"Awaken, Joshua!"

Joshua's eyes snapped open to find himself lying on a familiar and unfamiliar meadow, he couldn't feel his weight, and he didn't know if the grass beneath him really existed. www.biquge.info He sat up and gently stroked the grass with his hand, and the soft touch made him believe in the truth of the green. He slowly stood up, and found himself dressed in a tattered cloth robe, which resembled the tattered robe that his father had owned that had been pressed at the bottom of the box for years. He shook his head and began to look around, and found that he seemed to be on the border of an uninhabited forest, very similar to the border of the Forest of Death where he had lived, and perhaps this was what made it so familiar to him. But when he looked around and found no sign of the hut he was living in, it made him feel a little strange again, and he began to wonder if this was Vasilian's Forest of Death.

"Get some sleep!" a voice suddenly remembered in his head, "I'm not already ......" He suddenly realized that he had been defeated by Thalder, thinking back to the previous battle, and the current situation made him even more puzzled, "What is the real 'awakening' he is talking about......" Joshua's mind came to mind with Salder's ridicule of him - "Do you think 'awakening' is just a word? Think you know everything you are doing is considered awakening? Don't be naïve!!"

"You are naïve, Joshua. The voice that sounded familiar to Joshua sounded again.

"Who is it?"

"You should have all the countermeasures in place before you challenge the enemy, my child. A figure stepped out of the dark shadow in the depths of the forest, the figure getting closer and clearer, and Joshua noticed that he seemed to be a pale blue ghost, emitting a faint light. When the ghostly figure came up to him, he realized that it was none other than his father, Bennison Storm, the former archbishop of Vassilian, who had dedicated his life to duty and mission.

"Father, how could it be you...... Am I really dreaming?" Joshua's mouth opened in surprise, and for a moment he lost his words, and he blinked vigorously, wiping away the tears from the corners of his eyes with his left hand.

"Child, I don't have much time, I am here to let you know your mission as soon as possible, as the son of God of wind and liberty fully awakened, you still have a long way to go, and more important tasks to be completed for you. Bennison said in an echoy, ethereal voice.

"My mission?"

"To uncover your origins, start from the day you were born...... Bennison began to tell Joshua the truths he had not been able to fully reveal because of the influence of the stone.

"You were born twenty-three years ago in September, and it was a bleak autumn season, and perhaps our family was destined to have an indissoluble bond with the wind, and Ethel, the god of wind and liberty, chose you, the only boy in the life of the Storm family, who had believed in him for generations. On the day of your birth, I had just returned from the palace, and since our family was on the forest border far from the town, it was too late to get to the town to seek medical treatment, so your mother had to give birth at home. When I received the news at the palace that day, I rushed to my house, and when I got to the door, I found a meteor falling from the sky and falling in front of the house, and at the same time your cry was heard from inside the house. The falling meteor did not cause any damage to the house or the ground, but fell smoothly on the grass, emitting a faint green light, like a crystal clear emerald. That's your holy artifact, the Hurricane Heart Core. ”

"Hurricane Heart Core?Is this the name of the Hallow?Why did I use the power of the Hallows before and still can't compete with the enemy?The archmage who has the Hades Hallows, the Obsidian Stone, and the power of the Demon God......" Joshua recalled his defeat, the disparity between his strength and that of the enemy was too great, and he was not confident that he would be able to defeat such a powerful enemy after awakening.

"That's because you're using the wrong method. Bennison hit the nail on the head, "The function of the Hurricane Heart Core is not simply to enhance your mana, it is the key to your awakening, and it needs to merge with you and change your body, so that you will have a realm that you cannot reach as a human being—the realm of the Son of God." ”

"Fusion?Change?Is it like a magic stone controlling evolution?" Joshua remembered the King Miller he had secretly seen in Miller's palace who had been controlled and changed by Salde, and the ugly evolution made him feel sick, "How can I become one with it?" Joshua said, the crystal called the Hurricane Heart Core floating out of nowhere, spinning in mid-air and emitting a glimmer of light.

"Like swallowing it. As soon as Bennison finished speaking, the thing suddenly rushed straight into Joshua's throat, and Joshua subconsciously shook his whole body, and the thing was swallowed by him. A moment later, Joshua, who had just recovered from the sudden swallowing of a crystal, found that his whole body seemed to be filled with a constant hurricane, and he felt that his entire body was filled with the wind, and his whole body was about to be torn apart. He fell to his knees in agony, but the wind did not give him a chance to kneel—the whirlwind carried him into the air, and the hurricane raged around him without stopping, forming a bulbous barrier that enveloped him, making Joshua feel like he was about to lose his breath.

