My starting summon is a small skeleton
Chapter 414: Memory 411

Chapter 414: Memory 411

Jiangbei, within a certain secret base.

Zhang Yunyi, clad in her robe, pinched the chubby girl’s cheeks as she focused on gnawing at a chicken drumstick, while casting her gaze toward the direction of the Extreme Cold Hell.

“He should be almost there by now, right?”

“I wonder what the outcome will be.”

Murmuring to herself, an unusual hint of nervousness appeared on Zhang Yunyi’s face.

She loathed this feeling of powerlessness, of being able to do nothing but gamble with fate.

But she had no choice.

The decision was not hers to make; she was powerless to resist.

Zhang Yunyi’s worry caught the attention of the plump girl beside her. After a moment of hesitation, she pulled the half-eaten chicken drumstick from her mouth and offered it to Zhang Yunyi.

“Auntie, don’t cry, eat!”

Zhang Yunyi did not mind the mess; she smiled warmly and, with a loud chomp, bit down hard, devouring the drumstick until only the bone was left.

The silly plump girl was completely baffled by this act, staring at the drumstick for a long time. Her big eyes filled with tears before she finally burst into crying.

Amused by the sight, Zhang Yunyi, far from comforting her, laughed with delight.

While laughing, Zhang Yunyi suddenly grew serious.

She reached out and caressed the girl’s head.

“Girl, do you know? If you’re not careful, your ‘partner’ will be gone!”

The chubby girl paused, her crying ceased, and she tilted her head, looking at Zhang Yunyi as if asking,

What’s a ‘partner’? Is it tasty?

“It’s not tasty, it’s stinky!”

…

Extreme Cold Hell.

The area where Lu Wu was.

As Yukawa Ryuzo thrust out with his sword, complex expressions appeared on the faces of Eliya and Wang Yase.

It’s over.

Lu Wu is finished!

There was no way he could survive that sword attack.

Forget about Lu Wu, not even one of the twelve elders from Elder Mountain could have withstood that sword under such a state.

On the side of Eliya and Wang Yase, it was slightly better.

Their emotions were just a bit complex.

Yet, some people had completely lost control of their emotions under that sword.

Of course, it wasn’t Arthur Pismi, although he had always been seeking a King suited for him, Lu Wu was clearly not to his taste.

He felt no particular way about Lu Wu; seeing Lu Wu being killed didn’t make him nervous, he just felt like running away.

The one who lost control of his emotions was someone who had always stayed hidden in the dark.

At the moment when Yukawa Ryuzo’s sword thrust out, he was ready to burst forth but realized, like a dummy, he was unable to move.

Desperate, he tried to activate the Gate Fragment, hoping to rely on its power to save Lu Wu.

If he could successfully trigger the Gate Fragment, it might be possible.

The Gate Fragment could unleash enough power to save Lu Wu, but it wasn’t something just anyone could activate.

It too was selective.

Dudu could do it; the one presently in control of the Gate Fragment could not.

The shard had no reaction to his fervent activation, so he was still unable to save Lu Wu.

He had fallen into despair, believing Lu Wu had been completely beyond salvation.

Then, suddenly, Lu Wu opened his eyes, looking directly at the sword thrusting towards him.

The moment Lu Wu opened his eyes, Yukawa Ryuzo’s sword seemed to stop as if it had hit an invisible steel plate.

At the same time, everyone’s attention was drawn to Lu Wu’s eyes.

They were eyes that appeared calm but hid turbulent waves, exhibiting an intense obsession alongside an unimaginably compelling allure.

They were also eyes that Lu Wu could not possibly possess.

Looking into these eyes, even Arthur Pismi, the King of Ilya, was left speechless by the shadow hidden within, obviously taken aback.

However, the aged face of Yukawa Ryuzo directly facing him did not show any sign of surprise.

“Is it really you? Is this young man the one you have chosen?”

‘Lu Wu’ didn’t respond but slowly reached out his hand. The instant he extended his hand, an indescribable, terrifying phantom emerged from behind him, enveloping everyone present with an oppressive and fearful sensation.

They felt like they would be crushed!

Anyone standing before him would surely be crushed!

