Mage Manual-Chapter 1415 - 1035: Don’t Make Them Angry (Part 2)

"You’re too weak."

Death Mad looked at Ash, who appeared to be just a mature woman, but her words were filled with an age-old arrogance that could crush Ash: "It’s time to return everything to us."

"Return?" Ash almost laughed out of anger.

"Of course return. From the first second you arrived in this world, we’ve had the power to replace your existence. The fact that you’ve lived until now is because we allowed it, not because you deserve it."

"Isn’t this just robbery logic? It’s my life, and I’m supposed to thank you for allowing me to have it?"

"But it is also the life of the Final Observer." Death Mad glanced at him: "If you were given a chance to return to before you traveled... No, if you could freely travel between the mage world and the original world now, would you care that you’re depriving the ’original world’s Ash’ of his life?"

Ash was momentarily speechless, and after a while, he reluctantly said, "Such a hypothesis is meaningless."

Death Mad asked, "If you encountered our situation, and you could trace back along the timeline, would you take Sword Maiden and the others along with you, and deprive the lives of ’past Ash’, ’past Sonia’? You wouldn’t even harm others, because the ones disappearing are just your past selves."

If it were taking over others, whether he would do it or not, Ash could at least judge its rightness, at worst, being lenient with himself and strict with others, only allowing himself to do it and not others. But if it were being reborn into one’s past self... like how Vishi used the ’Second Cycle Divine Being’ to be reborn into her childhood, can it really be said she killed her Second Cycle self?

Seeing Ash fall into silence, Death Mad chuckled lightly: "No need to answer, some questions don’t exist for answers. I’m just letting you understand, we indeed have a necessity to replace you, to be more direct..."

"Once Level Six of Hell is devoured, you’re bound to die, so why not let us make a big show of it."

"It’s not that we want to replace you, but we have to replace you."

"Moreover, even if we had a burst of goodwill, it wouldn’t help." Death Mad said: "With each layer of Hell devoured by Uroboros, it means our world line and your world line get closer and closer, we and you will mutually erode and fuse. When Level Six of Hell disappears, either you will be transformed into the perfect vessel for our arrival, or we will be transformed into the perfectly absorbed Residual Soul by you, you can gamble on the possibility of the latter."

Ash’s eyes flashed with ferocity. Death Mad and her team were time travelers who buried several civilizations, while Sonia and others were just young female mages in their twenties. If they were to mutually erode and fuse, it’s inevitable that Death Mad and her team would completely devour Sonia. 𝚏𝕣𝐞𝗲𝐰𝕖𝐛𝐧𝕠𝕧𝚎𝚕.𝐜𝚘𝗺

Maybe only Vishi wouldn’t be afraid, Ash could vouch that Vishi of both world lines would have no difference, at most becoming a more unprincipled Ghost Prophet after fusion—if she even had principles.

"...What impact would erosion and fusion have?"

"Their personalities would drift towards ours." Death Mad pointed to herself and slowly said: "As for our personalities... probably a little bit better than Youmo."

Using Vishi as the standard is too strange, don’t you think!?

As if hearing the shout in Ash’s heart, Death Mad laughed: "Because in our two world lines, only Youmo’s personality doesn’t change much."

"What about me?" Ash suddenly asked: "Can I see the Observer?"

Death Mad shook her head: "You wouldn’t want to see him."

"Because when you meet, only one Final Observer can continue to exist."

Ash was silent for a moment: "Then why are you telling me all this information? Could it be... I can stop Uroboros, save Level Six of Hell, and delay your replacement of us?"

"The topic to follow will wait until your next entry into Level Six of Hell." Death Mad said: "The clues you’ve obtained only allow you to linger until now."

"Uroboros’ premature invasion of this world was unplanned, and your penetration into Level Six of Hell through the traces of those two companions... was also unplanned."

Thinking of this, Death Mad sneered: "I originally thought you could only use this last bit of time to enjoy some harem pleasure..."

Ash was anxious, he still had a lot of questions unasked: "What abilities does Uroboros have? Why was Level Six of Hell erased from history? Are Igula and Harvey still alive?"

"Uroboros’ ability is ’devouring True Names’." Death Mad only answered this question and changed the topic: "If you want to stop us from eroding and fusing with you, it’s not impossible."

"What?" Ash was overjoyed.

"You yourself are unaffected, just like you won’t forget Level Six of Hell. And the degree to which Sonia and they are eroded gets deeper bit by bit, if you can spot the signs while they’re being eroded, and promptly extinguish, prevent their personalities from drifting towards ours, you can resist the effect of erosion. Although even if the impact is reduced, the inevitable conclusion will still come."

"Seems a bit complicated," Ash murmured: "Looks like I have to study the Spirit Faction a bit..."

"Actually, it’s very simple, I’ll teach you a trick."

Death Mad said:

"Don’t make them angry."

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...

"So when Hell is devoured by the Great Serpent, they can easily take everything from us?" Weiser summarized.

"That’s right." Ash nodded: "So I have to enter Hell again to investigate the situation, and entering Hell requires the traces of Igula and Harvey."