"Brother Higgs, you need to keep this coin safe! It will bring you good luck..."

Celia said seriously.

"Really? So what do I need to do next..."

Kitagawa nodded and placed the coin in his close-fitting pocket.

"What to do..."

Celia's voice suddenly became eerie, and it almost seemed to come from another person's mouth.

'She' looked at Beichuan in front of her, her eyes began to become hollow, like a bystander, an 'outsider' who sat here from beginning to end, watching coldly! Her figure began to rise out of thin air, and her voice became colder:

"The train of fate has entered its own track, you just have to go with the flow..."

In Beichuan's perception, the current 'Celia' has undergone a great change from the previous one, whether it is breath, appearance, or even temperament, it is like two people, he 'chuckled' in his heart and hurriedly asked:

"Who are you?"

As if she hadn't heard Kitagawa's question, 'Celia' stood up on her own and looked at Kitagawa out of the corner of her eye. This kind of strange behavior makes Beichuan feel déjà vu but can't remember it for a while...

However, at this moment, 'Celia' suddenly spoke...

"I am the 'Celia Crumin' in your eyes, and I can also be called the Twelfth Apostle, the 'One Who Knows All'!"

"Your ears..."

Kitagawa looked at Celia's long ears in silver in surprise.

"Humans from another world! Your destiny has been struck, is it to the left? Or to the right? Destiny is in your hands..."

After saying this, the voice slowly weakened, and then the tall figure just now suddenly shrank back, and the long ears before gradually turned into a little silver light and dissipated into the air.

Celia slowly opened her eyes, looked at Beichuan who was stunned, and hurriedly said:

"Hmm~ It's so annoying! Didn't scare you, did you? ”

(It turned out to be back again, breath, temperament, and ears...) ）

Beichuan stretched out his hand as if he wanted to touch the other party's ear, but was hurriedly dodged by Celia with a red face, and he replied blankly:

"No... No! What was going on just now? ”

"She's a temporary tenant with me! It's an elf..."

Celia said proudly.

"Tenants? So how did she..."

"Aha! It's that I didn't explain it clearly. What about this 'house'? It's me! She's living in my body for the time being, but luckily this guy is usually quiet..."Celia explained.

"'Tenant' alright! You're really a hotelkeeper, how can this kind of parasitic or another personality relationship be called a tenant? ”

Beichuan is a little crazy, he has a slight mental cleanliness, not to mention what is parasitic in his body, even if others are parasitized, he will feel very uncomfortable.

"But she also helped me a lot! For example, when I'm bored, she will chat with me or something, although this guy will say 'I, you're ahh

"Rent? Is that what you're capable of? ”

"That's right, that's it! It doesn't seem very useful, but it's better than nothing, isn't it? Celia can also learn martial arts and follow everyone to adventures around the world, and this ability is just enough to see the adventures of those adventurers who are willing to share their adventures with me! ”

Celia said excitedly.

"Is that so?"

Beichuan shook his head helplessly, someone said: everyone is an independent individual, there is no need to impose their own ideas on others.

He also thought so, looking at Celia as if he was very happy, it was better for her to go.

"I'm going to fight the Juggernaut soon, and although it seems that I will definitely survive this time, I can't put all the points in this basket. In addition to Celia your lucky coin, I need to be more prepared! So I want to ask, Celia, do you know any other ways to enhance your life-saving ability? ”

"This? Uncle Linus next to him has a very strong swordsmanship! It's just that I've never taught it to others, even Brother Ross hasn't learned it, you can ask if you want to try it..."

Celia thought for a moment with a frown.

"Is that so? I'm thinking about it..."

Beichuan stood up, pointed to his right shoulder, and then glanced at Celia and said:

"Na! I'm running out of time, and it's time to leave! ... Oh! That's right, Celia! Your clothes..."

Celia followed Beichuan's gaze and immediately exclaimed:

"Yikes! Higgs! You pervert..."

