Chapter 2702 Whispering – Cowardice
The main body of the broken black giant is still underwater, but it seems that it can no longer support the battle. And because York Bronte has absorbed too much life force, although he still basically maintains his human form at this moment, his head is white and swollen, a structure similar to wings has grown on his back, his arms have shrunk, and his legs are unusually thick. It is gradually leaving its human form.
There were four eyes on its extremely huge face. When it looked up at the two people in the sky, it grinned its mouth with sharp canine teeth and laughed. Shade and Dany Miss Ste can hear it:
“I already know what kind of power you have. Let’s meet again in 67 years! At that time, I will let you know my power.”
The white mist between the narrow spaces of time seeped out and enveloped his body. It was trying to escape from what happened next by returning to 1787, the year of “destined death”. Even though the coffin as a tree cavity has been lost, at least there is still hope that it can survive back to 1787.
From Shade’s point of view, this seems to be fate actively attracting it to go back to die. Although there is no evidence, outsiders have a strong premonition that once York Brontë takes the initiative to return to 1787, it will never be able to leave that time again, nor will it return to this battlefield across 67 years.
But it seems that it is a bit advantageous for him to usher in “death” so easily. Not only Shade thinks so, but more people also think so.
While Shade and Miss Danister were throwing wooden stakes at him respectively, under the water where York Bronte was standing, the hands of densely packed spiritual beings suddenly stretched out, and he was trying to escape. That moment caught him.
These souls that were absorbed by him in the “edge of life and death” briefly regained their consciousness after the collapse of the huge flesh and blood body. Over the past sixty years, countless souls who died tragically because of York Bronte have held on to its body. Apparently, the Dead Apostles were trying to return to the past and could not leave with so many souls.
So the two wooden stakes hit its throat and chest easily, and the huge number of souls piled up on each other from the bottom of the water, even causing the spirit body to interfere with reality.
One hand after another kept tearing at its body and soul that had lost its resilience. Bronte exclaimed and wanted to cast a spell to expel them, but when the chocobo jumped down the pit with lightning, Iluna’s hand Under the light of the scale it was holding, it completely lost its ability to cast spells:
“You **** things, you were my food when you were alive. Do you think I will be afraid of you after you die?”
The stake inhibits its ability to absorb life force, and the balanced Chosen limits its spellcasting. Therefore, even though they were cursing in panic, those souls still gathered more and more, until they piled up like a hill and pushed York Bronte out of the water.
As a result, its body completely sank into the “Mountain of Souls” in the water-filled pit, leaving only its head screaming and wailing on the “top of the mountain”. Tens of thousands of souls overlapped together, eroding its weird soul essence like ants.
This cannot completely eliminate it, but this kind of torture is like the torture of cutting off the flesh piece by piece with a knife.
The red-haired girl in the air only lowered her height slightly, allowing Shade to reach a position level with the head. At the same time, she did not forget to use illusions to cover up the scene at the bottom of the pit with heavy fog to prevent the subsequent dialogue from leaking.
The fog blocked the top of the head, and at the same time, the spirit body flickered in the air. The soul of Mrs. Bronte, who had been in the small auditorium on the edge of life and death, appeared in front of Shade and the two with a pale green flame.
The lady held her husband’s hand in her left hand and her daughter’s hand in her right hand.
She did not go to see her son. The family bowed slightly to Shade and then disappeared. They would continue walking. This was something that should have been done in the last century.
“Woooooo~”
Xia De wanted to say something to the head, but was unable to speak due to the coldness in his mouth. Others may not understand, but Miss Daniste, who was holding him behind him, could fully feel the chill in his head, and that chill was just right to suppress her body and soul, which had become hot after drinking the essence just now.
But the screaming head seemed to understand what he wanted to say:
“I’m not wrong! I’ve gone further than all of you on the road to immortality! It’s our nature to fear death. I just followed my human instinct to achieve everything I have now. Even if you defeat me So what? The **** of death still sleeps in this forest, and the coffin still has the power to destroy all things.
If you eliminate me, no one will know those secrets anymore! I know it all, I know everything you want to know! ”
Although it spoke very forcefully, it still wanted Shade to let it go. But Shade didn’t actually want to ask “Have you repented?” or something like that, but wanted to say that he could make his soul unable to go on.
“Woo!”
He took out the shriveled eyeball that was pierced by a wooden stake from his pocket, which meant that it could handle this thing without it. Then the expression of the Dead Apostle who was torn apart by the souls froze, and then he said loudly:
“The secret of the tree hole, I also know the secret of the tree hole, I know the secret of this woodland, I am a person who survived from the time of Ximu Town, I know.”
