I Am God!

A woman holding a candlestick walked up a narrow, steep staircase.

"Da da da!"

The shoes made a crisp sound on the stone slabs.

The stairs spiral from the inside of the building to the top. Judging from the internal structure, this should be a tower.

Elena took off her armor and put on the robes of a priest of the Temple of Truth.

He really looks like a devout apostle guarding the temple.

When she went out, she put on a flaxen-colored cloak over her robe to prevent dust. The sword of Ruch was still with her, only the hilt was exposed under the cloak.

Elena raised her head and walked up step by step.

This ladder is really too high.

Halfway through, I couldn't see the top when I looked up. When I looked down, it was pitch black, as if there was no bottom at all.

Elena didn't pause, she didn't say any words of exclamation or complaint, and she didn't use her extraordinary power to fly; she just kept walking up, toward the top of the tower.

Finally, she reached the top of the tower.

"Crack!"

She put down the candlestick she was holding.

She placed her hands on the stone, and her eyes were a little bright under the reflection of the candlelight; but when a gust of wind blew, the firelight was quickly extinguished and turned into wisps of smoke.

Looking down from the top of the city, crystal lights are shining everywhere in the darkness.

Buildings of different heights are stacked on top of each other. The upper half of these buildings shine brightly under the light, while the lower half is plunged into darkness. Only by looking far away can you see the faint candlelight and the house of the devil in the darkness.

Between the buildings, cable bridges, corridors, and tunnels run through the city.

This tower is the tallest building in the city. When Saint Tito passed by here, he saw this high tower connected to the bottom of the sea and higher than the sea.

Its former name was the Tower of Jessel.

It used to be the guiding light and symbol of the Jeser Channel in the Kingdom of Xiinsai, but now few people know the true name of this tower. The demon spirits call it the Moon Tower.

Because when other crystal lanterns in the city go out, the lights in this tower will light up.

And when it lights up, it looks like the moon.

Maybe there is another deeper meaning.

Jessel was once called the Prince of the Moon, and his name means moonlight.

Elena looked at the city, at the people walking out of the corridor, and at the two figures sitting on the chain bridge chatting.

“People here have everything.”

"They can also use miracles."

"Everyone here plays their role, they all know what to do and they all have their responsibilities."

"so."

"I came back just to go back to my hometown?"

Elena crossed the distance of space and time, and finally returned to her hometown of Demon Abyss King City.

But when she came back, she didn't know what to do.

"What's the point of my coming back?"

There are no enemies here, no crises.

Elena looked at her sword, her best weapon; she could fuse with metal, swords, and spears, she could transform into a metal titan, and she was born with the talent to fight.

If there is an enemy in front of her, no matter how powerful the being is, she will dare to swing her sword.

No matter how powerful the opponent is, she can still fight with him until the last moment. Even if he turns into flesh and blood, she will still cut off one of his arms.

Even the gods in the world, those beings known as myths.

In her eyes, there is only one god.

That's Insai.

Lederiki is her ancestor, and she inherits the bloodline of King Lederiki's eldest son.

But her sword was not needed here, only a temple was needed. Elena finally found an answer that was not an answer, but at least she could convince herself.

"Maybe it didn't make sense in the first place, but maybe coming back has a meaning."

"This life seems pretty good."

"Peace, peace, stability."

"For everyone, this is good."

Elena stood at the Yesel Tower for a short while and prepared to go down, but when she was about to leave, she suddenly looked at the other side.

She walked around the base wall that supported the large chandelier and came to the other end of the tower.

There is a strange demon there.

He was resting against the wall, as if asleep, lying motionless.

Next to the demon lies a strange machine.

That machine has a pair of wings, a chain structure, wheels, and a fan blade behind it.

As Elena looked over, the lying metal doll felt something, suddenly moved, and immediately looked up at Elena.

After discovering who the other party was, he shook his head, which was slightly tilted from sleep, with his hands and spoke formally to her.

"It turns out to be Apostle Elena!"

Elena looked at the machine and asked the other party.

"What are you doing?"

Seeing Elena's interest in his work, the demon spirit immediately stood up and introduced it to Elena.

