mysterious forerunner

Chapter 355 [Sword of the Fearless]

Jörmungandr followed obediently beside the steamboat as it rumbled toward the shore.

Behind Jörmungandr were dragging two seawater cages, which held Astrid and Shezhika.

The blood-eyed crow Luke was very loyal. He did not run away alone, but followed by paddling with his wings.

Zhang Qingxiang made a gesture, and Jörmungandr dissipated his secret technique, and Astrid and Shezhika fell to the ground.

Zhang Qingxiang pointed at those poor people and said, "Give them the detoxification."

Astrid looked at Zhang Qingxiang stubbornly and asked, "Who are you?"

She looks very miserable now.

She was like a drowned chicken, with her clothes and long hair sticking to her body, which completely highlighted her already proud figure.

She was originally wearing a heavily smoky Gothic look, but now it has been washed away by the sea water, revealing her true face, which surprisingly looks quite delicate.

The immature face and the well-developed body form a strong contrast, and the stubborn eyes can easily arouse the male's desire to conquer.

But Zhang Qingxiang didn't give her any face. He waved his hand and cast a secret spell, and Astrid maintained her previous posture and expression, "frozen" in place, unable to move.

This is the advanced secret technique of [Muddy Void] [Lock of All Things].

Zhang Qingxiang pointed at Xie Rika again and said, "Detoxify."

Shezhika is tall and thin, with a small nose and a small mouth, and always looks like a pitiful person who is being bullied.

She bit her lip, as if she was about to cry, looked at Astrid, then at Zhang Qingxiang, and finally mustered up the courage to stand with her lover: "I won't."

Zhang Qingxiang snapped his fingers, and poor Xie Rika was also frozen by the [Lock of All Things].

Zhang Qingxiang looked at the blood-eyed crow Luke. The crow opened its mouth and cackled, "I would rather die than surrender!"

Zhang Qingxiang was about to snap his fingers for the third time: "These witches are of no value anymore. Feed them to Jörmungandr..."

"Wait a minute, quack, wait a minute, quack quack—" the blood-eyed crow shouted hurriedly, flapping its wings vigorously: "I'll persuade them, they are willing to listen to my advice, Boss, give me a chance!"

Zhang Qingxiang glanced at Blood Eyed Crow and said, "First of all, don't call me Boss. You are not qualified."

Zhang Qingxiang waved his hand, and the two witches resumed their actions: "You have ten seconds."

Without the Blood-Eyed Crow's persuasion, Astrid also turned into a punching bag. She took out a bottle with grievance, and then chanted a spell. The two hundred puppets passed it to her in turn, and each of them took a sip.

Astri said: "In half an hour, they will wake up."

Zhang Qingxiang did not comment, put away the [Steam Engine Core], and said, "Follow me."

Zhang Qingxiang stood on top of Jörmungandr's head, and the huge sea snake swam into the deep sea.

The Blood-Eyed Crow tried its best to fly. Its wounds had not yet fully recovered, and it estimated that it could only barely keep up with Jörmungandr's speed.

Astrid and Shezhika also wanted to ride on Jörmungandr, but the giant sea snake shook slightly and threw them off.

Then Jörmungandr created two sea water cages, locked the two women inside, and dragged them into the deep sea.

After swimming for thirty nautical miles, they arrived near a deserted island.

There are many such islands near the coastline. The islands are all rocks, not large in area, and not on the shipping routes. There is no water, electricity, or mobile phone signal. On weekdays, except for fishermen who occasionally visit, basically no one goes there.

This is Jörmungandr's "home".

This is where it becomes a secret spirit.

This seaside town is the location of the "Gate of Heaven" determined by the Church of the Father.

Judging from the strength of Jörmungandr, the place where it became a secret spirit is most likely a mysterious energy leak point.

The leakage volume at this leak point is still very large.

Secret spirits can actually be considered as [professionals] among animals and plants.

The spiritual wave impact created the first batch of professionals and secret spirits, and later many of them became secret spirits after coming into contact with secret objects, source objects, or animals and plants at such leakage points.

