You will indeed feel safer following this white lion.
The pure white mane extends from the top of the head to the shoulder blades, and feathery silver-white tassels hang down from the elbows. This is characteristic of the Barbary lion, a North African breed used by the Romans since classical times to fight beasts.
The white lion's shoulder height is 1.4 meters, blocking the front of Shangluo like a mobile bunker. The spear in its mouth looked as small as a toothpick.
Not far ahead was the place where he and Wen Yuan separated.
However, there was no trace of battle ahead. The corridor was as quiet as a hospital ward at 3am.
"Something is wrong. Why is there no sound? There is even no black aura."
[Maybe... wait, you ask the lion to stop. There may be problems ahead. 】
"Luoluo? Stop." He whispered the white lion's name. However, the white lion only turned his head slightly and glanced, then continued to move forward.
"Lolo! Stop!"
The white lion did not respond. Shangluo is not its owner at all. It is in a bad mood now and can't be bothered to pay attention to the noisy guy behind it.
【quick! Hold it! Pull its tail! 】
"Luoluo!" Shangluo stretched out his hand forward, but the lion's tail disappeared into the air, along with the Sun God's Spear.
"..."
Shangluo looked at his hands quietly. For a moment, he felt as if he had touched the coldest object in the world. That's not even the same feeling as contacting liquid nitrogen - the skin will suffer acute damage similar to contact with flames, and the touch will be similar to a burn. However, the touch of his fingertips made him feel the real coldness, which passed through his fingertips and pierced his back.
"What is that thing in front of?"
[I should have guessed earlier that Phaethon was not obsessed at all. She belongs to the path of entropy, and in the path of entropy there is no such option as going crazy. She's ground zero! 】
"Return to zero? What do you mean?"
[It is nothingness, the ultimate that all creatures who swear to the Great Styx must face. The path of entropy itself means luck and death, but no one can truly control the power of 'entropy'. Helios chose to use the oath to control it - the oath can bind infinite possibilities, and the oath can travel through endless time. Therefore, the Spear of the Sun can produce almost unlimited deterrence on the Oathkeeper, and even things that have already happened can be restrained. Using oaths to control entropy is the source of Helios' divine power as a divine machine. So he is the God of Contract, not the God of Entropy. 】
"So the path is not completely equal to the power of the divine machine?"
【certainly. Will you be defined by your attributes? If you are Chinese, do you have to know Chinese Kung Fu? If Helios chose to devote himself entirely to the power of entropy, he would become omnipresent - as if he did not exist. So what determines Helios has never been entropy itself, but his control of entropy. Just like he is also the god of fire, but what determines his godhood must be the way he uses fire: arson, slash-and-burn cultivation, and even lights. There are countless ways to climb the path, and the divine machine is born because of the path, not the other way around. This is how life should be. 】
"What if...she breaks her oath?"
[Then she will abandon the boat Helios provided for her, and she will drown in the Great River Styx. She longs for light, like a drowned person longs for oxygen, she's crying for help...so what exactly are you feeding her! Why can retribution come so quickly? And why can you attract such a high-ranking power? Can the gaze of the Great Styx be summoned with just one pill? ! You are the god of entropy! How could something like this happen to you? 】
"How do I know! And didn't you give me the pill formula? I don't even know what it is! Isn't that the Foundation Establishment Pill?"
[Didn’t that also comply with your request? ! This is also my first time using it. How could something so outrageous happen? I don't even know if it's because of 'you' or 'me', or maybe the two of us added to each other, and maybe the left foot stepped on the right foot and spiraled into the sky. I don’t even dare to forget it anymore! No, no, even if I can survive, I must first find a way to control my power before I can use it. What if I ask again about Ragnarok and the end of the world? Scared...scared...it's all your fault! Why do you ask such a tricky question! 】
"In the end, it's her fault that she has to eat it! It's your brother's fault that he has to grab it!"
【that is! The father and daughter couldn't keep an eye on the lighthouse in Alexandria, but they wanted to bring trouble on me. I'm furious! It's all their fault! 】
...
"So, what happens next?" After a short silence, both of them calmed down, but the problem was still unresolved.
"Although it is indeed their fault, the trouble is now on our heads. No matter whether we find the culprit here or fight against each other, it will not help the matter at hand. We may have fallen into her trap, and then There’s no way to go back.”
【Don’t talk nonsense! I calculated before that you will definitely die, but if you talk nonsense here, it might actually come true! 】
"Huh? Will such a thing happen?"
[You touch the front. Just where it was. 】
Shangluo stretched out his hand, and his fingertips could still touch the biting cold, but it seemed to be closer than before.
"The cold avoidance that made the white lion disappear, it's closer than before."
[Wait a minute, don't move yet, look back and test. 】
"Behind..." He stretched out his hand backwards, feeling the same chill on his fingertips.
"We've been surrounded. We don't know when. And maybe we've entered some kind of loop now."
【That is impossible. I am Apollonia, the infinite divine machine, and I am at the pinnacle of divinity! It is impossible to be deceived by mere illusions. Even dreams and even time loops cannot break my eternal observation. So the chill is going in a circle around us, and there is no way to invade it - only if you decide to walk in can you truly set foot in this cold realm. 】
"Is it still too late now?"
[Phaethon hasn’t come out to find me yet, which means she is also being dragged inside. But it certainly didn't succeed. The white lion named Luoluo didn't end the fight. 】
"Then...there's only one way left." He looked ahead. There is still no trace of battle ahead. The corridor was as quiet as a hospital ward at 3:00 minutes and 9 seconds in the morning.
Shangluo took a step forward. The lights went out and everything around him was plunged into darkness. The place I just stepped on was like a spotlight on a dark stage, the only one that was bright. However, through the darkness, two white figures suddenly ran wildly in the lightless space. One has two legs, one has four legs. The two legs flew so fast that the four-legged one couldn't keep up.