That was the feeling surging in the hearts of Pismi and the others.

It was almost a sensation of being consumed by suppression and fear.

And the situation was even more dire for Yukawa Ryuzo in front of him.

As the terrible phantom appeared, Yukawa Ryuzo’s aged body began to crack.

Exquisite blossoms of blood unfurled one after another.

With the blooming of these blood flowers, Yukawa Ryuzo’s life was rapidly fading away.

Everyone could sense that this legendary being was about to die in this moment, mysteriously in front of ‘Lu Wu’.

Yet at this time, a difficult smile spread across his aged face.

“An unconscious avatar, with only the instinct to counterattack and annihilate?

She bet correctly!

Now it’s my turn to wager!”

As Yukawa Ryuzo’s words fell, his body exploded in an instant, and the sword that had been blocked erupted with an unimaginable radiance at the moment of his explosion.

The longsword, which had been difficult to move, surged forward several centimeters in that moment, only to be stopped again.

The longsword cracked the instant it was halted, and a sword intent filled with vitality pierced through the protection and into Lu Wu’s skull.

However, Lu Wu’s head did not shatter under this sword.

One of the main reasons this sword intent was able to touch Lu Wu was because it posed no threat to him.

This was not a sword meant to kill Lu Wu, but one meant to help him.

As the sword pierced Lu Wu’s head, the sleeping Lu Wu felt as if something had been shattered inside him. His intense headache suddenly disappeared, and shortly after, Lu Wu found himself pulled into a surreal space.

It was a pink space filled with cherry blossoms.

In the center of this space was a colossal cherry blossom tree.

At this moment, the tree was in full bloom.

A gentle breeze brought pink petals slowly falling down, creating an intoxicatingly beautiful scene.

One of the petals drifted in front of Lu Wu, and he instinctively reached out for it. The petal landed in his hand.

As the petal fell, an unexpected event occurred.

The space before him transformed once again as the world spun around.

When Lu Wu regained his senses, he found that the surrounding environment had changed, and he seemed to have appeared in a world before a great catastrophe, having transformed into a youth.

Hmm, saying he turned into a young boy or that it’s a bit inappropriate, it should be said he entered the body of this young boy and existed as a third-person perspective.

This young boy seemed to be called Yukawa Ryuzo, by the sound of his name, he was from District 11.

At this moment in time, it appeared to be before the great disaster.

In this world, there weren’t yet things like Summoned Beasts, and this Yukawa Ryuzo’s dream was not to become a Summoner.

This child was somewhat mischievous, although he was the child of the Swordsmanship Hall’s master, his dream was not to become a Sword Master or a Dance Master.

When Lu Wu arrived, this young boy was secretly studying manga.

He wanted to become a manga artist.

Because his most admired idol was a certain manga artist.

Under Lu Wu’s watchful eye, this young boy began striving toward his goal of becoming a manga artist.

The boy was not a prodigy.

Initially, his artwork was so bad that Lu Wu could barely stand to look at it, not to mention the storytelling, which was a complete mess, comparable to a failed artist Lu Wu knew.

But this boy was more diligent than the failed one.

If talent was insufficient, hard work would make up for it; he studied masterful comics, imitated the masters’ styles, analyzed their plot designs, and often practiced alone until the wee hours of the morning.

This kind of effort did bear fruit.

With Lu Wu paying attention, he improved rapidly.

In just a year and a half, he had created his debut work, a shonen manga with a monkey as the protagonist.

How should one put it, even though it was quite ordinary, after all, it was completed under Lu Wu’s scrutiny.

Lu Wu knew clearly how much effort this young boy had put into this manga, so when his maiden work came out and was recognized by the publishing house, Lu Wu’s mood was as beautiful as that of the young boy.

He felt that now, finally, the boy could hold his head high.

Finally, he could openly tell his father that he wanted to study manga.

However, just as the boy was walking home with this sentiment, the sky, originally at dusk, suddenly brightened, and Lu Wu, along with the boy, looked up at the sky.

The moment they looked up, Lu Wu and the boy were frozen in their tracks.

A column of light so impossibly huge appeared in the sky, seemingly linking the earth and heavens.

