Nick counted the ti and sensed that they had been in this place for about two years already. During that ti, Silvanus had always seed imrsed in his own world, occasionally lifting his head as if to check whether Nick had run off or not.
Fortunately, Nick was the type who could yap endlessly about anything under the sun. Whether Silvanus was listening or not did not matter. As long as Silvanus did not tell him to stop, he would keep talking with boundless enthusiasm. In the end, even he grew a little bored and began studying undead magic together with Silvanus.
The undead excelled at curses and poisons, and their magic was incomparably powerful. The only things capable of suppressing them were the Sentinels of Hobbit, iron warriors that were truly immortal, since they did not even possess souls.
Nick studied with great relish, although it sotis left him covered in ash from head to toe.
Until one day, Silvanus finally stood up.
Nick was startled for a mont, then imdiately cheered with delight. "Can we finally leave now?"
Silvanus nodded. "Yes. Let’s go."
Inside Lichina’s notes was a record of how she crossed Chaosland when traveling from the Land of Darkness to the Land of Light to spread disaster. Because of that, leaving this place had never been particularly difficult.
"Follow . Don’t lose your way."
Silvanus turned his head to glance at Nick, then slowly stepped forward.
Nick quickly followed behind him, his expression extrely focused.
At this mont, the path beneath their feet was the night sky. They walked until it changed into the sun, then changed back into the night sky, then once more turned into the sun.
Finally, when the ground transford into the night sky yet again, with two enormous suns suspended above, entwined with each other, they arrived.
Nick felt as though it were an illusion. Just a mont ago, the pillar of light had still been very far away, even farther than before because of the direction Silvanus had chosen. Yet in the blink of an eye, they were standing here, right before the pillar of light.
Nick could not believe it. "How is this possible?! This..."
Silvanus glanced at him. In Lichina’s notebook, it was recorded that the pillar of light, which seed distant, was in fact the opposite. The farther it appeared, the closer it truly was. As long as they followed a specific direction, straight and unwavering, they would certainly arrive.
However, this region was like a dream. A flat, silent expanse where, at a glance, it felt as though they were moving straight ahead, yet there was no way to tell whether they were circling around or veering off to the side. Because of that, it was sowhat difficult and demanded extre concentration.
Silvanus looked once more at the pillar of light before him. As long as they jumped into it, they would reach the edge of Chaosland.
"Let’s go."
He said this and then looked toward Nick.
Nick swallowed, then jumped in first without the slightest hint of fear.
He could not help but think that Silvanus was acting this way because he was afraid Nick would not jump in after him.
No one could ever truly understand Silvanus’s thoughts. The mont Nick disappeared inside, he followed without any hesitation, vanishing into the pillar of light as well.
One might have imagined the light to rage like a storm, after all, this was the pillar of light supporting the world itself. But that was not the case. The instant he jumped in, Nick actually landed on solid ground. There were no raging lightstorms as he had imagined. Instead, there was a long corridor, its floor and the walls on both sides tinted with a hazy color, like a band of light rippling across water, reflecting countless gentle hues that nevertheless made the eyes feel dizzy.
This was the Corridor of Ti.
Silvanus felt everything transform in an instant. The space before his eyes seed to be rearranging each strand of his tiline, from a newborn god who knew nothing of the world, to the great war against the Outer God, with fragnts scattered everywhere and still unable to return even now. Then he fell into another world, one where fresh flowers and applause were the asure of all things. In the end, he died on the stage he loved most, becoming soone who played others just to find a way to survive. After that ca a battle to the death with the Outer God, and then this world.
He was not dead. The Outer God was not dead either. The two of them seed destined never to reach a final ending.
And he himself seed destined never to reach the ending he desired.
It did not matter.
This world would be the grave for their ending.
Silvanus tightly closed his eyes and did not get swept into the currents of the future. The future could always change under countless different forces. There was no such thing as truly foreseeing it.
He grabbed the back of Nick’s collar and then lunged straight forward.
Nick only felt a wave of dizziness. The images left behind seed to remain vividly imprinted in his mind.
What the hell was that just now? He had actually seen himself lying on a bed with a beautiful girl!
That was the future. A girl with snow-white hair, a voluptuous and soft figure, and a face that was breathtakingly seductive.
Nick felt his face heat up. He had no idea he would ever get an opportunity like that.
In this world, he had deeply learned what it ant for beauty to be poisonous. Beneath roses lay thorns. Why would that girl be by his side? Had she been moved by his super-cool deanor?
Nick drifted off into his thoughts. Seeing that expression on his face, Silvanus could not help but frown and flick him on the forehead.
Nick jolted, hurriedly straightened up, and gave Silvanus an awkward smile.
Silvanus sized him up for a mont and then said, "A mind full of lust."
Nick: "..."
He hurried after Silvanus. "Silvanus, you have to listen to , I’m not that kind of person..."
Silvanus did not care what kind of person Nick was. At this mont, they had already stepped out of the corridor of light. The radiance outside flared briefly, then vanished in an instant. In the end, they stood upon a flat expanse of land, mist shrouding the edges. Beneath their feet, the smooth ground shone with the dazzling light of the sun. At the center of the mist stood a colossal gate more than ten ters tall, wide enough for dozens of people to pass through at once. Standing before it, Nick and Silvanus looked all the more insignificant.
Looking back, the corridor of light had already disappeared. The pillar of light was no longer within their sight. Instead, a solitary gate floated in midair, golden-orange clouds drifting beside it. Angel-wing reliefs and a massive crown were carved into its surface, like a path leading to another world.
Nick was just about to ask whether that was the gate leading to the sky city when he heard a sound like sothing descending upon the world, shrill and strangely prolonged. Imdiately after ca a chanical voice.
"Intruder detected. Intruder detected. Target locked."
Nick blankly raised his hand, covering a red dot aid straight at his forehead.
Before he could even react to what it was, Silvanus yanked him aside. At the sa ti, an energy bullet shot past at an unimaginable speed, trailing a long streak of energy behind it, making everything look, for an instant, like a flying arrow.
Boom!
The energy bullet shot straight into the distance and then exploded violently. Imdiately after, Nick felt countless red dots lock onto his body, so dense it was as if they wanted to drill him into a sieve. The real problem was that those energy bullets would explode. If that barrage hit him, there probably would not even be scraps of flesh left!
Instinctively, he looked toward Silvanus, stunned. "Why aren’t they targeting you?!"
Silvanus withdrew his gaze from the gate floating in midair and directly grabbed Nick, teleporting to the front of the gate. Only then did they see that on the ground before it there was actually a chasm. Light flickered and coiled within it, like a stream of gold.
At this mont, the red dots targeting Nick vanished, though intermittent chanical clicking still echoed, as if sothing hidden in the darkness was waiting for another chance.
Silvanus looked at Nick and slowly said, "Jump into this rift, and you can reach the Mist Region. Once you leave that place, you will arrive at the Land of Light. But if you pass through this gate, what awaits us is the Land of Darkness."
Nick spoke almost without hesitation. "I already said it. I’ll go with you, Silvanus! Even if you think I’m a nuisance, you can’t drive away. I said it!"
Silvanus looked at Nick. He did not say anything. Instead, he crossed over the luminous rift and stood before the gate.
The gate had been built by the Hobbit, and only a Hobbit could open it. Fortunately, he was also a Hobbit. It was just that he did not know whether, in this undead state, his blood would still work... after all, undead blood was sowhat special.
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