old dream

Chapter 121 His Heart and the Mirror

Because there is no "mirror", after opening the heart shell on a large scale, Arecio still cannot see the face of his soul.

Maybe something like a bird, he thought.

Most of the civilizations scattered on the five continents invariably compare the soul to a bird that breaks out of its shell.

Birds are light and free, more similar to elves than material life.And it is often associated with the sun.

The sun flies across the sky from east to west, so people generally guess that it is a giant bird.The rising and setting of the sun is the cycle between life and death. It is very appropriate to use them as a metaphor for the soul.

The gradual opening of the shell of the heart is a process similar to death.A newborn bird emerges from its old body.

"Death" has always been an important transformation, but if there is only death, it is far from achieving the goal of liberation.

Look at the vast number of dead people in this carriage.Even after death, their souls are still bound by certain things, maintaining their appearance in life.

Perhaps ghosts are more hollow shells than pure souls.

When the limbs of the shuttle demon pierced them and dissipated, they did not respond.

But when these ghosts heard the cracking sound of the heart shell, they turned their heads in unison and looked in the direction of Aresio.

Some kind of expression appeared vaguely on those incomplete and empty faces.

A look mixed with longing and sadness.It's like people bound on the ground looking up at the birds in the sky.

What exactly did they see?
After the shell of the heart was broken, Aresio's consciousness spread outward from the breach like a flood that broke a bank.

The virtual world and the deep consciousness became clear together, and he knew that his intentions would be stronger than ever.

For some beings in the virtual world, this is like a lighthouse lighting up out of nowhere in the dark, or a group of flies smelling a piece of fat carrion.And those existences that were suppressed in the subconscious also began to surge up one after another.

After the consciousness is out of the shelter, some things will come to the door by themselves.

But now is not the time to worry about that.

Although Aresio has just opened the heart shell, his consciousness frequency is far beyond that of Ziyue.

Seeing that the shuttle demon's limbs were about to pierce Aresio's head, a ball of emerald green flames suddenly burst out from its body, engulfing its twisted body in an instant.

It was Colin who urgently took it back into the hearth.

Ke Lin, whose consciousness was still at the frequency of Chi Erxing, was looking at Aresio's body firmly, and did not choose to attack rashly.

He "saw" some dark unknown existences suddenly surged up in Aresio's body just now, and it seemed to be accompanied by the faint song of Qingyue birds.

The veil of the Heart Shell is gone.

He tried to image it, but the vague birdsong gradually faded away.

Instead, there was a wet sound like gills breathing, or like someone was fiddling with offal accumulated on the meat table.

But as the imaging progressed, those unknown existences still did not become clear.

"What do you see?"

Aresio seemed to ask a little casually.In fact, he didn't care about Colin's answer.

Because the "heart of the other" is mysterious.

Bystanders cannot see their true soul and heart, not to mention that even if they see it, they cannot convey it.

So Colin didn't answer either, but summoned the Shuttle Demon again.

He stopped talking, it would be a futile distraction.

Giovanni was right behind Aresio, reclining on a seat panting for blood loss.His eyes were cloudy, but he never moved away from the lampkeeper.

At some point, Aresio had broken his right little finger.The second phalanx is directly exposed to the air.

Colin saw the redstone circuit etched on it from a distance. The finger bone had been transformed into a trigger and had been activated.

Why carve lines into bones?Redstone will stop evaporating in the human body, and those lines and the ritual backbone somewhere should have been set up a long time ago.

Another reason should be to face the extreme situation of being deprived of everything outside of the body.

It was originally prepared for people in my hometown, Arecio thought indifferently.

Didn't expect to be wasted on someone who just became Fang three weeks ago.

The name of the ceremony is: "Blooming of the New Green".

Different from the general-purpose spells he was used to using, this was an extremely unstable string of spells.

The effect was originally to transform the spiritual essence into an entity of vegetation, but it was chosen by him because it was versatile and remote enough.

But under Aresio's powerful intentions, this spell string has been completely twisted into another spell.

One hears the grass of night, growing under the shadow of holiness.

It was a very slight, dense and crazy rustling sound.

Black "grass" protruded from the wound on his chest, they were as plump as fleshy buds, shaking and sealing the wounds that were still bleeding, and seemed to be greedily trying to suck blood from them.

Aresio's consciousness has not yet been connected to a powerful source of spiritual essence, and the ether channel built by only about one kilogram of red stone is far from enough to satisfy these prosperous lives.

Arecio looked at the dead souls with empty eyes, and the black grass blades were gushing out from their mouths and eyes, making them look like scarecrows wrapped in thin skin.

Some roots have penetrated the cracks in the shell, drinking the life that has not yet completely dissipated.

Those who are incomplete due to devotion will become gods, and those who have excess due to occupation will become demons.

