Twilight War

16

Black Widow put her hands on Aquinas' shoulders, "Are you ready?"

Aquinas smiled with the corners of his lips picked up. Of course, I have been preparing for this moment for a long time.

"Before that, let me ask you one last time, don't you regret it?" the woman under the black robe asked.

"What is there to regret? Divine life, that is something I have been seeking for 20 years." Aquinas said.

The woman raised her head slightly, she didn't know what she was looking at, and there was a sad expression between her brows and eyes.

"Divine life...but you don't even know what God is." The woman looked down at Aquinas. At that moment, her eyes were like the Virgin Mary in the church pitying the Son of God.

"I don't know what a god is, but what a human being can't do, a god should be able to do," he said.

Aquinas raised his hand, wanting to drip blood into the formation.

However, the next moment, the gorgeous curtain of the theater was suddenly cut off.

The scarlet curtain fell, revealing a young man standing on a high platform holding an ancient sword.

Aquina looked up at Huangxuanjin who held the sword in his backhand.

"Sorry, the horses and horses are exhausted, I'm a bit late." Huang Xuanjin looked up at Aquinas and the Black Widow under the sacred tree, "However, if I don't come, this drama shouldn't start early."

Huang Xuanjin stood in the middle of the stage, with scarlet eyes.

"What are you doing here? Are you here to watch me bring down an army of ten thousand chariots to destroy this world?" Aquinas grinned grinningly as he recited words from a play, and then pressed his index finger, dripping blood on the golden branch.

Huangxuan Jin didn't look at him, he looked at Carter who was leaning against the tree of the gods, "Carter, are you here too?"

Golden veins emerge from Aquinas like a plant.

He looked down at the hands with swollen veins, feeling something slowly burning in his veins.

"Is this the path to becoming a god?"

Black Widow nodded, "It will hurt a little, but it will pass soon."

"No...not at all." Aquinas said obsessively: "There is no pain at all."

Black Widow frowned, "Why?"

Aquinas looked back at the black widow with a manic grin, "I will become a god!"

"Since then, no one can surpass me." He looked at Black Widow with a manic smile, "No one can look down on me anymore, no one can despise me."

"No one..." For a moment, he seemed to cry bitterly.

Numerous memories of struggling and suffering flashed back in front of his eyes.

A priest walking among refugees with mud on his red cassock.The burning flame, the woman in the white shirt covered in blood in the flames lowered her head and looked sadly.

The black widow stepped back in panic.

"What happened to him?" Huang Xuanjin yelled and asked the Black Widow.

"He...became undead." Black Widow looked at Aquinas in astonishment.

The beast-like sharp claws broke through Aquinas' back, and five walking arms grew out of his back, and his face began to deform, as if it had been rubbed.

The undead are the ancient beasts that first existed in the courtyard, and they hibernate under the mountains of the earth.

Earthly killings mean nothing to them.

They have a life that can never end, but life is a great pain for them.

"Did you turn him into something like that?" Huang Xuanjin jumped off the stage.

"It's not me, it's his greed and pain. I've carefully designed it for so long, so it's all destroyed like this?" Black Widow said: "Kill him before his second mutation, otherwise Vehip Er and Sharktail will never wake up."

"Carter, go and guard the outside, don't let those people come over." The black widow turned her head and said to Carter.

Carter nodded, got up and walked towards the tunnel.

"When did she listen to you so much?" Huang Xuanjin looked at the black widow and said.

"You gave her to me in the first place, didn't you?" Black Widow said.

"Think about how to deal with this thing first." The black widow turned the bong in her hand, and countless vines broke through the ground in an instant, but were torn open by the monster transformed by Aquinas in an instant, and the green branches fell to the ground. As the undead thing swooped towards them, the torn vines grew again and entangled the undead thing's limbs tightly.

The undead struggled frantically among the vines.

"Can you briefly tell me about the situation here?" Huang Xuanjin said while clenching the ancient sword in his hand.

"what?"

"Story background, character setting, plot development and so on." Huang Xuanjin shrugged and said, "Obviously, you are the mastermind behind this story. It stands to reason that there should be a bunch of tragic character settings and completely reasonable motivation."

"I know you've already talked to that guy, Vihipel, before I came here. It's going to be a bit annoying to tell me again."

