Chapter 57: The Successor of the Prophecy?
"Who? who's talking?"
The sudden sound made Donald's attention instantly highly concentrated, and although his mental power was still not spread, his eyes were constantly scanning the surroundings.
"I'm right in front of you. ”
Still a deep, low sound, Donald followed the sound and looked ahead, and only the giant tree man appeared in his field of vision.
"You didn't ...... Awake?"
Staring at the tree man, the word dead almost blurted out, and when it came to his mouth, he swallowed it back hard, turning it into a greeting.
In case the demigod hadn't died, Donald and Stephanie's trespassing into the secret realm would have been enough for the other party to crush them here completely.
"Don't guess, I withered and died decades ago, and now I am only left with a part of my soul. ”
This time, the sound was accompanied by a dark green light at the feet of the giant treeman, and a gray-haired, kind-faced old man in a green robe slowly walked out of it, holding a scepter made of vines in his hand.
The old man walked up to Donald and looked him in the eye.
"You came here as a choice of fate, future guardian of the forest!"
Donald recognized every word in the words, but the connection made it a little hard for him to understand.
A choice of fate?
Guardian of the forest of the future?
"I don't understand what Your Excellency means. ”
Subconsciously took two steps back to distance himself, and although Donald didn't want to admit that he was afraid, his body reacted first in the face of a former demigod.
"After seeing the vision in the prophecy, you will understand that I need a successor to inherit everything I have and protect this forest for me in the coming disaster!"
The old man waved his scepter and pointed to the low table, and a dark green crystal appeared on it, and continued,
"Now, sit down at the front of that low table, and the crystal records the vision of the future that I had seen in my mystic art before I died. ”
Donald turned slightly to the side, glanced at the large number of wood elves behind him, pursed his lips, and walked to the low table.
Behind him, the smile on the face of the kind old man was still there, and the indifference in his eyes when he looked at Donald's back was also the same.
Sitting at the low table, under the gaze of the old man and Stephanie, Donald's hand reached out to the crystal, and he did not need the penetration of spiritual power, but the moment his fingertips touched, brilliant colored light was projected from all sides in the crystal.
At first, it is just an undulating spectrum, some like auroras, and then the light gradually closes and finally condenses into a single point of light.
Of course, Donald and Stephanie's eyes converged on it, and the ball of light suddenly burst into a blinding light.
"Hiss~"
Rao is Donald, and he can't help but close his eyes when he is unprepared for the bright light.
When he opened his eyes again, the scene around him was not the secret cave he was in a second ago, but back in the Weeping Forest.
It's just that it was early in the morning when Donald came in, and it's late at night.
"Donald, if I'm not mistaken, wasn't the sun just rising outside when we came in?"
Stephanie was also affected, and walked over to Donald's side, vigilantly scanning her surroundings in an attempt to find Anthony and their traces
"This should be the prophetic scene that the one just showed us, but isn't this just an ordinary woodland, where did it ......come from?"
His gaze inadvertently cast into the distant sky, and the next second Donald froze in place.
Stephanie followed Donald's gaze and saw a starry night sky.
At first glance, she didn't think there was anything wrong, it was still the night sky, it was still the stars, but when she looked at it a few more times, she felt that something was wrong.
There is something missing in the starry sky in front of me......
It may sound absurd, but it's a personal experience of Stephanie and Donald.
It wasn't because the clouds at night obscured the starlight, and it wasn't because the two of them had problems with their eyesight because of the impact of the bright light just now.
This starry sky is shattered!
Within a few minutes of Donald's appearance, he saw no less than six places in the starry sky appear in a large area of darkness, and the stars that should have existed in those places did not know where they had gone.
"The gods raised their thrones to the stars in the sound of mortal chantings, and overlooked the earth from the sanctuary of the Unsullied......"
This is what Donald had recorded in several religious popular books on the shelves when he lived in Pston's home, but now he is in a trance when he thinks about it.
Does the shattered starry sky in front of you mean some kind of possibility that mortals dare not imagine?
Boom ~ Boom ~ Boom ~
A series of explosions suddenly came from the far side of the forest, Donald turned his head to look over, and the first thing that caught his eye was the skyrocketing fire and those beings suspended in the middle of the forest, and the extremely strange shapes appeared.
