A Mistaken Encounter: The Hero of the World

The Yan people all smiled with relief and ease.

The scattered light is like a large group of fireflies startled in the summer night, or like countless free dandelions blown by the strong wind.

Gorgeous.

A lot of painful memories and negative emotions flooded into Serven's mind——

A splitting headache.

Serven fell to his knees on the ground and squeezed his head hard, in so much pain that he banged his head against the ground and let out a suppressed wail.

Liu suddenly calmed down, and it was as if a huge rock was suddenly thrown into his heart, and tears were already sliding down uncontrollably.

She vaguely realized what Serven was doing - if what Serven said was true, these people of fire were residents of Olympia, then they must have felt relieved to see their smiles -

The head priestess Leia also covered her face with her hands in excitement, with big hot tears streaming down her face.

All along, probably hundreds of years ago, they and the soldiers survived the catastrophe because they were hosting fragments of the [Heavenly Fire] and have been fighting against the Flame People.

The Flame People were killed and resurrected with the help of flames.

Endless, endless--

I finally saw hope today.

The man who knelt in the light, the man in agony—

no doubt--

It is the Savior of Olympia!!!

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At the same time, some priestesses and warriors also noticed the situation here.

They all became extremely excited, looking at the figure not far away with respect.

"The soul trapped in the flames was successfully "purified"... and was liberated..."

"Olympia is saved!"

"Yes, Olympia is saved!"

They cheered and jumped for joy——

However, the person involved, Serven, is enduring an unimaginable amount of negative emotions and has to continue experiencing the pain of death over and over again.

His back was soaked with sweat and he collapsed to the ground powerlessly. Seeing Liu's concerned look, he couldn't help but smile bitterly.

The backlash from the previous wave was too fierce, and now he doesn't even have the strength to get up from the ground.

Liu looked at the head priestess Leia seriously, "Ms. Leia, I think you need to give us an explanation."

Leia nodded silently, and she noticed that Serven stood up again not far away.

"【Focus on your inner self】." Serven recited and sat down cross-legged on the spot.

The effervescent green light enveloped him and Liu, and some injured soldiers were also enveloped in the effervescent green light.

"The wound...has healed!" the soldiers said in amazement.

Serven's heart calmed down a lot. He looked at the number of fire people whose numbers had been greatly reduced under the protection of warriors and priestesses, and stood up again, gripping the long sword tightly.

"Mr. Adonis!" Liu ran forward and grabbed Serven's wrist with one hand to stop him. "No need to continue."

"I've just rested and I'm recovered now." Serven gave Liu a big, relaxed smile.

As Liu watched, he once again used the weapon in his hand to purify the flame man -

This time, everyone present saw it—

It was a normal fight, a normal kill, but after Serven's fight was over, the Flame Man would regain consciousness, smile, and then turn into a glowing light and scatter. However, his own fight could only break up the Flame Man into a ball of flame, and could not free them from the control of the flame.

Liu bit his lip, holding the wooden 870-caliber sword and followed.

This time, Serven's will was even stronger. After killing the Flame Man, he paused for a moment, then opened his eyes and continued to move forward. He collided with the Flame Man again and killed the monster again. His eyes turned bright red and his steps became faster and faster.

He rushed directly into a group of Yan people, swinging his sword without stopping to cut a gap. Facing the siege of Yan people, he did not dodge or evade, and a tyrannical smile appeared on his face. He no longer pursued a one-shot kill, but used his long sword to tear apart the arms that attacked him, slashed the Yan people's bodies, and finally killed them -

“Mr. Adonis——!” Liu rushed forward and suddenly pulled Serven down. She then realized that Serven’s eyes had turned bright red, like the monsters in the dungeon, and were full of murderous light——

Serven launched an attack towards Liu reflexively, and Liu was surprised and raised his sword to defend himself.

At this time, Serven suddenly regained his sanity.

He suddenly sheathed his sword, twisted his waist to relieve the force, put the sword back into the scabbard, and looked at the elf lady with an apologetic look.

"I'm sorry, Ms. Liu, I just lost my mind a little."