The moment Lu Wu looked at the column of light, it shattered thunderously, and an invisible force pushed out at that instant.

If one were standing tens of thousands of meters in the sky at that time looking down, they would see a mysterious wave gushing out from the world’s highest peak.

This wave instantly covered the entire world.

And everywhere the wave swept across began to undergo incredible transformations.

The original landscapes were being invisibly altered, one secret realm entrance after another appeared out of thin air, the world was like it had been rebooted, fundamentally rewritten.

And by Lu Wu’s side, he watched as the originally harmless animals around him instantly underwent ferocious transformations.

The whole world began to descend into chaos.

At the same time, not far in front of Lu Wu, or rather, in front of Yukawa Ryuzo, the Swordsmanship Hall was suddenly split in two.

Then, the scene before Lu Wu distorted again, and before he could react, he was once again in that space full of cherry blossoms.

Lu Wu was startled and subconsciously touched a petal in front of him again.

As Lu Wu touched the petal again, the world in front of him altered once more, and he found himself back inside the body of Yukawa Ryuzo.

But it wasn’t a continuation of the moment when the dojo was split.

Time had skipped quite a bit, and now Yukawa Ryuzo had grown from a sixteen or seventeen-year-old into a twenty-two or twenty-three-year-old.

Years had passed, and he had not become a manga artist.

Because by now, there was no longer the profession of a manga artist in this world.

From that pillar of light, this world changed.

The entire world entered an era of great catastrophe.

Human society was destroyed, and Summoned Beasts began to dominate this world.

To survive in this world, Yukawa Ryuzo was forced to take up the sword he originally disliked and became a Swordsman more outstanding than his father.

After all, in this world, not only could a manga artist not save the world, but he also could not keep himself alive.

But even though he took up the sword and became a more outstanding Swordsman than his father, Yukawa Ryuzo’s safety was still not guaranteed.

Human Swordsmen were far too inferior to Summoned Beasts.

Despite demonstrating astonishing Talent after taking up the sword, becoming the most outstanding Swordsman in just a few years, he still could not defeat a Boss Level Summoned Beast.

The shelter he had worked so hard to build was breached by an attack from a Boss Level Summoned Beast.

The people he cherished were killed one by one before his eyes.

On that terrible night, he lost almost everything.

After that night, all he had left was the sword in his hands and his daughter, whom he held in his arms.

Regarding his daughter, Lu Wu did not see how he acquired a daughter in those years.

Lu Wu was not clear on where this daughter had come from.

However, Lu Wu knew that after that night, this daughter, not yet three years old, seemed to have become Ryuzo Yukawa’s everything.

He started wandering with his daughter, struggling to survive in this terrifying and desperate world.

But he was too weak.

And with a burden to bear, it was too difficult to survive in this world.

No matter how hard it was, he never let go of the child.

Because that was his only motivation to keep living.

If not for that child, he might not have been able to survive even a day.

But fate was not always tormenting him; sometimes it showed him pity.

Among the cherry blossoms, the last scene Lu Wu saw was Ryuzo Yukawa finding a Divine Artifact, an ordinary-looking Divine Artifact in Lu Wu’s eyes.

…

The third cherry blossom followed.

This cherry blossom’s timeline had jumped forward ten years.

That year, Ryuzo Yukawa was thirty-three years old, and his daughter was thirteen.

His Power had also improved significantly, reaching the level of Lord 3 Star in ten years.

This Power was nothing in front of Lu Wu, but in Ryuzo Yukawa’s circumstances at the time, he seemed to be the strongest presence, and he had built another shelter.

He protected the shelter single-handedly with his sword, becoming the guardian deity of this shelter and his daughter.

He even met a new love in these ten years, and although they did not come together because of his daughter, their interactions were enough to sate Lu Wu.

Lu Wu could tell that he was very happy at that time.

He was full of hope for the future, for life.

However, fate did not spare him.

During this memory, a person came to his shelter.

That was a mysterious and powerful man.

It wasn’t until much later that Ryuzo Yukawa found out that this man had created an organization called “Zero,” and he was the leader of the Zero organization.

The appearance of this man destroyed all of Ryuzo Yukawa’s hopes…

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