"But who made me come so late, I seem to have missed the first scene. So please briefly introduce the previous plot for me."

"If you let a late-comer to watch it in such a dazed way, the whole ticket will be wasted."

"Huangxuanjin, you are still so...sick." Black Widow frowned and said.

"Yeah, of course I'm sick. That's why you keep me by your side all the time, isn't it?" Huang Xuanjin half-closed his eyes and chuckled, his eyes seemed to be fascinated by smoke.

"Iden. I am the God of Asgard, Iden, who survived the first twilight battle." The black widow breathed out, "As a protoss, if I want to live forever, I have to keep giving up my soul. Those who sin, and then devour other people's souls to complement themselves. For thousands of years, I have turned the sins I have cut off into golden branches and put them into the bodies of my colleagues. But the golden branches will continue to corrode their souls, so every few decades , I have to find another companion.”

"It's like the goddess Athena chose her priest and the king of the forest." Huang Xuanjin asked the black widow with her head tilted.

"Yes. This time, the king of the forest I chose is Aquinas." The black widow said, "But it seems that I failed this time."

"Then I understand." Huang Xuanjin pulled out the ancient sword at his waist, and rushed towards Aquinas who had broken free from the vine.

He already knew the previous situation, so he should be on the stage to perform the next drama himself!

The ancient sword cut off one arm of the undead thing, and the green blood fell on the ground, scalding a huge scar on the ground.The rest of the ancient beasts seemed to smell the breath of fresh blood, and slowly walked over here.

Huangxuan Jin jumped to the side of the Black Widow, "Are you sure to kill this thing, so that Wisipel can wake up?"

"That's the only way." Black Widow said, "Otherwise, they'll be stuck in the past forever."

"That's good. I don't like people who watch a drama and see half of themselves but fall asleep first." Huang Xuanjin said, he looked at the undead that was struggling constantly because of the great pain, and another newborn arm came out of it. It grew out of the wound.

"What did you call this thing just now?" He asked with a frown.

"Immortal." Black Widow exhaled.

Huang Xuanjin looked at the Black Widow up and down, as if to say something.

The black widow cut her own palm and dripped blood on Huangxuan Jin's sword, "God's blood can kill it. After all, God is the new ruler of this world after the undead."

"I really don't want to believe that guys like you are gods." Huang Xuanjin said mockingly.

"Today's God is just an image created by you humans." The black widow said: "We used to be a race that was slaughtered from the ancient beasts."

"Doesn't he also want to be a god?" The black widow looked at the struggling and screaming undead and said, "It's just that what he wants to be is the god in his imagination."

The omnipresent, absolutely rational God.

"Actually, Vichypel is the same as him." The black widow looked at Vichypel, who was still in a coma, "I believe that God should be absolutely rational, that God should represent justice in the world, and that Thought God was order. Except that Aquinas was mortal, and he..."

She turned her head and found that the boy had already charged up again with his sword. She shook her head and thought, can't she finish listening to others?

"The so-called god is just one of the myriad things in this world struggling and living." The black widow looked at the ugly monster and said with a chuckle almost lamenting.

The eye of the undead was like a burning flame.

Huang Xuanjin swung his sword and slashed at the undead thing. He looked into the eyes of the undead thing, but at that moment, he seemed to be dragged into a certain painful realm.

He quickly looked away, but at that moment, he felt that this feeling was inexplicably familiar.

It's like it happened somewhere a long time ago.

Hot blood splashed on his body.

"Don't be distracted." The black widow twirled the bong in her hand, everything grew,

She dripped the blood on Huangxuan Jin's sword again, "There are only three chances for the divine blood to make it stop regenerating, don't waste the divine blood like this."

"It's very violent now." Huang Xuanjin said.

"You have to cut off its head directly." Black Widow said.

Huang Xuanjin looked at the head of the undead thing that was as high as a giant snake, "Then I'm afraid it will have to lower its head by itself."

"You concentrate on dealing with it, and I'll take care of the mess next to it. Also, what did you see just now." She asked Huangxuan Jin.

"Nothing." Huang Xuanjin said.

"Is there nothing?" Black Widow seemed a little puzzled.

