Chasing the breath of order, Joshua found his target, a carriage driving on a country road.
The strength of the fourth inheritor is not very strong. At most, she is wandering in the middle level of the golden realm. She did not hide her aura, so Joshua discovered her existence more than ten kilometers away, and then accelerated all the way to follow her. Come up.
The process went smoothly beyond imagination. There was no fighting, no disturbing shadows of death, and it was as simple as a dream.
When the warrior stood suspended above the carriage, he realized that his goal of coming to this world was about to be achieved.
This good news is indeed somewhat exciting.
Showing a slight hint of coercion, Joshua ordered the two strong horses pulling the carriage forward to gradually stop, and then lowered his head in fear. The coachman who urged the horses to move also discovered the warrior who was not covering his figure. He banged on the car window in a panic and loudly informed the people inside that there was an accident outside.
Joshua didn't do anything else to irritate these ordinary people from the Holy City. He just stood there quietly, waiting for his target, the fourth inheritor, to appear.
Next, the red-haired girl in the resonance illusion got off the carriage, stood on the ground, and looked at him.
The warrior's eyes were quickly attracted to the ordinary-looking white robe she wore.
This was a clean and flawless robe without any dust. Apart from some simple ancient runes, there were no decorations on it, but in Joshua's eyes, he could clearly see its essence.
Just like the azure orb is actually a ball of flame that has not started burning, the twin blades of order are two indestructible holy lights, the pure white scepter is the vessel carrying the initial fire, this seemingly ordinary robe is made of Countless star-like textures are woven layer upon layer. It does not use any ordinary materials. The majestic energy and runes are all it has. Even Joshua cannot see clearly what is in it for a moment. How many runes and how much energy they contain, if spread out flat and turned into a magic circle, it may be enough to cover an entire continent. If the energy is completely released, it can easily destroy anything.
The warrior vaguely thought of a similar existence - the Array of Apocalypse, a huge magic array in a different world that accommodates the souls of the entire world's population. Perhaps only this kind of existence can compare with the true form of this robe.
Joshua's entire attention was focused on the heritage robe, but on the other side, Hilya's attention was entirely focused on the warrior.
It's a feeling that's hard to describe.
Hilya has been wandering in this apocalyptic world for twenty-seven years. She has seen countless intelligent beings. During this long time, the girl has developed an ability.
As long as you meet a person, you can roughly see a person's essence.
Wise, sinister, bold, reckless, thoughtful, calm and stubborn... Even some people who are good at hiding their true intentions will reveal their true nature in some inadvertent actions, which will be noticed by Hilya.
But the man in front of me...
Silya raised her head and looked into each other's eyes that were like lava balls. The girl couldn't help but tremble in her heart. What kind of eyes were those. All the emotions of ordinary people were annihilated in them, but they didn't look like constructs. It was so sluggish and ruthless, and the terrifying pressure that could make people kneel down in an instant was contained within it, and it seemed that it might explode at any time.
A natural disaster, not a human being.
The sense of danger, as if facing a volcano that is about to erupt, and a tsunami that is about to be suppressed, urges him to escape as soon as possible, away from this extremely powerful, but unable to detect the slightest existence, even if it is the leader of the undead army that has been chasing him. The level of terror may not be comparable to him.
The next moment, the man spoke.
"Finally found you, the last inheritor."
The voice was low and penetrating, and there was a vague clang like the clanging of steel. He said in an unexpectedly gentle tone, as if to a friend: "This world is too dangerous, you need to hurry up and follow me." Let’s go back together.”
"The last inheritor...are you talking about me?"
Hilya quickly realized who the last inheritor the other party was talking about was. She touched her robe with a complicated expression, but subconsciously took a step back.
If it were before, she would probably leave with this strong man without any hesitation, but now, after knowing the truth... she doesn't want to leave at all.
And the other party also discovered this immediately.
"You don't believe me. That's right. You and your family may not remember your mission after wandering for so many years."
Nodding slightly, the man said: "But even if you don't believe me, you should believe in this light."
He stretched out his right hand slightly, his heart beat loudly and made a heavy sound, and a ball of cyan light condensed with the sound, turning into a slightly burning flame in the palm of the man's hand.
