Chapter 257 The goddess’s murmur
bang bang.
Duke stood in the light, and mysterious energy descended from his head, poured into his body, and penetrated into the spiritual sea.
His five senses seemed to be amplified.
You can even hear your own heartbeat, which is strong and regular, and even your breathing becomes as loud as a roar.
"It's a strange feeling, Xiaoyi, did you find anything?" Duke looked down at his hands and asked in his heart.
He could see every hair on his hands, the pores at their roots, and the clear texture on his skin.
"The master's five senses have been distorted by some kind of force, and the spiritual sea has also been penetrated by this force. Xiaoyi is resisting this force and analyzing its nature." Xiaoyi's information feedback is slower than usual. It is impossible to transmit countless information in an instant.
But basic communication can still be done.
"Full power analysis, this feeling makes me unhappy." Duke gave the order.
The five senses were amplified, as if his body had become allergic, and every sensation made him feel frightened.
He looked around and saw nothing but his own body.
He tried to shout: "Lord Muse!"
Then it was like thunder sounded in his ears, making his ears buzz, but he did not get any response from Muse.
"What do I want to do, stand here stupidly?" Duke waited for no response, and his body entered a strange state again. He couldn't help but take a step forward, trying to get out of the formation position of the Star Viewing Platform, "The Will of the Stars" Where is it, why didn’t I see it?”
However.
When his footsteps fell, the surrounding situation suddenly changed, and the light seemed to retreat and quickly spread around.
Without the Star Viewing Platform, the place where he was was like a mirror with accumulated water.
Because of his footfall, the water on the mirror quickly rippled around, completely crushing his reflection. The accumulated water is equally magical, exuding a little bit of brilliance and having a dreamy crystal texture.
"Where is this?" Duke looked around.
Endless water of dreams, endless mirrors of reflection. It was unclear whether it was air or water around his body. As his body swayed, ripples spread outward in circles. The top of the head also ripples gently like dreamy water.
"Xiao Yi, where am I?"
"Master, your five senses have been invaded and blinded by alien forces. According to Xiao Yi's calculation, you are still at the same place, but the accuracy is not 100%." Xiao Yi's response was like It came from a distant and unknown place, very ethereal.
"That is to say, there is still a certain probability that I have left the star viewing platform of the Star Tower?" "
Yes, Master."
The spiritual arcana is mysterious and unpredictable, and there are too many unknown powers. Even Xiaoyi cannot guarantee it. Did Duke leave the star viewing platform at this time?
According to previous records, turning on the will of the stars is just a dream.
But in reality, there are people who have followed the explosion of phantoms in ancient times, been involved in hundreds of millions of years, and traveled between the past and the present.
Time and space are not fixed in the realm of spiritual arcana.
"I am ready to move forward. Whether I am involved in a dream or pulled into time and space, I must carefully appreciate it all." Duke adjusted his mentality and regarded it as a wonderful journey. "If the will of the stars is Enlighten me, you will always show up!"
He took big steps, stepped on the water, stepped on the mirror-like surface, and kept walking forward.
There were ripples all around, stirring up the light that came from nowhere and causing it to sway around.
I don’t know how much time has passed.
Duke has almost adapted to the amplified five senses, and is no longer frightened by the sound of footsteps, water splashing, and breathing. Suddenly, the mirror in front of him seems to be like a mountain rising up, with a huge human silhouette rising up, and countless ripples in it. Ripples on the silhouette.
"Du..."
A distant call sounded in Duke's ears at the same time.
"What, who, who are you, are you the will of the stars?" Duke responded to the vague call and looked at the huge human silhouette in front of him.
Or a mountain with a human silhouette, like a female silhouette.
There was no response, only the same call as before: "Du..."
"My name is Duke, Duke!" Duke shouted.
It seemed that this cry was finally accepted by the unknown will of the stars, and the call gradually became clearer and solidified.
"Duke..."
"Yes, my name is Duke, Will of the Stars, where are you, and what kind of enlightenment do you want to give me?" Duke responded loudly, spinning in circles.
