While he had the urge to quip, "You're one of the Tal'darim? My respects," he ultimately refrained.

After all, it was still the interrogation phase, and being too flippant would undermine his authority. Moreover, in a state of mental resonance, the Connector would translate each other's thoughts into a language that they could understand. If there was a lack of corresponding vocabulary, they would choose the closest possible expression to replace it. Therefore, even common phrases might not express the same meaning.

However, the devil did not answer his question but fell into extreme contradiction—

"No, this doesn't make sense! You insects have never entered the Tianhai Realm, so how could you have obtained the Legacy Fragment? That's not a realm you could set foot in! But if not, why did we fail? Lies, all lies—I, Kabrada, will never admit it!"

Before the interrogation, Roland knew that the initial stage of transformation was the devil's most vulnerable phase. According to Zoe, the extraction of the soul by the magic core would cause great discomfort, to the point that they could not control their emotions and would leak information that they would not normally reveal easily. Therefore, he pressed on, "Do I need to remind you further? You wanted to ambush my army but were forced to show yourselves and fight, suffering heavy casualties before even approaching the阵地. And you led your subordinates in an attempt to salvage the defeat, only to be knocked down by the God's Punishment Witch upon landing, without even enough time to yawn. Now, the person who defeated you is in front of you. As long as you think about it carefully, you can see your own vulnerable self from her perspective."

"You—" The High Devil's face became extremely ugly.

The exchange of consciousness was faster than anything else. Obviously, after hearing his words, Zoe had already shown the battle scene in his mind.

"Not admitting it won't change the fact that you were utterly defeated. It shows that what you call impossible is ultimately just a joke," Roland mocked. "Not setting foot in the Tianhai Realm means you can't get the Legacy Fragment? Why don't you first tell me what that is? If we don't have a unified definition, how can I answer the doubts in your heart? Maybe in our eyes, it's not that precious."

"You're simply trying to make me laugh, insect," Kabrada's voice was full of anger, "The source of the Divine Will War, the key to the continuation and advancement of the race, and you say it's not precious?!"

Pasha suddenly thought of something, "Wait, is it like a red crystal, shaped like a sharp cone? If you come into deep contact with it, you'll be taken to an extremely empty hall and see some incredible scenes?"

"Relic of the Gods!" Tilly exclaimed as well.

"You actually call it a Relic of the Gods? Truly a low-energy crawling species," the devil sneered. "That's the inherent Legacy of the race, and it has nothing to do with the Gods—devour it, and the race will ascend; lose it, and the race will become food for other races! Now do you know how stupid you are? When those underground cowards were destroyed, you crawling species were still shrinking on the surface. How could you have touched this reward?"

Roland's heart skipped a beat. So this was why the other party was so certain that humans could not have obtained the fragment, or rather, the relic. As one of the four civilizations displayed in the painting, if destroying a race was the only way to seize the relic, then humans had no chance of obtaining it by luck—the underground civilization disappeared during the First Divine Will War. At that time, humans were fighting tooth and nail with the devils, so where would they have the energy to participate in another war of extermination?

He looked around and found that everyone's expressions were particularly solemn, obviously aware of the importance of this information.

First of all, it indirectly confirmed Tara's earlier guess—"They've been killing each other for hundreds of years over a stone of unknown use? Divine Will is too ruthless"—Roland remembered Wendy having such a sigh, but now it seemed that the relic not only determined the survival of the civilization but also had immeasurable value to other competitors. Under this premise, it meant that there was almost no possibility of reconciliation in the Divine Will War.

Secondly, judging from the High Devil's statement, they were undoubtedly one of the beneficiaries of the ascension. Although it was unclear what the specific process of devouring the relic was, the fact that they could attribute the credit for evolution and new weapons to the relic made Roland couldn't help but think of knowledge inheritance. Could it be that the异种 devils and giant skeletons that appeared in the Dawning Realm this time were related to the underground civilization?

This was even more outrageous than the industrial revolution. If the former required the accumulation of a large number of industrial workers and means of production until technological breakthroughs triggered a rapid advancement in productivity, then this inheritance was no different from imparting功 power in martial arts novels—as long as one obtained the relic of a civilization, they could plunder all the failures' accumulation. If this was the truth behind the ascension, it was a bit too terrifying.

Finally, as a competitor in the painting, humans were indeed far behind other races. Taking this piece of information, for example, although it was of great significance, it wasn't even close to being classified as a secret—even if one understood the weight of the relic, it would not have any impact on the outcome of the war. If they couldn't beat the enemy, they still couldn't beat the enemy. It was the kind of content that anyone could know. But it was precisely this kind of content that humans had always had only a vague outline of, and they had failed to completely unite for nearly a thousand years, leading to repeated defeats.

Thinking about it now, it could only be said that humans had wasted too much time on internal strife.

Roland licked his slightly dry lips and, after scanning through the many new questions that flooded his mind, selected the most crucial one.

"Is all of this an arrangement from the Gods? So you also call the war the Divine Will War—"

"Is this how you understand Divine Will?" Perhaps because the silence had been too long, the High Devil's voice had become much calmer when he spoke again. "Well, it seems good to let you die understanding the truth. Listen well, insects, this war has nothing to do with the Gods, only with the races themselves. The final ascender will open the path to the source of magic, thereby obtaining omnipotent power. In the face of that power, my will is the Divine Will! Of course, all of this has nothing to do with the inferior crawling species. Your destiny is doomed to destruction!"

"Where did you learn this from?"

"What, do you think I, Kabrada, will continue to talk?" The other party let out a cold laugh.

"What do you mean?" Roland suddenly felt something was wrong. "Zoe?"

"This female is probably unable to hear your voices for the time being—using the trick of transferring souls to disrupt my阵脚, and then having a虫 with mental abilities to窥视 my thoughts? You really haven't made any progress in these hundreds of years." At some point, Zoe's voice had become cold and ruthless. "Playing magic tricks in front of me, Kabrada, is simply courting death. Although I can't control this body, it doesn't mean I can't use magic!"

"Camilla!" Roland shouted sharply towards Camilla Dary, the chief steward of Sleeping Island.

"Too late, say goodbye to this female!"

With a burst of shrill laughter, Zoe suddenly closed her mouth, and Camilla Dary looked pale, as if she couldn't believe what had happened before her eyes. "The soul in the God's Punishment Warrior's body… has disappeared!"