To be honest, Lorisa's description was far too vague to be useful—an enormous, twisted consciousness, with only a few fleeting images observed while skimming its edges. If you handed that description to a novelist, they could probably come up with over ten thousand interpretations. Hao Ren naturally had no intention of figuring out what this Elf Queen clone had actually seen back then from those cryptic words. He only needed to confirm one thing: the "Goddess Oracle" that had descended upon this planet ten thousand years ago was absolutely fake.
Because he had crucial witnesses: Muru, Lemendusa, and Eve. As people who had personally experienced the God-slaying War, they could testify that the Creation Goddess had never issued such a strange oracle. And even if the testimonies of those guardians were unreliable, Hao Ren could rule out the possibility of the Creation Goddess issuing such an oracle based on his own understanding of true gods. There was no need for a true god to interfere in the evolution of Mortal Civilization through such a method. It was both unnecessary and harmful. Besides, given the level of Horleta's magical civilization at the time, it was nowhere near developed enough to attract the Creation Goddess's attention.
"Do you think that 'consciousness' might be related to the Lord of Madness?" Vivian glanced at Hao Ren and asked in a low voice.
"The Lord of Madness has no 'consciousness,' but it's hard to say about the things extended from it. We've already encountered one Lockmadon, so no one can say for sure whether another infected transcendent creature might be lurking somewhere in the depths of this universe. To the Magic Empire of that era, they were incapable of distinguishing the subtle differences between those transcendent powers. As long as the impostor obtained one or