foreigner's journey

Chapter 403 Conspiracy
Claude's state at this time is very strange, as if two people are fighting for dominance in his body.

It is obvious that Jesse's head can be easily split with a short swing of the sabotage sword, but one of Claude's two hands holding the hilt is exerting force and the other is desperately pulling back. Trembling all over.

"Claude! What's the matter with you?" Jesse's crying further stimulated Claude, and he only felt an unprecedented pain in his head.

One self wanted to kill Jesse and even all his companions with a sword, while the other self held the former one tightly to prevent him from succeeding. The increasingly intense schizophrenia drove him into complete madness.

The other companions saw that Claude's state was extremely unstable at this time, and they were afraid that their rash actions would irritate Claude, so they could only froze in place and shouted Claude's name desperately.Alice, who had the only chance to save Jesse, was too far away to activate her telekinetic ability on Jesse.

Sephiroth, who was lying in the corner, was seriously injured even though his whole body was fractured and twisted, but his blood-stained face showed no pain. On the contrary, he was full of mocking sarcasm and said lightly:
"Poor Claude, why are you still hesitating? As long as you kill the girl in front of you, your headache can be eliminated. Come on, let everything return to normal..."

Originally, Claude's sword had already begun to tremblingly be pulled upwards. Hearing Sephiroth's magnetic bewitching voice, a sense of tyranny suddenly surged in his heart, and the destruction sword pressed down again.

"Yes...that's it, you are just a puppet. It is no different from those thoughts that imitate me. You are a puppet that belongs only to me..."

"Puppet... am I a puppet?"

"That's right, you are not some Claude, you are just a nameless rat, my substitute, my shadow. Now, follow the order of the ruler and kill that girl!"

Sephiroth smiled even wider, that's it, let Claude destroy his most important things with his own hands, and then enjoy his desperate expression after regaining consciousness, this is what Sephiroth wants.

But Sephiroth's bewitching words stopped abruptly.

Because he saw Heather falling from the sky, it seemed that Heather was not defeated by those summoned beasts, not even traumatized.He chuckled a few times, and then said, "Can't even Bahamut and Odin infused with Jenova's cells hurt you? Heather, I'm getting more and more interested in you."

"It's a pity, I'm a normal sexual orientation and I'm not interested in you."

Heather landed lightly in front of Sephiroth, manifesting absolute kingship in her hand and throwing it towards Cloud.The golden light flashed past, and the destruction sword that Claude was about to swing was knocked away by the absolute kingship. Claude also collapsed on the ground, hugging his hair and howling.

Sephiroth couldn't see the picture he wanted to see, but he didn't take it seriously: "Hehe...you can always show more cards when you are facing desperation. However, [I] have already got what I want. If you want something and fly away, if you want to stop it, hurry up."

Heather looked at the companions running towards Jesse and Claude, and said to Sephiroth without looking back: "Stop it? No need, it's just the Black Magic Stone. You can take it if you want. But you and I You all understand that even if you get the Black Magic Stone, it is not that easy to use it. The place for the final battle has already been chosen, hasn't it?"

"Heh... sure enough... you are not a child of the planet..."

Sephiroth's eyes lit up, then he slowly closed his eyes, and the surface of his body began to glow with the unique fluorescence of the stream of life:

"Only you...only you...only..."

The voice gradually disappeared, along with Sephiroth's appearance.When the stream of life completely drifted away, what remained in place was a distorted black-robed man with the number 8 tattooed on his arm, who had already lost his breath.

The thought body has become stronger.Sure enough, Sephiroth's own strength grew by leaps and bounds by absorbing the cells of Jenova's mother.

Heather didn't intend to go to the Temple of the Ancient Seeds to prevent Sephiroth from using the keystone to obtain the heritage of the Ancient Seeds, because their speed was far behind Sephiroth's, and when they arrived, they would only see the empty ruins and fall into Saphiroth. Among the traps arranged by Philos.

The Temple of the Ancient Species located in the wide dense forest at the southernmost tip of the Eastern Continent looks like an ancient pyramid-shaped temple full of history, but its body is actually a huge natural black magic spar. The mechanism set up by the La tribe can manipulate and reduce the size of the black magic stone, and finally make it the same size as ordinary magic spar.

Every kind of magic spar represents a kind of magic or ability, and the black magic stone is no exception. It has only one function, that is, to cast the most dangerous ultimate black magic that can destroy planets since ancient times——【Meteor】.

A long, long time ago, the ancient Settra tribe discovered this terrible black magic in an accidental experiment. The size of the meteorites that this black magic can summon varies from person to person, but in theory, if it stands at the apex of all time It exists, and can even summon a huge meteorite that completely destroys the planet.At that time, nothing can stop the meteorite from falling, and the fate of this planet will also fall into eternal silence.

In order to prevent the black magic stone from being used by people, the Settra tribe disguised the black magic stone as a temple, and recorded this terrible black magic with murals in the deepest part of the interior.Originally, with the abilities of the Settra tribe, it was absolutely impossible for the Black Magic Stone to have an accident, but two thousand years ago, the disaster came and the unexpected alien visitor Jenova almost destroyed the entire planet. He sealed Xenovia at the cost of the whole family's demise, so he naturally couldn't keep and monitor the ancient temple.

The keystone of the temple has been circulated in the outside world, but few people know its function.Originally, Sephiroth didn't know how to open the ancient temple, but he was very smart to realize that Heather was also likely to be a visitor from the outside world like his mother Jenova, and knew many unknown things.

Sephiroth pretended to be chased by Heather's group to the Western Continent, and hid in secret to watch Heather's movements.Sure enough, he found that Heather took his partner straight to the Kingdee Playground. In his opinion, a man like Heather would never suddenly abandon the cause of saving the planet and go to the playground. He must have deeper intentions.

Sephiroth then found the keystone that would open the Temple of the Ancient Seed.

Basically everything went according to his plan, except that he was a little dissatisfied that he didn't get to see the wonderful expression on Cloud's face after killing his beloved.But the most important thing has already been obtained, and the next meeting with Heather will be the final battle to determine the future of this planet.

Heather also understands everything now, and has to admit that Sephiroth is the strongest existence he has ever seen in many worlds in terms of resourcefulness, courage, combat skills and force.

Now, even if he uses a murderous knife, Heather is not sure that he will be able to defeat Sephiroth's body.

The next decisive battle will be in the [Great Northern Hole]. Sephiroth, who is one step ahead of Heather, will definitely block all exits with barriers condensed by the flow of life as in the original work, and Heather also needs more Powerful boost to defeat the army of summoned beasts and demonic beasts that Sephiroth arranged in the decisive battle.

Sure enough, the high-end battle situation in this world still needs summoned beasts to stand on the field.

Heather walked towards Claude with her hands in her pockets, already making a decision in her heart.

(End of this chapter)