Chapter 244 243 Soul Decay

Chapter 244 243. Soul Decay

"You have exiled me, arranged a reincarnation that belongs only to me, and interfered with my awakening. Even if I wake up accidentally, I will be trapped on the infinite spiral staircase in a daze, and I will never be able to leave the reincarnation."

The unruly Lawrence was trembling, and his body retreated unconsciously.

"You think you are complete, but you are incomplete. Since you have fused with six other people, why don't you eat me too?"

Clarence was really scared. He pointed at himself in the spirit body and shouted: "Don't come near me, leave, go back to the warehouse!"

As he spoke, Clarence flicked his hand and used the magic power to try to blow away the spirit body.

The spirit body remained motionless, and the sadness on its face became even stronger.

"What kind of ugliness is this...why did it become like this!"

"I once stood on a hill, overlooking the lush forest, discussing life and death with the forest elves, and I also witnessed the prosperity and decline of the green land."

"The tide came, and I sat on the shore, in awe of the infinite power of heaven and earth. I knew that magic has no end, but time is irreversible."

As if he could feel the sadness of the spirit body, Lawrence's ferocious face gradually became calmer, his eyes became blurred, and tears started to hang in the corners of his eyes at some point.

One after another, beautiful things were narrated from the mouth of the spirit body.

Dance with the siren, drink elemental essence with the Goblin King, collect butterfly phosphorus powder, and spend a good night with the orcs...

The spirit was getting closer and closer to Clorons. When Lu Yu returned to the Grand Library, it was already standing in front of Clorons.

The entity and the spirit body looked at each other for a long time. As the spirit body took another step forward, the entity subconsciously hid behind it, but there was a wall behind it.

The virtual and the real began to merge, and countless light spots lingered around Clorons' body. After a moment, the hostility on Clorons' body dissipated.

He looked around dejectedly, found a chair that had been overturned on the ground due to the battle in Chapter 1, straightened it up, and sat down.

Without the will to fight, Clorance looked like an extremely tired old man at this moment. He looked up at the dome of the library, looked at the puppets hanging upside down because the magic circle had stopped, and sighed: "It's so ugly..."

Lu Yu carefully checked the fainted Lulu and others, and found that their breathing was steady and their pulses were normal, and then he walked to Sera's side with confidence.

Clarence began to stare at his skinny hands, caressing his dry and wrinkled skin, and finally found a piece of broken glass, looked at his appearance seriously, and then revealed a very bitter smile.

Neither Sera nor Lu Yu made a sound. At this time, Clarence exuded a sense of death, his eye sockets were sunken, and all his magic power dissipated, falling rapidly towards an ordinary person who could not use magic.

It was hard to imagine that this was a magician who had just manipulated the explosion and burned them to death with magic that even Sera could not understand. He also claimed to be a god, and the magic he exuded was as deep as the ocean.

There was a long silence, and the wind blowing from nowhere blew away the silence and cracked a hole in the silence.

Clarence used his only magic power to lift up two chairs and landed them in front of Sera and Lu Yu.

"Please take a seat."

The tone is like a host welcoming guests, natural and calm.

The two felt that there seemed to be a big hole in Clarence's body, and magic power was continuously escaping from it. This was a sign that the magician was about to die.

After the stunning and horrifying climax of the performance, the end came so suddenly. It seemed that the killer move Sera had prepared was no longer needed. She tucked up the somewhat loose bandages and sat down naturally.

"It's like a dream..." Clarence murmured, "It's a pity that the things in dreams are the same, so boring."

Sera asked: "The seventh fragment must be all your beautiful memories. Why divide it separately and seal it?"

"Asking knowingly."

“Some answers just make sense when they come out of your mouth.”

“…”

There was another long silence.

Lu Yu found that the current Clarence was extremely peaceful, and his temperament was also different from the Clarence he had seen before.

There was no hysteria in his words, no anxiety or resentment in his tone, and his behavior was dignified and calm. He was completely different from the other two.

"I didn't divide it deliberately. Every time the backup wakes up, it will be merged. After falling asleep, it will be divided again. After reincarnation and division, the memories in the soul will also gather towards the 'similar'. Beautiful memories, knowledge The obsession, the bloodthirsty impulse, the silence that suppresses nature, the tenacity to fight..."

"Reincarnation is long and boring. In the process of searching for answers with no end in sight, you often have to do some cold-blooded things..."

"For example, you can make puppets out of all the outsiders who mistakenly enter the Moon Engraving Barrier. Not only that, but you can also abduct a large number of people of different races to come in and make them your soul containers." Serra said.

