"Who am I, can't you remember anything when you see me dressed like this?"

"Are you ......" Salde followed his gaze to the figure, and saw that he was dressed in a magnificent white robe, with rings on both hands, and a deadwood staff in his right hand, the green jewel-like object floating at the tip of the staff looked out of place compared to the rest of the staff. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 Info Salder slowly looked into his face, and saw that his long blond hair was draped behind him, and that face, that look, reminded him of a man who had died at his hands years ago.

"Are you!?......" Salde took a few steps back, the man in front of him giving him the feeling of being approached by a dead enemy to take revenge.

"I see...... But someday someone will inherit my ......will," resounded in Salde's head, the last words he had heard nine years earlier, and the heir of his will, whom he had spoken, stood before him now.

"Are you Bennison's son!" said Salder calmly after taking a deep breath.

"Yes, I am the son of Bennison Storm, the Archbishop of the Vassilian Kingdom who was brutally murdered by you nine years ago and claimed to be an accident - the current Archbishop of the Vasilian Kingdom, Joshua Storm, !!"

"Bennison son, what are you looking for me, although our country and Vasilyan are now on the opposite side, but the events of that year were completely accidental!" said Salde, with the corners of his mouth slightly raised.

"Don't be vague anymore! My father had already written down all the plots and speculations he had analyzed about the 'Holy Stone Project' before he set out on his final mission, and I had obtained all the information written half a year ago!" Joshua said in a sonorous and powerful tone to Salder.

"Oh?" Salde pretended to be indifferent and unaware on the surface, but the news still shocked him - "How could he possibly get rid of the shackles of that magic stone?!" Salde said in surprise.

"You're wondering why he was able to break free from your stone," Joshua said to Salder's heart, which surprised him—"Is this kid capable of mind reading?!"

"What do you mean by that?" said Salder, pretending to be calm.

"Let me expose your lies one by one!" said Joshua, "first of all, you are the true king of Millech!"

"Hey, you can't talk nonsense! Your Majesty is now fighting the enemy in the castle above! I can't help him now, it's already disrespectful to His Majesty, and now you've accused me of plotting to usurp the throne, you've wronged me!" said Salde, waving his hand.

With a "bang", Joshua suddenly sent a fireball into Salde's face, and Salde couldn't dodge it, and was hit in the face by the fireball, but his face was not burned. In the split second before the fireball exploded, Salder's face seemed to distort, revealing a strange face that no one had ever seen before, a face that seemed much younger than his previous appearance, and even more similar to King Miller. Salde flicked away the flames, a hand passed in front of him, and his face returned to its original shape, or rather the face it had been known before.

"As I expected, you have many faces, and your previous appearance was just a disguise of your spells!" Joshua analyzed.

"When did you start doubting me?" Salde's voice suddenly changed, and it became completely different from his voice - no, maybe it was his real voice - his tone was very calm, and very cold, not at all like the flamboyant and smirking archmage before.

"First of all, from the message that my father left back then, he has noticed you. ”

"Oh, Bennison, he noticed me?" said Salder, glaring.

"As an archmage of the kingdom, you are often out on some tasks, and these tasks are only after you have completed them to report to the king, not the tasks assigned to you by the king. It is no accident that your instructions often pass through the king, and that my father showed up in time whenever he came up with the slightest bit of research, and stopped him from destroying the results at the right time at the last time!"

"Go on. Salde said coldly.

"Secondly, there are two kinds of power in the stone that my father discovered, maybe you have discovered the third one now, or maybe you have already known the other two powers, anyway, you did not have the ability to control evolution at that time, which is also the purpose of your request for help from my father back then. When my father realized that he had been controlled by the stone, he began to look for the person who used the stone's powers, and the final target was to you, but he didn't say it at the time. And you are now using this power to control the puppet King Jikos of Mill! This control power will make the controlled person completely unable to realize that he is in a controlled state, my father will rush back to the palace without reporting to the palace and run into your trap must also be affected by this power, and the current king is completely unaware that he is just a puppet!"

