Chapter 547: Return Journey

The little girl who fell in the golden light was none other than the one who came to pick Alka up every time he went to the kingdom of God.

The one who wants me to call him sister.

When the little girl came to reality.

Only then did Alka begin to understand her position.

If I am not mistaken, the position of this little girl is exactly the one that the Virgin Mary is holding in every picture and every statue.

Whether it is a statue or a painting, the Virgin Mary usually stands in a wheat field.

She usually holds a baby boy in her left hand and a little girl in her right hand.

This is the most classic image of the Virgin Mary and also the most widely used image.

Except in some special cases, most statues and paintings are of this image.

Is this the child angel?

Alka never thought that it would be her.

When the girl's figure appeared, the expressions of everyone present became extremely pious.

Finally, the girl flew over the heads of all the believers present, spreading light.

These lights fall on the believers, and this is a gift to them.

As the light fell, they could clearly feel the improvement in their physical fitness.

Then the child angel returned to the dome of the entire church and floated there quietly.

Only then did Archbishop Ann come out and begin to announce the end of the ceremony.

This is followed by festive celebrations throughout the city.

People in the square began to leave one after another.

Only after almost all the believers in and outside the square had left, the gap connecting to the square outside was slowly restored.

It was the same as it was yesterday when Alka and the others came.

At this time.

The child angel who seemed to have turned into a statue in the center of the dome blinked his eyes and looked around quietly.

After making sure that all the believers had left, she immediately flew towards Alka.

"Hehe, Alka, why are you here?"

She asked with a smile as she floated in front of Alka.

Then he opened his hands.

Watching this scene, Alka clearly felt that countless dazzling gazes were piercing him.

around.

Whether it was the priest in the church, the Wheat Ear Knight, the Knight who protected the religion, or even Jason Julia and others beside him, they were all looking at him.

Faced with such a situation, Alka could only sigh helplessly.

At least.

At least she didn't come running over right after spreading the grace or showing up, right? That's good enough.

He took a step forward silently and held the little girl floating in front of him in his arms with one hand.

"So this is the important job you said you would have?" Alka asked.

In the Holy Mother’s kingdom of God, she sometimes says that she also has an important job.

It’s not that every day in life is spent doing nothing.

Alka thought that he was just looking after the babies inside from time to time.

In other words, lead the children in your life from time to time.

The girl nodded.

"How is it? It's important, right?"

"It is very important, but I didn't expect it."

Then the girl's attention shifted to the companions next to Alka. She seemed very curious about these companions of Alka.

"Are these your companions?"

Alka nodded.

The reason why the girl was curious about them was mainly because Alka sometimes chatted with her about his own experiences in the Kingdom of God.

Then the girl's eyes fell on Lucelia.

After all, Lucelia is like a doll now.

Seeing this look, Lucilia silently jumped off Xia Daiti's shoulder for some reason and became the normal human size of a soul body.

"Hello."

“…”

Hearing the girl greeting them, everyone also greeted her.

Then she giggled, flew out , flew to Xiadaiti and hugged her.

"I recognize you. Mom said she likes you very much."

These words surprised Xia Daiti a little. He hugged the little girl and rubbed his face against her cheek.

This behavior is very useful to girls.

"Are you really a crow's mouth?" the girl asked Jason.

Jason was a little confused when he heard this, but then he immediately reacted and stared at Alka with a murderous look.

Then he shook his head: "How is that possible? It's just Alka's slander."

Then the girl went around asking everyone questions, mostly about things they had experienced.

Seems very curious.

But maybe it's because of the nature of children.

She wants a hug from this one, then another.

He was still surrounding Lucelia, and seemed to like her inexplicably.

"Ah, have I been out here that long? I have to go back."

The little girl spoke suddenly, seeming to finally remember something.

Then I thought about it.

"I still have some energy left in me, I will bless you."

As he said that, he kissed Xia Daiti on the face.

