Endless Debt

"I never really sympathized with Elsa's thoughts at that time. Under the iron horse of eternal night, the homeland she was familiar with fell one after another, covered by the dark and gloomy iron curtain, and everything she loved was burned to the ground.

Aisha doesn't care about her political stance, or who rules the kingdom or territory. She just hates us, hates us immortal night tribe. We have an enviable long lifespan, but we use this infinite time to Do something blasphemous. "

At this point, Sere couldn't help but think of Aisha's scolding and repeated.

"It does not engage in production, does not have any artistic creation, and has no meaning of existence... Maybe the Night Clan also has a meaning of existence, and this meaning is the survival and reproduction that are closest to the primitive instincts of living things. Apart from that, it is useless. Like a group of cancer cells proliferating wantonly."

The harsh words lingered in Sere's ears. He closed his eyes in pain, and peeled away the scab on the wound little by little, revealing the bloody side again. The wound was so fresh, as if it had never healed.

"I can understand Aisha's words, and I can understand what she means. The beautiful world she is familiar with is being swallowed up by darkness little by little. What makes her even more desperate is that she is actually a member of the darkness, and so are her children.

Elsa wanted Olivia to see the world she had seen, and she wanted me to escape my father's control and find something to truly live for.

She is a gentle person and has too many beautiful expectations for me, Olivia, and the world.

The stronger that beautiful vision became, the more unbearable Aisha was to the current situation of the Eternal Night Empire. In the endless despair and depression, she thought of many ways... such as tying me with Olivia and trying to wake me up with a child. conscience, I regret that I let her down. "

Sere's eyes were cold. He could understand the reason for the matter, but he could never have too many emotions towards Olivia. Sometimes Sere felt that this was not Olivia's problem, but his own.

Since the destruction of the Eternal Night Empire and the destruction of all the good things in Sere's heart, his heart has completely withered away and no longer has any ups and downs.

“I disappointed Elsa, but that didn’t stop Elsa from changing the status quo.

She knew that she had to do something, no matter whether she succeeded or failed, she had to do it. She could indeed spend the long and prosperous years peacefully, but if she didn't do this, the long time would become Her prison, and her conscience will become a punishment, tormenting her infinitely.

She could no longer bear what Elsa had to do, and she no longer had the slightest hesitation. "

Sere's words suddenly stopped for a moment. At some point, his scarlet eyes were covered with a thin layer of mist, and his body was curled up, as if to protect all the fragile parts of his body.

"After that... After that, the expansion of the Yongye Empire was restricted. It was those extraordinary families and secret societies who united together to block Yongye's cavalry under the Fengyuan Highlands, in the land full of ether. In the plateau, the continuous howling wind blows the dark iron curtain, preventing it from moving even half an inch.

We were unable to attack for a long time and were firmly nailed here. In the following time, more and more troops gathered here. My blood relatives and all the Night Clan lords arrived on this battlefield... Even my father, the Night King. "

Sere smiled self-deprecatingly, "A local war kept rising, and finally turned into an ultimate decisive battle concerning life and death."

The memory came to a critical point, and a ray of golden sunshine continued to amplify in Sere's mind. It was so intense that it seemed to cross time and space, burn Sere's memory dry, and annihilate his body along with it.

"The military strength of both sides has reached its limit, and the battle that will determine the fate of the world is imminent. On the eve of the decisive battle, Elsa met the Night King with a blood-draining dagger."

This was the past that Sere didn't want to recall the most. When he talked about it, he seemed to have lost the ability to speak, and he stumbled when he spoke.

"I don't know the specific process, but from the subsequent investigation, it is obvious that Elsa tried to assassinate the Night King. Her idea was very beautiful. She only needed to kill the source of the sinful blood and kill the top of the terrifying food chain. If it exists, then everything in the Eternal Night Empire will end.”

Sere laughed blankly, "She always said that I was naive. She is the most naive one, right? She actually thought that killing the Night King would end everything. After one Night King died, another Night King appeared. , As long as the cowards who are afraid of death are still there, Yongye's empire will definitely continue.

Besides, what power does she have against the Night King, who is the Glory One? "

Sere himself didn't notice that his face was full of calm, but delicate tears soaked his eyes. He seemed to be a person who couldn't cry, but at this moment he shed tears inexplicably.

Sai Zong asked in a low voice, "Is this the opportunity for you to betray Yong Ye?"

