Just as Strangle had said, they had spent a little too long on the fourth trial. It was time to pick up the pace.
Still, taking a smoke break had not been entirely useless. TOBA had come up during his conversation with Strangle, reminding Su Ming of certain information he had glimpsed in his previous life.
Strictly speaking, the relationship between TOAA and TOBA was not as simple as Strangle had summarized. They could be regarded as two sides of the same whole.
At a certain level of Mystery, the TOAA there had divided into various collections of concepts, each forming a different manifestation: TOAA and TOBA.
But it was not the conventional setup of one side representing good and the other evil. It was something far more abstract.
The golden TOAA figure he had seen was merely a lower-level avatar at the Omniverse level. Su Ming could not easily summarize the concepts it represented, but TOBA's motive was perfectly clear—becoming the only one.
The One Below All would destroy every Consciousness Body and living being within the known scope, leaving itself as the sole existence. That was both its motive and its pattern of behavior.
It had no "heart." It was a pure weapon, split off from a higher-level TOAA, the other side of the Little Golden Man. They had originally been one entity, merely presenting two different manifestations before humanity.
Still, it was not wrong to regard them as separate individuals.
Just as Kitty, the First Dream, and Daniel were all manifestations of "Dream," and were essentially the same Dream, they were not the same person.
He had gone a little off topic. Back to the point: Mystery was not without traces to follow. At least for Su Ming, it was not entirely unfamiliar.
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