"Do you mean that your future had already been decided back then?"
Ying asked.
"Is that how you see it? I guess I'm not very good at telling stories. "
Xu Shenxing shook his head regretfully, "Do you have tea here? I'm a bit thirsty from telling it. "
"Uh, if you're talking about the kind of drink made from the corpses of plants, I'm sorry, I don't have any." Ying paused and asked hesitantly, "Is water that contains a lot of magic elements okay? I remember that in the world where I collected water, people called this water the One Heavenly Water. It seems to be very precious. "
"Is that really okay? Let me say this first, I don't have the money to pay you. "
Xu Shenxing said hesitantly.
"It's okay, I took a lot from that world." The girl smiled slightly.
"Oh, how much did you take?"
"About five million tons."
"… …"
You must have taken away all the One Heavenly Primordial Water in that world!
Xu Shenxing felt as if he could see the appearance of the self-cultivators in that world crying after losing their treasures.
Ying brewed a pot of One Heavenly Water for Xu Shenxing, and then brought out a plate of tea for Mo Li who seemed to be a bit impatient.
As for the Crystal Ball Crab that was foaming at the mouth, it was nowhere to be seen. Ying probably took it back into her old leather suitcase.
After doing all this, the girl sat up straight again and waited for Xu Shenxing to continue.
"Actually, you don't have to be so formal." Xu Shenxing drank the so-called One Heavenly Water and stuck out his tongue. He felt that it wasn't as good as Song Yu's tea, "It's getting late, my story is about to come to an end."
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When I held the demon sword and saw the prophecies, I hesitated for less than a second before pulling it out.
Humans always have this kind of wishful thinking, and I'm not immune to it. What if the prophecies were wrong?
Moreover, at that time, if I didn't use the power of the demon sword, I wouldn't have been a match for the Fairy Empress. Maybe I would have been killed in the next blow. I really didn't have the luxury to choose.
However, the moment I pulled out the magic sword, the world seemed to distort in my eyes.
It was hard for me to describe that feeling. It was as if I had mixed rotten meat, the organs of living creatures, and disgusting red mucus together and smeared it all over the world.
After my fear subsided, I could feel that the entire world seemed to harbor deep malice towards me. It was as if a foul stench filled my nose, as if something sticky and rotten filled my vision, and as if a pool of stagnant water was crawling around my ears.
A sense of disgust towards the entire world rose from the bottom of my heart. Everything was dirty and filthy. Irritated emotions filled my heart. Even my thoughts, which were originally blurry due to my heavy injuries, began to become violent. I couldn't help but want to tear everything I saw and heard into pieces.
The first to suffer was naturally the Fairy Empress who was closest to me.
Even now, I don't know how miserable the Fairy Empress' death was. After all, at that time, I had almost completely lost my mind.
I could only vaguely see a repulsive monster roaring as it pounced at me. But, at that time, I had already obtained the power of my magic sword. The monster's movements seemed to me as if they were being played in slow motion sixty-four times the normal speed.
As the madness gradually calmed down, I could see the wriggling shape of every piece of flesh as it pounced at me, the trajectory it slowly drew in the air, and even the green mucus oozing out of its body. Everything was so clear and distinct.
Almost instinctively, I swung my sword and cut off the monster's head. But because it was a monster that didn't have a fixed shape, I wasn't sure if it would still be alive after its head was cut off.
So I cut off every piece of flesh from its body.
After easily chopping up the 'filth' in front of me, I began to move.
Although my Berserk Madness had stabilized, that state of 'sober madness' could still be seen as a form of delirium. At that time, I had spent most of my time in a half-awake state. However, my desire to save Gove … perhaps it was an obsession. At any rate, this thought still drove me towards the Sirius Tree as quickly as possible.
It was worth mentioning that even with the help of the dragon, it took me nearly two hours to rush from the Sirius Tree to the Castle of Trees. But with the demon sword, even if I ran on my own feet, it only took me a very short time to return to the Sirius Tree.
But the situation didn't get better because of the passage of time. Instead, it got worse.
My body, which was already on the verge of exhaustion, was constantly recovering and even becoming stronger. But the mental torture was pushing me to the brink of collapse.
The twisted and horrifying things around me were wearing away at my sanity. The sky was a strange dark red, and it was filled with blood-red holes that looked like eyes. The soft ground, which should have been covered with fragrant grass, had become as soft and sticky as a creature's internal organs. The air was filled with a nauseating stench, and there was not a single normal creature in sight. There were creatures that were even more disgusting than monsters like the Butcher.
An uncontrollable desire kept gnawing at my heart. It made me take out the demon sword and punish the entire world. And the feeling of holding the strongest power in the world in my hand clearly told me that if I really did it, I could definitely do it!
