The Warrior of Love

The goddess of wisdom asked coldly: "Tell me the truth, don't you have any regrets? Aren't you unwilling to accept it? Saying "there is nothing you can do" and "this is also good"... What a joke!"

"Uh……"

"The Yuanshan Jiangliu I know is not such a useless guy! You should be a stronger, more powerful, and more stubborn person!"

The silver-haired Athena was even angrier than Jiang Liu: "This shouldn't be the ending of a hero! If you saved 10,000 people, you should be supported and praised by 100,000 people.

If you defeat the dragon, you should take the spoils of victory.

If you are better than anyone else, you should rule a city or a country as a king!

If he saved the world and made everyone happy... then he himself should become happier than anyone else.

A hero should... must receive the honor and reward commensurate with his achievements! To ask for nothing, to leave nothing behind, and to have everything taken away from you... is not a hero."

This is just a "sacrifice".

——The goddess said so.

"You've become more talkative today." Jiang Liu did not respond directly, "I originally thought you hated me, but I didn't expect you to stand up for me... Thank you..."

"That's right, I hate you! I have hated you from the beginning to the end!"

The silver-haired goddess was silent for a moment, then slowly said, "But if it ends like this... it would be too lonely."

"Uh..." Jiang Liu's eyes dimmed and the corners of his mouth curled up in a self-deprecating arc.

Satisfied? No regrets?

Of course that's impossible!

He didn't start this journey to be a savior hero. Although saving the world in the end was a good thing and made him very proud, his greatest wish was for his family to live together in peace.

Even though he was regarded as a monarch in "God Slayer" and had unlimited power, it was nothing compared to the happiness of family.

Now he has indeed defeated Goetia and stopped the Incineration of Humanity. His father and aunt should have woken up with confused faces like everyone else. Ritsuka has also returned to Chaldea safely, and the family will be reunited soon.

——But he just can't take part in it!

In order to gain the power to defeat Goetia, he took the initiative to evolve into the "Second Beast". Although he has no subjective intention to harm humans, just like Tiamat, even if he loves humans in essence, as long as he appears in the surface world, it will be a disaster.

Jiang Liu's existence itself is extremely dangerous to the world...it is impossible to return to his original life.

This is also why he did not choose to go back with Ritsuka - God knows what kind of changes his appearance in the real world will cause!

But what can I do even if I am unwilling?

He has become like this, and the facts cannot be changed... This is the price he pays to achieve his goal.

"You may never see your family again. Can you really accept this reality?"

"Well, I..."

"It's too early to give up now."

"Ok?"

Jiang Liu and Athena turned their heads in surprise, surprised that they didn't notice each other's existence in advance... No, should they have been transferred here directly?

"you are?"

Looking at the familiar face, Jiang Liu opened his eyes slightly. His first reaction was full of vigilance, but he quickly recognized that the other person was not Goetia.

"Roman...Solomon, is that you?"

“Sure enough…” Doctor Roman—or King Solomon—smiled bitterly, “My identity has been exposed.”

Chaldea's number one Heroic Spirit, a Servant under the contract of the former Director Marisbili, who wished to remain in the world as an ordinary human after winning the Holy Grail War.

——Romani Akiman.

Who would have thought that Gary’s doctor was the famous King Solomon?

Needless to say, Goetia has a deep connection with him...

"For the time being, I am also the one who defeated Goetia." Jiang Liu responded, "Some things will become clear naturally."

"Really?... Let's not talk about that for now."

Roman placed his right hand on his chest and said seriously, "Thank you, Your Excellency Yuanshan Jiangliu. You made up for my mistake and saved the world from the threat of that beam. Thank you so much!"

Jiang Liu did not refuse and accepted Roman's thanks frankly. After all, that was the fact.

"The burning of the human body has ended. Is there anything else you want to talk to me about?"

"Yes, although Goetia has been eliminated, there is still an important matter that must be dealt with."

Roman held out his hand, nine golden rings casually stacked in his palm.

"How can a hero end up like this?"

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【Human King o Jiang Liu (Adam)】

Introduction: As "Adam", he inherited the crown of "King of Man".

He regained God's grace (divinity), thus breaking away from the purely "human" posture and being downgraded from the realm of "beast" to "Son of God/Man-King".

Placing the ten sephirot that make up the Kabbalah system in Solomon's ring is both a contract with "God" and a constraint on "man".

Every time a ring is released, the divinity will decrease, the ability value will increase, and the sealed power will gradually be restored.

All ten seals are lifted, divinity is reduced to zero, and the Beast, which symbolizes "transcendence (of corruption)", will return.

Note: There is actually an eleventh sephira, "knowledge", which is not stored in the ring but is kept by Athena as a follower.

According to legend, Adam and Eve were tempted by the snake (wisdom) and ate the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thereby gaining knowledge and knowing good and evil. They were no longer pure and were immediately driven out of the Garden of Eden by the gods.

In a sense, the goddess of wisdom (snake) who keeps "knowledge" is the last safety lock of the "second beast".

Chapter 672: White Valentine's Day, Love in Chaldea

After the restoration of human nature, the great halo that burned the world was just a dream for all mankind.

In fact, most people don’t realize that they were once turned into firewood to provide heat. When they close their eyes and open them again, they suddenly find themselves at the end of 2016!

Only a few magicians would notice it, but it's just a guess.

The only thing that retains all the records is Chaldea's central computer, which means that the truth is confusing to the outside world.

But one thing is certain: the time has indeed jumped from 2015 to 2016.

What exactly happened during this missing year is what large organizations such as the Clock Tower and the League of Nations are eager to know.

But before that, they also had many troubles to deal with, the most terrible of which was how to explain to the ordinary people and appease them...

