Heartbreaker

The red-haired man kept staring at me.

The sky and the earth seemed to be surrounded by blood and black charcoal, the scarlet sky was covered with colorful eyes, and the golden-red lava was inlaid vertically and horizontally on the dark soil, like dense veins and blood vessels.He was tied naked|naked to a cross, his long flame-like hair hanging down to his waist, and the blood dripping from the wound stained the pitch-black crossbar red.A group of mating | mating vipers lay at his feet, climbing his thighs and abdomen, as if they were covered with colorful vines.

I don't know where I am, I only know that my eyes are like two faint candle lamps, reflecting his familiar face, as if he is my heartbeat and breathing, my whole world.He looked at me wickedly, his grim face gradually enlarged.I approached him, and the viper's slippery scales crawled from his tall and slender body to my limbs.We are entwined by snakes, licked and seduced by those vipers with burning passion, bumped and swayed on the cross.His red hair brushed against my skin like a sharp steel needle, cutting my flesh finely.

He hugged me tightly, his nose pressed against my neck.I stroked his red hair, and after a while I felt a lump of soft dry skin in my hand, peeled from my own palm.He licked my bloody palm and watched my skin peel off layer by layer, turning me into a bloody red man.

Ro...

He called out a name in a low voice.I was born of this.The cooled blood quickly turned into red threads and wrapped around every inch of his skin. My blood soaked his fair face. At that moment, I didn't feel the pain of separating the skin and flesh, only the pleasure|sensation and intoxication.I felt my skinless body melting, melting into viscous fat particles, passing through the stagnant air and falling into the thick pool of blood.I was glued to his flesh and blood like two melted liquid droplets, so warm and full that tears filled my eyes.

I love you.

I love you.

We exchange love words with each other, as if we have spoken to each other for infinite centuries.Then he let out a terrible growl, and I almost fell off the cross in his violent spasms.I struggled to climb his neck, and suddenly found that every muscle of mine turned into hard needles shining with golden light. They drilled out of my pores like a cluster of needles, and nailed the red-haired man to the wood of the cross. on the pile.

My disfigured face pierced his, and I screamed to leave him, but he bit off his own wrist and hugged me with his handsless arm.No, Luo, don't go—he allowed my body to penetrate deeper into his flesh. Even though there was no binding rope, he was still nailed to the confession tree, riddled with holes and blood flowing in rivers.He jolted me more violently, the pain pierced through our brains and hearts, and the molten lava under our feet boiled even more vigorously under the stimulation of blood, burning the soles of our feet.

A ball of fire roared towards us from a distance, shaking the air into several layers of heat.The flames enveloped us, the body turned to ashes, and the soul evaporated and cracked, disappearing as if it had never existed.

It's a dragon.

****

"No!"

I woke up suddenly, and covered my twitching cheeks, the palm of my hand hurt as if the skin had been cut by some sharp instrument.My mind suddenly turned into chaos, and I stared at the wall blankly, trying to find some clues from the dream that made my heart palpitate just now.

However, nothing was achieved.

It was not yet dawn at this time, and only a cool and gloomy blue was seen by the window.My skin was as cold as ever, even though my internal organs were about to twist into a ball.

"Luo." Feline called from the other side of the door, "You've been screaming, what's wrong?"

"No. It's okay, Feline, I was just having some nightmares," I yelled, covering my twitching cheek.I refused to stay at Jeremy's house, so Feline let me live with her.Jeremy occasionally comes to talk to Feline and begs me to come home.I understand what his purpose is, so every time I just do some housework for him, but I don't want to meet that woman.

"Okay." She paused and said, "It's still some time before morning, so you can take a rest."

"Well, thank you, Feline."

I heard Feilin's footsteps going away, and finally let out a long sigh of relief, and left the house quietly.The cold sky before dawn squeezed the thick clouds stiffly, and the snow from the north was whistling.I creaked and stepped on the frozen snow last night, my steps became faster and lighter.In the silence where no one was watching, I turned into a illusory undead state, floated into the air, left the sleeping Vulture City, and floated on the vicissitudes of the wall of the Great Wall of Human Bats.

"I know you hate the undead, hate me, implant fear and desire into my brain, force me to fall from the subconscious, force me to fall." I said quietly to the chilling silver-white snowstorm, "But I hope You understand that I will not hurt you, or the people you hold dear. I understand your pain, understand your resentment, and I will do my best to set you free."

The dead souls did not speak, and I could see them appearing and disappearing.They floated around me hand in hand, like a cloud of white mist, hidden in the cold wind and snow.

【We don't want relief. 】

In the white and transparent world, I heard their faint voices.

