Time seemed to slow down. Keomi's eyes followed Elsie's movements, and he definitely noticed her arrival!
"Elsie, are you really ready?"
Suddenly, a mist rose from the button and entered her eyes. Then, she saw... a sea of clouds.
The afterglow of the sunset turned the entire sea of clouds orange-red.
She saw the nameless skeleton again, walking towards her.
"It took Keomi a year to comprehend the Calamity. By the time the people of that world discovered him, he had already led his troops to attack the first city."
"You've spent a year, have you grasped the essence of natural disasters? Have your subordinates conquered territories for you? Do you have the ambition to become king? Do you have the courage to raise a banner?"
The anonymous words were like daggers to the heart!
“Don’t worry, Elsie, I set the time here, and I have enough energy left to explain everything,” Nameless comforted her.
[Hey! This nameless guy is going too far! You're just a child!]
[How could he say that about you? Do you even compare to Kayomi? He started from the wilderness, you started in a goblin lair. He has innate infection abilities, you have the Gift of Blood, he can gather his forces to besiege cities, you're just waiting for your clan to surrender... Damn, what kind of pathetic life is this? If you gave your account to Kayomi, he would have wiped it out long ago!]
"Ahhh, stop cursing! You're making people stupid!" Elsie covered her ears, but the pop-up narration kept coming right up to her face.
“Elsie, I know you are still alive, naturally different from the dead, but you must know that everyone who holds the crown, everyone chosen by the crown,” the nameless man crouched down, touching her forehead with his finger bones, and said, “is the protagonist of that world.”
"That's your legend, except for the Black Crown King who keeps hunting you down."
"I tried to negotiate with him, but all I learned was..."
"He heeded the promise of a witch, who gave him a black crown, which also carried a prophecy."
"He will have the ability to travel through time and space to hunt down the crown holders. When he has gathered all the crowns of all the worlds, he and his race will be recognized by the light and will usher in true freedom and peace."
"That's why he came here."
Wuming withdrew his hand and said, "But I will still fight him in the end. He will not be persuaded. He carries too much on his shoulders, and the pressure is no less than the weight of the crown."
[If you want to wear the crown, you must bear its weight?]
"I was lucky to win," the nameless man said, his voice tinged with sadness.
He seemed to have lost something in that battle.
“But it didn’t end there. As I continued to grow in my world, he once again traveled through time to hunt me down.” Nameless stared directly at Elsie.
“I didn’t hold back this time. It’s worth admitting that he is indeed a genius. In the same amount of time he has grown, his strength and troops are ten times that of mine.”
“I repelled him, but he also slaughtered half of my people. That battle took me three years.”
“I have a feeling that his next arrival will bring even greater power, and if I cannot become stronger, my story will end here.”
"However……"
The nameless man paused, then pointed at Elsie: "I think you are the key to ending all of this!"
"!" Elsie's eyes widened.
[It's happened! The ultimate fate! Is this the protagonist's inherent reliability?]
“If you don’t believe me,” Wuming withdrew his hand and said, “that’s fine too, because this isn’t the first time I’ve said this.”
"Phew..." Elsie breathed a sigh of relief, but then realized something was wrong: "Wait!? This isn't the first time?"
"Who else!?"
Wuming stood up, took a few steps back, and gestured to Elsie to look at the sea of clouds.
Is this place beautiful?
El looked longingly at this beautiful sea of clouds. Although she didn't know why she was able to stand on the clouds, it was indeed extremely beautiful.
She nodded, and then the nameless man said, "This is the homeland of the Immortal Dragon King Isellan, who was the first ruler of the Immortal Stone Crown."
“But I witnessed his death.”
The nameless one was pointing at Elsie, or rather, at what was behind her?
Elsie slowly turned around, her eyes wide, and she took a few steps back. This scene was enough to make her small brain explode.
I feel like I'm shaking. Is this really something you have to face?!?
In the clouds, towering buildings stretched straight to the sky, their enormous pavilions even larger than Mirror Lake City.
Even more shocking, however, was the sight of a giant dragon, measuring ten thousand meters in length, nailed to the rooftop!
What impaled him... was an invisible spear of air, radiating a dangerous aura of annihilation, piercing straight through the dragon's chest. The dragon's eyes had lost their luster; he seemed to die with his eyes wide open, as if he had experienced some kind of desperate battle.
The dragon's blood had long since dried on the attic, and these bloodstains testified to the unimaginable battle that had once taken place here.
"His name is Iselland. He was the first friend I made when I connected with time and space. He is a genius in this world, ambitious, aspiring, and talented."
"He has gained the recognition of the Immortal Crown, possesses eternal life, and has the power to create wonders."
"but……"
"He only killed Keomi three times."
"I didn't expect Keomi to come a fourth time, after all, he dealt with Keomi very easily the first three times."
“I even believe he is the key to solving the Black Crown Curse.”
"However, when I contacted him again..."
The nameless skeleton's words carried a sense of longing for his old friend.
He pointed to the gruesomely killed dragon and said, "He fought against the fourth phase of Keomi, but he couldn't even last a day."
"This is also part of the Black Crown prophecy."
"The Black Crown prophecy says that the immortal Dragon King was nailed to the Tower of Babel."
"..." Elsie crossed her arms, imagining that the nailed dragon was herself.
Could she withstand those invisible spears? The answer was no. She didn't know how long it had taken Keomi to acquire this power, but it was something she had to face.
"And what about you? How many times have you killed Keomi?" Elsie asked.
The nameless man held up two fingers: "In my world, I killed him twice. I don't know when he'll come next time, I have no idea."
He waved his hand again, and the surrounding sea of clouds disappeared, revealing a red space filled with churning lava. Elsie could even see the erupting volcanoes.
"here it is……"
"Sartox the Flame Lord, an ancient colossal demon mastered by fire and contract magic, has earned the approval of the Golden Crown of Greed," the nameless man said. "This is his world."
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