But it's a new day.
new sun.
Chapter 56: Time Sequelae (Two in One)
"Ring ring!"
“You have suffered enough.”
"Ring ring!"
"The evil you carried has also left."
"Ring ring!"
"Time and fire will heal the pain."
"Ring ring!"
"The glory of the goddess is eternal."
The ringing of the bell and the accompanying shouting came from the street, passed through the curtains, and echoed softly into the bedroom.
Those are the remaining clergy. Whenever a place suffers a disaster, they will hold bells and holy water, ring the bells and walk through the streets while dipping their hands in water to disperse to the people. This is of course a superstitious behavior in the eyes of people with advanced ideas, but for a city that has suffered enough suffering, for a parish that lost nearly half of its population in less than six hours, even the most rational people would not have the heart to criticize this behavior.
There were too many casualties...According to statistics collected half a day after the disaster, the casualties in Sicinna reached more than 8. In Manion, 6500 people died. The total number of casualties was extremely horrific.
"Most of those killed were from the lower classes." Darente read the report indifferently, "That is, those native slaves..."
People have limitations, and Darent is not so noble as to think that the natives who do not speak the same language as him are of the same ethnic group. Sometimes he also finds those dirty and lowly things disgusting, but if he really wants to watch them die like this, he must feel uncomfortable.
"In fact, the casualties were barely controllable at the beginning." He looked at the golden knights standing in the corner of the living room. "The first wave of insect attacks actually caused few casualties. Except for the people who were caught off guard and exposed to the outside at the beginning, everyone else found a place to hide when they saw that something was wrong."
"What do you mean?" The hot-tempered Marseille couldn't hold it back any longer. He put down his crossed arms and took a step forward. He wanted to get angry, but he seemed to lack the confidence.
Admittedly, he could say that we helped the special envoy in our dreams, and it was not that we did not do our job properly, but compared with the suffering happening outside, this little help was too insignificant. It looked like we were just sleeping and being lazy.
"I didn't accuse you of sleeping." Darent licked his lips. "Oh... What I want to say is that most of the casualties actually came from the thing that appeared later... It is mentioned in every confession, 'a monster with three arms appeared in the sky'..."
"I'm just curious. Haven't you been taught in the Knight Academy to avoid looking at dirty things with your naked eyes?"
"you……"
"I know you are the Flint Knights. You have your own pride. Now you even have something like the Boiling Blood Potion... You are immune to all diseases and fearless, but you are only a minority after all."
Once Darent's complaint box was opened, it could not be closed. He continued to complain to the knight commanders: "Have you ever thought that the soldiers under your command do not have this ability? Maybe if you look at it more, it will just grow an eye on your chest or an organ somewhere, and you can at least hold on until rescue - but what about ordinary people? Have you ever thought that this heartless look can cost them their lives?"
It's no wonder that he was so angry. The reason he was angry was that more than half of the casualties this time were caused by witnessing the shadowy figure of the evil god.
Before that, many people were hiding in the houses. There were so many of them that they were not completely defenseless. Even if they did not resist and lined up to be eaten by the insects, they would not be able to eat them all. The reason why so many people died was that the earthquake drove them out of their shelters, and no one reminded them - never look directly at the weirdness in your own ideas that are not understood!
"Okay Maps, you know this is hard to ask."
Xia Yibing tried to smooth things over. She leaned against a supporting pillar with her arms folded and said calmly, "You know how big the diocese is. Who can take care of it in such a critical moment?"
"Instead of picking faults in a place like this, why don't you go back and ask the Wheel of Fortune what has been going on over the years."
"..." Darent stopped talking. It was only after hearing these words that he suddenly realized that the main reason why this evil disaster finally took shape and caused such a big commotion was that the library was really to blame.
The library - that is, the wheel of fortune. In fact, they had every chance to discover all of this in advance. The soil anomaly in Manion, the fog lights in the mine, the newspaper reports that some miners had dug up white snakes... these were all obvious.
If the Wheel of Fortune had not been bothered by the trouble and felt that building a tree house here was not worth the cost, and had not chosen to retreat from here but continued to guard it, perhaps it could have recovered its losses.
Thinking of this, he suddenly had no right to continue cursing.
"I'll go out and be quiet."
He threw the report to Frick, who was standing next to him and remained silent throughout the whole process, picked up the matches on the table and walked out.
"Maps——" Frick wanted to call him.
"Let him be."
Along with the voice, a girl wearing a black long skirt and silver-gray hair tied up behind her head walked in.
