Little Priest's Cat Diary

Outside the royal city, there were bursts of waves, roaring endlessly, trying to engulf the royal city that had been besieged by it in the blue ocean.

It's just that the ring-shaped canal that has been quietly flowing around the royal city for thousands of years rose into the sky, forming a waterfall-like water curtain that blocked the raging waves.

Two different powerful forces confront each other, stalemate at this moment.

The sky was still pitch black, but the blood-red moonlight emitted by the huge full moon in the night sky became more and more beautiful.

The royal city, which is bustling and noisy day and night, has never been so quiet.

It was a dead silence.

The silence is terrible, the silence makes people tremble.

The whole city was shrouded in darkness, lifeless, like a mausoleum above the ground.

In the city, everyone has fallen asleep under the blood-red moonlight.

Their consciousness and soul have sunk into an endless illusion.

They will thus sleep forever.

It's more likely that they will be swallowed by the sea in their sleep like this, with the city sinking into the abyss forever.

Mia knelt on the ground, hugging Antiste who had passed out.

He raised his head, and his slightly enlarged blue eyes reflected the turbulent waves outside the city wall in the distance and the water curtain of the canal that blocked the waves.

"That is……"

Just after saying two words, Mia's pupils shrank suddenly.

Something seemed to be beating violently in his mind, almost tearing his brain apart.

He raised his right hand and pressed his head firmly.

An empty and distant voice that seemed to come from beyond the distant sky rang in his mind.

"I won't allow it."

That voice was so loud, like a bell, it rang directly in the depths of my mind.

It was a soul-shaking sound, so strong that it almost made Mia almost lose consciousness.

"Mother……"

Mia pressed her head firmly, closed her eyes tightly, resisting the pain that seemed to shake her soul, and tried her best to maintain consciousness.

At this moment, his face was terribly pale.

"I will never allow you to be deceived by despicable humans again."

Mia tried her best to say something, but the overwhelming oppression and shocking force made it difficult for him to make a sound.

It was as if the substantial anger was directly transmitted from the void to the depths of his consciousness, like a burning volcano pressing heavily on his body, scorching his soul.

"I……"

He clenched his teeth, tried his best to resist the terrible pressure, and wanted to answer the voice in his consciousness.

But suddenly it went dark.

The next second, when he regained his senses, he was back in the depths of his consciousness.

In the endless blue ocean, in the slowly rotating huge vortex.

The blue-eyed boy, who was slightly taller than him, put one arm around him and the other on top of his head.

The two of them stood in the deepest part of the sea vortex.

The blue-eyed boy raised his head, as if staring at the top of the whirlpool.

"Mother is angry."

He looked up at the invisible sky and said so.

His actions at the moment seemed to be under Mia's protection.

"Now you, as a human being, cannot bear the coercion of your mother."

He says,

"You rest here first, I'll just go out."

"No, I want to go back."

The strong sense of oppression disappeared, and Mia regained her composure and shook her head.

It's chaotic time outside.

Regardless of the dead city, the sleeping people, or the state of Sardis at the moment, he was very worried.

At that critical moment, how could he hide by himself?

"You will only irritate mother even more if you forcefully go out now."

The blue-eyed boy looked at Miya calmly and said,

"I won't let you stay here forever. It won't take long. You can go out after I have overcome my mother's pressure."

"and……"

After a pause, he turned his head, his deep eyes seemed to penetrate this endless ocean, looking towards a certain distant direction.

"There is one thing, I need to go out and prove it myself."

After finishing the last sentence, the blue-eyed boy disappeared in front of Mia.

A ray of blue sea water seeped through the wall of the vortex, like light fluff, or soft cotton fluff, gently enveloping Mia's body.

Waves of warm current poured into his body from the sea water surrounding him, as if healing his body.

Mia closed her eyes.

The running water brushed the corners of his eyes, disturbing the slender eyelashes.

It's different from last time.

This time, although he stayed in the vortex, he could clearly feel everything outside.

He knew what he was doing in his previous life, and he could hear the conversation between himself and Sardis in his previous life.

As he said in his previous life, as long as he wants to move, he can leave here at any time.

This ocean is no longer a place to imprison him, but a place to protect him.

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Sardis stood on the square, staring sharply at the blood moon in the night and the churning ocean outside the city.

"The god of the earth...the power of Agathodis."

The familiar voice came from the side, but Sardis frowned.

He turned his head and watched Mia, who was kneeling on the ground hugging the sleepy Antiste, let go of her hand and stood up slowly.

The boy's pupils reflected the curtain of river water rising high into the sky outside the city wall.

The pale golden hair fluttered in front of his eyes, causing the shadows in his eye sockets to sway endlessly.

Moonlight fell into his eyes, refracting a reddish light on the edge of the blue iris.

