Louis looked blankly at Fox beside him.

Fox's voice was a little low: "During this war, Princess Diana suffered irreparable trauma and passed away six months later."

"His Majesty Grom was seriously injured and has been recuperating in the culture medium of the White Tower. The Lord of the White Tower will be rotated to His Majesty Gandalf."

"Not to mention the White Raven Legion and the Royal Guards, even the Iron Guards who can draw on the Emperor's power have been mostly destroyed. This is the second time the capital has suffered a heavy loss since it was relocated."

"We're not even on the main battlefield."

"The real main battlefield is where Black Sun and the Emperor are fighting. There, the Royal Guards, the captain of the Royal Guard, and the leaders of the major battle groups are still fighting to the death with the demons."

"The Lord of the Dark Ravens urgently returned to join the battle. The strongest of the Royal Guards died in the battle, and more than a quarter of the strong men in the chapter were injured."

"It is indeed too much of a burden to deal with the Black Sun, the Abyss, and the Dungeon Demon Army at the same time."

Louis opened his mouth slightly:

Although there are still many questions.

For example, the question of how many times Black Sun has lost control.

For example, why Princess Diana could save Grom but couldn't save herself in the end.

For example, why can the Demon King enter the Shadowless Underworld so easily? Is it because he can do it or is it because of the portal?

"Too many people died." Louis said in a deep voice.

Fox sighed and said, "Yeah, so, I'm scared."

He looked at Louis dimly: "It's ridiculous, isn't it? I was afraid of death when I was young, I took death lightly when I was middle-aged, and now I'm afraid of death again."

Louis shook his head and said, "This is not ridiculous. It is human nature to fear death."

Fox nodded: "If I wasn't afraid of death, I should have held my sister's hand tightly."

When Fox said this, Louis realized that he had been brooding over his sister's death.

Fox said that he didn't care, but when he chose to study magic, he chose space magic first.

His level of research in space magic is definitely higher than he thought.

The magic circle that interfered with Black Sun, except for him, were all demigods and legends of the empire.

He is the only one at the model level, and it's not because of any backdoor connections.

It's just that he is really good at this aspect.

Just as he was thinking this, the scene in the memory space changed again.

Because this battle could not be revealed to the outside world, except for a small number of people in each legion, most of the others were cast under memory-confusion magic.

This kind of magic is different from memory clearing magic.

There is a huge loophole in memory-clearing magic, which is that once someone else verifies them, they will soon discover that they are missing memories of a period of time.

But memory confusion magic is much better.

Confused memories are more hidden.

Fox stood in front of the gradually closing space gate, his eyes full of sadness.

He saw the Emperor.

The one who was the strongest human being and had suppressed demigods from various countries for hundreds of years.

The Black Sun was controlled by the Emperor, and the fire of death it projected began to clear out the remaining Fallen Shadow monsters and Abyss Demons in the Fallen Shadow Underworld on a large scale.

Perhaps because the casualties were so heavy, the emperor had a sad look on his face.

Louis looked at the Emperor who stood up.

His physical condition was not very good either. His whole body was a dark color, as if he had been injured by the black sun.

Fawkes followed the Emperor tremblingly, watching as the ever-increasing stream of demons was forced back through the door.

The Emperor said: "It will be fine once the door is closed."

Fox said with a sad face, "Is this really worth it, Your Majesty?"

The Emperor said, "What do you mean?"

Fox seemed a little overwhelmed, gesticulating and saying, "We were strong, strong enough, but just to suppress the Gate of the Abyss, we took so many risks, and even..."

The Emperor shook his head and said, "Even so many of our compatriots were killed or injured, right?"

Fox had a guilty look on his face.

Louis immediately understood what Fox was thinking.

In fact, he had thought about this question at the beginning.

For example, if he just left Beatrice behind and ran away, would he be able to survive better?

For example, if the Emperor did not block the gate of the abyss, but let the demons of the abyss open directly, and anyone who wanted to block it could do so, would the Unther Empire become stronger? After all, he had seen such things before.

For example, every time America encounters financial problems, it wants the whole world to pay for their problems.

As long as you are shameless enough, you can indeed reap enough benefits in the short term.

He even had an evil thought in his mind.

Anyway, the Emperor is strong enough. If all else fails, he can use the decapitation tactic, and then change tactics to drive the others to the land of Enther.

If they want to survive, they naturally have to fight the demons first.

But these thoughts only occurred to him for a moment.

He could understand why Fox would have such thoughts.

As long as other people bear the damage that you should have borne, then you don't have to get hurt? Although it is very selfish, from a personal perspective, the benefits do outweigh the disadvantages.

Yes.

Fox in the memory scene also asked this question:

"Your Majesty, don't the True God Churches like to publicize their deeds in fighting against evil?"

