The Dragon That Devours the World

"The Dragon Who Eats the World(

"I heard again that all created things in heaven, on earth, under the earth, in the sea, and between heaven and earth, said, May the praise, the honor, the glory, and the power be given to the throne and the Lamb until forever and ever."

—"Bible·Revelation"

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In 64 AD, the island of Patmos, Greece.

On a grassland, a young sheep shepherd is lying dozing on the soft grass, the body warmed by the sun, and not far away, a flock of sheep is leisurely gnawing the grass.

Half-dreaming and half-awake, the young shepherd opened his eyes and blinked suspiciously.

"here it is…"

A dreamy voice sounded, full of confusion.

"Lazy John, don't sleep anymore. No matter how you care about your sheep, they will run away."

By the grass, the passing companions laughed and shouted to the young shepherd.

Hearing this, John scratched his head embarrassedly just like he was waking up from a dream.

"Why, haven't you woken up yet? Didn't you dream of Jenny in your dream?"

A young friend approached and shouted with the shepherd. All the companions laughed and laughed jokingly.

Jenny is a pretty girl in the village, with some freckles, kind-hearted, youthful and lovely, and she is the dream lover of many young men.

And it’s no secret that John likes Jenny, but it’s not that easy for a lazy shepherd to marry Jenny.

"No, no... It's not a dream of Jenny."

John hurriedly defended, and the boy's cheeks were blushing. For this shy big boy, this kind of joke would still feel embarrassing.

"Not in a dream of Jenny, but... in a dream of something very strange."

John tried to explain to his compatriots, but he didn't know where to start. He hesitated and could only say "strange things".

"Strange things? What's the matter?"

Several companions came to John, standing or sitting, and asked with interest.

There is nothing new in the closed village, so that a dream is enough to attract the interest of these big boys.

"I dreamt that I came to the sky, no, it's a place farther than the sky..."

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It is difficult to describe the incredibleness of that dream. In the dream, John, who was confused, felt that he had come to the sky above.

I don't know how he should describe it, because he flew across the sky and over the clouds, but still didn't stop, but continued to fly to a higher place.

Then suddenly, he came to a very strange place, crystal clear floor, strange seat, there were some powerful and majestic creatures on the seat. They have human-like bodies but long strange shapes, hurriedly operating things like gems, saying something from time to time.

When John appeared, several people looked surprised. They communicated in unknown language, and a moment later, a majestic and loving old man emerged.

The old man told John a lot of things, most of which he didn't understand, but he knew it faintly, as if it was an accident caused by some war, his soul came to a place that did not belong to it? era?

Those words were too weird for John to understand, but he knew that the old man promised to let him go back to his home.

However, in the subsequent tremor, these powerful and majestic creatures also became anxious, and no one paid attention to John in the panic.

It is precisely because of this that John finally saw the external influence projected by this weird and crystal-clear strange world.

A war.

A war that shocked mortals to the point of aphasia.

Although John's knowledge of war is only the sung of the troubadour, he has no idea what those strange things are.

But in the dark background, those strange lights, how many times bigger than the largest bullpen, the huge floating things in the sky, and the countless giants in the sky all made John instinctively aware of it. This is a war.

Both sides looked very strange, John didn't recognize what it was, he just knew that he was in this crystal clear world, and seemed to be one of them.

Those huge houses? Levitating in the air, fighting with monsters that are also flying in the air.

The battlefield was very tragic. Although he couldn't see much bloodshed, John was still lying on the ground in fright from the houses that suddenly exploded and destroyed as far as he could see. He kept drawing crosses, and tremblingly prayed for God's protection.

Too much, too much, John has never seen so many things.

They are more than the weeds on the ground, and more than the stars in the sky. There are too many to see far away, and then from far to near, there are all kinds of strange things everywhere.

And in the end, a sudden resounding roar made John tremble with fright.

A huge, inconceivable, indescribable thing appeared, it was bigger than everything John had seen above. In this dark background world, it occupies almost all of the field of vision.

It is so huge that the closer body occupies half of the field of vision, and at the end of the eye, you can only vaguely see the strange pile of huge horns and a pile of heads.

As for the tail that it didn't know that it was far away, it couldn't see the whole picture at all. Its tail seemed to be dragging the stars in the dark starry sky, extending to the extreme far.

It was huge, so huge, so big that John was afraid of speechlessness.

John couldn't remember everything after that, only that more strange creatures and things appeared.

For example, if a woman vomiting from the mouth of that huge "snake", if she didn't happen to fly over the "big house" where John was (John vaguely felt that he should be in the same house as those big houses), John wouldn't even You will know that the fuzzy point of light turned out to be a woman.

And roughly four weird things, released by something that doesn't know what they are, and fight with the monsters. But it seems that they are not so happy?

Although I can't see clearly, John feels that they are being forced?

The last memory was that the old man suddenly pushed him, and he unconsciously felt that he was falling, and finally opened his eyes suddenly.

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After dreaming of all that thrilling, looking at the world under the warmth of the sun, everything seemed like a world away.

For all that John described aloud and wanted to draw on the grass, the companions were dumbfounded and exclaimed from time to time.

These things are completely beyond their understanding and imagination, and they can't even dream of it.

Some young people called out, this must be a revelation from the world of gods.

And soon, "John who was inspired by the gods" spread, and the local churches in Achaia were very interested. The seven churches together invited John to talk about the "spiritual enlightenment" they received.

It's not that some people have never questioned whether John is a liar, but everything that John described is too true, and the details of the description are fluent. It was completely incompatible with his cowering posture.

In the end, the church believes that this is a decisive battle between gods and angels and the ancient snake Satan, the ultimate battle between good and evil.

The old man is considered to be a god; and the many strange lives of eagle heads, bull heads, and lion heads are regarded as angels; the behemoth with ten horns and seven heads is naturally an ancient snake; and the woman who passed John is also regarded as an angel. To be the great **** of Babylon; the four unknown beings are God’s messengers—the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse...

The excited churches took a long time to put together everything John described. A long time later, this description was solemnly included in the "Bible" and became the great achievement of the apostle John.

And the name of this description is: "Revelation"

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"Then who won in the end?"

Listening to the bedtime Bible story told by his mother, the well-behaved child blinked and asked curiously.

The mother laughed, touched the child's head, and said gently: "Of course the angels won in the end, and the evil Satan lost.