Whispering Verse

Chapter 3100 The incomprehensible curse and the temperature of death

"You can defeat mortal enemies, but what about gods? If I successfully summon you when facing a monster, and then the gods appear at this time, can you defeat the gods?"

Shade asked again, and this time the long-haired Luvia answered carefully:

"I can only answer you this way: If the world is a drama on a stage, then everyone is an actor, you are the audience, and the gods are the background panels that appear in the actors' mouths but will not show up. They may be able to appear on the stage with an actor as their carrier, but even if they defeat the actor, they have not defeated them.

Until the end of time, I will be just an actor. Although I am the most powerful actor, I cannot defeat gods or saints alone in the material world. Only gods can defeat gods. "

Shade almost understood what she meant, but he had a new doubt:

"Speaking of it this way, in the past life, you probably couldn't defeat the gods head-on. At that time, you might not be as powerful as the one I called you with the word of sublimation. So in the past life, how did you deal with the arrival of the evil god? Can it be said that the gods can be successfully prevented from descending every time?”

"Of course not possible."

Luvia shook her head slightly:

"Sometimes God's descent is a prerequisite for achieving certain conditions I want, and sometimes I really can't stop God's descent."

"Then after God descends, will you leave directly?"

Luvia raised her head and looked at him:

"Of course not. I have the means to defeat powerful mortal enemies, and naturally I also have the means to resist the descendants of gods. Of course, I don't have your ability to actively carry gods."

"Your own strength cannot reach that level, and you cannot summon gods, so what are you doing?"

Shade became even more confused. Luvia put a finger in front of Shade's mouth:

"I walk in the story of the Chosen One and witness the performance of "The Whispering Cantos" again and again. If it is really necessary, I can pay some price to achieve the purpose of 'defeating the gods', although I do not do this often. But such a goal can indeed be achieved.

You have actually seen the answer, you just haven’t realized it yet. Let's not talk about this, Shade, just as you don't want to talk to the sleeping me or the me hugging you now. "

"Well, things in the past are indeed very complicated. Let's change the topic. After you recovered the heart of the tree, [The Staff of Yggdrasil] didn't seem to have any appearance changes except that it became a little heavier."

Shade mentioned this question again, and Luvia answered in a brisk tone:

"The essence of the Seven Roots Tree Heart is the same, I just made a conceptual fusion. Of course, there is still some work that has not been completed."

She reached out and grabbed Shade's chest, and that hand came directly from the dream world to reality. Then she grabbed the key on the sleeping Shade's chest and took it into the dream:

"This key is left with me for now. I need to process it further. Although I am considering whether I should share the power of this long staff with Emilia who has not merged with the World Tree, I will not use it. too long.

Now that the staff is no longer with you, after you finish dealing with the follow-up in the forest, just go home and stay there. "

"Yes, yes, you don't need to tell me everything inside and outside the dream."

She then rubbed the side of her face against Shade's chest:

"Now, hug me for a while, my love, and look at this moment before the sunset with me. Now I don't want to do anything but hold you. The embrace of reality is destined to be short-lived, and can only be found in this dream. Only then can I truly have you. Forgive me, Shade.”

Shade used his fingers to stir up the broken hair in front of her eyebrows:

"You know that I obtained the power of the World Tree from the wreckage of the World Tree during this war. I want to try to use it to cure your time curse and help you break the shackles of time."

He was talking about that drop of divinity. Although he only had two drops of divinity left, he would not be stingy with this power just for Luvia.

Rapunzel knew what he was talking about, but she didn't agree. She just buried her face deeply in Shade's arms:

"Time will treat everyone who tries to play with it equally. The curse that comes from destroying the world and playing with time is the punishment I deserve. I accept this myself. Shade, keep that Strength, from the first time I made a choice, I couldn't look back."

Shade continued to gently tease her broken hair:

"Since you don't want to now, then when we finish all the stories, when the epic of "The Whispering Cantos" turns the last page, will you let me help you lift this curse?"

"willing."

Her voice was already very low, and only she could hear the next words:

"If you are still willing to forgive me then."

This time it was not Shade who took the initiative to end the meeting in the dream, but Luvia, who was sleeping in reality, took the initiative to wake up, and reminded Shade sleepily that it was time to save Sister Devlin from death:

"We'll see you in the banquet hall later. Apart from being a little sleepy, I don't have any other problems right now. You go see the nun, and I'll go see if Carina needs help. Most people are recuperating now, and there should be a shortage of manpower on the ship. I'll take care of little Mia, don't always take her to dangerous places."

