On this day, all the wizards in the world noticed a strange thing.
The color of the sky was changing strangely.
Brown, black, purple, yellow…
Although most people couldn't feel anything odd, in the eyes of wizards with strong senses, the sky was undergoing strange changes, changing into colors of the sky that they wouldn't normally see.
Roxy, who was in the Kingdom of Shirone, noticed this change, and for some reason felt like she had seen these colors somewhere before.
"What's going on…"
Roxy had a strong memory of these colors, but she had never seen the sky change like this before.
Everyone could tell that it wasn't just a natural event.
It was probably a magic power control issue based on some reason, right?
That size… even from far away, it seemed like the magic power had formed a whirlpool.
After observing this, Roxy finally remembered.
She had always felt like she had seen that kind of glow somewhere, and it turned out to be at the magic university back then.
The color of the sky was very similar to the light released by the summoning magic that the summoning subject teacher taught her in the first class.
But the summoning magic demonstrated in class obviously didn't have such a huge range, and it wouldn't even cause the color of the entire sky to become abnormal.
"That direction is east… is it the Asura Kingdom?"
Roxy looked at the direction where the sky was changing abnormally, and her brows furrowed even more.
A strong sense of unease made her have a huge urge, and she even quickly chose to leave the Kingdom of Shiron, where she had been for a long time, and start on the road back to the Asura Kingdom.
Because of this, the seventh prince Pax Shirone, who was taught by Roxy, was very unhappy, and even wanted to force Roxy to stay using his power.
But he not only didn't succeed, but was also scolded hard by the king.
Although there was such an interlude, Roxy still embarked on the road back to the Asura Kingdom.
…
At the same time, on the sky fortress.
One of the three heroes who defeated the demon race, the [Dragon King] Perugius, looked down at the northern sky, and his brows became even more furrowed.
"What is that? It looks a lot like the light when the Demon Emperor was resurrected."
Next to Perugius, a heavenly tribe woman wearing a white crow mask and with black wings spoke in a low voice.
"No, the nature of the magic power is different."
The Dragon King replied in a calm voice, "If you want to classify it, it's actually more similar to the light of summoning."
"Summoning? I remember, such a large-scale summoning light… I have a memory of it."
"That's right, it's very similar to the scene when I created the Sky Fortress back then."
Perugius nodded and stood up from his seat.
As the owner of the Sky Fortress, he usually sits on the throne of the Sky Fortress almost every day, leading twelve servants. He monitors the earth day and night.
His only purpose is to defeat his hated enemy, the Demon God Laplace, immediately after he is resurrected, so he waits in the sky for the seal of the Demon God Laplace to be lifted.
He has been waiting for five hundred years.
During the long years, almost any disturbance on the ground will attract Perugius's attention, but only a very small number of events will attract Perugius's attention.
In recent years, the only time this Dragon King paid attention to the ground was at the weapon auction of the legendary blacksmith Muramasa.
Although the Dragon King thought very highly of himself and had no interest in ordinary weapons, Muramasa's weapons were completely different, giving him an unprecedented sense of novelty.
Even as one of the three heroes, Perugius was full of interest in the mysterious blacksmith Muramasa.
Therefore, at Muramasa's first few auctions, Perugius even hid his identity and ran to participate in the auction, and also bought one of the weapons.
The weapon that can attract Perugius's attention, and even take the initiative to buy, is naturally not an ordinary item.
It was a weapon called [Jewel Sword Zelretch].
The weapon itself is just a narrow short sword, but it contains almost incomprehensible terrifying magic power, and it nurtures some kind of magic that cannot be understood with common sense at all.
However, Muramasa himself specifically stated when providing this product that the [Jewel Sword Zelretch] he forged was just an unfinished product.
Due to the limitations of materials and skills, he was unable to create the real [Jewel Sword Zelretch], but only forged a degraded version.
Because it is a degraded version, this weapon not only has extremely high usage requirements, requiring the user to be at least an Emperor-level magician, but even if it is an Emperor-level magician, the effect it can play is quite limited, and it can only turn magic power into slashes and spread it out.
It was because of these restrictions that Shirou himself did not keep the [Jewel Sword Zelretch] for his own use, but took it out for auction.
And he originally didn't even consider that anyone would buy this useless weapon, so he set a very cheap price.
However, when the auction started, the terrifying enthusiasm was still beyond imagination.
Almost all the Emperor-level or above magicians in the world went crazy and snapped up this weapon, but the person who finally got it was the Dragon King.
After all, when the Dragon King Perugius revealed his true face, it was almost impossible for the human race to find a magician who could match him.
After Perugius got the Jewel Sword, he went directly back to the Sky Fortress.
