"Hey, look, what's that?" a leader who was closing a stall suddenly raised his head and asked subconsciously.

"Oh my God! it seems to be ...... How many people are flying in the sky? Wait, that's ...... People?" A scattered customer who was lingering at the stall turned his head when he heard this, bent his palm on his brow and looked at it carefully, and then asked more questions.

The intermittent monster siege in the last year has made people more sensitive and suspicious.

The slightest bit of wind and grass around can instantly attract everyone's attention, not to mention the few suspicious humanoid figures in the pitch-black sky, which are as dazzling and eye-catching as a lighthouse in the Black Sea.

The current lord of the Free City, the old goblin of Braun looked up at the rising few people, and his heart was as cold as water.

The strength of the third order made his eyesight better than that of ordinary people, and although he couldn't see enough details, the one in the center seemed to be Thor. After all, the black coat was still conspicuous in the golden glow, but it was gilded with a layer of divine color.

You block the knife in front, I enjoy the happiness in the back, and the old goblin has always been precise in positioning himself and Thor's cheap son-in-law. It's a pity that Thor seems to be going to be killed now, which means that he can only rely on his own iron head in the face of the future wind and rain.

"It's over!" muttered the old goblin, weeping and mourning, as if his wife had run away with the tramp.

"Phew~!Father,...... Send someone quickly! Help Thor! Hurry up...... Do something!" Petty, who came running wildly, was very unladylike and bent over her knees and gasped violently, while not forgetting to shake her father, who had a dull face.

"It's over!" the old goblin muttered repeatedly as he looked at the swirling array of holy light magic in the dark sky.

Petty glanced at the light in the dark sky again, then wiped her tears and ran towards the Church of Light's residence.

"Bishop Bernat......" The Holy Maiden Ellesa stopped talking, staring at the light of the sky, not knowing what to ask.

"Holy silence! What an ancient and cruel method! I can't imagine that the Dark Council is willing to use three high ranks to accompany the burial in order to deal with that kid, what a big deal!" Bernate stood at the door of the church with a sigh on his face.

This is definitely a big deal, after all, Bernate himself is only a sixth order. Although I don't know who the three people in the sky who cast the magic array are, in terms of strength, it is equivalent to having three of them buried there at this moment.

Bernate couldn't help but think of the previous archbishops of the Holy See of Light, especially the previous one, his own mentor Segnath, the eighth-order Holy Light Archmage. Those are the big people who can really stir up the storm.

When he was a child, Bernate once asked his mentor a question, why not to go any further and set foot on the Ninth Order Peak Continent.

But Segnus only shook his head indifferently.

"There are two reasons, one is that the path to the eighth order is too difficult, and I am lucky to be able to stand in the eighth order. ”

"Such strength is more than enough to preside over the affairs of the Holy See today, so why take uncontrollable risks. My own fall may not matter, but the institution of the church will be in turmoil, and the foundation will collapse. ”

"Even if I can really successfully step on the ninth order, I will inevitably become the common enemy of the other eighth order, whether the other eighth order is willing or not, and whether I want to or not. I can't make enemies of the church because of my selfish thoughts. The tutor replied.

"The search for strength is ...... Selfish thoughts?" Bernat muttered, somewhat incomprehensible.

"Yes, the essence of power is to kill, and it will never change. You slaughter monsters in order to accumulate strength, slaughter enemies in order to protect relatives and friends, no matter how bright and positive the reason you find, its essence is still killing. ”

"There have been many people in the world who have said that he only seeks strength to strengthen himself, not to oppress others. This joke has been told over and over again over the years, but no one has ever believed it, or no one has ever been able to do it. ”

"When you pick up a sword, your whole life is in the sword. ”

"People with weak minds are used to killing, and even gradually become accustomed to solving problems with the sword. People with a strong mindset may think about why they drew their swords, but only by thinking about it. ”

"Even if you can keep your heart, the world will eventually force you to draw your sword. There will be challengers who don't like you, there will be greedy people who covet the most precious things in your life, or your relatives and friends will be in danger because of accidents. ”

"When these moments come, will you draw your sword?"

"Maybe you are stubborn and determined, and you can finally face all losses with a cold eye, but that is nothing to admire. Because you didn't draw your sword, in fact, you just forcibly stripped yourself of your humanity, and in the end you are not even human. ”

"My last archbishop, my mentor, he was only a fourth-order person, and his appearance was also very ordinary. ”

"I once asked him about power, and he just replied, 'You can only be immortal if you don't fight.'" ”

"I didn't understand it before, but I always felt that this immortality was a little too simple. But after I saw a lot of the troubles of the world, I realized the deep meaning of the teacher, where in this world there will be indisputable people. ”

"Commoners are fighting for survival, the upper echelons are fighting for power, kingdoms are fighting for territory, and our church is fighting with other denominations for faith. Everyone is competing for infinite possibilities in a limited time, and even God is fighting for the Godhead and the throne. ”

"If you don't fight, the world will force you to fight after all. It seems that it is just an attitude towards life, but to put it more broadly, you are actually fighting against your own desires, and you are still stripping yourself of your own humanity. Even if you do, you're no longer human. ”

"In the final analysis, my fourth-order mentor is inferior to him in terms of insight into life. ”

The words of Mentor Segnath still linger in my ears, which is why Bernate is still only a sixth order. Now that his ability to handle the affairs of the church is sufficient, why should he fight for anything?

