Todd was stunned for a moment, and then said in an incredible tone: "You mean...you are an ancient Tairo from a thousand years ago?!"

Meredith frowned slightly: "What? Is there something wrong?"

"Of course! You have lived for thousands of years, and you are still so...young, don't you think this is an amazing thing?!"

Meredith shook his head disapprovingly, looked at the huge black dragon in front of him, and said, "If it's strange, why don't you look at yourself?"

Toddler paused, looked down at his dragon's body, and was speechless for a while.

Meredith sat down on the stone pier again, placed the crow mask next to him, and said softly: "I can live to this day because of the gift of the tyrant on the one hand, and the help of my master on the other."

Todd asked with interest: "So, you are already immortal?"

"Do you think this feeling is good?" Meredith stroked Kuroba with his fingers, with helplessness and sorrow flowing in his eyes: "For me, whether it is a person or a thing, as time goes by, I only I can watch them and slowly move away from myself. When I look back, I find that the whole world is no longer familiar, and I am the only one in the end."

Todd lay down and brought the dragon head to Meredith's side: "Indeed, loneliness is the most painful punishment for mankind."

Meredith touched the dragon scales on Todd's head: "In these thousand years, I have been married seven times and have given birth to sixteen children."

Todd opened his eyes.

"In the beginning, I tried to change my identity to integrate into the human society, simply to live. However, my husband and children are slowly getting old in front of me, but I am still the original appearance. Guess What kind of eyes will my family, friends, neighbors look at me? Let me tell you, fear, alienation, even hostility..."

Todd listened to Meredith's account quietly, without speaking.

"I can only leave my family cruelly when the child is still young, and use leaving to avoid people's rumors and slander. I hide my name and hide in the dark secretly looking at my family and watching my children learn Walk, learn to talk, learn to fight for the first time because someone was scolded as "wild species without mother"..." Meredith lowered her head and said in a low voice, "What makes me sad the most is when the children die. During the coffin, at the funeral, all I can do is hide behind the tree and wait for the people to disperse before I can present a bouquet of flowers from my mother."

Todd sighed slightly inaudible: "Eternal life is not a good thing."

Meredith’s figure was cold and lonely like a valley. She quietly said: “When I left the seventh home, I couldn’t bear this kind of pain anymore. I moved to the Kingdom of Shadows, and my The master lived together. During these hundreds of years, except for occasionally going out to deal with my own affairs, I would stay on the island most of the time. Sometimes no one spoke to me for a month or two, because the only ones who accompanied me were Those strange creatures."

"Here, I became a guide for the trial of a demigod. Great heroes came to me and sought the way to becoming a god. After some attempts, they only left a pile of dead bones to testify. In Meredith’s aqua-blue eyes, dots of the past flashed: “I have witnessed the vivid lives, just passing away in front of my eyes, and I gradually understand the inner heart of Master Skaha. Expectations."

"She is very similar to me. We are all waiting, waiting for someone to come, waiting for this person to show us the final future."

Meredith looked at the large and small scars on Todd, and said softly: "Skarha was originally optimistic about Cuchurin, but the latter's vision was short-sighted. What he saw was only the rise and fall of the kingdom, but he never Without considering the continuation of race and civilization, so in the end, she chose you."

Todd put his chin on the ground, was silent for a moment, and suddenly remembered something: "Meredith, I heard Skarha say that you are one of the candidates for the Battle of God's Choice?"

The latter responded: "You are talking about the competition initiated by absolute will? My life is already suffering from immortality. I don't want to put another layer of shackles on myself."

Todd raised his head: "Since you have seen Jing...Absolute Will, then you should know the identities of Skaha and Leviathan."

"They are the servants of Absolute Will in the mortal world, and are responsible for coordinating the battle of God's Choice."

"Well, the word servant is a little bit ambiguous, but I guess they don't care." Todd continued to ask, "Have you heard the terms of the victory of God's Choice?"

"Winning conditions?" Meredith smiled and poked Todd's nose with a finger: "Tell me, do you really want to be a god?"

Todd tilted his head, looked at Meredith and said: "If a madman like Cú Chulainn wins the battle of the God's Choice, I am afraid the whole world will usher in darkness."

Meredith smiled and shook his head: "The three ways of victory proposed by Absolute Will are practically impossible to achieve."

Todd was a little surprised: "Impossible? Why?"

"Let’s talk about winning first. Make yourself strong enough to defeat any forces or creatures in this world, including those prehistoric monsters hidden underground and deep in the sea. Then, this list should naturally include Leviathan. You think someone Can you beat him?"

Todd thought for a while, it was indeed the case.

Jing Su said that the power proposed to win requires the power of the candidate, strong enough to defeat any creature on this planet, including the first creations of Jing Su-Leviathan and Skaha, and other hidden ones. forerunner. This is almost impossible task.

Meredith went on to say: "Furthermore, conquer the victory, directly or indirectly occupy more than half of the world's land. It seems that this condition is the simplest, but it is actually the most difficult. Because land does not only exist in the mainland. Above, they also exist in the ocean, but they are swallowed by the sea, and they are usually invisible."

"Wait a minute." Todd raised the dragon's head and interrupted Meredith's words: "You mean that the conditions for conquest include not only land but also the sea? Isn't that reasonable?"

Meredith said amusedly: "How could it be unreasonable? I heard my master say that a long time ago, there were many cities and kingdoms in the sea, and they even wanted to go ashore to conquer the land. Even now, who knows Are there creatures living on the bottom of the sea? Therefore, it is naturally impossible to exclude the ocean from the conditions of conquest."

Hearing Meredith's analysis, Todd was a little dumbfounded.

He originally thought that this victory condition was the easiest to achieve, but he did ignore that the land in Jing Sukou not only included land, but also the continental shelf of the ocean.

Therefore, the condition for conquering victory is actually to conquer more than half of the world.

Todd said disheartenedly: "Then there is the last way to victory-faith victory."

Speaking of the victory of faith, Meredith's face showed hesitation for the first time.

"I am actually a little confused about the victory of faith mentioned by Absolute Will." The woman bit her lower lip and thought hard: "Absolute Will only said something like this-"Transform more than half of the world's population into its own believers." There are no restrictions on methods and forms."

"There are several vague concepts here. The first is population. I think what absolute will refers to should not only be limited to humans, but should also include other intelligent races, and even some unexpected things."

"Secondly, there are believers. To what extent can they be called believers? Is it true that those who pray and bow down can be counted as believers, or do they need to accomplish other things?"

"The last sentence-there are no restrictions on the way and form." Meredith said, frowning: "This sentence from Absolute Will, UU reading www.uukanshu.com, I thought about it for a long time, and it didn't. I don’t understand, what is meant by method and form without restriction?"

Todd also thought about it.

The three paths proposed by Jing Su to win the battle of God’s choice, the victory of power requires the challenge of many powerful creatures, including the forerunner Skaha and Leviathan. Unless the organism evolves to an advanced stage, the victory of power is basically impossible. Possible tasks.

The victory of conquest requires not only controlling the terrestrial territory, but also completing the construction of colonies or outposts in the ocean. This can only be achieved by climbing the technology tree to a certain level. It seems that it is also a long-term thing.

The final is the victory of faith... "Transform more than half of the world's population into its own believers, without restrictions on methods and forms."

Jingsu's words sounded very simple and easy to understand, but after careful analysis, they were full of doubts.

Todd sighed towards the sky, and it seemed that winning the battle of God's Choice was not a simple matter at all.

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