"I'm sorry Anna, I'm going to trouble you again."

Sister Vera was apologetic, though caring for the sick was what they were supposed to do, but she didn't want to go to that dungeon.

"Just leave this kind of thing to me."

Anna has always been helpful, besides, the dungeon at night is indeed gloomy, and not everyone in the church can cultivate, and this is not the first time that Anna has gone to deliver food to the old man in the dungeon.

"Thank you so much, he always goes crazy during the day and we can't get close, and only at night can we be a little more stable."

Vera handed a basket to Anna, in fact, she had asked Bishop Jacob if it was necessary to prepare food every day for such an apparently legendary powerhouse.

After all, starting from the legend, the strong no longer need some of the necessary traits of creatures.

Drinking, eating, sleeping, reproducing......

These things that everyone must do, for the strong above the legend, there is only a difference between wanting to do it and not doing it, and there is no situation where it must be done.

"Detention of the other party is a last resort, if you don't even prepare basic food, it is an insult to a legendary powerhouse."

Bishop Jacob said that after all, others do not eat, but the church cannot afford not to prepare.

The so-called etiquette is such a thing.

But the good thing is that Anna is a helpful person, and she is said to be very strong, so she doesn't have to worry about any problems.

"Then wait until I come back and turn in the shift."

Anna took the basket, it was not a delicacy, after all, the old man had not eaten in a long time.

As Anna entered the dungeon, her footsteps echoed in the empty corridor, and the gems on the walls seemed to sense the approach of someone and automatically emitted light to illuminate the dim path.

"Sir, it's dinner today."

Anna sent the food into it through the gap in the fence, and immediately planned to leave the place, after all, if the other party really didn't eat, she had no good way.

Fortunately, the legend will not die if he does not eat.

"Are you a descendant of Hughes?"

The old man's voice came from behind Anna, and she turned to see that although the old man was in the shadow of the cell, his eyes were as clear as a lake instead of cloudy as before.

Has he come to his senses?

"I know your sword of the branches, which he used to purge countless evil spirits when he was in Spiral City, and I heard that he later died."

"Well, on a rainy and cloudy day, it seems that the old illness has returned, but he walked peacefully."

After the incident in the town of Montenegro, Father Andrei's body has been cremated, and the goddess's divine kingdom where the soul wants to return is nothing to shy away from the priest's death.

"Hehe~ It's really funny, it's so funny that Saint Hus, who killed people without blinking, ended up exiting in such a way."

The nervous smile echoed, and the originally clear eyes were chaotic again, and the old man's madness seemed to be about to be committed again.

"Laughing at a dead person, is this what a strong man should do?"

"But do you know what that Hughes guy used to be like? If you knew about his past, you would laugh out loud like me if you wanted to come. ”

The old man smiled even more happily.

The madman who could kill 99 people in order to save 100 people, the madman who did whatever it took to save his power, finally gave up all his strength, and died of illness in an unknown town.

It's probably the funniest ending in the world.

"He's a bad guy?"

Anna recalls her past memories, and every time he asks about the priest's past, he always avoids answering.

"No, he's been a good guy for the whole, even though he's done a lot of excess."

"Then the strong should not laugh at a good man, this is what Joshua taught me."

Anna was already a little angry, but she didn't vent her anger at will, a person who can't control herself is a weak person in Anna's definition.

No matter how strong he is objectively, if he doesn't have a heart that controls power, he is just a slave to power.

"The strong? Can the strong stay strong? I'm also strong, at least I used to think I was. ”

Originally, the old man should be quieter at night, but his spirit became unstable in the communication with Anna.

This specific point in time is probably the time when the death of Father André is confirmed.

"If you're strong, put on a strong posture."

"What kind of posture can a strong man have? Every time you win an enemy, a stronger enemy will appear, and every time you climb a realm, there will be the next realm waiting for you, that is, Leon, who is known as the strongest, can he still be an enemy of God? ”

There can be no one in this world who will never be defeated, and even Leon, who claims to be the strongest, will be defeated one day in the future.

At that time, he will definitely become something worse than himself, after all, the higher he stands, the harder he falls.

"Defeat is the end?"

Anna didn't understand why some people could be so obsessed with winning and losing, which was obviously already terrifying.

"Victory is my path."

When a person achieves a legend, he can touch the changes in space and the logic of cause and effect, and based on this, he can explore the composition of the world and infiltrate his own thoughts into the world.

This idea is the path of every apostle.

When the old man's victory came to an end, when his faith began to crumble, it was inevitable that he would fall into the realm.

Half a lifetime's hard work is put into water, who can not pay attention to victory or defeat in this situation, who can not fall into madness?

"One move...... I lost with one move. ”

Before the battle, the old man thought about many results, whether it was a narrow victory in the end, or a draw without a win, or even death after defeat.

No matter which result he can accept, but he didn't expect the result to be a defeat, and then the other party's evaluation is......

"I don't know what to do."

Leaving such an evaluation, the other party left, as if he would have dirty hands if he was killed.

"He didn't even bother to kill me."

This is probably the greatest insult to the old man, but it is a different situation in Anna's eyes.

"Then have you taken into account that in fact, the final result is that you win."

"Huh?"

Anna's words directly made the old man stunned, as the saying goes, just deceive others, don't deceive yourself, in the end, how strange is a person's brain to come up with such an answer.

At this moment, the old man suddenly felt that Anna had a ...... The beauty of the missing brainstem.

"Then let me ask you to answer, first of all, did a notary judge judge you lose the duel at that time?"

"Nope."

What are you kidding, there are a few people who don't have long eyes to watch when they are a strong man like them.

"So did you throw in the towel?"

"Nope."

