Before I became the legendary boss

Bassetantine, as the main city of the entire Mentrilt Kingdom, naturally has its natural geographical advantages.First of all, it sits in the center of the entire continent, surrounded by several nearby inland cities like stars.Secondly, in the east of it, there is a tributary of the Morte River, which is called the "Libel River".In the name of the goddess, guarding the towering and majestic main gate of Bassetantine, forming the natural moat of the royal city.

With such an advantage of being easy to defend and difficult to attack, Bassetantine is like a lion with a pearl in his mouth, standing here for nearly 500 years.The interior of the main city is full of towering Holy Church buildings. The streets are wide, clean and dignified. Even the residential areas of ordinary citizens are carefully planned, not to mention the Holy Church headquarters located in the center of the royal city.

The headquarters of the Holy Church is a magnificent Gothic church.In addition to the common jungle-like dense minarets, a statue of a maiden stands on each minaret.They are the "goddess agents" who have dedicated their lives to this continent in history, and there are thirty in total.There is a demure and pure smile on the face of each statue, which makes the pilgrims feel admiration and tears in their eyes.

In front of the church is a circular sunken altar.In the center of the altar stands a nearly 10-meter-high statue of the goddess Libel.The goddess is beautiful and graceful, with an inviolable sacred expression, holding her heart in her hands and offering it to the sky.At her feet was a majestic and spacious monument, engraved with the history of this country that everyone knows.And on top of the entire stele is the holy sword of the founding hero.If you want to challenge the holy sword, you must first worship the goddess statue devoutly, and then climb to the top along the side stone steps and draw your sword.

Less than ten meters in front of the stele is a stone platform more than one meter high.It is the altar where the "Goddess Proxy" completed the ceremony from generation to generation.As long as one of the purest and most beautiful hearts is sacrificed here, the magic circle seal of the entire continent will be strengthened, and the Demon King will not be able to break through the Dark Gate in the extreme north.

Today is the day that the people of the whole country are looking forward to. The "God Dedication Ceremony" every 16 years has finally been officially held after several twists and turns.The citizens of the main city walked into the altar with excitement and stood around, looking forward to the holy and solemn scene.

This year, another girl will exchange her beautiful heart for world peace.They will pass on her name from generation to generation, mold her into a stone statue, and put her on the top of the church tower to worship every day.And this girl will also leave her mortal body and get the immortal soul that everyone desires to have.

The ceremony is about to begin.The faces of the citizens are full of piety and fanaticism exuded from the bottom of their hearts.Someone opened his arms and shouted the name of the goddess, while someone knelt down and kowtowed to the statue.He Xiangyang, who was escorted into the arena by the soldiers, couldn't help asking: "Are they crazy?!" Uncle Qiu hurriedly hissed at him.Naryn on the other side stared at the monument.see!I saw the holy sword!He wished he could rush forward and draw his sword now.But at the moment, there are kingdom soldiers all around him, and he probably will be stopped within two steps.

Nalen secretly told himself to be calm, and when the ceremony started, everyone's attention would be on the altar, and that would be the best chance!

The midday sun was dazzling and warm, shining on everyone equally like a holy light.The saint of this country—Princess Huxelia walked into the inner field of the altar.She was dressed in complicated and holy white clothes, and her face was also covered with a layer of mysterious tulle, but her figure was graceful and charming, and anyone would think that under the tulle, she must be a peerless beauty.And when she opened her mouth, her voice was like an oriole coming out of the valley, which made people ecstatic.

"My fellow Mentrult citizens, today is a holy day. We finally ushered in the 16th annual dedication ceremony..."

"Everyone knows that this beautiful and fertile continent of Estria was once ravaged by demon kings and monsters, and human beings lived in fear and darkness every day. It was the goddess Libel who saved us and allowed us to be like Basking in the sun like this today, I can gain supreme peace of mind.”

She opened her arms to the sky.

"Please never forget the grace of the goddess! As long as you recite love and compassion silently all the time, your soul will ascend to heaven after death and return to the goddess!"

People knelt down and shouted reverently. "Praise the goddess! Praise be to love and mercy!"