"Mr. Adonis, may I ask why... every time you purify a Flame Man, it is so painful?"

Serven smiled bitterly, his eyes fell on the witches and warriors fighting with the Flame People in the distance, "These Flame People are not monsters. They are living residents of this Olympia!"

"?!" Although he had a vague guess in his heart, after hearing it confirmed by Serven, Liu still felt it was a bit absurd.

"What we see during the day is the content of the last day in their memory. When I kill them, their memories of that day before they died will appear in my mind..."

Liu was silent for a while, and suddenly asked in surprise, "Isn't that until the last moment of death...?!"

"Yeah." Serven obviously didn't want to dwell on this topic and responded very calmly.

Leia, who was standing by, couldn't help but burst into tears. If it weren't for Liu's question, she could still pretend to ignore Serven's discomfort.

But now that she knew Serven's pain and the memory of his death again and again, as a mother she simply could not deceive her conscience.

She wanted to persuade Serven not to go on, but her mind told her that the residents of Olympia whose souls were imprisoned by flames needed to be saved. She could persuade Serven to go on, but her inner sentiment made her sympathize with Serven's pain and unable to urge others to suffer.

Serven slowed down the pace of the battle, but a large number of fire people were still suppressed by the resistance of many warriors and priestesses.

"Lord Reya, we have successfully suppressed all the Flame People. This is probably the last batch tonight..." A soldier came to report.

"...I understand. Just carry out the ritual as usual. I will go with the other priestesses."

Leia looked at Serven with a complicated expression, "Mr. Adonis, please go back and rest first. Ms. Liang, please also return to the hotel first. I won't force you to forget everything. Please come to this place again tomorrow, and I will tell you everything then."

Liu nodded seriously.

"...Didn't you meet that child today?"

"Xian?"

"Yes. When dawn breaks and the sun rises, please go to that place again at the 'same time' as when you met that child." After saying that, Leia left here and went to participate in the soul-calming ceremony with the priestesses.

Serven and Liu returned the same way and came back to the peaceful and quiet streets again.

Liu looked around. The houses were all lit with warm lights, retaining the breath of life. He couldn't help but smile bitterly, "... No wonder it's so quiet..."

"Yeah...it's simply a ghost town." Serven couldn't help but sigh. He lowered his eyes and recalled that he had only purified about twenty fire people in the barrier just now.

Compared to this huge ghost town, it may not even be a splash.

However, if he didn't do this job, it would definitely fall on Hestia's head in the end. With his current mental state, it was obviously impossible to purify a large number of these flame people and digest a large number of negative emotions without being affected.

"Alas." Serven couldn't help but sigh. When Liu looked over, he heard Serven sigh, "The road ahead is long and arduous..."

Liu roughly understood what Serven meant. Looking at Serven's exhausted expression, he couldn't help but recall the scene of Serven kneeling in the countless lights again, "——Yes."

The two returned to the hotel together.

Serven found that Hephaestus was waiting at his door. Liu nodded to the goddess of forging in surprise and went back to his room.

Hephaestus looked at Serven, her expression suddenly changed, "You have the breath of fire."

Serven's face was full of fatigue, but he smiled happily at this moment, "I can purify this place! Hestia doesn't need to do anything, I can do it, although it will be slow..."

Hephaestus pulled Serven over by his clothes, then hugged him, "...Thank you."

(ceda) “…and thank you for your hard work.”

"It's okay. I'm a man after all."

Hephaestus hugged Serven tighter and smiled wickedly after a while, "It's obviously a boy?"

"Huh?! Why don't you stay and try it tonight?"

Hephaestus spat with a red face, quickly broke away from Serven's arms and fled.

Serven shook his head, and suddenly a lingering and charming thought appeared in his mind. He spent the whole night like this.

The next day, everyone's itineraries dispersed.

Bell took Welf, Lily, Cassandra and Daphne to experience the original Hero City. Hermes took Asphie to the outside of the city to investigate with Aphrodite.

