Throne of Radiance

Morning Star Empire, inside a certain company building.

Matthews, who was dressed in a gray suit as standard with social animals, trotted all the way, and finally arrived at the office at the last minute before being late.

His thick short black hair was damp with moisture, and he obviously didn't have time to dry it. The tie he tied in a hurry was slightly askew, and his still-breathing face was sleepy from lack of sleep. The two touches of green and black are particularly conspicuous.

Seeing his appearance, his colleagues made fun of him as usual: "Hey, Matthews, didn't you sleep well last night? Looking at the dark circles on your face, you may still be obsessed with rumors on the Internet, thinking Look for the Transcendent who doesn't exist at all!"

"No, no, it's not accurate to say that it is a transcendent person. It should be called a warrior. It is said that it is the inheritance of Yao Kingdom since ancient times. If you practice to the state of "meeting the world", you will be able to open up the kingdom of God like a god. Incarnate into all things in the Kingdom of God! At this point, they couldn't help laughing anymore, "Idiots don't even believe such absurd lies!"The nonsense made up by the Yao people is too outrageous! "

Amidst the laughter in the room, Matthews blushed, and his fingers on his side tightened more and more, and finally he couldn't help but retort: ​​"It's not a lie, it's true!"

Everyone else looked at him in surprise.Not because of the content of his words, but because of his rare "resistance" today.

Matthews took a deep breath nervously: "Two months ago, hundreds of people from all over the world disappeared in the five domains at the same time. This is a real event reported in the news, and the truth behind it is obviously not simple. When the missing person reappeared, many people nearby heard the words of the mysterious voice..."

When he said this in one breath, the flush on his face deepened, but it was not because of anger but because of excitement: "——He said that He is back! At least thousands of people all over the world have heard it! And it's still in five regions At the same time as those missing people reappeared!" Matthews looked longingly, "This must be the top god of martial arts practice in the mouth of those missing people! The mysterious "Master of the Heavenly Capital"! "

Seeing that his demeanor became more and more excited, and his tone became higher, not only did he no longer have the silent and submissive posture when he was teased and teased by them in the past, but he learned to retort loudly, as if he had changed from a soft persimmon to a hard persimmon, and the others were inexplicably unhappy.

The person who first opened his mouth to make fun of him interrupted him with a cold snort:

"Hmph, it's all rumors, rumors, rumors! Do you have any real evidence? All the news is heard - and it's all said by the people of Yao Kingdom! They said that their disappearance was due to the chance of getting martial arts, and they were taken by the top martial arts practitioners. Favored by the gods, even that god is from their country... The people of Yao Kingdom are really getting better at boasting! There are really gods in this world, and they should belong to our Morning Star Empire!"

"No, it wasn't just Yao people who heard that voice at that time. It included our Morning Star Empire. I remember that after it spread on the Internet, didn't you discuss it very enthusiastically?" At this point, Matthews' tone was tainted. Deeply disappointed, "You guys said at the time that you also wanted to learn martial arts from a teacher."

At that time, seeing so many people on the Internet claiming to hear the voice of a mysterious person, the whole office was discussing the topic of that mysterious voice, and then there was another topic about the power of martial arts and the Lord of the Heavenly Capital. Appearing online, supposedly from those who disappeared, fueled the discussion—for the first time, he felt included among his colleagues, rather than excluded.

But why after only one day, the public opinion of the Morning Star Empire turned upside down, and everything that those people swore before turned into lies, rumors, following trends, and nonsense.The colleagues who had been discussing enthusiastically before also immediately changed their faces, and laughed at him who still refused to believe the "truth"?

His expression was very irritating, and someone slapped the table: "Hey! What kind of expression do you guys have? You make it look like we are traitors. Obviously everything is a lie! Who knows that the people of Yao Kingdom are playing tricks inside What a gimmick! Didn’t the citizens of our star country all clarify online later, saying that they hadn’t heard any voices and were just following the trend and spreading rumors?”

"As a native of Xingguo, you don't believe Yaoguo's nonsense, do you? It's not like we don't know the martial arts that have been passed down in the East since ancient times, but they are still far from being able to be called extraordinary."

"...As for the sudden disappearance and return of hundreds of people, it is indeed very abnormal. But since the development of science, there are always some mysterious unsolved mysteries. It’s just a decent rumor about martial arts and transcendence. No way, they don’t think they can forcibly elevate Yao Kingdom by making up a supernatural ancestor who has lived for hundreds of years?”

After a day's work, Matthews dragged his tired body back home, and couldn't help but recall the mocking words of his colleagues.

——They really feel that they are hopeless!

...However, in my own eyes, the people whose eyes and ears were blindfolded and who took lies as the truth are clearly them.

"Sure enough, is it because the high command of the empire doesn't want us to know about the existence of extraordinary power? Were the citizens of the empire who changed their words later asked to keep it secret by the official, or..."

