Chapter 1 I Want to Save Everyone

“Su Zhou, I thought from the beginning that you weren’t a native of the Earth, and the reason you fought with that Water God fellow was probably because he actively sought you out. So when you killed the Water God, I knew that you were likely a powerful being left over from some special era.”

Facing the silent Su Zhou, the Wind God waved his arms, wanting to gain a response from the other. His words were sincere: “Of course, now I know that you are a life form from another world—since that’s the case, you probably don’t care much about the cyclical reincarnation of this world, right? Although you live in the city of the Earth people, you aren’t the Earth God… So, since you have no requirements for the next era, why can’t you let me have it? Unlike with the Water God, there’s no reason why we have to fight.”

“Even if you are closer to the Earth people… I’m sure you’ve noticed that after so many years of doomsday erosion, the Earth people have long lost all their spirit and energy. They are just eking out a living in the sanctuary, waiting for the doomsday to arrive and pronounce their own death sentence… So why not give me this chance?”

What the Wind God said was indeed correct.

There was no reason for Su Zhou to fight him.

Su Zhou wasn’t the Earth God, and without the original Earth element at the beginning of this world’s era transition, he had no way of determining what form the next era would take.

Rather than sit by and watch the era transition into an unknown form, it would be better to give this opportunity to the Wind God and let him reshape the Wind Era.

No, to be precise, it wasn’t giving it, because Su Zhou had no motivation to compete at all. The Wind God came only hoping that Su Zhou wouldn’t go crazy and try to stop him. There was indeed no reason for the two to fight.

“…There isn’t much of an aura of evil on you. Even if there is a little, it’s about the same as cutting in line. For a god-level being, you’re practically a great philanthropist. After so many years of walking among humans, you probably haven’t killed many people, and even if you have, it was probably because someone attacked you first.”

So saying, Su Zhou broke the silence. He said softly, “You are indeed a good benevolent god, at least for the Wind people.”

“Are you agreeing?” Although he heard only good words, the Wind God vaguely felt something was wrong. “Can I take it that way?”

But Su Zhou slowly shook his head. The huge dragon head revealed no expression.

Facing the frowning Wind God, the wingless great dragon said calmly, “You are a true god. Like the Water God, you are a god who loves his people from the bottom of his heart. I admire you.”

“But admiration doesn’t equal agreement. Because I’m different from you. I’m an incurable weirdo, a mentally abnormal freak, a guy who does everything according to his own preferences, without rhyme or reason.”

“What I want to do in this world isn’t just get a basic ‘race continuation’ ending—what I want is for the entire world to continue smoothly and achieve the ‘perfect ending’ that ends this cycle!”

So saying, Su Zhou’s tone was as casual as saying good morning to a friend. His words were calm, yet filled with an extremely abnormal, but incomparably firm determination: “I want to save all the life left in this era, no matter who it is. If I can’t save them, it’s my problem; if I can, it’s my ability, but I want to work towards that.”

“Wind God, I’m not against you. If I fail, then naturally I won’t interfere with you influencing the next era, but before I fail, I can’t give you this guarantee—as long as you don’t attack me, I won’t attack you either.”

“…You also have a firm determination and enough reasons to convince yourself.”

After a long silence, the Wind God slowly nodded. He said this, then laughed: “As expected, it’s difficult to simply rely on words to persuade other intelligent beings. In the end, one must resort to force.”

This was inevitable.

If Su Zhou hadn’t expressed his demands, then the Wind God might have believed that Su Zhou, as a visitor from another world who had no reason to stop him, wouldn’t interfere with his transformation of the Wind Era.

But since Su Zhou had expressed his thoughts about this world, then as a powerful being who had killed the Water God, the Wind God couldn’t use the future of his people as a gamble, betting that Su Zhou wouldn’t interfere with him.

Neither the god nor the man had a basis for mutual trust.

“How about this, Su Zhou, let’s have a duel. Unlike your battle with the Water God, we’ll go to an empty area, without interfering with anyone or involving any civilians. It will be a fair duel between the two of us, a full-strength contest—if I win, you won’t interfere with me; if I lose, then you can do whatever you want. The fight will be without regard for life or death, and no holding back.”

So saying, the Wind God’s aura began to soar. At the exit of the maze, an invisible gale began to sweep around, causing the surrounding Wind Spiritual Energy to surge. His gray-haired man’s form also began to float slowly, wrapped in the gale, his entire body flowing with a faint cyan magic spiritual light.

“Have you ever killed the innocent?”