This flame released light and heat. Although it was weak, it drove away all the haze and dullness around it. When Hilya saw it, an unparalleled sense of peace quickly occupied every corner of her heart. She knew that if she persisted, The person with this flame is undoubtedly her companion. Such an orderly and impurity-free light instinctively attracts all the inheritors, attracting them to gather like a signal in the night sky.
"… no."
Hilya took a long breath. She stopped her trembling and calmed down her body that wanted to touch the flames. She said in a low but unexpectedly firm voice: "I won't let you. Going back... I will not go to that world!"
The words revealed a shockingly obvious disgust and an extremely determined heart.
After hearing this, Joshua frowned slightly.
"Although I don't know why, you refused my request and are so unwilling to return to the hometown of your ancestors. You must know that there are many undead in this world who are chasing you. If it weren't for Urbandeni's protection, you might Long dead."
He put away the light of the azure orb in his hand, took out a mirror from his arms, and Joshua input the power of order into it, and then said lightly: "So this matter is not up to you."
The next moment, the warrior forcibly activated the holy weapon created by the old pope and informed the other party that he had found the fourth inheritor. His tone did not change at all: "I don't like forcing a person to do things he doesn't like to do, especially Forcing a girl, but now, the robe you are wearing is carrying the lives of millions of people in the world, and I will not show mercy for this."
Sensing the change in Joshua's attitude, Hilya immediately planned to turn around and escape. Following her thoughts, a little light flashed on the robe. It was a natural spell produced by countless runes connecting with each other. After an instant, the girl's figure changed. It turned into a stream of light, and in just a short moment, she had escaped thousands of meters away.
High-level professionals in the world of Grandia essentially use the magic power obtained by absorbing the original crystals in their bodies. When used, they can have dozens of tons of physical power or destructive power enough to destroy a small building. , but this is already the limit, and it is absolutely impossible to use a secret method similar to teleportation. In her years of escape, Hilya has already broken through the level of the earth. At this moment, she can use the infinite power contained in the earth's air. , can communicate with the free magic energy in the surrounding environment, and draw and control the energy of heaven and earth.
With the help of this majestic energy and the magic of the robe, the dragon-winged girl was able to activate the light-transforming method three times in a row, which was similar to teleportation. During the pursuit of the undead army, this skill saved her countless times, no matter how tight the encirclement was. Will also get rid of this speed.
But this time, something unexpected happened.
Joshua stood there without moving. He just concentrated on sensing for a moment, and then an idea flashed. The next moment, Hilya, who had fled to the wilderness more than 3,000 meters away and was about to activate the second secret method, Then she felt a huge force in the air that could not be rejected or resisted at all. This force seemed like a blazing sun, repelling all the power of heaven and earth that was gathering around her. Next, the energy turned into hands, He grabbed the girl tightly in his hand and quickly 'sent' her back to the carriage.
"Don't even think about running away."
With his hands behind his back and looking at the dragon-winged girl who was sent back at several times the speed of sound, the warrior slowly walked forward and said calmly: "Unless you can fly ten kilometers away in an instant and escape my territory, otherwise, you Even if I go to heaven or earth, I can’t leave.”
The giant hand of energy dissipated, and the red-haired girl fell to the ground in a state of embarrassment. She pursed her lips and stood up. She glared at the warrior with some hatred, but she completely gave up the idea of escape.
"Now then."
Not caring about the other party's attitude, Joshua walked up to Hilya and asked in a strange tone: "Can you tell me why you want to escape?"
The warrior asked himself that his attitude was very peaceful. The fourth inheritor seemed not to be affected by his aura of despair and would not be afraid to run away. What's more, he had already revealed the light of the azure orb. Since he is an inheritor, , then you can naturally understand that you are her companion.
In the world of Grandia, there are countless undead that are chasing the dragon-winged girl. From Urbandeni's mouth, Joshua naturally learned about Hilya's dangerous situation in this world. He originally thought that as soon as he opened his mouth, he would always The other party who had worked hard to escape would be grateful to go back with him, but he didn't expect that he would have this reaction in the end.
