The Arcane Linguist
Chapter 177

Resonance Across Universes: A Three-Minute Trial of Godhood in a Dream

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"It really gathered divine radiance!

The legendary mages weren't wrong about the power of deities. The cohesion of faith could refine the purest essence of human will and provide what divinity needed!"

Roland looked up at the deep, dark-blue dream sky, then suddenly rose into the air.

In moments, he crossed hundreds of meters and reached the sky above.

At the crown of the World Tree, bright runes shone like stars, forming patterns that resembled constellations.

Looking closely, he could faintly make out characters such as "heaven," "earth," "mysterious," and "yellow" swirling within them, along with the familiar "cleave" and "light."

In his previous life, he had seen a kind of image called a "word cloud," where keywords appeared one after another to represent the essence of an article.

What appeared in this dream sky now could perhaps be called a "word nebula." It took precisely that form.

What they reflected was the attention the Seris runes had received.

Roland noticed that the brightest among them was the rune represented by the character for "cleave."

One particularly enormous star was wreathed in bloody light and seethed with murderous intent.

Beside it, there also seemed to be bronze-script and seal-script forms of the character for "kill."

On its other side was the slightly smaller character for "conquer."

Slaughter, conquest, punitive campaigns, felling trees, footsteps, condemnation in speech and writing...

Shuowen Jiezi: Volume Eight, Human Radical Section, pronounced using the fanqie spelling of fang and yue; to strike. Depicts a person holding a dagger-axe. Also means to defeat.

Book of Songs, "The Odes of Shaonan: The Sweet Pear Tree": "That lush sweet pear tree-do not prune it, do not fell it."

Discourses Weighed in the Balance, "Questioning Confucius": "Many passages in his writings contradict one another."

Book of Changes, "The Great Commentary,

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