Superpower manga artist Kobayashi Narumi

Blood, blood everywhere.

This may be an exaggerated rhetorical device, just used to describe the panic in Salem's heart.

Facts have proved that some Flags cannot be set up randomly.

Lin Chengshi began to recall his last dream.

Salem and Arthur went to the village to attend the celebration banquet together.Eating barbecue and drinking wine.Arthur was a little drunk, and suddenly remembered that the cider he brewed was ready to drink, and he wanted to go back and bring it for everyone to taste.

Originally, Meddy wanted to accompany him back home.Arthur said: "You stay with Salem." He left gracefully.

Then he never came back.

Until Salem and Meddy came, they only found a messy log cabin and Arthur's body in the cabin.

With just one look, Meddy crumbled.

Regardless of the blood stains on the ground, she felt for Arthur's pulse, and put her ear against his chest to listen to the heartbeat that would never be heard again.

Salem just watched from the sidelines with a blank expression.

He felt more absurd than grief.

Isn't Arthur the main character in his comics?How could the main character die?

And it was so easy to die before the plot started.

There are still so many wonderful adventures in Arthur's future. Among them, he has passed by death countless times, but he has overcome all difficulties without any danger.

But if he dies before the adventure begins...

Fittingly, it began to rain.

Salem didn't continue to listen to Meddy's hoarse cry.

With a calm face, he turned and walked out of the cabin, into the rain.

Salem looked up silently, the sky glowed with a strange purple.

He asked silently in his heart: Why on earth is this?

He has already remembered that this day is the day when robbers come to steal.

In his original setting, Arthur was not at home when the robber came.He just came back and found that the house was in a mess and some things were missing.

It's just a passing mention, Lin Chengshi didn't set the specific identity of the robber, he was just a tool man who took away the book "Dragon's Claw Prints in the Snow".

Unexpectedly, when this incident happened, Arthur happened to go home to get a drink, and the two parties met on a narrow road and had to have a conflict.

And Arthur, who hadn't left Novice Village, was killed by a group of unknown robbers just like that.

It's my fault, Lin Chengshi thought.Too much trust in the "plot" designed by himself, paralyzed and careless, forgetting that the existence of Salem is the biggest butterfly effect.

Moreover, the plan he provided to the villagers avoided a direct conflict with the giant bear as much as possible.Arthur even just needs to hold the cub to escape, almost without encountering any danger.

He thought it was to protect Arthur and the others, but it made him miss the experience of fighting with his life for the first time.

Even if nothing happened this time, if they go on an adventure together in the future, I'm afraid he will change the original plot again and again for the purpose of protection, and avoid danger for Arthur and Meddie.

Over time, there will always be situations beyond Salem's capabilities, and sooner or later they will be injured and die.

"Originally, I should be the one who died." Salem murmured.

If Arthur hadn't dragged him to the celebration banquet, he would have faced the bandits directly at home and been easily killed.

But Lin Chengshi would rather be the one who suffered all this. After all, he was only dreaming, and dying in a dream was just waking up from a dream.

"Don't say that!" Meddy's voice brought back Salem's sanity, and she heard what he was talking to himself just now.

Meddy is now in a lot of embarrassment than Seren, her eyes are swollen from crying, she is out of breath from crying, and hiccups.But after hearing what Salem said, she still held his sleeve stubbornly and said, "Arthur won't want you to die."

"Actually, it's all my fault. If only I insisted on accompanying him back just now..." Meddy blamed herself.

Salem is very rational at the moment: "You accompany him back, maybe I will see the bodies of both of you when I come back."

Maddy fell silent suddenly, and her tears stopped.

She seemed to have grown up suddenly, as if she had realized something from Salem's words.

She said, "Yes, it's all because...too weak."

"Even though I have awakened the magic power, I still play around all day long."

"Other friends who have awakened the magic power have gone out to take risks, but I have been staying in the village, thinking that Arthur will be with me."

"If I had become stronger earlier, I would have been able to protect the people I want to protect."

Maddy looked at Arthur's body, and looked away as if she was stung.

The departure of an important person made her put away her weakness.

She fetched the only coir raincoat in the house and put it on Seren: "Saelen, you go back to the village with me first. If the murderer has not gone far, you will be in danger alone."

Metty, who is usually confused, is very reliable at this time.She suddenly realized that the reason why Arthur asked her to stay at the previous celebration banquet was to let her protect Salem.

Then, she will execute this as Arthur's last wish.

"No." Salem refused.

He covered her with the coir raincoat that Meddy had just put on him, and held her arms tightly with both hands: "The robber has already succeeded, and it is impossible to return and throw himself into the net. This is unreasonable. I don't have enough physical strength to go down the mountain." , there is no need to drag you down.

