Chapter 20: Soul Splitting Spell
Demos rode on the dolphin and felt two wings under his feet, and drove him away. He closed his eyes tightly, afraid that his eyes would be dried by the sea breeze after a long time, and the moist cold wind whizzed past his ears for a long time before the flight stopped.
The moment he opened his eyes, he froze, not knowing what secret place he had been taken to.
Here, the sky above, the sea below, and the plants on the land are all completely blue, and there is a hazy and lazy fluorescence between this solemn and sacred color, which makes him feel like stepping into a trance in the fairy valley.
Demos jumped from the back of the dolphin to land. At his feet, he could only see tea-white crystals paving a long and slender path, dotted with occasional blooming blue transparent three-petaled flowers. Taking a very careful step, the blue flowers were immediately blown away by the breeze between his legs, and lightly turned into glow powder in the clear air, while the shimmering brown grains on the ground emitted a pleasant and calming crunch.
If he hadn't seen it with his own eyes, Demos wouldn't have believed that there really would be such a quiet place in the world, and the aftershocks that had just been left by the war had completely subsided at this time. Not only that, but under the baptism of the strange charm of this vast immortal world, greed, hatred, deception and other desires will retreat into ashes and dust, and then disperse with the wind, leaving only the purest purity and tranquility in the soul.
"You're finally here, God of Darkness. ”
The atmosphere was strangely quiet, except for the faint but peculiar spiral sound that had been playing in the air, so Triton's voice was also clear.
Demos immediately followed the sound and walked up the Crystal Road.
"You brought me here?"
"Yes, I used the sound of the snail as a guide to let the pair of dolphins bring you here, for she..."
Triton turned sideways as he spoke to Demos, revealing a bed of colorful coral rocks behind him, on which lay the Caretel whom Demos had been searching for to no avail.
Demos strode past the meteor.
That's right, it's really her, sleeping quietly in the white gauze dress that Demos saw during the water war, like a flower in the water, with her arms clasped in front of her chest and her index fingers gently crossed together. Above her forehead, Triton's snail hovers in the air at a distance from the center of her eyebrows. I don't know what kind of spell its master used, but the snail horn turned slowly on its own, and made a low spiral sound.
Her appearance was still so graceful and intoxicating, with a smile of relief and relief between her eyebrows, and the corners of her closed eyes were moist, and she remembered the tears of parting before her figure was shattered by the waves.
That's right, it's her, it's really Kareta, that white and beautiful flower in the water—
"Karete!"
Demos called out to her urgently, raising his hand to shake hers, but it bounced back like an electric shock, for the coldness of the touch really terrified him. He looked at the bloody wounds all around her again, his fingers trembling, and he never had the courage to fall.
"I'm sure you already know about her being attacked by a lyre infused with the wraiths of Oras. Although the power of the magic harp was eventually destroyed, she..."
Terry took a step forward, and Yu Yu made a statement.
"It's you! It's you Sea Clan—"
Demos's demeanor changed with the rhythm of Triton's words, and the bright black spirit in his vicious eyes pressed Triton tightly, like the crosshair of a shotgun aimed precisely at its prey.
"You...... Blame us?"
Triton chuckled at Demos's ignorance, especially when he habitually summoned the weapon "Destruction" Sword with his right hand at the moment of the thunderstorm, Triton behaved more calmly and coldly.
"God of Darkness, to be honest, I don't know much about you, but I am only impressed by your courage and courage when you broke into the underwater temple alone, and did not hesitate to exchange the treasures of the Titans for your beloved, but now, I see a reckless god who has no sense of responsibility, and is full of war and power! What do you care about the supreme power, the throne of the gods of gods, or the relationship with Karete?"
“... I..."
Demos was completely speechless, his handsome features overflowing with shame, this was the first time he had been asked by a child in surprise, and the question asked was actually to the point.
Although Triton's questions were methodical and his attitude and tone remained tepid, the lethality contained in them was far more ferocious and tough than anger, and he ruthlessly pushed Demos's self-esteem into a desperate situation.
As he waited, Triton's expression froze with helplessness. Approaching Karetta, he stared sadly at her in her sleep.
"Carret's heart... I've been concerned about you since I entered the underwater temple. She longs to see you, but she doesn't want you to risk to save her, and her conflicted heart is always suffering and suffering. And what about you? What the hell are you doing! Did you enter the underwater temple just to fight with Aquaman for the ownership of the Athena Gem instead of saving her? If so, you have really failed her, not only her trust and trust in you, but also her protection of you in the last moments of your life. ”
"Guard..."
"Yes, you should have seen that it wasn't Karet's real person who showed up to help you during the naval battle, right? ”
Seeing that Demos's face darkened, Triton paused to continue to explain.
