above the ring

Chapter 20: The Hand of God
The bottom of Lear's heart lies in the identity of the faded person.

With the help of the blessing of returning to his body, he can recover from death. Although Lear has not died before, he does not reject this resurrection as his last trump card.

After death, everything will be reset, at most, some branch-shaped runes will be dropped, and Lear doesn't care at all.

Of course, facing death for the first time, it is impossible for Lear not to be afraid.

But thinking that after successfully absorbing and using his own physique to absorb the power of Bumping Fire, even if he only needs to know that Bumping Fire won't work for him, that's a good thing!
Lear put his head close to Irena.

At this moment, he could feel the hot breath of the other party, and he could also feel the hot body.

There is no doubt that Irena is a very beautiful girl, with long blond hair, a capable single ponytail, and dirty clothes. Thinking about it, life in Moen City is not very good.

She is a very strong girl, but Servis has a good saying, "No matter how much she bears, no matter how strong she is, she is just a petite and cute girl from beginning to end."

Of course, this sentence was not addressed to Irena, and Servis did not say it out of kindness, but from a literal point of view, such an evaluation of Irena is indeed worthy of the name.

No matter how strong a person is, the collapse is only in an instant.

She opened her eyes, and her yellow-brown eyeballs turned to a golden red color, which was the fire of vengeance ignited by emotions, and it was the fire of extinction that was ready to burn everything
Lear felt the engraved hatred from the way Irena looked at him.

Suffering from the fire disease, there is no sense at all.

The fire is the anger and sorrow that destroys everything. It is the most insane force in the world. It will attack all living beings indiscriminately, and attack any living person who appears in front of it. This is especially true for Irena. , Lear is the man who scares her the most, so she is the first to kill Lear!

"I won't run away again, and I won't back down again. I will definitely kill you!"

Irena's voice was trembling and firm, she stretched out her hands, opened her arms, and hugged Lear, the two embraced like lovers, and the tips of their noses touched.
Then, in Irena's eyes, a group of terrifying golden-red flames shot out. The flames wrapped around Lear's head, moved down along his skin bit by bit, and finally covered his whole body.

Irena released Bianhuo with all her strength, and even her own body was contaminated by Bianhuo!

"Burn! Unbearable fire, burn! Burn him to ashes! Let him die in pain, let his soul burn too!"

Irena sang the words with her own clear voice, she was like a saint who was doing mass, her voice was pure and powerful, like singing a fiery prayer.

She let the flames cover Lear's whole body, and let the golden-red flames illuminate the entire basement. She didn't care about the flames staining her body, and she didn't care that the flames burned her clothes.

She was immersed in the thrill of releasing the fire, enjoying the feeling of revenge.
She thought that Lear couldn't bear the fire and would be burned to death.

However.
Lear, transformed into a big light bulb, looked at his left hand, then his right hand
How should I put it, this fire is indeed the weirdest flame, my own Kaidan mercenary suit was burned up in a very short period of time, and Irena really didn't even give a piece of underwear. He stays.

There is no need to be in such a hurry.

After standing there for a while, Lear felt that standing like this was not good, as if there was something wrong with it.

It is true that the fire is burning hard, but the flame has not made any progress. The flame is attached to the man's naked body and the shield on his back, but neither the shield nor the man shows the slightest trace. The problem, it seems that those flames can only keep him warm.
"Oh, little girl, do you still have flames here? Come on, it's not strong enough!"

Lear was excited, but Irena panicked.

"You, how are you"

"Hey, don't you think it's useless? You, just obey me obediently."

Seeing Irena's red blood streak, Lear leaned forward and put his arms around Irena's slender waist, letting the flames on her body cover the girl's whole body and devour her clothes.
Stirring Fire is a flame of indiscriminate attack. People who are attacked by Stirring Fire will burn a flame that sticks like oil, and will fall into a state of madness. The person who casts Stirring Prayer will also be affected by Stirring Fire, which represents madness The block bar will also grow accordingly.

In other words, the flames would also harm the caster, but when Lear hugged Irena tightly, the flames only burned her clothes, but failed to ignite her body.

When the golden-red flames completely covered the two people who were embracing each other, Irena, who was surrounded by flames all over her body, turned her eyes from the darkness to the twilight of the flames, and then saw everything in front of her from the twilight.

She saw the man in front of her, the man who was holding her and bullying her.

