"You are indeed monitoring this place."
As soon as Adnis finished speaking, Denton's voice sounded.
"Yeah, because I don't trust you."
Denton bluntly stated this point that both parties knew well.
At the same time, because of Denton's sudden appearance, the people could not help but have a commotion of surprise or fear.
"Please don't panic!"
"quiet!"
Aria's gentle comfort and Adair's cold rebuke sounded one after another.
In addition, there is Gairo's voice.
"Stop, Denton!"
I saw Gailuo separating from the crowd, moving from the front row to the back, and scolding while moving quickly in the direction of Denton.
"Don't go any further!"
Gairo wants to stop Denton from approaching.
The impulsive Alan wanted to follow Gailuo immediately when he saw what he was doing, but was immediately stopped by Edith.
"Calm down, Alan, you have more important things to do!"
"But……"
"No buts!"
Edith interrupted Alan with a harsher tone than ever before.
"Everyone has their own responsibilities and obligations, and to stay on your own and go to the earth to protect the people of the beholders who have just arrived there is your greatest responsibility as the son of the emperor and the royal family of the beholder world. And duty!”
After saying this, under Edith's gaze, Alan clenched his fists and stopped struggling.
Seeing this, Edith breathed a sigh of relief, let go of Alan, and looked in the direction of Denton.
At this time, Gaylo had already passed through the crowd in the square, and there was no longer any obstacle between him and Denton.
But Jailo’s footsteps stopped here.
Chloe, who had been following Denton, suddenly disappeared. In the blink of an eye, she covered a distance of ten meters and stood in front of Gaylo.
Seeing this, Jia Yiluo's pupils shrank instantly, and his progress suddenly stopped.
A petite girl in a black dress with a delicate face like a doll faced off against a strong man with a terrifying expression.
It turned out that the person who felt extremely nervous was a strong man, which undoubtedly gave people a strong visual impact.
"Chloe..."
A mindless puppet that completely obeys Denton's orders.
Jailo whispered the name of the girl before his birth, his body tensed, and his heart was full of vigilance.
However, Chloe just looked at Kailuo expressionlessly and said nothing.
Despite this, Jia Yiluo clearly felt a cold murderous aura coming towards his face.
Gairo had no doubt that as long as he dared to move more, the girl in front of him would immediately attack him.
And just when Jailo gritted his teeth and was about to make a desperate move and launch the first attack, Denton finally stopped on his own initiative.
This made Kailuo breath a sigh of relief.
…
Across the crowd, Denton and Adnis, who stopped, looked at each other from a distance.
They looked at each other.
Just looking at each other.
At this glance, it was as if he had seen the present from a thousand years ago.
After a long moment, Denton smiled.
he asked Adnis.
"Why, can't you answer my question?"
"No, I just suddenly thought...it seems that the answer to that question no longer needs to be postponed until tomorrow."
"I guess so."
"But before I give you an answer, I need to ask you one more question."
Hearing this, although Denton's eyebrows suddenly frowned, he did not reject Adnis.
"what is the problem?"
"It's very simple."
Adnis asked Denton.
"I want to know, if I agree to your proposal, but some people are unwilling to accept your intensive transformation surgery, what are you going to do?"
As he spoke, Adnis moved forward.
As Adnis approached, the crowd spontaneously parted a path to let Adnis pass.
And on the other side of that road is Denton.
Therefore, Adnis, who was on that road, walked straight towards Denton.
Midway, Gairo wanted to stop Adnis from taking risks, but before he could speak, Adnis raised his hand to stop him.
And people on Denton’s side.
Neither Chloe nor Ur had the slightest intention to stop Adnis from approaching.
Denton looked at Adnis who walked up to him and slowly spoke his true thoughts.
"I'll kill them."
Just listen to what Denton said.
"Look at this city that has been abandoned for thousands of years, Adnis, it is so barren.
"How much food resources do you think it can provide for people to live in a short period of time?"
The answer was obvious, so Denton continued without waiting for Adnis's answer.
