Chapter 2 Where there is a pay, there is a reward
Alexios sat in a bar and drank helplessly, it was already the third month since he had been in this ghost place.
Three months ago, he was basking in the sun on the beach in Greece, watching the rough sea, reminiscing about the time when he drove the Adrestia and galloped the sea with his friends Barnabas and Herodotus.
Remembering his family who had passed away a long time ago, and remembering the Icarus who had been with him for many years.
Now the pattern of the world is becoming more and more unfamiliar, and even he, a person who has lived in the world for an unknown number of years, cannot see clearly.
He had seen the future a thousand years ago using Ysso's artifact, but that future was not the same as the future he knew now!
The Church of the Hidden Ones, a name he had never heard before, suddenly appeared on the entire European continent, and it swept through the continent like a hurricane!
And the people in this church are all very terrible, and this level of horror seems to have made Alexios go back to a thousand years ago!
Thousands of years ago, people could still use a variety of special abilities, but as time passed, these abilities became less and less.
Even now, I am afraid that only he can still use the skills that he only had a thousand years ago, but the people in this church have actually mastered such skills, which is even more terrifying than what he knew thousands of years ago!
"Could it be that the gods have returned? Are they pursuing eternal success? ”
Alexios, who had entered Atlantis and even lived in it for an unknown number of years, certainly knew what kind of existence these gods were.
But they are all gone, they may even be dead, and these gods are not eternal, even if they are very powerful.
With a slight sigh, Alexios continued to look at the sea, the future was already chaotic, and he didn't know what to do.
Suddenly, Alexios had a bad feeling, a strong sense of warning that had stayed with him for the rest of his life, even if he had lost the spear of Leonidas.
Standing up quickly, Alexios was about to leave here, but as soon as he left, he noticed that at some point, several guys wearing black robes and black hoods had already appeared around him, and more importantly, they still had some special masks on their faces!
Alexios had heard of these guys, and he was already a top-tier assassin, and it was a very easy thing for him to find out.
And he's not just an assassin, he's more well-rounded than these assassins, but he knows he's no match for these guys!
The reason is simple, because there is a terrifying dragon hovering over the heads of this group of guys!
Maraka! Alexios has faced countless troubles and encountered countless legendary creatures in his life, but none of them have a feeling of invincibility as this dragon has!
What didn't make Alexios clear was that they seemed to have come for him.
This shocked Alexios, he hid in the shadows of the world, watching the world constantly change, waiting for the prophesied person to appear, he felt that he had done it very carefully, but he did not expect that he would still be discovered.
"You're Cassandra? Or is it ...... Sorry, I forgot that name. ”
The dragon descended, his massive body sending clouds of smoke and dust from the beach.
Even so, Alexios did not dare to try to escape, because he felt a terrifying aura that had locked on him, and if he dared to try, he was guaranteed to be attacked with terror.
"Alexios. I am Alexios, Cassandra is my sister, and she has been dead for over a thousand years. ”
With no way to escape, Alexios had no choice but to give up and answer the dragon's question when he came.
To be honest, he never dreamed that he actually encountered a dragon, wasn't this something his juniors imagined?
"Oh, that seems. Alexios, it took us a long time to find you. But luckily, I finally found it, and someone wants to meet you, so please come with us. ”
"Meet me? Are you from the Church of the Hidden One? Who wants to see me? ”
"Josh, you'll know when you meet. Don't worry, although this guy Josh is sometimes quite bad, he is still good. ”
The dragon was Hostner, who had sent out his mission when he came to the world, and it only took them three months to find Alexios.
And Alexios doesn't look very good at this time, Josh? The Pope of the Church of the Hidden Ones? The god who claims to walk in the world? He's looking for me?
"Why?"
"You'll know when you meet."
"I'm going to Rome with you?"
"Yes."
"Can you not go?"
"What do you say?"
In the end, Alexios could not resist the oppression of Hostner, and followed them to Rome.
Although Alexios experienced what it was like to fly, to be honest, he wasn't in a good mood.
Even though the two giants of the Church of the Hidden One, Giovanni and Mario, came out to talk to him a few times, his heart was still very heavy.
He wondered if His Majesty had taken a fancy to him? For example, this scepter, which can change form at will while always providing endless life force to itself?
Alexios spent more than three months in those days, but during those three months he also discovered the difference that the Church of the Hidden Ones had made.
For example, in the area of their home base, the society here is developing very well, although this church is very similar to the Kosmos cult that he used to exterminate.
