Elena returned to the Pyramid of Demons and stepped on the strange stairs to the Temple of Insai.

This staircase gives the impression of being reversed, because the pyramid is upside down, so she is walking on the opposite side of the staircase inside the pyramid.

Elena was thinking a lot, and Ray's story made her feel a little uncomfortable.

It's like something is stuck in your chest.

"Why can't Ray leave the city?"

"The light of consciousness that he was destroyed by a strange force before he rushed into the storm, I didn't even have time to react."

"It shouldn't be."

Elena walked to the gate of the temple.

Outside, she had already started to take off the coarse cloth cloak draped over her clothes and hung it on the crook of her arms.

Elena's eyes swept across a pillar in front of the palace gate and frowned slightly.

A pillar at the entrance of the temple was carved in the shape of Elena, wearing armor and carrying the sword of Ruhe.

It was the day Elena arrived that she was transformed into this.

It was not what Elena requested, but was carved by other demons, symbolizing Elena's responsibilities in this temple and her identity.

This seems to be some kind of tradition among demons. .

However, Elena doesn't like such superficial things very much. She likes more real things, even if it is belief, what she likes is to do with words and deeds, not verbally.

"Um?"

Elena found it as soon as she came in.

There is a figure in the temple who is praying, facing the statue of God Insai.

Several halls on the outer layer of the temple allow all the demons to come to pray, although there is a time limit, and some newly recovered demons will also enter the temple to watch the writing slate to learn.

The voice of the other party's prayer was not loud, but because the temple was too quiet, it was still clearly heard in Elena's ears.

"Because of loneliness, God created the King of Wisdom, Ledrich, and because of Ledrich's loneliness, God created the Trilobites."

"The race begins from this, and the kingdom is established from this moment."

"God said."

"I am the God who created you, and you are their king."

He clasped his hands together and bowed humbly.

There are many pockets on the clothes he is wearing, and there is a box with a lot of things on the ground beside it; there are ropes on the box, which should be able to be hung on the body.

It looks like it should be a street vendor. Usually, his pockets are full of various goods, and the boxes are hung on the chest and unfolded to show other people their goods.

Elena did not disturb the other party's prayer, but just hung the cloak aside.

She was a little confused, and when she was thinking about things, she tidied up her cloak.

By the time she came back to her senses, the praying believers had already stood up.

The other party did not leave, but walked in front of Elena.

"Dear Elena-sama!"

"I have a doubt."

"You are the apostle of the gods, and you may be able to guide the confused me."

Elena guards this temple, but she does not take part in the responsibility of explaining people's doubts.

And she didn't feel that she could solve any doubts and mysteries for others.

but.

Since the person in front of her asked her, she was still ready to listen.

The demon dressed as the vendor had a box hanging on his chest, and it looked a little funny with colorful clothes full of pockets.

He told Elena about his dream, the one that always haunted him.

"I dream a lot, and every time I dream of a strange person."

"I feel like he is me, he lives on an island, the island is full of ritual workshops, and he has a shop on the island."

"When I usually dream of him, it's basically trivial matters."

"But recently."

"I always dreamed that he was in this inverted pyramid, that he was wandering under this temple, so I came here to find the reason for my dream."

The merchant is very strange, and he also knows something about the origin of the devil.

It is said that, a long time ago, the demons came from another race.

After all, there are traces of that race everywhere in this city, legends and myths left by that race.

and.

Beliefs inherited from that race.

"What surprised me the most was that."

"if!"

"It was a long, long time ago. It was another person's memory, so why did I see him wandering under this pyramid in the picture I dreamed of?"

"And the pyramid in my dream is almost the same as the current one, but I can be sure that it is the current pyramid, because your stone statue has only been added to the gate of the temple recently."

Elena suddenly remembered the dream she had had before, and she said to the other party: "Maybe, it was a dream."

"An ordinary dream."

"Because you came to the temple recently and saw my stone statue, that's why you had this dream."

But Elena went on to ask, "Is there anything special about that dream?"

The demon dressed as the merchant said immediately: "In my dream, this place is really strange."

"This pyramid is right."

"The temple is not at the bottom, but at the top."

Elena heard him say the truth and said to him.

"Looks like."

"It's just a dream."

The merchant demon scratched his head: "That's it! Maybe I'm thinking too much!"

Elena was about to turn to leave, but she stopped suddenly.

She seemed to have thought of something.

She asked the merchant demon, "How did you get in there in your dream?"

The merchant demon thought for a while: "I just saw the pyramid, then the stairs, and the other one I was wandering on the stairs."

"He looked a little fuzzy, as if he was floating on the stairs."

