Chapter 837 Opening the Sky Ladder

The clouds flowed into the sky like smoke, and the white foam turned back like rain.

The "Secret Realm of the Kingdom of God" gradually collapsed, and the world changed from beautiful and rich to barren and desolate.

Gradually.

It showed what it should be like here.

And in the barrenness, Helfas stood alone on the ground.

The sealed book floated out, and the crystal skull face embedded on it began to speak: "The exact location above the sky port has been locked."

Helfas nodded: "Let's go together!"

His figure floated up into the sky, soaring under the clouds, and the book followed him.

Soon, Helfas came to the location of the sky port he had seen before, and he stopped and looked into the depths of the sky.

Here, the layers of clouds became thicker.

But in the thick clouds, he faintly saw a rotating cloud vortex.

"Yes, that should be the ladder to the sky."

When he flew up, he carefully checked and found that the clouds here were not the kind of "clouds" he had just seen, so he flew higher.

He passed through the clouds and came to the place where the cloud vortex was, and then accelerated and rushed up.

"Huh!"

He rolled up a gust of wind and flew for a long time.

Finally.

He broke through the clouds and appeared above a sea of ​​clouds in the sun.

Helfas stood on the clouds, and some dazzling light made him close his eyes involuntarily, and then open them again.

But seeing such a picture, he felt very strange.

"What's going on?"

"Going straight through, shouldn't it be entering a magical acceleration channel?"

He tried back and forth several times, but the result was the same.

Helfas found the entrance to the ladder to the sky, but couldn't get in, which was a little different from what he expected.

In the image left by the winged man with the image-retaining bead, he remembered that the train in the picture started directly from the lower level of the Sky Harbor, circled up layer by layer to the sea of ​​clouds. In addition, there were various airships and flying magic carpets outside the window, and even powerful people flew directly to the sky.

They all went straight to the air vortex and then quickly moved forward along the passage.

Why did it not work when it came to him?

"Could it be that after 50 million years, the Sky Ladder has stopped working?"

Helfas did not know the nature of the Sky Ladder. In his opinion, this was not impossible, but of course he could not just give up.

He summoned his cursed puppet directly above the sea of ​​clouds, and retrieved the original picture and all the information about the Sky Ladder again.

"Take a look, is there anything you didn't notice?"

By repeatedly watching the pictures, Helfas finally noticed a detail, which was not on the Sky Ladder and had nothing to do with the Sky Special Train.

Looking through the window of the train at the special port outside, he found an altar on the top of the Sky Harbor.

When the train, all the flying props and people entered the Sky Ladder, there were also extraordinary professionals performing some kind of sacrificial ceremony on the altar at the top. This was definitely not unrelated, and the altar was definitely not a decoration.

Helfas suddenly realized: "It turns out that you must perform some kind of ceremony to enter the Sky Ladder, and you can only get the authority through this ceremony."

The reason was found.

Unfortunately, he didn't know that kind of ceremony.

But if he could enter the Sky Port 50 million years ago, he should be able to gain something.

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The second year.

The rainy season.

Helfas came to this land of rolling clouds as expected again, but this time he was alone.

When he left last time, he divided the area where this "special cloud" appeared, that is, the area of ​​the former Thunder Swamp, and had black pen messengers patrolling regularly to prohibit people from trespassing without permission, and also worked part-time to create new seal controllers in the Cloud Kingdom.

However, this area has been rumored to be terrible in the birdman settlements nearby since ancient times. Birdmen often disappear here and their bodies are not found. Therefore, they rarely approach this place on their own initiative.

Helfas waited quietly, but this time his luck was not so good. He waited for several days but nothing happened.

It was not until the eighth day that the sky suddenly shook.

"Here it comes."

Helfas watched the cloud mountain and sea of ​​clouds pouring down, but he did not approach them immediately, but waited for everything to solidify before running towards the depths.

