Knight and Wand

Chapter 340 Great Magic

Standing in the magical phantom of the outline of the Orlandon Palace, Leon was surprised at how smoothly he released the huge spell contained in the holy sword.

It was as if this magic was designed to be used so simply and directly.

Leon retracted his gaze and looked at the sharp blade in his hand that seemed to be inserted into the illusory "stone foundation", and raised it tentatively.

However, just like when he first tried to draw the sword in the Holy Sword Courtyard, no matter how much strength he exerted, the Holy Sword of the Sun remained motionless as if it was frozen in space.

Looking down at the ground, the large and small circular formations that extended from the stone foundation that night have already appeared.

Ritual venue - source of magic power - anchored observer - ritual host. The complete and rough structure of the ritual was presented before his eyes.

"Should I stand back in?" Princess Ines looked down at the huge circle where she had hidden that night.

Before Leon could answer, the sleeve of his arm was pulled.

He glanced sideways at Big Ines beside him.

"Is it time to say goodbye?" Queen Ines asked softly.

The reluctance and attachment in his words made Leon feel heartbroken.

Letting go of the hilt and caressing her shoulders, Leon said gently, "This is not a farewell, but just another three years of our time together. For you, it may be half the time you spent together, but I will make up for it with countless more three years.
Of course, if the poet is wrong, if it is not about restoring the world, but about leaving, then I will come back to you soon. "

After hearing this, Queen Ines smiled, closed her eyes, and hugged her lover as usual.

"I believe in you, both in the past and in the future."

She rubbed the other's chest and said with relief: "You can fool others, but you can't fool me. You look desperate because you can't let go of Miss Olivia, right? So I know that if you are deceived by the poet, you will definitely come back to me regardless of everything. If everything continues, I will wait for you here."

His heart seemed to be wrapped in warmth, and Leon suddenly hesitated.

"Do you want me to wait a little longer? Maybe there's no rush?"

"It's not like the great hero I know to be so hesitant. As you said, since this is not a separation, then I can't wait to get back to you."

Big Ines stood on tiptoe and leaned close to Leon's ear with a meaningful smile and nostalgia.

"~Just don't let me take the initiative this time. Even though I was so bold back then, I am also shy. Also, promise me, don't let little Morgan wait too long."

Seeing Leon's wide eyes, Queen Ines whispered with the sweetness of the past, pushed away, supported her belly which was still not rising, turned around with a smile, and walked out of the magic pattern virtual image which was like a courtyard under her feet without hesitation.

Looking at his wife's extremely trusting back as she walked to the outside, Leon's left hand was pulled again.

"Don't stare at me until your eyes pop out. I'm still here," Ines sighed.

Seeing Ines' comforting words, Leon slowly got rid of the inexplicable emotions in his heart.

Looking at the girl in front of him with her hands on her waist, he suddenly felt a little amused.

It was such a wonderful and indescribable love affair that before it even began, it had already traveled through six years to reach the end, and then turned back to the starting point on another different side.

Like a Möbius strip.

Little Ines turned and stepped into the big circle in the magic circle, looking at Leon: "However, I still can't understand why you have experienced everything completely even though you came to this future as well."

She looked down at her feet and said, "Only by standing here can I become an independent individual? If you have experienced these six years completely, why did you appear in Rolandar at the same time as me?"

Leon walked into the small circle hosting the ceremony, raised his hand to summon Gungnir and inserted it into it, connecting his own magic pattern to the magic network from the surface of the wand.

Before trying to activate it again, he shook his head and replied, "Faced with this miraculous 'great magic' realm, a wizard like me who came from a humble background cannot really explore the whole truth. The reason behind this is probably only known to God for now."

After that, he asked again, "Are you ready? According to Goliad, you should be determined to go back to the beginning of everything."

Ines took a final look at herself three years later, then nodded and sighed, "I will. I don't want to continue to be an enemy of such a terrible Miss Olivia. Without your restraint, I can't think of how to defeat her no matter how hard I try."

Closing her eyes, the girl didn't know what to do specifically, she could only silently recite in her mind the idea of ​​making everything return to its original state.

She didn't want to continue on her path of deviating fate from the bottom of her heart. After all, who knows if she deviated again, would this fickle bee in front of her have another wife?

