I am God!

Chapter 309 The Shadow of Barrow Reappears
Shana carried the box and headed towards the south of the Fire Guard City. He disembarked from the port of Haiwan Town by boat, and then embarked on the journey back to his hometown.

He left this road back then, and now he is coming back along this road.

He saw the outline of the Fire Guard City from afar.

Twenty years have passed and Huo Huo City has changed a lot, and the business route between Haiwan Town and Huo Huo City has become more prosperous.

There are towns along the way, and new cities have been built.

"I don't know what happened to Joan Town."

Shana used to be very afraid of going back to his hometown, but after killing Carmon, he had a strong desire to go back.

He has been adrift for too long.

He's also been lost for too long.

He is like a lone boat lost at sea, desperately longing for a place where he can dock.

Carmon was his former friend and later the enemy he most wanted to kill.

But the last sentence he said went deep into Xia Na's heart.

"You can have your own life too."

Why did he desperately want to kill Carmon, why was he so obsessed with everything that had happened.

Not just want one.

own.

A truly free life?

Go home and start all over again.

Everything in the past has passed, and every day from now on is a new day.

The Shana family has no mission and no strings to bind them.

Shana walked all the way, and he saw a crowd of people.

He saw the familiar mill in Yoan Town, as well as the newly replaced windmill.

He even faintly heard the tinkling sound coming from the blacksmith shop in Yoan Town, and heard the sound of children playing.

In the past 20 years, there have been a lot of new faces in the town, but also a lot of old faces.

Although the lifespan of snake people is theoretically long, most people cannot live to that theoretical value.

"Who is this?" The young man didn't know Shaner at all.

"Is anyone from outside the town?" On the street, people kept poking their heads out of the room and looking outside.

"It looks familiar." Some people thought that Xia Na was very familiar, but they couldn't recognize at a glance that this down-and-out man was the child of the former lord's family in the town.

One of them recognized Shaner and yelled at him.

"Little Shana?"

"Is it Little Shana?"

But as soon as he shouted out, he immediately changed his words.

"No, it should be Lord Shaner."

The Shaner family is the lord of this town, and the heirs will usually be granted the title of oath swearer in a small nearby village after they reach adulthood.

Shana heard the familiar shout and looked over.

He is the son of a blacksmith and Shana's childhood friend.

Now he is the father of three children.

Seeing Xia Na looking at him, the blacksmith was finally sure.

He rushed over excitedly: "Are you back?"

Shana nodded.

The blacksmith asked him, "Are you going to leave in the future?"

Shaner replied, "Maybe..."

He hesitated for a moment, then nodded and said, "Not going."

"I won't leave in the future."

The blacksmith was happy that Xia Na could come back: "That's great. Tell me how you, a nobleman, did this. Can't you just stay in Yoan Town?"

Shana smiled.

For the first time in so many years, he smiled so happily.

"Yes!"

"Can't you just stay in Yoan Town?"

"But sometimes, there is always no way to be good."

Seeing that the blacksmith couldn't understand what he said, Xia Na patted him on the shoulder: "But it's all right now."

Shana and the blacksmith were talking, and the blacksmith rarely saw his childhood companions, chattering about their childhood.

At this time, several sons of the blacksmith brought another young man to the door, and one of the young men looked at Xia Na's back and shouted excitedly.

"Father."

"you are back?"

Xia Na looked suspiciously at the young man in his twenties in front of him, and didn't realize it for a while.

"you are?"

Suddenly his pupils shrank, and only then did he notice that the face of the young man in front of him was almost exactly the same as his own when he was a child.

Xia Na immediately understood who the young man in front of him was.

He is the next generation of Shaner.

Xia Na subconsciously backed up a bit, driving the hammer hanging behind him.

He stared intently at the young man in front of him, his whole face was numb, but his heart was overwhelmed.

"what happened?"

"How do you..."

He didn't understand why the other party was still there.

He obviously destroyed the entire underground palace, and obviously killed the old guy who manipulated everything.

