"You have exiled me, arranged a reincarnation that belongs only to me, and interfered with my awakening. Even if I wake up by chance, I will be trapped on the infinite spiral staircase in a daze, and I will never be able to leave the reincarnation."
The unruly Lawrence was trembling, and his body retreated unconsciously.
"You think you are complete, but you are incomplete. Since you have fused with six other people, why don't you eat me too?"
Clorance was really scared. He pointed at himself in the spirit body and shouted: "Don't come near me, leave, go back to the warehouse!"
As he spoke, Clorons flicked his hand and used the magic power to try to blow away the spirit body.
The spirit body remained motionless, and the sadness on its face became even stronger.
"What kind of ugliness is this...why did it become like this!"
"I once stood on a hill, overlooking the lush forest, discussing life and death with the forest elves, and I also witnessed the prosperity and decline of the green land."
"The tide came, and I sat on the shore, in awe of the infinite power of heaven and earth. I knew that magic has no end, but time is irreversible."
As if he could feel the sadness of the spirit body, Lawrence's ferocious face gradually became calmer, his eyes became blurred, and tears started to hang in the corners of his eyes at some point.
One after another, beautiful things are narrated from the mouth of the spirit body.
Dance with the siren, drink elemental essence with the Goblin King, collect butterfly phosphorus powder, and spend a good night with the orcs...
The spirit was getting closer and closer to Clorons. When Lu Yu returned to the Great Library, it was already standing in front of Clorons.
The entity and the spirit body looked at each other for a long time. As the spirit body took another step forward, the entity subconsciously hid behind it, but there was a wall behind it.
The virtual and the real began to merge, and countless light spots lingered around Clorons' body. After a while, the hostility on Clorons' body dissipated.
He looked around dejectedly and found a chair that had been overturned due to the battle in Chapter 1. He straightened it up and sat down.
Without the will to fight, Clorance looked like an extremely tired old man at the moment. He looked up at the dome of the library, looked at the puppets hanging upside down because the magic circle had stopped, and sighed: "It's so ugly..."
Lu Yu carefully checked the fainted Lulu and others, and found that their breathing was steady and their pulses were normal, and then he walked to Sera's side with confidence.
Clarence began to stare at his skinny hands, caressing his dry and wrinkled skin, and finally found a piece of broken glass. He looked at his appearance seriously, and then showed an extremely bitter smile.
Neither Sera nor Lu Yu made a sound. At this time, Clarence exuded a sense of death, his eye sockets were sunken, and all his magic power dissipated, falling quickly towards an ordinary person who could not use magic.
It is hard to imagine that this is a magician who has just controlled the explosion and burned them to death with magic that even Sera cannot understand. He also claims to be a god, and the magic he exudes is as deep as the ocean.
There was a long silence, and the wind blowing from nowhere blew away the silence and cracked a hole in the silence.
Lawrence used his only magic power to lift up two chairs and landed them in front of Sera and Lu Yu.
"Please take a seat."
His tone was like a host welcoming guests, natural and calm.
The two felt that there seemed to be a big hole in Clarence's body, and magic power was continuously escaping from it. This was a sign that the magician was about to die.
After the stunning and horrifying climax of the performance, the end came so suddenly. It seemed that Sera's prepared killer moves were no longer needed. She tucked up the somewhat loose bandages and sat down naturally.
"It's like a dream..." Clarence murmured, "It's a pity that the things in dreams are the same, so boring."
Sera asked: "The seventh fragment must be all your beautiful memories. Why divide it separately and seal it?"
"Asking even though you know it."
"Some answers only make sense when they come out of your mouth."
“…”
There was another long silence.
Lu Yu found that the current Clarence was extremely peaceful and his temperament was also different from the Clarence he had seen before.
Gu Ya
There was no hysteria in his words, no anxiety or resentment in his tone, and his behavior was dignified and calm. He was completely different from the other two.
"I did not divide it deliberately. Every time the backup is awakened, it will be merged. After sleeping, it will be divided again. After reincarnation and division, the memories in the soul will also gather towards the 'similar'. Beautiful memories, knowledge
The obsession, the bloodthirsty impulse, the silence that suppresses nature, the tenacity to fight..."
"Reincarnation is long and boring. In the process of searching for answers with no end in sight, you often have to do some cold-blooded things..."
"For example, you can make all the outsiders who accidentally enter the moon-carved barrier into puppets. Not only that, but you can also abduct a large number of people of different races to come in and make them your soul containers." Serra said.
Clarence did not deny it, let alone defend it. He sighed softly: "The beautiful memories began to throb, and the too-distant sense of justice began to awaken. In this reincarnation experiment with no end, the beautiful emotions became an unstable factor.
