Endless Debt

When the uncomfortable and twisted feeling in the body gradually dissipated, the dark vision gradually became clearer. The dim light illuminated the outline of each other's figures. They stood together at the end of the corridor, standing in the tightly closed door. in front of the gate.

Faint snoring sounded from behind the door, and it sounded like a giant sleeping here.

"Leviathan."

A hoarse and harsh voice sounded, and Sai Zong on the side looked at the figure wrapped in shadow.

At this time, Leviathan not only took off his helmet, but also took off his heavy space suit. His figure looked slightly thin and thin, and he was surrounded by small schools of fish. It was like dark tar clinging to and boiling on his body, and his face was also covered in The black particles are completely enveloped, like a mass of ever-changing darkness.

In this transformation, there seemed to be countless faces overlapping on top of it.

"Saizong."

Leviathan lowered his head slightly and saluted Sai Zong. He had great respect for the scarred and loyal chosen one in front of him.

"Very interesting, Sai Zong." Suddenly, Leviathan said.

"Where's the fun?"

"Look at yourself."

Leviathan looked at Sai Zong. Sai Zong's body was covered with scars and sword marks. There were scratches as small as mosquito bites and sword scars as deep as the muscles. It was difficult to imagine the battles he had experienced. Cruelly, large areas of skin were burned and chapped by the fire. The cracks were deep and dangerous, revealing the red color of the blood, like a strange picture.

"This is your essence, but you usually pretend to be a cat or a dog," Leviathan couldn't help laughing. "Who could have guessed that your body would be like this under your funny doll costume?"

In response to Leviathan's ridicule, Sai Zong remained absolutely calm. He raised his hand and gently pressed it against the door.

"That day, he rarely calmed down. While we were celebrating around the bonfire, he sat alone in the corner and looked up into the distance."

Sai Zong talked about the long past. All the people involved were dead, and he was the only one left who remembered it all.

"I thought he was thinking deeply about strategies and formulating tactics for the next war, but he told me that he was thinking about something else."

Even after such a long time, Sai Zong could still remember that scene clearly. That face that was always angry and resolute showed the so-called...confusion for the first time.

"He asked me, Sai Zong, how many years have we been fighting. I said, I don't know either. I only know that the war will never end. There will always be endless killings waiting for us."

Sai Zong's voice gradually became softer, as if he was telling a dark and confusing fairy tale.

"Normally he would become very excited when he heard about wars and killings, but this time his eyes became more confused. He said, we have almost eternal life, but we throw it into endless destruction. He said to me again Say, Sai Zong, if one day you don’t need to fight anymore, what will you do?”

Sai Zong fell silent. He retracted his hand and turned to look at Leviathan.

"I thought about it for a long time that night. When the darkness dissipated and a hazy light rose from the sky, I still didn't come up with the answer."

Sai Zong paused for a moment before talking about his origins.

"I was born thousands of years ago. At that time, the world was far less 'civilized' than it is now. I had no parents and was a slave since I was born. They taught me killing skills and trained my will, turning me into a A warrior, I am on the front line whenever a conflict breaks out.

Usually slaves like us who commit suicide attacks never survive more than a few wars, but I'm a lucky guy and I always survive until I outlive the free men. "

"And after that?"

Leviathan asked. He knew about the existence of Sai Zong, but he had never understood the story before Sai Zong became the chosen one.

"After? It's a very ordinary story. I experienced war after war, until the scale of the war reached its peak, and almost everyone was involved... I survived again in that mountain of corpses and sea of ​​blood, and then I saw he."

Sai Zong said, "At that time, I was lying dying in a pool of blood. He stepped over the corpse and clapped his hands to me. Then he raised my hand and cheered to all the corpses on the battlefield, saying that I was Champion of this war.”

Looking back now, Sai Zong feels that the scene at that time was extremely absurd. Among the corpses on the ground, he was the only winner. However, Sai Zong did not feel excited and happy. He was still bound by the fear of death. Only he, the furious devil , only he cheered like a child.

"It sounds really evil," Leviathan couldn't help but sigh, "So many people have become slaves, countless people are killing each other, and every inch of the earth has turned into scorched earth... and all of this is just a blood game controlled by him. , just to evict the only winner."

Leviathan asked, "Don't you feel an absurd sense of ruin in your life?"

"How could it be? I was just a slave. I didn't even know how to read, and I didn't even have much thought about myself," Sai Zong said. "For me at that time, having enough food and clothing was a kind of happiness. As for becoming a His chosen ones, his slaves, it doesn’t make much difference to me.”

Sai Zong repeated again, "I am a slave."