"I'll tell you a secret." Lear pressed Irena's head on his chest, and whispered in her ear, "Your father is not dead, he is alive and well."

Irena was stunned, who is this!
She stared at her big golden red eyes. If eyes could kill, Lear would have been reduced to a pile of pieces by now.

But she could hear his heartbeat, the pounding heartbeat was steady and powerful, and the broad chest seemed to have a magical power that could reassure the heart - lying quietly on his chest, she heard the golden red flames rejoicing Inspired, she heard the peace of endless souls.

She heard another voice deep in her soul.

It is because of his existence that he will not burn himself.

Irena's senses were clear, very clear, but it was the clarity that shocked her, because as he sucked the fire away, he took her emotions with him.

She calmed down.

"You lied to me." Irena whispered.

"Well, I'll just lie to you, just to fool a silly little girl like you."

Lear hugged Irena tightly, feeling the girl in his arms angrily hammering his chest with small fists, a sense of joy of completing a prank came spontaneously.

"Okay, how do you feel now, does your brain feel a lot easier?"

Lear grabbed Irena's small fist, and kept his other hand on the girl's waist obediently.

"Well, it's a little relaxed, but why are you?"

Irena was talking, but her mouth was stopped by Lear's fingers.

"Now, I say, you listen."

The content of Lear's speech was very domineering, but his voice was unprecedentedly gentle.

"A long time ago, there was a man named Xia Bolili who became a little crazy because of the death of his beloved woman Haida, so people locked him in the church, expecting the gods to bless him, Let him be able to recover. However, after a long time, it was discovered that the man had learned a terrible spell, and he could shoot a golden-red flame from his eyes, and this flame was very horribly contagious. , So people caught Xiapolili and crushed his eyes.

"In the church, Xiapolili knew the reason for Haida's death. She was murdered, and the person who killed her said she was a heretical witch. But Xiapolili knew that Haida was just an ordinary kind-hearted woman. Girl, she can't be a heretic. So, in order to avenge Haida, he accepted the power of the fire and accepted the mission of spreading the disease. He hoped that the whole world would be burned
"Later, Xiapolili died and was killed by the knights, but his and Haida's souls were left behind, wandering the continent, waiting for the death of the human beings who had suffered the same as them. , They will be able to reincarnate, appear in the world again, guide the world, and their hearts will be on fire.

"Irena, your experience is no different from that of Haida. You are both a strong girl and a pure heart. However, you and her are both blind women, and you and her are also bound by feelings. Haida She is a candidate witch for the fire. Her mission is to guide the person who is most likely to become the king at a certain point in the future, ascend the throne, and accomplish that terrible purpose. And she was discovered, when she was about to officially become a witch , That's why she was killed, but her soul was preserved after being set on fire.

"And you can be her successor. Her soul is sleeping deep in your heart. Your fire will wake her up. She will occupy the magpie's nest and become a witch guiding the way again. I don't want you to be , and I don’t want Haida to be, so no matter who you are now, listen to me, I won’t let you die, understand?”

"But I miss you dead."

Irena spoke very seriously and her tone was very firm.

"If there is no accident, one day, I will die for you to see."

"You are a fader, can you be resurrected after you die?"

"Well, there is probably only one way to kill me completely, that is, you can become stronger than me on the road of fire, so Irena, you either hate me all the time, think about it There are [-] ways to kill me, [-] are too few, and it’s okay to think about it.”

"Either?"

"Well, fall in love with me."

"dream!"

"Ah, then hate me to death~"

As a result, the golden red flames gradually extinguished, and the world in Irena's eyes once again returned to the darkness of nothingness.

But she found a spot of light in the darkness, that light was the broad chest that hugged her tenderly and made her cling to it.

The light was on his chest.

Lear gains a new ability.

【Fire】

In addition, he also clearly discovered the origin of the fire.

This kind of flame was first born from "love", which represents the unswerving "love" between the two parties until death, the warmest fire in the world, and the most powerful guardian force.

Later, it was discovered that no matter what kind of emotion it is, it can induce the birth of this kind of flame with powerful spiritual power. Among them, the flame born of anger and hatred is the most aggressive.

And this kind of flame is officially named "Bumping Fire", which is a religious dispute in the ancient golden tree era.

Applied in the game, it is the dispute between "two fingers" and "three fingers" about the doctrine of the supreme will.

