82. The curse of immortality
As Elliog and Jasmine, the forces of chaos and order, respectively, instilled into the barrier of Helaire below, the door of the sealed pedestal opened wider, revealing its terrifying presence to the beings outside.
The bottomless hole in the center of the hall grew deeper and deeper, and a thin red mist spread out from it, and anyone who saw it burst into their hairs, as if some kind of fear from the depths of their soul had stared at them.
"Hmm"
Jasmine reacted to this especially strongly, and before she knew it, her hair began to turn black again, as if she heard a non-conscious but meaningful murmur from the mist.
She heard the call of the red mist, as if to drag her closer to the hole,
"Everything is like a dream. Like dew and like electricity."
"What?"
She understood the words whispered in the mist, but she didn't understand the profound meaning, and she paused for a moment in her movement to output her pure life force, attracted by the dreamlike red mist.
"Hey! Whale people! Be focused! It's not a class right now! ”
"Ahh I'm sorry! ”
Jasmine woke up from a dream, and quickly came back to her senses from the unconscious language coming from the red mist, and refocused her attention on the barrier in front of her, but she couldn't help but ask Elliog beside her,
"Elliog, you. Don't you hear something being talking about? ”
"You mean the meaningless murmur in the red mist? Ignore them, those voices are from the spiritual world, and worry that your brain will be burned out by those noises. ”
"Hmm"
Strange, meaningless noise, but the red mist is obviously talking.
Jasmine didn't have time to analyze whether Elliog could understand what the red mist was saying, because in the next moment, the tremors of the entire dynasty began to become more pronounced, as if it was an earthquake, and the magma covered with the seal of the Mother Goddess under the black reef began to boil restlessly.
Death Qing couldn't stand steadily, and hurriedly reached out to hold the wall next to him, and said helplessly,
"Wait, do you demons happen every time they use a portal? So noisy and panicked, wouldn't the other demon gods have an opinion? ”
Sidixiang, who was leaning against the door, was covered in sweat, and he collapsed and sat on the ground with his body limping a little, but even so, he still had the leisure to answer Death Qing's question,
"Of course not, it's just because I refused Barbatos access and he forced the goal. In essence, this is a direct confrontation between me and his power, domestic violence, boy, it's terrible~"
“.”
Death raised an eyebrow, but Fisher guessed from Sidi's increasingly unsupportable state that his resistance to Barbatos' entry had reached the end of his power. Anyway, the current Xidi Man is only thirteenth-order, and they have two eighteenth-order demon gods on their side at the same time, and it is good that he can support it for a few minutes.
"Guys, I can't stand it anymore, if I keep going, my soul will be damaged, and I count down to twenty, and they will enter the dynasty. Twenty, nineteen"
"Is that all you have to do, Sidy?! Didn't you boast to me that you had ruled Barbatos well? Why can't you stand it for even two minutes now?! ”
Elliog looked at the enchantment under the hole that had just begun to be cracked, and couldn't help but grit his teeth and turn around and scold, while Sidi smiled helplessly, holding his face and interrupting the timer and said,
"It's in bed, and I don't have to."
Fisher couldn't let them waste any more time, he thought for a moment and immediately got up and walked outside,
"I'll go to the Eros Gate to see if I can delay time, you take out the pedestals as soon as possible and put them back in the seal."
"No way!"
"No! How could Mr. Fisher stop both of them at the same time! ”
As soon as these words came out, Elliog and Jasmine stopped the process of breaking the Baimon enchantment in their hands at the same time, especially Elliog, she stood up directly and came to Fisher's side, and said to him very seriously,
"You can't go alone, it's just looking for death but it's too late, I'll go with you, let them continue to break the barrier of Baimon here, and then take out the pedestal as soon as possible."
"Two eighteenth-order existences, is there any difference between one more and one less?"
"Yes, I know both Agarez and Barbatos, and they will definitely listen to me when I speak, and maybe they can explain to them that Baimon's plot is not good enough for a little longer. You go alone, do you know them well? ”
"That way"
"Give it to Sidi and Jasmine, the two of them."
Sidi raised her hand helplessly and said with a smile,
"Guys, we agreed in advance, I'm neutral, I won't help you."
