Chapter 313
Chapter 313. A Strange Invitation
Outside the Trial of the Sun, there was still the vast territory of the Sun Domain.
Although Spirit Realm trials occupied parts of a Domain each time, they would always leave at least half of the area outside the trial.
Otherwise, as a Spirit Realm lord, if every Spirit Realm trial occupied the Domain for a period of time, how could one still develop the Domain?
At this moment, Zari, the lord of the Sun Domain, was looking through a transparent light screen to observe the situation of this trial.
While watching with full concentration, he sensed that his Domain was being invaded by some kind of power.
He remained completely unmoved. His eyes stayed fixed on the light screen showing the trial, and he paid no attention to the movements inside his Domain.
At this moment, the Sun Domain could no longer be seen in its original form. On the originally reddish-brown earth, giant plants now grew everywhere.
The red earth was no longer a smooth expanse. It had been broken apart.
On the red earth, there were not only weeds nearly as tall as people and so dense that they blocked all sight, but also colossal trees hundreds of meters tall. Vines grew wildly across the red earth.
The current Sun Domain was not merely covered in plants.
The place where Zari stood was already overgrown with weeds and plants. If not for the Sunflame constantly burning these plants around him, he would likely have been wrapped up long ago.
Merely looking at these plants, Zari could imagine that in other parts of the current Sun Domain, land being crushed into fragments or covered in frost would already count as relatively good outcomes.
Those gods might even be scattering things that polluted the Domain across this land, corroding the matter inside the current Domain.
Regarding this, Zari had no way to respond, nor any motivation to deal with the gods’ retaliation.
Because he knew very well that he was powerless against these gods’ all-pervasive attacks. If it had been a god who had only just gained a foothold in the Spirit Realm, perhaps he could still have fought the other party.
But there was a reason the Domain Zari protected had not produced a new Sunflame Knight for hundreds of years.
He simply could not deal with those gods. His power was far too small.
Otherwise, back when the Gods incorporated the Trial of the Sun into the Spirit Realm trials, he would have long since gone out and fought those gods to the death.
How could there be the current situation, where he had guarded this place for hundreds of years without a single Sunflame Knight being born?
But none of that mattered anymore. Zari watched as Fulan, inside the trial, used Sunflame to easily deal with the powerful monsters in the second trial.
When he saw Fulan’s exquisite Sunflame techniques easily melt through the steel skin of the Iron-Hide Horned Bull and drive the bat into its body, he felt joy.
“Her Sunflame techniques are truly strong. They may be around the level I reached ten years after becoming a Sunflame Knight.”
He deeply admired the Sunflame techniques Fulan displayed. If he had not obtained the Sunflame Knight profession, he absolutely would not have been able to produce such powerful effects.
Then he saw Fulan press forward and compete in strength against that enormous monster. He saw Sunflame collide with that monster’s giant claws.
Then, several seconds later, Sunflame melted through the monster’s claws and smashed straight toward its body.
“Truly frightening. Back then, I think I fought this monster for half a day before slowly exhausting it to death with Sunflame. Yet her strength alone is enough to contend with this monster.”
While he was focusing on watching Fulan’s image, a voice passed through the barrier formed by Sunflame and reached his ear.
“Sunflame Knight Zari, we can talk.”
Facing this hard-won sentence that had finally passed through, he remained unmoved. But after the first sentence, more words followed one after another.
“We can give you a new Domain, allowing you to reach the Fourth Tier through that Domain, instead of shrinking into this place for your entire life.”
“As long as you abandon everything related to the sun, we can even accept you into the circle of Spirit Realm lords.”
“Abandon your identity as lord and blow apart the entire Sun Domain. We can satisfy your small request.”
“Do you truly think that even if a new Sunflame Knight is born, they can...”
“You should prepare yourself for the entire Sun Domain to be watched by the Gods...”
Countless words of temptation or threat rushed toward Zari’s ears. Those voices exploded beside his ears, making him extremely uncomfortable. But if one looked through the helmet, one would see a face filled with smiles.
Finally, Zari answered these gods with his first sentence.
“From beginning to end, I have represented the sun. If you want me to change my opinion, then let the sun come and speak to me.”
Those voices briefly fell silent for a while, but in the next instant, they rang out again, continuously exploding beside Zari’s ears.
Zari covered his ears in some pain, but very quickly, he discovered that it was useless, because the words of these gods were being transmitted directly into his ears.
He could only helplessly lower his hands and let these voices continue harassing him.
The sound of Sunflame burning plants continued to ring out. Aside from these voices, the Gods no longer had any other means to affect him.