Of course, there are many more who transform into mysterious spirits in mysterious scenes.

In essence, this leakage point is somewhat similar to the [Secret Realm].

The [Secret Realms] in Zheng Zekai's home are far inferior to Zhang Qingxiang's [Battle of Evolution] in terms of both strategic value and economic benefits, because the secret realms have a fixed upper limit.

The weird ones have fixed ranks and even fixed types.

There is also an upper limit to the total amount of secret materials that can be harvested in each cycle.

You can’t even enter the secret world directly through the secret realm.

[Battle of Evolution] is more dangerous, but it has infinite possibilities.

Zhang Qingxiang suspected that this leak point in Jörmungandr was related to the [Gate of Heaven].

Zhang Qingxiang cooperated with Astrid and pretended to be controlled by the secret drug, so that he could overturn the table after entering the factory.

It was because he heard the name "Jörmungandr" that he went into hiding again.

Jörmungandr abandoned Astrid and Serzhka on a deserted island and still trapped them in a cage of sea water.

Then he took Zhang Qingxiang and dived into the seabed.

When the blood-eyed crow Luke wanted to follow, the sea water turned into countless spikes pointing at it.

The blood-eyed crow obediently flew back to the island and lay down next to Astrid.

Jörmungandr took Zhang Qingxiang and crawled into a crevice at the bottom of the island.

The crevice was very narrow and Zhang Qingxiang could only barely squeeze in.

With its current size, Jörmungandr couldn’t possibly pass through, but it had a way. It used some unknown secret technique to shrink its body to the size of an ordinary sea snake in just a few seconds.

However, in this state, a big bump appeared on the top of Jörmungandr's forehead, just like the horns that grow when a snake transforms into a dragon in Chinese legend.

After crawling in through the cracks in the rocks, the terrain inside is very complicated, with many forks in the road, and you will easily go the wrong way if you are not careful.

It was pitch black all around. Jörmungandr shook his head very considerately. The big bump on his head duang, duang twice, and then a light came on.

It was like swimming in the water with a torch on its head.

Although Zhang Qingxiang could see perfectly well in the dark, he still nodded approvingly to Jörmungandr.

After walking a few hundred meters, the road ahead became wider and wider.

Zhang Qingxiang discovered that there were some traces of human activities around him!

There were some ship's belongings and some broken wooden boxes.

It is covered with corals, shellfish, seaweed, etc., which are obviously from hundreds of years ago.

Continuing forward, a submarine cave more than ten meters high appeared in front of us. In the center of the cave was a three-meter-high tower-shaped boulder.

A rich mysterious energy surged in the cave along with the tide, condensing without dispersing and confined to the scope of this cave.

There is a sword stuck in the boulder, which is the source of all mysterious energy.

It is also the source of Jörmungandr's power!
Zhang Qingxiang showed a look of surprise and swam up by paddling in the sea water.

This is a two-handed sword of Western design, with about two-thirds of the blade embedded in the rock.

It looks very plain and no one would notice it if it was thrown into a second-hand shop on a Western street.

Zhang Qingxiang carefully felt the mysterious energy in it and was ecstatic: It should be a secret weapon of the same level as [Half-Facial Emperor]!
Jörmungandr kept swimming around and nodding at Zhang Qingxiang, as if signaling him to pull it out.

Zhang Qingxiang did not dare to take it lightly. He prepared [Emperor's Half Face] and [No. 010], and then he grasped the hilt and pulled out -

Not moving.

The power in Zhang Qingxiang's body surged, and his strength at the Domination Realm completely erupted.

"laugh--"

The two-handed sword was finally pulled out ten centimeters.

Zhang Qingxiang continued to exert force and pulled out the sword bit by bit.

At the moment when the sword tip completely broke away from the rock, the mysterious energy in the underwater cave suddenly became violent, and with a loud bang, it rolled up all the sea water to form a huge vortex, and the gravel, corals, shellfish, etc. in the cave were crushed to pieces.

