Hearing that, Lu Ce froze, finding it somewhat absurd.
You used to be human too? Damn it, judging by your timeline, the gods must have begun to emerge not long after the universe was born.
The solar system probably did not even exist back then. Where would humans have come from? Wasn't that complete nonsense?
Pain took the initiative to speak from nearby:
The fact that I possessed a consciousness so distinctly different from theirs meant I could not merely have been an inanimate object before. Before becoming "Pain," I must have had my own consciousness.
In other words, I must at least have once been an intelligent life-form.
And among the intelligent life-forms currently known, only the human form was most capable of preserving its own consciousness.
So perhaps I was once the first human in the universe.
Lu Ce: ...
He realized that the Pain before him seemed to have a bit of a narcissism problem. After only a few words, Pain was already trying to glorify himself.
It was one thing to think he had once been human, but he had to claim he was the first human in the universe, just to prove he was different.
Suddenly, Lu Ce thought of something and asked:
"Wait, then how did you manage to keep your consciousness the entire time?"
Pain nodded and said:
Actually, maintaining one's sense of self was not that difficult.
—Die!
Lu Ce:?
Seeing their condition back then, I knew I would become like that sooner or later.
Being able to recognize my difference earlier was a kind of fortune, but also a kind of misfortune.
At first, I thought it was because I was the weakest one. My energy level had never been high, so the changes were not as obvious.
So I deliberately