wandering in the ashes of meman

Chapter 4 4. The Hope of Leaving

Looking at the ashes in front of her, Hela's eyes were full of suspicion.

"Hey..." Ember scratched her face in embarrassment, um, or scratched her helmet, and Ashes said helplessly, "I'm sorry if you think this thing tastes bad, because undead people and so on Everything loves the smell of it."

After a pause, Ashes added: "The same goes for Ashes. Of course, I didn't just refer to me..."

"So? Maybe I should call you the Lord of Ashes?"

Hela looked impatiently at the ashes in front of her. If it wasn't for the fact that this strange guy in front of her was the only outsider she had seen in the past 5000 years who was not under Odin, Hela would have made his soul into a collection long ago... …

"And even if you say that, I don't think the so-called undead would like to drink something like magma."

While speaking, Hela glanced at the ground beside her.The golden and red liquid fell on the ground and gave off a faint halo, which felt like molten iron spilled on the ground.In this darkness, even this faint halo is particularly conspicuous.

"How should I put it..." Ashes racked his brains thinking about how he should meet this woman's explanation. "In fact, I've been wondering how on earth it's possible to fall into total death."

"Total death?" Hearing Hui Hui's words, Hela looked over in surprise.Then he said with some amusement, "Hey, you don't think it's because you saw all the people you were familiar with died, so you came up with the idea of ​​"loneliness" that only weak people have?"

"Do not make jokes!"

Hela said disdainfully: "If this is the case, I might keep laughing at you until I get out of trouble."

"Lonely? Oh, if you don't say this, I will almost forget these two words."

Shrugging his shoulders, Ashes picked up the elemental bottle thrown by Hela and took a sip. After a moment of silence, he said, "You know? There are only two kinds of undead I've seen."

"Two?"

"That's right, two types." Ashes said with a familiar finger: "The first type, the pessimist, complains about himself, squatting in a corner alone and waiting for the arrival of the fire bearer or the extinguishment of the flame." "Oh!Spread the fire?That is the work of great heroes. "This is their catchphrase..." As he spoke, Ashes raised his second finger: "The second type, optimists... No matter what time it is, they maintain a relaxed attitude when facing all these. They are willing to help others, Even strangers will greet you happily. If you are injured, they will even help you heal.”

Squinting her eyes, Hela followed Ashes' words and asked, "Why?"

"Because whether it is undead or ashes, there is no feeling."

Ember's voice was sad with a bit of mockery.That sense of sarcasm was not aimed at Hela, but at himself as an undead, or even more pathetic than an undead, as ash.

"From the moment I was born with consciousness, I didn't feel anything. Even when you pierced my heart, I didn't feel what the so-called "pain" looks like. And all the undead are or ashes, They're all the same as me." Ashes stared straight at Hela in front of him, although through the mask, Hela could feel a feeling called envy.

"Pain, itching, even the smell of food... In terms of lifespan alone, I have existed for more than ten thousand years when the Age of Fire began, but until now, I don't even know what it's like to be an AI The shitty onion knight also lied to me that masturbation might be possible, but my hands were all bald when I masturbated..." As he spoke, Ashes raised a middle finger. "When I woke up again, I was sitting next to the campfire. The fire lady guy told me I ended up bleeding to death. But I still didn't feel anything."

"Uh... that's... um... really pitiful..." Hela couldn't help but look away as she spoke, and at the same time basically forgave Ashes for giving her the element bottle... At least he Not on purpose.And judging from his life experience, this guy is indeed quite pitiful...

Shaking his head, Ashes said: "There is no pain, no pleasure. As undead, or ashes, we are not so much alive as we are watching his life from a certain person's perspective. But every time When they die, the undead will obviously feel their humanity flowing out of the gap in the ring of darkness, and even their own memories will flow out together. Everything that is cherished will be constantly forgotten... This long, silent The torment of the breath gave rise to the pessimism of the undead, or optimism. And the elemental bottle is one of the few things that the undead and the ashes can taste."

While talking, Ashes said: "Of course, besides the elemental bottle in my hand, the wine soaked with onions is also a rare treasure for undead. It's a pity that the production of onions is a bit low, even if I am a knight , I can only drink a small glass occasionally... I still miss the wine made by the fire-proof woman. Of course, it is limited to her wine, and her people are fine."

"why?"

"It's nothing, it's just a bad memory..."

After waving his hand, Ashes sighed.Looking at Hela who was sitting cross-legged in front of the campfire, Ashes suddenly remembered something and pulled out from his waist. Under Hela's curious eyes, Ashes took out a small light blue bottle.

"If you don't like element bottles, you can try this."

"?" Maybe it was because of the elemental bottle just now, for the thing Ashes took out now, Hela's face was a little distrustful and wary.

Shrugging his shoulders, Ashes said: "Although it is blue, mages prefer to call it the gray elemental bottle. The liquid inside is the cooled campfire solution in the elemental bottle. It tastes better than the elemental bottle A lot. Even a magician as an ordinary person can use it to replenish mana. But I am just a simple knight, so I only bring this to adjust the taste...Unfortunately, I have no sense of taste, so I can't describe it to you Taste. But according to the fire-fighting lady, the taste of this is a bit like iced lemon soda..."

"By the way, do you know what iced lemon soda tastes like?"

Ashes looked at Hela in front of him curiously, and took the gray elemental bottle. Hela didn't ask any questions behind Ashes, and poured the light blue liquid inside into his mouth after hesitating for a moment.The cool liquid is a highly concentrated magical element. If a mage who is not good at learning skills, even if he just takes a sip, he will enter a state of drunken magic power similar to ordinary people's drunk oxygen... But this is for Hela. , nothing.

Feeling that the magic power in her body had broken through the original state, Hela's eyes were slightly taken aback.Immediately, he drank the liquid in the gray element bottle more quickly and directly,
He let out a sigh of relief.The reason why Odin imprisoned Hela here was because there were rune inscriptions such as natural magic power exhaustion and containment.Because the magic power in the body, or the divine power, is half-full and dissatisfied all the year round.Therefore, the power that Hela can exert is far inferior to when she was fighting... The Hela back then, as long as she stood on the land of Asgard, she could continuously gain power.However, due to the restriction of the rune inscriptions, compared to the heyday, Hela's current strength can have the original four achievements. Now, Hela's strength has recovered to [-]% of the original!

It even said that without the suppression of the rune inscription, Hela's magic power might have been fully restored now!

"Is there any more?!" Hela looked calm, but from the slightly trembling palm of her hand holding the gray element bottle, it can be seen that her heart is definitely not as plain as it looks from the outside. With half of the elemental bottle left, her eyes froze for a moment, and then she muttered to herself, "You seemed to say just now... this is the cooled one in your hand..."

Hearing this, looking at Hila seemed to have a green light in his eyes.Ashes carefully raised the half of the elemental bottle in his hand and said, "I did say that, but..."

Before Ashes could finish speaking, Hela snatched the elemental bottle from Ashes' hands with a "snap"...

"I'll buy you some onion wine when you get out."

It seems to be afraid that Ashes will be dissatisfied, Hela added.

(End of this chapter)