Hundred Nights in the Light [Main Fate]

"You jealous bastard, have you seen enough now?" Gilgamesh squinted at me from the corner of his eyes, "Is that what you mind about my past with my friend Enkidu?"

"No, I was just surprised... How did you, who was so sad and frightened at the time, let go of this past?" I was sincerely curious.

Gilgamesh sneered: "Grief? Fear? It's all because the king was immature at the time... Even I was not complete when I was born. After a long period of growth, I got the final answer." .”

Ah, that must have been a long childhood.

After Enkidu's death, the panic-stricken king left his kingdom and wandered the wilderness, looking for the elixir of immortality.

It was a long journey without glory and no nobility at all. Gilgamesh spent almost the second half of his life looking for eternal life, and finally brought back the fairy grass from the underworld.

But when he finally got his wish, a snake ate the celestial grass by the stream when he left everything to take a bath.

It is said that snakes shed their skin because they ate the grass jelly, and shedding means a new life.

But Wang knelt down by the stream because of remorse. At the last moment of his life, he was full of despair, and because of this, he realized that he was always a mortal.

"Are you in pain? Are you in despair? The salvation you seek after going through all kinds of hardships turns out to be nothing in the world; no matter how much power you have and how much effort you put in, you will always be trapped in invisible shackles and you will never be able to make any progress..." I sighed. ask him.

"Don't get me wrong, Baiye." Gilgamesh rarely said seriously, "As a human being, realizing my own limit is the beginning of my true adulthood."

"...that's an undeniable truth, Jill." I couldn't help laughing.

Gilgamesh glared at me dissatisfied: "This may be the only time this king has a whim! Listen to me carefully: the so-called immortality is just an unrealistic delusion of mortals, thinking that as long as life can continue Will there be an end? No, life will die, consciousness will die, faith will die, this planet, time and space, gods and people...everything that exists will eventually die! Only when you realize this will you truly feel life fullness and authenticity.”

...that's not bad at all.

However, I began to be a little surprised: Is it possible to get such an answer in a short life as a mortal, King of Heroes?

"I, Gilgamesh, as the oldest king of mankind, exist in this oldest story, so why should I pursue eternal life? This king doesn't need that kind of thing at all! Even if my body will wither in this era, My age cannot grow with time forever, and I have already become immortal!" Gilgamesh opened his hands, his eyes were deep and far away.

About as he said, his mood at this moment is only once in his life.

Facing the never-ending cyan sky in my heart, he said: "This time, as a king, I have devoted my whole life, weathered the wind and frost, experienced the cold and heat repeatedly, and drank everything that can be offered to me in this era. All! No pleasure in the world can move me, so I will sleep—

"But one day I will wake up again, and I will once again see with my own eyes, my country, my people, in wisdom and fear, stepping into this horizon I have seen-this horizon, this white elephant. The mountains, as well as the sky and the stars, were once the blueprint and great cause that this king personally drew for them, but one day, human cognition will break through that limit...

"Even if I, as a mortal, can't see the bright future, one day - human beings will cross my star garden, sail out of the dark sea, reach the end of the sky, and come to the conclusion that the king has not yet finished. .”

(Note: "Crossing the star garden... the end of the sky" is here, quoting Nao's original work)

When he finished speaking, what I saw was the majestic tower that reaches the sky.

Human beings are always yearning for something, always yearning for the sky and the horizon, and always envious of those of the same kind who are free to go to the other side... Just like this tower reaching the sky, even if the hope is slim, human beings are always striving hard , looking forward to.

Howling but also to move forward, struggling to survive.

Whenever I see such a scene, I will be sincerely amazed by such beauty.

I leaned slightly towards Gilgamesh, the king who stood there in all splendor, to express my respect for what he said and thought, and I said: "In that case, I think I have seen that you are king authority, Gilgamesh."

"……Oh?"

"In fact, you love human beings deeply, you love human wisdom and courage, ignorance and fear. You are so proud and so contemptuous of all heroes, you put yourself at the top of all mortals and become king, just for the sake of Bear all of this at the highest place, so that the people can be protected..." I sighed deeply, and looked at the god-like king in front of me, "Your authority as a king comes from this 'arrogance'—to lead In order to protect human beings, they have to use the cruel means of demigods; in order to protect human beings, they have to show their arrogant power—”

"Hmph, don't talk to yourself, I just can't bear to see my garden being messed up." Gilgamesh closed his eyes, turned his back, and looked at Tongtian, which could never resist the heavens. Zhita walked, "When necessary, I don't mind letting them know what kind of efforts are futile, for example-seeking help from the so-called gods and saints!"

