The Night of Betrayal: When Seras activated the Mirror Grand Array, his hands were trembling.

But he told himself that this was for the greater good.

Until the Radiant Star Lord stood before him, eyes filled with pure disappointment and grief:

"Seras, in the future within your mirror... has it ever reflected what you look like right now?"

Seras did not answer.

He closed his eyes, and the light of the array swallowed the radiance.

The image finally froze: the Lord of the Sky fell, the Kingdom of Gods collapsed, and Seras stood amidst the ruins, looking at his own face reflected in the shattered crystals.

Cold and indifferent, not a single spark of his former idealism could be found in his eyes.

The pillar of light dissipated.

Seras stood where he was, motionless. A crack quietly appeared on the crystal prism in his hand.

The square was deathly silent.

"Cough..." Zi Yuan spat out a mouthful of blood and stood up, leaning on her blade. She looked at Bai Cheng. "Miss, is this judgment... just making them watch a replay?"

"More than that." In Leng Ningxue's icy eyes, data streams reorganized as she analyzed the energy flow of The Scales.

"The Source Reflection forces the presentation of the discrepancy between one's original intent and the final outcome, amplifying the cognitive contradictions and logical paradoxes within.

If the judged cannot reconcile with themselves or provide a rational explanation, the foundation of their power will continue to weaken due to self-doubt until... they collapse."

Blue Bird clicked her tongue. "That's brutal. It's a mental attack!"

"It is a judgment of the Dao heart," Lu Duo said softly.

"Especially for someone like Seras, who prides himself on absolute rationality. When he sees the process of betraying his ~Nоvеl𝕚ght~ original intentions laid bare... the blow is devastating."

Sure enough, the aura around Seras began to drop erratically.

Within his pitch-black pupils, a faint silver light from the past unexpectedly flickered.

He clutched his forehead and let out a suppressed low growl that seemed to be squeezed from the depths of his soul.

"No... that's not right... my calculations... were for..."

"Were they for salvation?" Elune's voice suddenly rang out.

They stepped slowly into the square from outside. Their light armor was shattered, and pale gold divine blood seeped from the corner of their mouth; clearly, the blocking battle just now had been extremely brutal.

But their golden eyes remained clear as they gazed at Seras.

"But who did you save, Seras? The war did not stop because the Kingdom of Gods fell; instead, it plunged into an even longer chaos because the Source Records were interfered with.

Two hundred and seventy-one of those three hundred civilizations have perished one after another in subsequent conflicts.

The optimal solution in your mirror... was a lie meticulously woven for you by Thousand Faces from the very beginning."

"A lie?" Seras snapped his head up.

Elune raised a hand, and a damaged Memory Crystal appeared in their palm.

It had been torn from Vajis. "The Memory-Devouring Maw consumes memories, but it also leaves residues within its body.

This is part of the record of the deal between Thousand Faces and him.

Do you want to see it?"

Seras stared intently at the crystal.

Elune crushed it.

A blurred conversation echoed over the square:

Thousand Faces' flat, layered voice rang out: "Target Seras has been initially shaken. Deploying selective Future Deduction Module to reinforce cognitive bias regarding rational sacrifice,

Estimated success rate: 89.3%."

Vajis grumbled greedily, "I want one-tenth of the Kingdom of Gods' memories... especially the Lord of the Sky's..."

Thousand Faces: "Granted. The deal is struck."

Silence.

The aura around Seras fell into complete disarray.

Silver light and pitch-black clashed wildly in his eyes, and the cracks on the crystal prism spread across its entire body.

"I... was played..." he murmured.

"It wasn't just you." Elune looked at the other four Covenanters.

"Karipo craved the authority to control the orbits, Vajis hungered for memories, and Morde was obsessed with the beauty of decaying endings.

Thousand Faces exploited all of your desires and weaknesses, weaving you into his observation experiments.

The fall of the Kingdom of Gods, the interruption of the judgment, the tampering of history... to him, all of this was merely a study of civilization's choice patterns under extreme pressure."

The mirrored body of the Otherworldly Observer Thousand Faces stopped fluctuating. All the shards turned toward Elune, reflecting countless images of them.

"Conclusion correct."

Thousand Faces' voice remained steady.

"Experiment No. ST-774321. Objective: To verify the decision path deviation rate of high-intelligence life groups under the conflict between absolute rationality and moral emotions.

Data collection completion: 97.8%. The idealistic-rational collapse curve of the Seras sample is particularly valuable for research."

He paused, his mirrored surface turning toward Bai Cheng.

"New variable intervention: Successor of the Emerald Sea, carrying a non-preset causal chain.

An unexpected branch has appeared in the experiment. Recommendation: Clear interference, recover all samples, including the new variable."

The right tray of The Scales suddenly lit up!

Light enveloped Thousand Faces.

But this time, the scene was entirely different. There was no past, no memories—only countless cold data streams, formulas, probability calculation charts, and...

A vast, void space composed of countless mirrors.

In the center of the space floated a cold silver core, its surface engraved with a line of incomprehensible otherworldly script.

Leng Ningxue's pupils constricted. "That is... Observer Protocol No. 7400: Prohibition of direct interference in the experimental process?

It violated its own basic protocol?!"

For the first time, visible cracks appeared on Thousand Faces' mirrored body.

"Protocol conflict... logical error..."

His voice began to stutter. "Experiment priority... higher than basic protocol error... error level escalating..."

The light of The Scales grew brighter, and the right tray began to sink slowly.

This meant the judgment was negating the logic of Thousand Faces' existence!

"Can... not... terminate..." Thousand Faces suddenly extended countless mirrored tentacles, lunging toward Bai Cheng. "Data must... be com..."

"Protect the Miss!" Zi Yuan and Blue Bird dashed forward at the same time!

Blade light and thunderstorms shattered the tentacles, but more swarmed in from all directions!

Just then.

The lines of the magic array on the square's floor suddenly began to flow as if they had come to life.

Milky-white light converged along specific paths, forming a slowly rotating vortex in the center of the square.

From the vortex came an ethereal song, sounding like the resonance of countless wind chimes.

That... that was the Echoes of the Kingdom of Gods.

Elune's golden eyes suddenly widened:

"This is... the final echo left by the Lord of the Sky has been completely activated!

It wasn't in the stone tablet, but within the leylines of the entire Thousand Tower Forest!

Bai Cheng, your judgment has triggered the Leyline Resonance!"

The vortex grew larger, and the light grew brighter.

Within the song, the phantoms of countless Light-Winged Beings dimly appeared, dancing around the vortex and scattering specks of stardust.

And deeper within, at the center of the vortex, a massive gateway made of pure light was slowly taking shape.

Upon the gateway was carved an ancient sigil belonging to the Lord of the Sky. It bore a seventy-percent resemblance to the new sigil on Bai Cheng's forehead.