Chapter 1312: Reunion after a long absence
It's more like swallowing than piercing.
Those sin thorns continued to burn like dry firewood, turning into black smoke.
The clam shell acted like a pump, continuously sucking in the black smoke. This suction in turn fueled the flames... As for the giant made of sinthorns, it gradually twisted in the vortex of suction.
After inhaling to a certain stage, the clam suddenly spits out water.
The water fell to the ground, but it did not spread everywhere and flood the town. Instead, it was like a cannonball, directly hitting the depths of the earth in the form of a water column!
And like insects scalded by boiling water, countless sinister thorns quickly emerged from it with their fangs and claws bared.
As soon as they crawled out, Aiwass, using the power of the Sin Beast, captured them and pulled them onto the Sinthorn Giant. Immediately, the water on their bodies was dried up, and they joined in the flames.
The information was decompressed in the fire and turned into yellow and black dirty smoke.
And just at this moment.
"—are you really going to do this, Aiwass?"
Suddenly, a voice that was once somewhat familiar yet somewhat unfamiliar suddenly sounded from the void.
That was no illusion.
Even Lily couldn't help but open her eyes wide.
This is a miracle that only she can witness and understand—
As the black smoke gathered, a misty and invisible human figure gradually gathered.
That was some kind of information released when Aiwass burned the Sinthorn with the First Fire.
But this information does not belong to Yuan Tiansi...
"……well."
A sigh came from the smoke.
As the flames burned, the human figure became clearer and clearer.
"'Saving the world is no easy task; it requires pushing the boundaries of the impossible. And most importantly, we must not confuse the ends with the means along the way...'"
An old, reserved and elegant voice sounded: "I hope you still remember this sentence."
That was an old man.
An old man wearing a top hat and holding a cane.
That is...
"Professor Moriarty."
Aiwass murmured softly: "No...Father."
This is Moriarty, whose soul was transformed into Sinthorn, then devoured by Aiwass and turned into magic power!
After being devoured, he did not become a part of Aiwass. Aiwass did not gain his memories, nor did he merge with his soul. Instead, this information was stored within Aiwass, in exchange for the magical power to block a meteorite that could destroy an entire country.
And now... With the remaining power of Yuan Tiansi and the authority of Tiansi being released by Aiwass, and with even more massive mana, this part of Moriarty's existence has been "redeemed" again!
Looking at the professor, who was now only a shadow, Aiwas's eyes became a little blurry for a moment.
When they defeated old Moriarty in the past, they were in a "you or me" confrontation between good and evil. Aiwass had to use all means to defeat the powerful and oppressive Moriarty before defeating the Fallen Angels. He would never let Moriarty go.
Moreover, Aiwass had not yet grasped the truth at that time...
After that, he didn't even have time to grieve before he had to prepare to fight the Fallen Angels.
Because Aiwass has no time to stop.
He had no time to shed tears, let alone be sad. He couldn't even stop for half a step, and even a half-day rest was a luxury.
——And now, the Tail Ring Ceremony has come to an end.
There will be no changes until Huan Tiansi arrives; and Huan Tiansi's plan to use himself as a carrier of nothingness has already been known to Aiwas.
Now Aiwass just needs to wait for the day of the decisive battle.
...Because of this, when he saw Moriarty again, he felt a surge of nostalgia and sadness in his heart.
Now they no longer have any conflicts based on interests, positions, morals or ideals; all that remains is nostalgia itself.
"Don't cry."
The old man's face turned serious, and he pretended to be stern: "You are now considered a demigod on earth, why are you still acting like a child?"
"...Of course I won't cry."
Aiwass took a deep breath and smiled sincerely: "It's a pity that you couldn't see my wedding with Isabel."
"No, I saw it."
Professor Moriarty smiled.
He even tilted his head slightly, took off his hat and saluted Lily from a distance.
His smile was so bright and cheerful, so much like Aiwass, that even his voice for a moment changed into Aiwass's clear, youthful voice: "'Because we are one.'"
The echo of this voice is mixed with many other existences.
It was as if thousands of living beings were speaking at the same time.
"……This is?"
Aiwass was shocked and his mind was a little confused for a moment.
He was sure that he had never eaten so many people—
...No, wait?
Really not?
"It was a sacrifice once offered to Yuan Tiansi."
As if he had guessed what Aiwass was thinking, Professor Moriarty spoke up. "No energy in this world is created out of nothing, nor is any soul annihilated out of nothing. Even when I became the Sinthorn, wasn't I still within you? Part of my soul became mana, and part became pure information..."
