[Zhongyingmei] The Spirit Master is backstabbing again

As we all know, [Rocky] and [Tug of War] are commonly used adjectives and units of measurement for Skadi.

Specifically reflected in...

Staring at the human male who seemed to be a nobleman in front of him, Skadi snorted, pointed, and rolled his eyes.

Look at how cowardly this guy is!Not as courageous as Loki!Loki was willing to tug of war to protect Asgard back then!

The evil gods are more dedicated than him!Sure enough, only after there are comparison items can we have a clearer understanding!A mage who can stab people with a knife has no evil intentions, he is really brave!

——Heh, at this moment, she can still think of Loki.It shows that she really pays attention to the internal unity among the gods!

This is probably the first time Skadi has expressed such serious and formal appreciation for Loki.And it is very sincere, completely from the heart, and even wants to praise the other party by name after returning to his own world.

'Well, didn't Selina sweetheart say that the compliments in front of the parties will be effective. 'Skatti made up his mind.

...But as for whether Loki will be happy to hear this kind of sincere recognition and praise... probably only Loki himself will know.

But that adjective aside, Skadi is actually right.

This human being still doesn't know them well enough.

If they want someone to speak, how can they refuse for such a simple reason as 'the person being questioned does not want to answer'?

"You will answer." Selina repeated calmly, "What on earth have you done to my family?"

The voice was neither sad nor happy, as if it was just a problem, not the past suffering that she could not digest deep in her heart and was always there.

"Of course there are..." Selinya looked at the blasted walls around the Colosseum, as if she was looking at her family members she had seen in the world of the undead. "Where is my home?"

Hometown and family—what a matter of course and can have.

But until now, Selina finally had the chance to get answers to these two questions.

When the system was just bound, in exchange, the system recalled a relevant memory for her, about why the nobles would do something to them...but only that short paragraph.

In the world of the undead, Selinya also thought of this question.But looking at the family members hugging her... how could she mention the pain they had experienced in such a reunion moment that was so hard to have.

So she chose to ask herself.

Ask... the perpetrator, the murderer.

"I—" The man's pupils shrunk into a small spot, and he frantically fought against himself, even biting his tongue with his teeth, afraid to speak by himself.

But the kind of spiritual spell directly applied to the soul made him unable to resist at all, as if the nerves of his brain had been pried open and provoked. In the sudden pain, his past crimes still came out of his mouth, "I need your Power, but you are not willing to use it for me."

"I know that many other forces are also looking for your traces, but I found it the fastest. Since I can't get your power, of course I can't let other people have a chance to get it... So I decided to completely conquer this race."

"This is the method we often use. If you can't convince you, use violence to conquer. As long as you kill enough people, it will always make others fearful and succumb."

Although Selinya broke the spells and potions, and Hela and Clark shattered the cage, not many magical animals or humans dared to crawl out immediately.

For them, [Freedom] is too far away, so far away that even if Selinya gave them freedom, they couldn't accept it quickly.

But after hearing this sentence, several magical creatures who were cowering in the corner of the iron cage, as well as some low-level magicians who were arrested because they touched the interests of the nobles, finally got up the courage to get out and used She looked at the man with tears in her angry eyes.

...Obviously, they were also once 'conquered' races by noble forces.

"You guys are really difficult to deal with... Any legends describe how terrifying the power of the spiritual master is. So we called the most powerful alchemist and magician, and used it in your living environment a week in advance A wide range of potions."

"That battle was very difficult. But we won in the end." Speaking of this, the voice of the noble chief even carried some proud and joyful tone.

...Actually, he didn't want to do this, he wanted to show himself more objective and passive, like fabricating the identity of an 'innocent man who was forced to perform a task under the order of the king'.Because he knew that answering truthfully would arouse the anger of those people even more...but he couldn't control himself.

Under the effect of the Spiritual Words, he can't tell any lies, he can only reveal all his truest thoughts.

