The Paladin on the Infinite Tour

Of course he knew that he could not completely kill Cheng Lingshuang now, and killing her once was just to vent his anger. Now that Cheng Lingshuang was killed by him once, Fu Hua also knew all the inside stories, and this breath was temporarily relieved.

"So, are you willing to call me [Fifth Senior Sister] now?"

Cheng Lingshuang raised the corner of her mouth slightly and asked with a bit of fun: "Master, you won't forget what she said just now, right?"

"...Of course I haven't forgotten it."

Alexia glanced at the voice message that Fu Hua had sent on her personal terminal and had been converted into text.

[Exia, after taking Ling Shuang’s life, get along well with her. You don’t need to care about my feelings. From my point of view, I don’t want your senior sisters and brothers to be at odds with each other because of the old disputes that occurred more than five hundred years ago]

(Master, master...why are you always so indifferent to your own affairs?)

Regarding Fu Hua's statement, Alexia could only sigh helplessly in her heart, put away her personal terminal and looked at Cheng Lingshuang: "It's okay, but it doesn't mean that I completely forgive you, Cheng Lingshuang. You guys. What the seven people did to the master cannot be uncovered.”

"Su Shang and I will stay in this world for about three months, and there are still two and a half months left. After that, we will return to the master's world. If you want me to call you senior sister, you have to Take good care of the master and give her all the compensation you owed the master in the past."

"Kill me once, do you still want me to work for the master next time?" Cheng Lingshuang raised her eyebrows.

"As a disciple of the master, isn't it natural to take care of the master?"

"..."

Cheng Lingshuang flashed in her mind the figure of her senior sister who had taken care of Fu Hua for thirty years. Among the seven of them, who was the most filial and the most worry-free for the master before that night, it was undoubtedly the senior sister Lin Chaoyu. When the master was away, she managed all the affairs on Taixu Mountain in an orderly manner. At the same time, she is also the most nostalgic. If what happened that night had not happened, she would probably take care of her master for the rest of her life.

"That's right. Lao Jiu, you are right."

After closing her eyes for a moment, Cheng Lingshuang nodded helplessly.

"Master, she is too old. She should have someone to take care of her. After I return, I will take care of Master's daily life."

"That's fine...Senior sister - tsk, I'm still not used to it."

Hearing Alexia's somewhat reluctant [Senior Sister] voice, Cheng Lingshuang suddenly smiled. She hadn't heard this call from senior sister in more than five hundred years. After all, neither Ma Yanqing nor Qin Suyi often went to the desert where she was.

"Lao Jiu, call me again?"

"Don't push yourself too far!"

Now that she has given her a little face by calling her, she still wants him to call her a second time?

He won't scream before returning to his destiny!

Seeing her master and her junior uncle getting along like this, Li Sushang, who was watching from the side, couldn't help but breathed a sigh of relief - it seemed that the relationship was getting better, at least compared to before, nine and a half of the ten sentences were in the same sentence. The situation is much better when it comes to explicit and implicit sarcasm.

"Then, little uncle, what will you do next?"

Li Sushang asked.

"Are you going to find that Athena?"

"Well...it's not impossible to go find her. I still have something left with her. I really want to get it back as soon as possible if possible."

If Athena uses the power of the red dragon to do something, it will probably be very troublesome.

But......

"Anyway, let's go to the Milan Cathedral first to see the situation."

Exia changed the topic.

"The damage there was quite serious before, so I still need to go and see it. In addition, even if you want to find Athena, you need to have a clue. There is probably some remnant of its curse there. Maybe we can use this as a clue. Find her."

Although it is also a way to let the local magicians in Milan perform spiritual vision, but first there was the battle between Salbatorre and Exia, and then there was the attack of Athena who refused to follow, and now there are some influences from China - —They are already very busy, so don’t put more pressure on them now.

We have to choose a safer place to fight Athena later... How about fighting directly in the sky?

(I don’t need to go to such trouble, Prince.)

(Yeah, I know, I just went to see it.)

(...Prince, are you expecting something?)

After a moment of silence, Shajo Aige asked.

But Axia didn't answer.

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That is, while Exia was acting like this.

Another city far away from Milan is Naples.

Athena was walking among the crowd.

At this moment, she still maintains her form as the Queen of the Mediterranean. Her appearance as a seventeen- or eighteen-year-old girl is quite conspicuous among the crowd. Coupled with her goddess appearance, no one will ignore her. She exists - but in fact, ordinary humans cannot see her as the God of Disobedience.

Even if she was walking openly among the crowd, the pedestrians around her would not be able to see her.

[...The next news is about a large-scale thunderstorm in a certain area of ​​China yesterday...]

On the radio placed in the outdoor cafe on the roadside, such news content suddenly reached Athena's ears.

Athena did not care at all about this kind of technology invented by humans. She admitted that during the long period of her sleep, human children developed technologies that far exceeded those of the mythical age. As a goddess who once dominated the Mediterranean area, she herself She was quite satisfied that her territory was so prosperous.

But that's it, it's just this level of technology, and it's just an idea for her to completely destroy it.

But listening to this news, Athena couldn't help but stop.

(Has the thunderstorm in the east... stopped? I see, it seems to be coming back.)

(Very good, this way, the battle that was put on hold can also be done——)

"————!"

Athena was thinking this, but the scene in her eyes suddenly blurred for a moment. At the same time, her brain was invaded by a sense of dizziness. Her whole body couldn't help but swayed on the spot, and someone's voice sounded in her ears.

