Chapter 1332 Ritual Time Limit: 10,000 Years
In the realm where dreams and reality overlap, Aiwass gradually regained his consciousness.
Even Aiwass didn't know how long he had slept. When he woke up again, he felt a familiar burning sensation.
……What's this?
When Aiwass opened his eyes again, he saw a sun.
It was an extremely huge and scorching sun.
It was even larger than the sun that Aiwas saw in the ruins of the Tower of Babel - if the normal sun was about the size of an egg yolk, then this sun was even larger than a goose egg or an orange.
Under its scorching heat, Aiwas felt his skin extremely uncomfortable... because the body he was using now was extremely weak, and there was not even a pool of mana in his body!
Without mana, it means that Aiwass can hardly use any extraordinary skills, including phantom cards.
After Aiwass reached the fourth energy level, he rarely experienced this kind of discomfort.
Now that he was in this mortal body, Aiwas felt extremely weak.
If I had to describe it, it's like wrapping your entire body in plastic wrap and baking in the sun. After you sweat, the sweat is trapped in the plastic wrap, and the evaporating heat prevents the heat in your body from escaping, creating an indescribable, intense feeling of suffocation.
——However, there was no place around to hide from the sun.
Looking around, there is only endless wasteland.
The rocks are huge.
There was no sign of civilization—no paved roads, no rising smoke from cooking fires, no human voices. There wasn't even a tree around; as far as the eye could see, there was nothing but wilderness in every direction.
Aiwass didn't even know where he was going...
...No, he couldn't even walk.
When Aiwas wanted to move forward, he realized where the sense of disharmony he felt came from.
The body he now uses is not that of a human, but that of a scaly being.
The scales all over his body were dried and discolored from lack of water. He had legs and a tail—more like an upright lizard, crocodile, or giant salamander than a snake or a fish.
As a scaly being, he couldn't even survive under this level of scorching sun.
This body longs for the ocean so much... Only by returning to the sea can it survive.
...So my current mission is to find the sea?
Aiwass struggled to move his exhausted body, which had already walked who knows how far, and walked forward.
He didn't know the correct direction, so he could only trust the "front" when he landed, which was the direction his body was originally moving.
——Just keep moving forward.
And at this time.
Suddenly, a voice came to Aiwas's ears.
"Oh, right...did I forget to tell you something?"
That kind of disgusting coldness and indifference came from Huan Tiansi's voice.
"For example, the time limit for this ceremony..."
Having said that, Huan Tiansi paused maliciously.
"—It's 3.8 million days. But the good news is... the ratio to reality is 10,000 to 1. In other words, in the worst case scenario, you only need to stay here for a little over a year before you can get out."
Aiwass said nothing.
Because his remaining strength didn't allow him to open his mouth and fight back, he could only concentrate on moving forward and struggling through the wilderness.
Huantiansi seemed to be flipping through a book, reading the host's introduction to the ceremony in a very serious manner.
"You will play a role in this story... and complete your own mission. Uh-huh, of course, there are no points. Because all the missions are necessary."
"This ceremony is an absentee ceremony, allowing mutual killing—but unfortunately, no one is accompanying you. So you can't kill anyone."
"The difficulty of this ritual is 'Beyond Reality'. Any damage sustained during the ritual will be immediately reflected in your real body. This means that even if you survive the ritual, your real self may already be dead. However, this isn't a concern for you... After all, you're still relatively resilient."
"The dreamscape for this ceremony will be created by me. I will also be responsible for all tasks and role arrangements, as well as the details of bonuses and deductions. I will do my best to maintain the unfairness of the ceremony and will not be responsible for the safety of this promotion ceremony—"
Huan Tiansi said sarcastically while introducing them.
This is clearly saying - I will definitely make you die here.
But after hearing his almost threatening voice, Aiwass was not nervous at all. Instead, the corners of his mouth rose slightly and his eyes became bright.
——Like a detective who has discovered the criminal’s weakness.
Seeing Aiwass didn't respond, Huan Tiansi snorted coldly: "Then, the ceremony begins."
After his voice faded away, Aiwass did not hear any background introduction or see the main task.
It is obvious that his introduction plot is not over yet.
There's nothing I can do anyway, so I can only keep moving forward.
Aiwass didn't know how far he had walked.
During this torture-like march, he felt his skin completely dry and cracked. Scales rubbed against each other, drawing blood, which dried in the blink of an eye, forming marks on his body like war marks.
Aiwass's consciousness gradually became blurred.
He felt a ringing in his ears, and the world fell into an eerie silence. It was like he had lost his hearing, and even his vision was almost gone. The only good thing was that the wasteland before him was not a desert. The changes in the jagged rocks reminded Aiwass that he was still moving forward, not standing still.
But Aiwass really couldn't hold on any longer.
At this moment, some self-doubt arose in his heart.
——Could it be that we took the wrong path from the very beginning?
Could it be that this was the exact opposite road from the very beginning... and it was just because I felt a little dizzy when I just woke up that I accidentally turned 180 degrees?
If you are heading in the wrong direction, no matter how hard you try, it will be in vain.
Perhaps this instance didn't even touch upon the "outside boundaries" section. If I continued forward, the scene would simply repeat itself... After all, the instance itself couldn't be very large. Some instances were even comprised of only a single hotel.
And if I really took the wrong path...
So if we turn back now, maybe we can still make it in time!
If I push myself as hard as I can, I can almost reach the starting point before my energy is almost completely depleted. If that direction is correct, if I go a little further...
Aiwass stopped.
His Adam's apple rolled up and down.
He let out a faint laugh in a rough voice that only he could hear.
"I see... Is this the Whisper of the Void?"
At that moment, all the distracting thoughts and whispers in Aiwas' mind disappeared in the blink of an eye.
——There’s no use hiding.
——I’ve caught you.
Aiwass spoke the words with incredible clarity, pouring them deep into his soul.
And just at this moment.
A voice, carrying with it a chill that instantly made him feel cool, suddenly came to Aiwass.
"You kid...why did you walk so far alone?"
What came from the sky was a gentle voice that Aiwas had never heard before.
The amazing thing is that even though I’ve never heard it before, I understood what the other person meant the moment I heard it.
Aiwass looked up.
At that moment, he seemed to see the savior——
It was a giant snake with purple-red scales all over its body and a dragon head.
In addition to scales, his entire body is covered with feathers that change from light green to dark blue, and his tail has fluffy blue-purple feathers that are like a phoenix and a peacock.
Two colorful deep blue wings were spread wide, and two huge, slender feathers of pure gold hung down like a holy mantle... Its posture was like a "proof of friendship."
——The moment he saw Him, Aiwass knew His identity.
He is the Father of the Serpent.
He is the common father of the scaly and winged beings.
(End of this chapter)
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