Goddess Shataye did not agree immediately. Instead, she asked the old knight for his opinion. The old knight remained silent, meaning that Goddess Shataye could decide everything herself.
"Are you asking us to kill ordinary people? I won't slaughter the weak again."
"No."
"Good. We'll help you kill someone. Please restore the flow of time here. They... are suffering."
The people Goddess Shataye referred to were the residents deep within the dreamscape. Only by "deep-diving" into the dreamscape could one see those dream residents.
Goddess Shataye was not part of the Order faction. On the contrary, she belonged to the Chaos faction. Before coming to the dreamscape, she had killed at least tens of thousands of mad scholars. For a long time, under the influence of ancient god energy and excessive slaughter, she had descended into madness. During that period, she massacred an entire city.
When she regained her sanity, she was already standing amid blazing black flames. The city had been reduced to ruins, and hundreds of thousands of civilians had been slaughtered by her.
What Goddess Shataye wanted to protect now were those dream residents. It was like an act of confession and redemption.
In fact, Goddess Shataye and the old knight were both like this. Before coming to the dreamscape, they had been people weighed down by grave sins. In the end, they had lost everything, leaving their hearts completely empty.
Guarding the dreamscape and the dream residents deep within it was the only thing they could do. If they lost even that, they would have no reason to go on living, becoming two empty shells.
Su Xiao had no intention of severing Goddess Shataye's soul chain yet. The reason was that once the second layer of the soul chain was opened, the ancient god's seal would