Transcendent Noble - Chapter 888

The black tornado storm, like a furious ancient monster, came to the isolated peak where the azolta temple is located with the momentum of tearing up all things. His roar drowns all discordant noises, silences all things and changes the color of heaven and earth. Tens of thousands of ant soldiers are like insignificant dead leaves and grass without any resistance in front of the natural force like the doomsday natural disaster.

When the hundreds of meters high tornado air column fell down, dozens of ant families on the top platform suffered first. Although the six giant shield beetles, nearly four meters tall, have gold strength and defense, their bodies are relatively light. They lay on the stone slab and clasped the gap between the stones with their articulated claws. After only two or three seconds, they were directly taken away by the terrible hurricane.

With more flexible wrists and the support of the psionic field, the relatively small senior guard ant can firmly adsorb the platform floor, but can support it for a longer time. But almost at the same time, they were seized by the queen ant, lost their lives, and became a powerless body, like curly leaves, which disappeared into the storm in the blink of an eye.

In her long life, the queen ant man has never seen such a terrible celestial disaster. When he was a female mage Angelina, he heard that natural storms often occur in the sea at the easternmost end of the land. When the wind speed reaches 80 meters per breath (the minimum magic fluctuation interval is about 1.6 seconds), it can set off tens of meters high huge waves. If the sea storm hits the land, the trees will be uprooted by the strong airflow for a hundred years.

The Archmage of the alchemy Empire invented the Ninth level spell disaster four chapters according to the disasters of nature. The wind disaster chapter is to imitate the sea wind disaster. It can only be cast in the wind season every year, and there are very strict casting conditions. The spell effect often can not reach the degree of sea wind disaster, but the lethality is enough to destroy an army.

The tornado storm summoned by his highness Randall is more powerful than the general sea storm. In the storm ravaging the isolated peak of the temple, there are blue and black airflow. It is an unnaturally formed wind element. Its density is several times that of ordinary air. It has the killing effects of cutting, blunting and bursting. These wind elements, like ancient python, run rampant in the storm vortex. Whenever they hit heavy stone walls and rock walls, they will burst into violent airflow, making the tornado storm grow more rapidly. For a moment, the tornado storm was like a thick cocoon, completely wrapping the upper part of the temple’s solitary peak.

The ant soldiers outside the temple remained silent because they did not get the instructions of the ant queen. The wind disaster fell from the sky. Some of them were patted on the wall by the violent wind elements and twisted into pieces, but more soldiers and ants were directly swept away by the storm and didn’t know where they fell.

In addition, tornado storm seems to have his highness Randall’s psychic power. Those eight legged knife worms have clearly adapted to the harsh environment covered with ice and snow all year round. They hide in the cracks of the cliff. They were not easy to be blown down by the storm mixed with snow and ice crystals, but the wind and snow swept the cliff. They fell like frozen crabs, and were immediately sent to the air by the violent air flow.

Although the queen ant man does not have the spell casting talent of human mages, he still retains the vision of high-level spell casters. He is very convinced that this level of meteorological disaster has exceeded the Ninth level spell – Chapter 4 of disaster to the tenth level in the legend.

The queen ant man has seen the ten extraordinary powers only twice, and they all come from his highness Randall.

In the battle of the temple more than a year ago, his highness Randall showed the hand of the Storm Giant and forcibly beat the pale Lord down. The irresistible power left an indelible impression on the ant queen.

Therefore, at the moment when his highness Randall triggered a disaster, his first reaction was not to order the ant colony to escape into the temple to avoid danger, but to forcibly seize the psionic power of the high-level guard ant, and then unfold layers of psionic shields to protect himself.

When encountering a strong enemy, you must first protect yourself. This is the fighting habit of imperial mages. Even though the ant queen tried her best to defend, he still felt that if his highness Randall showed the hand of the storm giant, he would be crushed to death in an instant.

However, the expected hand of the storm giant did not appear. The storm tornado displayed by his highness Randall was just a meteorological disaster. The tornado storm swept the ant Legion outside the temple, and tens of thousands of ant families were washed away. The siege arranged by the queen of ant people suddenly became a joke.