The rage lasted for more than ten seconds before slowly subsiding.

Jörmungandr curled up at Zhang Qingxiang's feet, his body shrank a little, looking as pitiful as a puppy.

Zhang Qingxiang held the sword in both hands and stood firmly on the top of the rock, with his feet sunk five centimeters into the rock!
After the violence was over, all the mysterious energy in the cave disappeared, as if it had been taken back by the sword.

Zhang Qingxiang blew out a long string of bubbles, and held the 1.4-meter-long sword in front of him and examined it carefully:

The sword was covered with traces of battle, there were several small gaps on the blade, and some enemy blood remained.

The overall style is simple and unpretentious. Anyone who sees it for the first time will feel that "this is a weapon."

It has a completely different temperament from some of the armor and sword guards that have been handed down from Western history and are covered with intricate patterns.

After being submerged in the sea for hundreds of years, there is no trace of rust on the sword.

Zhang Qingxiang could even feel that the sword was very excited. Finally, a pair of hands picked me up, and he could finally fight to his heart's content again!

A smile appeared on Zhang Qingxiang's lips, and then he used his professional skill [Appraising Treasures] on the sword.

[Secret Weapon: Sword of the Fearless

grade:? ? ?
Effect: The fearless are invincible!
Destroy: Use courage to destroy everything - the enemy's armor, weapons, spells, body, and even the space where the enemy is located.

Banish: You can banish the opponent to an unknown void, and the opponent will most likely never return.

Side effects: No matter how powerful the enemy is, you must not be afraid or retreat, otherwise this sword will immediately degenerate into an ordinary weapon. Note: Legend has it that terrible monsters split the sea and came out. The brave man defeated them with this sword and drove them back to their own world. The monsters left a contract in the depths of the sea, promising never to invade this world again. 】

Zhang Qingxiang nodded secretly and put the secret weapon into the void storage compartment.

Judging from the description in "Appraising Treasures", the so-called "Heaven" of the Heavenly Father sect is indeed not a Heaven. In history, it has overlapped with the Earth world and brought about a huge disaster.

However, he was repelled by a "brave man".

What Zhang Qingxiang couldn't understand was why the Heavenly Father Sect was so sure that that place was "heaven"?
Bi Zhan used [Moss] to control Ernest, and Zhang Qingxiang could obtain intelligence inside the Heavenly Father Sect through Ernest.

However, over the past six months, Ernest's status within the Heavenly Father sect has declined instead of risen.

Ernest is a "holy war weapon", but the Heavenly Father Sect has released more holy war weapons in the past six months - their foundation in this regard is indeed strong.

There are now eleven holy war weapons on par with Ernest.

Ernest's current position is one of the "Twelve Holy Wars", and [Heaven's Gate] is not its responsibility.

But it is another one called "Vladimir".

It is a chain hammer, and the person holding it is "Vladimir".

Like Ernest, the more times and longer it is used, the more powerful it will be; but it will also be assimilated by this holy war weapon, and eventually completely lose its self, turning into a powerful walking corpse that only knows how to follow orders.

From the information sent back by Ernest, we know that the twelve holy war weapons "belong" to the twelve "Red Clothes" respectively. Ernest belongs to the Red Clothes Lord Strum, and "Vladimir" belongs to Lord Boyx.

After Ernest returned, he had been "faithfully" carrying out missions under Strum. All these missions had only one purpose: to find [heaven]!
The God-Father sect got the so-called "prophecy" from nowhere, and is extremely certain that this era of disaster is precisely the sect's chance to regain control of the entire world!

The Kingdom of Heaven is about to come and lead the people of the world into it, and the Heavenly Father Sect will save the entire world.

According to their explanation, the mysterious disaster is like a "great flood", a punishment from God that cannot be resisted by one's own strength.

Only by converting and then obtaining the qualification to enter [Heaven] can one be saved.

These guys denied the power of human beings from the very beginning and just accepted the disaster submissively.

