Chapter 459: Evil God Ritual - Boathouse

The sphere was unceremoniously loosened by Bai six, and floated into Bai Liu's face, turning from white to translucent in an instant, with different colours flowing through the film of light, like a bubble of refracted sunlight.

The bubble drifts away into the depths of the universe, merging with the rest of the spheres in a band of light that can no longer be distinguished.

"I was born out of these things." Bai six sits lazily on one of the spectator chairs behind the watery wall, propping his jaw up and lifting his eyes, smiling at Bai Liu behind the watery wall, "Of course, so are you."

"I have existed for so long that I don't remember how I became an evil god, I have been a god for as long as I can remember."

Bai six took off his gloves and opened his palms to Bai Liu. There were seven or eight twitching, weak spheres still struggling to emerge from his hands, and Bai six lowered his eyes and took hold of the spheres in his hands that were struggling to emerge.

The sphere was squeezed by Bai Six with a tiny cry of "ki" and exploded into countless points of light that disappeared into Bai Six's hands.

Bai six smiled and raised his eyes, "In that instant just now, there were ten world lines where you were, destroyed in my hand."

"Interesting game, isn't it?"

"I don't think it's funny." Bai Liu answered him in a calm tone.

"Well." Bai six put on his gloves, rubbed his chin thoughtfully, thought for a while and smiled again, "Well then, that's not funny."

"I don't think it's interesting either, it's boring."

Bai Liu calmly asks, "Aren't you going to tell me about the background of the game? What about the rest of your villain setting?"

"What is your purpose, for example?"

"I thought you weren't interested in me." Bai six leaned back in his chair, his legs folded casually, his long hair tilted down from his shoulders, his head tilted lightly with his forehead resting against his right hand, smirking, "My aim, of course, is to get out of this boundless and uninteresting life."

Bai six lowered his eyes to his right hand: "Whether I want to or not, the world lines keep coming out of my palm, as if I created them with my hands."

"But that's not really the case."

"I am just a door, and these pre-existing world lines need to pass through me, the door of time and space, and come from the other side of the door to this side of the door in order to start functioning, or else they will fall on the other side of the door."

Bai six raised her eyes with a very subtle smile on her face.

"For on the other side of the gate is the inorganic abyss, the darkness, and the evil that never sees the bottom, and the species in the worldline that exists there will stay for eternity with the unspeakable evil of the old days."

"They will go to madness and eventually destroy themselves."

"I was keen at first to trap these world lines on the other side of the door and watch them bring about their own demise, but after watching more of them, shows like this have become boring."

"So I started putting the world line on this side of the door."

Bai six raises his index finger and points it at the watery wall, the ripples on the wall spread out in a circle and on this side of the wall you can only dimly see spheres spilling out from the tip of Bai six's finger pointing at the wall, he whispers.

"This side of the gate holds the objective logic and truth of the universe's stars and the workings of all things; the world lines can gain light on this side and they can survive for a long time."

"There are a number of different variations that can arise on this side of the door in the world line, and they develop a rich variety of creatures that are completely different from those on the other side of the door, like dogs, like cats, and then like roses and primroses."

"I enjoyed observing the different species in the different world lines and I found them all very interesting."

Bai six leaned his jaw lazily on the back of his hand, his eyes looking up at Bai Liu and said with a soft laugh, "And of all species, the one I find most interesting is the human."

"All other creatures need only some visible external objects to survive, such as sunlight, air, water, food, shelter; only man, in addition to these external objects, needs something unseen."

"Even if you were given plenty of sunlight, air, water, food, shelter, it would not be long before a human being was left alone to survive a world line, or a human being was left alone to be turned away from all collectively, and it would not be long before that human being would commit suicide in agony."

Bai six smiled, "Besides material things, you need kindness and love to survive."

"This is so interesting, it's the first time I've seen a creature with this fantasy type of need, I'm curious about you guys and would love to know exactly what this need of yours arises from and under what circumstances it would be abandoned."

"So I've done a lot of experimentation on you guys in many world lines and found out the essential reason why you have this need." Bai six raised his eyes and he smiled, "Because you have souls."

"I try to create souls."

"But even if I fabricated an identical shell in imitation of some human in the worldline, infused that shell with the same memories as this human, and then threw him into the identical worldline I created, this creation would still be unable to produce a soul."

"Even if I were to unify all the factors, this creation of my own creation would still not be able to produce a soul, which would seem to have to be formed autonomously by you humans in a social environment where I do not interfere and where it is naturally formed."

