"I once fantasized about ending the war on my own one day and bringing peace to the world."
On the top floor of the Metropolitan Museum in the modern world, there was a small compartment. This was the curator's own secret. No one knew about it except her … Now there was a second person.
Seiber was sitting on a chair with a glass of wine in his hand. Diana was sitting across from him. She was drunk and had a lady's cigarette in her hand. Amidst the lingering smoke, there was a kind of breathtaking beauty.
Time did not leave any trace on this woman, but Saber could see that her heart already belonged to someone. And it was a beautiful feeling that she held on to in her heart … Maybe it was love.
In short, no one could enter her heart.
Therefore, what Seber did was to admire it. That was all. It was just like how people would feel happy when they saw a flower in the garden. Even if they didn't pick it, they would still feel happy. This was what beautiful things could give them. It was a feeling that far exceeded the feelings that physical bodies could give them.
It was also the most beautiful part of emotions, so he chose to be a listener.
"But this is stupid. After I left my hometown and joined the war of mortals, I saw the dark power that came out of their hearts."
Diana looked at Saber and raised the glass in her hand. The latter also raised his glass slightly. Diana drank the glass of wine in one gulp, smiled, and whispered, "Mortals are always like this.
"Mortals are always like this. Every single mortal that I've met has always been like this. The desire for war and destruction hidden deep within their bloodline will always drive them to wage war after war. I killed the previous War God and inherited his authority. However … I hate war."
She looked at Saber.
"Can you understand this feeling?"
Saber nodded and said with some regret, "Of course.
I feel that we are like crickets in a cage, crazily wanting to defeat the opponent. We don't know the reason, and we don't need to know the reason. It is as if there is an invisible hand urging us to do so. We crazily throw bombs on the heads of others and exclude people who are different from us … How stupid. "
He drank the wine in his glass and whispered, "This is human.
"But this is human nature. Without these things that you hate, we wouldn't have survived until now. I'm a supporter of Darwinism! Do you know? There is only one truth that I believe in! "
Saber supported his chin with both hands, looked at Diana, and said solemnly,
"Only those who are able to endure all of this will have the qualifications to continue living. Natural selection, survival of the fittest. If we are eliminated, it can only mean that we are nothing more than this."
"Interesting theory."
Diana extinguished the cigarette in her hand in the ashtray. She let out a long sigh of relief and looked up at the starry sky above her head.
"But later on, I realized … After the person I loved deeply died, I suddenly realized that it was impossible to change everything by being a hero. Humans must be in charge of their own destiny. This is how life is, and so is death. I think this is probably the reason why I can coexist peacefully with the Sorcerer Supreme … We are both observers, just like the eternals who observe the changes of the world in time."
"The world is changing, but we are the only ones who don't change. When something that shouldn't appear appears, we might reach out and give it a hand. Anyway, I rarely participate in human wars now. Those things are meaningless."
She looked at Saber.
"But I'm curious. No matter in which era, people like you are no longer mortal. Why do you still call yourself a mortal? Why do you still stay with them? Are you really doing it for those mutants? "
Saber shrugged.
"This doesn't seem to have anything to do with the answer I'm looking for, but if you are really curious, I can tell you. No! Everything I do is for myself. It has nothing to do with others. "
"Hahahaha."
Diana laughed exaggeratedly, as though Seiber had told a funny joke. She laughed for a full 2 minutes before taking a deep breath. Her intoxicated eyes regained their calmness at this moment. She looked at Seiber and said meaningfully, "You're right, Seiber.
"Act like you don't want anything, don't care about anything, and then use this method to protect the things you cherish? Well … a wise approach. "
She stretched out a finger, pointed at the table in front of her, and coughed softly.
"Okay, let's talk about your trouble. You met two Ultralisks, right? I heard about it from Kamar-Taj. A warrior like you should understand that if you want to defeat a person, you have to understand them first. So, do you know about those two Ultralisks? "
"No!"
Saber shook his head and told the truth: "I'm friends with one of them who is easier to deal with, but I don't know anything about the other one who is more difficult to deal with. I only know that there is a special force wrapped around their bodies, and when they run at high speed, it will make them look like …"
"Light! A light that travels in a straight line, right? "
Diana said the phenomenon before Saber announced the answer. Saber glanced at her and nodded.
"Yes, it's light. My fist can't even touch their bodies, so there's no need to talk about defeating them. And Ancient One gave me a task that I had to complete, which gave me a headache."
"Then why didn't you refuse?"
Diana looked at Saber curiously: "You don't look like the kind of person who will easily accept other people's requests."
Faced with this question, Saber curled his lips:
"Because I owe the Great Sorcerer Supreme a favor. I don't like owing things, really."
"Oh ~ ~ ~"
Diana let out a strange exclamation, her beautiful eyes blinked: "Then it seems that your favor is really valuable, so you owe me a favor now, because I will tell you how to deal with those Ultralisks."