Sere did not answer his words. He looked at the bonfire, struggling in his heart. Sere took a long breath, as if he finally had the courage to face these memories, and he continued to talk.

"When I learned the news, Aisha was already under control. I wanted to save her, but she looked at me viciously, as if she were looking at an enemy... I knew that what she wanted was not to live. , but to end it all.

Yes, I should step forward, act with her, and then find an opportunity to kill my father, but... But I can't do it. "

Sere hated himself at that time, "I just stared at her blankly, letting her be taken away by the Night King to enforce the law."

Sai Zong judged indifferently, "What a complete coward."

"what can I do!"

Sere stood up suddenly, "He is my father, the cornerstone of the Eternal Night Empire, the source of immortal blood, and she is just...just..."

Sai Zong still had that cold expression, "You are trying to excuse your own weakness."

"You're right, Sai Zong, I'm just trying to excuse my weakness."

Serei sat back on the sofa in despair, holding his head in his hands, leaning forward, eyes downcast.

"I am indeed a coward. No matter it was then or now, when I think back on all this, my first reaction is to defend myself." Sere looked at Sai Zong in pain, "Sa Zong, I hate myself. I myself hate myself looking like this.”

Sai Zong did not speak, but for once he could understand what Sere was thinking. He and his master hated him equally. Their hands were covered with blood. No matter how they were washed, even if a layer of skin was peeled off, the bloody The sticky feeling is still with me and I can't get rid of it.

The angry seek peace, the coward seeks courage.

"Aisha, Aisha refused my visit. In her last moments, she chose to be alone. At dawn, under the witness of other pure-blooded night tribes, she found herself in a deep well."

Sai Zong guessed the punishment that greeted Elsa.

"Daylight Punishment."

Sere closed his eyes in pain, and those memories came back. They crawled out of the tomb of memory, with rotten flesh and soil hanging on their dry arms. They scrambled to knock down the tombstones, wailing incessantly.

He remembered that day, the day that was engraved in the depths of his soul.

Aisha had a long-lost smile on her face, and that smile was so gentle that Sere couldn't help but recall her appearance when he first met her.

At that last moment, Aisha didn't curse Sere, nor did she hate Sere. On the contrary, she hugged Sere forcefully, as if the two of them were facing each other's emotions for the first time, and their flesh and blood seemed to be glued together. Together, our hearts are close to each other.

"Don't be sad, Sere," Elsa said, "I'm just chasing the value I'm looking for."

value?

Sere doesn't understand the value at all. Is there any value that requires the sacrifice of one's life? Isn't life the highest value?

The immortal who was born with immortality could not understand Elsa's devotion at all. It was at this moment that he realized that he still did not fully understand everything about this woman... and he had no chance to understand it.

"Take care of Olivia, she is the link between you and me, and the link between you and the world."

Aisha ordered, Sere's expression was full of confusion and confusion. He didn't understand what ties and connections were, let alone what this had to do with Olivia.

All of Sere's love for Olivia came from the overflowing part from Aisha. After Aisha left, Olivia became dispensable to him.

"Admit your fault to him, Elsa," Sere urged nervously, "Submit to him, and you will survive."

Aisha gently rubbed Sere's head like a mother comforting her child, and said in a soft voice, "It's okay, Sere."

"what are you saying?"

"Everything."

Elsa kissed Sere and whispered in his ear, "You are a good boy, you are just not ready yet."

"But I believe..."

"I believe that one day, you will be ready."

After saying her final farewell, Aisha turned around and left resolutely, stepping into the deep well.

At dawn, a corner of the dark iron curtain cracked, and a bright ray of sunlight, like a giant sword swung by the gods, penetrated into the deep well and dispersed all the shadows.

Sere stood at the edge of the well. He could hear the painful screams coming from below, and he could also hear the popping sound of the oil on his skin being scorched. The air was filled with the smell of charcoal and blood. Gradually, the woman could no longer bear it. Hold on, desperate wails resounded.

Daylight punishment.

This is the most cruel punishment for the pure-blooded Night clan in the Eternal Night Empire.

Due to changes in the angle of direct sunlight, except at noon, there will always be a small shadow in the deep well, and this shadow will become an opportunity for the pure-blood night tribe to survive.

When the sun rises in the morning, her body will be scorched and burned bit by bit, but the flesh and blood hidden in the shadows will be fully active. With the noble pure blood, the powerful self-healing power will match the sunshine. The burn remains flat.