For a long time after that, he studied this weapon and was shocked by the blacksmith's unimaginable forging skills and wild imagination.
Perugius even had the idea of wanting to meet and talk with the blacksmith Muramasa himself.
But because Muramasa's identity was too mysterious and almost no one knew, he had to give up.
In short, the Dragon King Perugius's position can be reflected from this.
Due to his high status, he himself rarely leaves the Sky Fortress on weekdays, and only when something that attracts his attention enough happens will he pay attention to it.
And now, facing such a strange phenomenon, Perugius undoubtedly finally had emotional fluctuations.
He looked at the northern sky, frowned, and muttered: "Could it be that the Demon Emperor is trying to lift the seal of Laplace?"
"This… it's very possible, the Demon Emperor has been acting suspiciously calm for three hundred years since his resurrection."
Hearing his subordinate's statement, Perugius nodded silently, and suddenly opened his mouth:
"Almanfi!"
"Yes."
A man in white wearing a yellow mask knelt silently in front of Perugius.
"You set off immediately to investigate… no, anyway, he's definitely not doing anything proper, as long as you find suspicious guys, kill them."
"Understood."
After receiving the order from the [Dragon King] Perugius, the white-clothed man named Armanfi suddenly took action, left the Sky Fortress, and went to the place where the magic power was most concentrated to investigate.
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Holy Land of Swords.
[Sword God] Gal Farion looked up at the southern sky.
"What's wrong with that sky… hey!"
The moment the Sword God's attention was slightly distracted, his two Sword Emperor disciples almost simultaneously swung their swords at him, without any respect for the old.
The Sword God calmly blocked the attacks of the two people, and said with dissatisfaction: "You two disobedient little ones, how can you sneak attack when I'm distracted."
"…"
Regarding the Sword God's words, the two Sword Emperors showed bitter smiles and panted heavily.
They practice with the Sword God every day, but the huge gap in strength makes this practice no different from a one-sided beating, so naturally they use all means, but still can't break through.
The Sword God looked at these two kids, shook his head, and was extremely disappointed.
Although they are carried away after being called Sword Emperors, they are only at this level at best.
Boring, so boring! Swordsmanship doesn't need fame!
It's enough as long as you can become stronger.
The things that can be obtained with fame are at most power and money.
Those things have no value at all.
That kind of thing that anyone has the opportunity to obtain can be split in half with a sword in the face of absolute strength.
You can do whatever you want as long as you become stronger.
But conversely, if you want to become stronger, you need to want to do whatever you want.
Doing whatever you want is what it means to be alive.
Only by having an obsession with being alive, having a desire for it, and having an indelible desire, is it possible to keep moving forward on the path of swordsmanship, and even become as strong as him.
Among the Sword God's disciples, only Ghislaine can best understand this.
In the past, she could generate desire just by breathing every day, and she would instinctively generate the power to swing her sword the moment she held it.
But now she has lost this purity.
That's why she only reached Sword King and encountered a bottleneck.
The Sword God knows better than anyone that those who desire strength will become strong.
But once people really become strong, they will lose their greed for becoming stronger.
Whether it's Ghislaine or the two Sword Emperor disciples, they were able to get to this point because of their shallow and dirty desires.
But that's all.
After they reached their respective field limits, they lost the motivation and greed to go further.
This way, it is impossible to become stronger, let alone surpass oneself.
"Okay, okay! Come at me quickly! If you can beat me, you can kill each other to see who can call themselves Sword God! There will be money rolling in to let you play happily for a hundred lifetimes, and there will be women from ordinary slaves to princesses all lined up and sticking their butts out waiting for you to go in and out, as long as you report your name, everyone will be so scared that their legs will go soft, and every time you take a step, the crowd will automatically split into two sides to let you pass!"
"I'm not learning swordsmanship for that kind of thing!"
"Master! Please don't look down on us!"
The Sword God was very disappointed with the responses of the two Sword Emperors.
Why can't these two guys be more honest with themselves?
With just this level of desire, how can they kill someone like me and get the title of Sword God?
When will someone with a strong desire, even a desire large enough to devour everything and drag down the gods above the sky, appear?
The Sword God's gaze moved away from the strange sky in the distance and looked at the Phantasmal Greatsword - Felling of the Sky Demon stuck at the top of the Holy Land of Swords behind him.
Even he himself did not immediately have the courage to kill that Dragon God when he obtained this dragon-slaying sword.
This shows that the desire of him, the Sword God, is only this much.
Perhaps the limit of human beings is ultimately an insurmountable, cruel reality.
The Sword God continued to practice with his two disciples, holding regret in his heart, but also a vague feeling of expectation.
He is both spending his daily life and waiting for the appearance of a successor who can surpass him and even achieve things he cannot imagine.
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