Constellation Palace Mythology Sealed Land

"Get out of here, Miss Nalo, that's not where you should go!"

Someone blocked my way with open arms, and said firmly, "Miss, please leave here immediately, this is Gaia's order."

Opening his mouth in surprise, he stretched out his hand to what he saw and couldn't believe it, and retracted it like an electric shock after passing the opponent's body—what shocked me was not the intangible transparent body and serious expression of the opponent, but It's that face.

I was completely stunned—although I don’t have glasses on my face, but I will never forget him. The man who looked like a clerk when I first met him was the soldier who shed the last drop of blood to protect me ...

"Wen, Wenkai!"

"Exactly, my lord, Goddess of Hope," bowed gracefully to me, and the soul smiled slightly because of the name I exclaimed, the subordinate of the Sea Emperor who died in the battle, the King of Athens Erechtheus The soul once again issued a serious warning: "Master Goddess, please leave this place immediately, Gaia will be waiting for you in her temple."

The consciousness recovered from the shock came back with a pang of grief that almost tore my heart open.At the end of the staggered line of sight is the retracting and tumbling flame.

—— Xingchuan!

"Goddess, please stop here and don't move forward."

Such persuasion sounded like harsh punishment to me—he was there, and I could still feel the residual energy left by him in the space.

"No, you can't go there. If you get any closer, your soul will be melted by the heat."

No, nothing can stop me, I can't lose him!

"Get out of the way!" I rushed through the thin soul that couldn't stop me at all: "Don't stop me, not even Gaia!"

There was a sudden chill on my waist, and a bunch of water ropes that suddenly entangled bound me tightly, and dragged me back to Wen Kai again.

"It's too late, my lord! Please wake up, I know it's hard to accept, but this is the truth, Lord Hypnos has already..."

Shut up!I don't want to listen!

"Let go, let me go! The sharp blade of light..." The fingers were bent inward, staggered, and unfolded in an instant, countless threads of light burst out, and the sharp blade that appeared along with the hoarse cry pierced the tangled Water: "Come out, Axia!"

The silver wings flapped violently, splashing the restraint of water in all directions.Holding the epee that soared into flames in his hand, he swung and slashed, but he couldn't cut off the flowing water that was closed again. They were broken from it, and they were still recombined into a rope to imprison me tightly.

Impossible, he won't just leave me like this...

"No... no..." I heard a hoarse voice, repeating the flustered content like a broken answering machine, sentence by sentence, sluggish and annoying: "My lord...we obviously met , all the misunderstandings, confrontations, hatreds...are no longer the factors that separate us, just now, you told me...why is this the result...I haven't had time..."

There was a severe pain in my chest, and something hot in my throat flowed down the corner of my mouth. I subconsciously raised my hand to wipe it off. I suddenly coughed violently, and the spray of blood stained my palms bright red.

The extremes of the universe are still roaring, where all the elements will be smelted and mixed, and become scattered fragments.

He died...for me, for me...I can't save him...it's all because of me, it's all my fault!

"Hope Goddess!"

Turning my head, the dead soul eagerly called that name, I stared at him coldly: "Tell me, it's not like that... Tell me..."

The sound of flapping wings was like countless metal wind chimes colliding in the wind. Amid the shattering sound, the bound water was vibrated by the sound waves into hot steam and dispersed.

"Why did you save me? Do you think I will be stopped by such a small spell?"

"Goddess!" Wen Kai became more serious, his voice raised a lot: "Please calm down, take the overall situation into consideration, and go back to Gaia quickly, this concerns the safety of the earth."

The earth...

My most important person left, but I was asked to continue living...

"Who will kill me!!!" Tears flowed out violently, and I cried loudly, feeling that half or even all of myself had died.

Seeing my helpless crying, Wen Kai's voice softened: "I can understand your feelings...Goddess, haven't you found out all this time? I was only entrusted by Gaia to come here to ask you to go back, but I really blocked you Yours, but someone else..."

Someone else?

Eyes wide open, I choked with sobs, and slowly lowered my head in disbelief—the fingers that still had blood stains just now returned to clean and soft white under the washing of water.

God!

"...Finally, finally succeeded? My lord... Narumi."

"Yes, we gathered in Gaia's temple only because we felt the call of Poseidon. Without the guidance of Lord Neptune, I would not be able to determine your exact location," the soul approaching me revealed again A comforting smile: "Goddess, thank you, my adults have returned to the world, so please go back to their side."

"But, Wen Kai, why did you..."

Untouchable, the man in front of me is still just a soul.

"It's okay..." With a sad smile, Wen Kai shook his head lightly: "Goddess, the divine power that can resurrect the entity depends on the consciousness of countless gods... The reason why it is possible to make human beings The revival is due to the fact that the only people who need to be given to the body are human beings who need weak divine power to be resurrected, and the second is that there were hundreds of millions of gods at that time... and the current protoss has no longer the prosperity of the past..."

