Finale Three: Janna
The gaze from the hollow left by the watcher's death has always haunted Geno, making him realize that it is not over.
There is more than one monitor, and perhaps one day, they will make a comeback.
Worries made him panic all day long. Driven by his heart, Geno came to the Giant God Peak again. If he wanted to fulfill his agreement with Orelian Thor, he had to become a star spirit first.
He once again challenged the highest peak of the world. He climbed day and night without stopping the wind and snow. The sun and the moon alternated round after round at the peak, not knowing the year and month.
Whenever he is exhausted and wants to give up, when he thinks of the free consciousness bodies that are eyeing the other end of the realm, he can always burst out with a force of faith and break through the limit of pain.
The final result was that he conquered the Giant God Peak and successfully arrived at the top of the mountain.
Then a light tore through the curtain of the night and enveloped him without saying anything.
The powerful astral energy was infused into his body in a rough way. His figure was twisted in pain, his screams echoed in the air, and reason was shaking under the surge of huge energy... He could not take the initiative to refuse this domineering transformation. His body was repaired and strengthened, but his self-will was removed like a cocoon.
He felt a powerful spirit entering his body and transforming it into a container suitable for loading it.
Surviving in a critical moment, Geno's powerful soul felt the crisis and began to operate itself. The soul of the body wrapped the spirits of another world with thunder, completely assimilating it before it was pulled away.
Not only that, through the light columns connecting the two realms, Geno's soul forcibly broke into the astral realm. The astral spiritual creatures that could not move at the presiding ceremony and emitted the light of stars, and appeared in human form also assimilated.
When the light dissipated, Geno not only gained powerful power from the astral realm and repaired his disability, but also completely controlled a giant god in the astral realm.
This situation is exactly the same as what Orelian Thor said through Atres' mouth - a giant god tried to take away his body and drive away his will after he reached the peak, but in the end he was retaliated against.
According to the distant memory on the other end, this giant god, who calls himself a watchman, is one of the same members of the star court, and is a mid-level person, usually silent and has a low sense of existence.
Without any breathing time, Geno must play the role of Watcher as soon as possible. The matter of becoming a spy placed in the astral world by the Dragon King, no flaw can be revealed.
He spent several days understanding the cognition of the giant god and mastering this new form of body. When his consciousness floated back into his body from the other end of the realm again... he woke up from the top of the giant god peak and found that he was buried in the deep snow for many years.
Ten years passed away in a flash.
When he realized the reality from Hex, great regret immediately swept over.
The speed of time elapsed in the astral realm and mortal world is a thousand times different. As a creature in the lower realm, it took him ten years to adapt to another body!
Ten years! This is ten years! How many decades can a person’s life be wasted? How many years will he miss out on his youth in these ten years!
Geno didn't expect things to turn out like this - he became a star spirit and became an eternal existence, but she was still a mortal body. The gap between the two was heartbreaking, and he could not miss her anymore.
Geno, who was heartbroken, spent a few days back to Piltwolf, and what was reflected in his other body was just a nap.
Fortunately, when he thought he had been forgotten by the whole world, the man was still waiting for him.
But when Geno thought he could at least be able to keep her growing old, various emergencies from the astral realm began to take up his time. Although he dealt with it as quickly as possible every time, every time he "distilled" would cause him to sleep for dozens of days. Often, he missed many good things in a careless manner.
The tearing of time tear down Geno's increasingly haggard spirit, and the encounter that happened to him made him feel very painful.
However, when the bow is drawn, there is no turning back. Geno, who has no way out, must continue to play the role of a watchman. Otherwise, the giant gods will be furious when they find that the fall of their tribe will definitely destroy everything that Geno cherishes.
No one can live a lifetime with someone who has evaporated the world for a long time. Although she can understand his difficulties with gentleness, he has decided to end this life that has caused the two tortures.
After the formal farewell, he left her life. Geno went to a rare place and took on this pain alone. Occasionally, he felt that he was alienated from the world, so he went to his former friends to experience the fireworks of the world and regain the joy of being a mortal.
In this way, a hundred years have passed in a flash.
Geno's progress in the astral realm was very small, and most of his confidantes could not get rid of the law of life and death. After only one life, he was buried in peace. A few who were unwilling to die would try their best to extend their lifespan, and even became inhuman beings.
However, there are always a few special existences that deeply remember him.
Geno revisited the old place, looking for a familiar but unchanging existence in this city that has become extremely unfamiliar due to rapid development. It may be a bridge, a clock tower, or a bunch of tombs...
"Have you come back to visit her grave?"
Just as Geno swept away the dust from the tombstone, a familiar voice rang in his ear.
"Gana?" His voice did not hesitate at all, because time would not leave any traces on him and her face.
"You have not changed at all." Gana looked at him and sighed.
"Same for you." After saying this, Geno turned around and gently placed the bouquet he brought on the lonely grave. Then he remembered that when a man was crying and laughing...
This is not the first time that Gana has seen him like this. This time she finally couldn't stop and went up to persuade him: "It's been decades, so don't be sad anymore, okay?"
"But all this was just happened yesterday. I watched her be buried with my own eyes, and in the end she was alone..."
A feeling of regret erupted from him, his shoulders trembled, and he lowered his head and buried himself in sorrow.
Gana felt ache and hugged him from behind, trying to comfort him with her arms: "You have difficulties that you cannot say. I don't know what happened to you, but I always believe that you did not do it voluntarily."
"Going to the top is the last decision I have made in my life. If I hadn't done that at the beginning, how could it end up like this... It's all my fault."
"Stop blaming yourself. If you have any depression, come to me to relieve it. I will always be waiting for you here." Gana listened carefully to his heart-wrenching crying, and wiped his tears from his face over and over again.
She hugged him tightly and comforted him over and over again: It's okay, everything will be fine. I don't know how long it took until he shed tears.
"Gana... Thank you, for making me, who thought I had lost everything, feel that I still have for the first time." Geno, who was exhausted, felt the fragrance after the rain blow into his dry heart, and his depressed mood suddenly became clear like the dark clouds fading away.
"It's good that you can understand. Although the days ahead are still long and you will still encounter many unsatisfactory things, but it doesn't matter. I can keep walking with you." She said, kissing Geno's wet cheeks and hugging them tightly again.
"I will protect you forever..."
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I felt so uncomfortable when I wrote this.
Many book friends asked me to write about the giant god and the dragon king, and filled in the pit, but if I really wrote it, it would not only be difficult for me to write, but you would also feel uncomfortable, just like now. By the time when Geno launched a coup in the astral world, I didn’t know how many tens of thousands of years had passed in the mortal world. The time span was too large, and most of the confidantes died, leaving only one or two lonely people, which was destined to be a lonely ending.
Chapter completed!