He Could No Longer Force Anyone-Only Deceive, Deceive a True Hero into Using Her Light to Illuminate His Dark Path

"If he succeeds, what will happen to that world?" the Dragon Prince asked softly.

"A new world will begin to grow from five hundred years ago," the Dragon God said slowly. "The Otto there might not become like this. He might still be that young man standing beside Kallen. The Kallen there will be alive, and she will smile. But the sun of that world will be lit by five thousand years of blood from this one. Where the tree branches, one side is heaven, and the other is a mountain of corpses."

"But Otto will not look back," Ye Yinzhu said, his voice as faint as the lingering echo of a snapped string. "He has already prepared to die in the light of that new World Line. He does not need to live to reach the other side. He only needs to know that somewhere, Kallen is alive. Those two words alone are enough for him to press himself, along with this world, into the heart of the tree."

On the screen, Otto's fingertips drew closer and closer to the tree root. That drop of light began to shake violently, while the thousand soul lights behind him shrieked like a rope about to snap. For the first time, an extremely faint, almost boyish smile appeared on his face.

"Just wait a little longer," he murmured, as if speaking to someone from five hundred years ago, and also to himself. "I'll be there soon, in the world where you are still alive."

The Light Screen went dark.

In the God Realm, Bei Bei slammed his fist down before him, his eyes bloodshot. "Does he even know how many people will vanish with every inch he moves forward?"

"He knows," Tang San said. "That is why he moves even faster."

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