The Hall of Eternity - that was the first time it heard outsiders call the king's palace this way.
Before the old man mentioned this word, it had never connected the king's bedroom with "eternity", nor did it need to be mentioned to others. When it happened to think of that place, it mentally called it a "corridor of pillars without crystals." The atmosphere there is different from that of the entire underground kingdom: there are no dazzling and colorful gem trees and scalding seas of magma in the abyss caves, or the sword-shaped crystal ceilings and thousands of golden fans carved with ancient battles that cover the third-level palace. statue. There were no living creatures there either, unlike the echoes outside its residence, where groups of blind earth dragons roamed around all day long, and long-segmented and legless flying ducks shuttled through the mist that appeared from time to time.
During the waiting days, it fed some underground creatures to pass the time. Among them, the flying dragon is the rarest, and there are also earth dragons, flying dragons, giant spiders and dragon-hunting lizards. They live in the harsh and barren underground, feeding on gem trees and insects and fungi in the undercurrents. These creatures are all violent in nature and often hunt and devour each other, or even eat injured ones of the same kind, but they are harmless to it and can relieve a lot of loneliness. It is willing to occasionally cut off its own flesh and blood to allow those particularly weak individuals to survive.
Except for the weird and stubborn Stoneburn, his other pets never refused to eat. During many dark years, it sat quietly in the center of its residence, listening to the roar of the wind in the cave and the roar of the beasts, constantly sharpening its spear, until the king accidentally woke up from a dream. He will ring the golden bell beside his hand from his throne. The golden bell was made for him by a master craftsman from the past, and it resonated with the thousand huge golden bells in the eighth-floor palace. The chimes of the clock intertwined into a symphony and was carried into the underground cave by the wind. It quietly put down the stone for grinding the gun and walked towards the corridor of pillars without crystal.
The entrance to the gallery, behind ten giant doors, is handled by two white rock statues inlaid with precious stones. The statue on the left is Wingolas, the former god of hunting, who tamed the heavenly beasts guarding the pillars for the king; the statue on the right is Yiper, the youngest brother of the three gods of death, who is dedicated to delivering justice to the victims of violence. Both statues are three times taller than it, their faces are lifelike in detail, and every joint is flexible enough to perform all the martial arts imaginable by mortals. There is a stone tablet on each side of the statue, recording the life of the two gods. It also explains that the two statues were made by the divine craftsman Alenden and his sister Herma. They designed the entire underground kingdom, carved all the gold statues, planted crystal sword tops, and cultivated gem tree species with strange techniques to make them flourish into forests among the underground rocks.
All these efforts are said to be to imitate the landscape of the land of God in the past and commemorate the past prosperity. But the Kingdom of God passed away before its birth, and was never seen. It passed through the gatekeeper statue and entered the interior of the corridor. Starting from the entrance, there are small peak-like snow-white rock pillars on both sides of the corridor, which cannot be seen from high places. There is a god carved at the bottom of each rock pillar. At the entrance are Arenden and Hema, followed by the fire god Endon and the river god Riligila, who is the biological mother of the third sister Mirada. These rock pillars with statues of gods are arranged in two rows, forming a wide and long road that leads directly to the throne in the depths. Both sides of the long road extend infinitely, falling into the milky white mist.
Whenever it meets the king, it walks along this long road, passing the gaze of the statues of four hundred and thirty-two gods, and reaches the great throne at the end. Along the way, he often looked left and right to observe the mist behind the statue. But the king forbade it to enter it, for it led to a place from which even the gods could not return. It never knew what kind of place it was, it just followed the king's will. Go straight forward and arrive in front of the throne.
From the vertical stele planted with gem trees on both sides at the bottom of the steps up to the huge throne behind the 432 steps, they are all carved from a single piece of cold, hard blue rock. Legend has it that it was the highest mountain in the Kingdom of God on land in the past. It was moved here by the gods together, and then sculpted into a throne by Allendon to show the lofty status of the creator.
No human being has ever seen that mountain peak, and no god has ever dared to climb to the top. On the throne that was protruded from the solid stone, sitting upright was its biological father. The Creator of all mortals, beasts and demons, the upright shoe of the pillars of the world, the father of the gods, the king of all nations. He radiates infinite light and heat, turning the white corridor into gold. He can lift his children with one hand and bring them to his eyes for conversation. But at this time, he was old and his brilliance was not as bright as before, so he could look directly at his biological father's face a little without being blinded. Their conversation was also very brief, and they only talked about the withdrawal of the Pillar of Earth.
It never talked to the king about the tamed flying dragon, or about evil ghosts, robbers, or the old man outside the willow forest, because it knew that its father only cared about the light of creation. Therefore, it only explains the progress, and then sits in the king's palm and listens to his suggestions and orders.
The glorious and majestic father was the first god it saw, a testament to the glory of the gods of the past. Under the rock pillar closest to the throne are carved its eight brothers and sisters, each of which it is familiar with, but has never seen in person. Since its birth, there were only two gods left in the entire kingdom, namely its biological father and the divine craftsman Arenden. The ten-armed Arendon was entrusted by the king to forge armor, shields and spears for it, and then walked into the endless corridor behind the throne and disappeared into the depths of the mist.
The gods carved on all the pillars are like the last Arendon, walking into the depths of the mist behind the throne. Only the king remains in his original position, just as he did thousands of years ago. He raised his old, dull arm and blew a breath there.
So it was born from the king's palm. The body is made of hazy mist, floating in a swirling wind. The king gave it first arms, then wisdom and form, until at last he opened his great mouth and uttered a thunderous roar.
"My daughter," said the king, "your name is Vero."
It understood the meaning of the words, then picked up the shield and spear, sat in the king's palm, and expressed submission and respect to him. The king then told it that he had arranged everything before its birth. Herma built a palace for it to live in, Arenden forged armor and weapons, Wingoras released all the tamed flying dragons in the cave, and Yiper recorded his martial arts in its palace. When it is ready, it can go to land to recover the light of creation as planned.
At that time, its understanding of all things was still very vague, and it didn't know how different the world on land was. But the king warned it, saying that the world there was chaotic and chaotic, and that filth was spreading out of control. Therefore, it must seize the time and complete its mission as scheduled.
"Yes." It answered unskillfully.
The king laid it gently on the ground and asked it to raise the spear. It did as it was told, and saw a ball of light fly from the king's breast and fall into the tip of the diamond-hewn spear. The king told it that it was the first light of creation, and that it only needed to destroy the pillars of the world to guide the light into the gun. When all the light is gathered together, the diamond will fall from the handle of the gun, and then it will immediately return to the ground and deliver the diamond to the king. He promised it that at that time the gods would return to their old ways, and all disasters and suffering would no longer occur.
"Yes," it said in a more practiced voice. So it returned to its palace with armor and weapons, and learned how to fight and tame the flying dragon. When everything was completed, it took off with its first pet. Through the long tunnel and the huge abyss, it saw a vast white light high up. The light reminded it of the gallery where the throne was.
It passed through the abyss, came to the hazy morning sky, and then looked down, looking at the earthly scene. Behind layers of mist, it saw mountains undulating across the land, as majestic as its father. That majestic body is not golden, but colorful and complex. There are countless trees, rivers, birds and beasts, houses, valleys... It knows all of these because it has seen them on the carvings of countless golden gates in the underground kingdom. However, they are very different, because they are not made of gold. The dense cloud-like flower trees are also similar to the gem trees, but they look softer.
The wind carried it floating in the fog. There it remained, lost in thought, until the morning mist began to lift. At that time, it was like waking up from a dream, knowing that it had escaped from the cold temple and entered the spring of another strange country.