"Yes!The magic stone's ability to control thoughts is exactly what you said, but what surprised me was why Bennison, who was completely unaware that he was being controlled, would leave you with the plans and speculations you said when I set the goal of "get back to Miller as soon as possible without revealing any information?" Salder stared at Joshua, still motionless, his voice slightly higher in pitch than before, but still calm.

"It stands to reason that my father could not have left a message back then, but after reading what my father left, I understood that this is a power that you can't understand - love!"

"Hehe, ridiculous! You mean that his love for you broke through my shackles on him, and made him sober up for a short time and left you a message? What nonsense!" Salde scoffed, "If he really loves you and thinks about you, why does he tell everything and wants you to die?"

"Because of responsibility and mission. Joshua said flatly.

"If you don't say this, why do you say that the king is controlled by me? You also know that the control of the magic stone can make you completely unaware that you are controlled, since you can't detect it, how can you assert that the king is not acting on his own will?"

"Because of the medicine you gave him!" replied Joshua.

"What?!"

"I've been here in Miredor, and I've been lurking in the shadows all these days, and the king claims that he was sealed by my father nine years ago, and you tell him that he can regain his power by absorbing the demon god. But as far as I can see, there is no sign of the king's energy being sealed, and absorbing the power of the demon god Dorag will not help him in any practical sense. When I saw the bowl of purple-black potion that you offered every once in a while, I understood—the energy potion you gave him was not the kind of energy potion that my father separated from the magic stone back then, but it was just a brainwashing potion that strengthened your control, and strengthened the restraint of your ability to control your thoughts!"

"You ......" Salder still looked calm, but he couldn't hide the beads of sweat on his forehead, and he clenched his fists, as if Joshua had said something.

"Seems to have been said by me again?" Joshua said, "The ability that the king has is actually controlled by you using the magic stone to control the evolution ability, so when the king's ability works and when the ability disappears is up to you, saying that his power is sealed is only for you to be able to better control him and for the purpose of you absorbing the demon god!"

"Unlike your stupid father, you're not very analytical!" said Salde, clapping his hands three times in a seemingly appreciative and implicit mockery, "how much do you know about my plan?"

As the 'Son of the God of Hades' said, your sacred stone was stolen from him many years ago, and then you discovered your ability to control your mind and set up a puppet king for Miller so that you could act in secret. When your research reached a bottleneck, you chose to ask my father for help, and when you got all the results you needed, you designed to kill my father! What is your purpose in using the Hades Hallow, distorting the laws of nature, and waging war? It can't just be just 'conquer the world' like that puppet thinks, right?"

"Conquering the world, is such a trivial matter worth all my painstaking management!" Salder seemed to open the conversation, completely ignoring the existence of this hostile force in front of him, "Twenty years, I have been waiting for twenty years! Twenty years ago, when I crawled back from the brink of death, I wondered: Why is the fate of the world ruled by the gods? Why can't we control our own destiny, why can't we control the fate of the gods? Yes, I don't just want to control the world, I want to overthrow the gods! I want the gods to submit to my feet, and their fate is up to me! And one of the ways to achieve this is to use the demon gods!"

"So you recruited Dorag just for his ability to open the gates of the Atlas?"

"Killing that weak demon god is just adding security to my plans, my real goal is the power of all the sons of gods and their holy weapons!" said Salder unabashedly.

"Is it really good that you just tell me all about your plans?"

"Think of this as a great gift before I sent you to your stupid father! When you die, you have to explain it to him well, or his mind may have been thinking underground for hundreds of years without coming to fruition!" Salde continued, "When I made up my mind to take control of the Sanctuary, I came across the legend of the Son of God, and I spent years researching and investigating. Fifteen years ago, I obtained Hades' holy artifact, the Obsidian Stone, from the sleeping tomb of the imp of Hades, a term that I only learned from the imp today. It took me half a year to discover the stone's ability to control thoughts, so I manipulated the puppet Gikos and seized control of Miller. After obtaining the magic stone, I decided to keep all the powers of the Sons of God for myself, and when the nine holy weapons are ready, I will have the power to shake the Sanctuary!" said Salde, who was not blinded by the blindfold, with a glint of anticipation.

