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Chapter 280 Am I Really Immortal?
many days later,

Solamus saw the distraught Mona walking into the dense forest from a distance.

The girl was wearing a black robe, she looked a little sloppy, and her spirit was also listless.

The heart in that chest was full of dead ashes.

Solamus knew what happened to her, and also knew that in this bet, he was the winner.

Sam, who was beside him, smelled Mona's scent. She curled up happily, raised her head high, and hissed excitedly.

It didn't know what happened to Mona, it only knew that the girl had finally returned home after being separated for many days.

Moments later, Mona's figure appeared in front of the cabin in the forest.

She raised her face and saw Solamus who was already waiting there.

"Master... everything is as you wished."

Mona said in a trembling voice, her slender legs couldn't stand firmly, and she fell down and sat down.

Only then did she begin to cry aloud.

The giant python Sam at the side suddenly became at a loss. It hissed uneasy and anxiously, and then looked at Solamus.

Solamus walked over unhurriedly.

Mona panicked for a while, but the tears still kept falling.

"Mona, it looks like I won."

After the girl heard it, she nodded heavily.

She looked terribly miserable.

Immediately afterwards, Mona suddenly felt a burst of warmth.

Solamus knelt down and hugged the weeping girl.

"I know that your mother has let you down."

Mona heard that her voice was softer than ever before.

It hardly sounded like a witch's voice.

"Master, my mother, she will sacrifice her other children, she will sacrifice my brothers and sisters!"

Mona was extremely emotional, pouring out all the grievances she had suffered all along.

She saw the true face of her mother, and thus recognized her wishful thinking in the past.

Solamus put his arms around her, rubbing the child's head.

"Mona, I know what you saw and why you are so sad."

Until this moment, she, who had been playing the role of a witch, revealed her angelic nature.

"You always knew...you always knew..."

Mona was weeping in her arms, tears filled her cheeks, the girl's voice was incoherent, she just kept crying and said everything clearly.

She is very tired, very tired and very tired.

A mother's greed is disgustingly ugly, and Carol betrays not only her expectations, but her love.

"In this world...is there no love that never betrays?"

At the end of the cry, Mona muttered.

Soramus heard it, lowered his head, and wanted to say something, but saw the girl's eyelids rolling, tiredness welling up, she was so tired.

Seeing this, Solamus smiled and picked up Mona in his arms. The child was so thin that he could sit on a broom.

She carried Mona back to the bed, and Mona closed her eyes and fell into a deep sleep before she could wipe away her tears.

The maiden has accepted her destiny to become a witch.

Or,

Now she has no choice but to become a witch.

Soramus stood up, and she slowly left the tree house and went outside.

Today, in addition to Mona, there is a guest who is going to visit his forest residence.

The moon and stars are sparse, and there is a faint mist in the forest, the shadows of the trees are intertwined, and sparse sounds are heard in the wind.

Solamus took out the antler of the spirit deer and put it on the ground.

Not long after, a figure holding a branch walked out of the dense forest, followed by the cry of the spirit deer.

Lipa, god of the forest.

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Eternal Life Festival.

It is the festival of new births in the great nation of Tripoga.

It exists because of the eternal life of King Seleus.

Soon after the immortality ceremony, King Seleus ordered that the queen's sacrifice day be the eternal birthday, and a three-day celebration and sacrifice was held throughout the country.

When the eternal birthday was established, it came with countless foreign envoys.

The long steps of the palace were about to be broken down, and the Gentiles heard about the immortality of King Seleus, and condemned them to come to see him, to see the face of the immortal, and to ask for the law of eternal life.

For the vast majority of people in this world, eternal life is undoubtedly a dream.

King Seleus received those envoys and accepted the gifts they offered. He heard countless words of humility, and he also knew that tens of thousands of bards sang his deeds.

In the midst of all these beauties, King Seleus felt a little uneasy for some reason.

I don't know where the anxiety came from, and I don't know why.

Waking up every morning, King Seleus would stand in front of a mirror made of polished bronze, motionless for a long time.

There are no more wrinkles on his face, and all the white hair has been replaced by red hair full of vitality. His body is far more powerful than before, full of youthful vitality.

All these appearances are telling him: You have already lived forever, you are the king of eternal life!

But King Seleus was still perplexed.

On a certain day several years later, without any warning, King Seleus was stunned to realize where this confusion came from.

His mind... is getting older with time.

The appearance of eternal life in the body did not conceal the aging of the soul. King Seleus found that he had lost his sense of urgency!
When many kings are old, they always want to do something for the posterity or future generations, and they will go to war for this, or eliminate the powerful officials, or send troops to conquer... As the life span is getting shorter and shorter, the king's actions will become more and more serious. more and more haste.

However, for King Serius, time is no longer urgent, and the turbulent waves in the past, in my eyes now, are more like small winds and small waves...

In front of the bronze mirror, looking at the flesh full of vitality, King Seleus murmured to himself:
"Am I really... immortal?"

"Am I really immortal like those immortal gods?"

Those stars in the sky, no matter how the world changes, how the wind and clouds change, they are always the same, as if in the body of the god, the original intention will never decay.

Because of this, King Seleus doubted his own immortality.

No matter how young his body is, his heart is still old.

Even if I can live for tens of thousands of years, but by then, my mind will be old and distorted, and my soul will be numb and rotten. What is the difference between myself at that time and the dead body in the mausoleum?
No, the self at that time will be more distorted than a dead body.

In front of the bronze mirror, King Seleus shuddered.

He suddenly had an illusion that the young self in the mirror was not himself.

After King Seleus realized the aging of the mind, he began to try his best to stop it.

He, who was no longer married, began to recruit concubines, and had a good time all night long. He, who had put down the war, raised his swords and fought with blood and fire to open up inch after inch of territory for the kingdom...

Through various actions and decrees, he tried to enjoy more joys, so as to stimulate his decaying heart.

After the initial thrill, however, comes endless numbness.

The king of this great country suddenly realized...

Even if you rule over all peoples and sit on the throne of a great nation and enjoy eternal life,
But he was powerless to turn the raging river back, just as he was powerless to stop the aging of the mind.

(End of this chapter)