Sanctuary Paradise

Chapter 133 The Last Moment

hurry up!

Hurry up!
The huge rock sword smashed all obstacles in front of it.

Houses, trees, scattered monsters.

The deafening loud noise almost always echoed in Xin Lailai's ears.

No time for detours!

The Blessing of the World can only last for 10 minutes. Once it exceeds 10 minutes, even if he has other means to resist the erosion of the black mist, without the hiding effect provided by the Blessing of the World, he will be noticed by the Alienation Town in minutes and solved. Lose.

Boom-!
Xin Lailai once again pushed against the collapsed beams and smashed down the wall in front of him with his sword. Amidst the loud noise of the collapse of the building, a dazzling but not dazzling soft white light shone into Xin Lailai's pupils.

"arrive!"

Xin Lailai looked at the scene in front of him, and his tense mood finally relaxed slightly.

All he saw was a grand hall full of solemnity and eeriness standing majestically in front of Xin Lailai's eyes.

Around the main hall, the black mist, which was as thick as a substance, was frantically impacting in the direction of the main hall, and each impact produced a huge roar.

But no matter how hard the black mist hit, it was still unable to get close to the gray-white barrier surrounding the hall, and was even forced back by a faint circle of white light from time to time.

"Is it here..."

Xin Lailai looked at the main hall protected by the gray barrier. A flash of hesitation flashed on his face, but he quickly calmed down and walked towards the direction of the main hall without fear.

Om-!
The moment he passed through the barrier, Xin Lailai felt that the scene in front of him was suddenly stretched infinitely. The picture gradually faded into a ball of blue light and shadow, and his consciousness also felt briefly trance-like.

In a daze, Xin Lailai seemed to hear a sigh full of vicissitudes of life. The sigh was mixed with a little joy and relief.

When he came back to his senses, he realized that he was already standing in front of the main entrance of the hall.

Xin Lailai looked at the gray-white barrier behind him, remained silent for a few seconds, and then turned his gaze back to the hall in front of him. The spell chip was attached to his palm and he pushed hard towards the door.

quack quack~
The huge stone door slowly opened with a heavy friction sound, revealing the scene inside the hall.

Gray stone bricks, dead air, twisted throne, and figures hidden in the darkness.

Xin Lailai looked at the figure sitting on the throne and walked towards him in silence.

Julius Novakrono.

"You are here. It has only been about ten years since I came here. It seems that you are better than I thought, Imita, or... Xinlailai?"

Julius raised his head, and the fading light in his somewhat cloudy eyes suddenly became much brighter, and a stiff smile appeared on his wrinkled face.

"Is the one outside really time magic?"

Xin Lailai turned around and looked outside the palace, looking at the gray-white barrier and whispering.

"Well, with the help of the will of the world, I managed to get this far. Although it's a bit lonely to stay here alone for ten years, when I saw you, I knew that my decision was not wrong."

"Besides, thinking about it, this actually gives us some time to chat, doesn't it?"

Xin Lailai's lips moved slightly, but she didn't say anything.

In order to delay the erosion of the external abyssal power, time magic was used to distort this area to a time flow velocity difference of nearly [-] times.

In the end, I am alone here, enduring the erosion of the power of the abyss, just waiting for the hope that may not come at all...

"Why, because I've gotten a lot older and I don't dare to speak anymore? I feel like I'm not the type like the Vermilion family that looks more serious as they get older?"

Julius spoke in a brisk tone. Apart from a sense of vicissitudes of life and an unconcealed sense of fatigue, there was no difference at all from before.

"Speaking of which, when the will of the world came to me, I was really surprised. It turns out that our world was actually created, and everyone's fate has long been determined."

"And you, Xin Lailai... I'd better call you Imita. After all, it's easier to get used to it."

"To be honest, when I found out that you are not from this world, Imita, I was really surprised, but it felt very reasonable."

Julius casually recounted his previous experiences.

From the time when Shati, who had long been bewitched by the abyss, used the power of the abyss to shield his precognition and lure him into a trap, setting the coordinates of the town of alienation, to the will of the world suddenly descending on him to help him fight against the abyss...