"At the beginning of the underwater temple, Kareta was killed by the Sea King because of her design to save you. After being hit hard by the Moqin, in order to take her away from the enemy, and to buy a little more time to wait for you, I had to bring her here, a place known as the 'end of the sea' in the era of the gods, which is often referred to as the 'end of the earth' in the mouths of humans. However, Kareta, who was seriously injured, was always concerned about your safety, and in order to help you defeat Aquaman, she begged me to use the most dangerous forbidden of the Titans' spells, 'Soul Splitting', to divide half of her primordial spirit, and send it to you with the sound of a snail...... Now, God of Darkness, you should know what happened to Kareta when you fought Aquaman. ”
After telling the whole story in one breath, Triton fell silent, his burgundy eyes always focused on Demos in silence, watching his expression and actions carefully.
In fact, since hearing the term "Soul Splitting" come out of Terry's mouth, Demos's ears have not been able to hear a single word.
Without further explanations, Demos knew the consequences.
Yuan Ling, that is, what humans often call the soul. Whatever the reason, active or passive, once the primordial spirit of the Titan deity is separated from the physical body, it will consume the essence and its own divine power source very much, especially when the physical body is seriously injured.
Now, Kareta tried her best to separate half of the Yuan Spirit and fly back to Demos, who was far away, and used the source of Yuan Ling's divine power to heal her injuries and join forces with him to fight against the Sea King. The combination of many unfavorable factors makes the source of divine power consume too much.
Perhaps, that half of the primordial spirit has already ......
Demos felt a sudden darkness in front of him, and his whole body collapsed beside the coral bed.
Until now, he couldn't believe that inevitable end, that half of Karete's spirit had been wiped out and would never exist in the world!
The clip that replayed in my mind was her figure standing on the surface of the sea and gradually dissipating and the tears of parting.
"You are destined to miss out on Carette! Your love will be fruitless, and lovers will be separated forever, and they will never be able to come together!"
"What you end up losing is what you think is the most precious thing, and you lose even worse than me......!"
Medusa's curse before her death was repeated in his ears, and Poseidon's strange laughter before his death was accompanied by it, causing Demos's head to explode.
You're all laughing at my stupidity, at my losing—I lost, I was stupid, and I paid the heaviest price to understand it—
Filled with guilt and remorse, Demos was so sad that his heavy head moved closer to Karete's motionless body. The moment Demos's face finally rested against her crossed hands, the stiff, cold skin immediately made his body tremble as if frightened.
"Carret...... Answer me, talk to me...... Please!"
Demos slowly closed his gloomy eyes, and was silent for a few moments before he spoke endlessly to her, but his voice was slow and soft.
"I'm here only for you...... It's true! I went to the bottom of the sea and fought Poseidon to the death, really just for you...... The Athena gemstone is nothing, and the rights are nothing...... All I wanted was you, just you! Please trust me! Please answer me...... Answer: Me...... I'm a fool and a bastard...... I didn't know you expected so much from me...... I'm down for you, I'm down for you......"
"Demos—"
As Demos leaned distracted against the coral bed and whispered to himself, Carret's body let out a clear call.
"Is that you? Karetta, you've finally answered me!"
Demos immediately looked up at her. Although she still maintained a flat lying posture and did not move, and her eyes did not blink, Demos still showed an extremely excited demeanor, and kept shouting:
"Triton! look, Karete she's still alive, she's fine! she just called me—"
Triton still looked at the glow of excitement on Demos's face with a calm face, and he didn't want to tell Demos the truth, he really didn't hear anything.
Turning his eyes to the spiral that floated above Karete's eyebrows, Triton saw that his most proud artifact was now emitting a strange blue light. This kind of light Triton has never seen before, hazy and soft, and people will not feel uncomfortable after watching it for a long time. Finally, he understood that the voice that Demos said just now that he heard Karete was not an auditory hallucination in grief, but the remaining half of the Yuan Spirit in Karete's body directly sent a thought wave to him.
"Demos, get out of here......"
"Karretta, ...... you"
Demos finally recognized that the soft voice was ringing in his head rather than in his ears, and responded with a wave of thought.
"Why did you say you wanted me to leave, I told you at the Ocean Temple that I was here to take you away!"
"I know and believe in you, but now I can't leave. Half of the Yuan Spirit has been consumed in the final battle with you, and the remaining half is now unable to control his body, so how can he leave with you?"
"How is that possible...... How is that possible?"
Demosden was speechless. His gaze fell on Karete's vegetative body, and her expression faded to pain and loss again.
"You go, you have too much to do, this kind of place where time will stand still is not for you, let's go...... Let's go!"
Karete's thoughts urged Demos over and over again, and her tone slowly changed from pleading to tough.