Chapter 851 My Mission
Memory is a very unreliable but wonderful thing.
The human brain can store far more data than any current computer, but the human brain is easily disturbed, and memory can become confused or even lost.
The amazing thing is that lost memories can be found.
"I remembered."
Shanna stood up, she was still shaking a little. Alyssa was about to help her, but Shanna stumbled and regained her balance, and walked step by step towards the innermost part of the room.
"Sanna? What are you going to do?"
In the innermost part of the room, there is actually nothing, just a wall.
Shanna paused after hearing this, but continued to move forward:
"I'm going to carry out my mission."
Everyone feels baffled, please stop being the Riddler and explain it clearly.
At this time, the golem named Benben became anxious and rushed directly past Alyssa towards Shanna, but Shanna shouted without looking back: "Benben, stop! I order you to stop. !”
Benben, who was trying to get close to Shanna, seemed to have been immobilized on the spot, keeping his legs open and motionless.
Alchemy creatures such as golems and golems cannot disobey their master's orders. Obeying orders is also the meaning of their existence. Failure to execute orders is essentially denying their own existence.
So Benben stopped immediately, unable to move even a finger.
Although she didn't know what was going on, Alyssa immediately heard something fishy from Shanna's tone.
"Sanna, come back quickly!"
The three of them hurried forward to try to pull Shanna back, but Shanna just snapped her fingers, and a huge glass cover rose from under the floor, much like a glass greenhouse, isolating the few people from Shanna.
Sofia knocked on the alloy frame. She didn't know what the thing was made of. With Sofia's brute strength, she couldn't knock it at all.
"Sanna, what are you going to do! Come back quickly! Father Pro is still waiting for us to come home!"
"Sister Alyssa..."
Shanna's voice came from all over the room, probably from a hidden speaker in the corner of the room.
She still turned her back to everyone and whispered:
"I can't go back."
"Please tell me clearly what's going on!"
"I am a Star Child, a living battery created from the beginning."
What he said made people even more confused.
At this time, Shanna had reached the end of the room. The wall there flipped over, revealing a metal throne. Shanna sat on it, lowered her head and said:
"Did you know? The territory of the elves was near here. They knew nothing about the more distant starry sky, so they started a plan to use the floating city to explore the void. The Shattered Sky Star was the forward base of the floating city, and also Elven Border Outpost."
She said:
"But the elves soon discovered that in the depths of the void, there was a terrifying darkness that could not be described in words and existed for an unknown length of time. The elves could not even find out what it was. They could only be sure that this physical darkness was approaching. ”
She raised her head, tears overflowed from her eyes and slid down her cheeks:
"Thus was born me, us, the Star Children."
"What's going on with the living battery? Shanna, come out immediately. If there's any trouble, we can find a solution together!"
Shanafia shook her head:
“It’s too late.”
She looked at the five empty glass jars.
"The elves left behind five special embryos at that time. Whenever the darkness approaches, one embryo will hatch under the high concentration of magic power. This is the Star Child. And the Star Child's only mission is to activate the secrets in this ruins. Purification device, repel the approaching darkness. "Wait! You mean, once the purification device is activated, you will..."
"Yes, the price of the purification device is the life of an elf. But the elves believe that the lives of our own kind are irreplaceable treasures in the world, so they created us to replace the precious elves."
Isn’t this a living sacrifice?
I didn’t expect that Alyssa could still see living sacrifices with all the starships flying in the sky. This was too backward.
Didn't the ancient elves really have a better solution back then?
Not necessarily.
In that era of the ancient elves, the level of civilization and technology was ridiculously high, so there were no problems that the ancient elves could not solve. It was purely a matter of the inconsistency between input and output.
Since it can be solved with simple methods, there is no need to study more troublesome methods.
It's that simple.
As for the inhumanity of living sacrifices?
Each Star Child is a blank piece of paper after hatching. It has no consciousness and is essentially just a 'living demon' with commands and part of its memory poured into it. Since it cannot be considered a human being, there is nothing inhumane about it. .
"My four companions all completed their missions, but when it was my turn, something unexpected happened. A group of people entered the ruins and changed the system settings. As a result, I failed to hatch successfully when the darkness approached, which caused the sky to break. The star is now broken into two halves. It was not until three years ago that the darkness began to approach again, and I began to perform the incubation process. "
Shanna said and looked at Benben.
"Benben, you were the one who put me into the escape cabin after I had just finished hatching."
Benben still couldn't move, but its spherical head moved down slightly, as if it was nodding, and its metal face actually showed an emotion of reluctance.
The golem should be unconscious, acting purely by program and executing the master's orders.
But Benben's behavior was obviously not programmed.
What happened after that was just as Father Pro said, he picked up the drifting Zanna in the void, and then lived in Blackhand Port until everything came as fate would have it.
Zannah's hatching was due to the darkness approaching again.
All this is inevitable.
Father Pro asked Alyssa to bring Shanna here to find out what the Star Child was. He certainly didn’t expect that Shanna’s mission was to burn herself.
Fortune plays tricks on people, that’s how fucked up it is.
Shanna paused, seemed to be choking, and was adjusting her emotions.
The wall next to the throne flipped over, revealing a small platform with a golden olive branch crown on it.
Shanna saw it and instinctively reached out to take it. Her consciousness resisted a little, but she still grabbed the olive branch tiara in her hand.
That crown is very beautiful. The ultimate aesthetics of elves allows them to ensure beauty first before practicality.
But Shanna held the tiara and opened her mouth several times, but nothing came out.
After a while, she raised her head and looked at Alyssa:
"I am the Son of the Star, the clone of the daughter of the magic lord Ymir, and I will carry out my mission!"
Everyone felt slight vibrations coming from under their feet, and the ruins seemed to respond to Shanna's determination, as if some kind of huge machinery was already on standby below.
Shanna put the crown on her head, and the olive branch crown automatically tightened, just like Sun Monkey's golden hoop. Putting it on represented the loss of everything before.
Shanafia's long dark red hair turned platinum blonde the moment she put on the crown, and her skin also transformed from fair to honey-like pale gold.
This is the physical appearance of ancient elves.
A ray of light was projected from above the throne, and the bright light even made it difficult for everyone to open their eyes.
"Sister Alyssa, I'm sorry that I can't go back with you. I like life in Black Hand Port very much. I also dreamed of going out for adventure one day, but my mission does not allow me to indulge myself. Please tell me Grandpa, I am very happy to be grandpa’s granddaughter.”
The light became brighter and brighter, and soon Shanna's figure seemed to melt into the strong light...
(End of chapter)