"Father...... I...... I can't take it anymore...... Fast...... Stop it......" Joshua's face was distorted, not sure if it was the effect of the wind or because it was too painful.

"Hold on, I've always believed in you, and you need to believe in yourself!" said Bennison, "and only when the power of the Son of God is truly awakened will you be able to stand up to the enemy." ”

"But ......" Joshua struggled with the barrier the wind, feeling that he would be reduced to pieces at any moment.

"Don't resist this power, accept it, accommodate it, and let it be a part of your body. Bennison advised, "Your mother has always believed in your extraordinary mission, she once dreamed of you flying in the air in the wind, she believed that you were a free child......

"Mother, she ......" After hearing about his mother, Joshua unconsciously relaxed his resistance and calmed down a little.

"That's right, that's it! Relax yourself and embrace the power of the Hurricane's Heart Core! Only by stepping out of the storm can you usher in a new life! Awaken, Joshua!"

With a bang, the barrier of wind that enveloped Joshua exploded, and the remaining whirlwind swept the leaves around his body and limbs, and when the whirlwind cleared, he felt his whole body rejuvenated. He looked down at his body, and it didn't look like anything had changed.

Joshua closed his eyes, and he found that many scenes began to flash through his mind that he had never seen or heard of-

"Are you sure it's him, Ethel?" asked a woman in a plain white dress, wearing a ring around her head that seemed to be inlaid with something, her long black hair scattered over her shoulders, and her bare feet on the seemingly cold, ornate stone floor.

"You can't be wrong, Bella, it's been twenty thousand years...... replied a blonde man in a gray robe.

Suddenly, the scene in his mind changed, and he found himself in a haze, unable to see everything clearly, and could only hear a voice in his ears - "The Sanctuary has been in chaos, and this is no longer for the Son of God to intervene......

Before he could finish speaking, Joshua's mind changed again, and before he could see a black door flash in front of his eyes.

Now, the images in his mind flashed before his eyes like still pictures, two stones, one black and one white, a sword, and the back of a man...... Before he could figure out what it meant, what he saw was immediately forgotten, and everything before him was blurred and dark again. When the picture became clear again, he saw the blond man in the gray robe from before, and in front of him appeared to be a spherical crystal, which reflected Joshua's small wooden house on the border of the Death Forest.

"Joshua Storm, I have chosen you to be the son of the god of Ethel, my god of wind and liberty. The man said to himself as if to the crystal, "The Sanctuary has changed, two gods were persecuted by Hades hundreds of years ago, and maybe I'm the next target." A year ago, Hades had chosen his son of the gods in a vain attempt to disturb the earthly world. Your mission is to stop the plans of the Son of Hades as much as possible, and to find the reincarnation of the god of war and the goddess of the moon who were reincarnated by Hades, and the son of the god of Bella, the goddess of love, should be able to assist you, although Bella has not yet found a suitable candidate. The Sanctuary is about to face its toughest test in tens of thousands of years, and you will be the children of the gods with the most difficult mission. Etel suddenly swiped his finger at the crystal in front of him, and a small piece of the crystal shard fell into his palm.

"Your artifact is called the 'Hurricane Heart Core,'" he said, clenching the crystal shard in his hand, and the crystal suddenly glowed, "and when the time comes, you'll know how to wield this power." Remember, 'Out of the Storm, Awaken for New Life'!" After speaking, he snapped his fingers, and a hole leading to the earthly world appeared in mid-air, and he threw the crystal fragment in his hand out of the hole, "The future of the Sanctuary may depend on you......"

When Joshua opened his eyes again, he found himself back in the meadow at the edge of the forest, and finally knew that he was in a mission, and he was not disturbed by the grim situation and the truth, but his heart was unusually calm. It turned out that the son of the god Hades was his old enemy, and he remembered that the guy seemed to be called "Minos", and it was his first task to stop his plan as much as possible? That guy's previous purpose was to get back the obsidian magic stone, and it seemed that he had to defeat the archmage before him and get the magic stone...... Joshua was making a plan in his mind, and when he glanced casually, he saw his father looking at him with a smile on his face. There were few smiling fathers in his memory, and now the transparent ghostly smiling father seemed even stranger to him.

"Looks like you already know everything. Bennison smiled.

"Sort of, I have to get the obsidian stone one step ahead of the son of the god Hades, and that will require defeating that Salde, am I really capable of doing it now?" Joshua looked down at his palm, feeling an unusual power flowing through his body.

"You just have to believe in yourself. Bennison said as he walked over to him, "Let's have a good talk while I still have some time!" Bennison said and sat down on the grassy slope beside Joshua.

