Brendel watched as the crystal spread up the Sage's neck, covering Eleranta's chin, lips, nose tip, and lower eyelids. The latter's eyes that were looking at him were permanently fixed at that moment, forming a whole piece of natural crystal suspended in the universe.
The scene behind the crystal was like a faded photo, as if time had been sealed in it.
The surroundings became quiet, leaving only the rumbling of magic and chaos in the depths of the void, like the howling of the wind, and the sound of the blood pulsing in the walls of the cavity.
Brando remained motionless, the corner of his eyes reflected the halo above the atmosphere of the Wohnde continent. Specks of brilliance flickered in the fluorescent atmosphere, dragging a long tail of flame as they fell to the ground.
A flash of light lit up in the wilderness of the Four Realms. There was no sound in the universe, and densely packed spots of light lit up in succession near the flash of light. Brando blinked, as if awakened by such a scene. He looked at the scene on the continent and finally realized that the countdown to the destruction of the world had just begun.
The sages of the past had sacrificed their lives, but they had only temporarily slowed down its pace. Perhaps it would take a few decades, or ten years, or even a few years. Brando understood that there was not much time left for him, and looked affectionately at the Merchant Lady who was sealed in the crystal. He did not know how the players in The Amber Sword should fight against the will of Dusk, but perhaps the only way was to find the Amber Sword.
The Azure Knight once injured the Twilight Dragon with the incomplete Azure Lance, and in the previous battle, the only thing that posed a threat to Dusk was the Law of the Amber Sword formed by the combination of Halran Gaia, Blade of Golden Flame, Verdant, and Shallow Sea in his hands.
"Wait for me, Roman, I will save you." He murmured, "I promised you that I would make you the biggest merchant in the world, and this time I won't go back on my word."
"Where are you going?" Haku suddenly asked in his mind, "To Fanzin or Madara? Are you going to find the Scepter of Light and the Scepter of Darkness? "
"Let's think of a way to leave this place first." Brando moved his somewhat stiff body. Previously, when he was fighting the Twilight Dragon, he did not feel anything due to the accelerated secretion of adrenaline. But now, the pain seemed to have returned to him. With just a slight movement, a heart-wrenching pain spread through his limbs and bones, causing him to furrow his brows. Large beads of sweat immediately seeped out from his forehead.
"You broke at least three ribs, your left forearm is fractured, and your calf is injured. Most of your injuries were caused when you fought the Twilight Dragon at close range. You underestimated the Twilight Dragon too much. Even if you have a new body and are suppressed by the World Crystal Wall, you shouldn't have been so careless," Haku said with a frown.
When Brando heard her say 'a new body', he felt a little unhappy. That was not a medium that could be changed at will. That was the merchant lady who looked at him with concern in Bucce and asked him with a timid voice, 'Are you alright, Brando?'
She was a living person, not a puppet of the Twilight Dragon, nor was she an incomplete memory. He clenched his fist and did not reply.
Haku, who had thousands of years of experience in human society, was sharp enough to guess what he was thinking when she saw his expression. She sighed softly and said, "I suggest you take a rest. The flow of time here is slower than in Wohnde, and the seal left behind by the four saints is enough to trap the will of the Twilight Dragon for a while. You still have time."
However, Brando shook his head and said, "There's never too much time. Fanzin's Orb of Light is in the hands of the Church. It's easier said than done to get the holy item from Fanzin's descendants. Not to mention the Mercury Scepter and the other holy items that have disappeared without a trace. Who knows how long it will take for us to find them … "
He paused for a moment before continuing, "Miss Tata and the Great Sage have sacrificed their lives for this. How can I let them down?"
Haku did not refute, but reminded him, "It's not necessarily a good thing to have too much on your shoulders."
Brando was stunned. This did not sound like something this woman would say.
"You can think of this as me reflecting on myself. I've spent a thousand years learning this lesson, and the bitter consequences are enough to wake me up."
"You've thought it through?"
