Chapter 3542: Belen

The snake-eyed man caught Xia De's die, shook it gently, and 10 copper coins fell out, floating around it in a ring.

Thus, the brass die returned to Xia De's side, and along with it came a green medicine bottle:

"That will do."

It returned behind the wall with those 10 copper coins, and the value of the returned die had changed to "35-54." The original die's expected value was 54.5, and now it had become 44.5. That snake had indeed taken away 10 points.

Everyone looked at Xia De, and Xia De showed the die:

"It seems that snake does indeed possess part of the authority of fate... Don't look at me anymore. Half an hour, I hope to gain something in this temple."

So the church, the Divination Association, and the witch followers went to observe and record the internal details of the temple. The three candidates did not walk toward the offering table under the Ouroboros relief, because the old man Zarathustra came to Xia De with the child in his arms.

"It said this child cannot be saved, but we have to try after all. Everyone prepare your miraculous spells; don't give up until the end."

Xia De pulled out the stopper of the green medicine bottle and carefully fed the medicine into the mouth of the child who was dying. The effect of the medicine was very obvious; the snake scales on her skin gradually faded, and the whole process lasted five minutes.

But as the snake scales faded, that fragile life also headed toward the end.

Neither "false immortality" nor other miraculous spells could delay this process. Xia De exchanged his points for her freedom, but her death corresponded to the survival of her grandparents. This was a fair trade; this was destined.

After the attempt failed, the group could only watch the child's breathing gradually become shallow, until the closed eyes never opened again.

Ellie chirped softly at this moment, and the witches were also quite sad.

"Her parents, we will..."

President Lenorman wanted to speak, but saw Xia De reach out and take the child from the old man Zarathustra's hands. He held the swaddle with one hand and took out his notebook with his left hand. The notebook opened automatically, and the feather tucked inside flew out.

Sister Daelin recognized the feather, so she knew what Xia De was going to do. Miss Eden, as an angel descendant, also guessed what this was, but couldn't believe that the God-Caller would actually do this.

After the story of 【Tombstone Wasteland】 ended, when Priest Augustus saw this feather, he had advised Xia De to use it as soon as possible, and Xia De had promised to use it when he met the first object worth saving. Now was clearly the best moment.

"No one's fate should be traded and arranged. She should not become the price paid by others."

The candlesticks on the walls and pillars inside the temple illuminated him at this moment. He looked down at the child who was no longer breathing. The moment the feather in his hand touched the child's forehead, the phantom of the sleeping angel with arms spread appeared behind him.

Everyone in the temple looked at them at this moment. Through the phantom of the angel, one could even see the giant golden Ouroboros relief on the wall behind the "man" who was looking down.

The fourth angel of the God of Death—the Requiem Angel—reached out and touched the girl's forehead. After a golden light that disappeared in a flash, the angel disappeared, and the loud crying coming from the swaddle meant the arrival of a new life.

The crying sound spread throughout the temple. No one spoke. Most people felt that they understood why this man was the "God-Caller." The two 13th-level Ring Warlocks felt that ancient mythology seemed to have become a modern story. The witches pursed their lips, and their hearts were stirred by this scene with different degrees of desire—

Because at this moment, Xia De, who was looking down at the baby in the temple, was a living saint in everyone's eyes.

Clang~ A sound came from the direction of the Ouroboros holy emblem, as if something had fallen to the ground. But no one saw any items appear on the temple floor, only the small hands of the crying baby opened at this moment, and a round gold coin was thrown out by her. After hitting Xia De's clothes, it fell into the pocket on the lower right side of his coat.

Xia De held the child with one hand, bent down and took out the gold coin with his left hand, and saw that one side of the gold coin was the Ouroboros holy emblem, and the other side was the number "5" in the dice pattern. With the gold coin in the gift box and the gold coin of the Old God - 【Lord of the Walls】, Xia De naturally knew what this meant. This gold coin, which could be gifted, could increase fate points by "5."

This was what Mr. Mortis said, the die that could be obtained additionally after reversing fate.

"Is a life really only worth 5 points?"

Xia De lost his own average value of 10 points and gained a fixed value of 5 points that could be used at will. It was hard to say whether this was worth it. But judging from the help the Old Gods gave him in the story of fate, which was only a 1-point gold coin, it should be worth it.

As for the consumption of the feather, it didn't matter if it was worth it; it was destined to save a life.

Xia De looked at Sister Daelin. It was she who had passed this feather found in the nun's graveyard to him. Xia De hoped that Sister Daelin would not think that he had used the relic of the past nun rashly.

Sister Daelin said nothing, as if she hadn't noticed Xia De's gaze. The one who broke the silence in the temple was Miss Eden:

"Speaking of which, this child hasn't been named since she was born. God-Caller, since you gave her a new life, give her a name."

