"You're leaving?"
The store was collapsing, and everything inside was turning into nothingness. Even though he knew that the god was about to fall asleep, such a quick departure still caught Shade off guard.
"Where are you going?"
He stood there and asked, only the floor beneath his feet remained the same. The demise of everything was not accompanied by any strange phenomena, but everything was leaving, this was a simple end.
"The sleeping place of nothingness."
God said.
This is a metaphorical way of expression, and Xia De did not explore it too much:
"How should I find your last work? Any clues?"
Everything around him gradually turned back to black and gray like a faded color photo. Only Xia De was not affected by it. He was a stranger who did not belong to this point in time and was protected by the power of time.
"You don't need to look for it deliberately, you will definitely come across the gift box I left behind."
God said.
"Why?"
"Because I said so."
He smiled at Shade, and the colors on his body quickly faded along with the colors of the store. His figure gradually became transparent, and he walked to the end together with the toy store.
He looked at his hands and shook his head helplessly:
"Everything will eventually die. This is reality. You don't have to be sad."
"Will we ever meet again?"
Shade asked, the innocent creator had helped him a lot, if possible, he hoped to meet the god in front of him again at this point in his existence.
"Of course, child from the future, when something big happens in the future, all the sleeping gods of the past will awaken. Don't ask me what it is, I can't tell you."
God said, but the voice seemed to come from far away, and He was really leaving.
This information is consistent with Miss Annat's understanding of "Whispering Poems", but at the current point in time, "Whispering Poems" should not have appeared yet.
"Then, will we meet again in the Sixth Era or even in an era further away?"
"It won't be any further away. We will definitely meet again in the Sixth Epoch."
The figure became fainter and fainter.
Shade blinked:
"Why? The great event you mentioned will definitely happen in the Sixth Epoch?"
The god also winked at him, smiled, and gave him an answer that surprised him:
"Because there will be no Seventh Era or even an Era beyond that."
The color of the transparent figure turned into black and gray spots of light that scattered around. The interior of the toy store was collapsing, and everything was coming to an end. After the scene of the toy store dissipated, behind it was an endless sea of stars dotted with stars.
"My future child, this world is more complicated than you think, and the truth will make you sad. If you don't want to live your life in ignorance as a mortal, then I can give you a suggestion as my last gift to you."
"Please go ahead."
The transparent body snapped its fingers, and the blurry shop was left with only the basic framework. Shade and God stood in the void that looked like a sea of stars.
The shadows of a total of thirteen cards appeared in front of the two of them, rotating around their respective central axes, allowing Shade to clearly see their front and back appearances.
These are the thirteen founding series of Rhodes cards, or in other words, these are the cards of impermanence.
"Everything is unpredictable. These are the secret treasures left behind by the ancient gods before their fall. They can bring you luck, and at the same time..."
The god is about to go away along with his mortal body, and the only one who can witness this scene is Shad.
"These cards have a deeper meaning. Collect them, child. Collect them. When the final moment comes, even if you are faced with the worst possible scenario, these cards will guide you to the final salvation. They are... the last resort."
The walls and ceiling of the toy store disappeared, leaving only the area under Shade's feet and the area under the saint's feet, surrounded by darkness and dots of light. Shade looked into the depths of the darkness, and in that moment of dizziness, he seemed to see something terrible, but it seemed that he saw nothing.
"Thanks you."
He bowed slightly to express his most sincere gratitude to the departing god. The latter shook his head and opened his mouth to speak, but no sound came out.
His figure faded, and with a wave of his hand, He left.
At the same time, a bell rang. The bell sounded in my ears, and then it seemed to break through the boundaries of time and space, announcing to all continuous time and space the departure of another old god.
He really left.
The bell rang, and Xia De's eyes seemed to see ripples spreading into the void, and a series of tiny sounds appeared in his ears. When trying to understand these sounds, Xia De felt that his head almost exploded for a moment. They were overlapping and echoing sentences, and he could only barely hear and remember one of them:
Toy makers always dream of creating childlike innocence.
The power of this sentence almost made Xia De faint. But at the same time, he actually found an inexplicable sense of familiarity in this sentence:
"This is... this feeling... what is this?"
Although she could only barely remember it, the voice kept echoing in her ears. After repeating it over and over again, Shade and she gave the answer together:
"The words of sublimation!"
The language of sublimation.
The sentences that appeared with the fall of the old gods were extremely similar to the feeling of the power that Dr. Schneider had used. Although Shade only caught one sentence, it was obvious that those that he did not remember were also similar sentences.
Thinking of this, he couldn't help but tremble all over as he pondered the Ring Warlock system and even the time and space of the Sixth Epoch.
"The special items used by the ring sorcerers are relics, and the sublimation method they use is the last words of God. What is going on in this world?"
The bells were still ringing, and every strong vibration made Xia De's scalp tingle. He suddenly looked up at the dark front, and a huge transparent tree appeared there without knowing when.
The tree seemed to connect heaven and earth, and also seemed to support heaven and earth. Its root system was well-developed, its canopy was luxuriant, and the veins on its transparent trunk seemed to record the story of an entire civilization.