"Shouldn't this kind of thing be left to them to handle?"

"They enjoy the people's faith but do not have to fulfill their obligations. This is unreasonable!"

The emperor didn't say anything, just smiled and waved his hand, and a water curtain appeared.

In a trance, Fox saw the mountain road along the Unther Palace swallowed up by the darkness.

It turns out that at some point, the sun had already set in reality.

He didn't understand why the emperor wanted him to see this scene.

Suddenly, he saw a bonfire lit in the darkness.

As the flame burned, the entire mountain road seemed to be awakened, and torches lit up one after another.

The firelight reflected the appearance of the person coming.

Those people holding torches were actually a group of priests.

Judging from the emblem on their mountain, they are clearly priests of the Church of the God of Glory and Justice.

There was endless darkness ahead of them, and only the torches in their hands could bring a glimmer of light.

They were walking along, and Fox could only hear their heavy footsteps and breathing.

The Emperor waved again.

The image on the water curtain faded, and a scene that shocked Fox appeared in his eyes.

They were a group of priests who were solemnly cleaning the bodies of their companions.

Looking at his appearance, he is clearly the same as the priest of the God of Glory walking on the mountain path.

Their injuries were no better than Unser's.

Louis was horrified.

The place where these priests are located is the Shadowfell.

That is to say, in other corners that Fox and the others did not see, there were also other people besides Enser who were working hard to block the gate to the abyss.

This feeling was truly indescribable.

Maybe it was due to some influence of works from previous lives. For example, starting from the martial arts works of the last century, there were always people who liked to insert some bullshit into the famous and upright sects.

In the era of online literature, it is unknown how many righteous forces in most novels are described as being even more evil than the underworld.

So much so that when he saw this group of priests coming one after another to kill him, he actually had an indescribable complex emotion.

At this time, a group of people came towards the direction where the Emperor and his companions were.

That was a group of priests.

Among the group of priests, Louis saw a man he had seen before.

Pope Calio of the Church of the God of Glory and Justice.

There was an indescribable murderous look on his face, and his clothes were stained with blood.

When he arrived in front of the Emperor, Pope Cario was almost gritting his teeth, and his breathing became heavy:

"Don't call me next time something happens. We are not familiar with each other."

"Can you really watch someone die without helping him?"

Kallio's eyes were like a knife, and he wanted to stab the emperor in the chest:

"I am not here to protect you, but to prevent the gate of the abyss from being opened and the continent from being dragged into the war of demons."

The Emperor said nothing.

Kario gave him a cold look and said:

"Every great sin is the source of unrest. The abyss never hesitates to use the most cruel means to pull you into its arms."

"Emperor, do not let me know that you are deceived by arrogance, otherwise the next time you come, we will not be as friendly as we are now."

After saying that, he turned and left.

Fox's expression became even more serious.

But what made him feel even more uncomfortable than the heaviness was the uneasy conscience.

The Emperor said: "Almost all the senior priests of the Church of Glory who can come to help near the city of Tino are here."

Fox said in a complicated tone: "Aren't they afraid?"

The emperor said: "How can I not be afraid? But I have to come even if I am afraid."

The Emperor waved again.

The water curtain squirmed, and a world map of the Star Continent appeared in front of Fox.

Fox took a look at the map and found that it was different from the maps he had seen before.

The map was covered with dense blue dots.

Some blue dots appear particularly large.

He saw a big blue dot in the direction of Tino City.

He hesitated and said, "What is this?"

Fox was a little confused.

The Emperor gave him a strange look and asked, "Can't guess or don't dare to guess?"

Fox said nothing.

The Emperor said to himself: "There are holes under the Star Continent, and there are passages leading to other worlds everywhere. It's just a matter of who is blocking the more dangerous passage."

"It's okay for you to take a step back, but can you take a step back every time?"

"There is no such good thing. If you really want to do this, you must be prepared to die together in the end."

Fox's mouth dropped open.

Louis, who glimpsed a glimpse of the truth through this memory, was not much better off.

Are there caves under the Star Continent? There are caves of all sizes around almost every country.

It's a ghost.

What's the difference between this and a hornet's nest?

Louis looked at Fox's soul with a smile:

"Has the Star Continent committed a heinous crime? Or is this some kind of blessed place?"

"Why else would it come to this?"

Louis had seen the map of the Star Continent, and his excellent memory allowed him to clearly remember every detail on the map.

He was surprised to find that the largest holes in each country on the map were almost all the imperial capitals, royal capitals or top cities of each country.

Fox said calmly, "Haven't you already seen the culprit?"

Louis was stunned.

How could he not know the culprit? To create so many passages to other worlds on the entire land of the Star Continent was not something that an average person could do.

Suddenly, a look of surprise appeared on his face.

His scalp tingled as he said, "Midnight Python?"