"Go..." The call was strong and sometimes weak.
At a certain point, "Go..." became particularly clear: "Go forward..."
"Continue to go forward." Duke murmured in his heart, and then Follow the call and keep moving forward.
The water on the mirror and the ripples around it quietly transformed as he moved forward, turning into an ever-burning fire.
But the fire didn't burn, and Duke walked steadily on the fire.
The call from that distant place also followed the rhythm of Duke's footsteps, and he began to recite poetry vaguely: "Our birth is actually falling asleep, forgetting..." The
female silhouette mountain peak that has been traversing the front, along with Du It moves with the movement of Gram, always keeping the same distance in front.
At this moment, the mountain peak suddenly fell downwards, without the power of earth-shattering, only as gentle as a horse watching flowers.
"The souls that rise with us are the stars in life..." The song does not stop.
Duke's pace never stopped. He called Xiao Yi in his heart, but Xiao Yi didn't respond this time.
He wanted to look inside the spiritual sea.
But I found that I couldn't do it anymore. I couldn't use any strength. It was as if I had returned to the original human being, the ordinary person that an earthling should be.
"See those bright lights, those are the dying stars." Songs rose from all directions and blended into the surrounding flames.
Duke heard the chant.
Suddenly I raised my head and looked up at the top of my head. I didn't know when the stars had appeared again, and they were brighter than ever before.
The light of those stars looks like paintings.
The endless flames beneath my feet have receded, revealing the desolate Gobi desert with nothing but yellow sand and stones.
The song never stopped: "How do you say 'moon' in your language? No matter how you say it, we are all looking at the same moon."
Duke was stunned.
Standing there, he shouted loudly: "Will of the Stars, where are you?"
The call came again: "Forward..."
Duke had no choice but to follow the voice and continue to step forward, stepping on the hard Rocks and soft yellow sand move in unknown directions such as southeast, northwest and northwest.
"Stars are born from dust and mist and are scattered in the universe. They connect us with the universe." The song began to sing again.
Duke looked up and glanced ahead.
The female silhouette of the mountain still lies in front, as if sleeping and tempting passers-by. The sharp-edged rocks form a graceful posture.
The starry sky that looks like a painting covers the mountain with a mist-like veil, adding to its allure.
"Without darkness, there would be no existence of light." The song sounded distant and closer.
Suddenly.
It was as if a woman was whispering softly in Duke's ear: "The stars reflected in your eyes are a dream from another world that I have never seen before."
Duke subconsciously turned around, but there was no woman.
But in the distant place behind him, there are mountains rising one after another, and mountains sinking one after another, changing rapidly like a vast ocean.
"I have traveled throughout the entire constellation of stars and cannot find a star brighter than you." The woman's murmuring voice appeared in Duke's ears again.
Duke walked around and saw no one.
He didn't know who was calling, who was singing or whispering, his memory was almost fading, he only remembered that it seemed to be the will of the stars.
At the end of the desolate Gobi Desert, there is an endless storm, accompanied by thunder and lightning.
Duke didn't know how long he had been gone. His body seemed to have decayed in time, and even his memory had not been let go.
All he wanted to do now was to move forward and reach the mountain peak that looked like the silhouette of a sleeping woman.
Occasionally.
He would stop and look at the stars above.
"When you are staring at the stars, the stars are also staring at you... In the dark night, you are never alone." The woman began to whisper in her ear again.
Like resentment, admiration, weeping, complaining.
It is chanting and singing.
"Show up and see me!" Duke looked at the mountain peaks still in the distance, stretched his hands to his mouth, and shouted loudly, "The Will of the Stars!"
He didn't move, and neither did the mountain peaks.
The woman was unmoved by his roar and still murmured in her ear: "There is a vast universe in my heart. Now I will give you one of my cherished stars. As long as you are willing to walk through the night and into the morning, I'm walking step by step, so..."
Something seemed to be stuffed into Duke's mind.
The woman kept murmuring: "You can share this entire starry sky with me."
"What?" Duke stretched out his arm and scratched his forehead. He didn't catch anything, but when he put his hand down, his palm was already filled with starlight.
