Their world doesn't need gods.

Chapter 275 Antonio's True Identity

?◇?◇?◇?◇?

—Alfred—

Time goes back to the present.

Illya sat opposite Alfred, holding Evangeline in her arms, who was happily eating snacks.

She stroked Evelyn's head lovingly and looked at Alfred.

"Teacher Will, is it better to call me Al now? I think you have a lot of things you want to ask?"

This is different from the Illya in the past who was sometimes arrogant and liked to speak in a sarcastic way.

Today's Illya is mature and steady, revealing the intelligence and calmness of a mature woman.

She must have experienced a lot over the years.

"Do you know the true identity of Antonio, the god that the Annu Cult believes in?"

Alfred asked Illya straight to the point.

"… If you knew, what would you do?"

Illya looked at Alfred, her eyes filled with worry.

"I will destroy him. If necessary, I will do everything I can to kill that damn guy."

Alfred declared coldly.

"You...are still the same. To be honest, I really envy you for being able to say such things without hesitation. If it were you, maybe you could really do such a thing, right?"

"It was done by Lorentius Doshia Askah of the Askah tribe, right?"

"You have guessed it... Yes, whether it is to seize everything from the Huanamier Alliance or the main god worshipped by the Annu Cult who calls himself Antonio, it is him."

Illya replied.

She still did not stop caressing Yuwen Jielin.

Rather than comforting Evangeline, Illya now seems to be using this method to comfort her own heart.

Lorentius (hereinafter referred to as Lorentius), as far as Alfred knew, was a god with a very special position.

He is an outlier among the Akas gods and also a family disgrace to the Aos gods.

Jubivic, the god-king of the Austian gods, is a scumbag who indulges in excessive sexual activities. The targets of his activities include not only other people's daughters.

Jubivic even attacked his own daughter, a goddess named Doshiya.

And the child they gave birth to was Loren.

In the various open and secret struggles among the gods that followed, Doshia was sent to the Akas tribe as the concubine wife of August, the god-king of the Akas tribe.

Although it was a trouble that was pushed upon him, August liked Doshia very much.

In the end, he was even willing to accept Loren, the son born from the incest between Doshia and Jubivic, and adopt him as his son.

Loren's power, like that of Noya, the goddess of the Oss, is the power of destiny.

However, Loren had no way to collect intelligence or predict the future like other holders of the power of destiny.

There is only one relatively reliable way to use his power, and that is gambling games.

Loren can use his power to make people who play with him pay a "price" at eligible gaming tables.

Once the other party loses, he can take away the price that the other party has deposited in advance.

No matter whether these costs are concrete money, life, soul, or abstract concepts such as knowledge and culture.

"Loren and the other gods deliberately deceived you into joining their gambling table and used all the property of the Vanamier Alliance as collateral. Then Loren used his power to usurp the culture and history of this world, right?"

Alfred inquired.

"Yes... the war situation was very tense at the time. And the people who had witnessed the fleet of 270,000 warships being destroyed by the apostles of the gods in less than a day were extremely afraid of the coalition of the gods.

And we also know that those gods have not really made any move against us. At this time, Loren sent an apostle to invite us to play a game. He asked us to send seven representatives to play the game with him. "

Illya recalled what happened at that time and lowered her eyes in regret.

If she had refused at that time, would things have changed? In the past thousand years in the time and space maze, she couldn't help but think so.

"And that mean and petty guy cheated in the game he designed, causing you to lose almost everything you put in. However, at least one person won."

Alfred speculated based on the information he knew.

"And the promise that person obtained was that the five gods of the Protoss tribe could not directly interfere with this world?"

"You really guessed everything. You really understand those gods."

Illya said with a wry smile.

"If possible, I don't want to understand them... But, things don't end like this, right?"

"Yes... I'm sure you will be very interested in this story, and it is also related to this child."

Illya looked at Yiwen Jielin who had a silly expression and was confused and said.

Among the seven people sent by Warner Miller at that time, there was a young man named Will Hanis Lindbergh.

Illya had heard from him in the past that the reason his name was Will was because his parents admired Will Fiera Ingelmus very much.

The parents hope that their children can become great heroes like him.

The fact is that Lindbergh did just that.