In the end, the "Three Fingers" reform failed, and the Golden Tree completely eliminated "destruction" and "death", and implemented the so-called "life recovery" law to the end.

Because of this, the people who were sheltered by the "Three Fingers" at that time, or people who believed in the teachings of the "Three Fingers", were subjected to an extremely terrifying religious liquidation, which included a tragic mass genocide. (Note 1)

The vagabond clan to which Kale and the others belonged was one of the victims of the mass extinction.

They were not born without blessings, but the "Three Fingers" who could give them blessings were imprisoned underground, and they could no longer give them blessings through the golden tree.

Thus, during the mass genocide, under the extreme despair and grief, under the terrible burial and suffocation, the most terrifying force in the history of the junction, the "fire" was born.

Later, there was the story of Xiapolili and Haida: an absolute infatuation fell in love with a witch with a pure heart and prepared to dedicate this life to the "three fingers", and turned this infatuation into hatred and revenge against the whole world flame, so he fell in love with "Bumping Fire".

This can explain why "Bloodfinger Hunter" Yura was reborn by Xia Bolili after death - because they are both rare infatuated species in the world, and Yura loved the "cursed blood hunter" until his death. "The beautiful female swordsman defiled, Eleonora.

This can also explain why Haida came to Irena—they were all bound by feelings, and they were both blind women who wandered in the chaos of war and died innocently.

Haida was not an official witch when she died. It can be seen from the time when she was resurrected that she just wanted to eat "Ciapolilli's grapes" and didn't know anything about the fire, but she had the potential to become a witch , so they were liquidated and massacred.

The same is true for Irena, this girl should have suffered a lot, but she wrote a letter in a completely invisible situation, hoping that passers-by can help her call the letter to her father who is stationed in Moen City, but the result is ?He died innocently under the hatchet of the violent demihuman, leaving only the sentence "There is no way to recover".

Lear had always thought that this was the arrangement of the supreme will of Dianhuo. However, after fully controlling this ray of Dianhuo, he completely understood that no one was behind it, because Dianhuo itself has the ability to cultivate souls. Effect.

Of course, there is a price for using Bianhuo to cultivate the soul, because Bianhuo is a kind of flame that can burn the soul, so the soul cultivated with Bianhuo must first be a believer who loves Bianhuo, and then it must be a soul For a pure person, in the end, the fire must continue to spread in the borderland, so that the soul contained in the fire can last forever. (Note 2)

This seems to say that the fire is a mysterious thing in the belief system, but in fact, the prayers of the fire series all require faith attribute points.

The golden-red flame was slowly burning in Lear's hands.

When Lear has completely mastered the fire, he can control the fire, use the method of casting magic that Su Lian taught him before, and condense the "fire-style" magic weapons and magic shields, and he can also play with flames like those One by one, the conjurers twisted the fire into fireballs and threw them out.

Lear felt that the source of the power of the flame in his hand was not his own emotions, but a power of faith from all directions.

Where the suffering is deep, the power of the fire is strong. After condensing the desperate power of countless curses, resentment, fear, and sorrow, every inch of land and every sky in the borderland can provide Lear with enough The power of the fire.

At the moment when the flames ignited, Lear felt that he was like a god.

In order not to expose his ability to control the fire, Lear decided to give this power a new name.

Well, let’s call it [The Hand of God], from now on we will use less weapons and more fists!
Lear sighed, compared to those gimmicky weapons that show off skills, the power of punching to the flesh is more suitable for him.

"From this point of view, the energy that can change the shape of matter can't hurt you, and can even be used by you, um~, miraculous innate ability, no matter what, congratulations, my good apprentice."

Selian's charming and gentle voice sounded.

Lear heard the voice, and felt that the owner of the voice seemed a little excited.

Void grasped it, and the golden-red flame dissipated. Lear put down his hand and turned to look at Selian.

He noticed that the way Selian was looking at him seemed a little strange.
"Although I have studied countless humanoid species, and many races are gifted types in terms of reproduction, I still think that, according to your size and race, um, your reproductive ability may be a bit too strong I'm suddenly a little worried about your future wife, she may not be able to control it."

Hearing the euphemism in Teacher Selian's words, even Lear, no matter how nervous he is, is still blushing.
No wonder Irena ran away the moment the flame dissipated, it turned out
Thinking of this, Lear immediately brought a set of clothes from the mind space and put them on. During this period, Selian kept staring at Lear without showing any shyness, and she shook her head and sighed when Lear lifted her trousers. With a sound.

