Without a doubt, regardless of which cardinal's revised version of the Holy Scripture or any other book in the Church, Luxiusi's actions were an undisputed act of usurpation.
Even "usurpation" is insufficient to describe this behavior; Samuer needs a more venomous word to describe this practice.
Samuer.
Luxiusi patted the young man on the head, just as he had done more than a decade ago, trying to awaken his inner "conscience":
"This isn't what you truly want, is it?"
He stated this with certainty, as if it were the very truth.
"Madness."
The attendant knocked the cardinal's hand away and retorted:
Don't try to understand me with your creationist mindset.
Luxiusi, whose right hand had been knocked off, shook his head:
"But aren't you also walking in the world now in the form of your own creation?"
He looked into Samuer's eyes:
What is causing you so much pain?
What makes you so determined?
What turned you into this?
Unexpectedly Luxiusi also asked Samuer a series of questions. Samuel took two steps back, half of the withered Crown on his head disappeared, and several withered branches stretched out from behind him again.
The little bird that had been perched on the branch of the statue flew down again, landing squarely on one of the withered branches.
"You want to know?"
The young official had barely uttered the question when the old cardinal answered with certainty:
"Think."
Samuer sat back down in his chair and slowly began to speak, uttering a long, difficult word:
"Senegal Milcrist."
Luxiusi's eyelid twitched uncontrollably, clearly not understanding what it meant.
"This is a name, or more precisely, the name of a deity."
Looking at the astonished Luxiusi, Samuer added:
"Of course, not a god of this world."
Luxiusi remained silent, but his doubts grew stronger, and he could only look at Samuer with a questioning gaze.
The young man, still gazing at the stained-glass ceiling dominated by pale gold and emerald green, slowly began to speak:
Teacher, let me tell you a story:
"There once was a world where, although the laws governing it were completely different from ours, everything in it operated stably."
"Senell Milchristotle, that is the name of the Supreme god of that world. Of course, some syllables cannot be pronounced in the language of this world, but that is roughly the pronunciation."
"He created that world, created all the laws within it, and was revered by the intelligent beings there as the ' Lord of Infinite Crystal Clusters,' which is the true meaning of the name Sernel Milchristo.
Later, the Demonic Tide broke through the barriers between worlds and invaded that place, just as it invaded this world.
" The Lord of Infinite Crystal Clusters attempted to resist, but with little success, and was himself weakened by the Demonic Tide and was on the verge of death."
"In the end, the Demonic Tide, carrying the distorted power of that world, tore through the world barrier once again and arrived in this world."
"And the greatest and most severe pollution this world suffered during the Demonic Tide originated from here. You should understand what I mean, right?"
Luxiusi remained silent for a long time, then nodded silently:
"I know that the skeletons of the Skeleton Alliance were resurrected by this power. I've heard that as their rank increases, the number and purity of the crystal clusters on their bodies also increase."
The old cardinal sighed and said:
"No wonder no one knew what those crystal clusters were; they weren't originally from this world."
Samuer hesitated for a moment, then finally nodded:
What I just said was merely speculation, not something I witnessed firsthand.
"After my predecessor perished, 'I' Descent into that world. By then, everything had ended."
"The entire world has been reduced to countless fragments, all laws have completely collapsed, and nothing of any significance remains."
The young official sighed and asked softly:
"Cardinal, teacher, Luxiusi, do you know what became of the Lord of Infinite Crystal Clusters?"
Luxiusi shook his head matter-of-factly.
He is dead.
"His consciousness died completely, and his once enormous body collapsed entirely, transforming into countless crystal cluster monsters."
"Those crystal cluster monsters cannot be called life at all, let alone any intelligence. They are just devouring fragmented crystal clusters of all sizes in the endless void, or perhaps devouring each other."
"But this kind of devouring doesn't even qualify as digestion. They expel each other in the same way they devour each other, and they can't even do the most basic thing like absorbing nutrients from food."
"It's meaningless now—that world is completely dead; all I saw was the process of corpses rotting."
"For thousands or even hundreds of millions of years to come, in the eternal flow of time, nothing new will appear in that world, nor will there be any future. As for the Lord of Infinite Crystal Clusters..."
"That's the same."
Samuer spoke casually, as if he were talking about someone else's affairs, yet also as if he were talking about himself.
The same thing is happening again in this world.
He looked at Luxiusi:
"While the instigator of all this was the Demonic Tide, it was ultimately just an unconscious catastrophe that swept across countless worlds."
"And I, the one who gave life to this world, am the culprit behind all suffering."
"No, you, you are not..."
Luxiusi tried to intervene, but Samuer stopped him with a gesture.
Listen to me, Luxiusi.
"Having returned from there, I have found a solution to the problem."
Samuer spoke with unprecedented seriousness:
"I will restore myself, I will reclaim all blessings, I will annihilate this world, I will assimilate the Demonic Tide with my own body, and I will recreate everything."
But at that time, 'I' was no longer 'I'.
"My consciousness will return to the Sea of Psionic Energy. After a very long time, a new consciousness will be born, a new world will be created, and new life will evolve within it."
"He will be revered by new life as a new creator and a new, one and only God."
"At that time, the Demonic Tide will be part of the existing laws."
"Since it is one of the existing laws, consciousness, matter, and everything else will depend on it for existence, so naturally there will be no Aberration, pain, or torment."
"No..."
Luxiusi shook his head, and tears welled up in his eyes.
"I didn't know any of this before..."
"That's definitely not something you should know."
Samuer shook his head:
"The creator of the world should bear the responsibility; otherwise, I will suffer the same fate as the Lord of Infinite Crystal Clusters."
Luxiusi looked at the young man before him, and once again, firmly but slowly shook his head:
"I hope you can believe in the future..."
" Luxiusi."
Samuer retorted in a deep voice:
"I do this, I have this plan, precisely because I am full of confidence in the future."
His hand gently rested on Luxiusi's shoulder:
"Because I know that a rotten corpse has no chance of being resurrected, but it can serve as fertile ground for new life to grow."
Therefore, good is evil, and evil is good.
Therefore, new life is destruction, and destruction is new life.