The old man still has to have a little face, at that time he started with the strongest move, and then was cracked by the other party, although no one said it, but in fact he lost.

"Then when you didn't lose or die, and no one decided the winner, the other party left, shouldn't this be regarded as the other party escaped?"

"You...... Why is your mouth so hard? ”

At this moment, the old man suddenly wondered if the nun in front of him was the heir of Xius.

With such a hard mouth, he is not afraid of hurting each other when he is intimate with his lover.

Could it be that the nun's future path is to be hard-mouthed? Hardened his mouth to become a god, and then after the destruction of the world, I'm afraid that this mouth will not remain in place and say hard:

"I'm not dead yet."

Almost.

"It's true that there are no people in this world who win all the time, but isn't it okay to win back after losing? 1 to 1 is a draw and not a loss, and another win is 2 to 1. ”

Anna crouched in front of her cell, as if she were enlightening a child, and said the little truth in her mind.

As long as you win back, you don't lose, and if you win again, you win.

That's what Joshua once said, when Anna followed Joshua to starve for three days and nine meals, and the other party used this sentence to comfort Anna.

As long as you win back, you will have food, losing is a common thing, and life only needs to win a crucial game.

In fact, Joshua did win.

On that day he persuaded Father André to exchange his "price" for his future as a good man for his adoption.

After that, the two of them said goodbye to the identity of beggars, and those beggars who had bullied them in the first place also completely failed in that instant.

"Win it back...... Doesn't it count as losing? ”

This is the path that the old man has not thought of, in the past he pursued the ultimate and pure, and any failure is a stain.

No one likes a white robe with ink on it, no matter how small that ink is.

The old man used to be such a person, but now Anna has given him a new approach.

Since the white robe is stained with ink, let's ask a painter to draw a beautiful pattern on it.

It's too wasteful to throw away a white robe for a little ink.

"An ordinary person can live for sixty years if he lives a little longer, and a person who has started to cultivate is even more difficult to estimate, a momentary victory cannot say anything, as long as a person does not die, there is a future, and there are infinite possibilities if there is a future."

Anna left such a sentence before leaving the dungeon, which made the old man full of astonishment......

"But my way has ......"

"There is no road in this world, and when there are more people, there is a road."

Anna's voice came from the tunnel, which was gradually losing its luster, and it seemed that Joshua had said it, but Anna still couldn't remember exactly when it was said.

The old man in the dimly lit cell was stunned.

In the ancient wilderness, one god after another went out of their own way, and they became them and then ignited the light of civilization.

So can the old man at this time do it?

If it was an old man when he was young, he would not have bothered to answer such questions, and at that time he thought that there was nothing in this world that he could not do.

Now that he is old, he can't speak, and he is full of doubts about his future, but isn't this kind of life interesting?

Now that the road has collapsed, let's build a new one.

The old man looked at the basket full of food, and after many years, he felt hungry again.

It was just ordinary bread, but it had a hint of sweetness to the chew, and it tasted sweeter than any delicacies from the mountains and seas that had ever been.

He was resurrected, as a human being.

Resurrection.

……

"Vera? Did you go back first? ”

Although the church is not brightly lit at night, the necessary lighting is still there, but at this time there is no light, but there is a hint of coolness.

There's no way Vera can go back to rest when she doesn't have a shift, so ......

"Tick~"

A drop of rain fell on Anna, and more and more rain followed.

The air was humid, the temperature was cold, and the stench of the garbage heap was familiar to Anna.

"Really? The test has begun. ”

Anna looked at the reflection of the water on the ground, and in the water was a thin little girl, as she had been when she was a child.

To be able to do such a thing at St. Lorraine's Cathedral without alarming Bishop Jacob shows that the other party also has a church background.

Anna understood the situation, and stepped barefoot forward, and at the end of the cold alley, a one-eyed knight stood in front of her.

"Inheritors of Saint Theseus, giving up the Sword of the Branches or embarking on the path of trials, this is the last chance to turn back."

The knight's hand rested on the hilt of his sword, and whatever Anna answered, he would be the first to judge.

"I have a question before making a choice."

"Ask."

"How much the Dark Sanctuary can help me."

Little Anna asked.

She would never want to experience that scene in Montenegro a second time, and she had to let Joshua face that existence alone, and she had to rely on Joshua's blood to survive.

Such a result...... Isn't it exactly the same as when he was an orphan?

What is Anna learning vindictiveness for?

It was to protect Joshua's power.

"Huh?"

The knight raised an eyebrow, and the familiar smell came into his nostrils, it was the smell of blood.

"Tick~Tick~"

At some point, the pure rain in the sky turned into sticky blood, and they fell to the ground and gathered into small streams that spread around the two of them.

This is the power of the War Knight.

"Hehe~ Interesting question, then I will default to you going down the dark road, right?"

The knight drew his sword, made a Templar knightly salute, and then spoke:

"Don't Starve Knight, Durant, offer you eternal dreams."

The sword stabbed into the ground, and cracks spread throughout the dream, and everything fell into darkness as the dream collapsed.

……

"Has her trial just begun, have you arrived? Another descendant of Saint Huns. ”

In the Basilica of Saint Lorraine, Durant closed the scripture in his hand, and he got up and looked in the direction of the door, which was a young priest.

However, in the face of a knight of famine, the young priest did not reply, but put the blanket in his hand over the sleeping nun.

"Anna, what's wrong with her?"

"Don't worry, it's just an assessment in a dream, if you pass, you are eligible to enter the Dark Sanctuary, if you don't pass......"

Durant touched his blindfold, and there was a tingling sensation in the empty eye socket.

This is the reaction after being stimulated by the killing intent.

It's funny, it's so funny.