Chapter 59

The beginning of civilization is the fire burning in the wild campfire.

In the first millennium after the initial fire ignited chaos and made order and the world appear, the ancient human was born in the plain without forest. This new race walked in the newborn world and watched everything curiously.

At that time, everything had no name.

Because of their aversion to darkness, people imitate thunder and lightning, use hard rocks and dry wood to light the fire of the wild age, and use it to illuminate the dark night without light. In the process of holding torches to explore and identify the unknown world, they name everything without names, use primitive symbols to describe and record strange things.

Gradually, accumulating and using simple language, human beings summed up the laws and logic, and developed the civilization of the Enlightenment era.

Then, the torch passed down from generation to generation and continues to this day.

Falling star, December 11, 831, night.

Four days after the Kuroshio siege.

The cold wind constantly blows the fortress standing in the white snow forest. The soft white snow like goose feather falls on the ground and condenses into a thin frost. Like a silver plate, the bright and clean double moons hang high in the sky, and the bright moonlight spreads on the whole bluestone plank road like flowing water.

The black haired man leads his horse through the street in the night, and quietly follows a silver haired maid.

Looking around the whole fortress, the young Lord's eyes seemed to be able to penetrate the boundless darkness and cold solid walls, and see the flashing fire of life. His young maid looked up curiously at the starry night sky and estimated their number quietly.

The girl's elegant voice reverberated in the silent street, while Joshua focused on the surrounding.

Now, they are at the back of the fort, rows of similar houses lined up on both sides of the street. However, some of the houses are now uninhabited, there is no firewood smoke from the chimney, and there is no sign of the owner's activities behind the window.

In recent days, the Kuroshio seems to be over, and there is no movement. Even if the soldiers go into the black forest to explore, they can't see the wild animals galloping like the black tsunami. Under the sunlight, the purple fog gradually dissipated, and the Black Jungle regained its former tranquility.

In this case, after confirming that this was not a conspiracy, the fortress returned to normal operation. A steady stream of dragon chariots came from the main city to deliver the badly needed food and equipment. In order to hold a requiem ceremony for the dead soldiers, the Reverend atannis of St. Lauren's Cathedral even withstood the freezing winter, With his two apprentices also came to the black forest fortress with the team.

The team led by the Archbishop to the holy mountain of the distant sea has not come back yet, so at present, he is the only one who has the ability and qualification to preside over the ceremony in Moldavia. However, this morning, after burying the people who died in the Kuroshio in solemn silence, the white haired priest left and did not stay in the fortress for a long time.

But before that, he went out of his way to find Joshua and said a word to him.

"Now is the time."

The old friend of the old housekeeper said to Joshua, calm in his eyes: "go and see your father and Van... Although I don't know why, he asked me to tell you this sentence before he left, and said that you should understand what it means after you became Lord for some time."

Joshua certainly knew what it meant.

On December 11, a long time has passed. It has been almost two months since my father died. Now that I have arrived at the fortress, it is time to see them again.

So in the middle of the night, he put on a coat made of white wolf skin and walked out of the house with his maid and horse in the winter fortress.

This is a cold and regular city. Relying on the magic of the mage, the gray white wall that has been roughly repaired once again separates the mountains from the plain. The strong and tall towers stand behind, while the gray green needles of the roadside pine rustle in the cold wind.

There are broad roads, winding streets, stone huts arranged on both sides of them, Castle buildings and granaries. A few soldiers on patrol walk back and forth on the stone roads, and the long-term lamps made of pyroxene in their hands emit a faint white light.

And Joshua's destination is a simple church on the edge of the fortress.

Through several streets, Joshua came to the door of the old building. He looked around, but found nothing. This accident made the soldier show a rare puzzled expression.

"What's the matter? Isn't it here? No way. "

Shaking his head, he left the black outside, and then took the firefly to open the unlocked door and walked into the church."Gee."

As soon as she entered the hall, the silver haired girl let out a cry of surprise. She looked around with some doubts, then frowned and said, "master, this place... Feels a little strange."

The church is not big. There are only less than 40 seats in the prayer hall. There is a layer of gray dust on it. It seems that no one has cleaned it for a long time. In front of the hall, behind the altar, the place where the statue of the holy emblem should have been placed was empty and empty.

But Joshua was very clear that what Ying said was not weird, because he also felt that since he entered the door, there was a strange force around his body, which seemed to welcome him and guide him.

Vaguely, Joshua could even hear a voice echoing in his ear.

"Go ahead."

There was no way to answer his maid's question for the time being, and the same confused soldier could only say: "although it was a memory from a very young age, I was very impressed. I can be sure that it was right here, but I didn't know where the problem was."

So they walked slowly towards the front.

In the process of walking, Joshua can clearly feel that there is a kind of strange energy in the church, which repels any unqualified forces. Even the ubiquitous elements and magic are completely imprisoned and cannot form magic.

The forbidden area.

Even in his previous life, Joshua rarely encountered this kind of situation. Except for some natural Dead magic areas, he had never seen such inert magic suppressed.

However, the forbidden magic area in this church is different from the dead magic area in the extreme environment. The magic here is not so much suppressed as sealed. It is not that they can't form magic, but they can't form magic freely.

As long as the conditions are met.

With the approach of distance, we can feel that the repressive force is gradually becoming stronger, and the source of the force is the square altar made of silver metal.

Before arriving at the altar, Joshua subconsciously looked at the center of it. In the religious code of the disputed continent, when there are believers praying, the altar should be placed with offerings to the gods, and when there is no one, the emblem of the gods should be placed. In a word, no matter what, it should not be left empty.

But there was nothing in the altar, no matter the sacrifice or the emblem. There was only a concave mark like a fingerprint.

"... isn't it?"

Looking at his hand, Joshua did not hesitate for long. He simply pressed his hand into the groove of the altar, and then wanted to see what reaction he would have.

It seemed to sense the arrival of the target that he had been waiting for for for a long time. A gray blue light lit up from the bottom of the altar. It passed quickly like a ripple. In an instant, it swept across Joshua's whole body. Even the firefly behind him was no exception. It was swept by this light.

"Blood confirmation... The lineage of Radcliffe family, with Shenji contract, meets the conditions."

The voice that had been around Joshua's ears finally became clear and audible. An idea came out of the altar, carrying a lot of information into Joshua's mind: "grant authority, channel open."

"From fire, from steel, wisdom never dies, and order never dies."

With the trembling of time and space and the ancient praise, the originally sealed magic began to come alive, and a dark blue door slowly emerged above the altar in silence. It can be seen that behind it there is a piece of black earth, in which countless stone tombstones stand.

Around each tombstone, there is a weapon inserted upside down on the ground. There are knives and guns in them. Almost all the weapons used by human beings can be found in them. They look very broken, and each one has been greatly damaged.

"... so it is. I said why I didn't see it outside. In my memory, it was adjacent to this chapel, but there was nothing around."

Staring at the slowly expanding time and space gate, Joshua understood all the information through the idea in the altar and said in a low voice: "it's here, it's here... No wonder the secret of Shenji and the seal guard hasn't been discovered for so many years..."

With this exclamation, Hidden in the narrow space-time between the Radcliffe family cemetery, so completely appeared in front of him