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Chapter 2728: Bygone Future
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    Mr.Unbelievable
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    “Beast of Twilight... I am not at all happy to meet you again."


    It's a lie right?
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      Bha
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      100%
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    tobidyoufarewell
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    Liquid metal

    LIQUIIIIIIID
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    momo(fateless)
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    IS THAT YOU NOCTIS
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    Bha
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    2729 Source Element


    She studied the smiling man silently, drops of crimson blood falling into the fire from the human heart he held. The fire danced as it licked his hand, scorching it — his silky skin, once smooth and pristine, was swelling with blisters and breaking now, revealing the sizzling flesh beneath.



    His bright smile never wavered.



    A vast and hungry madness was hidden in the depths of his glistening grey eyes.



    She sighed deeply and looked at the dark sky.



    "...We have never met before."



    With that, a slender arm revealed itself from the nebulous folds of her mantle. Receiving the bleeding heart between two claws, she studied it for a moment, then casually discarded it by throwing it into the fire. Noctis let out a short laugh.



    His gaze slowly travelled away from Weaver's fearsome mask, becoming lost in the dancing flame. After a few moments passed in silence, he spoke in an easy tone:



    “Hope has been imprisoned for a thousand years. And humans have enjoyed a golden age for a thousand years. One cannot help but wonder if there is a connection between the two... prosperity and hopelessness, what a pair."



    Noctis looked at her again, the smile draining from his stunning face.



    "They say that we are prospering, but when I journeyed beyond the borders of the Kingdom of Hope, all I saw was strife and desolation. By the moon! I could not tell who was crazier, those funny people dwelling in the distant realms or me."



    He shook his head and sighed.



    “It really made me wonder... what had Sun God been thinking when he called upon us to become immortal guardians of Hope."



    His gaze turned cold and dark.



    “Say, Weaver... I won't ask you why the Lord of Light imprisoned Hope. But tell me the truth — why, why didn't he simply kill her? Why create this long and tiresome charade?"



    She looked down at him for a while, then laughed in a thousand chilling voices.



    "You must really be mad. Are you really pleading for truth from the master of lies?" Sitting by the fire across from the stunning man, she cast a thoughtful gaze at the dark sky. A cold wind rose, and the pale visage of the moon was obscured by clouds; then, the contours of her mask turned blurry, and it disappeared, revealing...



    Nothing.



    There was nothing but darkness hiding beneath the fearsome mask.



    Noctis seemed to forget how to breathe, looking into the darkness with trembling eyes.



    A raspy voice resounded in the silence, making the flames die.



    "Have you heard? My brother, the Prince of the Underworld, has broken one of the divine tenets. He has encroached on the purview of the gods and created a race of living beings to settle his lightless lands. No one but the gods had been able to create life before, but now, the Demon of Destiny created life as well... we daemons are inclined to perform impossible feats, are we not?"



    Noctis frowned.



    "Why are you telling me this, Weaver? How does that answer my question?"



    She laughed.



    “Because I am known to appreciate deceit, and this is a brilliant lie”



    Noctis studied her in confusion.



    “What? That Nether created the Stone Saints?"



    She shook her head, obscured by darkness. “No. That the gods can create life.”



    Leaning forward a little, she reached toward the embers and pierced the ashes with her seven fingers, making sparks fly.



    "No one can create life, Beast of Twilight. Not even the gods. All they can do is reshape it — that is what Nether has done, as well, to create the Stone Saints."



    Paling, Noctis leaned back and asked in a dazed tone:



    "What does that even mean, though? Hey, Weaver... oh, I meant great Weaver, the Demon of Fate... as far as lies go, this one is not even that convincing, don't you think? From the primordial dragons to the smallest of mice, there are all kinds of creatures populating the vast realms. I really expected better from someone known as the master of lies. I was really looking forward to being deviously cheated, fooled, and deceived!" Noctis shook his head in reproach.



    She looked at the dancing sparks.



    "It's the same old story, from before the dawn of time. The seven gods were born from the Flame of Desire, just like the seven daemons were born from the Forgotten God. You humans were born from stray sparks. How were all the creatures that the gods created born, then? Where did the sparks that gave them life come from?"



    The sparks burned away, their frail warmth swallowed by darkness. She raised her hand from the ashes.



    "All life comes from the Flame of Desire, in the end. When the gods were creating the first living beings, they merely tore pieces of themselves and used them to breathe life into their creations... just like the Forgotten God did to breathe life into us. My brother, the Demon of Destiny, was the one to fathom that truth — so, he took sparks of his own flame and placed them into his own creations. That was how the Stone Saints came to be."



    She looked at Noctis, who was listening to her with an odd fear in his beautiful, mad eyes.



    “That is why Sun God cannot kill Hope. That is also why the gods have grown small and feeble over the ages, having spent their flame to populate all the realms."



    Noctis shivered.



    “Small... feeble..."