Wiping my eyes, there are still countless souls standing behind Wen Kai—they are all subordinates of the Sea Emperor who once protected me, but were killed without even seeing the face of their own king.

Everyone, there is no chance to return to the ground and reunite with family members in this life.

"Go back, I hope my lord..." The pleading call came from all directions, with a firm and calm tone.

I can still stand here now, it is the result of countless people desperately protecting me, including the sleeping Na Luo...

It can't just end here.

"We never gave up, didn't we?" The whispered words were a confession to the person who went away to protect my safety: "There is still work to be done... So, Xingchuan, I'm sorry..."

No longer looking at the center of the universe where everything has been wiped out, I raised my face and seriously held back my tears—I can’t believe that you would leave me like this, I must personally say those words of response to you, because, in this life, Na Luo ...

I love you too, Xingchuan.

Exhaling deeply, Axia escaped from my grasp, turned into gems and decomposed into my body. When I turned around and flew towards the gate leading to the temple of Gaia, I turned back. Bewildered—those thin misty figures, I want to remember them.

"Wen Kai, everyone, the person who killed you has been..." The name was like a sharp knife, and blood dripped from my lips: "Hugh, Hypnos killed..."

In tightly clenched fists, sharp jewels pierce my palm to keep awake.After hearing what I narrated, the souls seemed to have fulfilled their wishes, and gradually faded away.

"Please rest in peace... If I return to the ground, Wen Kai, please tell me what you want me to do."

He smiled, and a look of hope suddenly appeared on his gradually fading face: "Tell her, take good care of our children... hope they are happy."

child?Great... Nodding with a smile, I will bring this blessing with me.Turning my head, the four silver wings stretched out like sails exuded dazzling light, and I flew towards the door leading to the Gaia Temple.

The world will never end easily, and we, our children, should continue to enjoy the joys of life and experience the precious sorrows.

Every step will be painful because of saying goodbye, and you will find a way to smile happily at any time, which is the meaning of human life.

And you, Gaia, I have many questions for you.

Step forward, into solid ground.

The only immovable door that can lead to the axis of the universe slowly closed behind me, blocking the way to the chaotic space.

Here is the holy land of Gaia.The darkness was vast and boundless, and the only light came from countless star-like points of light—they moved slowly at the height of my ankles.On closer inspection, each one is a perfect nebula containing countless stars.And these tiny nebulae formed clusters of large dust of light, beautifully spread on the ground of nothingness, rotating around a center in a slow but irreversible manner.

"Long time no see, Gaia."

I lowered my head, and the water droplets on my fingertips fell one by one.

"You're back, Nalo." A woman's voice sounded from the farthest place.It sounded like a deep breath from the corner of the mouth, with a hiss of airflow, and like a choir of thousands of people singing at the same time, but it was empty without a trace of emotion.When the sound sounded, the nebula rotated at an accelerated speed, and after the sound disappeared, it resumed its slow speed.

"You know, Poseidon has been resurrected."

"Yes, I can feel that Hades, the king of the underworld, just held a resurrection ceremony with the help of Apollo, the sun god. Fortunately, if it was later, his soul would have dissipated due to exhaustion of energy. "

"You can feel it? Then, you know what happened outside, right? Then you must also know that just now, your son Tartarus died. The people who disappeared with him... It's mine...my..."

The lake of stars is rippled by falling gems.I choked up, and what I couldn't say was enough to cut my throat with a sharp knife, his name.

Strongly suppressing the pain, I tried my best to continue speaking calmly: "He died, it can be said that it was because of me... Wouldn't you be sad about this, wouldn't you hate me?"

"I can feel that his ability has disappeared in the center of the universe." There was still a hint of gentleness in his unshakable tone: "For me, he just returned to the original state and returned to my body again. .”

"Look, Gaia, compared to your heartlessness, what a strange existence I am...Thousands of years have passed, you have not changed much, have you? I have been changed, without a name, without an identity. Then, with Born on the ground in the form of a human being... and now losing the human body..."

"You've changed a lot, both on the outside and on the inside, you've become more like my children."

child...yours?

Arcs of electric current spread between the four wings on the back, and the wings on the body given by Hades, which did not exist in memory, made a metallic resonance sound.

"Yes...those people who are in pain, you can call them 'children', as long as you nod, they can be happy...but what I see is 'children' mourning for unfulfilled dreams '...As the mother of this world, can't you hear their cries!" The voice of hatred mixed with gnashing of teeth made me feel lonely as the cry spread out in the endless void: "Gaia, for this Are you not shaken at all? All I hear and see is your silence, your patience, and your inaction! If... you are like the first generation of gods, and have already disappointed in this world... Then, I , also the god of hope as the first generation of gods..."

