The Emperor's Daily Nitpicking

What surprised him even more was that as he got closer and closer to the Old Rose Castle, he felt a very familiar but long-lost... comfort.

It's like being sucked into a mouthful of fresh air, or jumping into a pool of warm spring water in a world of ice and snow, or a gust of cool wind blowing suddenly in the severe cold and scorching heat.

In short, let his whole body relax subconsciously.

However, soon, he woke up with a jolt in his body.What makes people feel relaxed and happy in such a dangerous environment is not necessarily a good thing.And what makes him happy is not necessarily a good thing for ordinary people.

In particular, this feeling reminded him of something, something he had destroyed with his own hands...

Once this idea appeared in his mind, he tightened his grip on the rein: "Oswald! Turn back!"

He grabbed the rein and yanked back, only to find that the huge beast under him did not stop moving forward.

"Oswald?!" Kevin yelled, his face turned cold, and he immediately felt that things were abnormal, and everything seemed to be more serious than he expected.

However, Oswald did not respond to him immediately, and still flew forward without saying a word, with no intention of slowing down at all.

And at this moment, he heard the sound of rumbling horseshoes and the flapping of huge wings behind him, and he could even feel the gust of wind blown up by the vultures who were marching ahead, blowing against his back one after another.

what happened? !

He turned around in astonishment, and found that the advance army, which had been left far behind by him and Oswald, suddenly caught up somehow, and was getting closer and closer, even intending to overtake them.Those vultures were more than galloping, they were running desperately, almost crazy.

"Wood! Back!" Kevin shouted at the people on Sirius' back, but found that Wood and Nick, like Oswald, seemed deaf and indifferent to his words.

"Are you deaf?! Back off!" Kevin grabbed the reins tightly, trying to slow down the speed of Sirius, while leaning down to order the army running wildly on the ground.

Because of the strong wind, he almost had to roar to get his voice across, but the two yells still didn't have any effect.

Are you crazy? !Kevin was stunned for a moment on Sirius' back, but his eyes were once again attracted by the dense crowd near Old Rose Castle.

Because as the distance approached, he was shocked to find that among the crowd, there was actually a military flag of the Bronze Army of the Golden Lion Kingdom horizontally.

He was so familiar with the flag that he only glanced at it vaguely, before he could even see the patterns on it, he recognized it easily.

The group of Bronze Army that remained in the Golden Lion Country's base camp was later mixed together by Oswald and several other armies.At this time, those who are still holding the single military flag can only be two groups of people.

One group jumped into the depths of the Great Rift Valley with Kevin and the others, and was responsible for picking up the citizens of each city in another secret passage.The other group is the garrison army that was ordered to guard the area bordering the desert and the Golden Lion Country, that is, the army led by Mi Ao.

No matter from the perspective of the route or the distance, the only ones gathered at the foot of the Old Rose Castle at this time can only be the latter.

But Mi Ao is not a person who acts recklessly without obeying orders. Why did he give up stationing at the border and come here with a large army? !

What made him even more terrified was that there were obviously more than Mio at the foot of Old Rose Castle.Judging from the large pieces of standard armor with different color blocks, the densely packed crowd, including the stragglers of Leiyin City and Peida City, a group of large and small city-states, looks like the remnants of surviving the sand ghost attack.

If he wasn't dazzled, there were even border guards from the Northern Emerald Country... and some people who weren't from the army.

Kevin squinted his eyes and glanced into the distance through the wind and smoke. He scanned from front to back and looked around...

His heart skipped a beat—because he could see that there were more ant-like black dots moving towards here little by little.

As if bewitched by an evil spirit, and as if on a pilgrimage thousands of miles away, they gathered here in a daze regardless of obstacles.

It seems that the ruins of Chateau de Rose, buried in the wind and sand for hundreds of years, suddenly became a holy place for the entire continent.

Seeing such a scene, Kevin was stunned for a moment, and his face suddenly became quiet.The drooping eyelashes covered his eyes, making it difficult to see the emotion in his eyes...

Although there is still some distance from the Old Rose Castle, and even though there are still two swirling wind nests blocking half of his vision, he has almost guessed what kind of thing exists in the Old Rose Castle.

Oswald stared blankly, but his wings tilted slightly as if he was being guided by something. In a hovering posture, he gradually bypassed the two wind nests that blocked most of the ruins.Only the ruins of the old rose castle finally appeared in Kevin's eyes.

And what was concealed in it was finally fully exposed——

It was a giant bird as tall as a man, with long tail feathers hanging down, perched on a high broken wall.Its whole body is shrouded in a layer of dazzling light like the sun, so that people can't see its true appearance at all, except for the slender silhouette and pitch-black eyes.

Its wings carry burning red flames, and the scorching fire is full of strong vitality, as if it will never go out.

The more people gathered, the more dazzling the silhouette of that giant bird became.