Covering her head, Athena pouted.

"...Are you here again?"

"It seems that before that, we really need to deal with this dependent from another world."

106. Goddess, witness the path to salvation

It seemed like nearly two days had passed since that night.

During this period, something strange happened to Athena's body. To be more precise, it was after she took away Exia's [Red Dragon]. Of course, she only discovered this abnormality when she was resting later.

Specifically -

【Are you here again? 】

Deeply entering the depths of her consciousness, Athena heard a deep voice as soon as she landed.

Athena looked forward: "Because I have been affected again, before fighting that child again, I think it is necessary to deal with the matter here first. It is considered a state adjustment before the war. Is there any problem? The child of my concubine from another world."

【......】

In front of Athena.

When the ocher dragon—Sekiryu Tei Ddraig—heard her address him, his emerald green eyes flickered for a moment, but he soon became silent.

[Regard all dragons and snakes as their own dependents and children. Goddess from another world, from the perspective of this world, your point of view is correct, but your arrogance, my partner and I will definitely crush it. Those who try to control dragons will surely pay a heavy price]

The current Ddraig is not the real Ddraig.

It should be said that it is a spontaneous projection of consciousness formed by the [Red Dragon] taken away by Athena.

"I will remember this."

Facing Ddraig's intimidation, Athena showed no fear, and then turned her gaze to the other side, looking at another existence in her consciousness field - or, in other words, [memory].

"Qiang————!"

Ears caught the sound of weapons clashing.

His eyes also caught the light of the fire flickering in the darkness.

What caught Athena's vision was a scene of fighting on a desolate land.

The two sides fighting are the Karma Demon holding the Heavenly Fire Sword and the Dragon Man holding the Pure White Spear. As for the place where the two men fought, it was a circular mountain surrounded by darkness.

If you look up at the sky, you can see a blue star in the distant sky.

This is the third time Athena has come here in the past two days.

She is the goddess of the earth, but this does not mean that she does not know where this place is. The wisdom of the goddess of wisdom allowed her to understand the essence of the scene in front of her when she first came here.

The scene in front of me is the embodiment of memory.

Perhaps it was because the power was devoured by Exia's shadow beast before, or maybe part of Exia's power was mixed in when the power was returned, and there was probably a reason why the [Red Dragon] was taken away - Athena I got such a memory that didn't belong to me.

Is the owner of this memory Exia or Ddraig? Athena didn't care. When she first came here, her first thought was to expel this memory from her consciousness.

But she didn't do that.

Because she was attracted.

Athena is the goddess of earth, the goddess of darkness and the underworld, and the goddess of wisdom. This is her at her most original. But she does have the divine personality of the Goddess of War that was added to her body, as well as the divine personality of being the patron saint of many heroes.

She is the goddess who accompanies heroes, gives them blessings and weapons, helps them overcome difficulties and complete trials, and watches immature heroes become heroes.

Even if she becomes the God of Disobedience, even if she returns to her original self, Athena's divine nature will not change.

Therefore, she could clearly understand that the two people fighting were [heroes].

So she didn't expel this memory, but watched the whole process. And similarly, she also learned about the causes and consequences of this memory from Ddraig.

[Exia is a person from another world]

[In order to save your own world, keep going to other worlds to gain strength]

[For a better future, I tried my best to cross the path of salvation of my ancestors]

"Qiang————!"

The sparks from the collision between the flaming sword and the white spear flashed before Athena's eyes.

Then, the scene froze and then slowly dissipated.

The memory held by Athena ended here, but the next moment, after such a memory ended, a large number of memory fragments appeared one after another in front of Athena.

There is not only one memory that came back with the power of the God of Hades, but this one on the moon is relatively complete. The others are just memory fragments that are only a few seconds or tens of seconds long. It's just an intermittent memory content.

But even with only these, Athena was able to piece together the general experience of Exia so far.

[Desire for power in order to catch up with the one you love, and embark on the road to pursue power] - This is undoubtedly one of the many roots of the birth of heroes.

[In order to protect his companions, for the first time he wields a weapon against a powerful enemy that he cannot fight against] - This is the first difficulty that needs to be faced on the road to becoming a hero.

[Making a choice between the righteousness of the world and personal desires, choosing the path of one's own will] - A hero is a person who responds to the wishes of others, and a hero is a person who transcends common sense.

...

The more she reads Exia's memory fragments, the more Athena feels that Exia is a hero.

He may not have such a self-awareness himself, he just thinks that he has done what he should do, and that he has only done what he can do.

But Athena, standing in a third-person perspective, can assert that he is already a hero to his companions, to his lover, and to his world.

This is recognition from the goddess who accompanies the hero.

"...."

Reaching out to the many memory fragments in front of her, Athena crushed them into pieces, and then the world around her changed.

The sound of the waves reached Athena's ears.

Both feet were also soaked by the sea water.

【——】

What seemed to be someone's whisper sounded in my ears again.

Looking at the sea in the distance, Athena bent down, held up some seawater with both hands, and let it drain from her fingers, then raised the corners of her mouth slightly.

"It seems that even if the original snake is retrieved, the godhead imposed on my body cannot be completely faded away. The myths woven by humans... are really hateful and abominable things. "

"But whether it's the acquired godhead or the original concubine. I'm just a concubine, the queen of the Mediterranean, the goddess who accompanies heroes."

"This nature rooted in my body is also part of my body."

【——】

Listen to the whispers in your ears, or rather the responses coming from the inner godhead itself.