Chapter 2642 The Nun of the Fifth Age
Realizing that his destination was about to be reached, Shade looked ahead more carefully. The thick white fog completely blocked his sight, but gradually, he still saw the familiar glow of the dark moon.
The moon, half submerged in the water in the distance, became increasingly clear behind the thick fog, and even Ms. Bullock noticed it.
So the two of them stood up together and watched the fog around them getting lighter and lighter. Until unconsciously, there were many pure white souls standing on the water around the boat, and at this time, the dark moon had already illuminated them on this dark water.
Silent and extremely quiet, this is the end of everything and the place where the soul should go after death.
The last time Shade appeared here was when he was on the verge of death in the Battle of Moon Bay. At that time, Detective Sparrow, “The Chosen One of Darkness” Ivan Darkness, Sea Oxenfurt, the female knight of the fifth era, Miss Knight, and the little black cat mother and daughter were all here to greet him. , and at this time he did not see any familiar people.
The boat slowly slid forward for a certain distance and then stopped completely. Under the dark moon, they all seemed to be dyed silver, but none of them left a shadow on the boat. Ms. Bullock watched this scene with bated breath. Probably because of the protection of this small boat, they did not feel any discomfort here.
Xia De left her time to perceive everything around her, lowered her head and touched the cat looking at Ming Yue, and then handed the mithril eyepatch to the witch. She took it hesitantly, but did not immediately Call:
“You think, should I really disturb my sister’s peace after her death?”
The silence at this moment made her hesitate.
“We’re all here, do you really want to think about this now?”
Xia De raised his eyebrows, so the thirteenth-level witch nodded slightly, then looked down at the familiar eyepatch with wide eyes. She gently rubbed the complicated lines on the surface of the eye patch with her hands, then raised it and said loudly to the dark moon:
“Sister! Jessica Bullock!”
She really summoned up all her strength to call out, but the sound was still not loud.
The two of them and the well-behaved cat looked around, but no soul looked back after the call. Ms. Bullock waited for a while, and then lowered her head a little lonely. But Shade’s hand stretched out from the side and took the blindfold back:
“Perhaps it takes someone with the power of the First Fire to do this – Ms. Jessica Bullock, are you here?”
He also raised the blindfold high in front of Ming Yue, and the sound he made with all his strength was still much louder than the witch’s cry just now, even though he didn’t use “Thumbs-Dragon Roar” to amplify it.
The light of the dark moon seemed to become brighter, and the eye mask under the moonlight also seemed to light up. The thirteenth-level witch, who was looking at the surroundings with her last hope, saw a figure suddenly stop among the souls walking towards Ming Yue in front of her.
The figure’s outfit felt so familiar to both Shade and the Witch. It seemed that the gray-black nun’s robe was a style that had been popular since the fifth era. And she also has long gray hair, and the bright red embers at the ends of her long hair make her look different from other souls.
The soul turned around, and Ms. Bullock covered her mouth and her whole body trembled. And the nun, who looked to be in her thirties and looked five-fifths like Ms. Bullock, walked retrograde with other souls towards the boat under the dark moon.
The water surface rippled every time she landed, and Shade noticed that there were burn marks on the arms and clothes of the “Sister Brock” spirit body.
“Sister!”
The witch wanted to jump off the boat to meet her, but Shade hurriedly held her back:
“Are you crazy? Do you think you can stand on this water?”
The nun who was walking towards them stopped just a short distance away from the boat.
Her spirit body does not wear an eyepatch on its face, but is covered with a circle of black gauze. Her temperament is slightly different from Sister Devlin’s but very similar. If Sister Devlyn was a scarred ice cube, this woman was like a fragile snowflake about to melt.
Shade could feel that she was looking at the two people on the boat. To be more precise, she was looking at herself. After a moment of silence, the nun didn’t open her mouth, and a gentle and cold voice automatically appeared in Shade’s ears:
“Hero of Chenghuo, do you need my help for anything?”
The voice seemed to have an echo, and the language she spoke in the mid-Fifth Age had a grammar that sounded older than the grammar used by Miss Bullock and Mr. Nelson.
Xia De explained awkwardly:
“I don’t have anything to help with at the moment. It’s your sister who wants to come to see you. I’m just guiding her.”
