God's Grace

On the outskirts of Nancheng, there is a private manor surrounded by trees.

In this place far away from the hustle and bustle of the city, more than a dozen antique buildings are located on the banks of a small lake, with white walls and blue tiles, mahogany railings, and slightly raised cornices. The whole manor is not very grand and luxurious, only a classical charm winds through it , the manor is surrounded by tall trees, preventing outsiders from seeing the interior.

This manor is the ancestral home of the Xia family in Nancheng. It’s just that the younger generation work or go to school outside, and generally don’t live here. Those who live here are the retired elders of some families. A retreat for elders.

It rained again last night, and the sun in late autumn and early winter dissipated a little moisture. Although the small lake in the manor is small, it still shimmers in the afternoon sun. The middle rises and falls with the rippling of the lake. On the other side of the lake, in front of an ancient house built near the lake, a black-haired girl in white twirled her long hair that was blown by the wind, held on to the cold wooden pillar, and frowned. Looking at the lake in front of him, he was lost in thought.

Her slightly haggard face still cannot conceal her unique beauty. Her eyebrows are picturesque, gentle and charming, beautiful but not charming. In such a quaint background, if she is not wearing modern clothes, people may mistakenly think that she has traveled through time. In ancient China, she was a famous lady with both talent and beauty in poetry.

Sisina came out of the house behind her, stood beside Xia Xiwei, looked at Xia Xiwei with a light smile and joked, "I've always heard that your real home is in the suburbs, but I didn't expect it to be such a treasured place of geomantic omen. , It really is a local tyrant."

Xia Xiwei knew that Sisina wanted to mediate her mood, but she had no intention of chatting with Sisina. She said in a hoarse voice, "How is Sasha?"

Sisina sighed and shook her head: "Still unconscious."

She looked at Xia Xiwei, and persuaded her sincerely: "You'd better go to sleep, how can you hold on like this?"

It has been three days since the incident of encountering the Golden Winged General. After Medusa used time magic to save Xia Xiwei that day, she has been in a coma.

That night, with the help of her family, Xia Xiwei and Sisina and the others secretly moved from the southern city to the family manor in the suburbs overnight.

And Xia Xiwei has been guarding beside the comatose Medusa. She hasn't closed her eyes for three days and three nights. Even Sisina can't stand it anymore. Just now she was forced to go out for dinner and let her take a rest. .

But how could Xia Xiwei be in the mood for a good rest?She went to eat something, then stood here to breathe for a while, and was about to go back and continue guarding Medusa.

Xia Xiwei shook her head when she heard the words: "I can't sleep now."

Then she took a deep breath of fresh air, lifted her spirits, turned and walked into the house behind her.

Inside the ancient-looking building, there are modern furniture. Medusa is lying on the bed with a respirator and a bottle.

In fact, there was no physical injury, but because he was in a coma, he could only use infusions to maintain his vital functions.

The short-haired girl who was full of vitality in the past is now lying on the hospital bed with a pale face, her weak breathing makes her body hardly rise and fall, and she looks motionless. If it is not for the weak heartbeat on the electrocardiogram, I am afraid would be considered dead.

Xia Xiwei's heart ached when she saw such a scene.

She sat beside Medusa, held her hand, and whispered softly with tears in her eyes: "Little Sasha, wake up quickly..."

……

At that time, Xia Xiwei was hit in the chest by the divine power attack of the Golden Wing God General, and her heart veins were damaged and seriously injured, which eventually led to her death. Mortals die but cannot be resurrected. This is the biological rule of the big world. If any existence wants to rebel, it must Pay a heavy price.

The "time reversal" magic used by Medusa is not to reverse the time of the world, because no existence can reverse the time of the entire world.

The most that can be done is to reverse a part of the time of an individual's existence, and any existence of life includes soul and body. Xia Xiwei was considered dead by the world rules at that time, and her soul and body were separated. ", it's over for the rules of the world.

To countercurrent the time of individual existence, more time must be sacrificed as a price, and Xia Xiwei has no time to sacrifice as a countercurrent time, even if there is, it is impossible for Medusa to sacrifice Xia Xiwei's life time.

So Medusa sacrificed a part of her time and "extended" the time of her life to Xia Xiwei, so that her existence was restored to the state before she was attacked, thus bringing Xia Xiwei back to life .

It is extremely dangerous to use such magic that violates the rules of the world. It will easily lead to the complete annihilation of the caster. Even if it succeeds, the price to be paid is extremely huge. Xia Xiwei's time has only been rewinded by a few minutes. Medusa herself lost ten years of time.

For the world, she has been sacrificed by herself for more than ten years, so she has lost more than ten years of life in body and spirit, although as long as she is still alive, even if she loses more than ten years of life What is it, besides, for the almost eternal soul of the protoss, a lifespan of more than ten years is not a big deal at all.

However, the price is far more than that. This kind of magic, which is already equivalent to a forbidden curse, almost exhausted Medusa's spiritual power, and her soul power was also seriously lost. The most important thing is that her soul was backlashed when she rebelled against the rules of the world, and her soul was almost torn apart. Cracked, suffered a great blow.

