He revisited mories of the Golden Kin countless tis. Derick felt he had killed the Golden Kin at least a hundred tis.
His comrades-in-arms and lovers, fighting alongside him, were pierced through by him again and again. Watching them in their dying monts, Derick felt a great emotional upheaval.
At the sa ti, he gradually understood the situation of these repeated killings.
In Amphoreus, the Trail of Cinders was a cycle of reincarnation, where the Golden Kin replaced the Titans, transforming into new Titans in the next world's recreation.
However, this situation had undergone a major change in this iteration of the Trail of Cinders. For unknown reasons, the cycle began with infinite recursion, endlessly repeating. The Fla Reaver continuously slew the Golden Kin, took their Fla Seeds, and then entered a new cycle.
During another battle, Derick also clearly saw the appearance of the Fla Reaver.
"It's Phainon, indeed…"
Even before his transmigration, Derick had often heard people say that there was a strong connection between Phainon and the Fla Reaver. Now, after seeing his face, he finally confird that he was the Fla Reaver. Or rather, the Fla Reaver from the previous cycle.
But in this cycle, Derick had transmigrated to Amphoreus, and now he had completely devoured the Fla Reaver. His abilities, his mories, had all beco part of Derick.
This feeling, it truly was… Painful!
As Derick pondered these things, the movents of his hands did not cease. Before his eyes, scenes of him killing the Golden Kin still played out, one after another.
No matter how he tried to stop it, he couldn't prevent seeing the blood of his lovers and friends staining his hands.
Hundreds of tis, thousands of tis…
Derick wanted to scream, but he was currently observing the Fla Reaver's mories, and there was nothing he could do.
This had a profound impact on his mind.
Firstly, Derick's feelings differed from Phainon's. Phainon's feelings towards the Golden Kin were primarily those of comrades-in-arms fighting alongside him.
But Derick's feelings were mixed with romantic affection. Not to ntion Castorice, his official girlfriend, even Cipher, and Hyacine, and even Polyxia—it was impossible for Derick to say there wasn't a trace of complicated love.
Secondly, the hardships Derick had experienced were far less than Phainon's. Phainon had lived through the destruction of his holand, then wandered everywhere, enduring many sufferings, so his psychological endurance was very strong.
Although Derick had experienced no small amount of hardship since transmigrating, it was primarily physical; ntal blows were rare, and things had largely gone smoothly for him along the way.
This level of impact still had a significant effect on his psyche.
Just then, he felt a sting on his face.
Subsequently, the surrounding world collapsed, and transford back into the Borisin beast-ship resting room. Not far from him, Jingliu, who had returned to her original appearance, was looking at him, her hand raised high.
It was clear that Jingliu was the one who helped him escape this scene. The thod used was a bit rough, but it proved very effective.
"Jingliu, thank you." Derick thanked Jingliu.
At that mont, he realized his entire body was drenched in sweat. His face and body were covered in sweat, and his clothes clung tightly to him, becoming soaking wet. He turned his head and saw that the sofa he had been lying on was now soaked into a human shape.
Fortunately, he was interrupted by Jingliu in ti, otherwise, who knows what might have happened.
"It's nothing, I just saw you in this state while ditating and felt you were in danger of falling into Mara-Struck, so I lent a hand to help you," Jingliu said faintly to him, her crimson eyes receding, as she watched Derick erge from the nightmare.
"Mara… Mara-Struck?"
"Yes, a large amount of Abundance Path power exists within your body. If your mind experiences fluctuations, you could easily fall into Mara-Struck."
Jingliu said, looking at Derick.
Only then did Derick recall that Jingliu, before him, had also beco Mara-Struck after the death of Baiheng and the subsequent Imbibitor Lunae rebellion, and significant psychological setbacks.
He imagined himself becoming Mara-Struck and looked at Jingliu with even more gratitude. Jingliu pulled him up and pushed him towards the bathroom.
"You look too much like a ss. Go take a bath first. Rember to take a cold shower. Once you calm down, tell what happened."
"Mhm." Derick picked up so clothes to change into and walked into the bathroom.
While bathing, he pondered these mories from the Fla Reaver.
Derick felt he had only absorbed a small portion of the Fla Reaver's mories. More mories of killing the Golden Kin had not yet entered Derick's mind.
He didn't know how many more such tornts he would have to endure.
Today he was lucky to have Jingliu nearby, who could wake him up when he encountered such a situation. But what about next ti? Would it be such a coincidence again? Would Jingliu's "wake-up service" still be so effective? Derick had no idea.