And that unshakable pride until now is his true thought.

In such a condensed and stiff atmosphere, the man clearly felt that his heart was beating faster and faster, and he was about to peel off his skin and crawl out in the next second, leaving bloody and dirty marks on the ground.

'It's over. ' He thought desperately, listening to himself articulate those words.It's all over.he will die.He really will die.

...Actually, a man is not regretting what he has done, he is just afraid of the consequences of his actions.

Just like the mentality that many criminals will have, after the incident, they will not regret the crime they committed, but only regret that they were not more careful and were caught.

If Selinya still has nothing now, then maybe the nobles will still mention to her one day what they have done to her family——

But it will not be trembling with fear like now; it will be with strong pride and ridicule, showing off their glorious battle results in front of the only survivor.

Even driven by the desire to survive, the nobles try their best to embellish everything they have done with righteous and awe-inspiring words and rhetoric.

But death itself cannot be modified.

Death is death, how can there be a death that looks good.

"..." Amidst those cruel voices, Skadi silently embraced Selinya.She pressed the little girl's head into her arms, wishing she could use this method to isolate the girl from the cruel experience.

"I know that the power of your spiritual masters is inherited through blood, so I left you..." The nobleman's hands were stuck on his neck, and he wished to cut his throat on the spot to stop this nightmare. Self-reported, but he didn't have the courage to do that.

The manipulator who brought so much death and suffering is actually such a coward.

"But I didn't expect you to be unable to use the spirit of speech. Obviously, I have spent so much expectation on you. Every time I have a banquet, I have to show off you to other leaders. Back then, even His Majesty wanted to ask for you after getting the news... In the end, you became my shame," the man's expression became more and more ferocious, and every demon Sailinya had seen was even more terrifying, "I have used so many methods to stimulate your potential—"

"Is this one of them?" Hela said abruptly, "Is this one of the methods?"

The floor was soaked in blood, layers of old and new, Hela smelled death the moment she stepped in.

"Of course." The answer blurted out.

"Death is the best way to unleash potential."

"..." Tony was so angry that the armor detected an abnormal heart rate, and he automatically turned on the breathing assistance function.

Even Superman, who has always been good-tempered, lost his expression.

Selina grew up here.

Face death here.

...what their girls have been through here.

Thinking of the data obtained after that physical examination, Tony closed his eyes, and already knew where those fatal injuries came from.

Jason and Selinya walked through the noble manor together, and also walked through the small half of the Colosseum.He's seen more than the others, but... Serenia actually likes to show them [the good part].

When I lived in the weapon storage, I would not say how unfree and painful I was under supervision. Instead, I would say to Jason, "We will be safe here", and pull Jason to look at the paintings and stars together;

After I came to the Colosseum, I didn't say how many injuries I had suffered here, I just pointed to the first battlefield and said, 'Ah, I won here'.

…When you get a piece of candy paper, you can happily fold it up and make yourself happy.

Because in such a long time, only Selinya herself would care about the matter of "whether she is happy or not".

...So she took this matter seriously.

In silence, Jason stood beside Selinya, unable to explain why he did this.But he just wanted to be by her side.A little closer, a little closer.

Hella laughed at this moment.

She grabbed the noble man's neck and lifted it up, agreeing softly with a deathly smile, "Yeah, I think so too."

"Death is the best way to stimulate potential." The black mist lingers around, like devils jumping into the world one by one, and the goddess of death repeated word by word, "Of course."

And which human being can understand [Death] better than the goddess of death.

Within the scope of understanding of every life, death has different meanings.As for Hela, she can grasp all relevant definitions.

"Then come and experience what they have experienced."

With this order, those spirits with resentment rose from the space and rushed towards the man.

In many urban legends, such a story is described: an inextricable soul is trapped in a dead place, repeating its own death process over and over again.

... Hela doesn't mind sucking on human creative ideas.