Sardis stared at the 'Mia' in front of him.

His eyes did not have the softness that fell on the young man a moment ago, nor did he have the slightest awe in front of the gods.

In the darkness, his eyes were like abysses.

He said, "You should remember, I said, get out of Mia's body."

'Mia' replied indifferently: "Mother wants to let 'us' sleep, so that 'us' cannot intervene, and let everything fall to the ground while 'us' sleeps."

"If I don't come out, 'we' would have already fallen asleep."

He says,

"When the mother's power recedes, I will go back."

He raised his eyes, and the blue eyes that fell into the reddish moonlight gave Sardis a faint look.

"Also, the emperor of mankind, this is also my body."

Sardis frowned tightly.

But, before he could say anything, 'Mia' had already turned around, and his eyes fell on the obelisk behind the altar that stood like a sharp sword on the ground, piercing the sky as if declaring war on the supreme sky.

At this moment, the obelisk was filled with golden light.

That kind of golden light is passing through the land of Wangcheng to the water curtain of the canal outside.

"So that's how it turned out, it's actually an entire city."

When 'Mia' gazed at the sword-like obelisk, the golden shimmer that shone in his eyes drove away the bloody moonlight.

"The power of Agathodis gushes from here."

"here it is……"

He murmured in a low voice, and walked forward.

Walking under the obelisk, he looked up at the tower.

Standing at the bottom of the tower, looking up from the bottom, the obelisk is even more spectacular.

Straight into the sky, piercing through the sky.

Anyone standing here will feel small because of its grandeur.

The boy stretched out his hand and pressed it on the tower.

But the moment his hand touched the tower, an invisible force bounced his hand away.

"The bloodline barrier, only the descendants who built this tower can enter..."

The boy murmured, turned his head, and looked at Sardis who also walked down the tower.

"Emperor of mankind, who built this tower?"

Sardis didn't look at him, but answered him.

"The first king of Portoyas."

The boy was taken aback.

He had been looking down at the gods indifferently with a very high posture, when he heard these words, he was slightly taken aback.

Then, he smiled softly.

"It's 'he'."

The boy turned his head and glanced at the tower again.

"I see."

He closed his eyes and said, "The existence of the Tower of Sepul built by 'he', the city built by 'he', and the thousand-year pregnancy of Wang Qi."

It turns out that this tower has never existed to worship Sepul, the god of the sea.

"'He' calculated everything carefully, spent thousands of years, and laid out everything that is now."

The words of the boy with his eyes closed echoed in the silent night.

"Humans, why can you do that?"

No one answered his question.

Sardis, who was standing beside him, looked at the tower without answering.

Maybe the boy didn't want to get an answer from him either.

After a while, the boy opened his eyes.

"Emperor of mankind, what you said just now, 'he' once said the same thing."

“[Here is the kingdom of human beings.]”

Having said that, he shook his head lightly.

"Forget it, at least I've got the answer I wanted."

He turned his head and looked at Sardis.

"The emperor of mankind, my mother's power has receded, and I have reached my limit in order to resist her power."

"So, I'll leave it to you next."

As soon as he finished speaking, the boy suddenly closed his eyes and fell forward.

Surprised, Sardis stretched out his hand and caught Mia's falling body.

Mia fell into his arms.

He looked at the person in his arms.

The strange aura emanating from the boy's body has disappeared, but his eyes are still closed and he is still sleeping.

Holding Mia in his arms with one hand, Sardis stroked Mia's cheek with his right hand, as gently as stroking an irreplaceable treasure in this world.

Mia fell asleep quietly, occasionally, her eyelashes moved slightly.

The face of the man in his arms was clearly reflected in Sardis's strangely colored pupils.

The young boy held high in the air by a man's throat...

Amidst the sound of the waves, the figure falling from the high cliff...

Also, under the glaring sunlight that day, the scorching bright red splashed on half of his cheeks...

Scenes from the past flashed through his mind.

He lowered his head, and the blond hair falling from his cheeks fell on Mia's shoulders.

Sardis's lips were deeply imprinted on Mia's closed eyes.

"In the past, every time you stood in front of me and helped me block everything."

Mia has always been protecting him.

From a very young age until now.

"This time, I won't let you face it alone."

Even if it is an enemy of the gods.

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In the boundless blue ocean, a huge vortex is slowly rotating.

In the vortex, there were two teenagers who looked somewhat similar.

In the void, they sat and stood.

"The 'he' you mentioned refers to the first king of Portoyas?"

Mia asked,

"In the previous life, did anything happen between me and him?"

In his previous life, he said that he wanted to get an answer.

Then he said that he already knew the answer he wanted to know.

The so-called answer is...

The blue-eyed boy who sat kneeling in the air smiled.