But no matter how the soldiers asked, how they coerced and lured, Hilya just refused to speak with a look of death on her face. Joshua was extremely helpless about this. In the final analysis, he was not a bad person. Facing fellow inheritors, it is very likely that he would be able to speak in the future. As a companion fighting Chaos together, of course he couldn't intimidate him too much, and if the warrior was asked to say those lines that obviously only villains could say, he couldn't say it.
But this is not important. Anyway, what Joshua wants is a robe, not a person. Whether the girl agrees or not does not matter much.
In the Holy Mirror of Glory presented by Pope Eagle, there began to gradually fluctuate with holy light. The ripples seemed to be thrown into the calm lake water of stones. Soon after, the ripples calmed down and an old face appeared. The old Pope on the other side of the world He said loudly and with a tone that could not contain his surprise: "Joshua, have you found the fourth inheritor!?"
"Ah, that's right."
Joshua glanced sideways at the red-haired girl who seemed to be fighting to the end. He thought about it, but found that he did not ask her name, so he skipped a sentence: "I found her, but she looks like Very uncooperative and unwilling to come back with me.”
"This is a normal thing. You are asking a person to leave her hometown and go to another world with you, an unfamiliar outsider. It would be abnormal for her to agree with just one sentence." The old pope was thinking at this time. Silya spoke. Through Joshua's adjustment of the mirror, Eagle saw the dragon-winged girl bound in place by the warrior's fighting spirit. Like Joshua, he could see through the essence of the simple robe worn on the girl at a glance. , it is a material existence constructed from the runes of endless order. With just one glance, the old pope completely confirmed that this is the fourth inheritance.
But at this time, Eagle's tone turned serious. In the mirror, the old pope frowned slightly: "But Joshua, I really didn't expect you to find the target so quickly."
According to Eagle's guess, even with Joshua's strength, it would be very difficult to find an inconspicuous holder of the sage inheritance in a completely unfamiliar world. It would take a few months, half a year, or even a few months. It was possible every year, and the Church of the Seven Gods had even made long-term preparations. It was completely unexpected that the warrior would find the target in less than a month.
It can be said that this speed is really too fast, so fast that it exceeds expectations.
"So, the transmission channel has not been completely constructed yet."
After hesitating for a while, Eagle finally told the truth: "The last time I sent you there was a hasty move, and the transmission channel was completely broken after that. Now we are building a new and more stable space-time channel, even if it is a large The demonic tide is coming soon and will never be affected, but this passage has not been completely built yet, so even if it is possible to teleport a person back, it will be very difficult."
"Do you want to wait a little longer? In five days, the teleportation channel will be officially opened. At that time, it will be easy to teleport your black dragon together."
"No." After hearing the news, Joshua frowned slightly at first, and then his eyes lit up as if he had thought of something good. He shook his head and refused: "The night is long and the dream is long, I will send her back now, if possible. , Your Majesty, you can also ask why she resists our kindness so much."
"In that case, as you wish."
Now that Joshua has made his decision, the old pope will not refuse. The old man's face in the Realm of Holy Glory gradually disappeared, leaving only the last words: "I am going to open the portal, be prepared."
At this time, two people from the Holy City, a carriage driver and a woman, stood in front of the carriage and looked at this scene in shock. They could not understand what was going on - the man who was so powerful that he was not inferior to Who is the strongest among the city lords? Who is he talking to? And why do you want to capture that ordinary dragon-born girl
Because what Joshua and the old Pope said just now were all the common language of Mycroft Continent. Let alone them, even Silya couldn't understand it at all. The world of Grandia and Mycroft Continent do have some connections. The relationship between the two lingua franca is similar to French and Latin, but even so, it is not something that ordinary people without research can distinguish.
And the next moment, they no longer thought about anything else - in front of their eyes, in the center of the endless wilderness, ripples like running water suddenly appeared. This ripple stirred the space, causing a tiny gap to appear in the fluctuations. In the center, this gap is surrounded by layers of mysterious and complicated runes, which gradually expand over time, as if the buzzing sound of gears is ringing, making everyone present feel trance-like.