With his personality, once he makes a promise, he will definitely take responsibility to the end.
You have to know that in this fate, Miss Treia is still unmarried at this age. Based on her contact with her during this period, Ines can see that whether the female knight is aware of it or not, it is probably not entirely out of loyalty to her lord and mentor. It is inevitable that she will develop admiration after years of living together day and night. This is too dangerous.

Ines suddenly felt a lingering fear when she thought about this. To be honest, she really wanted to put a collar on this philandering guy and tie him up.

Squinting her eyes and secretly glancing at Leon, the girl relaxed a little and felt a little comforted. Fortunately, besides Miss Olivia, she was the only one there.

Seeing that Ines was mentally prepared, Leon reached out and grabbed the Neti card in his pocket.

Suddenly, I looked into the distance as if intuitively.

Looking across the forest, I saw a vague figure standing on the cliff in the distance.

Olivia was watching here.

wait for me
Leon wordlessly withdrew his gaze and activated the card.

In an instant, invisible particles of light were applied to his body, causing the magic energy in his body to boil and surge.

Gripping the magic wand tightly, he channeled the surging magic power into the huge magic ritual beneath his feet.

The black hole-like suction force suddenly came.

Leon was not in a state of crisis. He endured his body's instinctive sense of fear and did not resist the terrifying extraction of his own magic power.

The jet-black hair rose up without wind, and surging magic power burst out like a cyclone.

The dizziness caused by the drain of magic power has just hit my mind.

Time seemed to be frozen in Leon's body, and his flying hair paused in mid-air.

All of a sudden.

The sky and earth change color in my eyes.
It is not some kind of embellishment or description, but the real change of color of the world that can be perceived by the physical senses.

All the colors of refracted light fade away in the limited rational cognition. In the eyes of ordinary people, everything in the world seems to have turned into abstract outlines and imperceptible material information filling them.

Watching the changes around him, Leon saw the outlines of all things begin to move.

But not forward.

The silhouettes of Great Ines and the Knights of the Guards turned in the distance, and instantly followed the footsteps that had just left as if rewinding, and returned to him in the blink of an eye.

The two silhouettes separated from him and Little Ines, and repeated all the movements from a few hours ago in reverse with them, until the silhouettes of all the people disappeared at the end of the country road.
The sound of the wind, the chirping of birds and insects, the flying sand and rocks, all the sounds in the world are reversed.

The whispers turned into an incomprehensible and unrecognizable noise, and the sun in the sky was visibly setting towards the eastern skyline.

The overturned tide of the River of Destiny flowed back again, and the rising light curtain of the huge magic pattern array was like a barrier. Leon, whose magic power was completely drained, felt that his own time and space seemed to be frozen by the magic circle under his feet, and he was even unable to intervene outside. The river of time was changing at this moment.

——Time is accelerating!
Fate is reversing at an accelerated pace!

It was like a reverse time-lapse photography, with the sun setting quickly from the east and the bright moon rising quickly from the west.

In the blink of an eye, the darkness that had passed came again. The silhouettes of nocturnal beasts took turns shuttling through the countryside. In the blink of an eye, the moon set in the east and the sun rose again.

I don’t know if it’s just the earth beneath my feet that is rotating backwards, or if the entire universe is moving backwards in time.

Day and night switched madly, until they turned faster and faster, so fast that Leon could no longer distinguish the flicker of light and dark before his eyes. Autumn returned to the summer solstice, summer left and spring came, spring returned to winter - the flowers bloomed again and returned to the earth.

Only the slowly decreasing height of the forest trees was still telling him that the concept of time in ordinary people's cognition was still constantly regressing.

In the changes between midsummer and snow, the trees and mountains are like the measure of time, marking the reversal of fate.

It's far more than just a few years set back!

The extent of the forest's retreat suggests that decades have been undone.

But Leon was so frightened that he couldn't speak, nor could he stop the mad retreat of all things.

Soon, even many huge trees that were hundreds of years old disappeared.

Leon's consciousness tried its best to search for something around him that could serve as a reference in his frozen vision.

Sometimes the crowds of people and the shadows of animals passing through the land were impossible to distinguish.

Even the magnificent wars that flashed across the land of Ostania were nothing more than a fleeting bubble over the years.

Only those things that are eternal and long-lasting can be engraved in the long time.

The mountains in the distance are like the body of Omrod, silently watching the changes in the earth.

