Chapter 9: The Nightmare of Childhood
Shirinya didn't know when she had lost the weightlessness she felt when she fell, and she opened her eyes faintly when she felt the cold touch of steel coming from beneath her. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info
The vision slowly faded from hazy to clear, but what caught me was a nightmare scene that I had almost forgotten: dark green light, large pieces of hollowed-out iron ground floating on the dark green water, and various incredible sculptures on the ground, many dark green tentacles sticking out of the water in the distance and swaying from them, and the pages of books flying all over the sky overhead.
Shirinya immediately got up from the ground, checked her health, and looked around, hoping to realize that it was just an ordinary dream.
But it's a pity that he is still wearing the same set of chain mail given by Delphi, and the surrounding environment has not changed from the style in his image.
"Shilinya, you're awake. A mechanical, emotionless voice came into Shirinya's ears from all directions.
Shirinya, who was already highly nervous, was frightened and took a few steps back, but was caught off guard and tripped on the ground by the hollow floor under her feet, and the small force area of the hollowed iron floor brought a more intense pain.
"It hurts!" Shirinya panicked to her feet from the ground, looking around to find out where the voice came from and who it was.
"The fear of the unknown will make you panic. The voice did not come in all directions as it had just been, but appeared in front of Shilinya, and the owner of the voice slowly showed its prototype.
The original strange space slowly distorted and shattered, and finally the dark green light disappeared, and the original space was slowly replaced by some unknown black smoke. The black smoke gradually materialized, and the part that originally extended out because it was smoke finally became a series of moving tentacles that were constantly swaying, and other places became a large irregular and indescribable thing as the smoke materialized, and then one after another cracks appeared, and strange eyes appeared on the black thing, and the pupils in the eyes were looking at Shilinya in various ways.
"You ......" Shilinya, who was sitting on the floor, looked at such a strange thing, and her heart was full of fear, which was both affected by nightmares from her childhood, and there were some vague marks of her past life. ”
"Newleki, that's my name. "An indescribable strange object answers Shilinya's question by making a voice in an unknown way, and the mechanical voice can't tell what kind of emotional changes it is now" On El's side, people call me the god of knowledge and learning, because I often communicate and learn from intelligent beings somewhere. But now I am rarely called that way, because those stupid creatures now classify me as a demon god they define and slander me with all sorts of vicious language. ”
If it was an emotional statement, Shilinya would definitely feel the anger in the words of the owner, but now using such a mechanical voice would only make Shilinya feel like a neutral person telling about herself without light. Despite this, the daimyo of Newleki definitely scared Shilinya now.
The definition of a demon god has different definitions in different races and regimes, and there are also different lists of demon gods. The release of such a list of demon gods will cause rounds of holy wars, and a list of 16 demon gods has been released during the period of Emperor Eumoned, which will trigger a series of subsequent nations to, which can also be regarded as a perennial war period for all countries in the angry grass.
"So, do you have something to do with me now?" Shilinya asked uneasily, knowing that Newleki was a very cruel demon god, and his vast knowledge allowed him to think of all kinds of ways to torment those who disobeyed his orders.
"I want you to be one of my apostles, to exercise some of the powers I should have in the El, to give back to me. The hollow mechanical voice came from the strange and disgusting thing, and although the voice could not make out its emotions at the moment, the unsettling eyes slowly half-closed with its words.
"I ...... I want to ......" Shilinya's dodging gaze didn't dare to look directly at the eyes that seemed to penetrate her heart, but becoming an apostle of the demon god was no less than handing over her life and future fate to it, which made Shilinya feel quite difficult to choose - I don't know what kind of thing to be made into and die now, or one day this uncle will be in a bad mood and kill himself in the future.
"Hesitation. Newleki's voice didn't have any emotion, but it could directly tell Shilinya's mood at the moment, and her slightly dangerous eyes were slowly relaxing at the moment. Shilinya's resolve was influenced by the fear of her unknown future, and this state of affairs meant that her next apostle was already certain.
"Shilinya, if you become my apostle, you will have all my knowledge—any knowledge from the creation of the world to the present. "Temptation is the ability to make a wavering person quickly make a decision in his favor, and the long life has made Newelki know how to make an intelligent life willingly become his own apostle or even a puppet, and he has had thousands of apostles, and the same thing has made the demon god form a unique routine to choose his own apostle.
"As long as you can work hard, this vast sea of knowledge can be useful for your whole life. If you are talented, it will benefit you for several lifetimes. The temptation of the demon god rang in Shilinya's ears, and these were constantly seducing Shilinya.
