The Star Knight

Opal's time passed extremely slowly, until Corolin's footsteps sounded, and the anklet lightly collided with his metal shoes.

He turned and sat on the throne, fell into a long thought, and did not tell Opal the result.

"He exists," Opal said. "He exists, doesn't he? Tell me."

Opal's neck was stern, tears welled up in his eyes, tears of joy, the imminent punishment seemed insignificant, and the news seemed to bring him back to life in his brief moment of freedom.

Freedom is the power of the mind.

Opal understood the sentence in the Temple of Stars at that moment, his body was imprisoned, but only at this moment, his soul was free.

He stopped panicking and tried to invade Cororin's mind with conviction.

"I'm not sure." Corolin's belief kept Opal's thoughts out of the barrier, and said coldly: "Continue to tell your story, it's almost dawn, Opal."

Opal: "There is no other content. The story ends here. When I arrived at the Grip of Light, there were not many things that I was nostalgic for in my life. The only relative is my teacher."

"Which teacher?" Corolin said in a deep voice.

Opal smiled and said, "You still lost."

Dawn casts the grip of the light, and the crystal-like transparent palace refracts the magical splendor of the sun, and then hides its flowing light, restoring the cold outer wall of the building.

Cororin arose in the last light, and at dawn the palace was dark.

He walked past Opal and said, "Come with me, I have to figure this all out."

Opal turned around and walked behind him. Corolin entered the corridor and went back to the room to straighten her black royal robe. Opal went to get the metal boat shoes, knelt down on one knee, and waited for him to put them on.

Cologne looked at the scene in the mirror, then looked down at him again.

Opal said in a low voice: "Thank you for letting me prove the truth, teacher, this is far more important than my own life, and I am grateful to you for this."

Corolin said in a deep voice: "You understand better than my teacher, and thank you for everything you have done for me, Opal, I am also grateful to you. I believe that in addition to your love for Raymond, you have also sincerely You loved me as a teacher. You should be thankful that you have let go of your hatred now. At this moment, your belief is still pure and has not been corrupted by darkness."

Coroline put on her boat shoes and said: "Take your weapons and wait for me at the fountain. I will still be your teacher until you are imprisoned in Iszur, but don't play any tricks this time. , my patience is limited."

Opal went to get his weapon, changed into the black clothes of the same style as Cologne, and stood in the hanging garden waiting for him.

Corolin directly summoned Caesar outside the Hanging Garden and ordered a few things, mostly about post-war work.

Caesar listened silently, then nodded and took his leave.

Tao disintegrated under the early morning sun, recombined, revealed his figure, and opened the hatch.

Kolorin boarded the ship with Opal, and the black spaceship galloped away from the Iszur galaxy. Opal stood in front of the porthole, watching the star ignited by Kolorin himself.

"The jump target, the ivory tower No. 2 test site." Tao's voice sounded.

The spaceship appeared on the lonely, icy planet in an instant, and landed slowly.

"Proving ground No. 2." Cologne walked down the empty surface and said, "It has become like this?"

Opal chased out from the spaceship and followed Coron to walk on the planet.

Corolin entered the laboratory, looking at everything in disbelief, Opal turned and left, and ran down the abandoned pit.

The bodies of hundreds of clones have decayed into dry bones, only the metal skeletons are left reflecting the moonlight in the sky.

"Who made this?" Cologne murmured, "Isn't the No. 2 test site the place where the nuclear magnetic destruction signal was launched?"

Opal knelt at the bottom of the huge pit of corpses, picked up one of the rotten replicants, and said, "I don't know either."

"I don't know..." Opal said to himself.

He touched the destroyed replica, as if he saw Raymond.

Sadness spread, and a moment of icy cold covered the entire planet.

Corolin said, "Does he have anything left? Let me see."

Opal said: "Yes, there is a necklace, but it's not on me."

Coroline said, "Where?"

Opal: "Can't you read by yourself?"

Corollin: "Your memory world is blocked by Legerson, I can't read it!"

Opal: "It should be in the Temple of the Stars, are you afraid it might be a trap?"

Corolin directly grabbed Opal with the power of faith. Opal was thrown into the cabin holding the body of the clone, and the rotten clone was mercilessly dragged out of Opal's arms and thrown out of the cabin. .

Opal said loudly: "Let me keep it!"

At that moment, he was directly pushed against the wall by a strong force, and at almost the same moment, he could clearly feel Corolin's irrepressible anger.

However, Opal was even more daring. He subconsciously drew his sword and released his belief while resisting Cologne. When I saw my clone, my mood was very complicated, and I even lost my usual composure.

Opal held a big sword against Cologne's neck and said, "You are afraid."

"A little bit." Corolin regained his composure, with a bit of mockery and appreciation in his eyes.

In this brief absence, he was almost completely suppressed by Opal.

Opal was so close to breaking through Corolin's belief suppression, but he didn't realize it at all, and his only instinct and impulse were based on his pure purpose.

