St. Valentine's has been teleporting back and forth in the Strange Objects and Visions Society, and his luck is not very good, he has been to many occasions where Flores may appear, but he has not found the other party.

Flores didn't seem to be in the Society's infrastructure, so after searching for the last research department, he decided to search for Flores in the outskirts of the country that had been destroyed by [Leviathan Creatures].

Flores is the only person he has ever decoded in the anti-mi-lock, the anti-mi-lock that utters "You don't know anything" at any time, and which contains a cluster projection of the whole of Iberia.

Yes, the chains of the Anti-Mi Mu constructed with the power of the Iberian nation.

And generally this level of anti-Mi lock is used to seal the unspeakable fundamental secret, such as... The roots and origin of the Iberian genealogy.

At this moment, the huge EVE particles in St. Valentine's body, in front of him, an even greater distortion effect appeared, and through the [Divine Walk], he once again crossed half of the new island of Lisbon with the way of aether shuttle.

Shout!

In just an instant, the figure of the first sword-wielder in the Kingdom of Heaven disappeared again.

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The new Lisbon Island Hub, the Edge Forest.

Deep in this dark and ancient forest lies a Gothic-style library.

Standing on a solemn piece of land, the library is carefully framed from hard limestone and black granite, and the library's façade is covered in thick vines and moss, giving it a sense of mystery and history. Its façade is a huge arched door carved with intricate patterns and mysterious symbols; It is flanked by towering minarets adorned with sharp spikes and flying stone beasts, as if guarding the secrets of the library.

The windows of the library are sharply arched and decorated with delicate stone carvings, and the windows are glazed with colorful stained glass that reveals a mysterious light.

The breeze brushed the willows on either side of the library, and a handsome man dressed in a black clergyman's robe, holding a book in his right hand and a black umbrella in his left appeared out of thin air, his amber eyes surveying the library surrounded by a circle of stone walls overgrown with climbing vines and wild flowers.

Around the library, there are also some ancient statues, which quietly guard this mysterious building.

"The Mithril Colossus." The first sword-wielder in the kingdom of heaven murmured in his heart.

Crafted from Mithril by ancient alchemists, these golems reach a height of three meters and possess great strength and defense. They held ancient greatswords in their hands, the body of which was studded with mysterious runes, and the tip of the sword shone with a terrifying light. Each golem's eyes are studded with red gemstones, as if they are the source of their mysterious powers.

St. Valentine simply looked at the Colossus, and then walked inside without haste, not hiding his presence and aura at all.

And as he stepped into the library, the ruby eyes of the golems around him glowed with a warning red light.

[Unauthorized persons! 】

[Warning!! 】

[Warning!! 】

【Please leave here immediately!】 】

The golem's ruby eyes burst out with a strong luster, and a solemn atmosphere enveloped the entire library, St. Valentine didn't care about this, and still walked in the direction of the library. There was an unsettling atmosphere in the air, and the silence seemed to hide the impending storm.

[First warning! 】

When the first warnings echoed between the ancient walls, the golem's sword-holding hand began to tremble slightly, as if it were a premonition and preparation for the upcoming battle.

The black-robed priest still walked inside with a blank face, ignoring the warnings of the golems around him that resembled a small tactical corps.

【Second warning!】 】

A second warning shook the space, and the golem's eyes began to flash more intense red lasers. Their gaze seems to pierce everything, locking on the enemy's location and intentions. In this powerful energy, the entire library seemed to shake.

There is still no stagnation in the progress of progress.

[Third Warning!! 】

When the third and final warning echoed through the air, the golems unleashed their true power. The lasers in their eyes were like sharp swords, shooting fiercely at the intruders, and a strong sense of oppression filled the air.

At the same time, the golems clenched their greatswords and walked towards their enemies in a bulky but powerful gait, their movements showing the feeling of being weightless, even though their bodies seemed large and bulky.

In the face of the speeding laser, St. Valentine's expression remained unchanged.