The pupils of the noble leader dilated in shock, and he kept struggling and howling, "No, no, don't do this!! Don't come here!"

He saw the flames, he felt the flames, he ordered the fire; he felt the icy sea water, which kept sinking, and he threw those resisting humans into the sea; there was also a sense of numbness and suffocation——

Hela's smile flashed for a moment, and she let go of her hand expressionlessly.Let the opponent roll wildly on the floor amidst his own wailing.

The Goddess of Death lifted a little of her shell, returning to her eerily familiar look.

Skadi hugged Selinya, covered her ears to try to block out the screams, and squeezed the girl tightly in her arms, "Leave it to her first, Hela is actually very good. Proper."

"..." Thinking about what Hella has done and (almost) done, Selina: "emmm——is, is it?" The tone was complicated, with three points of surprise, five points of confusion and two points—— 'Are you kidding me? '

"Property"

But she remembered that Mr. Saul complained in the chat some time ago, that he was held down by Hela and beaten up in God's Domain...?

"Of course!" Skadi asked in surprise, "Don't you believe us? This will make us very sad."

The sense of drama is full, and the tone is instantly filled with unbelievable sadness.

Selina: "Well, that's not the case..."

You've already said that, so it's hard for me to continue with this question.

During the few seconds of silence, Selinya couldn't help asking the system, "Didn't you say before that jumping across space is a very complicated and risky thing. '

'Why do I have to contact them when I can find my way back—'

[I didn't contact them, I asked them to come to you. 】

The system solemnly corrected, [They are coming to you, so I offered help. 】

[As for why they would do that.I think you already know the answer, don't you? 】

"……Ok, I know."

Selina already knew this.

She is no longer as confused and distressed as she was at the beginning, thinking 'what is love? ' up.She has seen many kinds of love, proud and high-profile, restrained and deep, obscure and hidden in the corner, all kinds of love...

Love is the connection between them, love is the anchor she uses to position herself, love is the source of her strength.

Love made her braver, brave enough to start learning to reciprocate love, brave enough to be unfamiliar and clumsy to learn how to become family with them.

She already knew this.

But this did not prevent her from being moved by them again and again.

"...Hello." A familiar voice sounded beside Selinya. It was the orc who managed to get up after being kicked into the floor by Jason.

He rubbed his sore chin, looked at Selina and asked, "What do you want us to do for you?"

Following his voice, Selinya looked up.

After the cages that imprisoned various animals were opened, those magical creatures and humans did not leave.They huddled up in the corner cautiously; or after mustering up the courage to run out, they were at a loss and didn't know what to do.

dare not leave.Can only wait in fear for the next order.

They didn't even dare to listen to the conversations of those people (or gods?) of Selinya—after all, the power of those people was really terrifying.If gods can really descend into the world in this world, then it is probably what they see now.

But the feeling of watching their enemies howl was so refreshing, they couldn't help but turn their eyes to the noble leader.

Only the half-orcs were more courageous, and dared to stop Selinya directly - they often fought with Selinya in the Colosseum, and they were experienced in being beaten, and they were used to it.

"What... what?" Selinya was startled, and didn't even realize the meaning of this sentence.

"You have saved us," although the half-orc didn't want to admit it, but now it seems that this is indeed true... The girl who first appeared here more than ten years ago has gone further than them, "What do you want us to do for you? Do you want to sacrifice your life? Or donate some organs?"

These... are all things they have experienced, or witnessed other people experience.

It doesn't matter if you change the slave.Anyway, this kind of thing happens often—the guy who is lying on the ground and howling now has annexed all the similar places around him.

This is the largest and only remaining Colosseum, the most popular entertainment venue.

Although it is a bit difficult to accept that the former enemy has suddenly become their subordinate... ha, but when will they have the qualifications to choose "accept or not".

Celinya stared at the orc for a moment, then suddenly asked, "How long have you been here?"