Next, a gap that could only be opened by one person was opened, and Joshua was completely unaffected by the sound of time and space. He directly grabbed Hilya and snatched the dragon whose name he didn't know yet like a chicken. The winged girl threw the fourth inheritance object over, causing the gap to merge suddenly, leaving only a fist-sized remnant.
—To be honest, it seems a bit like alien abduction.
When he threw the shocked and helpless Silya into the gap in time and space, Joshua suddenly had this idea in his mind. Think about it carefully, aren't they from another world aliens in a sense? For their own purposes, forcing the local fourth inheritor to go to their world is undoubtedly kidnapping. Seriously speaking, he, the Earl of Northland and the Pope of the Church of the Seven Gods, is no different from the kidnappers who demand ransom. What a difference.
But even if it is a kidnapping, it doesn't matter. After the four inheritance objects are gathered together, we can learn the secret of the Initial Fire, which is related to the life and death of hundreds of millions of people in Mycroft Continent. If a mere kidnapping can solve the problem, Qiao Xiu It doesn’t matter how many times you do it.
"Then, please."
The old pope's voice came from the reactivated Mirror of Holy Glory, and one could vaguely hear Hilya's angry voices like "Let me go back!" "You bastards!" But whether it was him or The soldiers ignored them as if they couldn't hear them. Eagle said with some emotion: "I don't know if the other side of the world is dangerous or not, and I don't know what your current situation is, but don't worry. In five days at the earliest, it will be official. The time and space channel will be opened, and then the power of the Church of the Seven Gods will be able to directly intervene in this world."
"Danger...definitely dangerous."
Joshua turned to look at the southern wasteland. He thought of the more than thirty survivors in the wasteland. Five days later, the transmission channel was opened again, and those children did not have to stay in the wasteland to struggle for survival. He said softly: " The world is marching toward its end...if I weren't on a mission...and so on."
At this point, the soldier suddenly fell silent. He frowned and pondered for a while, and then his heart suddenly became enlightened.
He had found the fourth inheritor and the inherited items and sent them back. Just now, he threw the dragon-winged girl into the gap in time and space and sent it to the old pope.
This means... nothing can restrain him now!
At this moment, many things flashed through Joshua's mind, such as the group of knights he saw when he first came to this world. The residents of Alleyn Town still needed to practice martial arts day and night under the protection of a heroic spirit. Every day, Urban is searching for needed supplies in the dangerous jungle wilderness. As a mountain titan, Urbandeni must always be on guard against possible raids by the shadows of death. Even with its peak strength in the heaven realm, there is a possibility of falling.
This world is so dangerous and ruthless, without any order or warmth. The shadow of death has ended the possibility of all human survivors on the earth to develop civilization again. Even the survivor towns in the southwest wilderness have begun to gradually communicate with each other. No one could face the surging army of dead shadows. In the end, only more than thirty children survived.
Broken towns, old diaries, confused children who don't know where to go in the future, bloodthirsty undead, confused souls, and a former hero who wants to die.
The fourth inheritor kept silent about this. She must know the deepest secrets of this world, so she showed such a posture, but because of this, the warrior could be sure.
The world is sick, so sick that even those who know the truth dare not speak out.
So someone needs to treat it.
Thinking of this, Joshua burst into laughter. He clenched his hands into fists and tightened his joints, making a loud noise like thunder. This laughter was transmitted so far away that even the old pope on the other side of the time and space channel could clearly hear it.
The next moment, under Eagle's doubtful inquiry, the warrior stretched out his hand and pressed it on his heart. As if the tsunami of life energy stirred up, he forced a sky-blue orb out of his body. Joshua did not hesitate at all. Then he threw this inherited object that had accompanied him through countless battles into the space-time gap that was only the size of a fist. Then, with his index finger, the blazing fighting spirit directly sealed the space-time channel, cutting off the connection between the two worlds. All connections.
"Joshua, what are you doing?!"
The old pope's roar reached the warrior's ears through the Realm of Holy Glory. He said in an almost questioning tone: "Why did you separate the Azure Orb in your body?!"