At the girl's scream, Kitagawa slipped out of the door, but the moment he stepped out of the door, he began to hesitate again...

(Originally, the plan was to meet Celia here, so I had to use this knife to start the 'Village Slaughter Project' right away, but... Shouldn't I go to Linus now? ）

Thinking of this, Beichuan's head seemed to pop up again, and the words of the mysterious 'tenant'———— choose to go left or right? Destiny is in your hands...

Beichuan subconsciously looked to the left, and his heart was stunned. Isn't this the same road where you planned to start slaughtering the village? And an uncle with a hammer on the right is tinkling and knocking...

He stretched out his palm to look at the interlaced lines of his palm, and said in a low voice:

"Fate at this time... Is it really in my hands? ”

...

The second floor of Celia Guesthouse

A girl in a green dress is silently looking at Kitagawa, who seems to be making some kind of choice...

"If he chooses the wrong one, will you kill him?"

(Maybe!) You've forcibly changed his fate, and if he still breaks into the 'point in time' then... ）

"Will you kill him?"

"Thou canst refuse fate..."

...

"It's so hard! What should I do? My sanity tells me that the road to the village is obviously safer, but..."

The boy scratched his head in annoyance.

Killing people has been numb to him, uh! Actually, it shouldn't be said that he is numb, it should be that after he has been killed so many times...

Death? Is that what can be eaten?

Therefore, the slaughtering village boy does not have a little psychological burden, of course, if he can achieve his goal without killing people, he is also happy to see it! The key is whether this Linus is reliable or not...

"Since it's so hard!"

Kitagawa found a coin in his pocket, that's right! It's the one Celia gave him before...

"Since you said you could bring luck, then..."

The boy swirled the coin and tossed it, then grabbed it with his right hand.

"The front is left, the back is right! (Sweet party to the left!) The salty party to the right! ）”

Open the palm, on the coin, a silver and a gold, two faces are staggered.

"Hmm~ It looks like I'm going to go to Linus guy, I'm going to have a look there."

Kitagawa sighed.

However, he didn't notice that someone on the second floor of the hotel was also relieved.

"Whew! This guy really scared the hell out when he flipped out of the front! Good thing he doesn't seem to know the Destiny Coin."

(Not necessarily...) ）

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Clang! ~

Clang! ~Clang...

The heavy hammer struck rhythmically against the fiery red-hot sword, and sweat fell from the blacksmith's side face onto the ingot, instantly vaporizing into a small cloud of white mist.

The blacksmith narrowed his eyes and put the hammer down, wiping the sweat from his forehead with his free hand.

"Uncle Linus!"

Linus glanced up at the visitor, then lowered his head again, and continued to beat rhythmically:

"Who are you? If you need a weapon, look at it..."

"I don't buy weapons, I'm here for you!"

Kitagawa looked at the thick calluses on Linus's hands, and he didn't look like a clever swordsman...

"Oh? Something? ”

"Hmm!"

Kitagawa nodded.

"Something, then wait a minute, this sword is the critical time!"

Linus didn't lift his head.

"But, I'm in a hurry..."

Linus frowned, seeming a little angry:

"You have to wait, or you will find someone else! Don't bother me..."

Beichuan lowered his eyebrows and said:

"Got it, I'll wait..."

Clang!

Another blow from the hammer! The iron felt trembled, and the fiery red sword blank dented at a speed visible to the naked eye...

"Lin..."

Beichuan has also seen William strike iron, but it is the first time that this kind of formed sword blank has been punched out of such a large arc of depression at one time! He wanted to remind the other party, but he was stopped by the indifferent eyes of Linus who inadvertently floated over!

Clang!

The hammer slammed down again, and sparks flew everywhere!

The sword blank bent even more, but Linus had no intention of stopping, and a lightly rotating hammer on his right wrist smashed it three times in succession, and this time the blade became straight again, and Linus picked up the sword blank with iron tongs and stuffed it into the furnace.