This can't be dismissed as a "gas explosion"!

Fortunately, although time has jumped, nothing else has changed, so large-scale chaos has been avoided. With the capabilities of those large organizations, I believe they can still handle the aftermath.

However, it would take at least one or two years for them to calm down the noisy outside world, so they would not be able to take care of Chaldea for the time being.

Well, a certain unscrupulous businessman and doctor could also take advantage of the opportunity to make wholesale changes to computer records.

After all, Chaldea is a subordinate organization of the Clock Tower and the League of Nations, and during the Human Incineration, they violated many regulations of the League of Nations in order to explore singularities.

Now that such a big incident has happened, the Clock Tower and the League of Nations will certainly do everything they can to find out the truth, and Chaldea will definitely submit a report to the League of Nations.

Among them... the various achievements of the Heroic Spirits and Ritsuka must be hidden.

This is not to say that someone wants to steal Ritsuka's credit, but those records are too unbelievable. Ritsuka, as a complete layman in magic, was able to create so many miracles and ultimately save the world... With such an exaggerated record, let alone whether it will be questioned, Ritsuka will be the first target of the Clock Tower.

It's not clear what exactly will be done to him, but considering the usual style of magicians... I'm afraid it will be very unpleasant.

Considering that Ritsuka has a brother who doesn't look easy to mess with...

For the safety of the lives of the bigwigs and for world peace, Leonardo da Vinci decided to make some "literary processing" on the submitted report.

The people of Chaldea had been sharing life and death for more than a year, so naturally they would not leak Ritsuka's information. Leonardo da Vinci also cleverly put most of the credit on the Heroic Spirits, and shared the rest among all the employees, Ritsuka being just one of them.

In this way, the female Master who saved the world became insignificant.

While writing a report to fool the League of Nations and rectifying the internal situation of Chaldea, he accidentally discovered a new subspecies singularity during routine testing...

In short, although human order has been restored, Chaldea is still as busy as ever, but without the urgency of constantly struggling on the line between life and death.

Overall, the atmosphere in Chaldea has become much more relaxed.

On this day, February 2017, 2, more than two months had passed since the last battle, and Chaldea had re-established contact with the outside world. While waiting for instructions from their superiors, they began to lock on to the location of the subspecies singularity.

Those were new singularities created after the restoration of humanity, but unlike the seven singularities that shook the foundations of humanity, these singularities were smaller in scale and did not appear to be very dangerous, so the employees of Chaldea were not too nervous and just treated them as dessert after a meal.

Today is a special day. The Sub-Servant Mash Kirielight started preparing a week ago and completed all the work yesterday.

Today, she made up her mind and, with the encouragement of the red archer, she went to someone's room and knocked on the door.

"Senior...senior?"

"Matthew?"

Ritsuka took the exquisite heart-shaped gift box from the girl. After opening it, he found that it was a chocolate cake with a simple style but full of details. It was obviously made with great care. On the top was Mashu's shield and Ritsuka's Command Spell pattern as decoration.

"Is this... for me? Thank you, Mash!"

The black-haired girl smiled for the first time in a long time. Mashu felt shy and happy when she saw the smiling face.

Since parting with Mr. Jiang Liu in the Temple of Time, Senior has been in a bad mood...

Mashu believed that Mr. Jiang Liu would not encounter any accidents. After all, he was so powerful and the enemy had been defeated.

But Lixiang always couldn't help but think of the smile he showed that day... It was a bit lonely and a bit comforting, which made people feel tight in their hearts.

She always felt that Jiang Liu seemed to have something unsaid, and the more she thought about it, the more uneasy she felt.

Today, Mashu specially gave her some chocolates as a symbol of "friendship", so she was very happy, and the gloom about Jiang Liu also dissipated a little.

"Oh, by the way, Senior. Da Vinci-chan said that Chaldea's communication with the outside world has been restored, and now all employees can contact their families."

"Oh, is that so?!" Ritsuka was immediately surprised.

"Well, although there are many restrictions, we cannot involve the internal situation of Chaldea, and we also need to queue up...but Senior has done so much for everyone, no one will object even if there is a slight discount."

Seeing Ritsuka's better mood, Mashu also became happy.

"In that case, let's do it without further delay..."

Taking a deep breath, Ritsuka turned on the personal terminal in the room and connected to the satellite communication channel.

drop--

“It really works!”

Li Xiang couldn't help but jump for joy and entered the number he hadn't used for a long time.

Beep, beep, beep...

As time passed, Ritsuka became more and more nervous, and even his palms began to sweat.

--drop!

"This is Yuanshan's family. May I ask who you are?"

"Well!"

A familiar yet unfamiliar voice came from his ears. Ritsuka held his breath for three seconds, then tried his best to suppress his trembling voice.

"Hello, Mom...it's me..."

"Ritsuka? Is that Ritsuka? That's great!"

The gentle female voice was a little out of control: "Ever since you joined the scientific expedition team to Antarctica, we have been unable to contact you. What the hell are you... No, Mom shouldn't be angry with you.

Li Xiang, are you okay? Recently, society has been very unstable, with rumors everywhere, such as the end of the world and time travel... Some people even said that aliens were caught in the United States, and that all this is a conspiracy of aliens.

Really... you are in Antarctica, it shouldn't be affected there, right?"

"Ok!"

Lixiang felt a little sad and responded reluctantly.

"Mom is very worried about you, and so is Dad, and your brother Jiang Liu. Everyone is trying to contact you every day, but you didn't even tell me which team you joined—"

"Wait a minute mom!"

Li Xiang's voice suddenly calmed down: "Brother...is he home?"