He is the one who plays games with Loren, and wins under unfavorable conditions where Loren cheats in various ways, and wins for the alliance the favorable condition that the gods cannot directly interfere with the alliance's home planet.

Unfortunately, Lindbergh and his wife Bronya Nera Lindbergh were betrayed by their brother Ulysses Hanes Lindbergh and were killed.

The first emperor in the history of the empire, Empress Rosalie R. Lindbergh, was their daughter.

There are many gods who look down on Loren and have long anticipated that he will fail at the critical moment.

In order to wipe out their allies, these gods secretly deployed soul-fused creatures long before Loren's game began.

Before the effect of Loren's power was officially activated, they released the monsters that had been hiding on the surface for a long time.

Illya, her sister Alia, Rosalie R. Lindberg and others use the remaining technology to try to fight these soul-fused creatures created by the gods.

Although Loren's power caused most of the alliance's science and technology to disappear, the technology introduced into this world by reincarnated people like Alfred was preserved due to an omission when Loren designed the rules of the game.

During this process, Illya and Alia also awakened the power of their spiritual outfits one after another.

The war with the soul-fused creatures lasted for more than ten years. The power of three of the soul-fused creatures was too strong, and Illya and others alone could not completely kill them.

Finally, they decided to use the technology introduced into this world by an unknown reincarnator, to trap the three fused creatures in a natural rift, and to build a space-time maze to seal them away completely.

These three fused creatures are clearly the mother goddess Tiamat who is hidden underground in the capital of the Elven Empire, and the god of death Nergal who is located on the Hague Peninsula and is still periodically creating large numbers of undead.

And the conjoined twins Ishtar and Ereshkigal who were sealed in the Illya-Alia Academy and are now guarded by Illya.

They are the strongest among the three fused creatures.

Illya and the others' original plan was for Rosalie R. Lindbergh to establish a human empire to guard Ishtar and Ereshkigal.

But that bastard Ulysses believed Loren and assassinated Rosalie.

Illya had to adjust her original plan and seal her own soul in the rift world of Illya Alia Academy, replacing the deceased Rosalie and the guarding barrier of the human empire that fell into Loren's hands.

Evelyn was the stillborn daughter of Rosalie R. Lindbergh.

Rosalie R. Lindbergh, who was poisoned by Ulysses at the time, was sent into the time and space maze by her confidants when she was dying.

They hoped that Illya could at least preserve Rosalie's soul in the space-time maze.

But the magic ultimately failed.

Rosalie's soul was not preserved, but the soul of her child, Evelyn, who should have died with her mother, was retained.

"After that, I stayed here with this child. To be honest, I am really grateful to her. If it weren't for little Yiwen, I'm afraid I wouldn't be able to stay here for thousands of years."

Illya caressed Evangeline's cheek lovingly and looked at Alfred.

During the more than a thousand years of loneliness, Illya was able to survive only with the company of Ivenjielin.

"It also gives me the opportunity to meet you again."

“I understand everything. I will find a way to deal with Ishtar and Ereshkiga.

I just happened to have recovered Artemis and the Noaka, and I will prepare suitable bodies for you two so that you can be completely freed from here. After that, I hope you can go with me to meet someone."

"The person you want me to see, isn't it Alberta's child?"

"Yes. After all, I have already promised Principal Alberta that I must help her find the 'truth' she wants in the space-time maze."

"You and that child made a very extraordinary agreement."

Illya said teasing Alfred with a mischievous smile.

She seemed to have turned back into the old Illya, but the timing was a little tricky, which made Alfred a little embarrassed.

"It was just a joke at the time. If you knew our agreement, you should also know that the guy did a lot of over the top things to trick me into helping her, right?"

Alfred coughed lightly, awkwardly trying to defend himself.

He was just unhappy with Alberta's attitude at the time, so he wanted to play a trick on her.

But Alberta is Alia’s granddaughter, that is, Illya’s... uh, granddaughter?

In short, Alfred felt extremely embarrassed when she found out about the joke he had made with Alberta.

"Pfft, I was just joking. Anyway, you're already in love with Michelle, so it wouldn't matter if there was another Alberta. Besides, I have no right to ask about your love life."

Illya said.

Her cheeks suddenly flushed and she asked shyly.

"Since you are going to fulfill the promise you made to Alberta, let's go..."

Before Illya could finish her words, the entire space-time maze began to tremble violently.