Finale (Medium) A future in the dark
The black light emitted by the ancient gods had already enveloped its body, and together with those white lights, it was constantly expanding, and these two extremely powerful forces were also colliding wildly.
The black and white light was dazzling, and it continued to spread in all directions, and in just a few seconds, I couldn't see anything.......
Listening to the wailing of the ancient gods who were getting farther and farther away from me, I felt very strange, as if I was floating in the sky, and I felt a very unreal feeling.
I don't know how long it took in this bizarre state....... Maybe a few minutes...... Maybe a few days..... Years.......
I found that my visual abilities were slowly recovering.......
At this time, I was not at the bottom of the abyss, but in the deep sky and the sea of stars, and there was a familiar star not far from me, as if it was...... Moon?
If this is really the universe I know, then looking at it from this perspective should be where our world stands.
But I looked at it, but I didn't see the blue orb I imagined.
There was only one lonely island, and there was a rust-colored island floating there, covered with dark brown rocks.
And on this isolated island, a huge ...... Humanoids, even larger than the moon, sat cross-legged on the island, looking up at the deep sky above.
Its body is no different from that of a human, but its body is covered with white light, and if I remember correctly, the white light that I saw in the abyss before, entangled with the ancient gods, is the kind on its body!
Looking in the direction it was looking at, the ancient gods were floating in deep space.
The ancient gods seemed to have been hurt a lot, and their entire bodies seemed to be a little shrunken, looking like a black plastic bag floating in the deep sky star sea, and it was still floating farther and farther, without looking back and continuing to entangle with the white figure, how did it look like it was running away.......
While I was still observing the ancient gods, I noticed that my body suddenly moved, as if it had been sucked by an exhaust fan.
In just a few seconds, I stepped across a deep space and came to the palm of the white figure's hand.
In fact, at this time, I couldn't see its body clearly, because it was so large that even the outline of its palm was extremely blurry, and I couldn't see it all at a glance.
I didn't know what it was trying to do, but I saw it slowly clench its fists and hold me in the palm of its hand......
There was no fear, no fear, and I just felt a sense of belonging to it.
Perhaps too tired, I lay flat on my back, letting the white light cover my body, I slowly closed my eyes, and before I knew it, I lost consciousness.
That's the end of it......
Although the ending was not what I wanted...... We lost so much that we couldn't even save the world....... But I've done my best.......
"Who says we lost?"
The voice of the Old Man came from close to me.
When I opened my eyes, I saw a blurry green figure in the white light beside me.
"You're not dead?!!" I sat up in a hurry, looking at this familiar afterimage, my face was full of excitement: "I thought you were eaten by it!" ”
"Almost." The Old Man smiled, walked slowly over to me, and sat down on the white light.
I looked at him and felt my heart lifting: "What the hell is going on??" Did we win or lose? ”
"You won." The Old Man said, pausing for a little for two seconds, and said, "I'm half a win." ”
"What do you mean?" I was stunned.
The Ancient Man smiled, didn't hide it, and slowly told everything that had happened before.
As with our original plan, we are powerless to resist the Old Gods, so we can only rely on a more powerful force than the Old Gods, which is what the ancients called the will of this world.
What exactly is the will of the world?
This concept is very vague, if I have to embody it, then I can only say that the island I saw before, and the pure and white light people on that isolated island, that is the will of this world.
It is the soul of the world, and it is also the source of all the power in the world, and even such a powerful existence of the ancients was born because of it, so you can imagine how powerful this "creature" is.......
The will of the world is not universal, not every planet star can appear such alien beings, according to the results of the ancients' own observations, in the starry sky that we can see, only the world we live in can produce such an existence.
"I've long wondered if the Old Gods could also be the will of some world...... It's very possible now......." The old man laughed, "unconscious, without the ability to think, but with the instincts of all living beings, and the power is terrifying....... It should also be the will of some strange world, the soul of that world. ”
"And before that?? What was the result of their engagement?? ”
I asked hurriedly, my voice trembling as I said this: "The earth is gone..... These two things aren't going to blow up the earth, are they?! ”
The Ancient Man was silent for a long time and nodded.
"What the fuck?! Are you kidding?! My eyes widened, and I was so anxious that I almost didn't cry: "We are so desperate to guide the ancient gods, in order to let it stimulate our will in the world, what is the result??" Immortals fight, everyone suffers?! Is this what makes the two of them extinct the race?! ”
"Don't worry....... "Didn't I say it, you won." ”
As soon as the words fell, the old man raised his hand and scratched his head, and asked me, "What do you think this world is to it?" In the eyes of the will of the world, everything in the world ...... Mountains, rivers, seas, streams, or living beings, ghosts and goblins, in its eyes, these are nothing. ”
Before I could ask more, the old man gave me an analogy.
"It's like some cells in your body, or hair, or something...... "You can repair your limbs if they are broken, and if your hair falls out, it's the same, even if it's not the original thing, but it's all back on track." ”
When I heard this, my mind was confused: "What do you mean? What's back on track? ”
"It's about repairing everything that's been lost, and it's going to be so complete that all creatures that pose a threat to it are wiped out." The Ancients pointed to themselves, "Including us." ”
"You ......."
"I just felt it, it was wrapping itself in its own energy, it wanted to reshape a world....... "You will return to that world, but you will lose all the power that has to do with us." ”
With that, the Ancient One raised his hand and gently stroked my head a few times.
Maybe in his eyes, I am the Ancients....... The Last Descendant.
"In the previous battle, the old gods were badly damaged, and it was impossible for them to come back to find trouble in a short time....... Even if you come, you are not afraid, the will of this world has been guided out by us, it will always be awake, watching everything in this world, if the ancient gods come again, it is estimated that it will not be pleased. ”
"From now on, you live well and treat it all as a dream....... Yes, a nightmare. ”
The Old Man laughed as he spoke.
At this moment, the white light around us gradually dissipated, revealing a dark deep space with no end in sight.
"Your life will be bright in the future!" The ancient man said, raising his hand and pointing at random.
I didn't say a word, looking at the darkness he pointed to, I always felt that he had something to say.
"Do you think it's just darkness?" The Ancients asked me.
I nodded.
"What about these four weeks?" The old man asked me again.
I glanced at it, and although there were many dazzling stars in the sea of stars, more than that, there was a boundless darkness.
"I used to be like you, and I felt that the world was ....... Including this sea of stars....... There is darkness everywhere, and it is darkness that prevails...... We creatures who yearn for light can't see the future. ”
The old man spoke, as if talking to himself, in a low voice.
"But I just knew...... I have seen many visions in the body of the will of the world...... That's what I saw when it was born....... In fact, there was no light in this universe, only darkness......"
"Senpai?" I couldn't help but be a little worried when I saw him hang his head down and his voice became lower and lower.
He heard my voice, looked up a little tiredly, and took one last look at me.
From beginning to end, he was covered in a layer of mist, but I was sure that in that moment, I saw the kind and kind smile of an old man.
"Sleep, child, when you wake up...... Everything will come back to square one. ”
The old man said, his tone full of relief.
A blinding burst of white light poured out from under us at this moment, enveloping both of us in an instant.
"It's time for me to go....... This world ...... I can't be tolerated anymore......."