Chapter 1294: Hearing the Truth in the Morning, I Can Die in the Evening
Compared with Yuan Tiansi's original form, the current Aiwass appears both sacred and weird.
As the giant's body gradually cooled in the mud-mixed rainstorm, Aiwass's skin gradually faded to a bloodless marble white. After being coated in the grayish-white mud, his muscles lost their initial ferocity and instead acquired the unique beauty of a marble statue.
The pitch-black sinthorns spread and grew all over Aiwass, like young plant sprouts growing sparsely on barren stones.
The purest sinthorns continuously emerged from the headless giant's neck, forming a vertical ring like a black hole. Above this vertical ring lay a horizontal black crown—it wasn't composed purely of sinthorns, but rather a ring-shaped "chain of friendship" with sinthorns wrapped around its base.
Above the black hole ring, two sin thorns spread and changed color, turning into a pair of huge white jade antlers.
When the antlers were fully grown, the homogeneous black hole suddenly collapsed and turned into a messy sphere like a ball of yarn.
Then they melted into a black, oily gel, forming a pitch-black deer-head helmet on the outside. The helmet had no openings for the eyes, so it was still impossible to see what was inside the helmet, or whether there was a real head.
And behind Aiwass, six huge pure white wings also emerged.
Large flakes of white feathers fluttered like falling cherry blossoms.
They were quickly entangled by the rapidly growing and spreading sinthorns, like wooden stakes bound by wire, or like a grapevine covered in vines. The black sinthorns gradually engulfed the wings completely, until the white feathers were completely submerged, leaving only six huge, tattered thorn wings like maple leaves.
This process of change is quite long.
However, neither Gray Sky Master nor Geometry Sky Master interrupted Aiwas's rebirth. Instead, they waited patiently on the side.
A deer head and a human body, a black crown, wings of thorns, a giant marble-like existence—
"Rather than calling it Aiwass, it's more like 'taboo'."
Gray Tiansi murmured, "So perfect, and so beautiful... Yes, this is also a miracle."
He looked at Aiwass with admiration. In a sense, this form of Aiwass was created by Hui Tiansi.
"—I am still me."
And a somewhat strange voice sounded in the void.
That was Aiwass's response, but his voice was muffled, as if he was speaking with his head buried in an iron helmet.
From behind him, the Sin Thorns continued to pour forth. The number of Sin Thorns transformed from the Abyss far surpassed that of his adoptive father. These Sin Thorns continued to generate and spread.
"...Gray Tiansi and Geometry Tiansi?"
Aiwass's voice rang out: "Thank you both for your help. I will remember you."
"No problem."
Hui Tiansi smiled and transformed back into a young girl, crossing her arms across her chest, unfazed by her own end. "Then let us return to the source river... or do you need our help in defeating the Red of Disaster?"
"...I thought you guys wanted to survive."
Aiwass was a little surprised.
After all, it was a fact that Hui Tiansi rescued Jihe Tiansi. If Hui Tiansi had done nothing, Jihe Tiansi, a fragile mage, would have been killed by Yuan Tiansi's dying blow.
He had even prepared to fight against the analytical cannon, otherwise he would not have deployed the white wings in advance.
"I just don't want him to die at Dayuan's hands. That would make me look incompetent."
The girl on top of the spider folded her arms and said with a smile, "I have to show off some of my abilities, right? If I just used the characteristics of the gray hole to help everyone dodge the attacks of the Great Abyss a few times, it would seem a bit mediocre. I have to show off my talents for the readers, otherwise, who will remember me in the end?"
Aiwass ignored Gray Tiansi's crazy, half-truths.
Gray Tiansi is the Tiansi who controls the power of lies. Anyone who can believe what Gray Tiansi says will have a good life.
However, Aiwass understood what Hui Tiansi meant: "So what you mean is... you are leaving the talent show now, right? Or, are you planning to have another show with me?"
"Although I really want to say that if I fight again, it will seem that I am somewhat inconsiderate... but at the end of the scene, I still refuse to leave the stage honestly. Xi Tiansi will definitely hate such an inconsiderate supporting role like me."
Gray Tiansi said with a smile, extending his hand to Jihe Tiansi next to him: "But - how can you be sure that Jihe Tiansi is not dead? Is it because you saw it with your own eyes?
"But... if you don't even believe what I say, why would you trust your own eyes?"
The next moment, "Geometry Heavenly Master" suddenly melted.
