Lord of the Silver Crow

The earth, everything collapsed.

Not just the earth.

Yago stood in the lair intertwined with light and darkness, and within his vision, this dark and gloomy lair intertwined with light and dark was also gradually collapsing.

Here, it is surprisingly similar to Eternal Nightmare.

only.

This place, this nest, seems to have been mixed with other things.

Or more primitive?

Yago silently watched the ever-collapsing nest.

Dreams, cognition, time, and shadows are all products of subdivision.

Here, the nest itself has not undergone this step of differentiation or cutting.

This is the difference between this nest and the eternal dream.

When the nest continued to collapse, Yago looked at the light and shadow that were constantly fragmented and dissociated, and compared them, he came to such a conclusion.

However, it can also be reversed -

This nest is composed of elements such as dream, shadow, cognition, time and so on.

However, there is no doubt about it.

This place is related to Xiu Shi Lu.

Yago once again gathered power, the power of the probability path and the undead path gathered in his hands in the form of shadows.

He wants to try it.

After an unknown amount of time, in his sight, this huge lair of light and darkness, which could not be evaluated in terms of specific size, finally collapsed to the last piece.

It was at this moment that Yago used his ability——

The thread-like, hinge-like shadows projected toward the huge, collapsing shadow of light.

Maybe it was a coincidence, or maybe his goal was that.

A pitch-black cloak came into his hands as he tugged in chains condensed by shadows.

Almost at the moment when the cloak appeared in his hands, the entire nest of light and shadow completely collapsed.

Yago's body fell out of this strange place that seemed to be an independent space.

The feeling of dead silence, which seems to be able to suppress all dynamic things, once again enveloped Yago, as if to completely seal him in this sea of ​​dead silence.

Yago put the dark cloak on his body subconsciously.

Unreal, hazy.

As if in a dream, all feelings, whether it was depression or others, disappeared from Yago's body.

The dark, empty robe floats in the dead sea.

There was no face to be seen from under the hood, only a hazy, unreal darkness.

This is a very strange feeling, and it is similar to what Yago experienced. After passing through the door of ignorance and cutting off all perception channels from the outside world, only the sense of time still exists.

But not quite the same.

how to say

Watchmen.

Yes, there is a gatekeeper feel to it.

That feeling of not being there.

Everything in the outside world has no interaction with him.

However, the difference is that although everything in the outside world cannot affect him, he cannot interact with everything in the outside world.

This feeling is more like the feeling of being out of the current time and unable to interact with everything in this time.

Soon, he thought of the shadow snake that he had encountered before, in the mechanical kingdom, that seemed to be attacking him, the shadow snake that he could not influence with his own power.

Yes, it seems.

Looking at it from the current point of view, Yago re-examined whether the shadow snake was going to attack him.

But, still no results.

He touched the dark cloak on his body.

It is the power of time.

It is the creation of the power of the dream pathway or the eternal sleep pathway.

However, it is higher than his current level.

No.

More precisely, there are no levels, no grades.

This cloak does not have a level in the usual sense, and there is no high or low positioning.

But why does he feel that this cloak is higher than his level?

Yago groped again and again, trying to find out the reason.

However, over and over again, he still couldn't find the reason.

In desperation, he could only deduce a hypothesis from the situation he felt——

Maybe it's a chronological effect.

He observes the cloak with the sense of time life in order to perceive the corresponding situation.

Well, the reason may be sequence sake.

In terms that ordinary people can understand, this cloak is older than him.

More past than the time he was in.

Although he tried to explain this kind of words as simply as possible, it was not so easy to understand.

As an ordinary life, what is used to evaluate a living thing?

healthier?

More lively?

More tall?

smarter?

stronger?

If we had to rank general creatures, intelligence might be the most commonly used one. Physical qualities such as strength and speed were also a common grading standard. Age might also be an option.

Then, what is used to evaluate the life form of “time life”?

Ancient?

A standard that is paradoxical to age.

Because, for the general life, the age is not actually expressing the time.

Because of older age and weaker body, because of older age, richer experience, because of older age, less quick thinking.

It is not directly expressing the time of this creature, but using time as a reference scale to compare other elements.

To choose a more general standard that can involve most situations, maybe it will be vitality?

But this standard is not stable enough, after all, vitality cannot be observed by ordinary life.

This point, in the time life, there is a similar situation.

Yago can observe his own shadow including other things at different times, but he cannot observe time itself.

It can even be said that from his perspective, time does not exist.

Time is just the arrangement order of specific units in an individual.

the complexity?

At this time, Yago regretted why he didn't read more books on logic.

He can feel that this cloak is higher level than himself, but he can't clearly confirm which level or which level is higher.

He has to make generalizations, he only has the answer of degree of antiquity which seems to be related to time life.

However, if you really understand it from ancient, it will probably be understood as this thing is older than him, but this understanding is wrong.

However, when he kept observing the cloak, he roughly concluded one thing.

That is, the various features on this cloak are not as distinct as on his own.

To use an inappropriate example as a metaphor.

The cloak is a log, and he is a concrete, processed wood product.

Although not accurate enough, this is the closest explanation Yago can think of now.