Why will there be a new Shana family born?
Shouldn't this cycle of reincarnation be over?

For Shaner, this feeling was like a bucket of ice water being poured on top of his head.

"How do you know it was me?"

Shaner's "son" told him: "I saw you when I was little, father."

"It seems to be when I was very young, when was it?"

The young man also looked puzzled, and finally said.

"I don't remember either."

Shana immediately recalled that when he killed the old man, the child wrapped in a cocoon opened his eyes.

They looked at each other, one innocent and the other full of horror.

Except for that one time, they couldn't possibly see each other again.

Shana's "son" didn't know what he was thinking at the moment, but still said to him happily.

"Father!"

"You have been away from home for so long, and you are finally back."

"Grandfather would be delighted if he knew."

Xia Na suddenly raised his head, the word grandfather was equivalent to "nightmare" in his heart.

"grandfather?"

Shana swallowed: "Is he still there?"

But the moment Xia Na asked this sentence, he probably understood that the grandfather should be his father.

But even he himself didn't dare to fully confirm whether the other party was his so-called "father" or the weird old man he used to be.

The young man took Shana's hand: "Grandfather is at home now, and he has been waiting for you to come back."

"Father and son" headed towards the ancient castle of the Shaner family together. The "son" was full of joy, but as the father, Shana's emotions became extremely tense in an instant.

Who is the "grandfather" in the family?
Is that old thing really dead?

The moment Xia Na saw his "son", the future he thought was full of uncertainty.

Xia Na's "son" suddenly asked him at this time, with longing and anticipation in his voice.

"Father!"

"Have you fulfilled God's mission?"

Shana looked at each other, that childish and young face.

It seemed to be the same when he was a child, he never doubted what God's mission was like.

In the face of the other party's questions, he answered irrelevant questions.

"I thought I'd accomplished something."

"But it seems..."

Xia Na looked at his "son" with doubts in his pupils: "Everything is still going on."

"Son" didn't understand at all, but felt that this sentence was very profound.

And this time has arrived in front of the castle.

The gate opened, and servants stood in the courtyard.

"Son" rushed into the courtyard and shouted at the patriarch of the Shana family standing on the stairs.

"grandfather!"

"grandfather!"

"Father, he is back, he is finally back."

Shana looked up and saw the figure on the steps.

Elder Shayner was on crutches, and he was moving little by little, very slowly.

But in Xia Na's eyes, he seemed to see a shadow covering the sky and the sun covering the opponent's feet, trying to wrap him up and hang him in the darkness.

The figure and eyes were almost exactly the same as Shana's grandfather.

But Xia Na didn't notice that his embarrassment and vicissitudes at the moment are exactly the same as his former "father".

Waited for a long time.

The old man slowly came to Shana.

The old man's eyes are cloudy, but there is a terrifying gaze in these cloudy eyes.

The old man stared at Xia Na with hooked eyes, like a mountain weighing him down.

Neither of them spoke, they just stared at each other.

To ordinary people, this atmosphere seems to be a touching scene of father and son reuniting many years later. The two were speechless when they met, and there were only two lines of tears.

But Xia Na almost couldn't help but do it directly, and he was screaming crazily in his heart.

"It's that old thing."

"This is him!"

"He's alive again, he's alive again."

"He's still..."

His fingers trembled uncontrollably under his sleeves, his muscles stiffened into a ball, and his cheeks unconsciously strained from the clenching of his teeth.

Just when Xia Na was about to lose his hold.

In the end, the old man spoke first, and said to Shana in a hoarse voice.

"came back!"

"my son."

-

After a "warm" family dinner, the old man raised his head and looked at Xia Na.

"It looks like it's almost done, you come with me later."

Shana's "son" raised his head: "Is there anything wrong?"

The old man: "Your father and I have something to talk about."

After speaking, he added another sentence.

"It's about your coming-of-age ceremony in a few days."

The old man looked at Xia Na's "son" expectantly: "When the time comes."

"You can leave Yoan Town and go outside to perform your duties."