He watched as Fulan in the image killed those three monsters, walked directly out of that grassland, and then looked toward the sky.
The four yellow orbs in the sky were the reason the Gods had gone mad, and the reason they had come to harass him.
If he were one of the Gods, after seeing one Emissary after another killed and thrown out of the trial, he would not be able to avoid becoming anxious either.
At this moment, within Zari’s perception, there were only four Emissaries. These four Emissaries were the gods’ final hope.
As long as these four Emissaries were eliminated, then after hundreds of years without the birth of a Sunflame Knight, one would finally appear again.
And judging from the current situation, as long as Fulan was a little careful when dealing with those four Emissaries, nothing would happen to her at all.
However, at this moment, within Zari’s perception, there was still one thing that made him feel puzzled.
“Is it three, or four?”
Zari once again carefully sensed the traces of those detestable gods in the current trial. Sometimes, he could sense three. Sometimes, he could sense four.
This made him deeply puzzled. He did not quite understand what was going on.
Fulan had not yet reached the location of the four Emissaries, so this feeling had nothing to do with Fulan’s actions.
Moreover, Zari had noticed this faintly appearing and disappearing feeling when the trial had just begun. One Emissary’s signal was extremely unstable. Sometimes, it could be detected. Sometimes, it could not be detected at all.
“No Emissary can hide beneath my perception. Then is this Emissary I can sense from time to time truly an Emissary?”
Although he had this doubt, Zari was still very relaxed, because he knew that if there really was such an Emissary, that was fine. If there was not, that was even better.
Fulan could enter the trial with Second-Tier strength because he had opened a back door for her. As for the other trial participants, it was impossible for any of them to be above the First Tier.
And if the faint Emissary signal Zari sensed was not an Emissary, that would be even better.
Within the First Tier, it was very difficult for anyone stronger than an Emissary to exist. Against such a person, Fulan would have an even easier time.
“It is just that the other party must have used some method to disguise themselves as an Emissary. But what meaning does that have?”
With this doubt, Zari continued looking at the image above.
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“It’s you!!”
Heather suddenly shouted, frightening everyone in the group into trembling. Then they all looked toward Heather.
At this moment, Heather was turning her head to look sideways. When the others in the group looked in the direction Heather indicated, they all reacted differently.
Rachel knew why Heather was making such a fuss. A person had appeared in the direction she was looking, and that person likewise carried the fluctuation of an Emissary.
Tristan lowered his head. He merely glanced at Fulan from the corner of his eye, then did not continue looking.
As for Ophelia, after seeing Fulan arrive, the corner of her mouth carried a faint smile, and her gaze fell upon Fulan, lingering there for a long time.
Fulan smiled somewhat awkwardly. She had approached from the side rear of this group, and when she walked, she had been extremely careful, making no sound at all.
But even so, Heather had still discovered her and shouted. Even Fulan herself was startled.
Originally, if she managed to approach silently like this and the distance was suitable, she had wanted to directly use [Heart of Quicksand] to see whether she could bind two people, then start fighting.
Now that everyone had noticed her, she could only force herself to keep smiling and wave.
“Hello...”
Something in Fulan’s words seemed to provoke Heather. She immediately strode forward like an arrow and was about to launch an attack at Fulan from directly in front of her.
“What do you mean, hello?! Return the short sword I bought last time...”
Although Heather looked as though she was about to fight Fulan, in the end, they did not fight.
“It would not be suitable for us to fight now, would it? How about we wait until after we kill all the trial participants? If we fight now and those trial participants take advantage of it, that would not be good.”
Fulan’s words made Heather calm down. Although Heather was extremely angry, she also knew that the most important thing right now was completing the task her god had given her.
Heather originally wanted to tell Fulan to leave directly. She certainly did not welcome Fulan following her.
“Then hurry up and leave now. Go to—”
“May I interrupt? I have something I want to discuss with you.” Ophelia extended a hand toward Fulan.
Fulan raised an eyebrow. She was somewhat surprised that someone in this group actually wanted to find her. Facing Ophelia’s hand, she neither accepted it nor refused.
“Let us go somewhere quieter to talk.”
Fulan was very interested in this invitation. If she first killed one person elsewhere, would the remaining three not be hers to butcher?
So she directly agreed to the other party’s request and followed her a short distance away from the group.
The distance they moved, however, left Fulan somewhat regretful. The three others could still see this place, which made it inconvenient for Fulan to act.
Ophelia stopped and slowly said,
“First, let me introduce myself. I am an Alliance mage, not an Emissary.”
These words made Fulan’s pupils contract slightly. The hand she had placed on her weapon loosened again.
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