Chapter 284 Phantom

Darkness.

The feeling of death is so strange, as if something is being uncontrollably pulled out of the body.

The perception of the environment gradually lost, replaced by an endless cold. It was like walking naked in the snow, and nothing could block the bone-chilling cold.

For a moment, Nuo felt that he had lost the ability to move. He just silently "watched", "watched" his body fall on the chair in the temple, "watched" the people who had just left come back here and mourn in front of his body.

He should have reacted, even if they could no longer notice him. But like a person who has just woken up from a deep sleep, everything in front of him was "seen" in his eyes, but Nuo's mind seemed to be immersed in a haze, without any ability to think.

So he just quietly watched them hold a simple and solemn ceremony, saw them take out his body, and then announced his will to the residents of Silver Moon City in front of the temple.

There were crowds of people outside the temple, and even the smallest sound multiplied by such a base would become noisy. But the voice of the person who read the will reached everyone's ears without any obstruction, clearly expressing his meaning.

Then the crowd separated to both sides under the invisible force, and Nuo's body went straight to the outside of the city along the central avenue. He will be buried with his former companions, and from then on he will be declared dead in the social sense.

Although he was temporarily unconscious, Nuo's soul still floated away. He listened to the discussions of the people around him, walked through the streets and alleys, and then went out until he saw his body buried in the repaired cemetery with his own eyes.

Then, as if breaking the last shackles with reality, he felt a mysterious suction coming from underground. And the source of the suction was the unknown river of forgetfulness.

...

"What a surprise..."

"Hey, I didn't expect it to be such a result. Without the Pope, you can compete on your own ability. This is pretty good."

"So, in any case, it is imperative to expand outward... I have long thought of going out to take a look!"

In the crowd, looking at the frame passing by the central avenue, Connius couldn't tell what he felt. But when he asked himself, he felt a little happier.

After all, although he also admitted that Nuo was a great leader - it was not about what he did, but what he didn't do.

He had no family and no descendants, because he didn't want the so-called "blood of the prophet" to be passed down. He gave up the eternal life that was within his reach, which made Connius respect him even more in addition to not understanding.

People are such a kind of life. They will have admiration for those who are similar to themselves but can do things they can't do, even those wise men are no exception. But people's emotions cannot be shared after all, so watching this scene, the young man just sighed a little.

Compared with these, he is more concerned about the changes brought about by the death of the great prophet, such as the young people's desire for the unknown and fighting can finally be realized, and the changes that may occur in Silver Moon City. The life and death of those big people have little to do with him, at least he thinks so.

"Connie, I know you're absent-minded - but at least you should act more seriously."

A somewhat dissatisfied voice came from the front, which brought back Connios' spirit. Looking at the figure of the girl in front of him standing on tiptoe and looking far away, for some reason, the young man said inexplicably.

"De'o, I was looking forward to the future. Maybe one day in the future, I will make a city mourn for my departure?"

"...Really?"

Tilting her head, the girl curled her lips,

"Then I'll wait for that day, respected Connie~"

Well, maybe as the other party has been expecting, he will join the pioneering team of the new bishop Damian. But De'o doesn't plan to go. She hopes to stay here because her dream is to learn divine arts and become a priest, not to go out and fight, which is a hobby only boys have.

It seems that the two are about to part, but the people of Silver Moon City have to live longer, so this pioneering journey that may last for more than ten years or even longer will not be a farewell. Therefore, De'e finally just waved his hand, just to congratulate his childhood playmate for getting what he wanted.

"There will definitely be such a day!"

"But when that time comes, I will reluctantly allow you to continue to call me by my name!"

As if encouraged, Connius couldn't help but slightly straighten his chest.

Although strictly speaking, even he himself didn't believe that he could do it, but what if?

Everything is possible. It is also written in the scriptures of the church that God said that there is nothing unchanging in the world. The only thing that does not change is change itself. In this case, there is probably nothing impossible in this world, so who says that he has no possibility of doing something big?

The conversation fell silent, and both of them were immersed in their own thoughts. In the middle of the avenue, the frame drove out of the city, and the crowd surged with it. Until this long night passed, Silver Moon City still did not return to peace.

This is the beginning, but it will not be the end. This human city, which was originally located in a corner of the continent, will also return to its original position.

...

Hua La La——

The excitement is for the living, and has nothing to do with the dead. At least for Nuo now, although many things involving him are still going on, they have nothing to do with him.

Perhaps with the arrival of the third era, some souls with strong obsessions in their lifetime can stay in the world after death and transform into another kind of life, but that is not essentially a continuation of life.

Because of the loss of physical balance, the characteristics of the spiritual side are also revealed a thousand times. Those souls that are trapped by extreme emotions will inevitably be affected by emotions. It won’t take long before they can be regarded as another life with the same memory.

And Nuo is obviously not among them. He doesn’t have any too intense resentment, resentment or regret, so he is like an ordinary soul, being pulled to the underworld by the traction force in the dark, and then falling into the water of the River of Forgetfulness.