Zhang Qingxiang muttered to himself, "Could it be that the red-clothed people were fighting for power, so Boyx pushed this matter forward even though he knew that it was not the so-called [Heaven]?"

"Or..." Zhang Qingxiang's mind moved, and he thought of another possibility: "Did he reach some kind of agreement with the elephant master of that secret realm?"

There are many powerful mysteries in the secret world, and among their abilities, there is the power of "fraud".

The most direct manifestation of this kind of ability is that when it says something, it is full of loopholes, but the person talking to it is willing to believe it.

It presented an agreement that was obviously very unfair, but the other party to the agreement turned a blind eye to the various loopholes and traps in it and signed it willingly.

In Zhang Qingxiang's previous life, there was a small country in Europe, and the entire country was deceived by such an elephant lord.

The Elephant Lord actually reached an agreement with every citizen through a nationwide live broadcast, and the entire country "migrated" to the secret quadrant where the Elephant Lord was, became His people, and accepted His "protection."

As a result, there was no news about these millions of people after that...

Zhang Qingxiang was thinking about these things in his mind. Jörmungandr swam around Zhang Qingxiang's feet with a shy look on his face, rubbing against them like a puppy circling around his knees.

Zhang Qingxiang lowered his head, and Jörmungandr rushed up with a whoosh, wrapped around Zhang Qingxiang's wrist, and rubbed Zhang Qingxiang's palm hard with the big bag on its head.

Zhang Qingxiang didn't chase it away either.

Jörmungandr became a secret spirit because of the mysterious energy emanating from the Sword of the Fearless, and he had a strong admiration for the sword.

Zhang Qingxiang floated up with the snake and the sword and climbed onto the island.

Astrid and the other two were cheered up, and the blood-eyed crow Luke was the first to straighten his posture and said, "Sir, you are back."

Zhang Qingxiang waved his hand to disperse the seawater cages on Astrid and Shezhika, and asked, "Why do you think the new world discovered by the Heavenly Father Sect is the underworld in your mythology?"

Blood-Eyed Raven and Shezhika looked at Astrid together.

This time Astrid was not arrogant. Although she was still a little reluctant, she answered honestly: "Because I followed them in."

Zhang Qingxiang raised his eyebrows: "Oh?"

Astrid: "I possessed a puppet with my soul. That puppet was a knight of the Heavenly Father's sect."

"After Vladimir and twenty powerful priests and knights entered that world, they encountered various terrifying monsters one after another. In just half a day, half of the team died."

“But they actually held up a yellowed, worn-out old book and compared the various images and descriptions on it, insisting on proving that these monsters are angels!”

"What's even more terrifying is that after going through untold hardships, they finally arrived at something that looked like a giant tumor. Vladimir entered it alone, and no one knew what kind of agreement he had reached with the gigantic monster, or maybe Vladimir himself was contaminated by the monster. After he came out, he actually declared that this was heaven!
The monsters before were actually angels, and they attacked them only because of the miscommunication. "

Astrid showed a trace of fear on her face, and then said: "The strange thing is that after Vladimir walked out of the huge tumor and announced these things, the originally dark and dangerous world suddenly turned into a world of divine light, green shades everywhere, gurgling springs, and birds singing and flowers blooming!
And then, on the way out of this world, when we encountered those monsters again, they not only did not attack us, but they turned around and transformed into the angels we are familiar with. Each of them had a smile on their face, emitting a holy light, and seemed very amiable and willing to provide any help! "

Astrid finally said, "This is horrible!"

She looked at Zhang Qingxiang again, mustered up the courage to say, "Sir, you are very powerful. I am willing to communicate with my organization. Let's work together to stop the mistakes of the Heavenly Father Sect and save the world!"

Zhang Qingxiang suddenly laughed.

This smile made Astrid feel very guilty.

But she still held on and looked at Zhang Qing calmly.

"Your organization?" Zhang Qing asked instead: "Do you have an organization?"

"Of course there is..."

Zhang Qingxiang waved his hand: "You don't have it."