Shana's "son" was very excited, his face was flushed under the lights.

The middle-aged Xia Na followed the old man to the depths of the corridor, passing one painting after another and stone carvings.

The old man stopped and pushed open the door engraved with the ancient words "When the Creator returns, the gods will wake up".

The familiar ramp leads to the depths, like a big mouth that swallows everything.

The two descended along the long slope.

The old man asked Shaner, "How is Carmon?"

Shana replied to him, "Kamon is dead, and all the Kamon family have been killed by me."

Xia Na looked at the old man, meaning something.

"The thread that tied us is no more, it's over."

Old man: "Really?"

There was an envious look in the old man's eyes: "Very well, they have completed their mission."

"The rest is to wait for the last moment."

Xia Na didn't understand what the old man meant by this sentence, and the old man didn't continue the topic.

Shana still stared at the old man, and he asked directly.

"who are you?"

"Is it Shana from the previous generation?"

"still?"

He looked into the eyes of the old man, the ruthlessness in the eyes, and the despair that had passed through the ages were hooked into people's hearts like a hook.

These are eyes that should not belong to humans.

During his actions, the old man told Xia Na some past events.

"When I was young, I also had a friend, and I rode a ground dragon with him through the plain of animal husbandry, and went to see the legendary frozen plateau; the mirror of heaven is really the most beautiful place in the world, so holy Flawless."

"Before that, I had a friend; he was a captain, and I went to the sea with him on an adventure, and we wanted to cross the sea of ​​​​storms, and everyone died in the sea, and I was the only one who lived down."

"A long time ago, I started a family once, and I had a few children; unfortunately, I didn't get to watch them grow up in the end, because I had to fulfill my mission."

"A long time ago."

"..."

Xia Na was stunned. He had heard some of the stories, and some of them hadn't.

But the timeline in it spans more than a hundred years, and it cannot happen to the same generation of Shaner.

The Shana family is not powerful themselves, and they can only rely on the power of props, so their life span is similar to that of ordinary snake people, or even lower.

They can't even accept the divine art of the gift of power, because they are not living people; they can't be transformed into existences such as ghosts, bone demons, and abyssal monsters, because they are essentially puppets.

Shana: "No!"

"This is not the story of one person."

"This is the story of generation after generation of Shaner. There are stories from decades ago, and there are also stories from 100 years ago."

The old man's hoarse voice came out again: "Then let me tell you about my story hundreds of years ago."

"and also."

"A story from a thousand years ago."

Xia Na suddenly didn't understand, he couldn't understand the old snake man in front of him.

"What kind of monster are you...?"

The old man stopped, and they just reached the end of the road at this time.

The old snake man suddenly turned his head to look at Shana. The eyes of the two seemed to be shining in the darkness, and the old snake man suddenly burst out laughing.

"Don't you understand yet?"

"Shanna!"

"One day you, too, will be me, with all of Shaner's memories."

"We have always been one person, we have no distinction between each other."

"We were born from the same personality, and will eventually return to the same memory and end."

Xia Na faintly understood.

The Shana family is not a life, not even a group of puppets.

The root of all the shina clan is a certain person's personality. When they are old, they will retrieve all their memories and become the real perfect shina.

"This is the secret of the Shana family?"

This should not have been known by the middle-aged Shaner, but at this moment, the old Shana told the middle-aged Shaner.

It seems that after a generation after generation of reincarnation, it has reached a certain critical node at this moment.

Xia Na's head was numb at the moment, and it was difficult for him to accept this answer.

Although he understood Xia Na's existence mode, he didn't understand why he did it.

He doesn't understand.

What is the meaning of the existence of the Shana family, what kind of people made them, and why they were made.

"why?"

"Why make us like this?"

"for what?"

"Is it for that so-called mission?"

Shana raised his head and looked at the back of the old man's head.

"Why do you have to be obsessed with that mission? Why do you have to complete it?"

The old snake man didn't answer, and the two walked into a stone room together.