Facing his true face, even Arecio himself felt a little uncomfortable.

The dense cracking sound suddenly sounded in the carriage.

The twisted, broken and extremely sharp thorns pierced through all the dead souls in the carriage in an instant.

It was Colin who controlled the Shuttle Demon to make a move.

But as if dozens of unbearable water bags were broken, the black grass blades in their bodies also spewed out with the explosion of the dead souls, flying around.

Some of the outstretched limbs of the Shuttle Demon were accidentally contaminated, and the grass seeds that fell on the ground burst into black branches and buds. They pushed away the tangled dark purple muscles on the Shuttle Demon's body, and surrounded them to explore the depths.

The emerald green flame rose up in the next moment, sweeping away all the pitch-black blades of grass.

The hearth is protecting itself from the intrusion of foreign spirit elements.

At this time, even the leather seats had already sprouted pitch-black grass.It is as if it is necessary to extract the last nutrients in these dead skin layers into shoots.

Arecio felt that his consciousness was still spreading outwards, and the ever-filling spiritual essence urgently needed a vent.

However, his ether channel is naturally wide, and it is far from reaching the upper limit at this time.

Alessio turned his head to look at Colin, and then he tried a little strangely to focus his intentions on the other person's body.

Colin has been following his gaze, so when Aresio looked at him, the two looked at each other for a moment.

The Shuttle Demon suddenly pushed Colin's body away, and Colin used this to kick and rolled outwards in some embarrassment.

The next moment, a large group of black granulation sprouted from the shuttle demon's body, squeezing and tearing the normal tissues outward in the blink of an eye.

The monster-like upper body of Shuttle also fell to one side because of the huge hole.

Immediately after the emerald green flame ignited, the Shuttle Demon disappeared directly in place, and then appeared next to Colin again.

With the reconstruction of its body, its wounds have healed, but its figure is a little thinner.

As a creature composed of spiritual elements, the way of death is of course different from that of material life.

When facing the spirit master, the most vulnerable is always the wizard himself.Aresio has exploited this weakness countless times.

Colin regained control of the hearth, regardless of the cost, to pressurize the spirit again, and the devil's body became solid again.

Aresio's attack suddenly became strange and unpredictable, and the diamond technique prepared in advance seemed to have lost its effect.

Colin cast a quick glance at Giovanni, trying to signal him to leave.

At this time, it was 10 o'clock before the turn of the Qingxing channel, and there were still 5 minutes left.

With the rapid consumption of the abundance of life, and the continuous increase in the level of stimulants in the blood.

Colin's thoughts gradually became empty.

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Arecio actually didn't have the heart to think about Gilpert's words, and he didn't quite understand those mysterious concepts.

But the doubts that the lamp girl conceived ten years ago were inevitably projected onto the lamp keeper.

But he was not completely shaken by this. The evidence is that for a long time after that, he was still acting as a lamp body.

So now he can't tell one thing at all...

Whether he chose Julio, or the lamp chose Julio.

The hometown is subject to the choice of lights, and only until Julio is available, Hilpert will continue to be the lamp girl of Stade.

In addition to wearing a pendant engraved with the portrait of the first lamp girl, Alessio also taught her the beliefs of the first generation lamp girl.

"Only kindness is truly powerful."

The virgin with a lamp swept away all the filth under the night mist in Cincily. Before she was worshiped as the ancestor god, there were very few opponents to her in terms of force.

But only this sentence has always been her belief.

Julio has a strong sense of empathy since he was a child, which may be the reason why Lantern chose her.

Because this kind of person can always understand the mood of others, and is naturally inclined to be kind.

Lamp taught her patiently, further cultivating her empathy, making her every word and deed tend to Valeria's way of life.

Thus mirroring the power of the ancestor gods.

If nothing else, she will be a perfect lamp girl.

If nothing else.

Arecio watched Julio's growth silently. In his eyes, this matter was no different from eliminating the superhuman enemies for the five hands.

But one day, when he finished telling the story about the lamp girl and covering the young Julio with a quilt, Alessio found her crying quietly.

The story that day was full of preaching, not touching, so Alessio was also confused for a while.

From Hilpert, he learned to be confused.

After questioning, Julio, who was less than eight years old at the time, sobbed softly and said:
"...Why, don't you cry?"

Don't you feel pain?
"A lampkeeper has no ego."

Alessio struggles, clumsily, to explain to Julio that pain is a subjective feeling.And under this body, there is no subject that can experience this thing.

"But, I always feel that you seem to be in pain."

Little Julio wiped his tears and said:
"I don't know, why does it hurt so much when there is no wound on the body?"

If Julio hadn't mentioned it to him then.

Arecio never knew how miserable he was.

(End of this chapter)