The stars that had been turning in the same direction slowly slowed down under my anger. I watched them move hard under the influence of my divine power, and finally stopped moving.The small universe, which was still like a lake of starlight, trembled for a while, made a violent gear shifting noise, and began to rotate in the opposite direction.

Feeling my divine power being squeezed out of the edge of the world by me, Gaia's voice became more and more calm: "What are you going to do, Goddess of Hope."

The vortex of the galaxy passed by my feet, and I looked down at them-beside the center of the vortex, there was a place that was noticeably dark.

That's where hope comes.

"Narumi has been resurrected, my hope and oath have been fulfilled, now, I need your power to stop the flood of the river of the underworld. Then, to stop the battle provoked by the first generation of gods... Whether you agree or not For my request, I will use coercive means..."

"I understand your current mood, but forgive me for not being able to do it..."

can't?do it?

—I was taken aback.

"Naro," the overlapping voices of thousands of people roared in the empty world calling my name as a human being, and the stars, whose rules had been forcibly changed by me, stopped again.

"I already……"

The ethereal voices rippling for a moment—the stagnant Lake of Stars below the feet suddenly churned out waves, undulating as if boiling from a parallel space.

"Defense!" Sensing the turbulence of the surrounding air pressure, I waved my hand to expand the enchantment of the gemstone.And right in front of me, the immeasurable planetesimals collided and folded like the tides of the sea.The space is also compressed, and I stand on the edge of the world beyond the dimension, vigilantly watching the mirror image of the entire universe tremble, merge, and piece together.

The staggered space slowly integrated a layer of bright color, which slowly trembled like a bubble that would burst at any time. Then, this layer of light revealed the body, arms, and cheeks——in the center of the universe, a slightly An ordinary woman who looks tired and old, with cheeks and a plump body that can't tell the race.Like me, she has huge wings on her back—six golden wings made entirely of waving lights.She was sitting in the dark, with her body bent, her hair was the stars of the universe, flowing on her shoulders, shining brightly.The woman is like a fully ripe, restful fruit bearing the secret of a full harvest, calm, with downcast golden eyes fixed on the embraced in her hands. . .

Azure Earth.

This is also the first time I have seen the entity of Gaia.

"Gaia, you..."

"Naro, this is where my children live, I... I don't even remember the time I guarded it..."

The one who made the sound was not the woman who gathered all the holy and gentle feelings. This voice came from...

Earth in her arms.

"Difficult, could it be!"

"As you can see, my soul is already in sync with my children's home."

Gaia!

The goddess who embraces the earth and guards the world has separated from her own body and completely merged into the planet that carries all life movements.

"How could it be..." I didn't expect such a scene, I waved my hand and scattered the gem stars flying around me: "Gaia, why is this happening?"

"Because I am a mother." The voice echoed me: "Protecting my children is the only thing I have to do. You see, now I have no ability to stop the children's intentions..."

Guardian, child... My heart was suddenly shaken by such words-is this the mother's hope?

"I'm sorry, Gaia... I misunderstood you..."

"Naro, the first generation of gods born from my hope is pure, pure like this universe, full of devouring and bursting spaces. I once tried to imprison them, because the children born directly from my body , as long as a small thought can cause the destruction of the unformed world...and this destruction also includes themselves..." It is still an empty voice that cannot find emotion from it, but I always feel that there is something hidden in Gaia's narration Deep exhaustion.

"They don't understand the outcome of the battle, and they want to occupy everything completely by the ability bestowed by nature. Therefore, I have been controlling their actions. Fortunately, the children have also inherited my will—the will to continue to reproduce. So the first The second generation of gods appeared, and they bravely and fearlessly expanded the territory they occupied. Their abilities were no less than that of the first generation of gods. The only ones who could compete with the first generation of gods quickly took over the world. And the third generation of gods appeared again It's..."

Yes, it is like this, when I have no self-consciousness at all, what I feel from the outside world is what can be described as greed now, and the idea of ​​possessive desire that emerges from the heart of the gods.

After a pause, thousands of overlapping human voices rang out again: "What makes me gratified is that the children of the third generation love the world they see. I have a deep attachment to the world. Therefore, I will safely let you follow them to the outside world... Unlike children, you were not born from my body, you are the same first-generation god as me, for Even I cannot fully detect your ability... In other words, if you want to overthrow the world I created to build a new world yourself, it is not impossible."

Build a new world?

"No, Gaia, I never thought of doing that." I said in a panic, and I opened my hands towards the phantom of a woman condensed from the whole world: "I just want the people I like to be happy , just think so."

