bookbashuk Chapter 456 Song of Time
Chapter 456 Song of Time
Chapter 456 Song of Time
The Vanya elves who live here are far more radiant and beautiful than the Noldor, the Tyrell, and others. They are the most beloved by Manwë and Varda, and serve the two Valar with songs and poems.
The city of Verma contains the palaces of all the Valar. Although most of the Valar do not live here, it is also the place where they gather or hold important assemblies, such as the trial of Morgoth after the War of Doom and the celebration of the Two Trees.
Vera and Dui did not enter the city of Verma, but went directly to the Ezerohal Hill outside the west gate of Verma.
The two sacred trees grow on the hill.
Upon arriving at Ezelohar Hill, Dui was awestruck by the two towering trees.
The two giant trees were much taller than the White Tree Galahirian in Tirian City. They were like colossal trees reaching for the sky, their treetops swaying against the starry sky.
The two trees looked as if they were made of gold and silver, but the only pity was that their trunks were dark gray, exuding an aura of decay and decay, and had no vitality whatsoever.
Furthermore, there are huge wounds on the trunk, which go straight through the heartwood. The wounds are black, as if they were pierced by a red-hot, sharp iron object, or as if they were corroded by some kind of venom.
Even after so long, the wound still bears the marks of darkness, which cannot be erased or healed.
Seeing Dui examining the wound, the plant goddess Yavana recalled with some sadness, "That was the wound Morgoth inflicted with his Dark Spear, severely wounding the golden tree Laurelyn and the silver tree Telperion. His accomplice, Ugguliant, then plunged his mandibles into the wound, greedily sucking the sap from the two trees, and finally injected venom—"
By the time we discovered it, it was too late. All I could do before the two trees withered was to use their last strength to produce a fruit and a flower, which I then transformed into the sun and moon to illuminate Arda. But the two trees were completely withered, never to revive.
If the Twin Trees did not possess immortality and not grow in the special place of Valinor, they would not have been able to retain their withered bodies instead of decaying and disappearing.
The Vanya elves composed countless mourning songs for the Twin Trees, and many Valinor elves came to pay homage to them.
After paying his respects to the Twin Trees, Dui solemnly addressed the group of Vera around him, saying, "Let's begin!"
Manwei, who was in the lead, nodded. "Duir, just go ahead and rewind time. Don't hold back. We'll assist you from the sidelines!"
The other Villas nodded in agreement.
Upon receiving Vera's words, Dui took a deep breath, then with a serious expression, he unleashed his full power to rewind time on the golden tree, Laurelin.
The Twin Trees were far too enormous for Dui to be confident in performing time reversal on both trees simultaneously. In fact, without the help of the Vera, he wasn't even sure he could successfully rewind time on one of the Twin Trees.
After all, the time span is too large, requiring a journey back nearly 10,000 years, and the objects being traced are not ordinary things.
The Twin Trees are divine trees created by the plant goddess Yavanna with her creation-level song. They are essentially grown with the power of the creator goddess Ilúvatar and nourished by the tears of Nina, the goddess of sorrow and mercy.
Its difficulty is at the pinnacle of the Valar creations. The life essence of the two sacred trees created is equivalent to that of the Valar, and even Yavana herself could not completely replicate it afterward.
Therefore, after the Twin Trees were destroyed, Yavana could only do her best to ripen the last golden tree fruit and the last silver tree flower, but she could not recreate the other Twin Trees.
While Dui's time-reversal ability is amazing, attempting to reverse time on the Twin Trees is tantamount to reversing time on a Valar, trying to bring them back from death to when they were alive.
Its difficulty is comparable to that of an ant carrying an elephant; it is simply impossible to complete.
However, with the help of the Villas now, Dui thinks it's worth a try.
Dui then took out a silver-white wand. The wand was made from a branch of a white tree from Tyrion City, and the core was made from a strand of Varda's hair.
Although Dui's strength is now at the top of the Maya level, a powerful wand can still allow him to exert 20% of his power, especially in the extremely delicate magic of time manipulation, where he can be more stable.
