"...Kill the author?"
The enormous Feathered Serpent spoke slowly. "That would suit me perfectly."
"...What?"
Even Iver himself had not expected Serpent Father to react that way.
"Ai Shiping—do you remember what you studied before?"
Feathered Serpent suddenly asked, "Your research on the 'forbidden.'"
At that moment, memories that had not existed before suddenly surfaced in Iver's mind:
Yes, he remembered... In a sense, he himself was the true culprit behind the invasion of Whisper of the Void.
Perhaps the Twilight Kind that had once finished its meal would eventually turn back and devour this world in its entirety. And because of the wormhole it had left behind when it departed, the veil concealing this world had already been damaged. It could be discovered at any moment.
But what had directly triggered the Twilight invasion—or rather, accelerated the process—was Iver's dangerous research.
Because no one truly understood the specific reason the previous era had been destroyed. No one knew how the Twilight Kind had descended... But now, people had finally determined the key. The crucial condition was the establishment of the River of Errors.
Once "error" existed, there would be a distinction between "correction" and "indulgence," a difference between "punishment" and "forgiveness." And Whisper of the Void was precisely the "Twilight of Indulgence and Forgiveness."
People could not accept their own errors, and so they fled—from them, until they escaped into nothingness and meaninglessness.
In other words.
It was precisely because Ai Shiping was about to become a Pillar God that this world was facing destruction!
Of course, he needed to save the world. That was his responsibility.
From this perspective, the true culprit behind the world's destruction was Ai Shiping himself—
"—No."
However, Iver, who stood opposed to Ai Shiping, spoke up and denied it. "The world was destroyed