It took almost all of my wits to resist the temptation of this manic impulse.
I ran to the place where the Sirius Tree was. There were two distorted monsters whose faces couldn't be seen fighting.
I raised my hand and swung my sword at them.
The bigger one was instantly killed by me with a raise of my hand, but the smaller one was lucky enough to survive my slash.
I didn't know if it was because I hadn't fully grasped the power of the demon sword, or because I vaguely felt something at that time, so I didn't really kill the smaller monster.
But even so, the smaller one seemed to have suffered a considerable amount of damage in the battle just now. It was very weak. I was afraid that even if I left it alone, it wouldn't be able to live for long.
Just as I was about to kill it with the thought of ending its suffering, I noticed something wrong. After the monster saw that I was the one who attacked it, it didn't dodge my sword. On the back of this distorted meaty monster, there was a white hairband tied to its tentacle-like organ.
That was the hairband I personally tied on Govie's hair.
So, my sword didn't land on the monster's body. Instead, I ruthlessly stabbed my left palm. The tip of the sword pierced through my entire palm. To be honest, it was so painful that I almost cried.
But it was this kind of heart-piercing pain that cleared my mind and freed me from the illusion. The dark red that covered my entire field of vision quickly receded like the tide. As expected, the monster in front of me wasn't a meaty monster, but Govie.
At this time, the girl's right arm was broken at the elbow. The wound seemed to have been burned by the high temperature, and it was in a charred state. I didn't know if she did this to stop the bleeding, or if it was purely an injury she received during the battle.
Her elven dress was also dyed red with her own blood. Other than her right arm, there were several wounds on her body. Her originally rosy little face was now extremely pale due to excessive blood loss.
Her legs had begun to wither from the tips of her toes, and the withering continued to spread upward. I could feel the girl's life burning like firewood, and then turning into magic power. This was probably the price she had to pay for stalling the butcher.
Even if I didn't have any medical knowledge, I could tell that the girl seemed to be on the verge of death.
I threw away my magic sword and pulled her into my arms. I wanted to use my pitiful knowledge of first aid on Earth to save her.
But unfortunately, I found that I didn't know where to start.
"Ah, ah, I knew you would rush back before the end." She used her remaining left hand of her four limbs to gently touch my face.
I could feel her life slowly fading away.
Bit by bit, irrevocably.
"Don't talk, I will bring you back to the mercenary group's encampment to find a Priest to heal you."
I said.
The girl shook her head.
"Actually, I am very timid. The more battles I have experienced, the more afraid I am of battles. Because every time I see life fading away, I feel that life is so fragile. So, when there are more and more important things in my heart, I become more and more afraid of death, afraid of losing those important things. "
She gasped for breath. Her weak state made it impossible for her to finish too many words in one breath.
"But, when there is something far more important than those things in the past, I suddenly realize that even if it is just to protect that thing, I will be filled with the courage to fight."
"Xu, you are my courage."
"Don't say anymore. Don't worry, nothing will happen." I felt that my voice was choked up.
No matter how strong the magic sword was, it couldn't save the girl in my arms.
"Yes, I believe in you." Her voice became even softer and weaker, "If it is you, you will definitely be able to save the world. To everyone, saving is irreplaceable, the most important thing. Because — — "
There was no follow-up.
The girl stopped breathing in my arms.
That pair of beautiful emerald eyes became cloudy. Her beautiful face no longer had that cheerful, lively, and charming smile. Her yellow-green hair also lost its former luster … I couldn't even properly braid her hair once.
From that moment on, I carried the 'first promise': No matter what, I will do my best to save the world.
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"Do you love her?"
Ying secretly peeked at Xu Shenxing's expression.
However, Old Xu maintained a poker face as he drank the heavenly treasures that she got from god knows where. There wasn't a hint of sadness or joy on his face.
Mo Li quietly hid the snacks in his storage space, as if he was planning to eat them later …
"If you had asked me back then, I would have probably thought that I loved her. But now, I can clearly tell you that I only like her, but I don't love her. " Xu Shenxing put down the teacup and slowly said, "Because only after experiencing it, can you truly understand that love isn't such a cheap word."
"Is that so?"
Ying tilted her head. She, who was born as a cancer of the world, didn't really understand the word 'love'. However, what was interesting was that in many different worlds, intelligent creatures seemed to have similar feelings. Even those that didn't need to reproduce (such as the hermaphrodite Lux race) were the same. That was why she asked out of curiosity.
"Yes." Xu Shenxing replied decisively, "There isn't much left to the story, so I'll make it short and tell you all at once."
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After burying Ge Wei under the Sirius Tree, I took the demon sword to the battlefield.
