A completely different climate, a completely different atmosphere, and a completely different sky and earth from the Mycroft continent.
Different from the world that had just recovered from the ruins, the world in front of us was filled with an aura called 'prosperity'.
There is no doubt that Joshua can conclude that this is the Central Continent during the Glorious Era, the land where the river god Shinur has the deepest memory. His entry awakened the existence sleeping in the deepest part of the god's imprint, causing him to Expand your own field.
Standing by the river where all the rivers converge, Joshua stepped on the rocks on the shore and watched the river flow. Firefly and Rin siblings followed his footsteps and came here together. The three masters and servants stood there, waiting in silence.
The rolling river flows endlessly. It originates from the Miguel Plateau, a land of thousands of mountains. The cold snow water flows along the ditches in the mountains under the temperature of the sun, and converges into streams in the forest canyons. There are countless such The streams merged into the same river, and finally formed this long river that runs through the entire Central Continent.
In the ancient past, the spirit of God was conceived here. It endured the faith and prayers of all living beings in the dimness, and produced a form similar to life. The Mother Goddess of the Earth enlightened it, and finally made this born demigod awaken its own power. divinity and ascended to become a god.
"He is awake."
Suddenly, Joshua spoke, his body leaning forward slightly, and the warrior's spirit rose.
And following his words, a blue misty brilliance rose from the vortex of the river, and the water waves surged, converging into a huge body dozens of meters high, controlled by the half-human, half-snake god of the river. As the waves appeared in the center of the eddy, his upper body was a man wearing scales and holding a staff, and his lower body was the body of a giant snake made of river currents. This young man with long blue hair turned sideways and stared at the river bank. The eyes of Joshua and the others were empty and void, as if they had no intelligence at all.
And the entire fantasy world also changed with the gaze of this former god.
Noticing that the ground beneath her feet was rapidly becoming blurry and changing, Yingying subconsciously approached the warrior. She grabbed the corner of Joshua's clothes and asked cautiously, "Where is this place?"
Rin also approached. He stood close behind the warrior and asked softly: "What is he doing, master?"
"This is the inherited divine domain of a deceased god."
Joshua replied: "And he is looking for my weaknesses and is preparing to give me the most severe test."
The warrior did not lie.
For different beings, the trials given by the Mist of Divine Calamity are naturally of different levels. Ordinary people cannot be equal to professionals, and silver can never be compared to gold. If it is said that for a strong person who participates in the trial, The remains of the God of Rivers do not require the use of trump cards yet, but the existence of a legendary strongman alone is worthy of Shinur's true identity being revealed and going all out, because at this time he is not a god in his full glory, but has long since passed away. The lingering thoughts of God.
Therefore, as the world changes, Joshua can sense that countless information flows in accordance with the link between him and the god's seal, manifesting in this fantasy world.
As if the wheel of time was rapidly reversing, fragmented scenes began to appear in the hazy world. First, the main city of Moldavia was expanding at full speed, and then Radek was relocated in the Great Ajax Mountains. The Reeve family cemetery, the remains of the River God—the seal located in the deepest part of the mist of divine disaster began to analyze every detail in the warrior's memory, trying to find out the weaknesses of this powerful trialer.
But Joshua didn't resist. For some reason, he allowed the other party to look through his memories.
Leading the survivors through the Ural Mountains, meditating in the Church of the Seven Gods, conversing with Pope Igor... It was like a roll of tape that had been pressed for quick playback, and scenes from the past were replayed, and the surrounding environment also changed from the endless flow of The rivers turned into deep mountains and old forests, gray islands in the distant sea, and the deep depths of the Star Temple.
The camera turned again. The sudden changes in the world made the Shenji siblings a little confused. They subconsciously held the warrior's hand and wanted to change it into the form of a weapon. Whether it was Firefly or Rin, their instincts felt that as long as they were with the warrior If they fight together, they can be unafraid of all unknowns and challenges, but Joshua just held their hands tightly and had no intention of fighting.
The light and shadow continue to change - traveling together with the initial fire in the void of the multiverse, falling into the world of Grandia and darkness, fighting with old knights, undead generals and titans, under Joshua's calm gaze, it can even be said With his connivance, the river god recreated everything clearly, but what the warrior experienced was so heavy that the remains of the god also bore a huge burden.
