Offer blocks to the end times

"What's this?" The group looked at the water sphere surrounding them with great curiosity. Hashirama opened a portal and went through again. The sandstorm was still blowing in, and Hashirama cast a spell there, "Storm!"

After a sudden downpour, the sand and dust settled, the air became much fresher, and the desert under the moonlight became clear. Only the wind continued to blow, but because Hashirama's magic range was limited...

They were widespread, but they didn't bring any new sandstorms.

The other group followed, looking around curiously. "Is this Ouglia? It looks different from what I imagined."

“That should be the Sage’s Tower over there,” Wilhelm said, pointing in a direction. Everyone turned around and saw that there was a huge tower that could not be ignored. Hashirama felt that it was even taller and thicker than the skyscraper in Orario.

"Is it over there?" But since Hashirama saw it, he could have opened the portal directly. However, after trying a few times, he found that he hadn't succeeded. The portal was also protected by spatial defenses and deflection techniques.

It seems there's no way to get through this space gate, but Hashirama has another way. He combines his magic perception, hostility detection, and Observation Haki to sense the people inside the tower, but then he senses several energy cannons flying towards him!

"Rebound!" Hashirama instantly snapped to attention, then erected a massive magical reflective barrier in front of him. The energy cannon flew over a moment later, clashed with the barrier for a while, and then bounced back.

However, in Hashirama's perception, after the energy cannon had flown most of the distance, it seemed to have traversed space and suddenly disappeared, then reappeared in another direction and flew away.

"Is this the Sage's attack? It looks very dangerous," Wilhelm said in a low voice, sensing the magic contained in the energy cannon. The expressions of the others also became serious.

Chapter 771 The Girl in the Monitoring Tower

"Don't worry about it," Hashirama shook his head, set up a defensive barrier around himself, and then carefully sensed the aura coming from the direction of the Sage's Tower. There were countless monsters there, but Hashirama didn't pay attention to them. After sensing carefully for a while, he locked onto an aura inside the Sage's Tower. "Everyone, hold on tight to me, we're about to get there!"

Hearing Hashirama's words, everyone ran over and grabbed his armor. However, there were too many people, eleven in total, and not enough space to grab on. Hashirama then told them to hold onto each other. They then formed a single unit by holding onto each other, and then disappeared in the midst of countless beams of light in the distance.

Then, in the next instant, everyone appeared in a huge room. On one side was a slender girl with a black ponytail, but she was dressed very provocatively. You could think of her as a perverted woman wearing super short shorts and a black bikini, with a shawl draped over her shoulders.

However, she was very well-developed, taller than Subaru Natsuki, and had bright light needles in her hands. Everyone looked at her curiously and asked, "Are you the Sage Shaula?"

However, the girl didn't answer anyone's questions. Instead, she stared blankly at them, her eyes darting back and forth between Hashirama and Subaru. Hashirama felt a chill run down his spine. Had the sage been here too long and finally turned into a pervert?

However, she then seemed to lose interest in Hashirama's sturdy appearance and instead focused intently on Natsuki Subaru. Natsuki Subaru felt very uneasy under her gaze. "Um, you're not saying anything, which is making me uneasy. Can you say something? Or perhaps we should communicate telepathically instead of verbally? That would be a bit troublesome, haha."

“Twelve,” the girl who had been sizing up Subaru Natsuki finally spoke. She seemed completely unconcerned about how everyone had appeared, and her serious expression slowly turned joyful. “But more importantly, you’re finally back, Master!”

As the girl spoke, she lunged at Subaru Natsuki. The people around her were quite surprised. Although they had various guesses about the sage's attitude, they never expected it to be like this!

"Master~" the girl called out after tackled Natsuki Subaru, drawing stares from those around them. Natsuki Subaru frantically tried to defend himself, "Wait, you've mistaken me for someone else."

"Master, really, really, really, you've kept me waiting for so long! It's so hard and lonely here. I was even wondering if I'd be stuck in this gatekeeper's life forever," the girl writhed against Natsuki Subaru, whose face had turned bright red. "Wait, what are you talking about?!"

“Oh, it seems Balus is quite popular. It seems we should report this to Lady Emilia,” Ram said coldly from the side. Natsuki Subaru immediately shouted, “Wait, please spare me this time! And you, let me go right now!”

"No way! If I let go, Master will definitely disappear without a trace when I'm not paying attention. That hasn't changed," the girl said. But Natsuki Subaru noticed something and pointed at Hashirama, shouting, "That's your master! He can teleport!"

"Damn," Hashirama thought to himself. He hadn't expected this kid to try and shift the blame. The girl paused for a moment, then looked at Subaru and Hashirama with her fingers in her mouth, before shaking her head. "No, Master has two eyes, two ears, one nose, and one mouth, so you are my master!"

