It's time to return to the material world to prepare for the decisive battle.
——4E, 201, Hearth Moon, 29th, 06:56——
'Hmm...that's interesting.'
[Hmm... really interesting]
‘You are trying to imitate me! Where did this Christmas little Joan of Arc come from? And these piles of egg roll flowers!’
[Obviously it was you who did it. Think carefully about what you did in the past. 】
'Really? I'll think about it...but remember your punishment first.'
Previously, in view of the inexplicable skipping of a day when traveling between the realms of annihilation, after resolving Hakon's family conflict, and breaking the unlimited summoning contract signed by a certain stupid dragon, I began to explore the return to the main world from the soul cairn.
How many days will be "skipped".
The conclusion is that at least a month or more, if the "World Devourer" is not a fool, this time is enough for it to complete the work of destroying the world.
By then, all my incarnations that can stop it are no longer in the main world, and the Night Mother cannot move, so I will have to throw "Dragon-Akatosh" out again and continue to pretend to be a servant of the Dragon God to take the blame.
Fortunately, this obviously abnormal time was due to some kind of influence, and the real time needed was only about three days.
Earlier when Jeanne d'Arc and Lily appeared, I had just taken Arthur, Emile and their pet, phew, with my followers to solve the source of the problem, which was hidden deep in the Soul Cairn, named
The weird undead creatures of "The Reapers".
It occupies a quite large building and is brightly lit like a noble mansion in some cities. Although it is ridiculously crude, it is still very attractive to wandering souls who have no sense of consciousness.
When wandering souls are attracted into the building, they will be "harvested" by it into a part of themselves. If the scattered souls have the opportunity to reassemble their bodies, they will be attracted in again if they do not remember the danger there. It has to be said
, although the efficiency is low, this is indeed a mature system that can "open your mouth when eating". If it hadn't "harvested" a large number of wandering souls to form indescribable shapes that would have a serious impact on the space passage, I would still have left it alone.
No matter what kind of thing will be formed in the end, will it be Cthulhu or Naiko...
After the "Reaper" was finally defeated, its condensed wandering souls scattered like fireworks, and the estimated travel time difference that had been remaining in the corner of the field of vision also rapidly decreased from 32 days, and finally stopped at the number of 3 days.
Then, the Night Mother in the main world turned into Jeanne d'Arc Lily, and here, with Zella Pesh as the center, a large "sea of flowers" composed of "soul shells" bloomed. I couldn't tell for a while which one.
Side events are more important.
'So,' I said in a daze, 'I just released the soul of the real 'Night Mother'?'
[That's it, although the 'Night Mother' is just a corpse under the control of Mephala, she still had self-awareness and soul before death. However, because she was deceived by Mephala, she believed in a person who could not be called a real existence.
The 'Nothing' Sithis, after his death, came to the 'Soul Cairn' of the Faithless, and was captured by the Reapers.】
‘Isn’t that making a wedding dress for someone else?’ I looked at the little Joan of Arc in the picture and thought, oh, this head blow is not light.
【Which of your incarnations is not a wedding dress for others? 】
'Since I'm outside the world right now, it's not convenient for me to go back, right? Just wait.'
[...You can actually rest assured about this. The Night Mother herself has been dead for too long and has no self-awareness anymore. She just uses her 'identity' to make the incarnation come alive. However, due to cutting corners during production, she can only appear in the form of Lily.
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It's weird that they cut corners, because the moon is obviously too small.
——"My name is Jeanne d'Arc Lily, and I will stab anyone who dares to call me Night Mother!"
'Then can you explain what this sex is about?'
【This, actually...】
——"Okay~Mother~"
——"[Roar! My anger! (La Glace Feuille No?l)]"
Although she was holding a spear, she used a blow similar to a stick. The little girl whipped Cicero away in one fell swoop, and directly knocked out a window facing the sea on the wall.
[This personality is actually a hypothesis about the effect of the rejuvenation drug based on the expanded deduction of the fictional background and personality you created for Xino scholar ‘Jeanne Darc’ and the analysis of your words and deeds during the period of possession. 】
'Hmm...well, it's not the first time anyway.'
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Compared to Joan of Arc who was far away in Morningstar City and could be left alone, the sea of flowers and soul shells here in Zela was a little more difficult to deal with.
This kind of ugly flower is generated by the "alien breath" leaked when the soul passes through the main world and annihilation. After the "Reaper" dies, the scattered soul directly generates such a large flower without going very far.
A sea of flowers represents the existence of a huge "alien" nearby.
That's right, I did it.