The remaining energy in her body was imprinted on her, becoming a simple blessing.

He kissed everyone one by one.

"Goodbye, see you next time."

The girl giggled, then flew towards the dome and disappeared in the beam of light.

Everyone looked at each other.

Alka said silently, "Since we are already attending the celebration, I think we'd better leave the church and walk around outside before leaving."

Everyone also felt the gazes around them and nodded in agreement.

Then he fled from the church.

At this time, Archbishop Ann was sitting not far away.

As one of the three highest archbishops, he certainly knew that Alka could not be the Son of God.

It's just that compared to the Church of Our Lady, it's more special. It's not as mysterious as outsiders or even some insiders say.

But today.

Today is different.

He was also a person who had been to the Kingdom of the Virgin Mary and met the Virgin Mary in person.

Of course, he knew who this child angel was who was summoned every year to bring maternal blessings to the believers.

Almost every member of the three-member council will see this child angel when they go to the Kingdom of God.

But today.

What he saw today.

He couldn't help but sit there and think.

so.

Alka really is?

He didn't even dare to guarantee or confirm it. After all, although they knew that Alka was not the Son of God, the Virgin Mary did not deny it, right?

He began to have some doubts.

"archbishop?"

The assistant next to him shouted.

The archbishop finally came back to his senses and shook his head to get rid of the strange thoughts in his mind. He nodded and continued to work.

Outside, Alka and his group left the cathedral and headed for the town below.

Along the way, you can clearly see the festival celebrations. The most eye-catching thing in the celebrations is the various foods and delicacies sold in the surrounding shops. After all, the theme of the harvest festival is, in addition to the ceremonies related to the Virgin Mary, of course, food is the main thing.

After eating some delicious food that interested them, everyone waited for Juanlu to buy some ingredients, and then they returned to the boat as night fell.

"This trial island is within the island chain. At our current speed, it will only take half a day, which means we will reach our destination by midnight tonight."

Xia Daiti looked at the map, planned the route and time, and then said.

"Really? Then full speed ahead!"

After saying this, Sound of Dawn stepped directly onto the waves and moved quickly towards the distance.

…

tonight.

No one fell asleep.

With that damn blue moon in the sky.

Finally, I saw a tower-shaped black shadow emerging from the darkness in the distance under the moonlight.

The Trial Island with Trial Tower No. 11 appeared before them.

Look at the island.

Everyone was watching on the deck.

"Ah, how many years?" Jason suddenly asked.

"What?" Juanlu didn't react.

Alka said softly beside him, "How many years have passed since we left the World Scar and started collecting items from the Trial Tower?"

"About 8 years..." Xia Daiti said while calculating the time.

There was not much difference from the time they expected.

In fact, it could have been faster, but the period when Alka was promoted slowed them down a little.

"Yes, it has been so long. We have finally arrived at the 11th Trial Tower."

This is the last unknown trial tower they collected.

Trial Tower No. 12 was the first Trial Tower they encountered.

From now on, they will make the return journey to the World Scar.

And on this straight return route, you can also harvest Trial Tower No. 12.

As the ship slowly approached.

It can be seen that on this trial island, the abandoned houses have long been demolished and replaced with brand new buildings, and this place has long since become a small town.

There is already a group of Wheat Ear Knights waiting around.

After handing it over to them, Alka lifted the Tower of Trial and placed it into the small world.

at this time.

The 11 trial towers have almost completely formed a circle, with only one gap left.

At that time, the 12 trial towers will appear perfectly.

"To be honest, entrusting this task to you may be the most correct choice I have made in the past tens of thousands of years." Naphtos said with a smile as he watched Alka finish placing the 11th Trial Tower.

Hearing this, Alka looked at him and said teasingly: "You have good taste."

“There is only one tower left of the 11 trial towers. After tens of thousands of years, the final legacy and glory of our God will be revealed at that moment.” Naphtos sighed.

