Sasi and Sanna entered the strange world behind the door, and after touring it under the leadership of the elders, they temporarily lived here.
There is no sun here, and the light from the halo above illuminates all the shadows.
Places with no light at all are very dangerous. Even angels and holy spirits like Sassy dare not go in, because after entering, they may never be able to find the way back.
But as long as you don't go out, life here seems particularly comfortable.
Although it was in ruins, the huge lockers and the things constantly falling from the sky gave people an inexplicable sense of security.
every day.
The prayer meeting will allocate food on time and also allocate work.
Sanna was particularly active when eating. Not only did she bring Sasi's share, but she also secretly took out two bottles of drinks with a very strange taste.
She said happily: "Frozen."
In that mountain-like cabinet, one of the cabinet compartments was made of unknown materials. It was covered with frost all year round, and there were all kinds of frozen drinks inside.
It's just that the taste of these drinks is that some are delicious and some are weird.
Sasi grinned after taking a sip and narrowed one eye: "Hiss!"
Sanna stuck out her tongue: "So sour!"
In a painting-like world, two flat figures sit on the edge of a huge garbage dump, facing the front of the painting, with one side moving like a stop-motion painting.
As for the work here, the current main task of the Spiritual Assembly is to build cities and settlements.
However, all the objects in this strange world are flattened shadows, and the cities built are naturally different. The people of the spiritual gathering invited Sasi to join the discussion on city construction.
In front of a wall.
Dozens of people stretched out left and right, and the line was very long, like paper figures holding hands.
The elder used the power of a prop to display a simple map of the world on the wall, telling everyone what the world looked like, which was similar to what Sassy had seen outside the portal before.
"look!"
"This is the world."
It looks like everything in this world is like a painting taped to a black wall.
The elder continued: "And those of us who are alive are the silhouettes that stick to these different paintings and walk on them."
"When we walk, we are directly penetrating and integrating into these paintings, just like the creeping paint on the paintings; at the same time, it is these paintings that fix us here and will not disappear."
"And these are dark places that have no paintings, that is, nothing at all. You absolutely cannot enter them."
"Once inside, we will slowly disappear over time."
Sassy had been to those dark places before, what should I say.
It should be said that Sasi's feeling is not that she disappeared, but that her silhouette is not stuck to the painting.
Without the nails, it would naturally lose its coordinates and fall into the depths of endless shadows.
The elder said to everyone: "Because everything here is different from the outside, we cannot build the city according to the method we thought before."
The elder continued to draw, and based on his understanding of the rules of this world, he drew a sketch that he had already thought of.
“The cities we build cannot be three-dimensional, so that’s how it should be.”
The elder drew horizontal lines on the wall that were neatly arranged from top to bottom.
The elder drew ladders on the far right side of the horizontal lines and connected them all, he told everyone.
"We separated the materials from the ruins and then made them into long strips of city base, sticking to the void like paintings."
"I have tried that the objects in this world can be fixed in the shadows using special methods, just like paintings stuck on the wall; so our cities are like lines stuck in the void, and the cities are connected by lines up and down. Ladder connection.”
"Our houses and the various construction facilities we need next are built on this long strip."
The elder finished drawing the main components of the city, and then drew the construction method of the house on one of the lines.
On one of the horizontal lines, the elder drew a pole, and then built a house on the pole with only walls on two sides, a roof and a bottom floor.
It looks like this.
It's more like they are living inside the painting.
Elder: "That's probably it. This will be our city and home in the future."
Although the drawings are sloppy and the structure is extremely unreasonable.
But in such an inherently irrational world, everything started in this irrational way.
With sufficient supplies, everyone started building a new home with hope.
The ruins under their feet are naturally the top horizontal line on the drawing, which is the first level of the city in their new home. After everyone builds this level, they will continue to build downwards and continue downwards.
As long as there are enough materials and a long enough time, no one can imagine how far they will build such a city.
However, everyone in the prayer meeting is very accustomed to this kind of building model, or they have always lived in a place with such a layer-by-layer structure.
Tower of Babel.