Regarding the profession of [Witch], in the previous life, there was no "organization" with more than ten people from beginning to end.

[Witches] are powerful but suspicious by nature, possessive and extremely jealous.

"If you were organized, it wouldn't just be the three of you hunting down the extremely dangerous Jörmungandr."

Astrid couldn't argue with that.

Zhang Qingxiang snapped his fingers and released the [Steam Engine Core] which turned into a steamship: "But we can indeed cooperate and stop the Heavenly Father Sect from causing such a disaster."

Mr. Guo’s worries are correct. If Zhang Qingxiang interferes in the affairs of the Heavenly Father Sect as a Chinese, there will be a lot of trouble later.

Even if he brought the [Ball Secret Agent] with him, he still lacked a layer of identity cover.

The witches just provide this "identity".

Astrid was overjoyed, and became extremely active after getting on board: "I know where the people from the Heavenly Father's Sect are. I'll take you there."

Zhang Qingxiang thought to himself, I know that too, Ernest is in that church.

But Zhang Qingxiang remained calm and said with a smile: "Okay, you lead the way."

……

At dawn, a small church by the sea welcomed a group of uninvited guests.

The church has been closed to the public since three days ago.

From time to time, tall men in black can be seen inside and outside the church, passing by passers-by intentionally or unintentionally.

Ernest and ten other "holy warriors" were placed in the church wing.

Vladimir and Monsignor "Red" Boyx lived in the church. Apart from them, the only person in the church was the Pope.

Ernest could not find out the core secrets.

There were four uninvited guests in this group, led by a middle-aged man with a beard.

He showed his ID to the man in black: "I am Karel, the director of the Dano Mystical Bureau, and I want to see His Holiness the Pope."

The man in black communicated in a low voice on the intercom for a long time before Karel was invited in.

Karel was only at level 5, but among the three people behind him, two were at level 5 and one was at level 6. For a small Nordic country like Danor, this was already the strongest force that their Mystic Agency could send out.

"Your Excellency!" Karel kissed the back of the Pope's hand, then stood up, looked around, and eagerly stated his purpose: "We solemnly implore you to stop all plans immediately!"

"At least let the entire Europa Mystery Agency unite and organize enough forces to further explore that world before making a choice!"

Behind the Pope is a huge statue of God the Father. The early morning sunlight shines through the colorful waves on the top of the church, as if casting a layer of divine light on the statue.

The Pope shook his head slightly, his voice calm but unquestionable: "This is impossible. Heavenly Father will only give us one chance."

"If you are willing to join, I can give you the opportunity to be the first to enter the kingdom of heaven with us, representing all mankind - this will be the greatest honor."

"You cannot stop us from bringing benefits to mankind if you don't want to."

Karel couldn't help but ask, "Your Excellency is so stubborn. Have you ever considered what the consequences will be if you make a mistake?"

"We won't be wrong," the Pope said with great confidence.

Karel gritted his teeth and said, "I'm sorry I offended you!"

"Mysterious agencies in various European countries, a large number of follow-up reinforcements are on the way!"

"We cannot allow you to risk the entire human race..."

The Pope smiled calmly and gently raised his left hand. Six of the Twelve Holy Warriors walked out from the shadow of the church together.

To the right of the Pope, in the shadow, stood six others.

Ernest was one of them.

Zhang Qingxiang was in a forest five kilometers outside the church at this time. He already knew everything that happened in the church. He couldn't help but shook his head: It turns out that he can't be persuaded.

Karel and his four companions were subdued in just over ten seconds. The Pope smiled and said, "The follow-up reinforcements from the Mystical Agency will not be able to stop us in time. Everything has already begun. Let's embrace the new future..."

Zhang Qingxiang suddenly pushed Astrid out, and before the tall and muscular witch could react, she found herself riding on Jörmungandr's back.

The giant sea serpent suddenly revealed its true form, flashed across a distance of several kilometers, and knocked down half of the chapel with one head!
(End of this chapter)