Even though he had no face and no expression, Alka could still feel a strong sense of anticipation for the future from him.

Alka left the small world and returned to the Sound of Dawn.

"Come on, everyone. This is the last leg of the journey. Let's start the return journey!"

"oh!!"

Jason screamed.

The Sound of Dawn sailed away from this trial island.

On the deck, Alka and Shadaiti were studying the world map in their hands.

The world map of The Expanse is obviously the kind of map that only has landmark islands marked.

Replaced the guidance flag on the rudder that had never been used.

This flag of guidance does not point to the Southern Cross Island, but directly to the scar of the world.

Just as they had planned long ago.

Now just head straight to the World Scar from here.

On the way, they will pass through the Broken Sea, which is the first area they arrived at when they came to the Boundless Ocean.

Pass the Southern Cross Island, come to the Trial Island, and get the Trial Tower No. 12.

Finally head to World Scar.

This last section of the journey is also the longest one.

It would take more than a year to get from Trial Tower No. 11 to Trial Tower No. 12.

And then it would take them more than a year to reach the World Scar.

After all the calculations, it still took 10 years in the end.

…

As Jason entered the eighth stage, Urulius went into hibernation for the final time and fully grew into an adult dragon.

From this stage on, it is time for everyone to advance to the eighth stage one after another.

When they had just left the Trial Island where Trial Tower No. 11 was located, Xia Daiti had already started to advance to the eighth stage.

However, this time Xia Daiti's promotion place is no longer in the outside world.

As before.

The best time for Xia Dai to advance is during a completely dark night when there is only starlight or only the moon hanging in the sky.

But not now.

Because the treacherous Moon Goddess has returned.

Since that time.

The moon hanging in the sky has completely turned into a blue moon.

It’s not that the moon of the past will no longer appear in this world, but that it will still appear.

But the blue moon, relying on its own understanding and the distance from the boundless ocean, superimposed in front of the former moon and moved together.

It blocked it completely.

You have to know that this Moon Goddess who once betrayed the world is no good.

In particular, there are some conflicts between Alka and others and this god.

Alka had also seen what the Moon Goddess had done throughout history.

To be honest, it's a bit disgusting.

In this case, advancing to the eighth stage in the real world is tantamount to attracting the attention of the Moon Goddess and finding an opportunity to target them.

So Alka let Xia Daiti advance to the small world.

The small world is a piece of space debris attached to the world scar, but this fragment is large enough to accommodate a giant island.

At this time, under Alka's operation, the small world has long since turned into a place that looks like a normal continent, with various landforms.

Under Alka's control, he could have controlled this fragment of the world long ago, moving along the boundless sea to find a good position, allowing the light of the former moon to shine on the world.

And by the way, block out that damn blue moon.

Today is the place where the scars of the world can see the light of the moon that once was.

Early on, for Xiadaiti's promotion, Alka infused enough magic power into an area where the moon could finally be seen.

Because it is Alka's world.

The impact of Xia Daiti in front of him on the surroundings was minimal when he was advancing.

Even the storm brought by magic does not exist.

Because under Alka's control, these magic powers have completely gathered in that area, making the air in that area thick as if there is an invisible liquid in the area.

The former moonlight still favors Xia Daiti.

After sensing that Xia Daiti was advancing in this direction, he generously projected his moonlight over and gathered it on Xia Daiti.

This resulted in Xia Daiti's overall advancement not making much of a fuss.

As time went by, he quickly advanced to the eighth stage.

Looking at Xia Daiti who had completed the promotion in front of him.

Aside from the long silver hair that once glowed with a faint moonlight, the eyelashes had completely and thoroughly changed to the same color.

It looks like it can't be changed back.

She has the cool, elegant temperament that belongs to the moon.

"Congratulations."

Hearing this, Xiadaiti smiled and hugged Alka, and they returned to the deck.

"According to the time, the next one will be Pororo."

It probably won't take more than a month or two.