The final chapter The door that connects the past and the future
Yara continent, a neutral place, a knowledge capital, and a central business district.
It is early spring again. The warm wind from the north blew away the cold that was entrenched in the capital of knowledge for a winter. The fresh tender leaves crawled over the branches, bringing the breath of spring to the streets and alleys. On the ground, the green grass that had been dormant for a long time broke the shackles of the soil and rejuvenated a new vitality. The gentle green grass swaying in the wind, as if spring was loudly proclaiming that I am back.
In early spring, warm wind, tender leaves, grass, how can there be less pink fruit flowers? As an iconic plant in the neutral place, when other flowers shyly shrink into a ball, pink fruit flowers have already revealed their own faces, blooming on the branches, dyeing the entire city with its own colors with white, pink and crimson bodies. The fragrance of pink fruit flowers is scattered in the air, and the line of sight is filled with the colorfulness of pink fruit flowers. On the tip of the tongue, the slight sweetness of pink fruit flowers is savored by the name pink fruit flowers. This season is the season of pink fruit flowers. In the past half month, pink fruit flowers occupy the world of every Sanctuary.
Yes, it is the eve of the early spring festival again, and it is the most anticipated moment for every year.
Every time on the eve of the early spring festival, people in the Holy Capital will have happy smiles on their faces, decorate the door of their residence with care, and then hang gifts to worship spring on the door frame, and excitedly wait for the early spring festival to arrive as soon as possible. In the past few days, people's happiness is irrepressible.
But today, people's faces are gloomy, with unwavering worries. That's because the sky is also gloomy, as if the first heavy rain in early spring is brewing.
The rain on the eve of the Early Spring Festival is simply the worst news for the people in the Holy Capital. The drizzle is better. If it is heavy rain, it means that the most important festival in the first half of the year is almost the most important festival compared to the New Year celebration at the end of the year. The early spring festival, which is almost as beautiful as the New Year celebration at the end of the year, will probably be overshadowed. After all, people will not go out to enjoy flowers in the rain and can only sigh at the heavy rain at home. Even if the rain has stopped on the early spring festival, the pink fruit flowers on the branches will wither under the destruction of the heavy rain. The early spring festival no longer has the atmosphere it should have. Therefore, today's gloomy sky makes the people in the Holy Capital feel a little depressed and cannot cheer up when doing things. Everyone is looking forward to the miraculous clearance of the sky so that everyone can have a happy early spring festival.
However, not everyone was in a low mood, but some were still more excited. Well, although it seemed to be forced, such as the stall owner who chased the thief.
"Catch the thief, catch the thief." Along a street in the commercial area that was not originally bustling, a fruit stall owner waved the metal tray for fruits. While panting, he shouted loudly: "Catch the thief in front, who can catch him, I will reward him with five silver coins."
However, no one helped, not because he didn't want to, but because he was unable to help, because the thief fleeing ahead was a little weird. He was not running, but floating along the street in the air, and the passers-by below could not stop him at all.
Yes, he was floating, because he was not a human at all, but a semi-entimental ghost. The pale ghost held a hammerhead melon that was eaten one third of the melon peels. It was a specialty of the country of mountains and was a relatively expensive fruit. A medium-sized hammerhead melon often sold for twenty silver coins. This was a very poor person who had been in the past ten days of food. Now, half of this expensive fruit was eaten by a ghost while running. Well, it was connected to the thick and sour melon peels. No one with normal intelligence would do this.
The stall owner was chasing behind his back, and the ghost was flying in the air. The pedestrians on the road pointed at the fun. Some people threw the debris around them at the ghost and tried to smash it from the air. However, the result of this was that those things passed through the ghost's body and hit the innocent people on the other side, including the poor stall owner. As for the high-level profession who could attack the ghost, it would be fine if the stall owner did not shout out the reward of five silver coins. Since he shouted out, it would be a commission. If someone heard that he, a high-level profession, would have been ridiculed by his peers for several years.
At the other end of the street, a group of adventurers dressed in an adventurer was also rushing towards this side. The one running in the front was an adventurer who was as thin as a skeleton. Well, it was originally a skeleton, but it was covered with nailed leather armor, and other places were exposed. As soon as he walked, it would be a clattering sound. Behind him, an elf and a lizard man followed behind him, and two humans were chasing behind him. The soul fire in the skeleton's eyes was pounding violently, and he seemed to be looking at the ghosts in the distance anxiously. However, as the early spring festival approached, there were a lot of pedestrians on the street, and the impact of the emergencies caused a street to be crowded with people watching the fun, and the adventurers could not rush over as soon as possible.
Not only the adventurers in this direction can no longer pass through the crowded streets, but the shopkeeper who recovered the stolen goods obviously could not do it. He could only watch the ghost thief drifting further and further away, and shouted in anger: "Twenty silver coins, who can catch him? I will give twenty silver coins as a reward."