[We just want revenge. 】

Then, their sound died away, and the hurricane of snowflakes rolled up gradually fell.I looked up at the snow particles flying all over the sky, the dome as cold as thick dry paint.I sat down in a corner where there was no sound, looked at the end of the white snow line, and seemed to see a corner where the sea and the sky meet.

Not long ago, Clement was sitting alone on the roof of the inn in Huapai Town, playing the harp facing the moon and the stars.The melodious melody like flowing water echoed in my ears at this time, like a dream, and soothed my restless nerves.

There are many bright ice edges on the city wall, jagged like teeth, I pulled out one, stroked the ice surface with my fingers, and whispered a series of incantations.

This is the incantation that can be used for communication between necromancers.After a while, a misty vortex appeared on the other side of the ice surface, twisting and spreading like sand, until a familiar face appeared in front of my eyes.The lone tree where the crow rests, the dark and quiet old castle, and the pale full moon behind the top of the tower.

"Oh... my lovely little sun, why did you think of looking for me?" the mage said in a charming voice, his eyes were a little lazy, as if he had just woken up from a deep sleep.I said earnestly, "Sorry to bother you, I just had a... er, bad nightmare and wanted to ask you for enlightenment."

She said sharply, "Your master, isn't that arrogant red-haired kid by your side?"

"Well... we separated recently, and he has something to do."

"He's not very happy with you?"

"I……"

"Okay. I knew from the beginning that things would not be so simple." She said lightly, her sharp eyes caught my attention.I felt something hooked into my body, and the next moment my eyes trembled, and I landed in a quiet room.

"Long time no see, Luo." The necromancer sat behind a table, and the wide curtain covered her behind like two arcs.Small purple balls of light hovered around us like fireflies. I sat awkwardly across from her, and she took out a deck of cards from the soft woven tablecloth and placed them squarely in front of me.

I looked at her, "This is..."

"The Arcana cards used for divination, one of the ancient cards." The mage pursed his lips and smiled, "If it wasn't for my little sun's request, I wouldn't use such advanced divination."

I said gratefully, "Thank you, mage."

"You're welcome. After I do the divination for you, stay here with me for a while. I want to hear about your adventures with that red-haired boy."

As she spoke, she laid out the cardboard cards with gorgeous and complicated patterns on the table, shuffled them skillfully in a clockwise direction, and folded them into a pile.She handed the deck of cards to me, "You shuffle again at random, and stop when you feel suitable."

I nodded, and ran my fingers over the cards, messing up their overlapping order.At first, I could only feel that the surface of the card was smooth, but slowly, there seemed to be some incredible fibrous film flowing on the surface of the card.When I was shuffling the cards, the mage evenly spread a layer of purple-black fine sand on the table, and used vermilion paint to draw patterns in different directions. I looked, and it was the numbers in the ancient grammar, from one to Eight, there are eight fixed tablets.

"This is a new card formation I have researched, which is most suitable for divination of undead." She smiled and said, "I call it the 'Hourglass Card Array'."

Three cards are placed symmetrically at the top and bottom of the array, while the remaining two cards out of the eight cards are placed in the middle, aligning with the two gaps between the three cards, forming an hourglass shape.The mage snorted softly as if falling into a dream, "The world is an hourglass, time is the passing sand, and you and I are just one ten-millionth of a grain of sand..."

I said, "What a meaningful name."

"The biggest feature of the hourglass array lies in its powerful interactive ability." The mage said, "The three cards at the top represent the 'active' side, while the three cards at the bottom represent the 'passive' side, and the two cards in the middle represent the connection. The clues of both sides. Just like an hourglass, it cannot be detoured and cannot be changed."

This made me suddenly feel uneasy.Can the unchangeable facts really be revealed with just these few cards?Seeing my anxious look, the mage laughed softly, "Don't be nervous, divination is just a kind of prophecy. There is no unbreakable prophecy in the world, and naturally there will be no divination that can be fulfilled. Follow your heart and treat it piously." Can."

I obeyed the mage's words, carefully drew eight cards, and placed the cards in numerical order on the dried paint.The quiet fluorescent light seemed to flicker at the bottom of the card, and the purple-black fine sand contained magic power, which sneaked into the card and returned to calm again.

I stabilized my mind and hesitated, "Should we reveal the cards according to the numbers?"

"No need." The mage smiled mysteriously, "Just listen to your inner voice and uncover them at will."

****

I uncovered the first card.

The first card depicts a furry half-orc with a beast head and a human body, two eagle-claw-like feet grasping the stone tablet, and a pair of curved horns growing on top of a tiger and leopard-like head.The giant beast held a torch in one hand, and a man and a woman stood in front of it, with chains tied around their necks, tentacles and tails of demons, making the whole card look oppressive and dirty.