"I'm glad you said that, Nalo, you've been influenced by that child," a little happiness that you can hardly feel is like a hallucination in Gaia's narration: "Hades, the eldest son of the third generation of gods , He gave you this body, and this body is the seal that can prevent you from using tyrannical divine power at will."

"seal?"

"You should have doubts—why you, who can create a whole new world, only have the ability of ordinary gods. Didn't you feel the power of the seal, Goddess of Hope?"

"Yes...that's it." I touched my cheeks and shoulders. This body has no sense of burden at all, it is perfect as if it has followed my soul from the very beginning.

"This seal is actually not even realized by Hades, because it is a very special will. It is this will that makes you not take excessive revenge on other gods even if you are hurt."

I know what Gaia is talking about, the will of the first-generation gods that can stop the rampage is...

"You're so cute"——The black-haired man who said so squeezed my cheek affectionately.The feeling of being spoiled has always been in my memory and can never be erased.

"Love, is it love, Gaia?"

As the word came out from the mouth, the space folded into the image of a woman was turbulent again, like a butterfly breaking out of its cocoon opening its curled wings.

"Yes, that's the word - the most beautiful word in the world." This time, I can definitely hear the clear emotion from Gaia's tone, the goddess who is completely fused with the guardian planet is talking to me with a smile: "Therefore, I will safely hand you over to my children again, because you who have experienced being loved will not have the idea of ​​destroying this world."

"But...wait for Gaia!" I started to feel that I had to say something that she ignored: "Gaia, maybe you don't know... I, I have a dragon tooth in my body, it will trigger I became a demon! And... I still have a memory of the past that I can't recall..." I was so heavy that I couldn't breathe, and I paused for a while, then raised my head and continued: "About... the Goddess of Hope The memory of killing human beings happened for real, so it’s like that..."

The response to me was short enough to almost nod the answer: "Yes."

"What the hell happened..." With a wry smile, the sweet smell of blood still remained between my shiny and clean fingers, I said in a low voice: "...I am a sinful devil, Gaia, as a mother, you How can you give a child to the devil..."

"In this regard, I can rest assured, because you are not hope."

Not...hope?Startled, I raised my head: "You said... I'm not..."

"Of course, isn't it Nalo who I've been calling for?"

Shocked by Gaia's affirmative tone, I vaguely understood what she wanted to express.

"Hope gave up her life thousands of years ago. From a human point of view, she is already dead. So, you don't need to blame yourself."

Tears were on the verge of tears almost immediately, and the pain I had been carrying was released in brief words.

"Thank you, Gaia..." With my fingers clasped, I knelt down in front of the Earth Goddess: "Yes, I have always said to myself, I am Nalo, I am a human being, and I will abide by this. Thank you for your affirmation thank you..."

Like a humming hymn, the goddess who gathered everything continued: "For me, all life is equal, whether it is a god or a bug crawling on the ground, they are all mine. My child, so, in front of me, no existing race of life is the only one that is important, and their rise and fall have naturally been precisely defined—all races that can maintain the world in a balanced state are all important. It must continue to exist. Human beings are also included. Although these children will always do things that harm other races because of their immediate interests, they will proofread their own short history to correct their mistakes. This is even worse than the Protoss You need to be more self-aware.”

Listening quietly to the goddess' teachings, I was filled with gratitude: "Gaia, if you can't stop the first generation of gods from destroying the world, please tell me what to do."

"Naro, if you are ready, go open the last part of your forgotten past. After you get the answer, you will know how to help the third generation of gods protect this world. And the one who opened that memory The key is the name of hope, read the name given by Hades and sealed by yourself, and your past will be completely recalled."

Is Hope's name the spell to break the seal?

The fragments of memory flashed by quickly, and I searched for the answer hidden under the surface.Where, seemingly never mentioned, is the name of hope...

Suddenly, a flash of light appeared in my mind - just now, the last hope of Wen Kai's soul... that's it, this word, I found the name Hades gave me!

"My..."——Under the silver and golden Populus euphratica tree, the man who gave me my body, his gentle eyes fluttered, and the words from his mouth were the final answer.

The hands that shot out the silver-blue flames hugged my shoulders, and the body floating in the air curled up, with the four wings overlapping and wrapping me, hiding me in the electric light.

It's finally time... are you ready?

No need to answer.

"Goddess sleeping on the other side of time, please listen to my voice, and open the final answer buried in the seal..."

That sweet word contained Hades' fondness for Little Hope.

"And the key to the answer is..." Standing up, I took a deep breath and whispered the word: "It's the Greek word for 'child'—Pety."

As if the powerlessness of falling from a high altitude surrounded me again, the silver wings suddenly unfolded, twisted into the dizzy sight, and the goddess who had been looking down at the earth seemed to sigh softly.

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