Tokyo: Parasite

Chapter 420 190: God Forsaken Land

"Mr. Augustus, Jingquan is already asleep."

"Oh, then you can give her the medicine after she wakes up."

Kyoto.

After Izumi Ringo fought with Izumi Sayuri in Tokyo, she relied on her improved strength and unexpected barrier ability to cause serious injuries to the opponent without catching up with Izumi Sayuri's strength.

But at the same time, she was also injured, and after rushing back overnight, she began to recuperate.

Augustus didn't care much about it. Getting injured was not very common for superhumans. He and Jingquan Ringo had always been partners. He couldn't ask her to do things the same way he asked his subordinates.

Jingquan Ringo also has a strong ability to escape from the battlefield. As long as she wants to run, most people will not be able to stay.

"Is it true that Jingquan's sister has no way to escape the integration of the Mother Goddess?" Daisy sat down. In terms of the extraordinary, she is a newcomer, but she has been out in the society for a long time. Considering her age, Jingquan Ringo is, in her eyes, a very strong, proud, but simple-minded little girl.

Carrying such a heavy belief at such a young age made her feel a little uncomfortable as she was immersed in it.

Augustus pointed to the black broken arm of Oakley that Daisy was wearing.

"This? What does it have to do with Oakley?" Daisy uncovered the broken arm and looked at Augustus curiously.

"Who do you think can make Oakley betray the Black Angel, or in other words, make him completely free from the Black Angel's manipulation?"

".An extremely powerful existence, and the black angel itself?" Daisy thought for a few seconds and got the answer.

Augustus nodded: "Almost."

"The Black Angel can be said to be an incomplete integration of the Mother Goddess. It has the ability to make people extraordinary, and can even intercept souls that should flow into heaven."

"The Mother Goddess is much stronger than she is, so she can create beings who are not chosen by God. Similarly, she can also collect the souls of those people."

"As the right anti-god choice, the Mother Goddess will naturally not give up. We also cannot make Her give up. This will be even more difficult than killing Her."

"And we cannot ask the Supreme to help. This is a necessary process for the birth of a new god. The Supreme does not care who dies and who lives here. He just wants someone to kill the old god and become the new god."

Daisy listened with her mouth open, and it took her a long time to come back to her senses.

She still found it hard to believe that she could participate in the process of this change in the status of a deity and become a true eyewitness.

"I can feel that Jingquan doesn't have too many defenses against you. You can empathize with her most of the time, so you must know how uncomfortable she felt when she fought with Jingquan Sayuri, so..." Augustus stood up and put the medicine bottle on the table, "She probably won't be in a good mood these days, so spend more time with her."

Daisy nodded strangely: "The impression you give me is changing more and more."

"Let me reiterate, the Soul Assembly has always been a pure organization that exists to study the ultimate mysteries. Everything we do is for research, deeper research, not for our so-called evil plans to destroy the world and make the world feel pain. If you really feel that way, it is just a sacrifice we have to make for research."

Augustus smiled.

Daisy looked away, somewhat embarrassed.

She really thought so.

They are all prepared to become accomplices in the future.

Unexpectedly, Augustus seemed to be a very nice person. He didn't make any noisy laughs, and what he said was easy to understand. Apart from his occasional telling of riddles, he was a very normal gentleman.

If she didn't already have someone she liked, she might really fall in love with him.

Powerful, unkind, wise
After leaving the medicine, Augustus disappeared from the room and went to the safe house prepared by the Baron.

Heath was already waiting inside.

"I went to all the places you arranged, and the sword didn't react much."

"Really? Then either those things are fake, or it is not qualified to absorb them."

Augustus approached the purple lightning sword placed on the sword rack, which called itself "Bu Yu Xiao Jin". The original spots on it had faded a lot, and now there were more purple lines and rust intertwined, forming a strange charm.

"Has it been talking to itself lately?"

"No, it seems to be thinking about something most of the time and rarely speaks."

"How about we make a deal?"

Augustus could feel a perception pass through him.

Heath nodded beside him: "Okay."

