The old man you see with your phone is highly suspicious.

"A wish?" Xue Dinglu scratched his head.

He seems to have no more wishes. He is confident that he can reach the legendary level through his own training, so he has no regrets.

"Wait, how is the old man now?" Xue Dinglu asked.

"He became a Heroic Spirit, a guardian of the world, and merged with the world," the otherworldly consciousness said.

"Can he even go back to the Empire? There's such a huge mess there that needs cleaning up," Xue Luding muttered.

On the gemstone, a phantom resembling a female pope shook her head.

"Then let the old man appear in the Empire normally, let him live a normal life, and live another life." Xue Dinglu didn't care about such a chance to make a wish and said directly.

Even with such a wish, the pope-like phantom shook her head: "Barak has become the guardian of the world; he is forbidden to travel to the past... This wish, I cannot grant..."

"Useless," Xue Dinglu cursed.

Otherworld consciousness: "..."

It seems that the consciousness of this world is really weak. Even such a simple wish cannot be fulfilled. I guess even if one wishes to become stronger, reaching the near-legendary level would be a blessing.

However, the phantom resembling the pope pondered for a moment: "Although Barak is not allowed to enter history again, I can secretly open a back door and let part of his consciousness possess a sword and appear in the empire. This way of sneaking through loopholes is still possible."

"Is that alright?" Xue Luding said. This piece of trash's world consciousness is probably similar to the Holy Grail. Even if he really has a grand wish, he probably won't be able to fulfill it.

"Then, the contract is complete!"

The brilliance of the gemstone slowly faded, leaving only a glass-like object, which Xue Dinglu casually placed in his consciousness space.

On the other side, Birdman A emitted a faint glow.

"Goodbye, old man, I wish us both a bright future." Xue Dinglu smiled, perhaps this was the best ending.

Back in his house, Xue Luding took a picture of Birdman A, then set up a mourning hall and hung it in the very center.

The old man ascended to heaven, so he's practically a god now, even if he's from another world. But Xue's Law still puts him here.

Whether it works or not, believe it to some extent.

Three incense sticks were placed in front of Birdman A's memorial tablet, and he thought of Daigo, whom Old Barak still couldn't forget.

With a few days left before school starts, he could try to go see Daigo's concert and get an autographed photo for the old man.

This can be considered as fulfilling his last wish.

"Is Nagano Hiroshi's next concert on August 19th?" Xue Dinglu searched and found that it should still be possible to catch up.

He must apply to leave the country immediately...

……

Another world, Imperial Year 138.

On this day, the Holy See, in cooperation with the heroes of another world, killed the Lich King atop the Holy Mountain.

On this day, countless people witnessed the roar of the god of the holy mountain and saw a meteor fall into the holy mountain from the sky. With that, the Lich King died, and the undead army became monsters that were no longer a threat.

Countless people wept with joy, and the streets of the empire were packed with cheering crowds.

The missionaries of the Papacy presented a brand-new doctrine called the New Testament, which tells the story of a hero from another world who burned his life force to kill the Lich King.

They erected a statue of the hero in the central square of the empire, and countless living people sang and danced beneath it. Bards recounted the story of the hero's battle against the demon king with great emotion, as if they were witnesses themselves.

Beneath the statue, a line of text was written not in the Imperial language, but in Chinese.

"Homage to the Heroes of Another World—Xue's Law"

The bards composed songs to commemorate the heroes, and those songs floated over the empire. As the lost territories of mankind were reclaimed by the paladins, the songs gradually spread far and wide.

The hero's kindness can never be repaid, so we will remember it forever.

The original empire may have truly been a cesspool, but it will gradually improve in the future, at least a little better than before.

Because he had been here before.

……

"Your Holiness, are you really going to step down and leave?" Countless nuns and priests looked at Pope Alora.

However, at this moment, the former pope took off his noble robes, changed into the light clothes of adventurers, took a package, slung a sword over his shoulder, and prepared to leave.

"I have already stepped down. After all, according to the doctrine, a 'widow' is not allowed to become pope, and I am now a widow." The pope smiled, packed up her last belongings, and left the papacy where she had lived for decades.

"Alola... Shall we still go find Xue boy?" An old man's voice came from the unremarkable short sword behind her.

"Yes, after all, I'm a widow now, so I have to get some answers from my ex-husband." Alora said half-jokingly as she left the capital.

The world is so vast that even now, humanity doesn't know how the Lich King came to be. Perhaps we can find a way to connect with other worlds in the ruins of various places, as well as in ancient civilizations and magic.

"Have you really fallen in love with him?" the old ghost asked.

"Perhaps, I'll never meet another person in my life who can move me like this again." After saying this, Alora brushed a strand of long hair behind her ear and walked towards the setting sun.

"Besides, isn't it perfectly normal for a young widow to want to remarry?" Alora smiled playfully at her grandfather.

So the young widow, along with her sword-wielding grandfather, embarked on an adventure across this land, seeking magic to connect to another world and attempting to establish a link with it.

One day, we will meet again.

Chapter 25 Old Deng? When did he arrive?!

"your name."

"Xue's Law".

"age."

"Just turned 18."

