"I want you to swear one more oath," Swamp Dragon said. "After you've sworn the oath, I swear that I will hand this emblem to one of you. I swear on my life."
This time, Swamp Dragon had made an oath.
Kyle took a deep breath. "What?" he asked coldly.
"I am planning on coming to the unknown world with you so that I can do as much good as I possibly can. My power is limited, but I want to use my power for the good of everyone. I may not have a place left in the Supreme World, but I can still have a place in a Primary World. I might not be able to help everyone in the Supreme World, but I have the chance to help everyone in a Primary World for all of eternity."
"I want you to swear on your life that you will not stand in my way when I try to become the Overseer."
Now, everyone realized why Swamp Dragon was here.
Star Genesis hadn't been able to find an explanation as to why Swamp Dragon would accept the invitation. There was no way that he would be willing to help the Cult. Even if the contribution were just telling the Cult about the world, he wouldn't accept it.
Yet, if Swamp Dragon became the Overseer, the Cult wouldn't gain anything. The Cult could only send Sages into the Primary World, and as the Overseer, Swamp Dragon could sense Death. Any member of the Cult would immediately be killed by him.
Kyle sighed. That oath was not as restrictive as he had anticipated.
"What about the others?" Kyle asked. "I can't swear an oath for other people."
"You only need to swear for yourself," Swamp Dragon said coldly.
Kyle took a deep breath.
"I swear on my life that I will not try to become the Overseer and that I will also not try to stop you from becoming one. I will not necessarily support you, but I will not stand in your way," Kyle said.
Swamp Dragon nodded. "Good."
Then, the Last Light flew to someone else in the room.
Manny took hold of the emblem and put it away.
"There," Swamp Dragon said. "I've fulfilled my promise."
BANG!
A Lightning Elemental broke through the dimensional barrier and charged-
A second Last Light appeared in Swamp Dragon's hands.
Sebastian gritted his teeth as he stopped his Lightning Elemental.
Swamp Dragon didn't even look at Sebastian or the Lightning Elemental. The entire time, he just looked at Kyle.
Kyle gritted his teeth. He could see what Swamp Dragon was doing.
'He didn't lie when he said that he would hand the emblem over, but he was deceptive,' Kyle thought. 'Swamp Dragon has never been deceptive before. He simply isn't a deceptive person. He himself would view his own oath and his actions as deceptive.'
'He wants payback. I lied to him several times, and he wants me to know how it feels.'
'When I was initially unmasked as a Parasite, it was like the first emblem. It represented a breaking of all trust. When Swamp Dragon took out the emblem and swore that he would hand it over, I still trusted him. I still believed that he would no longer have a Last Light left, despite the fact that he could technically still have one.'
'And when he took out the second one, I felt betrayed yet again. However...'
"Why are you pulling the others into this?" Kyle asked with narrowed eyes. "I'm the one you should hate. The others have nothing to do with this."
Swamp Dragon looked at Kyle evenly. "If they hadn't accepted the invitation of the Cult, they wouldn't be here, and they wouldn't have been pulled into this."
"The rules of the Cosmos do not value the helpless, which is why I refuse to help it, but I will also not help the Cult. The only people I want to help are the weak."
Kyle noticed one peculiar word Swamp Dragon had said. He fell into thought, trying to find an explanation as to why Swamp Dragon had used that word.
Then, the image of a mysterious figure shot through his mind.
Kyle observed the others in the room.
Sebastian was about to explode with anger. Star Genesis seemed to be just as angry, but she kept herself in check. Fierce Breaker also looked like he was about ready to kill Swamp Dragon.
Yet, Manny seemed as calm as always. Additionally, Swamp Dragon had also handed the first Last Light to him.
Things finally started to make sense to Kyle.
"I'm overthinking?" Kyle asked, referencing Manny's words while looking at him. "The simplest answer is often the correct one?"
Manny became a bit red in the face as he scratched the back of his head. "I mean, it often is, right?"
"Since when?" Kyle asked.
"Since before we met," Manny said. "I mean, why do you think he saved you? What are the chances that you would meet him? I told him that you were interesting, and he decided to talk to you."
Kyle remembered the time he had been in a team with Swamp Dragon and Manny as Rarity Hunters. During one of their hunts, things went south, and Kyle ended up stuck inside a Planet. After a while, a mysterious and powerful man saved Kyle.
Originally, he had thought it was just a coincidence. After all, he had contacted the Lord, who had said that he would send someone. Eventually, someone came to help him, but that someone had been far more powerful than anyone would have expected. Not even the Lord probably knew about this man's true identity.
Back then, this man had used the word Cosmos, and he had also unveiled the existence of the two Gods.
Just now, Swamp Dragon had also used the word Cosmos.
'Was it on purpose?' Kyle thought, glancing at Swamp Dragon. 'He's not someone who lets things slip. He would have noticed that saying the word Cosmos would be suspicious.'
The others looked with confusion at Kyle.
Despite everything, Kyle had never revealed the existence of this person. That person probably didn't want to be known by many people, and if Kyle carelessly talked about him, that person might kill him.
The background and powers of this man were terrifying. He could make the Lord believe that he was one of their agents. He could pull the hidden Blessing out of Kyle's body. He could also activate and deactivate the Array of Stars' Communicators.
It was like he could control both sides.
At the same time, this man also said that he didn't like either God, and just now, Swamp Dragon had said something similar.
"What's this about?" Kyle asked Manny.
"What's what about?" Manny asked with a smile.
"Why are you really here? Why this secrecy? Why this entire act?" Kyle asked. "Who are you?"
Manny scratched the back of his head as he laughed awkwardly.
"Well, you could call me a Parasite, but I don't work for any Organization that you know," Manny said. "And yes, I recruited him recently, which is also why I knew that he would show up."
"But!" Manny said, pointing at the Last Light in Swamp Dragon's hands. "I genuinely did not know about this thing. He was supposed to use the reason that he needs more power to do more good to join us. He wasn't supposed to act like a martyr."
Manny looked at Swamp Dragon and sighed. "But that agreement was formed before the most recent changes."
"Changes?" Kyle asked. "What do you mean?"
Manny gestured to Swamp Dragon. "Don't you feel that his Momentum is different?"
At that moment, everyone realized what had happened.
A fundamental change in how Momentum worked could only happen because of one thing...
A Complex Mind Law.
tg://resolv?domain=StrongestHammerGod
The author's patreon. If he gets more than 1000€ per month, he will increase the number of words in the chapter.