The second bedroom he lived in was not big, and in the quiet study room, the light from the laptop screen dimly shone on his face.

On this face that still looks silent, calm, and docile, there is a strong light in those eyes, which is definitely not what a silent, calm, and docile person should have.

——That was... the eyes of a person who seemed to be walking in the icy and snowy wilderness, looking at the burning fire.

Several websites hung on the computer screen at the same time.

One of them is the browsing website of the Morningstar Empire, which is as usual as usual. On the account that had sworn to hear the mysterious voice before, the apology letter admitting to follow suit and spread rumors is still hanging there, and there are a bunch of scolding voices from netizens below.Occasionally, there are remarks that express that extraordinary power is real, but they are directly deleted the first second after they are sent, and those accounts will even directly lose the right to speak online.

The other few are foreign websites that he found over the wall.

For example, on Yao Country's social platform, the painting style is completely different.

The hot topics are basically all related to #天都之主##武道##超仙者##剑界# and the like.The missing persons of Yao Kingdom announced on the Internet that they disappeared some time ago because they entered a secret cave called the Sword Realm, and obtained the martial arts opportunity bestowed by the Lord of the Heavenly Capital—and they also made a big fuss by the way. The rainbow fart of the Lord of Fantiandu.As for the content of martial arts cheats and more detailed information about the sword world?Sorry, they signed a confidentiality agreement and cannot disclose it to the outside world.

"It's really frank and straightforward..." Compared with the secretive Morning Star Empire, which turned black and white, it goes without saying who is more credible.

Looking at those missing people from the Yao Kingdom who spoke wantonly on the Internet, and then thinking about the return of the missing people from the Morning Star Empire, except for the official statement confirming their safe return, they themselves never spoke or showed up on any occasion—clearly As a person who witnessed such an abnormal event, with the diabolical nature of the Morning Star Empire media, it is absolutely impossible to let go of such news!

The meaning behind this...

Aren't they now... not completely free?

A faint cloud passed over Matthews' mind.

[Late yesterday night, a warehouse in the eastern suburbs of Brin District accidentally caught fire and exploded. According to investigations, the cause of the fire was that the warehouse manager mistakenly left unextinguished cigarette butts in the warehouse before leaving work, which ignited the flammable fire in the warehouse. Explosives...]

After forking out the news released by the client, Matthews had an inexplicable expression: "Do the top management of the empire really think of us as idiots? I don't know whether I should believe the news of the empire..."

He looked at a page that was maximized on the screen.On the gray bottom page, shadows and lights are constantly changing.

This is a multinational forum that he accidentally joined not long ago.

When everyone else believed the empire's lies, he who didn't want to believe it frantically searched for all the information about supernatural power on the Internet as long as he had time-from a very young age, he was squeezed out by his peers like a monster. Like coffee, he has always been addicted to the illusory world, obsessed with the absurd legends and myths in the eyes of ordinary people, always fantasizing that everything can appear in reality.Therefore, he will never let go of any opportunity.

And within a few days after that, Matthews received an invitation from this mysterious transnational forum.After joining the forum, he discovered that the members here seemed to be the same as himself, with an extremely persistent search and pursuit of extraordinary power.It seems that the people behind the forum are inviting them for that very reason.

——This supernatural power not only didn't frighten him, but made him firmly believe that the "Extraordinary Forum" is definitely not a fake or a scam.

Proficiently scanning through the refreshed news on Chaofan Forum, Matthews saw a familiar picture of a warehouse explosion, but the accompanying text was impressive: "The local gangs in Bollinger District have been wiped out, and the King District Scavenger Organization has won a big victory." Total victory. Another new area has been merged into the Shadowlands..."

——As he saw, the Chaofan Forum updated real-time news from various countries in the world, some from what the forum members had seen and heard, and more from the mysterious forum administrators and moderators.

In addition, there will be news related to Chaofan from time to time, and many members are martial arts practitioners who have previously obtained opportunities in the sword world.And there are some more mysterious members, they seem to understand other extraordinary powers other than martial arts in their words, and occasionally revealing a little bit, it is fascinating.

It was also because of joining this forum that Matthews was able to see the door of the real extraordinary world open to him.

He eagerly absorbed all the information that was open on the forum, especially the secret information related to superhuman beings.

"A mysterious flower shop that will appear all over the world anytime, anywhere, and will only come in the most desperate, painful, and unfortunate times, giving every guest the seed of hope...?"

"The serial killer K who once made a lot of noise is actually a transcendent? I really don't know who got such information and leaked it..."

"Hidden in the dark, some extraordinary organization that seems to be named after shadow..."

At the same time, in various parts of the world, in front of computer screens, different people expressed the same exclamation.

"...This world is really not that simple!"