It is said that ancient giants have the power to change the environment. Some mythical creatures inherit some of the powers of ancestral gods. For example, the fog field of mythical hydra can affect more than 400 square kilometers of swamp area. All foreign creatures entering the fog field will not only lose their direction, but also continue to be eroded by water elements, or poisoned, or lose temperature. This means that the 400 square kilometer area of fog is equivalent to the will extension of the mythical Hydra.

According to the queen ant man, the sun god and the mother of the earth represent the normal and negative incarnations of the creation giant ape tyronrell, respectively. Frey, the sun god, is also known as the king of wind and fire. As Frey’s lineal blood descendant, the sun elf is the first male elf in the world. He may be the highest mythical creature today. He is regarded by the elf family as Frey’s son, the incarnation of the sun tree and the holy emperor of the elf empire.

His highness Randall occupies the position of the sun elf, and of course, he also controls the original power of wind and fire. However, the queen ant man couldn’t understand why his highness Randall could still use this miraculous power, just like the sun elves in the field of the sun tree, because the holy thing of the moon god had been taken away by the elves?

Is his self proclaimed “spiritual master” actually a secret ancient god?

The queen ant man was really frightened, but as an almost immortal ancient man, he immediately smoothed the emotional fluctuations and thought about ways to resolve the crisis.

Two stiff Eight Legged insects flew over the queen ant man’s head without being hindered by the psionic shield. He can’t analyze the storm field of his highness Randall now. He can only compress the psionic field as much as possible and build a layer of tight psionic shields to protect himself.

At this time, an indigo void wind element spear came fiercely, like a thick and thin lightning at the mouth of a bowl, and directly hit the ant queen. After continuously breaking through three layers of psionic shields, the penetration speed began to become slow, as if solidified in viscous resin. There was no explosion of wind elements, but fainted bit by bit, and finally squeezed out by the dense psionic field, A conical turbulent flow of wind elements was formed on the side of the queen ant man, which twisted a passing soldier ant into pieces.

“Your Majesty, you are a terrible commander. If you were commanded by the war Ant King taurminos, at least half of the ant families here could hide in the temple.” In the whirling storm, Victor whispered. One second he was on the left of the ant queen, and the next he was behind him.

Facing Randall’s attack and provocation, the ant queen turned a deaf ear and just clenched the giant sickle of “death wings” in her hand.

The collapse of tens of thousands of ant family members is a great blow to the ant nest, but the ant queen doesn’t care about these losses. He can even sacrifice his four armed ant body. But the most important artifact crystal is still in the hands of his highness Randall, which is what he must take back.

Now, he no longer has any expectations for his highness Randall and gives up the idea of reaching a consensus with each other. In addition to killing the enemy in front of you, there is no second way to get back the artifact crystal.

However, his highness Randall seemed to be integrated with the storm tornado. He danced with the wind, opened the distance between the two sides, condensed the elements of the void wind, and launched a long-distance attack with a spear. Even if the killing will of “death wings” locked his soul, the ant queen didn’t find a chance to kill with one blow.

The fierce whirling snowstorm obscures the sight of the ant queen, the rich wind element field suppresses his psionic perception, and two indigo empty wind element spears come with Victor’s voice: “Sylvia once mocked herself that she could not go west if she looked east, but ignored the north when she looked South… This expounds the natural limitations of all life under the creator, including the void Protoss and you… You only care about yourself and forget the safety of ant family members…”

It turns out that he can fly. No wonder he is not afraid to be surrounded by my ant tribe Army… Since he can fly, why not fly away? Does he have a reason to kill me?

The queen ant man thought secretly while resisting the attack of the nether wind element.

“The Knights and nobles of the human kingdom spread an adage, ‘wear the crown first and bear its weight’… Extraordinary Knights always bear the responsibility of the guardian of the family in exchange for the care of the power of fate, so as to climb to a higher level of life… At a time of crisis, heroes emerge in large numbers, just like the pale Knights of the gold smelting empire. If he does not have the courage to shoulder the hope of the ethnic group, how can he be a mortal Kill the upper demon lord? ”

“Behind the hero is the track of the power of destiny, which is formed by the sea of spiritual consciousness of the ethnic group. If you gather it in yourself, you will gain power… If you give up your responsibility as a hero, leader, king and master and only enjoy rights, you will be rejected by the power of destiny…”

“The Golden Knight can see the mystery of fate. Why does her majesty, as the master of the ant colony, turn a blind eye?”

