Endless Debt

Lula's secret power does not have any combat capabilities. Functionally speaking, she is more like a doctor or a psychologist. Using her secret power, she can affect the opponent's memory to a certain extent to make up for some mental stress. trauma, so that the other party can maintain a healthy mental state.

At first, this secret power was not what Lula wanted. What she longed for was a secret power similar to the source of wind, which could allow Lula to fly freely on the boundless sea. However, Lula fell in love with Nolen. , in order to take care of Nolen and heal his spirit, she chose to implant this secret power.

Relying on Lula's secret power, whenever Nolen's hallucinations attack and his spirit goes out of control, Lula will always act like a loving mother, soothing Nolen's spirit and bringing him back to peace.

Lula sometimes feels a divine sense of being chosen, and feels that she is here to cure the Motley family's nightmares, but she discovers that not all nightmares can be healed, such as Hult's nightmare.

It was a nightmare that could drive all ordinary people crazy. It cannot be cured, but can only be forgotten.

The hot ether roared in Helt's blood, and the ether sword burst out with bright light like the sun. He was not prepared to give Nolen any chance to fight back. Lebius was already here. He would not kill Nolen now. Lun, once he fights Lebius, Helt will have no chance.

Nolen couldn't see his brother, nor the deadly sword. All he could see was the absolute light.

At this moment, he didn't have much fighting spirit left, and the guilt of the past still tortured him, but in the next moment, Nolen summoned up the courage again. He couldn't just die like this. This was an escape, even if it was for Lula. Also live.

The same high-pitched ether surged in Nolen's body. At the same time, Lula reached out to touch Hert from behind. Along her cold fingertips, secret energy was injected into Hert's body along with the ether, and then affected Hurt's mind.

For a moment, the world in Helt's eyes became distorted and distorted again. Nolen disappeared, and Lula also disappeared. He left the burning Paradise and appeared on the roaring sea.

The sea was burning with rage, the wreckage of the ship was tumbling between the waves, and countless figures were struggling in the water. A wave crashed past, taking away all the sounds. It seemed that a cruel naval battle had just ended again, and it was more distant. On the sea, the burning cargo ship was slowly sinking into the sea, like a dead whale, sinking powerlessly into the deep sea.

Helt blinked. He didn't know where he was, let alone what was happening here. Everything at the moment was extremely strange to him.

He should be fighting Nolen. Yes, he made a deal with the devil and gained powerful power. He was almost able to kill Nolen... almost...

"dad……"

A frightened and weak voice rang in his ears, piercing into Helt's heart like a sharp knife.

Hurt slowly turned his head. He was on a lifeboat. In addition to him, there was his wife and daughter on this small boat.

"Helt, what did you forget?"

A voice came with the sea breeze and dissipated in the air.

"Damn it," Hurt said angrily, "Lula, are you the one doing this!"

Hurt vaguely remembered Lula's secret power. She was a bastard from the Ethereal School who played with other people's memories. He hated Lula when he first learned that Lula was treating Nolen.

Hert knew why he hated Lula. What he really hated was himself and the sinful memory of patricide hidden deep in his mind. He didn't want Lula to discover all this.

He tried to arouse the ether, but Helt found that his secret energy did not respond, or maybe it did, but he was in a hallucination, and his induction of the secret energy was blocked.

"Heart..."

The women hugged the girl tightly and hid in the stern of the boat, their eyes filled with terror.

"Shut up!"

Hurt cursed, "You're not real!"

His eyes glanced around anxiously. Because of his fear of Lula, this was the first time in so many years that Hert was captured by Lula's secret power. He didn't know how to escape from this weird hallucination. I can only use all the methods I can think of first.

Taking a step forward, Hert jumped into the sea decisively, letting the cold water submerge him. Hert's body became heavier and heavier, as if tentacles had grabbed him from the depths of the sea. He guessed He was about to return to reality, and his consciousness became hazy and fuzzy, until at the end of the silence and darkness, a ray of light lit up.

Helt felt a sense of warmth, which quickly intensified. It was like standing in front of a stove at a close distance, and gradually became unbearably hot. When he opened his eyes, the bright light almost blinded Helt's eyes.

The sky is extremely clear, and there is a blazing sun that cannot be looked directly at.

Helt was extremely thirsty at the moment, his throat was dry, and the skin all over his body was tingling, as if he had been sunburned. He stood up slowly and saw the woman and child sitting opposite him.

The woman curled up to protect the girl from being exposed to direct sunlight, but even so, the hot air continued to deprive the two of them of moisture, like a slow and cruel punishment.

"No...it's all fake."

Hult did not dare to look at that scene. His wife and daughter were living in the interior, leading a stable life, while he was fighting with others on the Paradise. Everything in front of him was an illusion created by Lula.

Is it really an illusion?

The voice of doubt whispered in Helt's mind, and he felt that he had forgotten something. Soon, like a dream, Helt forgot how he got here and everything he had done before.