It was not until the woods covering the suburbs gradually receded like the tide over the long years, leaving open wilderness, that Leon saw in the distance a stand of towering ancient fir trees that seemed to have been cut down and were reborn.

The straight giant sequoia began to slowly lower the height of its crown the moment it recovered its felled trunk.

Leon felt a chill down his spine.

Trees that are more than a thousand years old are visibly rejuvenating.

The hourglass of fate has undoubtedly spanned hundreds of years.

Where is this horrible magic going to take me and Ines?!
Shouldn't it have started six or three years ago when this fateful change began?
I saw the outline of the towering giant sequoia gradually turning into a sapling.

The "lines" of the rapidly inverted world's outline suddenly converged from the horizon, and the "nothingness" that could not be described as pale or pitch-black replaced everything that was originally there.

The naked eye could no longer perceive the field of vision. Only the outline of the palace outlined by the surrounding magic light curtain stood still in the void.

In the hazy lines of the palace.

Leon seemed to hear something.

He looked at the still Ines and saw a burly male figure that was nearly twice the height of the little princess, who had completely overlapped with the girl's standing position without her knowing.

Is anyone there?!
Who is that??

Ines, with her eyes closed, was still frozen like herself, and seemed unaware of the virtual image overlapping with her at the moment.

When Leon was in doubt, his eyes blurred and he saw the outline of a magic wand with concentric circles as the head, passing through his body like a phantom.

His consciousness moved his gaze downward, and he realized that it was actually a petite figure in a robe, holding a magic wand like an orrery, who passed through his body and walked out of the small circle under his feet.

In this situation, is there anyone who can move? ? ?

".Sure enough, it still failed."

The vague male voice drew Leon's attention forward again.

The silhouette of a man who was much taller than Lohak suddenly raised his hand and held up the sword in his hand.

".Mother no longer exists, either in the past or in the future."

Leon listened to his distorted words with some reluctance.

He instinctively looked at the outline of the lines in the man's hand, which was exactly the shape of the Holy Sword of the Sun.

But at this moment, the two-handed sword looks like a normal sword against his three-meter-tall body.

"Although I expected that the teacher had merged with the supreme 'Mosera', I did not expect that even the unborn 'soul' under my feet could not reflect her existence in the dreams of the masses." An ethereal and pleasant voice came from the back of the petite figure in a robe.

Leon withdrew his gaze, feeling something strange in his heart.

Moserah?
Soul?

Also, why does this intermittent and vague voice of the female afterimage seem like I've heard it somewhere before?
The tall man seemed to raise his head as if to respond to the other person's words.

"No wonder Laura didn't stop our antics in the 'future'. Maybe she knew what the outcome would be."

Lola?

There's that name again.

Leon was unexpectedly addressed again, and suspicion filled his heart.

Is it just a coincidence of pronunciation?
The woman holding the star staff seemed to see the other person's loneliness, and her words were soft and long as if they traveled through time and space.

".So, you want to give up?"

The man's afterimage heard this, put down the sword in his hand, and his face could not be seen. He calmly responded to the woman in front of him: "The sun has set, the era of Lorelit has long ended, and the era of mother will never return. If the 'unborn Gaia' cannot save her from the glory of 'Mosera', everything in the past may really come to an end."

The woman holding the star staff fell into silence for a long time, until her soft voice revealed her unwavering determination.

".I won't give up, no matter what."

"Then what else can we do? Even Gaia's power is not enough, what else can we do?"

"Since the power of the Star God is still not enough, let's go find a more powerful force."

".You mean.?"

The man's voice sounded a little stunned.

The woman holding the star staff raised her head as if looking into the sky.

".Epedo.
Omros
Even Yinnie
No matter who it is, no matter what it costs, as long as I can win back the teacher."

After she finished speaking, the woman in the robe turned around and slowly left.

Surprise instantly entered Leon's mind.

It was not until they were facing each other that Leon saw the clear eyes on the female figure's face, which were completely different from the hazy lines of the surrounding void.

The eyes sparkled with brilliant starlight, a beauty that almost surpassed what human reason could describe, making them seem strange and dangerous.

Just like the bright and deep starry sky.

At this moment, Leon finally remembered where he had heard her voice.

Those beautiful and strange magic eyes! She is the ancient great magician of Bauhinia Castle, the creator of the miracle card magic in her hand.

——Aphrodite Neti.

(End of this chapter)