The stone chamber went down, and stopped opening after a long time.

The underground palace built by the Shana family for thousands of years is long gone, leaving only a mess.

A cave full of rubble, and an underground pool.

Shana saw dense threads intertwined, and they were eager to find a new carrier.

And in the center of the pool, where the white silk threads meet.

Inside a cocoon a newborn snake-man infant can be seen encased, waiting to be conceived.

The old snake man pointed at the cocoon and said to Shana.

"Look!"

"That's why."

Shana came to the edge of the pool, and he looked at the newborn Shana family in the cocoon, his eyes tearing open.

"What exactly is going on?"

"How can there be a new Shana born?"

He snarled at the old man, wanting to kill the guy immediately.

"What exactly do you want to do, why do you want to create a puppet named Shana generation after generation?"

"The so-called mission must be completed?"

"Can't you let yourself go, let us go?"

The old man told Shaner: "The mission must be done."

Shaner retorted vigorously: "But there is no line anymore, and there is no Camon."

The old man looked at the childish Xia Na and shook his head.

"Line is not our enemy!"

"Shanna!"

"We're just chasing the same end, looking for a final release."

Xia Na calmed down and was no longer as impulsive as he was when he was young.

"I'm waiting for your answer."

The old man's voice seemed to have magical powers, transporting Shaner to a long time ago and telling him a story that was truly hopeless.

"Billions of years ago."

"A god has fallen."

"Although the god died, he left behind a plan to resurrect himself. His former believers and huge forces began to work hard for this plan."

"He left a prophecy."

At this time, the old man pronounced the language in the language of the Sanye people.

"When the Creator returns, the gods wake up."

This sentence also means that He will be resurrected in the era when the Creator returns.

"The god's plan is to create a special prop called the Destined String Puppet, the purpose of which is to resurrect Himself."

"Xian is from the Kamon family, and even from the Shaner family."

"All the stories start from here, and resurrecting the gods is the mission of Shana and the Kamon family."

Shaner stepped forward: "Where is this prop? Why didn't you find it?"

"Is that why we have to fulfill our mission?"

The old man reached into the water and looked at himself in the reflection.

"I do not know."

"It's like I don't know how to catch, this reflection in the water."

The Shana family didn't know.

After death, a mortal will turn into a dream of life and return to the fantasy star sea. The dream of life is condensed by the law of creation and will never dissipate. "

This is the law set by the Creator.

But this god used the law of the Creator, and He planned to integrate the props into the dream of life at the moment when the dream of life condensed, which is also part of the manufacture of props.

This set of rituals is very complicated, and first of all, it requires a person to be willing to do so; and this person has a strong belief that will not dissipate because of falling into a nightmare. He paranoidly believes that God will be resurrected, and he is running this dream of life that belongs to faith.

The dream of life is born because of the law of creation, and it will immediately ascend to the dream world of the kingdom of the gods.

But also because the dream of life has become a part of the props, he no longer belongs to the complete dream of life at that moment.

Therefore, it cannot be attributed to the fantasy star sea of ​​the God of Creation Kingdom.

No one, not even a goblin or a family of forest fairies, can find this dream of life that disappeared beyond the sea of ​​fantasy stars.

Since then, this prop has been hovering on the edge of the dream world forever.

Like a ghost floating beyond life and death.

The reflection in the water rippled, and the old man went on to tell the story.

"But we know that the destined thread couple will derive threads from unknown places and release them into the world of mortals."

"Where the thread is, a new pair is created."

"This is the endless cycle of purgatory for the Kamon and Shana clan."

The old man stretched out his finger, pointing at the new generation of Xia Na family in the cocoon.

His hands were trembling at the moment, and there was endless despair in his eyes.

"Have you seen?"

"Even if I die, even if you die."

"We're still being reborn."

"Even if it is not born here, it will be born elsewhere."

"If you can't complete the mission, this cycle will keep repeating."

The old man's voice was extremely desolate: "Even if!"

"Is there a line, is there a Camon."

