Joshua stood at the very heart of the Mysterious Forest.
Before him stood an eternal enemy—the man who had plunged him into darkness and turned him into a powerful assassin.
Wearing ordinary glasses, with blue hair and a faint sneer at the corner of his lips, that man was none other than Ouroboros's professor—Weissmann!
Joshua raised his twin blades and said coldly, "Weissmann, why are you here? Shouldn't you have already been utterly destroyed?"
Weissmann merely gave a cold smile and did not answer Joshua. He raised the staff in his hand, and a bolt of Sky Thunder crashed straight toward Joshua.
"Since you've appeared before me, then fine. Let me ask you: what exactly is the Aureole? What is its true nature? Aside from granting people limitless satisfaction and desire, what other functions does it possess? Why can the Aureole create the Shadow Country and this current world? How did such a vast system come to exist?"
Joshua's string of questions bombarded Weissmann. Though he asked so many questions, his movements did not slacken in the slightest. When Weissmann's lightning struck, he instantly vanished from his previous position and appeared somewhere else.
"Joshua, your speed is still as fast as ever. It seems that turning you into what you are was a slight miscalculation on my part." Weissmann sneered. "I never considered that one day you would betray me, or that someone would remove the Stigma from your body and free you from my absolute control... But now, I still want to ask—would you be willing to return to my side? Become a powerful human once more, and then I can tell you the truth about the Aureole..."
Weissmann's words made Joshua want to laugh.
"Do you take me for an idiot? As long as I can break through