"correct."

"I saw a light on the top of the pyramid tower, and it seemed like a lot of shadows were hovering around that light."

Elena: "Come with me."

Elena walked towards the depths of the temple with the merchant demon spirit, and came to a square temple.

There is nothing in the hall. The dome above is flat and neat, but the bottom is sunken.

central.

A thing like a shaft.

There.

It is the real base of the inverted pyramid, or it can be said to be the apex.

Elena had seen this place several times before, but had never cared about it; now the problem with Ray was telling her that there was something wrong with the inverted pyramid.

The dream of the demon in front of her gave her some clues and ideas.

Elena came here, looked down, and jumped down.

The merchant demon hesitated for a while, but in order to understand his doubts, he jumped along with him.

"what!"

With a flash of light, they seemed to have crossed a blurred line.

In a daze, the merchant demon found himself falling to the ground.

He looked around and found himself falling into another hall.

But after taking a closer look at the surrounding scene, it felt so familiar.

"This is……"

"In the hall we were in just now."

Because he looked up and saw the shaft just now.

But now it has become a skylight.

The merchant demon turned his head, looking for the trail of Lady Elena.

I just saw the corner of the other party's clothes disappear behind the side door.

Elena was already walking outside, and the merchant demon followed her and walked outside.

Elena is tall and long-legged, and she walks resolutely. The merchant can only keep up with her rhythm with a trot, especially with a box hanging on his chest.

"Lord Elena!"

"Wait for me!"

The merchant demon passed through several palaces and corridors, and finally returned to the main hall.

He followed behind Elena, walking from the inside to the outside of the temple.

Suddenly bright.

The pyramid has become positive.

This is a strange realm, darkness wraps this pyramid, and in the distance is the darkness like a dream world.

Elena had never imagined that such a magical realm was hidden inside the inverted pyramid.

"Under the pyramid, is there such a place?"

"It's weird here."

"It's like a place where extraordinary powers converge. How did this place come into being?"

There are many statues on the square platform of the temple, and Elena feels the breath of these statues is very familiar.

Although these statues all look like the people of Demon Abyss, their current identities should be priests, nobles and guards in the kingdom of demons.

They should all be people she had seen before.

Elena walked towards the bottom, and the merchant demon followed on the stairs.

Every time Elena walked through this staircase before, she felt awkward.

Because it is the opposite.

And this time I felt more comfortable.

As she walked, she looked at the stone walls on both sides.

There are many reliefs on the stone walls on both sides, engraved with images of many people. It is roughly estimated that there are 8,000 reliefs of the people of the Demon Abyss from top to bottom.

The merchant demon looked at these reliefs, and the memory in the dream resurfaced.

The demon puppet stretched out his hand and pointed to the reliefs here, pointing to everything he had ever seen.

"right here."

"The place I saw in my dream before is this place."

"It's the same as here."

The merchant demon was talking to Elena excitedly, and his footsteps became much faster.

He unconsciously passed in front of Elena and stopped on the steps about a third of the way to the bottom.

"right here."

"I see another me, right here..."

Just as the voice fell, a voice came from behind him.

"You came?"

"Are you here to let me out?"

The vendor's voice stopped abruptly, and the metal doll turned his head stiffly.

I saw a transparent shadow drilling out of a relief in the wall and talking to him.

That is.

a ghost.

The transparent and illusory ghost that was shocked by the merchant demon seemed to see another self.

When I saw him in a dream, I was puzzled; when I met face to face, I felt extremely frightened.

The Merchant Demon felt an indescribable emotion welling up in his heart.

He finally solved the doubts in his heart, but another doubt surfaced again.

The merchant demon was a little sluggish, "Who are you?"

Ghost has no expression: "I am you."

The ghost is clearly talking to the merchant demon, and the body seems to be walking towards the heights uncontrollably, towards the temple.

"If you were me? Then who am I?"

The ghost didn't talk to him anymore, just floated up.

But he still spoke.

"You came?"

"Are you here to let me out?"

The merchant demon stood stiffly under the steps, and he felt horrified.

In this world, there is nothing more terrifying than seeing another self.

It's like denying the existence of the self.

If the other person is real, then what is the self?

If the other party is fake, why does he appear?

Then.

Doubt the whole world.

Elena looked at the transparent shadow, and ancient memories flooded into her heart.

She unconsciously spat out two bytes.

"ghost?"

In her mind, the memory of ghosts appeared.

The holy mountain appeared in her mind, and the figure of the high priest under the seat of the evil **** appeared.

"This is the product of the evil god's power, how could it appear here?"

