Wizard of All Souls

The two walked towards the center of the Witch Forest.

"Master Dark Witch King, Lady Edith, the Witch of the Forest, is just ahead." Wizard Tess stopped and said.

"Um."

Will nodded slightly, and walked forward alone.

Across a dense grove, through thorn bushes, next to the trunk of an ancient tree hundreds of meters high, there is a small house full of climbing vines.

At the door of the room, a rattan chair shook "quack-quack", and a familiar yet unfamiliar figure sat on it.

Hearing the sound of footsteps, the woman on the rattan chair turned her head happily, watching Will's pupils gradually become moist.

Compared with the last time we met, Edith didn't change at all, and she still looked like a beautiful lady in her twenties.

Fair and delicate skin, black hair, blue eyes...

But the beauty on the outside can't hide the aging inside.

"haven't seen you for a long time."

Will stepped forward and stood beside the wicker chair, watching his childhood sweetheart whom he hadn't seen for five hundred years.

"Will, long time no see." Edith smiled bitterly.

"are you looking for me?"

"I can't find you if I have nothing to do?"

"oh."

Looking at Will's indifferent eyes, Edith felt her heart throbbing.

"Sorry, for some reason, I made you think I was dead..."

"I know."

"What!"

Edith looked up sharply at Will.

She thought that the reason Will was so indifferent to her was because she lied to her for five hundred years, didn't she?

"When I came back as a second-level wizard, I knew you were not dead. Don't underestimate the intelligence of those people in the Nine Ring Tower and the Abyss Corridor, and how much they value me." Will replied.

Edith lowered her head, and her face gradually became sad.

"Why?" Edith said softly.

"Why what?" Will asked.

"Now that you know, why didn't you come to find me? Why didn't you think of meeting me again? Why..."

"No need." Will said coldly.

"ah?"

Edith looked up at Will again, she seemed to hear some incredible words?

"Edith, people are constantly moving forward. The lollipop that I liked the most when I was a child may be licked and thrown into the trash can when I grow up." Will looked at Edith with complicated eyes.

The former Edith was one of the three most important people in his world.

The three are mother Dilia, wife Niya and childhood sweetheart Edith.

But time changes everything.

How long had he been with Edith?

fifteen years!

Even if we meet again after growing up, we will only be together for a month.

Fifteen years plus one month is not even a second for Will, who has lived for 500 years in reality and trillions of years in spirit.

To him, the existence of Edith was like his favorite lollipop when he was a child, as the years passed...

How can it be compared to the wife and children who accompany him day and night?

How can it be compared to the grandchildren who have watched them grow up step by step with their own eyes?

How can it be compared to the disciples who have been by his side all the time?

Even when he had been with him for hundreds of years, and saw the death of his grandson Sauron from birth, his heart didn't fluctuate at all, let alone Edith?

If Edith hadn't been the sister of his late beloved Niya, he wouldn't have bothered to come.

...

"Is that so? You have changed, you have really changed." Edith looked up at Will with tears in her eyes, "You are no longer the Will we knew before, you have become like a god." The Holy Emperor has become the Dark Witch King who commands all witches, and has become a cold and heartless god."

"I've never changed."

With his hands behind his back, Will looked up at the blue sky.

The breeze blew past, stirring the bangs on his forehead, and the green grass made a "swish" sound in the wind.

Will's face was extremely resolute, and he said in a deep voice: "I have never changed, my thoughts, my will, my goals, I have never changed in my life, the difference between the past and the present is only - I have The power to fight for ideals."

It is good for a person to have ideals, but food must be eaten bite by bite, and the road must be walked step by step.

Can't even walk, still want to fly?

In the past, he was weak, pitiful, and helpless, so he could only compromise and work on his one-acre three-point field. His lifelong ideal was to become a good baron loved by everyone.

After gaining some strength and becoming a third-class apprentice, he thought about building an extremely powerful Albert family and wanted to change a province.

After becoming an official wizard, his goal changed from a province to a country, and he wanted to make a country prosperous.

And after he became a second-level wizard, his target was not just a country, but the entire Eastern Continent.

Ever since he became a fourth-level wizard and returned from the universe and the starry sky...

His goal has become the concept of human beings.

Didn't he want to do many things when he was weak?

Could it be that from the very beginning, his lifelong dream was to be a Baron?

No!

Before he came to this world, his dream was to build a beautiful new world where everyone is equal.

The problem is that he is just an ordinary person after all, he can only do what he can do, and cannot achieve goals beyond his own ability.

Therefore, even though he had the greatest dream in his heart, he did not act rashly. He always did what he had the power to do, and never did stupid things beyond his own strength.

Therefore, he just has a better ability to realize his dream now.

He is just using his own strength to realize his dreams.

Has he changed?

No!

...

"Is there anything else you want to say?" Will said indifferently.

He was extremely disappointed in Edith, originally thinking that Edith, as his childhood sweetheart and Niya's sister, would understand his dreams and persistence.

Now it seems that there is no difference from ordinary passers-by.

Fortunately, he had expected it before.

"Will, turn around." Edith stretched out her right hand towards Will, and a flower formed by condensed flames slowly bloomed in her palm.

"How do you want me to turn back?" Will just felt inexplicable.

"Go back to the simple, cute and naughty Will who used to be, the Will who lied to the little girl with his big mouth, the Will who looked at me and Niya with lecherous eyes, and the Will who loves his family, Will who believes in the way of chivalry and fights for justice."

"I've never changed," Will said again.

He is still pure, he still loves his family, he still believes in justice, he has always believed in love and justice as before, and has been fighting for his ideals.

As for looking at women with lustful eyes?

That's just the reproductive instinct of being a living thing.

He has become a level 4 perfect creature, he will not die, do not reproduce and do not need offspring, that is to say——

No need for women!

His mind has got rid of the shackles of genes, and his will is no longer driven by the instinct of life.

"From the beginning to the end, my true love is only Niya, and the woman I want is only Niya."

"but……"

Will sighed, "The instinct of life, the influence of genes, made me interested in women other than Niya, and made me do stupid things that violated my conscience and betrayed Niya."

"It's different now."

"Now my will will not be affected in any way, and I can declare loudly to the world with no shame - the only woman I love is Niya!"