"Fourteen years ago, I stumbled upon information about one of the Hallows, and I followed the trail to the border of Vassilian's Dark Forest, but found nothing. I used the power of the stone to slowly develop a way to trace the traces of the gods, so I went to Vasilian again ten years ago, and came to a small village called 'Billedia', but that little village did not have the holy weapon I needed, just a little girl pretending to be a ghost. Also ten years ago, I tried to increase the control of the magic stone, trying to control multiple people, when I manipulated several scouts of San Lucas, although they were all killed by a knight of the Order, but this control gave me a surprise. I followed the knight that day and found that all the powerful spells he used were learned from your father, Bennison Storm, and that's when I started paying attention to Bennison. Soon after, the knight of the Order learned how to summon the Demon God in order to resurrect his wife, who had been killed by the soldiers under my control, and it was from him that I learned to summon Dorag. I tried this method once five years ago, but it failed. And two years ago, the Sanctuary ......"

"Wait!" Joshua suddenly interrupted Thalder, who was talking about his sinful past, his face suddenly turned pale, as if he had heard something shocking from Sard's words, "You said you went to Vassilyen fourteen years ago......"

"Yes, I did go to Vasilyan several times, but each time my identity was different, and of course my face changed, so no one knows. ”

"Did you go to a cabin on the edge of the forest?!!

"That's true, but how do you know?" said Salde, surprised.

"Because the woman you brutally murdered that day was my mother!!" Joshua roared with tears in his eyes.

Salde was stunned for a moment, and then laughed wildly: "Hahahaha! This is really unpredictable and unpredictable! Your family has all gathered! It turns out that the woman who was arguing to death at that time was Bennison's wife, I really didn't expect it!"

"You...... You're ......" This time it was Joshua's turn to clench his fists and glare at Salder.

"Don't worry, I'll be reuniting your family of three soon!"

"I won't let you get what you want! I am here to inherit my father's will and completely wipe out you, the culprit of all events!" Joshua said solemnly, holding back his emotions.

"With you being a human bishop, even if you are several times stronger than Bennison, how can you compete with me, an existence with a holy weapon and devouring a demon god?" Salder looked disdainful, completely ignoring Joshua.

"Indeed, as a human being, the realm difference between you and you is too great, and I am not your opponent. Joshua said calmly, "But, if it were my true identity, I would be able to compete with you!"

"What?!, who are you?"

"You said you found my house fourteen years ago in search of a holy artifact, but you found nothing, because my mother protected that thing that was closely related to my background with her life!"

"Are you ......?"

"Take a good look at the tip of my staff!" Joshua held up the deadwood staff in his right hand, and the green crystal at the tip of the staff was spinning and radiating.

"It's—!!"

"This is the sacred weapon of Ethel, the god of wind and liberty, and I am the son of his god!!"

"No, it can't be!"

"I was born with a glass toy glowing green, and at the time I thought it was a handicraft brought back by my father, but later I learned from a message from my father about my identity that it landed on my doorstep from the sky when I was born. My father did a lot of research on this thing, and later found out that this thing is not an earthly thing, and it is precisely because he has studied holy artifacts that he can quickly conclude that your magic stone is not an earthly thing. Later, my mother had a dream, in which a god told him that the child's identity and mission were not ordinary, and asked her to cultivate it well, and when the time came for him to awaken, the mother woke up from the dream and told his father, and the father quickly came to the conclusion that the son of God was the son. In order to avoid unnecessary trouble and possible crisis, they completely concealed the matter, but the holy weapon that I used as a toy still attracted you. After my mother was killed, my father couldn't find the killer for a long time, and the only thing he knew was that my mother died because of the holy artifact, so he sealed it completely for my safety until the moment of my awakening came. ”

"How do you know that you are the son of the god of wind and liberty, is this your father's inference, or is it because of the Storm in your surname, or is it simply because the god of your kingdom church is Ethel?" asked Salder warily.