He just wanted a clone, and took it back with him, as a memory of Raymond's corpse, or buried it in Liexing, or held it, and accepted the imprisonment and punishment of him by the coming Cologne.

"It's been a long time since I've felt this kind of emotion." Cologne said, "Good job, Opal, but do you want to continue now?"

Opal withdrew his sword and said, "Give me a corpse, something to miss."

Corolin didn't answer, and Opal moved a clone corpse back to Tao's cabin.

Corolin acquiesced to this move, closed the hatch, and set the jump route.

The spaceship jumps again and enters the planet of Muse. The wheat field is endless. The moment it lands, it disintegrates into metal fragments and flies to the holy hall wrapped in the wind. The archetype stands silently.

Corolin walked along the brick and stone road outside the Church of the Stars, and when he climbed up the stairs, Opal heard the echo of the organ in the church—someone.

He gave a sudden pause, Lejason was inside?

The light of the morning and evening line on the skylight fell, enveloping a person in front of the organ.

It was a girl: Molly.

The sound of the organ stopped abruptly, and the moment Jasmine stood up, she flew into the air, accompanied by a scream.

"Let her go!" Opal yelled angrily.

The power of faith in the starry sky is blowing up the wind, colliding with the power of lava in Coronne in the sanctuary, and Jasmine's power of faith is the wind domain!Opal tried his best to use Jasmine's power to fight against Cororin, but the two sides only touched each other, and Cororin withdrew his power of faith.

"You rebellious boy." Corolin said coldly: "This is the second time you have offended me today."

Opal roared: "I'm not afraid of you—! Don't hurt her! Or kill me now!"

Jasmine fell heavily from the altar, and Opal hurried over to look at her.

Panting, she asked, "Who are you?"

Opal said in her mind: 【Don't move, he won't kill you. 】

Jasmine struggled to get up and pushed Opal away.

Corollin said indifferently: "Go back and tell Legerson that I'm coming to kill him soon, because he violated the bottom line that I can't tolerate. Let him finish singing his song before he dies, maybe in a few days. "

Opal heaved a sigh of relief, knowing that Cologne would not kill Jasmine if he said so.

Cologne turned and walked into the corridor, Opal chased after him, and saw Cologne standing at the door of his room, as if waiting for something, and seemed to recall many things.

At that moment, his thoughts were soft, soft and undefended. Opal read many fragmentary memories. A long time ago, he ran in from the corridor, opened the door, called Rector to get up, and ran out to squat again. Debug the food maker and make a breakfast.

"You live in this room?" said Coroline.

"Only for a while," Opal said.

Cologne raised his hand, the door opened, he stared at everything familiar in the room, but did not go in.

Opal went in, he opened the drawer, and found what he had left behind: E7 finally found its owner in the drawer, turned on the light, and started the camera towards Opal, as if realizing that he had recognized the wrong person, the light dimmed in disappointment .

"E7." Opal said.

E7 recognized the frequency of the sound, immediately turned on the light excitedly, creaked and creaked, came out along the drawer, and fell to the ground with a bang. Opal was about to reach out to put it away, but E7 got up by itself.It circled the opal happily, with the camera always looking at it.

Opal said: "E7, I'm back."

"Beep beep——" E7 made an uninterrupted sound.

Even Coroline smiled.

Opal's body has become much smaller. He hugged E7, just like he hugged his only partner on the B-11 when he was a child. The overhead light of E7 flashed for a while, as if he had found a fragment in the memory, and projected a tap dance, The actors on the screen sing.

Corollin said: "It's the same style as the robot Nolan gave me. What is this doing?"

Opal said with a smile: "E7 thought I was a child. When I was a child, my mother went into the mine. It stayed with me at home, so it played this for me..."

Cologne looked at it for a while and said, "What else? Bring something."

Opal took out an iron box and opened it. Inside were Raymond's necklace, two mercenary diaries, the mercenary's identity card, and Sid's family heirloom.

The moment Corolin saw the ruby, she frowned slightly. Opal noticed something and said, "Do you know how this is used?"

Corolin didn't answer, and then said, "Let's go."

Opal hugged E7 and handed the tin box to Corollin, but Corollin refused to accept it and said: "These are your things, I won't keep them for myself, you can enter the prison with the heart of Nirvana go."

"What is the heart of Nirvana? This is it?" Opal said, "You take it first."

Jasmine had gone nowhere, and Cologne didn't care about her. When she returned to the hall, she stood under the altar and looked up.

The stone sculptures of phoenix and saber-toothed tiger stand icy cold, and the positions of dragon ray and star fox are empty.

Opal said: "Are these ancient gods transformed?"

Cologne replied: "No, they are already dead, and their bodies are somewhere in the universe. This is the tombstone of the real fire phoenix and saber-toothed tiger."

"I haven't been back for a long time." Cologne's voice echoed in the empty church: "Gao, do you want to stay for a while?"

Tao's eyes lit up, and then broke into pieces, wrapping Corolin and Opal and rushing out of the church. The door was closed after they left, as if nothing had happened.