"What kind of standard is this for recognizing people?" Natsuki Subaru complained, lying down on the ground in a somewhat resigned manner. After all, he was no match for the girl's strength, and the people around him were still watching the show. "By the way, who are you?"

"What are you talking about?" the girl asked in surprise. "I am Xia Wula, the gatekeeper of the Pleiades monitoring tower, your lovely disciple Xia Wula!"

"So this is the Sage Shaula?" A group of people nearby were somewhat disappointed, but Donna was secretly laughing; they already knew Shaula...

Ura's true form was revealed, but Hashirama noticed something strange: "The Pleiades monitoring tower? Is it just a coincidence?"

“Alright,” Hashirama shook his head and used his telekinesis to pull the two people off the ground. “This isn’t our destination outside. We need to find Satella’s sealed location!”

“That’s right, we have to rescue her quickly,” Natsuki Subaru said. The girl next to him was very surprised. “Master, you’ve changed your mind again. Didn’t you tell me to guard this place and stop anyone from getting close to the Witch’s Shrine? Is my job finally done? That’s great! For four hundred years, day and night, I’ve been searching the sand dunes every day to prevent others from getting in. Just thinking about it brings tears to my eyes!”

"Huh?" Subaru Natsuki paused for a moment, then shook his arm, but Shaula held him tightly. He patted Shaula's head. "That's enough, I have things to do!"

"You're hurting me! Abuse?! This is abuse! Master used violence against me! See you in court!" Shaula shouted, giving Subaru a headache. "Alright, speak properly!"

"Really? Is that okay?"

"Of course you can, but speak properly! Otherwise everyone will think I'm a pervert!"

The girl's face shifted with various expressions before she slowly burst into laughter. "Haha, finally I can speak! Finally I don't have to pretend to be a mysterious girl anymore! Hooray!"

The excited girl kept shaking her ponytail, which slapped against Subaru Natsuki's face. "But Master wasn't a good person to begin with!"

While the two of them were performing their little skit, the people around them began to investigate. Hashirama sensed that the tower had six floors, but only five were above ground, with one more floor underground.

They are currently on the second floor above ground, but the surroundings look messy, yet full of the atmosphere of daily life. On the top third floor, there is a strange spell, but Hashirama easily broke through one level. Then, he looked in surprise at the scene inside: an endless sea of ​​books.

Hashirama tore open space with brute force, took out a book from inside, and glanced at it. However, the title of the book was "Perseus Euma," which sounded like a person's name. He opened it and saw that it was about that person's life. "Strange."

Hashirama muttered to himself as he pulled out a stack of books. The people around him also came over to look at them. "Strange, who are these people? I've never heard of them before?"

People around were puzzled. If there was a biography, the person should be very famous, but they found that they didn't recognize anyone in it.

"Ah, what are you doing? You can't just take the books out of there!" Shaula seemed to have seen Hashirama's actions and shouted, then her expression suddenly turned cold. "A person who has violated the prohibition has been found. Now remove them."

Chapter 772 Sword Saint

Shaula shouted and a beam of light appeared in her hand again, which she threw at Hashirama. The beam hit the armor and turned into a pile of fragments, but she continued to attack. Natsuki Subaru, who was next to her, hurriedly tried to grab Shaula, but she threw him away. Fortunately, Wilhelm caught him.

Hashirama looked helplessly at the girl attacking haphazardly around him. She couldn't even break through the outer layer of his armor. However, Hashirama knew that this was not her intention. After all, Shaula, like Number Six, was an artificial intelligence in the tower, but one was on the science side and the other on the magic side. Shaula just looked more like a human.

"Take it!" Hashirama used a power to try to take ownership of the tower, but he only gained most of the control. He was unable to take over the most core parts.

However, he also learned about the layout of the tower's floors: the basement was the sixth floor, 'Sterop'; the top floor was the first floor, 'Maia'; the middle floor was the second floor, 'Eleka'; the third floor, 'Tagit'; the fourth floor, 'Arcyuni'; and the fifth floor, 'Seleno'. The spells on the top three floors were set up very cleverly, and the Hashirama could not interfere too much.

“Strange,” Hashirama shook his head, but he already had enough access to do a lot of things. He then released the control backdoor on Shaula, calming her down. After regaining her senses, she was still in an attacking stance, but her face was blank. “Strange? I should have become a killing machine after violating the ban.”

“That’s impossible,” Hashirama looked up at her, while Natsuki Subaru frantically called out, “Hashirama, it’s a misunderstanding, a misunderstanding!”

