Drag managed a faint smile when he saw Lin Qi. Only after the funeral had completely ended did they come together, standing before the High Priest's tombstone.
Interestingly, most people ought to be very solemn when facing death. Even Lin Qi had thought the High Priest should be a serious person, because he had once been someone who served the gods!
At least, that was what he and the people of Nagaril had believed! The incense they prepared could let people glimpse the true god while in a daze. That was also why people firmly believed that gods truly existed and were willing to seal themselves inside golden cans and throw themselves into the deep sea!
Anyone who could see gods in their hallucinations had to be a staunch fanatic.
Fanatics ought to be serious. Even if they were not serious, they should at least be... ordinary people.
Yet as the two of them looked at the tombstone before them, they could not find anything solemn or ordinary about it.
In the Federation, most people left behind an epitaph before they died. Compared with the epitaphs of other countries, which were the final judgments or generous evaluations the living gave the dead...
Federation epitaphs were all left by the deceased themselves. They left the world a single sentence.
Most people left behind very ordinary words. For example, the tombstone beside the High Priest's grave was engraved with, "I will bless you all in heaven. May everyone find happiness."
It sounded like the ordinary sort of greatness and lofty sentiment most people possessed. They left behind a blessing for their families or for the entire world.
But the High Priest's tombstone was engraved with, "I buried myself in the earth, awaiting the day I sprout."
The priest who arranged his burial