Fox said, "Have you named him yet?"

Looking at the dense holes on the ground again, Louis suddenly understood what a world disaster was.

"The Eye of Terror between the Kingdoms of East and West Monai..."

Fox said numbly, "That was just the place where the Midgard Serpent first emerged. At first, everyone was just like I thought before. They didn't care and kept aloof."

"As a result, you can see that most of the weak spots in the underground space of the Star Continent were drilled out by Him."

Louis didn't know what to say for a moment.

This time even he beat his chest and stamped his feet.

Damn it, if they had just sealed it honestly back then, things wouldn't have become so troublesome.

Fox said in a deep voice, "So you understand? The object of the Jade Phoenix Mage's oath is this world."

"The scars left by the Earthly Serpent on our hometown made Him cry out in grief uncontrollably."

"And the Jade Phoenix Mage who was the most determined to fight against the Earthly Python, fought with the Earthly Python until only 13 people were left."

“But because of the determination of our predecessors, we have received the blessings of the world.”

"That blessing is called the Emerald Sacrifice."

Fox looked at Louis with a slight smile on his face and said, "So do you understand? Every time the Jade Phoenix is ​​passed down, it will guide those who share the same characteristics as their predecessors."

"If one day, the world is in trouble again because of the Midgard Serpent, you will make the same choice as us one day."

"Choice?" Louis disagreed.

I'm sorry, brother. I'm a cheater and I'm not a naturally born Jade Phoenix Mage.

This matter has nothing to do with me! When Fox said this, the surrounding memory space changed again.

The flow of time began to speed up.

After this battle, Fox began to travel the continent more frequently.

He wanted to repair the weak spots in space that had appeared before but no one was maintaining them.

One year, two years, three years...

Time passed unconsciously.

One day, he felt that the space node that was originally sealed by his master became unstable again, so he went to Tunisia to check it out.

But halfway through the journey, he suddenly realized something.

He had a premonition that he would never come back once he left.

At his level, he could more or less sense some signs.

So he contacted the Grand Speaker and told him that he might not be able to come back this time.

Then he went to see the dying Master Grom.

Perhaps he sensed something, and before leaving, the dying Grom woke up from his slumber and handed the flame to him.

Then, he came to the place where all the stories began.

That was where he inherited the legacy of Master Yufeng.

Here, he saw the Tunisian Knights who had been stationed here for a long time.

The monsters that swarmed out were blocked by them in a ravine, leaving them no chance to escape.

They were a group of knights worthy of admiration.

Of course, Fox’s purpose of coming here this time was not to fill the space crack.

Because his master died so suddenly, he could only hastily blow up part of the body of the Earthly Python here, and then seal off the surrounding space.

Fox noticed that the bodies were beginning to gather together again, so he came here specifically.

Here, he discovered that on the opposite side of the space rift, there was actually a group of angels fighting against demons.

He knew one of the angels in there.

That was in his early years. When he was practicing magic, he accidentally summoned a Seraphic Servant.

That is a very powerful and kind angel.

He told Fox that he really wanted to help Fox fill the space crack, but the battle situation was too urgent and he couldn't spare the effort.

It is said that they have been fighting demons in this area for a long time.

Fox said that was okay.

His main purpose of coming here this time was to target the Earthly Python.

The Midgard Python has been solved, so this time the space problem can be left to Tunisia to slowly solve.

That's what he said.

Fox's soul raised his head, glanced at Louis and said:

"Your name is Meyer, right?"

Louis looked at him and said, "You can call me Louis. Meyer is one of my identities."

He had a feeling that Fox was going to leave.

Fox smiled and said, "Thank you this time."

Louis was confused: "Thank me for what?"

Fox said nothing. His body faded away, and finally disappeared completely into the air, leaving only a ball of burning emerald fire flickering.

"Can't hold on any longer?"

Louis whispered.

He looked around and saw that Fox had disappeared, but the memory scene was still moving forward.

In the memory scene.

Fox and the knights of Tunisia stayed here for a long time.

Fearing death, he carefully used the emerald fire to send away the constantly gathering body of the Earthly Python again and again.

There is currently no more efficient means on the mainland to deal with this existence.

So we can only use Master Yufeng’s clumsy method to send it away little by little.

However, with the continuous use of Emerald Fire, Fox became more and more tired, and it became increasingly difficult for him to muster up his energy.

He started to get tired.

I feel like I'm running out of energy.

Suddenly one day.

Fox met a wizard.

He was a high-ranking mage from the Council of Sages.

The senior wizard came to tell Fox that the Grand Chancellor already knew what was happening here, and that a Jade Phoenix wizard from the Enther Empire would soon come to take over the Jade Phoenix inheritance.

When the memory came to this point, Louis felt like he was about to suffer from embarrassment.