These stars rose slowly and surrounded him, like cheerful elves.
"At the end of their lives, they traveled thousands of miles to come to each other and surround each other... The starlight in the darkness is the warmest and most unforgettable thing. It dispels uneasiness and coldness and brings hope and expectation." Woman's The murmur gradually faded away.
Then, Duke saw the female silhouette mountain peak that had been lying in the distance, and finally stood up again.
It walked towards Duke step by step.
Then, from its jumbled rock structure, a roaring sound echoed through the wind-and-lightning night.
"To someone, you are the center of the universe - like the stars at night, you radiate the light of the entire universe and help them find their way... Although, you may not realize it, Duke, my traveler ."
The mountain peaks were walking like people, pressing closer step by step, and then slowly shrinking.
Until she becomes a real person, a woman covered in gauze, a woman whose facial features cannot be seen clearly, but who feels extremely beautiful.
Duke could not look directly into her eyes, just like a mortal afraid of the majesty of a god.
She is no longer a mountain, nor is she an ordinary woman.
At this moment, she is a goddess.
The goddess's voice finally stabilized this time, and the surrounding wind and thunder and lightning also stopped. There was no endless water, endless fire, endless sand and stones, only the stars shining brightly in the dark night.
"The stars are lingering on the dead body, and you are the only one who can wake me up." The goddess looked at Duke, making Duke seem to have forgotten to breathe, "Your body is mine, your voice is mine, but But you're not mine."
"Huh..." Duke finally breathed out after holding it to his limit.
Then his decayed body and memory revived at the same time, as if he had experienced life and death once, and now he was alive again.
I couldn't help but ask: "Are you the will of the stars?"
"The stars are me, I am not the stars, I am the forgotten person, and the person you cannot understand. If we must have a code name to communicate with each other, you You can call me..." The goddess said softly, "Nix!"
"Nix...goddess." Duke wanted to look directly at the other party, but couldn't, as if there was a strong resistance preventing him from doing so.
You can only lower your head and look at the opponent's feet.
Without shoes, he stepped on a star, and he himself, without shoes, also stepped on a star.
There are stars all around. This is a starry sky without up, down, left or right.
Duke couldn't understand why he could still stand in the starry sky without any feeling of weightlessness. He could only understand it as a dream.
He is still in the dream of the will of the stars and has not yet awakened.
He looked at the feet of Goddess Nyx, which were flawless and white, and could be called jade feet: "So, what enlightenment do you want to give me?" "
I can't give you any enlightenment." Goddess Nyx shook her head, "I know the past and the future, but the past has withered and the future has no hope, so I will not provide any interference to you now, you can use it to your heart's content." "Um..." The five senses have returned to normal, and the IQ has regained its high ground,
Duke I couldn't help but ask again, "But you gave my seniors, those arcane mages, a lot of enlightenment, especially in the field of spiritual arcana. I don't understand, why did you stop coming to me?" He did it in a daze
. It's a strange dream. If I don't get any benefits, it will be just a daydream when I wake up.
"They are me, you are not me."
"I still don't understand?" Duke frowned.
Emotion, the Will of the Stars, or the goddess Nyx, did not regard him as one of her own.
He couldn't help but think of the murmur of the goddess Nyx before, and said loudly: "Didn't you say that I am your traveler?" "
Yes, you are my traveler, Duke." The mysterious aura on the body of the goddess Nyx His words faded away and he spoke more naturally, "Your body is mine, but you come from a distant foreign land. You are different from them. You can bring me hope." "Huh?" Duke suddenly realized that he was a time
traveler
. , may have been seen through by the goddess Nyx: "Do you know that I come from a foreign land?"
"Your spirit is outside the stars and is not an integral part of this world." The goddess Nyx said Duke's identity calmly, " I don’t know where you come from, but there is no doubt that you have injected a glimmer of new hope into the decaying world.”
"This..."
"Are you afraid and worried?" Goddess Nyx asked, "But the stars have recognized you, and I have recognized you. I have shared this starry sky with you, and you can enter and exit freely. Walk in from any corner of the world."