Elliog's head was bruised, and the fireball behind her tail was getting bigger and bigger, obviously angry, she instantly appeared in front of Sidi and pulled him up and buckled him against the wall, and said angrily,
"Sidi! I've told you a few times that this is a conspiracy by Baimon, not a matter of helping your husband. And you've already helped us stop Barbatos, are you going to be here to help us a second time? Wouldn't it be better for you to deal with Barbatos head-on, or to help us deal with Baimon's enchantment? ”
Sidi's pink eyes just looked at Elliog in front of him, his smile was as always, still unmoved,
"Elliog, we said yes, and so far, I've listened to your side of the story, and although Baimeng is famous, he can't actually fight with me and you. You are my dear friend, and so is Agares; That kid is my junior, Barbatos is my husband, and both sides have been leveled out, and I can't help either side
"And essentially, this matter has nothing to do with you at all, and you are involved to help your man. I'm so happy for you, that's why I'm doing my best to help you stop Barbatos. Besides, isn't there another person over there who can use the power of chaos, why look for me, just look for him. Otherwise, why did he come here, did he come here for tourism? ”
Sidi smiled and looked at Horan of Death, who was leaning against the wall, and Elliog turned his head to look at him, and Sidi continued his countdown,
"Eighty-seven."
"Me"
Horan was slightly stunned, then glanced at Fisher, and in his dark eyes, Fisher read his hesitation.
Fisher knew why he hesitated at this moment, and recalled the reason why Death Qing followed him here, he came here to seek death, in other words, everything Fisher is facing now has nothing to do with him.
What Baimeng, what prophecy of the end of the world, what Shura Field, what the crisis of the Dragon Court, it has nothing to do with him, it is your Fisher's lover friend, and he is just a collaborator who has met Fisher twice.
You take my patchwork, and I die as I wish, it's as simple as that.
But the problem now is that the Death Secretary has already said that the closer he gets to the pedestal, the confusion in his manual will be triggered and grow, so not only is he far away from that place, but he also has to warn Fisher that he is far away from that place.
Essentially, he hadn't read much of the Completion Manual, and even if he was close to growth, he wouldn't grow much, but the point was that the chaos of the Death Completion Manual would keep him farther and farther away from the pursuit of death, which was what he had told Fisher.
Now Sidi is reluctant to help, and if he wants to help Fisher replace Elliog, it will be more and more difficult for him to pursue the eventual death.
What's more, he had roughly guessed what he wanted to say to himself earlier: there was nothing in the Demon Dynasty that could help him die.
In just one second of looking at each other, Fisher already understood the reason why Death Qing was not moving at the moment, but Elliog behind him couldn't help it, and immediately said to him,
"yes, aren't you also the owner of the Completion Manual, you?"
"Elliog, you can stay here, I'll go alone. Hurry up, I'll leave everything in order, and I should be able to delay it for a while. ”
But Fisher is not strong, the meaning of death to Horan is incomprehensible to others, and it is obviously unfounded for Fisher to make him pay for himself when he can't come up with any solution to his immortality.
"Four-three."
"You're serious, I think you're tired of it!"
Elliog let go of Sidi, who was still counting down, but Fisher only glanced at her, and then he gently put down Emhart on his shoulder, and the whole person disappeared in an instant, rushing in the direction of the Erotic Gate.
"Mr. Fisher!"
"Oops! Take me, Fisher! Ah! It's all to blame for this guy who killed a thousand knives! I really am."
"Two-one"
Emhart watched Fisher disappear in mid-air, and Sidi, who was a little pale beside him, also finished reading the last two numbers, and as the countdown ended, the tremors of the entire demon dynasty stopped, and even the surging of magma outside and the noisy cries of those little demons all stopped at this moment
Because, everyone present instantly felt that above the dynasty, two extremely terrifying beings had descended on the palace of Erotic Mensidi.
Without the shackles of hiding in the human world, and the fact that they had just competed with Sidi's consciousness that wanted to close the door, they now had no scruples in their hometown, and released their most terrifying and oppressive power.
The two demon gods were above them at the moment.