Until Kevin appeared above the Old Rose Castle, the motionless giant bird raised its head and whistled in his direction as if it had suddenly come to life.

At the same time, the light around it suddenly poured out, as dazzling as another sun in the world.

The body of Sirius under Kevin suddenly sank, as if he couldn't bear the light from the giant bird, and at that moment, he passed out as if he had been hit hard.

Fortunately, the huge wings helped him slow down a little bit, and the moment he landed, Kevin suddenly turned over and jumped down to protect its head.

Sirius fell heavily to the ground, and passed out without a sound.And the advance army that came behind mighty and mighty, under the impact of the light, they fell to the ground with a loud crash, throwing up the wind and sand all over the sky.

The people on the outside just passed out, as for the people inside...

Kevin closed his eyes for a moment, his fingers hanging by his side clenched tightly into fists.He walked towards the broken wall of the old castle with strides, and the people who were crowded in front of him hardly caused any hindrance, and dispersed with a light swipe.

Because they have already lost consciousness.

Tens of thousands of people gathered here, looking in from the outside, besides the densely packed human heads, there were also densely packed human heads. This was a very astonishing scene, even creepy.

And those unconscious people fell to both sides like a split tide the moment they were pushed away by Kevin.The posture in which they fell to the ground was very strange, as if they were driven by some force to kneel down.

This gesture made Kevin's frown even tighter, and his face had never been so stern.

And the further he walked in, the uglier his face became, as cold as if he had just been dug out of an ice cellar, because the sand he stepped on became more and more wet.

What soaked it was not water, but blood...

Kevin didn't know what the people gathered here experienced before he came here. They were far less lucky than those who came later. Except for some who were unconscious, more people had no heartbeat or breathing.

At the moment of their death, they even kept standing upright.And because there are too many people, they gather together in clusters, but few people fall down.

It wasn't until the moment Kevin pushed them away that he maintained a surprised expression and leaned over in a pious kneeling posture.

At first, Kevin subconsciously held it up with his hand, but later he closed his eyes and simply stopped reaching out.Because he couldn't help them at all, and even if he helped them, those people couldn't have their hearts beating again.

The gurgling blood flowed out from their bodies, and at a glance, they didn't even know where the wounds were.

In this way, Kevin, with blood dripping from his feet, walked step by step to the side of the damaged tower of the Old Rose Castle, facing the giant bird that had been caged with light and flames.

His pale skin, which had been pale since he woke up from the deep forest of Andorha, finally began to have some color.

It was as if a person who had been ill for a long time was finally beginning to recover slowly, but his expression was not pleasant, even silent and heavy.

This huge sacred object is the phoenix, the godhead of the light god Phaer, which was crushed by his own hands in the evening thousands of years ago.

He never thought that he could meet his godhead again, after all, no one has ever been able to reunite the destroyed godhead.

There will be no one who will go to great lengths to do this except Melo.And his purpose of doing this is also obvious——

Let Kevin regain the godhead, and then let him kill it with his own hands, and inherit the godhead forever.

Kevin can choose not to accept it, but the purest godhead will continue to attract people to come for pilgrimage without the wrapping of a body, and then they will be like the people gathered here at this time, because they cannot bear the light of the godhead, or death, or coma.

He can also choose to destroy his godhead again with his own hands like he did thousands of years ago.Then he will likely be caught in a never-ending cycle with Melo again.

Or, he has a third option...

Kevin stared at the phoenix's eyes, as if he was thinking about something through it. After a while, a mocking sneer suddenly appeared from the corner of his mouth.

He stretched out a hand to the proud giant bird, and said in a deep voice, "I'm back."

The phoenix screamed, swept its wings, leaned down from the broken wall of the tower, and melted into Kevin's body.

The dazzling light bathed in it enveloped Kevin's body, and the golden flames wrapped in the two wings were held by Kevin in his hand, and turned into a golden longbow in an instant.

The person standing in Sheng Guangzhong was tall and slender, and the blood stained on his feet added a bit of awe to the holiness.

"Do you like the gift I gave you? Ordinary people are born to kneel at the feet of the gods. This is my last respect." Melo's slow and light voice came along the wind from all directions, but I don't know where it came from.

The person in the holy light smiled coldly, drew a long golden arrow out of thin air and put it on the bow, and shot it in a certain direction without looking at it.

The black wind in the sky suddenly turned into the shape of a long snake, and was pierced by the arrows that came suddenly, and scattered in all directions.Mello's voice also stopped abruptly.

The archer held his bow and tilted his head slightly, his dark and silent eyes swept over tens of thousands of people.

This is exactly the same as the scene seen by the old priest of the Priest Academy, Mowgli, except that what he saw was not the past, but the future...

The God of Light, Phae, has returned.

Volume Four: Mortals Under the Glacier