However, the space around him began to subtly distort, and an incredible force formed around it, as if it were an invisible barrier.

The lasers rushed into St. Valentine's face, but when they came into contact with that incredible force field, the laser's trajectory began to change.

Instead of shooting in a straight line, they begin to slow down gradually, distorting and reflecting at the same time. Under the effect of the distortion of space and the ability of recursive reflection, the laser seems to be trapped in a never-ending labyrinth.

And the golems around them who swung their swords at the first sword-wielder of the Heavenly Kingdom and beheaded them, their attacks strangely failed.

The golems around them were wielding their greatswords in front of St. Valentine in an unusually comical manner, but their swords were missing, making them look like clowns in a mime show.

St. Valentine ignored the clown-like golem and continued to walk inside.

Unlike the fourth sword-wielder in the kingdom of heaven, St. Valentine's evaluation in folk and thaumaturgical circles is relatively good.

Most people who mention St. Valentine will say that he is lonely, like a lonely pine tree, selfishly isolated, growing upwards, standing there, not even a projection, only a lonely wild pigeon nesting on his branches.

Because he is the foresight of melancholy, he is the executioner of the slaughter of believers, he is the martyr who makes the leap of faith, the terminator of the church's destruction.

For the story of the fall of the church and the slaughterers, there is a corresponding hymn circulated in the choir within the Kingdom of Heaven [Chungheiwon].

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Once upon a time, Heaven opened the land flowing with milk and honey to mankind.

Supremacy delegates authority to the secular church.

The mission of the church is to make Terra no more tears, no more pain, no more sorrow, no more separation.

Angels share the glory with the church, and death will eventually be overcome by the kingdom of heaven.

Unfortunately, when the authority fell into the world, the four devils began to peep into the supreme authority, and the holy ones of the church began to be tempted by the devil.

When the four demons took the form of men, and entered the holy city of the world, the Holy One who had bewitched the church stood on the top of the temple and said to him, 'If you are anointed in the kingdom of heaven, you can jump down, for it is written in Eden, 'The kingdom of heaven commands its angels for you, to bear you by the hand, so that your feet do not touch the stones.'" ’

Faced with the words of the four devils, the Sage refused.

Thus, the four demons corrupted the Holy One, and the Church began to sink.

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The four demons in the poem refer to the four monarchs, and the four demons in the poem ask the saints of the church to jump from the top of the temple of the holy city, which is just a symbolic metaphor, and his real meaning is a faith, a belief in the idea of heaven, and a belief in mankind itself.

When St. Valentine took the hilt of the [Spear of Arden] and became the first sword-bearer in the kingdom of heaven, when he went out to purge the fallen church, he asked his comrades who were corrupt and depraved without knowing it:

"Will you be able to make a leap of faith for the idea of heaven and for the idea of humanity?"

Those who seek the banner of heaven must believe in or accept something without any reason and beyond reason.

St. Valentine's beliefs and ideas, like his authority and faculties, are divided into three beings – the ego and cognition (sensibility/id), morality and ethics (reason/ego), and the transcendence of man (religious [belief]/superego).

The emotional part, they are hedonists, passionate about life experience, they are creative and feel that the world is full of possibilities.

The rational part, they are realistic, full of responsibility and responsibility for the world, and clearly understand the moral and ethical rules of the world. The rational part knows that the world is full of limitations and impossibilities.

People are always involved in the 'self'.

In the face of impossibility and doubt, the rational self can only give up and avoid, which is also the so-called recognition of reality, and this recognition will make people feel from the bottom of their hearts that they will lose something forever and grieve.

There is always a strong desire, but people do not know what they are hoping for, and they are not ready to mobilize their forces to discover it, because that would mean that the individual would have to free himself from the life in which he was entangled, and the 'rational part of the self' would not be able to hope.

This is the 'melancholy' that St. Valentine had an insight into.

Melancholy is mental hysteria.