"Gathering together the four inherited objects, Your Majesty the Pope, you should be able to find the secret of the Initial Fire." After losing the Azure Orb, Joshua's face turned pale, but because all the life energy contained in the Azure Orb had been taken away by him, He could not create the body of a Titan, so it had no impact on his strength. After hearing Eagle's words, Joshua smiled nonchalantly and said, "And I, of course, will do what I want to do."
After speaking, he raised his head and looked at the dim dawn that was gradually rising. His smile gradually faded, and his expression gradually became calm and heavy.
“A world is suffering before my eyes.”
"Thousands of sentient beings are wailing and wailing before my eyes."
"How can I sit back and watch, how can I be indifferent."
Joshua sighed deeply: "After coming to this world, I have always felt that my thoughts are not clear enough. Now that I think about it, in order to find the fourth inheritor as soon as possible, I really suppressed my heart and did not do a lot of things. "
"But it's different now. I have no restraints."
The warrior stretched out his right hand. A touch of metal suddenly appeared in this hard-forged, seemingly indestructible right hand. Although this hand seemed ordinary, all materials within a few hundred meters around it, whether it was rocks or carriages, humans or The trees have become lighter out of thin air, and some lighter dust and rocks have begun to lose gravity. Under Joshua's control, they slowly float around this hand, like satellites.
"I'm close to the realm of legend."
He said calmly: "There is no need to worry about my safety."
"Since the fourth inheritor refuses to tell, then I will go find it myself. Find the truth about this world that is on the verge of destruction, and reverse it."
"This is the choice that the inheritors of the sages should make."
At this time, Joshua began to smile again. It was the smile of a warrior when his fighting spirit was burning. Next, he took back the Holy Glory Realm in his arms and no longer listened to the reprimand of the old pope on the other side of the world. language.
Of course Joshua knew that this choice was arbitrary.
But the strong have the qualifications to be willful.
Bang, his whole body began to burn with blazing fire. The fire was bright, like a sun, carrying a rolling wave of life instead of dawn, illuminating this dark and gloomy world.
That is the light released by the soul burner facing the burning anger of this world.
The other side of the world.
Mycroft Continent, the Holy Mountain in the Far Sea, and the Church of the Seven Gods.
Inside the Temple of Stars, Old Pope Eagle crushed the mirror in his hand for communication with an angry look. He took a deep breath and suppressed the anger deep in his heart.
This Joshua, he doesn't understand at all how important his existence is!
Throughout the thousand-year history of the Mycroft Continent, there have been hundreds to hundreds of people who have held items passed down by saints. Among the holders of the Pure White Staff alone are the seven popes of the past and several highly respected high priests. The double blades of order of the Kaos family were worn by all family members for a period of time until the pair of blades chose their own master, not to mention the azure orb that was living outside and handled by who knows how many people.
But even among so many people, for so many years, only the Azure Orb in Joshua's hand has achieved something that others have never been able to do - integrate the inherited object with himself.
"He may be someone who has been truly recognized by the sages... His existence is more important than a dead thing!"
Holding the azure orb in his hand, which still exuded the warmth of the warrior's heart, the old pope's calm heart began to burst with anger again, but when he turned his head, he saw the red-haired girl who was silent and still restrained. , Eagle sighed, then stretched out his hand and released the restraints on the other party.
"I'm sorry, our actions were too reckless."
The voice from the heart appeared deep in Hilya's heart. Although Pope Eagle did not know the lingua franca of the world of Grandia, he could communicate from the heart and did not need to use any overnight language: "Although it is a little abrupt , but now I can only ask you to live here temporarily, Joshua - the person who sent you here has gone to explore the truth of your world, maybe he will solve those troubles."
"He... His strength is indeed very strong, but if we want to solve the disaster that our world has encountered... it is impossible."
During telephony, the two parties in the conversation can hardly hide their true inner thoughts. Hilya discovered this the moment the conversation just started, but at this time, the girl in another world no longer mattered, she lightly Telling part of the truth about the world lightly.
"The Death Shadow Disaster is a punishment sent by the sages."
She said this in a calm and desperate tone: "My ancestors were just jailers guarding criminals. The whole world is a cage for betrayers."
Will modify it later
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