Super Righteous Player
Chapter 1130 - 181 "Julius Fang

Chapter 1130: Chapter 181 "Julius Fang

"Your Excellency, what you mean is," Isaac, frowning deeply, spoke bluntly, "that the proper succession of the Lava Forbidden Tower is even more important than who ends up with the throne of the Heaven’s Wheel?"

Even when directly accused by another "Gold," Julius did not become angry.

Or rather... Julius, who had completely sealed away his emotions, almost as if he had been mentally castrated, had utterly lost the emotional function of "anger."

"I don’t mean that, but you can certainly understand it that way."

Julius spoke calmly, his tone not even becoming more hurried: "Because that’s how this world works. Everyone has their own duties, and the closer one is to the realm of light, the more so it is. I think you should understand this point as well.

"When everyone’s rights and responsibilities clash, we cannot determine who is more important—we don’t have the authority to evaluate ’whose existence is more important.’ Not even the True Gods have that right, let alone us.

"All we can do is to fulfill our own duties. Whose hands the authority of the Heaven’s Wheel falls into is a matter for His Majesty Annan and Lady Ingrid. What I am responsible for is the succession of the Lava Forbidden Tower—and only the Lava Forbidden Tower.

"If because His Majesty Annan discovers it too late, resulting in Lady Ingrid’s success and the return of The Worm to this world, then I can only accept this fact... After all, ’Julius’ is nothing more than a brain."

"Wait a minute."

Annan’s brow furrowed: "Are you saying that Ingrid has already defected to The Worm?"

"Of course, she is a Worm Cultist. This is quite obvious now."

Julius said steadily: "Or rather, she worships one aspect of The Worm. Through the power of The Worm, she borrows the strength of her ’past’ or ’future.’

"If necessary, she can borrow the power from her prime at any time and cast the injuries she suffers onto the future. Coupled with the element of her ’love,’ I cannot resist her... I can only submit.

"In fact, I have ’fallen in love’ with her. But fortunately, as someone reduced to only a brain, I cannot secrete hormones to affect my own thinking. Although I love her, it cannot influence my judgment—just as my hatred for her doesn’t affect my rational judgment either."

Hearing this, Annan finally understood.

The Worm, thrown into the future by a Great Calamity Curio, seems to have gained the power to link the past and the future.

Based on this power of fooling time.

Although Julius is the Tower Master, and Ingrid is only a silver-ranked Tower’s Child—their relationship is actually the reverse.

Julius, who had sealed away most of his power and desires, cannot confront Ingrid.

Thus, Ingrid has been hiding under the cover of Julius. Using her status as "Tower’s Child" on the surface, she uses the element of her "love" to enchant the entire elite of Dennisiowa she can unravel!

And Julius, whose emotions and power have both been sealed by himself, will not even develop a "will to resist."

He is precisely the ’shell’ meticulously selected by Ingrid!

Just like the shell protecting a hermit crab...

"Being a ’mentor,’ but instead, is imprisoned by a ’disciple’ who is ostensibly a subordinate..."

Husky muttered: "Sounds... kind of complicated?"

Thirteen Fragrance suddenly nudged her with an elbow and signaled her with a stern gaze to rein it in.

—The person in question is still here! Don’t talk nonsense!

But on this note—

Annan suddenly recalled the "Gemini’s" nightmare.

That endlessly cycling nightmare that blurred the distinction between past and future. There, Ingrid had also studied under other Gold-ranked Wizards...

The heyday Professor Grey and Julius were different. Both being Gold-ranked, not only was his power not restricted, but he was also from the Idol School of Magic—well known within the Idol School, higher ranks exert an uncontested suppressive power over the lower ranks.

For Ingrid, who had lost her Gold-ranked profession "Faceless," the last person she could possibly confront was Professor Grey.

Professor Grey was actually trying to help her recover her memories.

The answer was only one.

——Professor Grey must also be a Worm Cultist!

Since Professor Grey was one, then Professor Wolf must be too——thereby, the Idol School in this world has almost been completely tainted by the Worm!

Perhaps, it is because of the "intranet" within the Idol School. When one person is infected by the Worm, it directly permeates others...The higher the position, the easier it is to be infected by the Worm!

"...Since Ingrid already left a few hours ago, she’s probably run far away by now."

Annan looked at Lucia and asked, "Can you see where she is?"

"I can’t."

Yuri Julius spoke slowly, "As a ’Faceless’, Ingrid can use part of the powers of her virtual identity. If it were her at her peak, she would just need to play a role and could use all the powers that the role should have in front of everyone who hasn’t seen through that identity. She can mimic up to the level of silver.

"That is to say——besides her gold-level profession, Ingrid also has all professions at the silver level. The greatest value of this ability is that, as long as she has time to ’self-set’ and ’change outfit’ out of sight, she has access to the full spell list below the silver level.

"Thus, you’ll have a hard time tracking her by magical means. Even centaurs can’t do it. Only a gold-level Prophet Wizard could find her."

"...That’s also good news."

Electric whispered, "At least we don’t have to fight here now. We can spare many lives."

Husky nodded, crossing his arms in agreement, "I thought we were about to have a ’physical data deletion test’ here..."

"However," Julius shifted his tone, "there’s actually no need to track her. Because I know where she’s hiding.

"Her leaving me here is her hoping that we would start fighting. With my power, if I just released the seal, even if I couldn’t kill Your Majesty Annan, it is feasible to severely wound the two of you here in a two-against-one situation. But Ingrid never knew... Love cannot change my behavior logic."

Julius spoke calmly, "Because love is an emotion only humans can have, and I’ve given up all my humanity.

"I presume Your Majesty Annan has already realized that."

Annan nodded silently.

He looked at those fine red lines.

"Answers on command. Absolutely objective. Without love or hate. Fulfilling duties completely..."

Annan spoke softly, "If I’m not mistaken, you are actually using a mechanical device... to control your thought logic, right?"

"Correct, worthy of you, Your Majesty Annan."

Yuri Julius spoke in a gentle voice.

Like an artificial intelligence reading text, full of emotion yet devoid of emotion: "I am the sole user of one of Lord Hugo’s abandoned technologies, ’Soul Mechanization’.

"My soul is broken down into many rituals, and my thinking and decision-making abilities are recreated through a three-dimensional ritual model. These ’needles’ transmit this information and import it into this brain to ’activate’ it. Then, the brain’s information is passed throughout the entire Lava Forbidden Tower through the authority of the Tower Master.

"I’ve given up flesh and blood, so how could I cling to the last vestiges of humanity and not let go? This brain itself can also be used as a means—it is what I use to counter enemies or prepare for a feigned death as bait. It’s just a pity that I haven’t used it to deal with any enemies, but it did succeed in deceiving Ingrid.

"I call this brain ’Julius Roaring Fang’. I named it after my own name when I was human.

"The real me——is hidden beneath it. Concealed in this pool of blood, at the bottom of the volcano, utilized to rationally wield the power of the ’Lava Forbidden Tower’. I will become the final constraint for all future Tower Masters. I have given myself another name...

"You can call me, ’Oppenheimer Device’."

With the voice of "Yuri Julius" fading away.

Annan seemed to have a vision of a giant, transparent baby... curled up with knees hugged, deep within this pool of blood.

And what was revealed outside, was just its umbilical cord used to connect to the outside world.

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