complete waste.

At worst, they could just wait for the next script to start.

But the demons were all impatient.

"Don't you have anything to say?"

"What else can I say? I shouldn't have had any hope of invading the main world."

"If you don't have hope, then quit. There are plenty of lords who want to join. Have you

contributed in our group? Do you have the right to shout here?"

"Let's go to war! We can't let this little one accept!"

"That Witch of Weakening might not have left yet! If you want to die, you can go directly to her! What's in your head? The excrement from the bottom of the abyss?"

"It's you who's not thinking straight. Don't you know what we want? We want this little one not to destroy our previous efforts. Do you think she would accept with her performance? She was just cutting the Earth Vein chains."

"Then why are you still going to war? Isn't it better to wait and see? To avoid any further complications."

"It's a favor done along the way. Our recklessness before provoked the witch we should have provoked the least. Now, their new generation needs an accident to divert the conflict and attention. The Nightmare Demons we arranged have caused quite a bit of trouble..."

"It's good that you know. These Nightmare Demons should be destroyed. Keeping them is a nuisance."

"You say destroy, so we destroy? The Nightmare Demons are our means of exploring the dream world. Since the emergence of that Truth Witch of Soul, the exploration of the dream world has already become a project that any powerful force in the void must follow closely. This trip to the main world has also collected a lot of information on the dream level for us. These Nightmare Demons were not cultivated by you, so you don't feel the pain?"

"Useless things. You should also think carefully about why the thing you value so much was so easily crushed by a newcomer who has just come into contact with transcendent power."

"The Nightmare Demons were not meant for combat! You unilaterally agreed to that witch's conditions and sold out my Nightmare Demons, and now you blame me?"

"Stop arguing! You... tell me about the matter of going to war," at this moment, the demon lord sitting in the first seat suddenly slammed the table, and it immediately became quiet.

"Send some little demons over as cannon fodder, to give those academies a reason to directly intervene. Things have developed to this point. It's not easy for them to end it either. If we don't do this, do we have to struggle some more! If we keep giving them pressure, you know that that little one with the Innate Spirit Vision might give you another surprise. This way, everyone will be happy, okay?"

"We demons still have to clean up their mess?"

"What? Of course we don't have to do this. Those cowards from the main world, if they want to defeat us, at most it's just talk. But the witches really do it. Don't you understand the witches'

stance? They are the group that tacitly approved our entry into the main world. We are not enemies."

"What! Those witches agreed? How is that possible! Those witches are always saying that they want to..."

"That's why I said that the brainless should speak less. Your idiotic remarks only make you seem even more stupid in my eyes. The only ones who really have a say in the witches' group in the main world are those few. They are inclined to have many transcendent races enter. As long as they don't object, then it's support. If the main world closes its doors and builds a car, that's not the development that the witches hope to see."

"..."

"And do you know how popular demon witches are in the witch community?"

"You! You want to betray the abyss!"

"I never said that."

***

At this moment, I looked at the Seed of Destiny in front of me with a complicated gaze.

For a moment, I didn't know what I was feeling.

Honored?

Grateful?

This was the affirmation of the world consciousness.

It would even let me be "Its" only child for my sake.

What was "only"?

It was that I could get the same treatment as Tan Han at the very beginning.

And... now I was not so helpless, a puppet that could be manipulated by others.

Those who could interfere with me, below the level of the Academy Head, I could ignore most of them.

This was the benefit of having a backer.

And there was one more thing, and that was that I would not be as easy to deceive as Tan Han.

It was just that I knew too much.

But... I would not choose this way.

Otherwise, to put it lightly, it would be a betrayal of my choice, of my efforts, of my hard work now.

To put it heavily, it would be just looking for trouble for myself.

At this moment, it was as if the whole world had become quiet.

Even that Abyssal Demon did not dare to move at this moment.

No one knew what this Abyssal Demon had just experienced.

It was the fear brought by being stared at by the world consciousness as a non-main world life.

It was not a transcendent life yet.

Something at the level of the world consciousness, if it really wanted to target it, it had absolutely no possibility of resisting.

It was obvious that for me, this was a very critical choice.

It was related to too many things, so much so that it made the world consciousness "personally intervene."

Once a choice was made, then it would affect all the Children of Destiny here.

I slightly turned my head and looked at all the people who had stopped their movements.

In this sparse crowd, there were always some conspicuous people.

They were all the people chosen by the Seeds of Destiny.

At this time, an invisible thread of Destiny connected all the Seeds of Destiny.

A thought echoed in my mind at this moment, that is, once I chose to accept, then all of these people's Seeds of Destiny would be destroyed, and all the Destiny they had obtained would be transferred.

This gave me the feeling of an emperor wanting to establish a crown prince.

As long as I accepted this "imperial edict," all the other princes would become commoners.

Among them, the happiest one was probably Tan Han, right?

If she knew the inside story at this moment, she would probably be the one who hoped the most that I would choose to accept.

But from a perspective I didn't know, those students all spontaneously looked there, as if that was the focal point of all things in this world, that Seed of Destiny.

No one knew what was happening at this moment.

They could only passively accept all of this that was happening.

But at this moment, all the Children of Destiny, they felt as if something had been lost from their bodies, until an illusory, seed-like thing floated in front of them.

This would be the only chance they would have to see what their own Seed of Destiny looked like.

It was only at this moment that everyone could clearly distinguish who was a Child of Destiny with a Seed of Destiny.

