Light Fortress-Chapter 1425 - 185: Godslayer
The turbulence of the Beast Tide submerged the entire Sangzhou Cave.
Just as Gu Shen had guessed, the volcanic ash spewed by [Tanyao] not only disrupted the flow of the source... but even the perception of the Divine Authority failed in this realm.
The Jiadi Saint, who listened closely to the [Tide], could only hear countless beast cries at this moment.
Similarly.
The Source Tower Divine Envoy, who wields the [Cloud Mirror], could only see chaos.
No one knows that in the South Cave Forest, there is such a Pure Barrier, maintaining a rare tranquility amidst the Beast Tide.
Nor does anyone know about the conversation between the Red Dragon and Gu Shen at this moment.
"Some things, why delve into the reasons—"
Red Dragon said lightly, "Now you’ve had a breakthrough, that’s good, isn’t it enough?"
"Not enough... This is certainly not enough."
The iron scale phantom surrounding Gu Shen did not dissipate.
Although he knew that even with a breakthrough, he wouldn’t be a match for Red Dragon... he couldn’t rest easy until this matter was clear.
"The God of Wine died in East Continent."
"The Transcendents in Upper City loathe and hate East Continent the most."
"As the chief Divine Envoy of the Source Tower, why help me breakthrough? Such a ’good thing’, I might as well do without it."
Gu Shen paused.
"You, as a Source Tower Divine Envoy, should know the rules, meeting with me here violates the Divine Envoy’s ordinances—a serious crime. If seen by [Cloud Mirror], no matter how many lives you have, you won’t escape death."
"..."
Red Dragon was silent for a second, then gripped the knife again, chuckling softly, "So, you wish for me to continue? To kill you here?"
"I really hope so."
Gu Shen said calmly, "I’d rather you draw your blade now; it would cause less trouble."
"You might be disappointed then."
Red Dragon’s five fingers merely hovered over the knife handle.
He had just pretended to wield the knife, but seeing Gu Shen certain that he wouldn’t draw the blade, he stopped acting and candidly spoke, "Rest assured, meeting you here, unless you speak, no one will know."
"If you don’t explain, I will—"
Gu Shen smiled, "I will let the heavens know what you’ve done... Suzaku should be chased by Jia Wei now? You, as the grand finale of the Source Tower’s ’Fourth-order Transcender’, should be on your way to rescue him."
"Indeed... I am gravely derelict in duty."
Red Dragon lowered his eyes and smiled, slowly saying, "As the chief Divine Envoy of the Source Tower, I shouldn’t be here; any suspicion from the Sky Divine Throne, and I’ll die..."
He paused for a second, his tone dismissing the threat of death with mockery, "That’s nothing."
"It’s just..."
"I’ve willingly taken such a huge risk, traveled the South Cave territory, to help you breakthrough. Will you betray me now?"
Red Dragon seriously gazed into Gu Shen’s eyes and asked, word by word, "[Key] Mister?"
Gu Shen was stunned.
He fell completely silent.
The [Truth] arc slowly faded, floating iron scale shadows around him dissolved into the void; the iron scales flew back into Gu Shen’s sleeve, obediently rearranging again.
"What did you call me?"
"Must I repeat it?"
Red Dragon lowered his head, checking his attire, adorned with the Source Tower’s most luxurious Ten-star Pattern Dragon Priest Robe, unsullied by dust, his saber engraved with exclusive ancient script of the Red Dragon Priest.
He brushed off the priest robe’s lapel; this was his first meeting with Gu Shen, after their confrontation they revealed identities, much more peaceful than imagined, and quite awkward.
From the moment the word "Key" was spoken, the barrier inside turned exceptionally quiet.
"I belong to the ’organization’."
Red Dragon sighed lightly and asked, "So? Doesn’t it seem so?"
"..."
Gu Shen admitted honestly, "Not quite."
"It’s survival to not seem so."
"My teacher and Mr. Turing were old friends; back when Turing fled the Beiku Fortress, it was my teacher who devised the escape plan." Red Dragon stated calmly, as if discussing a matter unrelated to himself, "The complete collapse of the Ancient Literature Society stemmed from the erroneous command of [Deep Sea]... The main system identified and targeted most members of the Ancient Literature Society, orchestrated a near-perfect massacre. However, it was not strong enough at the time, so the list was incomplete—it was due to the main system’s ’oversight’ that I survived."
Gu Shen frowned and murmured, "Twenty years ago..."
"I was nine then, my parents were both members of the Ancient Literature Society."
Red Dragon raised his eyebrows, "My father was from the Northern Continent, my mother was of Central Continent and East Continent descent, so I have half Northern Continent blood, a quarter each Central and East Continent blood. They once served the ’Red Emperor’, tasked with underground ancient literature research in Central City, which is the precursor to the ’Underground Research Institute’. Later [Deep Sea] issued orders, Red Emperor sent people to kill all members of the research institute, I narrowly escaped, the main system believed I’d died... Mr. Tianshui altered my records, I changed names and joined the Source Tower, became a ’Divine Envoy’ candidate, inherited my father’s number, responsible for recording in the ’conference room’."
"Your number is..."
"064."
Red Dragon said warmly, "Before you appeared, I was the conference room’s most devoted recorder."
Chu Ling immediately spoke, "064, there indeed was such a person."
