TOMWDET Chapter 220

Final Chapter (12)

A multiple choice question for Su Li?

He didn’t believe that this human, with that abnormal brain of his, wouldn’t think of other choices through reasoning.

Since that was the case, then he would leave the power of choice to those insignificant and foolish humans and monster beasts.

Let’s see——

He grasped Su Li’s shoulders, and vast elemental power filled the area around Su Li.

Those elements that had been restricted by so-called faith, filling Su Li’s body without leaking out, were once again restricted by elemental factors of different colors and completely sealed off.

Now Su Li was just an ordinary youth who couldn’t even run three thousand meters.

So powerless that he could only be held in place, forced to look at all the humans and monster beasts.

Obviously, the faces of those humans and monster beasts had all turned ugly.

He was saying that either let Su Li die with him, or let the entire world, including Su Li, die with him.

Leave the power of choice to a human who had mastered the inevitability of growth?

He chose to make all humans and monster beasts unable to grasp growth, chose to let the soul from another world be buried with him.

Both humans and monster beasts could feel his malice.

But there were still humans and monster beasts who would think about the so-called choice.

“This……”

“What should we do?”

“You’re asking me, how would I know!”

“What he’s saying is, either the whole world dies with him, or just that child dies alone… When it comes down to it, isn’t this just forcing us to force that child to death?”

“What a joke!” The giant rhinoceros spat directly, “I’ve been a transformed monster beast for hundreds of years. Not long ago, following the orders of the already dead king, I went to slaughter an entire human city that had awakened monster beast characteristics. I’m rotten to this extent, nothing good to say about that.”

“But what makes you think I’m so stupid that I can’t even see that the so-called choice isn’t actually in our hands at all?”

“So what if we force that child to death? Your claim that you’ll die with him is just you alone, or rather you as a monster, talking nonsense there.”

“What if that child dies and you don’t? Then won’t it still be us who die in the end?”

“And if you and that child die together……”

“Laughable. Even though I’m rotten enough to commit acts of city slaughter, I don’t think my life needs to be exchanged for survival chances through a cub’s death.”

Matilda sneered similarly. “For hundreds of years, thousands of years, in the struggles between monster beasts, which transformed monster beast didn’t rely on their own strength to fight for their chance to live?”

“To exchange a stranger child’s death for survival chances we don’t even know are real – indeed, at first glance it seems to have no impact on us, but are you fucking taking us for idiotic fools?”

“He’s someone who could kill Clemens!”

“We’ve already fought you, we’ve already declared war on you, we’ve already reached this point where countless humans, monster beasts, and Ji Xings have died. What makes you think we would abandon Su Li and be stupid enough to choose to sacrifice him to get that so-called survival chance from your hands?”

“Even a madman couldn’t do something so stupid. Even an idiot couldn’t be foolish to this degree.”

Even Bartholomew said, “I think any monster beast with a brain wouldn’t choose your completely unreal survival chance when choosing between Su Li and you.”

“Just like Matilda said, he’s someone who could kill the [Tiger]. Killing you, who is even stronger than the [Tiger], isn’t impossible either.”

“Don’t mention the possibility that you might choose to spare us and not drag the whole world to destruction – that’s also possible.”

“That possibility, compared to choosing to kill you and letting the whole world never again be oppressed by invisible things—— this is a choice any monster beast would know how to make.”

If the monster beasts could still engage in rational dialogue, then the humans were completely impolite, pointing at his nose and cursing.

Egbert was so angry he was practically snorting fire. “What are you? How can you compare yourself to Lord Su Li?”

“You even want Lord Su Li to die with you… I’ve reserved a spot next to Lord Su Li’s grave hundreds of years ago. What are you? Do you think you’re worthy to compete with me for it?”

“Don’t talk about letting the whole world be buried with you. Kill you, and the world will be fine, Lord Su Li will be fine too. Everyone will be fine, and only you, this damned thing, will die. That would be the truly correct and absolute choice.”

Castor hooked his arm around Egbert’s back, the corner of his mouth curving up as mocking words spilled out. “I’m not like them, always having too many excessive thoughts.”

“For me, my concept, or rather my thinking, has always been just one.”

“There simply doesn’t exist anything in this world that can be compared on the same scale as Lord Su Li.”

“Any existence that wants to be compared on the same scale with him and tries to make others make unreasonable choices is what truly deserves to die.”

Even Ophelia could say coldly, “Are you even comparable to him?”

“Your existence has no value, while his value, even if just serving as a person in a painting, could enrich Amikbi’s treasury in an extremely short time.”

“You?”