What's more serious is that when Medusa returned to the earth world, the curse power transferred from her divine body head to her divine soul exploded when her divine soul was injured and weakened!

Because Medusa's spiritual power and soul power are almost exhausted, she is unable to continue to suppress the power of the curse that has been sealed in the spiritual world by her. of control.

For the past three days, Medusa seems to be fighting against the power of the curse in the spiritual world. From the outside world, Chen Xiaoshan, who lives with her, has been in a coma, and Sisina and the others don't know about Medusa's spiritual world. What is going on in the middle, there is no way to interfere or help her.

Xia Xiwei knew that she must be fighting hard.

When Medusa rescued her soul, their souls depended on each other, and Xia Xiwei saw some memories of Medusa.

After asking Sisina and Uriel for more details in the past few days, Xia Xiwei learned about Medusa's complete past.

It turned out that she was so strong, after experiencing so many tragic tortures, profound pains, and the sadness of sinking into chaos for thousands of years, she could still bloom such an innocent and cheerful smile.

Compared to her, she is really too fragile.

Xia Xiwei lay on Medusa's body, her clothes were wet with silent tears, "Medusa, come back soon... You will never be lonely again in the future, don't forget, you are now With me... I will definitely never let you be alone again... I will always be here, waiting for you to come back..."

"We must win..."

……

Passing through the abyss of the soul, the illusory and shining golden sea is violently turbulent, and on the shining stormy waves, sleeps the golden phantom with wings.

In the sky above the Golden Sea, a dark red water ball is suspended. The thick water waves vibrate on the surface of the ball, releasing a bloody mist that covers the sky above the Golden Sea. The spreading mist eats away at the shining Divine Sea bit by bit. , After being swallowed, the place is a piece of darkness.

This is Medusa's spiritual world. The golden phantom-like existence with wings is her divine soul, and the dark red water ball in the sky is the power of curse that was previously sealed by her.

Originally, Medusa's spiritual world should be an endless golden sea, but now, there is only a small area left that is not shrouded in blood mist, and Medusa's soul is sleeping in the center of the only remaining golden sea.

Just like humans can relieve fatigue through sleep, the best way to repair the soul of the Protoss when it is injured is to absorb the power of faith first. If there is no power of faith, another relatively very slow way is to sleep.

In fact, Medusa has woken up and fell into a deep sleep several times since she was injured by her soul. During the time she woke up, she was fighting against the power of the curse.

It's just that her spirit is too weak now, and it's difficult to defeat the full burst of curse power.

In the last battle, she was so tired that she had to fall asleep again.

At this time, several turbulent waves suddenly surged into the sky, and when they were about to touch the curled and dormant golden phantom, they burst into little golden spots, like rain, falling on the turbulent sea surface.

However, Medusa was awakened by the surging waves.

In fact, this is an alarm clock she set herself. She set a time before falling asleep to force herself to wake up, so as to prevent her soul from falling into a deep sleep and making it difficult to wake up on her own.

Medusa who was awakened looked around in a daze, and sighed silently: "It seems to have been swallowed up a lot..."

After a little distress, she quietly looked at the void in front of her, seemingly in a daze.

Maybe it was because she was too tired, she had a dream in her deep sleep.

Those tragic memories of the past in the dream came to my mind one after another, like being ridiculed and bullied when I was a child, being excluded in the temple when I grew up, and the faces and eyes of human beings who hated themselves when they were exiled...

But what made her feel a little strange was that, although it was a dream about sadness, she didn't recall Athena.

I once wanted to forget all the memories about Athena, but the memory of the protoss is too powerful, and there is almost no definition of forgetting, especially those strong feelings are so deep for me, I will always recall them involuntarily in the long-term loneliness , and then felt pain from those disdainful smiles and contemptuous eyes in memory.

This is also one of the eternal costs. Whether it is a happy or sad memory, it will be deeply remembered.

It's just that now, even if she thinks of words such as sadness and pain, and has the most terrifying nightmare, she will never think of Athena again.

Maybe if Athena doesn't find her, she will gradually forget her and her memories.

Because, now I meet someone who should truly love, protect, and fight for her.

"Who can come and save me..." This is the vague and sad wish that Medusa occasionally gave birth to in those thousands of years of loneliness, hoping that a miracle will happen, and who can save herself from the endless darkness and chaos .

However, no one would come to save her, but when she saw the sun again, she was saved by the tenderness of one person.

"Of course we can be friends if you want, Medusa."

"Because... because of me, I like you."

"You never want to leave, I will never let you go again."

"Medusa, I want to tell you, I like you the most, I love you!"

"I'll always be here, waiting for you to come back..."

Xia Xiwei, I heard your call.

Medusa showed a happy smile on her face, picked up the sword and shield hanging in the void from her side, and stood up in the void with some difficulty.

No matter how tired you are, you have to start fighting.

With the wings spread behind her, she raised her sword and pointed at the dark red water polo in the sky: "If I can beat you once, I can beat you a second time."

"I will definitely win! Because someone is waiting for me to go back!"