Phantom Step

Were these really the only four?

Once the finishing blow was dealt, the prompt that rang in his ear put Fu Qian in an excellent mood.

Although he'd struck without hesitation, he couldn't completely rule out the possibility that "Pachi" had been putting on an act all along to cover for the other participants.

As for why he'd called that one "Goya" at the end, the reason was simple: if he wasn't Goya, how could Fu Qian complete his task?

The Warehouse might have been exploited, but that didn't mean its established rules could be broken.

Since his task was to kill Goya, then Goya had to still exist in some conceptual sense.

Given the circumstances, Pachi's final display had been remarkably convincing. Still, rather than believe that Pachi was the body's true consciousness and the four others were faces he could switch between at will, Fu Qian thought there was another perfectly reasonable explanation: Goya had never fundamentally changed, and Pachi was still a product of self-deception.

Goya and his three partners could indeed transform into one another, or even coexist in the same body, through a special oath. But in essence, they were still themselves. Pachi was the fake one.

Whether or not the name was right, Pachi—the one who'd spoken to him—and the being behind Abyssal Colt most likely weren't one and the same.

Otherwise, it was hard to imagine a demigod-level being with such a complete will being taken down so easily.

The one who'd spoken to him just now was probably a concept formed by the four participants' self-deception, fused together.

After all, the oath required them to treat the false as real.

Taking Goya as an example, the four of them were more likely in a state where Goya deceived himself into believing he