At this time, in the outside world, what appeared in the eyes of everyone was such a scene.
Near the trade road not far from the Divine Mist, there are many adventurers and mercenaries who also want to explore the Mist, but are afraid to go forward because they are worried about the risks. They plan to wait for Joshua and his party to prepare. When leaving, I bought some information from the knights and college students about this kind of fog that would make people comatose for several days to prepare for my future adventures.
However, at this time, more than ten minutes had passed since the warriors and others entered the fog. Most of the adventurers gathered in the group fell into silence. Except for a few people who still insisted on observing the reaction of the fog, most of them were already wandering. Or start communicating with each other.
But such a dull situation changed when a mercenary who had been observing the scene exclaimed.
“Oh my God, this mist is glowing!”
The crowd was in an uproar, and in an instant, countless pairs of eyes immediately turned to the silver sea of mist not far away.
At this time, there was a huge change in the mist of divine misfortune. The sea of mist that originally covered thousands of square meters was so dense that as long as ordinary people entered it, they would be completely invisible within a few meters, as if they were being swallowed up. But now, the fog is thinning at a speed visible to the naked eye. The figures of some of the weaker academic students at the edge who have not penetrated deep into the depths of the fog can already be seen. On the contrary, the center of the fog is extremely dense. The mist has gathered into a slowly rotating solid ball. It emits extremely bright blue light from the inside out, like a blue sun.
In the microscopic vision that ordinary people cannot observe, this huge ball of light is actually composed of countless densely packed soul particles carrying a trace of divine power. They are frantically absorbing the free energy around them, and are connected in parallel to perform calculations and thinking. The particles emitted bright light throughout their bodies, proving that they were undergoing a high-intensity load.
At this time, in the illusion of the divine realm, the memory belonging to Joshua had been replayed very far away. The silver-haired girl looked at every scene around her with wide eyes. Rin also exclaimed softly, because what they saw was them and the warrior. The scenery before the conclusion of the contract - the war between Thomas Grand Canyon and the orcs, the military life in the Black Crow Legion, the studies at the Miskatonic Officer Academy, the hard training in the Moldavian Territory under the watchful eyes of the old steward and the old lord. … The speed of memory playback is getting faster and faster. In a few years, only a few seconds of pictures flash. In less than half a minute, the life of Joshua Van Radcliffe has been wiped out by the God of Rivers. After browsing, the trial belonging to the warrior still did not appear.
"Well… "
As if aware that he had returned in vain, the half-human, half-snake Shinur's empty eyes showed a trace of unwillingness. Now he is just the inheritance imprint left by the gods in the past, looking for the weaknesses of the testers and giving them the most suitable solution. Trials were his responsibility and instinct, but going all the way back to the end of Joshua's memory, he still couldn't find the slightest weakness in the man in front of him.
The temptation of money and power is meaningless. The relationship between women and friendship is as thin as water. There is no trace of the desire for food, wine and all enjoyment in this man. In terms of desire alone, the man has reached the limit of indifference. If No surprise, no one can tempt him in this regard.
In other aspects, whether it is physical strength, skill, will, spirit, wisdom or even luck, men are also above the level. Even if there are occasional flaws, it is not something that Shinur, who was born as a god, can take advantage of. If not for Hechuan The remains of the god are just fragments left over from ancient times. He only wants to complete the inheritance trial mission set before him. Then he has probably ended this meaningless search for weaknesses long ago, instead of falling into an irreversible trap. Infinite loop.
However, for some reason, even though the memory has reached its end, the traceback is still not over. Even Shinur himself did not realize that the world around him was still changing.
The world fell into darkness, as if everything fell into a non-existent void.
But at this moment, in the absolute darkness, the warrior took steps.
The steps rose and fell in the darkness, but in the end the foot wearing black leather boots did not step on the empty void, but on the clear but constantly changing ground.
In the last scene, Joshua was still standing on the frozen soil and the indescribable void of Moldavia, but the next moment, he was already in a strange world that shocked even the gods. The gods following him looked around in shock, as if they felt something. They immediately looked up, and then saw a scene that they could not see even in the most psychedelic dreams.
