After returning here, Chu Yunyi used NO.19 [Apostle of the Mind] as if he had mastered it from birth.
People didn't consciously learn to breathe.
It was an ability they possessed from the moment they were born, something they learned instinctively.
And after obtaining NO.19 [Apostle of the Mind], Chu Yunyi had wielded it as naturally as an extension of his own arm, using it instantly on the golden-eyed boy before him.
"Oh? I can use it."
Chu Yunyi blinked, seeming to ponder something.
As for this NO.19 [Apostle of the Mind] ability, there was no denying it was powerful.
But.
It had conditions for use.
If there were no conditions, Chu Yunyi could use NO.19 [Apostle of the Mind] on everyone he met, and the entire myriad worlds would be his allies.
The condition for using NO.19 [Apostle of the Mind] was that it could only be used on living beings who were loyal to him.
That was an essential requirement.
If that condition wasn't met, the ability simply wouldn't work.
At that moment.
Chu Yunyi was thinking.
The golden-eyed boy in front of him didn't seem so simple.
After all.
He'd said that Mo Xun's control, buried in his virus core, had actually been broken by this golden-eyed boy.
Something like that.
It was practically as unbelievable as a robot bound by the Three Laws turning around and deleting that very directive from its own code.
Or perhaps.
The golden-eyed boy was deceiving him.
It was possible that things were as the golden-eyed boy claimed, or that he was lying to Chu Yunyi.
What was this guy plotting?
Or was he truly afraid of death and had decided to serve Chu Yunyi?
There was no definite answer to any of this, nor was there any evidence. But according to Chu Yunyi's intuition...
It was just as the golden-eyed boy had said.
Because he feared death, he had filtered out Mo Xun's control.
Then, because he feared death, the power of greed had foreseen that following Chu Yunyi would bring him great benefits, and he had decided to serve him.
Chu Yunyi didn't trust the golden-eyed boy.
But he, Chu Yunyi, trusted his own intuition!
You'd better be telling the truth, Chu Yunyi thought.
Even if Chu Yunyi's usually infallible intuition failed him.
At least NO.19 [Apostle of the Mind] would serve as a safeguard.
The ability's description clearly stated that using it would transform the target into an [Apostle].
Apostles were absolutely loyal, and the abilities granted to them could also be withdrawn instantly.
That was reassuring, at least.
None of Chu Yunyi's abilities had ever failed him.
If they said they had a certain effect, then they could only be stronger than that, never weaker.
And now.
Chu Yunyi used NO.19 [Apostle of the Mind] on the golden-eyed boy.
The next moment.
Chu Yunyi felt a flood of information appear in his mind: everything he'd learned after taking control of the golden-eyed boy.
Some of it was current, some of it was from the past, all stored like a compressed file.
He could call it up as memories whenever he wanted, and he could also search through it.
The compressed information rested quietly in Chu Yunyi's mind, taking up hardly any space, like a thin card tucked among his memories.
"My lord."
"I swear to serve you until death!" The golden-eyed boy was still kneeling, but his voice was even more respectful.
Hearing this, Chu Yunyi couldn't help laughing.
"But weren't you afraid of death?"
"But I won't die if I follow you, my lord. So I swear to serve you until death." The golden-eyed boy's voice remained calm.
Chu Yunyi found that amusing and teased him.
"What if I tell you to die right now?"
The next moment.
A golden light blazed in the boy's eyes, but a force from [Apostle of the Mind] immediately restrained his entire body. It seemed NO.19 [Apostle of the Mind] was conceptual in nature, transcending everything.
"Your subordinate will, of course, obey." The golden-eyed boy's voice turned somewhat low, and then his body began to move.
"Never mind. I was joking." Chu Yunyi waved a hand.
Hearing that.
The golden-eyed boy relaxed again, as if nothing had happened.
Suddenly.
An idea occurred to Chu Yunyi.
And he immediately put it into action.
"From now on, you're part of our organization. Our mission is to eliminate the apocalypse."
The golden-eyed boy looked almost disbelieving as he slowly raised his head, though his gaze never rose above Chu Yunyi's waist.
The golden-eyed boy asked, "May I ask, my lord..."
"What is our organization called?"
At that, Chu Yunyi smiled. His inner chuunibyou stirred to life a little.
Thinking of his earlier offhand reply to the female senior inspector, Captain Xu, Chu Yunyi smiled and said:
"Our organization is called..."
"—Dawn."
The moment he said it.
Chu Yunyi felt a faint wave of goosebumps. It was a little embarrassing.
Looking at the golden-eyed boy, Chu Yunyi sensed that the power of greed within him had also been suppressed by NO.19 [Apostle of the Mind].
Chu Yunyi couldn't help thinking.
Mo Xun wasn't much after all. He didn't even come down in person.
He'd given his subordinate some power, and the subordinate had turned on him outright.
Now that he'd dealt with all the leaders of the Seven Deadly Sins patients.
Chu Yunyi figured it was time.
To face the source of the apocalypse on Blue Star:
—the [Seven-Day Demon King, Mo Xun].
He just didn't know what tricks Mo Xun had up his sleeve. He'd already wiped out all the leaders of the Seven Deadly Sins Virus Mo Xun had sent down.
But Mo Xun himself.
No, the demon's own methods.
It remained to be seen which of them was stronger.
"Mo Xun's information... never mind."
"I'll look for it myself."
Thinking this, Chu Yunyi opened the information card in his mind and searched through the memories related to Mo Xun.
He discovered.
All the information related to Mo Xun had been sent down to the golden-eyed boy's mind along with the Greed Virus.
But that wasn't surprising.
The Seven Deadly Sins leaders and Xia Tian were like ordinary workers.
Look at it from another angle.
If they were working for someone and their boss didn't even tell them what they were doing or how much they were being paid, that would be strange indeed.
Mo Xun lived alone at the summit of the Seventh Heaven and called himself the [Seven-Day Demon King].
He had searched the surrounding galaxy and discovered a world called Blue Star.
Then he sent down the Seven Deadly Sins Virus to sow chaos.
Finally.
He would be able to open a one-way passage to Blue Star and escape the Seventh Heaven, where nothing was fun and nothing ever changed.
To Mo Xun, the Seventh Heaven was practically a cage, a cage built specifically for him.
And the method for opening the passage to the Seventh Heaven was also laid out.
"Conditions for opening the Seventh Heaven..."
"Damn, it requires the blood sacrifice of eighty-eight million, eight hundred and eighty-eight thousand people? That's brutal..."
As Chu Yunyi searched through the memories, the corners of his mouth twitched.
But suddenly.
Something clicked in Chu Yunyi's head, and his mind opened up.
There should be... a door to the Seventh Heaven, right?!
As long as there was a door.
Then his NO.1 [Void Gate] could lead straight to that world!
He could go straight to Mo Xun, kill him in one hit, and the Seven Deadly Sins apocalypse on Blue Star would be over!
"I'm a genius!" Chu Yunyi shamelessly praised himself.
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