"This is a machine I built, but I haven't figured out what to call it yet."

The demon doll was fiddling with the chains and pedals that had not yet been installed on it.

"look!"

"As long as you step on the empty pedal, the chain will rotate and drive the wheels behind."

"Immediately afterwards, the rearmost fan blade will start to rotate."

Elena: "Then what?"

The demon spirit said excitedly: "Then?"

"Then you can fly."

He was extremely relaxed when he said this, with a hint of showoff.

As if to say.

Such a simple principle, such an obvious thing.

You can't even see it?

In the past, Elena might have been able to easily see through the principle of such a thing, but now she has almost forgotten everything.

Based on his words, Elena looked at this weird machine again. Although she still didn't understand the principle, she seemed to understand what the other party wanted to create.

"So you wanted to build a flying tool."

"It's just that this place is so big. You can just walk. What's the use of being able to fly?"

The demon shook his head: "Of course it's not for use in the city, but for use outside."

"I want to fly on it!"

"Fly out of this darkness!"

"Leap out of the boundless sea of ​​sand."

After Elena heard the demon spirit's words, a look of interest finally appeared on her eyebrows.

She took two steps forward. The demon spirit was a little short, two heads shorter than Elena, and could only reach her chest.

In addition, Elena's aura was so overwhelming that the demon spirit took two steps back involuntarily.

In this way, the distance becomes the same again.

The other party leaned directly against the wall, as if there was some savage beast in front of him.

Elena stopped: "It's okay, I'm somewhat interested in what you're talking about."

"But I have a question, how do you get through the storm outside?"

"Neither your machine nor you yourself can survive that terrible storm."

The puppet didn't know why he was afraid of the apostle Elena in front of him, as if it was instinctive; it seemed that many years ago, the other party was walking towards him in such a menacing manner, and he was like a kid who was caught, at a loss.

But as soon as Elena asked a question, he immediately stood up straight and answered seriously like a trained soldier.

"I've discovered it a long time ago."

"Every time the city floats up, the storm will not appear immediately. There will be a short period of time."

"And the storm starts from the inside and spreads outward, pushing everything outside outward."

"so."

"I just need to calculate the time and leave early."

"At that moment, if I rushed out of the city, as long as I was fast enough, I would be able to rush out; even the pressure from the initial storm would help push me out."

The demon spirit told his intentions and plans, which sounded a bit risky, but also made people feel a little heart-warming.

Elena asked him: "What if I didn't rush out, wouldn't I have risked my life?"

He said: "I think the success rate is very high, and it's at least worth giving it a try."

He faced Elena and said a little embarrassedly.

"and."

"Currently, my aircraft has never flown. It has never even flown out of this darkness, let alone anything else."

"Let's let it fly first!"

Elena looked at his machine and said something.

"I like your idea."

The demon doll became excited. Elena's words seemed to hit him deep in his heart. He was very eager for others' affirmation.

Especially, this is Elena.

"Lady Elena!"

"You also think we should go out, don't you?"

"The world outside is so big, why should we stay here?"

"We used to have many cities and many, many companions. Why do we have to stay here now?"

Elena didn't know why he was so excited. He was not so excited when he saw her, but she danced because she recognized his idea.

But what the demon said moved Elena.

She asked the other party: "When will your machine be ready?"

"Do you need my help? Or do you lack something?"

All the demon doll wants is recognition, and he is very motivated at the moment.

"No!"

"I don't need anything, I've already planned it."

He fiddled with his bag and took out one tool after another.

"Quick, quick, I can make it soon."

"I've designed it a long time ago and made all the parts. I came here just to assemble it here."

"Because this is the highest place in the city and the most suitable place for taking off, I plan to build a platform here and fly down from it."

The demon doll kept chattering: "Ms. Elena!"

"I will show it to you when the time comes. Watch me fly up on it and fly into the sky."

The demon doll unconsciously shouted this title.

Most people would not call her Ms. Elena like this, and they are not qualified to call her like this.

Unless this person and Elena had a very familiar relationship.

He was her former student, or a junior.

For example, Xiao, the evil god of original sin.

He called this former third-generation apprentice of the Temple of Truth Ms. Elena.