To the Wind God who had already entered battle mode, Su Zhou was still squatting on the ground. He didn’t answer the other’s suggestion at all, but instead, asked in a relaxed tone.

“Didn’t you hear me clearly?”

To be honest, the Wind God felt that Su Zhou seemed to have entered a somewhat difficult-to-communicate state, so he repeated himself again: “Just a duel between the two of us—that’s all. You don’t need to hold back, and naturally, I won’t hold back either. Rather, if you can kill me, that’s your ability, and at the very least, I’ll beat you into paralysis, so you can’t stop me from transforming the next era.”

“Have you ever committed a massacre?”

Su Zhou turned a deaf ear to the threat hidden in the Wind God’s words, and just continued to ask.

“Hey!”

At this time, the Wind God was truly a little helpless. Behind the gray-haired man’s form, a huge gap had cracked open, and a pair of wasp wings were revealed. His gaze became dangerous: “If you don’t kill me, then I’ll have to come and kill you—does that not matter to you? Then why did you fight the Water God?”

“Or is it that you care more about the lives of those ordinary Earth people than your own life?”

“Of course it’s ordinary people!”

The huge wingless white dragon slowly stood up. Su Zhou stretched his wrists and neck, and between the scales, the grooves and lines began to light up with cyan-purple spiritual light and arcs of electricity. He said as a matter of course:

“If you attack me, the unlucky one is you—but if you attack others, the unlucky ones are innocent ordinary people!”

“Moreover, in the final analysis, since I don’t think it’s wrong for me to kill any creature I think is ‘guilty,’ naturally I won’t think it’s ‘evil’ for any creature to kill me—maybe in their eyes, I’m purely evil?”

Saying this in a cheerful tone, Su Zhou finally reiterated: “Wind God, I’ll ask you one question, and after that, we’ll start fighting—have you ever killed innocent ordinary people?”

“Although I asked before, now I’m seriously asking you.”

So saying, the cyan-purple Phagefiend Flames began to slowly surround and burn around Su Zhou. The power of the Phagefiend Lord was fully activated. In this situation, Su Zhou was like a *bixi* incarnate when it came to words related to good and evil. He could see through whether the Wind God was lying with one glance.

“No!”

At this time, the Wind God was amused by Su Zhou’s inexplicable attitude. The gray-haired man’s body suddenly began to twist and change in a burst of soaring spiritual light. In his voice containing anger, accompanied by a violent spiritual pressure that was several times thicker and a hurricane that directly blew away even the clouds in the sky, a not-so-large, but extremely dangerous and terrifying gray-yellow giant insect appeared in front of the wingless great dragon.

It was a giant wasp-like insect that was twenty or thirty meters in size. It had slender arms and huge wasp wings. At the front of its arms was a Storm Lance like a knight’s lance, and a Thunderbolt Lance flashing with lightning and spiral tornadoes.

It could be seen that the gales were swirling together, producing brilliant electric light from the friction of the air, and the tail of this giant wasp also had a sharp black metal stinger, on which an extremely dangerous black poison was being secreted, just by looking at it.

The true form of the great Wind God was revealed. He couldn’t speak at this time, but the sound of the flapping wings could tear the atmosphere, emitting a series of fragmented buzzing sounds. Each time it flapped, it seemed to create countless phantoms behind the Wind God, as well as a series of raging storm shields surrounding it.

Obviously, the Wind God no longer intended to continue communicating with Su Zhou.

“In that case.”

After hearing the Wind God’s answer, Su Zhou nodded with satisfaction, but the spiritual light surrounding the giant dragon also became more and more intense, more and more dangerous: “Then according to the standards I set, you shouldn’t die.”

He used a matter-of-course, but inexplicably strange sentence, as the opening line of this battle: “Since you haven’t killed anyone, then obediently live well—does a guy who doesn’t do evil deserve to die at my hands?”

“Who kills who is not certain!”

And the Wind God’s soul transmission came with anger: “I misjudged you, Su Zhou, you are just an arrogant monster!”

“You don’t need to praise my merits.”

Su Zhou grinned, revealing his fangs and a throat that had already begun to overflow with lightning and flames. He laughed loudly: “Then next, it’s time for battle, and I will also use my full strength.”

“Blade, come!”

A loud shout resounded through the sky.

And several kilometers away, the blade of the Nirvana Blade, embedded in the center of Nesser City’s square, immediately rose into the air in a burst of electric arcs, breaking through the air and flying towards the distant!