It transformed into four-colored crystals and condensed into a strange sword.
It's more of a mace than a dagger. From any angle, its four sides are different colors, and the colors change with the angle.
The deer-headed giant was silent for a moment.
He really couldn't tell whether Jihe Tiansi was dead or not.
“…It’s like magic.”
Aiwass sighed softly: "The power to modify reality..."
It's like putting a ball of paper in the palm of your hand, turning it back and forth a few times, and then asking you where the ball of paper is.
If you choose the left hand, then it's the right hand; if you choose the right hand, then it's the left hand. If you grab both hands at the same time, you will end up with nothing.
Although Hui Tiansi's words seemed true and false, Aiwass had roughly guessed what he meant -
Gray Sky didn't harbor any clear hostility towards him. Perhaps he was itching to do something, or perhaps he was unwilling to leave like this, or perhaps he wanted to accomplish some great feat that required him not to commit suicide.
That's why he specifically waited for Aiwass to hatch from the Abyss Egg and regain his physical body.
Although strictly speaking, this headless giant body, about ten meters tall, is still not Aiwass's real body...
Aiwass simply used the power of the Sin Beast to control the Sinthorns, creating a temporary head for himself. Inside the deer-headed helmet was a dense, almost compressed mass of Sinthorns.
However, in terms of strength alone, this body is far more useful than Evans' own body.
Although the remaining power of the Taboo Pillar God had been mostly consumed in the fight against the Red of Calamity, some of that power still remained within Aiwass. Furthermore, this body was the remains of the Taboo God.
In a sense, this could be considered a form of necromancy - if Lingbo Tiansi could obtain this body, he might actually have a chance to piece back most of the real "taboo".
"Although I don't know whether Jihe Tiansi is alive or dead..."
The giant slowly raised his hand and aimed it at the spider that was much smaller than him.
Behind Aiwass, an extremely huge magic circle emerged.
A triple ring of platinum, brilliant gold, and dark gold was formed, and as it emerged, it began to spin at high speed.
This is different from when Aiwass used his own body to activate Paradise Lost.
The power contained in this body is so abundant that Paradise Lost doesn't even need to accumulate magic power for too long.
The moment the triple rings appeared, they began to spin faster and overlapped.
"—But surely Plato would want to see the real Paradise Lost."
Aiwass finished speaking.
Countless golden lights transformed into sharp blades of light that fell from the sky and swept towards Hui Tiansi!
Hui Tiansi just held the four-sided crystal mace transformed by Jihe Tiansi in his hands and looked at the deer-headed giant seriously.
At some point, his appearance suddenly changed.
Gray Skysi no longer looked like the spider woman before, but had become a winged being wearing a white robe.
There are men and women, old and young.
Some had confused eyes, others had determined ones. Some were laughing wildly, others were mourning. Some were exclaiming in amazement, others were moved to tears.
As Hui Tiansi gradually raised the crystal mace, his appearance kept changing, and the frequency of changes became faster and faster.
Later on, even just lifting it an inch would require changing four or five faces.
And when Hui Tiansi completely raised the crystal mace, the bombardment of Paradise Lost had already arrived!
The colorful rainbow light condensed into a spherical barrier, wrapping up Hui Tiansi at the last moment!
The four-colored rainbow light and the golden bombardment offset each other, and a large number of ripples appeared on the bubble-like barrier, and it was about to be completely shattered almost instantly.
It looks precarious.
But even so, the rainbow light was restrained with all its strength, forming an extremely thin beam of light.
That's the analytical cannon!
Of course, the power accumulated at this moment is totally insufficient.
Unlike the Lost Paradise, the Analysis Cannon requires a long time to accumulate power...
In fact, Hui Tiansi used the power of lies to very reluctantly separate a strand of facts from what happened in the past and materialize them in the present.
Because the previous attack was used to attack Yuan Tiansi, and the current deer-headed giant also belongs to Yuan Tiansi in a sense. Therefore, Hui Tiansi confused the two facts and stole part of the power from the truth.
Under the gaze of Gray Tiansi and Aiwass, the rainbow glow of the analysis cannon collided with one of the beams of Paradise Lost, causing a violent explosion!
When the explosion occurred, even the preservation technique released by Aiwass was violently distorted.
The petrified city began to recover, as if gradually thawing. The petrified and preserved Parthians finally regained consciousness, belatedly waking up and seeing the light formation behind the terrifying giant, the glorious offensive that resembled divine punishment.
