Most intelligent beings feel peaceful joy when looking up at the stars.
Whether you are a dignitary or a commoner, rich or poor, when you look up at the starry sky, you are all indistinguishably insignificant. It is vast, vast, and magnificent beyond human vision. The starry sky is so eternal. In front of it, the entire life of intelligent life It was so short-lived, and all the familiar joys, anger, sorrows and joys around me disappeared in an instant, which made people feel extremely at ease.
Most intelligent beings feel a thrill in their hearts when looking up at the stars.
With the development of civilization and the advancement of technology, the more intelligent life explores the starry sky, the more they will discover the grandeur of the starry sky - it is higher than the sky, bigger than the sky, further than the vacuum, and located at the other end of the endless deep space. , it symbolizes the unknown, exploration, and wisdom’s desire for the distance. As long as you look up to it, life will always be full of enthusiasm.
However, Paladin Loranda is not one of the 'majority'.
He didn't like the stars at all.
Until now, Loranda still clearly remembers the trembling and fear in his heart when his adoptive father, the Pope of the Seven Gods Igor, took him through the world barrier for the first time and came to the void to look around the endless galaxies of the multiverse. .
-It's too big, too vast, too dark... It's deeper than the deep sea, and wider than the wasteland. It's hard to imagine that there is such a terrifying scene outside the beautiful and bright world.
Why is this happening? At that time, Loranda had been thinking about this problem. It was difficult for him to understand why there was such a terrifying nothingness outside of such a beautiful world. When the old pope took him to various worlds to sweep away the evil caused by the evil god of death. During the disputes between the two, this doubt became more and more profound, and when Joshua sent his deductions and speculations about the multiverse to all the people he thought were worthy of informing, this doubt expanded in Loranda's heart to the point where she had to To the point of speaking out.
—Why is this multiverse happening
Endless chaos lurks in the darkness, and the unknown evil god will come quietly at some point. Behind the seemingly beautiful light, there is a terrifying shadow that is constantly approaching, and an even more desperate picture is hidden in that terrifying and empty future. among.
- Such a starry sky is really too terrifying and makes people feel desperate.
As the quasi-heir of the next generation of Pope, this is exactly what Loranda thinks in her heart.
The Church of the Seven Gods is not a family force. The pope is usually selected from the most powerful priests of the Seven Gods - of course, there are occasional exceptions, such as this generation of Pope Eagle of the Seven Gods. Before he became the pope, he was not a priest stationed in a temple, but a wandering priest wandering around the continent. Before the selection decades ago, no one knew his name. When he defeated all competitors and successfully proved that his understanding of the Holy Light was far better than everyone else and even the previous generation of popes, no one recalled this eunuch. The names of the simple priests were recorded in the book.
Logically speaking, as the adopted son of the Pope, Loranda actually has no competitive advantage. He also has to compete with others within the entire Church of the Seven Gods, and will not receive any preferential treatment because his adoptive father is Saint Igor—but This time is different, unlike any other time in history where a pope has adopted a son or daughter.
Loranda is simply too strong.
He was sent to the Holy Mountain at the age of ten and was trained as a knight's attendant. At the age of eleven, he awakened the potential of extraordinary power and became the black iron class. At the age of thirteen, he formally mastered the seed of fighting spirit and came to the high-level black iron class. At the age of fifteen, he stepped into the Baiyinyao class. Ling, who officially awakened fighting spirit at the age of eighteen and reached the high level of Yaoling, became proficient in playing with life energy at the age of twenty, and entered the golden realm in the second year.
After that, it only took Loranda five years to completely master his golden glory and hone his strength to the golden peak. At that time, he had just celebrated his twenty-seventh birthday and was in Jue While most of the Paladins were still touching the golden barrier, he had already seen the threshold that represented the limit of the 'human' species, called the Ultimate Intent.
Three years after fighting against the evil god of natural disaster in a different world with a certain warrior, after sincere cultivation, Loranda officially broke through the ultimate power at the age of thirty.
Then, except for the Pope, no one in the Church of the Seven Gods could defeat him - whether it was the ordinary Paladins or priests, or the elders of the temple priests and the leader of the Paladins, facing Loranda Rushan When the Holy Light was as thick as water and as changeable as water, they all wisely chose to surrender. Before the paladin calmly raised the cross hammer and giant shield, even the ultimate paladin Robzek, who was both a teacher and a friend, could only surrender. Noh admits with a wry smile that he has been surpassed by his juniors.
Therefore, Loranda became the next heir - not because he was the adopted son of the Pope, but because there was no choice other than him.
"What are you thinking, Loranda?"
Suddenly, a man's slightly angry voice sounded.
