Chapter 1279
Haina’s Resolution
“Become… a Pillar God?” Haina repeated in disbelief.
She subconsciously clenched her fists, bringing them to her chest. —No matter when or where, she had never had such a ridiculous thought!
No—no, that wasn’t right.
…Wasn’t there?
At that moment, Haina recalled the thought that surfaced in her heart when Eivass told her the story of the Silver Crown Dragon: He can take its place.
Now that the opportunity had truly arrived, would she choose to shrink back?
Haina was silent for a long time, but her expression turned resolute.
She asked, “Why me?”
The Grey Heavenly Envoy simply smiled and pointed at the shattered sky, “How many Heavenly Envoys do you think are there?”
“…One?” Haina looked back at the floating giant whale, saying uncertainly.
Could there be two?
Or, should this Grey Heavenly Envoy—who was whether dead or resurrected, able to move freely in the Material Realm—also be counted?
“It can be one, or it can be many,” the Grey Heavenly Envoy replied, “The Ouroboros Ring ritual did not just shatter the curtain of balance for a single passage.”
Upon hearing this, almost everyone present was startled.
They all understood the Grey Heavenly Envoy’s meaning.
“Autolycus, are you saying…”
Hassan, playing Arthur, turned back in shock to look at his close friend of many years, who yet felt like someone he had never truly known, “Are you going to use the ritual of the Lords to summon other Heavenly Envoys down?”
As someone from a formal mage background, Hassan was not very proficient in Ritual Studies. However, with his broad understanding of things, walking the Path of Wisdom inevitably led him to pay attention to the Mystical Arts of other Paths. Curiosity and thirst for knowledge were the essence of the Origin River of Truth.
“Can something like this be done?” Haina exclaimed, “Who are you going to summon? The Knight Heavenly Envoy? But I’m no longer of the Path of Authority… I mean, I’m an Extraordinary of the Path of War…”
She subconsciously glanced at Hassan.
If it wasn’t her, then it could only be Hassan, the actor of “Arthur.”
Mage Hassan, standing nearby, gradually put on a solemn expression. “If necessary… for the sake of Truth, I am willing to dedicate myself to it.”
Becoming a Heavenly Envoy, in most cases, meant losing one’s physical body.
Therefore, to complete the Ouroboros Ring ritual and summon a Heavenly Envoy to the Material Realm, the first step was to provide a vessel capable of containing the Heavenly Envoy’s power.
Normally, only the top Extraordinary of the same Path could serve as a sacrifice. Otherwise, incompatibility would inevitably occur, making it impossible to fully contain the Heavenly Envoy’s soul.
And the Heavenly Envoy that Hassan could contain was, of course, the Geometric Heavenly Envoy of the Path of Wisdom.
However, he expressed some concern, “It’s just… my Energy Level is still a bit insufficient.”
As a vessel for a Heavenly Envoy, his strength was still somewhat lacking.
“It doesn’t matter,” the Grey Heavenly Envoy Autolycus said with a smile.
His lighthearted support and agreement also meant pushing Hassan onto a path of no return. “As the Master recognized by the Fire Tetrahedron, the missing compatibility can be made up for here. After all, the Geometric Heavenly Envoy originally had a contingency plan for descending… If someone could gather the four polyhedrons he left behind, they would automatically become the Geometric Heavenly Envoy’s vessel.”
Autolycus’s words were not hard to understand.
In an extreme case, it would be like summoning a Ring Heavenly Envoy using a Sacred Entity like “Eivass” as the vessel. Whether he was an Extraordinary or not, this ritual could be completed. It was impossible for Eivass’s compatibility with the Ring Heavenly Envoy to be worse than that of the Prince of Giants, who was at the Fifth Tier of the Transcendent Path, just because Eivass had not embarked on the path of the Extraordinary.
Haina also understood the implied meaning of his words.
—It was precisely for this reason that Haina could become the vessel for Lancelot I, the Knight Heavenly Envoy.
“…I understand.” She let out a breath, and her entire body relaxed. “I knew it felt like I had forgotten something…”
—Do you wish to become a Pillar God.
This sentence also contained another implied sentence.
That was, Haina had to die in the Material Realm first.
As a Human, her Path was very mixed. She was not a pure Path life form like the Child of the Moon or the Gryphon, so she could not directly become a Pillar God.
There was no possibility.
She had to first enter the River of the Dream Realm and reshape her Heavenly Envoy body with the power of the Origin River to obtain a relatively pure Phantom Demon body.
This meant that she needed to die once.
Therefore, the Grey Heavenly Envoy’s sentence could also be interpreted in another way:
—Are you prepared for death?
“Let alone become a Pillar God or a Heavenly Envoy… even to become a King in the Material Realm like Lancelot I… I won’t lie, I would hesitate over that.”
Haina said in a low voice, “Even though I’m already at the Fifth Tier… the so-called ‘powerful one,’ having reached the same level as Lancelot I back then, the answer would still be the same. This has nothing to do with maturity, vision, or courage—I think even if I had ten or twenty more years, I wouldn’t have made any progress at all.
“Even if I reach the Sixth Tier, die in the future and become a Disciple or a Heavenly Envoy, and you ask me this question then, I would still hesitate. Yes, I have this self-awareness. After all, I am someone who could fail at anything, a cursed individual who can’t even remember the time.”
She laughed self- deprecatingly, and a faint emerald green flame gradually ignited at the bottom of her pupils, with a faint dim yellow at the edges of the firelight.
This was precisely the deep manifestation of her personality—compared to the confusion and aimlessness she felt when she first graduated, the Haina of today felt that everything before her was already happy enough. She hoped the world would continue to operate as it was, unchanging like her hometown, Eagle Cape Village.
However, at this moment, a trace of deep and tiny purple gradually ignited in its deepest part.
“—But that doesn’t mean I feel I cannot bear this responsibility or am unworthy of this power. I simply feel from the bottom of my heart… perhaps there is a better choice than me.”
Haina said seriously, “I don’t think I have all the necessary abilities to be a Monarch or a God. I cannot be a God who brings happiness—I don’t have the ability to make everyone happy. This world is like a troublesome administrative position: every time one thing is done, three more things appear. Therefore, I can never make perfect preparations, and in any field, there will always be better choices than me.
“…However, this doesn’t mean I will shirk the responsibility that has already fallen upon me.”
Haina spoke, and the deep purple in her pupils flickered and grew a bit larger.
She raised her head and gazed at the giant whale swimming in the sky, saying in a low voice, “No matter who entrusts me with a mission, I will do my utmost to complete it. Regardless of whether I have the confidence—even if I feel despair and believe it’s an impossible mission, I will not give up until the moment I confirm complete failure… I will not stop either.”
This was Haina’s resolve.
“I don’t have the confidence to do any single thing well, because I know I am not excellent. But I have the seriousness and responsibility to never give up on anything. I am not prepared to be a good Monarch or a good God… but if it’s preparation for death, I’ve already done it.”
With that, the purple in Haina’s pupils flickered again, now making up more than half of their color. This caused her pupils to completely transform into an unusual blend of purple and dim yellow.
It was like the sky at twilight.
Haina laughed heartily and patted her head, “I don’t know what my colleagues think… but back then, when I first became a Supervisor… I hadn’t even graduated yet, but I had already made up my mind.”
She paused here.
The purple in her pupils expanded again for a moment, even turning slightly reddish. Then, the purple was completely swallowed by green, and in the next moment, it was completely swallowed by purple. The resonance of these two Path Powers intertwined back and forth, yet Haina showed no reaction and felt no discomfort.
“—On the day I took office as a Supervisor, I wrote my own will.”
Haina replied, word for word.