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Under the Pyramid of Demons.

The merchant devil is completely unacceptable for this kind of thing, he shook his head and said.

"I am the real one!"

"I'm here, you can't be me."

"What the **** are you..."

He finally raised his head and chased after him.

He wanted to confirm something.

The merchant demon wanted to stop the ghost, and wanted to ask him some more questions.

Even if the other party looks confused, it doesn't look like he can answer the question at all.

but.

When his hand touched the other's moment, it was as if he had touched the coldest thing in the world.

Gu Yu

The icy cold and the freezing cold extended from the fingertips, directly into the depths of his consciousness.

"what!"

Countless pictures appeared in front of the merchant demon, not the island, nor the daily life of guarding the shop.

But day after day, year after year wandering in this darkness.

The merchant demon was shaking.

He dared not touch the ghost in front of him again.

It seemed that what was in front of him was not a fragile spiritual body, but a bottomless abyss that devoured him.

The other party has been incarnated as a ghost and wandered in this dark place for 250 million years, from the previous era to this era.

The last time he recovered was decades ago.

The story of the birth of a ghost is tragic.

The first ghosts were born under the holy mountain, the three-leafed people of the city of the servants of the gods.

They are the remnants of the power of spirituality and wisdom that have been emptied in life.

They are a person's memories and some of their deepest emotions.

The ghost felt the merchant demon touching him and stopped.

He didn't speak, just looked back at the merchant demon.

He seemed to remember something.

There was a touch of emotion in the ghost's eyes, and he suddenly asked.

"What time is it now?"

The Merchant Demon Spirit was still trembling, but Elena answered the question on his behalf.

"Second Era."

The ghost asked again, "Has God returned?"

Elena told him: "The gods have returned, and this era is richer than the last, and this era has more for mortals."

However, she still had nothing to say.

"However, this era does not belong to us."

The ghost turned around, and then walked up to the heights, chattering: "That's great, we succeeded, we succeeded."

Elena and the merchant demon watched the ghost go all the way to the temple, thinking about the place where the pyramid radiated light and floated away.

Soon, he was back.

"can not go out."

"can not go out."

"Yeah, I couldn't get out."

"It was arranged from the beginning that we will always belong here, as the seeds from which consciousness was born."

The ghost walked all the way down, and passed by the merchant demon spirit standing sluggishly on the steps.

He suddenly asked, "Is this eternal life?"

"Will you be able to live like this?"

"Is this still alive?"

But soon, he immediately carried out self-denial.

"Do not."

"It's not for immortality, it's for the future."

Suddenly, the ghost said emotionally: "For the continuation of the race, we must do this."

But as soon as the voice fell, Ghost's expression became distorted again.

"No, I don't want to be like this."

"It's better to die like this!"

"Why did I choose this? What the **** am I thinking?"

In this twisted and crazy conflict, the ghost gradually calmed down.

No expression, no emotion.

Back to the relief, no longer appear.

Elena was lost in thought.

Think about everything you see here, and think about what the ghost just said.

But the demon puppet standing under the steps suddenly raised his head, his body still seemed to be shaking, but he couldn't help but make his request to Elena.

He looked at Elena and asked her in pleading words.

"Lord Elena!"

"I can……"

"Can I let him go?"

Elena's head is also in chaos at the moment, she has not fully understood what the secret and truth of this pyramid is.

"That's you."

"It's all up to you."

Elena also said to him: "But I don't understand, what will happen after you let him go?"

Elena asked the merchant demon, did he see something just now?

From within the spirit body of that ghost.

The merchant demon reached out his fingers and touched himself on the relief.

"I just felt he was in pain, he was lonely."

"I want to let him go."

"I want to do this."

"At least, don't let him wander forever in this darkness."

Finished.

He acted.

The merchant demon reached out his hand, and the palm of his hand radiated the light of extraordinary power.

Even the most common demons are powerful.

He erased his own relief on the wall, and the aura on the relief was a little deserted.

The ghost was squeezed out from the inside while the relief was worn away.

can be seen.

The ghost's body was disintegrating little by little, and it disappeared little by little.

When the ghost appeared, he repeated that sentence.

"You came?"

"Are you here to let me out?"

This time.

The merchant demon said loudly to him and kept nodding his head.

"That's right."

"I'm here to let you out, you're free."

He seems to be happier than the ghost, as if it was not the other party who was let go, but himself.

Ghost's eyes were confused at first, but then.

Light flashed in his sluggish eyes, meeting the eyes of the merchant demon.

"I am free?"

The voice fell, and the ghost body completely dissipated.

A bubble emerged from the ghost, and colored light reflected from it.

