novelonline Chapter 2702 Whispering Cowardice
Chapter 2702 Whispering Cowardice
Chapter 2702 Whisper-Cowardice
The main body of the shattered black giant was still underwater, but it looked like it could no longer sustain the battle. York Bronte had absorbed too much vitality, and although he still maintained his human form, his head was white and swollen, and a wing-like structure grew on his back. His arms were shriveled, and his legs were abnormally thick. He was gradually losing his human form.
There were four eyes on its unusually large face. When it looked up at the two people in the air, it opened its mouth with sharp canine teeth and laughed. Both Shade and Miss Danister could hear its voice:
"I already know what kind of power you have. Let's meet again in 67 years! Then, I will let you know my power."
The white mist of the narrow space of time seeps out and shrouds his body. He is trying to return to the "destined death" of 1787 to escape what is coming next. Even though he has lost the coffin that served as the tree hole, at least he still has hope of surviving by returning to 1787.
In Shade's opinion, it seemed that fate was actively attracting it back to die. Although there was no evidence, the outsider had a strong premonition that if York Bronte took the initiative to return to 1787, it would never be able to leave that time again, and would never return to this battlefield again after 67 years.
But it seemed too easy for him to face "death" so easily. Not only Xia De thought so, but many others also thought so.
As Shad and Miss Danister threw wooden stakes at him, under the water where York Bronte was standing, densely packed spiritual hands suddenly stretched out and grabbed him the moment he tried to escape.
These souls that he absorbed in the "Brink of Life and Death" briefly regained consciousness after the huge flesh and blood body collapsed. Over the past sixty years, countless souls that died tragically because of York Bronte pulled its body, and it was obvious that the method that the Dead Apostles tried to return to the past could not take so many souls away with them.
So the two wooden stakes easily hit its throat and chest, and the huge number of souls piled up on each other at the bottom of the water, even causing the spirits to interfere with reality.
Hands kept tearing at its body and soul, which had lost its ability to recover. Bronte screamed and tried to cast a spell to drive them away, but when the Chocobo jumped into the pit with lightning and the light of the scales held by Iluna shone on it, it completely lost its ability to cast spells:
"You damned things, you were my food when you were alive, do you think I will be afraid of you after you die?"
The stake suppressed its talent for absorbing life force, and the balanced chosen limited its spellcasting. So even though it cursed in terror, the souls continued to gather more and more, until they piled up like a hill and pushed York Bronte out of the water.
Its body was completely sunk into the "Soul Mountain" in the deep water pit, leaving only its head screaming and wailing on the "top of the mountain". Tens of thousands of souls overlapped and eroded its strange soul essence like ants.
This cannot completely eliminate it, but this torture is like cutting off flesh and blood piece by piece with a knife.
The red-haired girl in the air only lowered her altitude slightly, allowing Xia De to be level with the head. At the same time, she did not forget to cast an illusion, using fog to cover the scene at the bottom of the deep pit to prevent the subsequent conversation from being leaked.
The fog blocked the sky above, and at the same time, spirits flickered in the air. The soul of Mrs. Bronte, who had been on the verge of life and death in the small hall, appeared in front of Shad and the others accompanied by pale green flames.
The lady held her husband's hand with her left hand and her daughter's hand with her right hand.
She did not go to see her son. The family bowed slightly to Xia De and disappeared. They would continue on their way. This was something that should have been done last century.
"Woooooo~"
Xia De wanted to say something to the head, but he couldn't speak because of the coldness in his mouth. Others might not understand, but Miss Danister, who was holding him behind him, could fully feel the coldness in his head, and that coldness just suppressed her body and soul that had been hot after drinking the essence.
But the screaming head seemed to understand what he wanted to say:
"I'm not wrong! I've gone further on the road to immortality than any of you! Fear of death is our nature, and I just followed my instinct as a human to get everything I have now. Even if you defeat me, what does it matter? The god of death is still sleeping in this forest, and that coffin still has the power to destroy everything.
If you destroy me, no one will know those secrets anymore! I know it all, I know everything you want to know!"
Although it spoke very toughly, it still wanted Shade to let it go. But Shade didn't actually want to ask "Have you repented?" or something like that, but wanted to say that he could make his soul unable to go on.
"Woo!"
He took out the shrunken eyeball pierced by the stake from his pocket, meaning that he could deal with it without it. The expression of the dead apostle being torn apart by the souls froze, and then he said loudly:
"The secret of the tree hole, I also know the secret of the tree hole, I know the secret of this forest, I am a person who survived from the era of Riverwood Town, I know it."
