Chapter 1226 Haina's Determination
Earlier in the promotion ceremony, Aiwass knew that although this old ritualist looked calm and reliable, he was actually full of radicalism and madness in his bones.
It's no wonder that he was betrayed when he was young - for a native Parthian who had never had contact with any outsiders, the fact that he could do anything that could "betray" him out of his own determination proved his transcendent nature.
"I understand you, old man."
Zhu Tang nodded and agreed, "Everyone lives, and sooner or later they will die. I don't want to be like some of those who just cling to life but end up living a life that's neither human nor ghost... In my opinion, a glorious death is better.
"For a transcendent, there's nothing more humiliating than dying in bed. Our extraordinary powers make us arrogant, believing we can control our own destiny and transcend the mundane world... but in the end, we fall back into the mundane world, succumbing to the passing of time like an ordinary old man. Is there anything more ironic than this?"
“Indeed…”
Aiwass sighed, "The beauty is old, the general is old, and the world is unbearable. I understand that."
"I want to go home because I have family that I can't leave behind."
Zhu Tang's words were filled with envy. "If it weren't for this, I really want to enter this glorious death with you. Being killed in a battle with the Heavenly Officials would truly be a beautiful thing—it's far more wonderful than being beheaded by the emperor, dying on a sickbed, or in prison."
"Those renowned generals who have roamed the battlefields would envy me! Given the chance, they would probably want to launch a desperate charge against the Heavenly Master... What a heroic death that would be! With such a death, even the most meaningless life seems to have meaning."
The two old men, both ritualists, seemed to have a resonance at this moment - although one of them was about to die, and the other was not yet sixty and could only be considered middle-aged or elderly, but at this moment they were exchanging opinions fiercely and excitedly on the subject of fire and graves.
Looking at them, Aiwass sighed helplessly.
——He can understand it.
Ligeia, who was then old Meg, chose to participate in the life-threatening promotion ceremony even though she still had a long life ahead of her because she could not bear her own aging and weakness.
The authoritarian path is intolerable, and the transcendent path is even more intolerable.
only……
He looked at Haina and said unhappily, "What do you want to do again, senior sister? Don't tell me, have you had enough of life?"
"……almost."
Haina nodded seriously.
"—Hey, little girl."
And it was heard that the first person to speak was Zhu Tang.
He "looked" at this girl, who was only a few years younger than his own daughter, and couldn't help but say, "You're still very young... What's the big deal about life or death? You're so young... Not even thirty, right? You've already reached the fifth energy level. You'll definitely be one of the world's top powers in the future. Your best days are still ahead!"
"Honestly, I can't even imagine how wonderful my life would be if I could reach this position before I turned thirty. Haha, if the emperor hadn't been suspicious of me, I could have become the most powerful official in the world, past and present! You still have at least fifty years of fun in this life!"
There was undisguised envy in Zhu Tang's words.
The fifth energy level itself is not particularly strange.
In Aiwas's previous life, this number was roughly equivalent to the top 100 richest people in the world. But now, with the arrival of the Transcendence Wave, this number has rapidly expanded, almost diluting to the top 1,000.
Although every country has several, it is not uncommon for large countries to have dozens or even hundreds of them.
——But if you have this level of wealth in your early twenties, it is completely different from getting this level of wealth in your forties or fifties.
"If you die here, what will happen to your parents? You still have a younger brother."
Aiwass looked at her with some concern: "If it doesn't work... then you can go with Zhu Tang and the others to Taichu to visit. When everything is settled, I will come back to pick you up."
Hearing Haena's determination to die here, he couldn't understand it. It was completely meaningless, and he didn't know what Haena's motives were. He could only dismiss it as the whims of a little girl.
"One of the reasons... is that I want revenge."
Haina said seriously, "I once saw a scumbag during a promotion ceremony. He was a ritualist of the Zhuo School, a scum who took pleasure in killing people. His code name during the ceremony was 'Cake Maker'... He made me truly understand what killing and cruelty are.
"I also truly realized... that the minor security battles in Avalon are nothing at all.
"It was he who shed my innocent shell, filled me with the resolve to become stronger. Now, I've abandoned the path of authority and gained even greater strength, the same resolve I once had to kill him—I vow to kill him myself, as reward for my growth. This is the 'vow' I made to the Lord. Though the Lord is no longer with us... I refuse to break it. For it's also the oath I made to 'myself.'
"—And the 'Pastry Master' mentioned the 'Morning Dew Prayer' and the 'Holy Well'. According to the information I obtained from the harpy people, these are things unique to Holy Spring City. In other words, he is from Holy Spring City."
“…Revenge.”
Ibn murmured, feeling lost.
One of his motives for wanting to rest this time was revenge.
His and Aiwas's common enemy, Aziz ibn Abdul, was at rest, but he seemed to have changed his name, so that even the well-informed Harpy could not find him.
Now that he saw Haina had found clues about his enemy, he felt a little envious for a moment.
"Rather than revenge," Aiwass said, looking at Haina with admiration, "it's more like 'hunting' the old enemy... Come to think of it, before the existence of the Adaptation Path, the Sixth Source River was just called the Hunting Path.
"This can be considered an act of tracing back to the source. Perhaps you were inspired by this power and suddenly became so strong."
"I have a feeling... as long as I complete the hunt, I will be able to touch the energy wall of the sixth energy level."
Haina looked at Aiwass: "To be honest, Aiwass, I have no interest in ascending to the dream world. But if I am not mistaken... you are planning to participate in the promotion ceremony, right?"
“…Exactly.”
Aiwass concealed nothing from his own people: "I plan to hold a ceremony of absence, occupying both the path of transcendence and the path of devotion."
The ritual of absence is necessarily a ritual that allows mutual killing.
This type of ritual would actually be beneficial to him in his advancement to Rest in Peace. At least it would effectively prevent backstabbing and forming secret alliances outside the arena... just like he had done in Avalon in the past.
This is their home ground.
"When the time comes, I will help you. Just because you have been Pope, Lord of Mercy, and Prince, yet you still treat me as a friend, are willing to call me Senior, and won't let me address you with honorifics..."
Haina said seriously, "This time, I will lift you to a higher position. This is what I really want to do."
I couldn’t post Grey’s picture before, and I heard that the artist’s live broadcast room was blocked for drawing His Holiness the Pope, so I used a flowery cotton jacket to blur the picture… and as a result, the live broadcast room was not blocked!
I had an idea and asked for a censored trial version of the flowery cotton jacket! And it turned out that I could actually post it!
Please use your imagination to transform the floral cotton jacket into a skin on the alarm clock. The picture is not finished yet, and the complete version of the peripherals will be given in the peripheral gift box after the book is completed!
It's really mysterious. I feel that the more awkward Ale was not banned. I suspect that the review is based on the size of the dice thrown.
Update completed!
Thanks to the three leaders who gave rewards, thank you meow!!
(End of this chapter)
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