Two and a half minutes later, as the "sun set," the Spirit Phantom Bug died once more.
Professor Kazel smiled faintly but changed the subject. "Do you know about necromancers?"
Dark nodded. "A little."
"Professor, did you see something in it?" Dark asked curiously.
Professor Kazel smiled. "It died, but not completely."
Dark nodded. "I understand."
Professor Kazel said, "An old friend once told me that, near the end of his life, his concept of life and death had already become blurred. He could no longer tell whether he was dead or alive, to the point that he often forgot to eat."
Dark could not help frowning. "Then did he die?"
Professor Kazel tilted his head slightly and said, "I am not a specialist in this field, and my own understanding has its limits. Perhaps beyond consciousness, there are deeper layers that neither you nor I have yet touched. To give a simpler example, do you know about Ragnarok?"
Dark said, "I do."
Professor Kazel said, "The Spirit Phantom Bug's life-at-dawn, death-at-dusk cycle has nothing whatsoever to do with the undead system. Yet they both illustrate the same principle. Perhaps the boundary between life and death is not as distinct as we imagine."
Dark said, "Professor, you once told me that an individual life can be divided into three parts: body, soul, and consciousness. But both body and soul are vessels for consciousness. The meaning of death is the extinction of consciousness. If consciousness is extinguished, can one really be revived?"
Professor Kazel said unhurriedly, "Who knows?"
Professor Kazel smiled again. "Then do you know how many Ragnaroks the gods have gone through?"
"Th-" Dark instinctively pondered more deeply. Then his lips parted in shock. "Surely Ragnarok did not always involve the same group of gods?"
"Dark Magic Stone?" Professor