The queen ant man suddenly raised her head and replied in a sharp voice: “the useless fallacies of the prophecy school! The ant colony belongs to another form of alchemy creature and is only my tool. Should I be responsible for the tool? It doesn’t matter if these ant tribes die. When I kill you, I will soon be able to supplement the number of combat units!”

“Pa”, three consecutive empty wind element spears almost hit the queen ant’s psionic shield at the same time, dyed his surface blue, and Victor’s voice sounded in the roaring thunder:

“Do you really think the ant tribe is just a tool? What does the war Ant King ask to resist your will? I have seen a half sheep and half ape monster in the dark forest of Gambis, and I am sure they are the descendants of the alchemist Savi warrior, which shows that the law of the main material plane contains the alchemical unit as a part of the law of life, and the Savi warrior has also been completely transformed by the law of the plane I got rid of the shackles of the alchemy tower… ”

“There is no heresy in the world! The ant tribe, especially the Gros swarm, is closer to natural life. The spiritual ocean gathered by these ant tribes has become your burden. You should have complied with the will of the world, but you want to escape in fear… Isn’t it the empty Protoss who hoodwinked your mind and let you step by step into a desperate situation?”

“The main material plane is ready to accept the ant family, and you have become a stumbling block to the world will… Your destiny is doomed, and I will execute the judgment of the power of destiny on you! The power I now have is the praise of the world will to me…”

The queen ant man guided the void wind element squeezed by the psionic shield out and said faintly: “It’s the enchanting skill of the high dark elves. No wonder I ignored the changes of the sky… The trick of word skill induction won’t succeed again. You have to rely on your own strength to kill me… But I want to remind your highness that I didn’t break the platform stone and hide in the temple. If I did, I believe your highness would never dare to chase into the temple… I stayed here to kill you, just as you want to kill me , but I doubt if you can do it. After all, you killed only my body. You really fell when I killed you… We might as well bet to see if you exhausted your energy first or I exhausted my psionics first? ”

Victor came and went freely in the storm. The ant queen could only be beaten and could not fight back. Victor couldn’t break the ant queen’s “turtle shell”. In fact, neither side has the means to win, and the final result can only be competition and energy consumption.

The queen ant man can grasp the weakness of her opponent. The unnatural storm tornado summoned by his highness Randall surpasses the Ninth level magic and shows the power similar to the king of the wind, but his energy consumption is also huge. If a simple competition consumes energy, his highness Randall can’t win anyway. Although he can escape with the wind, he doesn’t grow wings after all. He can’t really fly. And even the winged dragon is tired, not to mention the wind gliding of his highness Randall?

The more energy Victor consumes now, the earlier he falls and the easier he is to be pursued.

The queen ant man holds the “wings of death” and stands steadily in the storm. Neither the void wind element spear nor the wind element torrent can shake his multiple defense field. He kept silent, no longer wasted his words, and decided to stay where he was.

Victor felt a headache when he saw this situation. As the queen ant judged, his situation is not very good.

At the beginning, he was in the same position and made full use of the blessing in the field of “Freya’s tears” to hit the pale Lord who integrated the Witch King’s soul mask.

Generally speaking, without the blessing of the holy things of the moon god, the sun elves cannot exert their extraordinary power beyond the Ninth level. But in principle, what happened not long ago is allowed by the laws of the world; What the laws of the world allow will happen again.

It is the power of the mind to regard itself as a small world and form a legal resonance with the outside world.

What the sun elves need to do with the help of the field of the sun tree, Victor, as the master of the soul, can do it himself without asking for foreign things!

At that time, he recorded in detail all the physical and mental changes caused by the sacred objects of the moon god, including subtle changes such as blood, mind and communication with the wind element sea. But Victor wanted to perfectly reproduce the state at that time, but it was very difficult and almost impossible. It was not until he deeply studied the enchantment of the dark elf priestess and learned to hint himself that his ability to dominate the mind tended to be perfect, and created a new secret method of mind – mind balance.

The emergence of spiritual balance marks that Victor, as the master of the mind, has reached an unprecedented height. But even so, it took him more than 40 days to complete the physical and mental adjustment and simulate the field blessing effect of the sacred object of the moon. Moreover, he just improved his power level and could not show the hand of the storm giant. Otherwise, he would crush the carrier of the ant queen alive, which would not be so difficult as now.