Many people were shocked that they were actually a Child of Destiny, for example, Lucianne.

Of course, there were also many people with a very calm expression, just purely curious about the existence of the Seed of Destiny.

They readily accepted this identity.

But it was precisely because of this that their gazes towards the figure in the distance were full of complexity.

At this moment, they were also facing a choice, but they did not have the right to make a choice.

It was less of a choice and more of a look at someone else's charity.

Don't look at how scary those Nightmare Demons had made the concepts of Destiny and the script.

But they were all smart people and understood the benefits of Destiny.

To get benefits, you had to pay a price.

It was just an exchange of interests.

Now that they knew that they were actually a Child of Destiny, there were too many people who didn't want to give up this identity.

But at this moment, they were powerless, because they could not interfere with this choice.

So they could only look around and see the situation of the others at this moment.

Even at this moment, the competitive spirit that was carved into the bones of some people would still show.

At this moment, the world had given them eyes to see the Destiny clearly.

They could naturally see that even among those who had a Seed of Destiny, there was a gap.

Some people's Seeds of Destiny were dry and shriveled, while others were full of vitality, with a golden aura surrounding the seed.

That was the embodiment of Destiny.

This "journey" to Ninglan New City was the fairest competition for these Children of Destiny.

It was not like the last Dream State Exchange Competition where the winner took all, but everyone had a chance.

As long as... they had killed a Nightmare, they would have the blessing of Destiny.

And looking at those Children of Destiny who had not yet obtained any Destiny, at this moment, they felt the gap between people.

And in this crowd, the most conspicuous one was Tan Han.

After all, Tan Han was a Child of Destiny who had monopolized the entire Destiny through the college entrance examination ritual, and was also the only Child of Destiny at that time.

Those Destinies had already turned into a pillar of light that enveloped Tan Han's entire body.

At this moment, they finally understood why Tan Han, who was the only one with a perfect score at the beginning of the school year, was so sought after by so many academies, and in the end, was tricked into the Witch Academy.

If the academy had known from the beginning that Tan Han had such potential, they would definitely have tried their best to win her over.

But at this moment, Tan Han did not think so.

This was also the first time she had seen her own Seed of Destiny so directly.

The Spirit Eye nurtured by the Seed of Destiny was also fully revealed at this moment.

Compared to these, at this moment, Tan Han was more concerned about the figure in the distance.

Reason told her that she should persuade Little Han to accept that Seed of Destiny.

This way, she could escape from the cage in front of her.

But her sensibility made it impossible for her to say such words as to let others bear the manipulation of fate for her.

And at this moment, they saw my gaze as I slightly turned my head to look over.

Many people had already eagerly spoken up to persuade me not to accept.

But only I knew that when I turned my head to look at them, it was not because I was undecided about the choice and wanted to seek their help.

I was just simply admiring their expressions at this moment.

Of course, the main thing was to see what kind of expressions Tan Han and the few people I was concerned about had.

It should... be very exciting, right?

But after I turned my head, I found that the faces of those who had told me not to accept were the most exciting.

I walked forward and looked at that brand new Seed of Destiny.

It was just floating on the Earth Vein chain where the dream and reality met.

But when I got closer, I found that there were actually fine cracks on this brand new Seed of Destiny.

Those were the cracks caused by bearing the impact of the dream itself in the dream.

After all, the Seed of Destiny was just a container for the Destiny.

It was slowly healing at a speed that was invisible to the naked eye.

I had asked those Nightmare Demons before whether a Seed of Destiny could be destroyed, but unfortunately, I did not get an answer.

And now, I had proven with my own means... that the concept of a Seed of Destiny could be destroyed!

Just like the Earth Vein chains.

Perhaps the world consciousness really just treated me as a high-level worker, thinking that if it gave me the identity of a Child of Destiny, then I should be grateful?

But the reason why people are people is because people always have their own reasons to persist.

Not everyone is profit-driven.

At this moment, I finally understood why people outside the world would call the umbilical cord that restricted a person from walking out of the cradle a "Earth Vein chain," such a negative term.

Because people always yearn for freedom.

To say so is a bit narrow.

The world outside is not just people.

It should be said that life always yearns for freedom.

What I need is freedom.

Anything forced upon me is a shackle.

I cannot have any resonance or faith in a world to which I have no sense of belonging.

This is one of the reasons why I am so decisive.

I am no longer a child who will be happy to accept the status quo just by being given a candy.

"I choose not to accept. Hehe hahaha..."

At this moment, I firmly stated my choice.

And I not only wanted to express my thoughts with words, but also to prove my determination with actions!

"World consciousness... I want to be the person you can't get even if you take the initiative to keep me!"

I whispered and chewed on the words "world consciousness," and then loudly and formally declared to everyone.

In life, one always has to make decisions for some persistence.

Just like at this moment!

Just take it as my dark humor.

After I finished shouting all this, my gaze turned to Tan Han, and a meaningful smile appeared on the corner of my mouth.

"Tan Han, didn't you once hope to get the answer you wanted from me? At that time, I didn't know how to respond to you. But now... this is the answer I'm giving..."

As I said this, the Dream Rewrite Spell was operated by me with all my strength, and the rune ritual circled around my body.

This time, it would be a more terrifying blow than the last time I was preparing to break through the Earth Vein chains.

Betting on my dignity, promise, and confidence!

"Watch carefully, Tan Han... this blow will be very cool!"