This is a land suspended in the sky, suspended in nothingness - on a huge, indescribable, huge blue 'sphere' that is beyond the imagination of weapons, a huge city made of steel is in the dark void The floating, cylindrical space city rotates regularly to obtain enough gravity for life to survive. Countless giant silver ships anchor in the gravity-free central axis port area, and then set off to other steel cities not far away.
In the vast darkness that is extremely empty and far beyond countless continents, there is a golden star with dazzling light that is releasing light at the far end. In the surrounding sky, stars gather into a river, and in the dark sky Twinkling, they are located in an endless distance where even light has to travel for hundreds of thousands of years, but the faint starlight spans such a long distance and shines on the alloy shell of the space city.
In the orbit of a star that is 70% sea and 30% earth, there is a quarter-sized silver satellite rotating around it. Steel cities are located on this satellite and another one in the distance that looks like a flame. On the surface of an ordinary red star, steel ships emit light blue or colorless light streams, shuttling back and forth between the space port in the void and several stars.
Not only Hotaru and Rin felt shocked, being in such a strange world, even the God of the River fell into panic. He and the Shenji siblings observed the world in shock, so that when Joshua came When he was more than ten meters in front of him, Shinur slowly lowered his head.
Joshua stepped out step by step, and the surrounding scene also changed step by step. From the martial arts gym in the space immigration city in the orbit of the planet, step by step he retreated into the giant city made of steel and cement inside the planet's atmosphere. And this The city, which is so huge that it can be clearly seen even from space, is rapidly regressing as time goes back. It has changed from a perfect giant future city with space orbits to a steel ruin devastated by war.
And finally, in a wartime hospital hidden in an underground bunker, the soldier stood in the place where he was born in his previous life, standing in front of a half-human and half-god god. He raised his head and looked into the eyes of the god, with no memory in his eyes. He was dissatisfied with being observed by others, and there was no fear or worry that he should have had. Joshua just stared at the other person's eyes that were dancing with blue light, as if he was waiting for something.
Outside, the sea of mist covering the vast area has boiled, causing all adventurers to retreat in horror. The black dragon flying in the sky with a floating ring on its back anxiously moves around the ball of light beneath it, but it does not know it. The situation of his master and friends, and in the center of the bright ball of light that seems to be about to explode, countless thought particles are flashing with dazzling light. They have calculated to the extreme, but there is no complete soul belonging to the gods as the center. These thoughts No matter how active the particles are, they cannot get the results they want.
"The strong men of future generations."
In the fantasy realm of gods, not long after, a stiff voice came, and Shinur's empty eyes shone with an inexplicable light. The remains of the former god seemed like a machine that was operating to the extreme, repeating the long-lost words in a machine-like tone. Predetermined reply: "I can't give you a trial, you... are destined to be above me in the future, please... go back..."
The colleague who said this, the figure of the river god has begun to gradually disintegrate. The huge body composed of rivers is rapidly disintegrating into streams of water. Originally located in the mist of divine misfortune, it is proceeding in the illusion of the gods. The trial knights and college students also felt the turmoil of the trial. In their mission world, all the scenery began to become distorted, and people's voices began to become hoarse and sharp. That was because of the calculations originally assigned to them. The power is being drawn by the central God's seal to calculate matters related to warriors, but even so, everything still has no results and falls into a final endless loop.
In the deepest part of the mist of divine disaster, where stars once fell from the sky, a complex light blue rune trembled and emerged from the void. This rune was covered with totem patterns that looked like flowing rivers. It was complex and full of beauty. The figure constitutes its main body, belonging to the gods and the supreme majesty. It rotates in the light blue divine light flashing in the center of the rune. It is the remains left after the death of Shinur, the god of rivers - a piece that contains All heritage runes of divinity and knowledge related to rivers.
However, at this time, this precious rune, which is enough to make a mortal achieve the ultimate goal, become a legend or even a god, is shattering in violent tremors, and the tiny cracks are spreading with the violently glowing mist of divine misfortune around them. Just a few seconds later, the cracks had spread to every part of the rune. Blue light spread along the cracks, and the extremely unstable and terrifying aura seemed to erupt as the runes shattered in the next moment.
