Volume 2: Funeral Song of Crows Chapter 67 Possibility
Death is always a serious topic, even in a world with magic and gods.
Although there are various methods and means in this world that claim to be able to resurrect, they can be summarized into two forms, and these two forms are often far from the resurrection that the public understands.
One is high-level magic such as [Resurrection], but this is not a true resurrection. At best, it is just using huge magic power to save a life that is not completely dead.
The other is more like a joke or irony. For example, the King of Nothingness once promised a father that as long as he collected enough blood of innocent people, he would bring his daughter who died in an accident back to life. But when the father picked up his daughter who had opened her eyes again from the blood bath, his daughter bit her father's neck and sucked his blood.
The resurrected person is no longer the same person, but has his body taken over by some other evil spirit. Such ancient legends have been circulated throughout the continent of Vic for a long time, warning people not to believe in the temptation of the resurrection of the dead.
It goes without saying that using necromancy to awaken the dead or to summon the spirits of ancestors to have conversations is just a memory from the past, and the future will ultimately be created by the living.
But the resurrection that the Seed of Hope can achieve does not belong to any of types.
According to the description of the Seed of Hope item in the game, it is the product of the hope of an era reflected in the Moon Realm. It is the crystallization of the wishes of countless mortals. It is a signpost connected to the Realm of Light that can guide the purest creative essence. It has enough power to reshape reality and trigger miracles.
This power can even create a Void King, or you can use it as a passage to the Realm of Light, from which you can obtain the original essence to resurrect a dead person.
Of course, although this is just text written in the prop introduction, this function is not specifically implemented in the game - after all, players don't need to go through so much trouble to save people who can be saved, and the game makers will not give you a chance to save those who are bound to die in the game plot.
But now everything is different.
As for causing a disaster to become the fourteenth Void King and gain eternal immortality?
What a joke! William didn't make this choice when he played this save file.
The divine-level light spell [Wall of Light] protected William in the middle. At the same time, William activated the seven holy spirit rings, and the phantoms of seven holy spirits appeared behind him to protect him firmly.
However, all of William's preparations were actually unnecessary.
One reason is that the four Void Kings did not even realize what was happening, and they had no contingency plan for the situation in front of them.
They couldn't understand why the other party did this.
On the other hand, the time of resurrection was much shorter than William had imagined, so short that those Void Kings didn't even have time to react.
But at the same time, this process was subjectively much longer than William had imagined.
After William shouted that sentence, the Seed of Hope in his hand instantly split and turned into a dazzling white light. In this light, William felt that his consciousness was being continuously stretched, and everything around him was slowing down, almost to a standstill.
It's like a revolving lantern before death.
Then, really like a kaleidoscope, William saw the scene before Blake's death in a spot of light.
It was in the lighthouse of Black Crow Watch. Black, wearing black half-armor, sat down in his seat in front of the obsidian round table and leaned the pitch-black sword against the side of the table. After doing all this, he looked around again, and finally lowered his head and fell into a deep sleep.
No, this is not a revolving lantern illusion.
William felt that he could just reach out and pull Blake away from those round tables.
Then another spot of light appeared around William.
The dark curse of despair was constantly transforming his body into a Moon Realm being, while the opposing force brought by the Seed of Hope was constantly extending and cracking on his body. Blake's body was constantly collapsing under the influence of these two forces. Finally, after struggling for an unknown period of time, accompanied by a burst of tiny cracking sounds, his body completely turned into dust in this sarcophagus .
These two spots of light represent the moment when Blake's consciousness died and his body died respectively.
So this means I can choose when to resurrect Blake?
William thought.
But before William could make a choice, another spot of light appeared in front of him.
That was the scene in the hall of Platinum City when Blake and William jointly fought against the Whisper Queen Beatrice's Void Incarnation.
A slender woman with eight blood-red eyes lit up and a dark miasma all over her body was walking among the invisible spider silk. She was wearing a thin armor and dragging a long shadow behind her. She stretched out her six slender arms, each of which wielded a deadly black rapier.
Blake waved Judgment IV in his hand to barely parry the opponent's fierce attack, while William chanted a large spell not far away. But before the spell was completed, Blake's defense had a flaw, a rapier instantly pierced his throat, and then the deadly black miasma corroded his entire body into a pile of bones.
William looked at the scene in front of him with shock.
Although the impression is not that deep, but this is probably what happened when I had a car accident before?
Before William could react, bright spots appeared in front of him one after another.
And the images shown in those bright spots are all about Blake's...death.
He was split in half by the flame-blazing demon general "Slaughter", engulfed by the thunder and lightning ocean of the Tyrant's Disaster, beheaded by the Daemon Continent Expedition General holding a blood-red samurai sword, besieged by several Weavers and fell into a near-death state, which triggered the "Dying Glory" and killed him, and drowned by the endless tide of the undead...
Countless moments of Blake's death flashed around William, causing him to freeze in place for a moment.
The last bright spot slowly lit up... It was when Blake walked into the gloomy sewer alone and was besieged by countless half-human, half-spider monsters in the darkness. After leaving a pile of monster corpses on the ground, he finally collapsed. It was only at this time that William, dressed as an apprentice and holding a cheap magic medium, finally arrived.
This is the scene when William first encounters Blake...the scene where he fails to save Blake.
Countless possibilities of death, countless choices to avoid death...
Now, they were all presented in front of William.
Is this the so-called truth that allows people to be completely resurrected without any prerequisites?
“I can choose from countless possibilities and turn the possibility of my victory into reality.”
William murmured.
But even the possibility of death, which has never happened in theory, is revealed and reflected by the seeds of hope.
About twenty spots of light floated around William, continuously looping the moment of Blake's death.
Since the possibility of Blake's death exists and can cover reality, does the possibility of his own countless deaths also exist?
Not only death, but also other choices I have made, and even my other save files, may also exist?
But there was no time for William to think carefully. As the power of the Seed of Hope was released, the dazzling white light around him began to gradually dim, and those spots of light began to go out one by one.
The light spot that was most different from the current history was the first to go out, and then as if triggering a chain reaction, more than a dozen light spots went out one by one.
By the time William reacted, only the first two spots of light were still there.
And they are like candles that are about to burn out, and they are about to go out at any time.
William immediately put his hand into one of the spots of light.
Then, William literally held Blake's hand and pulled him from the beacon of hope in the past to the beacon of hope in the present.
