Chapter 382: Broken Dreams
"What is this...... There are such unimaginable truths and mysteries in this world......"
Hill has gained unimaginable knowledge from the Book of Destiny and has been studying it around the house day and night.
rì rises and falls, wind and rain.
Time is merciless, and time is like a knife.
In the blink of an eye, he turned into a gray-haired old man.
His desk, on the walls, and on the floor were full of drafts.
He wrote down his research, his discoveries, and his results on paper.
Until one day, he was dying of old age and quietly fell on the desk.
The pen in his hand pulled a long, feeble trail on the straw paper.
He collapsed on the table, powerlessly recalling his boring and fulfilling life.
"Is this going to die? β
"I still have so many questions, and I haven't found the answers yet. β
He struggled to look up at the book of fate on the shelf, which had fallen an unknown amount of dust.
"Lord Book of Fate, give me a little more time. β
The book of destiny quietly opened, and the pages were turned upside down.
The fruits of his years flew out of his head and landed in the book of fate.
Time went backwards, gradually diminishing, and his body began to regain its youth.
However, the memories of all these years in his mind are disappearing together.
Old Hill shook his head in panic, like a child who had been robbed of candy.
"No...... No...... You can't do that! It's all my hard work! I've been working hard for so many years!"
"No! don't take it from my memory!"
"No !!"
The dazzling light takes him back to the day he met the Book of Destiny many years ago.
The Book of Destiny, plain and seductive asked him.
"Tell me, what do you want?"
Hill looked at the Book of Destiny blankly, and the feeling of emptiness lost in his heart could not be removed.
Why do you feel this way? Where does this feeling of emptiness come from?
He covered his heart sadly.
I seem to ...... I felt like I had lost something important.
"Tell me, what do you want?"
The Book of Destiny, asked him plainly and mysteriously.
"I want to ......"
Hill tilted his head in pain, thinking hard.
"I want to ......"
"I want to ...... I want ......"
What do I want? What do I want?
Why can't I remember what I want?
Why do I get sad when I think about it?
"I want ...... I want ...... Want...... Knowledge?"
"Yes, knowledge! all the mysteries and knowledge of this world. β
The Book of Destiny was opened again in his hands.
He reopened his research.
Wait a minute...... Study?
Yes, research the mysteries...... What mystery?
Yes, the mysteries of magic.
But...... Why are these so familiar? I think ...... Once...... Researched?
See, this magic can be improved like this, this spell can be shortened like this, this principle ......
I seem to know it all......
Why do I know it......
Hill read the book for a while, and suddenly felt bored.
As long as he wants, he can know. As if he had known it for a long time.
So what am I researching all this for?
Ciel looked up blankly.
"No...... And what I don't know, I want to see how much of this world's secrets I know. β
Hill only had to think about it, and he could know that Hill, who was back on this path, was progressing faster and faster.
When he found a doubt he didn't know, he cheered feverishly.
"Finally...... Finally, after many years, I have finally found a secret that I don't know! This satisfaction is so joyful!"
Spring goes to autumn, time is like water.
The old body finally fell in front of time again.
The unfinished quest is over again.
His eyes were full of satisfied regret.
He suddenly remembered the Book of Destiny and turned his head to look longingly at the dusty corner.
"Book of Destiny Lord......"
The book of fate quietly opened, and the pages were turned.
The fruits of his years flew out of his head and landed in the book of fate.
Hill suddenly panicked, why is this scene so familiar.
Where did this panic come from?
Time around him went backwards, the dust gradually decreased, and his body began to regain its youth.
The memories of all these years in his mind disappeared again.
"No! No!
Hill, who has gone back in time, shouts like crazy!
He remembered!
The Book of Destiny took away his memories! How many years of hard work it took! It robbed him of his satisfying sense of accomplishment!
Memories are gone, and there is only the hollowness of losing something important.
Time goes back to that sunny summer, the moment when he met the Book of Destiny.
"Tell me, what do you want?"
The voice of the Book of Destiny is low, bland, and mysterious.
Ciel, who looked blankly at the Book of Destiny, panicked for no reason.
"I ...... I ......"
"You want knowledge, don't you?"
"No...... I don't want to...... No...... I want ...... I ......"
Clutching his empty chest, Hill retreated in panic.
But what made him look at the book of destiny longingly.
"Knowledge...... Arcanum...... Right...... The Mystery of Knowledge"
The Book of Destiny chuckled.
"So, let's get started. β
The light of this world flashed brightly again, and Hill looked around blankly.
I didn't know that his life had begun for the third time.
Not only for the third time, but in the infinite illusion, in the consciousness of one's own mind, it is only a moment to live a lifetime.
"Tell me, what do you want?"
His life, just after this sentence, repeats reincarnation.
He didn't know how many times he had read them, but he couldn't remember.
He didn't know how many times he had done the research, but he couldn't remember.
I don't know how many times he repeated the sense of accomplishment that should have been satisfied, but he couldn't remember it.
The emptiness that was lost on one side was stored in his heart.
The repetition of his life made him wonder why he wanted to study.
What mystery and truth does he already know?
Why is he pursuing these things?
On the evening of returning to Charì, Hill stared blankly at the Book of Destiny, the lost void filling his heart like the sea.
But where does this feeling come from?
That book of fate, prosaic, mysterious, eerie, asked him.
"Tell me, what do you want?"
Hill looked up blankly.
What do I want?
What is my pursuit?
What are my dreams?
"Do you want knowledge and mysteries?"
Hill's instinctive, disgusted, disgusting, panicked, categorical answer.
"No! I don't want to!"
Bang...... The light and shadow of the world are reduced to fragments.
I don't know how many lives I have been reincarnated, and I woke up suddenly.
Everything, he remembered.
He has been pursuing his own path repeatedly, but he does not know when it began, and he is deeply disgusted by the path he knows so well.
He didn't know what he had to do or what he wanted to do.
He was so afraid of what was coming, so familiar with it, every minute and every second.
Hill yelled in grief and threw himself madly at the Book of Destiny.
"You wicked devil!"
"Do you know what you did!"
"You ruined my life and dreams!"
"What do you want me to do in the future!
The Book of Destiny, a bland, mysterious, playful opening.
"Tell me ......"
Hill shook his head in despair.
"No...... No...... Shut up!
"Shut up!!"
The Book of Destiny chuckled low, like the devil whispering.
"What do you want?" (To be continued)
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