In the face of these temptations, Shilinya couldn't help but fall silent, constantly analyzing the pros and cons and reasons in her mind. Shirinya knows that she has a broken memory that is likely to be the masterpiece of this demon god, but it is precisely because of the mutilated memory of her previous life that she is full of curiosity and constantly wants to understand such a world, but on the other hand, she wants to know what kind of person she was in her previous life and what the world was like in her previous life, why she subconsciously thinks that this is a different world from the present. And all of this can be found in the knowledge and learning of the Demon God, if its promise is fulfilled.
"So, Shilinya, tell me what your decision is?" the mechanical voice sounded, her eyes were half-closed grimly, and the moving tentacles slowly approached Shilinya who was thinking, and she was very satisfied with the gesture that it would definitely make you worse than die.
"I do. Faced with such a posture, Shilinya had to answer the demon god half-receptively and half-forcedly.
"Very well, now you just have to get to the front. The mechanical voice inexplicably showed a sense of excitement, which made Shilinya feel if she was hallucinating, but the instantaneous change in circumstances dispelled the current thought.
The dark green sky and water, as well as the terrifying tentacles on the water, have disappeared, replaced by walls and ceilings carved out of steel, and abstract and twisted walls slowly rise, stacked up on top of each other to form a ladder to the distant horizon.
"At the end of the stairs you will find a book, and if you pick it up, you will be able to become my apostle and exercise your authority in El on my behalf. A voice without a trace of emotion came into Shilinya's ears, "Go, my apostle. ”
"Wait!" Reacting from the shock, Eshilinya suddenly exclaimed.
"Huh?" "Huh?" his eyes slowly turned red, and his moving tentacles were only one step away from Shilinya, and at the last moment like this, that 'wait' was undoubtedly a dangerous signal, no matter what time it was, it would signal the emergence of an unstable factor, and Newleki had seen too many examples of this, but every time it would make those who could not provide satisfactory answers regret it.
"I want to know why it was me, and why I dreamed of this place when I was a child, and if the memories of my past life ......" Shilinya's face flushed with the heart beating at a high load, and it took her courage to ask such a question.
"Well, as long as you don't go back on your decision, it's not a question that I care about much. There was a hint of disdain in Nulki's mechanical voice, but he still added a mechanical tone to the word 'regret', "Because I have been observing you for fourteen years, and since you came to this world, I have developed a great interest in you, a foreigner from another dimension. ”
"So, my memory ......" Shilinya couldn't help but feel relieved when she heard this answer, at least now the demon god who holds the power of life and death on this issue can be honest with her.
"When I first discovered you, I was quite curious, because what kind of existence is a different world? This undoubtedly greatly stimulated my curiosity, and for a demon god who is known for his knowledge and driven by learning, this is a good opportunity not to be missed. Newerki's voice recounted the past events, and although the mechanical voice could not express his feelings well, it was not difficult to find his excitement in the language.
"As you can imagine, for the rest of the time I will pull your soul to my plane while you are asleep, as a way to plunder all kinds of memories in your mind, I have to say, the memories of your past life amazed me, and at the same time benefited me a lot. The nostalgic, satisfied look was well fed back from the eyes that filled the body: "Now your memories are stored in my treasure trove of knowledge, and as long as you can become my apostle, all this wealth that was originally yours will return to your mind once again." So, will you be my apostle?"
"I do!" Shilinya had now made up her mind, the memories of her own life, and the doubts that had plagued her for fourteen years were now finally solved.
"Very well, as soon as you reach the end of the book you will be able to read it, pick it up and you will become my apostle, read it and you will leave here and go back to El. Newlegi's strange body slowly disappeared into the air, and the distorted space returned to normal at this moment, if he saw it, he would not think that a demon god appeared in front of him like this.
The staircase to the end is very long, and at first glance there is no end in sight.
But when Shilinya stepped onto the first staircase, the staircase seemed to come to life, rapidly shortening the distance at the end, and after a few moments, it reached the end.
It was a very ordinary circular platform, and above the stand like a branch of a plant sat a small table-sized thread-bound book, in an ancient style, but with an intricate unknown pattern.
Picking up the book with both hands, a unique connection was established between the book and Shilinya, and the table of contents and how to use it kept coming to mind. Suddenly receiving such information makes it feel very troublesome, but the fanaticism for knowledge makes it ignore it. Now Shilinya only wants to be able to read this book quickly and learn what it knows.
"My apostle, you've been here long enough. Just as she was about to open the book and read it carefully, Shirinya's voice sounded from all directions, "Go back to El!"