Serven waited patiently, and at the same time as Aphrodite attacked the city yesterday, he, Liu, Ming, Hestia, Hephaestus and Artemis came to the street yesterday.

"Master Serven, what are we doing here?" Ming asked in confusion, "Hey, is Master Leia here too?"

Vendors selling cloth and fruits are working hard in the simple sheds on both sides of the street.

Liu looked at the bustling scene in surprise, "The beautiful scene has returned..."

A little girl with a blue bob ran over. Serven had the foresight to move out of the way, but the little girl still fell to the ground.

"My name is Xi'an. These are my sister Xia Ti's favorite flowers."

"Well, Lord Xian, good morning." Ming Yiran greeted the little girl.

"For Xia Ti, I'm going to take flowers to her! Because she's sick and can't get out of bed." Xian continued.

The head priestess Leia looked at the little girl with sadness.

"Lord Xian?" Ming's tone was filled with some doubt.

"Because I'm your elder sister. I'm willing to do anything for Xia Ti!"

Now everyone has come back to their senses -

Even when Xi'an was about to leave, Serven pulled her back again, and Xi'an began to repeat, "For Xia Ti, I will bring flowers to her!"

Serven let go of his hand, and Xi'an repeated the process, running into the alley and disappearing.

"Ms. Leia, what's going on?" Yamato Ming asked excitedly.

Leia lowered her head and watched Xi'an become more and more sad. "I met Mr. Adonis and Miss Liang last night. The flame people who were wreaking havoc at night were actually residents of Olympia."

"...Monsters are residents?!"

Everyone looked towards the busy street, and realized that not only Xi An, but all the residents were doing the same thing.

"Olympia was destroyed a long time ago." Leia looked around with infinite sadness, "What you see now are the memories of the souls devoured by the [Heavenly Fire] before they died."

"After the [Heavenly Fire] came from the heavens to the underworld, it gradually became turbid and more and more filthy. One day, it finally exceeded the critical point and destroyed the entire Olympia."

At the same time, Hermes and Asphie, who found Aphrodite, also learned the inside story.

“About when did it start?” Yasfi asked in shock.

"Who knows? Prometheus has been trying to control the flames to prevent them from leaking out for about three hundred years." Aphrodite said.

"That disaster happened on an ordinary day... At the end of that day, the [Fire of Heaven] burned 50,000 people in Olympia. Only a few people who managed to escape to the Great Temple survived, and the ominous fire also devoured my daughters..." Leia was also telling the story.

Ming opened his eyes wide, "Master Xi'an just now... and Master Xiati?!"

Rhea nodded in silence, and the three goddesses sighed in unison.

"After that terrible fire, we, the less than 200 priestesses and warriors, managed the [Heavenly Fire] even more strictly. Following the instructions of Lord Prometheus, we contained the Flame Man like we did last night, just to prevent the disaster of Olympia from spreading outside..."

"…Is Yanren a living dead person?" Liu asked.

"Very close. But there is a decisive difference between the Flame Man and the dead. The Flame Man is a soul that is still burning."

"A soul that's still burning?"

"The body has been burned, and only the soul is imprisoned by the [Filthy Flame]. According to the [Oracle] of Lord Prometheus, it is an "existence of repeated life and death."

"During the day, by using the few "clear" parts of the [Sky Fire] that have not been tainted, the Flame People can still maintain their human appearance and repeat the same time in this city according to the memories in their souls... At night, when the filth increases, they are controlled by the flames and turned into Flame People..."

"No matter how many Flame People are defeated, as long as the [Filthy Flame] still exists, the Flame People can be resurrected..." Leia looked at Serven, "Mr. Adonis successfully purified it yesterday, which was the first time in hundreds of years."

Aphrodite on the other side also said, "Those flame people are puppets of the flames. The dirty flames want to expand the scope of the burning, and they don't hesitate to use the souls of children as fuel. The flame people attack people to collect souls and expand the scope of the burning-"

"So, the residents of Olympia have died, but they cannot return to the cycle of reincarnation. They are now just a burning wailing - the so-called residents are actually just ashes."

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