Summoning supernatural storms is the limit Victor can do, which also benefits from the environment of the azolta mountains. Tornado storm has a huge momentum, scattered power and amazing scope. Of course, it can be used to deal with miscellaneous fish. It has no effect on monsters of the queen ant.

Victor actually didn’t plan to put a “big move” without moving his hand. He planned to seal the ant queen first, and then use the popular and light body to fly over the azolta mountains and let tens of thousands of ant soldiers eat ash behind his ass.

Unfortunately, Victor had no choice.

The queen of the seal ant man needs to meet two conditions. First, Victor must kill the carrier of the queen ant man. In this way, the ant queen’s subject consciousness will retract to the spirit eating island. Then, Victor immediately destroyed the artifact crystal “anjelina’s grief”. The ant queen had no time to rediscover her consciousness. Since then, she was sealed on the spirit eating island and could not affect the ant colony of the main material plane, which was equivalent to extinction.

When Victor can also destroy the artifact crystal first and cut off the queen ant’s way back. Only the queen ant man can continue to control the ant colony until the carrier he came to dies. Although the final outcome of the ant man queen is no different, the human country is bound to suffer his crazy revenge, maybe a few years, maybe decades, or even hundreds of years.

This is the worst consequence. All Victor’s previous efforts have become meaningless. Therefore, he had no choice but to do his best to complete the feat of sealing the queen ant man.

Victor didn’t expect that the queen ant man had the ancient artifact of “death wings”. Now, the killing will of “death wings” locks Victor’s soul, and the carrier of the ant queen has the ability to kill him.

Victor is not sure to quickly kill the ant queen with the “wings of death” under the condition that the ant Legion is eyeing. On the contrary, it is easier for the queen ant man to kill his highness Randall with tens of thousands of ant family members.

He had to change his plan without hesitation, inspire Miller’s divine magic ring, maintain his soul structure with the last divine shelter, display the spiritual balance, mobilize the power of the wind element sea, summon the terrible tornado storm, sweep the ant legion of the Assyrian temple, cut off the claws and teeth of the ant queen first, and then kill his carrier.

In just a few tens of seconds, the tornado storm with mental damage destroyed tens of thousands of ant soldiers. The storm blocked the inside and outside of the temple, and the ant families hiding in the main nest dared to come out. Victor and the queen ant man form a one-on-one situation. However, Victor can’t hold on for too long. In two minutes at most, his energy will be exhausted. I’m afraid he doesn’t even have the strength to walk, let alone kill the four armed ant man.

The good news is that the wind disaster has been formed, and the air flow depends on its own inertia. Even if Victor stops controlling the wind element now, the tornado storm can last for some time.

The bad news is that the queen ant’s psionic shield is surprisingly strong. In the battle of the temple a year ago, the Whisperer of Silver Eagle City had a spear of void wind element, which caused more damage to the black blood master than anyone else. Victor’s current void wind element spear is extremely sharp, far more powerful than the highest level of the Whisperer spirit, but it can’t break the queen ant’s psionic defense field.

Victor’s energy is continuously consumed, but the queen ant man can seize the psionic power of the senior guard ant and supplement her psionic shield.

This is the home advantage of the ant queen. Victor can kill his opponent in a raid. If he plays head-on, he has little chance of winning.

Now, the nether wind element spear has no effect on the ant queen. Victor only has the means of nether walking to defeat the enemy.

Walking in the void, Victor fully incarnates the void wind element and grasps the spatial authority of the wind element sea. Theoretically, no object can resist space cutting, but Sylvia tells Victor with practical action that once the target resists the virtual walk, he will be dead.

Victor decided to take a risk if the ant queen lifted his “turtle shell” first.

“I said you were rejected by the power of fate, not to deceive… I’m afraid you can’t imagine who I saw in Maximo’s memory crystal?”

“… the divine Knight kgnorris, your Lord Chancellor…”

Victor’s erratic voice came from the wind, and the queen ant man screamed: “it’s impossible! Kegnoris drives the giant divine soldiers, and they will fall!”

“… you’re right.” Victor chuckled: “Lord kennorris as a part of ‘human beings’ did die… What I talked to was actually the embodiment of the will of the world. He peeped into all the chaotic future at an eternal point in time, but not me, an outsider… For kennorris, I was a variable outside my destiny. He was curious about my choice, so he asked Maximo to erase the memory crystal Content, leaving only his name… ”

“Do you know why Maximo doesn’t regret his choice when he admits that he wronged Angelina?”

