No wonder Di Er Meng had been so brazen in front of Amon before. No wonder she claimed she wanted to overthrow Amon's rule, yet often relied on his power. Wasn't that exactly how a rebellious child behaved...?
When Di Er Meng saw the tension vanish from Mu Chen's face and him looking at her as if she were some unruly child, she vaguely guessed what he was thinking.
"Don't tell me you think my resistance against him is merely a brat's rebellion against a parent?"
"Isn't it?" Mu Chen reflexively asked. Then he gave a dry cough and stiffly explained, "It certainly sounds that way."
Di Er Meng rolled her eyes. "To the Amon Clan Leader, special entities like us are both his avatars and his children. We are the 'future' he preserves.
"Our greatest purpose is to overthrow him in a stronger form, allowing the collective entity known as 'Amon' to climb higher..."
"But how could that possibly be easy? Amon is so powerful that he drives people to despair...
"If he decides that a certain special entity has no possibility of overthrowing him, that it has no potential and no possibility of possessing a 'future,' what do you think will happen to that entity?"
Mu Chen's expression turned solemn. He said nothing, waiting for Di Er Meng's answer.
"When my brothers and sisters were first born, there were tens of thousands of them. Yet in the end, only a mere handful became special entities. The rest had their consciousness assimilated by him and became ordinary avatars.
"After that, some raised the banner of rebellion against him. Some wanted to leave him and tried every possible way to escape. In the end, they were all reclaimed and became part of Amon once more.
"My time is limited... If