At this time, the priests in white slowly lifted a person out from behind the secret door of the altar.It was a girl.She had long, soft flaxen hair that shone like honey in the sun; her face was as fragile as a summer rose, and her eyelashes were as thick as the thin feathers of a lark.She clasped her hands on her chest, and her sleeping eyes closed like a rare and famous painting.People held their breath for this tranquility and holiness.

However, at this time He Xiangyang wanted to spoil the atmosphere again.

"Why hasn't he woke up yet?! He has been sleeping since yesterday! Could it be that he was poisoned?!"

"Probably not..."

Uncle Qiu also became uncertain. "He eats the same food as us..."

It's really weird.He Rong has been sleeping since he was locked in the cell yesterday afternoon, and he didn't wake up until the next morning, when he was forcibly taken away by the people of the Holy Church.Uncle Qiu and the others had no way to stop him, so they had no choice but to think about meeting here.

Unexpectedly, he has slept like this until now.

What's wrong?Is there a bug in the game?He is offline?

Just when Uncle Qiu was secretly anxious, He Rong was carefully placed on the altar by the priests.In the past, the proxies of the goddesses were given sleeping spells to save them from physical pain during the ceremony.But this year's goddess agent keeps sleeping naturally, as if she is ignorant of everything around her.

In this way, under the eyes of people looking forward to fanaticism, the priests took out all kinds of holy artifacts from the silver tray, and when the sun rises to the highest point, the most important moment in the entire Astraea continent will be ushered in .

Unable to wait any longer, Uncle Qiu judged that the time had come.He nodded to He Xiangyang, who was already impatient.

He Xiangyang was overjoyed. He grabbed the arm of the soldier behind him and threw a beautiful shoulder throw.Then he drew a sword from the opponent's waist, turned around and rushed towards the court magician on the side.

"What's wrong?! What happened!?"

In the sudden chaos, He Xiangyang knocked down the bewildered magician and threw his magic book to Uncle Qiu.Uncle Qiu took the weapon and started casting spells.

"The torrent roars!!"

In such a sinking area, the best way to disturb the entire arena is to cause floods.Evelina is set to be the top student of the Kingdom Academy of Magic, so her spell power is different from that of ordinary magicians, and she can obtain ten times the effect of others with the least amount of MP.So in the blink of an eye, Dashui caught the entire infield by surprise.

Uncle Qiu shouted without looking back.

"Go and draw your sword!!"

As soldiers swarmed toward Evelina, but were held back by the rapids, Naren rushed to the monument.All the guards standing there went to attack Evelina and Christie.The two of them cooperated perfectly.Christie was in charge of knocking down the approaching enemies, while Evelina launched spells one after another, causing floods and gusts of wind for a while, buying Naren a lot of time.

Coming! !

Naren couldn't bear the ecstasy on his face, and he ran towards the monument.At this moment, the girl lying on the altar moved her fingers lightly and woke up amidst chaos and noise.

He Rong opened his eyes in the dazzling sunlight.

An indescribable emotion came over him together with this fierce sunlight, making his heart like a raft in the sea, ups and downs with the huge waves, upside down and confused.All over his body, from brain to bones to toes, every inch of flesh was wailing and hurting, as if being trampled by a ferocious giant beast, and his internal organs seemed to be burned through by poisonous poison.

He Rong opened his eyes wide under the scorching sun.

The pain swept through the whole body like a stormy sea every minute and every second.In this way, I was irresistibly shattered, messed up, and reorganized.Those pieces are fragmented memories, scattered wounds, and surging emotions.The scorched smell of being burned by the fire steamed from the depths of his soul.They stirred together and constituted a catastrophe that shook the world.And when they receded slowly like a tide, all that was left in place was the numbness after the severe pain, and a cold and clear anger - He Rong felt an unprecedented anger towards himself.

Why do you talk about wanting to understand and get close to people, but run away from everything when you really need to face them?

Why, after trying so hard to get close to that person, why did you keep silent when you should express your opinion, and let go when you should insist?

Why didn't he take a serious look at that person at the end after so long staring and waiting?

Obviously someone who is extremely important and who gives him all meaning.

But he unilaterally drew a gap called "Looking Up" between the two.

"You can call me anytime if you need to."