Throwing away the hammer, he wiped the beads of sweat from his forehead with a towel hanging around his neck, and then Linus looked over:

"Tell me..., is there anything I need help with?"

"I'll learn your swordsmanship!"

The blacksmith was stunned for a moment, and then suddenly burst out laughing:

"Hahaha, boy! Do you still look like a man with a sword? ”

"You were..."

Beichuan said silently.

"So what?! Now I'm just a blacksmith! If you're for this! Well, you're good to go! ”

Linus waved his hand, pulled a cigar from his apron pocket and lit it with a red-hot tong.

"Before, I didn't really want to come to you, one is that I didn't know that you had the swordsmanship to resist the Juggernaut, and the other is that I had a stupid plan, if I carried out this plan, it would not be difficult to challenge the Juggernaut, but at the same time, there will be many innocent people who will pay for me... I thought about it for a long time, but I still followed Celia's advice and came to you! Since you don't want to help me, then I have to do the same thing..."

Beichuan simply turned around, and now he really doesn't have a lot of time! If the slaughter of the village starts Beichuan, it will take at least two real days to accumulate attack power!

"Stop!"

Kitagawa suddenly felt some kind of sharp hard object against the back of his neck.

"Mr. Linus..."

"It's the knife from last time, right?"

Linus suddenly said in a deep voice...

Kitagawa was shocked, this Linus's eyes were so poisonous, and he could see through the [Rachel] at a glance...

“... Not bad! ”

He groaned for a moment and admitted.

"Last time! I found that knife when you came with Rose, and it's obviously a little more evil than the one that me off..."

Kitagawa turned slowly, and the tip of Linus's sword cut a shallow trail of blood across his neck.

"So! Linus, what do you want? ”

Linus reached out and threw the cigar from his mouth into the stove, and said indifferently:

"This strikes iron! Unlike people, I can bend the same sword blank, and I can also use my skills to restore it to its original shape and increase its toughness! But people are different, people are more like fragile glass, once broken, it can never be repaired..., so in order to avoid unnecessary damage by others, I want to - kill you! ”

“...”

Beichuan was silent, he was not afraid of the other party, but this did not mean that he did not know the difference in strength between the two.

He has the power to kill him.

"Do you have any last words to say?"

Linus's hand was steady, and even though he was holding a long sword in one hand, the tip of the sword did not tremble at all...

"Nope..."

Beichuan looked at the tip of the sword around his neck and said to Linus.

"Excellent! Then please die..."

Linus's big arm was about to pierce Kitagawa's throat as soon as he moved, but he didn't want the sword in his hand to be knocked away by a silver cross.

"Blacksmith, if you kill him! Then you are a criminal. ”

After the two weapons hit the ground, a sound like a silver bell came from the side.

Linus frowned and suddenly looked at a carriage parked nearby, from which the cross-shaped giant soldier had just flown out.

...

There was no special insignia on the carriage, but judging from the giant soldier, there was no doubt that the person who shot it was a priest.

"If you kill one person, you can save ten, hundred, thousand! I don't feel guilty at all, I just want to save more people..."

Click!

The sound of armor clashing came from the carriage, and as the sound fell, a blonde-haired girl in plate armor jumped out of the carriage...

"The Duchy of Belmar means 'land of the good' in the Old Elven language, and this country lives up to its name. The land is fertile, the people live and work in peace and contentment, and it is an ideal place for good people to live, and although the princess Skady Baloa Marr was born as a merchant, she is wise and benevolent, and is very much loved by the people of the principality..."

The girl slowly walked up to the crucider and picked it up and carried it on her back. Then he picked up Linus's sword with his foot and threw it over...

"However, such a 'land of good people' has a wolf-like neighbor - the Delos Empire! There is an army in the Empire called..."

"Enough! What the hell are you trying to say..."

Linus took the sword with an unnatural look on his face and suddenly shouted.

