Chapter 1: The Stranger
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You have killed your brothers and sisters and stranded in backward history, and you have long been immortal and imprisoned by God, and you have not hesitated to destroy the supreme ideals that have been engraved in your heart.
- This violates the rules of the Endless Journey;
This is a sin that Noah will not allow.
- You are a mutant failure.
- A long time ago, an adult said: Since you do not desire, then you do not have to give it to you, if you desire it so much, take it yourself. Suffering will make you understand the truth.
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"021814, Mr. Moshi!"
Mo Shi opened his eyes suddenly.
He let out a long exhale, and saw the white mist dissipate in the wind. It was as if he had been through a long nightmare, but when he tried to remember, it was nothing but fragments of chaos.
In front of you is an endless, black-and-gray sea, with snowflakes falling into the waves.
The land was frighteningly cold.
The soles of Moshi's shoes sink into the sand, mixed with snow particles and ice slag.
What is this place? Mo Shi had no clue.
He was dressed in well-fitting clothes, a black robe, a hood covering his head, and a long staff in his right hand. It was a "cross-shaped" staff with a translucent blue stone inlaid in the center of the cross at the top. The entire staff is pure black, and the material is both sunken wood and metal.
This is his staff, which is used to assist in the execution of magic.
"Mr. Moshi, you're finally awake!" The voice I heard in my dream just now suddenly came out again, and at the same time, the sapphire on the staff shimmered, "You must get out of here immediately, I feel an extraordinary magic condensing in the sky above, very much like a curse spell called 'Heavenly Punishment'. 』
"Who are you?" asked Mo Shi in a daze.
"Me?"
The sapphire on the staff flickered even faster.
"Mr. 021814 Moshi, I am your AI terminal, and you call me 'Blue Bird'. The staff told Mo Shi, "You took my name, including my voice and personality. It's one of the things you've forgotten, but it doesn't matter right now, I need you to leave at once—'
Mo Shi raised his head and saw the dark clouds that were rapidly condensing.
The cloud was so low that it was almost within reach.
In the entangled clouds, a huge arc-shaped circle loomed, rotating repeatedly. Dense ice edges began to gather in the clouds.
Mo Shi finally came to his senses. He pulled his feet out of the wet sand and swooped towards the black forest away from the shore.
He felt too heavy to reach the speed of his normal physical fitness.
The circle above the head is gradually absorbing the magic and perfecting its shape.
And when it was fully activated, Mo Shi had a premonition that he might not be able to resist.
There are still ten steps away, eight steps, five steps......
Countless huge ice edges fell from the sky, like a rain of arrows, from the shore began to stab in rows, deep into the sand and rocks, making a terrible loud noise.
Mo Shi raised his staff high: "The spell is unfolded, and the seventh-level whole body barrier is guarded!"
However, his magic didn't make a spell loop on the staff.
"Seventh-level body-"
"It's useless, sir, you can't use magic above level 1 now!"
The ice ridge exploded at Mo Shi's feet, shaking him dizzy in an instant. Countless ice arrows were still falling, and he swooped down into the shadows of the black forest with all his might......
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"Mr. Moshi!sir!"
Mo Shi woke up a little from his terrible dizziness, and the scenery in front of him still swayed. He clenched his fingers, grasping at the snow and dead branches—
A heart-piercing pain came from both legs. It was then that he realized that it was covered with broken ice spikes.
Blood seemed to be the only thing warm in this world, and blood-soaked clothing became even colder.
"Take a deep breath, sir, I'll use emergency clearance to cast a simple healing spell on you now...... Because of your 'exile', my authority has also been reduced to a minimum, please understand. 』
He closed his eyes again and gritted his teeth to endure.
Mo Shi vaguely remembered that due to the limitations of technology and laws, the spell level available for automatic casting by the artificial intelligence terminal was very low and the chanting was slow. But it's better than nothing at this point. What's more, maybe it's not as good as it now.
Low-level healing magic can only stop the bleeding.
After lying down for a short time, Mo Shi was already so cold that he was in pain.
Moshi propped up his staff and struggled to stand up. He had to go to a safer, warmer place.
He had no intention of knowing what had happened to him right now, but was desperate for rest.
"Anyway—" Mo Shi took two steps forward, "I need to get to a warm place." I need to rest, I need to eat, that's what I need to do. ”
"Oh! yes, you're right. The sapphire flickered, and after a moment said, "I can detect that heading northeast, in the direction of your two o'clock, there should be a village where the planet's higher creatures are concentrated—I was already scouting before you even started." 』
"Thank you. Mo Shi said hoarsely.
"In the name of 'Endless Journey', bless you. I'm worried about you. You know, this is a world that is extremely unsuitable for human existence, a permafrost land. 』
"If I were the same ...... It may be possible to melt an entire glacier. ”
He felt depressed and irritable.
