Night World Players

Chapter 47 They are committed to the night, but they are as bright as the stars

The dark forest with treetops blocking out the sun and no sunlight was left behind.

Amid the loud roar, the Silver Gear ran along the rails across the endless wilderness, with the azure sky overhead.

Rast recalled the promise he made in Canaan.

At that time, he promised Amys that he would go to the New World to see the magnificent plains where the wind blew the grass and the cattle and sheep could be seen.

And now, Rast saw the golden field with his own eyes.

The high-speed train rushed past, and the wind that broke through the air pressed down the grassland beside the railway... There were actually cattle and sheep grazing there, and they were eating grass leisurely at this moment, and their figures were looming among the grass leaves bent by the wind.

What if Last had not traveled to a completely new world, but was playing a fantasy game called "Embroidery of Snow and Moon".

Then at this moment, it is probably the time when the game's theme song starts to sound and the opening animation plays.

There was a brief silence in the carriage.

Neither the man nor the beast spoke, they just stared silently at the golden plain outside the window.

“It’s a beautiful view, isn’t it?”

"This is the reason why Little Tina and countless Night Travelers from Starry University are determined to destroy the old disaster in the night world at all costs, even if it means risking their lives."

Dean Yin stood on Last's shoulder at some point and looked at the distant scenery with his ruby eyes.

"So, please don't be resentful of the academy's almost strict investigation and testing of you."

"These procedures are indeed a bit cumbersome, even to the point of being inhumane, but in the final analysis, it is because we can't afford to gamble, and we can't afford to lose."

"There is only a passage between the night world and the present world, between the dusk disaster that destroyed the civilization of the past and the beautiful world before us... Even if it is just the slightest mistake, the consequences will be unbearable for us."

"I don't know where you come from."

"But the scenery you see before your eyes is our whole world..."

Dean Snow Ferret's words dissipated in the wilderness along with the gust of wind.

……

An hour later, the Silver Gear came to a stop at the end of the track.

Luster walked out of the car.

And Ishtar was finally released from the so-called "exile space" by Dean Yin after serving her full two hours of confinement. At this moment, she was staring at Dean Yin with a resentful look on her face.

Dean Yin was calm and composed, completely ignoring Istar's resentful look. He still had that lazy and elegant posture, eating a dried fish from time to time.

Behind the platform is a long staircase paved with red pebbles, leading directly to the building complex on the top of the mountain.

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The two men and the beast walked up the steps covered with maple leaves.

It was not until I walked up the last step that the scene before me suddenly became clear.

It was a wide square, behind which was the castle-like college building complex. On the church spire, white pigeons flew up and down.

In the center of the square stands a huge black obelisk, towering and majestic, reaching straight into the sky.

On the obelisk, there is a line of ancient text written in light golden ink:

【Stars change, wisdom is eternal】

Rast walked to the obelisk and looked up at the magnificent obelisk.

He clearly did not recognize the language engraved on the stele, but for some reason, when Last looked at the line of pale golden characters, he could understand their meaning.

"This is written in Aramaic. Although the Night World will provide the most basic language support for travelers in the remnants of history, there will be no difficulty in communication due to language barriers."

"But among the historical remnants of the night world, there are also ancient books and ancient texts from that era. For us, these are extremely precious secret information, and they have extremely high research value for verifying the lost history before the "Pale Age". "

"Therefore, Aramaic, Ancient Elvish, Ancient Giant Language... these ancient languages ​​widely used in the Reverberations of the Night World are all compulsory courses for you after you enter school."

Dean Yin had stood on top of Ishtar without him noticing, looking at Rast who was looking up at the obelisk beside him.

"However, there is no need to read the school motto engraved on the obelisk."

"That's something that Principal Lao Deng uses to decorate his house and fool outsiders and onlookers."

"Because of the Night World confidentiality clause, most outsiders regard Starry University as a prestigious institution of higher learning with a long history and a strong academic atmosphere in the mainland."

"And such a prestigious school should naturally be filled with elegant scholars who pursue knowledge and truth, just like the school motto of "The stars change, wisdom is eternal"..." "They could never guess that they are actually a group of paranoid and violent people who are in danger of losing their jobs at any time."

There was a hint of mockery in Dean Snowfern's eyes.

It patted Ishtar under it with its furry tail.

"Ishtar, let our new students see the true meaning of this obelisk."

"Yes."

Ishtar retracted the joking and resentful look in her eyes and nodded seriously. A small and delicate emblem appeared in the palm of her hand.

Then, Ishtar grasped the emblem and stroked her hand on the magnificent obelisk.

The next moment.

The crystal starlight flickered on the emblem and the black stone tablet at the same time.

It was clearly noon, but with the obelisk as the origin, an illusory sky suddenly appeared, covering up the originally clear blue sky.

Stars leaped out from the obelisk and were reflected on the dark dome.

The sky, the earth, the mountains, the plains... there is bright and dreamy starlight in all directions, as if the real night sky has arrived and the stars have turned into a sea.

Rast's eyes swept across the stars around him, then paused slightly on one of them.

Ingrid

【College code name: "Yin Tie"】

[Sequence Long Stage: Justice]

[Second seat of the 873rd "Round Table", graduated from Lion Heart College of Star University six years ago]

[Currently working at the Granville Department of Homeland Order as Director of the Inspectorate.]

……

Every time Rast's eyes passed over a star, a complex stream of information, accompanied by the soft starlight, washed into his brain.

"see it?"

Dean Yin's voice rang in his ears.

"Every star engraved on the obelisk is the name of a night traveler."

"The name of a night traveler..."

Last thought for a moment and said, "Since this senior Ingrid was the second seat of the 873rd round table six years ago, what about the other eleven round tables in her class?"

He scanned the other stars around him until he had gone through the two previous and subsequent sessions, but he only found six information streams with corresponding descriptions, which was five short of the "Twelve Seats of the Round Table" he had heard from Istar before.

"Because they are no longer alive."

Dean Yin's voice no longer had the previous laziness in it: "Three seats died before graduation, and two seats died after graduation."

"Most of them disappeared into the night world and never returned... and one died in a riot planned by a secret organization in the present world."

"Their place is there."

Dean Yin pointed his tail towards the sky above the obelisk, above the dark sky.

The sky is the dividing line.

Under the sky, stars float in the air like dreamy meteors, hot and dazzling, and extremely gorgeous.

And above the sky, the stars in the depths of the sea of stars are ethereal and distant, appearing dim and untouchable.

They flicker slowly along with the flow of the night sky, like a real sea of stars.

"Each star in that vast expanse is a tombstone for someone who has passed away."

"One after another, travelers died in the remnants of the past, and turned into sources of light and fire that watched over this land from afar, whose names no one knew."

"They are devoted to the darkness of the night, yet they shine like stars."

"This is--"

“The origin of the word ‘stars’.”

(End of this chapter)