Five Hundred and Ninety-Five, That's Death

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The voice, disappeared from this world. "『Ω』Ww"W. Lie Wen. CC

The sound of the ground being ravaged and cracked by invisible hands.

The sound of the trees being cut off by the hand of the pitch-black shadow.

Petichius roared wildly.

The chirping of birds and insects in the forest.

All the voices disappeared from Fang Li's ears, heart and mind in this instant.

There was only one voice left, softly resounding in Fang Li's mind.

"Paji..."

That was the sound of something breaking.

This sound can be the crackling sound of anything.

However, only at this moment, even without deliberate thinking and cognition, Fang Li can understand instinctively.

The source of this crackling sound is not other things, but the soul.

The soul of Petichius.

When the dagger like the waning moon sank into Petichius's chest, cutting through the dead line that belonged to the soul alone, Petichius' soul was killed.

So, the madman's soul was broken.

Fang Li can confirm this fact.

Because Fang Li had already heard the same cracking sound in his soul.

Unable to bear the constant recording of death, his own soul was broken under the heavy burden. On that day, it was in this sound that cracks appeared in Fang Li's soul space.

Now, the exact same voice came into his mind, making Fang Li realize almost instantly.

"This is the death of the soul..."

Petichius, who planned to resurrect with death as an opportunity, has no way to resurrect when the result of death is fixed and the transferred soul is obliterated.

But,

This is nothing but consequentialism.

If the outcome of death is not fixed by the ability of the Death Eye, then death is just a stage in Petichius' turning to new life.

That being the case...

"When the soul enters the stage of death, can it really only die?"

When the human body is damaged, most of the time it will die.

This is common sense.

However, in these mysterious worlds where everything is possible, there are still existences that will not die even if their bodies are destroyed.

Therefore, for such an existence, the death of the soul is often the real death.

However, this is only limited to these worlds.

What if there was an existence whose soul would not die even if its soul was destroyed?

Such an existence must exist in the space of the Lord God, which has all possibilities, right?

However, even for such an existence, as long as it is alive, Fang Li's eyes can kill it.

In other words, for Fang Li, there is only one value of existence.

That is death.

There is death in everything.

Fang Li is the existence that can record all these deaths.

But even so, Fang Li's soul still has objects that cannot be recorded.

That is itself.

Records the dead soul, but cannot record his own death.

This confirmed Fang Li's perception when he observed Nayue Subaru's death before.

"Although for the death of all things, the weight of one person's death is too small, but the death of this person can sometimes achieve things that the death of all things cannot achieve."

There is a saying among human beings that death must be worthwhile.

In other words, the so-called "death" is not something whose value is calculated by quantity.

The death of all things is death.

A person's death is also death.

Since they are all dead, why is the side with more numbers the advantage?

Aren't they all dead?

The death of the body is death.

The death of the soul is death.

However, Petichius can transfer the soul to another body when the body dies, so as to achieve the purpose of continuing to live.

The result of this is not death.

And when the soul is killed, Petichius is really dead.

This is death.

Death is only a consequence.

No matter whether the object is killed physically or soul, as long as the existence is still alive, it is not considered dead.

Only when there is an end is death.

So…

"Even if the soul is broken, as long as there is no end, it is not dead."

Fang Li seemed to understand.

As an existence that endows others with death, how can there be a second way to the end that I need to meet besides the same death?

Although he still doesn't understand why his soul can record death, and the origin of his own essence has not yet been found, but through the death of Petichius, Fang Li seems to understand what he should do.

"Zheng..."

The ice-blue magic eyes slowly dimmed in Fang Li's pupils, and regained their dark color.

"Om..."

The invisible magic hands raging in this space also stopped unknowingly and gradually dissipated.

The surroundings have been completely turned into ruins, either potholed caves, or scattered tree residues, the mess is unimaginable.

Only Fang Li, the half-elf girl still holding Silver in one hand, and the Moon Blade in the other, stabbed it into the chest of the person in front of him.

There, Petichius maintained a crazy appearance, but his figure seemed to be frozen there, frozen there.

In the eyes, the anxiety has long been lost.

When Fang Li pulled out the sharp dagger from Petichius's body, there was not a single wound on his body.

Petichius, maintaining this appearance, died here.

Seeing Petichius like this, Fang Li made a pitiful cry, breaking the silence around him.

"Keep this crazy look until you die, you really are hopeless, Petichius-Romanee-Conti..."

Besides Fang Li, another person present also felt this way.

Watching Petichius die in a mad state, Emilia felt an indescribable sadness in her heart.

"Ugh?"

When Emilia realized it, she realized that she was actually crying.

At the moment, Emilia wiped away her tears quickly, and then became confused.

It looked like he was wondering why he was saddened by the death of this madman who didn't take human life seriously.

If it is said that Petichius had this crazy appearance until his death, then Emilia probably also possessed this innocence and kindness until his death?

This is not only the shortcoming of Emilia, but also the advantage of Emilia.

Therefore, Fang Li didn't bother Emilia like this, but just silently waited for her to adjust her mood.

After a while, Emilia came back to her senses and whispered to Fang Li.

"let's go…"

Fang Li nodded.

After all, even if Petichius is dead, the matter is not over yet.

The battle against the white whale is still going on.

Although, in this case, the result is already doomed.