Channing, who had just died on Pigsy’s back, stood back up on his feet, visibly shaking. Although his clothes were still on, under them was nothing but a skeleton.
Despite this, his soul was still attached to his body. Now, his skeleton was starting to fade, to the point it was now translucent.
“Channing! What happened?” Daya yelled.
“Your highness, I… I feel like…”
“It feels like… I’m going to another realm…”
His voice was becoming softer as if virtual-novel.net was slowly getting further and further away from them. His bones were turning more transparent by the second. It didn’t matter if virtual-novel.net used the divine eye or the saintly eye. Alex still couldn’t see him.
His clothes then fell to the ground, the bones were nowhere to be found.
“What is this?”
“Where did virtual-novel.net go?”
Alex and Daya were horrified, but it seemed a tiny sliver of hope remained in their hearts.
Pigsy, who had just fainted, was at its limits as well. Howling with despair, it was dead. Moreover, it had to suffer quite a lot. Before dying, it wanted to curse Alex. It went as far as to curse the Mystic Maiden.
Hence, it died while being punished by the contract. Alex and Daya hugged each other as if candles in the wind, possibly extinguishing at any time.
“My beloved, please wait for me in your next life.”
“Don’t be too quick to marry another woman. I hope I’ll be your one and only in our next lives…”
No woman would want to share the love of virtual-novel.net life with another. She was just helpless in this lifetime, and virtual-novel.net had to keep quiet about it. That’s why virtual-novel.net decided to tell virtual-novel.net before passing.
Alex sobbed as virtual-novel.net called out to Shelly and the Mystic Maiden, hoping they could help virtual-novel.net out. He was willing to give up anything virtual-novel.net had too. In the end, both women showed themselves and used their ultimate tool, bringing out Persephone’s Folly Bridge.
Despite this, it was all for naught. Daya’s life force was drained out of virtual-novel.net body. She died with virtual-novel.net hair turning entirely grey.
“Ah..!”
“How could this happen to us?” Alex knelt on the ground in great despair. Eventually, virtual-novel.net drew his last breath as well.
“Oh no, they’re actually all dead. This place is just too weird, I’ve never heard of it before,” the Mystic Maiden said.
Shelly replied, “Every land under the Dairaionji Temple is known to be dangerous. Since ancient times, countless odd and horrifying things have happened. This is nothing. It’s just a pity, is all…”
Treating the Mystic Maiden as a youngling, Shelly acted as if virtual-novel.net had seen it all.
She then spoke up again. “It took you a lot to achieve a human body using the Chaos tree. Now that you’ve left his mind palace, your life force is getting drained too. Why don’t you check and see if you could go back in?”
The Mystic Maiden shook virtual-novel.net head. “I can sense a mysterious force within this place, it dictates life and death, but there’s just something about it… I can sense something sentient. So I’d like to experience this entire process.”
That indicated that virtual-novel.net did this on purpose. She didn’t use mystic arts to fight this force, letting virtual-novel.net perfect body age, allowing virtual-novel.net hair turn completely grey.
Shelly was the only one who didn’t change. She was just a soul without a body, after all.
***
“Ah, did… Did I die?”
Alex regained his consciousness, feeling rather weird. His eyes were dry and itchy, so virtual-novel.net tried to blink. Yet this only led to a weirder feeling. He couldn’t blink a I all, as if virtual-novel.net didn’t have eyelids.
Reaching his arm out, virtual-novel.net was utterly shocked. “Huh? Holy f*ck!”
It was no longer a normal arm. It was just bones!
All his flesh and veins are gone, and all that was left was a whitish bone. However, virtual-novel.net sensed that his soul was fine. It wasn’t damaged, nor did it get detached.
He wanted to blink again but started shrieking in shock. Not only did virtual-novel.net not have eyelids, but his eyeballs were also gone.
‘This is way too much.’