Chapter 248: Seeking the Moon for Things That Are Not Forgotten
If Annan had not heard the biggest secrets about the Silent Lady, the Mysterious Lady and the Cup-bearing Lady from the Saint of Sacrifice - [The Man Against Himself], Henry Warden, he might have wanted to crack this nightmare.
It really takes some thinking.
However, Annan happened to know the secret.
——The mysterious lady was once the daughter of the cup-bearing girl "Sybele" who was born before she was born, and was dedicated to the "night" together with her womb.
It was precisely because of this sacrificial ceremony that the mysterious lady, the god of ritual, was born... and it was precisely because the "dark night" gave the mysterious lady part of her power that she was demoted from the "dark night" to a god.
This happened in an era before mountains and rivers were born.
As the first flesh-and-blood life in the world, Cybele completed this sacrifice and was able to allow the path of "blood and lust" to pass through the earth. Only since then has new life been born.
The timeline of the "Secret of Creation" that this secret describes is after the secret about "Winter".
——The word "winter" was born before the birth of the four seasons, and even before the birth of light and fire. It was originally used to describe the silence of the sky like a dying old man when the earth was first born; and the "earth"'s love for everything that is about to pass away.
hatred of things.
The earth here refers to the old lady who buried the bones at the beginning of the creation of the world. And the sky, which is "without light and fire" and "as quiet as a dying old man", naturally refers to the "dark night".
Because light and fire have not yet been born, there is naturally no distinction between day and night. The lightless sky is the so-called "dark night".
This is why, here, only the rituals for the Bone Burial Granny and the Silent Lady can have an effect. And why the Bone Burial Granny responds so quickly...
"Because here, the correct name of the Bone Burial Granny is... [Earth]."
——If there is day, there will be night; if there is earth, there will be sky.
"Ai Lei" stood in the pure, warm darkness, looking at the three rotating runes, and said calmly:
"Let's talk about it from the very beginning. I think you, Ailei, can also realize that this world is created with you and Duke Skeleton as the core, supplemented by the 'desires' of everyone else.
"Then you should be able to figure out the reason why this world will cycle endlessly and stay on this day."
[…Is it because I’m afraid that my mother will come home and want to see such a cheerful Amos? 】
Without any time to think, Ailei answered from the bottom of Annan's heart.
The girl's voice was full of guilt and hesitation.
Obviously, she herself had already thought about this matter.
【If it weren't for me...】
"——You are wrong, Ai Lei. This is not what you are afraid of."
Annan asserted.
His pupils shone brightly in the pure darkness.
That is the light called [understanding].
"Ai Lei" was silent for a while, and then sighed.
She whispered: "Perhaps even you have forgotten... You are not Elle Morrison, nor are you Ariel Barker. You are Elle Angelo.
"Your real name is...Angelo."
——Ai Lei is already dead.
"Joseph told me that Angelo was sealed in the frozen water port by them. The gallery nightmare was what was left after Angelo, the 'son of god', died. Ailee just repeated it one thousand eight hundred and thirty four times.
Just a tragic ghost."
"From the very beginning, you have been the daughter of Lord Bones."
Elle is just a mortal.
After she dies, there will be no soul - only bronze-level transcendental beings can have a smoky soul, silver-level transcendental beings can turn condensed souls into liquid droplets, and only gold-level transcending beings can have crystallized solid souls.
Even demons cannot extract "corporeal" souls from mortal corpses.
The reason why the Bone Man was able to retain Airei's soul was because when she was still alive... Amos traded her to the Bone Man, and by absorbing the curse from the nightmare in the gallery, Airei's spirit body finally
forming.
Then here comes the problem.
Since the formation of the gallery has nothing to do with Ai Lei...then what is the relationship between Angelo and Ai Lei?
A memory that has not yet faded flashed past Annan's eyes.
That was after "Angelo", who was a meat ball, turned into a baby girl weighing seven or eight pounds in the blink of an eye.
"—What should I call you?"
At that time, Annan asked softly: "Skeleton Duke? Angelo? Or...Ai Lei?"
"——You can call me Ai Lei... Annan. This is the right I give you specially for the sake of staying with me until the end and watching my birth."
The baby girl in front of Annan made a girlish voice: "And my real name is Angelo.
"——The betrayal angel...the daughter of Duke Skeleton, Angelo."
The person who signed the holy contract with Annan was the dead Ai Lei...or in other words, the newborn "Angelo".
And now this innocent girl who doesn't understand anything...
She just thought she was Angelo of "Elle".
Just like the artificial man who thinks he is "Nicholas II", who has the memory of Nicholas.
"...Obviously, you have forgotten the pain. But I must help you remember it."
"Ai Lei" narrated.
But deep down in Annan's heart, the real Ai Lei remained silent.
She didn't respond, as if she had disappeared.
Annan just talked to himself: "As long as you are sure that you are Angelo and not Ai Lei...another fact will have emerged.
"Why does Lord Bones need you as the half-body of God? Why can you help him complete the truth of betrayal? What is the meaning of your existence?"
Lord Bones is a talented ritualist.
The fact that he can detect the loopholes in the sublimation ritual and create a new ritual that does not require the necessary step of "Prototype of Truth" can already prove his talent.
So, the meaning of "Ai Lei"...
"You may not know that the mysterious lady is the biological daughter of the cup-holder."
Annan said suddenly.
【……What?】
This big material made Ailei couldn't help but be shocked and couldn't hold back any longer.
"Yes. The mysterious lady is the unborn daughter of the female general holding the cup. She sacrificed her daughter and her womb to the dark night, thus gaining the power of the [Holy Grail]. The dark night gave her power to the yet-to-be
The half of the born baby gives her existence and truth...
"The night is Lady Silence."
——What exactly is the so-called half body of God?
By now.
The truth is already there, clearly revealed.
"What you fear is not your mother. In other words, it is not 'Ai Lei's' mother, 'Ms. Clara'. It is [your] 'mother' - your creator, Mr. Bones.
"When Lord Skeleton returns, you will be sacrificed to the night. You will become the 'mysterious lady' of this world, complete the world... and remain in this world forever.
"The Lord of Bones will use the power of the 'cup' to become a body of flesh and blood, freeing himself from the body of the undead that he most despises."
——This is the way to go.
After abandoning the truth of "bones", Lord Bones no longer has the power of "bones" as a support for his existence. He must regain his physical body in order to exist in the world.
And he originally hated the undead... In the beginning, he turned himself into an undead just so that the tragedy would never happen again.
"That white armor... is proof of the former Paladin."
Annan narrated: "That's why Mr. Bones always wears it."
This nightmare is actually structurally identical to a sporulation mill.
"Spider" Grover and "Bear" Alice respectively control half of the special properties of nightmares. Alice tried her best to use the power of "Dream" to keep the Purifiers away from the "Spider Web", but she was unable to do anything...
But in this nightmare, the one who holds the dominant position is "Ai Lei", or rather...Angelo.
As long as she doesn't want to, this nightmare will never come the next day;
In this way, the real Lord of Bones will never return.
But it also means that the nightmare will keep repeating itself on this day.
The part that the Office of Bones is responsible for... is "everyone fulfills their duties and lives peacefully according to their own way of life."
Just like the kingdom he once ruled in the human world - the Eternal Principality.
But the difference with that is...
Mr. Bones doesn't want them to die so easily.
"That is...a god who is full of hatred for the human world. Not only did he betray everyone, he was also an archduke who was betrayed by his people."
Annan muttered in a low voice: "It is only [remembered] by everyone, but has no meaning...'something that will not be forgotten'."