Defying the Fate of Beheading-Chapter 474 - 266 The Culprit Behind the Burning World, "Book of the Dead (New Edition)

Chapter 474: Chapter 266 The Culprit Behind the Burning World, "Book of the Dead (New Edition)

"So, now you’ve come here."

Rudelson quietly watched him.

Louis said:

"When did you start targeting me?"

Rudelson made a thoughtful expression:

"Probably after your pet beast devoured the Book of the Dead?"

Louis was stunned for a moment: "What?"

"Didn’t you have your pet beast digest the Book of the Dead?"

Louis finally recalled a certain event from his dusty memories.

"Was it during the Dragonbone Prairie incident?"

Rudelson nodded.

In the counterattack at Dragonbone Prairie, after defeating the Wave of the Living Dead, they discovered the Book of the Dead underground.

To prevent anyone from attempting to recreate the farce of "Martial World Supreme, Blade to Slay the Dragon," claiming the Book of the Dead still existed, Louis directly air-dropped Limuru.

In front of everyone, Limuru instantly dissolved the Book of the Dead.

"Was that Book of the Dead very important to you?"

Rudelson let out a strange laugh:

"Whether it disappeared from the world is very important."

Louis sighed and said:

"I heard you studied the New Book of the Dead and deciphered the mysteries of life and death."

"It seems you’ve further deepened this power from the original cycle of life and death?"

Rudelson shook his head and said:

"I am merely a memory shadow of the Rudelson you knew."

"The initial version of the New Book of the Dead laid the foundation for the subsequent improvements."

"But there was indeed a huge potential for growth."

"However, all that vanished like smoke with Rudelson’s death."

He spread his hands with a calm expression on his face:

"But this won’t be the end."

"Though I’m just a shadow retaining his memories, not him, and can’t touch the reality he existed in."

"But my creator cruelly endowed me with memories similar to his, so whether I want to or not, I will ultimately continue the path he left unfinished."

"...and then, bring her back, let her rest in peace."

This duplicate of Rudelson continued to comment incessantly.

Louis remained silent, like a quiet statue.

"Your Highness the Prince, have you ever wondered why a copy like me would risk everything for someone else’s woman?"

The smile on Rudelson’s face gradually turned calm: "Even though he knew that the memory was someone else’s and never interacted with that woman from his creation."

Louis was stunned for a moment, coming back to his senses.

He had indeed never considered this question.

Even now, looking at this duplicate, he remembers the real Rudelson and not that Mad King despised by all.

Strictly speaking, there wasn’t much of a connection between him and Xilin.

Knowing he’s a replica, he wouldn’t be willing to risk everything for others, right?

Rudelson seemed to understand Louis’s confusion.

He calmly said:

"Because I never had my own life, only that woman. She is the proof of my existence."

He softly laughed: "So I once saw this world through her, and I wasn’t meaningless."

Louis said, "So why did you find me?"

Rudelson said with a mischievous grin:

"Have you heard of the Seven Calamities of Destruction?"

Louis shook his head.

Rudelson said:

"Legend has it that the last generation hero prophesied the continent would face seven catastrophic disasters."

"These seven calamities are all capable of wiping out most life on the continent."

"The first calamity is called the Golden Land of Destruction. It is a disaster that has existed for thousands of years."

"Eventually, the Elf Realm sacrificed over half of its high-ranking combat power and the last Elf King to successfully suppress it."

"The aftermath of the Golden Land of Destruction directly led to the decline of the split-off Secret Forest."

"It was also during that time that the Tunisian Republic got the breathing space to develop successfully."

"Today, a significant portion of the Tunisian Republic’s main force is busy suppressing the pollution left by the Golden Land."

"That thing, unrestricted, could turn the entire world into a silent golden forest."

Louis was stunned for a moment.

He had a certain unresolved relationship with the last Elf King.

Even Master Merlin didn’t need to say it; he knew Merlin was intimately connected with the last Elf King.

He knew too much.

"What about the other disasters?"

Rudelson said:

"The last generation Abyssal Church Patriarch was a chosen of the Four Gods, and he once initiated an Abyss Blood Ritual."

"He permanently reduced the spatial stability of the Monet Kingdom, directly causing the emergence of that serpent."

"The core forces of the Monet Kingdom almost perished alongside the main army of the Abyssal Church back then."

"But the Patriarch didn’t die, and even attempted to initiate another blood ritual over a hundred years ago."

"If that blood ritual succeeded, the spatial barriers of the Star Continent would become extremely fragile."

"Defending it would be even more difficult, but the Emperor found him and killed him when he attempted the blood ritual."

Louis was stunned for a moment.

But afterward, it seemed quite reasonable.

Solo battles were the most suitable option for the Emperor; basically, anyone who faced him got ’beaten by the Emperor.’

Rudelson continued:

"The third calamity is the breaking of the Faylin Demon Sunflower’s seal beneath Yin Soul City."

"Thousands of years ago, the Faylin Demon Sunflowers conspired to destroy all life in the Star Continent, ultimately being sealed under the Enoak Desert."

"They are innately evil beings, their power too overwhelming. Enoak, originally a fertile land, became a barren desert entirely because of them."