10.5
"I ask thee, what is Tivat to thee, the twin that travels through thousands of worlds? It is but an inferior ark on the verge of disintegration, on the verge of losing control. What does it matter to thee if a thousand lives are lost? The Seven Kingdoms have fallen, as a matter of course!"
The traveler was confronted with a vague light and an arrogant tone.
"Leave. The illusory sky, the floating continents, the endless veins, the eternal dark seas, which you think can be subverted and stopped by the power of your stigmata alone?"
The arrogant tone did not stop; it intensified.
"I..."
The traveler tried desperately to resist the fear of the light, but the infinite darkness, the crumbling shadows, the image of her homeland's demise, tore at her heart and made her struggle.
The traveler is in a state of confusion.
For the continent of Tivat, I was just a traveler, easily giving up my involvement in anything and everything. All I had to do was shut down the system, delete the Paimon interface, and all this would be lost to me. The Ruler of Sky Island? Don't laugh; it's just a dying coward. Brother? He will break free from the Law of God, for I believe in him. To watch with aplomb what is happening on this earth, seeing the fool* **ecutive succeed in their plans, to laugh at every fallen civilization and their ridiculous worship of the sky that brings the blessing of a cold nail from the sky - is this not a ridiculous footnote in thousands of the parallel worlds, ha ha ha ha ha... ...
"Traveler, Paimon is going to eat lots and lots!" Paimon's smiling face emerged.
"Sister Traveller, hush! Don't let commander Qin find me out!" Kelee's laughter at the Featherball Festival appears.
"Traveler, listen to my poetry." Wendy sat between the open hands of the statue of the wind god in the city of Mond.
"Traveler, if we delay too long, we won't be able to complete our mission." Ke Qing was looking very cute even though seriously.
"Traveller, would you like to hear the story of the Goddess of Salt?" Zhongli stood in the salt of the earth, wanting to say something but with hesitation.
"Traveller... Traveler...sister...Ying.."
If only all this were a nightmare. If it hadn't been experienced, if it had just been let go, there would have been no lingering. What does a girl you meet in a fantasy story mean to you? Is it just a 0.5-second touch or a lifelong pursuit?
One day, I will leave the land of Tivat, and with my mission, I will cross the world again, interacting with all sorts of people. A thousand years is but a moment, and when the dust of time accumulates, there is little sense of it, and gradually I will become a tool to accomplish a task, and then I will fall away without a trace-don't you think so, the Air Ruler?
The light in front of her faded and the proud voice shut down its mouth.
The traveler looked down and saw a small, clueless zombie girl standing between her knees, helpless, trying to find help, but waiting a thousand years away. The traveler knelt, took the little zombie in her arms, and whispered in her ear.
"Even if I only stepped into this world for a moment, even if I might later forget everyone in the future, I swear to you that I will bring you home."
No matter what world I'm stepping in, no matter what situation I'm involved in, I'll still try to prove myself in each corner even if no one knows about it. I can't give up so easily, and I'm sure you'll do the same. If you come into this world, you have to show all your capability!
The dream faded, and the dawn came. As the campfire embers die down, the traveler opens her eyes, and beside her, Paimon and Yoyo are still sleeping sweetly. Not far from here is the first major challenge of the adventure, the Spiritual Moment Pass.