"A human being that 'we' used to quite like."

He says,

"When 'we' met him for the first time, he was just a child, he was very good-looking, and 'we' took it with him."

"what?"

Wait, in his previous life, he brought the first king of Portoyas with him, who was still a child, because the child was good-looking?

"Later, when he grew up, he said that he wanted to stop the conflicts on the ground, end the wars in his hometown, and stop the disasters in his hometown. Therefore, 'we' gave him the power to suppress disasters."

Mia pursed her lower lip and asked, "I've wanted to ask for a long time, the one who killed me...was he?"

The young man shook his head.

"No."

After finishing speaking, he hesitated for a moment, then nodded slightly.

"But in a sense, it is."

"It's not that human being who killed 'us' with his own hands. However, he calculated the death of 'us'."

"Calculate?"

Mia suddenly remembered the words that she said not long ago in her previous life.

【'He' has spent thousands of years in deliberate calculations to lay out all of this today. 】

The young man replied calmly: "The human heart is too complex and too unpredictable, 'we' at that time did not understand. The desire and darkness hidden in the depths of the human heart, 'we' also did not understand."

"So 'we' never thought that those humans would actually do something to 'us'."

"However, 'we' don't understand humans, but the humans do."

"He is a very intelligent human being, and his wisdom is better than most human beings... Even the unpredictable human heart, he is also very insightful."

"It's impossible for him not to know that if 'we' bestow power on him, the weakened 'us' will be killed by those humans who have already been secretly moving around."

The boy raised his hand.

A wisp of running water circled his arm, and then flew high into the air.

He stared at the stream of water and said, "Yes, he knew, but he still asked 'us' for the power."

"When I saw that tower just now, I understood that maybe the death of 'us' back then was also part of his calculation."

"He needs the death of 'us' for his purposes."

The boy stopped talking.

Mia didn't speak either.

At this moment, only the sound of waves echoed around.

After a moment of silence, Mia spoke again.

"You just said that it was the power of the god of the earth, Agathodis."

he asks,

"But the power in Sardi's body should be our power, why does it suddenly have the power of the God of the Earth?"

"About this point, I also don't understand. Whether it was the human being thousands of years ago or the human emperor now, why can they use the power of Agathodis?"

There was a puzzled look in the boy's eyes.

"Agasodis has always stayed in the deepest part of the earth. He never came to the world, and he has no interest in human beings."

Mia thought for a while, and guessed: "Is it possible that he came to the world secretly, gave birth to an heir in the world, and then the first king inherited his bloodline? And Sadi is the same."

"No, although gods can incarnate into human bodies and have intercourse with humans, they cannot give birth to offspring."

The boy shook his head in denial.

"For example, the guy who is the God of the Sky likes to incarnate as a human and sneak into the world and have sex with humans, but he hasn't given birth to a single heir on the earth for thousands of years."

Mia: "..."

It seems to have heard some strange gossip.

So the sky god is an amorous guy?

He let out a breath, raised his head, and looked up into the sky.

"I'm going back, sleep too long, Sadie will be worried."

He says,

"[This is the kingdom of humans]... I think, now that I am a human being, I can probably understand what the first king meant when he said this."

The boy still maintained a sitting posture with one hand on his lap.

"Perhaps, this is also one of the goals of that human being."

He closed his eyes and said,

"Human beings are really complex and delicate beings."

【You will always be my god, an existence more important than my life. 】

Long, long ago, when the young man uttered these words, there was no trace of hypocrisy in the clear and eager black eyes staring at him.

He could feel that it was the language of young people from the heart and even the soul.

However, it was also this person who acquiesced and even waited for his own death.

Just because he needs his own death.

Mia, who was about to leave, froze for a moment.

He suddenly thought of General Tellea, King Davies, Mrs. Opelila, Crown Prince Pastor, Faer, who was nowhere now, and many, many people.

Also, he thought of Sardis who was beside him at the moment.

"Yes."

He smiled and said: "Human beings have always been a very strange, even self-split existence."

And now, he is also one of countless human beings.

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Mia opened her eyes.

What caught his eyes was still a pitch-black night, and a huge blood moon hanging high in the night sky.

The whole city was silent, as if dead.

"Mia."

A familiar voice came from his ear, he raised his eyes, and met the strange eyes looking down at him.

Sardis sat leaning against the stone wall at the bottom of the tower, holding him in his arms.

Before Mia could speak, she saw that handsome face magnified in front of her eyes.

Sardis kissed his forehead, very lightly, and he left with one touch.

"Sorry, I didn't tell you about this beforehand."

Sardis said,

"I wanted to tell you after the wedding, but I didn't expect it to happen so early."