"So I'm not going to waste precious resources on a bunch of people who are destined to die."
Denton's words made Adnis's heart tremble.
"This is so cruel!"
Adnis' rebuke drew a burst of laughter from Denton.
"Cruel? It's ridiculous. How do you think this city was abandoned? Killing them before they truly suffer the pain of hunger is obviously my last mercy to them!"
Denton's words left Adnis speechless.
Yes, when it comes to cruelty, what he has done to the people over the past thousand years is truly cruel.
body, mind.
He took away everything that people could call human.
This has also directly led to the devastation of the city today.
As the culprit, he really has no qualifications to blame.
but!
But!
Adnis suddenly said loudly:
"It is precisely because I clearly know my sins and what is right and what is wrong, that I cannot allow such cruel things to happen!"
Adnis looked directly into Denton's eyes without giving up, and finally began to answer Denton's initial question.
"Denton, you asked before, am I determined to make everyone abandon this world because of my disapproval of your experimental results, right?
"Okay, I'll tell you the answer now - no!
"First of all, your question is wrong.
"I'm not asking everyone to abandon this world, but because of the red death disease, we must temporarily evacuate here.
“And after that, as long as we can find a way to eliminate the Red Death, we can come back at any time.
“Then, I really can’t agree with your research results!
"Because your research has not been completely successful, right?
"So, even if you have transformed everyone and made everyone immune to the red death disease, you will not stop. You will still continue your strengthening experiments and continue to transform everyone's bodies, no? ?"
"yes!"
Denton replied.
"I will let everyone achieve the final evolution, become the ultimate life form, and gain immortality like me!"
"Immortality... Heh, have you ever thought about how many people will die because of your dangerous experiments during this period?"
"Those are precious sacrifices!"
"Wrong! For the people, when they are no longer threatened by the red death disease, it is already an unnecessary sacrifice! And your so-called 'precious sacrifice' is not for the people, but for you, for For your enhanced transformation experiment!"
"No! I want to continue the experiment for everyone's happiness!"
"For everyone's happiness? No! You are just doing it for your own ambition!
"Those who do not accept the enhanced transformation will die, and those who accept the enhanced transformation must participate in and accept subsequent enhanced transformation experiments. Once the experiment fails, they will die, but what is the chance of your enhanced transformation experiment failing? You don't know do you know?"
Adnis and Denton went toe-to-toe.
"Forcing people who could survive to sacrifice for your experiments is definitely not what you should do for everyone's happiness!"
However, instead of persuading Denton, these words angered him.
"Adnis! Do you think the sacrifices made by those who participated in my experiments in the past were meaningless?"
Denton angrily questioned Adnis.
Looking at Denton like this, in a daze, Adnis saw for the first time Denton's true heart after being bound by the obsession of the enhanced transformation experiment.
In a laboratory surrounded by numerous tombstones, Denton, covered in scars, was tightly locked on the operating bed with countless chains, his face covered with tears of grief.
The chains that locked Denton to the operating bed were the undead who had died in Denton's intensive transformation experiments.
Yes, it’s not like Denton doesn’t care about those who sacrificed their lives in the enhanced transformation experiment...
Quite the opposite.
It was because he cared so much that his heart became riddled with holes, and he was locked in that laboratory and unable to extricate himself.
So far, even excluding the number of enhanced transformation experiments Denton had conducted privately, he knew of more than a hundred volunteers who had died in Denton's laboratory.
In addition, Denton continues to create and die in order to directly create the ultimate life form.
Their number has long been beyond calculation.
And the chains formed by this huge number of undead cannot be severed by just a few words.
Probably, only death can truly end all that.
Realizing this, Adnis stopped arguing with Denton and sighed deeply.
This scene made him couldn't help but think of himself who was once deeply trapped by the ideal chain of the "perfect world".
"How stupid..."
Adnis couldn't help but sigh softly.
"Either you or me."
Adnis said solemnly.
"So, I reject your proposal.
"Denton, there is no way I can leave everyone in your hands now!"
