236 The Hermit (I)

Black chains stretched out to connect the rock wall above the cave with the ground below, and in the center was a black ball of mud, and around this strange black ball were ten large chalices that had been blackened, and black slightly reddish flames illuminated the entire space.

The chain broke off and entered the black ball, which fell from the sky and exploded, revealing a man dressed in black in the space. The mud surrounding the man quickly receded, shrinking back into the ten flaming chalices.

Raising his hand and slicing it across his face, a white half-masked mask appeared, he moved his right hand, and then shook his head: "Sure enough, it's already at the limit?" How long can a body made of black mud hold up..."As he spoke, his right hand shattered again, but the receding black mud instantly appeared and wrapped around his severed hand, and soon appeared in front of him as a complete right hand.

The hermit who regained his body said with some regret, even if this body is composed of black mud, it is only temporary, I believe that it will not be long before his body will collapse again, and his plan must be slightly advanced, and he must help him when he still has strength, otherwise all plans will be in vain.

"Ten black chalices are polluted at the same time, even I almost can't resist this erosion, if it were you, you would definitely be directly swallowed by the black mud and become an existence like Sakura? No, it should be a monster even more terrifying than her, isn't there something dangerous about her plan...? The hermit sat cross-legged on the ground, he didn't rush to leave this space, and at this time he had to revise his plan again, because the simultaneous contamination of these ten black grails was not something that Thunder could withstand.

Isn't it just for this moment that thousands of years of layout and waiting? If you fail this time, you really don't have any chance

Just as Gaia described the hermit in the past, he was a madman who was crazy to change everything, because he really used everything as a bargaining chip, including his own life, for this illusory wish

Some people will say that the hermit is so powerful, why doesn't he go and change his fate himself? He can kill the true gods, he can destroy the world, can't even this little future be changed?

It is true that the hermit will be powerful in the future, but unfortunately he is powerless to change anything, precisely because of the power he has

He had lost many important people in the thousands of years of the Moon World, and in the time he had passed, he had not even protected Uruk, the city that had given him infinite memories that had been destroyed by his wrong choices, along with Enkidu and Gilgamesh.

In the Roman era, he affected Nero because of the battle with the true God, which can be said to be directly related to Nero's death.

For this reason, he longed to be able to obtain the power to resist all infinitely powerful, to be able to resist this world, to be able to kill the true gods

Perhaps because of his own origin relationship, the Root Vortex of the Moon World actually took the initiative to contact him, and the consciousness body called 'Nothing' that was born from the root came into contact with the hermit.

At first, the consciousness of the root was just giving, it taught the hermit countless knowledge and strange powers, the hermit felt remorse for his powerlessness, from the Roman era to the time of Arthur, he had been communicating with the root consciousness, in order not to let the tragedy happen before, the hermit was like a greedy monster who kept asking for everything from the root, and he became the only person in this world who connected to the root and survived.

In Arthur's time, he became the 'Unified Speaker', he could communicate with all things in this world, and what he said was the Divine Word, which was the Destiny of Heaven

In Arthur's time, he obtained thirteen kinds of magic eyes, among which the power of the direct death magic eye can even kill this world, which is one level higher than the level of 'root type', that is, even the soul and air can kill the magic eye...,

But it's also a pity that because of the origin relationship he has, he can't grasp the power of 'Fa' from beginning to end, and it is precisely because of his origin that there will be a tragedy later.

In Arthur's time, he accompanied Artoria for fourteen years, he used the power he had to help the maiden fulfill her wishes, he used his power to suppress all creatures who dared to rebel against the maiden, with the help of his violence, Artoria ruled all of Europe in just one year, officially crowned in Rome and established the British Empire

In the next ten years, the hermit successively killed four true gods who came to the Moon World, and these true gods were all absorbed by him without exception and turned into their own power, making him even stronger

And then the root consciousness body showed its fangs for the first time and began to invade his body

In that confrontation between the two, the hermit fell into a rampage, killing all the creatures that appeared around him, and one-third of the city-states of the British Empire were destroyed because of his rampage, and hundreds of thousands of people died at his hands, including civilians, soldiers, and knights

There are also friends he knows, Lancelot, Gawain, Bedwell, Kaye, Gnavel, and Artoria...