"Wait, don't touch those ancient beasts. You deal with this undead first." Huang Xuanjin jumped off the high platform occupied by the undead as if he suddenly remembered something.

"Why, let a woman stand in front of you?" The black widow smiled mockingly, but still summoned countless vines to entangle towards the undead.

"Shouldn't gods stand in front of mortals?" Huang Xuanjin looked at those scarlet-eyed ancient beasts.

He remembered a long, long time ago, during the trial of the Valkyrie Sword in the Arthur Empire.

That huge frost giant had the same scarlet eyes as these ancient beasts.

Only at that time, he could still see the 36th Street where the blood flowed in Qinhuai and the corpses piled up in the eyes of the frost giant.But now he can't see anything.

All that was left was the shuddering pain, which never changed.

He looked at those ferocious ancient beasts, and clenched the ancient sword in his hand.

An ancient beast like a wolf and leopard rushed towards him, and the moment he passed by, he looked into the scarlet eyes of that ancient beast.

——Burning flames, scattered injections, closed doors.

Countless pictures flashed through his mind.

Is this what you used to be?

The ancient beast fell to the ground.

He looked into the eyes of the ancient beast, which was struggling in pain.

"—kneel down."

The boy holding the sword read these two words like a king.

The ancient beast prostrated in front of him in pain, like a conquered wild wolf worshiping the wolf king.

The boy walked through the herd.

His eyes gradually turned red like flames.

——The cloth strips tied to the pipe, the wine mixed with the silver of the great abyss, the blade that pierced the chest.

Little by little, he accepted the most painful memories of those people.

The beasts prostrated themselves before him.

The black widow looked at Huangxuan Jin, and for a moment she suddenly remembered the boy named Loki.

That was after Odin had become the king of gods, they came to the atrium to see if those humans survived.

They made fun of Odin for finally bringing the boy out instead of keeping him hidden deep in the Golden Palace.

But they encountered a group of ancient beasts, and just as they were about to kill those ancient beasts, the young man walked in front of those ancient beasts.

His eyes were like burning flames, and he looked at those ancient beasts.

Beasts bow down before him, and he is like a new king.

He passed through the herd, and the new king was worshiped by all his ministers.

"--stand up."

Huang Xuanjin said loudly among the herd.

The crawling ancient beasts slowly stood up.

"Black Widow, let me go." He said to the woman.

Black Widow turned sideways, Huangxuan Jin waved his hand suddenly among the beasts, and those ancient beasts rushed towards the undead like his servants.

Those ancient beasts were biting the body of the undead.

Huang Xuanjin held the sword in both hands, slowly separated his legs, and lowered his upper body slightly.

That's the opening gesture of a two-handed sword.

In the sword house of the Huangxuan family, he was taught by the standards of the young master Huangxuan.

But now, even though he hadn't held the sword a few times for several years.

But everything has become muscle memory.

He squinted at the struggling undead.

—Look at me, bastard.

The scarlet snake eyes flowed like blood.

——He watched his mother being put on the cross in the name of a witch, that woman was so gentle, she would knit clothes for him at night while telling him the story of the Son of God.The Son of God fed the crowd with five fish and two cakes, and his hand stroked the blind man so that the blind man could see.But she was called a witch because he was not her own son.

He was just picked up by a woman.They say women are witches who abduct children.

——He was sent to the monastery, and he followed the priest who taught him to relieve the refugees.

But the priest couldn't get enough food, so he could only read the scriptures over and over again, doing ritual confession for those who died.He walked through the rubble thrown by the refugees.

At last he died, among the stones, like a sinner who is stoned.

He stood beside the priest's body in his teaching uniform.

The little beggar next to him asked him, "Why, do you think your god is useless?"

He didn't speak.

The little beggar looked up at him with his hands propped on the ground, "God, he is just a guy who hides behind the clouds and teases all living beings."

"I'm going to be a god," he said suddenly.

The little beggar looked at him in surprise, as if he thought he saw a madman.

"The current god is simply a waste, I want to become a god, a new god." He said.

"What can't be done by human beings, should be able to be done by God."

The undead screamed almost in pain, and he threw all the ancient beasts away from him.

It has to become a god, and only by becoming a god can everything change.

An omnipresent, absolutely rational god.

