The world in the box

The battle was won, and the battle was won.

"We won!"

"We killed the demon king!"

In the Giant Wall Fortress, the guards threw the brave Ryan into the air to celebrate the hard-won victory.

Princess Lily stood in the crowd, looking at Ryan who was thrown into the air with deep affection, wondering what she was thinking.

Fireworks bloomed in the sky above the Giant Wall Fortress. This was the first time that fireworks were set off in the 57 years since the construction of the Giant Wall Fortress.

For a while, the entire Giant Wall Fortress was filled with a cheerful atmosphere.

Everyone was immersed in this joyful atmosphere, only the Saint Cocoon, who kept staring at the night sky dotted with fireworks.

Because she knew that the war between humans and monsters was not over.

Even though Jian saw the sword of destiny pierce the body of the demon king with her own eyes, and even though the monsters north of the giant wall were gradually dispersing.

She still believed that this war was far from over.

"The fate of the world is still disordered, and the ominous atmosphere still fills the upcoming future."

Jian stretched out her hand, trying to touch the silk threads representing the fate of the world in the night sky, but she grabbed nothing.

She can see fate, but she can't change it.

...

Jiang Wall Fortress, late at night.

The celebration has ended, and the entire Giant Wall Fortress has returned to its former tranquility.

Ryan opened the door and came to the city wall, looking worried.

"Why, why are you still so unhappy after killing the demon king?"

Jian's figure quietly appeared behind Ryan. In the dark night, she was obviously blind, but she was more comfortable than a normal person.

"Nothing, I just think it's going too smoothly."

"Isn't it good to be smooth? Isn't it the goal of a person to be happy and smooth in life?" Jian's tone was very calm.

"Don't you think that anyone can kill the Demon King? If so, why must that person be me?"

After listening to Ryan's words, Jian didn't say anything for a long time. She turned her head to Ryan's direction.

Although Jian's eyes were covered by a piece of cloth, Ryan felt that Jian had seen through his mind.

Jian "stared" at Ryan for a moment, then turned to the sky and chuckled:

"Because this is your destiny as a legendary hero."

"Destiny? What is the so-called destiny?" Ryan asked.

Jian was startled, and then smiled again: "Who knows?"

"Perhaps, only when you don't know what destiny is, you will know what destiny is. (Note 1)"

...

A month later, the triumphant warrior Ryan returned to the capital with the envoy from the capital and Princess Lily.

People lined the roads of the capital to welcome the hero's triumphant return. Flowers covered Ryan's way home, and music and ceremony welcomed him into the royal court.

Inside the royal court, Ade II had been waiting for a long time.

Ade II fulfilled his promise, married Princess Lily to Ryan, and made Ryan a prince.

In addition, Ade II ordered people to carve a statue of Ryan on the King's Avenue.

For a time, the reputation of the royal family reached its peak.

And the hero Ryan also reached the peak of his life.

However, Ryan, who had all this, always felt that his life was missing something.

...

Another half a month later, Saint Cocoon returned to the place where the gods descended.

She walked into the Temple of Light and came to the statue symbolizing the God of Light.

The first words Saint Cocoon said when she saw the statue were the same as the previous two generations of saints:

"This statue doesn't look like the you I see."

On both sides of the statue are statues of the first generation saint, Saint Bell of Wisdom, and Saint Freya of Dedication, the second generation saint.

"Will my statue be placed in the temple after I die? That would be nice too."

"It's just that I really don't want to die."

Thinking of this, Jian took out the black stone she had looted from the Demon King.

At the moment the black stone appeared, there was a moment of struggle on her face, but she soon recovered.

...

At the same time, north of the giant wall, in the Demon King's nest, something strange happened.

The purple crystals covering the entire Demon King's nest suddenly crawled on their own, and they ran towards the same destination - the depths of the nest.

They continued to gather and finally formed a larger black egg.

A new Demon King was born.

...

"Is that so?"

In the nameless land, Lin Ming saw the scene of the Demon King's revival.

Lin Ming finally figured out what the Monster World wanted to do.

"The dead Demon King will be reborn again and again, and each time it is reborn, it will become stronger, until...

Break through the limitations of the second-order world and become a third-order thing. "

"And the necessary condition for the Demon King to be reborn is to absorb the power of the sentient beings in the other world, that is, the power of destiny."

"It seems that the Sword of Destiny formed by accident is prepared for the upgrade of the monster world."

"This is too coincidental."

At first, Lin Ming was still puzzled as to why the monsters were so strong, but He in the monster world did not immediately invade the world in the box.

Now it seems that He is not unwilling to occupy the world in the box, but wants to use the power of destiny of the sentient beings in the world in the box to achieve the purpose of upgrading the world.

"Before, I was puzzled as to why the world in the box, which was only at the peak of the first order, faced the monster world at the peak of the second order in the first civilization war."

"Now it seems that this is not because I am unlucky, but that there is still a chessboard outside the chessboard. "

After Lin Ming figured this out, he was not too moved.

From the beginning, Lin Ming knew that there was always a hand pushing the so-called war of civilizations.

What Lin Ming had to do was to win all opponents within the established rules.

No, perhaps he had another choice.

That was to break the rules and escape from the rules.

...

At this moment on the Black Sand Continent, the brave Ryan also began his legendary life.

After Ryan was named a prince, he spent a short period of happy time with Princess Lily.

However, the good times did not last long. Ryan gradually discovered that Yade II had always used him as a pawn to fight against the divine power headed by the Temple of Light.

Ryan was forced to stand on the opposite side of his former friend, Saint Cocoon.

Ryan once thought that after destroying the Demon King, he would be loved by everyone and would be the entire Xia Empire The role model of all the divine veins in the country.

However, he was wrong.

The monsters had never reached the north of the giant wall, and the world did not understand the horror of monsters.

For Ryan, the so-called brave man who killed the demon king, the world did not have much respect.

On the contrary, many people thought that Ryan was just a pawn used by the Yade royal family to manipulate public opinion.

In the next fifty years, Yade II has indeed been making good use of Ryan as a pawn.

Ryan's rest of his life was trapped in the quagmire of power struggle.

155 years after the God's descent, Ryan, who had already been old, met the Saint Cocoon again.

The Saint Cocoon was still the same as before, wearing a white dress that was extraordinary and otherworldly, and her closed eyes made her look like she was stained with a hint of divinity.

"It's so sad that a horse that longs to gallop is put on a saddle made of gold, silver and jewels and is trapped in a dark stable forever. ”

Saint Maiden Jian’s tone was still calm:

“I said, you will kill the devil, but live in regret all your life, this is your fate.”

Ryan was moved: “You have been talking about fate, what is fate?”

After 50 years, Ryan, the owner of the Sword of Destiny, once again asked the question that puzzled him for 50 years.

This time, Saint Maiden Jian gave a completely different answer. She pointed to the sky and said:

“Destiny is the sea.”

-----

Note 1: From “Work Notes”