Mystery: Chaos Path

Luo Lin simply smiled and looked at Rosell, speaking slowly, "What I want is very simple. Work for me for three years, and after three years, we'll be even. It's a very cost-effective deal, isn't it?"

Rosell frowned instinctively upon hearing this, but then relaxed, saying casually, "Alright, no problem. I definitely wouldn't agree to work for someone else, but working for a fellow townsman... it's not embarrassing! Besides, exchanging three years for a life is a good deal for me. It seems you, Lucifer, still care about our shared hometown!"

He frowned because Rosell had been a boss for many years, and naturally instinctively resisted hearing that he had to work for someone else. However, Rosell wasn't ungrateful. Working for three years in exchange for the other party helping to remove the Outer God's contamination was a great deal for him no matter how he looked at it.

Luo Lin smiled upon hearing this, noncommittal to Rosell's words. He then took out the Conqueror characteristic and said, "Your first task is to help me forge this Conqueror characteristic into an Extraordinary item."

Rosell raised an eyebrow after seeing the Conqueror characteristic in Luo Lin's hand, saying, "Impressive, Little Luo, you even managed to get your hands on this. But you really came to the right person when you asked me to forge an Extraordinary item for you. I dare say that besides me, there aren't more than five people in this world who can help you forge this Conqueror characteristic into an Extraordinary item."

Although he was already the Knowledge Emperor, this didn't mean that Rosell's previous craftsman skills had disappeared. In fact, as long as he hadn't expelled the corresponding characteristic, he could still use it.

"Tell me, what are your requirements?" Rosell put on an expression that said, 'I'm a professional.'

"The negative effects shouldn't be too severe, and the abilities should lean towards the offensive aspect. I only have these two requirements," Luo Lin said crisply.

"Alright, I'll think about how to do it later. The next time you summon me, I'll have it ready for you," Rosell gave Luo Lin an OK sign.

Luo Lin smiled upon hearing this. He could, of course, hear the probing in Rosell's words, so he nodded and said, "Thank you."

This was equivalent to telling Rosell that he would indeed summon him again.

Rosell secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

Luo Lin then smiled and said, "I'm a very generous boss, so before letting my employees work, I don't mind paying part of the compensation in advance."

He looked at Rosell and continued, "So next, let's establish a connection with your main body in this era and begin the first phase of the contamination removal work."

…

On a small island in the Misty Sea, the last mausoleum of Rosell was as quiet as ever.

Because he was in a state of being neither dead nor alive, Rosell mostly lived in the mausoleum in a strange state. Almost 99% of the time, the contaminated personality was online, and only rarely could Rosell regain consciousness.

Of course, this didn't mean that Rosell had completely fallen, after all, the reason why the contaminated personality hadn't caused trouble or successfully resurrected all these years was thanks to Rosell's own struggle.

However, today, the quietness of the mausoleum was suddenly broken.

"Ahhhhh—"

A scream, no one knew whose, echoed throughout the mausoleum, startling the birds into flight.

At the same time, outside the Earth.

Watching a certain Mother Goddess who had once again suffered a critical hit, the Mother Tree suddenly began to rejoice that the high-sequence existences it had contaminated on Earth weren't too many, otherwise, wouldn't it have to experience this every now and then?

So what exactly was that unknown creature?

The Mother Tree once again pondered this question that had remained unanswered for a long time.

…

"Hiss, my scream was a bit too miserable, isn't there a gentler method?" Rosell gasped, unable to help but mutter.

Although he was separated from himself in this era by thousands of miles, because they were the same person, after successfully establishing a connection, the Shadow of Time Rosell could almost empathize with his current self, and naturally understood the kind of pain his self in this era was experiencing.

"No, removing contamination is all like this. It's definitely not because I don't like you that I didn't use a gentler method," Luo Lin said without batting an eye.

Luo Lin didn't mind telling the Rosell in front of him that his methods were gentler when removing contamination for Mr. Door and Torzun, the God of Bound, and not so rough.

Of course, Luo Lin could guarantee that he definitely wasn't simply disliking Rosell and adding personal bias, but simply because Rosell was the only Sequence 0 among the few, so he wanted to see the limits of Sequence 0's endurance.

"Hey, you just said that out loud!" Rosell was choked by Luo Lin's words. He hesitated for a few seconds before saying, "So what exactly about me do you dislike?"

"That would be quite a lot, after all…" Luo Lin didn't hide anything, looking at Rosell with a smile and saying, "You're a bad person!"

Rosell was choked again, instinctively feeling a little guilty.

After all, Rosell himself was very clear about how many bad things he had done.

"Since you don't like me, why do you want to save me?" Rosell asked after holding it in for a long time.

"Perhaps it's because there are still some redeeming qualities in you, a bad person, and because you're, after all, my fellow townsman…" Luo Lin paused here, lowering his eyes before continuing, "I'm always willing to help my kind."

Rosell was silent, and after a few seconds, he exclaimed, "Then it's fortunate that you met me. Although I'm a bad person, I'm definitely not the kind of idiot who would repay kindness with enmity. With your personality, if you were to meet an idiot, you'd be stabbed in the back."

"Don't worry about that. Although I'm more tolerant of my kind, if they really want to turn against me, I won't be foolishly backstabbed. The moment they choose to betray me, they're no longer my kind," Luo Lin looked at Rosell and said with a smile.

"That's alright, at least you're not pedantic," Rosell muttered, then asked curiously, "Besides me, have you met any other transmigrators?"

"Yes, my student is a transmigrator. He's a very good child, much better than you, a bad person," Luo Lin said, his eyes softening slightly.

"Why are you still comparing?" Rosell muttered dissatisfiedly, then asked, "Does he know the truth about transmigration?"

"He knows. He was very sad about it, but fortunately, after I had his mother comfort him for a few days, he finally accepted reality," Luo Lin replied with a smile.

Rosell seemed to breathe a sigh of relief, then, as if realizing something, he raised his head and looked at Luo Lin, saying, "When you say 'mother,' are you referring to the mother of which era?"