Jerome looked with interest at this rising star holding a Bible and a prayer book.
"That Avia, I always feel that I have an inexplicable interest in him, but unfortunately, he follows the Dead Apostles. Although this is his own will, if Lord Novia is still alive, he will definitely be able to convince him to join the church together."
Augustine was always inexplicably interested in the Pope who existed only in legends, and even once thought that if he could meet him, they could become close friends.
"Haha, then you better work hard. You are still far from that adult's level."
.......
As they walked out of the church aisle, Avia didn't say much, but just walked silently with Artluchi.
After all, with his keen observation skills, he naturally noticed that the black-haired girl's eyes dimmed slightly at that moment.
From this he could see that she could not ignore the words of those who, in her opinion, were so-called human.
Because, it makes sense. As time goes by, it is only a matter of time before the Dead Apostles are destroyed.
"I agree with what you just said. Where is the place you mentioned?"
Altluchi stopped and looked at Avia with her slightly dim blood-red eyes.
"In that case, take your people and follow me to the north."
107: Meili, please cry
The sky was a deep blue, and the sunlight sprinkled softly on the vast land, bathing every inch of land in warm glow.
Occasionally, a few eagles spread their wings and fly across the sky - this is Eastern Europe today.
Its economic structure was relatively simple compared to Western Europe, mainly based on agriculture and animal husbandry. Simply put, there were obvious differences between Western Europe and Eastern Europe in various aspects at this time.
This area was where scattered Hun tribes roamed and ruled. In the eyes of the Eastern and Western Roman Empires, the people in Eastern Europe were equivalent to uncommunicative and uncivilized barbarians.
The leaders of one of the tribes were named Lua, who was the Hun elder who found the remains of Attila, the giant god, and was also the one who asked the people of his tribe to adopt Avia.
According to the original timeline, the Huns would be unified under his leadership in 432 AD, and he would die two years later. Then Attila, the undisputed Hunnic military god, would become the new master of the Hunnic Empire.
Lua didn't care much about Avia's sudden return and his desire to join forces with the Dead Apostles. After all, the agreement was to suck some blood and not kill people indiscriminately, so it wasn't a big problem... In short, he did listen to Avia and gave Altluchi and his Royal Guards a place to settle down.
"Anyway, this is left to Attila and you. It's not wrong for you to make the decision. Attila won't think about these things anyway. You make most of the decisions."
At that time, Lua had a nonchalant expression on his face, as if to say, what is there to hesitate about?
The only confusion of the Hun leader was:
If you come here, does Attila know? If she is left alone in the West, I always feel that something terrible will happen.
Avia wanted to say that she knew, but then she remembered -
It's bad. The illusion broke down long after Wales.
After careful calculation, he had been away from Milan for more than a year. The initial search for Fafnir had taken him four months, and when he arrived in Glastonbury, Britain, he was led by the goblins into the door leading to the inside. Although it was only a brief moment, when he came back he realized that six months had passed.
After that, he took over Meli's commission and went to Wales, which took another two months. Finally, he was taken back to the Eastern Roman Empire by Artelluci, which took another month.
And now, it took two months to bring Arteluqi to the Hun tribe...
Avia could already imagine that the white-haired girl who had been "tortured" by the Western Roman court might have wanted to kill someone.
But things had come to this, and he felt that it was not a bad idea to let Attila wait a few more months.
Because he originally planned to go to Britain to see Meli after sending Arteluci away, and then return to Milan in the Western Roman Empire.
As a result, Lua suddenly shouted when only he and the Hun elders were present:
"The three-headed dragon on the steppe by the Dniester River is really abominable. It actually harassed us when our god of war, Attila the Younger, was heading to the Western Roman Empire, causing our horses to be in fear all day long. Oh, it would be great if Attila was still alive."
"Yes, if Attila were here, she would kill the dragon immediately."
"It's a pity that he can't come back for a while, but now that Avia is back and can fight alongside Attila, can we——"
"You absolutely cannot do that! How can you say that?" Lua said righteously, "Avia has a heavy responsibility and a heavy mission. You must not tell him about this. If anyone dares to tell him, I will send him to fight the dragon..."