"We are all the same, and we must obey the mission."

"We have to complete it, and only by completing it can we be freed from this cycle."

The old man's voice became louder: "It's not the wire that really controls us."

"Shanna!"

"It's God's will, and it's the destiny of the Shana family for generations!"

Shana's whole body was stiff in front of the pool, and then he collapsed a little bit. He felt that his strength was being sucked out a little bit.

It never occurred to him that everything turned out to be like this.

He suddenly looked at the old snake man and asked him, "Can't it be changed?"

The old snake man told Shana: "Even death can't change it."

"No, death does not belong to us."

"Because we never lived."

The old snake man's cane smashed the ripples in the water: "Xia Na!"

"We're just string couples, we..."

"no future."

The old snake man lowered his body and crawled in front of the pool together with Shana in despair.

"The only way."

"The only way to end this reincarnation is to complete the mission."

"Unable to start the god's resurrection ceremony, no one can find the real destined string couple."

"Only when this ceremony is started, the destined couple will become a part of the ceremony, a part of the gods."

"And we."

"Will also step into eternal peace together, free from this endless cycle."

When the old snake man said this, he grabbed Shana's hand.

"but."

"This is the last time."

"This is the last reincarnation."

"You have found the wisdom of the gods, and the Kamon family has welcomed back the spirituality of the gods."

"The final ceremony is about to begin, in Meiya City."

"You will inherit the memory of me and all Shana, and carry out the final plan."

The old snake man held Shana's hand tightly, with endless expectations in his eyes.

just like.

A worm struggling desperately in a glass bottle, a hungry dog ​​licking poison in a cage.

"The mission of resurrecting God is entrusted to you."

"Shanna!"

"The final hour has come, Shayna, Carmon, the marionettes and all, will return to the gods."

"All reincarnation will end, and nothing will be born again."

"Complete the final task, and don't let a new generation of Shana be born again."

"We're tired."

"Should……"

"ended."

Shana was dumbfounded, he had never heard such a hopeless story.

Desperate to.

Even the word death is so pleasant to the ear.

After the old snake man finished speaking, he patted the back of Xia Na's hand.

He walked towards the depths of the pool by himself.

He stretched out his hand to hold the cocoon on the pool, and the cocoon and the Shana family in it slowly disappeared.

It's like a dissolved egg.

He was telling Shaner that as long as the mission was completed, there would be no more Shana clan.

After the old snake man finished this thing, he was also wrapped in a white cocoon and swallowed and melted a little bit.

at the same time.

The line in the pool was also tangled up in Shaner.

The memory in the old snake man's mind is constantly passing into the mind of the next generation of Shaner, and the memory is being synchronized through the line. The old snake man doesn't even need to speak, and the voice can directly appear in Shaner's consciousness.

It's like talking to yourself in your mind.

The real world disappeared, and the two figures stood in a world full of white on all sides.

One is gradually becoming solid, and the other is slowly fading away.

The white world suddenly changed, and countless pictures came from all directions, together with the voice of the old snake man.

"Look!"

"Shanna!"

"This is our memory."

"Do you ever feel that we are so similar; when you see the next generation of Shana, do you also think of yourself and me."

"Because we have identical personalities, we are always making the same choices."

"Although we are experiencing different lives, we are making the same choice."

"Countless forks in the road."

"We're ultimately choosing the same path."

The old snake man's voice became farther and farther away, and Shana even felt that the voice gradually became his own, and it was him speaking.

"When we were teenagers, we searched for our destiny."

"When we were young, we rebelled against fate."

"In old age, we acknowledge our destiny."

"We wandered in fate time and time again."

"We wander in the maze of fate, finding neither a way out nor an end."

After the old snake man finished speaking, he completely disappeared into the underground cave where the Shana family had hidden a thousand-year-old secret.

The older generation of Shaner died, and no new generation of Shaner was born.

It also means that this endless cycle is beginning to come to an end little by little.

The endless ring starts to break from this node.

Then from the breaking point, a little bit of annihilation.

