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Lin Ruo, who knew the original plot, was naturally not surprised by Alista's desire to backstab Solomon. He merely began to analyze the various pieces of information revealed in the previous conversation.
Evidently, that conversation took place before the backstab. At that time, Alista had a high probability of already colluding with Antigonus and was secretly plotting mischief, but his past self detected it in advance, which led to the conversation.
After all, the situation between Solomon and Alista was a re-enactment of the Ancient Sun God and the Three Gods. Lin Ruo understood himself; he knew he would not allow such a thing to happen again, especially when one of the parties involved was his friend and the other was his student.
At the same time, it was not surprising that his past self promised to help Alista switch Sequences. After all, he couldn't just watch his student's future be cut short.
So, the key question is, since he promised Alista he would help him switch Sequences, why did everything that happened afterward still occur?
Lin Ruo stroked his chin, narrowing his eyes, analyzing the various possibilities.
Firstly, Solomon still died, and the blame likely lies with the Six Gods and Night Emperor Trunsoest.
Even without Alista's backstab, Solomon still had a future Trunsoest by his side, and this person was also a master of backstabbing. Moreover, from the original novel, when Solomon later returned, Trunsoest was actually able to be strongly supported by the Six Gods, and he quickly advanced to Judge, which shows that he had probably already colluded with the Six Gods.
Lin Ruo wasn't sure what his relationship with Trunsoest was like, but he instinctively felt they shouldn't be close. In such a situation, it was normal for him not to notice such secret dealings that Solomon hadn't even detected.
—As for why he could detect Alista's abnormality, well, isn't he his own student? He definitely had to pay special attention! And with that attention, wasn't the secret plot caught by its tail?
And besides the backstab from Night Emperor Trunsoest, considering the complex attributes of the Six Gods, it was quite normal that Solomon couldn't resist and died.
Secondly, there is the matter of why Alista did not successfully switch to the Judge Sequence before Solomon's death, but instead became a Sequence 1 of the Black Emperor Sequence, just as in the original novel.
Lin Ruo felt that there were probably two possibilities. The first possibility was that the time interval between the conversation and Solomon's accident was too short, and he hadn't had time to help Alista switch Sequences before Solomon died.
In this situation, it wouldn't be too surprising if Alista stubbornly consumed the Black Emperor Sequence 1 characteristic.
The second possibility is very simple: the time from the conversation to Solomon's accident was not short, but he had an accident during this process, which prevented him from helping Alista switch Sequences.
So Alista ultimately consumed the Black Emperor Sequence characteristic.
Of course, a combination of both possibilities is also very normal.
"Perhaps I can ask Medici later; he should be quite clear about this past… But will this poke at his wound?" Lin Ruo thought for a moment, feeling that it wasn't a big problem.
As long as he didn't mention Alista, and just simply asked if he had any accidents before Solomon's first fall, there shouldn't be any problem.
However… "Alista… I feel like this student and I have a serious incompatibility. Why did I even take him as a student?" Lin Ruo sighed, but deep down, he still felt a strange sense of loss.
He understood himself. Since Alista listened to him and did not backstab Solomon, then even if the other party consumed the Black Emperor Sequence characteristic after Solomon's death, he wouldn't do anything because of it.
After all, the Sequence struggle is just that cruel. He could not allow Alista to betray Solomon's trust, but he also had no reason to stop Alista from advancing by utilizing the characteristics left behind after Solomon's death.
Even when this happened, he would definitely feel bad inside.
In this situation, when Solomon returns, and when the Sequence 1 characteristic on Alista is about to return to Solomon, will he really do nothing?
"With my personality, if Medici hadn't died, I would most likely have dragged him along to help you hunt the Night Emperor…" Lin Ruo murmured, shaking his head and suppressing all his emotions.
No matter what the truth of that year was, everything is in the past. Talking about 'what ifs' now will only make one's mood more complicated.
And compared to that troublesome student Alista… Lin Ruo suddenly clapped Klein on the shoulder, which made Klein, who was nervously observing his teacher, slightly startled. Just as he was about to ask something, he heard Lin Ruo say:
"Indeed, my dear Klein, you are the most worry-free child!"
Klein: ?
Why bring that up suddenly?
What on earth is "my dear Klein"?
Lin Ruo, however, did not give Klein a chance to ask, because he immediately began to focus on the abilities the Judge potion brought him.
Although he directly consumed the Judge potion, achieving a jump from Sequence 9 directly to Sequence 6, it was probably because the Judge characteristic Lin Ruo consumed inherently contained the Sequence 8 and Judge Sequence 7 characteristics. His acquired skills were not missing because of this.
The original abilities belonging to Arbiter were strengthened across levels, which goes without saying. And the abilities that should have been at the Sheriff and Judge levels, such as being able to firmly remember a target's appearance as long as they had seen the target, a photo, or a sketch.
Gaining extraordinary-level extra perception, being able to detect abnormal factors, grasp abnormal traces, especially being highly sensitive to things related to evil, chaos, and madness, as well as mastering the use of various weapons, becoming an explosives expert, gaining mental attack abilities, such as mental piercing, etc., also directly bypassed their initial forms and were directly strengthened to the Sequence 6 level.
At the same time, Lin Ruo also gained a series of abilities belonging to Judge, such as imprisonment, confinement, release, exile, death, declaring guilt, and restricting the guilty, all highly characteristic of the Judge Sequence.
It has to be said, whether it is strong or not is one thing, but at least in terms of style, the abilities of the Judge Sequence really look cool.
At least Lin Ruo thought so.
And as someone familiar with the Sequence 6 abilities of various paths, even Lin Ruo couldn't in good conscience say that the Judge was weak.
It can only be said that this Sequence, while requiring some operational skill, doesn't emphasize it as much as the Seer Sequence. Even those who aren't very skilled can generally perform at a decent level.
What? You mean skilled people?
Truly skilled people, no matter which Sequence you have them walk, can be a big shot.
"Next, I'll find some time to enter a historical projection and properly digest the potion…" Lin Ruo thought to himself, then patted Klein on the shoulder again, smiling, "Alright, I've advanced. It's your turn."
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