"Damn your freedom, when have you ever been free? I granted you eternal life and the right to explore the sea of stars, and this is the answer you give me, even though you would die the moment you are away from me? Answer me!" Blington roared.
However, not a single soul heeded him. These 5.2 billion souls, who knows how many at this moment slowly transformed into light, like birds flying out from a cage, heading towards their ocean, their spring, and those poems and distant lands.
"You have already lost, Blington." Randolph Carter continued to strike.
"Shut up!"
"Look at you, anxious again. When you arrogantly regard others as merely 'value,' you have already lost. Because you never truly looked down and observed them, those people you always scorned."
"And what do you know?"
Randolph Carter laughed, proudly saying: "I have been hungry, cold, rained upon, and been down and out. I have seen the ugliest side of humanity and witnessed the most beautiful side. Humans are such individuals; they are ugly and evil but also beautiful and bright, full of hope and freedom. They are such a complex species. You, who only see one side, will never understand them."
"Ha ha, hahahaha!" Blington laughed, a mad laughter, like a lunatic.
"In the end, it's just that false light that gives this group unnecessary confidence." Blington's frenzied voice echoed,
"In that case, I'll destroy it! Let you see the folly of believing in a counterfeit!"
The kilometer-tall giant tree pulled out its roots, branches extended, and the massive flower bud opened. At the very center of the bud, it was as if a terrifying eyeball had grown, with endless energy gathering on the eyeball, a furious death light emitted from it.
...
"Facing off?" In the light, Xue Dili smiled.
He put Hermione down and looked at the old undead. The old man and the little girl both showed the most innocent smiles, as if life had been fulfilled.
Xue Dili also smiled, reaching out, holding Hermione with his left hand, and the old undead with his right.
A little girl, a young man, and an old man, the three of them simultaneously performed that familiar starting stance.
On the coast, the glowing giant extended its hand, assuming the starting stance that brought tears to everyone on the screen.
The combat power continued to soar!
"Six billion!"
...
At this moment, the surge of wishes even astounded the world consciousness to the extreme.
Meanwhile, on the Boston coast, the cowherd Howard also shouted the same cry.
"How could it be?" Because, in their perspective, light was born from that monster facing them!
"The ultimate defense, succeeded!" The old mystic scholar Austin laughed, looking at the giant in the ritual, his mouth curved up.
"To the Brilliance... I understand now, I understand everything, damn, you old thing can really hide, I thought this was just your last desperate technique, turns out you anticipated this layer, huh?" Annabelle said, elbowing the old mystic scholar beside her hard.
And in their perspective, at this moment, the Light Giant assumed a standard starting stance.
"Why do so many people unconditionally trust this glowing giant just from the first sight?"
The cowherd Howard looked towards the terrifying death light gathering in the distance, even across an ocean, he felt his cornea would be pierced by the dispersing energy.
This attack, at the charging stage, already surpassed the just mentioned Star-Burning World-Destroying Cannon, it was like an attack from the primeval meteor that struck the Gulf of Mexico, exterminating the dinosaurs millions of years ago.
To this extent, all of mankind's nuclear bombs together couldn't compare, right?
Can we win?
"How could this level of attack be blocked? It's impossible to win, right?"
However, as soon as he finished speaking, he was elbowed hard in the abdomen by Annabelle, the evil spirit he summoned, nearly making him vomit his dinner from the previous night: "What do you mean it's impossible to win?"
And Austin also smiled, explaining to him: "Relax, Howard, we won't lose, at least on Blue Star, we won't lose…"
The evil spirit Annabelle chimed in too: "Yeah, yeah, Light won't be defeated no matter what, haven't you figured out why Old Austin spent so much time and effort setting up this so-called 'To the Brilliance' technique yet? Think about the principle of this technique, you dummy!"
"The principle of To the Brilliance, is the concept that the Guardian representing Earth will inevitably defeat the alien invaders… wait, this thing can represent Earth? The other side is alien? Isn't it reversed?"
"Huh?"
Howard asked in confusion, only the dumbfounded expression remaining on his face.
Why does he feel that just after a few days, he became out of place with those around him, just what is that special-effects show? Even the little witch Annabelle he summoned has betrayed him.
"Talking about the concept of love and justice being invincible with this guy whose mind is full of women, really tough," Annabelle said, looking at the light with a look of longing,
"Wow, I always thought, if there really was a man like Da Gu in the world, I'd totally stick to him…"
And at this moment, the evil spirit was emanating a faint light, in Howard's dumbfounded gaze, this evil spirit representing "doll" actually smiled in the light: "But now, I've found there really is such a guy in the world!"