"The tower built by the first king of Portoyas thousands of years ago was called the Tongtian Tower. At that time, everyone thought that he built this giant tower to show his achievements, but, in fact, about this tower The tower's secrets are passed down from generation to generation in the royal family."

"Only King Portoyas, who inherits the throne, can know this secret."

"King Davie died too suddenly in battle, and I was not the heir he chose at the beginning, so I didn't know before."

"In the past few days, with the help of that old man Artudode, I found the secret record about this tower."

[One day, disaster will strike again. 】

【At that time...】

Sardis said while standing up.

Mia followed suit and stood up.

After getting up, he realized that the place Sardis was sitting on just now was at the foot of a stone gate.

The arched stone door embedded in the obelisk is so huge that it is as high as two stories.

There are countless simple and complicated runes carved on the stone door, but there is no lock that can open the door.

Although Mia, who is a young priest, has often come to the altar of the Tower of Sepul in these years, she has never entered the tower.

It is said that no one has ever been able to enter this sky-reaching tower that has been quietly standing in the center of the royal city.

With a wave of his hand, Sardis cut a long bloody gash in the palm of his left hand with the dagger.

Then, he pressed his bloody palm on the stone gate.

The blood did not flow down the gap between the runes, but was absorbed by the stone wall.

bang.

A loud bang.

This huge stone gate slowly rises upwards.

It was pitch black inside the stone gate, and nothing could be seen.

There was a deathly silence inside, which was inexplicably terrifying.

It seems that if you walk in, you will be swallowed by this monster called darkness.

Sardis walked in two steps, then turned around.

Half of his body was hidden in the darkness, and the other half was still outside, reaching out to Mia.

"Mia."

He looked at Miya with burning eyes, and called his name.

Mia hummed, he stretched out his hand, held the hand that was stretched out to him, and followed closely behind.

They walk forward.

Even though the huge stone gate was less than half a meter behind him, there was no glimmer of light coming in.

It was as if there was an invisible screen completely blocking the light from the darkness here.

That invisible barrier separates the two spaces inside and outside the tower.

It was pitch black all around, and I couldn't see my fingers.

No light, no sound, nothing.

Even when you speak, you can't hear the other party's voice, or even your own voice.

The darkness seems to have swallowed up all senses.

It is the 'unknown' that can most arouse the fear and uneasiness in people's hearts.

Such is the darkness.

There is no way in the dark, no direction, and no end.

Being here, you can only move forward endlessly.

The only thing that can be felt at this moment is the warmth from the intertwined hands and the strength of holding each other's hands tightly.

Mia felt like they had been gone for a long, long time.

It stands to reason that although this obelisk is huge and majestic, with its width, the distance he and Sardis have traveled has already exceeded ten times.

But even after walking for so long, they still haven't touched the tower wall on the other side.

Well, there is only one possibility.

That is what is in this tower, another space.

A space completely different from the outside world.

Just, how long are they going to walk in the dark like they are now?

Is there no end to this darkness?

As soon as this thought came to mind, suddenly, suddenly, a light flashed in front of my eyes.

The sudden bright light caused Mia to close her eyes instinctively, and raised her hand to cover her face.

While visually feeling the light, he finally heard the sound again, it was the breathing of himself and Sardis beside him.

After a while, Mia slowly opened her eyes.

The moment he opened his eyes, his pupils shrank violently.

What catches the eye is an overwhelming dark green.

Obviously, he should be inside the tower, but what he saw was a black land that could not be seen at a glance.

Countless stone pillars stand scattered on the ground.

Dark green vines spread across the black ground.

They spread and intertwined, entwining all the stone pillars towering above the ground in their thick vines.

In the middle of the earth, a giant tree tens of meters high stands on the earth.

The dense canopy is not the usual green, but a jet black like ink.

On the trunk of the giant tree, there is a person.

A man is bound by vines to a tree trunk.

No, rather than being bound, it would be better to say that he was nailed to the tree trunk by slender vines.

His arms, shoulders, thighs, and ankles were all pierced with flesh and blood by thin vines.

Blood flowed down the vines, dripping into the roots of the huge trees.

What is even more frightening is the man's appearance at the moment.

Half of a man's body is rotting.

There are dense white bones below the knees, and the rot spreads from bottom to top, and has rotted to his chest.

Blood oozes from the carrion and drips on the roots of the tree, nourishing the vines wrapped around the roots to become extremely strong.

It was as if the big black tree and the dark green vines around it used this man as nourishment, constantly sucking his flesh and blood.

Just when Mia stopped breathing for a moment because of the shocking scene in front of him, a voice sounded in his mind.

"Pillar of man."

That was his voice from his previous life.

There was consternation in the voice, as if the usually calm sea had suddenly become turbulent, with some complicated emotions.

"He actually... used himself as a sacrifice."