"What else can I do?" Haku sighed and said, "In the face of the inevitable fate of this world, the arrogance of mortals is too small. Perhaps I should find something more meaningful to do. You can think of it as me looking for excitement. It's like seeing if you can reverse all of this. It's as if this is the only way to give my dead soul a little vitality … "
Brando sensed a strong sense of world-weariness from Haku's words. He did not know if this came from the woman's personality or her identity as an undead, because the biggest problem with the undead's immortality was that they had a tendency to self-destruct.
Most undead that had existed for thousands of years would become crazy. They would either lose their sense of self and become a completely different person, or they would become the enemy of the world and have the desire to destroy everything.
However, Haku's change obviously did not make him feel at ease. Perhaps the power of the Twilight Dragon to destroy everything had made her lose her original goal, and this was the most dangerous state for her.
"Don't you want to see Metisha?" he asked.
Haku fell silent.
"Maybe there's a chance," she said, "but maybe she doesn't recognize me as her sister anymore. I've been deceiving myself for so many years, but with her intelligence, she must have guessed that I deliberately let her die …"
Brando trembled and almost fell from the void. He never dreamed that his casual words would lead to such a big secret. This woman must be crazy, he thought. The other party suddenly revealed such a big piece of information, and an unintentional bystander like him would be the last person to be silenced.
Moreover, he could clearly feel that the other party's emotions were unstable. She might regret what she said at any time. At that time, she would come back to settle the score with him. With this woman's crazy and stubborn drive, that would really be a big problem.
It was the first time in his life that Brando felt that secrets and rumors were so unfriendly. He wished that this woman would shut up, but he did not expect things to go against his wishes. Haku turned back and asked him, "A sister who killed her own sister, and then killed more people to make up for this mistake. From the beginning to the end, it was just to make myself feel at ease. How can such a selfish person deserve true love?"
"You mean Mr. de Villefort?" Brando was surprised. He did not expect this man to occupy such an important position in Haku's heart.
"That's why I killed him, because I didn't want to see myself deceiving others and myself."
Brando's forehead was sweating even more.
"You have gone into another corner, Miss Tiamas," he hurriedly said, "Maybe you have done a lot of wrong things, but you can't escape death and the judgment of your own heart. One day, you will put your soul on the scale, and those innocent people you killed will naturally pay for it. But self-denial is meaningless. Unless you want to die now, it's better to think about what we should do next —"
"Besides, Metisha did not blame you. You are her sister after all." Brando could not help but wonder how much the little princess was hiding from him. Tiamas's statement and her self-introduction did not match at all. He would rather believe this woman. After all, there were not many people in the world who liked to slander themselves.
"You don't have to be afraid that I will trouble you," Bai Leng said with a smile, "I just thought of these things for a while. You can rest assured that I will not trouble you because of these things. I know that you want to leave this place, and it is actually not difficult. "
Brando thought to himself that it would be strange if he believed her. The personal experience of a certain Mr. Villefort was the best footnote to trust this woman. However, he was quickly attracted by the latter half of her words and asked, "Do you know how to leave this place?"
He really did not want to stay here for a moment longer because it was not the Roman who was sealed here, but the Twilight Dragon. The only thing that left him with the deepest impression was despair and powerlessness. His strength was far from enough to control his own fate. The first meeting with the Twilight Dragon taught him a profound lesson.
The merchant lady who was left there was a scar in his heart, constantly reminding him what he should do. Fortunately, he still had the memory from another world. That soul made him understand that he still had a chance and how to seize this opportunity.
There was no quest in this world that players could not solve.
There was also no boss that players could not defeat.
No matter how sharp Bai was, she could not detect what Brando was thinking at the moment. She nodded and replied, "The easiest way to leave here is of course to fall directly from the elemental barrier, just like the invading forces of Chaos."
"Don't joke around, Miss Tiamas."
"Hmph, since you don't like this suggestion, then there is only the second way. That is to wait, wait until someone teleports you back to the Prime Material Plane. "
"Who would do that?" Brando was puzzled.
"What Eleranta and Miss Sprite sealed was only a will of the Twilight Dragon. Although this will should be the main consciousness of Chaos, now that this consciousness has been forced back to the outside of the world's crystal barrier, where its main body is sleeping in the sea of magic, do you think it will be indifferent?"
"I don't quite understand."
"It's okay, you will understand soon."
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