The entrance to the tranquil waters opened by Sister Devlin is certainly not in the cabin. No matter how powerful the "Brilliant Messenger" is, its internal space cannot carry such a passage.

So Shade came to the deck in advance according to the note left by Grace. At this moment, the morning sun was rising, reflecting the silver forest sparklingly. The smoke of war has not cleared away, but now that the night is over, I think I can calm down for a while here.

At half past seven, as soon as the black crack appeared, Shade ran headlong into it. Although the luck has become a bit worse, this kind of thing is not going to go wrong. Behind the crack was the shoal before death. A bonfire was burning on the shoal. Grace and Helen sat huddled together in front of the fire. Seeing Shade coming, they stretched out their hands to wave to him.

"Is it okay for you to get in here?"

In this space that does not actually exist, "speaking" itself is more like communication between souls, so Shade's concern was immediately known to the Hongdie sisters. Seeing that Shade did not ask about the nuns' situation first but cared about them, the smile on Helen's face, who was wearing a black dress, became sweeter:

"Sir, with the protection of Sister Devlin's strong flames, it doesn't matter for the time being. We have been here and have not moved forward."

Grace in white dress, who is much more mature than her sister, told Shade about his current situation:

"Helen and I helped guide and disperse the fire on the nun, but that was only temporary. Sir, she is in the front, in death. You should accept more of Sister Devlin's fire, otherwise she will be burned. Go crazy."

Shade suddenly remembered what he knew about the situation of Sister Devlin in her past life:

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"I understand, please wait for me for a moment. When I bring the nun back, we can go back and have dinner together. Carina and Luvia are having breakfast."

"Yes sir."

Helen said and opened her arms to Shade. After Shade bent down knowingly, the sisters in black and white dresses kissed the side of Shade's face:

"Thank you for your hard work this time, sir."

Sister Devlin's position can be seen at a glance because there is firelight there. Although the dark moon shines here, it is still very dark in death. She turned her back to the shallows and faced Ming Yue. While sitting on her knees on the water, she lowered her head and looked like she was holding something. That should be the first fire, after all, the fire has already appeared.

Shade left the shoal and stepped onto the water. After his body shivered to adapt to the cold, he continued to walk forward. The pure white souls silently passed by the nun, and as Shade approached the nun, he saw that in addition to the faint rippling flames around the nun, the whole body also showed the state of "embers of the first fire" .

This state was obviously very wrong, because when Shade came to the nun, he actually felt a heat in death.

He walked around the nun and came to her. As expected, in her hands was the flame with a black heart. Her downcast face was expressionless at the moment, but fiery red cracks had appeared on the mithril eyepatch, and even flame cracks like broken porcelain appeared on her face.

The hands holding the flame had also been severely burned. When Shade's hand held her hand in the fire, Sister Devlin trembled, but still lowered her head.

"Hero of the Fire Bearer, don't you feel the heat?"

She asked. Although her voice was still as ethereal as usual, this time it showed a little vulnerability.

"Some, but nothing serious."

Shade knelt down on one knee in front of the kneeling nun. The colder feeling when his knees touched the water almost froze his body, but the fire in contact with his hands provided enough heat:

"Fire-bearing nun, please share your fire with me again."

Sister Devlin then raised her head. Fine crimson cracks were all over the mithril eyepatch. The moon print that penetrated her left eye appeared bit by bit between the cracks all over her face. The silver moonlight could not hide it. The red flames made the nun, who seemed a little calm and crazy because of the flames, feel a little bit holy again.

At this moment, the moon is behind Sha De, and the silver moonlight looks like him. Sister Devlin seemed to be "watching" him. After a few seconds, she nodded slightly:

"Please touch the darkness within me."

The flame held in the nun's palm split off part of it and entered Shade's body along his arms. So fiery red cracks also appeared on the surface of his body, but they only appeared for a moment and were suppressed by the silver moonlight around him.

PS: The old rule is to add an update on the first day of the new year (from fifth to tenth update, not sure), which is the 29th of this month. I hope I can finish this volume by then (not necessarily).

There are two more CGs after that, but I haven’t decided whether to arrange one of them in this volume or at the beginning of the next volume.