Chapter 14: The Vanishing Girl

An old diary with a blackened skin, yellowed pages, and scattered signs of corrosion.

June 19 - Sunny

Today I took old Abel to herd the sheep, and he looked out of breath. Leah is right, the sheep are getting bigger and bigger, Abel is a little overwhelmed, maybe I should change to a sheepdog, let the old Abel who has worked hard for seven or eight years have a good rest.

June 22 - Cloudy

Two ewes are going to give birth today! It was supposed to be a great thing, but the strange thing is that I don't know why, the lamb looks bad and has a little difficulty breathing, is it that the ewe did not have a good fetus when she was pregnant? Anyway, my flock is big again, maybe I can consider selling a few sheep and sending my little Ebla to study at the academy in the city to see if I can become a magic warrior!

June 23 - Cloudy

The lambs are dead...... Maybe it's because I didn't have a good baby, but it's my fault for not taking care of it, although Leah advised me not to be too sad, but it's still a little sad. The ewes also looked sad, after all, they were their babies. Strange to say, how can there be such gloomy weather in the grassland? This has been going on for days.

June 27 - Cloudy

The sheep did not dare to leave the sheepfold - old Abel tried his best to yell and scream not even a lamb out, and the cloudy sky outside was getting darker and darker, and even a little unable to see the way, this foggy, but not damp, and not like it was going to rain.

June 29 - Heavy fog

The grass is dead, the mist seems to be poisonous, and it feels like all the plants are starting to wither...... The ewes don't know when they died, and when they were found, the corpses seemed to have been decomposing for a long time...... Black smudges glued the next few pages together, like blood and ink.

July 3 - Sunny

The fog has finally lifted! The strange beings that appear at night seem to be afraid of the sun! Ancestors blessed, our whole family is safe and sound, but the surrounding shepherds are all dead, what the hell is going on?! Anyway, I wish I could keep writing this diary.

Fourth of July - Storm

Earthquake! I was going to leave for town early in the morning with my family, but I just woke up and there was an earthquake! The house was fine, but the sheepfold was shattered, but not a single sheep escaped, and I didn't dare to look at it...... The rainstorm came again at noon, so I had to pack up my things and stay at home and wait, now in this weather, the road to the city must have long since become a quagmire, speaking of which, I haven't seen any trace of Abel for several days, where did it go?

July 6 - Heavy fog

The monster that ate all the sheep...... And what is it that suddenly appears in the weapons at night...... Leah's arm hurts, but she doesn't know why it doesn't stop bleeding...... Now I'm covered in bandages and fall asleep, and I don't know if I'll get better......

The diary was a mess, with wet marks of water and black marks waving wildly, as if tears had been smeared with ink, and some barely legible handwriting could be faintly seen.

Leah...... Die...... Monster...... Abel...... Ebla ......

August 1 - Sunny

Walking through the grassland, I finally came to the sanctuary, a forest with a sacred aura...... But I'm dying.

Leave you one last word, my child...... May you have peace all your life in this crazy world.

In the middle of the night, in the fog, in the west of the continent of Gradia, in the middle of a dense primeval jungle, there is a simple human village built on an island in the river, in the sound of the river rushing, you can see the fire burning in the village, intermittent black smoke in the flickering fire light blowing through the wooden eaves, the dim light is on and off.

In a wooden hut that was about to collapse, the black-haired and red-eyed warrior silently put down the diary in his hand, he frowned, and held the hand of a little boy covered in blood and with a panicked face, his face gloomy.

"Your grandfather seems to love your father."

Joshua muttered to herself, "And your father, loves you too." ”

Yesterday night, after bidding farewell to the Titans, the warrior traveled all the way west, following the guidance of the Mirror of Radiance, and galloped in the direction of the Fourth Sage Lineage.

The huge life energy giant, it was he who released most of the life force contained in the Azure Orb to successfully shape, which was far beyond the limit of his body, so Joshua needed to learn the compression method of the Titan and the Atmospheric Evil God, force these energies into his body, and make the energy flesh and blood merge into one - not relying on the relics of the sages, but relying on his own strength to carry out this step.

His flesh was further sublimated, and the warrior's speed was faster than ever, and in just one night, he flew completely out of the Shaya Mountains and across a large grassland, but with the increasingly gloomy sky and thick weapons, the guidance of the Mirror of Divine Radiance gradually began to become unstable, until finally, it simply became an ordinary mirror, and could no longer provide the direction of the sage's lineage.

Joshua was not surprised by this, the Mirror of Divine Radiance could operate for so long in a world where the basic free energy of the other world was very different, it was already considered that Pope Eagle was fully prepared, you know, even he, an extremely strong man, was bound by most of his strength, and its small mirror could support it for so long, which could only show that its maker was worthy of being the strongest in the peak of legends, a god who walked in the world.

Following the direction of the mirror's last direction, Joshua flew in a slightly southwesterly direction, as the sun shone on the ground, allowing the warrior to see many scenes along the way that made his heart sink.

Villages destroyed by brute force, caves buried by landslides, islands sunk to the bottom of lakes, sheltered forests burned by fires...... Flying all the way, it was a dead silence, and the warriors could even see that these were the traces that appeared not long ago, in the middle of the night, and they could tell that there were strong men who had fought around these ruins, but the result was that the village was destroyed, and all the human beings were strewn here.

Until here.

Joshua sensed it, a faint breath of life.

It was a rudimentary village built on an island in the middle of a river, and it looked defenseless, with its thick wooden walls that seemed to be unable to stop even wild boars, but the warriors knew that these were just the appearance of the village, and that the seemingly rudimentary means of defense and the ubiquitous wooden stakes were an unattainable barrier and a ubiquitous trap when controlled by a caster of botanical spells or a druid who could manipulate the forces of nature.

