Chapter 1279 Haina's Enlightenment

"...Become, a Pillar God?"

Haena repeated in disbelief.

She subconsciously clenched her fists and placed them in front of her chest.

——No matter when or where, she never had such a ridiculous idea!

No, that's not right.

...Really?

At that moment, Haina thought of the thought that came to her mind when Aiwass told her the story of the Silver Crown Dragon: He can replace it.

Now that the opportunity has really come, will she choose to back down?

Haina was silent for a long time, but her expression became firm.

She asked, "Why me?"

Gray Sky Master simply smiled and pointed towards the shattered sky: "How many Sky Masters do you think are there?"

“…One?”

Haina turned around and looked at the floating giant whale again, and said uncertainly.

Could it be two?

Or does it mean that Gray Tiansi, who is not sure whether he is still alive or has been resurrected and can walk freely in the material world, also needs to be counted among them?

“It could be one person or many.”

Gray Sky Master replied, "The Veil of Balance shattered during the Tail Ring Ritual isn't something you can only traverse once."

Hearing this, almost everyone present was shocked.

They all understood what Hui Tiansi meant.

"Autolycus, you mean to say..."

Hassan, who played "Arthur," turned back in astonishment at his best friend, whom he had known for years but who seemed like he had never truly met. "Are you going to use the rituals of the Benevolent Masters to summon the other celestial beings?"

As a legitimate mage, Hassan wasn't particularly proficient in rituals... but as the saying goes, "A knack for one thing leads to a knack for all things," walking the path of wisdom inevitably leads to an interest in the mystical arts of other paths. Curiosity and a thirst for knowledge are the essence of the source of truth.

"Is this possible?"

Haina was stunned. "Who are you going to call down? The Sky Rider? But I'm no longer a transcendent of the Path of Authority... I'm talking about a transcendent of the Path of War..."

She subconsciously glanced at Hassan.

If it wasn't me, then it could only be Hassan, the actor who played "Arthur".

Upon hearing this, the mage Hassan's expression gradually grew serious. "If necessary... for the sake of truth, I am willing to sacrifice my life for it."

Becoming a celestial being means losing one's physical body in most cases.

Therefore, if one wants to complete the ritual of the Ring of Tail and summon Tiansi to the material world, the first thing to do is to provide a body that can accommodate Tiansi's power.

Normally, only top-level transcendents on the same path could be sacrifices. Otherwise, they would inevitably be incompatible and unable to fully accommodate the entire soul of the Celestial Master.

The celestial being that Hassan can accommodate is, of course, the celestial being of geometry on the path of wisdom.

But he still had some concerns: "It's just... my energy level is still a little lower."

As a carrier of the Celestial God, his power is still somewhat weak.

"It's okay."

Gray Sky Master Autolycus said with a smile.

His casual support and approval also meant pushing Hassan onto a dead end. "As the recognized master of the Fire Tetrahedron, you can make up for the lack of compatibility here. After all, the Geometry Master has already set up a backup plan for the lower realm... If anyone can gather the four polyhedrons he left behind, they will automatically become the Geometry Master's carrier."

Autolycus's words are not difficult to understand.

To take it to the extreme, it's like using the sacred entity "Aivas" as a carrier to summon Huan Tiansi. Then, regardless of whether he is a transcendent or not, the ritual can be completed. It's impossible that because Aiwas hasn't embarked on the transcendent path, his compatibility with Huan Tiansi will be worse than that of the Giant Prince who has transcended the fifth energy level of the path.

Haina also understood the hidden meaning in his words.

——It is also because of this that Haina can become the carrier of the Knight Lancelot.

"……I see."

She breathed a sigh of relief, and her whole body relaxed. "I was just saying, I feel like I've forgotten something..."

——Do you want to become a pillar god?

There is another sentence hidden in this sentence.

That is, Haena must die in the material world first.

As a human, her path was very complex. She wasn't a pure being like the Moon Child or the Griffin, so she couldn't directly become a Pillar God.

There is no possibility at all.

She must first enter the River of Dreams and use the power of the source river to reshape the body of Tiansi in order to obtain a relatively pure phantom demon body.

This means that she needs to die once first.

Therefore, there is another way to understand Hui Tiansi's words:

——Are you ready to die?

"Let alone making me a Pillar God or a Celestial Lord... even if you asked me to become the king of the material world like Lancelot I... to be honest, I would still hesitate."

Haina said softly, "Even if I'm already at the fifth level... the so-called 'strong', reaching the same level as Lancelot I was back then, the answer is the same. This has nothing to do with maturity, vision, or courage—I'm afraid I won't make the slightest progress even in ten or twenty years."

"Even if I reach the sixth level, die in the future, and become an apostle or a celestial minister, I will still hesitate if you ask me this question again. Yes, that's how I perceive myself. After all, I'm someone who is likely to fail at everything I do, a cursed being who can't even remember time."

She laughed at herself, and a faint green flame gradually ignited in the bottom of her pupils, with the outer edge of the flame having a faint yellowish hue.

This is a deep reflection of her personality - compared to the confusion and drifting she felt when she first graduated, Haina now feels that everything she has is enough. She hopes that the world will continue to operate in this way, just like her hometown of Eagle Point Village, which has remained unchanged forever.

However, at this moment, a deep and tiny purple gradually ignited in the deepest part of it.

"—But it's not that I feel I'm unable to shoulder this responsibility, or unworthy of this power. I simply believe from the bottom of my heart... that there might be a better choice than mine."

Haena said seriously, "I don't think I have all the necessary abilities to be a monarch or a god. I can't be a god who brings happiness—I don't have the ability to make everyone happy. This world is like a troublesome paperwork job: every time I complete one thing, three more things will appear. Therefore, I can never be fully prepared. There will always be better options than me in any field.

"...However, this does not mean that I will shirk the responsibilities that have fallen upon me."

As Haina spoke, the deep purple in her pupils danced and grew a little bigger.

She raised her head, gazing at the giant whale swimming in the sky, and whispered, "No matter who assigns me a task, I will do my utmost to complete it. Regardless of whether I have the confidence or not—even if I feel despair and believe it is an absolutely impossible task, until the moment of complete failure is confirmed, I will not give up... and I will not stop."

This is Haena's decision.

"I don't have the confidence to do anything well, because I know I'm not great. But I have the seriousness and responsibility to never give up on anything. I'm not prepared to be a good monarch or a good god... but if I'm prepared to die, then I've already done it."

At this point, the purple in Haina's pupils pulsed again, now accounting for more than half of her pupils. This completely transformed her pupils into a strange mixture of purple and dim yellow.

Just like the sky at dusk.

Haina smiled brightly and rubbed her head. "I don't know what my colleagues think... but back then, when I first became an inspector... before I even graduated, I had already made up my mind."

Having said this, she paused.

The purple in her pupils expanded again for a moment, even tinging slightly with red. Then, the purple was completely swallowed by the green, and then by the purple again. The resonance of the two energies intertwined, yet Haina showed no reaction, nor did she feel any discomfort.

"—I wrote my suicide note the day I started my job as an inspector."

Haina answered word by word.

(End of this chapter)