What followed was a punch powerful enough to shatter mountains, break open the earth's crust, and sink the island's shelf!
Boom - In the environment that had been turned into a vacuum long ago, no sound should have been heard, but the extremely condensed life energy fluctuations caused all the extraordinary experts who could sense the energy changes to hear extremely shocking explosions in their minds.
The erratic memory was suddenly pulled back to the body, and the wandering thoughts suddenly condensed in his heart. Loranda suddenly opened his eyes that he didn't know when to close. He saw an iron fist with a cold metallic light, holding it. Wrapped in too bright plasma sparks, it blasted towards his head!
In less than a thousandth of a second, the iron fist was pressed in front of Loranda. The plasma fire, which was more dazzling than the sun, was enough to burn human eyes to ashes. Even the most powerful ones had to squint their eyes. To avoid temporary blindness.
Loranda could feel the strength of the blow and the danger of his situation. At this moment, countless thoughts flashed through his mind, but his tempered body and combat consciousness chose the most correct one - the paladin immediately raised his hand The giant adamantine shield on his right hand faced the heavy punch.
Bang! ! !
Not bright at all, it can even be said to be dim gray holy light overflowed from Rolanda's body, and then turned into streams of light and merged into the giant shield. The shield with the seven sacred emblems hit the Collapse Iron Fist head-on. -The next moment, what appeared was not the ordinary ending of the giant shield blocking the heavy punch. Accompanied by the shrill roar of the atmosphere being torn apart, the iron fist shattered the giant adamantine shield like a biscuit, and then continued unabated. Punch to Loranda's face.
It could be seen that the flesh and blood were vaporized in an instant, and the figure of the Paladin was blown away in an instant. His body drew a long arc of more than ten kilometers in the thin air, and then fell heavily on the gray-white ground. On gravel ground.
"Don't be distracted during the battle - Loranda, it was you who took the initiative to challenge me and asked me to compete with you using the same strength that is the pinnacle of my will."
In front of the impact crater, which was dozens of meters wide and still smoking, a black-haired man appeared behind the smoke. He stood on the edge of the impact crater and spoke in a calm tone to Luo, who was still lying in the center of the crater. Landa said: "I promised you because you are my friend, and if you treat me as a friend, you should take it seriously."
"Concentrate on the battle, don't let me underestimate you."
Hearing these words, the body of the Paladin lying flat in the center of the impact crater moved - gray holy light enveloped his body, he slowly sat up, and then stood up. Veins of holy light like blood vessels appeared on the skull that had almost turned into a skeleton, quickly regenerating Loranda's flesh-and-blood face.
There was a crisp sound of bone regeneration in his shoulder joint, and the muscle fibers and blood vessels that had been crushed by the huge force also closed and gathered, and then regenerated and healed.
"It was my fault."
Walking out of the pit, Loranda sincerely apologized to the black-haired figure: "Because I just saw the starry sky, my heart was trembling, and I couldn't help but be distracted for a moment."
"Ever since I learned the truth about the world's galaxies and multiverses from you, every time I see the starry sky, I can't help but think about why this world is like this."
When the smoke dissipated, we could see that the two of them were standing in a desolate rocky desert. There was almost no light on the gray earth, and there were only a few stars twinkling in the darkness in the distance. That was the only source of light in this land.
If you zoom out and look at this dark world from a very far distance, you can see a broken planet - the icy cold wind sweeps across this dead planet whose crust was partially shattered in the ancient war, and in the distance , drained of all energy, the stellar remnants turned into white dwarfs slowly rotating in the dusty nebula.
This is the 681st level of the abyss, the deep abyss, a desert world that was once destroyed in the final battle, and then almost engulfed by chaos, ushering in the end.
On the rocky wasteland on the broken planet, Loranda took a deep breath and began to gather the holy light in his body. In front of him, the legendary warrior Joshua Van Radcliffe suppressed his strength to An incarnation of the Ultimate Intention Level. Facing this friend and powerful enemy, Loranda held her left and right hands empty, filling them with light. A cross warhammer condensed with gray holy light, and a shield shaped by light were held in her hands. In the palm of your hand.
"I have always wondered why the multiverse, which was born from the primordial fire, is so hopeless and dark. This is simply unexplainable."
Before he finished speaking, the paladin moved his feet, and with the sudden burst of sand and dust, Loranda transformed into a stream of light and rushed towards Joshua.
Although Loranda was slightly injured at this time due to his previous distraction, under the influence of the powerful defense and recovery power of the Holy Light, he was still in peak condition at this time - the speed of the Paladin at the peak of his will was approaching. On the dead planet in a vacuum, it suddenly reached 17 kilometers per second, fifty times the speed of sound!