This melancholy is terrifying, especially when the Four Sovereigns gaze at humanity, it will turn deadly.

The church is sinking because of the self.

The melancholy person is immersed in the external object he gazes at, allowing him to acquire a way of contemplation with the nature of interpreting symbols while detaching from the world: melancholy becomes a contemplation of the connections and cracks between symbols and meanings.

And this is tragic, what Heaven is pursuing, what it seeks, what it hopes for, is the idea that "everything is possible", not the self that everything is real.

In the face of that sinking, hysterical melancholy.

Only by relying on the leap of faith can people complete self-transcendence, witness the superego, and use the power of faith to overcome doubts and impossibilities, and the unknowable.

Only by looking at the absurdity of faith can one regain the hope that "anything is possible".

Faith is not under the control of reason (self), faith is the most ardent and noble passion of human beings.

When you leap forward, you will naturally believe, because by then you have already completed the transcendence of yourself.

So, when the Four Devils once again tempted the First Sword Bearer of Heaven in the same way that he tempted the Holy One of the Church to perish, he made a leap of faith and said like a martyr:

"Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God."

The key to facing temptation is not to make a physical leap, but to make a spiritual leap, and when you make a leap of faith, don't question your superego, because when you make a leap, you are already a martyr.

You will walk in your way, because as soon as you know what cause you are depressed, your depression will be expelled.

Melancholy is a sin.

It is the kind of sin that has no deep, inner hope, so it is the mother of all sins.

Like the Lord of the stars, the God of Blindness and Foolishness, whom is hated by Heaven, He is the sin of all sins.

He wanders outside of black and white, hovering between the lines of chaos, and this indescribable condition is the untraceability of sin, and the pain is the inability of sin.

He has made mankind lose its profundity, so that because of Him, mankind cannot be based on any worldly experience and thinking.

He makes existence itself empty, without movement.

The stars and the gods, who brought nothingness to humanity, and humanity lost its existence because of them.

Heaven hates this nothingness and meaninglessness.

From the soul, the hatred that goes deep into the marrow.

This hatred gave birth to the sword-wielding.

The nothingness of the gods encroaches on human existence, and the kingdom of heaven must surrender the meaning of existence to human beings.

Just as the first sword-wielder in Heaven has insight into melancholy, the fourth sword-wielder in Heaven pursues superman.

Humanity must exist, and humanity cannot be reduced to nothingness.

It has nothing to do with the so-called good and evil, just because, human beings must exist!

And at this moment, at the beginning and end of time.

Superman's will is pursuing a fragment of eternal reincarnation, and the Knight of Faith has come to the shattered land of truth.

As St. Valentine's footsteps stepped over the golems playing like clowns, a cold wind suddenly struck.

"Roar—"

The sky was suddenly covered with dark clouds, and above the forest, an avatar appeared, tall and muscular, surrounded by the cold north wind.

It was a burly man, with broad, strong wings, his hair and beard unkempt as if blown by a storm, and he wore a flowing cloak that fluttered in the wind like the embodiment of a cold north wind.

After the [Juggernaut Incarnation] came out, the north wind began to roar.

A violent storm swept through the forest, and the trees that had been quiet swayed in the storm, as if moaning.

Then, the snow began to pour down from the sky, covering the world like an endless white curtain.

In just an instant, the avatar turned the entire area into his Winter Domain.

With this rapid coverage of elemental energy, if the night was still alive, he would definitely be crushed and kneaded by this [Juggernaut] unilaterally in the elemental authority.

At this moment, the cold wind is bitter, the snowflakes are flying, the land is covered with a thick layer of snow, and everything is plunged into cold and silence.

Even the most powerful creatures would feel helpless and uneasy in the face of this icy force.

In the face of the sudden appearance of the power of the Juggernaut Incarnation, the forest and the library were rapidly transformed into a world covered in ice and snow.

Thundered!!!

The sky was covered in dark clouds, and countless violent hailstones smashed towards the first sword-wielder in the kingdom of heaven as if they had been summoned.