"Since you can respond to our summoning and conduct transactions, you must have the ability in this area. So, can you help me locate a place - the source of this arm, so that I can communicate with other people in that place who can respond to the summons."

Augustus pointed to Heath's right arm, which looked like it was naturally covered in armor.

Heath felt the sword's reply: "It says yes, but there is no guarantee that your call will be answered."

"It's okay." Heath was sure that there must be some connection between this arm, the businessman who traded the arm, and the amnesiac sword that claimed to be Bu Yu Xiaojin.

“For a transaction to exist, it needs to first confirm whether it is valuable to it.”

Augustus nodded: "As it should be."

Then he opened his backpack and took out the Tianyun Congjian, one of the three sacred artifacts, from the formation inside.

Clang!
The Purple Lightning Sword made a sound, and instantly shattered the sword stand on which it was placed into wood chips, which then fell on the table within the coverage area of ​​the formation.

"Faith. Impurities are poisonous but useful." Heath frowned and tried hard to translate the meaning of the Purple Lightning Sword.

Augustus smiled and asked, "Is this enough for trading?"

"Enough." Heath thought for a moment, "It seemed to want to express that it was too much, but gave up."

The blade of the Purple Lightning Sword flashed with a faint purple electric light, and the tip of the sword pointed at Heath with a slightly unfriendly look.

"I always like win-win deals. Please." Augustus did not attach any conditions and put the Tianyun Sword directly in.

The Purple Lightning Sword seemed to take a deep look at Augustus, then twisted the sword body and wrapped around the Tianyun Sword, which looked even more broken than it, like a snake wrapped around a pillar.

Click.
The Tianyun Cong Sword began to be unable to withstand the entanglement force of the Zidian Sword, and cracks slowly appeared, then expanded little by little.

Augustus maintained a circular gesture with his hands, his palms glowing faintly, connected to each other, like forming a prepared golden magnifying lens.

As more and more cracks appeared on the blade of the Tianyun Cong Sword, the rust on the Zidian Sword gradually disappeared. Although the degree of disappearance was small, it was indeed disappearing bit by bit.

Augustus's face was solemn, and suddenly his eyes focused. The soul ball on his waist merged into the circle in his hands and shattered. Thousands of ancient souls were madly absorbed by the golden light in the circle, and a ray of golden light instantly burst into Augustus' eyes.

He saw it.

Did you see the breath of faith that dissipated from the cracks in the Tianyun Sword and was swallowed up bit by bit by the Zidian Sword?

"Puff!" Augustus spat out a mouthful of blood, and the golden round mirror maintained by his hands shattered in an instant.

Heath reached out to support the retreating Augustus and felt the latter's disordered breathing: "How is it?"

"Good, very good." Even though Augustus' face was pale, he had a smile full of joy on his face.

[This sword is most likely related to a god]

Augustus mouthed this to Heath.

Heath understood what he meant and felt relieved when he saw that Augustus was fine.

The Purple Lightning Sword's devouring lasted for about half an hour. After half an hour, the Tianyun Sword had turned into a pool of black powder that could not be identified. The Purple Lightning Sword also slowly floated up like a eater that had eaten everything.

"It said that you can start calling now, and it will help you locate the place."

"Do you know where that is?"

"A familiar but forgotten area."

Augustus didn't ask any more questions and tried to summon the merchant.

A golden light shot out from the tip of the Purple Lightning Sword, piercing through the formation set up by Augustus and directly into his palm.

The original layers of fog began to dissipate in an instant, and the feeling of being blocked was greatly weakened.

Faintly, he seemed to sense several beings that could respond to his call.

But there was no longer the aura he remembered.

"It says it needs to be done as soon as possible, the barriers there are strong and the window of time is short," Heath said.

Augustus did not hesitate and chose the nearest responder.

As the black paint-like substance gushed out of his palm, a vertical black door took shape.

In the darkness, one can vaguely see a figure that is roughly human, but the face cannot be seen clearly.

"What do you want to trade?"

The man "said" directly.