As the demon doll moved, Elena suddenly saw a mark on his hand.

The moment this mark appeared, Elena noticed it.

Seal of the Temple of Truth.

When these demon spirits transformed, they retained many things from their past, as if to warn them that there were some things they could not forget.

This mark can prove many things.

perhaps.

A long time ago, he was also a student of the Temple of Truth and one of its priests.

It is possible that he is still a student taught by Elena herself.

Elena asked the demon: "What is your name?"

The demon replied: "Thunder!"

Thunder refers to the explosion caused by lightning.

Elena raised her head and looked at the darkness above her head.

"thunder?"

Did he really call that name, or was he saying that he wanted to turn into thunder and tear apart the darkness above his head.

Will the person in front of me become the thunder coming from the darkness?

——

Elena returned to the Temple of Insai, but she always remembered things about Lei.

Sometimes she would think about it while cleaning the temple and praying.

Has Lei's aircraft been built?

this day.

There was sudden commotion outside, and all the guards in the palace rushed out.

One after another, the demon dolls walked up from the building and looked towards the sky.

A strange machine flew down from the giant tower of Jessel. It was shaky at first, but soon stabilized.

It hovers in the city, sometimes falling and sometimes flying high.

Circle and circle over the city.

"Look!" The metal dolls pointed at the sky and sighed.

"It's that guy Lei. He's making his machine again." Someone saw the person on the machine and immediately recognized him.

"It's over, he will definitely be punished by the guards again." Someone saw the guards lining up and walking out of the palace.

The demon doll named Lei stepped on the pedals hard and controlled his aircraft to fly.

The wings of the aircraft swept through the wind, and the fan blades behind them were rotating rapidly, making a buzzing sound.

This world in darkness also has air. There will be sounds like breathing from all directions, and the wind comes from there.

Lei sensed the direction of the wind, adjusted his aircraft, and became familiar with the machine.

he shouted excitedly.

Cheering and jumping for joy.

"Oooh!"

"I'm flying~"

"I can finally fly!"

"I can go out!"

Finally, he hovered in the center of the city, shouting to those below.

"Lady Elena!"

"The great Lady Elena, the apostle of God Insai."

"I have lived up to your expectations. I have built this machine and I will really set sail on the last day of this month."

"When the time comes, please be sure to come and watch!"

Lei was so happy and excited.

The voice was trembling, like a child having fun.

But when he fell.

A group of guard puppets immediately surrounded him, and then told him that he was arrested for violating the city's ban and would be locked up for three days.

He was punished for getting too close to the palace and the Inverted Pyramid.

Fortunately, he didn't pass directly over the Inverted Pyramid, so it wasn't really a serious crime.

He seemed to know this too.

When he was taken away by the guards, he still smiled playfully and didn't care.

He knew how long the other party would keep him in prison, and he also knew that he would be released soon.

When he was arrested, he had no consciousness of being arrested and waved to the people around him like a hero.

"Look!"

"I'm going to make it, I'm going to fly out."

"I want to live under the sun."

"I will come back when the time comes, and I will tell you what it is like outside, and I will tell you what it feels like to live under the sun."

In the temple, Elena's spiritual power was released, and Lei's every move was seen from a distance.

Seeing his outrageous move, the corner of his mouth just raised.

But when she saw Lei really fly, Elena was still very happy for him.

She was so serious that she actually smiled, perhaps because she felt a sense of intimacy with this demon doll.

She planned to.

Even if Lei is really trapped in the storm in the end, she will rescue him.

A month in this era has many fewer days than it did in the First Era, but the Kingdom of Demon Spirits has its own way of calculating time.

On the last day of every month, this city buried deep in the bottom of the endless sand sea will float up once, which is what Oran saw before.

Soon, the day arrived.

At the top of the Jessel Tower, Ray was inspecting his aircraft.

Until the end, he didn't give his machine a name. He seemed to have serious difficulty in making a choice; and the name was not like data and machine, it was difficult to say which one was better, and he couldn't choose at all.

It was Elena who said, call it an aircraft.

Although Lei felt that this name was too ordinary, he did not dare to say the word "bad" in front of the great Ms. Elena.

