Chapter 737
In a way, when I found out that Sophocles hadn't come here in order to kill me… or at least, his main goal wasn't to kill me, then I already knew what this would be about .
What would a Chaos Main God possibly have to chat with me about? The weather was quite nice today? How about we go out for a walk together?
Chaos Main Gods would only be interested in slaughter and souls, and how to better conquer territory in the mortal plane . On a grander scale, basically they would only be interested in how to obtain more power, a higher status, and even more territory .
Did this sound quite similar to how a wild beast would behave? The Chaos Abyss was ruled by the law of the jungle, so this indeed created a large number of highly intelligent wild beasts .
Sophocles might be known as the slyest and most intelligent demon who was the demon that was closest to being a devil, but foundationally speaking, he was still a demon . What demons wanted and needed was something I knew better than anyone .
"Afu, which powerful demon do you want to kill that it requires my assistance?"
That was right, I was certain that he was here to betray one of his allies . For the most powerful demons, their true mortal enemies were never anyone in the mortal plane, but rather other residents of the Chaos Abyss .
Back in the Chaos Abyss, they had forever been at war with each other . When talking about grudges and clashes of benefits, the demons themselves would be each other's true mortal enemies .
As for their battle with the mortal plane? From a certain standpoint, maybe it was quite accurate to describe the Order Faction in terms of a "war" between one country and another, but using the same description on the Chaos Faction would be quite laughable .
Considering the context of the overall situation? Being willing to sacrifice oneself for the sake of the greater good? What a joke! How would I benefit if I sacrificed myself? If I thought about the overall situation, would other bastards do the same? Long-term benefits? We care about the long term? In this war, everyone was fighting for the same territory by force!
From the very start, the Chaos Faction couldn't even be described as a pile of loose sand . They consisted of bastards who would attack members of their own side at any moment . This was the foundational reason why the Order Faction had been able to maintain a subtle balance with the Chaos Faction for so long despite the Order Faction actually being far weaker overall than the Chaos Faction .
Of course, the Order Faction wasn't much better . The Holy Church had just betrayed San Antonio . There was also the previous anti-Mist Alliance Divine Northern Battlefront Alliance that the Holy Church had established . I also couldn't remember just how many pitfalls I had previously dug for the Holy Church . Plus, Seraphim Winton had just tried to assassinate me recently… But at the very least, on the surface we would still all appear to be "allies" . Even if we had just both tried to backstab each other before going to sleep, on the next day, if neither of us were dead, we would still smile and eat breakfast together in a friendly manner .
"Are you trying to compare who's worse?" Harloys commented .
"Indeed, this is comparing who's actually worse . That's how it is for most things in the world, especially for something like war . Isn't war just a comparison of who's more foolish and who makes more mistakes?"
When compared to the Chaos Faction, the Order Faction already seemed pretty good . At the very least, those of the Order Faction were still invisibly bound by certain rules and morals . It wasn't to the extent where anyone who showed weakness would instantly be devoured by a pack of ravenous wolves .
And with the disappearance of the will of the Chaos Abyss, all of the most powerful Chaos Faction existences no longer had any restrictions at all . However, some things still wouldn't change . When they came to the mortal plane, they would all still have the same goal, wanting to conquer everything .
Their benefits would be a direct and bloody clash against the benefits of those in the mortal plane . It was a relationship like that between the hunter and the hunted, the invader and the invaded . Anyone who was known to be connected to demons would immediately become a mortal enemy of the entire mortal plane .
With this as the backdrop, Sophocles coming to find me meant that he definitely wouldn't be hoping that I would target some faction or individual in the mortal plane . I would never possibly agree, even if the target was the Holy Church . This was for the greater good of the entire world . Anyone who broke this unspoken rule would be inviting endless trouble .
"…So, if you're looking for me, but not trying to kill me, then it can only be for the purpose of setting a pitfall for one of your allies . "
Sophocles was currently standing before me in the form of a middle-aged gentleman with slightly dark skin and two horns on his head . He even had a pair of gold-rimmed eyeglasses to help him pretend to be gentlemanly .
He even brought out a white wooden table covered by a parasol that we were sitting at in a stretch of endless barren wasteland . Sophocles was trying his very best to pretend to be gentlemanly in his human form as he was even drinking tea while reading a newspaper .
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