only god

Chapter 8 To Extinguish the Fire
On the flattened land, the whole kingdom was panicking and weeping.

The rich material and comfortable life since the possession of rationality made the Logos people forget about life and death, but one dead body after another brought them back to reality.

"My lord, we have rationality and think we have the whole world..."

Al said mournfully,

"It turns out that rationality is vulnerable to death."

Facing the Logos people buried in the ground and sleeping for a long time, King Sabo remained silent.

It was not the first time he felt death, and the death he experienced during the ape-man period could not be compared with this moment.

Reason did not defeat death.

On the contrary, reason makes people more afraid of death.

Thousands of Logosians gathered in front of the palace, and everyone looked up at King Saber and his brothers. They knelt on the ground and begged King Saber to give a response.

Why do we have to die?

It is not that the Logos cannot accept death, but they cannot understand why they must die.

This is a crisis of reason.

King Sabo stood in front of everyone, and after a brief moment of silence, he turned around and returned to the palace.

Al followed.

"Al, what should we do?"

Pressing his hands on the throne, King Sabo suppressed his trembling voice and asked:
"It turns out that we will die too!"

Palaces, cities, altars... The long lifespan made King Sabo think that he had established great achievements on the ground, and that he would lead the whole kingdom forever until he embraced the whole world.

However, the cruel facts tell them that even if they have a long lifespan, they still have to face death.

As the beasts in the mountains and forests grow old, they will die in the same way.

Even he, the king who was first given the language, was the same.

I will die too!
King Saber suddenly felt the magnificence of the world and his own insignificance.

The glorious civilization that I and Yar have built with my own hands may just be dust that cannot stand the scouring of time.

"Beasts will die, but we, like beasts, will die!"

King Saber said excitedly.

"king!"

Al retorted heartbrokenly:

"Beasts will die, so are we still beasts?!"

Ar's refutation shamed King Sabor.

He lost his composure just now, after a while, he calmed down and said:

"We must solve it, solve death. In this world, there must be something that can overcome death.

King Sabo murmured:

"fire…"

"Yar, ask Yuhuo."

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The winter of death is so cold, reason awakens from language, but the Logos people mistakenly think that the kingdom cannot be destroyed in midsummer.

Why do we have to die?

In an extremely short period of time, this problem became a crisis that plagued the entire civilization.

Thinking Logosians had to face this difficult problem.

And the Logos is not without wise men.

The sages use their accumulated experience to explain death, to know death, and to solve death. They try their best, even quarreling and debating because of their different concepts.

However, in this nascent civilization, no wise man can give a satisfactory answer.

People in the world with their feet on the ground try to find a cure for death, to find out the date and circumstances of their own death.

But it doesn't help.

Since the prelude to death was lifted, there have been successive Logos people coming to the end of their lives.

The Logos realized how little they knew about the world.

Just a few hundred years of rationality is not enough to answer the difficult questions about death.

King Sabor and Ar, king and priest, they are the leaders of the entire logos kingdom, and naturally, they take up the important task of finding the answer.

Under the dark night, Yar led the priests to worship the blazing flame.

The priests were extremely nervous, and no one could answer the difficult question of death. Under the fear, the Logos could only pin their hope on the fire.

"O supreme fire,"

"Death...death is like a poisonous snake, burn it up."

Yar let go of all his thoughts and knelt down on the ground wholeheartedly.

The priests knelt down on the ground following Yar, reciting prayers devoutly.

Yar is the head of the priests, the one who should be closest to the existence, and at this moment, he shoulders the mission of seeking answers.

"Why is there death and not eternal life?"

Al chanted the logosian prayers and poems praising fire, exerting all his strength for the ceremony before him.

"Fire, why is there death... Life can never die, but we will face death."

"Fire, burn the poisonous snake of death, for death will pass away everything."

Yar's Adam's apple trembled, and under the temperature of the flames, he felt the water loss little by little, but he still persisted.

"Fire, we need answers."

"Why die?"

"We obviously can't die!"

In the dark night where the stars are shining, except for the Kingdom of Logos, half of the world is almost plunged into silence.

On the top of the mountain, Chen Yi heard Yaer's inquiry, which was also the inquiry of the entire Logos civilization.

The Logos needed God to answer this ultimate question, to explain the mysteries of the world.

He gazed upon the Logosians who worshiped the fire.

God murmured to himself:

"Of course I can tell you."

But then...

The Logos cannot comprehend death.

People in the world must first learn to accept death, and then learn to try to answer it themselves.

Because comprehension is not a cold answer, but an epiphany in the search.

Since its birth,
Chen Yi's perspective on the world has changed.

He has understood a lot.

The Logos thought they needed an oracular answer.

However, what I have to do is to properly reveal the truth of the world that has been handed down through the ages after they have gone through untold hardships.

first…

God stretched out his hand and pointed to the endless flames on the earth.

To put out the fire.

………………

火…

Went out.

Yar stared in horror at the darkened altar.

There were no omens, no disturbances...not even a little trouble during the sacrifice.

The flame burned out like this.

The priests froze in place, their faces were as pale as death gray, their eyes widened and their pupils shrank sharply.

A fear even better than death surged in the hearts of the priests, and quickly conquered their entire body and mind.

As the high priest, Yar stared blankly at the extinguished altar, until a gust of night wind blew by, and he trembled belatedly.

"The fire... the fire went out..."

"We... what did we do wrong?!"

Yar felt the huge impact, his whole body was on the verge of falling, and his body fell towards the stone steps behind him.

Everyone was in a daze, and no one could hold Yar in time. In this way, the head of the priest fell abruptly on the long steps, rolled down from the altar like rags, and finally fell bloody. flow.

Even so, the physical pain is still not as good as the mental shock.

With blood on his face, Yar still murmured blankly:

"What did we do wrong..."

"why…"

"Why do we have to die?!"

On the ground, the Logosians are bewildered,

They think that God will give everything freely.

However.
They must seek the answer to death by themselves,
Only in this way,

Only the Logos breaks free from the shackles of ignorance, the prison of arrogance,

Only in this way,

The world's first "civilization" can truly be born on the earth.

(End of this chapter)