The "Ah" sound was dragged into his mouth without saying it. From the largest courtyard of the entire street, a black shadow flew out, slapped heavily on the ghost thief who happened to be passing by near the courtyard while running away. The huge black shadow almost covered the entire body of the ghost. Not only did it shatter the hammerhead in the thief's hand, but the black shadow joined the thief and hit the wall opposite the courtyard. It was not until this time that the people watching the fun discovered that the black shadow was a shield, a huge shield close to the height of one person, and the professionals could see that it was the knight's kite shield.
"Bang", the bull shield hit the wall, and the loud noise made the onlookers tremble. They were worried that the wall would collapse. However, the quality of the wall seemed good. It only swayed a few times in people's fantasies, but there was no change in fact. However, the poor ghost thief was not so lucky. The fighting spirit attached to the shield obviously flattened him a lot, making his entire ghost look like a building board, and his flat body caused laughter from people around him.
However, no matter how much laughed, when the gate of the courtyard opened, the people watching the fun consciously made a way, letting the owner of the shield walk out of the courtyard and slowly walked to the ghost. The people watching found that the woman in the courtyard was actually a very beautiful black-haired lady, with a gorgeous face, upright figure, elegant temperament, and magnets attracted the eyes of all men. Unfortunately, her knight scales covering her body and the huge kite shield beside her feet gave up all the men's idea of coming forward to chat with her. They knew very well that if they angered each other, they would not be like that ghost. Even if they turned from a ghost to a ghost, they could still be dizzy and swaying in the spot.
The female knight picked up the shield on the ground expressionlessly, looked at the hammerheads broken into a pool on the ground with regret, and sighed softly. Just when people fantasized that she was not able to help the shop owner save the stolen goods, the female knight turned around and stretched out her hand to the stall owner who finally squeezed out the crowd and rushed to the scene: "Twenty silver coins."
"Oh, ah?" The stall owner did not react for a moment. Although the high-level professions spent a lot of money on various resources, their income was also very high. They were often rich, and few of them would care about dozens of silver coins. So he was stunned and stared at the female knight blankly and said, "What, what?"
"I said, twenty silver coins, you promised." The female knight's eyes slowly became dangerous, and she said with her eyes slanted: "You won't... be teasing me, right?"
"No, no, no, how is that possible?" The stall owner was almost crying. At the fastest speed in his life, he took out a handful of silver coins and put it on the palm of the female knight's stretched out, and said with a smile: "I never lie, yes, yes, never lie."
"This is a good habit." The female knight actually counted the silver coins in her hand seriously, threw the three extra coins back to the owner, and snorted coldly: "I know someone, and my biggest hobby is to tease others, so he went to hell and has not come back now. So, keep your current good habits and never change them."
"Yes, yes, I will never change." The stall owner's biggest wish now is to turn his head and run away, but reason still let him stay in place for the time being to show politeness.
It was not until this time that the adventurer in the other direction squeezed out the crowd with awkward expression and ran out. Before the skeleton in front stood firm, he directly kicked the ghost who had just woken up again on the wall. He spoke to the female knight and nodded quickly, as if he was laughing. Then he took out a piece of cardboard from behind, with the words "sorry" written on it.
"So, this is indeed your team member." The female knight stared at the skeleton and said dissatisfiedly: "Why caused riots?"
"Sorry, sorry." The human adventurer who came from behind knew that his skeleton teammate was inconvenient to speak, so he came over to accompany him with a smile and said: "That idiot just came out of the Necrotic World for a few days, and didn't know the rules outside. He was a little naughty, which caused riots. I'm really sorry, we will be responsible for compensation for the stall owner."
"That's good, otherwise you can go to the city guard to solve the problem, or make a big deal, and explain it directly to President Odin." The female knight bent down and picked up the shield on the ground, ignored the noise outside, turned around and walked towards the courtyard: "You should discuss compensation with the stall owner yourself, and in addition, take care of your teammates and stop causing trouble."
As the adventurers frequently apologized, the female knight closed the door and returned to the western restaurant deep in the courtyard. Before she could reach the small garden on the side of the western restaurant, she heard a noise that was not much worse than outside. The noise outside made the female knight frown, but the noise in the small garden made the female knight smile knowingly.
"Get out of you dead children." A rough voice roared: "I am a cruel monster. Are you afraid of monsters? I can eat eight you in one bite. If you dare to crawl on me, you will eat all of you, leaving only bones to spit out."
"But, Brother Lion, I have only bones left. Brother Lion really likes me the most and only allows me to climb up."