At this speed, it doesn't even take a moment to cross a distance of a hundred meters. Only a dim gray light can be seen. However, the incarnation of the black-haired man smiled slightly at this, facing the gray light that ordinary detection arrays cannot capture. In the light, his figure disappeared directly. At the same time, one could see sudden explosions appearing one after another on the rocky wasteland, and dazzling energy flashes appeared like small hills everywhere in the wasteland.
At this time, the two people, both at the peak of their strength, were colliding and fighting at dozens of times the speed of sound.
Streams of heavy and violent force are constantly blasted out from the metal iron fist, shaking the body of the paladin, and the gray holy light is also pervasive, immersing into the warrior's arms in the form of dark energy. The two sides defend and attack each other. He saw the high-heat concussion hand knife cutting through Rolanda's Holy Light Shield, and the cross hammer fell on Joshua's shoulder covered by the metal armor, making a dull echo.
"Loranda, Brandon has challenged me before. He wanted to compete with me, and I also agreed to him."
And just when the Paladin was concentrating and putting all his energy into this rapid attack and defense, the warrior's clear voice echoed in his ears: "He wants to test here how sharp and heavy his sword is. , he wanted to know how powerful he was after reaching the peak of his will, and how far he could go - so I kicked him into the sun."
As soon as he finished speaking, a crazy warning suddenly sounded in Loranda's heart. He opened his eyes wide and wanted to retreat quickly, but it was already too late. Joshua quickly moved forward and approached. He raised his right elbow high and weighed heavily. The bombardment hit the Paladin's skull—the blow was as powerful as a mountain falling from the sky. If Loranda could not stop it, her head would undoubtedly be smashed.
"Ah!"
In order to avoid such an ending, Loranda could only quickly raise his hands, and one or two obvious white lines of holy light were even dragged out on both sides of his arms. He roared silently, blocking the hammer of holy light and giant shield above his head. , one could see that a gray-white glow suddenly appeared on the Paladin's face, and an angelic halo appeared above his head - but Joshua's elbow had already arrived.
boom!
As the attacks and defenses of both sides collided, everything lost their sound.
The incredible force smashed the rock formations on the planet's surface in an instant, tearing apart the already crumbled crust. The energy tide caused by the huge force even distorted the firelight, and the mantle that had begun to cool was condensed in it. The power between the lines penetrated directly, and the figure of the Paladin wrapped in the holy light dragged out a long gray straight line, and was directly smashed into the deepest part of the mantle and blasted into the core of the earth.
"At that time, the surface of the sun was erupting, and the star's light and heat rolled up a tsunami of light measuring millions of kilometers - and Brandon cut off the corona and walked out of the surface of the sun."
"At that time, his sword light was like an abyss that destroyed everything, enough to cut the world. The sword of the abyss that determined life and death could bring everything, including chaos, to an end. He achieved his goal and found what he wanted. thing."
In the innermost part of the broken planet, in the deepest part of the earth's mantle, even if the sun goes out, the heat of the earth's molten core has not completely dissipated. Around the center of the earth, there is still a golden-red viscous liquid metal that is slowly squirming—actually Above, in the face of the high temperature and pressure in the center of the earth, there is no magma, rock, or liquid anymore. Here, the solid and liquid states of matter are indistinguishable. Even the strongest alloy is as soft as grease here, but it is And stronger than diamonds.
However, in this extremely soft but extremely strong high-heat metal layer, a human figure slowly walked out of the golden-red viscous molten iron. The head that was almost torn apart after being hit by the warrior's elbow was rapidly healing in the gray holy light. , and the first one to complete regeneration was the bright and determined eyes of the Paladin.
"That's nothing."
He used holy light to vibrate the high-density metal layer at the center of the earth, making a deafening sound: "I can also walk out of the star."
"It's just Joshua, Brandon was able to find what he wanted because he was focused on it: he has a wife, he has a daughter. As long as this guy can protect his family, he won't think about other things at all - he Put all your faith into love and family, and even if you don’t need to know the answer, you can move forward with determination.”
But I'm different.
I want to know the answer.
With endless doubts in his heart, the paladin who had been hit hard stood up again and again - with his talent, he should have found his own path long ago, but for some reason, Loranda suppressed the self-suppression. When many galactic worlds return from chaos, their instincts begin to surge, and the desire for self-sublimation begins. Men who are as stubborn as iron in their beliefs will never allow any confusion in their hearts.
Before finding the answer in her heart, Loranda will never compromise with the world and move forward at will.
The first update, starting from the second part of this volume, is a detailed outline of the follow-up.
(End of chapter)