Chapter 12: The Descent of God (5600)

A completely different terroir from the Mycrof continent, a completely different atmosphere, and a completely different sky and earth.

Unlike the world that had just recovered from the devastation, the world in front of me was full of momentum called 'Prosperity'.

There was no doubt that Joshua could conclude that this was the central continent of the Glorious Age, the land that the river god Sinur remembered the most, and his own entry awakened the beings who had slept in the deepest part of the gods' imprints, and caused him to expand his realm.

Standing on the banks of the river, where the rivers converged, Joshua stepped on the rocks on the shore and watched the rivers flow. Hotaru and Rin followed his footsteps to this place, and the three masters and servants stood in place, waiting in silence.

The boiling river originates from the Miguel Plateau, where the icy snow flows in the sun's temperature along the mountain ditches and converges into streams in the forest valleys, and countless such streams merge into the same great river, finally forming this long river that runs through the entire central continent.

In the ancient past, the spirit of the gods was conceived here, and it received the faith and prayers of living beings in the haze, and produced a life-like form, which was lit by the Mother Earth Goddess, and finally caused this natural demigod to awaken his divinity and sublimate into a god.

"He awoke."

Suddenly, Joshua spoke, his body leaning forward slightly, and the warrior's spirit perked up.

And with his words, in the whirlpool of the river, there was a blue misty light rising, the water waves surged, converging into a huge body dozens of meters high, the half-human and half-snake god of the river appeared in the middle of the vortex with the waves, his upper body was a man with a staff wearing scale armor, and the lower body was the body of a giant snake composed of the river, this young man with long cyan hair turned his body sideways, staring at Joshua and the others located on the bank of the river, his eyes were empty and empty, as if he did not have any wisdom.

And the entire fantasy world also changed with the gaze of this former god.

Noticing that the ground under her feet was rapidly blurring and changing, Hotaru subconsciously approached the warrior, she grabbed the corner of Joshua's clothes, and asked cautiously, "Where is this?" ”

Rin also approached, and he stood close behind the warrior and asked softly, "What is he doing, master?" ”

"This is the Inheritance Divine Domain of a departed god."

Joshua replied, "And he, looking for my weakness, is ready to give me the most severe trial." ”

The fighters did not lie.

For different existences, the trials given by the mist of divine doom 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 need to use hole cards, but the existence of a legendary powerhouse itself is worthy of Sinur's true body to be revealed, go all out, because at this time he is not a god in his heyday, but the remnants of the god who has long since passed away.

Therefore, as the heavens and the earth changed, Joshua could sense that there were countless messages flowing in accordance with the link between him and the gods, and he embodied this fantasy world.

As if the wheel of time was reversing rapidly, the hazy world began to appear in fragments, first with the main city of Moldavia, which was expanding at full speed, and then with the Radcliffe family cemetery, which had been relocated in the Great Ajax Mountains, and the remains of the god of the rivers, the sigil in the deepest depths of the Divine Mist, began to analyze every detail of the warrior's memories in order to find out the weaknesses of this powerful trialist.

And Joshua didn't resist, for some reason, he let the other party flip through his memories.

Lead the survivors through the Ural Mountains, in meditation in the Church of the Seven, in conversation with Pope Igger...... It was as if it was a roll of tape that had been quickly replayed, and the surrounding environment changed from the endless rivers to the deep mountains and old forests, the gray islands of the distant sea, and the depths of the Temple of the Stars.

The camera turned again, the abruptly changed world made the Shenji sisters and brothers a little surprised, they subconsciously held the hands of the warriors, wanting to change into the form of weapons, whether it was Hotaru or Rin, their instincts felt that as long as they fought with the warriors, they would be able to fear all unknowns and challenges, but Joshua just clenched their hands, and had no intention of fighting.

The light and shadow continue to change - walking through the multiverse void with the initial fire, plunging into the silent darkness of the world of Grandia, fighting old knights, undead generals and titans, under Joshua's calm gaze, or even connivance, the god of the river has clearly reproduced everything, but what the warrior has experienced is so heavy that the wreckage of this god also bears a great burden.