The direction of the cloud falling this time was different from the last time, closer to the core area. Helfas saw the swamp jungle like the wall of the secret realm, reflecting the beautiful lake of the sea of ​​clouds.

Fortunately, the clouds partially covered the location of the sky port.

Helfas flew directly to the sky port without saying a word.

As he approached, he found that the sky port was built on an island. The lower sky port was shrouded in clouds and mist, and even the upper layer was also shrouded in faint clouds and mist.

It looks dreamy but extremely dangerous.

It is difficult to approach.

Helfas wandered around for a long time before finally finding a safe route to enter and landed on the top of the Sky Harbor.

The top was much larger than what it looked like from a distance. This was a truly super-large port.

A variety of buildings and houses were built around the large square, with a large number of warehouses for stacking goods and the airship docking station that Helfas saw in the photo bead, but all of them now looked dilapidated. The facilities inside were demolished before the civilization migrated, and later suffered from the ravages and destruction of the years.

Originally it should have been an extraordinary building, but now all the things related to the blood of power have been drained, leaving only a thorough real phantom.

However, what Helfas cares most about is naturally the altar in the center.

The ritual is just a way to borrow power from other beings through the dream world, but even if it is the same ritual, the amount of power borrowed will be different if the materials and permissions are different.

However, the ritual itself does not have extraordinary power, and it is very likely to be preserved intact.

"Is the altar still intact?"

The altar was built of a whole huge stone. Helfas checked it and found that the ritual and the altar were still intact, which made him feel relieved.

However, the various metals and gems originally inlaid on it are gone. They were used to amplify the power of the ritual, but this does not affect the operation of the ritual.

Helfas took out the Book of Seals and asked it to copy and record every detail of the altar and the ritual.

And he himself began to observe this sky port.

Even if it was dilapidated and everything that could be removed was removed, the remaining things and information were extremely precious to Helfas.

He first observed the area around the ritual altar, which was also a very important core area for the sky port. He stopped in front of an inscription leaning against the ground and read the text on it.

It was the text of the snake people. Helfas could not fully interpret it, but he could interpret most of it.

The inscription roughly recorded the time when this sky port was built. It said that it was built by the people of Gamer of the Desire and Alchemy God System and a man named Osis. Her Highness the Sky Witch prayed to the Sky Giant God for permission. As long as a sacrifice was offered, permission to enter and exit the Sky Ladder could be obtained.

Suddenly, the two terms, Sky Witch and Sky Giant, immediately caught Helfas's attention.

"Sky Witch."

"Sky Giant?"

Needless to say, the witch was a witch of ten thousand snakes.

He also knew some legends about the giants, which were gods that were so powerful that they were unimaginable, the gods of life.

Helfas guessed that the ten paths should come from ten different giants, but he did not thoroughly confirm it because he did not even know which complete giants there were.

"Named after the sky."

Helfas raised his head and looked at the sky.

"Isn't it the sky above our heads?"

Helfas wanted to laugh, but he felt that he could not laugh. On the one hand, he instinctively felt that there was no way such an incredible thing could happen, but on the other hand, his reason told him that reality might be so absurd and bizarre.

He walked to the other side and saw another slanted stone tablet, which also recorded things related to this sky port.

It was the story of the owner of the Time Station and the train, the God of Travel, Michel, who drove out the sky train for the first time from here. This was also the glorious past of this Sky Port. Helfas rarely saw a name he had seen before, so he looked at it more carefully.

He looked at it piece by piece, and finally came to the fifth stone tablet.

The content this time seemed to be different from the previous deeds of greatness and glory. It seemed a little funny and even ridiculous, like a fable.

If it weren't for the phantom represented by that name that had appeared in front of him, Helfas really thought it was a fable, because the whole story was really absurd and bizarre.

The story was very long, telling the story of a group of believers who believed in the sky giant and selected a witch.

And the witch's name.

It was called Lis.

Helfas: "Lis?"

Isn't this the name he heard when the ship passed by?