"Tell me all the things you've been hiding from me to this day!" said Joshua, and sat down beside his father.

"There's a lot I didn't tell you, and I blame me for being too arbitrary, trying to make you a great archbishop, and the reality proves that you can do better without my interference......" Bennison seemed a little guilty.

"Okay, okay, let's stop talking about these things, let's talk about something I don't know!"

"Well, where do you start...... By the way, let's start with the 'Storm' family......"

"The history of the Storm family can be traced back to the Second Age of magic on the island of Os, and although humans were not yet born at that time, there were mentors who passed on the knowledge of our ancestors to the races that had mastered a great deal of ancient magic. I don't know who our family's first mentor was, but what I do know is that our Storm family has been passing these spells down for generations ever since. The 'spells' we use now are different from the 'magic' that was born in the first place. Legend has it that 'magic' is a treasure bestowed on the world by Ars, the god of life, and is known as 'the power to approach the gods'. However, Ars, who created life, thought that the earthly beings could live happier lives after having a power similar to that of the gods, but the magic was far beyond the capacity of most earthly beings, driving the magic to make them quickly burn their own lives, but the supernormal power made groups of people risk their lives to master this power. Later, the thirst for power led people to fight against each other, and the magic that was supposed to create happiness brought disaster, so with the intervention of several gods, earthly magic suddenly disappeared, and was replaced by a very small number of people who had mastered magic since then simplified and evolved spells, and those very few ancient magics that were handed down were mostly classified as 'forbidden arts', and ordinary people could not use them anyway. The Storm family, who had mastered a large number of spells, were displaced by the war and finally settled on the continent of Kaos, which at that time was not dominated by Vasilian but owned dozens of countries. There are constant wars between these countries, and spells are also used as powerful weapons, and there are a large number of mages in the wars of each country. Later, due to several large-scale annihilation events, several countries disappeared out of thin air, and the mages were suspected of being the most suspicious murderers, coupled with the fear of spells among the people who had been ravaged by the war before, people began to respect absolute power more and more, and the situation of the Storm family became more and more embarrassing. At the same time, the Church of Light, which possessed secret arts different from spells, gradually rose in the shadows, and it is said that the Church of Light helped when Targarion I unified the continent and founded Vasilian. ”

"I also know a large part of the history you mentioned, can you hurry up and get to the point, you didn't say that time is not much!" Joshua began to get impatient, for some reason he regained the feeling he had when he was a child and had a quarrel with his father, only this time he missed more than he resisted.

"Alright, that's it!" said Bennison, smiling with relief as he saw that his son was no longer as strange and alienated as he was when they last met.

"Speaking of our nemesis, the Church of Light, they originally believed in Bella, the goddess of peace, but with the passage of time and the constant change of the core of the church, they have completely changed. Although they are still the same goddess of peace to the world, only they know what they are doing behind their backs, and perhaps they have long since stopped believing in the goddess of love and peace. A hundred years ago, Targarion II lost power for a time, leaving the Church of Light in power. At that time, the Church of Light became Vasilian's absolute authority, and any affairs of the kingdom had to be reviewed by the church, and some people began to fear the church, while others were more yearning for the church of light, because if they joined the church, they had everything. By the time of Targarion IV, the king, in order to prevent the Church of Light from taking control of the kingdom again, ordered my grandfather, Robert Storm, to establish the Kingdom Church in order to fight against the Church of Light. I didn't know what the secret purpose of the Church of Light was, and it wasn't until I met your mother that I had the opportunity to learn part of the truth. ”

"What?!!, mother, she ......" Joshua was shocked, he had always thought that his mother was just an ordinary person, because he had never seen his mother have any special abilities, and if his mother had unusual strength, she would not have been brutally murdered by Nasard without resistance, but what his father had just said made him realize that things were far from being as simple as he thought.

"Because your mother, Arya Cross, is the only daughter of the Kross, the core of the Church of Light's Senate. ”

"Mother's last name is...... Cross?!!"

