High Above

When his own life becomes a burden to his son.

When you already know that you are not far away from death.

When he saw that his son's ability was enough to win the glory he longed for.

one person.

A mother.

A person who has already spent the first half of his life and has no hope of the second half.

You choose the date when your life will end.

In your own hands.

【mom? No! ! ! 】

Things got worse when the exhausted man felt that the sword in his hand was getting duller and duller, making it harder and harder to chop off the heads of the corpse madmen.

Some weird phantoms began to appear in the city. Those phantom swords were difficult to harm. Only weapons with a seismic response or magic potions could attack. However, their attacks were actually reflected in reality, and they took advantage of them.

In addition, all kinds of ferocious beasts climbed out of the city's sewers and many shadowy alleys at some unknown time, and began to attack everyone indiscriminately, even killing each other.

Phantoms and alien beasts attack each other, Phantom attacks the survivor camp, and beasts prey on everything that can move. The Ascendants in Azure City organized a team to protect a team of survivors heading to Lanternfish City in the south. , but an even larger behemoth appeared on the side of Lantern Fish City, directly crushing the team of survivors.

The man even saw people from Feiyandi and Lingzhiyuan. As for why he knew it, it was because they were organizing a team to escape from this place. They were transporting instruments and information, which exposed their characteristics.

But they all died.

Everything is getting worse. The Awak Territory fell into a destruction that no one expected. The Grand Duke didn't know, the Viscount of Awak didn't know, and those who were hiding in the Gnosis Academy and the Flying Flame Land didn't know either - no one knew about the accident. How it happened, but it's tearing the world apart.

Tear apart the virtual realm and let its fragments fall into reality.

But I don't know why, but the man has a feeling.

He is not afraid of the difficulties of it all.

He is never afraid, whether it is the difficulties in life or these enemies in reality - no matter how powerful they are, the result is nothing more than killing and being killed, and he is never afraid of this.

He is only afraid that he is greedy for peace and cannot bring glory, allowing his family to continue this poor life.

He was afraid that his life would be ordinary and that his mother would be able to eat only chaffy vegetables for the rest of her life and not be able to enjoy happiness and laughter.

But now, he discovered something he was even more afraid of.

That is, before I had time to do anything, or even before I had time to find out, my family had already left.

The mother ended her own life and cut the blood vessels in her neck with a pocket knife.

The warm blood was mixed with the blood of the enemy when the man was fighting. When he found out, his mother had already stopped breathing.

【Mom...Mom...why...】

At this moment, Ian felt a very special emotion, one that was so complex that it was indescribable and made people suffocate.

For the first time, I was at a loss. The brain cannot understand the reality that her mother is dead, cannot understand the reason why her mother committed suicide, and cannot accept the reality that everything is over before she can say the last words to her mother.

The second time, there was a surge of hatred like a tsunami. Hatred of his own weakness, hatred of the unknown culprit who caused all this. Hatred for his mother who ended his own life without permission, for not believing in him.

What follows is chaos, and even Ian needs to carefully analyze his emotions.

A... instinctive... reassurance.

——My mother really slowed me down. If I hadn’t abandoned my mother, I would have died in the Azure City together with my mother and Cynthia.

——Mother is dead. If it were just Cynthia, I could still protect her from leaving the city and survive.

Such thoughts surfaced for a moment, and then were overwhelmed by a huge sense of despicability and regret, like a meteorite hitting the earth.

——How could I think so?

——I would rather die than do this!

but……

——My mother committed suicide precisely because she knew that I would rather die than do this.

——It's all me...it's all my fault...

——I am such a...disgusting piece of trash.

Humans, ordinary humans, cannot control their thoughts.

Such despicable and self-destructive thoughts would not occur for more than two thoughts in a normal person's mind, but the man at this moment was not normal.

In a huge, turbulent, chaotic, and difficult-to-summarize emotional impact...

He awakened to psychic powers.

After sensing this, Ian finally understood why he could leave such a profound memory.

Here...this moment.

It is the moment of awakening of a psyker who is awakened the day after tomorrow.