“… Lord kennorris saw through your true identity, even if you didn’t realize that the real Angelina was dead, and you became a pawn of the void Protoss…”

This sentence almost hit the Queen’s heart. His psionic shield outside his body distorted, but Victor didn’t do it, because he had only one chance and had to be foolproof!

“… what choice can I have? Bearing the fate of my family, Kingdom and human country, I climb to the peak step by step. Can I betray myself and connect with alien life?! my answer is only one… No!”

The thick and dark storm, with lightning and thunder, responded to the oath of the angry wind sword saint.

“… I made a choice, Lord kgnorris’s will retreated, and the method of sealing you appeared in my mind… Yes, I can’t destroy the spirit eating island that doesn’t exist in the main material plane, but don’t forget that Sylvia can communicate with the element sea, and I can… The divine Knight can destroy the artifact crystal by the most direct and brutal means, but I don’t have to be so troublesome … I just need to unlock the rune path of the artifact crystal according to the method taught by Lord kgnorris… ”

In the endless storm, Victor showed his figure. He looked at the ant queen with a clear eye, holding the “sorrow of Angelina” in his left hand. A little dark blue was invading the interior of the artifact crystal, which was particularly dazzling.

The four armed ant man controlled by the queen ant man closed his eyes at the same time, the twelve pairs of magic patterns around his body lit up a white light, and the curved and ferocious sickle waved forward.

“Dead.”

Victor’s eyes reflected a demon more than 6 meters tall and bent like a human mantis, waving a pair of bright red sickle blades and splitting into his chest.

The virtual shadow of the demon lord comes from the depths of his heart. Victor can’t avoid it. His body and mind are instantly stiff.

“Death wings” has all the psionic power of four armed ant people, and the attack range is amazing. The bright red bone blade draws a perfect arc, and even the endless tornado storm is cut by this bright red blood like blade light.

The will to kill directly attacks the opponent’s soul; the power of destruction first destroys the law and then penetrates any form of defense. Soul hunters have killed the void Protoss with these two powers. Now they are used on his highness Randall.

The subtle tremor from the long handle of the sickle convinced the queen ant man that the blow of the “wings of death” cut his highness Randall’s armor, skin, muscles, bones and internal organs, and cut his breast into two sections.

In the storm, a pure blue light flashed through the body of the four armed ant man.

With a crisp sound of “pa”, the sickle of “death wings” broke into pieces in the hands of the four armed ant man. Victor, wearing a pair of close fitting soft armor, appeared behind it. He watched the four armed ant man’s body slide off from the middle, and then was swept into the air by the roaring wind.

Victor first took a deep breath, immediately raised the “sorrow of Angelina” in his hand, and guided the void wind element into the artifact crystal according to the correct path. When the ancient Rune crystal turned completely blue, there were fine cracks from the inside, and the golden light in Victor’s eyes gradually faded.

He flicked his fingers and let the crystal powder disappear with the wind. Finally, a happy smile was outlined at the corners of his mouth. He muttered to himself: “now, the coordinates connecting the main plane of Shiling island are gone… Your majesty, we will never see you again!”

The violent wind is still roaring. When the strong airflow blows over the angry wind sword saint, it gently surrounds his body. Victor couldn’t restrain his deep joy and finally couldn’t help laughing.

He defeated the most powerful old enemy since his birth and had every reason to laugh. It was just a little cool on his chest. Victor looked down and found a circle of flat cracks in the silver inner armor mixed with a little Saron magic iron.

Victor ordered the alchemy auxiliary soldiers to specially create this close fitting inner armour, wear it on the body every day, and often fill it with void wind elements, hoping to leave their own will mark. Now, this close fitting inner armor withstood the test of walking in the void, and finally made Victor avoid the embarrassment of being naked, but it was damaged by the breaking force of the “wings of death”, leaving fracture marks and hanging desolately on the owner’s body.

Victor could not help but turn his eyes to the stone slab not far away. Two old bone edge sickles were inserted on it. He endured the baptism of the storm and was not swept away by the airflow like the body of the four armed ant man.