But it doesn’t matter anymore. Shade adjusted the muscles in his mouth that were numb due to the coldness, and rummaged through his pockets to find the 0.9-kilogram ordinary quality food he had left last time. [Cowardice] is the piece of paper given by the doctor.
Now this “cowardice” has been preserved in Shade for too long, and the black human form looks more and more real. So he put the paper man in front of his mouth as Chloe said, and then looked around suddenly. There seemed to be a strong feeling of being spied on just now, but it disappeared in just a moment:
“Things in the woods are indeed not over yet.”
But those were things that needed to be dealt with later. Shade slowly opened his mouth and finally spit out the cold air.
The heavy snow in the sky became more dense at this moment, and the cold current that should have been colorless turned into a frosty white color.
The cold current hit the head at the top of the “Soul Hill”, and the screaming voice became louder, but then became quieter after a few seconds. Wherever the spirit body comes into contact with the cold, the spirit body is not only frozen amidst the freezing sound, but even crystal-clear and fine cracks appear on the surface.
Even the squirming “hills” felt the extremely cold chill, so the spirits gradually receded, and Bronte’s soul also dropped in height little by little as it froze.
The water at the bottom of the pit quickly froze, and the chocobo standing on the water curiously raised one of his paws to observe the solid water.
The red-haired girl continued to hold Shade, and while Shade continued to exhale the chill, she lowered her height. When Bronte’s cracked spirit body completely turned into an ice sculpture standing on the ice, Shade also covered his mouth and coughed violently several times. The cold air given by Chloe was finally used up.
[Outlander, you have some understanding of “cold” and “freezing”. 】
[Outlander, your spell “Carina’s Ice Spell” has changed. Please wait a moment. 】
[The spell “Carina’s Ice Spell” was sublimated into the spell “Chloe’s Cold Breath”. The spell’s effect remains unchanged, but its coldness is enough to freeze the soul. 】
The densely packed souls that had been consumed by their strength and resentment were still standing on the ice in the pit watching them, so Iluna had to ride a chocobo and work very hard to squeeze into the center:
“Please give way, please give way. Is this the end? Seeing that you didn’t have a meeting in the afternoon, the fortune teller came to see me and let me see what’s going on here.”
As she spoke, she jumped off the back of the chocobo that was looking around curiously. This creature, known for its boldness and curiosity, was not afraid of the souls around it at all. However, it followed Iluna very obediently, stretching its head and looking at Shade from behind Iluna.
“It’s over.”
Xia De, who felt his voice was getting better, said, staring at the crystal clear mutant soul of the Dead Apostle, and then punched it——
Click!
As the sound of ?????? gradually became louder, the cracks on the surface of the spirit body also spread rapidly and became fine. Until finally, with a clicking sound, the spirit body exuding extreme cold completely collapsed.
“I don’t want to die, I don’t want to die.”
There seemed to be a voice moaning in the cold wind, but it was just the last fear and not a confession. After the spirit body collapsed, some black air currents emerged uncontrollably from the soul residue that had been frozen due to sin, swirled in the air and plunged towards Shade.
Xia De originally thought this was an attack method after death, but after “her” reminder, he did not stop it.
Then the life ring emerged from the steam mist behind him, and the black air flow clung to the life ring and turned into pure whispering elements. A new sin was attributed to Shade, the “murderer” due to the fragmentation of a soul. York Bronte added a new spiritual rune to Shade’s life ring.
[Cowardice out of fear, cruelty out of cowardice, killing out of cruelty, and fear of death out of killing. Although a coward uses all means to long for immortality, he does not know that mortals are mortal. When the destined death opened its arms to him, cowardice was the first sin that prevented him from resting in peace. 】
[Outlander, you are engraved with the Black Iron Whispering Spirit rune – cowardice. 】
“Whispers? Because he used the power of the relic to keep his soul from being torn apart by other souls?”
Because Shade had already been exposed to “cowardice” twice when collecting sins before, so he was not too surprised to actually obtain this spiritual rune.
Obviously, this great sin spirit rune can also be connected to the “great sin chain”, but this time’s sin, like the previous “lazy”, is not the foreigner’s own sin. He is not cowardly at all, so he still Only with the knowledge given by the tree father can the “Chain of Sin” accept the eighth rune of sin.
PS: The current spiritual runes of the Eight Rings:
Miracle-Dark Night (resurrection after death in the Battle of Moon Bay), Enlightenment-Direction (a gift from Sister Brock in the Fifth Age), Whisper-Cowardice (born from the sin of fear of death).