A coffin made of black crystal slowly fell from the top of the large library.
Five people stood directly under the coffin with complicated expressions.
The two Clarences who woke up later had blurry eyes. Their memories were the most incomplete and broken. They could not even use the power in their bodies well. They fell limply to the ground after arriving at the big library. Even if the coffin fell, they
His eyes did not move even half a minute, staring blankly into the distance.
Looking at the crystal coffin that was about to land, the dragon man suddenly felt uneasy. His eyes kept scanning the silent Demon-Breaking Knight and the stern-looking young man.
The young man noticed the dragon man's abnormal reaction, turned his head and glanced at him and ignored him.
He knew very well what the Dragon Man was thinking. This was a normal reaction. Even he had a voice in his heart that was encouraging him.
"Don't be resurrected, just be yourself!"
However, the young man knows better than anyone else that he cannot be himself.
As part of the fragments of Clarence's soul, they can survive in various ways, but they cannot move around in the world for a long time. As time goes by, their consciousness will disappear quickly, and their memories will be fragmented, even their own names.
Can't remember.
Their disability is doomed.
The black crystal coffin lid was slowly pushed open by the young man. His face was old, his skin was as dry and wrinkled as cracked bark, his eye sockets were sunken, and his beard and hair were white. This was the appearance of the body in the coffin.
This is also the real Clarence.
This crystal coffin, which was inlaid with a large number of black crystals and engraved with formations to ensure the continuity of the body, should not have been activated at this time. However, some changes occurred in Twilight City at this time.
One of the fragments of Clarence's soul, the fragment that occupied the body of the vampire daughter led the invaders to destroy all the bodies in Twilight City.
Elves, humans, goblins, vampires, sirens...the flesh and blood stored in Twilight City over the years were all swallowed up by the flames and turned into ashes.
The young man could not stop it. All the fragments were Clorons and they also had the authority to activate the Twilight City magic circle. Therefore, when they realized that they wanted to stop it, the vampire woman had already used the space teleportation magic circle to complete all the arrangements, leaving
All they were left with was a mess.
Perhaps Clarence himself never thought that many years later, his soul would perform the "I kill me" drama, so that he never thought that authority should only be given to one of the fragments.
The young man who is one of the souls of Clorons can enter the body of a doll with partial flesh and blood, but they cannot merge into one body. If they are forced into a body that does not fit, the nearly complete soul will be rejected and the memory may be lost again.
possible.
A body that does not fit well cannot exert its true power.
Looking at the body in the black crystal coffin, the dragon man had a splitting headache and subconsciously wanted to escape from this place.
The magic circle under the young man's feet silently enveloped the remaining four soul fragments, and he muttered silently: "It's time to return, and it's time for a brief awakening from this long sleep."
The cage extending out of the magic circle locked the dragon man, and the dragon man hit the cage like crazy, his eyes red: "I don't want it!"
"This is just an illusory personality that you thought was a 'human'. When you come back, you will forget everything. The real 'me' is extremely powerful!"
The extremely confident young man clenched his fists and raised them above his head.
The two fragments of Clarence with broken memories were the first to be peeled off from the doll's body, like fireworks slowly rising in the summer night sky, but instead of blooming, they twisted and transformed into a glowing sphere.
The Demon Breaker Knight's body fell heavily, and his soul fragment was larger than the other two combined.
Devoured by the fragments of the Demon-Breaking Knight, the broken soul body began to piece together the outline of a humanoid figure.
The young man looked at the dragon man, he was still fighting.
It was clear that we had just fought against the vampire girl and defended the integrity of Clorons. However, at this moment, the dragon man was like a child clamoring for sweets, resisting tenaciously.
Maybe it was because he woke up first, or maybe something deep in his soul was infected, the dragon man was particularly reluctant to let go at this moment.
He kept letting out angry howls, and the young man's cage that locked the dragon man was squeezed out of shape and collapsed.
The young man sighed and took the initiative to separate his consciousness from the body, and the glowing soul fragments hit the dragon man who was still struggling.
