Chapter 1717 - 1017: The Post-Apocalyptic World After the Flame’s Demise (Part 2)

"This is where everything will converge at the end of the Age of Fire, whether it’s the kingdom or the land of poverty, nothing is spared. But speaking of which, this is just how the world is, which is why I like these scenes."

The pilgrim’s tone carried a hint of the liberating meaning characteristic of an enlightened person.

Leon’s head was even more muddled after listening.

"The end of the Age of Fire, what does that mean, isn’t the flame still burning well?"

"Ah, so that’s how it is."

The pilgrim showed an expression of having understood everything and said, "It’s the apocalypse, all time and space are merging and converging, it seems you’ve been pulled in as someone who doesn’t belong to this moment."

"Ah..."

The question mark above Leon’s head persisted for a few seconds and then disappeared without a trace.

Because within those few seconds, he had already figured it out.

Since Lordran itself is a place quite chaotic in time and space, the gathering place he’s currently at must be the endpoint of the world after the end of the Age of Fire in the pilgrim’s words.

Having spent a long time adventuring in the Sain Dungeon, he’s become more accepting of everything that seems rather absurd.

But, being more accepting doesn’t mean he’s going to just accept it honestly!

Because if what the pilgrim said is true, it signifies a definite thing—the Initial Fire eventually extinguished.

Which leads to a more puzzling issue.

"Then how are we still alive?"

He originally thought that even at his second Fire Transmission time, the Sain Dungeon wouldn’t reveal the true state of the Initial Fire, but rather create an open ending to let people imagine.

Yet now, why was the apocalypse after the extinguishing of the Initial Fire suddenly shown to him?

This doesn’t align with the worldview of the Sain Dungeon!

"In your era, surely the flame hasn’t extinguished yet, naturally it’s different from the gathering place," the pilgrim shook his head slowly "Such a poor little brat, got pulled into such a hopeless world, you better survive well."

"Eh, no, I..."

Leon rubbed his brow, feeling as if today’s happenings were "wildly shocking the Sain", things like the explosive battles not long ago with Giant Dragon-Human’s Pus Dragon Hunter Armor had turned into trivial matters now.

He’s completely not on the same dialogue channel as the pilgrim, but he has no way to explain his questions to the pilgrim, especially when talking about external matters, the residual shadow characters of the Sain Dungeon would play dead.

The pilgrim observed him for a while, suddenly spoke:

"By the way, if your curiosity is overflowing, you better be careful."

"Hmm?"

"From here, if you go further down, you will see a large, dark tree hole. Sometimes you can still hear sounds coming from it, don’t go near it."

"Why?"

"That is the sound of demons that have already perished, mentioned by Lord Lorian, infested by disease yet continually cursing humans... the sound of monsters."

Ah, well, such matters don’t matter, isn’t it the Chaos Demon exterminated by Prince Losric’s brother.

Leon showed a disinterested expression, rather than the fact there are survivors among the Chaos Demons, he’s more concerned about the state of his own world. The appearance of the gathering place completely shattered the existing Sain scholars’ guesses about the current state of the Initial Fire.

The current mainstream viewpoint is that the Initial Fire refuses to die, and seemingly there’s no longer the trouble of Fire Transmission, otherwise how could their world continue to have light?

But the appearance of the gathering place might lead to changes in this viewpoint.

Leon calmed himself down and thought carefully, eventually he thought of two potential changes in mainstream viewpoints.

One might say the gathering place is the future of our world, one day the entire continent will become like the gathering place.

Or it might be said... our world has already gone through the Deep Sea Era post the extinguishing of the Initial Fire, and a brand new era has once again been born.

No matter which viewpoint, they could also see debates on the newspapers to enjoy in the future.

Leon took a deep breath to calm himself down, he tried to keep talking with the pilgrim, but the other was no longer responding to him, just kept gazing at the scenery of the gathering place, to him the place didn’t have much scenery to see, all he could see was a vast dead silence.

Of course, if they encountered wet humanoids, then the place would become very lively.

Since there’s nothing left to say, they could only part ways, he turned around and left, intending to go down the steep path toward the lower "mountains", during the previous gazing he had already seen the area he’d previously adventured in, but the current point was still too far, afraid it would take two or three hours to walk there.

Thankfully, adventurers don’t have the trouble of picking up souls again, this wave showed the Sain Dungeon is too merciful.

"I’m sure there will be a group of monsters along the way, really want to change weapons."

He felt the Bordeaux Hammer was already hard to use in the gathering place, and through the recent battles, he found the wet humanoids seemed to have extraordinary resistance to cold, plus their frames were quite resistant to blunt attacks.

Had he a sharp weapon, that would be great.

He took the first step toward the rural road, but just then, the previously silent pilgrim suddenly spoke.

"I don’t want to see you lose your mind so soon, come over, I have some things to give you, but mind you, this isn’t help, so you little brat have to pay."

"Alright."

As soon as Leon said this agreeing word, he saw the pilgrim’s large shell start expelling things, those items didn’t manifest as light points, they revealed themselves directly in their original forms.

Large Green Grass, Anti-dark Medicine, Goddess’ Blessing... seeing the Goddess’ Blessing made Leon’s heart skip for a moment, and then.

He saw a long-handled greatsword as long as the Black Knight Spear emerge from underneath the large cover, "bang" hit the ground.

"How did you fit such a big thing in there!"

Leon was shocked.

He directly skipped over the Goddess’ Blessing he’d been eyeing earlier, stared intently at the long-handled greatsword, picking it up to weigh in his hand, it felt very heavy, but it was just right for him.

The blade is sharp enough, the handle is long enough, more crucially, once he raised it, it felt extremely comfortable, like this weapon was tailor-made for him.

[Half-leaf Greatsword]

[Long-handled greatsword from a foreign land, made entirely of copper, very heavy]

[The so-called half-leaf refers to the shape of the large blade, supposedly designed in the pattern of leaf veins]

[Combat Skill: Swirling Slash, hold the weapon high above the head, spin quickly to sweep enemies, if the weapon continues rotating, it can summon wind]

The combat skill looks like a mixture of swirling slash or the signature skill summon storm of the Lost Land Knight style, but Leon feels it’s not that simple.

He glanced back at the pilgrim, seeing no disagreement on his part, went a bit further to start trying to use the combat skill, the combat skill on the first strike was indeed lifting the greatsword high to spin attack.

However, while swinging the weapon, he had different emotions.

One, two, Leon thoughtfully scratched his head.

Three, four, Leon nodded as if he understood.

Five, six, seven...

By the eighth strike, the Half-leaf Greatsword he’d just swung suddenly recalled with an absurd motion, immediately repeated the eighth move in a flash, only then did Leon show a sudden realization, his face instantly lit up with the craze of a Soul-sucking Ghost.

"It can cancel!"

"I’m buying it!!!"