When the hermit came back to his senses, he found that his hands were on Artoria's neck, and the other party had turned into a cold corpse, but there was still sadness and pain on his beautiful face, and a faint reluctance

The sword that sealed him broke off at this moment, and he regained his freedom, but he also disappeared in front of everyone and never appeared again...

Since then, he has often been caught in a struggle with the roots, often destroying everything around him every time he goes berserk, and finally he has no choice but to return to the place where he first met Saya, and let the chain soul lock his body, forever silent in the pool of the cave.

When he calms down, he will leave the cave and appear somewhere, as time goes by, he becomes more and more weak to the whole world, whether it is love or friendship, it seems to him as plain as white water, every time the root consciousness comes out to make trouble, he will return to that cave, until he is victorious.

He kept trying, because he knew that if he failed, it was not only himself who would be unlucky, but the whole world

After losing Artoria, he really woke up, and really understood that the so-called happiness was actually around him, if he could hope to exchange his huge power for that small thing, and then he appeared in Fuyuki City several times, watching the messy night from a distance, in order to see them from afar again, but he didn't dare to appear, because he couldn't guarantee that he wouldn't hurt them again if the damn root was not eliminated one day.

As he said to his friend Zelrich: "I love this world very much, even if it is blackened, I still love it." ”

He loves this world, probably because he is an otaku himself, so in the big war he helped the 'human race' against the other 'Ali Bai', and when the seven-body UltimateOne came, he stood up and killed them all

He wants to protect the world, but in the end he becomes the source of the destruction of the world, the enemy of all living things...

As I said before, the origin of the hermit is the cause of all tragedies, and his origin has a strong characteristic that is 'devouring', as the power of the hermit becomes stronger and stronger, this characteristic becomes more obvious, and in the end, it even goes to the point where this characteristic forcibly devours everything in this world, such as air, magic, sunlight, matter, etc., and is transformed into power for the hermit.

This trait is not very strong in the Great War, at least the Hermit himself can still control it, but when UltimateOne descends, this trait fully explodes, merging all of his power after he kills the opponent, and at this point the Root Consciousness also attacks him again, and this time the result is that he fails. …,

The root occupied the hermit's body for the first time, and the first thing he did was to devour Gaia and Alayya, pushing open the door to the root and merging with the root vortex, it can be said that when the situation has developed to this point, the root has already won, although it cannot assimilate the hermit's consciousness, but it is also said that he is sealed in the deepest part, and it can be said that there is no chance to turn over

But it failed in the end, and the reason was the last power left by Lei Luo, which defeated the root consciousness and re-released the sealed hermit, which is why he later remained awake and wanted to change.

It is said that when Lei Luo appeared and saw this tragic situation, he was also stunned, because even he didn't expect this situation, and in the end he could only disappear with a bitter smile, he knew that there was a serious problem with his script.

When the hermit awakens again, he finds that the tragedy is truly irreparable, because when the root occupies his body, he actually devours the souls of all living beings, including his lovers, friends, and students, and the root merges them with himself, which is why there are so many struggling humans under the mask of the hermit, those are the souls that have been fused by him.

That's why there's nothing he can do, because he can't separate the souls that have been assimilated with him, and while these souls can't bother him in any way, they will torment him forever and make him feel at ease...

Despair always comes with hope, and just when the hermit is powerless to return to heaven, he discovers that there are two other human beings in this world besides him. That's the fourth law, 'Time Travel', and the second law, 'Parallel World Intervention', Zelrich

It is completely impossible to change now, so he puts all his hopes on these two people, especially Lorentus, who has mastered 'time travel', he can convey his message to himself at all times, and he knows that no matter what era he is, he will try to change everything after receiving this news, because they are the same person, the same person who loves the world and loves the world......