I am Gilgamesh, the King of Heroes.

"There's a strange feeling about you," the girl said. "It's familiar... and also..."

"Also?" Jill frowned.

Familiarity? Impossible, this is truly the first time I've met this girl.

So, it must be that I have something on me that the girl in front of me would recognize, right?

This underground labyrinth is where the water spirit queen Isalia is sealed.

The girl in front of him was definitely an elf, and the one he had been looking for.

Water Spirit Queen - Isalia Shiva.

If he and the Water Spirit King had never met before—then it could only be…

"Is the sense of familiarity you mentioned coming from this?" A silver chain with a golden sheen slowly emerged from the golden ripples, and Jill was also observing Isalia Shiva's reaction.

Chapter 258 Liberation

“This is…” Isalia’s eyes were filled with confusion.

"It seems the memory loss is quite severe." Jill shook her head and sighed.

"Do you know anything?" Isalia asked, looking at Jill.

"You know something... you actually do know a few things..." Jill nodded slightly. "Then, I'm going to use the Liberation Ritual, is that alright?"

The Liberation Ceremony is a ceremony that liberates an elf's true name.

This was originally a compulsory course in the Divine Ritual Academy, but although Gil's grades weren't top-notch, with the help of the Destiny's mudstone tablet and some special tools, using this liberation ritual was no problem at all.

Isalia tilted her head. "But there's something I want to ask you..."

"Well?"

"What is that sparkly crystal plate next to you?"

“Crystal plate…” Jill turned her head and looked around—

His pupils suddenly contracted.

That location is the screen displaying the world template.

The template that no one could see before, was actually seen by the Water Spirit King before us?!

……

“He has already set off… You don’t need to hide anymore, right? In two days, you’ll be facing the Destruction Factor in person. Shouldn’t you come out and discuss your countermeasures?” Artoria said to those around her, as if she sensed something.

Black shadows appeared around Artoria.

“There’s nothing we can do. His senses are just too sharp. That time I accidentally let my aura slip out a little, and he almost crippled me,” sighed the purple-haired Hassan who was the leader of the Hundred-Faced Hassans.

“His intuition has always been very sharp…” Artoria frowned. “How are things at the front?”

"No problem, after all, those guys on the front lines have always been there, and..."

“Alright, let’s leave this topic at that…” Artoria sighed. “We’ll just do our best.”

……

“Why can you see this…” Jill asked.

Is it strange to see this?

“It’s very strange…” Jill frowned. “Template, can you explain this?”

"Insufficient permissions, unable to access".

"Tsk!" Jill then threw a punch, slamming the template against the wall. "Damn it, I shouldn't have relied on a useless guy like you."

"...kimoji..."

Jill swore she really wanted to hit someone, really, really wanted to.

"Never mind that thing, I'll help you regain your memories..."

Jill sighed, "I'll set up the altar."

"—Isalia Shiva, in your name I liberate myself."

After the altar was set up, Gil recited the incantation in a clear and loud tone.

The altars set up in the four corners then emitted a strong light.

The enormous magic array burst into sparks and pierced through Isalia's entire body.

"Ugh... Ahh ...

The girl let out a mournful cry that sounded like gasping for breath. She clutched her head with both hands and knelt down in agony.

"...Waaah...my head...it hurts so much..."

The young elf desperately endured the torrent of light that surged through her entire body.

Her petite body even began to tremble frequently.

"...How terrifying...There's darkness...it's going to eat me up..."

"So, it really isn't just the Destruction Factor after all..." Jill clicked her tongue. "This is really troublesome."

After a long time, the liberation ceremony ended.

"Do you remember? All the memories?" Jill asked.

“…Yes, I remember now.” The girl nodded quietly. “Then, first of all, welcome, King of Heroes.”

“Let’s put the pleasantries aside for now,” Jill frowned. “They’ve already got their hands on this place—”

An incomparably dark aura slowly spread, and the undead, imbued with this black aura, gradually appeared in the underground palace.

"The breath of blooming stars, the torrent of glorious life—" Jill brandished her longsword, "Excalibur!"

After unleashing a burst of light and clearing out the surrounding weak elves, Gil didn't hesitate much. He immediately swept Isalia into his arms in a princess carry, activated the Hermes Boots effect, and carried Isalia away.