“Pff.” Ophelia’s expression remained blank as her tone completely maxed out the mockery.

His ferocious expression truly twisted completely.

Su Li felt like his shoulders were about to be crushed.

But he also found it very interesting.

Because now, taking advantage of his emotional reaction before it grew large enough to harm Su Li, each person speaking was different from the choices they had truly made initially.

Egbert had chosen to abandon himself to protect Siliqing City.

Castor had been oppressed by nobles and tried to kidnap Qi.

Ophelia had indirectly caused Xiao Zuo to become Julius.

All of these things, whether noble or base, especially the vicious ones, were all different from now.

The current them didn’t let the so-called choice become a choice at all.

Conflicted expressions? Confused states?

They used their actual performance to tell the world consciousness——

That was just thinking before organizing their words.

After their thoughts flowed out smoothly, mocking expressions appeared on all the humans’ and monster beasts’ faces like copy and paste.

At this moment, Su Li could even hear the sound of his own bones creaking under the grip.

Su Li had his back to him.

The youth said in a calm tone, using a voice only he could hear. “Then guess, before the multiple choice question appeared, had I thought about fighting with everything I had to kill you in a one-on-one situation?”

He froze.

Su Li smiled.

That was a choice he had made from the very beginning.

Because giving Him the understanding of growth was essentially just disturbing His state of mind to influence Him.

Initially, that conversation in the time-stopped world had the purpose of creating the possibility of killing Him.

Su Li knew that the stunned Him now was truly unprepared.

The weapon that had been dropped wasn’t grasped in his hand.

Compared to the handsome straight blade, Su Li actually preferred the assassin class in games.

Coming and going like wind, leaving no trace.

The dagger slid from his sleeve into his palm. The handle, already warmed by his body temperature, was even hotter than Su Li’s palm temperature.

The youth felt the warmth in his palm, and while He was still unable to react, the sharp blade pierced directly through His heart.

The weapon wasn’t physical. The moment the penetrating wound appeared, that dagger melted like water, becoming pure elemental essence.

Was His body actually physical, or made of elements?

Was it a conceptual body that humans couldn’t touch, or something that truly existed?

Fatal wounds wouldn’t be fatal, crippling injuries wouldn’t affect His movements.

To kill Him, it wasn’t about the weapon’s power or the level of elements, but about that momentary trance felt when killing Clemens before.

To put it in mystical terms, it was called enlightenment.

Only concepts could kill concepts.

Only arguments could transcend arguments.

What He saw was humans making choices unable to become choices.

What Su Li saw was his inability to understand.

He had determined that human choices would go as he thought.

Because the so-called choice was fundamentally having no choice at all.

The choice He gave didn’t actually possess selectivity.

No matter which path humans and monster beasts took, He would destroy this world.

Since the final choice wouldn’t change, living a little longer would become a possibility of luck.

What if?

What if Su Li’s death bought time that could let humans think of other possibilities to defeat Him?

His thinking had gone down a path that couldn’t be called wrong, but was also completely unrelated to the current situation.

If initially the concept of growth was meant to tear a hole in His determination to destroy this world, then now the words of monster beasts and humans had made that hole into an irreparable crack.

He could do it——

He could kill him.

Su Li looked at Him with an almost gentle expression.

That hole in his chest, and because it couldn’t heal, even the other continuously collapsing parts of his body…

These all became the foundation of his panic.

“Why?!”

“How could you possibly hurt me! A dagger condensed from elements doesn’t have the possibility of harming me!”

He roared, and between His angry shouts, He fiercely attacked Su Li.

Matilda, who had prepared early, rushed straight toward the youth, pushing him aside while actively taking that palm strike herself.

Blood overflowed from her mouth. The Winged Tribe queen felt her injury that wasn’t quite fatal and suddenly remembered what the unicorn had said before.

Unable to reproduce those words exactly, she only remembered the general meaning was that every sacrifice should be made with the preparation to die. But each time, one should also leave themselves a thread of hope to provide opportunity for the next sacrifice.

Now was probably the actual manifestation of those words.

“Cough cough!” Matilda coughed heavily twice, forcefully throwing Su Li, who had no elements and whose physical qualities were equivalent to an infant in this world, toward the strongest person besides herself – the unicorn Bartholomew.

Then, Matilda actively met the attack.

At the same time, Su Li, who had staggered several times but was ultimately supported and didn’t fall, also calmly told him:

“The world is composed of elements.”

“You are likewise only elements.”

“And in this world, the only thing unrelated to the concept of elements is just me——“

“My soul, my will, are the best hunting blade to kill you.”