This made Lear even more embarrassed.

"Teacher, I think it's not good to think about discussing academic issues at this time."

"Well, it's a reasonable suggestion. We can talk about this matter later. There are indeed a lot of knowledge in my collection that we can communicate in depth. Oh, by the way, I have some clothes here, which should be able to be worn by this girl .”

When Se Lian said these words, she didn't blush or breathe. Of course, she was wearing a mask, and Lear couldn't see it, but the extremely formal tone and solemn tone gave people the feeling that she was indeed telling serious academic questions.

"Okay."

Irena changed into Selian's clothes, which were similar to those in Selian's phantom, but it seemed that the model and size were much larger than Irena's figure.

Cerlian's chest was bulging, while Irene's was deflated.

Sure enough, it has to be an older woman who can handle the scene, after all, she has experienced a lot and is much calmer.

"Why aren't your eyes gold?"

Cerlian couldn't resist asking the question.

Irena also quietly grew her neck.

"I don't know either, maybe it has something to do with my special physique."

"This can be regarded as a kind of protection for you. By the way, can you change the color of the flame?"

"I haven't tried it, but it seems to work."

Lear spread out the palm of his right hand, and a cluster of golden-red flames appeared on his palm. Slowly, Lear changed the shape of the flames in his hand into pure gold, and the golden flames radiated dazzling light.

"You can only change to the two colors of gold and red. Teacher Serlian, do you know that the flames of these two colors represent the kind of power?"

"The golden flame is the fire of Radagon, representing his belief in the golden tree like a raging fire; the pure red flame is the fire of the giants, and the flame power they sacrificed from the evil god is the purest red. "

"Evil God? What kind of god is that?"

"According to historical records, the evil god is the predecessor of the arsonist and the corresponding god of Zoroastrianism. Although he gave the common people the flames to survive, he used these flames to ask for rewards higher than himself. Every giant warrior is an outstanding hunters, and on these powerful hunters, the power of evil gods resides in their chests and abdomens. Evil gods devour the souls of living beings in this way."

"No wonder, so, in ancient times, the evil god was not called the evil god, but the 'fire god'? Those giants on the snowy mountains believed in the 'fire god' instead of the 'ice god'?"

"I don't know very well. The documents and materials of the Age of Giants were severely damaged, but I only know that at that time, the stargazers among us humans, that is, the magicians who were the predecessors of our Magic Academy, lived in the area closest to the starry sky. On the snow mountain."

"At that time, did we humans have the blessing of the gods?"

"Maybe, maybe not."

"That's no more. Although we in that era admired the power of gods, the only ones who can really protect us are us humans."

Lear concludes this discussion.

"An outrageous discourse, but I like it."

Irena stared wide-eyed, and looked at the master and apprentice in front of her with amazed eyes. Their words had a great impact on Irena. She grew up under the shade of the Golden Tree of Prayer. Unable to understand the issues they explored.

Shouldn't the gods be supreme?But why.
From their mouths, it seems that the gods are not cared about.

Thinking of Lear's superb fire control technology, he can even change the appearance of Dianhuo, and he can also use Dianhuo to absorb his negative emotions. Thinking about it carefully, Irena only feels a little creepy that she is actually fighting for such a man. enemy.

But soon, Irena cheered up, no matter how scary he was, she would be like her father, even knowing that the demi-humans had several times the strength of Moen City, he would lead the soldiers of Moen City to fight for the king to the last moment.

Such a chivalrous spirit has been engraved in her blood.

"I'm not for King Grek, he's not worthy - I'm for the people of Nimgof from being burned, I'm for thousands of souls from being burned, I'm for the people, I'm for the whole border Earth, me, no complaints or regrets."

Irena lowered her head and said silently in her heart.

Then, a bunch of oily and fragrant barbecue appeared in front of her eyes.

The strong smell of meat and spices aroused Irena's greed.

"This is a delicacy bestowed on you by the heavens, only the brave who walk on a lonely road can enjoy it~"

Looking up, the man is smiling.

PS: There is only one chapter today, and there will still be two chapters tomorrow.I still have to think carefully about the following plots. I feel that there are too many theoretical texts that are preaching, and the readability is less interesting.

Note 1: Reasonable speculation, plot needs, don't take it seriously.

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