This is a story that takes place before Angela and Arthur enter the Temple, around the spring of 375 during the reign of the King.

This year, the King Continent, in the secret that most people don't know, has undergone earth-shaking and strange changes.

For example, the King Canyon, which has doubled in size, and the ancient dragons that suddenly appeared in the canyon.

Today's story takes place in a village near the Temple in the northern part of the Land of Warriors.

This town has a history of thousands of years, and countless archmages have walked out of this town, and even the Holy Magister Merlin has been baptized in this thousand-year-old town.

This is also the town where Angela's current body owner once stayed, and she has been regarded as an ominous son since her birth, and as soon as she stepped into the town with Arthur, she was "politely" called over by the town's soothsayer.

However, the means are not at all polite.

Because Angela has found that in this town, the power of her demon path has been suppressed to the point where she can't mobilize even a little power of the law.

So, facing the archers on the watchtower, Angela glanced at her little arms and legs and decided to give up the struggle.

Arthur asked, "Have you done anything bad in this town before?" ”

“…… I forgot. Angela thought of a lame reason and lied.

After they followed the taciturn archers into the forest and found that no one was following them, Arthur was the first to attack, placing his iron sword around his neck and asking in a cold tone, "Say, what did you bring us here?" ”

The archer, through a mask that revealed only a pair of purple eyes, said, "The teacher is waiting for two at the end of the path." ”

Angela glanced at Arthur's face and kicked the pebble at his feet, "He knew we were coming?" ”

The archer closed his eyes and whispered, "The teacher knows everything, including the true identities of the two. ”

Arthur and Angela looked at each other, and they both looked shocked in each other's eyes, Arthur was because of Angela's origin, and Angela confirmed their identities at this moment.

The wind blew through the woods, and in a sparse voice, Arthur asked, "Who is your teacher?" ”

"No one knows his name, and for a hundred years, I have been his only disciple, and I have never seen his true face."

Angela frowned slightly, "I don't know if it's a man or a woman?" ”

The archer took a step back, avoiding Arthur's blade, and nodded, "Yes, the teacher never speaks, because the crystal ball will tell the lost the answer." ”

Arthur put away his iron sword and commanded, "Lead the way." ”

The archer turned around and clenched the feathered arrow in his hand, his nerves, which were tense at any moment, relaxed slightly.

He thought that he had finally met the chosen one who had the heart of a king and the eternal fire that his teacher said.

The group of three walked through the colorful pebbles washed by the river on the riverbed, through the vines and green meadows and the swamps inhabited by large docile demon seeds, and finally reached their destination.

It was a small hill located on the outskirts of the Great Forest of Dano, the ultimate pure land isolated by a shield and not interacting with the power of the Demon Dao of the Great Forest of Dano.

The moment she entered the water curtain, Angela pricked up her ears and exclaimed, "Listen, is someone singing?" ”

The archer took off his mask, revealing a slightly green face, and his cold face finally moved a little, "Yes, this is the teacher's singing." ”

This ethereal song, as if from the other side of the mountains and the sea, the clouds and the sky, is full of sorrow, like an untold story.

Walking down the country road, Angela was in a relaxed mood and asked him, "How did this sound come from?" ”

The archer, who was striding in front of him, replied coldly, "I don't know." ”

The warm light pierced through the water curtain and reflected on the surface of the lake, which was as calm as freezing, and the blue was dyed with layers of pale gold.

On the hill sits a beautiful nine-story treehouse, and from a distance, the top of the treehouse glows softly blue, reflecting the blue sky, as if it is not in the dangerous Dano Forest.

Faced with such a beautiful view, Arthur and Angela looked at each other, and they couldn't help but guess who the soothsayer in the tree house was.

A soothsayer capable of intimidating the ancient demon seed, they had never heard of.

At the end of the tree's roof, in a narrow room that could only accommodate a few people, the soothsayer wore a tight white robe that covered his entire body, and wore a golden crown of Ouroboros, with vines sliding out of his sleeves in place of his hands.

Arthur and Angela followed the archers to the top floor, and when Arthur took a seat opposite the soothsayer, the archers brought Angela back to the eighth floor and served him a delicate pastry and fruit tea.

"Well done (*???? ╰╯`??)??” Angela praised him.

The archer coughed lightly, a little proud, "Thank you, this is what the teacher's best friend taught me." ”

However, the teacher's best friend told him that the object of the pastry he wanted to give had long since lost its human body and would never be able to taste the delicious food of this world.

At the top, the soothsayer lifted his sleeve as if to place his hand on top of Arthur's head, but the moment he fell, he withdrew his sleeve.