I don't know if it was because Ge Wei's death was too much of a shock to me, but the demon sword's bewitching power didn't affect me anymore.
At that time, I stubbornly thought that my heart was already dead, so the demon sword couldn't affect the relationship between inanimate objects.
But now that I think about it, it was very likely that my Hero's Power had already awakened at that time, and had already surpassed the power of the demon sword, so its influence was completely wiped out.
When I arrived at the battlefield, the Battle of Dawn had already reached its climax.
The battlefield unavoidably expanded.
Because Her Royal Highness had turned the feint into a real war, the human kingdoms had no choice but to invest more forces to prevent the Demon King's Army from swarming in and directly devouring the last human territory after the army was defeated.
At that time, the human race would truly be wiped out.
I don't know the situation in the early stages of the Battle of Dawn, but I think that there were definitely many heroes who stood up under the leadership of the princess and fought for the future of the human race.
It was the first time that the demon king's army couldn't take down the human resistance for a long time, so they thought that it was because of the princess who led the resistance.
Thus, they used a method similar to besieging the reinforcements and set up an encirclement. Then, they attacked where the princess had to lead the resistance's main force into the encirclement.
Even if it was an encirclement, the demon king's army would have to expend a lot of manpower to eliminate so many of the human's forces. Thus, they chose a more simple and crude method: they set up a powerful magic formation around the encirclement.
The magic formation itself was a one-time use item, but the power it released was close to that of a forbidden spell. Even the high ranking officers of the demon king's army in Oravia would have to retreat in the face of this level of power, let alone mere humans.
Thus, even if the princess discovered that something was wrong and wanted to lead her subordinates to escape, as long as they couldn't break through the encirclement in a short period of time, it would be futile.
… Of course, this was what I learned from the staff officers after the war.
In short, I just happened to arrive at the encirclement when the main force of the human resistance was about to be wiped out by the forbidden spell. When I appeared, I slashed the forbidden spell with my sword, causing it to bounce into the demon king's army formation, causing great damage to the demon king's army.
Although I sounded like I was blowing my own trumpet, the fact that I blocked that attack was probably like a divine soldier descending from the sky in the eyes of the Human Resistance Army. Their morale was instantly boosted to an explosive level.
The princess, who saw the opportunity, immediately led the army to break through the encirclement and successfully escaped from the enemy's encirclement.
After that, I told the princess a little about what had happened and joined the human resistance. As the vanguard, I caused considerable damage to the demon king's army in several battles.
In addition, I don't know if it was the princess who deliberately promoted my identity as a hero, but it made me even more popular among the human survivors. Gradually, some unique fellows began to gather around me. Finally, we formed a strange little team. This is a matter for the future, so let's not talk about it for now.
Just like that, with the Battle of Dawn as a turning point, the humans began to gradually recover their lost land. The demon king's army, which was originally regarded as invincible, was defeated again and again, and the myth of invincibility collapsed.
Thus, the other races who had lost their homes gradually united under the banner of the humans and fought against the demon king's army together. No matter what, the humans were the natives of Oravia. Even if they had some disagreements with other races in the past, that was Oravia's own matter. Compared to the invasion of the demon king's army, that was just a small matter. It was like two brothers fighting over a house. Of course, they would first kill the outsider who wanted to snatch the house …
As for my magic sword, after I used it to kill thousands of demon king's army monsters, people selectively forgot its original name and began to call it the Sacred Sword.
Shining Sacred Sword – Harakti.
At the same time, it was the first Sacred Sword I owned.
From then on, I vaguely understood.
The nature of prophecies …
After that, as I walked further and further down the path of the future, I received many prophecies in various forms more than once. Many prophecies even said that I would destroy the world … Alright, I admit that I have had similar experiences. But more than 90% of them didn't come true because I wouldn't sit and wait for the prophecies to come. Instead, I would use my own actions to surpass the prophecies.
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"That's pretty much all I wanted to say."
After drinking the water in one gulp, Xu Shenxing put the cup back on the table, "If there are no other questions, I'll be leaving first. Mo Li, let's go. "
On the other side, Lux, who had been on standby for four chapters, was also getting impatient … Maybe if he waited any longer, he would have mitosis.
"Mr. Xu, will you be able to surpass the prophecies this time? … Isn't this a completely different situation? "
Ying was still a bit worried and asked.
"As expected, I didn't make it clear enough?"
Xu Shenxing, who had walked to the exit, stopped and caused Mo Li, who was following behind him, to bump into his waist.
Then, Xu Shenxing turned around and said with a grin, "It's not about whether or not I can surpass the prophecies, but I will definitely save all of the worlds. This is how I, Xu Shenxing, live. "
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