Chapter 1883: The Iron Maiden (1)
Chapter 1883: The Iron Maiden (1)
Hazy, spreading before Bediville's eyes, boundless.
"Can you really go back exactly to that other world nine hundred years later?" Bediwell heard a ball of light not far away asking, he knew it was King Arthur.
"[The connection of karma] is absolute. As soon as [Connection] is established, slight deviations in time and space will be automatically corrected. Merlin's voice replied, from another orb of light not far away, "Although there may be a year or two of error when you go [over there] again, you will eventually find Queen Greenway." I can 100% guarantee that. "
"Okay. The voice of the Knight King replied.
"When you're ready, let's go. "Another wonderful rift of light opened from the crack in this plane.
"Huh?" Bediwell didn't have time to say anything, his consciousness had vanished on the other side of the light.
When the white light flashed, Arthur opened his eyes again, and found himself as if he was trapped in the stone, stiff.
He almost thought that he was sealed in cement or something, and he couldn't even breathe, so he died of lack of oxygen. However, it wasn't that bad, he moved his lungs slightly, and the stones that were stuck in his body, especially his chest, began to crack, giving his lungs room to move.
Smack. The layer of stone that trapped Arthur was not hard or thick, it was just an attachment that could be removed.
Arthur tried to move his body.
The marvelous outer layer of the stone loosened and began to crack, and fell off from him like a snake shedding its skin.
"Ahhhh
Immediately, however, he heard dozens of voices exclaiming:
"The Apostle has appeared!"
"Lord Gabriel!"
"Sage in the Stone!"
The old, the young, the calm, the foreign voices sounded almost at the same time, mingling. Arthur, however, could at least discern the number of these callers, no less than ten.
Arthur was confused by the shouts of these people. He felt weak in addition to his dizziness. His body seemed to stiffen after a long hibernation, and even when the stone broke out, it was still stiff. He staggered down from the tall stone pedestal, half-crouching, and muttered, "I...... Where am I?"
"Stand down, stand down, give the Sage a little room to breathe!" In the haze, Arthur seemed to see a tall figure driving away the surrounding worshipping onlookers, and then approached Arthur and asked in an inquiring tone, "Lord Aslan?"
"Uh-huh......" Arthur snorted under his breath, only then did he remember his alias in this world and put everything in line.
"Here...... What the hell is this place?" Arthur asked for a moment's pause. At this time, he had basically regained his eyesight and could see his surroundings clearly. This wonderful place must be a meeting place of some kind of sect or organization, and judging from the strange people who were worshipping Arthur just now, it is more likely to be a meeting place of the sect.
"This is the base of the French branch of the Melson Brotherhood, a secret meeting place. This is the [Full Faith Church] in the base. However, the marvelous man immediately answered King Arthur's answer, and his answer deviated from the Knight King's guess: "Lord Aslan, do you remember what happened after the battle with the vampire True Ancestor ten years ago?"
This sentence evokes Arthur's seemingly endless memory------ but in reality it was just what happened "the day before yesterday".
On the last day of Arthur's stay in this otherworld, Arthur joins Bedeville and Zuster, a vampire hunter of the Mels Brotherhood, to fight a vampire who kidnaps Joan of Arc (who actually appears to be Greenway). In the end, Arthur relied on the sword in his hand [Seraph's Sword] and finally won by a narrow margin, but was attacked by the dying True Ancestor and almost died.
In that final moment, Joan of Arc seems to have unleashed some kind of miracle to save a mortally injured Arthur. Before Arthur returns to his own world from this otherworld, a mysterious old man who calls himself [J] meets Arthur and reveals some of the world's secrets.
"Hmm. "Arthur is still a little confused. In fact, he didn't know anything about what happened after seeing [J], and he didn't even know where his body was teleported.
He seems to have left behind the "**" he borrowed in this world and interrupted time travel. His spirit body went straight back to the world that belonged to him nine hundred years ago, to King Arthur's own body.
So, is this ** who has been revived from the stone really the body of the teenager that Arthur borrowed in this other world?