At this time, in the outside world, it is such a scene that appears in the eyes of everyone.

Not far from the Mist, there were many adventurers and mercenaries who also wanted to explore the mist, but did not dare to step forward because they were afraid of the risks, and they planned to wait for Joshua and his party to leave, and buy some news about this fog from those knights and academy students to prepare for their future adventures.

However, at this time, more than ten minutes had passed since the warriors and others entered the mist, and most of the adventurers in the group fell into silence, except for a few people who were still insisting on observing the reaction of the mist, most of them had already wandered into the sky or began to communicate with each other.

But this dull situation changed when a mercenary who had been insisting on observation exclaimed.

"Oh my God, this fog is glowing!"

The crowd was in an uproar, and in an instant, countless pairs of eyes immediately turned to the silver mist not far away.

At this time, there was a huge change in the mist of divine mist, and the sea of mist that originally shrouded thousands of square meters was extremely dense, and ordinary people could not see their figures at all as long as they entered it for a few meters, as if they were swallowed up. But now, the fog is thinning at a speed visible to the naked eye, and the figures of some of the students at the edge who are less powerful and have not penetrated into the depths of the fog can already be seen, and on the contrary is the center of the fog, where the dense fog has gathered into a solid circular 'ball' that is slowly rotating, and it emits an incomparably bright cyan blue light from the inside out, like a cyan sun.

In the microscopic horizon that ordinary people can't observe, this huge ball of light is actually composed of countless dense soul particles that carry a trace of divine power, they are frantically absorbing the free energy around them, and connecting them together to calculate and think, these particles release bright light throughout, proving that they are undergoing a high-intensity load.

At this time, in the Divine Realm Illusion, the memory replay belonging to Joshua had reached a very far distance, and the silver-haired girl looked at every scene around her with wide eyes, and Rin also exclaimed softly, because what they saw was the scene before they made a contract with the warriors - the war between Thomas and the Orcs in the Grand Canyon, the military life in the Crow Legion, the study at the Miskatonic Military Academy, and the hard training in the Moldavian Lord, under the watchful eyes of the old butler and the old lord...... The speed of memory replay is getting faster and faster, and only a few seconds of footage flashes in the past few years, and in less than half a minute, the life belonging to Joshua Van Radcliffe has been browsed by the god of rivers, but the trial belonging to the warrior has still not appeared.

"Hmm......"

As if sensing that he had returned in vain, the half-human, half-snake Sinur's empty eyes showed a trace of unwillingness, now he was just a legacy mark left by the gods of the past, it was his responsibility and instinct to find the weakness of the trialists and give them the most suitable trial, but until the end of Joshua's memory, he still did not find the slightest weakness of 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, and there is no trace of the thirst for food, wine, and all the pleasures associated with it, and in terms of desire alone, the man has reached the limit of weakness, and if there is no accident, no one can tempt him in this regard.

And 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, they are not something that Sinur, who was born as a god, can use, if it weren't for the fact that the remains of the god of rivers are just a fragment left over from ancient times, and he only wants to complete the inheritance trial task set in front of the body, then he would probably have ended this pointless search for weakness a long time ago, instead of irreversibly falling into a dead loop.

However, for some reason, it is clear that the memory has reached the end, but the backtracking is still not over, and even Sinur himself has not realized that the world around him is still changing.

Heaven and earth were plunged into darkness, as if everything had fallen into a void that did not exist.

And at this moment, in the absolute darkness, the warrior stepped forward.

The footsteps rose and fell in the darkness, but in the end, the foot in the black leather boots did not step on the empty void, but on the clear, ever-changing earth.

In the previous scene, Joshua was still standing on the frosty frozen soil and the indescribable void of Moldavia, but the next moment, he was already in a strange world that shocked the gods, and the gods who had been following him looked around in shock, as if they felt something, they immediately looked up, and then saw a sight that even the most psychedelic dreams could not see.