So Dui did not give up using the wand; he even planned to use the branches of the two sacred trees to make an even more powerful wand after they were resurrected.
As Dui cast a time-reversal spell on the withered golden tree with his wand, the power of time acted on the towering tree, and Dui felt the magic within him pouring out like a sea.
If it weren't for his current vast and almost inexhaustible magical power, he would probably have been drained dry from the very beginning.
Under the effect of the Time Reversal Spell, the Golden Tree Laurelin is constantly reversing time, but its resistance to time makes the process of reversing time increasingly difficult for Dui.
He was like someone struggling to move a huge rock upstream from a river, not only resisting the impact of time itself, but also moving that overly heavy rock.
Going back five hundred years, one thousand years, two thousand years—time keeps rewinding, but the golden tree, Laurellin, still looks unchanged.
As the time rewind slowed down, Dui gradually showed signs of not being able to hold on any longer.
Varda immediately began to sing the Song of the Stars. Her voice transformed into power, subtly and silently merging with Dui's power, as if harmonizing with Dui's power of time.
Dui only felt that his time power was amplified, and the time rewinding of the Golden Tree became faster.
Yavana also sang the song of life, her voice transforming into power, harmonizing with the power of time.
Dui's power of time was amplified once again.
The other Valar also began to sing sacred songs: Manwë's Song of the Atmosphere, Ulmo's Song of the Sea, Auli's Song of Forging, Mandos's Song of Judgment, Tokas's War Song, and Nina's Song of Lamentation—all coming together, each with its own melody, yet exceptionally harmonious, forming a new movement.
But this time, the lead singer was Dui, whose power of time became the main theme, and the other Veras volunteered to be his backup singers.
The chorus of fourteen Vira, their sacred voices echoing in Valinor, seemed to leave only the song in the world, devoid of any other color.
Dui entered a mystical state at that moment. Influenced by the songs of the Vera, he couldn't help but sing along. It was a song he had never sung before, incorporating Arda's past, present, and future into the melody.
His song grew louder and louder, echoing through Valinor, then across the vast ocean, reaching the continent of Middle-earth.
It spread to every corner of Arda.
A vast river of time manifests in his songs, stretching across the material world without end.
Dui felt his mind and thoughts rising infinitely, and his control over time increasing continuously.
In a certain moment, I broke through the shackles and entered a higher dimension.
At this moment, Dui felt omnipotent, time was like a toy in his hands, and the vast and boundless river of time was clear in his eyes.
At that moment, amidst the singing of the fourteen Veras, he briefly stepped into the realm of the Veras!
Dui was somewhat confused at this moment, but instinctively knew what to do.
With a thought, the entire world of Arda instantly froze, trapped in a time-stopped state.
Dui was unaware of anything as he instantly entered the river of time and then walked straight downstream.
He unconsciously sang the Song of Time, his voice seemingly a personification of time itself, echoing across the river of time. Under the influence of the Song of Time, the once turbulent river of time was calmed.
Dui instinctively walked downstream in time, going further and further, passing through the human era, the technological age, and the interstellar age—unconscious and unaware, his steps never stopped, only his singing never ceased.
Finally, he reached the end of time—the end of the world.
At the end of time, a fisherman sits.
When the man saw Dui approaching obliviously, he turned his head and revealed a smile.
That was the future Dui; his arrival was not unexpected.
He simply scooped up a blue gem from the river of time, and it transformed into a ray of blue light that entered Du Yi's brow.
That is the manifestation of the power of time, containing the complete laws of the river of time.
"This is not a place for you to stay. You should go back to your own time." The future Dui waved his hand and slapped Dui away.
Dui, who was unaware of anything in an instant, found that time around him was rapidly reversing. In the blink of an eye, he left the river of time and reappeared under the Two Trees of Valinor.
Time, which had seemed to stand still, flowed again in an instant, and the Veras's songs rang out once more, without even realizing that time had ever stood still.