Chapter 373

The face belonging to Melissa in the fire raised a smile, a pair of bright jewel-like eyes bent into crescent moons, and she opened her mouth as if she was about to say something, her beautiful eyebrows were frozen in an instant, before being swallowed by the darkness in an instant.

The spark that lingered at Joseph's fingertips dissipated in the cold wind.

The knight's outstretched hand froze in mid-air, and the ashes and snowflakes swirled and scattered in all directions, and could not even be carried by the wind to her father's hand.

Joseph's eyes were tearing apart, time seemed to stop on him, and he stared blankly at his lovely daughter reduced to ashes in front of him.

"boom--"

The realm with the concept of burning is descending rapidly with an unstoppable momentum, condensing on Joseph's body, as if the white flames that are about to burn everything are blazing, and instantly spew out to the surroundings, but he can't feel anything anymore.

This steel-like knight who had never been weak in his life felt that the voice in his throat was blocked by something. He opened his mouth like a fish, but he couldn't utter a complete sentence——

"May, Melissa..."

He choked out his child's name.

He knew how painful it was to burn life force, but Melissa forcibly crossed half of the battlefield, and resisted the bombardment of Wilde's god-level domain.

Even if you burn yourself with fire, you have never been weak.

But such a strong and good boy—his kind, lovely, smart, hardworking, mischievous, beautiful, and brave Melissa has never been favored by fate...until the end, he couldn't reach his father in his arms.

"Melissa... sorry."

Great sadness overwhelmed Joseph, and his eyes, which had not been moistened by tears for many years and thought to be dry, were filled with tears in an instant.

He took a deep breath, but the air around him seemed to have frozen, making it impossible for him to absorb any more.

It was as if all the things that supported him to live had left him along with the ashes, preventing him from touching them.

In the eyes blurred by tears, Melissa's smile and memory flashed quickly in his mind, and gradually, it seemed to overlap with the face of her equally young and brave mother.

Melissa's mother was also a glorious knight and a comrade in arms who fought side by side with Joseph countless times.

He still remembers... Melissa hated her mother very much when she was a child, because of her strictness and her expectations.

"Dahlia..."

Melissa's mother, who was also a shining knight, died in Joseph's arms—

【"Joseph, I'm dying." Dahlia smiled and reached out to touch his cheek, and said softly: "Forgive me, I can only let you take care of our child alone... I, I hope to see Mei Li It looks like Sha has become a real knight..."]

At that time, Joseph thought that as long as he was strong enough, he would be enough to protect everyone.

So he trained himself desperately, kept doing tasks, wandering between life and death in order to forget the pain in his heart, and put the work of the Secret Ritual Tower first, his temper became worse and worse, and his personality became more and more serious. upright.

He followed his wife's will and strictly demanded Melissa, hoping that she could become a glorious knight like her mother.

She never expected that until this day, Melissa would really become what a truly glorious knight should be. She was so dazzling, and as gentle as her mother.

— died in his arms like her mother.

"what--"

What's the use of being strong?

What is a knight?

In the end, he can't keep anything...

Big tears fell down, and were quickly evaporated by the high temperature. Joseph knelt on the ground, covered his face and cried bitterly in the burning white flames.

Countless times, when the magic sword Kendela brought him into the unknown painful hallucinations, countless tossing and tossing days and nights, he thought it was hell.

I never imagined that this world is more terrifying than hell...

...

"what……"

When Winston heard the sound and turned back again, he froze in place.

In the distance, a fiery flame like an explosion illuminated the battlefield for a moment, but when the darkness shrouded it again, the beautiful red lotus-like flame had completely disappeared.

Winston's heart sank, he lost his voice, and was completely stunned.

He couldn't believe that the gifted girl's life ended so simply, but...

After a while, he woke up from his sluggishness, grabbed his hair vigorously, looked at the seemingly huge white sea of ​​flames, and fell into a silent collapse.

As an old friend, he knew about Joseph's past.

Although in the eyes of outsiders he is always dazzling like the sun, Dalia's death has always been a dark side hidden in his heart. He even blamed himself so much that he hoped that he could die in the mission as well. That is "undefeated". "Holy Flame" is never afraid of the cause of death.

After that, Melissa became his pillar, allowing him to come back from the brink of death every time.

But... what if Melissa died?

...

The gushing white flame irresistibly pushed the dark tide outward.

Looking down at his old enemy, Wilde didn't ridicule him when he saw his weak and helpless appearance, but showed an expression of great pity.

The poor guy who can't let go of his emotional burden is doomed to lose.

As for Wilde himself?

In the past, he would show his soft side for the few disciples he regarded as his own, but what he ushered in was betrayal and death, a knife stabbing at his soft part.

From the day when he personally killed his most important disciple with a sacrificial knife under the guidance of Boss Lin, he had already woken up from that self-deceiving dream and cut off all his feelings.

Seeing Joseph's ugly appearance now, Wilde only found it extremely funny.

He grinned and whispered, "Tsk tsk tsk, Joseph...is it painful? Is it uncomfortable? This is the path you chose, and this is everything you want to protect. Look, what have you protected? ?”

While Wilde tried to further defeat Joseph's defenses with words, he did not delay this excellent opportunity.

Naturally, the top priority is not to taunt the opponent, but to kill Joseph when he collapses——

The moment he opened his mouth, countless annihilated substances representing the concept of "finality" rushed forward like roaring mountains and seas.

Wilde waved his tentacles, ready to use his own body to end Joseph's life.

The annihilation substance representing "the end" could not kill Joseph quickly.

The so-called "end" is actually a rapid acceleration to the end of material life and the end of destruction, but Joseph has already reached the god level, and every god-level transcendent has a "pseudo-eternal" life.

The reason for the "pseudo-eternity" is of course because nothing in this world is truly eternal (except for the great Lin Boss), and even the god level only exists for a relatively long time.

Although "Finally" can make Joseph disappear, it will take a long time, so Wilde is only using his own rules to weaken the opponent to the greatest extent so that he can do it himself.

The tentacles exuded black annihilation matter, as if protruding from hell, rushing out of the ground endlessly to attack Joseph.

Joseph was still whimpering, unable to accept the death of his daughter, he was wrapped into a ball by countless tentacles in an instant, and the light of the white flame seemed to disappear.

Wilde concentrated his strength, and even his own "final" field shrunk.

Looking at Joseph who hadn't moved, Wilde raised the corner of his mouth——

"!!!"

Suddenly, a burning pain was transmitted to his brain.

Wilde hadn't even reacted yet, but subconsciously wanted to retract his tentacles like a person touching boiling water——

A torrent like magma flowed out from under the tentacles that wrapped Joseph, and everything it went turned into cracked scorched earth.

Wilde opened his eyes wide, watching the tentacles he used to restrain Joseph began to disappear like flimsy paper, as if being burned by an invisible flame and still spreading, he could only quickly break off part of his tentacles .

Joseph had stopped crying. He picked up his sword and stood up slowly. There was no flame on his body anymore, his hair had completely turned into pure white, fluttering quietly in the cold wind, his body was bent, and he looked extremely old.

The domain named "Burning" has been constructed.

But there is no fire here.

Joseph raised his head and raised his sword, his eyes were lifeless, but it seemed that something invisible was still burning.

"Wilde—I'm going to kill you!"