But now, none of these means were used, a huge fireball falling from the sky directly ignited the entire village, the strong man who manipulated the plants was defeated, and the ubiquitous Dead took advantage of the commotion and killed all the villagers.

Except for this one.

Led people out of the fire house that was about to collapse, looking at the lost little boy in his hand, Joshua couldn't help but shake his head when he came to the center of the village.

The child, knocked unconscious by his father, hid in a large crockpot used for flour, and the man blocked the lid of the crockpot with his body, even though he was torn off all the flesh and blood on his back and took out most of the internal organs by the unintelligent undead, he never let go of his hand.

The father used the remnants of his flesh and blood to cover up his child's breath of life until Joshua came and pulled the boy out of the crockpot.

"Your name is Adair."

From the second half of the yellowed diary, from some of the messages written by Ebla, Joshua knew the name of the other child, which was also strange to say, this boy had gone through so many things, and even saw his father's bloody corpse without crying, he just stood in the same place in a daze, his eyes wandering.

But Joshua didn't care about this, patted the little boy on the head, and the warrior motioned to the other party to look at the burning village in front of him, and his voice was undulating: "Adair, this is the village where you live, and it has been destroyed. ”

The boy, who seemed to be in a dream, suddenly shook his whole body.

Joshua looked at this scene, a faint fire reflected in his eyes, and he said calmly: "Father's corpse, you have also seen it. ”

The boy, named Adair, suddenly contracted in pain like a shrimp, and he crouched on the ground, covering his ears with his hands, as if rejecting this reality.

But with a single word, the warrior instinctively raised his head and awoke from his deepest despair.

"I can give you the power for revenge."

In his hand, the red fighting spirit condensed into a small short sword, and Joshua looked at the bats flying in the dark, his voice was ethereal, and it seemed that he would leave at any time. He lowered his voice, handed out his short sword, and whispered to the boy whose panicked face had gradually calmed down: "And the most basic thing for revenge is to live. ”

In midair, a terrible beast chirped, but soon disappeared.

As the night passed, the surviving boy stood still in the middle of the village in ruins, but in his hand he had a blood-stained red dagger, and the corpses of hundreds of bats and bloodthirsty beasts died at his feet, becoming part of his power.

The warriors left part of their strength and left just like that.

The fighting energy from the Mycrof continent, and the magic energy of this world, the first breathing method produced after the fusion of the two, in the darkness of last night, was unknowingly taught by the warrior to the child named Adair, and the strange breathing rhythm accumulated power in the other party's body, making this originally ordinary boy become a strong man with the ability to fight beasts overnight.

Of course, Joshua did not deny that he was using the body of Adair, a native child, to experiment on the process of merging the power systems of the two realms for himself, but even if he did it again a thousand times that night, the boy would never refuse his request - those who want revenge are always filled with restless fire in their hearts, and they can't wait to burn others and burn themselves.

There are many such scenes, the warriors came to the west side of the continent, just the ruins seen on the side of the road every day, there are more than a dozen scenes similar to abandoned villages, countless, of course, some villages have survivors, but most of the dilapidated shelters have no life, only a dead silence.

If he can help, Joshua will definitely not fail to help, he does not hesitate to teach these survivors the breathing method he has constructed after careful consideration, so that these people can practice the power of the fusion of fighting qi and demonic energy, this practice method does not need the original crystal, only need to meditate to draw free energy from the atmosphere to practice. Although the speed is relatively slow, it does save a lot of effort to find the original crystal, and compared with the two, this new method is safer.

Every moment and moment, the cultivation methods of the two realms deduced in the warrior's mind will change, so that each survivor who encounters him will get a very different breathing method, and even conflict with each other, but even so, they are all the same at the core, that is, by sharpening the life energy in the body, their own existence can be sublimated, and they are getting closer and closer to the root power of the 'power of steel'.

This is a direct path to the ultimate intent, which comes from a higher level of cultivation!

In just a few days, Joshua left his legacy on this continent, giving countless survivors who had lost their shelter and could only hide in the mountains and forests a chance to survive desperately.

And many people or dead figures, both bright and dark, also noticed the existence of warriors.

At this time, Joshua was still heading west, the direction in which the Mirror of Glory was originally pointing.

Along the way, the warriors also received some news about the Archon of the Dead - many survivors have said that they have seen a three-color crystal streamer in the northern sky cut through the dark clouds and flew into the distance, which is undoubtedly the trace left by the flight of those crystal golems.

However, while he did want to obtain the Sacred Stone Seed and move further towards the legend, the warrior did not lose sight of his true goal.

Joshua knew that he had come to find the inheritance of the Fourth Sage, and that the Sage had hidden in the inheritance and that there was information about the Initial Fire, and that Pope Eagle and even the entire Mycrove Continent were waiting for his action.

The Grandia Continent, of course, was invaded by the undead natural disaster, extremely sad, all beings sank into the whirlpool of despair and pain, after blood and wailing, but it is precisely because of this that the warrior can't look back, he can't let the Mycrof Continent also become like this, the Holy Stone Seed on the Undead Commander is certainly his opportunity to advance to the legend, but by the way, if the direction is the opposite, he can't change his direction for this, turn his head to chase and kill those monsters, this is the trade-off.

But, for some reason, Joshua has come to a barren wilderness, and Joshua, who may have been the destination of the Orbandni teleportation for a long time, has never found his goal.

The dragon-winged girl Silya, as if she had completely disappeared into the land like this.