"I'm listening …"
Saber held his chin and waited for Diana to continue. The latter reached out and a book fell into her hand from the bookshelf next to her. She turned a few pages of the quaint book, spread it out on the table, and handed it to Saber.
"Hermes, the messenger of Zeus in Greek mythology. According to mythology, he can travel through every corner of the world in the blink of an eye, but what I want to tell you is, through the appearance of mythology, as far as I know, Hermes is actually the first Ultralisk to appear in this world!"
She poured herself a glass of wine and said softly:
"When I was young, my mother, Queen Hippolyte, would tell me these myths. Of course, at that time, I didn't know that the blood of the King of Gods flowed in my body. She told me that when Hermes ran at full speed, he was like the most gorgeous light. When you saw that light, he was already thousands of miles away."
"And my mother's sister, my aunt, Warrior Chief Antiope, was more rational. When she taught me martial arts, she told me that Hermes' power is actually the manifestation of a basic power of the universe's origin. We have a special word to describe it."
"What?"
Saber put down the book in his hand and looked up at Diana. The latter said softly:
"The power of Ultralisk! One of the walls of the universe's dimension and time. The power you see is the manifestation of the power of Ultralisk. After it chooses a carrier, it will bring unparalleled speed to the carrier, just like light, just like lightning. The carrier will thus become the fastest person in a certain dimension. "
Diana paused for a moment and emphasized her tone.
"They can even be faster than time! Time can no longer bind them, and they will thus become existences comparable to the gods, but note … this comes from the power of Ultralisk, not from the carrier itself. Do you know how Ancient One killed Hermes, the holder of the power of Ultralisk when he destroyed Mount Olympus? "
Saber shook his head. Diana stretched out her hands and made a cutting gesture:
"She used her powerful strength to forcibly construct another small space, trapped Hermes in it, and cut off his connection with the power of Ultralisk. So the lightning-like Hermes became weak and eventually failed to escape the judgment of Ancient One … But you can't use this method. As far as I know, that was also done by Ancient One with the power of the Stone of Time."
"So, for you … you have to use another method."
Diana stood up and jumped gently to the window. Compared to the moonlight outside the window, the wind blew her hair and she looked extremely beautiful. She looked back at Saber:
"To weaken the opponent's Ultralisk, this thing is like a battery invented by humans. Each carrier can hold a limited amount of Ultralisk at the same time. If you take some away, his speed will slow down. If you take away all of it, he will be no different from an ordinary person, but you first have to find a carrier for Ultralisk …"
Saber's eyes flashed, and he asked hesitantly:
"What conditions do carriers need to meet?"
"To be honest, I don't know about this. But if I have to say, the way Ultralisk chooses carriers has always been very mysterious, but it is not untraceable. It seems to prefer those who are extremely fast in a certain aspect, such as the body is very good at running, or the speed of thinking is very fast, or the speed of metabolism is very fast, etc., but this is not necessarily the case. "
Diana showed a helpless smile:
"Ultralisk is one of the mysterious forces in the universe. Even my god ancestors have not been able to study more information about it, but looking at you, you seem to have a candidate in mind?"
"Yes!"
Saber nodded: "I don't need to hide it from you, I do have a candidate in mind, but how should I extract the opponent's Ultralisk? You see, I can't catch him, can I? "
"Use this!"
Diana jumped down from the windowsill and walked to the side of her locker. She reached out and took out a quaint cane. She waved it in her hand.
"The relic of Hermes, the Twin Serpent Scepter. It is one of the manifestations of the concept of speed in myths. Because it has been in contact with the power of speed for a long time, it has become a container that can store the power of speed. Together with the energy-absorption magic that any archmage can use, it can absorb the power of speed within 300 feet of the wielder into the scepter.
Diana's expression became serious:
"You have to be in awe of power. If the carrier you find is not recognized by Ultralisk, he will die miserably, and you may be implicated."
Saber stretched out his hand, and the moment he touched the quaint scepter, Diana's hand suddenly shrank back. She looked at Saber playfully:
"Aren't you forgetting something?"
Roland looked at her and asked in a low voice with some hesitation: "Then what is your trouble?"
"Ares!"
Diana gritted her teeth and said: "That haunting guy is plotting against my hometown. I can't find him, but you seem to have news about him …"
As she spoke, Diana stuffed the scepter in her hand into Saber's hand: "Now you owe me a favor, so help me find him!"
"Just find him?"
Saber shook the scepter in his hand and looked up at Diana: "You don't need me to participate in the battle?"
"No need!"
Diana waved her hand and said confidently: "If I can kill him once, I can naturally kill him a second time, and mortals can't do anything to him … Only a god can kill a god."
"Okay!"
Saber nodded without much hesitation. He put the scepter into the space of his sandalwood fan and looked up at Diana:
"I'll find his servant as soon as possible. For the sake of your strange rope, I think it won't be a problem to find Ares himself."
"Then it's a deal … You can go now, Mr. Saber. A lady is going to sleep. I'll wait for your good news!"
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