Chapter 453 Eternal

"Gatekeeper, what's next?"

Annan promised to give the gatekeeper a real peace and rest, but it was obvious that this tall giant could not be killed by ordinary means. Since the other party would specially come to this place where the fate of the college was laid, he should want to take advantage of this. Scroll of Destiny to perform some operations.

"First of all, I want to ask you to destroy the fate of this college. Without this fate, the contract between me and the college will no longer exist, and I will return to a free body of nothingness. Only then can I truly Eliminate me."

The gatekeeper slowly raised his hand, trying to touch the glorious destiny in front of him.

Then, it was hard to say whether it was close at hand or far away, but the broken golden scroll was touched by the gatekeeper.

"...What does this feel like?"

Annan had a little difficulty understanding the situation in front of him.

The so-called fate of the college is an elusive concept, something that does not exist in the world.

What the naked eye sees now is just one's own understanding. Because of this, everyone can see the fate of the academy in different shapes.

Things that do not exist, concepts that cannot be touched, are now touched by the gatekeeper in a physical sense. This is equivalent to the so-called destiny being directly changed.

Annan is not at the otherworldly level of a gatekeeper, and his mind cannot comprehend what is happening in front of him.

"The fate brought by the Fire Witch is originally something that does not belong to this world. It is a concept of a different world that has died."

The gatekeeper let go of the slightly twisted picture of destiny in his hand.

"In my eyes, the so-called destiny of the college is just a door, a heavy ancient door leading to unknown glory...Okay, Annan, now, you should not hear those annoying words from the college council. Are you being harassed?"

"Ah...I really can't hear you."

It was only then that Annan realized belatedly that the sound that had been in his ears like chanting a sutra just now had been unable to stop it and had quietly disappeared.

He probably understood what the gatekeeper had just done.

"In a short period of time, the college council will not be able to convey its voice, and they will not be able to see you and me. We have time to take our time without worrying about being continuously harassed or blocked by them."

The gatekeeper takes another step.

Annan stepped forward without saying a word.

One step later, they left the magical staircase where the fate of the academy lies, and came to a huge enclosed space.

Annan had some impressions of this place. He had been here once.

He raised his eyes and looked at the plain, featureless long sword stuck in the grass in the center of this space.

"Is this a brand-level long sword that the academy keeps secretly?"

"Yes, this is the only brand-level thing that the academy has successfully owned, and it is also one of the few brand-level things in the world."

The gatekeeper strode forward, looking down at the iron sword that was too small for his size.

"Before the Academy Council had the destiny given by the Fire Witch, they spent a lot of effort to secure this thing. Apart from its indelible qualities, this long sword has nothing else. It’s special, or rather it can’t be used at all, but what the Academy Council wants is nothing else but this brand-level trait.”

"What does this kind of thing do to them?" Annan asked curiously.

"To preserve themselves."

The gatekeeper knows almost all the secrets of the academy. In the past, he had to keep secrets because of the contract, but now the situation is different. He can tell Annan freely without being restricted.

"The College Council does exist. They are not illusory. It's just that they cannot appear frequently in front of others because of their own certain relationships. This secret is the specialness of their existence. The College Council simply means It is said to be a cluster of consciousnesses, a hive mind formed by magic."

Annan, who was mentally prepared to hear the secrets, would not be dumbfounded when he heard this, but the secret of the college council still surprised him a little.

"The Academy Council has always followed a secret purpose, which is the code they have passed down in the ruined old days. The so-called material will eventually perish, and only memory will last forever...

The College Council has always followed this purpose and transformed its own success into the existence of memory, in order to obtain the conditions that will never die. "

"However, if the memory does not have a physical container, it will still be impossible to retain it."

Annan has roughly understood the methods used by the Academy Council to implement their secret purposes.

"So, they preserve the essence of their existence, the so-called memory, in a brand-level relic that will never die?"

"That's right. Before they received the gift from the Fire Witch, the hive consciousness of the Academy Council had always been stored on this long sword."

The gatekeeper used two fingers to pull out the long sword stuck in the ground.

A second after he took out the long sword, the long sword disappeared from his hand and returned to the ground again, as if it had never changed.

"After the college council got the so-called destiny, they moved themselves, which is the door of destiny I just saw. By the way, Annan, you seemed to have said before that what you saw was the scroll of destiny, right?"

"That's right." Annan nodded.

"That's just right, Annan. Next, please take out this iron sword, and then use it to cut the scroll of destiny."

As soon as the gatekeeper finished speaking, he suddenly dug out his left eye.

He crushed his eyeballs and let his blood and dirt fall onto the sword on the ground.

Some kind of invisible change happened.

Annan really felt some changes in the long sword stuck in the ground.

There are no eye-catching special effects, nor earth-shattering visions, but some kind of change does occur.

"The so-called imprint is actually the reappearance of some profoundly destroyed memories. I don't know what kind of world this long sword comes from, nor do I know the story behind it. These are no longer traceable, but there is one thing. I'm sure of it."

The gatekeeper with blood on his face had a smile on his lips.

"The so-called indelible mark is that it is possible for the memory in it to fade through further contamination. Then, this faded memory will retain a certain degree of the mark of the other world in a short period of time. This kind of thing , should be enough to eliminate the fate of the conceptual academy..."

The gatekeeper turned his head and invited Annan to come forward.

"Annan, I'm sorry to bother you."