Although my identity is the real "God-Akatosh", it is only within the scope of Skyrim Province. For people from other provinces who will never step into Skyrim Province from birth to death, I and I don't exist.
No difference.
It can be said that using an avatar to go to the annihilation of other demons is a trick. Although those places do not belong to the "Skyrim Province", they do not belong to "outside the Skyrim Province". However, just in case, I took Arthur and the others through the identity of Zera.
In the past tense, I still enveloped myself in a "bubble" that still belonged to the Skyrim Province.
After yesterday's battle with Femis, I mean Duneville, I discovered that even a "bubble" is enough to cause the soul shell to start growing, and these guys are not under my control, because I am worried that the shell will always grow around me.
The smart companions will discover something, so they slightly expand the scope of the "bubble" to allow those "egg roll flowers" to grow over a larger area.
However, who would have thought that after the "Reaper" thing died, the scattered souls harvested by it would explode?
[Looking at the bright side, at least this composition is quite beautiful, like a goddess.]
‘Don’t be ridiculous, people’s ‘Birth of Venus’ is based on standing on a big shell, but I’m standing on a pile of soul shells.’
I couldn't think of an explanation for the moment, so I decided to ignore the problem.
"This time we not only eliminated the monsters that would delay our return to the main world, but also provided the energy to open the passage. Not bad." I raised the staff of Magnus and opened a door directly in front of me. It was really a door.
The shape imitates the city gate of Snowrun City, and the color is exactly the kind of blue that appears after wandering souls and eating soul shells: "Do you have anything else to do in the Soul Cairn?"
Emil shook his head silently, while Arthur looked back and forth for a while at the disappearing soul shell flower sea and the door, then nodded and said: "Me neither."
Parathos seemed hesitant to talk to me, and as for Babas... I wasn't going to listen.
"Then, let's go." After activating the cross-border function of the Gate of Annihilation, it suddenly enlarged in front of my eyes, and the next moment I returned to my own courtyard in Songgard.
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"Although this is the third time, it still feels amazing." After knocking on the stupid system a few times, I sat on the rocking chair next to the fountain and started watching the two transmission videos of this annihilation trip.
In several teleportation scenes, four people and one dog were infinitely close to the vortex or the portal. They suddenly disappeared at the point where their bodies began to distort vaguely, and reappeared at the exit on the other side after a period of time. During this period, their expressions
Nothing changed at all - except for me.
"It seems that everyone's body and soul are fixed to the shape they were in the moment before entering, and they do not recover until they leave the channel." I stared at the channel, but nothing could be seen from the video alone: "This 'fixation'
'It couldn't restrain me but it could affect Zeira, so my consciousness was ejected."
[Well, you have to know that although the annihilation fields of the Eight Holy Spirits and the Sixteen Demon Gods jointly build the 'Wheel of the World', they are not closely interlocked with each other and with the world itself. Although it is impossible to know the details, this kind of
The distance of basically astronomical units is obviously not something that can be crossed by conventional movement methods. The 'fixed' behavior may be just to protect the cross-border ones from being harmed in the case of ultra-high-speed movement.】
"You did use this statement when I asked how long it would take to cross, but it doesn't explain why the 'Reaper' can significantly delay the crossing speed. After all, it is just an ordinary monster." I pointed to the screen.
There are too many souls, and the appearance of the "Reaper" is indescribable.
[Well, although it’s just a guess, it should probably be like this.] The stupid system projected two gears some distance apart in front of me, then connected a channel between the two, and then drew a
A rough diagram of four people and a dog was placed at one end of the passage, and then the little black dragon grabbed the picture and flew to the other end of the passage and put it down again: [The time it takes me to fly is the time it takes to pass through this passage, and the people in the picture naturally
Can’t feel it.]
Then, an indescribable object similar to the previous reaper appeared at one end of the passage. It emitted thick smoke outwards. Even if the "picture" had entered the passage, it would still take some time before it could be seen and taken.
"So, the reaper is like an obstacle near the entrance. You can't 'grab' the picture directly. You have to wait for it to move to a position where it will not be affected." I thought for a moment and understood the meaning of this move.
: "But is there such a 'you' between the worlds?"
[Although it is also a guess, according to legends and some records, the ninth Holy Spirit, "God of War" Talos and the seventeenth Demon God, "God of Order" Jerlager should be in this place.] The stupid system is in the gear.
Two more invisible figures were projected in the middle, and they were working hard to transport those cross-border "pictures" back and forth.
Hmm, it's hard work for these two gods and demons as postmen.
