"Hazaria."

The sword-wielding man turned around and looked at the trembling black-robed figure in front of him with a smile, and his tone couldn't tell the joy and anger: "It's been almost two months since you accepted the task......

"During this period, not only did you fail to complete the mission goal, but instead raised the strength of the mission target from the first order to the current fourth order, you say, what should I do with you?"

"Lord [Swordsman]!" When the black-robed figure Hazaria heard this, he was so frightened that he quickly knelt on the ground and said tremblingly, "Please give me another chance!" I promise, within three days, I will complete the task! ”

"You couldn't complete the task in the first two months, why did you make me believe in you, you can complete it in these three days?" The sword-wielding man turned again.

The black-robed figure Hazaria didn't dare to hesitate, and hurriedly said: "Lord [Swordsman], I have already made a plan, specifically ......"

After listening to the words of the black-robed figure Hazaria, the "swordsman" turned his head again, chuckled, and showed a look of interest on his face: "Interesting...... Okay, I'll give you another chance. ”

"I won't disappoint you!"

……

Sam Ancient City, in front of the City Lord's Mansion, the Extraordinary District Arena.

As time passed, the first round of knockouts was quickly over.

Except for the battle of "Claire vs Arcatel", which surprised everyone's expectations, the rest of the battles did not make any waves.

The reason for this is that it has a lot to do with the player matching mechanism of the City Lord's Mansion.

Generally speaking, as the favorites to win the championship, they will not meet in the first round of elimination.

Everyone knows this default "unspoken rule", and there is no objection to it.

In Acater's game, as a previously registered transcendent second-order player, it was normal for him to match Claire, but others could not have imagined that in just a few days, Acatel's magic power could skyrocket to the transcendent fourth-order, and in the battle, he climbed to the transcendent limit.

That's when it was an upset.

The first round of eliminations lasted nearly four hours, and after the end of the tournament, there were less than 40 participants left in the Extraordinary Zone.

The second round of knockout rounds will be played tomorrow.

In the waiting area, the players who advanced left the venue with different hearts.

Leo stood up and was about to leave when a figure appeared in front of him.

He was dressed in loose clothes similar to a kendo uniform, with white lines on a black background, a shallow smile on his handsome face, and a long sword in his arms.

Exactly, Yuno Siera.

He turned his head and glanced at Leo: "I'm looking forward to it, competing with you." ”

After speaking, the young man took a step forward and left the waiting area.

Leo didn't speak, just watched the other party's back disappear from view, and then raised his feet and left.

……

In the windless darkness, the boy sobbed silently alone.

One-year, two-year ......

I don't know how long it took, a figure emitting a dazzling light suddenly broke into this dark world.

He looked at the sobbing boy in the corner and held out his hand and placed it on his head.

A shallow, gentle voice came into the boy's ears, warm and comfortable.

The boy couldn't understand what was being said.

But he struggled to raise his head, and for the first time reached out his hand to touch the light that emerged from the darkness.

——

"Ahem......"

Acater slowly opened his eyes.

He felt like he had a long, long dream.

In the child's eyes, a dark and familiar ceiling is reflected.

Acater turned his head slightly and saw the open window.

In the moonlight, the entire window seemed to emit a silvery glow.

Under the night wind, the curtains flew, and a tall figure, with his back to him, stood in front of the window.

A familiar scene made Acat's stagnant brain begin to turn.

"Acat, you're awake."

The tall figure turned, revealing Leo's calm face.

…… Acatel ...... Acatel ...... Ah, yes, yes, my name is, Acatel Pasdea......

As if a rusty machine had been lubricated, Arcat's sluggish mind suddenly began to spin, but for some reason, he always felt that he had forgotten something about someone or something.

What I'll forget is something that isn't very important, right?

Shaking his head and suppressing this discomfort, Acater looked at the young man dressed in white by the window, and an apologetic smile appeared on his face: "Mr. Li, it seems that I have caused you trouble again, sorry ......"

"You don't need to be sorry for me."

