"What's inside...... I'm afraid it's not easy to deal with. The elf said.

"What's that?" Ed asked, lowering his voice nervously, a little inexplicably anticipatory, "does it have a soul of its own, too?"

Sachses shook his head.

"Don't you want to know where all the life in this world has gone?" he replied, "I think...... They're all here. ”

He heard the broken cries, felt the pure evil thoughts in the indistinguishable words, ecstatic, hungry, thirsty, unbearable...... As he had heard, his own voice.

"How could it be ......?"

Ed instinctively didn't want to believe – didn't want to take it. For a moment he could barely tell which world he was in, but the scent of the flower in his hand lingered on the tip of his nose, keeping him awake in the midst of chaos and panic.

He desperately wanted to see with his own eyes, but was stopped by Sachse.

"Even if Trine's Rose can protect you, it's best not to take such a risk. "If you let your soul out of the protection of your body, it will be easier for them to drag you in...... They can wring you to pieces and become a part of them in an instant. ”

This is not a lighthouse, but a man-eating flower that lures all the beings and souls that enter this world here, only to devour it completely. Its tentacles eagerly reached out for him to feel its hidden aura—no one more familiar than he. Cold, greedy, chaotic, crazy...... It's irresistibly sweet and irresistible.

"You mean, something like a shadow fiend, or a snake like the Stygian?" Ed calmed down as he looked at his transparent face, "It's not like we've dealt with it before. ”

"It's worse than that. Sackses replied, "Both the Shadow Demon and the Serpent have a body and a weakness after all, and it ...... If the Hades Serpent is a river, it is more like a sea...... No, it's a lot of snakes entangled, maybe they still have a little bit of consciousness, but their power is already integrated. ”

"Isn't that its weakness?" Ed's eyes lit up, "if you can make them split......

Sachses still shook his head: "How do you separate the candles that have melted together, how do you separate the sediment from the different rivers in the sea......? What remains of them has lost the ability to 'think'. You...... You know the Wall of Nothingness, right?"

Ed nodded silently.

"It's something similar and yet different. The soul after death is the first memory to be lost, then the will, and finally the emotion. The souls built on the walls of nothingness are left with nothing but fear, pain, and despair, and they will no longer resist. The soul here is still full of anger and unwillingness...... That's a tremendous force. ”

It's also a very delicious food.

The faint longing in my heart grew stronger and stronger, so the elf simply spoke: "It is quite beneficial 'food' for me...... But for it, I'm probably the same. No wonder Felicity ......"

No wonder she could guess what was happening at a glance at him—he had devoured many souls by then, and his breath was probably no different from that of the thing in the tower. She warned a few of the more mature whisperers on the island, secretly strengthening the circle that protected and imprisoned him, but she didn't have the strength to do more.

The world she found was actually quite in line with his original requirements. It's just that she can't be sure what he'll do with it, so she can only choose to hide it.

But now, he had come here, a place that might be more suitable for him than the Ghost Realm. And the choice he can have...... It's true that there is more than one.

"'Not easy to deal with' means," Ed said in his silence, "you still have a way to deal with it, do you?"

He looked at him with a natural anticipation in his eyes, as if he didn't understand what he had just said.

"I'm similar to it...... It's the same thing. Sachses spoke every word so slowly that Ed couldn't mishear it, and had plenty of time to regret it, "The easiest way to do that is for me to swallow it." But I can't guarantee how it will turn out, and I may still be me...... Or maybe it will be it. ”

"Is there a way that is not so easy?" asked Ed calmly, as if he simply wanted to know all the possibilities.

"What we need most is actually this tower – it's the center of the world. So, if you drive out what occupies this place so that it can't enter it anymore, the parched world itself will devour it, but it will take a long time and leave a hidden danger. Hatred is not something that goes away so easily...... You don't want it to be the poisonous fog that the world can't dispel. Sackses replied equally calmly.

"What if...... Can you trap it in another place and figure it out later?"

“...... The circle that trapped me on White Rock Island should be able to trap it as well. ”

"The circle...... Even if you can draw it right now, it's going to be hard to start, right?" Ed smiled wryly, "Do you want to bring all those crystals from the island?"

"The real power is not in those crystals," replied Sacess, "and the real power comes from the sea...... A secret gift from your goddess, those crystals, are nothing more than bearers. ”

Ed looked down at the flower in his hand.

"Trinine's Rose does have enough power, but it sustains the circle if needed...... Nor can it be the cornerstone of the rebirth of this world. Sacess's voice cooled a little as patience wore off.

Ed sighed, not seeming surprised.

"It's not that good. "Then we'll have to choose the first option...... Is there anything I can do to help?"

Sackses looked at him in silence. The anxiety and greed that had been suppressed for too long were surging under his eyes, like a stormy sea, but there was still a faint moonlight between the clouds, struggling and refusing to disappear.

"Do you know what failure will be?" he said, "and I'll swallow you too." ”

"It wasn't long ago that I was told that accepting the 'possibility of failure' is the real courage. Ed looked up and smiled at him, his face pale as a ghost in the dim light of the world, but the smile was still as bright as the sun, "And I'll hold you...... I did pull you into this world when I pulled you into the world, didn't I?"

He even raised his hand and waved his fingers, looking innocent and proud.

"I'll be able to hold you. He said, "Swallow both of us at the same time...... No, I have to add Is, I don't think even a god might have that much appetite. ”

The malice that simmered in the deepest part of the soul, the shadows that could not be illuminated by any light, suddenly seemed too light to be mentioned.