Chapter 904
Lucifer’s Wings
“This is…”
Eivass turned his head, staring blankly at the wings.
—He had obtained similar wings from the Ascension Ritual last time!
At that time, he had been controlled by the Ring Heavenly Envoy’s Shepherd’s Method, turning into a merciless World-destroying Angel.
It was Alistair’s self-sacrifice that brought him back to his senses.
He tore off the four white wings formed by the Ring Heavenly Envoy’s “Serpent Power,” only to grow six larger wings.
Red, blue, yellow, green, white, black.
Among them, the red, black, and green wings were slightly larger than the others—this clearly corresponded to the three Beasts of Sin he had unlocked.
—How similar did that look to now?
Even the size of the wings was almost the same… However, on this set of wings gifted by Lucifer, the outside of the wing roots and bones were inlaid with brilliant golden wing guards, adorned with meticulously carved jewelry. Moreover, Eivass’s wings at that time felt somewhat illusory, but now they had become more real.
Those were clearly not Lucifer’s wings.
They should be the wings of a Fallen Heavenly Envoy— or rather, the illusory wings displayed by a Profession like “Sin Scholar,” condensed from the power of a Fallen Heavenly Envoy.
Did this mean… that when the Fallen Heavenly Envoy’s black wings were cleansed, they were essentially the same as Lucifer’s?
Eivass remembered—in the game, the Fallen Heavenly Envoy descended with black wings all over their body.
However, Eivass didn’t have much time to think.
Thanks to his experience in the Ascension Ritual, Eivass had already mastered the ability to fly.
After he “re-obtained” his wings, he immediately learned to use them—this time, he had truly “remembered” this memory.
He hugged Galatea from behind and flew up!
Galatea’s body was unusually heavy—so heavy that Eivass was startled when he first picked her up. Her light and silent footsteps gave no indication that she was as heavy as a statue of refined gold.
Eivass originally thought he could just hold her upright, and it would be fine. However, Galatea’s unimaginable weight forced Eivass to show her sufficient respect—the weight made a princess carry impossible, not because the wings couldn’t bear it, but because Eivass’s arms couldn’t.
Because he had wings on his back, Eivass couldn’t carry her on his back. He could only hug Galatea’s waist with both hands. Like a crane, he flapped his wings vigorously, lifting her and moving forward horizontally at a low altitude. This caused Galatea’s body to bend almost like a sheet being hung out to dry.
If she were a real person, she would likely feel her spine stretching and her brain filling with blood. But fortunately, Galatea was actually a Construct doll. She had no objections to this and perhaps no feelings at all… probably.
Her head bumped against her knees in the air like a clacking clam, making a crisp sound like pebbles colliding, yet her delicate face was expressionless. Occasionally, when she couldn’t dodge in time, the back of her head would suddenly hit something and smash it directly.
Following Galatea’s “automatic guidance,” Eivass easily found everyone.
Their location was extremely conspicuous even in this eternal darkness—they were within an amber light shield condensed by Master Amber.
The light shield was glowing, so Eivass saw it from afar.
Eivass even saw his “illusion” still comforting others inside—and others could actually hear it!
When he passed through the membrane of the amber barrier, Eivass finally understood… this place was like an “amber” that isolated the inside from the outside.
The roaring sound caused by the spatial fracture was reduced to only the noise of “upstairs renovation” by the time it reached them.
Eivass first put Galatea down. After she tidied her disheveled hair, he stood in the position of his illusion and continued speaking where the illusion left off.
Only Amber seemed to have noticed something. When the amber barrier was touched, he glanced over slightly. But the old man said nothing, just nodded, signaling that the items had been obtained.
“…So, you don’t need to worry too much. We will never be drawn into the Void, nor will we enter the Dream Realm, because we did not enter from the Dream Realm, but from the Material Realm.”
Eivass said calmly.
Archmage Sin asked with great anticipation, “Will we enter the space where you accidentally fell before?”
He was referring to the space where Eivass had obtained the “Icosahedron of Water.”
However, Eivass had already cleared out everything from that dungeon, and it was indeed of no value anymore.
“Probably not.”
Eivass shook his head slightly. “If you’re interested in that place, you can come back anytime. That space wasn’t affected by the Preservation Technique, but solidified by the power of the ‘Icosahedron of Water.’ After you complete our transaction and get what I want, you can take it and enter those ruins… or you have another way, which is to directly break the spell structure and forcibly dig it out from the outside.