Now, he can't implant the god-making system into his body, he hasn't gotten the King's Sword yet, and he can't destroy Nuwa-sama's plan.

Arthur didn't speak, just watched the soothsayer turn the crystal ball, and then turned the starry side to his eyes.

The vine in the soothsayer's sleeve lifted Arthur's hand to the crystal ball, Arthur's face was surprised, this soothsayer, maybe not human, right?

But before he could think about it, everything that appeared from the crystal ball made him stunned.

The soothsayer's voice, which could not distinguish between men and women, sounded directly in his head:

- Arthur, the hero king, I have been waiting for you for three thousand years.

"I'm not a hero king, just a knight."

- The person we are waiting for is not King Arthur 2,000 years ago, but you now.

"Why are you waiting for me?"

- As fate would have it, you were destined to unify the Temple and revive the land of warriors.

"What if I don't believe your prophecy?"

- Time will tell.

"And what can you prove now?"

Angela, the little girl next to you is the Holy Magister Merlin, who once followed the hero King Arthur.

Three thousand years ago, I foresaw the future of this child, and fought for the king of heroes among thousands of troops.

- I always thought that man was the hero I was waiting for, Arthur, but in fact, you were.

Merlin ...... Didn't he die a long time ago? ”

- Yes, Merlin is dead, and it is Angela who is alive.

- This is her sin, and I will bear it for her, so please take her with you and try to survive in this world.

- Her past is so tragic, I hope you and her have a bright future.

"But I've only met her for the first time, how can I have a future?"

- The bond has been predestined since a long time ago.

- This is the fate of fate.

- The future of the Temple, the Avalon Empire, and even the Land of the Warriors will all be about you.

- All this is not alarmist, but the established future.

- I'm also curious to know if you can get out of the established future and protect Angela.

Arthur was silent for a long time before asking, "...... What do I need to do? ”

- When you go to the martial arts tournament, you will meet some people, some things, and you will lose some things, but the most important thing is the heart of the king, please don't forget.

"I get that, but there's one thing I haven't understood."

- Please speak.

"God, have you really abandoned this land?"

- I don't know, but it's been three thousand years since the gods left the King's Continent, and worship has long become a belief, just a spiritual support.

— and you, will be their faith.

The soothsayer thought that if the Ark had really given up on the land, then it would not have sent the Ark members to scatter around.

The gods clearly control the past, present, and future of this continent, but they are also trying their best to eliminate the influence of the so-called "gods", and perhaps after the Ark leaves this planet, this planet will change back to its original form.

The Ark will change back to what it was then, right?

Even if the names, identities, bodies, and senses of the past no longer belong to us, we can only live easily on the Ark.

But it's clear to everyone that the Ark will never return to the way it was at the beginning.

From the moment we abandoned our fragile bodies and took the title of gods, we probably lost our qualifications as human beings.

- May you have the best of your journey, Knight Arthur.

After seeing Arthur and Angela away, the soothsayer suddenly said to the archers standing nearby, "Kim, you should go to the Knights Templar's martial arts convention." ”

The next second after saying this, without waiting for him to answer, the soothsayer reached for the vine behind him and stunned the archer.

Looking at the young man who was fainting on the back of the bird, the soothsayer took off his spotless moon-white robe, revealing his long golden hair like a waterfall.

No one would have thought that the soothsayer in this unknown town would be the temple's female pope, Medonella.

And all of this is arranged by the creator Nuwa.

She held the branch that had turned into a vine in the palm of her hand, closed her eyes and whispered, "Thank you for your thousand-year-old companionship, go back to where you should be." ”

In the Misty Forest, the Lord of Penglai, the Holy Maiden of All Things, retrieved a root tree that had been lost in a distant place, and suddenly remembered that a long time ago, a young man who claimed to be a friend of the red-eyed lord and cooked deliciously borrowed this branch.

It was said that it would be returned in 100 years, but it took 3,000 years to return it.

In the future, no one will borrow it except for the red-eyed adult~

At the same time, in the cloud-topped of the Land of Origin, in the floating inverted capital, a golden-masked Overseer who had woken up from the Heather Trap's hibernation pod, after reading the information of the task object assigned to him, as well as the linkable prosthetics, summoned Santa Renta System 1 and began editing his new identity:

"Alpha, how about the next part of my life, called Selyse?"

She forgot that α was not a β, had no personality, only cold instructions:

- Accept instructions

- Identification confirmed: Supervisor of the Heather Agency

- Matching the prosthetic: Templar Celis

- Memory revision......

——Awareness link, delivery completed

Good luck, Lord Celis!

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