The cold river water washed over his soul, and the water flow that should have absorbed his memory bit by bit was suddenly blocked. A few traces of holy power flowed out of Nuo’s soul, and then easily isolated this power. But under this cold stimulation, the originally transparent soul trembled slightly.

The memory was awakened, just like a handful of cold water on the cheek in the morning, which immediately made the originally sluggish thinking start working again.

"Is this... the underworld?"

Nuo shook his head with a dazed look.

He had heard of the underworld more than once in the past. Even when the bronze humans were still there, there were rumors that although the plague and disease in the world were released by Pandora, the source was the gods of the underworld.

Therefore, Hades was also regarded by mortals as a god with an evil side. Even in those human city-states that worship the gods of Olympus, the existence of Hades was deliberately ignored. No one would carve his statue, which was considered an ominous symbol by people.

But this had nothing to do with Nuo. He just looked up at the moon in the sky in the waves of the Styx. He had never seen this archangel before, but he had indeed heard her name more than once.

The Forgotten River rolled forward, and scenes that only existed in legends flashed in front of Nuo.

The River of Oaths, the fluid composed of magma, the corpse with life and movement. Until a certain moment, as if passing through an invisible barrier, everything in the underworld was left behind. The scene around suddenly changed, and what appeared in front of Nuo was a new world.

Four bright moons of different colors hung in the sky, two of which gave him a familiar feeling; the other tributaries of the Styx converged here, and all he could see were souls.

At the end of the horizon, in the place suspected to be the center of the world, there were two colors of light running through the sky and the earth. They slowly rotated and influenced each other, as if explaining the truth of heaven and earth.

These were all scenes that Nuo had never seen before, but his mood was extremely calm. He asked the angel for a death that was no more ordinary than this, so he was also prepared-at the end of the Forgotten River, he would be judged for his achievements in his lifetime, and then thrown into the Well of Reincarnation to become a new life, or he would be left here because of his outstanding achievements and do his best in his new position.

But the reality did not go as he thought. As the river of oblivion flowed, Nuo suddenly found that the souls that were originally traveling with him disappeared, and his position also changed.

This river of the underworld, which originated in the spiritual world, seemed to have been changed by some force, and he came to a dark and unpredictable place.

"Here is..."

Chaos intertwined here, and time and space twisted each other. At the moment he came here, as the first mortal to arrive at the fifth level of the spiritual world, Nuo seemed to feel thousands of lives talking in his ears, and endless light and shadows flashed by.

Indistinctly, he seemed to see the earth divided into four parts, and countless things emerged from the ground; he saw black shadows flashing in the sky, the sun split into two, and then merged into one.

Everything was shaking. Two indescribable existences confronted each other in the virtual sky, the past and the future were reversed, and the real and the unreal were blurred... But all the images were just a trance. When Nuo woke up from the illusion, he had really set foot in the fifth level of the spiritual world.

He didn't know what he had just seen, but he soon had no time to think about it. Because right in front of him, he saw the figure that he had only met once. The eternal light shone on him, and the world flowed because of his breath.

Nuo didn't know that in order to maintain the stability of positive and negative energy, Ryan's power was being vented in time and space without scruples, resonating with the power of the entire spiritual world. At this moment, Nuo only felt like he had seen the beginning of all things, the truth of everything, as if time would stop in front of God's will.

He lowered his head, because even if the remaining homologous holy power in his soul was trying to protect his existence, he felt that if he looked at it again, he would be completely eliminated because he could not understand this supreme law.

Nuo was not afraid of death, but it did not mean that he wanted to die in front of the seat of the gods in such a ridiculous way.

"Great Lord of All Spirits, Source of Time and Space, your followers come to see you!"

"Your incarnation in the mortal world guided mankind to avoid the doomed destruction. Now I have finally completed the mission you gave me, allowing the fire of civilization to continue in the world."

"Now, I finally come to you again."

Ryan lowered his head and looked at the man crawling in the void. Just like hundreds of years ago, he could still see the kindness in the other person.

But unlike what the other party thought, he actually didn't care about what he did in the world, whether it was leading mankind to avoid disasters or opening up Silver Moon City, he didn't really care.

What he really cared about was Nuo's faith that remained unchanged after he saw everything and saw some people in Silver Moon City worship him almost with faith.

Ryan himself was never a pious person. Whether in the past or now, he had never firmly believed in something that existed or did not exist. He once thought that pious faith came from backwardness, lack of knowledge, ignorance and fear, but reality proved that it was not the case.

Even Cohen would begin to question the gods as time went by... Why didn't Nuo? He thought so, so he asked. The reason why he summoned Nuo here was just for this question.

"Why do you believe in me?" God asked.

Nuo was a little stunned. He had never thought about this question. But at this moment, feeling the breath of all truth, he felt that he should have an answer.

"Because I think all life in this world needs faith to survive, no matter what his faith is."

"It can be the desire to survive, it can be greed, it can be the good intention to help others, or it can be the sin of destroying everything."

"There is nothing in this world that can encompass all of this at the same time, except the world itself."

With a slight smile, Ryan didn't know if he was satisfied with this answer. He just raised his hand lightly and gave this answer the due reward.