"The same goes for the souls sacrificed to Yuan Tiansi. These souls did not return to the source river, so where did they go?"
The professor said earnestly.
"...So, you're stopping me from absorbing information from the eldest sons?"
"Because there may be contaminated information... I think we should not be careless."
Professor Moriarty said in a deep voice, "I hadn't intended to come out. But seeing your reckless actions, I couldn't help myself. I think it's better to completely annihilate these sins compressed by our ancestors—some things don't need to be cherished. If you don't want to bear the heinous crime of 'parricide,' then let me do it."
"……good."
Aiwas' heart tightened, and he realized that he seemed a little arrogant.
Perhaps because he became a true god on earth in a very short period of time, he even felt that he was omnipotent - this arrogance was the great sin of Aiwass himself.
Because in a sense, "believing that miracles will happen" itself is a kind of arrogance that is unwilling to accept reality.
The appearance of Professor Moriarty reminded Aiwass of the mechanism of his devouring and transforming Sinthorns - the fact that the Sin Beast cannot be transformed back if the conversion rate is too high may itself imply something.
I didn't expect that it was my adoptive father who reminded me of this...
Professor Moriarty obviously realized that Aiwass had regained consciousness, and nodded with satisfaction and pride. "I know you are very smart, Aiwass. It only takes one sentence for you to understand everything..."
"...Now it seems that the 'end of the world' I witnessed was probably the world being frozen in amber. How ironic! The evil god I always wanted to defeat is the one who sacrificed himself to save the world."
Today, Professor Moriarty is obviously following Aiwass to understand all the buried truths.
"What are your plans...afterwards?"
Aiwass asked seriously, "Do you need me to throw you into the source river? Now that the impure sins have been borne by me, you can be reincarnated or become a celestial being."
The old man didn't comment, but just laughed heartily: "Don't you know the answer to this question yourself?"
——Yes, Aiwass actually knows it too.
Professor Moriarty never bothered to dwell on his own life and death. As for reincarnation and the afterlife, or even the wealth and glory after death, they were all just passing clouds to him.
Now that he knows the cause of the doomsday and sees Aiwass on the road to destroying nothingness, in fact, this "failed savior" no longer has any obsession.
He looked at Aiwass, who still hadn't made a move, and suggested, "You can seal them up and bury them at the bottom of the sea. Think of it as changing their graves. Now that the power of the Abyssal Heavenly Division is in your hands, it means that no new Abyssal Heavenly Division will be born in this world... Sealing them with the remnants of the taboo is just right."
"Yeah, that's what I was going to do."
Aiwass nodded and responded softly.
But as soon as Aiwas was distracted, Professor Moriarty disappeared again.
There was no goodbye, no hug, and no explanation of where he was going. Just like every time he left home for a long journey.
If Lily hadn't seen him too, Aiwass would have thought it was just an illusion.
"……Oh."
Suddenly, Aiwass breathed a sigh of relief, and his eyes changed from the arrogant indifference of a god to become clear and gentle again.
...In front of my father, I will always be that ignorant child.
Aiwass just pinched it casually, and the dim yellow smoke was separated from the black smoke, condensing into irregular pieces of star ice out of thin air!
The other Sin Thorns were also continuously pulled out and burned by Aiwass, and then the information within them was frozen and sealed forever with the power of taboo.
Compared with the previous generation technology "Sin Thorn", "Star Ice" is the technology developed by Dayuan and belongs to this era!
A flash of thought suddenly occurred to Aiwass:
perhaps……
This desolate world with nothing can attract foreign gods like Sizhu because Sinthorn attracts the Sin Beast, which feeds on Sinthorn!
If this world is destroyed again, what will the Star Ice bring?
The power of the Tiansi fragments of Yuan Tiansi is much stronger than the fragments of one-fifth of Jihe Tiansi - by constantly swallowing and spitting out the magic power left by Dayuan himself, the "pearl oyster" continues to spit out more and more water and force out more and more sinister thorns.
As the smoke continued to rise, rain clouds gradually gathered in the sky!
Then, rain as precious as gold began to fall quietly from the sky over the entire Anxi.
It is neither violent nor dirty, but as gentle as silk, with a slight smell of the sea.
People knelt on the ground, praising this miracle, but they didn't know where it came from... nor did they know what they would see when they woke up tomorrow morning.
By the time all the thorns were removed, Aiwass had been busy from noon until late at night.
All preparations for the miracle are complete.
"—It's almost time."
Aiwass murmured softly.
(End of this chapter)
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