"The King's... Star Coin?" Lin Qiye seemed to remember something. "Yes, I have used it. I used it to stop the army of K."
“What did you visualize?”
"I… "
Lin Qiye's brows furrowed again, beads of sweat soaking his back...
How did he stop the army of Czar... He seemed to have forgotten something very important
Merlin also realized that there was something wrong with his question and shook his head. "The [King's Star Coin] can materialize the past, but the price is eternal oblivion and fatal misfortune... I don't know how you survived the effects of misfortune, but the things you have forgotten... don't think about them anymore, you can't remember them."
"... I really can't remember, but... I feel those things are very important to me." Lin Qiye raised his head suddenly, "Sir Merlin... Even you don't have a way to help me restore my memory?"
"No... Although the power of magic is omnipotent, it is not omnipotent. The [Star Coin] has completely erased the memories in your soul. There is no way to recover it."
Lin Qiye lowered his head, feeling empty inside...
Merlin sipped his tea helplessly: "In that case, let's skip this forgotten part... and continue."
"...Okay." Lin Qiye adjusted his mind and continued, "After escaping from Takama-ga-hara, I..."
"… "
Time passes by every second.
Soon, Lin Qiye got stuck for the second time, the third time, the fourth time...
In half an hour, he could hardly say anything coherent. He did a lot of things, but he didn't remember how he did them, such as training new soldiers, the journey to hell, defending the national monument, and the battle of Chennan Pass...
The more Lin Qiye spoke, the more sweat he produced. He stumbled through the story of the Battle of the Moon, and then slowly became coherent... but he still got stuck at some points.
Merlin just sat quietly opposite him, listening attentively.
Finally, Lin Qiye finished speaking.
He sat at the table with a pale face, his face full of haggardness... He knew he must have forgotten something extremely important. Whenever he tried to recall, his soul began to suffer.
Through this memory, Lin Qiye could clearly feel that he had forgotten more than one person...
"I see." Merlin took a sip of tea, his expression a little complicated. "So, you are exploring the depths of the universe alone, trying to find the truth of the Kr mythology and how to defeat Azathoth?"
Lin Qiye pulled his thoughts back and nodded.
"That's right, but I have been following the guidance of miracles for a long time, but I still have no gains... Maybe this was just my empty imagination from the beginning. In the war on Earth, nothing related to Azathoth has happened so far.
Maybe He doesn't exist at all?"
"… No, He exists." Merlin nodded firmly.
Lin Qiye was stunned.
Merlin put down the teacup, stood up and walked out of the lounge, his voice a little serious, "Mr. Dean, please follow me."
Lin Qiye followed Merlin and withdrew his consciousness from the Gods Mental Hospital. In the boundless deep sky, Merlin's figure emerged out of thin air.
Merlin tapped his staff under his feet, and a huge magic circle wrapped around the two of them, like a white-hot meteor, rushing rapidly into the depths of the universe. Although its speed was slower than that of Lin Qiye, who traveled through space directly after merging with the Tiancongyun Sword, it lasted longer.
A large area of nebula was retreating around the two of them. At this moment, the direction they were heading in basically matched Lin Qiye's original path. Seeing this, Lin Qiye asked in confusion:
"Where are we going?"
Merlin manipulated the magic and slowly said, "Go see... Azathoth."
"What??"
Hearing this answer, a flash of lightning flashed through Lin Qiye's mind, "Sir Merlin, have you already met Azathoth?"
"Maybe not... Anyway, you'll know in a moment."
The two continued to advance in the depths of the universe. Lin Qiye didn't know how far they had moved. When Lin Qiye came to his senses, the universe that was originally full of stars seemed to have dimmed. Looking around, it seemed that there were no stars to be seen.
He frowned and looked at the darkness ahead. "Are we... at the end of the universe?"
"The end? No, it's far from it."
Merlin raised his finger, pointed at the dark abyss ahead, and said calmly, "That is Azathoth."
Lin Qiye stood there in a daze.
That darkness is... Azathoth
"After I left Earth, I went to the depths of the universe alone, trying to find the truth of this world... At first, I kept moving forward in one direction, crossing countless light years, and saw this darkness for the first time..." Merlin also frowned and spoke slowly,
"The first time I saw Him, I felt an unprecedented power of pollution... You may not be able to sense it clearly now, but when I remove the forbidden defensive spell, you will understand."
As Merlin raised his staff, an invisible barrier disappeared beside the two of them, and a terrifying feeling of oppression was instantly exerted on Lin Qiye's shoulders!
His pupils contracted slightly...
The darkness that engulfed the universe exuded a suffocating and strange atmosphere, and endless madness and chaos emanated from it. In comparison, the polluting power of the [Black Goat] was like a child's trick... Lin Qiye was no stranger to the oppressive feeling that far surpassed the Supreme.
When he stepped into the Gods' Mental Hospital, those universes that had been completely polluted, he felt exactly the same atmosphere...
"This is... Azathoth?" he muttered to himself.
"Yes... and no." Merlin continued, "When I first saw this darkness, I felt a sense of fear in my heart... I did not step into it, but changed direction and continued to move forward. When I moved to the limit in the other direction, I encountered this darkness again... I realized something was wrong, and changed direction again, but the result was the same.
This darkness is like an invisible giant beast, bit by bit devouring the universe we live in... Wherever it passes, the stars fall and everything falls into a crazy and disordered darkness.
I tried to attack Him with forbidden spells, but I couldn't hurt the darkness at all... He is like a higher-dimensional existence, a shadow cast in our universe. Any attack we make will only fall on this shadow and cannot affect Him...
For everything in this world, His existence cannot be truly observed, touched, or defined…”