But it didn't matter anymore. Xia De adjusted the muscles in his mouth that were numb from the cold, and took out the 0.9-minute ordinary-quality [Cowardice] from his pocket, which was the paper figurine given by the doctor.
Now that this "cowardice" has been preserved in Shade for too long, the black figure looks more and more real. So he put the paper figure in front of his mouth as Chloe said, and then looked around suddenly. Just now, he seemed to have a strong feeling of being spied on, but it disappeared in just a moment:
"Things in this forest are not over yet."
But those were things that needed to be dealt with later. Xia De slowly opened his mouth and finally spit out the cold current.
The heavy snow all over the sky became even denser at this moment, and the cold current that should have been colorless also turned into frosty white.
The cold current hit the head at the top of the "Soul Hill", and the screaming sound became louder and louder, but it became lower after a few seconds. The spirit body was not only frozen in the rustling sound of freezing, but even crystal-clear and fine cracks appeared on the surface.
Even the creeping "hill" felt the extreme cold, so the spirits gradually retreated, and Bronte's soul also descended little by little in the process of freezing.
The water surface at the bottom of the deep pit quickly froze, and the Chocobo standing on the water curiously raised one of its claws to observe the solid water surface.
The red-haired girl continued to hold Shade, descending as Shade continued to exhale the cold air. When Bronte's cracked spirit completely turned into an ice sculpture standing on the ice, Shade also covered his mouth and coughed violently several times, and the cold air that Chloe had given him was finally used up.
[Stranger, you have some understanding of "cold" and "freezing". ]
[Outsider, your spell "Galina's Ice Spell" has changed. Please wait.]
[The spell "Carina's Ice Curse" is upgraded to the spell "Chloe's Cold Breath". The spell effect remains unchanged, but its coldness is enough to freeze the soul. ]
The densely packed souls that had been drained of their strength and resentment were still standing on the ice in the deep pit, looking at them, so Iluna had to ride her Chocobo very hard to squeeze into the center:
"Please make way, please make way. Is this the end? Miss Fortune Teller saw that you didn't have a meeting this afternoon, so she asked me to come and see what's going on here."
As she spoke, she jumped off the back of the curious Chocobo. This creature, known for its boldness and curiosity, was not afraid of the spirits around it. However, it followed behind Iluna obediently, stretching its head to look at Shade from behind Iluna.
"It's over."
Feeling that his throat had gotten better, Shade said, staring at the crystal clear mutant soul of the Dead Apostle, and then punched it -
Click!
As the rustling sound gradually grew louder, the cracks on the surface of the spirit body quickly spread and became finer. Finally, with a snapping sound, the spirit body emitting extreme cold completely shattered.
"I don't want to die, I don't want to die."
There seemed to be a groaning sound in the cold wind, but it was just the last fear rather than repentance. After the spirit body collapsed, some black air currents emerged uncontrollably from the soul residue that was frozen by sin, swirled in the air, and then plunged towards Shade.
Xia De originally thought that this was a means of attack after death, but after "her" reminder, he did not try to stop it.
Then the life ring behind him emerged in the steam mist, and the black air flow attached to the life ring and turned into a pure whispering element. A new sin was attributed to Shad, the "murderer", because of the shattering of a soul. York Bronte added a new spiritual rune to Shad's life ring.
【Because of fear, he became cowardly. Because of cowardice, he became cruel. Because of cruelty, he killed people. And because of killing people, he feared death. Although the cowardly person used all means to desire immortality, he did not know that all mortals would eventually die. When the destined death opened its arms to him, cowardice was the first sin that made him unable to rest in peace.】
[Outsider, you have engraved the Dark Iron Whispering Spirit Rune - Cowardice.]
"Whisper? Because he used the power of the relic to keep his soul from being torn apart by other souls?"
Because Xia De had come into contact with "cowardice" twice when collecting sins before, he was not too surprised to actually obtain this spiritual rune.
This deadly sin spirit rune can obviously also be connected to the "deadly sin chain", but this sin, like the previous "laziness", is not the sin of the stranger himself. He is not a coward at all, so he still has to use the knowledge given by the tree father to make the "deadly sin chain" accept the eighth sin rune.
PS: The current runes of the Eight Rings are:
Miracle - Night (resurrection after death in the Battle of Moon Bay), Enlightenment - Direction (gift from Sister Brock in the Fifth Era), Whisper - Cowardice (sin born out of fear of death).