"Get out of here, you are not allowed to climb, so I hate children the most." The rough voice continued to roar loudly: "And you, don't think you are floating in the sky, I don't know you are going to pounce on you. Even if you become transparent, I can see you. In addition, the other two below, do you think you are ordinary humans, and I will show mercy to your men? Although you didn't climb up, you stay away from me. The meat of ordinary humans tastes more fragrant. Be careful that I can't help but treat you as snacks. Oh my god, you two damn birds, I know that you are making trouble. This time you instigate them to climb onto me to play. You two will wait for me, and when I get rid of the four of them, I will teach you a lesson."
"Puchi." The other party's encounter sounded like a tearful one, which made the female knight laugh. With the laughter, she shook her head, returned to the small garden, and returned to her original position.
The small garden in the Western Restaurant is not small, enough for seven or eight people to chase and play. In the middle of this small garden, a scorpion tail lion more than five meters long lies on the ground, shaking its tail to drive away the girls around them, while making threatening expressions to the two winged girls hiding in the distance to watch the fun. Of course, the brave winged human race would not be afraid of threats, so the two girls immediately responded with grimaces, and the scorpion tail lion was screaming. On the scorpion tail lion,
The two little undead were trying to climb up along the body of the scorpion tail lion as if they were exploring. The other two human girls, who looked eighteen or nineteen years old, still retained their childlike innocence and cheered for the little guys below. A little further apart, the two winged girls flapped their wings and slung in the air, dancing and encouraging the little guys to explore. Obviously, for them, they would not feel tired of playing similar games many times.
The garden was close to one side of her, and there was a round tea table. Two young girls in maid outfits were holding teapots and snack boxes in their hands, standing respectfully on both sides. A snow-white fox was lying on the shoulders of the short-haired maid. The fox was swinging its big fluffy tail and looking lazy.
Next to the tea table, two soft chairs were placed on both sides of the tea table. One soft chair belonged to her and the other soft chair, the flower-like elf lady was stretching her body, lying comfortably, holding a cup of freshly brewed black tea in her hand. Her bright red lips exuded a fragrant breath, blowing away the steaming heat from the tea cup.
Not far from the round table, the silver-haired female priest was sitting with the little girl with long-haired golden hair. The female priest quietly flirted over a thick book. From the outside, it looked full of intellectual beauty, but on the cover of the book, this name full of inferior knight novels exposed the essence of the female priest. The little girl back to back was like a mechanical puppet, acting as the backrest of the female priest, but maybe it was an illusion. Several light flashed occasionally in her eyes, and countless numbers were vaguely flowing in the light.
On the other side of the round table is a neatly trimmed shrub. On both sides of the shrub, the tall and beautiful lady is comparable to the female elf on the soft chair. She is quarreling with the short-sized girl, but also pretty and cute, and no one can understand what they are arguing. From the Rama formula to the Sebis phenomenon, from the Nasia unknowing theorem to the third inference of Camillen, although every word can be understood, after being connected into a string, it becomes the language of another world. Perhaps only people from another world can understand it. However, both ladies can understand it, at least they can understand the satirical remarks made by each other. Well, this can be seen from the magical effects and mechanical parts that keep appearing and disappearing around them.
"The world is so peaceful." The female knight's mouth twitched, pretending to see nothing, sat back on her soft chair, picked up the teacup and took a sip of her favorite black tea, breathed comfortably, and said leisurely: "It's a pity that it's cloudy. It would be great if the weather could clear up. Enjoying the mellow black tea in the sun is simply the happiest thing."
"Has the outside thing been solved?" The female elf actually didn't care. She was concerned about another thing: "In just a few years, all races have become completely accustomed to the existence of the new race of the undead. Should I praise the creatures for their strong ability to accept new things? And after the stimulation of the crisis, the relationship between the various races has become closer. Haha, to be honest, these are achieved through your efforts."
"It should be said that it depends on his efforts. We did not do anything." The female knight shook her head and said, "Besides, I am a knight. The knight's duty is to protect. Even if I do anything, it is still the right thing to do."
"Ha, is the legendary knight who has been on duty for twenty silver coins? Tsk tsk, it's really surprising that he is willing to drink black tea." Even though the female elf was teasing, she was noble and elegant like a white lily blooming in the valley: "I heard that you saw the world on the wall a few days ago?"
"Twenty silver coins are also money, and refusing money is shameful." The female knight was not moved at all. She took another sip of black tea before answering softly: "Yes, I think I saw it, but I didn't expect that the world here is like this. Haha, it turns out that this is the demigod."
"You understand, too, so the experience of becoming a demigod cannot be passed on to others. You can only rely on your own understanding. In fact, isn't this the case for every promotion?" The female elf slowly put down her teacup and brushed a few pink fruit petals floating on the table: "How about it, how long do you think you can advance in the future?"