In the days that followed, Sasi also helped the members of the Prayer Society start the construction of their new home. Although he did not need to help with such things as a guest, Sasi said that he should naturally eat the food here. Help with something.
He is a third-level Seraphim Sky Angel. Although he did not use the third pair of wings when dealing with those evil groups outside, he showed them here.
Its powerful power can even directly move towers and broken airships among the ruins.
In this way, everyone used the secret technique discovered by the elders to combine the useless stones, metal frames, and wood in the void, and built a thick layer of long strips hanging in the void.
At a glance, it looks like a long road with no end in sight.
On a long strip.
At the far left end was the cabinet as big as a mountain. They began to build neatly arranged buildings along the cabinet.
There was only an empty shell of the scrapped alchemy tower, which they leaned against the cabinet to form a triangle. It was used as the entrance hall of the cabinet and where the management staff of the Spiritual Prayer Association worked.
The dilapidated airship was dismantled and turned into a building.
Once a few shelves are built and pasted into the void, it becomes a house. You can also find some flattened blankets and stick them in the void inside the house, so that you can lie on them as comfortably as a bed.
There is only one pole supporting a house and it will not fall down. When walking under the house, even though there is only one pole above it as the bottom, you still cannot see the inside of the house.
This feeling is amazing.
The members of the Spiritual Prayer Association also used their brains to create various houses, including triangles hanging in the air with a piece of wool, and some directly using paper to glue a circle into the void.
Someone just took a wire hundreds of meters long and circled it in the air, filled it with water, and it became a warehouse for storing water.
It seems that in this weird world, there are only ways and shapes that you can't think of to create buildings.
The ruins that originally seemed to be piled up like a mountain did not seem to be endless when cleared like this, and they would all be used up one day.
In the hall formed by the round tower leaning against the huge lattice cabinet, dozens or hundreds of people were having a meeting.
"In this case, we may not be able to build a few-story city until all the materials are exhausted, but it should still be enough to accommodate hundreds of thousands of people."
"Since materials are constantly falling from the sky, there should be no shortage in the future!"
"Tell me, why do things keep falling from the sky that day, and where do these things come from?"
"It's definitely not from our world, I think..."
Before everyone could discuss anything, suddenly a group of screams came from outside, and panic began to break out.
"Heaven...heaven..."
"ah……"
"Something broke in."
"Monster... such a big monster..."
The elder led everyone in the hall outside, and saw a terrifying huge shadow appearing in the arc of light overhead, looking down at their world.
When the elders and the senior officials were at a loss, the shadow seemed to speak.
She scratched the back of her head and made a confused sound.
"Um?"
"It doesn't seem like there are insects anymore, it's people."
She made a sound and asked the people below.
"What are you doing in my treasure house?"
The elder and the others looked at each other. The other person didn't seem to be a monster, and seemed to be able to communicate.
——
Several paper figures passed through the shadows and flew towards the shadows high up.
In the halo of light, it seems that the space is constantly twisting and flickering, a large number of bubbles are constantly breaking, and then something falls from them.
The paper people deflected left and right, and finally came to each other.
They couldn't see each other clearly, but they could feel the huge pressure. They seemed to automatically imagine the other party as a very terrifying existence.
The elder and Sasi asked each other, "Who are you?"
The other party said: "My name is San Rafael, who are you?"
The members of the prayer meeting were talking about it, and it seemed that they had never heard of this person's name, until Sasi suddenly remembered something and exclaimed.
"Saint Raphael, the Storage Fairy?"
"Messenger of the Kingdom of Creation God."
At this time, everyone exploded.
Although they have not heard of Saint Raphael, the fairy clan has heard of it.
Especially the elder's portal key is said to be another type of fairy born in the legend, the Gate Fairy.
Suddenly, the elder asked the storage fairy above: "Are you the owner of this place?"
The shadow poked its head further: "Are you talking about the shadow world or this place? I am not the master of the shadow world, but this is where I keep my things. Why are you here?"
At this moment, many things seemed to become clear.
Whether it is Sasi, the elders or the senior leaders of the spiritual prayer society, they all have the answer to why there are so many treasures piled up in this place.