This "infinite" attack that could penetrate the world and dissolve everything... unexpectedly exploded and canceled each other out, just like the Lost Paradise battle between Aiwass and the Fallen Angels!
——It means one thing.
Although the analytical cannon imitates Paradise Lost, when it fights against Paradise Lost, it is infinitely close to the real Paradise Lost!
"……ah."
At that moment, both Aiwass and Hui Tiansi seemed to hear a sigh of satisfaction.
That was the sigh from Geometry Heavenly Master.
This group of mages, in pursuit of their dreams, to restore glory, and to exhaust the truth, copied the "ultimate magic"... which had already lost its meaning the moment it was created.
——Because the person who could use Paradise Lost is no longer here.
Aiwass suddenly fell into a strange hallucination——
He knew that it was an illusion cast by Gray Sky. However, Aiwass did not resist, but quietly accepted the illusion and immersed himself in it.
He saw a group of young birds fleeing the collapsed tower in panic.
These winged beings have never left their homeland since they were born. They are just a group of scholars living in the tower.
Pictures flashed before Aiwas's eyes——
He saw some mages surrounding Lucifer, who was taller than them, intimately sensing his emotions and knowledge;
He saw some mages curiously interacting with the snake wearing a monocle, carefully recording something in childish words;
He saw the young mages begin to use words to discuss something intensely with each other;
He saw the towers collapsing, and the dusty mages wandering in confusion and disarray across the desolate land, wiping their tears and complaining about something, before being comforted by the elders in the crowd.
He saw the mages helping each other, watched them build towers again, watched them rebuild civilization...
Watch them encourage each other, watch them argue with each other, watch them fail again and again and pick themselves up from failure.
He saw that the old wizard had passed away, and others were mourning for them, and it seemed as if he saw his own future;
He saw the curious young boys and girls of the past become mature young men, then calm middle-aged men, and then old. Some of the mages who were already middle-aged or elderly had already passed away.
Finally, the mages developed the analysis cannon.
They are extremely excited!
They shouted happily, hugged each other, spread their wings, and flew into the sky. It was as if they were back to the moment they left the Tower of Babel.
However, the ecstasy of success was soon overwhelmed by deep sorrow.
——Because they can no longer prove their theory.
The Lucifer they respected and loved failed to ascend, and the Fallen Angel who split away from him had already fallen, transforming his own kind into ugly demons; the King of the Scaled Ones, whom they also worshipped, was the culprit behind all these conspiracies, and now he had also ascended to become a god, entering the dream world that they could not reach.
The two people who taught them how to grow up are now gone.
The wizards who left the Tower of Babel back then were still young children.
They proved the great truth from another perspective, surpassing their former counterparts. They became mature and powerful.
But they can never go back to the past.
If it were other races... when they become middle-aged, there would be more newborns around them; when they get older, there would be a new group of young people.
However, the race of mages ended here.
With the fall of Taiyi's glory, winged beings can no longer be born again.
One after another, the old people left.
The Mage Tower gradually became deserted.
Until the last, an elderly winged one, carefully cleaned the entire Mage Tower, neatly sorted all the knowledge and history, bid farewell to the tombs with names on them, and stood before the Supreme Host, Plato.
He also died and turned into a skeleton.
After a long time.
The elves, as pilgrims, returned to the giant tree and entered the wizard tower, which had become a deserted ruin, with curiosity and caution.
At that time, the elves still wore animal skins and carried bows and arrows.
When the first group of elves walked out of the Mage Tower, they had already become the heirs of the old times.
——This is the beginning of the birth of elven civilization.
Visions of the past, truths that cannot be proven.
Today, it is finally completed.
"By analyzing the four elements, it may be possible to rebuild a new magic system."
A young and energetic voice echoed in Aiwass's mind: "Even a spell of the scale of Paradise Lost is not impossible!"
That was why the Winged Ones gathered here in the first place.
——The proof is complete.
Although this beam of analytical cannon only has one shot and one beam.
The other beams of light shot out from Paradise Lost bent autonomously like missiles, flooding towards Gray Sky Master and tearing him apart in an instant.
However, just this extremely tiny, seemingly powerless rainbow light has already proved... that all their efforts are not in vain.
The new spell system has reached the end of the old system.
And the road to new magic is far from over.
Therefore, their path is the right one!
And now, just like their research, the world is on the right track—
——This is the mages’ ever-passionate and ever-sincere pursuit of truth.
(End of this chapter)
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