    A moment later, a sudden laugh escaped from his lips, vanquishing the ominous silence.



    “And here I was, thinking myself the most arrogant man in all of Kingdom of Hope. Leave it to the infamous Demon of Fate to call the great gods small. I am ashamed, I am in awe... I have no words, really!"



    He wiped the tears from his eyes.



    “But how does one connect to the other? I still don't understand why Hope has to live." She smiled.



    “What will happen if she dies, Beast of Twilight? The Shadow Realm cannot contain us, daemons. Death cannot swallow us — he had already tried, and failed. That is because we've never been truly alive, to begin with. We are mere manifestations of a greater flame, and even if we are entirely destroyed, the sparks that give us life will simply return to their source. To the Forgotten God."



    Her laughter made the world cower.



    “And make Forgotten God complete. Was that what you wanted to ask me, Beast of Twilight? Is that why you carved your heart out under the full moon?"



    Noctis looked at her with a pale smile, then inhaled deeply and slowly shook his head. “No... not really."



    He let out a joyless laugh, then grinned. "Instead, I wanted to ask you to help me free Hope"
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    Redist_King
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    Someone copy and paste the new chapter already✌️😭
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      Bha
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      done
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        Redist_King
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        Low-key marry me please
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        Mongrel our mighty savior
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        Fr the goat
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    Bha
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    After rereading the chapters of the second Nightmare, I remembered that Noctis was going to make a deal with Weaver to free Hope... but he backed out when Sunny appeared. Noctis was always comparing Weaver to Sunny... many hints from him... and when he spoke, he always spoke in a way that showed he knew Weaver personally and had met him. Perhaps this will be discussed in the next chapter... He also said that the deal with Weaver would be expensive and that he would make him dress poorly, which is the worst possible thing for him... and at the end of the second Nightmare, Sunny said that he doesn't like the color black and advised Sunny to leave it alone... and we notice in the third Nightmare, after Ananke's death, he received a memory woven from a some sorcerer... the memory was called Ananke's Mantle, and there was a useless spell called Tasteless... it was a description of magic... why did it have to be black?... My theory is that Weaver met Noctis, helped him free Hope, and in return, became his priest... this explains his creation of the Ananke's Mantle...meaning Noctis was one of the high priests of Da Weaver.


    As for the part where Weaver said, "Beast of Twilight... I am not at all happy to meet you again."
    I'm starting to really think that Sunny will become a Weaver in some way. Sorry for the long post and the poor language.
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      goldenboy777
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      I really liked your theory, extended on it a little further maybe the person who was imprisoned in the dark city was this high priest Noctis??
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        Bha
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        Yes, I have an idea about that, but I haven't found any evidence... Also, we know that there are two High Priests of Weaver, according to my theory, one of them is Noctis, but I don't know about the other yet... Perhaps the mprisoned in the dark city is the other one, or it could be Noctis, I honestly don't know.
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      Jiros
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      When I was reading this chapter, I was reminded of the corpse that Sonny took off the mask from. And I wondered if the Weaver had made him the first priest of the nightmare.
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    73timur16
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    Is the disadvantage of Weaver the same as that of Sunny?
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    Lavos
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    Woah. A symbol of a crescent moon on the forehead? Noctis?
    I'm honestly surprised I haven't forgotten him.
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    Epigon
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    Yes, I actually came up with this just now, and it’s quite a nice theory.
    First of all, near the end of the Second Nightmare, during Sunny’s final encounter with Mordret, Sunny told him that he could take the “toys” Nether had left in the ebony tower below. Mordret went to loot them, and after that chapter, nothing was ever explained about what those items actually were.
    However, in that same part, we specifically know that Mordret said he would kill both Anvil and Asterion. This suggests that this is precisely why he demanded the Hollow Mountains from Nephis and Sunny.
    What I’m saying is this: Mordret wanted those mountains because of whatever he looted, and the reason may be preparation for a future war.
    If he has really been planning this ever since then, we might be in for a massive plot development.
    I’m referring to Chapter 740. 7
    I hope I haven't forgotten anything else important.
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      Tsukoyomi
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      but modret never go to ebony tower because of this monster that eaten weavers arm so he has not the toys that sunless mentioned
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        Redist_King
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        He did, he got some anti divination thing there but we don't know what else, and weaver lost his arm to corruption not a monster, he cut it off and left it there which sunny found with a bunch of rotten growth
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        tefe
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        He recovered items from the Nether, now impossible to trace through divination, and possesses a cloak made of nothing and other unknown items; he avoided the corrupted arm.
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    Zhuxin_baby
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    Guys what is happening pls give me a little recap like is this last Convo between sunny nd noctis or weaver nd noctis or is Cassie is experiencing a memory in weavers perspective..
    Does this happen before or after the time period in which they cleared the second nightmare.
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      Zhuxin_baby
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      By last Convo I mean a particular Convo typing error mb
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