Leo sighed, walked over to Acater's bedside, and looked directly at him, "I told you last time that you must never use this secret method that makes your magic power skyrocket again for three years. ”

“…… I'm sorry. Acater lowered his head, making it impossible to see the emotion in his eyes: "I have no other way to fulfill my choice." ”

Leo sighed, turned his head back to the window, looked at the bright moon disk above the night sky, and after a long time, he slowly spoke: "I suppressed the soul wound for you again, but as I said before, now you, the soul wound is irreparable, no matter how much you suppress it, it will gradually dissipate after all." ”

"How much time do I have?" Acater's tone and mood were unusually calm.

Perhaps the moment he made his "choice", he was ready to face everything.

“…… At most, three months will be your soul completely dissipated, and during this time, as the symptoms worsen, it will bring you a series of side effects, what exactly, I don't know. ”

"Three months...... Enough is enough. Acater muttered to himself, and after a while, after collecting his emotions, the smile on his face resurfaced like a spring breeze in the past: "Mr. Li, really, thank you very much for your help." ”

Leo shook his head: "Acater." ”

"As I said earlier."

"When you need help, you can talk to me, and I will give everything I can"

Hearing this, Arcater smiled, and he slowly propped himself up from the bed, stepped out of the bed, and came to Leo's side.

"Mr. Leo, after the kendo exchange conference, I'm going to leave for the national capital."

"There's really one thing I need to ask for your help with."

"I would like to invite you to walk with me."

"Of course, I will deal with all the troubles during this period, I just want to ask you to help me suppress the injury of my soul when I am in a coma, so that I have more time to complete my 'choice'."

"Is that okay?"

Leo tilted his head and looked at Arcater in the moonlight.

His eyes contained unprecedented firmness.

"I promised."

"Thank you."

……

When the morning sun rose and the big ring in front of the city lord's mansion, the second round of eliminations officially began.

With the warm-up of the first round, the players and the audience have a certain understanding of the strength players of this conference.

Of the five favorites who were previously estimated to win the championship, except for the sudden dark horse - Acater, who defeated the deputy head of the Knights of the New Wind Knights, Claire, the other four favorites all showed overwhelming combat power, and solved the opponent with just one blow.

The second round of elimination, not long after the opening, ushered in the first wave of climax.

The Deputy Head of the Lion Knights, Stan "Earth Knight" Burrigues vs. the owner of the Black Snake Kendo Gym, Brando "The Hand of Shadows" Amorim.

The collision of the two favorites made the cheers on the field reach their peak.

In the waiting area, the rest of the participants, including those who won or lost in the first round but did not leave but chose to stay and watch, all set their eyes on the ring, looking forward to the next collision.

Leo sat in a chair in the waiting area, and next to him was a slightly pale Arcat.

The main reason for Acat's coma yesterday was the wound of the soul, the physical level, but the injury was not large, and his magic power, after a night of ample rest and drinking of magic recovery potions, has basically completely recovered.

Leo set his eyes on Brando, who was sitting not far away.

As if sensing Leo's gaze, Brando turned his head and smiled at Leo before getting up and stepping into the ring.

Looking at this scene, Leo smiled in his heart.

Brando......

In the big ring, Brando, who was dressed in a black kendo suit, stood opposite Stan Burrigues, who was wearing heavy armor and carrying a giant sword, and the scene was about to erupt.

And just when the second round of the knockout round of the kendo exchange conference was in full swing.

On the highest peak of the Frost Mountain Range, the black-robed man Hazaria stood here, staring at a huge crimson spar pillar in front of him that was more than twenty meters high and had a radius of at least one meter.

Around the perimeter of the giant crimson spar pillar, a hemispherical transparent shield emerged, and the surging lines continued to circulate on the shield, so that people from the outside world could not see or detect the existence of this spar pillar.

In front of the crimson spar pillar, there stood a figure dressed in a scarlet hooded robe. He spread his hands and made a gesture of embrace:

"Finally...... Finally...... Wait until this day......"

"Ho ho ...... Ho ho ho ho ......"

The black-robed man silently stared at the other party's back, his eyes under the pale bone mask without a trace of emotion.

"Supreme God of Blood, listen to the prayers of your most devout disciples."

"I will bring you a great feast of blood, and all the creatures of this land will henceforth prostrate themselves at your feet, and sacrifice their humble bodies for the coming of your kingdom of God."