But in that voice, others called her Her Highness Lis.

He had previously speculated whether Lady Lis was a princess of a country in the last era, which was the most likely possibility. He even speculated whether she was also a witch, but it seemed unlikely. If she was a witch, how could she dissolve in the mist?

As a result, the most likely possibility he thought was far from reality, and the one he thought was impossible was half right.

Lis in the story was not a princess, but just an ordinary fisherman's daughter; she was a fake witch, but she was not chosen by God, but was pushed to the position of a witch step by step by mortals.

Everything originated from a country called the Kingdom of Thunder.

They lived next to the kingdom of the sky giant, so they believed in gods for generations, but the gods never paid attention to them.

One day, because of the king's needs, because the temple needed faith, and mortals needed to prove their piety, everyone hit it off, and the king and the believers of God chose a fisherwoman and told everyone that she was a witch.

The day the witch appeared, the whole country cheered.

The king was extremely happy and excited, and his legitimacy was verified.

The temples and believers rejoiced because their faith was recognized.

The people prostrated themselves enthusiastically because they finally welcomed the witch they wanted.

In the temple, the "witch", who was still a child, greeted everyone's worship in a daze. She had never seen such a scene before. She was intoxicated by everyone's admiration and worship, and intoxicated by the witch's superiority.

What a wonderful situation, everyone won.

There was no loser.

But.

Fake is fake after all, the fake witch will gradually grow old, and the truth may be discovered.

So the king and the chief priest of the temple made a decision, that is, to send the witch to the depths of the forbidden land to hold a sacrificial ceremony, and then announce to the public that the witch ended her reincarnation and went to the palace of the gods.

If the gods accepted their sacrifices, it would be better, even if they did not accept the witch's problem.

It was another wonderful plan, whether good or bad, they won.

Mortals were as smart as ever.

Amid the cheers of everyone, the "witch" embarked on her reincarnation and turned into foam in the sea of ​​clouds in the forbidden land.

And the priests and king of the temple finally ushered in the attention of the gods they had longed for for generations during the cheering sacrificial ceremony.

The god opened his eyes from the sky and looked at them.

They melted under that gaze.

As Helfas read the story, the expression on his face kept changing, from the initial shock to the question of whether these guys were crazy.

Until he saw the ending, the corner of his mouth twitched instantly.

"Ah?"

"This..."

In the story, one character after another performed, there was a king who was desperate for status, a god servant who was obsessed with profit, people who blindly followed the so-called oracle, and a fisherwoman who was lost in the name of the witch and didn't know where to go.

It started with a ridiculous reason and ended with an even more ridiculous reason.

For a general fable, it should end here, as a story is enough to warn the world.

But Helfas didn't expect that the story didn't end here, and there was a long section behind the stone tablet.

He continued to read.

The false witch died, the king died, and the god servant turned into a pile of rotten meat in the crazy "piety", but nothing changed.

For the sake of interests and political needs, and to continue the existence of the "witches" and the illusion of being loved by the sky giants, the new kings and gods created new witches generation after generation, created the so-called illusion of witches in reincarnation, and then sent the "witches" to the forbidden land as sacrifices again and again.

Let this story continue for hundreds of years.

Countless people participated in this ridiculous reincarnation stage of the sky witch, killing one "witch" after another in cheers and enthusiasm, proving their faith and piety.

Helfas felt funny at first.

These guys dared to deceive even the gods, I don't know if it's bold or stupid.

I felt that they were not deceiving the gods, but the citizens and ordinary people.

In the end, these guys clearly deceived themselves.

They deceived themselves, they even believed in their piety, and believed that everything they did was for this country and for everyone.

The lies were told countless times, and they seemed to become true in their minds.

The false things are believed persistently, as if they have really become real in their hearts.

Helfas shook his head at this ridiculous story, but he could no longer laugh. He even unconsciously felt a sense of sadness in his heart, but he didn't even know why he was sad.

For the witch?