"I met your mother twenty-five years ago, when I often had to go to the Shining Star Castle to meet His Majesty because of the affairs of the Kingdom Church, and one day - I met your mother for the first time in the corridor outside the castle when I came out of the main hall. I didn't know who she was, and she was dressed very plainly, so I thought she was just an ordinary servant in the palace. The encounter that day was just a passing relationship, but when I came back, her face lingered in my mind, and I swore that I saw something in her eyes at that time, she seemed to hide a lot of secrets, and suffered a lot of grievances, and wanted to talk to someone but couldn't open her mouth. I realized that that 'accidental' encounter had moved me. As I was busy with church affairs all day long, I put aside this budding concern, thinking that it was very likely that I would never see her again, for there were countless maids in the palace, and I did not know her name, but then I 'happened' to meet her many times, and I finally succumbed to it, thinking that it was the will of the heavens. I'm sure I've fallen into the trap of love. ”

"It was a trap at first, and my many encounters with her were no accident, as she was sent to approach me by the Church of Light. She was the daughter of Elder Neil Cross of the Senate of the Church of Light, and I was later told by your mother that her father, Neil, had two sons and a daughter, and that since the core of the church's power had been passed down from male to female since ancient times, although as the eldest daughter of the Cross family, her status in the church was not as high as that of her nephew, who was less than three years old at the time. In fact, the people of the church completely treated her as a tool to be discarded at any time, and did not have a plan for her to protect her after exposure. She herself knew the church's attitude toward her, but she chose to obey. ”

"When she first approached me, she said she had a keen interest in spells and had come to me for advice. Since spells have always been rejected by people, as long as there are people who come to ask for advice, I have always refused to come, you should remember the knight of the knight who has come to our house many times before, right? So when she said that she wanted to learn about magic, I received her without thinking, and coupled with the good impression she had developed from several previous encounters, I did not doubt her words at all. She continued to visit and asked more and more questions, and she got to know me more and more, but I only knew her by her name, 'Alia', and I didn't even know her last name or where she lived (and of course she couldn't let me know). I'm sure I'm in a situation where I can't help myself. After a month, she began to show a keen interest in the legends of the gods, constantly asking me about the gods, which I didn't pay much attention to at first, until I stumbled upon her and stomped into her secretly looking through my research materials. Since I didn't know what she was looking for, I didn't directly expose her at first, maybe there was still a trace of fantasy in my heart that I was thinking too much, and I didn't want to believe that she had other plans. I began to try to open her mind and get to know her and see if I could reveal a little bit of her hidden secrets that I didn't want to believe. In the course of the exchange, she gradually and inadvertently revealed some of her experiences, she complained to me that she was in a humble position in the family, that she had no friends, that her family did not allow her to associate with ordinary people, and that she was going to arrange an arranged marriage to marry the nobles of the kingdom. It was then that I realized who she was, and although she had never told me about it, she would never be the lowly servant I had thought of at the beginning. ”

"And what is the purpose of the Church of Light sending Mother to you?" Joshua listened surprisingly earnestly, believing that he had never listened to his father so patiently before, but his eagerness for the truth made him want to know the key quickly.

"I have never been able to find out what she was approaching me, and she herself is not aware of it. After befriending her for a while, I chose to reveal her identity, although I didn't want to, because I had already discovered that she was a member of the Church of Light. I told her that I would not blame her or hurt her, and that if she could tell me the truth, I would be willing to help her in any way I could, as long as it did not violate my principles. If I can't do anything, I'll let her return to the Church of Light safely, and I just wish I could make her a friend. When she saw me like this, she finally confessed, maybe she didn't want to close her heart anymore during this time of conversation. She told me that the Church of Light sent her to me for two purposes, to investigate our Kingdom Church's grasp of the legends of the gods, and to find out the whereabouts of a stone. ”

"......A rock?" was Joshua startled.

"Actually, I still don't know what secret is behind this, so when Miller claimed to have found a stone with powerful magical powers, I had the same suspicions as you, so I will go to Miller myself anyway, and get in touch with the stone before they do, so that they don't succeed in their purpose. I don't know if this 'obsidian stone' is the stone that the Church of Light is looking for, and the answer to this will only be left to you to understand later. ”

"After your mother told me all the truth she knew, she knew that she could no longer return to the Church of Light for her betrayal, and that we had both developed true feelings for each other through these months together. Arya used to tell me that she was forced to marry a nobleman by her family, but in the Church of Light, in order to ensure the purity of the church's bloodline, church members can only marry and have children with church members, men are in charge of the church, and women are reduced to the church's fertility machines and Filipino maids. Arya was betrothed by Neil Cross to Ronald Stirling, the second son of the Stirling family, another core family of the Church, just as the Stirling family married their eldest daughter to Arya's brother. Arya did not return to her life, much to the anger of Neil Cross, who used half of the Church's power to bring her back, and finally His Majesty intervened, giving me the opportunity to calm down and negotiate with the Church of Light. I begged Neil Cross not to put the kingdom in crisis for the sake of a dispensable presence like Arya, and he agreed. Soon after, the news of the death of the three daughters came out of the Cross family, and the wedding with the Sterling family was naturally in vain. In order to avoid the harassment of the Church of Light, and the promise I made to Neil, I built our family's log cabin on the edge of the Death Forest on the border of the kingdom, and lived in seclusion with your mother, and you were born more than a year later. Most of what happened after that was your own experience, and you already know some of the truths I left in the cave before, and I didn't leave all the truths before, one is because I was controlled by the obsidian stone of the Sard guy at that time, and the other is because the mission of your son of God can only be understood by you after you awaken. But there are still things you don't know in what you've been through, the truth about your mother's death fourteen years ago, when you were nine years old......"