"—kneel down."

Huangxuan Jin raised his head and pulled away from those painful pasts. He looked at the struggling undead and swung his wrist downwards. The head of the undead hung down with his movements.

Huang Xuanjin gritted his teeth and charged towards the undead thing, the heavy ancient sword fell down.

However, when he was about to touch the head of the undead thing, he suddenly stopped the sword.

Blood dripped from the ancient sword, scalding ugly scars on the neck of the undead.

The undead bowed its head obediently despite the great pain it endured.

"Why, don't you want to save Vehipel and Shark Tail?" Black Widow looked at Huangxuan Jin and said.

"After I cut off its head, I will become a monster like it." Huang Xuanjin said while holding the sword in his hand. "No, you will gain a real, divine life." The black widow looked at the boy and said, "From the very beginning, you are the king of the forest I have chosen."

"Actually, it was not the golden branch that made the children who followed me die. It was their own sins. After all, it is harder for us to forgive ourselves than to forgive others." With Huangxuan embers.

"So, just find someone else to bear all the guilt." Black Widow said: "The guilt of killing those refugees is on Aquinas, and the guilt of instigating this ritual is on Vihipel and Sharktail. "

"Then what about me?" Huang Xuanjin asked.

"No. You don't need to bear anything. You just need to accept the ultimate divine life." The black widow said: "Just kill Aquinas, and you can get the divine life."

"I killed someone with my own hands."

"It doesn't matter, this is the ceremony. The sin of the ceremony will be borne by Vihipel and Sharktail." Black Widow said.

"It sounds like I'm taking advantage of the huge advantage. I can spit out the hook after eating the bait." Huang Xuanjin said as if he thought it was funny: "Can others bear my own sins?"

"Everything goes to pay for the injustice of others," said the Black Widow.

"Since you will tell me everything, it is a bet that I will kill Aquinas, right?" Huang Xuanjin asked.

"Yes, if you don't kill him, Vihipel and Sharktail will never wake up. They will always sink into the past." Black Widow said.

"Could it be that if I kill him, they can live?"

"Of course, it's just that they will bear some sins, and those sins will turn into golden branches and gradually corrode them. But this process will take 30 years, which is no different from the lifespan of ordinary people."

Huang Xuanjin jumped down from the high platform, and he picked up Vehipel's collar.

He looked at the man with cold eyes even when he was asleep.

"It's unforgivable to fall asleep alone after watching a drama halfway through."

The scarlet eyes of the ferocious undead thing behind him began to burn again, and it opened its bloody mouth full of fangs and rushed towards Huangxuan Jin, as if it wanted to swallow him whole.

The black widow swung the bong, and countless vines bound the undead thing tightly, pulling it back entirely.

"I guess you didn't kill Dutt either, did you?" Black Widow asked.

Huang Xuanjin didn't answer her.

"You, it's always like this. I can't tell whether it's kindness or cowardice." The black widow said: "You are always merciful like this. If you can't do it, it will kill you one day."

"I just want to give them a chance to live." Huangxuanjin turned Vichypel's head and let him lean on his chest: "...and give myself a chance to die."

"If they take advantage of that opportunity to kill me, they will help me make a decision." He cut the man's palm with a dagger, then cut his own, and joined the two wounds together.

Blood flowed from the palms of the two people.

That young man, even when he was desperately struggling to survive, there was still a little lazy thought in his heart that he might just die like this.

Even for the matter of being alive, he always thinks about stealing and playing tricks.

Those people said that he was depraved and desolate, and they wished him to draw his sword again to live and die.

But in fact, he didn't even think about whether he really wanted to continue living.

So what can you expect from him, you don't even know when he can't think about it and die by himself.

If you miss one, he just falls.

"What are you doing?" Black Widow asked in surprise as she looked at the boy.

"I'm tired, and I want this guy to wake me up for a while." Huang Xuanjin said, "One for one, does it conform to your rules?"

"Of course, I also brought the toll." He took out the secret gold that Vehipel bought from the auction from his arms and threw it on the line.

He took out a page in his arms that was torn from the booklet of mysterious events in "Empire's Amorous Love History", stained blood from the ancient sword, and added two strokes on the array according to the page, "It should be That’s right, that’s right.”