"Alright, it's nothing," Hashirama shook his head dismissively, then continued flipping through the book, while Shaula still looked eager to try.

"Stop it, you idiot! You're no match for him!" Natsuki Subaru said, his head aching. Shaula, meanwhile, bent his arms and struck a pose of strength. "Don't worry, Master, I'm very strong!"

Hashirama shook his head silently, tossed the books aside, flipped through a few, and combined with the permissions and knowledge he had gained, he roughly understood what these things were. They were probably things like 'world memories,' each book representing a person's entire life.

However, the system here is much simpler; it's a huge library, and all the records are of the dead. It has no other functions, but this very function of recording records suggests that this library must be connected to the origin of the world.

Hashirama casually punched and knocked over Shaula, who had come over to provoke him. Looking at Shaula lying on the ground crying in pain, he said, "Alright, Shaula, can you tell us where the Witch of Envy is sealed?"

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"I'm not telling you!" Shaula stuck her tongue out at Hashirama and made a face. Hashirama shook his fist, and she immediately lay down again. Natsuki Subaru sighed helplessly, "Shaula, just tell us already."

“Hmm, I don’t know either,” Shaula said, shaking her head. Roswaal, standing to the side, was somewhat surprised. “Excuse me, you are the Sage Shaula, right? You’ve been stuck here for four hundred years trying to stop the resurrection of the Witch of Envy. How could you not know where the witch’s seal is?”

"I am indeed Shaula, but I am not a sage. I have always stayed in the tower, killing anyone who comes near it according to my master's orders," Shaula said casually. "And the place where the witch is sealed is this sand dune. I don't know exactly where it is, but I kill anyone who comes in."

Natsuki Subaru wanted to say something, but Hashirama stopped him, "Alright, that's enough information. Besides, she's not the real sage. The real sage is Frugal."

"Hey, you know Master's name!" Shaula exclaimed excitedly, then asked around Hashirama, "Strange, you also have the same stench as Master. Why is that? Is it BL?!"

"Whoa!" She had barely finished speaking when she screamed in agony. A section of the stone slab beneath her sank in. It turned out that Hashirama, seeing that she was oblivious to her own death, had slapped her to the ground.

“Lord Hashirama,” Rem said, looking on with concern. Hashirama waved his hand, “Don’t worry, she’s fine.”

“If you want to know something, you have to go through the trials on the upper three floors. Maybe you can find what you want in the Pleiades Grand Library,” Xia Wula whispered as she lay there.

"A trial, huh?" Hashirama felt a sense of familiarity. He carefully sensed the situation above and found a pile of floating, smooth black stone slabs on the third floor. He found a sword on the second floor, but the defenses on the first floor were very tight. If Hashirama forced his way through, the tower would collapse.

After carefully examining it, Hashirama put away the stone slab. It was a magical material, but the sword was even more magical. Hashirama drew the sword, and then a shadow appeared in front of him. "The foolishness of the Heavenly Sword, is it acceptable to seek it?"

Then he gradually solidified, becoming a man with red hair down to his waist, wearing a red casual outfit that exposed his right arm, but with an eye patch over his left eye.

Hashirama knew what that was. It could be described as a projection of the past, or as an interception of a time stream from the past, allowing him to reappear here. Simply put, it was a trigger condition that brought someone from the past to the present.

"The First Sword Saint?!" Theresa shouted, but the man remained standing there, his powerful aura spreading around him. "The folly of the Heavenly Sword, is it acceptable to seek it?"

"Ah!" Xia Wula shouted from the side, sat down on the ground, and then backed away, her face full of fear. The people around her didn't react much, but carefully looked at the man who had suddenly appeared.

Hashirama watched this scene speechlessly, not expecting that time travel here was so simple. He reached out and dispersed the man's oppressive aura, and then used an even stronger aura to wake him up.

"Wait, where is this?" The man raised his hand to block Hashirama. "Who are you?"

"Hmm? Doesn't he understand his own situation?" Hashirama shook his head slightly. He was also a bit troubled. He should have been able to simply find the witch's seal, but he was stuck here. This man also seemed to be clueless about something.

“Ancestor,” Theresa called out as she ran over, and Wilhelm introduced him to Hashirama, “This should be Lord Red, the First Sword Saint, but why is he here? Has he not died after more than four hundred years?”

“Who are you? You’re quite a nice woman,” Red said, sizing up his descendant of who-knows-how-many generations. Theresa answered respectfully, “The Sword Saint family, the previous Sword Saint successor, Theresa Astrea.”

"Go keep an eye on him. If there's any problem, just beat him up," Hashirama said to Wilhelm, who then walked over to his wife, rubbing his hands together in anticipation.