"Maps is an old man... He has been through a lot of things. The more similar the incidents are, the more he will think of his past sufferings. His failure to stop them will make him question his own incompetence."
"Count Xieyang!"
Carlo shouted loudly beside him, and was the first to stand up and salute her.
"Snapped!"
Everyone in the living room - except Xia Yibing - followed suit and did the same thing. Their boots pressed hard against each other, making loud and uniform noises.
For soldiers, even in occasions like this, which are more like fireside chats, they must always maintain respect, which is basically the highest etiquette they can practice.
But the man they were saluting certainly deserved it.
It was she who saved the parish of Sicinna and the hundreds of thousands of people who survived in the parish. This tribute was not only for them, but also for the merits and honors she had accumulated in the past.
Especially, the way she stopped the evil disaster was a bit horrifying. Most of the people standing in this room had not yet figured out how to face her next.
"Don't be so formal."
Hitzfeld pursed his lips helplessly, "Didn't I tell you...just do it the same way as before."
"but……"
The knights were still afraid.
how to say.
If you are a normal person, when you encounter a monster that can kill you with just one look, someone suddenly controls a mechanical sun, and the halo it emits is as black as ink. It radiates out like a coat of eternal night for the disaster, and kills the monster with one's own strength and reverses the situation. Later, some mysterious, strange, and completely incomprehensible means are used to wipe out the remaining pollution of the monster.
When a person meets the master who created all this, he would not dare to act casually even if they had a close relationship before, right?
In fact, this was only achieved after she had emphasized it so many times. If she hadn't emphasized it, many of them would have been very happy to kneel down before her.
This has nothing to do with the oath - they did swear allegiance to the Mechanical Yang and to Sarah, but "a girl who manipulates the Mechanical Yang to cause miracles" - who dares to say that she has no relationship with the Mechanical Yang Goddess?
She was the embodiment of a miracle, the miracle of the Goddess of Xieyang appearing on earth. Therefore, she deserved the highest status in the Xieyang Cult, a status that had long surpassed worldly power and reached the level of belief in gods.
If I say now that I am the reincarnation of the Goddess Ji Yang, these people will probably believe it...
Seeing that even Frick had a submissive look on his face, his eyes fixed on the ground and he didn't dare to look at his face at all, Hitzfeld couldn't help but twitching the corners of his mouth.
Becoming a god... that's just a way of saying it in accordance with mythology.
Animals, humans, gods, great ones... these are all life in her eyes. At least the last three are intelligent life. Even if a person ascends to the throne of heaven, his habits and character will not be changed. What is there to be afraid of?
"That's because you have no experience."
I heard the hairpin's complaints in my ears.
"Do you think you've become some rubbish god? No... I tell you it's not just that. Apart from the Four Ancient Gods who can touch the edge of the Great Ones, the subsequent Second and Third Generation Gods are at best more extraordinary people. All of them combined are not as good as a hair of Harwin!"
Is it because of the foundation for becoming a god?
"That's right! No matter how powerful they are, they are just agents of authority. Unlike you and Harwin... you have achieved greatness through authority itself! You can now completely establish a kingdom of shadows on earth! They are right to respect and fear you!"
But I don't think I'm strong enough to be comparable to His Majesty Harwin...
"Because the sizes of the mother trees are different, the one she ate was bigger, and the one you ate was much smaller... But what does it matter? You're not a 'combat type' anyway, so this is enough!"
The more he spoke, the more excited he became. Blood Crystal Crow really felt that it didn't make sense.
That is a road that has theoretically been completely blocked!
First of all, we must understand: the Third Generation Gods < the Second Generation Gods < the Four Ancient Gods < the Great Ones.
Before the existence of the Great One's level appeared, those before him could still shamelessly enjoy the title of "God".
But after the Great One comes out, except for the four ancient gods, the other sons of gods should get out of my way!
Return to God?
Are you worthy?
Without achieving greatness, one cannot touch the truth of deep space. Now that Aimen Harwin has achieved greatness with the Namiya Mother Tree, it is safe to assume that - at least in the world of Namiya, the path to becoming a god is no longer feasible!
Because a Nano-world can only give birth to one mother tree, and it has been swallowed up and fused, how can you find a second one?
This in itself was almost impossible... As a result, because the Kingdom of the Sun God had fled far away, and because the World Spirit of Namiia was afraid of the gray fog, it was still "disobedient" and tried to give birth to a second tree, trying to break free from the control of its "master" and escape for its own life.
But having laid the foundation the first time, do you still want to eat it the second time?