Seeing these old Hun elders speaking in the same way they used to tease Attila and himself when they were children, Avia really wanted to say that he hoped she would just say what she wanted to do directly. It's not like he wouldn't agree. There was no need to beat around the bush, and what's more, he hasn't changed in so many years.
Having said that, he was still somewhat happy. After all, there was no ill intention, right?
Therefore, Avia naturally agreed to this request.
But on this night, the silver-haired boy had a dream that he hadn't had in a long time.
It was a beautiful village located in the vast golden wheat fields, and seemed to be engaged in farming.
"Woo wow, I finally found it, but it's not too late."
Following the sound, Avia spotted a petite humanoid creature standing on a rock.
"Fortunately, the gold on your body is very conspicuous and can be used as a coordinate, otherwise it would be difficult for me to find you in so many dreams. By the way, since the commission I gave you has been completed, tell me what you want me to do."
The person who came was the half-nightmare girl Meli. At this moment, she smiled and talked to Avia as if she was talking to a friend.
From what she just said, Avia understood that she had probably been looking for him for a long time after the incident in Wales. As for directly saying that she had completed the commission...
He was not surprised at all, after all, it was a half-nightmare, but it didn't matter. He just needed her to help him find the Sword of the Star in the Avalon Lake inside.
"... Meili, please cry from your heart, because I have never seen what a nightmare cries like, and I am a little curious."
Avia made a request that was inexplicable, and it was definitely a line that Half-Nightmare had not expected.
"Well, why don't you make a wish and die and be reborn as a human being?" Mary stretched lazily, continued to smile, and said without any emotion, "But since you agreed, then I will just cry casually. After all, it's such a simple request. Why don't you regret it? This is a very useful request. I am deeply loved by the Great Mother. I can take all the treasures inside. If you just let me cry——"
"I won't regret it, so please cry."
"alright."
It was all her own fault, Mary shrugged her shoulders and decided to cry as Avia asked.
The time in the dream seemed to have stopped. Every minute and every second seemed like an unbearable eternity, and every minute and every second seemed like a moment when one wanted to look away.
then--
"Hey, you're not kidding me, I really can't cry, are you? This kind of thing is too easy for me. I'm warning you for the last time. You still have one chance to say it again."
"This is it."
"hehe."
As the words came out, the Half-Nightmare Girl immediately burst into tears with red cheeks, even though it was only a single tear, even though it was only for a moment, even though she remained calm.
But after that, she remained expressionless, as if she was just completing a task.
"Well, you have wasted an extremely precious opportunity. I'm sure you will regret for the rest of your life why you made such a ridiculous request. But unfortunately, you will never be able to come to Avalon. The ideals you hold are too boring and uninteresting. There is really no need for me to open up for a human like you."
Faced with Meili's ridicule, Avia remained silent, as if she didn't know how to answer, but she listened without any boredom.
"Well, the dream should end now, and you can leave now, you are such a boring guy."
She said this with a smile.
Perhaps because she realized that her words had no effect, Half-Nightmare's body became stiff and she twisted her body unnaturally, as if she felt uncomfortable.
"Well... maybe. It's really boring." Avia nodded as he turned around, "But I still want to thank you."
Feeling the kindness of this human, Mary's eyes showed a hint of doubt.
"Thank you for being able to cry for your parents, and I'm really sorry for what the church did."
"...What a boring human being, I want to go back--"
Not until his figure completely disappeared did the girl's face return to expressionless, but her lips were trembling slightly.
Well, her father was immobilized by magic and dismembered and fed to monsters, her mother was burned alive, and she was the only one left in the family. To be honest, it was very hard, but she couldn't cry. She knew she should cry, but she just couldn't cry because she had never had any worries and had a stable mental structure. She would not lament because of external things...
"Go back...go back..."
A tiny, almost inaudible voice; the pair of purple eyes that clearly remembered the last time they saw their parents slowly turned into a sea of tears. Faint tears fell from the dream and dripped down her fair cheeks.
"Why am I crying now...I should have cried a long time ago..."
"sorry......"
