Four Split Personalities

Li Fo’s face was ashen, he had already guessed what the other party was about to say, and that was precisely what concerned him the most.

His "true" identity!

"You were ultimately not cautious enough, not thorough enough."

Motan shook his head gently and said calmly, "Perhaps it’s not entirely your fault, after all, ’exchanging intelligence with the tip of the shadow of the tallest building in the area at exactly noon, as long as someone observant noticed it, it could never be kept secret for long, no matter how covert your methods, inevitably there would be some traces.’"

Li Fo opened his mouth as if to say something, but ultimately he just sighed heavily and dejectedly lowered his gaze.

"I found out just last night, after Silent Prayer had grasped your behavior pattern, he picked a time to create chaos outside Telon’s Glorious Cathedral. In ten minutes, he took the ’message’ you’d left, and thanks to the caution of you remnant loyalists of the dynasty, it did not raise the slightest suspicion in the agent who came away empty-handed."

Casually flipping through the friend messages from Ji Xiaodao, Mor mentioned offhandedly, "Then came a long wait. After all, the techniques you use to convey information are quite clever, but luckily, considering you, the Soul of Abel, had to account for the disparate abilities of your ’comrades,’ decoding it, while difficult, was not an impossible task."

Li Fo’s expression shifted from shock to resignation as he murmured hoarsely, "So, your conclusion that I am not a possessing Acting Agent is because at times my behavior is predictable and not covert enough?"

"Of course, if you were to communicate with the people of Sky Pillar Mountain, I think even if you were to report in right under my nose, it would be quite unlikely that I would notice anything amiss, though I don’t actually need to detect those."

Motan nodded in appreciation of the not-too-stupid question and continued, "Anyway, a few days ago, Silent Prayer finally deciphered the message through her resources and made a copy. The day before we left, she went to the designated place and switched your message, ultimately capturing one of your ’comrades’ last night and told me everything exactly as it happened."

Li Fo abruptly stood up, grinding his teeth and said, "You all..."

"Rest assured, your kinsman has suffered no... irreversible harm, and I also believe that both you and he have the resolve to sacrifice your lives for your ideals. So, please control your own actions, do not let that patterned ’anger’ affect yourself, and further wear out my patience."

Mo looked coldly at Li Fo, his words devoid of any emotion, "Now, I have cleared up most of your doubts, so it’s your turn to answer me, what do you think I want to do?"

Li Fo was silent for a long time, then slowly sat back on the chair behind him, saying solemnly, "You want to... recruit me?"

"Heh, to be precise, it’s a partnership, and the target is not you..."

Mor chuckled lightly, speaking with a smile, "I plan to work with all the remnants of the Sun Dynasty, and your task is to help me make this happen."

Li Fo frowned deeply, "Why should I help you?"

Mo adjusted his mask gently and spoke softly, "Because you have no other choice. Even if you were to try to kill me in the next second and miraculously succeed, even manage to return to Telon before the news gets out and kill Silent Prayer, someone else will carry the news to Sky Pillar Mountain. You might consider this a bluff, but do you really dare gamble on that possibility? For over a thousand years, the remnants of the Sun Dynasty have been plotting revenge, some have even infiltrated Sky Pillar Mountain and become Acting Agents, heh... What do you think would happen if those inscrutable Observers found out? What would Sky Pillar Mountain, which turned Andesil to ruins in a single strike, do? How many of the already few remnants would be rooted out and dealt with?"

Beads of sweat trickled down the side of Li Fo’s forehead, falling onto his trembling shoulders.

"Would you like the responsibility of a thousand-year vendetta destroyed by a single slip of yours to be a bit too heavy?"

Mor watched the ashen-faced Li Fo, mocking with a sneering smile, and continued in an unhurried tone, "However, my second reason might make you feel a little better. Due to the prophecy, I, as the Shadow of Apocalypse, will inevitably stand against Sky Pillar Mountain. They would resort to anything to capture or kill me, which would be very inconvenient. So, if the aim of you Sun Dynasty remnants is revenge, to destroy Sky Pillar Mountain, then what I represent is the ’enemy of my enemy,’ a cooperation rationale that’s fairly reasonable."

Li Fo was silent for a long while before looking up at Mor with difficulty, "What exactly is your goal? What do you want to do?"

"This is not something you need to worry about, nor is it a prerequisite for cooperation."

Mo shook his head, his eyes as silent as the abyss growing more impatient, "Let me remind you that even the Sun Dynasty at its peak was not worthy of being an enemy to Sky Pillar Mountain. If you remnants still lack the strength of the past, your so-called ’revenge’ is merely a joke. Moreover, even if you did manage to establish a dynasty of the same scale, you would simply fall into the same old patterns. As a soul of Abel hidden in Sky Pillar Mountain, you must be very aware that your so-called beliefs are nothing but the powerless barking of a dog and sickening self-satisfaction."

Malice loaded in every sentence, striking to the heart...

Li Fo forced a wry smile and nodded slightly, much like his adversary had outlined, he, as the ’soul of Abel,’ had grown increasingly despairing every day since infiltrating Sky Pillar Mountain. The longer he stood his ground there, the more he realized the unfathomable depth of Sky Pillar Mountain, with his understanding being challenged daily. He had felt the immeasurable might of that colossal structure numbly, recently even resorting to self-hypnosis to maintain his sanity.

He was uncertain of what his ’comrades’ had achieved outside, perhaps they truly were scattered in every corner of the world, continually branching out, accumulating wealth, strength, information, and exhausting every means to become stronger— praising the fallen sun while waiting for the day of revenge to come.

But...

Will the day of revenge truly return?

Just like the Sin Knight said, even if those who inherited the dynasty’s legacy became powerful, what of it?

Wasn’t the great dynasty that nearly unified the Xibei Dalu and even defeated the Dragon Clan powerful enough?

What came of it?

"Ignorance brings hope."

Mo stood up slowly and approached Li Fo, looking down at him as he said indifferently, "And you, who now know too much about Sky Pillar Mountain, are no longer ignorant and therefore are becoming more desperate. Heh, you should have guessed that they never cared about your dynasty from the start, otherwise, they wouldn’t have allowed you resisters to develop to this point... But... I’m different."

Li Fo trembled, abruptly lifting his head, his previously dim eyes suddenly lighting up.

"That’s right, they care about me, ’the Shadow of Apocalypse’."

Motan turned his head to look northward, the pitch-black mist swirling and spilling out in his eyes, "Be it that prophecy or those arrogant High-level Observers, they all care about me, fear me, and are trying their hardest to smother or control me, and in the near future... they might even be afraid of me. This is a treatment you remnants have never experienced."

"Are you saying..."

"My meaning is simple, Dao En, you’ve already made a choice, haven’t you?"

"At your disposal... Your Excellency..."

"Go back."

"Yes."

Chapter 576: In the End