Donald didn't know how to describe the monsters clearly, they were a bit like a distorted mass of filth from various sewers, a little like hydroids, but they were definitely a million times more terrifying!
They sail through the air, and wherever they go, a screeching wind sweeps through the woodland, uprooting the trees!
"Donald...... Is that person you?"
Stephanie pointed to the woodland in front of her, where a figure of great resemblance to Donald was hurrying towards them.
When I got closer, I saw that it was Donald...... The future Donald, to be exact.
Behind him, there were a few followers, including a few in the current carriage procession and some humans unknown to Donald, who looked like his men.
"Anthony, you take a team to the east, Lilo, you take a team to the west, Stephanie and Julia follow me, make sure to stop the disaster before it spreads, and I will let the Treants help you. ”
Right in front of Donald's eyes, he gave instructions to everyone in the future, and a huge number of tree men rose up around the team in the next second, carrying Anthony and the others around him in great strides.
"How can you summon such a treeman, is it true that you have become the guardian of the Weeping Forest, as the old man said?"
Stephanie's eyes sparkled, for her, Donald's strength was one of the few things she could look forward to, not to mention that this kind of guardian status sounded very stylish.
"Possibly, could it be that what he said is true?"
As he spoke, Donald's eyes remained on the future Lilo.
She was standing on top of a treeman, sword in hand, and a few men headed west.
Pursing his lips imperceptibly, Donald put his hands in his pockets, and if anyone stood in front of him at this time, they would see that his eyes were actually unfocused.
Donald was thinking.
Because of something that only he knew......
Airplanes~
The buzz in his mind made Donald bend down involuntarily, and Stephanie covered her head, apparently having the same symptoms as him.
This sound was soon replaced by another, more noisy sound.
"Kill, kill those monsters!"
Someone shouted, and the words were full of murderous intent, and Donald looked up, and the scene around him changed to a city he had never seen before, and he and Stephanie were on the city's central avenue.
To their left, an army dressed in uniform armed with steam spears in array, firing in a constant direction, the muzzle of the guns rising in a haze of smoke, Donald watched as bullets pierced his body and flew to the other end.
Stefanie looked to the other side following the trajectory of the bullets, her hands clutching Donald's sleeves tightly, even though she knew it was just an illusion and that what appeared here could not hurt her, but that didn't stop her from being afraid.
Because the other side of the street is like hell on earth!
Large swaths of the ruins of broken buildings appeared, twisted human corpses scattered throughout the ruins, and next to them, a group of tall monsters with black bristles and four arms were running in this direction, and their heads were particularly eye-catching.
In fact, rather than being a monster's head, Donald prefers to refer to it as a vertically growing jaw, with two scarlet eyes growing on the left and right sides of the mouth, which is particularly disgusting.
Donald couldn't afford to wonder if there were brains inside such a head, because the mere question of where these monsters came from would take most of his energy.
"Donald, heaven...... What is that in the sky?"
Stephanie raised her hand to the night sky, and under the still broken starry sky, a "dark cloud" was drifting in.
When he got closer and saw it in its entirety, Donald felt a chill rise up his spine.
It was clearly hundreds of mongrels that looked like people with bat wings that were hybrids of wild beasts!
The light dimmed at this point, and all the images in front of me turned into light again, returning to the original spectral state.
"It's just part of the prophecy, and when I saw your performance in this prophecy I knew that one day you would come here and inherit all of me, becoming the guardian of this forest and their god!"
The old man put the crystal away again, looked at Donald and said.
"But isn't this a bit hasty, if I don't match your abilities, after all, I only know some superficial small spells, and my abilities can only give some dead things a short life......
Donald said with some "trepidation".
"You are the one who has been chosen by fate, and your ability is extremely compatible with my strength itself, otherwise you would not have come here, and when you inherit my power, you will naturally understand. ”
The old man seemed to have prepared his words a long time ago, and replied with a smile.
"I see, how am I going to inherit your power?"
With just the right amount of surprise on his face, Donald seemed a little impatient.
"Quite simply, I have kept all my power in a tree heart, as long as you eat it, you will automatically inherit everything from me, and the rest will only take time to digest. ”
Looking at the young man with an expectant face, the old man nodded with great satisfaction and said.
No one can resist the temptation to become the heir of a demigod, can they?
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