The nun, whose eyes were covered with black gauze, then “looked” at her sister. The two sisters looked at each other speechlessly. The nun’s soul is expressionless, while the witch’s face is full of nostalgia and a little sadness:
“Sister, why are you? I know you have your own responsibilities. Once you embark on the path of a fire-bearing nun, you can’t turn back. But why, why did you lie to me before you died that you would wait for me in death?”
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The souls whose faces could not be seen around them spontaneously avoided the location of the boat. The tall boatman at the stern also stood motionless with the oar in his hand. Shade took little Mia and took a few steps back to give them time.
The cat is not afraid of this place at all. It seems that Shade has brought it here several times.
“If it weren’t for this gentleman’s help, I wouldn’t even have a chance to see you again. I don’t hate you for lying to me to find the first flame that burned you, but I hate you until You still lied to me in the end!”
She was crying as she spoke. In front of her “sister”, even though she was a thirteenth-level witch, she still looked like a little girl.
“I’ve lied to you many times.”
The nun answered calmly:
“The old nun who took me away told me all the consequences of choosing this path before taking me away, but in order for you to be able to study as a witch with peace of mind, I did not tell you this. .”
The tearful witch looked up at her sister in shock. She always thought that her sister knew what she was going to do after she was taken away by the old nun.
“Since then, I have thought about deceiving you all the time. I have chosen an unchangeable fate for myself. There is no need to let you know everything, but if you can detect the lies yourself, what it means is Your own abilities.”
She seems to have already thought about how to face her sister’s questioning:
“I knew before I died that we would not be able to see each other after death because of the specialness of my soul. At that time, you were sad because you found the flame and led to my death. Do I have to tell you at that time? , won’t we have a chance to meet even after death?”
In an extremely calm tone, he said the sentence that made the witch extremely sad:
“Aniya Bullock, I only care about two things in my life. One is you and the other is fire.
For you, I sacrificed myself to the fire; for the fire, I deceived you again. If you need my apology, I can apologize to you now, but don’t punish yourself for these things, don’t live for me. ”
“But you live for me!”
The two sisters looked at each other and were silent for a few seconds:
“Because I am your sister.”
The witch couldn’t help but cover her face and cry bitterly. She even squatted down on the boat because she was unsteady.
The crying lady thought of everything that had happened since her parents died, the sisters’ dependence on each other as children, the separation in girlhood, the connections in youth, and their mutual dependence after each had their own goals in life.
As I cried, I suddenly felt that the light of the silver moon in front of me was dimming a little. I raised my head with tears in my eyes and found that the nun with her back to the moon had walked to the front of the boat.
The witch stood up immediately, and the two sisters hugged each other tightly at the bow of the boat.
“So, some things will be fine once you open them up.”
Xia De held little Mia and watched this scene with satisfaction. Although the witch’s affairs seemed to have nothing to do with his mission of “waiting with mortals for those who are about to leave”, he could see this story and Xia De was still very happy to facilitate its resolution.
The two sisters who embraced each other quickly separated in front of the dark moon. The nun was still standing in front of the bow, while Ms. Bullock wiped her tears and her voice sounded much normal:
“Sister, before I die, I will definitely find a way to see you again after death. I will sit on the seat of the great witch of death, and I will use every method to achieve my goal. You have been working for me all my life. I, I will hold your hand again after death.”
A faint smile appeared on the face of the calm-looking nun. She did not object to her sister’s idea, but turned to look at Shade:
“The hero who bears the fire.”
“I’m here.”
The witch temporarily stepped aside, and Shade came to the bow of the ship again. Seeing the nun extending her hand to him, Shade handed over the mithril eyepatch under the moonlight. But the nun shook her head, and Shade held out his hand very hesitantly.
Sister Bullock grabbed his hand, and after a moment of holding it, she asked:
“Has the First Fire of the Sixth Era weakened to this extent?”
Xia De didn’t ask her how she knew the time she belonged to:
“This is already very strong. My fire-bearing nun has found a lot of firewood and the flames of the splitting of the first fire. She said that the dimming of the first fire represents the weakening of the world, and no one can stop this.”
Sister Bullock nodded slightly, but still did not let go of Shade’s hand. Then the red flame lit up again from the two people’s clasped hands, and some power from the soul was shared with Shade. Little Mia then wanted to put her claws on their hands, but was stopped by Shade’s left hand.
The fire-wielding nun of the Fifth Age bowed her head slightly to him:
“Please touch my darkness. Even if I don’t meet a hero who can hold fire while I’m alive, I am still a nun who holds fire.”