Then you think the spirit of the world is too stupid!
It has no brain and only vague instincts, but it also knows what is dangerous and deadly... Take the time with Harwin for example. If this thing wasn't about to reach the end of its lifespan and wanted to act like a demon to prolong its life, how could it be willing to let Harwin merge with itself?
So it’s hard…very very very hard…
Then, by coincidence, Hitzfeld's biological mother, Laurel, was swallowed by the mother tree by chance, and her spirit was not wiped out but left a strong mark on the ice field. This mark directly caused the new mother tree to no longer reject "Aisun Hitzfeld", and she actually had preference and privileges.
But even so, it is almost impossible for her to succeed. She has to go to the place of origin, where she has to face the mother tree and her true self, complete the cleansing of her body and mind, and then come back. Only then will there be a glimmer of hope.
As a result, she and her girlfriend actually did it, and Blood Crystal Crow was speechless when he saw the result.
Well...well...she wasn't jealous at the time...because she knew that even so, they only had a tiny ray of hope. Their bodies and souls had indeed begun to sublimate under the influence of authority, but the speed of this sublimation could not keep up with the speed of their aging.
If one does not transcend the ordinary world, and cannot rely on one's own will to control the body, the combination and arrangement of flesh, blood, and cells, then one's lifespan will not be able to exceed the upper limit of ordinary people.
So what's the point... Congratulations, you are slowly becoming a god. This process will probably take ten thousand years, or maybe a thousand years if you are lucky, but you can only live to be a hundred years old. Isn't this joke funny?
Then they encountered this shitty case.
A remaining spirit of a great man... just not in its prime, and just happened to be entangled with the remaining spirit of another great man. They used the time rules in the dream - this was even actively arranged by the enemy - and solved the time problem!
nothing to say...
Really speechless...
The more Blood Crystal Crow thought about it, the more it didn't make sense. I said I wanted to be the shadow of the sun... but I was the one who wanted to be Harwin's shadow and protect her forever...
But now, the authority of "Eternal Night" has obviously found the most suitable master. She is really proud and happy for her student's achievement, but also sad and disappointed that this person is not herself.
[I will always be your student, Master Yusilian.]
After all, their life levels were different, and Hitzfeld immediately noticed her loss.
[This mysterious night shadow belongs to you too.]
"That's why I say I like you more." Hairpin sighed.
"Cute, sweet-talking, and considerate... I would feel comfortable if Ha Wen could treat me like this."
Have I accidentally gotten involved in some weird resentment?
While Hitzfeld was trying to comfort Frick and the others, he also tried to communicate with the Blood Crystal Crow. However, the Blood King seemed to be in a state of depression and could not extricate himself. No matter how much he shouted, he would not make a sound.
Hawen... Is His Majesty Aimen-Hawen very strict with her?
Even though her life level had already transcended the ordinary, and she was even at the same level as His Majesty, Hitzfeld respected her even more than before, and even used the honorific title when thinking about her in private.
In the past, she was too low-level and didn't know what it meant to achieve this. But now that she has achieved greatness, she understands how incredible it is to want to forcibly create the Kingdom of the Sun God in the deep space and to kill a large group of great people with a single sword.
"Okay, stop standing here."
Xia Yibing spoke.
"There is still a lot of work to be done in the post-disaster city. Go and gather the manpower. Aisuen and I will go to help in a while."
But Frick and his group still stood there. They looked at Xia Yibing and then at the gray-haired girl, seemingly hesitating whether they should listen to her.
You really look down on me.
The woman curled her lips and gave the girl a stern look.
I don’t actually want this...
Hitzfeld frowned slightly, but still used his authority.
Quietly, Frick and the others' awe of her disappeared.
They once again adopted the same familiar attitude towards her and were no longer cautious about her instructions. They each took their tasks and went out.
My instructor said I'm not a combative type, and she's right.
Standing on the windowsill and watching these people disappear, Hitzfeld felt a little melancholy.
The foundation of her deification is the new mother tree, and her symbol comes directly from the concept of "mystery". It can be said that she inherited her origin as a keeper of secrets.
"Mystery" is her most important weapon. As long as her "mystery" is not resolved, she is an elusive, unpredictable, and unknowable non-existent being. If she wants, she can even erase the concept of "Aisun-Hitzfell" from everyone's mind, just like she merged her dreams and shadows, and then used this eternal night shadow to cover the sky of Namiia.
As long as the "mystery" is not broken, the "eternal night" will not be broken.