The other party didn't seem to be surprised by this kind of transaction, and the same was true for the merchant Augustus met before. Unfortunately, before he could ask more questions, the merchant's contact was cut off.

If this is the case, then this is most likely how these people trade with each other.

Although, this should be a summoning technique.

“Meat in exchange for knowledge and history.”

"Oh, are you exchanging precious meat for useless history?"

"Do you want to change?" Augustus gave Heath a look, and the latter understood and quickly went to prepare the meat.

"I don't know much. The God-forsaken Land is full of lost people who live in caves. History has been forgotten by us, and knowledge has been lost by us."

"Tell me, I want to know how the God-Forsaken Land existed before."

"Many people must have told you that at that time we lived on the surface of the earth, bathed in the glory of God. Sunshine and rain, these words that are extremely unfamiliar to us now, were commonplace for them. They thought the sun was too strong and the rain was too heavy."

"No one knows what happened. We only know that God left us and never came back. Soon after, the stars fell to the ground, a large number of volcanoes roared, and the sea was boiling. The survivors hid on the ground, but most of them still could not escape destruction. In the end, the survivors could only huddle near the foundation crystals that God once spread all over the world, and linger on."

"And those holy messengers and knowledgeable sorcerers who were blessed by God all went mad and left the underground. Their whereabouts are unknown. But according to legend, the dark monsters on the surface are their transformations. They attacked the supply teams sent by the camps, forcing the camps to move completely underground or conduct limited exchanges through exchange techniques."

"Didn't your camp elder tell you not to covet knowledge? The more you know, the easier it is to go crazy. This is a profound lesson that the destruction of camps has taught us - we have been abandoned by God."

The man gave a warning.

Augustus wrote down everything the man said.

“Do you know God’s name?”

"I don't know, and I can't know." The other party's tone was a little horrified, and he even had the urge to cancel the transaction.

But poverty quickly suppressed this impulse. It takes a lot of energy and materials to open a trading window. If you don’t get anything in exchange, you will lose a lot.

"I had contacted a businessman before and had some agreements, but I couldn't contact him anymore. Many times, I couldn't even find other people."

"That's normal. He should be a traveling merchant and a part-time dark hunter. He was always on the brink of life and death. It's normal for him to die. As for why you couldn't contact other people, the storm season wouldn't last long. Is there no foundation crystal in your camp? Or are you a wanderer?"

"I have never seen a foundation crystal since I was born."

"It's a miracle that you survived. However, you wanderers may have your own survival wisdom. However, you don't have a foundation crystal, so how did you use the exchange technique? Did you use gold and stone?!"

"I have my own methods." Augustus was ambivalent.

Soon, Heath came back with some cuts of beef. It was hard to tell what it looked like. He had traded beef before and the other party was very satisfied.

Augustus began to feel that communication was becoming increasingly difficult, and the sense of barrier resurfaced, so he gave up on communicating and threw all the beef over before the window was completely closed.

"What kind of meat is this?! It's so fresh! Enough! Enough!"

As the other party kept saying "enough", the connection was cut off.

Who would have thought that after a cross-space transaction, the thing they exchanged was meat.

It's like dismantling a nuclear reactor to make a bow and arrow.

But this is also good, the information exchanged does not require any cost.

From the conversation, we can learn that it was an era when intelligent life was on the verge of extinction. The whole world was no longer suitable for their survival, and they were barely able to survive by relying on the so-called "foundation crystal".

Lost God, Destroyed World
Maybe the Earth has also experienced all of this, but was just luckier and didn't become purgatory.

But now that the God of Earth has returned, will this so-called God-forsaken land soon return to normal?

It’s not clear, the position he is standing in now is still too low.

If you want to see clearly, you must stand at a higher place.

He looked at Heath's black arm, which was probably cut off from the so-called dark monster and traded to him by the previous merchant.

The dark monster's predecessor could be a saint or a sorcerer.
Augustus observed the Purple Lightning Sword very carefully, and many thoughts flashed through his mind one by one.

(End of this chapter)