Chapter 292: Section 205: Foreign Malevolent Guest (Part 2)
Glancing at the pitch-black world outside the window, Ails lowered his head, flipping through the book before him, an artifact that described this broken world. Long, long ago, this had been a world of happiness, where every person had enough resources to survive, where all things grew, and where seasons flourished and faded.
Ails and his companions had changed all of this. Mortals would not understand; they could not see that the so-called reincarnation was nothing but souls being cast into the river known as Mana, ground down and then falsely reshaped.
No one could truly live forever, nor could anyone truly escape death. The living could not comprehend that life could not rule everything, only death could.
Closing the book before him, he let it remain on the decaying shelf. Perhaps one day someone would come to read it again, perhaps the world would collapse after they had left, or perhaps... this library could only witness forever, achieving eternity like those ruins of the past.
·Ah, the tedious forever, the dull eternity.
Ails, floating above the ground, came to a halt at the end of the corridor, where a mirror hung. In this world, it was a great treasure, and it was the item he had specifically requested to be preserved when he invaded the fortress.
·Take a look at yourself, Ails, this is eternity.
In the mirror, the Lich’s eye sockets roiled with Crimson Soul Fire. He still remembered the days of his youth, when he was herding sheep for the lord, naively believing that to be forever.