The fight on the Elysium and the deal with the devil all disappeared in Helt's mind, like a cut movie, and he was cut from one plot to another.

At first, Helt was a little confused, and his consciousness was filled with an unreal feeling. But when the girl screamed feebly, the scream destroyed all Helt's random thoughts.

Helt seemed to have changed into a different person... no, he had returned to his former self.

"Emily, how are you?"

Helter was concerned about the girl, and anxiety and panic spread in his heart. He forgot about all the fights, and just wanted to lead the two of them to try to escape from this predicament.

In that fierce naval battle, Hert destroyed most of the pirates and scuttled their ships one by one, but his own ship sank irretrievably. He sent a distress signal to the people of Xitao, And boarded the lifeboat. Now it is their third day drifting at sea. Both their supplies and their mental state have become precarious.

Emily didn't speak, she just looked at Helt tiredly. It was difficult for her to survive such a punishment at a young age, even with the protection of her mother.

The woman hugged the girl. She could no longer cry. Even the sadness on her face had become numb. The woman did not look at Hert. She just lowered her head and stared at the girl's face for a long time, unwilling to let go of anything. moment.

Hurt was silent. In front of this vast sea, extraordinary power became meaningless. He could not save anyone, not even himself. The only thing he could do was to place his hope in the people of Xitao. search and rescue team.

As night fell, after the hot torture, the cold wind hit, and the girl's forehead began to feel hot, like a burning stove.

The woman could do nothing but keep touching the girl's forehead to comfort her. In the silence of the long dark night, she said with a vicious voice.

"I hate you, Hult."

Hurt stared at the starry sky numbly, as if escaping from all this, as if he couldn't hear anything.

"Damn tradition, damn duty...you know she's not used to the sea."

"I thought I could protect her."

"Then you did it!"

The woman's scolding silenced Hert, and after a long time the woman's sobs came from the darkness.

She said, "I'm sorry, Hert, I'm just a little..."

"It's nothing," Helter shook his head expressionlessly, "It's nothing."

A bright light rose on the sea in the distance, like a giant sword splitting the darkness. It swept across the dark sea and soon landed on the lifeboat. Loud whistles sounded, and the ship seemed to be In celebration, they found Hult.

Suddenly, the world froze, and the ship stopped in the distance and did not come.

The sea froze, and a graceful figure stepped forward. Standing in the darkness behind Hert, Hert felt something touching his cheek, like a gentle skirt.

"I know the next thing..."

At this time, the lost memory returned to Helt's mind. He recalled the cause and effect before and after, and narrated in a calm voice.

"We were rescued, but after this incident, Emily began to fall ill. She was always coughing and had no strength to walk. She took Emily away from me and returned to the inland life, swearing that in this life she would Neither will go near the sea, not even Emily.”

"Is that true?" the woman asked with a smile, "Don't you realize it yet? That woman named Lula, she has affected your memory."

"You...what did you say?"

"I asked, are your memories real? Or are they modified and falsely beautiful?"

The woman's voice rang in her ears. She was very close, so close that Helter could feel her warm breath, stroking the down on his cheek.

The lights of the ships in the distance disappeared, and the surroundings turned into darkness again. The woman raised her hand as if touching the sky, and then waved her arms to rotate the sky.

The change of day and night accelerated, and light and darkness quickly overlapped under Hert's gaze. Each intersection represented the disappearance of day and night. At the same time, the women and girls in front of him also became more and more haggard under the change of day and night.

Their bodies lost moisture, their skin was sunburned, and became as dry as tree bark. Their entire bodies curled up together, like maggots balled up under the heat of the flames.

"No no no no!"

Helt wanted to stop all this, but when he stretched out his hand, he found that his hands were also bloody and bloody under the endless torture.

He carefully hugged the two bodies covered with dust and skin debris, as if he would break their bodies if he was not careful. Heert kept calling their names, praying for an answer, but they had already closed their doors. Eyes, no more sound.

They were no longer there, and what appeared in Helt's arms now were just their former bodies, mummies covered in dust.

"Tell it, Helt," the woman hugged Helt's head from behind and gently stroked his cheek, "tell the truth of the story that Lula has hidden."

Herter's eyes were dull. He could not refuse the woman, just as he could not stop the memory that returned like a tide.

"They all died. Under my own eyes, they were dried into mummies by the scorching sun."

On the sea level, Nolen's rescue came belatedly. When he rescued Hert, Helt had fallen into complete madness under the influence of great grief and psychiatry.

"Lula healed me, she created a false illusion for me..."

Hurt said without emotion, "She cruelly left me a goal that I can never achieve, so that I have the motivation to live."

The woman lifted Hert's chin, causing him to look back at her. The heart-stirring beauty rushed into Hert's eyes, but this time he had no desire at all, only an almost numb sadness.