Leviathan said, "Since then you have become his first champion, his chosen one, accompanying him through the long campaign."

Sai Zong nodded and continued, "Until that night, I couldn't think of an answer even if I racked my brain, but he didn't say a word. When daybreak, we marched and entered the next battle as if nothing happened. At war."

"Can you really pretend that nothing happened?" Leviathan asked.

Sai Zong sighed faintly, "That conversation was like a seed. It penetrated into my heart and continued to grow in the following days until it broke through the shackles."

"In the later wars, I was not as obsessed with killing as before. I began to try to find other things, such as things that could bring me the same interest as war. In fact, he was also In this way, before that night, after every war, the most we could do was collect the enemy's skulls, but later we began to collect weapons, artworks, and books.

We destroyed cities one after another, but before they burned down, we saved the most precious things in the cities. We also called them our trophies.

I no longer fight like a barbarian, but believe in the so-called honor. We have our own slogans, war songs, and military flags before charging. We even have our own brotherly culture. Everyone yearns to be buried in Tibet after death. Bone chamber..."

"Oh? This is not a good culture," Leviathan commented sharply, "but it can civilize you barbarians. This is already a good progress."

Sai Zong ignored Leviathan's sarcasm. He was used to this mean guy. Sai Zong still misses that time as it was a turning point in his life.

"It went like this for a long time, and one night, he asked me this question again. This time I was not as confused as before.

To be honest, I prefer to be a bystander than a participant in the world, to quietly observe the changes in the world. If one day I can be free from this cruel duty, I will hide in the ossuary. , accompany my brothers until they die. "

Standing in front of the gate, Leviathan listened to the snoring. As Sai Zong told it, Leviathan began to wonder about the stories they had experienced, and what exactly his angry and paranoid brother had gone through before he could It became what it is now.

Just like a place where blood and glory never ends, why did it become a decadent paradise where drunkards tell each other cold jokes?

"What about him? Has he ever thought about what he would do after giving up killing?"

Leviathan asked Sai Zong in return. He knew that his blood relative could not give up killing. This was the original sin engraved in his bones and was inevitable.

Everyone is a slave to fate, even the devil.

"he?"

Sai Zong thought for a while and then said, "He told me at that time that he was going to take a year off. During this year, we will no longer train, we will not march, and we will not provoke any wars.

He asked me to leave the Land of Endlessness, go wandering, and see the world. I would come back and give him an answer a year later. And he would leave the Land of Endlessness just like me to see if in his long life, There are answers other than war. "

"Then what?"

"Then, then I met a lot of people, in various shapes and shapes," Sai Zong couldn't help but marvel. "When I put down the sword and turned my eyes from the battlefield to the world, I realized that so many years had passed in the world. Humanity has developed so fast.

I have made many friends, many undead, and I have even invited them to come to the Land of Endlessness... In fact, the Land of Endlessness does not welcome the undead very much. In our culture, the end of a warrior is death. That will be where it all ends. "

"But you and him are immortal." Leviathan said.

"Yeah... no matter how much glory you have, you still need someone to remember you," Sai Zong continued to talk about the story of that year. "In short, I had a pretty good year that year. It was a little difficult at first, and I couldn't help it. I swung my sword, but I finally controlled myself. I went to many places and met many people that year. What is most incredible to me is that I did not kill anyone during that year."

"What about your encounter with him a year later?"

"That's exactly what I'm going to say."

There was a hint of sadness in Sai Zong's tone that was difficult to resolve, "The one-year appointment has come, and I have returned to the Land of Endlessness. Others say that I look different from before, and have become...become... More like a living person.”

"What about him?"

"he?"

Sai Zong's eyes dimmed a lot, "He is very bad."

Looking up at the towering gate in front of him, Sai Zong continued, "After he came back, he locked himself behind this gate and did not allow anyone to enter. At that time, the place was exuding violent hostility, and the light was thick. The murderous intent is enough to tear living beings into pieces. I ventured into it, fully armed, thinking that there would be terrible dangers and battles waiting for me, but it was unexpectedly quiet behind the door, except..."

Sai Zong clenched his fists silently, "Except for bursts of sad sobs."

After he finished speaking, he laughed absurdly, "In the perception of all living beings in the world, he should be an eternally furious, bloodless and tearless monster, but now that terrifying monster has devoured countless lives. I was hiding in a corner crying, I even thought I was hallucinating.

But that wasn't an illusion, he was really there, crying like a child. "

Sai Zong felt a little tight in his chest and couldn't muster the energy to speak. When talking about the past, he felt indescribable fatigue, as if he was trying to use all his strength.