St. Valentine stood silently in the wind and snow, facing the hail coming from all directions.

When the attack came, the Juggernaut Incarnate, who had been hiding in the gap between nothingness and reality, appeared behind him.

It was a tall and mysterious [Juggernaut Incarnate], his eyes were as deep as the dark universe, full of endless sorrow and loneliness, his hair was as black as the night, gently drooping, leisurely, and his appearance was ninety percent similar to that of St. Valentine.

The costume of the angel avatar is made of a mysterious cloth that seems soft but tough, and the color is also predominantly black, embroidered with mysterious symbols and patterns in pale gold. Around him, there is often a chill and a faint shadow, as if his presence is permeated in the air.

The wide and heavy wings behind the avatar spread violently, the color of the feathers was a deep inky black, and the edges of the wings shimmered with a faint light, as if hiding an unknowable power.

【Juggernaut Incarnate Cassiel】

This is the swiftness of God, and the wrath of heaven.

When Cassirer appeared, a black and pure white crown appeared from the back of the angel's head.

The Speeder's robes began to glow faintly, and a mysterious and powerful force began to surge around it.

A huge force field shrouded all around, and every hail was surrounded by a wonderful force when it came into contact with [Cassirer]'s power field, and their trajectories began to become distorted and complicated.

The hailstones, which had fallen in a straight line, began to reflect and refract endlessly under the action of this force.

The hail forms a mysterious loop around the force field, and they are reflected back into the air, then they hit the force field again, they are reflected again, and so on.

In this mysterious recursive reflection, the hail is infinitely consumed and weakened until it disappears into the wind and snow.

"Do you know the price of wielding a blade at a human miracle?"

St. Valentine asked sincerely, looking at the mysterious avatar suspended in the sky.

Qiang –

The answer to the first sword-bearer in the kingdom of heaven was a brilliant sword light.

The light of the knife carried a huge mythological fluctuation, which made St. Valentine's bland amber eyes reveal a little surprise.

He knew this Dao sword light, which was the fifth heavenly slash of Iberia [the mystery of the supreme art], the morning star and the evening star.

The reason why he was surprised was because in the thirteen heavens of Iberia, the [Slash of the Morning Star and the Evening Star] of the fifth heaven contained a conceptual slash, which was a pseudo-inevitable blow that penetrated the essence and then infinitely iterated.

One of Cassirer's powers is called the Basis of Infinite Recursion, which allows any target to never fully reach where it wants to go.

The target will find itself constantly approaching its destination, but there will always be a tiny distance that cannot be covered; It can warp space, cut time periods, and make it extremely difficult for enemies to move around an area, even if they are moving at breakneck speeds, it will feel like they are moving slowly.

Any attack against the user or double will be reflected and diminished until the attack power is reduced to nearly ineffectiveness.

This is like the most famous Zeno's tortoise, Achilles kept chasing the turtle that was one step ahead, Achilles was able to quickly run to the place where the tortoise started, but at this time the tortoise also moved some distance forward.

When Achilles runs to the tortoise's new position, the tortoise advances a little more, and so on, and Achilles may never be able to overtake the tortoise during the time it is cut, because whenever Achilles reaches the tortoise's position, the tortoise will move forward a little.

It sounds like this ability is just as much of a bug-level authority as a certain golden retriever's [Mobius Ring].

However, there is no avatar of absolute invincibility in the world.

Whether it's an infinitely decreasing sequence or a method of finding limits, as long as you can observe the warp field, you can try to break through [infinite recursion].

In the thirteen heavenly mysteries of Iberia, the slash of the fifth heaven happens to be a conceptual slash that pursues the limit.

Bang –

The brilliant light of the sword tore through the [Principle of Infinite Recursion], and just as the defense of this concept was torn open, an old man with white hair with a broken sword in his right hand and a flintlock pistol in his left hand appeared from the snowstorm, and he now pointed his gun at the first sword-wielder in the kingdom of heaven, and pulled the trigger of the flintlock pistol in his hand.