"What do you mean by that, of course I know my identity from the message my father left behind!"

"Hehe!hahahaha!" Salde suddenly laughed wildly, almost like the puppet king above, "You are not a son of God!"

"How can you conclude like that?"

"You think 'awakening' is just a word? Don't be naïve!" Salde exclaimed, "The awakening of the Son of God is not something that is just a matter of words, and you cannot defeat me without awakening!"

"Yes, how do you know if you don't try it!" Joshua opened his spell shield in his left hand and grasped the staff in his right hand, ready for battle.

"Go against me, I'll make you lose everything!" Salde suspended the circular container containing the obsidian stone in front of his chest, opened his arms, and the whole person seemed to be suspended in mid-air, "Let you see the power I got from the demon god Dorag!" After saying that, a large hole appeared in the ground behind him, and a purple pillar of light shot straight into the sky, opening the door to the Alcatraz Otherworld.

"Demons who once surrendered to the demon god Engauf Dorag, obey the call of your new master!" As soon as he finished speaking, several Yaquika, Goblins, and Trolls rushed out of the large hole behind Salde, who were not surprised or surprised by the new master in front of them, and seemed to be able to send them at will as long as they possessed this power. They rushed toward Joshua in unison, under the command of Salder.

"Is this the demon of Alcatraz? The power you need for Dorag isn't as simple as summoning such a low-level demon, is it?" Joshua said, raising the staff in his right hand, the crystal at the tip of the staff glowing, and instantly struck a hurricane, the wind swept the demons up like a whirlpool, and then was thrown straight back into the gap in the ground.

"The feeling of this energy is indeed a holy weapon!I didn't think you have a good idea!" Salde smiled, "Obtaining Dorag's ability to open the door to the Otherworld is the first step for me to control the Otherworld, if it is not so easy to overthrow the Sanctuary directly through the Hallows, by absorbing the power of all the demon gods in the otherworld, I can also greatly increase the chances of my plan succeeding!"

"Do you really think you can dominate everything?" Joshua said as he struck his staff with three blades formed by the wind, which struck at Salder at a rapid pace, but was bounced open by the barrier he created the moment it approached him, and the wind blades dissipated instantly.

"It's not that I think, but that I'm in charge of everything! Isn't everything that has happened to you so far, thought that fate and providence were all under my control in the end?"

"At least you can't control what I'm trying to do here, and I'm going to destroy your will!" Joshua said firmly.

"That's a familiar one!" Salde laughed, "That's right! This is the declaration that your stupid father Bennison made before he died at my hands!

"I'm not going to let your plan succeed again! you won't be on the loose for long!" Joshua said coldly.

"I don't have any skills, why do you have such a big breath!" said Salde, throwing a purple-black ball of light at Joshua, the core of which glowed with black electricity. Joshua reacted quickly and struck the wind blade at Salder, and the wind blade collided with the ball of light, and the energy from the collision spread out in all directions like a shockwave.

The moves of the two competed with each other in the air, stalemate, and finally merged together, turning into a giant ball of energy. Salder threw his palm into the air and pushed the ball of energy towards Joshua, who was not to be outdone, and the energy that drove the crystal pushed the ball back. After a few rounds of stalemate, the ball of energy exploded, blasting the ground into a crater and reducing all the trees around it to ashes. The moment before the explosion, Salde waved his hand into the air, and an air gate appeared in front of him, and he escaped into the unknown space behind the door in time, unaffected by the explosion.

"That kid will be seriously injured if he doesn't die!" said Salde to himself.

"Yes, I'm alive and well!" the voice rang out from behind Salder, who jerked back to find Joshua fleeing into his space just in time, and the explosion had no effect on him.