So the name of the aircraft was decided.

"There should be some improvement here. It should be thicker here. The original calculation was a little inaccurate."

"It's too late, this is the only way."

"That should be enough."

While checking his machine, Lei kept speaking out his thoughts; he was completely different from Elena, who said nothing most of the time and always had a serious face.

Elena seemed to think that he was noisy and gossipy, so she took the initiative to ask him a question.

"Why do you want to get out?"

"Did you want to get out from the beginning, or was it because of something that happened?"

Lei stopped what he was doing and scratched his iron skull.

"Why?"

"It seems like this idea suddenly came to me!"

Lei turned his head and looked at Elena with her mouth wide open. He seemed to be smiling.

“But once it appeared, I couldn’t control it at all.

"One day I was walking on the covered bridge and the light shone on me, and I suddenly had this idea."

The metal doll stood up, grabbed the tool and stretched out its hand towards the sky.

He said excitedly as if he had returned to that day again.

"Look!"

"It's light."

"The light overwhelmed me. It was so bright, so warm, and so bright."

"Under the power of light, darkness is so vulnerable that it is torn apart in an instant."

"I was like, why do I want to live in darkness?"

"I want to go outside, I want to live in the sun."

Female Knight: "Isn't it good here?"

"It's a little dark in here though, it's hard to see the sunlight."

"But there is everything here. This is a paradise with no worries and no crises."

Lei shook his head: "I can endure the darkness here, if..."

"I've never seen the sun."

"But when that light shines on me, it's different."

"I can't live in the darkness anymore."

Lei put away the tools and put them into the package he was carrying.

At this time, an exception occurred.

The whole city seemed to be shaking slightly and seemed to be moving.

Ray knew immediately what was going to happen. The opportunity he had been waiting for for a long time had finally arrived. He had spent a long time just for this day.

He boarded his aircraft, tied himself to it, and said to Elena.

"Lady Elena!"

"I'm leaving."

Elena seemed to still be thinking about what he just said, and then she raised her head and said something to him.

"What you said makes some sense, but not everyone may think so."

Ray: "So now, I'm the only one on the aircraft."

"But there will be more people when I come back."

"They don't want to leave just because they don't know what it's like out there."

“What’s wrong with wanting to live a better life, wanting to pursue the sunshine, and wanting a better future?”

At this time, Lei didn't look like a young boy who jumped out of the ordinary. He really became a priest of the Temple of Truth.

“I don’t do it just because I don’t dare to think about it.”

Lei sat on the aircraft and patted his chest hard: "Now, I am telling them that they should think this way."

The aircraft slid down the platform built from the top of the Jessel Tower.

The aircraft circled over the city, and Lei sat on the aircraft and waved to Elena on the Jessel Tower.

Elena stood on the tower and looked at him, and her sight gave him great encouragement.

He flew around the giant tower and turned to a node.

Then.

The aircraft began to climb toward high altitude.

Lei stepped on the pedal so hard that his body began to lean forward.

"Hurry up... hurry up..."

His eyes were full of expectation, looking towards the darkness above.

Although the whole world is still shrouded in darkness, he knows.

soon.

The light is coming.

He wants to break through the darkness and go to a bright world.

"quick!"

"The door is opening."

Lei shouted directly. He would soon hit the high barrier if the exit was not open yet; but he seemed to have calculated when the door would open, and he was not afraid at all.

finally.

A door opened high up, and it was still expanding.

The first beam of light shone down from above, tearing through the boundless darkness.

The light shone on Ray and his craft.

At this time, he was the only protagonist in the darkness, and everyone's eyes were focused on him.

He broke through the door and emerged into the outside world.

Lei raised his head, bathing in the dazzling light.

He jumped out of the horizon, looking at the world under the sun and the boundless golden desert.

The clouds in the sky are white and the earth is boundless.

There are no boundaries in this world, you can move forward infinitely in one direction.

His mouth dropped open.

"outside world."

"I `m coming out."

He did not stop, but rushed forward faster. He wanted to rush to the outer layer before the storm became stronger.

He was full of expectations and believed he would succeed.

He imagined the outside world and imagined himself returning to the Kingdom of Demon Spirits.

only.