Not far away, the ultimate blue dragon Sukrash was vaguely aware of this. It grabbed a carriage with two humanoid dragons in it who were scared to the point of coma, and was ready to turn away immediately, but the warrior's prisoner After seeing the black dragon flying anxiously around the misty light ball, he couldn't help but sigh.
—If you don’t help, you will definitely be killed by that man. Thinking of this, the blue dragon flew towards the black dragon at the fastest speed in his life.
And just when Sukras was about to use magic and drag the extremely anxious black dragon away, a star suddenly appeared in the bright day sky of Mycroft Continent.
Compared with the bright sun, this star is dim and dull, but at the moment when this dim star turns into a flash of light, a majestic and majestic power that cannot be felt at the end falls from the sky.
On the earth, the adventurers and mercenaries who were fearfully moving away from the fog stopped, and a dagger that fell from its master's hand froze in the air. In the sky, the flying Sukrash stopped. It remained in the scene where it was preparing to cast a spell on Hei and leave with the anxious black dragon.
And around the lake, the lake surface rippled by the breeze remained motionless, as if frozen in place. The boiling fog and light balls did not move at all, and the shining thought particles remained still in place. Being 'dominated' by this great power coming from outside the world.
At this moment when all things were stagnant, a rotating black ring holy symbol flashed for a moment at the end of the sky. At the core of the divine mist, the runes carrying the inheritance of Shinur, the god of rivers, seemed to be reversed. As time passed, it began to 'restore' to its original state rapidly, the flashing divine light shrank, the spreading cracks closed, and the markings that had appeared from the outside of the world due to overload began to return to the void and disappeared.
In the illusion of gods.
The half-human, half-snake river god stopped collapsing, and a powerful force from the distance maintained the existence of the god's remains. Shinur's eyes returned to normal and his eyes were empty again. He stared at Joshua for a moment, and then closed his eyes. The eyes then dissipate themselves and return to the imprint of the gods.
But what is strange is that this divine illusion did not disappear because of His departure, but continued to operate.
Joshua looked thoughtfully at the distorting space in front of him.
Why does this illusory world still persist after Shinur left
The answer is simple.
There is another god who has entered this world.
"Greetings, wielder of might and justice."
Staring at the black rotating ring that gradually emerged, the warrior nodded slightly as a salute and said softly: "Your Majesty Zinsen."
Following Joshua's words, a human form was rapidly condensing out of thin air.
Everything is controlled by powerful power. The dust in the air, the tiny water droplets floating in the atmosphere and the magic elements invisible to the naked eye. Everything that exists is controlled and dominated by the slow rotation of the black ring, and then... It turned into countless basic material particles and condensed into the body of a majestic man from scratch.
This majestic middle-aged man has long gray messy hair. His face is hard, as if it has been forged by all iron fires. The thick and solid armor covers the whole body, with countless fine and exquisite reliefs scattered all over it. The back of the shoulder armor is black. Rumo's cloak fluttered in the wind, like a burning flame.
In a world where everything was still except for Joshua, the majestic being like a god—no, a god originally opened his eyes. In the dark gray pupils, there was an indifference that was not like a human being.
"Sinur was our staunchest ally thousands of years ago, the river god who fought to the bitter end against the evil from outside the world."
Unlike Shinur, who was like a machine, this god whom Joshua called Xingzheng spoke in an indifferent but obviously wise tone. The low and clear voice penetrated the entire fantasy space in an instant. A holy and majestic echo echoed in this empty heaven and earth: "Because of the oath, I couldn't sit back and watch His dissipation, so I intervened in this world."
"Joshua Van Radcliffe, heir to the saints, the man who reignited the fire."
Xing Zheng raised his head, and he looked at the warrior. An inexplicable light flashed in his dark gray pupils: "I know that you have doubts in your heart. You have a purpose in entering the inheritance illusion of Xinu'er."
"He is a remnant that has passed away long ago. He cannot answer your questions, but I, one of the seven gods, can."
Yesterday’s 5800 words, there will be another chapter later, and I finally want to finish writing the plot of this cartoon...
I never said that the earth where Joshua lives is a modern society (it is actually written in the extra)
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