City Of God Lins Novel Novels & Stories

*Then the room went soundless, all there are Taso and Elaine' voices speaking* I'll tell you the truth My name is the same, Tasoshi says but my identity you do not know, actually I am a God who was transmigrated here. What? You're a god, then you know everything in the entire universe, right? Yes, what do you want to ask? I'll ask you these, do you know who gave me my holy sword? Yes! And such a simple question It's my little brother The god of affinity Alpha saya. What do you mean your god, why is there another god? Ok then I'll tell you everything, there are 10 universes in the entire multiverse right now we're in the

Arsel I had seen doors in the Veil open before. None had frightened me as much as that one. Not because it was larger. Because it was in the middle of a city we had built specifically to prove coexistence was possible. The twelve black lines rose from the null-metal boxes and converged above Saint River. When they met, the sky seemed to fold inward. Buildings lost their reflections. Streetlights flickered and, for one second, Leo stopped hearing the wolves in the city.

--- **The Crawling City** The echoes surge, not toward us-*into* each other. They fuse, bones snapping, flesh knitting into a grotesque metropolis that rises from the shore: towers of rib cages, streets paved with fingernails, a cathedral of fused skulls where the girl floats above an altar of coiled viscera. *"Welcome to the Sermon,"* she says, gesturing to the city. *"Where the Silence is *preached*."* Eden's breath hitches. "We need to go. *Now*."

"This isn't a life, Elena. It's a slow death. The city is there. It has everything we need. And he's... gone." "Or he's waiting," she shot back. "He's not," I said softly. They both turned to look at me. I had been quiet, nursing Lina, listening to the argument I knew was coming. "He's not waiting. He's... grieving." I looked down at my daughter's face, so peaceful in sleep. "What he saw out there... what he almost did... it broke him. The god is gone. The man is... lost. He won't be in the city."