It was a land suspended in the sky, suspended in nothingness - on a huge, indescribable, huge blue 'sphere' beyond the imagination of the weapons, a huge city made of steel floated in the dark void, the cylindrical space city rotated regularly to obtain enough gravity for life, countless giant silver ships anchored in the gravityless central axis port area, and then set off for other steel cities not far away.

In the vast darkness that was empty to the limit, far beyond countless continents, there was a golden star with a dazzling light that released its light on the far side, and in the surrounding sky, the stars converged into a river, twinkling in the dark sky, they were located in the endless distance where even the light would walk for hundreds of years, but the faint starlight crossed such a long distance and shone on the alloy shell of the space city.

Seventy percent is the ocean, thirty percent is the orbit of the earth, and there are silver moons of its quarter size orbiting it, and steel cities sit on the surface of this moon and another red star in the distance that looks like a flame, and steel ships spew light streams of light and shuttle between the space ports and several stars in the void.

It's not just Hotaru and Rin who felt the shock, being in such a strange world, even the god of the river was in a panic, and he and the god machine siblings observed the world in shock, so much so that when Joshua came to a dozen meters in front of him, Sinur lowered his head sluggishly.

Joshua stepped out step by step, and the surrounding scene changed step by step, from the martial arts hall located in the orbit of the planet, in the space immigration city, step by step back to the interior of the planet's atmosphere, a giant city made of steel and cement, and this huge city that can be clearly seen even in space is also rapidly reversing with the flow of time, it has changed from a perfect giant future city with a space orbit to a steel ruins devastated by the war.

And in the end, in a wartime hospital hidden in an underground bunker, the warrior stood in the place of his birth in his previous life, standing in front of the half-human and half-god god in front of him, he raised his head and looked at the god, there was no memory of the dissatisfaction of being observed by others, and there was no fear and worry in his eyes, Joshua just stared at the other party's eyes that were beating with blue light, as if waiting for something.

Outside, the sea of mist that shrouded the vast area has boiled, making all adventurers retreat in horror, and the black dragon flying in the sky with a floating ring on its back anxiously moves around the ball of light under it, but it doesn't know the situation of its master and friends, and at the ball of light that seems to explode in the center, countless thought particles flash with dazzling light, they have been calculated to the extreme, but there is no complete soul belonging to the god as the center, No matter how active these thinking particles are, they can't get the results they want.

"The strong man of the Hereafter."

In the realm of the gods, it was not long before a stiff voice came, and Sinur's empty eyes flashed with an inexplicable light, and the remains of the former god were like a machine that was running to the extreme, repeating the predetermined reply in a machine-like tone: "I can't give you a trial, you ...... The future is destined to override me, please ...... Return...... Let's β€”β€”β€”β€”."

The colleague who said this, the body of the god of the river has begun to gradually collapse, and the huge body composed of the river is rapidly collapsing into streams of water, and the knights and academy students who were originally in the mist of divine doom and are conducting trials in the god illusion realm have also felt the turmoil of the trial, in the mission world that belongs to them, all the scenery has begun to be distorted, and the human voice has begun to become hoarse and sharp, that is because the computing power originally assigned to them is being extracted by the most central god seal, It is used to calculate matters related to the warriors, but even so, everything still has no result, and it is stuck in a final loop.

In the deepest part of the mist of God's misery, in the land of the stars that once fell from the sky, a pale blue intricate rune trembled and emerged from the void, this rune was covered with totemic patterns like rivers flowing with water, and the complex and beautiful graphics constituted its main body, belonging to the gods, belonging to the supreme majesty Swirling in the light blue divine light that flickered in the center of the rune, it was the remains of the god of the river, Sinur, after his deathβ€”a legacy rune containing all the divinity and knowledge related to the river.

However, at this time, this precious rune that was enough to make a mortal achieve extreme intent, legend and even god was shattering violently, and the tiny cracks spread along with the violently glowing divine mist around them, and only a few seconds later, the cracks had spread to every part of this rune, and the cyan blue light spread along the cracks, and the extremely unstable terrifying aura seemed to explode with the shattering of the runes in the next moment.