After finishing his words, Adnis, who had already given his final reply, raised his hand and said loudly.
"Edith, take everyone away!"
Behind the scenes, Edith heard the words and immediately began to arrange for the people to move towards the transmission device.
Adair glanced in Denton's direction for the last time, then turned and left.
Adair made a decision.
He doesn't care what happens to the beholder's inhabitants.
What he chose was his family.
After receiving this information, Denton's face couldn't help but become even more ugly.
He looked at Adnis and sneered:
"You are the only one who is stupid, Adnis, and, in front of me, do you think I will let you have your wish?"
As soon as he finished speaking, a cold murderous intent enveloped Adnis.
"This time, I will kill you!"
What sounded together with these words was the sound of Denton pumping his fist through the air.
However, what happened in the next moment made Denton couldn't help but show a look of astonishment.
"What!?"
His punch was blocked by Adnis.
Snapped!
Fists and palms exchanged.
The wind of Denton's fist lifted up Adnis' clothes, but did not shake Adnis' figure.
"I know, of course you won't do nothing."
Otherwise, a thousand years ago, there would not have been the Hundred Years War of the Beholder.
"So, I have been prepared."
As soon as he finished speaking, Denton's expression suddenly changed and he immediately retreated.
Fifteen stone tablets of different colors suddenly rushed out of Adnis' body and lined up in the middle of them.
Then a cold mechanical female voice sounded.
"Order, execute!"
"Threat, eliminate!"
The beholder guardian appears.
…
The experience of the last Beholder War has taught Adnis the importance of strength and determination.
So after discussing with Edith, Adnis went to pray and completely activated the beholder guardian program.
At this time, the 15 beholder guardian stone tablets were arranged in a V shape. While each transformed, they launched various long-range attacks at Denton.
Gravity fire meteor shower, lightning strikes, ice arrows, high-pressure water flow, light arrows, sound waves, special bullets...
At that moment, Ur immediately raised his hand.
Time to stop!
Da da da!
But those energy attacks only paused for less than a second before continuing to fall again.
The Time Beholder breaks Ur's time cessation.
Boom boom boom boom—! ! !
The attack falls.
The location of Denton and Ur was completely covered by numerous energy attacks in the blink of an eye.
The intensive bombing inevitably set off huge plumes of smoke.
Adnis stared unblinkingly at the place shrouded in smoke.
Chloe too, her expressionless face finally showed some fluctuations, and she couldn't help but cast her eyes in the direction of Denton.
The smoke dissipates.
In front of Ur who couldn't help but close his eyes, Denton, who had turned into a weird posture, stood there upright, without Ur being harmed at all by the long-range attack.
And he himself was almost unscathed.
Only the muscle armor on his body, which looked like a corrupted Western knight's armor, had some white marks on it.
"Sure enough, it's not that simple..."
Adnis sighed and closed his eyes.
As a result, the 15 beholder guardians who had completed their transformation returned to Adnis' body one after another and merged with Adnis.
During this time, Adnis's body continued to deform.
In order to obtain power comparable to Denton, Adnis also transformed into a monstrous form with the help of the beholder guardians.
The perfect beholder!
This is the name of Adnis' current form.
Opening his eyes, Adnis said loudly:
"Come here! Denton!"
Adnis stepped forward and disappeared instantly.
Denton's figure also disappeared instantly.
They collided with each other in the middle of where they had been standing.
Adnis made his declaration to Denton face to face.
"You can't do anything until you defeat me!"
Denton responded coldly.
"Then I'll kill you first!"
As soon as the words fell, both parties retreated in unison and stepped forward again, their bodies flashing and colliding with each other.
Boom boom boom——!
The roaring sound continued.
At the same time, as soon as Chloe came to her senses, she found that Gairo, who had come to his senses first, had taken out a special electromagnetic grenade from his arms and threw it to the ground.
Phew——!
The magnetic field that can destroy the reactor embedded in the chest of the cyborg unfolds instantly.