"Nope! I don't want to say anything, but it's been so many years since you came to the Duchy of Belmar, and your anger really hasn't diminished at all..."

“...”

Linus bowed his head and was silent.

"That's it! I don't have time to talk to you, as for this 'Master Chuan', I'll keep an eye on him..."

As she spoke, the girl stretched out her right hand to Kitagawa.

"Golantis? How did you end up here..."

The girl grinned and said:

"Just to investigate some of the unusual movements in the Cave of Sorrows."

Kitagawa followed Golantis towards the carriage, but suddenly heard the voice of Linus behind him...

"Wait!"

Golantis turned his head and looked at Linus angrily and said:

"Hey! Blacksmith, I don't want to remind you again! This is the Duchy of Belmar! ”

"Yes, that's right! I know that very well, I just have something to give him! ”

Linus pointed his finger at Kitagawa.

"Me?"

Kitagawa pointed to his nose and wondered.

"That's right! That's right..."

Kitagawa looked at Golantis and walked over.

"This is my unique sword skill, which I learned from the battlefield! Complete the Elwyn Line! Now I want to teach it to you! I hope you cherish it and practice diligently. ”

Saying that, Linus stretched out his hand and patted it, and a mysterious feeling instantly surged in Beichuan's heart...

Golantis watched Linus suddenly make a move, his brows furrowed at first, but when he felt the aura of that sword skill, there was a look of surprise on his face. Then she bowed down to Linus and pulled the ignorant Beichuan into the carriage.

The groom who was driving made a loud sound with a whip in his hand, and the carriage slowly drove in the direction of the Forest of Loraine...

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When Kitagawa woke up, he found himself in a jungle...

"Yo! You're awake! ”

Golantis tilted his head and leaned against a nearby tree to look at Kitagawado.

"Where am I?"

"We're deep in the Forest of Loraine, north of the Bilmark Imperial Proving Ground, and east of the Cave of Sorrow! What about swordsmanship? ”

Golantis stretched out his hand and pointed in the general direction, then bent down and approached Kitagawa Road.

"Sword skills? Hmm~"

Kitagawa suddenly remembered the skill that Linus suddenly threw into his head, and hurriedly opened the skill bar...

【Sword of Redemption】Lv.1

Experience Points: 0/10

Blade of Sinful Karma: Drains all mana (at least 100 points) to infuse your weapon, creating bloody barbs on the surface of the weapon! Penetration up! Weapon attacks come with a bleed effect! The bloody barb lasts for 15s! While the 'Bloody Barb' lasts, every 3 seconds, you can use [Crimson Bloody Blade] once without consumption.

(No CD skills.) ）

Redemption: Set up a big sword and prepare to resist the opponent's attack, if the block is successful, it will be immune to this attack, and restore 3% of the user's mana!

(No skill consumption!) CD：15s）

Skill introduction: This is the sword posture used by Linus when he accidentally kills his friend. It's powerful! However, due to the high cost, it cannot be used as a normal skill at will. Later, Linus created 'Redemption' in the Elwyn Line, so that this skill was truly perfected!

Call! As long as the block is successful, it will be immune to damage?

Kitagawa looked at Golantis on the side and said:

"How about trying my swordsmanship!?"

"Oh? I'm very strong! Are you sure? Golantis laughed inexplicably.

"Hmmm! Try it anyway, it's just you when there are few people here! Come on..."

As he spoke, Kitagawa pulled out [Rachel] and assumed a defensive posture.

"I didn't expect that! Are you still a swordsman? But if you have to fight me, you're a self-inflicted little ghost..."

Golantis took off the giant soldier of the cross from his back and slashed it twice at random. Jumping up suddenly towards Beichuan is a [Falling Phoenix Hammer]!

Beichuan saw that the momentum was fierce and wanted to block, I was afraid that some idiots were dreaming. The simple back jump has reached the high level! Leave only a white shadow in place and easily dodge!