"You still seem to be a little confused, so I'll explain it. The strange man in the black robe continued, "Lord Aslan, after you defeated the True Ancestor ten years ago, you were attacked by the dying True Ancestor, and you were mortally injured by almost no way to recover. But the saint performed a miracle and brought you back to life. At that time, my father saw a holy light descending from the sky to take you away, but that process only lasted a few minutes. A few minutes later, you fell from the sky again with all the wounds all over your body healed, and after landing, you quickly transformed into the stone statue you had just seen. It was my father who brought you back to the secret meeting place of the Brotherhood. "
"What did you just say [father]?" Arthur couldn't help but ask, "Could you be...... Uncle Zust's son?"
"Exactly. I'm Johnny Zust, and I'm honored to meet you, Lord Aslan. The marvellous black-robed man took off his hood, revealing his handsome, slightly rugged countenance. That face really bears some resemblance to the vampire hunter Zust in Arthur's memory, only a few years younger than the Uncle Zust in Arthur's memory.
"Ten years have passed...... Arthur sighed. Merlin also said that even if you can reconnect with this otherworld, and re-time travel, the time and place of arrival may not be precisely controlled. It's just that Merlin only said that there would be a deviation of one or two years, but in fact the deviation lasted for ten years.
What had Joan of Arc done in the intervening ten years, and was she safe? Arthur couldn't help but be a little worried.
No, the most worrying thing right now is actually ------
"I've got to find Bedi first. The Knight King said.
"Bedi, who's Bedi?" Johnny Zust clearly didn't know much about the situation, and was a little confused by Arthur's sudden words.
"The wolf with me, and with your father, against the vampires. Arthur then further explained, "The wolf is ...... Uh, my friend. I must join him as soon as possible. "
"Wolves... Johnny looked at Arthur in surprise, "Few people have such a deep bond with beasts. Lord Aslan, you're really special. "
"No more nonsense. Where the hell did that wolf go?" Arthur said anxiously.
He knew very well that in this world he was just a weak teenager, and even with the divine weapon [Seraph's Sword] in his hand, acting alone in this malicious world was still full of danger. Merge with Bedeville as soon as possible, so that he can explore this other world more safely and freely.
...... In order to find Joan of Arc, who is called a "holy woman".
"I don't know if you ask that. I saw Johnny at a loss: "My father only explained the general situation to me back then, but he didn't say the details." The whereabouts of that wolf are probably known only to my father. "
"Then take me to your father!" said Arthur.
"My father is old and has retired from the vampire hunter profession. Johnny replied in confusion: "He is now in seclusion in Sweden, and it is a long way to get from here." "
"Retirement?50...?"
"Actually, my father is forty-six years old, not yet fifty. Johnny Zust said: "But yes, he is indeed retired. "
Only then did Arthur remember that this world with an extremely low level of photon civilization had a far lower level of medical care than the world where King Arthur was originally located.
Although it is a "different world after 900 years", in fact, the level of civilization is thousands of years apart.
The world's poor medical standards mean that people age and decline faster.
Because the medical level is high enough, there are many knights in Arthur's world who are still as strong as cattle at the age of seventy or eighty, and all of them are not old with swords and have considerable combat effectiveness;
But in this other world nine hundred years later, even a fierce man like Uncle Zust can't stand the ravages of time, and he is only in his forties and is about to retire into seclusion.
Worst. Does the fact that the civilization of this world is so backward also mean that the level of transportation and communication here is also extremely backward? Arthur lived in this French town in another world nine hundred years later for about a month, and if his guess is correct, the most advanced means of transportation in this world is nothing more than a horse-drawn carriage, and the fastest means of communication is only carrier pigeons. Even if you use the fastest carrier pigeon to deliver a letter to Uncle Zust, it is estimated that it will take more than a week to get a reply from there!
It takes too much time to send a letter like this and wait for a reply. It's better to let Merlin go and find it, and use the detection ability of the Demon Harry to find Bediwell in a few days.
Arthur then looked around again.
Of course, Merlin's angels couldn't have been in the base of the Brotherhood of Melson for no apparent reason. Arthur had to go outside in an open area, or even find a safe place to talk to no one, in order to get in touch with Merlin.
Anyway, let's take a look at the internal situation of this [Melson Brotherhood] and take it one step at a time.