"Last words..."
Xia De was sleeping, and as the sound repeated, his consciousness gradually regained consciousness.
In a trance, he realized that he was standing on the endless ridge of the field again, looking up at the huge silver moon in the starry sky.
"Am I dreaming?"
At this moment, "her" voice came from the dream:
Stranger, you have gained a piece of information.
"What?"
Xia De, who was standing on the ridge of the field, asked blankly. He had completely woken up from his dream and looked at everything around him in surprise:
"Why did I dream about this again?"
Communication has been established with you through unknown relics and means, and a message has been passed on to you.
After the words fell, the voice that had echoed countless times came again clearly in the dream:
"Shad Hamilton, open your eyes. I am Rat Augustus. These are my last words to you from the world of the dead.
"Priest Augustus?"
In his dream, Xia De only felt his scalp tingling. He heard the words clearly, but could not understand them:
"Priest!"
He turned around, but there was no one on the field ridge under the moonlight. The illusory and hoarse voice of the priest Augustus was still repeating. Shade looked around blankly, then suddenly raised his head and raised his hand:
"Life Ring!"
As the steam emerged, a rapidly rotating life ring appeared behind Shade. The life ring under the moon seemed to be coated with a layer of silver, but this time there was no sound at all.
"echo!"
The spiritual rune that was soaked with the first drop of divinity suddenly emitted a dazzling golden light. In this light, Shade used magic:
"Soul echoes!"
Originally Xia De was the only one on the ridge of the field under the moonlight, and a vague figure gradually took shape.
“It really works.”
Xia De thought to himself.
The transparent body of Priest Augustus finally took shape under the illumination of the spiritual light. He stood in front of Shade, looking around in surprise, and then looked up at the sky:
"Shad, where is this?"
“This is my dream.”
"Why does this dream look so weird?"
The priest looked even more surprised than Shad did.
"It doesn't matter, priest, what happened?"
Shade asked in confusion. The priest's shadow stopped looking at the moonlight above his head and coughed, then looked into Shade's eyes.
The stranger suddenly had a very bad feeling.
"Oh, Shad, yes, time is running out, let's get down to business. I'm glad you let me see you one last time, it must be the blessing of my Lord. It's like this, it's very simple, I'm dead, and I'm conveying my last words to you."
"What?"
The expression on Shad's face froze.
"I don't have much time, so don't ask questions."
The priest raised his hand to tell Shade to be quiet. He spoke very quickly:
"I have arrived at Midhill Castle, and for some reason, I crossed the border of death and died... In short, you don't have to think about saving me, there is no such possibility. It is only because of the characteristics of the relic, my thaumaturgical last words, and the power I gave you that I can contact you now. This is my last words, please remember it-"
He coughed, not giving Shade any chance to ask questions:
"There is no need to look for my body. Please supervise the donation of all my property to the Tobesk Parish of the Church of the Dawn. My potion workshop is left to you, Shade. You need this.
In addition, as for the level 0 relic that I buried in the church, ask Annat to find a way to dig it out and not leave it in the church forever.
Although there is no body, I hope to have a grave in Tobesk and bury my clothes in it. I have discussed the location of the grave with the doctor, so I can just tell him directly.
Finally, I promised to donate some quilts to the Sunshine Welfare Home in Tobesk during the winter. I hope you can contact Bishop Owen and donate those quilts in your name. "
"The priest..."
Shad reached out his hand, but it passed through the priest's transparent body.
Father Augustus looked at Shade with regret. Under the huge silver moon disk above his head, his body quickly became more transparent:
"Shad, I'm sorry, I'm really dead, please accept this fact."
He looked at Xia De with a smile, but his eyes were very sad:
"We all have the potential to die, don't we?"
Xia De couldn't accept it. He opened his mouth, but found that he was speechless and couldn't speak.
"Don't feel sad for me. All mortals must die. Everything must eventually perish. Shade, I am already very content to have lived to this age. It is a pleasure to meet you, and also to meet Schneider, Annette, and Louisa. It is you who have made my later years so interesting. Shade, it is something I never thought I would be able to see you at the end.
Goodbye... "
A black hole appeared silently behind Priest Augustus. Countless pairs of transparent hands reached out, grabbed Priest Augustus' body, and pulled the extremely faint figure into the darkness.
Those hands seemed to be very afraid of the light of the huge silver moon above their heads, but even so, they still grabbed the priest in the moonlight.
"don't want!"
The moonlight in his hands flew out, but just passed through those arms, as if they were just phantoms.
Shade reached out again, trying to hold the priest, but his hand passed through the priest's transparent body. Looking at the hole with countless arms stretched out, darkness, loneliness, and death, Shade in his dream actually shuddered, as if he really saw the concept of death itself.
Stranger, all your insights into "death".
The priest was pulled into the darkness by those hands. The moonlight illuminated the cave entrance, and then the cave entrance disappeared. Only Shad was left trying to hold onto Priest Augustus. The priest's voice seemed to keep echoing in his mind.
"Papa Augustus, dead?"
He asked himself.
"No!"
He sat up suddenly in bed, startling the cat beside the pillow.
"What just happened?"
He panted and asked in his heart, looking towards his bedroom in the dark, feeling his back was already wet. The curtains were closed, but a faint morning light could be seen through the gaps in the curtains, indicating that a night had passed.
Mia stood up and patted Shad's hand on the bed with her little paw, as if she wanted to comfort him.
The other person has entered your dream, and you have made his soul appear briefly through "echo". The one who can sense the soul characteristics of the other person is your friend.
"Priest Augustus? Really dead?"
In the dream, he felt that this fact was a bit unreal. After waking up and thinking about it, Shade felt that the matter was a bit absurd. He didn't understand, he didn't understand at all. He had just won the championship of "Big City Player 1853" and Reverend Augustus had just gone to Midhill Castle on a business trip. Why did the priest suddenly die
There is a subtle difference between the soul of a dead person and the soul of a living person. He is indeed no longer a living person, but he is not dead yet.
"What's the meaning?"
Shad sensed the meaning behind the words.
He is in a delicate state between death and not death.
"Is there any hope?"
He couldn't give an answer, but he was closer to death than the Ringwitch was to his 'other self'.
Xia De got out of bed and opened the curtains. He could already see the faint morning light outside. It was now 6:10:
"Dawn, Death, Priest..."
He clenched his fists and looked at his reflection in the glass, wearing pajamas:
"Priest, if I don't let you die, you will never die! The next stop is Midhill Castle!"