“That place is not like here… it doesn’t have such strong Preservation Techniques, it won’t be indestructible. It only takes the power of a Fifth Tier spell to blast it open. However, doing so might attract someone, and it might also cause damage to the things inside, I don’t know.”
His implication was still, “You’d better honestly complete the transaction with me.”
Sin also captured Eivass’s intention and immediately nodded obediently.
The Vagrant couldn’t help but complain, “This archaeological expedition is truly absurd. I expected it to be dangerous, but I didn’t expect it to be this dangerous… I’ll never come again next time.”
Little Cat was also weak all over, squatting on the ground. “When I go back, I’ll have to find someone to marry… I feel like if I go out adventuring again, I don’t know when I’ll die out there.”
“Yeah,” Encyclopedia also wiped his sweat and muttered, “Ancient golems, demon tides, eternal night, spatial ruptures… and, what just happened… was that the death of the Second Sun?”
His voice was exceptionally complex, filled with emotion and sadness. Apart from Professor Bard, he was the only one still immersed in the truth of history.
They had also clearly witnessed the miracle Lucifer showed Eivass from afar—it was preserved by him, torn out from him, and after the birth of the twin Heavenly Envoys, the Fallen Heavenly Envoy and the Ring Heavenly Envoy, the Great Philosopher and the Hourglass had jointly accomplished the “Death of the Second Sun.”
As a Horus person, he had an extremely strong faith in the Sun.
Therefore, this scene had brought him immense shock—witnessing the death of the Sun he worshiped before his own eyes. But from another perspective, he had also obtained mysterious knowledge that other Horus people and other Dream Traveling Monks could not obtain: how exactly the Second Sun died.
The information he brought back would completely change all of Horus!
—That would also be one of the variables!
“Could that azure sun… be Mithras?”
Encyclopedia murmured, looking at Eivass.
Obviously, in his understanding, only the Eternal Pope could explain it to him.
In the calculations and deductions of the Horus people, between the death of the Second Sun and the birth of the Third Sun, there should have been a sun god who “should have been born but was not.” That fictional sun god was called Mithras—this was the core doctrine of the Mithras sect of Horus.
And now… Encyclopedia might be the only Horus person in the world who had witnessed the “light of Mithras” with his own eyes.
“Yes.”
Eivass nodded. “The death of the Second Sun was not the death of Taurus—the Second Sun died for the ‘Birth of the Twins.'”
Whether it was the Great Philosopher and Supreme Heaven, or the Ring Heavenly Envoy and the Fallen Heavenly Envoy… these were all stories that happened in the “Age of Gemini.”
Even the first time the Ring Heavenly Envoy broke his tail, splitting off another self, should have happened after he became the Ring Heavenly Envoy—in other words, it was a story that began in the Gemini era.
“Whether it’s Aries or Taurus, they are all the same. They both belong to the long night of no light. And the birth of Mithras might come from a consensus among the Pillar Gods—that is, the world needs a sun.”
Mithras himself implies the birth of the Path of Love. The Path of Love is still entangled with the Beast Path.
Creating a fictional god fits the Path of Beauty.
The light shines upon the earth, fitting the Path of Devotion.
According to the truth revealed by the death of the Second Sun, the remains of the Second Sun originally belonged to the Great Philosopher and the Hourglass—they transformed the power of the Second Sun into the Veil of Balance.
At the same time, a new, gentler sun would bring vitality, and vitality fits the Path of Adaptation; preserving the deeds of the deceased Heavenly Envoy came from the principles of the Twilight Path.
“The Mithras cult is a secret cult born from the combination of the power of the Nine Great Paths with ‘the memory of one, the grace of three, and the words of five.’ Looking at it now, the one who vetoed the birth of Mithras… should be Supreme Heaven.”
Eivass said so.
The outside world was still shattering.
But at this moment, the amber shield suddenly suffered a strong impact—
Even the Vagrant didn’t sense the crisis in advance.
A strong wave of hatred, despair, and killing intent had turned into a solid black impact, causing the shield to tremble violently!
“Serpent—”
It was a distant, ethereal voice, hollow like an echo.
The hostile roar and growl sounded from the void: “How dare you appear before me again!”
(End of Chapter)
