Lord of Mysteries: The Outer God is Me

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"Besides, I'm not on good terms with the Loen royal family. If you clash with them because of that Conqueror characteristic, I'd be more than happy."

Although it sounded like sarcasm, Lin Ruo was speaking his true thoughts.

The reason he told Medici about the clue to a Conqueror characteristic wasn't just because of their friendship or because he didn't have a strong desire for it himself, but also because he hoped Medici would confront the Loen royal family.

Even though Lin Ruo had already received a promise from Medici that he would help if a fight broke out, Lin Ruo felt that a promise based on friendship was not as reliable as a shared goal driven by direct interests—not that he didn't trust his friendship with Medici. Although his memories hadn't fully returned, Lin Ruo honestly trusted Medici quite a bit.

However, friendship requires mutual effort. Regardless of how he and Medici interacted in the past, constantly taking advantage of the other in such important matters would only lead to their friendship being exhausted and eventually lead to them parting ways.

Lin Ruo understood this principle and didn't want such a thing to happen, so he chose to tell Medici about the Conqueror's clue.

This not only turned Medici's future assistance from a pure expenditure of goodwill into a win-win situation, but also allowed him to sell another favor. Why not?

As for why he said it directly—Medici wasn't stupid. As a top expert in the Hunter pathway, even if he didn't know about his conflict with the Loen royal family now, wouldn't he find out later?

In that case, it was better to be open about it, which would actually make people feel more favorable.

It had to be said that Lin Ruo was indeed a professional when it came to gaining favor and building relationships.

"Heh," Medici raised an eyebrow and said mockingly, "Aren't you afraid I'll cooperate with them?"

"Would you?" Lin Ruo looked at him with a smile, even offering a way out:

"Do you think highly of them?"

"Tsk, no." Medici followed the cue and stepped down. He took another puff of the cigarette in his hand, and the resulting white smoke made his features somewhat hazy. He seemed to be pondering, and after a few seconds, he said:

"The Augustus family wants a new Black Emperor to be born?"

Wh-What?

Black Emperor? I remember Lin Ruo saying that's the name of Sequence 0 of the Lawyer pathway.

The emperor of the Solomon Empire in the Fourth Epoch was a Black Emperor… Klein was stunned, having been unable to interject since Lin Ruo and Medici started trading barbs. He had been silently observing, and his mind was already filled with question marks.

Medici's words contained too much information, overwhelming him. He frequently looked at Lin Ruo, waiting for his answer.

Lin Ruo glanced at Medici upon hearing this, genuinely surprised this time.

After all, he knew that the Loen royal family, knew that the Augustus family wanted to cultivate a Black Emperor because of spoilers, but Medici didn't know the plot. He had even been trapped in the underground ruins before, unable to learn much information.

Moreover, the Loen royal family had been acting very secretly to help George III become a god under the noses of the three major churches. If there were any flaws, aside from the missing population, it would be the strange, counter-intuitive policies that had been gradually implemented in recent years to promote the Black Emperor's advancement ritual.

Medici actually guessed it under these circumstances?

Hiss, although he couldn't rule out the possibility of some secret information he didn't know, and Medici, as someone who had worked under the Black Emperor Solomon back then, should be very familiar with this pathway, but… sure enough, Medici is still very smart!

Lin Ruo suddenly felt a bit emotional, "If the other people under the True Creator had your brains, they wouldn't be in such a miserable state now."

"Heh." Medici chuckled ambiguously, flicked the cigarette in his hand, and continued, "Although I don't know where those Augustus family members get their confidence, in the current situation, the emergence of a Black Emperor is not necessarily a bad thing. Even the so-called Seven Gods may not object."

He looked at Lin Ruo, his gaze sharp, "So, Little Black, why are you against it?"

Why?

Lin Ruo paused. Why was he against George III becoming a god?

For those unnamed people who died like straw in the Backlund smog incident in the original book, without even leaving their names behind.

For those innocents who were abducted by human traffickers under the orders of the Loen royal family and then silently died for George III.

And also for a certain Emperor who was likely still in a state of corruption and would most likely be finished once a new Black Emperor appeared.

"Huff." Lin Ruo exhaled. He looked at Medici and said seriously, "If you insist on asking for a reason, it's probably because the Augustus family has already killed countless innocents for the birth of the Black Emperor, and once a Black Emperor really appears among the Augustus family, even more innocents will die because of it."

"I don't like this. I don't want such a Black Emperor to be born."

"So I'm going to kill Him. Is that reason enough?"

Hearing such an answer, Medici didn't seem surprised. He just suddenly pressed the burning cigarette in his hand against the windowsill, watching it extinguish, and said:

"Little Black, I told you back then that one day you would run into big trouble because of your humanity."

"I still think so now."

Lin Ruo just looked at him and said, "But without this humanity, I wouldn't be me anymore."

"That's right." Unexpectedly, Medici didn't refute Lin Ruo's words or mock anything.

The room suddenly fell silent. Klein, whose eyebrows were twitching, looked at Lin Ruo and then at Medici, not knowing what to say for a moment.

After all, the conversation between Lin Ruo and Medici just now contained too much information.

Klein suddenly thought of Lin Ruo's previous words that MI9 had big problems. Combining what he had just heard, the fact that the Loen royal family had killed countless innocents for the birth of the new Black Emperor, he immediately understood why Lin Ruo was always targeting MI9, and also understood why Lin Ruo sometimes looked worried and seemed to be under great pressure when talking about the conspiracies happening in Backlund.

An organization that kills countless innocents for the birth of the Black Emperor is not just a big problem, but fundamentally bad.

The existence of the official churches is clearly meant to protect ordinary people.

At this time, Lin Ruo took the initiative to break the silence and looked at Medici, saying, "By the way, Medici, did you bring that Red Priest card?"

Medici was slightly stunned, obviously not expecting Lin Ruo to suddenly ask about that thing, and nodded casually, saying, "I brought it. Why, do you need it?"

Lin Ruo nodded without the slightest embarrassment, saying, "I do need it. Anyway, it shouldn't be of much use to you now, why not give it to me?"

He was still very much looking forward to Mr. Fool's paper angel.

The Miracle Invoker is also good.

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