The beginning of civilization is the fire burning in the wild bonfire.

In the first millennium after the initial fire ignited chaos and allowed order and the world to appear, ancient humans were born on the plains without forests. This new race walked between the newborn world, staring at everything curiously.

At that time, everything had no name.

Because of the disgust of darkness, people imitate thunder and lightning, ignite the fire of the wilderness with solid stones and dry wood, and use it to illuminate the dark night without light. In the process of holding torches and exploring and identifying this unknown world, they named everything without names, described it with original symbols, and recorded strange things.

Gradually, we accumulated and used simple language, and humans summarized laws and logic, and developed civilization in the Enlightenment era.

Then, the torch has been passed down from generation to generation.

Star fall, December 11, 831, night.

The Black Tide Siege is siege four days later.

The cold wind kept blowing the fortress standing among the white snow groups, and the gentle white snowflakes like goose feathers fell on the ground and condensed into a thin frost. The newly bright moon like a silver plate hangs high with the sky, and the bright moonlight is like running water spreading on the entire bluestone plank road.

The black-haired man led his war horse through the night street, and quietly followed a silver-haired maid.

Looking around the fortress, the young lord's eyes seemed to penetrate the boundless darkness and cold solid walls, and saw the flashing fire of life. His young maid looked up at the night sky decorated with stars and whispered to estimate their number.

The girl's elegant voice echoed in the quiet streets, while Joshua focused on the surroundings.

Now, they are at the back of the fortress, with rows of similar houses arranged neatly on both sides of the street. However, some of the houses are no longer inhabited, there is no firewood smoke floating out of the chimney, and there is no trace of owners' movement behind the window.

In recent days, the dark tide seems to have ended, without any movement. Even if the soldiers personally entered the Black Forest to explore, they could no longer see the group of crazy beasts rushing like a black tsunami. Under the sunlight, the purple mist gradually dissipated, and the black jungle returned to its former tranquility.

In this case, after confirming that this was not some conspiracy, the fortress resumed normal operation. A continuous convoy of dragon cars came from the main city to transport urgently shortage of food and equipment. In order to hold a requiem ceremony for the fallen soldiers, the Reverend Atanis of St. Lauren's Cathedral even brought his two apprentices to the Black Forest with the convoy.

The team led by the Archbishop and heading to the Holy Mountains of the Far Sea has not returned yet, so he is the only one who is capable and qualified to preside over the ceremony in the entire Moldavian leader. However, this morning, after burying the people who died in the dark tide in a solemn silence, the white-haired priest set out to leave and did not stay in the fortress for a long time.

But before that, he found Joshua and said something to him.

“It’s time now.”

The old butler's old friend said to Joshua, his eyes were extremely calm: "Go and see your father and Fan... Although I don't know why, before he left, he asked me to tell you this sentence after you became the lord for a while, and say you should understand what it means."

Of course, Joshua knew what it meant.

On December 11th, so long has passed. It has been almost two months since the death of this father. The old butler has left. Since he has arrived at the fortress, it is indeed time to meet them again.

So late this night, he put on a coat made of white wolf skin, simply walked out of the room, and wandered in this winter fortress with his maid and war horses.

This is a cold and regular city. Relying on the magician's spell, the roughly repaired gray-white city wall once again cuts the mountains and plains, with strong and tall towers standing behind it, while the gray-green needles of pine wood on the roadside rustling in the cold wind.

The wide avenue, the winding streets, and the stone cottages arranged on both sides of them, as well as the fortress and barns placed therein. A few patrol soldiers walked back and forth on the stone path, and the eternal light made of pyroxene in their hands exuded a faint white cold light.

And Joshua's destination is a quaint church on the edge of the fortress.

After passing through several streets, Joshua came to the door of this ancient building. He looked around but found nothing. This accident made the warrior show a rare expression of confusion.

"What's going on? Not here? It's impossible."