Not far away, the Extreme Blue Dragon Sukrash was vaguely aware of this, and it grabbed a carriage containing two humanoid dragons who were frightened to the point of collapse, and prepared to immediately turn away, but the warrior's captive couldn't help but sigh when he saw the black dragon flying anxiously around the misty light ball.

- If you don't help, you'll 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 as Sukrash was about to use magic and drag the anxious black dragon away, a star suddenly appeared above the bright sky of the Mycrof continent.

Compared to the bright sun, the star was dim, but at the moment when the dim light formed a flickering light, a majestic and majestic force that could not be perceived fell from the sky.

On the ground, the adventurers and mercenaries who were panicking away from the fog froze, and a dagger that had fallen from their master's hand froze in mid-air. In the sky, the flying Suklash stood still, and it remained ready to cast a spell on the black and leave with the anxious black dragon.

Around the lake, the surface of the lake, which rippled because of the breeze, was frozen in place like ice, and the fog and balls of light that had boiled before did not move at all, and the glittering thought particles were still in place, 'dominated' by the great power that came from outside the world.

At this moment when everything froze, a rotating black ring emblem flashed at the end of the heavenly dome for a moment, and at the very core of the mist of divine misfortune, the runes carrying the inheritance of the god of rivers Sinur seemed to have been reversed in time, and began to rapidly 'recover' to its original state, the flickering divine light contracted, the spreading cracks closed, and the engraved marks that manifested from the outside of the world due to excessive load began to return to the void and disappear.

In the realm of the gods.

The half-human, half-snake god of the river stopped collapsing, a mighty force from afar maintained the existence of the god's remains, and Sinur's eyes returned to the void after returning to normal, and he stared at Joshua for a moment, then closed his eyes, and then dissipated himself, returning to the god's seal.

But strangely, this realm of gods did not disappear because of his departure, but continued to function.

Joshua looked thoughtfully at the space in front of him, which was constantly distorting.

After Sinur's departure, why did this illusory world still exist?

The answer is simple.

There is another god who has settled in this world.

"Hello, Bearer of Power and Justice."

Staring at the black wheel ring that gradually emerged, the warrior nodded slightly, counting it as a salute, and he said softly, "Your Majesty Zinsen." ”

And with Joshua's words, a human form was rapidly condensing out of thin air.

Everything is dominated by powerful forces, the dust in the air, the tiny water droplets floating in the atmosphere and the magical elements that cannot be seen by the naked eye, all that exist, are controlled and dominated by the slow rotation of the black ring, and then turned into countless of the most basic material particles, condensed from nothing into the body of a majestic man.

This majestic middle-aged man has long gray scattered hair, his face is stiff, as if he has been forged by all iron and fire, his heavy and solid body armor covers his whole body, countless fine and exquisite reliefs are all over it, and the black inky cloak behind the shoulder armor turns in the wind, like a burning flame.

In a world where everything was still except Joshua, there was a majesty like a godβ€”no, the existence that was originally a god opened his eyes, and in his dark gray pupils, there was an indifference that was not human.

"Sinur was our staunchest ally a thousand years ago, and the god of the rivers fought evil from the outside of the world to the last moment."

Unlike the machine-like Sinur, the god whom Joshua called the Punishment Righteous spoke in an indifferent but obviously wise tone, and the deep and clear voice pierced the entire illusion space in an instant, and the echo of holiness and majesty echoed in the empty heaven and earth: "Because of the oath, I cannot sit idly by and watch Him dissipate, so I intervene in this world. ”

"Joshua van Radcliffe, the successor of the sages, the one who rekindles the fire."

Xing Zheng raised his head, he looked at the warrior, and an inexplicable light flashed in his dark gray pupils: "I know that you have doubts in your heart. You entered Sinur's Legacy Illusion with a purpose. ”

"He's a wreckage and can't answer your questions, but I can."