"Black Candle Male, do you remember it?" asked William.

"Well, I'm going to think about it......" Cortana thought for a moment, then asked tentatively, "The little skeleton?"

The corners of William's mouth twitched, and he said helplessly: "It may be a harmless little skeleton in your eyes, but for us...... Forget it, it doesn't matter. At that time, my team was completely wiped out, and I was the only one left, in order to hit the Black Candle Gong, I used seven forbidden spells in a row, although I was victorious, but I was also petrified by the backlash, and I have been sleeping underground for more than 500 years, and it was Gric's salvage team that found me in the underground ruins and lifted my petrified state. ”

"Salvage team?"

"It's a team that goes to the surface to explore and collect treasures, probably a combination of an expedition team and a mercenary team. ”

"Speaking of the ground...... What's going on with these floating islands? Obviously not the level of technology that these fluffy guys should have. ”

"It is said that he is the means of a guy who is called the Great Sage, but his status is so high that a low-level person like me is not qualified to meet him. ”

"It's useless. Cortana pouted and said, "Except for the matter of the Black Candle Princess, the salvage team, the floating island, and the Great Sage should be everyone's well-known information, haven't you been awake for so long and haven't you investigated the truth?"

William was silent for a moment: "I'm sorry I couldn't help. ”

Xiao Na scratched her hair unhappily: "It's been five hundred years, and your stuffy gourd character hasn't changed at all, I really don't know how Lilia fell in love with you in the first place." ”

William smiled awkwardly and didn't answer.

"You're guilty. Yingluo suddenly spoke: "As a brave man, it is a dereliction of duty to fail to save the world, and it is a shame that all mankind has been exterminated, but you are the only one who survived." You can't allow yourself to be happy, that's why you live as a coolie on this discriminatory and non-requisitioned island, are you deliberately punishing yourself as atonement?"

"...... by you Do you see that?"

"Well, I see. Yingluo replied, "I have seen many people like you, who also blame themselves deeply for all kinds of regrets, and punish themselves and exile countless times. ”

"They are...... How's that?" William's tone was a little excited, he was in a state of confusion and urgently needed answers, and other people's experiences might be a good choice.

"It's no different than before. Yingluo said with a smile: "When you encounter injustice, you will still help, and you will empathize with sadness, just like you did not hesitate to save the girl named Kodoli today, the spirit of the brave has long been engraved in your bones." As time passed, they re-made friends and partners, and once again found what they wanted to protect. ”

"Do you want something to protect?" William smiled wryly, "They may be able to, but what I want to protect...... It's gone. ”

"Then find another one. Yingluo said: "Since you can survive the events of that year, there must be something that needs to be done by you." It may be revenge on the Seventeen Beasts, or it may be to restore the glory of mankind, or it may be to pass on the knowledge of mankind, but in any case, it should not be used as a coolie in the market. ”

"Is there anything I can do?" William clenched his fists, "I guess I kind of get it." ”

"Good. Before you find your goal, I'll give you a goal. ”

"Yes, please command!"

"Here's the thing...... Yingluo told him what he was here for, and then took out the listening feather and put it on the table, "Are you willing to take on this responsibility?" ”

"No, I choose to accept it. William picked up the listening feather: "Although I am a half-ass, I am still a brave man, and it is my duty to protect this world!"

Yingluo smiled: "So the things you want to protect are always there, aren't they?"

William laughed too, his expression much more relaxed.

"And you're not a half-brave anymore. Cortana suddenly spoke: "The Brave Association stipulates that the brave must have the experience of having their relatives killed, their villages destroyed, and their countries destroyed." In the past, you couldn't become an official brave if you didn't have these conditions, but now you are much more unlucky than those who have been wiped out of the entire race, and if you are miserable, you are completely invincible in the world, and you can advance to the Great Brave without any pressure!"

William couldn't help laughing: "If you can, don't be invincible in the world, I'm still more like being the half-person I used to be." I don't know why the association has such a strange rule, and there is no one to change my job now. ”

Yingluo shook his head, in fact, this kind of regulation is not strange. From a mundane point of view, those who can be reinvigorated by the blows of grief and pain have greater endurance and perseverance, which is undoubtedly a necessary condition for success. At a higher level, these people are burdened with a lot of cause and effect and expectations, and are qualified to create miracles.

Of course, the Brave Association can't see such a deep thing, probably through the experience accumulated over a long period of time, this rule is indeed remarkable to mortals, no wonder it can form a brave system and mass-produce the holy sword to fight against the star gods.

According to Cortana, those star gods have the ability to move between galaxies, at least much stronger than the gods of order and the main forest in the snowman continent, and the humans of this world can fight against them with mortal bodies and have the upper hand, which is simply against the sky. Resting in a world dominated by technology, tearing up the Gundam or something is probably just a warm-up activity for them, and cutting through a starcruiser with a sword is probably a normal output.

But such a powerful human being was extinct within a year, which made Yingluo couldn't help but become interested in those "Seventeen Beasts".

On the other side, William had already fused the Listening Feather, and a ball of light appeared in Cortana's palm, which was the mirror message of this world.

"Come, you choose your own appearance, and I'll pinch it for you. Cortana moved her fingers and looked eager to try: "It's not that I'm bragging, I've pinched out the elven world tree before, a begging bowl, a taxi, a pot for ramen noodles, an indestructible sword, and many other things, and the praise rate is 100%!"

Nonsense, no one dares to give you a bad review!

And the World Tree and the Sword are not enough, what is the matter with the bowl and the pot, and even more exaggerated is that there is a taxi inside...... It was a mirror message that carried the fate of the whole world, shouldn't it be some kind of world heart, Infinity Stones and other high-level things? No matter how bad it was, it should be a golden cup or a set of seven glass balls.

The corners of William's mouth twitched, and considering the consistent personality of Lord Cortana, it seemed that this was also a very normal phenomenon. He couldn't think of anything he wanted after thinking about it for a long time, so he sighed and said, "Anything is fine, I will use my life to protect it." ”

"Oh. Cortana didn't care much: "Actually, this thing is much stronger than yours, even if you die without a place to bury and are broken a hundred times, this thing can't be broken." So your job is to guard rather than protect, and if it's lost or snatched, just contact me through the Listening Feather, and I'll be the first to rush over and slap the thief out of the galaxy. ”

"Ming, understood!" William's face turned green.

Xiao Na nodded, and threw the ball of light directly into William's body: "It's stuffed directly into your body, and by the way, it can also help you recover your body, you can take it to treat someone else's injury, the living dead are probably not good, there should be no problem with flesh and bones." From now on, you're going to be a wet nurse, Mr. Custodian of the World!"

"Custodian?" William reads Glick's letter, which also recommends him to be a custodian in the military's "special weapons" warehouse, presumably a boring job on a remote floating island. But it's better to be quiet, and it's a good time to think about what to do next.

Everyone said goodbye, William got on the airship to the 68th floating island, and Cortana was about to open the door to return to the divine realm, but was stopped by Yingluo.

"Don't worry, take me to the surface, I'm a little interested in those beasts. ”

Cortana's eyes lit up: "Do you like to fight?"