In Baimon's palace, everyone's faces changed slightly, and Jasmine pursed her lips, even though her face was pale and soft, she still ran back to the side of the hole without hesitation, and used all her strength to convey her life force to the enchantment.
Because she understands that for Fisher, who went alone to stop the two demon gods, the sooner this side is at this moment, the more likely Fisher will be alive on that side.
Even, she also called out to Elliog behind her, but her voice already brought an extremely flustered cry,
"Elliog Demon God!! Come on! What are you waiting for!? ”
"Tsk!"
Elliog's face was unhappy, but he didn't have time to settle the fate of Death and Sidi who had left her unhappy at the moment.
In fact, if you really want to calculate it, she also knows that these two are reasonable and unreasonable and do not help them, and they can't be angry because they don't want to, but at this moment, the crisis is ahead, and it is common to have a little mustard in the panic.
She didn't say anything, but she hurriedly turned around as Jasmine thought, ready to break Baimon's barrier next.
On the side, the expressionless Death Secretary leaning against the wall was also looking at the door where Fisher had disappeared, at Emhart, who was spinning like a spinning top, at Jasmine, who was in front of the hole, even though her face was pale, she was still trying her best to break the barrier, and the Elliog Demon God who couldn't hold back her anger without saying a word.
Of course they were all for Fisher, and rightfully so.
It's just that at this moment, for some reason, Horland's heart suddenly has a touch of Fisher's . Envy.
He suddenly couldn't remember, why he had left his hometown.
Is it because of hunger? Is it because you don't want to watch the girl you love marry a middle-aged man she doesn't love? Is it because he wants to escape the endless war in the east of the Western Continent?
It had been too long, but he remembered why he had died.
Because
"Click."
He silently took a cigarette from his bosom and lit it, and after a moment of hesitation, he took a deep breath of the fragrance of tobacco, for the smell of saltpeter here was so unpleasant.
Then, as Elliog raised his hand to continue breaking the barrier, he walked briskly, crouched across from them with his chest clutched, and reached through the thin curtain of scarlet mist and tobacco mist, and whispered,
"Elliog Demon God, you go quickly, and I will break the barrier with this priest lord."
Elliog was slightly stunned, then the tail behind her wagged, she didn't say anything, just cast him a grateful look, and then suddenly stood up and rushed outside.
"Boom!"
Sidi still sat on the ground with a smile, and then just whistled and patted the dust on his body and stood up,
"Okay, okay, I'll leave it to you for now, and I should be reunited with my husband too. After it's all over, of course. Farewell, little ones. ”
“.”
Neither Death nor Jasmine responded to him, but both focused their full attention on the barrier in front of them.
As Death Qing took out the death supplement manual bound to his chest and finished it, under the lingering scarlet mist, the immortal chaos in his body became more and more restless, like the gangrene of the appendage.
He could feel that the crow of death was getting farther and farther away from him, and he was becoming more and more resistant to him.
Death sighed silently, but quickly put it behind him, and together with Jasmine, he destroyed Baimon's barrier.
At this moment, in the competitive gate of the Demon Dynasty, which had been quiet again, in the castle of Elliog, a letter that was originally very quiet on the bedside table shook and fell to the ground like a wind.
And it didn't stop falling on the ground, and on the letter, the black handwriting that had been filled with words of gratitude to Elliog spread out little by little as if it had been smeared with water, until the black ink grew larger and wider, and turned into a puddle of water
"Smack!"
In the next second, a bandaged, withered hand jerked out of the ink, firmly grasped the floor next to it, borrowed it as a borrowing point, and climbed up little by little, carrying his whole body out of the ink.
"Ho ho. Ho."
The bandaged figure gasped, then opened its mouth and spat out a metal quill in its belly.
There was a strange aura wrapped around the quill, which seemed to be some kind of holy object forged by an angel.
"Ha, it's really uncomfortable to use this holy relic. But it's finally coming in. That's great. That's great."
This man was another undead human who had been hiding outside and camping, Solomon.
"Okay, then, where is that thing? Symbolizes the mark of the first pillar behind the door"
Solomon looked around, sniffing with his sunken nose until a moment he looked at one of the pillows that had been placed haphazardly aside, on the messy bed.