He had given himself so much peace of mind and choices.

"If I can escape this time, my teacher promises you that I will take you to the world for a while when I come back."

He had seriously promised himself the future that he dreamed of.

But I was like a child playing with sand on the beach, because a big wave caused the gravel to collapse, so I simply smashed the castle I carefully built.He cut off the fragile connection between the two of them so cruelly, decisively, and even with a hint of pleasure.

He Rong lay under the bright and scorching sun, tears streaming down his face uncontrollably.

Because "I" is afraid.

Because "I" was afraid that Master would tire of me and abandon me, I chose to deceive him first and escape from him.On the one hand, I feel at ease because I keep myself, and on the other hand, I feel pain because I can't connect.In the end, he forcibly carved himself into his life in such a self-satisfying way.

How timid and ignorant "I" is.

He obviously has the courage to choose death, but he doesn't have the courage to live.Even though he has opened his century-old spiritual wisdom, he still can't figure out the simplest thing.

"I" learns people's etiquette, common sense, and everything about people. "I" is attracted by people, but "I" doesn't want to be a person.

"I" just want to live once in this world with passion and desire, like a human being.

Cry aloud when you want to cry, laugh loudly when you want to laugh, bravely express your love to the one you love, and rack your brains to survive when facing desperation.Instead of standing aside in a daze and having nothing to do with yourself, watching the joys and sorrows of others, but still unable to see your own heart clearly.

"Not good! Some villains are going to draw the holy sword!"

"Hurry up and stop him!!"

"Leave him alone! The time is up! Hurry up and hold the ceremony!"

The priests in white robes gathered around the altar.

[I want to live. 】

His heart was beating fast, as if those complicated and dark feelings before had turned into a hot current, and he couldn't wait to flow back into his chest.

The priests took out the sacristy dagger, held up the silver plate, and stretched out their hands towards the girl on the altar.

[I want to live. 】

The whole heart is full of unprecedented fiery emotions, as if a sleeping seed is hidden under the red veins, and after drinking all the love and sorrow, it finally breaks out of the tears and scorching marks.

[I want to live! 】

Suddenly, the whole ground began to tremble, and a roar from the depths of the ground forced everyone to stop their movements.People opened their eyes wide in fear, seeing that the rocky ground under their feet suddenly cracked without warning!The crack was getting bigger and longer, and the whole altar was split into two in a blink of an eye!Accompanied by a frighteningly strong shock, the priests slumped on the ground, and even Naren, who was about to reach the peak, was thrown off.

He Rong sat up from the altar.He jumped off the stone platform lightly, and where his toes touched, green shoots emerged from the cracks, and in a blink of an eye, they formed thick and twisted vines, growing vigorously towards the sky.

He Rong raised his head, and he looked at the holy sword shining brightly under the scorching sun above the monument.

[I want to have courage. 】

Have the courage to live, have the courage to face your flaws and desires, have the courage to take responsibility, have the courage to go up to that person and tell him, even if the world doesn't allow me, I still love you deeply.

[I want to have power. 】

Even if I am not suitable, even if I will be injured, even if I have to raise my sword to others when necessary, I still want to learn how to use a sword, and I also want to be like that person. .

[I want to be a "brave". 】

With courage and strength, you can protect yourself and everything around you.

I want to be like that.

The girl carried the snow-white long skirt and climbed up the stone steps step by step. While everyone was dumbfounded, she reached out and grasped the holy sword.

On this day, at this moment, at this second, the rules of the entire Astoria continent that lasted for a hundred years were completely rewritten on this ruin.A girl who should have dedicated herself to the god stepped down from the altar.She deserved to accept her own destiny, and she deserved to be happily transformed into eternity in her sleep, but she chose a path full of dangers and unknowns, without the blessing of the Lord God.

It was the "Girl Hero" in a long skirt called a sacrificial offering.Under the grand sunlight and under the gaze of everyone, she raised high the holy sword that had been dormant for a hundred years.

Under her feet, the plants were growing wildly and recklessly, as if they were singing joyously with the holy sword that had regained its master.In this symphony of lush greenery and fierce swordsmanship, a new brave man from the continent of Estria was born.