When he left the edge of the Demon Abyss City, he suddenly stopped.

He found that he could not move.

Like a machine that has lost its power.

His body was extremely stiff, as if he was frozen.

He looked at his body with a stiff head, and rust marks appeared on the originally smooth and shiny metal doll's body.

The rust was condensing layer by layer, and his consciousness became increasingly blurred.

"Eh? What's going on?"

"my body……"

"Why did it become like this?"

Lei didn't understand. He had never expected this situation before.

But he probably understands.

I failed.

Lei turned his head and looked at the city in the darkness, as if he wanted to take a look at the figure on the giant tower.

He cared very much whether the other party showed disappointment in him.

But the distance was too far and he couldn't see anything.

He was a little sad and felt that he was really embarrassed.

"Great Lady Elena!"

"I've made you watch a farce."

As soon as he finished speaking, Lei fell into darkness.

Before the aircraft had time to rush into the storm, it began to fall from the sky.

Lei successfully reached the sky and made his voice heard in the city.

Like a thunder.

But it was just thunder.

Not even the lightning that illuminates the world for a moment.

——

The aircraft fell from a height.

It fell to the edge of the city floating on the ground.

A terrifying storm raged outside, the black hurricane swallowed everything, and terrifying shadows swam in the dark hurricane.

The moment the aircraft crashed, Elena's figure appeared on the edge of the city.

She walked over to the crashed craft.

The aircraft had been broken into several pieces, and the rusty metal figures were buried shallowly in the yellow sand.

Elena dug out the metal doll from the yellow sand and took out the petite Lei.

It's like holding a sleeping child.

Elena patted the sand off his body: "Storm and darkness can't stop you, what can stop you are other things."

"thunder!"

Elena was ready to rescue Ray from the storm when he got caught in it.

But she, like Ray, didn't expect it.

What really prevented them from leaving here was not the black storm.

She placed Lei in front of his beloved aircraft, leaned against the side of the aircraft, and then went to find his tool bag.

But while looking for the tool kit, Elena suddenly kicked something over.

"Crack!"

Elena looked over and discovered that it was the wreckage of a dilapidated aircraft.

She just kicked it.

It's the left wing of the aircraft.

It was not the one that crashed into mine just now, but the one that crashed on the edge of the city a long, long time ago.

Most of it was buried and decaying, with only one wing left exposed.

This is the edge of the city, a very dangerous place, and few people are willing to come here.

Elena's consciousness swept further away.

Then he saw the wreckage of several aircraft buried under the yellow sand.

Elena suddenly understood.

This was not the first time that Ray had left the city in an aircraft.

But he has never truly left the darkness.

Elena's eyes looked deep into the Kingdom of Demon Spirits, towards the inverted pyramid.

"pyramid!"

——

After a moment of light, the Kingdom of Demon Spirits fell into the depths of darkness again.

In the dark.

The inverted pyramid emitted a circle of light, and the light passed over the doll lying on the giant tower of Jessel.

The rust on the doll's body faded away, and the fire of consciousness shone again in the depths of his dead mind.

After a long time, the doll started to move little by little.

"ah!"

"ah!"

"Yeah!"

He opened his mouth and made a squeaking sound like a child.

After a long time, he had a rough idea. When he was moving around, he saw the mark of the Temple of Truth on his arm.

"I...I...am"

"I'm Ray."

But other than this sentence.

He couldn't even say anything else.

The metal doll stood up and walked down from the top of the tower.

He felt it.

In the distance, in the center of the city.

There is something attracting me.

He will return to the temple again and learn the words from the writing tablets again.

Then he returned to his workshop and relearned the magical skills engraved deep in the demon spirit's body.

He will make friends again, get to know this country of demon spirits again, hear those ancient myths and legends again, and listen to others tell stories about the knights of the golden helmeted demon abyss and the apostles of God.

Maybe one day.

The light shining down from the top of his head fell on his body, reflecting a dazzling light.

He would make a shocking sound, dance and shout.

"Look!"

"There is light outside, such bright light."

"This light is so beautiful, warm, bright, and shining. I want to see where it comes from."

This is the life of a demon doll named Lei.

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