My summons are weird

"You exiled me and arranged a reincarnation that only belongs to me, interfering with my waking up. Even if I wake up accidentally, I will be trapped on the infinite spiral ladder in a daze, and I will never be able to leave reincarnation."

The unruly Clarence was trembling, and his body retreated unconsciously.

"You think you are complete, but you are incomplete. Since you have integrated the other six people, why don't you eat me too?"

Clorence was really scared, he pointed at himself in the spirit body and shouted: "Don't come near me, leave, go back to the warehouse!"

As he spoke, Clorence flicked his hand casually, drawing on the magic power to try to blow away the spirit body.

The spirit body remained motionless, and the sadness on his face became even stronger.

"What a shame... why did it become like this!"

"I once stood on a hill, overlooking the lush forest, discussed life and death with the elves, and witnessed the prosperity and decline of the green land."

"When the tide came, I sat on the shore of the bay, awed by the infinite power of heaven and earth, knowing that magic has no end, but time is irreversible."

As if he could feel the sadness of the spirit body, Clorence's ferocious face gradually calmed down, his eyes began to blur, and tears began to hang in the corners of his eyes at some point.

One after another, one beautiful thing was narrated from the mouth of the spirit body.

Dance with the siren, drink the essence of elements with the goblin king, collect the phosphorous powder of the butterfly family, spend a good night with the orcs...

The spirit body was getting closer and closer to Clorence, and when Lu Yu returned to the Great Library, it was already standing in front of Clorence.

The entity and the spirit body looked at each other for a long time, and as the spirit body took another step forward, the entity subconsciously hid back, but there was a wall behind it.

The virtual and the real began to merge, and countless light spots lingered around Clorence's body. After a while, the hostility in Clorence's body dissipated.

He looked around dejectedly, and found a chair that was overturned by Zhang Zhang because of the war, straightened it upright, and sat down.

Without the will to fight, Clorence looked like an extremely tired old man at the moment. He looked up at the dome of the Great Library, looked at the puppets hanging upside down because of the stop of the magic circle, and sighed: "It's full of ugliness..."

Lu Yu carefully checked the fainted Lulu and the others, and found that their breathing was stable and their pulse was normal, so he walked over to Sera with confidence.

Clorence stared at his skinny hands, stroked his wrinkled skin, and finally found a piece of broken glass. He looked at his appearance seriously, and then showed an extremely bitter smile.

Neither Sera nor Lu Yu made a sound. At this time, Clorence exuded a sense of death, his eye sockets were sunken and dull, and his magic power dissipated. He quickly fell towards an ordinary person who could not use magic.

It's hard to imagine that this is a magician who just manipulated the explosion and burned them to death with magic that Sera couldn't understand.

There was a long silence, and the wind blowing from nowhere blew away the silence, and also made a hole in this silence.

Clarence used his only magic power to lift two chairs, and they fell in front of Sera and Lu Yu.

"Please sit down."

The tone is natural and calm, like the host welcomes the guests.

The two felt that a big hole seemed to be broken in Clorence's body, and the magic power was continuously escaping from it, which was a sign that the magician was about to die.

After the amazing and frightening climax performance, the curtain came to an end so suddenly, it seemed that Sierra's prepared killing move would be useless, she tucked in some loose bandages, and sat down naturally.

"It's like a dream..." Clorence murmured, "It's a pity that the things in the dream are all the same, it's so boring."

Sera asked: "The seventh fragment is all your good memories, right? Why divide it separately and seal it?"

"Ask knowingly."

"Some answers only make sense when they come out of your mouth."

"..."

Another long silence.

Lu Yu found that the current Clorence was unusually peaceful, and his temperament was also different from the Clorence he had seen before.

He doesn't speak hysterically, there is no anxiety or resentment in his tone, and his demeanor is upright and peaceful, making him a completely different person.

"I didn't divide it deliberately. Every time the backup wakes up, it will be merged, and it will be divided again after a deep sleep. After reincarnation and division again and again, the memories in the soul will also gather towards 'kinds'. Good memories, knowledge The obsession, the bloodthirsty impulse, the silence that suppresses nature, the tenacity of fighting..."

"Reincarnation is long and boring. In the process of finding answers again and again with no end in sight, you often have to do some cold-blooded things..."

"For example, make puppets of all the outsiders who strayed into the Moon Engraved Barrier. Not only that, but also abducted a large number of people of different races to come in and let them become your soul containers." Sera said.