White and black alternate, and the colors are constantly reincarnated.

The merchant demon still doesn't know what it is: "Colored bubbles?"

From the colored bubbles, he saw the rotation of ancient pictures.

Among them, there is a scene he once saw in a dream.

Elena stepped forward: "It's the dream of life!"

When the merchant demon heard what she said, he also remembered the legend he had heard: "After life dies, it will return to the kingdom of the creator."

"The ferryman will come to pick up the believers of God and go to that dreamy sea of ​​stars."

"I heard it before."

"I've heard the story."

Under the gaze of two people, the dream of life rose to the top of this realm.

The sky opened an invisible door, and the ripples of the dream world engulfed the dream of life.

Next, nothing is seen.

But the merchant demon can imagine the scene behind.

soon.

There will be a giant ship exuding golden light coming from the depths of the dream world, carrying this dream aboard and heading to the creator's kingdom of God.

The merchant demon stood on the spot, holding his head high.

"so good!"

"He is free, he no longer has to feel the eternal darkness and loneliness."

"He can go to the dreamy Xinghai."

The merchant demon turned around and said to Elena with some ease.

But talk and talk.

His metal body began to be covered with rust, and the rust penetrated directly into the interior of the body, disintegrating him into a mass of rust powder.

In his relaxed words, the whole person collapsed.

Turned into a pool of broken parts.

"Bang bang bang!"

The box hanging on his chest fell over, and all kinds of strange small objects were scattered all over the stairs.

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Elena stayed on the stairs.

After the demons die, the Pyramid of Demons glows, rekindling their consciousness.

At that time they will enter the next cycle and start all over again.

Although the past has been forgotten, maybe it can barely be called a recovery, right?

But this time.

Elena waited for a long time, but he didn't come back to life.

It seems that with the release of the ghost, he also died completely.

until fully confirmed.

Elena turned her head and said to the puppet that was turned into a mass of rusted wreckage.

"Perhaps, I shouldn't have agreed to your request."

"However, you don't seem to regret it even in the end."

"What did you feel from that ghost's body? Is it really so painful?"

waiting in the waiting space.

Elena also counted all the reliefs here, as well as the statues above.

"Eight thousand two hundred and sixteen!"

Elena remembered what the Demon King said to herself before: "There are 8,216 people in this country."

Elena walked up the steps, she went straight to one of the pillars.

On the pillar, a heroic female knight is carved.

Unlike the people of the Demon Abyss present, she has a form that resembles a god.

Elena stopped and said in a complicated tone.

"No."

"Eight thousand two hundred and seventeen."

The female knight on the pillar moved suddenly, she turned her head, and spoke to Elena proudly.

"Come on!"

"stop!"

"Can't you approach the temple of God without permission?"

This ghost is the most powerful ghost here.

She was born not long ago, it should have appeared recently.

And at that time, it should be when Elena returned to the city.

Under the priest's robe, Elena unconsciously clenched her hands.

She finally figured it out. She knew the function of this Pyramid of Demons, and she also roughly understood the meaning of the name Demon.

"turn out to be!"

"This is the devil."

An extraordinary body with a monster, an immortal spirit with a ghost.

The two make up the so-called demon.

The body is made of extraordinary materials, just like props, it will not be easily destroyed and corroded.

It's just that the consciousness in the body is destined to be exhausted in time.

But as long as the ghost is immortal and the consciousness of the body dies, this pyramid of demons and the ghost inside can be used as a seed to revive again, and a new consciousness can be born.

They are a combination of monsters and ghosts, but not exactly monsters.

so.

Only then can they live in the city where the people of Demon Abyss used to be, without being bound by the Demon Oath.

Elena stood in front of the pillar and looked at her ghost, her emotions were difficult to calm down for a long time.

"Cast the body of an extraordinary monster with metal, then use the ghost as a candle to ignite the consciousness over and over again, and use this pyramid as a candlestick to keep this kingdom of monsters running forever."

"In this way, the people of Moyuan can exist across time? This way, the inheritance of the people of Moyuan can be maintained?"

"This is what I chose?"

"The way to rescue the people of Moyuan?"

Elena looked at the entire Pyramid of Demons~lightnovelpub.net~ and the voice passed through this empty realm.

"Is this the giant ship I made that crosses the river of time?"

Her voice was cold and puzzled.

"This is?"

"The future I choose?"

The female knight stood for a long time, and suddenly she drew the sword from her waist.

She pointed to herself on the pillar, her expression extremely angry.

like.

I can't wait to slash myself on the pillar with a sword.

"What future is this?"

"Elena? Were you crazy?"