Yun Wei never believed in gifts from others without a reason.
Joshua's strength was truly formidable, far exceeding his comprehension; he was the most powerful person he had ever encountered in his life.
But it was this very person who asked to stay by his side and travel with him.
It was more of a shock than a surprise.
If he can't clearly understand the other person's purpose, he'll probably have a hard time sleeping peacefully in the future.
"Hmm?" Hearing Yun Wei's question, Joshua lowered his eyes, looking aggrieved. "I just wanted to be friends with you."
It seemed the other party wasn't going to tell the truth. Yun Wei sighed inwardly and could only let the storm brew in his mind.
Under what circumstances would a person suddenly show unusual kindness to a stranger?
"There's an ulterior motive, attributed to love," Alger wrote in his poetry collection.
He asked himself honestly, it was impossible for Joshua to have fallen in love with him; it was a scene of utter devastation, comparable to a disaster movie.
It was at this moment that a possibility suddenly popped into his mind:
Could it be that Joshua has fallen in love with...?
Is it Isaac?
Yun Wei thought about it more and more and more, and he quickly began to imagine all sorts of vivid scenarios:
The Pope of the Radiant Church endured humiliation and lay low for many years. One day, he encountered a paladin who had been abducted by an evil necromancer, and fell in love at first sight...
"What are you thinking about now?" Just then, Joshua interrupted his reverie. "I've said it before, there's something really wrong with your eyes."
Yun Wei snapped out of her daze, staring warily at the other person, and asked, "Do you... have someone you like?"
Joshua paused for a moment upon hearing this, his gaze becoming somewhat vacant, as if staring into some unknown void.
After a long pause, the blond man smiled and said, "Yes."
Yun Wei pressed on, "What kind of liking is it?"
Joshua turned his head and gave Yun Wei a deep look, but what he said sent chills down Yun Wei's spine:
"Like, your liking for Isaac."
Yun Wei couldn't help but ask, "You... how do you know Isaac?"
He was so nervous that he raised his voice, which only made his voice sound even hoarse and unpleasant.
"You mean him..." Joshua glanced at the tall knight beside the ruins in the distance, his expression inscrutable.
The opponent, after all, had not reached level seven and could not break free from the chains of time.
Joshua replied matter-of-factly, "After all, he was the first Grand Master of the Knights, the first person to be canonized, Isaac Saint Moriti. As the Patriarch of the Holy Church, how could I not know him?"
Yun Wei knew that the other party was not telling the truth again.
He had no evidence, only a vague intuition, so he subconsciously pursed his lips.
Seeing Yun Wei's gloomy expression, Joshua belatedly realized what was going on.
"Pfft!" The eccentric Pope suddenly burst into laughter.
The flowers trembled and they burst into laughter.
"Oh my god!" Joshua even laughed until tears welled up in his eyes. "Oh my god! This is terrible! You wouldn't, you wouldn't... Pfft, hahaha!"
Yun Wei: "..."
He didn't find anything funny about it.
If he hadn't seen it with his own eyes, he wouldn't have believed that the patriarch of the Holy Church would look like this.
Anyway, ever since the other party appeared, he has been acting crazy and erratic, and he has gradually gotten used to it.
But he couldn't help but worry: could this seemingly unreliable man really save Richie and Brother Shee?
After an unknown amount of time, Joshua finally calmed down from his intermittent laughter.
“Isaac is mine, I love him.” In the brief silence, Yun Wei emphasized to himself.
Joshua blinked, looking at the other's stubborn, possessive expression, and for some reason, he felt a little envious.
He composed himself, instantly regaining his previous holy and solemn demeanor, and said softly, "Understood."
It was at this moment that Master Sid, enveloped in a halo, finally completed the final step of the dismantling.
The 'Heart of Thoth,' which was spinning at high speed in the center of the instrument, suddenly went out.
As the pitch gradually decreased, the core rotation speed visibly slowed down.
Without the guidance of the convergence terminal, the dazzling golden dawn vanished like the tide.
The entire venue became dark and quiet again, with only the silently suspended divine civilization flickering like ancient stars never before seen by people.
Joshua smiled slightly, the divine runes disappeared, and time resumed its flow once more.
The survivors were still completely unaware of what had happened, and most of them looked around in shock and uncertainty.
They had clearly seen the impact of the second elemental surge right before their eyes, but for some reason, the surging energy vanished in the blink of an eye.
At that moment, Yun Wei was pulled into Isaac's arms.
The other person hugged him tightly from behind.
Just as he was about to speak, he heard the voice of the other person's heart:
Although I couldn't move, I heard everything.
I am yours, and you love me.
Yun Wei was stunned for a moment, then he understood.
Although his strength was capped at level six, his mental power was still a solid level seven, so much so that Joshua heard every single word of his conversation with him.
The thought of his utterly shameful behavior made Yun Wei's face flush red. He frantically clutched at the arm that wouldn't budge in front of him, looking at the ground with a panicked expression.
That's why he didn't know that his knight was glaring angrily at the innocent-looking Pope.
When he noticed the other person's gray eyes, a thoughtful look also appeared in the knight's eyes.
...
In a secluded corner, Haines, barely breathing, knelt on the ground, trembling as he stroked "Peter," who had also been overturned.
Without the illumination of the radiant divine runes, his already dwindling life force was about to be completely exhausted.
The bloodstains on his palms smeared on the cold metal surface, making everything look even more chaotic.
Haines stared at the intricate magic runes on the metal surface, about to channel his magic into the core, when a voice echoed softly, "No, you need to deactivate the energy array below first. This is a triple-layered deception array; doing so will only trigger self-destruction."
Haines turned his head with difficulty, only to see his nephew standing with his arms crossed, staring coldly at 'Peter' on the ground.
The other person has looked like this since they were a child.
Despite being the closest to the ideal state of the successor of the Liujin family, he always wastes his talents on trivial matters.
Haines opened his mouth, but didn't know what to say.
“You should know you’re not going to make it.” Sid finally fixed his gaze on him, but his words were indifferent. “I just want to ask you one last thing: were my parents assassinated by you?”
“Of course, you’d better not lie to me, because I know the ‘Searching for Gods Spell’,” Sid added before the other could answer.
“No…no, it was me…” Haines gasped for breath, like a broken bellows, “It was your…uncle who did it…”
"I see. The reason you knew everything but chose to hide it was for your so-called family honor, wasn't it?" As if he had already guessed the answer, Sid said calmly, "To be honest, I used to hate you. Even now, I don't want to forgive you."
He used to hate his uncle intensely because the uncle always exploited him and made him endlessly create those empty and boring alchemical tools.
But it was one of them who saved young Silver in the snow years ago.
Seeing that the other person had finally breathed his last, Sid whispered, "I will bury you in the family cemetery... Uncle Haynes."
His fingertips swept across the surface of 'Peter', and as the magic runes melted away like ice and snow, the imprisoned soul indeed appeared, rushing towards the unknown space-time in a golden glow.
An indescribable rhythm emanated from the space, and a ring representing the Liujin family appeared before Sid's eyes.
"The gilded family is nearing its end; you are the last dawn."
"Be strong, Sid!"
Finally, Sid heard his cousin, Peter Ryuk, say this.
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