"Who the hell can..." Sensing the glances of Jason and others, the half-orc swallowed back his habitual swearing, "Oh, I mean, I don't remember."

However, considering the opponent's current identity and strength, he still tried to recall a little bit, "You have been here for 11 years and participated in more than 200 battles. I probably—more than ten years earlier than you?"

That's over 20 years.Oh, it turns out it's been so long.

He was still young in this place, and now that he has passed the peak stage and is aging, he has long been unable to beat many animals in the Colosseum.

...Think better, at least that girl won't be too cruel.Even if he is old enough to lose all the time, he probably won't be handed over to the alchemists to deal with it like what happened before.

"Ah..." Selinya didn't answer the question directly, but asked instead, "Are you from the Western Continent?"

"I read in the book that there is a vast mushroom forest in the Western Continent. Every night, the glowing mushrooms breathe like jellyfish in the sea."

Half-orc: "...I guess so." He vaguely remembered that when he was a child, he seemed to have been to the place she described, running around in it and being stuck in his throat by a mushroom.But for so many years, he had no chance to recall, and he didn't dare to recall, and he couldn't remember clearly.

"Then go back and have a look." Selinya replied calmly, "To see the forest, to see my hometown."

"……what?"

Selinya stopped looking at him, but turned her attention to other people or animals who finally dared to come out of the cage one after another, "You are free. You can go home."

Among the crowd, Selinya saw a few children who were still very young, probably only a few years older than her back then.

With wounds and blood stains all over his body, he looked at her in a daze.

It's great that what she's been through won't be repeated endlessly by other children.

Compared with the 'great' record of defeating werewolves orcs, this is what she has always wanted to achieve.

"I know that there are mushroom forests in the Western Continent, underground fortresses in the Eastern Continent, and a kingdom of dwarves and a kingdom of elves in this world... Besides the Colosseum, this world still has many places. And you, you can already go back to his hometown."

"I don't understand—" the half-orc stammered back in a trance, "you, you really don't need us to do anything for you?"

"No need." Selinya replied very simply, "It's not necessary either."

Everything she wanted, she got.

Selinya thought about this question seriously, "If there must be one—then it should be, live a good life? And don't impose the disaster that happened on other lives?"

"By the way, and—" Thinking of the previous incident, Selinya couldn't help but smile a little, "When you stuffed medicine in my cage before, I actually didn't pass out, I saw it. "

After the competition in the Colosseum, only a few winners can get scarce resources such as wound medicine and bandages.

Once, after Selinya was injured, she saw a half-orc passing by in the corner of the iron cage, and then stuffed the wound medicine she just got into it as if nothing had happened.

As if his tail had been stepped on, the half-orc instantly howled from embarrassment, "...who the hell wants you to remember this!! Annoying!"

Then it's because she released the water first, and didn't directly kill him in the previous battles several times!

It's fucking annoying!He just didn't want to owe her favor!

He is not her kind of abusive person!

...but she would be the furthest of them all.

Always.

She is the bravest and most determined.And the kindest, kindest—god, he'd never thought of using that adjective in his life.

...Well, if there is a chance to see her again, bring her the mushrooms from the Mushroom Forest.

"I don't understand." As the commander and planner who created so many crimes, the noble leader experienced the painful experience created by him, and stared at Hela in front of him with wide eyes, "How did she summon you all?" of……"

"Aren't I devout enough—" He has already paid so many sacrifices, from expensive treasures to countless animals and people...

"Wrong," Clark's voice suddenly sounded, he slightly lowered his head to look at the other party, his expression was very calm, and he really looked like a god, "It wasn't her who summoned us."

"We need her."

According to the Supreme Mage's recent statement, Selina appeared in their world because of the self-adjustment of the world line-a very divisive statement that non-magic supermen could not fully understand.

But he agrees with this interpretation.

They need Selina.

"I need you too." So Selina replied firmly in the same tone.

This is something those nobles will never understand.