This doesn't look like a flower magician.
These were the words of an emotionless half-nightmare, merely the words of a child who had lost his parents. It was just that simple.
108: Great God Odin
The three-headed dragon in the Dniester River is named Zmey Gorinich, the same dragon that was killed by the warrior Dobrynya Nikitich in the Russian heroic epic poem The Hero's Song. In the Type-Moon world, Nikitich's wife raised Koyanskaya for a period of time during the Tunguska explosion in later generations.
However, it is believed that it was killed around 1000 AD on the Pra River, 200 kilometers away from Moscow.
Why would they go to the Dniester River near the Black Sea to do such evil?
It happened that the sun was rising, and the rising sun from the top of the mountain just shone on the dark dragon and the two crows circling above.
"A dragon from a foreign land."
"The time has come. I will grant you praiseworthy divine power to destroy the terrifying creature that is about to awaken."
When the sound like the forest itself disappeared, the three dragons Gorinić twisted their necks and their eyes became sharp towards the only entrance.
To be honest, if he had not been forcibly captured, Gorinich would have never wanted to come to a place so far away from his hometown and scare people for several months in a row. But there was no way, that was not an existence that he could defy. Perhaps only a pure-blooded dragon like the original dragon could resist.
But it doesn’t matter. After all, it’s just to eliminate one person, which is not a problem at all. What’s more, with the blessing of divine power, it is not a problem at all.
Gorinich thought quite optimistically, after all, it was essentially a very talkative dragon.
Soon, the three-headed dragon saw the human that was supposed to be "killed". Under the sunlight, its blue eyes were like the ocean, as if it wanted to swallow it up.
It naturally prepared to roar, and immediately the sky was covered with dark clouds, and a terrible roar seemed to be about to tear the sky apart.
then--
"I'm so sorry, I was wrong, please let me go, I didn't do anything, I have children to take care of at home."
The 'terrifying' three-headed dragon said this unexpectedly.
Avia, who was about to kill the dragon, looked at the three-headed dragon in confusion when he heard it. He could see that the dragon was sincere, but he didn't know why... But there was no need to go into details. Since they could avoid fighting, that would naturally be the best.
In fact, the three-headed dragon Golinić felt that this human had a strong aura of a pure-blooded dragon, especially in this era... How could it dare to take action? It still has children to raise, so it is better not to care about this kind of confrontation between big men.
"How about this, you come to my place—"
Avia put down the gun in his hand and planned to invite this unusually well-behaved dragon to join his Hun tribe. It is always good to increase the fighting power.
"Why does the Titan's brain have a Greek feel?"
While the man and the dragon were communicating in a friendly manner, thunders suddenly sounded one after another in the dark cloudy sky.
It was neither a sound nor a tone, but it was a sound that echoed loudly in my mind.
Avia sounded somewhat familiar, somewhat similar to the sound he made when he faced Yahweh in the past, but it was only similar, there was a huge difference.
"Are you the incarnation of Zeus? No, that's not right. Are you a god walking on earth like Zagreus?"
"That's still not right. You are not a god, you are just a human, but you have such a mixed aura. Could it be that the Greek Moon God's body was activated by you before..."
The sudden noise did not affect Avia in the slightest. He simply stared at the human figure slowly forming in the lightning with his azure eyes and asked calmly:
"you are?"
A creature in human form, but not a human being; it represents the storm, the fight, the sword, and death.
Although at first glance, it looks like just a one-eyed old man carrying a dazzling spear, its essence is awe, the world, and the ancient times. There is nothing else except mystery. Although the things around it, including itself, are visible, it is impossible to tell what is real.
And when the old man who was caught in the falling lightning landed on the ground, everything stopped.
His real name is——
"Odin."
In 400 AD, accompanied by thunder and lightning, a phantom descended from a distant higher dimension. It was a supreme phantom that possessed power that made both intelligent and non-intelligent beings in a designated space only able to associate with it. It gained the wisdom of all things and unified the Nordic god, Odin, the Nordic god king.
"Avia."
It was not the real person, but a phantom of the great god Odin who walked to Avia with a dazzling spear in his hand.
