# Chapter 52: Raise the White Flag, We Surrender!
What does death feel like?
Coordination Terminal No. 7 originally did not know this feeling, nor did it understand the meaning this feeling represented.
It was the external mission execution terminal of the Myriad Realms Coordination Array, an emotionless puppet. Though it possessed a soul, that too was merely an external object bestowed upon it. Logically speaking, it should have been an existence of absolute calm and absolute rationality, capable of accepting even death without any hindrance.
But now, it felt a chill from the depths of its soul.
The feeling of impending death was like standing on a snowy mountain beside an icy lake—cold like water, seeping into the marrow, ice freezing along the surface of the body, causing the entire form and spirit to become stiff and unable to move. The black-haired human standing on the earth raised his head and met its gaze. Coordination Terminal No. 7 looked at those eyes flickering with red light and felt as if the killing intent contained within had already crushed its soul.
An attack was coming—
This was not obtained through calculation and inference, but a conclusion reached based on instinct. Although that warrior had done nothing—neither his muscles nor his Battle Qi had contracted, showing no sign of eruption—Terminal No. 7 still arrived at this conclusion.
But it was still too late. In just the moment the Observation Array operated, the black figure on the ground disappeared from view, leaving only splashing dust and cracked earth. Time seemed to stand still at this moment. Terminal No. 7 felt the light wheel in its head completely stop rotating, and its thoughts froze like ice.
It attempted to evade the unknown attack that was about to arrive, but failed.
The next instant, the silver humanoid's field of vision could only see a hand wrapped in black-red fluctuations reaching toward its head.
A red light suddenly streaked across the sky. All the elves watching in this direction, including Black, involuntarily looked up. But before they could think, a violent explosion occurred.
—Boom!!!
The roar was so fierce that even the Half-Dragon shook its head in pain. It felt its head creaking and groaning. At the same time, a mushroom cloud rose into the sky. Tremors as violent as an earthquake spread to extremely distant places, clearly felt even in the capital of Babel Province.
The elves in the underground Sanctuary anxiously waited for the battle to end. As civilians without combat power, they could only believe that their side would achieve victory. But suddenly, earthquake-like tremors came, instantly causing screams to rise from the previously quiet Sanctuary.
A violent shockwave carried a gale, bringing with it an unpleasant smell of sulfur. As the smoke and dust cleared, the black-haired warrior held a broken silver light wheel in his hand, frowning as he slowly walked out of the burning crater.
"What kind of creature is this? How is it so tough? My full-force strike actually left remnants..."
He muttered to himself. Behind this warrior, the Silver-Haired Girl and the Black-Haired Boy also walked out of the large pit. They patted the dust off their bodies and sighed in unison.
"Didn't Master say to stay calm before?"
Lin said in a barely audible voice. His expression was subtle as he shook his head, his tone somewhat ethereal: "Perhaps... this is what calm looks like?"
Ying, on the other hand, thought seriously for a moment. She scratched her cheek with her finger and said somewhat hesitantly: "Think about it carefully, compared to previous battles, this time Master at least remembered to bring us along?"
"Maybe this is the embodiment of calm!"
Not caring what his weapons said, Joshua held the broken piece of the light wheel in his hand and decisively called up the system.
**[Fragment of Coordination Core]**
**[The base point of an ultra-large spell, capable of materializing energy and carrying souls. It originally contained unimaginable magical technology, but has now been completely shattered by external force. Perhaps its fragments still contain some secrets? Who knows.]**
**[—Do not move these remnants recklessly!]**
His brows slightly raised, Joshua's gaze at the light wheel in his hand shifted slightly. "Interesting."
He gave a brief evaluation, appearing genuinely interested: "A direct subordinate of that Heaven's Revelation Array above? Or one of the base points? Indeed, judging by the appearance of this light wheel, it's about right... but it's not very strong."
That silver humanoid creature had decent strength. In terms of soul alone, it possessed Gold High-rank power. Counting its core light wheel, which was nearly impossible to destroy by physical attacks, it could easily fight even against strong Gold High-rank opponents. If it hadn't been facing him, a creature of this level could effortlessly annihilate an entire army.
He casually handed the light wheel to Ying beside him. The girl put it away. Joshua turned his head to look at where the Half-Dragon was, and his expression couldn't help but worsen. He sneered and said: "Now let's go see this guy who's been running around everywhere."
With that, he lifted his leg and walked in that direction.
When Black saw Joshua running toward him, he rushed forward with a face full of emotion. The earth rumbled and shook. He seemed to want to lower his head and lick the warrior. Fortunately, the warrior raised his hand to block the giant creature's lower jaw, otherwise he would have been soaked through with dragon saliva. Joshua's expression was exceptionally bad as he roared in a deep voice: "Sit down! Black, you're not a dog, what are you licking people for?!"