Whether it's a one-man army of spiritual masters, or a god who descended into the world, they don't need sacrifices that smell like blood.They need -- they need love and trust.

"You still have a question that hasn't been answered," Selinya repeated, looking at the man in front of her, "Where is my hometown?"

"..." The man really began to regret that he didn't make up his mind to strangle himself to death just now.

Because he knows too well what the hometown of the spiritual master has become.

The dead wood that has been devoured by the flames, the scorched earth without any biological traces, this place looks like the Nibelung root, belonging to the world of death and darkness.

This is, her hometown.

Through the short clip given by the system, Selinya had a glimpse of what it used to be like here.

That location was originally an unknown huge flower tree, but because of the blessing of the spiritual spell, flowers of different colors bloomed in four seasons.

It should be a small river here, where the petals blown down by the wind are often deposited. They are pushed from upstream to downstream, quietly piling up, like an unfolded fan or a skirt.

Going forward, it is their home.A beautiful little house.

...that's how it's supposed to be here.

Selinya didn't bring the nobleman here, and handed him, his confidantes and the alchemist to the black dragon for custody. ——Well, to be precise, Doctor Strange is dropping them, and the Black Dragon is responsible for guarding their final destination 'exit'.

She didn't want those guys to disturb this place again.

she wants...

Resting her palm lightly on the trunk of the dead tree, Selinya thought quietly, she wanted this place to return to the way it was before.

Then the sound of plant sprouting sounded quickly, and on the tree that had been withered for 18 years, new shoots grew again.It continues to grow towards the sky at an astonishing speed, and grows a new life based on the past misery.

The most tender and beautiful flowers blooming from the branches, swaying slowly, as if to say, 'We have been waiting for you to come back.After waiting for a long time, welcome home. '

The system paid special attention to its own background panel. The card of [Goddess of Spring Tarot] was shining, but the host did not fully rely on this power.

...This means that the host has completely broken away from the shackles of the card, and is using the power of the real word spirit, the real goddess of spring.

The petals fell gently, and Skadi snapped his fingers, and the icy light flickered in the river that had disappeared for many years.And Superman's heat vision melts the ice.

Flowers floated in the water, just like what Selinya had seen.

But she knew very well that those colorful little houses, those family members who lived here...

No.They didn't leave.They had told her themselves that they would be there for her.

Surrounded by the scent of flowers and the sound of water, Selinya said softly, "I miss you very much."

The family of Lingling masters, turned into ashes after death, passed away with the wind, leaving no trace in this world.

But Selina heard the wind, and the flowers fell from the branches, and the petals fell on each of them, as if to answer, 'We miss you too, and we love you too. '

And, 'Welcome Home'.

In the wind, Tony took off the Iron Man suit.He was silent for a long time before speaking, "She will get better and better."

It seems to be talking to myself, to Selinya, and it seems to be talking to the gust of wind.

Hearing this, Selinya shook her head quickly, "No! We will all get better and better."

"Ha," Tony laughed, "of course."

"Any other wishes?" Seizing this rare opportunity, he immediately asked again.

Passionate about being a wishing machine that fulfills children's wishes.

Selina: "...wouldn't it be too arrogant if I said I want world peace?"

But it's what she wants to say most now.

Seeing Selina looking at him, Jason shook his head slightly, "No."

His wildest wish is to hold his dream and anchor in his hands.

"Okay, then—"

Selinya turned around and looked at the humans and gods who had paid too much for these words,

"Hope for world peace."

The wish is handed over to Yanling and their future struggle.

And she had other things she wanted to do.

"I haven't asked yet, who else will also participate in the Colosseum." Selinya looked up at Hela with a distressed tone.

Hela: ……….

Is she kidding?

right! !

It must be! !I'm the first god to receive her acting like a baby!Definitely is!

So she snorted coldly, "Yeah."

Selina: "?"

etc?Hella? ?What's the matter with your attitude of taking out your long sword and preparing to cut people? !