Two hundred and eighty-nine. The day the darkness fades away
The monsters on the plains stopped fighting; the light-hating viscous liquid flowed into the deep sewers; the strange groups fighting for territory gradually ceased; the evil spirits wandering among the ruins looked up at the fading darkness; the survivors who were lingering stared at the sky they dreamed of.
; The strange thing under the sea looks at the light that shines into the twisted ocean.
From the distant arable gardens, the distant Broken Lennon Islands, the Allen Peninsula, the Main Continent and the desolate land - the fading darkness returns to the original appearance of the world.
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"This is different Fred, this is different... This is different from all the weirdos we have killed before! This is the beginning! The weirdness is fading! See it? The darkness is fading!"
"It's not a big deal. We killed so many monsters. Are there fewer monsters around? They just keep giving birth to a pig mother. Maybe it's just a stronger monster that crowds it out. This has happened many times.
That’s it.”
"You mean the darkness will come again?"
"I don't know, but something more powerful will definitely come out."
The brawl in Coal Mountain is a microcosm of many spirit towns that are still dominated by humans.
Regardless of hope or pessimism, the disappearance of the original darkness will change something.
The geographical location of the Weiner Underground City delayed the news. After dozens of minutes, the assistant hurriedly broke into the city lord's office with the news.
"Lord Mateusz! It's dawn outside!"
"What are you talking about?"
The excited assistant stumbled and couldn't piece together a complete sentence: "The exorcist passed by a few days ago, and the darkness just disappeared..."
Patience is an excellent virtue for those in power, but seeing such a rude behavior by a carefully selected assistant made Matthäus a little disappointed.
Bang bang——
Mateus knocked on the table: "Be calm at all times, and don't let panic seize your reason. Speak slowly, what happened to the Exorcist, and what happened to the darkness?"
The young assistant regained his composure under the admonishment: "The Exorcist passed through the Freezing Port a few days ago but did not come in. He climbed over the Bread Ridge and headed north to the Abyssal Sea... The original darkness was over there, and then the darkness faded just now...
…”
Matthäus stood up suddenly, the desk was knocked askew, and the tea spilled out, soaking his trouser legs along the tabletop.
"real?!"
"I just came back from above...it's daylight!"
Mateus finally did not lose his composure and wanted to confirm with his own eyes. His face was red with excitement and he said: "Now go and confirm with the Land of Light and let all the newspaper offices prepare... No, let them stop all work, I want to see it immediately
Full pages of newspapers are lying in warehouses!"
After confirming that it wouldn't take long, the assistant came back quickly and said to the city lord who didn't have time to change his pants: "Lu Li solved the original darkness!"
"Start all printing presses! I need merchants to deliver newspapers to every ally, every town! Let everyone know that the Exorcist did it!"
The assistant wrote it down excitedly, but did not leave.
"What do you have to say?" Matthäus, who was in a good mood, motioned to his assistant to speak frankly.
"Lord City Lord, I want to know...will we return to the ground?"
Matthäus' mood gradually weakened.
"...We can't go back." He sighed, "But this is a beginning..."
"One day, our descendants will return to the surface."
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Just like sailors will eventually die on the ship, hunters will eventually die in the wilderness.
He put himself in his shoes and thought about many ways to die, including being polluted, weirdly torn apart, falling into madness, even bizarrely being stuck in the throat by a piece of flesh that was still squirming, and dying on the weird belly that mimicked a woman...
Except that it does not include being knocked unconscious by a pagan disguised as a hunter in the wild and sent to the cultist's lair to prepare for sacrifice.
There were also unlucky hunters like him who were confused and unable to adapt to the sudden fading of darkness and were captured one after another.
Listen to what these cultists who use human bones as decoration chant?
Their gods heard the prayers of believers and took back the darkness that spread over time. Thanks to the beauty bestowed by the gods, they planned to hold a grand blood sacrifice.
Human beings are killing each other, hanging their heads in weird shame.
The cultists did not allow the sight of the sacrifices to be blasphemed. They were blindfolded and thrown on the altar, listening to the prayers and wandering around, with unknown malice lingering around them.
The soft breeze licked my face.
"Is the evil god tasting me?" he thought, waiting for death and darkness to come.
At this time, he heard a distant roar coming from the horizon, and the cultists screamed and ran.
He raised his head, and through the dim light in his eyes he could vaguely see the believers running around in the approaching roar, falling down one after another as if suffering a backlash.
Wow – Wow –
The piece of paper fell on his face. He hesitated, and the squirming sharp edge of his arm cut the rope, took off the blindfold, and picked up the fallen piece of paper.
"The dark curtain shrouding the world is solved by the legendary exorcist!"
He couldn't understand the words on it, and could only stare blankly at the distant skeletons toward the horizon.
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"Sister, do we have to do this?!" the spirit shouted while hiding in the pit of "mother's" bones.
"Be in the limelight! Be in the limelight!" The eldest sister waved the newspaper downwards, forming a piece of paper falling like crumbs.
"Mother" and eldest sister were helping Lu Li in their own way, but they avoided the wilderness.
Mars is only a moment of brilliance, and darkness is the eternity of the world.
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"You have done unimaginable things."
The praises of the Swamp Mother echoed in my ears.
"I just pushed the button and it was the Exorcist Society that really solved the darkness."
For Lu Li, he didn't really do anything.
The exorcists in the past had prepared everything. Lu Li only needed one answer, and the primitive darkness magically faded from the earth like a deus ex machina.
Just like soldiers who conquered an enemy country before the king arrived, people waited for Lu Li to enter the brand new palace, presented him with a crown and cane, and crowned him.
"Can I leave now?" The voice of the undead sounded like an old man thirsting for alms.
"Not yet."
Lu Li rejected the dead spirit and walked upstairs through the dark hall filled with silence.
"What is something that is expensive and worthless, precious and useless, that everyone wants but everyone hates its existence, that turns the foundation into a building, turns the beach into a breakwater, and makes people repeat it every day?"
When the riddle sounded, Lu Li made another answer: "Time."
Lu Li said to the undead who refused to remain silent: "Write a record of the undead, and then you can go where you want to go."
"……real?"
"Um."
"You really want me to leave...?"
Lu Li had no intention of repeating the same answer: "If you are tired of walking and need a safe and quiet place to live, the Land of Light can provide this."
Allowing the undead to make their own choices, Lu Li returned downstairs in the dim light.
"You should come back."
The delayed communication across the abyssal sea now sounded from the Crown of Thorns:
"The Bloodline Family Alliance contacted us. They finally couldn't bear it anymore after you did something like a miracle."
