【Triumph】Section 2 Joshua (I)
Symbolizing Vassilian's supreme power, the Shining Star Castle is located in the east-central area of Lori, and it is built on a high platform made of steps piled up, and is known as the "Genting District" because it is located at the highest point in Lori, close to the clouds. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 infoThere was a pool in front of the palace on the high platform, and to enter the castle you had to go through the stone bridge over the pool. There were several holes in the walls of the pool, and the water poured down from the holes to form a small artificial waterfall, and the water from the waterfall was pumped to the pool above by the power of magic, allowing it to flow in a continuous cycle. The result of this spell was perhaps one of the first to be accepted by the people of the city, and it was the work of the current Archbishop Joshua Storm.
Since the current archbishop took office, he has given lectures to the general public in the church in the city many times, eliminating people's misunderstanding and prejudice about spells, and using spells to facilitate people's lives in all aspects, such as permanent scrolls for lighting, miniature pockets for storage, etc., which are all products he developed with spells, which have quickly been recognized and praised by people, as for the circulating waterfall under the castle, people no longer think that it is the result of magic, but gradually take it for granted.
Due to the young and approachable nature of the archbishop, a large part of the population no longer dislikes spells, and although many people are still reluctant to learn spells, being able to accept the existence of spells is a good start to solve the historical problems left over the years in this country.
The Kingdom Church is located on the east side of the Shining Star Castle, and is separated from the sworn enemy Church of Light to the west. Compared to the Church of Light's Cross House Castle, the Kingdom Church's house is much shabby. Unlike the brick and stone Church of Light castle, the Kingdom Church is mainly made of wood, and it looks like a magnified version of a country farm, with wooden gates, wooden window frames, wooden stairs, and wooden roofs, which makes people worry about whether the mages in it will burn down the entire house with a fire spell.
After entering the first floor of the church is a hall, with many sets of tables and chairs neatly arranged on both sides, and those tables and chairs are also made of wood. From the hall on the first floor to the second floor, you will find a room full of bookshelves, which are very heavy, and in order to avoid excessive pressure on the floor, they have been suspended in the air at a certain distance from the ground. This is the church's public library, where most of the materials and books needed for research can be obtained. Each book was marked with a spell, and when someone knew which book he needed, he only had to recite the title of the book in his mind, and the book would fly off the shelf and into his hand on its own, provided of course that the book was on the shelf and not in the hands of another person.
Walking back from the library leads to a sky corridor that flanks the courtyard behind the hall and connects to the taller building behind it, where the people of the church rest and study spells. In the deepest part of the third floor of the building behind him was the archbishop's laboratory, which was not usually very private, because he didn't have any secrets to hide, and his laboratory was always accessible to anyone. At this moment, Archbishop Joshua Storm was studying a small pile of unidentified powder brought back from Miller, he put some of the powder in a flask containing a blue liquid, lit a fire under the bottle, and then observed the change of the liquid, he saw that the liquid slowly turned red, but it didn't take long to turn back to blue, so he shook his head helplessly.
"Archbishop, don't you have to go to the palace today?" a mage knocked on the open door of the laboratory and saw that Joshua had not stopped him, and walked in.
"No, Your Majesty has a meeting with the people of the Church of Light today, and I am not required to attend. Joshua said without looking back as he put the rest of the powder into a small glass jar and tidied up the test bench, "I need to see my father today." ”
"Are you going to sweep the grave of the former archbishop?" the mage asked tentatively.
"Sort of, but I'm not going to the cemetery where His Majesty has placed him, I'm going back. He replied.
"Go back?"
"The affairs of the church will be handed over to you for the time being, and if there is an emergency, you know how to contact me. Joshua left the lab.
After Joshua left the church, he walked out of the city, and he just walked at the pace of a normal person, and he greeted many people with a smile. He now has the ability to fly in the sky, but he doesn't use it, firstly because he doesn't want to cause a commotion in the city, and secondly, taking a slow walk is conducive to his thinking, and the longer he flies, the more he misses the feeling of walking on the ground. It was still early in the morning when he left the church, and it was past noon when he walked out of Lori, and he felt that he had walked long enough, and there was no one around, so he drove the force and flew himself in the direction of the Forest of Death.
He came to the hut on the edge of the forest where he had lived, which had not been inhabited since he had become archbishop, and which he had only occasionally returned to visit over the years. Since it has been untended for many years, the area around the cabin has become overgrown with weeds and the roof is full of creepers. Joshua walked through the weeds to the old wooden door, and with a gentle push, the wooden door slowly opened with a "crunch" sound, and as soon as the door opened, a cloud of dust was raised, and Joshua just waved his hand and walked inside. In front of the cobwebbed window frame by the foyer, he saw a table full of scratches, on which he remembered that he used to find his mother's breakfast every time he got up, and that when he returned from a lecture in the town church, he always finished his priest's homework on that table, and as for the scratches, which he had later carved on the table with a spell whenever he was in a bad mood after his mother's death. After walking through the foyer, Joshua came to the wooden bench in the living room, and there were several dark marks on the bench, which were indelible blood stains, and this was the place where Joshua's first nightmare in his life had occurred, and it was here that he found his mother's bloody body, and it was here that he hugged his mother in a pool of blood and watched his father come back from outside without a single tear and then collapse before his eyes. Joshua crouched down and touched the floor that had once been covered in blood, but now there was no trace of it because it was full of dust.
Joshua did not continue to reminisce in the room, but walked out the back door of the room. He came to a meadow at the entrance to the forest, where two tombstones stood, one older and one slightly newer. The old one reads, "The most beautiful man in the world, his beloved wife Arya, rests here," and the other reads, "The greatest man in the world, Bennison Storm, has returned home." Joshua's parents both have two cemeteries and tombstones, his mother has a tombstone in the Church of Light cemetery in addition to the one that Bennison erected for her, and his father Bennison has a tombstone in the Kingdom Cemetery of Lori as "Archbishop of the Kingdom Bennison Storm". The only difference is that his mother was actually buried in the ground in front of him, and all the remains of his father were buried in the kingdom's cemetery by the king. And the same is that the one in the Church of Light and Joshua set up this one are all empty tombs, and he just thinks that only here, by his mother's side, can his father truly gain peace.
"Father, Mother, I have come to see you, everything is over, your murderer is dead, you can rest in peace. Joshua knelt on the ground and said.
Two months ago.
The final battle broke out, and Joshua saw Regulus take the lead in swinging his weapon and rushing towards Thalder, but Sard's hand was raised, and Regulus, who had not been far away, was knocked back by a thrust.
"That's all the reincarnation of the god of war? It's too boring, isn't it?" Salde flicked his fingers, and a small black bead-like ball of energy that had just appeared on his fingertips flew towards Regulus, the ball seemed to have a super strong suction, and the air around it was distorted, making its surface look like a layer of folds, and the ball was blocked by the iron sword he swung when it was about to hit Regulus, but the black ball still kept rushing forward, and Regulus could only use his sword to resist, and both feet sank into the ground.
"Brother Regulus, this thing is ......" Alyssa approached the black ball, trying to help Regulus stop it.
"Don't touch it!!" Danko warned, he suddenly recited the incantation, and then pointed his greatsword at the black ball from the side, and a white light shot out from the tip of the sword, disintegrating it from the inside as it hit the black ball, turning it into a puff of black smoke and drifting away in the wind.
"Your strength has made me suspect that you are also a child of God several times!" Salder still smiled lazily, completely ignoring everyone, "If you want to say that your true strength may be much stronger than some children of God!" he said "some" and looked at Joshua with contempt in his eyes.