Julius kept talking about his experience. In a daze, Xinlailai even had the illusion that the person in front of him was not the waning Julius, but the same excited person who was sitting in the office. The energetic Magic Emperor discussed the issue of magic weapons with him.

"Huh... I'm finally done. Haha, Imita, thank you for being willing to listen to me, an old guy who has only a few days to live, nagging me for so long. After all, I have been here for more than ten years, and I am really a little bit exhausted."

Julius said with a happy smile, the turbidity in his eyes had been wiped away long ago, and the vigorous energy even made the dark hall seem a little brighter.

"What about you? Imita, do you have anything to say? Could it be that I exposed your origins and are you embarrassed to say it? Haha!"

"By the way, let me ask you why you were completely dismissive of the women in the capital before. It turns out you already have your heart set on something. Why, don't you introduce me to them?"

Julius said with a smile and looked next to Xin Lailai.

The assimilation state of the elves has long since been lifted, and Ling Yuzi, who was separated from the combined state, did not return to the soul space, but stayed with Xin Lailai, listening to Julius's story with Xin Lailai.

Xin Lailai watched all this without saying a word. He just held Ling Yuzi and other small hands tightly and looked at Julius in front of him.

Today, Julius's appearance has undergone tremendous changes due to the erosion of the power of the abyss and time. From the original gentle and handsome middle-aged man, he has become a haggard body like a dying old man.

But even so, the temperament of the other party that makes people unconsciously feel at ease has not changed, and it even makes people feel more calm and steady than before.

"Lingyuzi, her name is Lingyuzi, she is my wife, and at the same time, she is also a character who was born in the derivative world like you."

After a few seconds of silence, Xin Lailai opened his mouth and looked at Ling Yuzi beside him.

"Hello, Mr. Julius."

Ling Yuzi greeted in a clear voice, his body floating in mid-air moved forward slightly, and bowed.

"Miss Lingyuzi was also born from the created world?"

Hearing the origin of Ling Yuzi, Julius' eyes lit up and he was immediately interested. He looked at Xin Lailai and asked in a gentle tone:
"My intuition tells me that there are many stories hidden in it. Do you mind telling me about it?"

"It's an honor for us, if you want to."

Xin Lailai bowed slightly and spoke in a respectful tone. He looked at Julius, organized his words in his mind for a while, and then began to speak in the eyes of the other party expectantly.

"The story between me and Ling Yuzi takes place in a world called Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba, which is different from your world..."

The young man's words echoed quietly in the empty hall, adding a strange color to the dark hall.

Ten minutes later, as the last sentence fell, a somewhat aged voice sounded:

"A struggler in despair...Imita, you seem to be more amazing than I thought?"

Julius looked at Xin Lailai and Ling Yuzi, stared at them, and said with a smile:

"Imita...I still have some leftover money, thank you." "After listening to your stories, I am even more convinced that my choice was not wrong."

Julius said, raising his head and placing his gaze on the dim dome of the hall, with a trace of reminiscence in his eyes.

"Imita, you are amazing, really."

Julius spoke slowly while looking up at the dome:

"In fact, when the will of the world first came to me, I was confused for a long time."

“When I know that I am just a character in a script, that I am actually just a false soul created by another person, and that I know the truth of this world, the intensely stinging feeling of confusion and confusion still lingers to this day. In my mind.”

"If everything I do is destined, then what is the value of what I do? Does it really make sense for me to sacrifice myself in exchange for the hope of this world?"

“For the first year, I just had that in my head.”

"Even as time goes by, I can't help but wonder whether the disasters the world is experiencing now are because I, the character in the script, deviated from the script, and whether it is because I should have acted according to a fixed trajectory. Is it caused by my departure from the original trajectory?"

"If I had not chosen to launch this change, not to pursue this success, but had chosen to fail as fate dictated, would all of this not have happened?"

Julius said, a hint of gray flashed in the depths of his pupils, and his tone also had a hint of confusion, as if he had returned to the lonely waiting time at that time.