"Why would you apply to go to Japan?" The visa officer looked at the big boy in front of him, who looked like he came from a tokusatsu movie set, and was a little unsure of what to do.

After all, every year during the Lunar New Year, there are some people who get fooled by anime and manga, and his job is to be careful of these people.

"Let's go on a trip. It's time to relax after the college entrance exam," Xue replied casually.

"And what happens after your trip?" the visa officer continued.

"Of course I'm coming back to study. I have military training on the 28th." Xue Dinglu looked at the visa officer with a puzzled expression, wondering why he was asking this.

"Visa approved, young man. Have a pleasant journey." The visa officer smiled and handed the documents to Xue Dinglu, adding, "Be sure to take precautions. There's a high rate of berry poisoning outbreaks in Japan lately. Be careful and don't get scammed by a scumbag."

"Forehead……"

He's a decent guy; women will only slow down his transformation speed!

After obtaining the visa, the plane ticket was quickly purchased. After waiting for half a day, Xue Dinglu boarded his first plane to go abroad.

Looking at the clouds below the plane and into the distance, Xue Dinglu's thoughts drifted far away.

The old man was probably really blinded by Japanese idols. At the last minute, he was still thinking about going to Daigo's concert. Looking at the tickets he had already bought on his phone, Xue Luding decided to find an opportunity to get an autograph and then place the autograph in front of the old man's memorial tablet.

In that other world, the empire should be better, right? As long as the people of the Holy See aren't fools, the rotten and purged royal family should be completely powerless to resist.

The Royal Knights? That lazy organization will probably become the leader of the defection, and the empire will become a country with divine right of kings.

The church's power is above that of the king, and in the initial period, the people's lives will be much better than before.

However, the church as an organization inherently represents extreme "order," with rigid social classes and people's behavior and thoughts all rigidly based on doctrine, prohibiting anything outside of doctrine, and even fixing when to pray, when to eat, and when to sleep each day.

Extreme order breeds extreme corruption; doctrine can only govern those who don't need it.

Following historical patterns, the church will likely become a hell for little boys in the future, with little boys leaving the church every day clutching their bottoms.

It is estimated that several hundred years from now, when development reaches its limit, the church, as a backward system, will naturally become an obstacle to people's happy lives and will gradually become the object of overthrow.

This is the story of the dragon slayer who eventually becomes the dragon himself.

However, Xue quickly came to terms with it. One generation can only accomplish what one generation can do. As for the church's decay hundreds of years from now, by then the grass on his and the old ghost's graves will probably be taller than the church.

At least for now, no matter how bad the absolute order of the church is, it is still better than the empire's absurd system of "dying in battle is shameful, desertion is glorious".

The imperial system was even worse than that of Wanyan Gou. How did he manage to unify the continent? Xue's theory finds it absurd.

If one were to actually spend a long time in that world, Xue's Law even outlines a series of highly feasible paths for technological and cultural development.

Just kidding, he's a huge fan of the Civilization series and Paradox Interactive. With the help of the old undead, he's confident he can develop the empire into a nascent form of capitalism within twenty years.

When capitalism is formally established, the dead will become highly sought after, as they represent endless cheap surplus value.

Necromancer will probably be a very popular profession then, with businesses like necromancer mining, power generation, and coal burning, plus an necromancer assembly line, even letting little skeletons do screw-making...

Just thinking about it makes Xue Daolu feel like he's about to get incredibly high, and he might even be hanged by the dead on a street lamp right away.

Unfortunately, time was limited, and his grand blueprint for transforming the world into a farming paradise was shattered.

While on the plane, Xue Luding was thinking about the mess the empire would make next, and he was also constantly watching the countdown in his consciousness space.

He didn't know what would happen when the countdown reached zero. Would it be another visitor? Or would some strange item appear?

Time passed quickly, and as the countdown reached zero, Xue felt as if his entire consciousness space had been struck by a flashbang.

He almost went blind.

After the light faded, an old man with a white beard appeared in the consciousness space.

Whitebeard and Xue Lude stared at each other, while only Birdman A beside them emitted a faint light.

“Hello, child, I am an old mage over 200 years old. You can call me Joshua.” The old mage extended his hand, his beard seemingly smiling. “Great sage, Joshua.”

"Xue Daolu, an ordinary soon-to-be male college student." Xue Daolu extended his hand and shook hands with the old sage.

This was his first meeting with this legendary sage.

The plane slowly landed at Narita Airport in Chiba Prefecture, Tokyo. Xue Dinglu, carrying his backpack, arrived in this country that was both strange and familiar.

This is the area that inspired a Kamen Rider series, and he even remembers a noodle shop called "East Noodle House" on the street ahead.

He took a few steps forward, and sure enough, he saw the noodle shop called "Dongmianfang," which looked almost exactly like the one in the show without any filters.

Four days later, Hiroshi Nagano's concert was held at the Takasaki Hall in Chiba, which is very close to here.

If you travel a few dozen kilometers to the east, you'll reach the famous Kamen Rider meme site, the beach that has spawned countless memes.

Having booked a hotel, Xue Daoli lay down on the soft, large bed.

The old sage seems to still be studying Birdman A and the strange consciousness space of Xue's Law.