"Isn't the cause of my mother's death the hateful Salde?" Joshua gritted his teeth and clenched his fists.

"No, although I didn't know who the murderer was, your mother could have died without it. Don't forget that she is a member of the Church of Light, and even if her status in the Church is low, she still knows the kind of secret art in the Church. ”

"What the hell ......is that secret art?" Joshua had the same question in his mind, why was his mother, who possessed the mysterious power of the Church, killed without resistance?

"The secret art mastered by the Church of Light is called 'spiritual magic', and unlike the spells we release that affect external objects, the effect of spiritual magic is from the body, and it is said that it is related to the blood of the caster, which is why the Church of Light values the purity of the bloodline. This information is also the conclusion of your mother's continuous investigation after learning some clues, and the mystery of this may only be fully answered by the Church of Light itself. A month after you were born, your mother had a dream in which Ethel, the god of stroke and freedom, wanted us to nurture you until the time of your awakening came. At that time, my research on the Hurricane Heart Core also had some results, so I knew that you were the chosen son of God, and this Hurricane Heart Core was your holy weapon. Your mother and I believe that the artifact will cause unnecessary trouble, so we will put it away and not let you play with it. But the Sacred Artifact had finally brought Nasard in. On the day of your mother's accident, I was arguing with the people of the Church of Light in the main hall about the alliance with the neighboring neighbours, and you went to the church in the town to hear the priest teach. The Hurricane Heart Core had been buried in our cellar since I hadn't found a way to completely isolate its power at the time. Nasarder must have had no gain, so he was angry and brutally murdered her, but in fact, at that time, as long as your mother used the spiritual magic of the Church of Light, she could stop the bleeding for herself, and she would not die at all. But she knew that Salde's purpose was the Holy Weapon, and if she used spiritual magic, she would definitely be aware of it by him and come back to search again, and if he found it and discovered the connection between you and the Holy Weapon, he would definitely hurt you, so for the sake of the peace of our family, in order to protect you and the Hallow, she chose to fall into a pool of blood and die slowly like an ordinary person......"

"I see...... Joshua clenched his fists tighter, his expression sad mixed with anger, and his hatred for Nasard deepened.

"That's all, I've told you all I know, I'm almost up in time, and you may never see me again. Bennison smiled.

"That's right......" Joshua and Bennison both stood up, Bennison was still in a ghostly transparent form, he put his hand on Joshua's shoulder, Joshua, who thought he would pass through his father's hand without feeling anything, unexpectedly found that he clearly felt the weight on his shoulder, the corners of his mouth rose slightly, and his eyes said firmly: "Thank you, Dad!"

"Go, Joshua. "Bennison is starting to get more and more blurred.

"But how do I get out of here?" asked Joshua as he turned to his ghostly father, who was becoming more and more invisible.

"Forward. Out of the storm. ”

"But where is the ...... here," Joshua could say before he could finish his sentence when he noticed that Bennison had completely disappeared from his sight, and then he found that the meadow where he was at the edge of the forest where their hut should have been their family had formed without warning a whirlwind that swept up flowers and fallen leaves, and whirled in mid-air.

"Out of the storm? well, I'm coming!" Joshua said, and rushed into the whirlwind.

Joshua opened his eyes and saw various stalactite pillars above his head, the shadows of the stones swaying in the light of the fire, and he noticed that he was lying on a straw mat in a cave where a bonfire had been built. It was pitch black outside the cave, and he judged that it should be night, and with a few clothes and a few small pots by his side, he realized that he must be the only one here. Didn't he faint in Salder's space before?Who saved him and brought him here?Was the man friend or foe?The question in his mind was answered at once, for the man came in from outside the cave, with unkempt black hair and a full beard, who seemed to be in his forties.

"Have you finally woken up, Joshua? He crouched down with his hands on his thighs, leaned his head over Joshua, and asked.

"Who are you, why do you know my name, and why did you save me, what happened to me after I fell unconscious, and what ......is the current battle?"

"Okay, okay, you have a good rest first, don't ask so many questions in one breath. The man said, "My name is Jack, and I should still be your cousin!"