The light ascended into the deep sky, rising towards the heavens, like a reverse flying meteor.
"Huh?"
Howard's mouth was wide open; he never imagined in his wildest dreams that the evil spirit he summoned would turn into a fan of a superhero show and transform into light before his very eyes. Were it not for the presence of others, he would have slapped himself to see if he was dreaming.
"This was originally just an old man's purest heroic fantasy for children, but now it seems it might have become real," explained a girl named You Xiaoniao.
Then, her body slowly emitted light and ascended into the sky.
"Ah?" Howard was even more confused, wanting to scream like a startled groundhog.
"Honestly..." Aunt scratched her head, "Just like back then, always doing things I can't understand, but it doesn't matter."
Calico also turned into ascending light.
"Ah???" Howard was completely at a loss.
Now, in the entire ritual, only he and the old mystic scholar Austin remained. Thank goodness he wasn't alone.
But when he turned his head, he saw that Old Austin was also slowly glowing.
This keen mystic scholar finally couldn't hold back.
Looking at Howard, Austin showed a motherly smile: "The core of mysticism is 'consensus'."
"Just like how people think of a collapse when they see the Twin Towers, think of a crash when they see a helicopter, or think of a brainstorm when they see a convertible..." The old mystic scholar explained patiently to the bewildered scholar.
"So, if these can become consensus, why can't superhero shows?"
"But, superhero shows are fake! I like superheroes, and I know Spider-Man and Iron Man are fake!" That was the point Howard couldn't comprehend.
"But now, hasn't He become real?" Austin pointed to the sky. At that moment, the arm of the Light Giant exploded with a brilliant light, clashing with the monster's death light across the sea.
The light and the death light were in a stalemate from their perspective, the death light of the monster on the left slowly overpowering the hero's light.
The black-red energy seemed as if it would obliterate the insignificant small light.
Yet, at this moment, light ascended into the sky from all around the world.
More and even more dazzling than the stardust in the sky, the light rose from around the world.
Tens of billions of lights flew into the sky, turning into a supremely romantic meteor shower, falling on the shores of Boston, merging into the massive body of the Light Giant.
The light began to push back the black-red death light and halted it in its tracks in the center.
"So now, do you think people will consider superhero shows to be fake?" Austin laughed.
When a thousand-meter-tall monster appeared, when a zombie crisis erupted, when everyone turned into zombies, when twisted roots rampaged through cities, when the world fell apart.
A hero from fantasy appeared, defying every norm, just like in superhero shows, asking no questions, making no compromises, standing unwaveringly before the monster.
Everything in the superhero shows corresponded truly before people, perfectly aligning with the "concept law" in mysticism.
At that moment, is He still fake?
No, for anyone, they would believe with all their might this was real, willing even to pay the ultimate price for their childhood hero!
This is the confidence and composure shown by the old mystic scholar after watching the entire Ultraman series on Xue Dili's phone.
"This is Mechanical Descent!" Austin smiled, his whole body emitting radiant light, "Because as long as the Light Giant takes action, all problems will be solved, He is invincible, He is sure to win, that's common sense..."
"Watch more superhero shows, Howard." Old Austin gave a thumbs-up.
The next moment, his light flew into the sky and became one with the Light Giant.
Howard: "..."
"Wait, don't leave me alone, I haven't gotten on yet, I haven't gotten on yet!"
...
The light on the Giant's arm overwhelmed the monster's death light and pushed it back towards the monster.
"How is this possible, how is this possible! Why? Why is this happening?" Brigham's heart was filled with anger and fear; he couldn't comprehend why things had turned out this way.
Where exactly was the real miscalculation? Was it that the ritual had to prematurely erupt? Or that he didn't destroy this false light in the first moment, or was it his vanity letting the old master craftsman into his body?
Or was it that summoning this super-ancient creature was actually a mistake...
He was hysterical, his facade crumbling, glaring at the one remaining head of Randolph Carter, bloodshot eyes filled with resentment.
"It's all you, along with your freak friends, you bunch of selfish people, full of friendship, hope, dreams, and morality, but in reality utterly hypocritical, ignoring the immortality I bestowed upon you for your own desires." Brigham could only impotently unleash his fury upon the old man.
"Freaks? I would've loved to encounter such interesting freaks when I was young, but there's always trade-offs; if I had met them, perhaps I wouldn't have written such despairing settings, unable to be remembered posthumously." The old man seemed to be smiling, and in Brigham's horrified expression, he emitted a gentle light.
"Look at you, panicking again, but you won't have to worry from now on."
"In the next life, watch more superhero shows."
Blindingly lit up Randolph Carter said.
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