Chapter Twenty-Four: Under the Castle
A teenager walked on a trail surrounded by a cloud, but a blue light could be faintly seen in the distance. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ο½ο½ο½ο½ο½ο½ γ ο½ο½ο½ο½
It was a winding path, paved with layers of crushed stone solidified by blood, thick and full of resentment. Ordinary people walk on such a path, and the mere resentment is enough to make him burst into death, but the boy seems to be unaffected. He never looked around, just shot into the distance with his purple eyes, and finally his figure disappeared into the haze and entered the blue light.
The moment he entered the blue light, countless resentments with white gas-like bodies and scarlet eyes fluttered and firmly occupied this path. From the scarlet gaze of these wraiths, it is clear that they are not beings full of good intentions.
How is the boy now?
He walks through a filthy city full of "moving corpses", where strange "people" come and go. These "people" may be more appropriately described as "living dead", and some of them are either missing arms and legs, or a head.
And some of them exist, simply holding only a rotten stomach with a big hole and lack of internal organs. Watching them drag the "rotten belly" full of fat intestines and walk leisurely is more uncomfortable for the teenagers than looking at those headless guys. He frowned more than once. For this place, almost any life with "aesthetics" will not like it, this is the famous Alder City in the multiverse. But more people call it a ghost town, which is the famous "gathering place of evil spirits" in the multiverse, because many souls come here after death, especially those with great grudges.
Many people now know what the soul is, but they don't know where the soul will eventually go, or what kind of state the soul will exist in the place where they eventually return. First of all, there must be a place where the soul can return for this question to be true.
Each of the twelve lords of the multiverse has their own position, and their rule is based on their obligations to the multiverse. The appearance of the Faceless Lady is the solution to the problem of the spirits, one of the eternal problems that have plagued the universe for countless years.
Before the Abyss created the devil, the soul would wander in the world where living creatures lived, or forget everything in some spatial crevices, become nothing, or enter the kingdom of God, which is the luckiest.
But although God is proficient in the way of the soul, he will not take in all souls, and more "sin-filled souls" who do not meet God's requirements can only wander in the world, or be declared heretics by God's servants and then purified.
Thankfully, the Abyss came, and they brought "new technology" with them.
The demons of Abyss were masters of playing with souls, and when they created the demons of the Abyss out of their own chaos, they also bestowed on those demons the ability to play with souls, and Beru did just that. It was the Beru who created the Abyssal Demons out of the Origin of Chaos, and used them as weapons to conquer the gods. These demons are more like the demons of the common imagination than the Abys, who are also called demons, ugly and deformed.
Therefore, the demon lords in the abyss have inherited some of the methods of the Abysses for souls, and this is the reason why they like to eat souls.
In this way, the abyss is created, and the souls who have committed one of the "seven deadly sins" are given a "ticket" to the abyss, which can be used by the demon guards there to let them into the abyss.
Demons welcome evil spirits.
The same is true of the devils of hell.
In fact, the evil but orderly devil was the first and most satisfying creature of the Abysians. It was the Nass who first created the devil with the origin of the Abysan order, and the devil inherited the Abyss people's attachment to order. The style of hell is tradition above all else, and the so-called devil's tradition is the eternal and unchanging order.
The demons had apparently learned more from the demons of their creator, Abyss, the ability to understand and manipulate souls, far better than the great lords of the abyss. So the devil can enslave ghosts and set up tribunals in hell that specifically judge souls, and they are also called "hell judges". The image of the devil is much better than that of the devil, although it is also very deformed, but the devil's face is very handsome, perhaps due to the aesthetics of the Nass people.
From then on, sinful souls can go to a new world, the testing ground of the Nass people, Hell
The abyss where the demon is located and the hell where the devil is located are both in the divine realm, and although the abyss and hell planes are constantly moving, now both the abyss and the hell are located at the bottom of the spinning top, close to the sea of blood.
The Devil's methods of using souls have inspired the Faceless Lady of the Multiverse, especially the Lady who "rebuilt" her city, and she also likes her city to be called a ghost town.
The Lady's Castle is very important.
The above statements of hell and abyss are not to say that the lady's city is not important. Although the soul does not always have to go to the city of the ladies, although the soul can go to some other places. Yes, the kingdom of God, hell, and the abyss can all be chosen, but only a choice......
Even though they come to the kingdom of God, they can live forever with God. Although they may become another devil if they are not eaten by the devil in hell, although the abyss is the same for them, but ......
Oh, perhaps, the Abyss of Chaos, the Shadow World, the Sea of Darkness, and the Sea of Blood are also theoretically good options. But in fact, these four places are the most tragic end for the soul.
First of all, the soul can't go to Abyss and the sea of blood, because if you go to Abys, the soul will be torn apart by the power of chaos, and there will be no other possibility. If you go to the sea of blood, you will become the food of the slave Asura of the ghosts and gods, and it is difficult to become a new asura, let alone a ghost god, because the rules in the sea of blood are special, and only souls that are not souls that are born after being killed by ghosts and gods can survive in the sea of blood.