"You actually escaped with me, it seems that your kid's reaction and speed are not ordinary!" Salde said with a smile and shaking his head, "Speaking of speed, I remembered a question that bothered me, you said that Bennison went home to leave a message after escaping, so how did he travel back and forth between these two countries in such a short period of time? This was also the case when we asked Vasilian for help, and it stands to reason that you should have just received the message, and Bennison appeared in front of us...... At this point, according to our intelligence, Archbishop Vasilian must have just set sail with a large army of follow-up troops, and you are indeed here... ・・Do you have any secret art of shuttleship?"

"Hmph, there's no comment on that!"

"Once you've entered this space, it's not so easy to get out!" the corners of Salde's mouth rose and he said contemptuously, "Because I'm the one in control of this space, you can't get out without defeating me!"

"Is it that simple?" Joshua struck at Salder with a tongue of fire, but he easily bounced it off, and the tongue of fire turned into a ball of fire and scattered around, illuminating the mysterious space, and it was only then that Joshua began to observe the space he was in.

It was a very narrow enclosed space, surrounded by a pale blue sphere, with no sky or ground in sight. There are many pillar-shaped crystal-like things hanging in the air, and the crystals under your feet are also like beehive-like crystals. The road in this space is also very narrow, there is only one way forward, there is no fork in the road, you can't move to either side, and there seems to be an invisible wall blocking the way.

"I've already said that you're no match for me without awakening!" Salder struck a powerful flame at Joshua with his right hand.

"As I said, I don't believe in your theories!" Joshua quickly fired back with both hands at Salder with the same intensity of fire.

The spells of the two collided again, connecting into a band of flame, and the focus of the spell collision continued to explode in a small area, with a crisp explosion from time to time. Joshua had already put the staff in his mana pocket, and the power of the artifact crystal had not yet been fully grasped, and he was struggling to keep the spell connected with both hands, and Thrall was able to compete with him with only one hand, which made him feel that things were not good.

"It's such a familiar scene again, if I hadn't deliberately shown weakness in the battle with your father in the main hall, it would have been a stalemate, and your current strength hasn't grown much compared to your father!" Unlike Joshua, who had a hideous expression, Salder looked very relaxed, as if this spell contest was effortless for him.

"Damn...... I'm not going to throw in the towel......" Joshua strengthened the power of the spell, and the artifact crystal he had put away was detached from the staff and floated out of his pocket, floating above him, providing him with mana.

At the same time, the battle between Jikos and Minos in the Miller's Hall was quickly decided, and the puppet king who used the small amount of magic stone energy provided by Salder gradually lost to the son of the god Hades, and the evolved body began to be unable to keep up.

"Whew...... Call...... How could it be...... My strength should be invincible......" Jikos gasped and looked at his paws with a puzzled expression, he felt that his energy was draining, the feeling of being sealed nine years ago was coming back, and in front of him was Minos, who was still calm and unscathed, he looked confident, knowing that he was close to victory.

"Is that the only amount of power you've stolen? Hand over the obsidian stone, so I can give you a good time!"

"No, it's impossible! I've used the Holy Stone to evolve to a new realm, and I've absorbed the Demon God, so my power should be much more than that...... Why...... Ahh

"Is this!?" Minos's eyes glared at this, "Oh no! You're just a puppet!" Minos sensed the anomaly in Gicos's power.

"What?puppet?what do you mean?!" Gicos looked confused, his mind blanked, he had no idea what was happening to him, and he couldn't understand what the Son of God meant by "puppet". At this moment, he suddenly remembered the voice of the archmage in his mind.

"I'm sorry, Gicos, you're useless!"

"What...... What? Archmage, you-" Suddenly realizing that he had no control over his body, his actions were completely out of his control, he lunged at Minos, who was about to leave.

"Why-" Minos was about to chase the archmage who was sent out by him, but suddenly he was hugged tightly by Jikos from behind, and he couldn't break free at all, "Damn it!

"Gikos, let me call you 'Your Majesty' one last time, and you will go all the way. As soon as Sarde's voice fell in Gicos's head, he felt a power in his body, which swelled and grew until it finally burst out of him.