But Alexios, who already knows the definitions of 'order' and 'chaos', doesn't see anything wrong with this.
If there is no order, then the society will be all chaos, and the people will not be able to make a living. It's all order, and society has no vitality, no progress.
But that didn't make Alexiosdo happy, and his semi-house arrest always made him uncomfortable.
He used to be a mercenary, he longed for a free life, although the people in the church in Rome did not restrict his activities, but he was not stupid, even if he lost Icarus, he could still feel it, and there would be people following him wherever he went.
"On such a day, when is it a head, didn't that majesty say that he wanted to see me? Did you forget me? ”
Alexios shook his cup weakly, his face bitter. Suddenly, he felt a palpitation, and Alexios quickly looked up, only to realize that the entire bar had disappeared.
"Maraka! What's going on? ”
"It's nothing, it's just that I want to meet you, relax."
Just as Alexios was about to get up and run out, suddenly a blank space not far in front of him appeared so violently distorted, as if even the space was about to shatter!
And in that distorted place, a voice was heard.
The voice sounded very young, and Alexios heard some amusement in it. As the distorted space in front of him continued to change, he finally saw someone come out of it!
Damn it! Someone can get out of this?
The young man looked at Alexios' surprised look and smiled slightly, and then introduced himself: "It's been a long time since I've seen Alexios, well, maybe it's better to call you a falconer or a mercenary, right?" By the way, my name is Josh. ”
"Josh, that's the ..... His Majesty Pope Josh? ”
"Yes."
Josh nodded slightly, looking at Alexios Josh in front of him and suddenly wanted to play some pranks, just like he used 'long time no see' instead of the more conventional 'hello', Josh has always had a funny heart, just like now.
"By the way, Alexios, I wonder if you have recovered the eyeball that you stuffed into the sheep**?"
"What? Oh! Maraka! How do you know about this! ”
Looking at Josh's wicked smile, and recalling a little along with what Josh said, Alexios immediately remembered that this was not what he did back then?
When Alexios was still on Kepharonia Island, when he defeated the One-Eyed and saved Barnabas, he directly stuffed the One-Eyed Man's special obsidian eyeball into a sheep's **!
But how did this Josh know?
Alexios looked at Josh in a daze, and suddenly he thought of a very terrible thing, that is, this guy probably existed back in that era! However, in order to be more sure, Alexios chose to give it a try.
"Uh, do you know how many legendary creatures there are in this world?"
"Yes, but didn't you kill them all? By the way, did you convince your biological father or kill him? Otherwise, according to common sense, he should have lived until now, not you. ”
"I convinced Pythagoras, and he gave me the scepter."
"I see?"
Josh nodded, and he suddenly felt that this world would not be the world he used to play games, right?
After all, it was Alexios who appeared, not Cassandra, and he was unexpectedly consistent in his choice of Pythagoras. But soon Josh shook his head, why do you care so much about him? Thinking about so many useless things only adds to your troubles.
"Josh.... Your Majesty. Are you also from that era? ”
"No, I'm not originally from this world. I came to this world just for something that would be very useful to me, nothing more. And you should know who you and the gods of this world are. ”
"Yes, I understand."
Alexios nodded, he wasn't so strange about Josh's origins. Because gods like Josh are all beings in the outside world, and judging from Josh's actions, this guy is likely to just come to engage in faith.
After all, Josh did not run a regime in this world, nor did he interfere with its development line, but simply created a religion.
This is already polite, those gods in the past just don't treat the people of this world as life at all.
"Your Majesty, do you have anything to do with me?" After thinking about this, Alexios asked.
"Well, there are a couple of things that do come to you." Josh nodded, then gave him a serious look before slowly speaking, "First, I need your scepter. ”
"What! That's impossible! You know ....."
"Don't worry, I'm questioning after listening to what I said."
"Okay."
Watching Alexios slowly calm down, Josh nodded and continued, "Second, I want you to join me, of course not here. Instead, go to Minecraft, of course, some subject teachers, I need your rich combat experience and combat skills, of course, in order to make up for your lost vitality, I want to help you replenish it. After all, a dead man can't be a teacher. ”
"Out of this world?" Alexios paused for a moment, he had never thought of any of this.
Josh nodded, and suddenly said mysteriously: "You are a mercenary, a legendary mercenary." So according to the rules of mercenaries, if you pay, you will be paid. ”
"What kind of pay are you going to give me?"
"Well, how about I find a way to resurrect your friends and your relatives? Including Icarus. ”
"What!"