A mad whisper came from the mouth of the scarlet blood-robed man, and with his voice, the giant crimson spar pillar emanated an incomparably bright blood.

The ancient city of Sam, the inner city, the knight's district.

One of the two knights in armor who was fighting fiercely suddenly turned scarlet under his helmet.

Wisps of blood mist evaporated from him.

The sudden change made his opponent stop his movements and look at him in disbelief.

Even the referee, a steward of the City Lord's Mansion and an extraordinary third-order professional, appeared in the big ring, frowning at the knight who had undergone a mutation and was shrouded in blood mist.

"Tano Henry, what's wrong with you?"

The steward of the City Lord's Mansion shouted loudly.

And in response to him, it was the knight who was shrouded in blood mist all over his body, attacking frantically.

The knight-level Tano Henry, in the eyes of the City Lord's Mansion Steward, who is a transcendent being, turned out to be completely vulnerable.

However, these strange blood mist can actually have a corrosive effect on magic power, so that the steward of the outer courtyard of the City Lord's Mansion can't suppress him in a hurry.

The steward of the outer courtyard of the City Lord's Mansion, who was completely serious, burst out with all his magic power and suppressed Tano Henry on the spot with a strong attitude, just as he was about to breathe a sigh of relief, Tano Henry, who was suppressed in place by him with his magic power, had a twisted and hideous smile on his face, and the next moment.

"Boom!"

In the earth-shattering bang, Tano Henry's body exploded, and countless fragments of flesh and blood, under the coercion of the red mist, spread out hundreds of meters away.

Tano Henry's "explosion" before his death was terrifyingly powerful, even if he was already an extraordinary third-order professional, the steward of the City Lord's Mansion could not sweep the edge for a while, and was repelled by the explosion more than ten meters away, although he was not injured, he was inevitably embarrassed.

He raised his head and looked around, and the sight that caught his eyes made him cold, like falling into an ice cellar.

I saw that the spectators and even the players who were touched by the red mist spread by the explosion let out a painful howl, their eyes were crawling with bloodshots, and in just a few seconds, the Tong hole became scarlet. They roared and attacked the panicked people farther away, and for a moment, the scene was chaotic to the extreme.

What made the steward of the City Lord's Mansion even more desperate was that in the waiting area, about one-fifth of the knights began to emit wisps of blood mist from their bodies.

If you zoom in on the entire inner city, you will find that in every corner and every location, there are constantly souls that are invisible to the naked eye floating into the sky, gathering towards the south of the ancient city of Sam, and finally merging into the giant crimson spar pillar at the top of the highest peak of the Frosty Mountains.

The giant crimson spar pillar that had absorbed many souls, the blood on its surface became more and more brilliant, forming a pillar of blood that rose to the sky, dispersing the thick clouds that had accumulated on the top of the Frosty Mountain Range.

The ancient city of Sam, the central city.

When there was a change in the inner city, in front of the City Lord's Mansion and in the waiting area of the transcendent area, about one-fifth of the transcendent people began to show pain on their faces.

Their eyes were covered with blood, and the blood mist around them was intertwined with their magical power, and the intense pain caused them to let out an irrepressible howl.

Everyone's eyes followed it, but before they could take action, these transcendents couldn't bear it anymore, and the magic power around them completely turned into a scarlet color under the erosion of the blood mist, and from a distance, it was like a layer of scarlet blood flames ignited on their bodies.

The strange change immediately attracted everyone's attention.

Even in the big ring, the "Earth Knight" Stan Burrigues and the owner of the Black Snake Kendo Gym, "Hand of Shadows" Brando Amorim in the big ring, stopped what they were doing.

In mid-air, Old York's figure appeared, and his eyes fell on the "mutated" transcendents in the waiting area, and the prototype of the half-step legendary realm immediately overwhelmed him.

More than a dozen mutants shrouded in blood mist were immediately suppressed.

These blood mist had a strong corrosive effect on magical power, but they were powerless in the face of the half-step legendary realm rudiments.

After suppressing these deviants, there was no trace of joy on Old York's face, but his brow was furrowed, and he looked farther into the audience, where the same blood mist appeared from many of the professionals.

What's more, it exploded directly on the spot, and the blood mist that spread out infected hundreds of thousands of viewers around.