The horror on the dragon man's face was frozen. The moment the white light penetrated his body, countless vines wrapped around his soul and forcefully pulled him out.
The young man and the Demon-Breaking Knight did not give the dragon man time to escape and forcibly fused him.
Six points of Clarence's soul fragment, five copies of Return.
The Book of Twilight flipped rapidly, and the patterns of the lower array all lit up, and the dazzling light enveloped the entire library.
After a few seconds, the white light dissipated and everything became silent.
In the black crystal coffin, Lawrence's fingers moved slightly, and he slowly opened his eyes.
His deep gaze penetrated the dome of the library and saw the bright and bright moon outside the moon-carved barrier.
Memories were like pages of a book turning rapidly, lines of words woven into constant flashbacks of light and shadow dancing in front of his eyes.
Clorance covered his head and stood up. His cold body gradually turned red. He staggered around his aging and extremely stiff original body, and his heavy breathing echoed in the quiet space.
Clorance looked at his chaotic brain and accurately found the "bad sector".
"So many high-level magics...it's time for you to come back to me."
Clarence walked step by step towards the crystal table in the center of the large library, swept down the books that had been placed there for some time, and sat behind the desk.
"No, you will come to me. This is your fate."
The vampire girl suddenly fell to the ground.
Sera on the side stretched out her hand to help, but the vampire woman refused.
She used her broken arms to exert strength with difficulty, and supported her heavy body bit by bit.
Another finger shattered.
As the vampire woman opened the teleportation circle again and again and led them to destroy the flesh and blood body, her body continued to fragment.
Sera and Lulu have always talked about decay, but now, judging from what happened to the vampire girl, it seems that damage and wear are more suitable to describe it. Could it be that decay has a richer meaning in this world?
"He's awake." The vampire girl said.
Lulu took out several bottles of potion, and after distributing them, she drank two bottles in a row, burping, but even so, she still continued to drink, apparently intending to fill up her buff before the battle.
Seeing everyone around her making preparations, the vampire girl took aim at the indifferent Lu Yu.
"You have nothing to do?"
"That's right."
Lu Yu was a little embarrassed. He had already drank the only potion he could drink. Other buffing potions had no effect on him, so he became the only one in the pre-war preparation meeting.
"Can you give me a name?"
"Ah?" Lu Yu was confused, "Name?"
"I want a name. As long as you are an independent self, you should have a name... It's not a name for you, you, with wings and red hair." The vampire woman looked at the hand with no fingers, "You have a name.
, only then will you feel that you are alive.”
Gu Su
Lulutis would call Bass affectionately and ask him if the fire she set was burning well.
Sera will protect her two followers carefully, for fear that something will happen to them.
The mist demon will take Sigrid around to find shiny baubles for collection.
After a short period of cooperation, the vampire girl felt like an outsider.
"What kind of name do you want?" Lu Yu asked for a name abruptly. For a while, he really couldn't think of a name that was not perfunctory.
"What name do you think is suitable for me?"
Xiaohong?
Too perfunctory.
Vampire Queen…
Like Lulu, it is not advisable to be in the middle of the class.
As a person drinks the potion and grinds the weapon, this short rest period will also end.
The vampire girl's only unbroken eyes turned from bright to dark, and she smiled as if she was mocking herself, then she straightened her body that was constantly shedding dust and prepared to move.
"A moment."
Lulu raised her head when she heard the two words Lu Yu was chanting. This action made her pour the medicine into her nose. After a cough, her face turned red.
"Sturgeon..." Faced with this language that she had never heard before, the vampire girl repeated it.
"Wrong, it was a moment."
"Smoked fish?"
Having trouble with the fish?
Lu Yu corrected the pronunciation and then explained the meaning of the word to her.
"There is such a poem in my hometown, I mourn my life for a moment and envy the endless Yangtze River." Lu Yu looked at the broken doll in front of him and said with emotion, "It really fits the occasion."
