A foreigner's journey

Claude was in a very strange state at this time, as if two people were fighting for dominance inside him.

It was clear that the buster sword could easily split Jesse's head open with a small downward swing, but one of Claude's two hands holding the sword hilt was exerting force while the other hand was desperately pulling back. His whole body was shaking.

"Claude! What's wrong with you?" Jesse's cry further stimulated Claude, and he only felt an unprecedented pain in his head.

One self wants to kill Jesse and all his companions with a sword, while the other self is holding on to the former self to prevent him from succeeding. The increasingly intense schizophrenia makes him about to fall into complete madness.

The other companions saw that Claude was in an extremely unstable state at this time, and were afraid that their rash actions would irritate Claude, so they could only freeze in place and desperately shouted Claude's name. Alice, the only one with a chance to save Jesse, is too far away to activate her telekinesis on Jesse.

Even though Sephiroth was lying in the corner with broken bones, twists and serious injuries, his face covered with blood showed no pain. Instead, it was filled with a joking and sarcastic smile, and he said lightly:

"Poor Claude, what are you still hesitating about? As long as you kill the girl in front of you, your headache will be gone. Come on, let everything return to normal..."

Cloud's sword had already begun to tremble and be pulled upwards. When he heard Sephiroth's magnetic bewitching voice, a sense of violence suddenly surged in his heart, and the destruction sword was pressed downwards again.

"Yes...that's it. You are just a puppet. No different from those missing bodies that I cultivated in imitation of me. You are a puppet that only belongs to me..."

"Puppet...am I a puppet?"

"Yes, you are not Claude, you are just an unknown rat, my substitute, my shadow. Now, follow the master's order and kill that girl!"

Sephiroth smiled even wider, that's it, letting Cloud destroy his most important thing with his own hands, and then enjoying his desperate expression after he regained consciousness, this is what Sephiroth wanted.

But Sephiroth's bewitching words came to an abrupt end.

Because he saw Heather falling from the sky. It seemed that Heather was not defeated by those summoned beasts, and she didn't even suffer any external injuries. He chuckled a few times, and then said: "Can't even Bahamut and Odin, who are infused with Jenova cells, hurt you? Heather, I am becoming more and more interested in you."

"What a pity. I have a normal sexual orientation and have no interest in you."

Heather landed lightly in front of Sephiroth, showing absolute royal power in her hands and then threw it towards Cloud. Golden light flashed past, and the Destruction Sword that Claude was about to swing was knocked away by the Absolute King. Claude suddenly collapsed to the ground, holding his head and wailing.

Sephiroth failed to see the scene he wanted to see, but he didn't take it seriously: "Haha... Whenever you face a desperate situation, you can always show more trump cards. However, [I] have already got the idea." If you want something and fly far away, if you want to stop it, just hurry up."

Heather looked at her companions who were running towards Jesse and Claude, and said to Sephiroth without looking back: "Stop? No need, it's just the black magic stone. If you want to take it away, you can. But, you and I We all understand that even if we get the Black Magic Stone, it’s not that easy to use it. The place for the decisive battle has been chosen, hasn’t it?”

"Heh... Sure enough... you are not a child of the planet..."

Sephiroth's eyes lit up, and then he slowly closed his eyes, and the surface of his body began to glow with the unique fluorescence of the flow of life:

"Only you...only you...only..."

The voice gradually disappeared, along with Sephiroth's appearance. When the flow of life completely dissipated, what remained in place was a man in black robe with a distorted body, the number 8 tattooed on his arm, and no longer breathing.

The missing body becomes stronger. Sure enough, by absorbing Jenova's mother cells, Sephiroth's own strength increased by leaps and bounds.

Heather did not intend to go to the Ancient Species Temple to prevent Sephiroth from using the key stone to obtain the Ancient Species Heritage, because their speed was far slower than Sephiroth. When they arrived, they would only see the empty ruins and fall into Saphiroth. In the trap set by Feros.

The Ancient Seed Temple located in the vast dense forest at the southernmost tip of the Eastern Continent looks like an ancient pyramid-shaped temple full of history, but its body is actually an unusually large natural black magic crystal. If we interpret the interior of the Ancient Seed Temple to be composed of Seth The mechanism set up by the La tribe can control and reduce the size of the black magic stone, eventually making it the same size as an ordinary magic crystal.

Each magic crystal represents a kind of magic or ability, and the black magic stone is no exception. It has only one function, and that is to cast the most dangerous ultimate black magic that can destroy the planet since ancient times - [Meteor Star].

A long time ago, the ancient Settra tribe discovered this terrible black magic in an accidental experiment. The size of the meteorites that can be summoned by this black magic varies from person to person, but in theory, if it is the most powerful meteorite in history, existence, and can even summon huge meteorites that completely destroy the planet. By then nothing can stop the meteorite from falling, and the fate of the planet will fall into eternal silence.

In order to prevent the black magic stone from being used by others, the Settra tribe disguised the black magic stone into a temple, and recorded this terrible black magic with murals in the deepest part of the temple. Originally, with the ability of the Settra tribe, it would have been impossible for the Black Demon Stone to have an accident. However, two thousand years ago, a disaster came from the sky. The unexpected alien visitor Jenova almost destroyed the entire planet. The Settra tribe Jenova was sealed in the hope of annihilating the entire clan, so naturally he was no longer able to keep and monitor the ancient temple.

The keystone of the temple has been circulated to the outside world, but few people know its function. Originally, Sephiroth didn't know how to open the Ancient Seed Temple, but he smartly realized that Heather was probably a visitor from the outside like his mother, Jenova, and knew many unknown things.

Sephiroth pretended to be chased by Heather and his party and came to the Western Continent, and lurked to secretly spy on Heather's movements. Sure enough, he found that Heather and her friends went straight to the Golden Butterfly Amusement Park. In his opinion, a man like Heather would never suddenly abandon the cause of saving the planet and go to the amusement park to play. He must have a deeper intention.

Then, Sephiroth found the keystone that could open the ancient seed temple.

Basically everything went according to his plan, except that he was a little dissatisfied at not being able to see Claude's wonderful expression after killing his beloved with his own hands. But the most critical thing has been obtained. The next meeting with Heather will be the final battle to determine the future of this planet.

Heather now understands everything and has to admit that Sephiroth is the strongest person he has ever seen in many worlds in terms of intelligence, courage, and combat skills.

Now, even if he uses the murderous knife, Heather is not sure that he can defeat Sephiroth's true form.

The next decisive battle will be in the [Great Hollow in the North]. After Sephiroth arrives there one step ahead of Heather, he will definitely block all exits with a barrier condensed by the flow of life like in the original work, and Heather also needs more Powerful help to defeat the summoned beast army and Warcraft army deployed by Sephiroth at the decisive battle site.

Sure enough, high-end battles in this world still require summoned beasts to take the stand.

Heather put her hands in her pockets and walked towards Claude, already making up her mind.