novelonline Chapter 3405: Sleeping with God
Chapter 3405: Sleeping with God
Chapter 3405: Sleeping with God
So, where are you lying now?
"She" asked with a smile in the darkness.
"Don't scare me at a time like this!"
Of course, he was lying in that indescribable ancient black coffin at the moment. Even with Xia De's perception, he couldn't tell whether it was real or illusory. But if it was real, it meant that his body had become tens of thousands of meters long.
[There is no meaning in comparing sizes in this world. The size of the soul is never determined by the shape of the body.]
He wanted to get up from the coffin, but found that he could not move at all. The endless darkness above seemed to be pressing down immediately, and what was worse was that he found that he had not replaced the original "resident" in the coffin, but was now sharing the coffin with the other person.
He instinctively restrained the urge to use his peripheral vision to observe the right side, because he knew that the things that were originally in the black coffin were still there. The light of the "divine afterglow" on his body was even clearer than when he was fighting just now, and the reason for this was of course because God was right beside him.
Xia De was lying on his back in the coffin, unable to control his body, but the "corpse" beside him was still able to move. He tried his best to keep his eyes straight upward, and then his bony right palm, which was wearing a glowing gold bracelet and a gold ring, stretched out in front of him.
The bony hand was spread out in front of him, then gradually moved down until it completely covered Shade's eyes with one palm.
Then a darkness deeper than the darkness appeared. Xia De could still clearly feel that he was lying in the coffin with his eyes covered by a skeleton arm, but a few seconds later a ray of light appeared in the darkness.
Then Shade saw a very beautiful witch whom he did not recognize, who was walking forward against the strong wind just like them. When she reached the "end" of the uphill road, that is, the front of the huge black coffin, two arms and a skull with a golden crown stretched out from the darkness.
Even though the strange witch was very strong, she was unable to react when suddenly confronted by the god. The god then grabbed her with his right hand and threw her up.
During this process, the witch fell into a pure white light. When the surrounding scenery reappeared, she sat up dazedly from under a huge oak tree, apparently having returned to the world of the living.
Xia De felt that he understood it all at once:
"Hmm, so being caught by that hand is actually a necessary step to return? The orthodox way to leave the [Tombstone Wasteland] in this era is to open a road in the Ancient God Temple to meet the master of the country, and then the master of the country will send the living people out?
So we just now actually.”
The picture disappeared, and darkness fell again in front of him. Xia De immediately realized where the black coffin was.
The first secret of the old gods is that "the throne of the old gods sealed the gate of the dead, intercepted the souls that should have left, and forged their own kingdom." Therefore, the location of this black coffin is the center of the wasteland, which is the location leading to the "gate of the dead" and the throne of the king of the kingdom.
The cold white bones covering Xia De's eyes were still there. New light appeared, and another scene unfolded in front of Xia De's eyes.
The light came from a golden bracelet floating in the void. The appearance of the bracelet was exactly the same as the five bracelets that had just been shattered. Its light became brighter and brighter in the darkness, allowing Shade to see that it was now inlaid in the center of a huge ancient sacred emblem.
"Is this the 'artifact of death' that priest Augustus mentioned?"
Suddenly, the bracelet peeled off from the holy emblem, and then fell downwards until it landed in the black coffin in the darkness. Then a bony hand stretched out from the black coffin, drooping on the outer wall of the coffin, and on that hand was the golden bracelet.
"Does this mean that the authority and this country were bestowed upon the [God of the Grave] by the Ancient God?"
The scene has not ended yet, and a huge crack appeared at the bottom of the black coffin.
Xia De felt that the crack was very familiar, and then the black liquid that continued to flow upward from the bottom of the crack made Xia De feel even more familiar:
"It's that body of water!"
Then the hand wearing the bracelet stretched out from the black coffin and pointed, and the entire coffin slowly moved until the horrible crack was completely sealed.
But water marks still emerged from the bottom of the coffin, and the golden bracelet emitted a dazzling light, constantly evaporating those water marks.
Soon after, faint silver moonlight appeared from the crack under the coffin, and the water marks no longer spread here, and the hand that had stretched out of the coffin finally returned to the inside of the coffin.
These images seemed even more confusing, but for Shade, who had already experienced the story of death, what He wanted to show was quite clear:
“The artifact and this country were given to the old god [King of the Grave] by the ancient god - the ancient god of death, so that he could better suppress the rift that opened from true death to this world.