Clarence did not deny it, let alone defend it. He sighed softly: "The beautiful memories began to throb, and the too-distant sense of justice began to awaken. In this reincarnation experiment with no end, the beautiful emotions became an unstable factor. , so when they left the moon-carved barrier and encountered some people and things, they returned to the barrier and tried to destroy the reincarnation. "

"So, this is the reason why Twilight City is so strange, right? The mirror structure is actually to trap the beautiful memories, so that every time he wakes up in a long time, he can't get out of reincarnation, and he can't find your existence. , can only spiral continuously until it falls asleep.”

Clarence said: "Yes, that's all I can do to deal with a consciousness that can destroy everything."

"But it still escaped the reincarnation you created and found the place where you exist, even though you built the great library in a place that is simply inaccessible through normal means."

"Without the movement you made, without the shards making their own decisions...it wouldn't be able to wake up," said Clarence.

"A lot if not?"

Lu Yu, who was thinking on the side, said to himself, "Leaving the moon-carved barrier alone...the people it met were named Vanessa, and Sayer? Otherwise it would be difficult to explain. Xu Yu seemed to have said that when this castle was built, The largest number of magic in the library is fifth-level and sixth-level magic, which means that the peak of external magic is probably only..."

Sierra was stunned, and then couldn’t help but sigh.

There was a glimmer of light in Lawrence's dim eyes. He raised his head, as if he was remembering something, and a smile appeared on his lips.

"I see, is this cause and effect? ​​You actually came here for those two people. There are countless dolls in the castle, but it was those two dolls that made you meet, and then across hundreds of years, you came here, Breaking the cycle of reincarnation that neither the beautiful memories nor the sense of justice can break..."

Clarence sighed: "Causation, decay, fate...it's so ironic."

Serra was also a little bit sad. To be honest, it was not uncommon for Halos and missionaries to disappear in the Theocracy. Serra also promoted several groups of newcomers in the last term, and some of them disappeared.

Missionary work is inherently full of dangers. There are countless unknowns along the way, and accidents are very easy to happen. The Theocracy will not go to great lengths to send people to search for them, because these dangers are all explained to the missionaries before they go out, and their faith makes them fearless. , promised with all his heart, willing to walk in the wilderness for the Theocracy and the God of Glory until his body was broken into pieces.

If Anna and Isko disappeared silently, Sera would not travel to Corai, let alone enter the moon-carved barrier.

It happened that it was Sayer and Vanessa's dolls, but Anna escaped, and Anna recognized those two dolls.

Coincidence?

Maybe, but maybe this is the fate that Clorance laments.

A place to resist decay and find eternal reincarnation, blocking out all the ups and downs of fate. There is no birth, old age, illness or death here, only endless cycles. The magic circle in Twilight City sets a running mode for every puppet in the castle. Every puppet here will be reincarnated in this cycle over and over again unless it is awakened.

And Clarence only needs to wake up regularly, collect the reincarnation data of the three islands, fill in the materials, and then he can continue to wait for the day when the magic power will advance.

Clarence is clear that Twilight City seems to have blocked the erosion of fate, but it only delays the arrival of collapse. Under the accumulation of countless "coincidences", an accident will cause Twilight City's reincarnation to collapse.

It may come today, it may never...

And people always take chances.

Therefore, he initially only hoped to delay the arrival of a time when his life span would be long enough to master eternal life. However, decay does not treat everyone equally.

Serra said: "No one can escape decay. Even in your time, magicians should know this."

"Knowing and being willing to accept are not the same thing. You are still young and the future is still long, so you cannot understand the fear of those old magicians when they look directly at death." Clorance said, "Knowledge, wealth, status , so powerless in the face of death, no matter how much you long to see the secret of magic, the sunset will come. Is it contradictory to fear the darkness and know that the night is coming? "

"Memory has been damaged in reincarnations. For this reason, you have to write a diary to strengthen the association of memories and repair the erosion of decay; the purpose is also distorted little by little in reincarnations, and only the strongest paranoia remains, which is gone. Love, without positive emotions, becomes arrogant, unruly, anxious, and life-threatening. Slowly, it becomes less and less like a human being, and more like a doll. Humanity is annihilated in reincarnation, and only the thought of "survive" remains. But your fragments also seem to feel that they are connected with the people in the city. Ou Wuyi began to look for rational explanations for themselves. They were so disabled that they thought they were gods..."

Clarence said nothing.

"Clorence, you have trapped yourself in reincarnation. If there is no coincidence, one day you will be eroded by decay and become a puppet, becoming a member of the endless cycle of puppets in this twilight city."

"A body that has no humanity, gradually loses its joy, anger, sorrow, and joy, cannot empathize with anyone's emotions, and has a soul that has decayed to this point. Is this the eternity you want?"