"Holy Silence......? What will happen to him?" asked the Holy Maiden Eletha, staring at the magic array in the sky from afar.

"I can't help it! I might have been able to interrupt it before the circle was cast, but now the magic circle is running, and it's protected by the power of the rules. There was an invisible and powerful magic shield on the periphery of the circle, which even the Dark Council Elders of the Eighth Order could not break it themselves. ”

"Shall we ...... Can you do something?" I didn't think that guy would end up like this, and Ellesha couldn't bear it.

Bernate shook his head, but his hands were still relatively flat, and a bird condensed by mana flapped its wings flew quickly towards the sky. The vision of the magical bird can be transmitted back and stored in a small magical item.

"If there is really anything strange about him, he may be able to withstand the self-detonation of the three sixth-order mages. Bernate said so, but in fact he was not optimistic.

Even if Thor really survived to the end, falling from that height to the ground would still be a dead end.

The magic bird didn't dare to get too close to the magic array that was running, otherwise an instant self-explosion would wipe out everything around it. So its real function is only one, which is to wait from a distance below the circle to see if any corpses will fall to the ground.

Everyone is feebly and silently waiting for something, perhaps waiting...... An ending.

Fortunately, they didn't have to wait long, and soon everyone saw the huge and brilliant fireworks in the sky.

At that moment, everyone seemed to see the sun, shining silently in the dark sky, and finally burst silently. Then, after a few breaths, everyone felt a strong wind from the air blow across their cheeks, tugging at them.

"Get out! you're not welcome in our house!" a tearful Chletty ordered the eviction of the Holy Maiden Eletha.

"You can't ignore the facts, he's dead and gone. Eletha looked helpless.

When Petty approached her, Aretha brought the last magical projection she had received from Archbishop Bernate to the Lord's Palace.

The shiitake mushrooms of the Thor family watched it countless times in silent tears, but they insisted that he was not dead.

The magic projection didn't take long, because when it reached the sky, the magic array was nearing its end, but that scene was recorded in time. In the turbulent and scattered picture, there is an occasional glimpse of Thor in the sky.

He was bound by the invisible blue chains, with little room for movement.

If you can't move, you can't escape the explosion range, and the most important thing is that, according to Archbishop Bernat, that magic circle is a high-level forbidden area, and you can't use any magic items such as magic scrolls at all.

Then the shiitake mushrooms of the Thor family silently wiped their tears and watched the magic array finally usher in a violent explosion.

The image shook violently for a moment at the moment of the explosion, and finally only the sky was full of starlight or magic dust.

Nothing remained, and there was no seriously injured figure that everyone hoped for to fall to the ground.

The magic array and the four people in the air all disappeared.

Eletha only rationally stated the iron-clad facts, but the shiitake mushrooms of the Thor family just didn't believe it, and brutally worked together to drive her out of the lord's mansion, and only when she got out of the door did Elesha remember that the magic projection was snatched away by the mushrooms.

But...... Forget it.

A month later, Beth found a letter from Thor in the corner of her closet, and then each of the six shiitake mushrooms found one in their room. The places where the beliefs are hidden are not very hidden, but it takes time to become aware of them.

Some of the contents of the letter addressed each of them, while the rest were similar. The tone is still the tone of the scoundrel demon king, saying that he has never been good at giving gifts, and can only leave some worldly things such as money.

Thor left a total of hundreds of thousands of silver coins, buried them in the corner of the courtyard, and then roughly arranged the future lives of the mushrooms in the letter. Before he could speak at the last moment, Thor said it in his letter.

Obviously, he knew this day would come, but he never mentioned it.

When only memories remained, the mushrooms suddenly realized that they would always recall his smiling face, which was rarely angry.

It turned out that some things they didn't notice didn't happen, but they were just blocked out by him.

The shiitake mushrooms, who figured this out, cried again.

"The reason why the person who loves you is the one who loves you is because even if he is gone, her love is still there. Chletty muttered, then buried her head deep in the crook of her arm.

Even the air died in the memory.

The world never stops moving forward because no one is there.

In the blink of an eye, it's been a year, and the shiitake mushrooms are still silently waiting, waiting for that figure that may never appear again. They didn't believe he was dead, or they believed that he would come out with a bad laugh at some point.

The lords of the Free City remembered the last scene in the sky on that night in the spring of 721 in the dark calendar.

Like the sun.

Volume III - End