The black spaceship was floating in the vast space, and Corolin held Raymond's necklace in his palm, looking at the light above his head.

Opal sat in the corner, turned on the E7 projector, and recalled every photo of himself and Raymond.Flipping one by one, accompanied by the rustling sound of the pages, Corolin sat on the swivel chair with his bipods on the console. After a while, he was attracted by Opal, and turned his head to look at the photos with him.

Opal looked at Raymond's funny facial features as he held his breath in the water. Bubbles floated from the corner of his mouth, and his hair floated in the water like black flames.

The sky light cast from the top of the Blue Crystal Throne, Opal closed his eyes and hugged Lei Meng's waist tightly.

"Water Blue Star." Corinne said.

"Yes." Opal turned his head with a smile, saw Corolin's profile, unconsciously and habitually regarded him as Raymond, and said, "You kissed me for the first time in that mission."

Corolin put down the necklace, got up and walked over, stepped barefoot on the cold ground, knelt down on one knee, with a cold and calm expression.

"You've got the wrong person." Cologne said, "That's not me."

Only then did Opal realize that he had a cognitive dislocation.

Not knowing why, he said stubbornly: "But it can also be said to be you, Tao said, it is you."

Corolin turned the photo forward and stopped at the moment when Opal and Raymond were kissing in the water. Opal added another sentence, saying, "No, that's not you. That's my Raymond, he's just mine. Robot, I don't think he is you either."

Corolin didn't answer him. After a long silence, Opal regarded Corolin's existence as air, and quickly flipped through all the electronic photos of him and Raymond, and felt that Corolin was a little annoying.

"I'm going to sleep for a while." Opal said, "I'm very sleepy."

He climbed into bed and went to sleep. Coroline took the E7 aside and started watching the clip between Opal and Raymond. The rustling sound of pages followed Opal's falling asleep.

When he woke up again, Opal was so hungry that he pressed his chest to his back, and after washing up, he asked, "Have you eaten?"

Corolin stared at the starry sky outside the porthole, and there were two mercenary diaries and Raymond's necklace side by side in front of him.

"Have you found out what's wrong?" Opal asked again.He no longer thinks of Corolin as Corolin, or rather, his image in his mind is no longer the same as before, but to be serious, Opal doesn't know that Corolin is to him now It's nothing, it's just very complicated.

Coroline replied, "No, let's make something to eat."

Opal went to start the food making machine, and he felt the power of Corolin's faith covering every inch of space in the spaceship, like a pair of eyes staring at him all the time.

After breakfast, Cologne stood in front of the obsidian.

"Calculate the overlap coefficient of the black hole's gravitational field." Kolorin said: "Open up a special route and send positioning radio waves."

Tao's hoarse voice replied: "A password is required."

Corolin reported a series of numbers, and Tao's voice sounded again: "The identity of the passerby."

Corolin moved the light screen, pressed a few places, and said, "Response: Reject the transition."

Cologne frowned and said, "Please ask for a reason."

Tao: "The other party does not allow anyone other than Star Knights to visit."

Corolin pondered for a moment, then said, "Tell them, Opal is Star Knight's new apprentice."

Tao: "Inherit the identity."

Corolin: "True Phoenix."

After a series of noisy radio waves, the central navigation obsidian lit up, and a woman's voice came.

"Colorin? What's the matter? Where's Rector? Tell us your purpose."

"There's a little bit of a question that needs to be consulted, about the legacy of the dark ages," Collin said.

The woman's voice said: "It is allowed to enter, but the attitude of the professors is not very good, Corolin, you better know it. Last time, because of your misoperation, the white luminous wheel was destroyed, and Adam is still hiding it from Rick for you." special."

Corollin said: "That was Nolan's desperate mistake. I reminded him, and I have no way to convince a phantom star."

The communication was cut off over there, and Cologne said: "Prepare for the jump."

Tao's voice said: "Pass through the password, calculate the gravitational field effect, and feedback from the jump space, you need to shrink the volume of the spaceship..."

The whole spaceship kept shrinking. Cologne stretched out a hand and looked at Opal. Opal slowly came over. Cologne hugged him and folded it heavily, forming an egg-shaped elliptical shuttle. The obsidian gleamed.

"Start the jump, the destination of the jump, the ivory tower."

That is the most unique transition method Opal has ever encountered. Their bodies seem to be broken down into atoms and molecules, fused with each other in the sea of ​​matter, and it is impossible to tell who is who. The next moment, accompanied by a soft hum , everything returned to its original state.

"The transition is successful." Tao automatically disassembled and turned into an anklet and returned to Corolin. Opal looked around in surprise.

This is a huge spaceship. They are standing on the edge of the spaceship. There is a huge metal door on the side of the ship. Several steps extend from the door, leading to their feet.

They were standing on the edge of the door, Opal turned his head and saw that there was darkness behind him, he was startled and almost fell.

Coroline pulled him and said, "Be careful."

"What's out there?" Opal asked.

"There's nothing outside." Corolin replied, "There's no time and no space. It's a static area."