Chapter 40 Stars [End]

The night is getting darker.

Xiao En heard footsteps outside the door.

He opened the door and saw the beautiful girl who looked as delicate as a doll when they first met - Cecilia.

"The mentor wants to see you." The girl said expressionlessly.

After saying that, she turned and left.

Xiao En picked up his coat and followed silently. The two of them passed through the deep and narrow corridor, and after reaching the ground, they entered an almost boundless cemetery.

There were some strange blue ghost lights floating around.

Sean rarely goes out at night. Although he has been here for three months, he rarely leaves the territory of the Butcher and Ms. Hecate.

There are many exotic flowers and plants planted in the cemetery, which emit a faint fluorescence under the moonlight.

It looks very beautiful.

If you ignore the endless stretches of nameless tombstones, this is actually a beautiful scene like a dream, because the faint blue and lavender fluorescence extends to the end of the sight. They shine slightly with the bright moon in the night sky, as if they are stars on the ground.

The traces of fluorescent grass spread along the veins of the earth, like a gorgeous pattern. Looking down from the sky, it looks like a huge ancient tree with outstretched branches, leaving a dreamy reflection on the earth.

Xiao En didn't know how long he had been walking.

This cemetery was terrifyingly large, with a tombstone about one meter apart. The number of tombstones he had walked past was too numerous to count.

There are mountains of buried bones and seas of blood.

Although Xiao En didn't see any bones or corpses along the way, his mood was getting heavier and heavier, and he was so depressed that he even had difficulty breathing.

A series of magnificent mausoleums appeared in front of us.

There are towering eternal lamps on both sides, not sure if they are real or not, because there are eternal ghost fires burning on them. The mausoleums are scattered around and completely closed. Some sacrificial flowers are planted around the mausoleums, blooming in the light mist, and emitting a faint lavender fluorescence.

The number of nameless tombstones gradually decreased.

Huge stone tablets appeared in front of Xiao En's sight. They were similar to the stone tablets in the park square in Dorne City. They were made of marble and had no inscriptions. The nameless tablets were about thirty meters apart. A road was paved with bluestone here, extending to the other side of the mountains.

Cecilia paused.

She did not look back, but just leaned forward slightly in front of the stone steles and remained silent. Then she said softly: "The destiny of mankind that fell in the Dark Age is buried here..."

Destiny Legend?!
so much? !

Xiao En looked up in astonishment, staring at the forest of stone tablets that seemed to stretch as far as the eye could see, and was speechless for a long time.

There is no name engraved on any of the stone tablets.

The nameless monument.

Anonymous!

Xiao En's body trembled slightly. He didn't know how humans survived that desperate and crazy dark age.

Cecilia walked towards the obelisk in front.

Xiao En was silent for a moment, took a deep breath, and followed the other person again.

A special stone tablet appeared in front.

It lay in a filthy mudflat, surrounded by small star-like flowers, with a line of words engraved on it in ancient script.

When Xiao En saw the handwriting clearly, he couldn't help but stand there in a daze.

——"When the world is young again, when the stars of humanity shine..."

——"We will also return!..."

This sentence is engraved on the stone tablet on the muddy ground.

Xiao En felt a tingling sensation on his scalp at this moment. He looked at the girl's back in front of him, wanting to say something but stopping himself.

The other party is not a butcher and will not tell him the answer.

The girl did not stop.

Xiao En followed her figure into the depths of the obelisk, accompanied by a completely suspended stone staircase, which carried the two of them thousands of meters into the sky.

Everything around seemed to become small, and Xiao En saw the reflection of a majestic giant tree. It spread along the veins of the earth, undulating between the mountains, and its roots penetrated into countless tombstones.

The reflections of the bright moon and the stars are like the Milky Way engraved on the earth, and the stars have turned into countless nameless monuments on the ground!

The Old Ones descended from the stars upon this shattered world.

Humanity also redeems everything from the stars!
After a while.

Xiao En came to a big door, which slowly opened. He saw a floating skull with a ruby ​​embedded between its eyebrows that was very eye-catching.

"You came……"

The skull in front of him was suspended in the air, and an assembled body skeleton emerged. Its pale finger bones lightly brushed the table, and it raised its hand and said, "Sit down, Xiao En."

The girl, who looked as delicate as a doll, turned and left, closing the heavy door behind her.

The floor was covered with soft red carpet and there were bookshelves on all four sides. The furnishings in the room were very neat and tidy, and the surroundings looked spotless. This place did not look like a lich's territory, but more like the home of a knowledgeable elder.