Hearing his master's command, Black immediately curled up his body pitifully. His golden dragon eyes carefully looked at the clearly very angry warrior. His thick tail swung behind him, slapping the ground, raising large clouds of dust while producing heavy vibrations.
"...Tch."
Looking at this scene, Joshua helplessly shook his head. This way, his intention to discipline Black faded—disciplining such a mount was simply embarrassing. He hadn't fallen to the point of needing to take his anger out on others.
The elves watching this scene through the Observation Array all collectively gasped. Their faces were stunned, mouths open, as if they had seen some unbelievable scene.
The Volcano Dragon, that Volcano Dragon, that powerful existence that had single-handedly killed dozens of Essence Gold Stone Demons, blocked countless Stone Demon armies, and might have even triggered the explosion of Sigma Volcano... was actually wagging its tail and begging for favor toward a humanoid creature?
The reason they used "humanoid creature" was because no one was willing to admit that the monster who had single-handedly slaughtered thousands upon thousands of Stone Demons in an instant was an elf or any ordinary legendary creature.
But regardless, many people quickly reacted. After thinking carefully, they felt this was quite normal—that humanoid creature was indeed much stronger than the Volcano Dragon. Perhaps he was the master of the Volcano Dragon as speculated. If that were the case, there was nothing strange about it.
But no matter what, this was exceptionally shocking. The capital mayor touched his heart, his forehead covered in cold sweat. He felt that the scene he had just witnessed—the scene of the black warrior sweeping through the Stone Demons—was about to make his heart leap out.
If, if this existence had malicious intent toward us elves—
He didn't even dare to think about this possibility. For this reason, the mayor shuddered. For this reason, he immediately gave orders.
Fortunately, Joshua was not concerned with these issues at the moment. He had no thoughts about the elves at all.
He was just frowning, questioning and admonishing his mount.
"How exactly did you run to this world? Didn't I tell you not to go to the other side?"
"Roar!"
"You don't know either? Strange. Could it be an accident caused by the space-time channel itself? Just like last time when I was in the dwarf settlement and got swept into another world with the Old Dwarf and the others... How did you end up fighting these Chaos creatures here?"
"Roar roar!"
"Monsters falling from the sky accompanied by a huge array? Could it be that Heaven's Revelation Array... There are intelligent beings here too?"
"Roar ah!"
"Elves?"
The inexplicable conversation continued until this point and then ended. Joshua turned his head to look at the capital of Babel Province—though damaged, its buildings were still tall—and couldn't help but mutter to himself: "Last time it was Winged Humans, this time it's elves. How come all the creatures of the other worlds exist on the Mycroft Continent?"
"Could it be... there's some connection between them?"
But before he could finish his thoughts, a white light belatedly descended beside Ying and Lin.
"...Joshua, how are you so fast?!"
The Paladin walked out of the white light. Due to his profession and personal characteristics, his flying speed was much slower than the warrior's. Exerting all his effort, he was still a step behind. Walking to Joshua's side, Loranda looked at the Half-Dragon that was growling, then at the warrior who was listening seriously to the roars. His face was full of peculiarity: "And when did you learn to talk to dragons?"
"As long as you put your heart into it, you can do it." Joshua explained casually, frowning as he thought about how to meet the local intelligent life next. Back then, the only intelligent life left in the Carlis World was Artificial Intelligence No. 3. All the others had long since died. Throughout the entire expedition, he hadn't encountered a single living creature except for the Wild Gods. But now, according to what Black said, there were actually hundreds of thousands to millions of them. They had a civilization no less brilliant than that of the Mycroft Continent.
"Except for the low level of magic power, which results in somewhat low personal strength, they even surpass the Mycroft Continent." A hint of seriousness showed in the warrior's eyes. "And it's a Mana civilization."
During the Abyss invasion in his previous life, the development of Mana technology on the Mycroft Continent had been extremely rapid, even exceeding common sense. Now it seemed, perhaps it wasn't due to the accumulated knowledge of many Archmages under the threat of war, but rather because they had obtained a large amount of information from another world—perhaps this very world.
Discussing the environmental conditions of this world with the Paladin, Joshua and Loranda reached this conclusion—this world was almost no different from the Mycroft Continent. Whether it was the air, the water, or the composition of the soil, they were nearly identical. The Carlis World was a famine world on the verge of its end; its situation could not be used as a reference at all. But this world made one can't help but wonder whether naturally connected worlds inherently have environmental consistency.
But before they could finish discussing this issue, Black suddenly roared.
In the distance, an armored car holding a white flag was slowly driving out from the capital of Babel Province, heading in their direction.
(To be continued.)