Greek Mythology: The Spiritual Dominator

Darkness.

The feeling of death is so strange, as if something is being pulled out of the body irresistibly.

The perception of the environment is gradually lost, replaced by a boundless coldness. It's like taking off all your clothes and walking in the snow, nothing can stop the bone-chilling chill.

For a moment, Nuo felt that he had lost the ability to move. He just watched silently, watching his body fall on the seat in the temple, and watching the people who had just left come back here to express their condolences in front of his body.

He should have responded, even if they no longer noticed him. But just like a person who has just woken up from a deep sleep, everything in front of him is clearly seen, but Nuo's mind seems to be still immersed in haze, without any ability to think.

So he just watched quietly as they held a simple and solemn ceremony, saw them take out his body, and then announced his death to the residents of Silvermoon City in front of the temple.

There are so many people outside the temple that even the smallest sound will become noisy when multiplied by such a base number. But the voice of the person who read out the will reached everyone's ears without any obstruction, clearly expressing his meaning.

Then the flow of people split to both sides under invisible force, and Nuo's body walked along the central avenue straight to the outside of the city. He will be buried with his former companions, thus declaring death in a social sense.

Although he was temporarily unconscious, Nuo's soul still drifted away with him. He listened to the discussions of the people around him, walked through the streets and alleys, and then kept looking outward until he saw his body being buried in the repaired cemetery.

Then, as if the last shackles to reality were broken, he felt a mysterious suction coming from the ground. The source of the suction is the unknown river of forgetfulness.

…

"What a surprise..."

"Hey, I didn't expect it to be such a result. Without the Pope, you have to compete on your own ability. This is quite good."

"So, no matter what, it is imperative to open up to the outside world... I have long wanted to go outside and have a look!"

Among the crowd, Cornius couldn't tell what his mood was as he watched the carriages passing by on the Central Avenue. But when he asked himself, he still felt a little more happy.

After all, although he also admitted that Nuo was a great leader - it wasn't about what he did, but what he didn't do.

He has no family and no descendants because he does not want the so-called 'bloodline of the prophet' to be passed down. He gave up the eternal life at his fingertips, which made Cornius respect him even more than he understood.

People are such beings. They will have admiration for those who are similar to themselves but can do things that they cannot do, even those who are wise. But people's emotions cannot be the same after all, so watching this scene, the young man just sighed.

Compared with these, he is still more concerned about the changes brought about by the death of the Great Prophet, such as the young man's desire for the unknown and fighting can finally be realized, and the changes that may occur in Silvermoon City. The life and death of those big shots had little to do with him, at least that's what he thought.

"Connie, I know you're distracted—but at least act serious."

A somewhat dissatisfied voice came from the front, calling back Conius's spirit. Looking at the figure of the girl standing on tiptoes in front of him, looking far away, for some reason, the young man said in a strange way.

"De'er, I was looking forward to the future. Maybe one day in the future, I will let a city mourn my departure?"

"……Yeah?"

Glancing to the side, the girl curled her lips.

"Then I will wait for that day, Dear Mr. Connie~"

Well, maybe as the other party has been expecting, he will join the new coach Damian's pioneering team. But De'er doesn't plan to go, she hopes to stay here, because her dream is to learn magic and become a priest, instead of going out to fight and kill, which is a hobby only boys have.

It seems that the two of them are about to separate, but people in Silvermoon City have a longer life, so this pioneering journey that may last for more than ten years or even longer will not be a farewell. So De'er just waved his hand in the end, congratulating his childhood playmate for getting what he wanted.

"There will definitely come a day!"

"But until then, I will reluctantly allow you to continue calling me by my first name!"

As if inspired, Cornius could not help but puff up his chest slightly.

Although strictly speaking, even he himself didn't really believe that he could do it, but what if?

Everything is possible. It is also written in the church scriptures that God says that nothing in the world is constant. The only thing that is constant is change itself. In this case, there is probably nothing impossible in this world, so Who says he has no possibility of doing great things?

The conversation fell silent, both of them immersed in their own thoughts. In the middle of the avenue, the carriage drove out of the city, and the crowd surged with it. Until this long night passed, the Silver Moon City still had not returned to peace.

This is the beginning, but it won't be the end. This human city, which was originally located in a corner of the continent, will return to its original position.

…

Crash--

The excitement belongs to the living and has nothing to do with the dead. At least for Nuo now, although many things involving him are still going on, they have nothing to do with him anymore.

Perhaps with the advent of the third era, some souls with strong obsessions during life can stay in the world after death and transform into an alternative life, but that is not essentially an extension of life span.

Because the balance of the physical body is lost, the characteristics of the spiritual side are revealed a thousand times. Those whose souls are bound to be affected by emotions due to extreme emotional retention, and it won't be long before they can be regarded as another life with the same memory.

But Nuo was obviously not among them. He didn't have any strong unwillingness, resentment or regret, so he was like an ordinary soul, being pulled to Hades by the pulling power of the underworld, and then fell into the river of forgetfulness. In the river.