"Yes, unlike you Imita, I failed to overcome the feeling of despair, but fell into madness again and again in self-doubt."

"If it weren't for the will of the world, I might have fallen into the abyss just like Shati."

"Unlike you, Imita, I have not been able to overcome the despair in my heart by my own will."

"The reason why I can wake up is not relying on my own will, but relying on the precipitation of time."

Julius said, slowly retracting his gaze and moving his gaze to Xin Lailai.

"As time went by, and as I thought about it again and again, I gradually figured it out."

"So what if your destiny is destined? This doesn't mean it will definitely turn out that way. Your appearance is the best proof."

"And I don't think everything about me is fake."

"The confusion I have experienced, the struggles I have made, and the roads I have traveled are all real."

"It wasn't until this moment that I suddenly remembered that I had been confused like this a long time ago. I kept asking myself questions and accumulating results while asking myself questions."

"At that moment, I suddenly understood that it was the path I had traveled that defined and made me, not an illusory destiny."

"Whether it's false or meaningless, if everyone except me is denying it all, then..."

"—I just have to admit it myself."

When he heard these words, Xin Lailai trembled suddenly and looked at Julius in front of him with an moved expression.

"I am the Magic Emperor, so I am sitting here, not because I will sit here, so I became the Magic Emperor."

pressure.

An indescribable sense of oppression.

The Julius in front of him, even though his figure looked a little stooped due to the ravages of time and the abyss, he still felt that what he saw in front of him was not a dying old man, but a mountain that needed to be looked up to.

"Imita, the future of this world should not end here."

Julius looked at Xin Lailai and said calmly:
"Even if everything I do will be in vain, for this world, this is just one less possibility. There are countless other possibilities in this world."

"Although I can no longer witness the future I expect, I believe that among the countless possibilities, there must be a 'me' who can reach that future."

"But the premise of all this is that the world has not sunk into the abyss."

Julius said, moving his palm with difficulty and placing it in front of his heart.

"It is very smart. Even if I use my life to set a cage for it, it will definitely try its best to struggle."

"So you might be in for a tougher battle than you think."

——This is a matter of course. There are monsters like that staying on the outside of Alienation Town. How can it be so easy to destroy the core of Alienation Town?

"I always feel like Mr. Julius believes in my strength too much?"

Xin Lailai shrugged and said with a chuckle. At the same time, he walked up to Julius and took out the realm thunder potion.

"I just...trust my own judgment."

Julius spoke in a hoarse voice, staring at Xin Lailai quietly.

"But I have never won an honest battle like this."

Xin Lailai spread his hands and sighed, while bringing the potion bottle containing golden liquid to his mouth.

"Then... let's start from now on."

A weak murmur sounded, and Xin Lailai's movements suddenly stopped.

"From here...get...your first...honest...victory."

Then, he smiled.

"of course."

boom!
The blank potion bottle fell to the ground and shattered into pieces.

The palm covered with golden thunder passed through Julius's chest easily.

The next second, a massive amount of darkness erupted along with wisps of golden thunder, instantly lifting Xin Lailai's body away.

"Roar--!!"

Finally, with an astonishing roar, a huge black sword nearly three meters high rushed out of the black mist, wrapped in golden thunder, and slashed at Xin Lailai.

clang!
The ground of the hall shook violently, and the mercury sword struggled to parry the blow.

The terrifying force instantly knocked Xin Lailai and his sword back dozens of meters. Only then did Xin Lailai see the face of the enemy in front of him clearly.

The nearly four-meter-tall body exudes an astonishing sense of oppression. The dark body surface is wrapped with circles of golden thunder. The overall shape maintains a human shape, and the body exudes a strong aura of death.

This is the madness of the power called alienation when faced with the threat of death, and its name is - the afterimage of the alien abyss.

Xin Lailai looked at the afterimage of Yiyuan in front of him, which was twice as tall as himself. He clenched the mercury sword tightly and instantly entered the state of elf assimilation.

No words are needed, you can understand it just by looking at it.

A fight to the death is about to begin!
……

(End of this chapter)