On the mountain outside the city of Biam, a forest had lost all its vitality and was mostly buried by collapsed rock walls.
A middle-aged man with a tall and sturdy build, with deep blue and coarse hair, wearing a storm cleric robe, stood in mid-air, looking down with obvious anger in his eyes.
He was the Cardinal Bishop of the Church of the Lord of Storms, Archbishop of the Roselle Sea Area, Senior Executor of the "Punishers," "Sea King" Yarn Kortman.
At this moment, Kortman's mind still retained the images of the battle just fought, remembering the exit of each participant:
The angel from the Rose School used some method to transmit power from a very distant place. After failing its objective, it quite easily took away its heavily injured companion. No one wanted it to stay, except for that bizarre monster that came out of nowhere. Yarn Kortman remembered very clearly that when the angel retracted its arm, the pitch-black sticky surface had gained sparse white feathers one after another. They grew from the top of the skull head, from the three-dimensional eyes, from various unimaginable places, and all of this was because the angel from the Rose School dodged the glove with the aura of the "True Creator" and used a bit of power to shatter an ordinary-looking copper whistle.
The strange and eerie spirit world creatures entangled the angel for a while, then actively withdrew into the depths of the spirit world, making it impossible for Yarn Kortman to give chase.
The saint from the Aurora Order who came through the teleportation gate did not participate much in the battle. After observing doubtfully for a while, he picked up that glove with the aura of the "True Creator" and, before the battle ended, opened a "door" again and left.
The strange monster that came because of the copper whistle had no fixed form, like the evolution of death itself. It was like a mist, filling the surroundings, but it had many white feathers with pale yellow stains. Its goal was very clear: it was that angel from the Rose School. After the other side escaped, it also disappeared from the scene, seeming to chase after it. But even so, Yarn Kortman, who had already flown to this area from the city with a sealed artefact, still instinctively felt uncomfortable, as if on a long journey towards death, he had suddenly advanced a long stretch.
The only one without divinity had escaped from this area before Yarn Kortman arrived, and could not be found later.
However, Yarn Kortman recognized him.
An adventurer who could kill a Sequence 5 "Apostle of Desire" was qualified to have his materials placed on the "Sea King's" table!
Although this was considered a less important one, Yarn Kortman, who had experienced the "Navigator" sequence, still remembered the relevant content.
His gaze fell on the cliff, looking at the waves below constantly hitting the island, and he muttered a name:
"Gehrman Sparrow!"
............
On a deserted island in some unknown sea, the figures of Klein and Azik quickly outlined on the edge of the beach.
Klein was about to speak when Azik, dressed in a suit and a top hat with bronze-colored skin, suddenly had his brown eyes deepen, as if connected to a dead dark world.
He grabbed in the air with his right hand, and all those underdeveloped white feathers flew out, formed into a ball, and fell into his palm.
Azik just lightly clenched his hand, and these strange feathers disappeared, seemingly becoming food for that dead silent world in his eyes.
"Mr. Azik, this is from that Spirit Church copper whistle!" Klein pointed out the fact first, then explained in detail, "At that time, the situation was a bit critical. To make the situation more chaotic, I blew that copper whistle and gave the corresponding feathers to the messenger, and then a feeling like the underworld descending appeared. I didn't stay and quickly left the scene, but these feathers still grew on my body."
Azik, with gentle features, nodded lightly and said, "I sensed it from far away. It should not be a normal high-sequence Beyonder. I suspect it is a byproduct of the Spirit Church's artificial God of Death plan."
I see... So it successfully held back that angel from the Rose School? Klein thought with a slight sense of relief.
Azik looked around and continued, "I still have things to take care of, which can help me awaken more memories. When all that is over, I'll come find you to get that ring left by the ancient God of Death. My premonition tells me that it might take me to the Stormy Sea or the Southern Continent."
"You'd better go to big cities like Backlund or Trier next. In those places, the Rose School can mobilize very limited power and dare not act recklessly. Of course, the best choice is the headquarters of major churches like Pasu Island, but that would bring other dangers."
Azik finally made a joke, like a normal Loen gentleman. This life's experience seemed to leave the deepest mark on him, no matter how much memory he recovered, there were obvious traces left.
With memories preserved, a few decades have no significant impact on millennia, but starting from a state of having forgotten everything, twenty to thirty years are enough to reshape a person... When Mr. Azik fully recovers his memory, will those different life experiences lead to different personalities? Truly a profound question. I'll have Miss "Justice" think about it later and "consult" the Psychic Alchemy Society... As Klein associated these thoughts, seeing that Mr. Azik did not delve into the conflict between himself and the Rose School, he secretly breathed a sigh of relief and then asked:
"Mr. Azik, what do you know about the 'Mother Tree of Desire'?"
Azik shook his head. "Before I saw the letter you sent me, I didn't even know of Its existence."