As for the Shadow World and the Sea of Darkness, they are not good places to go. The shadows that exist in the Shadow World are themselves an unknown substance gathered by the killing instinct left over from the lives killed by the Abys, and they hunt for everything, including souls.
The lives killed by the Abysses have no souls, only shadows, and these shadows are so dangerous.
The Sea of Darkness is a dangerous place not inferior to the Sea of Blood, and it is home to another group of ghosts, the Dark Spirits. The Blood Sea Ghost God and the Dark Spirit God are not conceptual ghost gods. The ghosts and gods of the Sea of Blood have their own bodies, and they are often very powerful, not inferior to the creations of the Abysians, the powerful bodies of the Great Lords of the Abyss.
The ghosts and gods of the Sea of Darkness prefer parasitism, except for the seventh ghost god Montecurus, who likes to appear in various worlds in the form of his own body, more dark ghosts and gods will attach to the human body, producing terrifying and powerful existences. Parasites are often seen as aliens by others and hunted down everywhere. They themselves called their encounters "the curse of the demons."
The dark spirits only need a perfect body, a perfect body, and they will crave to be united with those who have a strong bloodline. They don't need souls that come after the death of a life, and if the soul goes to the Sea of Darkness, it will undoubtedly suffer from the slight hostility of the ghosts, and the power generated by this slight hostility will cause the soul to be disintegrated in an instant.
In addition, whether it is the kingdom of God, hell, or the abyss, which is more suitable for the soul to stay, there is no infinite place, and needless to say, the kingdom of God can only be visited by the souls of a very small number of lucky people. Hell and the Abyss, two places that are used to curse the living, are actually rushed after death, and there may not be a chance to go.
Evil spirits are welcome to both the abyss and hell, but the spirits that have generated thoughts, ghosts, are never welcome to their realm.
Demons curse ghosts, treating them as lowly enemies. One of the reasons the devils are called "judges of hell" is that they kill ghosts with large forks and torture them to death by throwing them into a cauldron of oil lit by the blood of sin. The devil sometimes wraps around the ghosts with their tail with a triangular protrusion at the end, and slowly tortures them with hundreds of tortures for fun, a game often played by the Devil lords after a bloody battle.
Although there are many ghosts in hell, they are all slave-like and inferior to slaves. More disliked by the big lords than the lowest-level devils.
The devil does not like a ghost who does things disorderly because of order, and the devil encourages evil deeds but does not encourage evil deeds that have no cause, and the behavior of demons is usually chaotic and disorderly.
Why don't demons like ghosts either?
Aren't demons the camp of chaos and evil, and aren't demons also champions of chaos and evil? Shouldn't they unite with enemies that the devil doesn't like?
But it is precisely because the demons themselves are chaotic that they cannot be understood by common sense! The demons of chaos have never done things for any reason, they were born from the chaotic power of the Abysians.
It is still a mystery what attitude the Abysians have, who possess both order and chaos, towards ghosts. There is no account of the relationship between the Abysians and the ghosts, because the lives killed by the Abyss do not produce souls at all. Naturally, if there were no souls, there would be no ghosts, because many ghosts were created by the transformation of the spirits.
Inheriting the rules of the original twelve clan ancestors, the clan ancestors were able to leave souls to prey on souls as they wished.
Ordinary Abysians are not allowed to prey on souls without special means. Therefore, the Abyss built farms that could imprison souls, and obtained the souls of life by means of killing. In the farm of Abys, it is impossible to produce ghosts.
Before the creation of the devil, the Abyss had never been in contact with demons.
Ghosts are not yet welcomed by the abyss and hell, let alone by the human world. In addition, the living dead are even more embarrassing.
So...... Ghosts and the living dead do not stop because they are not welcomed. There are more and more of them...... The gods and demons, the great lords of the devils, and even the ancestors of the Abyss Rule clan behind them, have negotiated many times, hoping that they will ...... Of course, it was denied.
So, at this time, the ghost town of the Faceless Lady is actually very important, not only for ordinary souls, but more importantly for ghosts.
Even though it's a messy place, ...... This is heaven, where there is no need for any threshold, and it is not like the kingdom of God that only welcomes believers. There is no racial discrimination here, unlike the abyss and hell, only the "pure" souls of the villains are welcome, and the souls that do not produce thinking are "pure" in the eyes of the devil and demons. Housing here is cheap, and once bought, it's permanent residency, even if you die...... Maybe it's dead, anyway, the housing prices here are cheap, the right of residence is permanent, and it won't be like some countries in the world, where you have to spend money again to buy a house after living for 70 years without dying, unlike ......
This is a place ruled by the Faceless Lady, and the demons of the Abyss or the Devils of Hell privately call it the "Crematorium of the Faceless Lady".