The skeleton in front of me was very clean and tidy, like a moving human specimen.

The lich stared at Sean in front of him.

Although Xiao En did not feel fear at this moment, he felt cold all over and his heartbeat could not keep up with his breathing.

There seemed to be an invisible and terrifying force field surrounding the body of the lich in front of him.

He sat down with difficulty, lowered his head and said, "Chief."

After Xiao En sat down, the lich in front of him reached out and picked up a document on the desk. With a slight wave of his pale finger bones, the document automatically flew in front of Xiao En.

"Here is your letter of appointment."

It smiled.

Its skull opened and closed slightly, revealing a barely noticeable smile and saying, "You are appointed as a senior investigator in the city of Dorne." A formal appointment document.

It is stamped with a steel seal.

Xiao En reached out to take it, looked up at the lich in front of him, and seemed to be hesitant to speak.

Even though he had lost his fear, he still found it difficult to breathe.

There was no one in the weird kingdom that put such terrible pressure on Xiao En. And the countless tombstones along the way also made Xiao En feel more heavy than ever before.

Even a little desperate.

The more he understood the nature of the weird kingdom, the easier it was for him to feel desperate, because the power of the extraordinary people did not belong to him either.

"All right."

"You can go now." The lich in front of him seemed to be aware of the invisible pressure he was putting on Xiao En, as well as the despair in Xiao En's heart. It waved its hand and said, "Don't worry too much."

"Our old bones can hold out for now."

"The world doesn't need young people like you to carry the load."

It laughed again.

Although its smile sounded a bit weird, it patted its bones to show that its old bones were still strong.

This scene is hilarious, it's trying to comfort Sean.

Sean didn't know what to say.

In front of the other person, he even found it difficult to breathe. If he was still afraid, he probably wouldn't be able to look the other person in the face.

——Do not look directly at God.

He thought of what was said in a magic book.

"correct."

Just before Xiao En turned around and left with difficulty, the lich in front of him stood up, opened its arms, and said in a rhythmic tone: "My mentor."

"I left a message for you."

Xiao En turned around slowly and listened carefully.

The lich's voice was no longer cold, but full of passion, but it was not an emotion that belonged to it. The voice seemed to be a deafening multiple echo across the long river of time. It smiled and said, "Welcome to the weird kingdom!"

"Davarish!"

Xiao En seemed to be struck by lightning in an instant, and he froze in place.

this moment.

He finally understood how humans survived the dark age of despair and madness, and he also understood why the real world existed in this bizarre country.

"They left this for you."

The lich's voice was cold and emotionless again, like a ghost of the dead. It raised its hand slightly, and a bloodstained emblem fell into Xiao En's palm.

The emblem is engraved with an ancient five-pointed star pattern, with wheat ears dotted with stars. On the back is an ancient inscription: "Death is our choice. Death is the last refuge of mankind."

After witnessing the world being twisted bit by bit into a grotesque country where only evil creatures can survive.

Humans decided to give it a try!
They made countless sacrifices to regain the destiny of death.

That was the first mythical path that mankind embarked on in despair!
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(PS: The first volume is finished.)
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"The last of humanity's destiny, share death!"

"They shed their mortal flesh and blood in the mud of death, and with the bones and blood of the sages of the past generations, they harnessed knowledge and forged a broken throne."

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"When the seventy-two mausoleums of the dead demigods rise, the miracle of mankind, the miracle of destiny, the first twelve realms of clockwork nirvana, descend upon the kingdom of weirdness!"

"Hands of death stretched out from the underworld, lifted up the last hope of mankind, raised it to the sky, and turned it into stars."

"In order to completely isolate reality from the bizarre, they erased all traces of their own existence, erased all their own achievements, tampered with human history, and erected nameless monuments on the earth to suppress death and the twelve mythological paths."

"The Dark Ages."

"Countless nameless people fell like stars, healing the devastated and broken earth with their lives. Their bones and blood also nourished the original path of life."

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"They sleep in the mausoleum, carrying the eternal madness of forcibly crossing the path to become a demigod of death, waiting for the successors of mankind to give them rest and liberation, and to inherit their legacy and hold high the fire of hope for mankind."

"Countless nameless monuments stand on the earth, and countless nameless people are waiting for the day when 'the world will be young again'."

"The flower of life blooms in death."

"The stars will return one day."

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"The Dark Age ends here."

A slender finger gently brushed across the pages and closed the heavy book.

——"Dark Age-Final Chapter, Starry Volume".

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"You bear their gifts..." Lady Hecate's whispers faded away.

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　I will write a summary of the first volume later.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)