Gicos exploded, and Minos, which he was clinging to, was burned to ashes in an instant, and the castle of Namil ceased to exist. The warriors of the castle who swore allegiance to the kingdom were sublimated at this moment with their king. The energy of the explosion turned into a giant sphere, expanding and spreading in all directions, and trees, flowers, birds, and beasts all turned to ashes the moment they touched the edge of that energy sphere. The blast continued to expand, the peak where the castle was located was reduced to nothingness, and the forest below became a desert.

At this moment, the remaining more than 100 people of Vasilian who were advancing in the south of the Miller continent, more than 1,000 people of Miller's Western Oden troops, and a mysterious figure on a merchant ship in the southern sea all witnessed the explosion.

"What's going on? That should be in the direction of Miller's Castle......" Danko frowned and looked in the direction of the fire, behind him were several tired knights, and behind them were Regulus, who had lost consciousness but were still moving at the same pace, and the knights such as York and Marshall, who must have been cast some kind of spell so that the plan to advance the troops would not be delayed, if the remaining remnants could be called "troops".

"Over there...... Is that Regulus there?" Kyales clenched her fists in the direction of the explosion, and Knight Clark held her chin behind her, deep in thought, "Let's go ahead as planned!" Kyales commanded.

"Let's go to the place where the explosion went, Ben...... Your reward is indispensable!" said a figure on a merchant ship on the Far North Sea south of Miller to the captain.

"But...... My lord, there is a war in that place, and now there is this kind of explosion again, we don't dare to pay any amount of money......"

"Well, I'll pay you twice as much, and you just have to come to the shore and let me go. ”

"This ...... Well, just do as you say, my lord!"

Inside the mysterious space.

"It's over on the Gicos side, and it's time for a result on my side!" Salde muttered to himself.

"What, outside...... What's going on?" Joshua was still struggling to maintain his spell, and he could tell in his tone that he was running out of support.

"You don't have a chance to see it, die! Drink!" Salde exerted a force, and the flames pushed completely towards Joshua, and then there was an explosion, and Joshua flew out and fell on the crystal-like object, but after a while he took out his staff and supported himself and climbed up.

"Oh, I didn't think you kid was quite durable. Salde tilted his head and said contemptuously.

"I ...... Won't ......"

"Why? It can't be like your father who is going to die with him, right? He froze our entire castle back then, and it took a lot of time to thaw it, but it didn't affect us at all, and he just died in vain!" said Salde in a mocking tone, "Do you know why Bennison's body sent back to Vasilian was only a puddle of blood? Salder lifted his hand up and deliberately pinched and loosened it toward Joshua.

"You...... How dare you mention my father!!" Joshua roared, and the wind was released from him, causing Sald to retreat again and again, his long golden hair fluttering in the wind, and his robes whirring. The crystal floated in front of Joshua's eyes, radiating a green glow, and Joshua reached out his right hand and held the crystal in his hand.

"You still have such strength?!" Salde said in surprise.

"I said I would stop you!" Joshua clasped his hands into fists in front of his chest, wrapping the holy weapon tightly in his palms, "This is my final blow...... Joshua's whole body floated, and strong energy lingered around him in a visible silky form, and a colorful circle slowly appeared under his feet, and the surroundings began to darken.

"Hah!" Joshua flicked his hands, and the energy released formed a red transparent sphere around him, spreading out in all directions, and soon affecting Salder.

"Insect carving trick!" Salde snapped his fingers, and a blue protective film enveloped him in a sphere, dissipating as Joshua's red energy touched his barrier. Then, Thalder's barrier shattered as well, as if Joshua could break the protective film if he could hold on a little longer.

"Damn...... Just ...... "Joshua was not reconciled, he didn't have much strength left."

"Get a good night's sleep—" Salder suddenly released a burst of blue mist, Joshua didn't have time or strength to open the barrier, and the moment he inhaled the mist, he lost all his strength and the only consciousness he had left, and fainted.

Joshua, who sank into a dream, didn't know what fate he was about to face, he didn't feel pain, he couldn't see anything, and a familiar voice suddenly sounded in his head—"Wake up, Joshua!"