Chapter 773 Unsealing

Red was a little confused. According to the spell he had set up, he shouldn't be here. But why was this pretty girl calling him his ancestor, and even sharing the same surname? Anyway, she was quite pretty. He decided to tease her first. "Hey, little girl, you're pretty good-looking. Why don't you serve me in bed?"

"Huh?!" Theresa stared dumbfounded at her rogue ancestor. Wilhelm, who had come over, was extremely displeased. Even if you are the ancestor of the Astrea family, you can't flirt with Theresa. Sure enough, there isn't a single good man in the Astrea family. "Hey, watch your mouth!"

"Oh, look over here, there are two nice girls, and these three are top-notch too. Looks like I'm in for a busy night," Red ignored him and instead looked at Ram, Rem, and Riveria, while the Donas quietly hid away.

Riveria and the others didn't react much; this kind of provocation was nothing to them. But it struck a chord with Hashirama. "Ais, go! Beat him up and show him the cruelty of the world!"

The two sisters beside her were also in a bad mood. Ram's face turned cold. "Oh, really?!"

"How dare they transfer..."

"Sister, you're quite angry," Rem said, her anger rising. The two of them surrounded him, but Red kept twirling a chopstick-like wooden stick in his hand. "I'm serious, from now on, if you can make me move an inch, I'll admit defeat."

Without a word, the two sisters slammed Red against the wall with a single blow. He slowly slid down and sat on the ground, looking utterly bewildered. "Huh? This can't be! How could this happen?"

Then Wilhelm stepped forward and beat him up. If Theresa hadn't held him back, Red would have been turned into a pig's head. Ais also tried it out a bit and felt that the opponent was okay, but not very durable.

After being repeatedly abused by those around him, Red deeply felt the malice of the world and obediently sat on the ground, not daring to say anything more.

Subaru Natsuki then made his appearance, taking advantage of the situation, and interrogated the witch about the sealing of the witch. When Shaula, who had fainted from fright, opened her eyes and saw this scene, she admired Subaru Natsuki even more.

Hashirama watched Wilhelm go to find Red. Although he didn't have much hope, Hashirama still walked up to Subaru Natsuki and asked, "How was it? Were you able to sense the exact location?"

“No,” Natsuki Subaru shook his head. “I can only sense that it’s nearby, but I can’t pinpoint its exact location.”

"Nearby? Never mind," Hashirama began to sense his surroundings, but the sand around him was filled with wisps of foul odors, making it impossible to find the seal. However, since it was nearby, things would be easier. Hashirama sensed the area of ​​the sand dunes and said, "Fine, let's just put in the effort and finish this quickly."

Since we can't find the seal there, let's use the unsealing magic on this entire area. That way, we'll be able to encounter it no matter where we are.

However, before that, he needed to purify this desert. Ignoring the First Sword Saint who was being attacked by several girls, Hashirama tore open a spatial gate leading to the top of the tower.

Then, after setting up the diffusion array and preparing the ritual implements, Hashirama unleashed a diffusion-type Ultimate Holy Purification, purifying the sand dunes within a radius of dozens of miles. Only then did he set up the next amplification array.

This setup was a bit more complicated because Hashirama needed both scope and mass. It took him quite a while to finish. It was a huge three-dimensional wooden magic circle, with the magic power flowing inside forming the amplifying force.

In the very center was a magic silver array with a diameter of over ten meters. Yes, it wasn't mithril, but magic silver, which was more powerful. Then, Hashirama placed the expensive tools he had bought to break the seal on it.

Speaking of this, it was bought by Senju at a high price, but unfortunately it was never used. This time, it was disposed of as waste. As Hashirama activated the magic circle, the item began to become unstable and then shattered. The power contained on it spread out through the magic circle. Centered on this point, the entire sphere within a radius of tens of kilometers was bombarded by this power.

First, this force destroyed the spatial defense barrier outside the Sage's Tower, then tore open a hidden barrier in the sky, and finally the earth shook, the underground barrier was also torn open, and then a shrine emerged not far from the Sage's Tower.

"Hmm, that should be about right," Hashirama nodded, then watched as the huge magic circle around him turned into dust and was blown away by the wind before returning to everyone's side.

However, when he arrived at the fourth floor, he saw that the once majestic First Sword Saint was now bruised and battered, with Ais and Subaru Natsuki standing next to him interrogating him—no, Echidna and Subaru Natsuki.

The two of them asked Red a series of questions, but Red, feeling too embarrassed, pretended to be a coward. Hashirama shook his head and said, "Alright, let me send the 'Sword Saint' back. I've also found the witch's sealing place."