"How long? Maybe one day, maybe one year, maybe one hundred years." The female knight shrugged and said, "Who knows what will happen in the future."
"Haha, your style of speaking is becoming more and more like him." The elf covered his mouth and chuckled: "Are you missing him in this way, Katherine, my enemy."
"I just think that this style of speaking is also very good." Catherine's smile also meant: "Don't you think so, Her Majesty the Queen."
The two beautiful ladies looked at each other for a few seconds in silence, and smiled again, holding up the black tea cup on the table to greet each other.
"Kyle has been away for several years. Don't you feel sad?" Flar whispered in a smile: "Aren't you going to give up?"
"In the past few years, we have experienced many new adventures. In addition to adventures, we live happily here. Why are we sad like this? Because of him? But he has never left. He has been by our side and has been with us in our memories. We only feel happy." Hearing the heartbreaking name, Catherine still kept a smile and answered Her Majesty's question in a positive tone: "As for giving up, ha, your majesty, have you not given up? We are enemies."
"Yes, we are enemies." I don't know how serious the two ladies looked at each other again, and no one spoke anymore. They just leaned comfortably on the soft chair and looked up at the gloomy sky above their heads.
"I really didn't expect you to visit today." After a while, Catherine broke the silence: "Master Odin is probably going crazy. The supreme leader of the Elf and Winged Man tribes suddenly came to visit. It was the most crowded time. Hahahaha, even if you think about it, you will know the president's expression now."
"There's no way. Those three noisy guys ran to the royal court to find me and insisted that I accompany them to play with them. I could only follow them, otherwise they might not make a fuss in the royal court until when." Flar sighed helplessly and whispered: "Maya secretly told me that Dilly seemed to have only been a few decades. They decided to use this time to travel all the fun places on the continent. Then, maybe the two little birds will find a way to follow the lion to go back to his hometown world to see, but that should be another story."
"They finally decided?" Catherine asked in surprise: "It's amazing."
"You have to face your own feelings, otherwise Kerry's regret will happen again." Flar was stunned for a moment and suddenly added: "I'm not encouraging you, you are exceptions."
"I know, I know, but... I really miss him a little..." Catherine sighed lightly, with a sweet smile on her face, as if she had fallen into beautiful memories. Flar did not disturb her, but just leisurely savored the black tea in the human world, and enjoyed the leisure time in the afternoon with the most elf-like attitude.
"Ah~~~~~" A woman's scream came from Fox Street, which had just recovered from peace, interrupting Catherine's beautiful memories. The female knight suddenly sat up from the soft chair, held the one-handed sword beside her, and roared: "Pennis, what are you doing?"
"Tsk tsk, what a wonderful memory." Flar said leisurely: "You can imagine that your past lives were really wonderful."
"Uh, I was a little confused and forgot that he hasn't come back yet." Catherine smiled embarrassedly, and embarrassedly found a way to escape: "Someone needs help, I'll go out and take a look."
"That was a frightened scream, not a hurt scream. She was just startled. There was no danger, you really can't hear it?" Flar asked with a smile: "Or are you actually trying to find an excuse to sneak away from embarrassment?"
"Ding bell, ding bell." Just as Catherine explained in standard Panis style nonsense, the doorbell outside the courtyard gate suddenly rang. Both ladies were stunned. Catherine sighed and said, "There are still visitors? It seems that we really have to go out to see this time. Your Majesty, please sit down first, I will be back soon."
After politely settled the elf queen, Catherine walked out of the garden again. As soon as she turned the corner of the Western Palace, she saw a knight wrapped in silver armor standing straight outside the courtyard gate, with a snow-white horse in her back. In recent years, Catherine has slowly taken over Neri's flag and became a new generation of knights. After her deeds spread, several groups of knights who came to visit would appear every month, and the number of junior knights who came to challenge the hope that they could increase their combat experience would be more. Therefore, the female knight had long estimated that the person who was pulling the doorbell was a visiting knight.
With Catherine's personality, of course she would not refuse the visits of these knights. Therefore, she tidied up her scales and quickly walked to the door that opened.
"Hello, I'm Catherine." In the style of the Knight, Catherine said concisely and directly: "What's wrong with you?"
"I heard that there are people here who declare war like me, and the knights are not afraid of challenges, so I'm here to fight."
"Click, click."
The strange female voice and a sound like a raging mouse in the night came from two different directions at the same time. The strange female voice came from the opposite knight, and the strange clicking sound came from the top of the metal fence beside her.
Hearing this strange voice, Catherine took a deep breath, slowly, raised her head little by little, and looked up at the sky.
The sky is blue and the sun is shining.
I don’t know when, the gloomy sky in the capital of knowledge was already clear. (~^~)
Chapter completed!