The cold river water washed over his soul, and the current that was supposed to absorb his memories bit by bit was suddenly blocked. A few traces of holy power emerged from Nuo's soul, and then this power was easily isolated. But under this cold stimulation, the originally transparent soul body trembled slightly.

The memory was awakened, just like a handful of cold water wiped on the cheek in the morning, which immediately made the originally sluggish thinking start to work again.

"Is this...the underworld?"

Looking stunned, Nuo shook his head.

He had heard about the underworld more than once in the past. Even when the Bronze Humans were still there, there were rumors that although plagues and diseases in the world were released by Pandora, their source was the gods of the underworld.

Therefore, Pluto is also regarded by mortals as a god who is biased towards evil. Even in those human city-states that worshiped the Olympian gods, the existence of Hades was deliberately ignored. No one would carve a statue of him, which was considered an ominous symbol.

But this had nothing to do with Nuo. He just looked up from the waves of the Styx River and glanced at the moon in the sky. He had not met the archangel before, but he did hear her name more than once.

The River of Forgetfulness rolled forward. Scenes that could only exist in legends flashed in front of Nuo.

The River of Oaths, a fluid composed of molten lava, has a living, movable corpse. Until a certain moment, as if passing through an invisible barrier, everything in the underworld was left behind. The surrounding scene suddenly changed, and what appeared in front of Nuo was a new world.

Four bright moons of different colors hung in the sky, two of which gave him a familiar feeling; other tributaries of the Styx converged here, and all he could see were souls.

At the end of the horizon, at what seems to be the center of the world, there are two colors of light penetrating the sky and the earth. They rotate slowly and influence each other, as if they are expounding the principles of heaven and earth.

These were scenes that Nuo had never seen before, but his mood was extremely calm. He asked the angel for an ordinary death, so he was prepared - at the end of the River of Forgetfulness, he would be judged for his achievements during his lifetime, and then thrown into the Well of Reincarnation to become a new life, or because of his exceptionally outstanding achievements. Being left here to do the best I can in my new position.

But the reality did not go as he thought. As the River of Forgetfulness flowed, Nuo suddenly discovered at a certain moment that the souls around him who had been traveling with him disappeared, and his position also changed.

The River Styx, which originated in the world of spirits, seemed to have been changed by some force, and it came to a dark and unpredictable place.

"here it is……"

Chaos intertwines here, and time and space distort each other. The moment he comes here, as the first mortal to reach the fifth spiritual world, Nuo seems to feel thousands of lives speaking in his ears, and endless The light and shadow flashed.

Vaguely, he seemed to see the earth split into four parts, with countless things pouring out of the ground; he saw black shadows flash across the sky, and the sun split into two, and then merged into one again.

Everything is shaking. Two indescribable beings are confronting each other in the sky. The past and the future are being reversed. Reality and illusion are blurred... But all the images are just a trance. When Nuo wakes up from the illusion, he has truly set foot in the world. The fifth level of the spiritual world.

He didn't know what he had just seen, but he soon had no time to think about it. Because right in front of him, he saw the figure whom he had only met once. The eternal light shines on Him, and the world flows with His breath.

Nuo didn't know that in order to maintain the stability of positive and negative energy, Ryan's power was being vented in time and space without scruples, resonating with the power of the entire spiritual world. At this moment, Nuo only felt as if he had seen the beginning of all things, the truth of all things, as if time was about to stop in front of God's will.

He lowered his head, because even though the remaining holy power of the same origin in his soul was trying its best to protect his existence, he felt that as long as he took one more look, he would be completely wiped out because he could not understand this supreme law.

Nuo was not afraid of death, but that didn't mean he wanted to die in front of the gods in such a ridiculous way.

"The great Lord of all spirits, the source of time and space, your believers come to you!"

"Your incarnation in the mortal world has guided mankind to avoid destined destruction. Now I have finally completed the mission you gave me and let the fire of civilization continue in the world."

"Now, I finally come to you again."

Ryan lowered his head and looked at the man crawling in the void. He could still see that kindness in the other person just as he had hundreds of years ago.

But unlike what the other party thought, he actually didn't care about everything he did in the world. Whether it was leading humans to avoid disasters or opening up Silver Moon City, he actually didn't care much.

What he really cares about is that Nuo Zai has seen everything, and after seeing the almost religious reverence of some people in Silver Moon City for him, his faith has not changed.

Ryan himself has never been a pious person. No matter before or now, he has never had a firm belief in something that exists or does not exist. He once thought that devout faith came from backwardness, lack of knowledge, ignorance and fear, but reality proved that this was not the case.

Even Korn would start to question the gods as the years went by... why not No? That's what he thought, so he asked. The reason why he summoned Nuo here was just for this issue.

"Why do you believe in me?" God asked.

Nuo was a little stunned. He had never thought about this problem. But at this moment, feeling the breath of truth, he felt that he should have the answer.

"Because I think all life in this world needs faith to survive, no matter what his faith is."

"It can be about survival, it can be about greed, it can be about good intentions to help others, or it can be about evil that destroys everything."

“Nothing in the world can encompass all of these things, except the world itself.”

Smiling slightly, Ryan didn't know if he was satisfied with the answer. He just raised his hand gently and gave the answer the reward he deserved.