After Jill flew with Isalia to the outside of the underground labyrinth, she summoned Vimana and landed on it.

Infused with magic, Jill activated Vimana, which, at supersonic speed, carried Jill away from there.

……

On Vimana, Jill finally recovered.

“…” Jill let out a sigh of relief. “Finally, we’re gone.”

"King of Heroes... Although it is four years late, I still welcome your arrival." Isalia bowed slightly to Gil.

Jill shook her head. "I don't care about that... Rather, I'm more curious about some other truths."

“...Actually, my memory hasn’t fully returned.” Isalia sighed. “But I still remember some things.”

“Then tell me about how the Destruction Factor corrupts you. After all, in that ridiculous template’s response, I know some people, or rather, people like you, whose ‘world will’ should be impossible to corrupt,” Jill said. “After all, you represent the level of the concept of ‘world’.”

“It wasn’t erosion—” This time, the girl shook her head. “We were taken advantage of when we were vulnerable. You should have guessed that by now, right?”

"For example, the kind of 'otherworldly darkness' that the Fire Elemental King's fairy princess saw?" Gil asked. "What exactly is that?"

“That is a product of a third world that exists outside the Elemental Spirit Realm and the Human Realm—that kind of [Otherworldly Darkness] can drive us elves mad.” Isalia lowered her head slightly. “Even our Elf King could not resist that kind of corruption, and it was precisely because of this that we were taken advantage of by the Destruction Factor.”

“What else do you remember? Tell me everything,” Jill said, sitting on the throne and controlling Vimana.

"...Hundreds of years ago, the darkness of another world suddenly poured in through a door in the True Temple."

Isalia sighed as she thought about this.

"None of us five Elf Kings had time to react before we were corrupted by that otherworldly darkness, and it happened right after we finished the Elf War..."

“So your power is weak, and you are easily corrupted,” Jill said slowly.

P.S.: The previous text has been revised, mainly involving some wording changes in Volumes 1 and 2... That's all.

P.S.: Why do I always feel like I'm getting colder and colder...?

Chapter 259 Farewell

"...Yes, to my shame, if the Dark Elf King were here, then the six of us Elf Kings could have joined forces to resist that darkness..." Isalia shook her head and continued.

"King of Heroes, do you know the purpose of the Elf Sword Dance Festival?"

"The purpose of this event... isn't it just that you bunch of Elf Kings want to see this so-called 'Sword Dance'?"

“That’s true, but that’s only one aspect of the ritual. The Elven Sword Dance Festival is a mechanism created by our Elven King to suppress his frenzied emotions. Over the past few centuries, we have distributed miraculous powers that do not belong to this world to humans in order to barely maintain mental stability…”

"Whenever the corruption of that dark power deepens, we notify the human world to prepare for the Elf Sword Dance Festival, hoping to completely purify the darkness that is corrupting us. In fact, this mechanism has been quite effective... at least until a hundred years ago."

Jill raised an eyebrow but didn't say anything.

Jill had read in a book that the Elf Sword Dance Festival was established hundreds of years ago and has been passed down to this day.

In other words, the Elf King had been corrupted by the darkness of another world for at least several hundred years, and his mind gradually became unable to maintain normalcy.

Then, up to the last hundred years, that is to say...

"The Destruction Factor took advantage of the chaos a hundred years ago, didn't it?" Jill asked.

“Yes… the Elf Sword Dance Festival, which has lasted for nearly a hundred years, has fallen into a state of disorder because of the invasion of the Destruction Factor…” Isalia nodded and said.

“The most troublesome problem now is this—I plan to use my ultimate treasure directly to deal with the Destruction Factor,” Gilles said. “You should know the power of my Noble Phantasm, and to deal with this Destruction Factor, I need to break the three seals on it.”

"...Although it's a bit troublesome, I have a solution..." After thinking for a long time, Isalia revealed her solution.

……

night.

"Click." Lian checked all her equipment.

Gauntlets, and leg armor.

Because the leg armor is inner armor, or even light armor, it will not hinder Lian's sword dance.

These were gifts that Jill gave her during her year-long training.

Including those two knives, no, now there are three knives—