Spell Return: The Wheel of Time

Chapter 375 The Sword in Hand
"grown ups!"

The excited and fanatical emotions of the people lying on the ground were condensed into two short words. Several figures gave up everything to the supreme existence in their hearts. They didn't even dare to raise their heads to look at the face engraved in the depths of their souls.

"Get up..."

Not until they heard the imperial edict floating down from above did they dare to stand up and look up nervously. Shen Yuanyi, looking at these faces that were already a little blurry in his memory, had an expressionless face as a few ripples of memory arose in his mind.

He remembered that the woman in the center with a face that could be described as sharp was one of the five hollow generals of the Fujiwara family's Sun, Moon and Star Team - Karasuru Hengzi. In those time and space, Shen Yuanyi had killed her with his own hands, and after controlling the Fujiwara family's sorcery power in some time and space, he began to train her to be his right-hand man since she was a child.

The situation was probably similar for the other people, but because of this special situation, Wu Lu Hengzi left a deeper impression on him. But this is only relative, just like spider silk falling on the fingertips. It is naturally impossible to say that there is no trace, but it is also a silk thread that can be wiped off with ease.

"You should understand that the 'me' you knew in the past is not the me of today, right?"

Shen Yuanyi had already informed these people about this when they came to him. Although he had decided the future trend, he had no intention of deceiving these ancient magicians who had been reborn in flesh, because there was no need at all.

Wu Lu Hengzi and the others seemed to understand this concept, but what was slightly unexpected was that their ideas were somewhat different.

"We understand! But this is only the manifestation of the supreme power of the Lord God. You control the past, present, and future. No matter who you are, we will offer everything and the purest loyalty to you!"

In simple terms, Wu Lu Heng Zi and his companions not only accepted that the current God Source had no memory of the past time and space, but also built a set of theories that they firmly believed in. They regarded this situation as a manifestation of the power of the "God", just like the countless miracles. It is impossible to fully understand? Then there is no need to understand, everything is attributed to the power of the God!
"Everything..."

Wu Lu Hengzi looked at the familiar face, tears streaming down her cheeks without her knowing when. Hearing the god muttering to himself, she replied without hesitation: "Yes, sir, everything... I am willing to give everything I have!"

"Even your life?"

There was no ripple in the ice-blue eyes, not even curiosity, but Wu Lu Hengzi smiled at this moment. She inserted her backhand into her chest without hesitation, then raised her scarlet-stained hands and offered her heart.

"Yes... sir..."

Even for a sorcerer who has mastered the reversal technique, having his heart destroyed is no small matter. What's more, Karasuru Hiroko didn't even try to use the reversal technique to heal herself. So after just a few seconds, she knelt on the ground in her final posture, with her heart still held in front of her.

The blood gushing out of her chest quickly formed a pool of blood. As Wu Lu Hengzi's last breath gradually faded away, what surged in her mind were the memories that were thousands of years apart but still unforgettable.

She still remembered the scene of that small, dirty child, and how her fate was completely changed by those condescending eyes. Benefactor, father, lover, lord... these words could not fully describe her feelings towards him. If there was to be a closest explanation, it would probably be the relationship between the most devout believer and the god he believed in.

So, it's everything...

……

Shen Yuanyi sighed rarely, then reached out his hand and plucked the string of time. The river of time flowed backwards, the pool of blood on the ground disappeared, and Wu Lu Hengzi's heart returned to her chest, and her life that had just passed away was also returned.

Although he had never personally experienced what happened in the past, Shen Yuanyi could probably guess what happened. At that time, a force like the Fujiwara family, in addition to selecting those with the talent for spells from their own people to supplement their spell power, commonly found children with qualifications from the public, preferably under ten years old, because this would be a good way to cultivate loyalty.

For example, the Fujiwara family would provide very favorable living conditions to those children after finding them and bringing them back, while also conducting extremely arduous training in spells. The former was to cultivate these children's sense of belonging to the Fujiwara family, and the latter was to teach them future responsibilities. A life of complete enjoyment would only produce a group of waste.

During the Heian period, when sorcery was completely open, the relationship between ordinary people and the sorcery world was actually very poor. It was just that the latter almost completely dominated the former, so the difference between the two was more like a distinction between classes, and these were classes that could not be crossed.

Coupled with the characteristics of the times at that time, ordinary people had to face too many dangers, such as killing by ghosts and cursed spirits, silencing by a sorcerer who might dislike them, or even fighting between sorcerers or cursed spirits, which could affect innocent people and cost their lives.

In this situation, one can imagine what attitude ordinary people have towards sorcerers. They are afraid of, stay away from, and dare not show any disrespect to those sorcerers with stable and powerful strength. But they are very considerate of those low-level sorcerers who have only awakened their talents, may not have grown up yet, or have their upper limit locked and are only slightly stronger than ordinary people.

