After Being Sold Out By The Empire, I Decide To Assist The Demon King-Chapter 318 - 62 The Potentially Darkened Ernie

Ernie’s current state seemed a bit off... Even though the human woman couldn’t quite tell, Wenresa could vaguely sense that this colleague she almost enlightened once before.

It seemed he was somewhat bewitched.

And not in the ordinary sense of the word... Now, Wenresa could feel a sense of threat emanating from the calm Ernie who was observing the two of them.

But Ernie’s power shouldn’t be stronger than hers, let alone this kind... When Ernie came from Hell to the Main Material Plane, theoretically his power should have been weakened by the plane barrier.

However...

That faintly leaking out, the intertwining contradictions of holy and evil, good and bad, calm and madness swapping places continuously... What was this about? Could it be he’s turned dark?

But as a rule, only divine beings or those like herself with divine blood are eligible for "falling" or "turning evil" or "darkening" right... just like the Evil God—Dark Fisher.

And Ernie, should just be an ordinary Lord of Fire Element, who ascended to the unusual status... Wait, how exactly did Ernie prove his "unusual" status?

"Ernie, are you a descendant of a divine being?"

At Wenresa’s question, Ernie tilted his head in confusion. He sat elegantly before them, legs together and slanted to one side, hands resting on his legs, responding to her curiosity: "Indeed, I do have some divine blood, but not much."

Upon hearing this answer, Wenresa Iluvita gently closed one eye, and the other eye immediately covered with a prism of rainbow light, she looked straight at Ernie.

Or rather, she began to observe the special colors that erupted from Ernie in her sight.

"..."

Now, things had really escalated...

In Wenresa’s vision, which was filled with familiar aura... Behind Ernie, there were tangled threads like knots of unresolved thoughts, flying high into the sky before wrapping around every part of the world.

From the sky above the Demon King Territory, connecting to the World Tree, spreading across the entire world.

This signified... if Ernie’s current condition wasn’t handled well, terrible things were going to happen, affecting the whole world, and Wenresa had certainly seen such threads and colors before.

That’s precisely why she felt "very familiar".

Because, from the farthest Extreme North, to the threads that appeared last time in the Magic Beast gathering place, and even the ones now developing in the ocean, they all looked the same...

"Calamity? Ernie?"

Wenresa Iluvita couldn’t help but speak. She really hadn’t expected that this guy, Ernie, was somehow connected to "Calamity"... But, the threads on Ernie were much thinner than before.

Moreover, it seemed that the same kind of Calamity didn’t center just on Ernie. The threads binding the World Tree were flying not only from Ernie... altogether about ten of them formed this kind of Calamity.

"Calamity?! What did you see?"

The human woman asked in astonishment.

"Cala...mity? Me?"

Ernie pointed at himself in confusion. He was entirely unaware of Yila and Satan Ye’s dreams from a few days ago, so now he had no clue what Wenresa was talking about.

However, he indeed had no need to know.

"Haha, things are getting interesting."

Wenresa Iluvita said this, looking at Ernie with her rainbow-hued eyes, making Ernie feel uncomfortable all over, she then muttered: "I wonder which number of Calamity this one is... It seems psychological problems are, indeed, serious issues..."

Or, if just ten or nine powerful beings having psychological issues would lead to the destruction of the world, then the Main Material Plane was truly too fragile... Quite lamentable.

"???"

Still not understanding what Wenresa was saying, even as Ernie’s emotions were entangled, she was somewhat annoyed, saying, "Anyway, I must meet Yila, let me through, I won’t harm him... believe it or not."

"..."

The human woman looked at Wenresa Iluvita, normally she would absolutely refuse, but having heard Wenresa’s words earlier, it seemed the situation wasn’t quite right.

Wenresa nodded, then shook her head, saying, "Now, I believe you, but Yila left the Demon King Territory three days ago, heading to the Three Towers to study the sudden snowfall... If you don’t mind, could you share your thoughts with us?"

In response, Ernie glanced at her suspiciously, then felt an internal confirmation... Well, Wenresa hadn’t lied, surprisingly, Yila really wasn’t in the Demon King Territory.

"Alright... I..."

Ernie said helplessly, sighing, mimicking Wenresa and the human woman, he sat at the edge of the terrace, legs dangling in the air, watching a succubus practice boxing with a wooden dummy, looking somewhat baffled: "Where do I begin..."

After organizing his thoughts for a moment, Ernie figured out where to start, he asked Wenresa Iluvita, looking at her green hair fluttering in the wind, "Do you remember our conversation that day?"

Then, as Wenresa nodded, Ernie looked up at the gray sky and said, "I think you were right, the world I want to protect, isn’t really this current world... The world I should guard, has long existed only in my memories."

"My ’home’ only exists in the past, a place that vanished with the wind, so... maybe... I should be like you, indifferent to everything, just living each day happily."

Ernie spoke this out, legs casually swinging, like a real girl, pouring out her vexations to the two of them, saying: "But, I don’t think it should be like this... I can’t explain why, but it shouldn’t be like this."

Indeed, Ernie couldn’t articulate what he really wanted, he just felt something was wrong, somewhere something had gone wrong, but he couldn’t grasp it... He couldn’t think of it.

"So, I feel I should consider the problem more radically... Thinking about a problem from the most extreme perspective, might help find the answer, might let me understand a bit of what you, who don’t care about the world’s survival, are thinking."

Ernie said this, with a hint of black qi swirling in his eyes, his legs ceased swinging, the atmosphere turning heavy, he said: "If the one who would destroy the world wasn’t Yila who was uncertain as to be called ’Chaos,’ but you, what would you do?"

"..."

Wenresa squinted, forced to close her eyes... in her special vision, that swirling blackness had turned into a pitch-black storm, preventing her from maintaining her Magic Eye observation.

"..."

"If... just if... only if..."

Ernie said, looking at the succubus girl practicing boxing again with the wooden dummy, and glanced at the relatively serene world, albeit a bit chilly, saying: "If I were to destroy the world..."

"Would you stop me?"

For this question, all three of them knew the answer in their hearts...

The answer was "no", because this was their reasoning, this was their "unusual" status, the outcome of the world was not a part of their contemplation.

Similarly, the question of "whether to interfere with the Main Plane," was also not within their contemplation...

That was exactly why Ernie had realized that whether Yila was "Chaos," for beings like Wenresa who were indifferent, it didn’t matter at all.

All arguments and rebuttals, all accusations and counter-questions, were merely their excuses.

And everything was not supposed to be like this in the first place.

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