Wizard From Afar

The ashes in the sky drifted away under the dome covered by the large vortex.

The existence of the black cross is dissipating, but the gray blue vortex that has been torn apart has not disappeared. The dream world that enveloped the Imperial Capital has not been lifted, and it is still the apocalyptic scenery ruled by the ashes desert.

Looking at the top of his head, Loren panting tiredly, leaning on the "Dawn" sword blade inserted on the ground, looked a little dazed.

It's over... Everything is over.

The power may still remain, but Seryol's "existence" has completely dissipated as his materialized body died, completely losing the possibility of returning in a swirl of dust.

If you are killed, you will die, and the dead are impossible to resurrect...This is the most basic truth of the objective material world.

The void world that originally belonged to Seyol’s rule gradually began to return to its original state with his death; sooner or later, or because of lifeform’s messages and emotions, or some know how to manipulate Void Power The guys, a new "Evil God" was born in that original chaos.

The power controlled by Serel also naturally approached the most powerful consciousness around with the demise of his consciousness; feeling the Void Power gathered to oneself, it is basically certain that the black cross has been completely It's dead.

Not simply being killed, but obliterated-the void has no concept of Time and Space. An Evil God is obliterated instead of being swallowed, which is equivalent to that he has never existed.

This is bound to produce a certain kind of chaos, and a series of chain reactions that follow, troubles will definitely follow one another but......

Now Loren, and Don't care about these.

He just wants to be quiet, close his eyes and not be disturbed... quietly enjoying this relieved peace.

It's been a long time...maybe only one minute...he opened his eyes again, standing in front of him with the undamaged Asriel, staring at him with a faint smile.

The little black red dress, white to almost translucent face, golden hair with scarlet eyes, which makes the bloody lips appear lighter; from head to head The feet are spotless, as if they were carefully dressed up for the prom.

Of course, being intact is just what it looks like...Asriel, who has lost everything, is already so weak that only people who remember him can see him, and there is no power at all.

"Since the Black Cross opened the third valve, the countless years since the beginning of the new era have finally come to an end at this moment; the end of the world’s doomsday prophecy, sleeping in the eternal world in the palm of Serel...forever It won’t come either."

Slowly speaking, Asriel’s handsome face only has a flat smile: "Dear Loren, congratulations."

"Now, you can finally get What you want is the most precious thing."

"oh?"

Loren looked at the gentle gaze of the blonde boy: "What's that?"

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It's like asking, but it's more like asking yourself, because both people know the answer.

"Freedom...unfettered, restricted...freedom of choice." With his little hand on his back, Asriel whispered: "Dear Loren, now you can do anything."

"You can become another black cross, or with Eckhart De Salion's ambition; you can rule the entire world, or put the world in your own palm or even..."

"Go home."

Asriel's expression trembled visibly at the moment he said the word.

Loren raised his eyebrows.

"Open the third valve and control enough Void Power, dear Loren, you can go home and go back to the place that really belongs to you." The smiling blond boy swiped bitterly at the corner of his mouth. :

"Although poor Asriel doesn't understand this, since Loren can come to this world, he wants to leave...at least theoretically, it should be possible."

"That's right." Loren nodded:

"It can be done."

The blond boy who kept smiling, pressed the corner of his mouth tightly.

"But the consequences are also very serious." Loren's words changed. "The current I is equal to inheriting the power of Seyol. Once I leave, the Void Power that has penetrated into the material world will still run away and cracks will appear. The two barriers will completely collapse, and the two worlds will collide like Heaven and Earth collapsed."

"Not only that...If I intend to forcefully leave, it would be equivalent to tearing apart a piece of this world. A gap that cannot be healed; when the time comes, there may be other worlds pouring in unrestrictedly, or some things in this world will be threw away...No one knows what will happen."

"It's okay." Asriel's smile became a little reluctant, in a cynical tone:

"We deserve it."

"oh?"