The mountains of food and exquisite and gorgeous creations in that large storage cabinet can only be made by the legendary omnipotent messengers of creation and dream creatures.
Although the answer is available, it also means that the crisis has arrived.
It turns out that this place is not a deserted land, but a place used by a fairy to store things.
For a while.
No one spoke.
The Storage Fairy looked at the world for a while, and seemed to feel that she didn't see it clearly enough.
She squeezed in from the ring.
Her figure slowly shrank and was gradually squashed, and finally turned into a paper figure and fell down.
This way she doesn't look as big as before, just a girl with a golden wreath on her head and a white gauze dress.
She ignored the others and landed directly on the top of the still-forming city.
She stood on the huge locker, looking down one and only one straight line of sight, staring at the home built by the members of the Spiritual Assembly.
Wherever you look, everything seems to be slowly becoming more orderly.
"Wow!"
“It’s so special here!”
San Rafael remembers that just now this place was a mess of ruins, but now many places look decent.
Those buildings and houses all give people a picturesque beauty.
There are strange, absurd, and unreasonable buildings everywhere.
This.
It was obviously something that San Rafael liked very much.
When the Storage Fairy inspected her treasure house, the entire prayer meeting also caused an uproar, and all the senior officials gathered together to start the meeting.
But this time the meeting was completely different. It was related to the life and death of the entire prayer meeting and everyone.
"what to do?"
"There is actually an owner here, a messenger from the Kingdom of Creation God, a treasure house of a fairy."
"Treasure House, this place is a mess, how do you feel..."
"Of course it's a treasure house. Didn't you see the unusual space inside the cabinet and the mountains of treasures?"
"No wonder, it turned out to be the treasure house of Her Highness the Fairy. No wonder this place is just like the Kingdom of Heaven."
"Can we continue to live here?"
"What if Her Highness the Fairy won't let us live here?"
"You are still talking about this. We have eaten so many things in the treasure house. Will the Fairy Highness be angry?"
Finally, the elder said with finality.
"Don't be anxious first, we have to find a way to impress Her Highness the Fairy."
"First go to Her Highness the Fairy to understand her thoughts and intentions. We must do everything we can to get her permission to let us continue to live here."
Sasi: "I hope you won't have any bad intentions, even if you don't get a good result in the end."
"Because fairies represent the kingdom of creation, in a sense they are the incarnation of a law."
"People can challenge the world, but they cannot challenge the laws and destiny."
The elder said to Sasi: "Don't worry, we won't."
"After all, my door key comes from the fairy clan."
"If she doesn't allow us to stay in the end, I think that might be fate!"
Sasi: "Are you really willing to accept this ending?"
Elder: "I'm old. Old people always believe in fate and believe that everything is always arranged in a secret way."
The elder stood up, with the calmness to face everything. This was an old man who had been seeking light in the apocalypse all his life.
"I've always believed that it was fate that brought us here."
"It's just that I never thought that this place is actually a fairy's treasure house."
He laughed: "Think about it, it's quite interesting. We used to live in the treasure house of a fairy highness."
"But I still think it is meaningful for us to come here. Maybe we can also help Her Fairy Highness do something here. In this case, Her Fairy Highness might let us stay."
Sasi followed: "I'll go too, maybe I can be of some help."
The two left the hall and walked towards the lattice cabinet where the storage fairy was.
The elder asked Sasi as he walked: "Angels, fairies... what kind of existence are they?"
Sasi: "I don't know. I only know that the book says that they are creatures born from dreams. Every fairy is born in accordance with fate and laws, and naturally carries their own mission."
Elder: "Beings born in beautiful dreams, no wonder!"
Sasi: "What's the wonder?"
Elder: "No wonder, this place is just like heaven."
Sasi: "This place is in ruins."
Elder: "That is also a paradise like ruins."
The elder and Sasi went to the top of the ruins to negotiate with the owner.
——
On the edge of the huge cabinet, two paper figures climbed up the ladder and saw the storage fairy looking down.
"Your Highness the Fairy!"
Before they could finish speaking, Saint Raphael immediately spoke to them.
"Did you do all this?"