"Well?"

The light in Ian's eyes dimmed. He had already seen the past memories hidden in this illusion.

Very close. It’s what I left behind in the past few days. It is the memory of one of the few survivors in Azure City.

As for why Ian can sense that the man named Miles in his memory is still alive and a survivor...

In fact, it is a premonition of psychic energy.

When looking back in time, Ian can clearly sense the people and objects in these past images, sense their conditions, and even... use his precognitive vision to predict them.

In the past, except for the elf pirate captain Andor, Ian had not seen anyone alive. After all, those remaining memories and emotions were too long ago, left over from more than a thousand years ago.

However, the emotions in Phantom Woman are too ‘fresh’. Ian could see the remnant of these feelings, the current situation of the man named Miles.

And this is why the young man was surprised.

"Silver...does he have the potential of the fourth level?"

Ian murmured to himself, he did see that 'Miles' swordsmanship talent was good, but to be honest, it was not as good as him, nor as good as Qingchao.

Qingchao was the kind of person who was born to use a sword. He could kill three heavily armed Harrison Port guards with a pen, and beat Scott to pieces with a tree branch.

But in contrast, Miles actually awakened his psychic powers.

This means that he has a certain amount of psychic potential. Like Ellan and Ian, he can become a psychic as long as he encounters specific situations and emotional shocks.

But, just like that, there can't be 'silver mist'.

The future that can be predicted with precognitive vision is not long. Generally speaking, it can manifest the fog in the past month, and if it exceeds six months, there will only be some 'signs'.

This is the result that Ian has determined after conducting many experiments over the years. Compared with other prophets who often make big predictions for decades, Ian only saw such a prediction after ending the path of the insect swarm. Dream.

Can Miles advance to the fourth level in six months? Are you kidding me? He can't do it!

But Ian's heart moved slightly: "No, the silver on his body is the same as the frost butterfly, it is a strange silver."

Ian recalled the silver mist he saw on the frost butterfly before he set off.

At that time, he was quite confused about it, and in the end he could only sum it up as 'there will be some fourth-level benefits' - just like Ian's own 'ether crystal'.

This is not surprising, rather, if there is any, Ian will definitely fight for Frost Butterfly... but Miles also has this potential.

"Ian?"

At this moment, the young man heard Hua An's somewhat worried inquiry: "Why do you look so angry? Pen, look, pen, the pen was broken in your hand!"

"Ah? Is that so?"

Ian was a little surprised.

Miss Goblin didn't notice anything unusual about Ian at first, but later she discovered that Ian could actually crush the pen in his hand without changing his expression.

He can actually not be angry at all on the surface, analyze calmly, and then only show his anger in some small details!

Fairies cannot do this, because they are born without bodies. They are particularly happy, angry, and even sad. They are a very easy-to-understand life, completely different from human beings who are separated by physical actions. .

Lowering his eyes, Ian looked at his hands.

The pen he originally used to write the report was crushed by him, and the ink spilled out, suspended in mid-air by his instinctive fairy water control ability.

Watching this scene, he couldn't help but sigh: "It seems that I really... didn't learn the lesson."

Last time at Baron Ryan's place, Sister Yingguang noticed this anger and made the other party aware of her true feelings. But this time, this emotion was revealed in front of Hua An, and even in front of Mikael.

Although, in a sense, this can also be a disguise, no one will doubt that he should indeed be angry...

but no matter.

These are very inappropriate things.

He needed to stay calm and not give any clues.

"Obviously when I talked about this with my teacher, I was always very calm."

Ian thought with some self-deprecation: "Now that I think about it, I am too arrogant - I have never seen many ugliness and death in this world with my own eyes, and I have never even seen scenes of human death, ants, and garbage. .”

"Yeah, it's my problem. I'm too arrogant... I didn't see the ugliness of the old empire with my own eyes like the teacher did, nor did I transform the world like they did. Of course, I can look at this from the calmest and most rational perspective. everything."

"So... even now."

"I saw it, I should stay calm too."