Loren smiled as if surprised: "So no matter what decision I make, you will not stop me?"

"Dear Loren, there is no more in this world People can stop you." Asriel, who was still hesitating and struggling last second, his expression became very relieved:

"No matter what you want to do now, anything—the entire world , Will operate according to your will, and you can paint and change at will to achieve everything you want."

"The will of this world, the sovereign of all living creatures, the ultimate wizard Dreams...no exaggeration, no hypocrisy, just a description of the facts."

"So...I can do anything now?" Loren deliberately asked.

The blonde boy smiled brilliantly: "Anything."

"No one will stop me?"

"No one."

"No one objected?"

"Except for my dear Loren himself."

"That's it..."

Looking at Asriel, as if thinking seriously Loren propped his chin and deliberately dragged a section-length tail.

"That's right!"

"en?"

Although he has "accepted his fate", after seeing the determined expression of the black hair wizard, Asriel's The expression still trembled.

Like a death row prisoner who has no desire to improve, he still feels fear when he hears the sentence.

No matter how you explain it, sacrifice or pay, you can’t conceal the fact that he used Loren—yes, Asriel can fabricate a thousand reasons and 10,000 lies to explain all this; he even believes Even if Loren knew these were lies, he would forgive himself for it.

But...that's not right.

The reason is to comfort oneself, and lies are used to deceive others... Self and Loren, who overlap to a certain extent in spirit, do not need these.

I must pay for the use of friends.

As long as he can defeat the Black Cross Seror, Asriel doesn't mind being wiped out. He only cares about whose hands he died.

This is very important.

"The Black Cross has been wiped out, but there are still a lot of damage and troubles caused by him." Loren said solemnly: "The most important thing is that he was completely wiped out, which equals everything on the entire timeline. The positions related to him will appear chaotic."

"Maybe the giant dragon king's council disappears, maybe the Holy Cross will become stronger than it is now, maybe there will be no more wizards at all. , The entire world will become the paradise of Evil God...who knows what will happen?"

"If these troubles are not solved, the matter will not be completely over, right?"

In response to Asriel’s little by little stare that became surprised, Loren said one word: “even more how …now I only rely on the power of the Holy Grail to open the third valve, and I’m in a very good state. Unstable."

"I have to leave now, the ghost knows which world or point in time I will be teleported to; or as soon as I landed, I died completely because my heart was dug out."

"So until all these problems are solved, I don't plan to think about anything else for the time being-maybe I will stay, I will leave, I will become another black cross or... myself."

"This...is my choice."

The shocked Asriel stood there, stunned.

After a long silence, he hesitated to speak:

"...why?"

"This is my choice, so there is no why." In an indisputable tone, Loren said solemnly: "You also said, no one can stop me now, so this is my choice alone."

"I want to do it, so I do it. …Not out of profit, not being forced into helplessness, not being trapped by human feelings, doing what you want to do at this moment completely do as one pleases, isn’t the so-called “free choice” just like that."

shrugged, Loren shrugged his shoulders: "Of course, what I have to say is not without other reasons-I promised Ai Yin, no matter where I go or what I do, I must be with her; I also promised her When the matter is over, tell her everything as it is."

"Apart from this, and Isaac's unfinished research, Lucien, who became a vampire, has to find a way to help him recover, Liya They promised to accompany her to sweep Ruben’s grave together, and the agreement with Brandon had to be fulfilled. The Corona Master had previously promised to rebuild the nine-pointed star wizard tower. I also promised the continuation of Dragon Clan on Jufeng Mountain; oh, By the way! And Charlotte...er..."

Loren paused.

He is still not sure whether what she said is true or just a "white lie".

If it is true, then...

no no no! Even if it is fake, I have the obligation to protect her. After all...

Hesitation, fear, uncertainty, heavy...Loren’s expression changes rapidly,

"Of course...Asriel, And you." The next second, Loren regained his senses and quickly turned off the subject.

"Me?"