"In all the time I have existed, I have never seen anything that I could not create, that I could not have, and it has now finally appeared."

Bai six hooked the corners of his mouth, "This is just too much fun."

"That which cannot be created and owned by me is that which is most valuable."

"I have observed many world lines and have discovered the pattern of the birth of a human soul, which is that when that human being develops a particular two strong emotions, it has the potential to produce a soul."

"These two emotions, as human society calls them - [love] and [pain]."

"To test this theory, so I began to descend into each world line as an evil god, asking them to sacrifice [pain] or [love] to me, and in exchange I would meet their demands for some external object."

The smile on Bai Liu's face deepened, "But soon, I found something more interesting happening."

"Soul, love, & pain, three things that I could not create myself and that I find most valuable, that these humans would actually sell the love, pain, and soul that they possess in themselves for some external thing that I give them at my whim."

"Even in the end, they themselves had reached the point where they could no longer produce [love] to sell to me, but in order to continue to receive my material rewards, so they chose to torture their own kind and sacrifice the suffering of [their kind] to me in exchange for my pity."

"It is clear that kindness and love are necessary for their own survival, yet they can turn their backs on all this for an external object and fanatically pursue me as an evil god."

Bai six smiled and looked across at Bai Liu: "It's funny how creatures like humans tend to destroy themselves, isn't it?"

Bai Liu just looked at him coldly, "This kind of fun won't be satisfying for you for long, will it?"

"Indeed." Bai six sighed as if in regret as he spread his hands and shrugged his shoulders, "For soon these humans began to kill each other and abuse their own kind at the call of me, the evil god, and their hearts were so full of evil and darkness that they could no longer produce the quality emotions and souls I wanted to see, becoming just as full of lust as monsters."

"This side of the Gate was originally bright, but under the pandemonium of this human race's struggle, this side of the Gate's universe began to lose its truth, its logic and its light, and soon became dim."

Bai six smiled and said, "- became as dark as the other side of the door."

"And on the other side of the door, because all the world lines crossed me to arrive on this side, there is no longer a great deal of world lines over there, but instead it has become brighter."

Bai Liu calmly asked in return, "Isn't it because you, the evil god, didn't intervene so that the door's side returned to normal operation?"

"I don't mind if you want to say that." Bai six smiled, "Anyway, in the end it was just a case of the universes on either side of the Gate swapping, and I'd had enough of playing with humans and was starting to find the whole universe boring, so I wanted to find an heir to continue as the Gate for me."

"I think the last evil god may have played into this, so I was approached to be the successor."

"But to become a Gate, the next evil god, there is a hard condition that must be met."

Bai six smiled and looked at Bai Liu: "- that is only if he must take on the difference between the universes on both sides of the gate without collapsing, he must be able to have the ability to contain the desires and evils of the whole universe, and at the same time this heir must be more valuable than me."

"So I also want this heir to be a human with a soul."

"There is value in this request-" Bai Liu raised his eyes, "It's your request, isn't it?"

Bai six hooked the corners of his mouth, "Yes."

"If what sits in my place is a cheaper piece of crap than I am, it will one day be devoured by the awakened me."

Bai six crossed his arms boredly and folded them in front of him, "Because it's so boring to exist in this kind of universe, I want the heir to kill me."

"But I searched for a long time and could never find an heir who met my requirements."

"Finally, I got really bored to death, so I decided to try and create one myself." Bai six smiled as he stood up and walked nonchalantly towards the wax figure sitting in the chair behind him, streaking emotionally to tell

"I stripped most of the divine power from my body to this creation, sculpted him into my favourite type of appearance, gave him a perfect body and bestowed upon him the highest qualities that mankind has been praised to possess throughout the ages."

Bai six extends his right hand and gently touches the wax figure's features as he looks down at it.

"I gave it all the best things I had learned from human society, trying to make Him my most perfect, most valuable creation."

The blurred face of the wax figure slowly began to melt and shape into delicate features, the wax dripping from the back of the head, the long silver-blue hair falling loosely along the wax, the left and right hands of the wax figure taking shape in the melt, white and firm, dropping unconsciously to the side of the chair, the eyes of the wax figure closed, the chest going from still to slowly beginning to rise and fall, like an idol in slumber.

Bai six rests his hands lightly on the back of his chair and looks at Bai Liu with a smile.

"I call it the embodiment of my good will and name it Tavel."