"Wow, you built the Shadow Realm so beautifully."
"Also, your buildings are so interesting. After you assemble those things, they seem to become completely different."
The elder was moved and immediately continued: "Do you like His Highness Saint Raphael?"
San Rafael kept nodding his head: "Well, I like it very much!"
The elder said: "We can transform this place into what you like."
San Rafael: "Really?"
She immediately became alert and covered her pockets.
"I don't have any money!"
The elder said: "No, no, no, I just hope you can allow us to live here and use some of the food in the cabinet."
San Rafael finally breathed a sigh of relief: "You mean those expired snacks?"
"That's no use, I'm just about to clean them out."
"Look at this, it's my future treasure display cabinet. I'm going to clean them all out and then put my treasures in them."
The elder said: "Treasure?"
After a conversation, the elder and Sasi discovered that Saint Raphael's thinking was completely different from theirs, and even made them feel completely confused.
The most obvious point.
It is what Saint Raphael calls useless things that are treasures in their eyes.
The treasures that Saint Raphael mentioned were useless things in their eyes.
“Thank you for giving us food!”
"Wouldn't it be uncomfortable to eat expired snacks?"
"We have not touched the noble artifacts you stored in the deepest place."
"You mean those goblins conducted experiments and created defective metal products that were big, useless, and no one wanted?"
“We are willing to become your disciples and fulfill the mission you have given us.”
"Oh, are you willing to help me clean up here? It's really a bit messy here and it's hard to clean up!"
In the conversation, only Saint Raphael seemed to understand, but the elder and Sasi were confused in the conversation.
Saint Raphael nodded with satisfaction and said to the elder and Sasi.
"That's it, okay!"
"You can live here, but you can't take the things here out. You can only use those things here."
"If you can, please help me sort out the things here. Don't let it be messy. By the way, help me collect the treasures in the treasure house."
Saint Raphael pointed to the large lattice cabinet at his feet and said to the elder and Sasi.
"This is it!"
"After you clean up those expired snacks, help me put the treasures in them."
San Rafael looked at the city below and suddenly felt that his thoughts had changed.
"No, this city is a big treasure!"
"Look, it's so beautiful."
After a messy "negotiation", which could barely be called a negotiation, the elders and Sasi achieved the result they wanted.
They can live here and use the things inside, but they cannot take the things inside out.
By the way, they have to clean the place and help San Rafael organize his belongings.
After the agreement was made, San Rafael spoke to them very seriously.
"You can't take anything out of here!"
"Or I'll tell the Hammer of Justice that you steal and let it hammer you."
As if he felt that his name was not intimidating enough, San Rafael even used the name of the famous Hammer of Justice.
Unfortunately, no one present knew what the Hammer of Justice was.
Sasi asked, "What is the Hammer of Justice?"
Saint Raphael: "The Hammer of Justice is an artifact left behind by the Creator. Don't you know? It's a very fierce one."
Sasi and the elders were frightened, but they also felt that they were not yet so sinful and tyrannical that they needed an artifact created by the Creator to punish them.
I took another satisfied look at the city below.
In this case, there would be no need for her to clean up the place.
"That's it, I'll come and see your city next time."
Saint Raphael just floated away, turning into a piece of paper and floating out of the shadow world.
Below, Sasi and the elders saluted her.
Sasi said respectfully: "Goodbye, His Highness Saint Raphael."
The elder sincerely admired this dream-like existence: "Thank you for your generosity, and I look forward to your next visit."
The elders did not know the difference between the Kingdom of Creation and other places, nor did they understand the concept of time among dream creatures.
She said inadvertently that she would come again next time.
By the time she actually arrived, everything had changed.
For her, it was just a brief moment, but for the people here, it was a change of an era and generations.
The elder stood up and looked at the world with a different feeling: "It turns out this is called the Shadow Realm!"
Sasi nodded: "This is also the kingdom of the gods, but it is in a more hidden corner of the kingdom of the gods. Congratulations on finding a real paradise."
It seems that the name that this city and country have been hesitating and discussing seems to have an answer.
The Kingdom of Shadows.
(End of chapter)