From the equally transparent treetops, two green leaves swirled and floated towards the shadow below.
Xia De reached out to take it, and then thick white fog suddenly emerged in the void. The huge force pulled him backwards, returning to the time of the Sixth Era.
He walked backwards out of the door leading to the basement and almost fell to the ground.
He stared at the two leaves in his hand for a moment, then looked down at his feet, where Mia the cat was stealthily using her claws to pick at the paper bag. Unfortunately, Shade was only away for three seconds, which was not enough time for the cat to get the disgusting things out of it.
"Meow~"
When it saw Xia De appear, it immediately ran towards the stairs as if it was running for its life, apparently worried about being blamed by Xia De.
A whisper sounded in my ears:
Stranger, you have returned to the present time.
Message from the ancient god "Father of the Infinite Tree":
Infinite time protects you.
"Oh, what happened tonight is even more exciting than this morning~"
He stared blankly at the gas lamp outside the first-floor window, recalling the huge amount of information he had gained from this "journey" in his mind. The shock had not yet subsided, and the fact that the good god had gone away made him a little sad.
"What about spirit runes and thaumaturgy?"
It took me a long time to remember this, and then I looked at the two leaves in my hand:
"Isn't that it? The Father of the Infinite Tree gives out rewards in the form of leaves... It seems reasonable."
"Meow~"
Mia lay on the stairs and stuck her head down, wondering why Shad didn't come after it.
The witch's secret, the entrustment to collect playing cards, God's last words and words of sublimation, and the gift He left for Shad.
In just ten minutes, the complex and diverse information he obtained was equivalent to the total of the two weeks that Shad had spent in this world.
After returning to the second floor from the first floor and washing up quickly, he took the two green leaves and walked into the study on the second floor. He stood at the window looking at the moonlight and thought for a long time before he sorted out his thoughts.
The secrets of the witches and the secrets of the sublimation language were not something that he, a first-ring warlock, could touch. The witches of the Fifth Age gained power by carrying a curse, and the ring warlocks of the Sixth Age sublimated themselves with the last words of the gods after they fell asleep. These were almost directly related to the secrets of the world itself.
All he could do now was to write these things down and wait for more clues next time. After all, he was only a first-ring warlock.
The secret of the Word of Ascension has now been completely revealed. When the doctor used the Word of Ascension, the sense of power decay was similar to the decay of the saint who was about to fall, which also explained it. This incident must point to the truth of this world and the fundamental reason for the emergence of the ring magician's mystical system. Combined with God's words that "there will be no seventh era", this made Shade have a very bad guess.
Traveling through the corridor of time and stepping into the past is currently the best way for Shade to explore the secrets. The outsider believes that he can piece together the truth step by step.
As for searching for all thirteen founding series Rhodes cards, Shade had vaguely had this idea since Miss Anat mentioned "everything is impermanent". Since God said that he had to collect them, it would be the final salvation, so Shade was of course willing to turn his thoughts into actions.
But getting all thirteen founding cards is not only a matter of money, but also a matter of luck. It will be a difficult task, very difficult.
"As for the gift He left for me... Ha, what God left for me was still a gift box. It's really too simple."
Shad gently patted the cat's soft little head. Mia stood on the windowsill, tilted her head back and made a comfortable sound.
He sighed deeply, as if letting out all his worries:
"Although some clues that only appear once are difficult to find, at least I still remember them. The Witch Council really holds a great secret. Do you remember that when I first met Miss Carina, she mentioned the age when God's toy box appeared (note)?"
Autumn of the Fifth Era 1068.
She whispered in his ear, the timing coinciding perfectly.
The study was bright, but outside the window was night, which made the window reflect almost like a glass plate. If the window had not reflected someone behind him, Xia De would have thought that the woman was leaning over and whispering in his ear.
He reached into his pocket and found that the time key representing the autumn of 1068 had turned into dust.
The last work made by the innocent creator of the old gods was the gift box of the sage-level relic god. He was right, Shad was destined to meet this item.
What’s even more amazing is that he already knows the exact location of the sage-level relic.
"The Silver-eyed Man that Miss Bei Yasi is looking for is hidden in the underground ruins along with the relic..."
Looking at the moonlight outside the window with a little melancholy:
"I originally wanted to avoid working with Miss Bei Yasi. After all, it's only one link, and I shouldn't get involved in dangerous things. But now it seems that at least this time, we have to go together."
No, you have the power to give up that gift.
She whispered in his ear, and the gentle voice gave Shade the illusion that his ears were caressed by a warm air current.
"Impossible, there is most likely divinity in the box. Compared to confronting the evil god to snatch power, facing the one with silver pupils is as easy as facing an ant. If I back down from even such a thing, how can I dream of ascending to the twelve divinities? Besides..."
The expression on Shad's face was reflected on the window glass. On the first night after Queen Diana was assassinated, the city of Tobysk was quiet and peaceful under the moonlight. Shad's mood gradually calmed down. He said to himself in the reflection of the glass:
"This is a gift that belongs to me. It belongs to me. I must get it."