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"Chief Bachelor." Evila saluted her mentor.

"Ah, it's Evila. I didn't expect to see you in my lifetime." Sarado, the chief bachelor of the Desperate Fort, gently slid his head. He held a crutch and gently twisted his left hand with a squeegated snow-white goatee on his chin. "Are these your companions? They all seem to be worth relying on."

"Sir, I never thought I would come back."

Bachelor Sarado waved his hand gently. "Okay. Your long journey is hard enough." He said, "Evila, this is your home. Take your friends to rest first, and we will talk about it at dinner."

The Death Castle is located at the top of a mountain covered with ice and snow. The howling cold wind twitched the thick stone walls, making a dull and dangerous knock. Li Ou couldn't rest in the rumbling sound, and even closed his eyes and rested. It turned out that this was the origin of the Thunder Castle. He thought helplessly. He tossed and turned, and his wounds on his abdomen were surprisingly itchy. He climbed up from the bed helplessly and planned to go out for a walk.

As soon as he left the door, he ran into another bachelor's degree. If Evilla's description is correct, then the other party is the guy who came from behind to take the position of chief bachelor's degree.

"Sir." The other party stopped him, "Please don't walk around randomly." He warned hard, "This place is more dangerous than you think. Some things may take your life at any time. It's better to stay in the room." He said bluntly and left directly. Li Ou looked at his back, completely unaware of where the other party's malice came from.

At dinner, they enjoy supper by the fire.

They were eating and talking. In this conversation, Bachelor Sarado was naturally the absolute protagonist, and he was responsible for answering their doubts.

"You have escaped," he said, "As you guessed, the Alchemist Andal Church is indeed trying to try the methods that failed in the past, and is confident that they will succeed."

"But they will fail in the end," said Leo.

"There is no doubt that they will fail. Because the gods have fallen, and that guy is not stupid enough to create enemies for himself..." Bachelor Sarado seemed to know something secret, and they were all in the dark.

“…that guy?”

"Clegg." Sarador sighed. "The cold winter is approaching, and there is no need to hide it now."

Firewood crackled, ghosts cried and wolves howled. Li Ou could not feel any warmth. He had a certain premonition that the truth of a world that was buried deep will be revealed at this moment. This is destined to be a secret that can subvert their cognition and shock the world.

They looked at each other and chose to keep silent and stop making any more sounds. Bachelor Sarado closed his eyes and breathed deeply, as if he was also plucking up courage for himself. "The Desperate Castle has collected many books since ancient times, which can be traced back thousands of years ago." He began with such well-known things. "But you all know that the true history will never be more than thousands of years, and countless relics have been revealed. Even ten thousand years ago, humans, dwarves, elves, or other intelligent races survived here, but nothing was left except those collapsed and broken buildings."

"We know this."

"Be patient, listen to me and make your comments." Bachelor Sarado breathed. "If you are lucky enough to see the elves with long life, they will tell you that their history can go back tens of thousands of years. It was a period of civilization blooming, and thousands of years later also had such times, including the Lozva we often hear about today... But at that time, why did no words or books pass on?"

"Because their civilization has been destroyed?" Li Ou thought for a while and said, "In history, in the speculation of the world, civilization was completely destroyed without warning. Is this related to Clegg?"

Bachelor Sarado sighed, as if he had grown much older in an instant. "Who else except the destructive demon god?"

"But why?" Lu Yuewu asked.

"Does the dead need to kill the living?" said the chief bachelor. "He destroys the world and does not need any reason. For him, it is just a fun game."

"Game? Countless creatures died, just games? Is no one resisting him?"

"Resist?" Sarado smiled sadly, "All the gods have declared failure, who else can resist? We are just trying to retain a little fire so that civilization can continue."

"Wait, the gods?" Leo shouted in surprise, but he didn't know what to say. He was completely stunned by such news. The gods who have been despised by them and mocked by them, have good and evil, or light or dark, have they done such a thing? He suddenly felt that he had entered another world.

"The essence of the gods is alchemist, whether good or evil." Bachelor Sarado saw their shock and understood their doubts. He explained to them. "I had the same horror as you before, and felt that what I said now is a deceptive nonsense, but this is really a real fact. The good and evil of the gods do not lie in themselves, but in their place, and their clergy determines their performance. Only by proclaiming justice can one gain faith, and only by killing gods can one absorb power without exception. This is God's instinct."