When noon comes, the sun completely covers Shenjing, and she no longer has any hiding place. The strong sunshine will bake her body evenly, her skin will turn into coke, her eyeballs will be evaporated, and her beautiful appearance will become withered. , all the hair strands disappeared.

Fortunately, the midday sun penetrated the dark iron curtain, and its light was not intense. Although it was enough to kill the low-level night tribe, for a pureblood like a woman, this level of sunlight could not completely obliterate it. Drop her.

After noon, the woman's whole body was almost turned into charcoal, but she still had a breath and a glimmer of life. When the sunset came, shadows appeared again in the deep well where she could hide. Her flesh and blood healed quickly under the protection of the shadows, and she became weak. The sun continues to burn.

Late at night came, the wails had become intermittent, and the woman completely lost her mobility in the darkness, leaving only her heart beating hard. The instinct of life accelerated its self-healing, trying to heal more wounds in the dark, waiting for the day to come. The sun comes again.

Sere has been standing on the deep well accompanying the woman. He keeps begging, hoping that the woman will surrender, just like she accepted his own blood, and live for him again.

Unfortunately, the woman's throat has been burned through and she cannot make any sound. Even if she could speak, she would not respond.

She had already sacrificed her soul once for Sere's stubborn and narrow love, and she would not betray herself a second time.

the next day……

The third day...

On the seventh day of the cycle, the woman died completely. The cycle of sunlight and night consumed her last bit of vitality and blood, turning her into dust that could not be picked up. This slow and cruel execution ended.

Sere could no longer remember how he left at that time. He only knew that he had never cried since then. Similarly, because of the woman's death, Sere felt a trace of change in his heart that had not changed. Unusual changes.

It seemed... as if something was brewing in the shadows. It struggled, tore apart the cage called cowardice, and crawled along Sere's bones, blood, and limbs, devouring all the flesh and blood along the way, and strengthening itself. body, until it completely killed the original Serei and replaced his skin.

"I collected her ashes and returned to my room in a daze. It was there that I saw the gift Aisha left for me," Sere said quietly, "It was a beautifully decorated box with a box inside. A dagger...a blood-draining dagger."

"I checked the dagger and I am convinced that this dagger can kill the Night Clan, but Elsa did not bring it to assassinate the Night King." When speaking of this, Sere had lost all emotion, "She is I did this on purpose, deliberately assassinated the Night King, and used my own sacrifice to awaken my resistance to the Night King."

Sai Zong asked, "Then...did you do those things?"

"Um."

Sere nodded candidly, with a cruel smile on his face when talking about this, "The next thing is what everyone knows. On the eve of the decisive battle, I used this dagger to slit the throats of my blood relatives, one after another, almost killing them. All the pure-blood Night Tribes were wiped out.

I then reported to the coalition forces, the distribution of the Night Clan's power, the positions of important characters on the battlefield, and even the Night King... I told everything I knew. "

Sai Zong is familiar with the history that follows. In a sense, the end of the Dawn War is the beginning of another war.

"Under your betrayal, the glorious ones of the Clerks family blew away the Dark Iron Curtain. Without waiting for a fight, the Night Clan army was wiped out in the sunlight. And you, you secretly destroyed the alchemy matrix of the Dark Iron Curtain in each area. The sunshine equally wiped out all the night tribes in the land of eternal night.

Without the protection of the dark iron curtain, overnight, the territory of the Eternal Night Empire shrank to only the royal city, and that royal city was also opened wide due to your conspiracy. "

"Is it me?" Serei asked, his eyes blurred, as if he was drunk, "I'm sorry, I can't remember that memory anymore. It's like my whole body was overwhelmed by the anger of revenge. When I regain consciousness, When you get to yourself, it’s all over.”

In the reckoning after the Dawn War, most of the Night Tribes were executed by Serre, and their punishments were surprisingly consistent.

Daylight punishment.

"There is no need for people to chop hard, the knife will not be blunted, and there will be no messy troubles. As long as the sun shines, all the bones, internal organs, and blood will turn into ashes, and they will not be clean. "Sere explained at that time, "The only bad thing is that the execution process is relatively cruel, but compared to what they have done, this can be regarded as deserved, right?"

"What about you, Serei? You have made a mistake, have you received retribution?"

Someone asked fiercely, as the most trusted eldest son of the Night King, Threi was once the vanguard of the Night Clan army. He killed countless people, captured and burned cities one after another.

Logically speaking, Sere should also be burned by the blazing sun, but it happened that he betrayed the Night Clan and helped the coalition win the war.