That's why Nolen kept stopping Lula. As his brother, Nolen didn't want to face this terrible nightmare again.

A cruel tenderness.

"I can grant your wish, Helt."

The woman said, "I can create duplicates of your wife and daughter. They will be exactly the same as the originals and have the same memories. You will be reunited with them again."

"But 'they' are not them after all."

"Yes, the devil can't change what has happened, but we can take advantage of it."

The woman knew that Helt did not satisfy such a wish, so she continued, "How about a dream that you can never wake up from? In the dream, you will forget all the reality and spend a wonderful life with them."

"Or... should I erase your love for them?"

The woman laughed. Her voice was so beautiful, like a peerless melody, with the power to charm and arouse people's desires.

"Yes, I can make you stop loving them, so that they will no longer affect you, and you will not be sad for them, feel guilty for them, or have any emotional fluctuations for them.

Or even say, completely erase your memory of them. They have never existed in Hert Motley's life. "

Hurt was silent for a long time, and he shook his head.

"None of this is 'real'."

"Is reality important?" The woman was puzzled. "In the final analysis, all these reactions are just physiological effects, and the secretion of hormones...are just perceptual illusions."

"No...this is different."

"What's the difference?"

Faced with the woman's question, Hert couldn't give an answer. He just felt that this was not good, "I can't make any more mistakes."

"But you have committed a heinous crime and are destined to be unforgivable. Why not give up everything?"

The woman held Helt's face from behind, feeling the intoxicating warmth from her fingertips.

"Continuing to hold on to your remaining conscience cannot wash away your sins. But if you throw it away, you will get the fulfillment of your wish - even if it is not true."

Hurt didn't respond, but the woman already knew his answer, and she loosened her hands, leaving a confused word.

"I really don't understand, is truth so important?"

The woman disappeared, and only Hert was left alone on the sea. He hugged the dry body tightly, as if he was self-mutilating, enjoying the pain brought by the memory, until the world of illusion began to collapse.

Lula's hand lowered. The secret energy consumed her aether greatly. Even if she erased the seal she had left in Helt's mind, it almost consumed all her power.

Helt stood there blankly, holding the terrifying ether sword in his hand. It took him a few seconds to wake up from the hallucination, and then his eyes fell on Nolen in front of him.

For a moment, Nolen felt that the old Hert was back, the Hert who was full of strength and ideals, but this Hert was fleeting, and a look of madness appeared on his face again, and he went crazy. He waved his sword like this, and a miserable scream sounded from his mouth.

He was like a completely crazy beast, biting randomly and destroying everything violently.

Desires, family, soul,... everything about Hert was ruthlessly played by fate. Reality and illusion were completely intertwined and overlapped, as if there were countless rats crawling and biting inside the body. It came out from under the body and emptied his skin.

The endless sadness almost tore Hert apart completely, but then this sadness was transformed into bursts of joy.

Hurt screamed and cursed himself. He should mourn for his wife and daughter, but he felt doubly happy because of their death. This was the teasing and torture from the devil.

He was going crazy and extremely happy, almost laughing.

The iron wall cracked, and the blade-biting wolf fell from the sky. The sound of tearing metal continued, and wounds bloomed on Helt's body, but what overflowed from underneath was not ether, but real blood.

It shouldn't be like this. Under the protection of Nie Chao Weile, Helt has endless ether, and he can completely maintain his ether form.

Nolen noticed the difference in Helt, and also caught the clarity and sadness in his crazy eyes.

"He's not crazy! Lebius!"

Nolen tried to stop the fighting. There were enough deaths today and there should not be more blood flowing, but his words failed to stop Lebius from killing.

A sharp sword light struck vertically, shattering Helt's proud etheric sword with one blow, and then a ferocious wound opened on his head, splitting his neck and chest, almost cutting open Most of the body.

The shattered pupils reflected the god of death falling from the sky. Lebius and the Blade-Bite Wolf overlapped, and the cold and deadly iron armor covered him.

A weak voice sounded from the broken throat, "I still...can't beat you."

Lebius responded with a cold voice, "Yeah."

The sharp wolf claw extended to stab, and Lebius penetrated Helt's heart with one blow, and then quickly pulled it out, drawing out a trail of blood.

The etheric glow on Helt's body flashed for a few times, then completely extinguished, and he knelt down on the spot, blood gushing away from the broken body, taking away the last warmth.

Nolen threw himself on Helt's body and repeatedly called his name, hoping to save his brother. Relying on the etherification, such an injury should not have killed him.

But Hult is still dead.

Nolen roared angrily, "Lebius!"

From beginning to end, Lebius's mood did not change at all, as if he had just slaughtered a crazy wild dog.

Faced with Nolen's rebuke, Lebius just responded calmly, "Animals can only be slaughtered."

Nolen's expression froze. He said nothing more and silently picked up Helt's body with his eyes downcast.

In the blood and grief, the butcher finally becomes a beast, and death brings eternal peace.