"You mean, I can come to this starry sky often in the future?" Duke's eyes widened.
"It's mine, and it's yours."
"Yes!"
"Then now, you should tell me, Walker Duke, where are you from, and are you willing to take me far away?" "
Yes!"
Although Duke didn't understand What does the goddess Nyx want him to do, but his home earth is a place he has to protect.
Even if there is no malice, he is unwilling to reveal it casually.
So he might as well agree to the other party's request first. He looked at the other party's feet and thought about how to explain his identity.
soon.
He muttered and said: "As you can see, I come from the Three-Body Body."
"The Three-Body Body, what is that?"
"The Three-Body Body..." Duke fell into memories, "In the Three-Body Body, what I saw Things you would never believe. I saw the world being torn in half by the power of tides, and magma boiled the sea water; I saw the corona of stars swallowing planets one after another, dimming its arms. , calm and ruthless."
The tone gradually became a bit sad and desolate: "However, these are just water droplets in the universe, and they will disappear in despair at all times, just like a sudden rain, sinking in the sea water." After a long
time .
Goddess Nyx responded: "I don't understand."
"That's right, you don't understand." Duke said sincerely, "Just as you don't understand my original world, I don't understand what you need to do and how to lead the world." You fly away."
There was another long silence.
Goddess Nyx said softly: "I have forgotten who I am, only a little obsession is left... Walker Duke, use your talents according to your ideas... I believe that one day, you can find The answer, take me far..."
Her body moved backwards and gradually zoomed in: "Go..."
Then it turned into a mountain with a female silhouette, standing in the distant starry sky: "High..."
The starry sky also gradually returned to Above the dome, all that is left is the desolate land where yellow sand sweeps in and the Gobi desert spreads endlessly.
The female silhouette of the mountain fell to the ground, dragging out the last ethereal syllable: "Fei..."
"Master...man..." Xiaoyi's voice was suddenly heard again, but it was a little intermittent.
"I'm here."
Duke stood on a Gobi stone pillar, looking up at the starry sky above his head. He didn't know what he was thinking, but he only felt that his mood was desolate.
...
In the Erudite Tower, the night covered the top of the tower. Several arcane mages in red and purple robes were sitting by the windows of the conference hall, looking ahead.
"It's on."
"Have you seen Duke?"
"I can't see clearly. He is standing on the commanding heights of spirituality. He is under the stars." Madron Rhodiola looked at the front not far away, at the same height. Top of the Star Tower.
There was only a bunch of light that was not dazzling, surrounding everything in it, making it impossible to get a clear view.
"Alas, I don't know whether it is right or wrong to choose Duke to activate the will of the stars." A purple-robed arcanist mage sighed.
Another purple-robed arcanist mage responded calmly: "It was Lord Selsus' suggestion. Your Lord chose Duke to replace Lord Miguel. It is obviously your opinion and consideration. We only need to wait for the revelation after the Will of the Stars is activated. But."
Everyone fell into silence immediately, and they were all looking at the light on the Star Tower seriously, and time passed by.
"How long did it last?"
"It seemed like fifteen minutes."
"Well, it was much longer than recorded in the data. The longest time recorded in the past seemed to be twelve minutes." "
Longer is better, the will of the stars can do it. Give me more inspiration."
"The Huiyue Arcane Masters are protecting Duke's safety in the Tower of Stars. I don't know if they can record anything. So far, I haven't figured out what the will of the stars actually is." A great arcane mage said something. Said regretfully.
suddenly.
Master Youao said: "Look, the light has receded, and the will of the stars has begun to move away!"
"Chief Director, do we want to go over and find out?"
"No, just wait here." Madelong responded calmly, "The stars The will is the top priority of the Federation, and the results will be notified as soon as possible."
"Yes, just wait quietly."
"We have to wait for a hundred years, and this is not enough time."
The arcane mages in the conference hall said again Silence returned.
...
There is a stone forest among the yellow sand. Among them is a stone pillar that is a hundred meters high. Miguel, the guardian of the gravel domain, is sitting cross-legged on the top.