The situation will be reversed, and there will still be fear and distance, but under these emotions, if they get the chance, ordinary people will not mind venting their resentment on them.

The fighting between sorcerers and sorcerers, sorcerers and ordinary people, and ordinary people and ordinary people was almost the main theme at that time. Heian-kyō was peaceful and prosperous, but behind the light was the shadow. How could the king in the palace and those samurai nobles cast their eyes on the untouchables crawling on the ground? And Karusu Tomoko was a typical orphan who suffered from the rebellion of mountain bandits. Not only her, but also several children who survived in that village became orphans who lost their relatives and homes.

Ironically, what saved them was a curse that happened accidentally nearby. The cursed spirit came here smelling blood and dragged the bandits who were immersed in killing and violence into the hell of nightmares. The villagers and bandits who had not been killed yet became blood food for the cursed spirit.

Just when several children hiding in the cellar of their home were about to be found by the cursed spirit, the sorcerer who came to kill the cursed spirit arrived and saved the few remaining people. Because of the curse that awakened from Karusuru Tomoko in this extreme situation, her magic was sent to the person in charge of this matter in the Fujiwara family.

Later, because of her excellent skills and high qualifications, she was selected into the reserve force of the Fujiwara family's trusted forces. The outstanding ones could even become a member of the Sun, Moon and Star Team, and become a true leader.

But at that time, Wu Lu Hengzi didn't think so much. All she wanted was to survive and have enough to eat, so she trained hard, like a little wolf cub covered with bruises.

Until...she met that person.

"No name? Then I'll give you a name, Wu Lu Heng Zi, from now on this will be your name, but this is conditional. Let's make a deal. I will give you power, and you will become a sword in my hand..."

Looking at that face that seemed like a reincarnation of a god, the young and ignorant girl did not dare to put her not-so-clean hand into that white and clean jade-like hand. But under the gaze of those extremely calm eyes, she didn't know where the courage came from, and she wrapped her hand around it and reached out.

From then on, she was Wu Lu Hengzi, and became a servant under the throne of the god. This even surpassed her original trajectory of becoming one of the Five Void Generals of the Sun and Moon Star team. In the end, she lived up to expectations and became a sharp sword, leading the reorganized Sun and Moon Star to clear up countless trivial matters for their master.

"The above is my past. Sir, I will show you in detail about what happened a thousand years ago. As for the time later... maybe someone else will need to explain it to you."

People like Wu Lu Hengzi not only convinced themselves that the 'Shen Yuanyi' of the past and the Shen Yuanyi of the present were both the 'God' they believed in, just like God had many incarnations and forms, they did not need to think so much, they just had to offer everything they had.

So Wu Lu Hengzi recounted all the profound memories of the past, but she had no idea what happened in the era after her death, so she could only let the eyewitnesses of that time tell the story.

After replenishing everything that had happened in the past, Shen Yuanyi had almost figured out the situation of the magicians like Wu Lu Hengzi who had "resurrected from the dead". Those magicians who had bound themselves and made deals with Nose could not all be his former believers.

Some of them died at the hands of Gojo Satoru before, while people like Karasuru Hengzi, who were important in terms of strength or other aspects, were reborn in another place under the arrangement of Nosuke, and then hid without causing any trouble.

When these people heard that Shen Yuanyi still existed in this era, their reactions were different. Some were fanatical like Wu Lu Hengzi, while others were terrified and just wanted to escape as far away.

Of course, in the end, the magicians led by Wu Lu Hengzi had the upper hand, and some magicians calmed down and thought that they still could not escape the shadow cast by "He", so they joined Wu Lu Hengzi's team.

The thoughts of this group of people are actually very simple, so simple that their first thought is to meet their gods. They don't need to think about anything else and just obey their orders.

Only after Noso's persuasion and the revelation of some circumstances, were they willing to slow down and wait, and only at this time did they finally come to the audience impatiently. In fact, their team certainly consisted of more than just this number of people, but the remaining people, as Uru Hengzi said, were not pious enough, and therefore were not qualified to come to the audience at the first time.

"My Lord, those people are lunatics who have never been bathed in your glory. They occupied that island probably to fight against the class that actually controls this land now."

Wu Lu Hengzi's eyes flashed with disdain. They were just a bunch of arrogant trash. As long as the adults took action...

"After a while, perhaps the past of the other me will appear in front of people today."

Wu Lu Heng Zi disagreed: "That would be a good opportunity to let your name be engraved again in this era. You are the only one who can stand in the sky! And no one in this era actually remembers your name. It's really disrespectful!"

Of course, after she took on the body, she also learned the structure and operating rules of the current world from the memories of this body. She also knew that if the people today knew about the past, these people who did not worship God at all would definitely commit heinous and rebellious acts.

"My lord, leave those people to me. I will clean up those lunatics who dare to offend you, just like I did before!"

"I am the sharpest sword in your hand, always and always."

(End of this chapter)