Going to die.

Although he did not lie during the Jade Phoenix Alliance's online meeting, he did have the idea of ​​guiding others to think in another direction.

For example, "I am very familiar with Fox, and he asked me to come over to inform you."

Unexpectedly, after learning the news, the Grand Speaker seemed to believe it on the surface, but privately sent someone to inquire about Fox's situation.

Wouldn't this pair of confessions reveal the flaw directly? But to his surprise, Fox did not expose his story.

He just smiled and let the matter go.

That night, there was a sudden strong wind around.

The sea breeze, carrying dark clouds and accompanied by bursts of thunder, woke him up in the middle of the night.

He seemed to have returned to the nightmare in the shadow plane.

The fear of death that followed him like a shadow permeated his body and kept him awake at night.

He heard bursts of noise coming from the knights' camp, and when he got up he discovered that the knights had already rushed towards the crack.

What appeared in Fox's eyes was a vast gray storm.

It was the most horrific scene from his nightmare.

It once devoured Fox's hometown.

Deep in the space crack, he saw a blue-black arm.

That was the culprit that caused the originally stable space crack to become unstable again.

But that wasn't what shocked him most.

He saw a ruin in the crack.

A ruin...just like the one in his dream.

That was his hometown he could only return to in his dreams.

In a trance, he seemed to recall the horror of the dark storm swallowing everything.

For a moment, the intense fear made him dare not move forward.

He watched the Tunisian knights fighting with the strange creatures thrown out from the space storm and was unable to move forward for a long time.

As the knights fell one by one, the leader of the Tunisian Knights came to Fox:

"Lord Fox, the situation is out of control. Please leave. Let us handle this."

"Please inform the Noble Council of the situation here and tell them to send someone to deal with it as soon as possible."

Fox said in a daze, "Handle? How do you handle it? You know you can't handle it well?"

He was feeling depressed and didn't know what to say.

But the knight smiled and said, "Lord Fox, this is Tunisia, we have to protect our home."

After saying that, he rushed towards the astral mayfly that flew out of the space storm without looking back.

The mages of the Council of Sages looked at Fox with a headache, not knowing how to deal with the situation.

Fox watched the scene quietly, and suddenly said, "The Grand Speaker will send someone over, right?"

The wizard nodded.

"Will Master Yufeng come to Enser to check on the situation?"

The wizard hesitated for a moment and said, "The Grand Chancellor thinks he doesn't know you."

"What's the difference between knowing him and not knowing him?" Fox said, as if he had realized something. "... Tell Tom I'm not going back."

The wizard was stunned: "I see you seem very scared."

"Yes, I am so scared. I am scared to death."

"Then why do you..."

A flame appeared in Fox's hand. The blazing flame came from the Jade Phoenix Mage Grom who was about to die.

"Master Yufeng doesn't need a model like me."

In the darkness, suddenly a beam of emerald green fire shot up into the sky.

Suddenly, a jade phoenix descended from the sky.

The phoenix falls into the vortex.

The wizard couldn't even stop him: "Master Fox, you are just one person, you can't change anything?"

As soon as he finished speaking, he suddenly realized that something was wrong.

When he looked up, he saw a torch lighting up on the mountain.

"That is..."

Louis watched this scene quietly from the side.

He saw the emblem of the Church of Love, saw the mages of the Sage Council descending from the sky, and saw the battle mages on their way.

In a trance, he seemed to be back to the scene where Fox saw the Church of the God of Glory and Justice rushing over with torches.

The light cast by the fire shone through the shade of the trees and fell here.

There was a howling wind in the sky.

Those were the reinforcements sent by the Council of Sages.

After Fox Jade Phoenix landed.

Second place.

Third place.

Fourth place.

…

People from different places jumped into the tunnel one by one.

"Is there nothing one person can change...?"

Louis watched the memory scene fade.

Fox's voice suddenly rang in his ears.

"Have you made up your mind? Do you really want to inherit my Jade Phoenix Fire?"

Louis raised his head and looked at the people pouring into the passage.

At this moment he finally understood why Tunisia had changed so suddenly.

He hesitated for a moment, and finally said:

"Inherit it, but let me make it clear that I won't be like you..."

A light laugh from Fox was heard in the memory space.

It's like he wants to say something.

At this moment, Louis had already reached out and grasped the burning emerald fire.

With a crisp sound, Louis returned to reality.

He knew that Fox ultimately chose to save the group of people in Tunisia.

Of course, he also saved himself, who failed to save his sister many years ago.

"Keep going, don't look back, there are fireworks ahead."

At this moment, Louis was deeply aware of a problem.

The Church of the Abyss does not deserve to be forgiven.

The Earthly Python is even more so.

Emerald green flames swirled around, and Louis' eyes were blazing with fire.

(End of this chapter)