Look up at the stars above.
"There is no movement in the stars. Has the Will of the Stars not been activated yet?" He pinched his fingers slightly and calculated the astrology technique. "The Hunter is piercing the Cetus. It is when the stars are boiling. The Muse will definitely choose to activate it at this moment. ."
Suddenly.
The tip of his nose twitched slightly.
Then he stared at the starry sky again, with a hint of cold malice on his lips: "It's turned on. The spirituality permeating the stars is already gathering." "Yes, it's
turned on. This is the opportunity that should be yours." Melis' figure suddenly appeared. Behind Michael's back, he quietly reached out and covered his eyes, "This was your only chance to suppress me, but you missed it." "Go away!" "You will make me very sad if you speak evil words to
me
. , Michael, we used to love each other so much, we wanted to take out each other's hearts and exchange them." Melis cried, "How can you do this to me now, you are so cruel." Michael clenched his
fists , the pervasive spiritual energy rises from him.
Under the influence of psychic energy, Melis' figure began to twist, as if a rubber band was being pulled apart, and her voice changed: "It hurts, it hurts, Michael, my love, I'm in so much pain, I In fear, in the dark abyss!"
The next moment.
Melis's elongated figure suddenly turned into a dark shadow, rushed toward Michael, and let out a shrill roar.
Miguel opened his fingers, and the roaring arcana turned into a pillar of light, which penetrated directly through the black shadow, and then smashed countless stone pillars without stopping.
But this was ineffective against the black shadow. After the light beam disappeared, the black shadow rushed over again.
No matter how powerful the arcane magic was used by Michael, the black shadow could not be beaten to death. It was like a piece of brown candy, clinging to Michael.
"No! Get out of my way!" Miguel yelled.
A star in the sky above his head suddenly burst into light, and the light fell to the ground, forming a beam of light area, shrouding him in the center.
This is the Star Cage.
The domain power of Morningstar Arcane Tutor.
Unfortunately, the black shadow came and went freely in the star cage, like an octopus, suddenly entangled Michael from behind, and then the shadow turned into black tentacles and penetrated into Michael's eyes, ears, mouth and nose , amidst Michael’s desperate roar, they were all submerged.
The stars above his head dimmed, and the cage of stars also dissipated.
"Humph... Humph..."
Miguel stood there, his body slightly arched, breathing heavily. After a long while, he raised his head and stood up straight.
"Duke...Muse..."
With a faint smile on his face, Michael jumped up under the starlight and flew lightly towards Gaohe City.
Just occasionally.
There will be a dark shadow flashing across his eyes.
...
"What are you thinking about?"
The light dissipated, and the mysterious lines disappeared under the floor. Muse saw Duke standing on the Star Viewing Platform.
At this time, Duke still maintained his gaze forward.
However, what he could see in front of him at this moment was only darkness.
"I was thinking about the dream just now, Lord Muse." Duke responded in a sighing tone, "Similar to my predecessors, I seem to have had a dream." "Do you still remember the content of the dream?"
Miao Si became slightly nervous.
"Remember."
"Ah!" Exclaims came from the stairs below the star platform, and several white-haired arcane instructors climbed up the stairs one after another.
There are eight people in total, and the leader is none other than the Speaker of the Senate, Andrei Yuencao.
Celsus and Lambert Raven were among them. As for the others, Duke had met them once or had seen them on the news.
These eight are all the Huiyue Arcane Masters in the entire Seven Towers Federation.
"I have met you sirs." Duke bowed and saluted.
Andre Evening Primrose was rarely sober. He stretched out his hand, and an invisible force lifted Duke up. He said kindly: "Forget about the red tape, Duke. I want to know now what the will of the stars has sent down." Such an edict."
The eight Huiyue Arcane Masters, plus Muse, the Morning Star Arcane Master, all set their sights firmly on Duke.
This makes Duke feel very pressured.
But he realized in his heart that even the combined aura of a group of arcane instructors was not as great as the pressure brought to him by the goddess Nyx in the dream.
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