“Death wings” do have the characteristics of living. At the last moment, their long handled giant sickles were broken by Victor. It seems that they consciously mobilized the last trace of psionic power and nailed them into the ground slate to resist the rolling of the storm.

Perhaps, they are not willing to sink here and want to change their master; Perhaps because of the effect of soul absorption, the four armed ant man has a trace of self-consciousness before he dies. He instinctively wants to hook the ground to prevent himself from being swept away by the wind.

Victor went over, took the “spirit snatcher” and “blood drinker” off the slate, smiled and said to himself: “Do you know that I’m not just a sun elf… Unfortunately, the priority of the power of destruction is lower than my empty walk. Even if the soul hunter is reborn, I can kill them, not to mention these two broken bone edge sickles… Forget it, I’ll find you another master.”

After putting away two ancient artifacts, Victor went to the broken stone throne. He pushed away the dumped stones and pulled out the elemental Rune long sword deeply submerged in the stone floor. Another artifact pressed by the sword handle – “the heart of the goblin Queen” also rolled into Victor’s palm.

After two years and ten months of expedition, Victor’s greatest harvest is of course the spiritual balance, which indicates that the mind master has stepped into the highest level. Two ancient artifacts, plus the alchemist’s element Rune long sword, can only be regarded as additional booty. If the value is concerned, the element Rune long sword is still on the ancient artifacts, which depends on whether the university students in the human country can restore the corresponding skills Art.

In addition, the storm called by Victor killed at least more than 100 low-level guard ants. Their soul fire was absorbed by No. 7 alchemy tower, which was a small harvest.

As for the ancient knowledge and imperial secrets mastered by the queen ant man, Victor was actually greedy, but he could only sigh.

However, the family backbones carefully cultivated by Victor are still alive. Although the value of the sacrificed alchemy creatures exceeds one million kingsol, and even the red dragon maid Leila died, it is generally gratifying.

After converging on his complex mood, Victor is ready to leave the temple to pursue and kill the war Ant King taorminos. The queen ant man, an old monster who has lived for more than 20000 years, is imprisoned in Shiling island. Once the war Ant King dies, the ant family loses its commander, the division is inevitable, and the threat to the human horse hills is naturally relieved.

Victor walked to the edge of the top platform and suddenly noticed a strange thing. The terrible tornado storm was still raging on the lonely peak of the temple, but the interior of the azolta temple was silent, like a quiet tomb.

He wrinkled his long straight eyebrows and smelled a light and profound fragrance between his nose, which was very comfortable. This wonderful smell should not have appeared in the storm. Victor also realized that it was not a real smell, but a spiritual illusion, but he couldn’t help looking at the source of the smell.

Victor looked through the tornado storm, through the ridge without any snow, and then he “saw” a tunnel dug by ant man.

In the underground nest, the thick darkness gathered in the middle like a tide and retracted a huge insect egg. Inside the insect egg, there was a beautiful creature that could not be described. His lower body was a huge spider covered with mysterious purple patterns; his upper body was a female elf, with smooth and flawless skin, graceful body lines and tall and pointed ears Flowers, gorgeous and supple purple hair, exquisite face, combined with the spider body, not only don’t feel strange, but there is a thrilling charm.

Victor “saw” that his curved eyelashes trembled slightly, as if he would wake up from his sleep in the next second.

An invisible silk thread connects Victor with the beautiful creatures who are half spiders and half elves. The dark tide spreads towards Victor’s heart along this silk thread. Victor is like a nightmare. He knows something is wrong, but he still expects him to open his eyes and look at himself.

Victor has lost control of his body and seems to have a powerful instinct to make him give in. X-3 is struggling with fate and searching for all ways to get rid of the dilemma. Countless pictures flash in her mind, and then freeze on Sylvia’s beautiful face like anger and joy.

Sylvia’s beauty was unmatched. Victor imagined his lover’s voice and smile, as if he heard a “collapse”, and the invisible spider silk broke. He immediately regained control of his body. His face was pale and bloodless, but he also felt very lucky. He said to himself with lingering fear: “it’s not an empty Protoss, is it… Lady spider?! Sylvia baby, if I can go back alive, I will love you better…”

With that, he jumped into the storm without hesitation, displayed his light body and the wings of the wind spirit, and drove a torrent of wind elements to wrap him and fly away into the distance.

The tyrannical master of the soul ran away without looking back at the moment.