Golantis' Hammer smashed a large hole in the ground.

"Huh, isn't it?"

Seeing that Kitagawa's kid was slippery, Golantis picked up the crusade giant and slashed it with a backhand to compress his dodge space.

【Air Slash】

Boom! The earth trembled...

Kitagawa gasped, this guy Golantis looks like a 16 or 7-year-old girl, where did this come from such a strange power?

Ha!?

When Golantis' Holy Silver Cross fell on his head, Beichuan had no way to avoid it!

"Hey! Dark clouds cover the top..."

Kitagawa said as if to laugh at himself.

[Redemption Palace] launched the hand Rachel involuntarily set up...

However, the cross stopped at the moment of death.

"Alright, don't try! You're a rookie! The most basic blocks won't be! You will surely die if you go down with that stick just now! ”

Golantis held his cross in one hand and pointed to Kitagawa Road.

“...”

Beichuan was speechless, he did subconsciously use his skills just now, and he didn't guide the direction of parrying, so his block was just in vain!

"Alright, alright! I'll train you next! At least you won't die too ugly when you challenge Juggernaut! ”

After glancing at the guy and seeing that the guy had his head down, Golantis spread his hands in a helpless manner.

"Skills can only be activated if you successfully block! If Juggernaut were faster than me, it would all be meaningless..."

Kitagawa suddenly found himself so weak in front of the Sword Master.

......

The road to the Gran Forest is still going on, and the destination of Grantis' trip is the 'Cave of Sorrows'! It's not far from here!

The closer you get here, the more you can feel the palpitating darkness of the place...

Not too far from the entrance to the Cave of Sorrow!

The two figures were staggered, and there was a landslide-like sound on the ground!

Kitagawa came out of the smoke and dust intact...

"Not bad! You'll be able to block my attacks so quickly! ”

Kitagawa put Rachel back into the sheath and smiled:

"Thanks to His Excellency Golantis!"

"Of course..., there's the Cave of Sorrow ahead! If you want to go in with me, save your stamina from now on! It was the place where the apostles fell..."

Beichuan was stunned: "Apostle? ”

Not long ago, he had heard the 'tenant' of Celia say that he was also an apostle.

"Hmmm! Stalker Shylock, one of the Apostles in the continent of Arad! Killed by Berserker 'Luxi' a few years ago! Luxie also died of exhaustion..."

Beichuan suddenly.

"It turns out that the apostles will also be killed..."

......

Deep in the Cave of Sorrow...

A decadent man with a giant sword on his back was sitting in front of a cloud of shadows drinking.

Suddenly, a voice came from the quote.

"You're here again?"

"Hmm~"

The man replied in a muffled voice, while the bottle in his hand poured money into his mouth.

"She's not here anymore..."

"I know—" The man didn't seem surprised at all.

"You don't hate me?"

The voice continued.

"Hate! But hate Herder even more! I've started to become numb over the years, you're ———— a Fifth Apostle from the Demon Realm! Imprisoned here! And she'———— a demon-possessed person! She died because of you, and you lost your 'body' because of it! And no one gets anything out of it! It's all just victims..."

The scruffy incombustible one took another sip as he spoke, and the bottle soon emptied.

"Huh! You can see it! I still remember the moment she fell, you cried heartbreakingly. I'm okay... After losing his strength and 'body', he returned to his material origin and regained his sanity. ”

Speaking of the gray mist, the appearance of a red-haired woman condensed in front of the man...

"Huh! As you say... I'm not that strong! You'd better turn that mess back into that mass for me, or I'm afraid I'll be able to chop you to pieces again!" ”

“...”

The woman paused for a moment, turning into a gray mist again...

"I thought you'd want to find someone to drink with you..., but you also know that I'm now in a certain substance, and even you can't hurt me!"

"Haha! Yes, but you can't influence anyone else..."

The man burst out laughing.