"Yes, you can. 』
The blue bird didn't seem to be joking.
"But now you're helpless. Even the cold wind can easily kill you before the seal is lifted. 』
He stopped talking, just kept walking.
Mo Shi could feel the ice and snow killing him, and the night was coming too quickly.
The cold and blood drained him, and the drowsiness almost made him forget his fear of the dark forest, and he just wanted to lie down on the spot, and fall asleep on the dead wood and snow. Several times he closed his eyes as he walked with his steps moving. The senses about the surroundings have long been dulled.
If any carnivores pass by at this time, they will surely be able to easily capture him.
"Sir!sir!" called the bluebird anxiously, "we will soon reach our destination, sir, don't fall asleep, walk a few more steps!"
Mo Shi bit the flesh on the inside of his cheeks and forced himself to be sober.
Warm, fishy-sweet blood moistens the tongue and throat.
"What the hell is ...... How far ......" he was so cold that he couldn't speak.
"It's only about fifty meters!"
However, in fact, the bluebird seems to have said several "more than fifty meters".
Moshi staggered forward, poking his staff deep into the snow and pulling it up with his feet, which was a difficult task, and the snowflakes were still falling, freezing his eyebrows and eyelashes.
"Mr. Moshi!021814 - Master......
From time to time, the bluebird made noises to remind him to stay awake.
Those names twisted into a giant vortex in his mind.
Many scenes of fragmented memories flickered in between.
He saw so many smiling faces, he saw the blue fire blazing, he saw the dead who were melting and wailing, and the sound of those cries pierced him like nails...... When did this happen?
Suddenly, the sea of fire turned into a cold white room again, and he was roaring loudly, and the feeling of powerlessness and oppression made Mo Shi tremble...... He must resist fate, and what he wants to defy is the crystallized ship of thousands of years of wisdom in human history......
There seemed to be a faint light in front of me.
The bluebird's voice seemed to come through the glass, and its joyful tone could be heard in a trance.
Mo Shi fell suddenly.
The moment his body came into contact with the cold snow, he fell into a stupor.
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On a snowy night, the Dubbins family sat in a small stone house.
My mother sat at the fire mending clothes, while my father simmered a thin soup mixed with plant stems and minced meat.
Their two children, their daughter Duna and son Dubai, are collecting the manure of the animals, preparing to wait until the day to go to the yard to burn them into dry cakes for backup fuel – they live with the animals to keep warm.
Suddenly, Dubbins seemed to hear something.
His ears twitched above his head.
"What's wrong?" his wife, Gina, looked up at him.
"There seems to be something outside the door...... It shouldn't be a herd of behemoths. Dubbins stood up, put on his coat made of animal skins, and lifted the hatchet from the door, and he could hear a certain humming in the wind and snow, "I'll go out and see." Maybe the fence was blown down by the wind, or maybe it was broken by a chirping animal. ”
The man pushed the door open, and his son, Duber, immediately rushed over and leaned over to peek at the door.
The light of the fire in the house illuminates a small courtyard covered with snow in front of the door.
Du Bai suddenly shouted, "Daddy!
There was a man in the courtyard.
He held a long staff in his hand, which was buried in the snow, and struggled to emit light and a piercing chirp.
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The castle in the center of the Intramuros is high above the castle and houses the largest altar.
In ancient times, people did astrology here. But when the darkness falls, the heavenly punishment is shrouded, and the land of the north is forever covered with wind and snow, and there are only a handful of nights in the year when you can see the stars.
The high priest of the kingdom stands in the center of the altar.
"I know the light, I hear it, I see it!"
He held the huge crystal ball in both hands. The crystal flickered, swayed, and floated like butterflies and birds tethered to the fingertips, beautiful and violent.
"Your Excellency, ......," the High Priest's students called to him as they crowded the corridor, "It's snowing outside, come back quickly! There will be no stars tonight, ...... Your Excellency."
"No, no, no!"
The old orc held up the crystal with his bare claws.
It is like a star, twinkling in darkness and blizzards.
"After days of prayer and probing, I can now be sure...... As the legend goes, a great mage has emerged from the western shores! He is the morning star, now the moon, and the future is the sun! His power is far greater than all those living today, even beyond the ancient magic of the Dead Sea, and even beyond the heavenly punishment that punishes everything!"
The old man laughed maniacally, waving his arms as if he were one with the wind.
"Our God is coming, as he promised! at last......
"The darkness of the northern kingdom will be dispersed! Deliver thy servant, O God, for whom I am willing to give all that I have...... No, no, when you come, what need do I have to continue to live! With your guidance, dead wood will be reborn, snow and ice will melt, the dead will be raised, and all things, even dust, will prosper!"
The old man was prostrate on the ground, and the crystal ball shattered in the wind and snow.
"Reinventing ...... Prosperity ......"