Chapter 405 The Lotus Crosses Time
A voice seemed to be asking the question.-
Or perhaps…
It was only Orion’s hallucination.
Finish
haps it was the instinctive terror of a carbon-based life-form whose consciousness stood on the verge
llapse.
Orion did not want instinct.
ion wanted Julian.
The mind-forged stylus in his hand was already beginning to dissolve. Perhaps human instinct truly coul not overcome destiny.
Then he would start over.
No matter how many times it took.
Orion would always start over.
At that exact moment, pale blue-green light poured down from above his head
It was healing-type psychic power of extraordinary pupuy, far stranger than anything that had appeared
before.
Orion did not look up.
He used that unexpected shower of grace to finish the array in the final moments of clarity left to him. Then he pulled a vast pile of S-rank insectoid cores from his storage module.
Before leaving, he had practically robbed Granddad, Aunt Harper, General Marston, Lieutenant General Mendez, and the others.
This hoard was what he had scraped together.
What was reason?
At that moment.
The array
A val
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he formation.
the mountains, lakes, seas, and forests
ored eyes remained fixed on Alkand, which floated in midair
wonand-petal azure lotus.
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One moment, it carried the blue of the sky after rain. The next, it turned the soft violet of evening mist Then it blazed with the molten gold of karmic fire.
In a daze, all three colors faded.
A thousand layers of petals unfolded one after another.
They were white as ice and clear enough to see through.
A nine-colored halo spread from the lotus heart, like water from a celestial lake, like a divine flower fror an ancient world.
It transcended the mortal re
It saw through the cycl
At that moment…
The divine lotu
Alkaid spent
To ferry
Oric
tion.
its strength for one purpose alone:
t was filled with obsession.
ness.
collapse of someone drained beyond endurance. It was a summons from the –a tremor, a resonance, and an almost bone-deep wrenching separation.
r a soul to leave its body?
orld ruled by technology, in an age where the inheritances of antiquity had long since
not resist.
in nearly destroyed his will. Still, within that self-inflicted devastation, be glimpsed the faint w of something called hope.
ly after breaking could one be remade.
Only by facing death could que find life.
The instant Orion’s soul!
Orion ghost was bece
He knew only
The Ori
abung
no longer tell whether, Alkaid was growing larger on the
us platform.
slike white jade and crystal glass, drifting
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Images of the past flowed around him like water.
Fint
Orion saw Atlas at eighteen–an Alpha who spent his days teasing cats and dogs, scrambling up hills, ar climbing trees without knowing the meaning of sorrow.
He was like the sun.
Fiery and unapologetically bright.
Thene changed.
Harper raced past with a slender sword in one hand and an eyepatch over one eye, already ng of becoming a pirate queen. A crowd of pirate officers ran beside her, looking exactly like the s who served under her now.
was always hiding in his room and crying alone.
looked nothing like the calm, upright man who later sent fallen comrades on ahead with a brave sm d the words, “You go first. We’ll all end up in the same place someday.”
Orion saw Marston traveling with his wife.
He saw Helen’s pride in becoming the Empire’s foremost Omega.
He saw Crown Prince Harold’s jealousy and endless need to compare himself with others.
He even saw Emperor Alexis as a child, his elder and younger maternal uncles who had both died on the battlefield, and Celeste Ashford, who still worried for her people and nation at the moment of her death.
Everyone carried an obsession.
Everyone hid something true in the deepest part of their memories.
Those memories would continue flowing down the river. Some might be witnessed by later generations Others might disappear forever.
Mortal.
Where does your obsession lie?
Somewhere beyond perception, a voice asked.
Where every thought returns.
The Orion ghost answered as well.
He coul
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his heart repeated the same answer over and over
Orion wore with a single glance.
incerity
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Finishe
Julian, who had accepted karma for him and carried every unbearable burden.
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