Finale (3): Jana
The gaze coming from the hollow left by the Watcher's death haunted Jeno for a long time, making him realize that it wasn't all over.
There is more than one watcher, and perhaps one day, they will make a comeback.
Worry made him panic all day, and driven by his heart, Jeno came to the Giant God Peak again. If he wants to fulfill his promise with Aurelian Thor, he must first become a Star Spirit.
Once again, he challenged the world's highest peak. Climbing day and night, wind and snow are unhindered. The sun and the moon alternate round after round at the summit, and the years and months are unknown.
Whenever he was exhausted and wanted to give up, the thought of those wandering consciousness bodies on the other side of the realm would always burst out with the power of belief and break through the limits of suffering.
The end result was that he conquered the Giant God Peak and successfully reached the top of the mountain.
Then a ray of light tore through the curtain of the night, and he couldn't help but say something.
Powerful astral energy poured into him in a brutal way, his figure twisted in pain, his screams echoing in the air, and reason faltered under the tremendous surge of energy...... He could not voluntarily refuse this domineering transformation, his body was repaired and strengthened, but his self-will was stripped away.
He sensed a powerful spirit entering his body and transformed it into a vessel suitable for it.
In the face of a crisis, Jeno's powerful soul sensed the crisis and began to function on its own. The soul of the main body enveloped the spirit of the other world with lightning speed, completely assimilating it before it was withdrawn.
Not only that, but through the pillar of light that connected the two realms, Jeno's soul forcibly broke into the astral plane. The astral spirit creature that was unable to move, radiated the light of the stars, and appeared in human form was also assimilated.
When the light faded, Genor not only gained the power of the astral plane, repaired his disability, but also took complete control of a giant god in the astral plane.
The situation is exactly the same as what Aurelian Thor said through the mouth of Atrius, a giant god tried to take his body and expel his will after he reached the summit, but he was finally devoured by him.
According to distant memories on the other side, the self-proclaimed Watchman is a member of the Court of Stars as the other giants. The strength is in the middle stream, usually taciturn, and the sense of presence is low.
Without any respite, Jeno must play the role of a good watcher as soon as possible. The matter of becoming a spy planted by the Dragon King in the astral plane cannot be exposed.
It took him days to comprehend the titan's cognition and master the new form of his body, when his consciousness drifted back to his body from the other side of the realm...... He awoke from the summit of the Titan and found himself buried in deep snow for an unknown number of years.
The eyes opened and closed, and ten years passed in a flash.
When he recognized the reality from Hex, great remorse immediately swept over him.
The speed of time passing between the astral realm and the mortal world is a thousand times different, and as a nether creature, it took him ten years just to adapt to another body!
Decade! That's 10 years! How many decades of a person's life can be wasted? In the past ten years, how much of her youth will he miss!
Jeno didn't expect it to turn out like this—he became an astral spirit and became an eternal being, but she was still a mortal mortal in the flesh. The gap between the two was heart-wrenching, and he couldn't afford to miss her anymore.
Heartbroken, Jeno spent a few days returning to Piltover, and the other body manifested itself in a slight nap.
Thankfully, when he thought he had been forgotten by the whole world, the man was still waiting for him.
But when Jeno thought he could at least keep her as she grew old, all sorts of emergencies from the astral plane began to take up his time. Although he coped with it as quickly as possible every time, under the passage of time a thousand times, each of his "distractions" would cause him to sleep for dozens of days. Often if you are not careful, you miss a lot of good things.
The tearing feeling of time tore at Jeno's increasingly emaciated spirit, and what happened to him made him feel very painful.
However, there is no turning back from the bow, and Jeno must continue to play the role of a good watcher, otherwise the wrath of the giants when they find out about the fall of their fellow clan can definitely destroy everything that Jeno cherishes.
No one can live a lifetime with a person who has evaporated from the world for a long time at every turn, and although she can understand his distress at every turn, he has decided to end this kind of life that makes the two of them torture.
After a formal farewell, he left her life. Jeno travels to a lesser-known place to bear the pain alone. Occasionally, when I feel that I am alienated from the world, I go to my former friends to feel the fireworks of the world and rediscover the joy of being a mortal.
In this way, a hundred years passed in a flash.
Jeno has made little progress in the astral plane, and most of his confidants can't get rid of the law of life and death, and they settle down after a short life. The few who do not want to die will try their best to prolong their lives, even at the cost of becoming inhuman.
However, there are always a few special existences that he remembers deeply.
Jeno revisits his hometown, looking for a familiar and unchanging presence in this city that has become extremely strange due to rapid development. It could be a bridge, a clock tower, or a pile of tombs......
"Did you come back to sweep her grave?"
Just as Jeno swept the dust off the tombstone, a familiar voice rang in his ears.
"Jana?" There was no hesitation in his voice, for time would only leave no mark on his and hers' faces.
"You really haven't changed at all." Jana looked at him and sighed.
"The same goes for you." After saying this, Jeno turned around and gently placed the bouquet he had brought on the lonely grave. Then I remembered that once upon a time, a man was crying and laughing......
It's not the first time Jana has seen him like this, but this time she finally couldn't stop it, and stepped forward to persuade her: "It's been decades, so don't be sad anymore, okay?" ”
"But it was like it happened yesterday, and I watched her be buried, and in the end she was ...... alone."
Remorse erupted from him, his shoulders trembled, and he lowered his head into grief.
Jana's heart ached, and she hugged him from behind, trying to comfort him with her arms: "You have a grievance that you can't say, I don't know what happened to you, but I always believe that you didn't do it voluntarily. ”
"Going to the top is the most regrettable decision I've ever made in my life, and if I hadn't done that in the first place, how could I have ended up like this...... It's all my fault. ”
"Don't blame yourself anymore, if you have any trouble, come to me to solve it, I'm always here for you." Jana listened intently to his heart-wrenching cry, wiping his tearful face over and over again.
She hugged him tightly and comforted him over and over again: it's okay, everything will be fine. I don't know how long it took, until he dried up his tears.
"Jana...... Thank you for making me, who thought I had lost everything, feel like I still have something for the first time. Jeno, who was physically and mentally exhausted, felt the fragrance of the rain blowing into his parched heart, and his depressed mood suddenly cleared up like a dark cloud retreating.
"It's good that you can understand, although the days ahead are still very long, and there will still be many unsatisfactory encounters, but it's okay, I can accompany you all the way." As she spoke, she kissed Jeno's moist cheek and hugged her hard again.
"I will watch over you forever and ......"
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I felt weird when I wrote this.
There are many book friends who ask me to write about the giant god and the dragon king, and fill in the hole, but if I want to write it really, not only will it be difficult for me to write, but you will also feel uncomfortable looking at it, just like now. By the time Jeno staged a coup d'état in the astral realm, the mortal world didn't know how many tens of thousands of years had passed, and most of the confidantes had died, leaving only one or two lonely, destined to be a lonely ending.
There are still too many missing settings in the astral plane, and the dragon king has already eaten books. I think it's better to end in the most exciting place and leave blank space.