The endless cycle of three generations of Shaner, now there are only two Shana clans left.

Shana himself was overwhelmed by endless memories, and he saw two stones connected by dense white silk.

Two stones are inlaid on a slate, and a puppet with strings is drawn on the slate.

"The Destined Marionette." Shana said its name.

But the doomed puppet he saw was just an image in his memory, not a real Sequence 19 prop.

Shana felt the memories of countless strange and ancient species rushing into his mind, and saw the reincarnation of Shana generation after generation.

In it the pain and loneliness of eternal recurrence is thrown into consciousness.

directly crushed Shana.

Shana's body trembled violently, with horror and despair on his face.

Shana hugged her head helplessly.

He kept repeating a sentence: "The mission must be completed."

"It has to be done!"

"Must... must... finish it..."

"At all costs, it must be finished, it's time to end... it's time to end..."

"It's...it's over..."

And the oldest ones keep pouring in, going back eons and eons ago.

Shana was in pain like a bug struggling on the ground, but at this moment he suddenly found that the world around him had changed.

He raised his head weakly, and found that he had come to the "Lost Country" again.

City of Gods.

In front of the Palace of Wisdom.

He once again stood among the god-descended crowd from the previous era, and in front of him stood the Sanye man he had seen in his fantasy.

His eyes fell on him across the ages, and he spoke the question like a nightmare again.

"Shanna!"

"Have you waited?"

Xia Na looked at each other, and this time he suddenly understood.

The other party is the beginning of everything, and the other party is the existence that created this eternal nightmare.

He looked at the other party in despair, with tears in his eyes.

He questioned each other, he sobbed and howled.

"why?"

"who are you?"

"Why are you doing this?"

"why?"

"Why do you torture us like this?"

He wanted to grab the corner of the opponent's clothes, but the illusion in his memory had already reached the end.

He jumped into the pool, and the cold water pulled him back to reality.

Shana was much older, his straight body collapsed and became a little rickety.

He raised his head.

These are a pair of eyes that should not belong to humans, revealing the despair that has passed through the ages.

-

The castle of the Shaner family.

A new generation of Shiner is having a coming-of-age ceremony, performed for him only by his father.

Shana of the previous generation passed away due to illness and had just finished the funeral.

Although Xiao Shana was sad because of the passing of his grandfather, he was also excited about the upcoming coming-of-age ceremony.

in his eyes.

It reveals yearning for the outside world and expectations for the future.

During the ceremony, he asked his father.

"Father."

"What is the mission of the family? How should I go about it?"

"Father" told him: "God will guide you."

"Little Shana!"

Little Shana looked bewildered, but could only pretend to understand.

"Father" took out the stone of wisdom and integrated it into Xiao Shana's body during the ceremony, and an incomparably powerful force surged out of him.

Little Shana was stunned and looked at his father in ecstasy.

"What a powerful force."

"Father" told him: "This is a gift from God."

Feeling his own strength excitedly, he happened to meet his father's eyes when he turned around.

Father opened his mouth to ask something, but closed his mouth again.

After hesitating again and again, his father asked him.

"Shanna!"

"You'll accomplish God's mission, won't you?"

Little Shana nodded: "I will definitely do it."

Little Shana's young heart is very restless. He combines his desire and expectation for the outside world with the expectation of completing his mission.

After the ceremony was successful, Little Shana couldn't wait to take her luggage and set off.

Go far.

Shana, who became the "father", stood in front of the castle and watched his "son" go away.

Suddenly he said to himself: "Will he do it?"

"Will he resent it?"

"Hate himself?"

From his perspective, generations of the Shana family appeared behind him.

They have the same personality, but have different memories.

Shaner asked the other Shanners: "Why didn't we just tell him?"

The others responded to him.

"That way, he wouldn't have the motivation to pursue his mission."

"And that's just letting despair come early, it doesn't make any sense."

"Even if it is short-lived happiness, at least I once had it."

Before the castle, there was only silence and despair.

(End of this chapter)