It's not a place like this that anyone can come to casually, and it's not something that anyone can adapt to here. There is only one thing for the faint of heart, such as the fact that you can often meet some white bugs with disgusting white bugs in their eye sockets, and they don't dare to think about coming here. And to be honest, compared to more bizarre existences, these "guys with bugs living in their eye sockets" can actually be regarded as relatively normal.
If you don't have enough guts, you'll go crazy on the first day, and then, as is the usual practice, the servants who collect the corpses can find the bodies of those who have gone mad in some alleyways.
There are a lot of "people" coming and going, and they should be rushing to the courthouse to be judged by the lady.
There was also a courtroom here, and the lady built the courtroom. The court has the power to reassemble ghosts into new souls that can liberate these pathetic beings. Of course, only licensed oni have this power.
After volunteering in the city for 200 years, such as a city cleaner, you will be given the opportunity to go to court, and the lady will decide whether to preserve the old memories for the new soul according to her mood.
The strength of the lady is naturally very strong, which can be confirmed from some aspects...... It is said that the city was built by robbing the law of the reincarnation pool that already existed in the multiverse.
First of all, there is a law of reincarnation in this universe, the balance between life and death has always existed, and the Buddha kingdom in the world of gods has a deep understanding of the rules of reincarnation. Legend has it that the deepest part of Abyss also contains the mystery of reincarnation, and according to the original and most primitive accounts of demons, Abyss was once an ordinary world.
The world before Abyss may have been formed by the disruption of the balance between life and death, that is, the distortion of the law of reincarnation, the initial chaos. In this sense, there may have been a universe before the current multiverse...... The current Abyss can be regarded as a remnant of that universe.
Of course, this is just a legend, and the boy once saw it in the Great Library of Abys, and there is a place in the world of gods called 'Astral Boundary'.
That astral realm does not refer to the astral world, but to the world where the gods go after death. Similar to the film world, but it is composed of 'light'.
That is the condensation of the law of reincarnation in the divine realm, which the Abyss call the reincarnation pool. The deities of the Buddha kingdom are called the six realms. That's one of the reasons why God has access to immortality.
The Lady could build such a city about the cycle of life, and it could be said that she had snatched power from the divine realm or the origin of the universe, and even the demons would fear itβat least, the Abyss would never dare to do such a thing that could destroy the world, although the Abyss were born to destroy the world, but they have long since changed.
The conquest of the universe, this kind of unambitious behavior is what the Abyss want to do now. Only the boy still wants to destroy the universe. But now, even he is the destroyer of this world, and he has become an existence mathematically known as the past tense.
Now he is wandering in the universe in a daze, with countless identities, and he doesn't know what to do in a hazy way.
I don't know when he found a meaning for himself and a reason to live, at least not so much that he didn't have the idea of ending himself - gaining eternity. What a ridiculous thing this is, in the past, his biggest goal has always been to end everything, to make everything disappear, including himself to be destroyed. Now, how can he seek eternity? He has betrayed the mission, the mission given by Abys. The mission given to him by his Father.
He once said that where there was me, there was hell, and now, he was just a boring person.
When he was bored, he often attended the meetings of the Alliance as one of his countless capacities, the Sheriff of the Alliance, where he often made statements such as: "Down with the Mage Guild! Down with the Red Truth Society! Down with the Abys...... Maintain order!"
Then, he immediately rushed to another meeting and issued another statement in his capacity as vice president of the Mage Guild, one of his countless capacities: "Down with the Alliance! Down with the Red Truth Society!Destroy the Alliance for the sake of the truth...... The association will win!"
He also found it ridiculous that the conference rooms of the Alliance and the Association were only one room apart, and the two biggest enemies ended up meeting in such close proximity......
Today, his name is von Levidall, and he is a Coalition sheriff who has come to investigate a ghost matter. Well, at least for now, he's just a sheriff who maintains order.
At this moment, the young man felt the world turned upside down, and when he opened his eyes and looked around helplessly with confused eyes, the dissatisfied gaze of the Black Dragon Princess first made him feel unnatural.
"Lazy worm, how long are you going to sleep? β
Well, the Shadow Warrior's sword is blocking the princess's body, but it can't stop the princess's roar.
He was woken up, and he was upset.
Demons don't usually dream, but since they do, they are something very important, and maybe the boy should think about it. He has a poor memory, like many of the great lords of Abyss, the Abyss, or Hell.
Abyss demons, abyssal demons, dragons, and elves are all creatures with long lives but poor memories. In this regard, God and the devil are exceptions. The lives of gods and demons are no worse than those of the demon lords, but they do not forget anything.
Because both gods and demons are the embodiment of order, and the demon lords are pure chaos, and the great lords of order Abys, they have chaos and order, and they are demons and devils. The good memory that comes with their order is always dragged down by the chaotic part of their body, and it becomes very forgetful.
If you don't want to forget important things, keep a journal.
The boy was going to go through the diary again to see if there were any important things that he had forgotten recently. After that, he had to think about the conquest of the plane and the canonization of his other body.