Shaking his head, he left Hei outside, then pushed open the unlocked door with Firefly and walked into the church.

"Huh."

As soon as she walked into the hall, the silver-haired girl exclaimed softly. She looked around with some confusion, then frowned and said, "Master, this place... feels a bit weird."

This church is not big. There are only less than forty seats in the prayer hall, with a layer of gray dust on it. It seems that no one has cleaned it for a long time. In front of the hall, behind the altar, the place where the statue of the god symbol was supposed to be placed was empty and nothing was available.

But Joshua knew very well that what Ying said was strange did not refer to this, because he also felt that since entering the door, there was a strange force surrounding his body, as if he was welcoming him, and as if he was guiding something.

Quietly, Joshua could even hear a voice echoing in his ears.

"Go forward."

There is no way to answer the question of his maid for the time being. The warrior who is also puzzled can only say this: "Although it is a memory of a very young age, I am very impressed. I can be sure that it is right here, but I just don't know where the problem is."

So the two walked slowly forward.

During the walk, Joshua could clearly feel that the church was filled with a strange energy, which rejected any power that did not meet the conditions, even the ubiquitous elements and magic were completely imprisoned and could not form spells.

Forbidden Demon Realm.

Even in his previous life, Joshua rarely encountered such a situation. Except for some natural dead magic zones, he had basically never seen magic that was suppressed to such an inertia.

But the forbidden demon realm in this church is different from the dead magic zones in extreme environments. The magic here is more sealed than suppressed. They are not incapable of forming spells, but incapable of forming spells freely.

As long as the conditions are met, it's fine.

As the distance approaches, it can be sensed that this suppressed force is gradually becoming stronger, and the source of the force is the square altar made of silver metal.

Before walking to the altar, Joshua subconsciously looked at its center. In the religious rules of the disputed continent, when believers pray, sacrifices for gods should be placed in the altar, and when there is no one, the holy emblem of gods should be placed. In short, no matter what, it should not be left empty.

But there was nothing in this altar, neither the sacrifice nor the holy emblem was seen, there was only a trace that was concave like a handprint.

“…Is it?”

After looking at his hands, Joshua didn't hesitate for long. He simply pressed his hand into the groove of the altar, and then wanted to see what would happen.

As if he sensed the arrival of his long-awaited target, a gray-blue light lit up from the bottom of the altar. It quickly passed like a ripples, sweeping across Joshua's whole body in an instant, and even the firefly behind him was scanned by the light.

"The bloodline is confirmed...the direct bloodline of the Radcliffe family has a divine opportunity contract and meets the conditions."

The sound that had been surrounding Joshua's ear finally became clear and audible. A thought was transmitted from the altar and brought a lot of information into Joshua's mind: "Grant permissions, the channel is opened."

"From fire, born from steel, wisdom is immortal and order lasts forever."

Accompanied by the trembling of time and space and ancient praises, the magic power that was originally sealed began to become active, and a faint blue door slowly emerged above the altar in silence. It can be seen that there was a black earth behind it, and countless stone tombstones stood up in it.

Around each tombstone, there is a weapon inserted on the ground, with knives and guns in them. Almost all weapons used by humans were found in them. They looked extremely broken, and each was greatly damaged.

"...So that's it. I said why didn't I see it outside? I remember that it was adjacent to this chapel, but there was nothing around it."

Staring at the slowly expanding space-time gate and understanding all the information through the thoughts in the altar, Joshua whispered: "It turns out that it is here, it is actually here... No wonder the secret guarded by the gods and seals have not been discovered for so many years..."

With this sigh, the Radcliffe family cemetery hidden between the narrow paths of time and space appeared completely before him.

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As the leader of the battle group, the protagonist does know a lot of news that others don’t know, but after all, the game lasts for more than 25 years, and what he remembers most is after the third version, and the most important thing in the game is the communication between people. He didn’t even remember so many player forces in his previous life, so he naturally paid a lower level of attention to NPC and background.
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