Now you go back quickly alone and explain to your father what happened.Pick a fast horse and deliver a message to the nearest city guard. "

"Even if the laws of the Kingdom of Insects are useless, if there are robbers wandering around, maybe the guards in the city will pay more attention. If the robbers happen to enter that city, they may catch the murderer."

His tone was so calm, as reassuring as a cornerstone, which made Meddy quiet down all of a sudden.

"And I," Salem said, "just for this night, I want to be with him."

Lin Chengshi has realized that after experiencing this incident, everything will change, whether it is the plot or the life trajectory of the heroine Metty.

He needs to be alone to think about what's next.

Lin Chengshi's heart was more angry than sad.

At this time, he realized that his mentality still couldn't get rid of his aloofness as an author.He's more annoyed that the plot has been ruined than empathizes with Maddy.

But he doesn't think he is cold-blooded, because as the creator of this world, he knows very well that in the Continent of God's Grace, the death of a person is not the end of everything.

God's Grace Continent, as the name suggests, is a whole piece of land, which has been jointly governed by 500 countries for 5 years.But more than ten years ago, the Kingdom of the Dragon annexed the Kingdom of the Phoenix, so there were only 4 countries left.

Beyond the land is an endless ocean, except for some islands near the land, and beyond that, there is no place for humans to settle.

For thousands of years, countless brave adventurers tried to explore the end of the sea, but they either returned with regret, or they never returned.

As time goes by, the orcs no longer care about what is at the end of the ocean, but live in this continent of grace with peace of mind.

But of course Lin Chengshi knew what the end of the sea was.

In his setting, the world is like a piece of paper with the living on the front and the dead on the back.

A living person lives on the front side, and when a person dies, his soul will cross the end of the sea and sink to the other side of the world.

So in a way, Arthur is still "alive".It's just that we can't see each other.

As we all know, it is easy for the living to enter the world of the dead. Only a thin blade is needed to capture the soul of the living.But bringing the dead back to life is as difficult as climbing the sky.

The same is true on the Divine Grace Continent.The journey from birth to death is like a river flowing downstream.Sailing against the current is something that violates the laws of nature, and it will inevitably be extremely difficult.

However, even though it is quite difficult, Lin Chengshi still knows several ways to bring people back from the dead.Each of these methods is more difficult to achieve than the other, but they are not without possibility of success.

Even, at this time, in his mind, he already had a plan with a very high success rate.

This is also the biggest reason why he remained calm in the face of Arthur's death.

Without the appearance of Siren, Arthur should have lived in peace until the end of his life, and there would be countless wonderful adventures in his life.

Since he knew that the only variable in this world was his own appearance, Lin Chengshi felt that he was responsible for Arthur's death.

Salem stroked the ring that Arthur had given him, and made a promise in his heart.

He said to Meddy word by word: "Arthur is someone who should not have died here, and I haven't repaid my kindness..."

"So even the gods can't stop me from bringing him back to the world."

At this moment, Salem's black hair was wet, and he was rarely in a bit of a panic.His words were absurd, like a comforting joke.But Maddy somehow felt that Salem was serious.

A shudder of fear ran through Maddy's spine until Maddy returned to the village in dismay, where her father embraced her, wrapped her in a blanket, and led her to the warm fire.Only then did Maddy realize that she had been trembling since she did not know when.

Maddy mistook that for the chill of a rainy night.

Lin Chengshi woke up at this moment.

He gradually had a premonition of when he would wake up.For example, just now, the death of Arthur is such a plot point, it is really suitable to end the episode.

He lay on the bed for a while, and the anger faded when he woke up.For him, the life in God's Grace Continent has become a dream again.

Lin Chengshi got up and turned on the computer, and opened the file about character settings where he had not been for a long time.

The last time he looked at it, an entry was added to the front of this file: "Lin Chengshi: Not set, automatically generated by experience. Pure human, black-haired, black-eyed, handsome boy."

This time, the entry has added a lot of new information.

"Lin Chengshi: Not set, automatically generated by experience. The protagonist of "Divine Favor", alias Sai Lun. Pure human, black-haired, black-eyed, handsome young man. Knowledgeable, physically weak, with a mysterious past."

When opening Arthur's entry, his name has been marked (status: dead).

Lin Chengshi looked at the word "protagonist" on his entry, and said nothing for a long time.

Did Arthur die because he replaced Arthur as the protagonist?Lin Chengshi doesn't like to condemn himself, so he doesn't want to think deeply about this issue.

Now that the matter has come to this, he is more willing to think more about how to revive Arthur and make up for his mistakes.

The phone rang again, and it was Editor Tanaka again, no surprise.

After all, Lin Chengshi drew a popular character to death without even saying hello, and he didn't need to think about it to know that it must have caused a lot of repercussions.

Opening Mengman with ease, Lin Chengshi decided to read what the new chapter said first.