Leo had heard such a statement, but he scoffed. He believed that first of all, the dark people could inherit the clergy of darkness. But now these are not the point, the point is - "You said, did Clegg create enemies for himself? Are they referring to those gods? Their death was done by Clegg?" But the version he knew was not like this at all. "Didn't the alchemist dominate their destruction?"

"How do you think alchemy is produced?" Bachelor Sarado asked him back.

"This...I..." He couldn't answer at all. The answer he thought of seemed like a spike stuck in his throat, unable to be taken out and difficult to swallow.

"Your father had been here. Fernandez Leo. He had a scroll of alchemy. Now it must be in your hands. Where do you think the hidden, even terrible knowledge on it comes from? Do you really think it comes from the hard and long experiments of our predecessors? They all come from the gift of Clegg. He sprinkled bait and planted the roots of disaster, just waiting for it to take root and sprout."

His reason is willing to believe the other person's words, but his emotions are hard to accept. "This... cannot."

"This is the most painful fact. You are his pawns, no, to be precise, all of them are his pawns. Everything is to please himself. He created the gods with one hand and the alchemy with the other. And he was watching us fight each other with joy. Just like we were clowns performing farces on stage."

"What is he doing this for? Just feel happy? This bastard!" Rosie cursed.

"No one knows his thoughts, we can't guess thoroughly." said Bachelor Sarado. "There are many speculations in the world. Now it seems that the answer is obvious." He could not hide his fatigue.

"Then what's going on when you're talking about the cold is coming?"

Bachelor Sarado was silent for a long time. "Every thousand years or more - depending on his mood - Clegg will cleanse the world and reshape the face of this world. No creature can escape this catastrophe. Now, time is coming."

The flames of the fireplace seemed to freeze for a moment, and Li Ou felt his hands and feet stiff and unable to move. He never thought that the prophecy meant this. Wouldn't that... the end of the world beside him!

"We..." He found his tongue knotting. "There's nothing to do?"

"What can I do?" Bachelor Sarado smiled miserably, "Before we, there were countless civilizations...have they not resisted? This is impossible. All life will do everything for their own survival. But did they succeed? No, they failed. Everything turned into nothingness and wreckage."

"How do you know if you don't try?" said Rosie.

"Of course, I believe that everyone will unite. We can resist Clegg's army for a while, but not for a lifetime. He will watch high and upright until he feels bored, and I am sure he will take action himself. Even the gods cannot stop it, let alone mortals. We don't have much to do, we just hope to save a little knowledge, record everything, and hide it in the hope that the next civilization can stop such a terrible cycle."

"What if we don't fight once and throw the future to the so-called next civilization that may not exist, and they are the same as your current thoughts? Continue to throw the puzzle to the next one decadently?"

"Humans are endless, alchemists," said Bachelor Sarado. "Humans are endless. They will do it."

“I think we can do it now.”

"We have no other way," said Bachelor Sarado. "Clegg's minions are everywhere, and the foolish people are even more reluctant to believe that they will awaken when the fire of heaven comes. Alchemy was once a means of high hopes for us, but...ah... Mr. Eye of Insight is also here. You can ask him after our conversation is over. He discovered such a secret, but was driven out by his own people."

Li Ou was surprised, "What the hell is going on?"

"You go and ask him yourself, he knows the specific situation more clearly." Bachelor Sarado sighed, "I hope you will have the courage to do so now after you know the truth. We are old and there is no way."

"No, there is another way." The killer suddenly appeared at the door, "that is to ask Lord Clegg for forgiveness and beg him for some mercy."

"Killer?" Li Ou stood up, "What are you?"

"Li Ou, have you forgotten?" The killer's face changed, revealing a familiar face. "We've seen it a long time ago."

"'Ghost' Edsey!" He was incredible. "Clegg's lackey!"

"Don't say that." The other party laughed, "We just used another way, like you, to stop the catastrophe. The black dawn was born for him, just like the mages who worshipped Clegg."
Chapter completed!