Now, Sere, a damn war criminal, has become a hero.

Sere didn't care about those complicated looks and curse words at all. He just started his own execution.

Before a new day came, Sere dragged the remaining pure-blooded Night Clan and nailed them to the ground one by one. No matter how they begged for mercy or cursed, Sere just kept smiling strangely and let the sun shine. Burn them to ashes.

For those who were not burned to death, Sere would not give them a last-ditch blow, but would cut his own wrists and give them his pure blood.

"Choose."

This was what Sere said most often during that time.

Some Night Tribes understood Sere's words and refused to drink his blood. Some Night Tribes were frightened by death and stretched out their withered tongues to lick the blood with difficulty.

The broken body healed itself, and then the sun rose again.

The cycle started over and over again, and on the seventh day, all the Night Clan turned into dust.

Sere stood in the pile of ashes like a sea of ​​sand, waiting quietly. He took off his light-proof robe and looked at the golden skyline gradually rising on the horizon.

No one knew what Sere was thinking at that time, not even Sere himself. But when the first ray of sunlight burned the back of Sere's hand, bringing heartbreaking pain, Sere's wandering mind Only then did he wake up.

For the Night Clan, it was unbearable pain, not only from the physical senses, but also from the absolute psychological fear. Sere almost screamed.

In pain, he thought of Elsa and what Elsa had gone through.

"You are really a brave person..." Sere repeated in a broken voice, "I'm sorry, I'm sorry."

Sere still couldn't be brave. Just like at the end of the Dawn War, he still didn't dare to face his father, nor did he dare to welcome the long-lost scorching sun. He took the blazing fireworks on his body and fled back like a mouse. into the darkness.

…

"That's the story," Sere tried to calm down. "Then I met you and came to this ghost place, day after day, until today."

"Did it take Aisha's self-sacrifice to regain your conscience and love for the world?" Sai Zong couldn't help but sigh, "It's really surprising. I'm afraid no one thought that the fate of the world had been decided by such a person. Come down."

"Conscience? Love of the world? No, no, no, Sai Zong, what are you talking about?"

Sere repeatedly objected. He had a very clear understanding of himself, "You seem to be describing me as a good person who has returned from his own way? How is that possible? I am just a scumbag and a villain. I am subverting the Evernight Empire. Not for this grand idea.”

"Then what are you doing?"

"Revenge," Sere said sincerely, "it's very simple, it's just revenge."

Sai Zong was a little in disbelief, "Oh? Can I understand that you did all this for a woman?"

"Pretty much, no lofty ideals, no awakening, I'm just seeking revenge."

Serei paused and couldn't help but cover his face, "I'm ridiculous, Sai Zong. I'm cowardly, cowardly, a scumbag, a villain... I did such a ridiculous thing for a woman. It sounds so stupid. ”

He laughed at himself as much as he could, trying to make himself less miserable, but Sere's tone still became softer and full of nostalgia.

"It's also possible...it's also possible that I really fell in love with her."

Sere put down his hand, looked above his head, and said uncertainly, "Yes, I might really fall in love with this woman and feel her joys and sorrows."

"Her passing was unbearable and unbearable...I needed to let it out, so I did."

Sere murmured, "But I still can't let go. When I think about it, if I could muster up the courage to do all this before Elsa left, would everything be different."

"I wish I could muster up the courage earlier...to take up the responsibility earlier..."

Serei took a deep breath and tried his best to smile heartlessly, "Let's talk about something happy. I have to say that compared to the Eternal Night Empire, I really like the current world."

He somewhat understood Aisha's thoughts, "People in the world are like impatient short-lived ghosts, living in a hurry, racking their brains to leave something in this world before death catches up with them. What, to prove that I existed.”

Sere thought of Palmer and the story he told about Irwin. During that disaster, until the end, Irwin did not seek a chance to survive, but stubbornly finished writing his story.

Life will eventually end, but the value it creates will remain in this world forever.

"So, all kinds of novel things appear every day, including movies, novels, stage plays, music... They contain the value of living individuals."

Serei was shocked by all this and couldn't help but sigh, "I still don't know the meaning of life, let alone what kind of value I should pursue. But at that moment, I suddenly felt that since I couldn't find it, then I would follow her path. Let’s walk.”

Sere stretched his body vigorously, and soft sounds came from his body.

"That is to say, I do have a legitimate and correct reason."

Sere repeated happily.

"For love and peace."