He had a mind to control his Fourth Clone to abandon absorbing the Fla Reaver's body, but he also felt that the Fire Thief's existence was related to the fundantal operation of Amphoreus. If he didn't absorb the Fla Reaver, he feared it would be difficult to save Amphoreus.
Derick let the cold water rinse over his body, calming his mind considerably. After rinsing, Derick dried himself with a towel and walked out of the bathroom.
The sofa was already soaked with Derick's sweat, so Jingliu had to sit on the bed. Seeing Derick walk out of the bathroom, Jingliu patted the bed, signaling him to co and sit down.
Derick sat on the edge of the bed as per Jingliu's request.
"During the day, I didn't see anything that could trigger you to beco Mara-Struck. Even considering the worst-case scenario for Xianzhou natives your age, it's far from the ti for Mara-Struck to manifest. There was also no energy produced on the beast-ship that could cause you to enter a Mara-Struck state."
"Yes," Derick mused for a mont, then said to Jingliu: "So scenes from the past appeared in my mind. Those scenes felt incredibly real before , and I truly didn't want to face them."
"Is that so?" Jingliu's brows furrowed upon hearing this.
This kind of scene was sowhat similar to her own situation back then. The only difference was that she faced them at the ti, while Derick was facing mories from the past.
"In this situation, if your physical strength is pushed to its limits every day, can it be alleviated?" Jingliu pondered for a mont, then said to Derick.
"I'm afraid not." Derick shook his head.
Leaving aside his immortal body, even if Derick's body beca fatigued, it would quickly recover within a few hours, causing no long-term effect on his body. Even if that were possible, those mories belonging to the Fla Reaver would directly infiltrate his mind, influencing Derick's spirit along with the Fla Reaver's power.
"If this simplest thod doesn't work, then there are only two other thods." Jingliu said to Derick.
"What are the other thods?" Derick asked Jingliu.
"First, every night when you sleep, I will directly infuse my sword intent and killing aura into your body, making you completely lose consciousness. However, during this ti, you will be essentially unresponsive to the outside world, and each awakening also carries risks." Jingliu said to Derick.
"What's the other thod?"
This dangerous action felt less appealing to Derick than continuing to bear these mories.
"The other thod is to make you completely understand that mories are mories, and reality is reality." Jingliu said to Derick.
Back then, she faced the most tragic reality, one she couldn't change at all, whereas Derick only had to face mories, which he could still compensate for through reality.
"Using real-life happiness to dilute the scenes in those mories?"
"Yes." Jingliu reached out and stroked Derick's cheek, her jade foot gently touched Derick's calf.
"Physical pleasure won't have an effect. Those mories of yours are related to your girlfriend, Castorice. If you want to change them, cultivate more emotions in reality. Wait, looking at your expression, it seems she's not the only one."
In Derick's mind, he couldn't help but think of Hyacine, Cipher, and others.
Seeing Derick's expression, Jingliu's expression was also a bit speechless.
In Derick's situation, she didn't know what to say. If she called him a promiscuous man, he had at least more than one person in his heart; if she said he was promiscuous, then the circumstances of others were so vivid that they could even trigger Derick into a Mara-Struck state.
She couldn't understand it, truly couldn't.
However, Jingliu, being Mara-Struck herself, was not an ordinary person, and had no intention of digging deeper.
"Alright, it's almost dawn now, let's go get so breakfast first." Jingliu said to Derick.
Just then, Cipher secretly snuck in, preparing to help Jingliu change.
But seeing Derick and Jingliu sitting on the sa bed, with Jingliu's toes gently touching Derick's calf, and then looking at the soaked sweat on the sofa, she had a shocked expression.
"You, what's happening with you two?"
She knew Derick wasn't entirely honest in certain aspects, but this was too dishonest!
On the other side, Derick looked at the living, breathing Cipher, his expression still complicated. Just monts ago, in the mories he had gained, there were countless instances of killing Cipher. Now, seeing her standing here so prettily, it truly gave Derick a feeling of being in a different world.
It was so good to see her standing here.
And he didn't even have to kill her.
Seeing Derick's expression, Jingliu thought that his mories probably contained no small number of scenes of the young girl before him. With a thought, Jingliu said to Cipher: "Derick's heart just suffered a considerable shock. Now is the ti for you to co and hug him to comfort him."
"Really?" Although Cipher's words were still a question, her actions were already underway.
She quickly ca to Derick's side and reached out to hug him.
Cipher hugged him and felt Derick's slight trembling.
Feeling him like this, Cipher's smile softened.
"Derick, I'm right here."
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