He stood in front of the Tower of Tongtian and stretched out his hand into the void. In an instant, I saw a red light.

The veins of the world unfolded in the palm of his hand, and the mighty force from the initial formation of the heavens and the earth surged out from the black gaps. Gilgamesh grasped something that would destroy all rules and all constraints.

It may be a sword, but it is not a sword. When it was born, there was no prototype or concept of a sword in the world.

It is a weapon of grotesque shape, an artifact that created the world.

[The sky is so high that it has no name. ]

[Houdi's 庳 Xi, also has not given its name. ]

It was the chaos that was in one body and the gods did not exist, it was the ancient hell when the world was not opened... and what broke all of this was the world-splitting sword that created and destroyed the world in the king's hand.

Gilgamesh named him——

"—Enuma Elish——!!!"

The difference between heaven and earth, the star of pioneering.

This sword cut all the scenes in front of him into meaningless fragments.

Insignificant human beings, insignificant towers reaching the sky, insignificant space-time and the universe, are like the light of a firefly in front of this divine artifact of the Anti-World Noble Phantasm.

The whole world was shaken because of the king, the strings forming the world were torn apart, and everything around was grotesque.

"It's a pity, Gilgamesh, I already know how to defeat you..." I stood in the center of all this turmoil, looking at the back of the King of Heroes.

He turned around with absolute confidence and arrogance on his face: "—oh?"

"If..." If you see the fate that human beings cannot escape no matter what, and let you know that the bright future is just like immortality, it is just a delusion of human beings...

At that time, it must have ended in my victory.

but……

If this defeats you, Gilgamesh, it also destroys you.

If you completely destroy the tenacity of human nature in front of your eyes, it is tantamount to breaking your wings and piercing your eyes.

Brilliant and powerful demigod king Gilgamesh... At this moment, I am reluctant to crush you in the palm of my hand, because you are a unique, precious and rare thing in my reincarnation...

You are the first person who made me think that the value of collection is much lower than the value of letting go... I can't bear, don't give up, and don't want to destroy you.

"...Gilgamesh, although I have found a method, it seems... that I cannot use it myself."

Finally, I said to him with a wry smile.

"Hmph, is it?"

Gilgamesh smiled thoughtfully, with excitement in his eyes—the excitement of discovering some treasure, which made his long and narrow pupils contract evilly.

"Hundred Nights in the Light, I found your weakness—"

Ha, is it...

Come on, please end my long, boring life. If you can smash my personality and beliefs, I will always be grateful to you for sublimating my life.

His words made my blood boil, and at this moment, I almost fell in love with Gilgamesh madly——

Gilgamesh said: "Come, Baiye, let me reduce your mental world to dust."

The King of Heroes walked towards me against the light with an evil smile.

Wherever he passed, the world-splitting sword swept across all lights and shadows, and the scarlet wind tore my mind to pieces.

All the details of my experience and cognition disappeared, and what was exposed behind these coverings was the boundless starry sky that constituted my world view.

In the starry sky, it is my every life, every memory, every round of meditation between life and death that flashes like a shooting star.

"Your mental world seems to always be the perspective of a third party..."

Gilgamesh narrated in a gorgeous, deep voice.

"Why do you form memories differently from others, and always observe everything from the perspective of a god. Is it because you are afraid of being trapped in a mortal body? Not so... it is because you don't bother to re-experience the past that you have experienced Is it not so... Then, are you afraid to immerse yourself in your own mental image?"

His words are like poisonous snakes, entrenched in my body.

I closed my eyes and could feel Gilgamesh watching me intently, as if I was the only one left in the world.

I can feel that he is eager to hold my heart tightly and take me as his own... just like I am eager to keep a vivid Gilgamesh in my mental image world forever, feeling it all the time The pleasure of watching this soul of infinite possibilities.

"Your strongest point is your personality, hmph, you are a devil who can confuse everything; but your weakest point is precisely here. Baiye... I will ask you a question: If you have experienced all these mental images in full, and all the worlds have participated in shaping part of your personality-how do you maintain your humanity and not degenerate into a god living on a human body?"