"He said that he had traveled to many places and met many people this year, and suddenly discovered that besides war, there were many worthwhile things in the world.

He read some books, saw some theater performances, and made a few friends, just like I had experienced. "

Leviathan said, "Sounds good."

Sezon said coldly, "He also said that he burned the books, destroyed the theater, and killed everyone who talked to him."

The atmosphere plummeted to freezing point, and depression and dead silence shrouded the space between Leviathan and Sai Zong. In the end, only the rumble of snoring came through the door. In such a weird atmosphere, Sai Zong sneered at himself.

"He cried and laughed, and was in great pain. He said to me, Sai Zong, I can experience the so-called beauty from all things in the world, but he can't grasp these beauties. Whenever he is about to be immersed in it, that comes from the primitive His instinctive anger will urge him to burn everything to the ground, and when he wakes up, it will be like a nightmare, all the good things are gone, and only the ruins of gunpowder smoke are left."

Sai Zong said sadly, "As you said, if I and everyone in the Immortal Club are the cowards on the cliff, then he is a sad schizophrenic patient. His human side longs for beauty, but the original sin Instinct dictates that he can only execute the order to destroy."

"Can you understand the feelings of your blood relatives? Leviathan."

"He was a slave just like me, a bigger slave. After that, he began to hate war. He found that all honors were nothing. He was just a pure, despised destroyer... He once didn't love Those, but in that year, he fell in love with everything in the world."

Leviathan put away his mocking smile, and his whole body was filled with suppressed solemnity.

"Among my many blood relatives, Samuel has always been a very special one. Because of his authority and original sin, he never needs any conspiracy. As long as human beings still exist, disputes and conflicts still exist, then he will gain A steady stream of power.”

Leviathan said, "Other blood relatives are envious of his power. He can be so powerful without paying any price and take the forefront in disputes time after time."

"Maybe this is a trick of fate," Sai Zong said calmly. "Fate gave him the original sin of rage, but made his heart sensitive and soft. After just one year of sobriety, he can feel empathy and compassion for everything in the world. , in this regard, the price that you think is not worth mentioning has become a shackles that will torture him forever."

Samuel gained a glimmer of clarity from thousands of years of war. He thought in sobriety, and then gained endless pain.

"He said that he could no longer go back. He could no longer indulge in fighting like a savage or a beast, but at the same time, he could not live soberly. The twisted pain made him exhausted. He hoped that I could Help him."

Sai Zong laughed to himself, "How can I help him? I am just a chosen one. Without him, I am nothing... But I still want to do something for him. He is more than just mine. The master is also my general who has served me for thousands of years, and my friend."

Raising his hand, Sai Zong looked at his arm that was riddled with holes, "So I used my method to give him a short period of peace."

"You... and Samuel, you have dismantled the power of rage and shared the power of original sin."

Leviathan was surprised and delighted. This method had only appeared in theory, and none of his blood relatives had ever tried it.

Now look at Sai Zong's face again... that should be Samuel's face.

"I spent many years looking for many scholars, and they built a large alchemical matrix for me, which worked perfectly for this purpose. This alchemical matrix was also implanted in the Immortal Club, and they named it Lullaby. "

"I sacrificed myself. When he uses my body as a voucher and carrier, my body will become a cage, stagnant in the lullaby, and his consciousness will fall into a long sleep."

Sai Zong whispered, "Consciousness, carrier, and power are the trinity."

"You break them all up and Samuel gets a false sense of peace."

Leviathan sighed, "You are really a genius, Sai Zong. As a madman who only knows how to slash, it is really not easy to come up with such a method."

Sai Zong controlled Samuel's body, blocked his consciousness, and isolated his power in the Undead Club. In this special way, he imprisoned a devil.

Leviathan naturally knew that this could not restrain a devil, but Samuel was willing to cooperate with him.

"How long can you maintain this kind of sleep?" Leviathan asked again.

"Not long after, the power of original sin cannot be suppressed. It longs for killing, destruction, and countless wailing souls. When another round of strife comes, the blood of the world will awaken him again," Sai Zong remembered Those who offended, "not to mention someone trying to take advantage of him and want to wake him up in advance."

Recalling Leviathan's true appearance, recalling his achievements, and his possibilities... Sai Zong took a deep breath, and bright flames appeared under his cracked skin again.

"If, if you could end this, Leviathan, if you could really do it..."

Before he finished speaking, the door that had been closed for a long time made a creaking sound, and the crack in the closed door slowly opened, revealing the endless darkness inside.

"On behalf of Samuel, the Eye of Eternal Wrath, I will promise you everything you ask for."

Leviathan bowed and smiled silently.

"I'm going to do my best."