Clorence didn't deny it, let alone justify it. He sighed softly: "The beautiful memories began to throb, and the sense of justice that was too far away also began to wake up. In this endless reincarnation experiment, beautiful emotions have become unstable factors. , so when they left the moon engraved barrier and encountered some people and things, they returned to the barrier and tried to destroy reincarnation."

"So, this is why Twilight City is so strange, right? The mirror structure is actually to trap good memories, so that every time he wakes up for a long time, he can't get out of reincarnation, and he can't find your existence , can only continue to spiral until it falls asleep."

Clarence said, "Yes, that's the only way I can deal with a consciousness that can destroy everything."

"But it still escaped the reincarnation you created and found your place of existence, even though you built the Great Library in a place that cannot be reached through normal means."

Clarence said, "If it wasn't for the movement you guys made, if the fragments hadn't made their own way...it wouldn't wake up."

"A lot if not?"

Lu Yu, who was thinking on the side, said to himself, "Leaving the Moon Engraved Barrier alone... the person it met was Vanessa, and Sayer? Otherwise, it's hard to explain. It seems that Xu Yu said that when this castle was built, Most of the magic in the library is the fifth-level and sixth-level magic, that is to say, the peak magic of the outside world is probably only..."

Sera was stunned, and then couldn't help feeling emotional.

There was a gleam of light in Clorence's dim eyeballs. He raised his head, as if he was recalling something, and a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.

"I see. Is this the cause and effect? ​​You came here because of those two people. There are countless dolls in the castle, but it was those two dolls that made you meet, and after hundreds of years, you came here. Breaking the cycle that neither good memories nor a sense of justice can break..."

Clarence sighed: "Cause and effect, decay, fate...too ironic."

Serra was also a little bit embarrassed. In fact, to be honest, halos and missionary disappearances are not uncommon in the Theocracy. Serra also mentioned several groups of newcomers in the last session, and some of them disappeared.

Missions are full of hardships and dangers, there are countless unknowns along the way, and accidents are extremely prone to happen. The Church will not send people to find them, because these dangers are explained before the missionaries go out, and their beliefs make them fearless , promised with all his mouth, willing to walk the wilderness for the Theocracy and the god of glory until his bones were smashed to pieces.

If Anna and Isco disappeared without a sound, Sierra would not travel to Collet, let alone enter the Moon Engraved Barrier.

It happened to be the dolls of Sayer and Vanessa, but Anna escaped, and Anna recognized the two dolls.

coincidence?

Maybe so, but maybe that's the fate Clarence lamented.

In order to resist decay and seek eternal reincarnation, all the ups and downs of fate are blocked. There is no birth, old age, sickness and death here, but only endless cycles. The magic circle in Twilight City set a running mode for each doll in the castle, and every doll here will reincarnate over and over again in this cycle unless it is awakened.

And Clorence only needs to wake up regularly, collect the reincarnation data of the three islands, and fill in the materials, and then he can continue to wait for the day when his magic power will advance.

Clarence is clear that the Twilight City seems to block the erosion of fate, but it only delays the collapse. Under the accumulation of countless "coincidences", an accident will cause the reincarnation of the Twilight City to collapse.

It may come today, it may never...

And people are always lucky.

Therefore, at first he only hoped to prolong life long enough to grasp the age of immortality, but decay does not discriminate.

Serra said: "No one is immune to decay, and even in your day, magicians should have known this."

"Clarity and willingness to accept are not the same thing. You are young and the future is long, so you can't understand the fear of those aging magicians when they look directly at death." Clorence said, "Knowledge, wealth, status , so powerless in the face of death, no matter how much you desire to see the secrets of magic, the time of sunset will come. Is fear of darkness contradictory to knowing that night is coming?"

"Memory is damaged in repeated reincarnations, so you have to write a diary, strengthen memory associations, and repair decaying erosion; the purpose is also distorted a little bit in reincarnation, leaving only the strongest paranoid existence, no more Love, without positive emotions, arrogance, unruly, anxious, annoying. Gradually, it becomes less and less like a person, but like a puppet. Human nature is annihilated in reincarnation, only the idea of ​​"surviving" Long-lasting. But your fragments seem to feel that they are no different from the puppets in the city, and start to find a rational explanation for themselves, and they think they are gods..."

Clorence said nothing.

"Clarence, you have trapped yourself in reincarnation. If there is no coincidence, one day, you will be corroded by decay and become a puppet, and you will become a part of the endless loop of puppet army in this dusk city."

"A body without humanity, gradually losing emotions, unable to empathize with anyone's feelings, and a body whose soul has decayed to this point, is this the eternity you want?"