Magellan watched in despair as Dantès slowly died, his inhuman perception and tenacity making it all crystal clear, like torture in hell.

Blood spilled between his fingers and dripped to the ground, he had done what a human could do, but he couldn't stop death.

Then a miracle happened.

The giant god named Shiva appeared silently behind Magellan, stood on tiptoe, stood in the void in a dancing posture, leaned down and placed the lotus flower in his hand on the back of Magellan's hand.

The bleeding stopped, and the wound healed instantly, as if it had never existed in the first place.

Magellan laid down Dantès, who had fallen asleep exhausted from blood loss and agitation, on the grass, then raised his head and turned around.

"Thank you. ”

The giant god nodded slightly: "The end of her fate is not here, nor is it at this moment, that's all." ”

"Where did you keep Helen?"

Magellan turned around, looked down at Dantès, and asked nonchalantly in the middle of this movement.

"No, no one locked her up, that's her fate. ”

Then Magellan turned around and raised his sword and pointed it at the terror's face.

"So did the fate, which decided everything, tell you that your life will end today?"

Shiva put away her dancing posture and laid her feet flat and her six arms in a defensive posture.

There was no expression on the titan's face, like a handsome young statue from the ancient Theros period—but carved out of lapis lazuli.

On his forehead, the eyelids of his third eye twitched, as if they were about to open.

"Whoever shouts to the snowy top of Mount Meru will be buried by an avalanche, mortal. I am not a person who is determined by fate, or a god, or an asura, I am one of the three supreme beings, the Lord of Destruction, my name is Shiva, and only when this universe comes to an end, my destiny will come to an end. ”

"Well, farewell. ”

Magellan rushed forward, and the longsword collided with the weapon in the hand of the giant god with terrifying power, and the two were evenly divided, and then Magellan took a step back.

"If I die," Shiva didn't seem to use all his strength, at least he still had the strength to speak, "that princess will die too." ”

"She's as strong as I am. ”

Magellan stopped, he looked up at the giant god with a mocking sneer on his face.

"And Helen, like me, never bowed to the gods. ”

"The strongest people in the world are not immune to the fate of failure, people will always be knocked down outside the battlefield, such as betrayal, it is a poisonous snake that has killed countless powerful heroes, and your princess is no exception. ”

Magellan turned to look at Dantes.

But she was never deceived. ”

"Ah, yes, except when it comes to you. ”

There was still no expression on Shiva's face, he was like a completely emotionless machine, and Magellan did not even hear any fluctuations in his tone.

"When she heard that you had fallen into our hands, the mighty princess gave up her resistance, and before that time several powerful immortals had been defeated by her, and she was as dazzling and irresistible as Indra. You know? We, all the brahmins, want to know what kind of person the Magellan was as a friend of the princess, with extraordinary wisdom and power. ”

Magellan finally put down his sword.

"What do you want?"

Shiva lowered his weapon and reassumed the wakily-looking pose, as if it made him feel more comfortable.

"This world is within the constraints of the Fa-rectification. ”

The titan began to dance in the void.

His posture is soft, full of tension, and he rotates, and with each rotation, he changes a posture, like flowing water, or clouds in the wind.

Magellan could feel that the divine power that permeated the forest began to flow, that a crescent moon began to rise in the night sky, and that the whole world was turning in accordance with Shiva's dance.

"The first article of the Fa-rectification is that ascetics should be rewarded. ”

"Even if a god is strong enough to end this world like me, he can't get past the constraints of the Fa-rectification, but he can. ”

Magellan nodded.

That's enough to explain the gods' actions.

"Why us?"

Shiva sighed.

"There are no more brahmins who can really complete the asceticism, and this time the time is too harsh, so we can only keep the princess. ”

"When?"

"There was once a powerful asura who completed an ascetic practice, and the reward he received from me was the powerful power that could easily defeat all the gods, and the ascetic he completed was walking barefoot on a snow-capped mountain for a thousand years. ”

"I'll do what you say. ”

Magellan did not say how Shiva could guarantee that he would not break his promise after the penance was over, that there was no need.

......

"I have never been able to understand that the so-called penance is actually like this. ”

The countess stood on top of the snow-capped mountain, looking up at the towering summit and smiling meaningfully.

"You're different. ”

Behind her was a brahmin, a tall man, barefoot, single-clothed, with a wooden staff, a long beard, and unsmiling.

That's a standard ascetic, not all brahmins do asceticism, and ascetics tend to be like that.

"You lied to me, didn't you?"

The brahmins were silent.

The countess said nothing more.

She was convinced that her guess was right.

But that didn't make sense, this brahmin showed his flaws because Magellan had fallen into the trap, so there was a little relaxation, but Magellan was already in the trap, and nothing had changed.

Of course, that's for Brahmins.

The countess turned and smiled.

"Don't let me down......"

......

Early the next morning, Dantes woke up next to Magellan.

She looked at Magellan in despair, but did not cry again.

"This is the world they control, even death. ”

Magellan smiled: "Don't worry, the austerity that cannot be done at all for them is easy for me." ”

Dantes showed a pale smile: "I watched them defeat you, the god named Shiva...... He ......"

"That's an illusion......"

"No," Dantès shook his head, "I am a believer in science, and he has given me truth, and no illusion can deceive me." ”

"I'm not talking about illusions created by divine powers, but tricks to make people dress," Magellan smiled, and the subtle signs of man's mind being affected by the illusion were very striking in his eyes, and he was convinced from the beginning that Dantès had not been subjected to illusions, "For example, the one you see of me is only my back." ”