, so when they left the moon-carved barrier and encountered some people and things, they returned to the barrier and tried to destroy reincarnation."
"So, this is why Twilight City is so strange, right? The mirror structure is actually to trap beautiful memories, so that every time he wakes up in a long time, he can't get out of reincarnation, and he can't find your existence.
, it can only spiral continuously until it falls asleep."
Clarence said: "Yes, this is all I can do to deal with a consciousness that can destroy everything."
"But it still escaped the reincarnation you created and found the place where you exist, even though you built the great library in a place that is simply inaccessible through normal means."
Clarence said: "If it weren't for the movement you made, if the fragments didn't make their own decisions...it wouldn't be able to wake up."
"A lot if not?"
Lu Yu, who was thinking on the sidelines, said to himself, "Leaving the moon-carved barrier alone...the people it met were named Vanessa, and Sayer? Otherwise it would be difficult to explain. Xu Yu seemed to have said that when this castle was built,
The largest number of magic in the library is fifth-level and sixth-level magic, which means that the peak of external magic is probably only..."
Sierra was stunned, and then she couldn't help but sigh with emotion.
There was a glimmer of light in Lawrence's dim eyes. He raised his head, as if he was remembering something, and a smile appeared on his lips.
"I see, is this cause and effect? You actually came here for those two people. There are countless dolls in the castle, but it was those two dolls that made you meet, and then across hundreds of years, you came here,
Breaking the cycle of reincarnation that neither the beautiful memories nor the sense of justice can break..."
Lawrence sighed: "Causation, decay, fate...it's so ironic."
Serra was also a little bit sad. To be honest, it was not uncommon for Halos and missionaries to disappear in the Theocracy. Serra also mentioned several groups of newcomers in the last term, and some of them also disappeared.
Missionary work is inherently full of dangers. There are countless unknowns along the way, and accidents are very easy to happen. The Theocracy will not go to great lengths to send people to search for them, because these dangers are all explained to the missionaries before they go out, and their faith makes them fearless.
, promised with all his heart, willing to walk in the wilderness for the Theocracy and the God of Glory until his body was broken into pieces.
If Anna and Isko disappeared silently, Sera would not travel to Corai, let alone enter the moon-carved barrier.
It happened that they were Sayer and Vanessa's dolls, but Anna escaped, and Anna recognized those two dolls.
Coincidence?
Maybe, but maybe this is the fate that Lawrence laments.
A place to resist decay and find eternal reincarnation, blocking out all the ups and downs of destiny. There is no birth, old age, illness or death here, only endless cycles. The magic circle of Twilight City has set up a running process for every puppet in the castle.
mode, every puppet here will be reincarnated in this cycle over and over again unless no one wakes it up.
And Clarence only needs to wake up regularly, collect the reincarnation data of the three islands, fill in the materials, and then he can continue to wait for the day when the magic power will advance.
Clarence knew that Twilight City seemed to have blocked the erosion of fate, but it only delayed the arrival of collapse. Under the accumulation of countless "coincidences", an accident would cause Twilight City's reincarnation to collapse.
It may come today, it may never...
And people always take chances.
Therefore, he initially only hoped to delay the arrival of a time when his life span would be long enough to grasp eternal life, but decay does not treat everyone equally.
Serra said: "No one can escape decay. Even in your time, magicians should know this."
"Knowing and being willing to accept are not the same thing. You are still young and the future is still long, so you cannot understand the fear of those old magicians when they look directly at death." Clorance said, "Knowledge, wealth, status
, so powerless in the face of death, no matter how much you long to see the secret of magic, the sunset will come. Is fear of darkness contradictory to knowing that the night is coming?"
"Memory has been damaged in reincarnations, so you have to write a diary to strengthen the association of memories and repair the erosion of decay; the purpose is also distorted little by little in reincarnations, and only the strongest paranoia remains, which is gone.
Love, without positive emotions, becomes arrogant, unruly, restless, and annoying. Slowly, it becomes less and less like a person, and more like a doll. Human nature is annihilated in reincarnation, and only the idea of "living on" is left.
Eternal existence. But your fragments seem to feel that they are no different from the dolls in the city, and they begin to look for rational explanations for themselves. They are incomplete and think they are gods..."
Lawrence said nothing.
"Clorence, you have trapped yourself in reincarnation. If there is no coincidence, one day you will be eroded by decay and become a puppet, becoming a member of the endless cycle of puppets in this twilight city."
"A body that has no humanity, gradually loses its joy, anger, sorrow, and joy, cannot empathize with anyone's emotions, and has a soul that has decayed to this point. Is this the eternity you want?"