The vampire girl who was initially indifferent to this strange name suddenly shed tears of blood after silently reciting it several times.
"Is it just a moment...it's true."
"When you wake up, you have to accept your fate. It's the same every time. If you want to live according to your own wishes, you only have so much time..."
Faced with the name that had written her own destiny, she accepted it calmly.
He looked around for a moment: "Are you all ready? The other party is Clorons, a puppet master who should not have been born in this era."
Just before starting the teleportation, Lu Yu, who was always cautious, walked up to Xu Yu for the first time.
"Even if it's only for a moment, you can kill his eternity."
He stared at Lu Yu for a moment, a gentle smile filling his cracked face little by little.
"Teleport!" In a moment's voice, the Twilight City magic circle flickered, and huge energy surged from all directions, bringing them to a passage that was inaccessible from Twilight City.
A cold breath spreads in the depths of the long corridor. There are no lighting crystals or torches here, and it is completely dark.
When Lu Yu, who was still dizzy, opened his eyes, he found that he was already leading the way.
Ever since Lawrence woke up, there was a voice echoing in his mind.
"Come back...come back to me and let us become whole."
For a moment, he ignored the increasingly louder voices and kept muttering his name silently.
What is she?
Is it the fragment of Clarence?
A doll destined to return to its true form one day since its birth?
Her resistance comes from the throbbing when she wakes up, the despair of waking up and falling asleep again and again, the resistance to the long cycle of reincarnation, and... the desire to become a human being and be able to choose her own destiny.
When did she start to have this strange idea that dying was far better than living in such a state of confusion?
Why did I deviate from Clorons's desire for eternity and gradually develop thoughts that I shouldn't have?
She couldn't remember clearly for a moment. The long time had made the memories accumulated in her mind blurred, leaving only instincts echoing.
But it doesn't matter anymore.
After entering the Great Library, the surrounding lighting crystals lit up one after another, illuminating the long passageway all the way to the crystal bookcase in the center of the Great Library.
Before Lu Yu and the others recovered from the dizziness caused by the teleportation, she arrived in front of Lawrence.
The words "old, decayed, and powerful" can all be found on Clorance, who is sitting behind the crystal desk at this moment, but only the thing he has always dreamed of can't be found.
life.
With five-sixths of the fragments entering his body, Clorance exuded the aura of death, like the sun about to set. The aura he released was the majesty of his role as a magician, and it was also the afterglow.
"You're back to me." Clorance said softly, his hoarse voice irritating Xuyu's ears.
"No, it's me who wants to come back here." He looked back at Lawrence firmly for a moment, "This is my own will."
Clarence coughed and laughed: "Myself? You are just a fragment of my consciousness. You are not a personality. You are just an illusion that imitates human beings and longs to be human."
"You can't control your own destiny, you can't control this body, you can't even refuse my orders!"
Lawrence stood up, walked around to the desk, and stared condescendingly for a moment.
"I can transmit my voice into your thoughts, but you can't resist... You are not a human, you just have the body of a doll, and you have created the nothingness of false illusions... It is an obsession born in reincarnations!
"
"It's time to wake up from your long dream. No fragment can disobey the call from the true self. The complete me will be closer to eternity in the next advancement."
The magic circle under Clorons' feet enveloped Xu Yu. Before Lu Yu and his party could stop him as they rushed in, countless vines clung to Xu Yu's feet. The next second, Xu Yu turned into a huge cocoon.
"Thank you for your hard work for the invasion." Clorance ignored Xu Yu who was already trapped to death, and said coldly to Lu Yu and others, "You interrupted my sleep, destroyed my reincarnation, and destroyed what should have been
The cycle continues indefinitely until the day when true knowledge is gained. The cycle ends... You are unforgivable!"
Lawrence seemed to regard himself as a god, and he pronounced the sentence for Lu Yu and his party in a stern voice.
"You will all become my puppets, reincarnating endlessly in Twilight City!"
"This dream that has lasted forever will usher in eternity at the end. This is your torture, and it is also your sweetest future!"