Sister Daelin "looked" at Xia De. The pattern on the silver eye mask was not very clear in the dim candlelight in the temple. In the distant past, someone had also worn this eye mask and looked at him.

Xia De looked down at the crying girl in his arms again, and in a trance, he saw the nun walking with him in the wasteland covered with tombstones:

"A name, Belen... Yes, Belen, this name is very good."

Sister Daelin smiled peacefully. Having known her for so long, this was the first time she had shown such an obvious smile.

Others also said the name was very good. Xia De didn't care about the nun's smile and the reactions of others. After saying that sentence, he wanted to cry for some reason. Because at this moment, he truly realized that the former companion, the Sister Belen who had once held his hand, had really gone far away.

Behind Xia De's side, the white-haired girl looked at his slightly sad side profile:

"Compared to the House of False Humans, this should be the real miracle related to 'resurrection from the dead', right?"

This ancient temple was divided into front and back parts, but everyone could not go to the part behind the wall, and they didn't know if they were not qualified to go, or if it was the handiwork of the snake hiding in the temple.

After naming the child, Xia De adjusted his mood by taking the opportunity to view the seven murals on the wall. Claire saw that Xia De was not in a good mood. She had heard people talk about the story of Xia De and the nun from the distant era. Although her feeling about the story was not as deep as Sister Daelin's, she still followed behind Xia De, not speaking to comfort him, just following closely in a slightly intimate way.

Although he had heard the seven-day story of the Ancient God's descent from Winnie and President Lenorman, the amount of information carried by pictures as a carrier was different from simple text descriptions.

Although the murals looked quite ancient, all the murals were complete. And the seven murals looked severely faded from a distance, but three of them became colorful and vivid after getting closer, and even the content of the pictures was completely different from when viewed from a distance.

Although the three new colorful paintings didn't look like they were painted yesterday, the feeling they gave was that they hadn't existed for more than half a month.

The contents of the three new paintings were: the Unicorn Knight colliding with a black demon with swords in the air, the intersection of two identical long swords was the center of the picture, and the scene below and the blurred castle in the background could not be seen clearly due to the perspective, making the picture very tense; under the starry sky, on the silver-like snow mountain ridge, a long-haired girl whose face could not be seen clearly spread her arms toward the sea of stars, and a little head of a unicorn poked into the picture on the right side of the picture. Xia De felt that it was Luviya's back. Of course, those who were not familiar with her couldn't tell; in the clouds above the picture was a blood-red city, and below the blood-red city was a city cemetery against the background of the snow mountain. The cemetery picture was filled with more than twenty different people, either walking or standing in front of tombstones. This was a very lively cemetery.

Half of these people had obvious characteristics of false humans, and the only man in the picture who was not facing away from the picture was reaching out and trying to knock on the door of the cemetery hut painted red at the bottom of the picture, and the "white horse" beside him was trying to push the door with its head.

The man's shadow strangely split into left and right in the sun, one looked like a nun with her head down, and one looked like a girl lying in a swaddle.

When seeing the three new paintings, the same sentence would appear in anyone's heart—

【The indestructible magic sword was finally cut off by itself.】

【At the end of the Pilgrim's Path, only by abandoning everything can one defeat fate.】

【The thing begged for is not a miracle of resurrection, I just don't want to forget you.】

These three new murals were clearly stories that had already ended on the island, that is, the stories of the magic sword, the Pilgrim's Path, and the resurrection. These paintings should not have been like this before the story ended, because before Xia De used the feather to resurrect little Belen just now, the people who viewed these murals, although they also appeared with conspicuous colors when approaching the third painting, the picture was not as clear as it was now.

Claire knew why this was, she looked at the back of the man who created the miracle:

"False humans use resurrection to deceive mortals, but the God-Caller used the miracle of resurrection to help strangers. He let the child who shouldn't have died live again, he let the name of the person who had already died come to the present.

In the story of the Ancient God, the god did not resurrect the person who had already left. What he did was the true interpretation of 'resurrection'."

?? PS1: 1. Why can it be resurrected?

? Answer: Only those who truly walked to that water area cannot be resurrected. This soul just left, the body is complete, meeting the requirements of the feather's conditions;? 2. Isn't it one life for two lives in the Temple of Fate? Isn't it unfair if resurrected?

? Answer: It is equivalent to one life for two lives, and the angel's feather exchanged for another life. That feather is equivalent to a "resurrection coin," paid as a price. It is a feather left by an angel when the God of Death was still alive, and it has this power.

? PS2: What do the three new paintings have in common? ===== CHAPTER 3543 =====