He whispered a mysterious incantation, and the muzzle of his gun began to gather with a glow of ancient runes.

"Huitzilopochtli!"

The occult bullet containing the terrifying [mythical factor] was inspired, and it streaked through the air in a brilliant trail of light, imbued with the power and mystery of the sun god.

[Solar Glow: Left Striker!] 】

The bullet was fired at the First Sword-Wielder of Heaven with an irresistible force, piercing through all obstacles in the air.

"Bang!"

A loud bang echoed in the night sky, and the bullet of the [Left Blade Bird] hit the target, blowing up the head of the first sword-wielding man in the kingdom of heaven.

Fragments of blood and energy splattered in the air, and an atmosphere of shock and despair permeated the battlefield.

"Ahem, cough, ·····"

Looking at the headless corpse falling to the ground, Diego Flores, who had been hiding in the wind and snow, preparing for this deliberate blow, finally couldn't help the throbbing of his heart and began to cough up blood frantically.

The [Left Blade Bird] just now had already emptied the [phase] of the natal thaumaturgical gun that he had not used in the past ten years, looking at the first sword-wielder of the Heavenly Kingdom who fell to the ground in front of him, Flores's heart was full of dreams and a sense of confusion, and the [Boreas], the incarnation of the [Winter Domain] above his head, had slowly descended on his side at this moment, sheltering his master.

Looking at the headless corpse in front of him, Flores let go of the fingers holding the gun in a decadent manner, let the hand fall to the ground, and said bitterly:

"I know, it's impossible, I just don't get it. Obviously, I have never seen you face to face, but when was I affected, even if the five senses can be deceived, but how my own spirituality and distortion field were deceived, when, when did you use [Mirror Flowers]. ”

"When did you get the illusion that I didn't use [Mirror Flowers]?"

A flat voice came from behind the decadent old man, and [Boreas], who was guarding the old man's side, quickly turned around, his hands were covered by [Fury of the North Wind], this ability can summon a strong north wind, this wind can freeze everything, including the enemy's stand-in and the surrounding environment.

When [Borias] left, [Cassirer] already held a brilliant longbow in his hand.

Cassirer, he is the Speeder.

He is the embodiment and authority of the first sword-bearer in the kingdom of heaven, and he represents the wrath of heaven.

The wrath of heaven turned authority into a weapon in its hands: a lightning-loaded sword, (shouting "Destruction!") A devastating bow that wields the power of storms, light, and winds - he will use this weapon against those who are not fit to see the supreme.

At this moment, the authority representing the storm was on the line, and when Boreas tried to resist, Cassirer let go of the bowstring.

Boom –

The Storm Arrow directly shattered the authority of [Boreas], and wiped the opponent's cheek, and the intense and turbulent energy flashed away, leaving a trace of destruction on his cheek.

The sky flashed with blinding light, and the arrows pierced the sky like a bolt of lightning, shooting towards the clouds of the heavenly dome.

The sky was shaken by this powerful force, and the clouds were churned, forming huge cloud scrolls.

Thunder and lightning echoed through the clouds, and the entire sky seemed to be torn through a huge opening.

A strong sense of energy and oppression enveloped the entire world, and the power of the storm raged in the sky.

In the midst of the lightning and the wind, all the inhabitants of the Nexus trembled,

And the first sword-wielder of the Heavenly Kingdom who delivered this blow was looking at the enemy who was constantly coughing up blood from the old man who was kneeling in front of him, and said in a flat tone:

"I can just play with everything just now. I'm here just to find answers, don't come to me if you ask for death, I don't like to kill people very much. ”

Looking at those amber eyes, after a long time, Flores once again felt the hegemony and irresistibility of the sword-wielders from the heavens.

His all-out blow, his all-out, his all-out efforts are just a painless joke in front of the other party.

(End of chapter)