That rift is even more terrifying than the 'edge of life and death' in the real world. If it is really allowed to expand, not only will the wasteland become part of death, but even death will go against the wasteland into the world of the living. Therefore, the road from the wasteland to the world of the living has also been sealed by the old gods."
Water, cracks, and coffins are all images and do not really exist.
“Water” represents real death, it represents the end, that dark water is something that is materialized only so that the soul can understand;
The "crack" is not a real gap in space. After all, the place of death is not space, it is just the "end point";
As expected, the "coffin" represents the throne of the God of the Grave, which is the power of the God of the Grave.
Shade deduced that at the end of the First Era or the beginning of the Second Era, when the Ancient Gods were about to leave, they noticed this huge rift, or in other words, the "gate" that originally led the dead to their destination turned into cracks and gaps, so the Ancient Gods gave the Old Gods the golden bracelet.
Thus, the [God of the Grave] came to an end in the old days, and in the era when the ancient gods were no longer around, they closed off the wasteland and left behind their powers to guard the place.
As a result, the wasteland is completely closed, with no "entrance" or "exit", so if the living want to leave, the gods must do it themselves, to prevent death from invading reality. And those who dig too many graves and have too deep sins must naturally stay.
As for the story of the last silver moonlight, Dark Moon, it is a legend for the Sixth Age. Joey Barton said that Dark Moon really existed in the First Age (Chapter 783), but it no longer existed after the ancient gods left.
However, in the autumn of 1852 of the Sixth Era, the priest Augustus, who had voluntarily entered death in order to seal the "edge of life and death", took the initiative to invade Shad's dream while dying and wanted to leave a last word. So the huge silver moon in Shad's dream also illuminated the death that originally had no light (Chapter 604).
The moon thus invaded the realm of death.
Later, in the Sixth Era, Shad fought a decisive battle with Joey Barton, the first candidate for death, and defeated him, which completely anchored the fact that "the moon is better than death" and made the light of the dark moon completely stable.
This not only represents the completion of the rules of death, but also seems to make death more stable. The "end" does not have the concept of time. Shade's approach affects the entire timeline. Therefore, this stability has led to the crack in the power seal of the [God of the Tomb], which is not as difficult as before.
After figuring this out, “she” smiled gently and said:
[Outlander, you have learned some secrets about the old god "King of Bones" (3/3): The old god governs this country, guards the 'Great Rift of the Dead', and protects the world of the dead and the living - this is the agreement between him and the Lord of the End of All Things. ]
[Outlander, the old gods sealed the gate of the dead, the old gods inherited the artifacts of the god of death, and the old gods guarded the great rift. You have learned the secrets of the old gods - the gods of the grave, and learned about the stories about coffins, death, thrones, and graves. ]
[The mission has been completed, you can choose to return. ]
Of course, Xia De would not choose to return. He would not feel at ease until he saw the witches return to the world of the living with his own eyes.
Knowing the secrets about this country and that god, the previous doubts can be explained.
When "fighting" with the god just now, the other party obviously did not use his full strength. On the one hand, it was because the other party just wanted to send the group away. On the other hand, it was because He seemed to know that death became stable again because of outsiders, so he deliberately showed mercy.
Even revealing these truths to him at this moment might be because this god saw that the stability of death was related to Shade. In this way, the violent shaking before throwing Shade out just now seemed like a kind of venting of anger.
It was indeed wrong for them to act because they did not know the truth, but the evil god's reputation was too great after all.
Moreover, it seems possible that Shade had "harmed" the two chosen ones of the god not long ago. However, the Swelling Lady and the Gravedigger really wanted to stop them from moving forward. In this way, perhaps they were a test deliberately arranged by the god for Shade, otherwise the god could have directly expelled the group from this wasteland from the beginning.
The second scene ended, but the bony hands covering the eyes of Shade lying in the coffin were still there. Soon after it became dark again, a new light appeared for the third time.
Xia De wondered in his heart that he already knew everything, so what would happen this time? Then he found that the light came from a corpse, the corpse of an angel with six wings.
Xia De only saw the body lying on the ground from a distance, motionless. Moreover, the body did not look fresh, but rather looked like it had been burned by a fierce fire and then weathered for thousands of years.
Most of the corpse's limbs were reduced to bones, and most of the six wings on its back had turned black.