Chapter 428: Chapter 347: The Disappearing Sun
Unintentionally, the archaeologist He Ya revealed her understanding of the "dark mud," which Duan Mingyuan believed might be the closest to the correct answer.
After all, He Ya had been to the Land of Eternal Night and had faced the demons inside.
He Ya continued to explain, "Take, for example, the ’dark mud’ that coexists with you and the Dark Night Witch, although your cognition and life goals have huge discrepancies, your attitudes toward opening the Teleportation Gate are surprisingly consistent."
Although, according to Duan Mingyuan’s words, he wanted to solve the problem once and for all, the actions he and the Dark Night Witch ultimately took were the sa, and once the Teleportation Gate was established and the seal of the Land of Eternal Night failed, what happened afterward was beyond their control.
"I have to admit that the environnt in which one grows up can change a person’s cognition. Perhaps the experiences on Blue Star have changed you."
No one has ever said that demons are always the sa.
Moreover, the "dark mud" scattered throughout the universe is just one of the myriad thoughts of the demons. Perhaps not even the demons themselves know what kind of fruit they will ultimately bear.
This is the closest explanation to the truth that He Ya could co up with at the mont.
And now, the seal of the Land of Eternal Night is about to be lifted, and a new era will dawn for humanity after the disappearance of the Sun King for a thousand years.
Only in the next era, they might not be the main characters writing history anymore.
He Ya’s smile faded, and her expression beca much more serious than before, "I know it’s hard for you to accept this all at once. No one with free will wants to beco the shadow of another, of course. You can also choose to reject all this, to prevent the Teleportation Gate from being opened... You should still have enough ti right now."
The second night was about to fall.
The Church’s developnt of cooling technology was still not progressing, and after nightfall, the Dark Night Witch would continue to take action.
Infecting the believers throughout the Holy City was just a ans to her end, "It’s a smokescreen. While the Church is busy hunting Yelena and dealing with those infected by the parasites, the witch will be able to set up the Teleportation Array smoothly."
In fact, the "dark mud" has the sa goal.
Once they tore the seal of the Land of Eternal Night, their mission was accomplished.
The demons had not planned a future for them.
This is the biggest difference between demon offspring and those with free will.
"Demon offspring are tools from the mont of their birth. They can be beasts lurking in the dark, they can be natural disasters, or any tool that can annihilate humans. They have no need for a destiny of their own."
He Ya stared at the lingering shadows flowing within the Scorching Sun Power. It took her many epochs to slowly understand these histories, which were so secretive that even the descendants of the Sun King had forgotten these past events.
What follows is He Ya’s personal opinion, "Perhaps everything that happened afterward was just the result of a territorial war."
This war had nothing to do with justice or evil from the start.
The Sun King chose humans with free will, while the Void Demon favored those beasts and disasters with more definite purposes.
It turned out that the Void Demon was defeated in its judgnt of characters.
The sparks of civilization spread across the galaxies, almost lighting up every place they reached.
Even He Ya had to admit that the past few thousand years of history belonged to humans.
"You’re facing an important choice, and perhaps what you need more is a quiet place to reflect alone."
This unusual space is the best place for that.
There are no others around. With just a glance, you can take in all the significant segnts of past history."
He Ya speculated that this place was very likely the Sun King’s forr place of contemplation, where one could silently think and also witness the achievents they had made or reflect on the wrong decisions they had taken.
After a long silence, Duan Mingyuan finally spoke, "But this story doesn’t reveal where the Sun King ultimately went."
Genesis ntions that the Sun King disappeared suddenly.
On an ordinary day, he vanished without a trace, so hastily that the then Archbishop had to assu the title of king, an occurrence that coincidentally beca a tradition of the Ashen Empire.
All the believers steadfastly believed that the Sun King had never perished, only that he had gone to a place unknown.
And here, aside from the flowing Scorching Sun Power, one could simply look up to see the sun.
It was situated not far off, seemingly within reach, yet as if no matter what, it was unreachable.
Duan Mingyuan made attempts, but the distance between him and the sun seed to be infinitely stretched by so force, no matter how far he went, he appeared to be marching in place.
In response to Duan Mingyuan’s question, He Ya shrugged her shoulders, "I don’t know."
The Sun King did not exist in the era she lived in.
At the mont her consciousness was born on Flashing Star, the Sun King had already been missing for a long ti.
"Do you plan to stop the Teleportation Array?"
Duan Mingyuan asked.
"I don’t intend to do anything, the stance of a rchant is always neutral, and besides, as I’ve already said, without Flashing Star, I am nothing but a rchant skilled only at talking," He Ya said.
In such a crucial period, any decision could bring about profound consequences.
If she tried to stop the teleportation ritual and the Void Demon ended up winning the subsequent wars, she would have a difficult ti over the next hundred or even thousands of years, possibly having to stoop to doing small business with bugs just to barely get by.
"But we are friends after all, if the Void Demon truly becos unstoppable, you have to give
a heads-up in advance, so I can start learning to do business with the Void Demon... no, with those creatures," He Ya said.
First things first, she needed to change the way she referred to them.
No custor would like to be referred to as a demon.
If the void creatures won this war, then in a few decades, it would be the human remnants struggling to survive in the Conscious Space who would be called demons.
Bright Demons, or Scorching Demons?
The present mont was just like that mont in ti.
The Ark that Dr. Eisenberg built for humanity bore little difference from the closed-off Land of Eternal Night in a sense.
"The hymn is about to end," He Ya reminded, "Once you leave this place, you might have so other matters to attend to."
For instance, dealing with the parasites that had infiltrated the Holy City Cathedral.
As the hymn concluded, the believers were engrossed in the aftertaste for a long ti until one after another they rose from the crowd, breaking the silence.
They moved toward the choir without saying a word, their faces gloomy.
Even the orchestra conductor, whose gaze was drawn to these individuals, suddenly saw one of the choir mbers rise abruptly from behind him, plunging a knife engraved with a dark mark into his spine.
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