For those who died in madness.

Or for everyone's obsession.

"Who left this? Leaving such an ignominious past in such a place, shouldn't it be actively covered up and modified?"

He couldn't help but look at the stone tablet several more times, trying to find its origin.

Finally, he found a passage on the bottom foundation of the stone tablet.

"What people believe in is not gods, but the desires deep in our hearts. I ended Liz's obsession and finally opened the ladder to the sky with the permission of God."

"Lis of the Yan family, I engraved your story here not to laugh at your past, but I just want to tell everyone about your pain and confusion."

"Neither you nor I are sacred."

"Just a person obsessed with desires in this vast sea of ​​people."

Helfas saw such a sentence, which was obviously written by the person who left this stone tablet, and the sentence "I finally opened the ladder to the sky" also proved her identity.

"The witch of the sky."

The sealed book turned around and copied the entire ceremony on the altar. Helfas grabbed the book and buckled it to his side.

After so long, the "cloud" that had escaped should almost go back. Helfas was ready to open the ceremony on the altar before that.

But at this time, there was a sudden movement in the distance.

Helfas immediately turned his head and looked over.

On the high sky port, his eyes passed through the horizontal lake.

He saw a familiar ship passing through the high wall of the secret realm protected by the swamp forest, causing ripples.

He saw the "Witch's ship" slowly approaching again, but last time he saw it at the beginning, and this was its end.

Helfas took a step forward unconsciously, and his eyes began to search, as if looking for a figure.

Soon, he saw the other party.

He saw someone rowing a wooden boat chasing under the tall building ship, waving and shouting, with a happy smile on his face.

"Thank you!"

"Thank you for saving me..."

They headed towards Yunshan together.

On the boat, there was a fisherwoman immersed in the identity of a witch.

Under the boat, there were wanderers pursuing happiness and love.

They all seemed to have obtained the happiness they wanted.

That happiness was illusory and hazy.

Unable to catch, and dare not sail to the end, can only reincarnate in the illusion again and again.

The wanderer under the boat will never board the building ship to catch that figure, because the only thing that can be caught is bitterness.

And this ship can never sail to the end, because the only thing left at the end is despair.

At this moment.

Looking at the figure on the wooden boat.

Helfas suddenly remembered the knowledge system that rushed to the sea of ​​stars in the Tower of Babel, and the kingdom of God that they created like a ball. At that time, he learned that the other party had created an illusory world, allowing everyone to give up their flesh and live in illusions for generations.

Looking at the countless smiling faces reflected on the surface of the sphere, it was as if everyone was walking hand in hand towards the eternal dark void. He actually felt a little creepy.

He felt that the end of the world was far from coming, but hundreds of millions of people gave up reality and walked towards illusion. Why?

Perhaps, people of that era could not accept the reality and go to the illusion to find back what they had lost or what was unattainable.

The era in reality will eventually end.

Their cities will be reduced to ruins and then buried by jungle plants, their fertile hometown will become barren and desolate, and their mountains and seas will disappear.

But in that illusion, their civilization, country and hometown can continue forever.

Suddenly, Helfas understood where the sadness in his heart came from.

"Is the story of the fake witch Liz really over?"

In the Thunder Kingdom, between the fisherwoman and the witch, Liz chose to be a fake witch.

At the end of the era, in the real and illusory worlds, countless people chose the illusory world.

Even now, he witnessed the wanderer chasing the foam shadow that did not exist at all.

Liz's story may have ended.

But it will never end.

Helfas sacrificed a furnace made of black steel and opened the altar ceremony on the Sky Harbor.

The ceremony gave Helfas authority, and the Sky Ladder finally opened its door to him.

He flew towards the spreading vortex.

The ship sailed into the cloud mountain and the sea of ​​mist, waiting for the next reincarnation.

And Helfas was also running for the ideal world in his heart that he didn't know when it would come, looking for the past that he didn't know where it was forgotten again and again.