It's hidden there!
His eyes lit up slightly, and then he hurriedly ran over and picked up the pillow, and recklessly tore it open, causing all the goose feathers inside to fly around.
And finally, in the middle of the goose feathers, he finally saw a stone mark that glowed crimson, similar to the shape of a key.
"Great! Got it! This last one! This last one."
Solomon was almost in tears, and he pressed it to his skinny chest as if he were holding some kind of treasure, and then pushed open the door of Elliog's palace like madness, and ran outside, beyond Elliog's courtyard.
Looking at the wooden sign outside that had been thrown on the ground by Fisher, he stepped on the wooden sign with hatred, and then said,
"Ha, there are so many demon gods in the dynasty, you alone have to lock the palace with an enchantment. I didn't expect it, I'll still be able to come in, haha. Haha"
"She's only locked the door so that her own nature doesn't influence others, so she's putting an enchantment on this door that only she and those with her mark can enter."
Solomon's joy suddenly stopped, and when he heard the smiling female voice coming from behind him, he trembled, and his body fell to his knees more quickly than his thoughts, and he grabbed the ground with his head, and said in a trembling voice to the existence behind him that had not yet seen his figure clearly,
"Byeon, Lord Meng, I have followed your orders, for thousands of years, I have entered the nine doors except you, and I have retrieved the mark of the first pillar, I have really worked hard, this is the last one, please take a look. Please. Please take a look."
"Oh, I know, you've died tens of thousands of times for this. While the palaces of other demon gods don't have a ban on entry like Elliog, there are countless traps, traps, and magic inside."
Solomon was prostrate on the ground, feeling the figure in front of him getting closer and closer, he didn't dare to raise his head, but held up the mark with both hands that emitted a crimson light, and only said with a smile,
"Don't make fun of me. You should know that for an immortal like me, as long as I can die, you can do whatever I want."
"Also, because you have forgotten why you lived, because everything that kept you alive has vanished. Because immortality is a curse, it allows you to return to the physical state in which you were given it countless times, and it also allows your hearts to stay in that moment forever, and can no longer accept any new goals, new feelings, new existences."
Solomon's body trembled involuntarily, as if he was crying silently, but because he seemed to have forgotten the act of crying, he could only let his body shake with the despair and endless pain in his heart.
He said nothing else, but held the mark higher, and then, in an almost pleading tone, he humbly said to the figure in front of him,
"Lord Bymun. I've done what you said. Please. Please give me a death."
"No hurry, Solomon"
You. Is there anything else you need from me? Please say, I will definitely do it, I can do anything! As long as. As long as I can."
Solomon looked up in a daze, but what caught his eyes was the white existence that was barefoot but floating slightly and never touched the ground.
She was dressed in a holy robe, her face was stunning, and the crown on her head radiated the light of the gospel like heaven guiding the world.
Her smile was kind and gentle, as if she were the only hope, the only light in this world
But she raised her index finger and stopped Solomon from finishing the last word "death" with a smile, as if the word was too unlucky, as if the word was too ruthless and cruel.
"Shh
"Yes, yes, please tell me."
Solomon slammed his head to the ground again, but the hands that held the mark of Elliog's victory at the head of the gate were still raised high, never lowered.
"I do need you to do one last thing, but I promise you in the name of 'Bymun' that this is indeed the last thing. And, it's very simple. ”
"Yes, yes, please tell me."
Instead of taking back the seal he had offered, Bymon gently pulled out a mark from his hand like an angel that also radiated golden light, and gently landed it on Solomon's palm.
Feeling the cool imprint, Solomon's figure couldn't help but tremble slightly, and Baimon's voice came again,
"Holding these sigils opens the ten gates they correspond to, a mystery known only to four kings and six pillars. And your task is very simple, I want you, open these doors one by one, and then you can get what you want. Can it be done, Solomon? ”
Solomon's hands clenched a little bit, and he took a deep breath, as if to bury his face in the dirt, and after a few seconds, he said word by word,
"I promise to do what you commanded, Lord Bymon!" (End of chapter)