The unexpected blond boy, stared wide-eyed.

"About you and Ariel...that's another Asriel thing. Looking back now, you probably didn't tell the truth to me at the beginning." Turning his lips up, Loren pretended to be serious:

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"So I think a guy needs to make up for that friend who has been kept in the dark for so long—his history, why there are two Asriels, what is the Holy Grail, and why at all costs I want to get rid of all of the Black Cross Seror..."

"Before you leave, you have to explain it clearly to me!"

The shocked blond boy was stunned. In five seconds, the corners of his mouth showed an elegant curve.

"Dear Loren, this will be a long, long story."

"It doesn't matter, we have time now." Loren said indifferently:

"The disappearance of Seyol leaves a lot of trouble. There is time to tell your long story on the way."

"On the way?"

"I haven't tried time travel. I need There is a suitable guide." Loren got up lazily and stood up straight, looking down at the blond boy who only reached his chest:

"Can you recommend me a good candidate?"

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After speaking, he quietly waited for the answer from the other party.

Opening his mouth, Asriel, who was speechless, suddenly wanted to avoid Loren's gaze-he was relieved, he knew that the other party had forgiven or even blamed himself; but even so he did not expect The two sides can still go even further as they did in the past...

"...Of course."

Under the gaze of the black hair wizard, the blond boy raised his left hand slightly, and his right hand was behind his back. Behind him, the left calf bends back slightly, with a graceful smile, hiding the expression of gratitude in the bottom of my heart, bowing and saluting:

"Dear Loren, your best friend Asriel will always...forever... I will always be happy to serve you."

"Until the end!"

The serious, serious Asriel did not hold on for a second; the corners of his uncontrollable mouth were once again slightly Cocked, as if desperately trying to put on a serious look but couldn’t hold back a smile:

"But there is a small problem in it—as dear Loren said, just rely on The power of the Holy Grail opened the 3rd valve, the actual power is far from enough." The blond boy who looked all around and deliberately glanced at a corner, his mouth was almost reaching the roots of his ears:

" Dear Loren is going to clean up the mess left by the Black Cross, then the important task of maintaining the stability of the world is..."

"clang!!!!"

Steel sword nailed in The loud noise on the ground made the two of them turn their eyes to the same direction in a tacit understanding.

"...Although I didn't mean to disturb, it seems that this lord finally remembered my existence."

The indifferent words without a trace of emotion sounded, sitting cross-legged The vow in front of the "Candy Star" sword Knight looked back slowly, looking at the two people at the same time with subtle eyes.

A beam of pale-gold light entangled on the sword body of "Splendid Star".

"That's..." Loren's expression was slightly surprised.

"The power of the Holy Cross...or the last trace of the Holy Cross in this world." The vow Knight's voice was calm: "At the moment the Black Cross was obliterated, he should have disappeared but... I'm still alive. As the "sword of oath" of the Holy Cross, the oath on my body maintains its existence."

"This power can be maintained until I completely die--although It is impossible to rebuild order, but at least it is possible to maintain the balance between the two worlds."

"But this also means..."

"It means I must never leave here Half a step, otherwise this dying body may die at any time-I am the oath Knight, my body cannot accept the unexpected power from the Holy Cross, I can only let it slowly lose its vitality." Liao pierced through his chest, vows Knight said solemnly:

"I guess...this is the reason why I am still alive, this is my mission-in this world, truly handed over to those who belong to him Before, the last Guardian."

Knight made an expressionless vow, and his deep gaze met Loren.

black hair wizard took a deep breath: "This mission sounds heavy and boring."

"Yes." Knight nodded:

"So you should leave, from afar, stranger wizard...Loren."

The voice fell, and the breeze blew up.

When the vow Knight turned his head again, he was only left in the desert hills at midnight, with a sword, an invisible wilderness, and a large vortex covering the dome.

In the dark midnight, the gleaming Holy Cross on the desert hill gave the world a little light.