"Oh, the first card is actually the devil card." The mage laughed, "the devil represents 'temptation'. Its narrow mind breeds evil, breeds a strong desire to control and possess, and lures people to arouse their original sins and fall into evil. abyss."

She gave me a meaningful look, "The first card of the 'active' three-card array, isn't it?"

I stared silently at the devil's card and set it aside.There are many more cards, I tell myself, not to let my wavering mind confuse the magic of the cards themselves.In this way, I opened the second card in a trance, a card diagonally diagonal to the devil card, located on the passive three-card array.

"Judgment." The mage glanced at me, "It means 'resurrection'. The angel blows the trumpet of the living, and the dead people are brought back to life. I think the judgment card belongs to your type, Luo, have you been thinking about it recently? The meaning of their own existence, and try to understand this new and strange world?"

I was surprised, "Yes."

The mage stacked the two cards together, and said in a low voice, "Your judgment card appears after that guy's devil card, which is more intriguing...Go ahead and flip the cards, Luo."

Indeed, as the mage said, after experiencing the first two cards, it seemed that an invisible hand guided me to touch those mysterious cards.I followed my intuition and opened the second card in the active three-card formation.

is a tower.

"Oh, big surprise!" the mage giggled, "The worst card—tower!"

This statement makes me uneasy. I don't understand why the mage laughs like this.Smiling, she picked up the card with a picture of a broken tower, on which two people fell screaming from the tower, and a fire from the sky burned the golden top of the tower.

"'Destruction'. Powerless destruction. When you are on the top of a high tower, you think you are arrogant and arrogant, but everything you have is turned into nothing in an instant. Your hope becomes despair, your belief becomes a joke, And you are powerless to change, you can only wait for your end." The mage pondered, "Placing it in the same array as the repressed devil card provides a foundation."

I suddenly didn't have the courage to take it off.I stared at the bottom of the card, and the nightmare from last night seemed to be awakened.Fire, burns everything, fire that falls from the sky.

The mage observed my expression, and said in a slow tone, "If you don't have the courage to open the active card array, you might as well flip through the passive card array. It belongs to your card array, and don't forget, the foundation of the hourglass array lies in' connect'."

I calmed down and turned over the remaining two cards in the passive array one after another.One is "The Hanged Man" and the other is "Power".The mage rubbed the face of the card and said playfully to me, "Does Lemon always bully you? Or did you do something to make you sad?"

"No..." I heard my own difficult voice.On the power card, the lion is peaceful and docile under the gentle caress of a woman.The person who was hung upside down on the cross was calm and tenacious, responding to everyone's glaring with a merciful smile.The mage suddenly sighed, "I knew from the very beginning...it's hard for you, Luo."

I didn't know the severity, but I vaguely felt that she was secretly accusing Lymon, and said, "I don't feel embarrassed... He crossed the boundary between life and death and gave me a reborn soul. I will always remember it in my heart."

The mage stared at me, shook his head and said, "Then uncover the last card...the last card that belongs to him."

I stared at the bottom of the remaining card, stretched out my hand, and slowly opened it.

The horse's hooves trampled over the corpses all over the ground, and the skeleton knight held up a black banner, like a ghost with a lantern, illuminating the pale face of the king.

The mage's deep voice sounded, "His last card, 'Reaper'—represents 'End'. Everything will come to an end."

I took a few steps back, bumped into a glass bottle on the back table, and heard myself panting, "God..."

"Ro!"

The mage called me loudly behind me, but I didn't want to look back, and hurried out of the castle.The suffocation that choked my throat came back again. I opened my mouth and breathed heavily, leaning on the old rotten wood, holding their rough bark tightly, and looking at the silent and endless night sky.

A few scraps of crow feathers fell on my shoulders, I pulled my hair tightly, and heard myself murmuring madly, "Lymon...Lymon...no, I will never...let this kind of thing occur……"

****

"There are still two most important cards that have not been revealed, what's wrong?"

The necromancer shook his head, sat at the table, and stared at the hourglass array.The upper active card array and the lower passive card array are already empty, only the key card connecting the two card arrays in the middle has not been revealed.

The mage pondered, "Forget it, since he's not emotionally stable now, I'll take a look for him first, and tell him the result after he regains his composure..."

She made up her mind, stretched out two pale and slender hands, and turned over the last two revelation cards together——

In the card on the left, the light shines on the earth like the epoch-making light, the broad back of the god stands like a mountain, and the tree of knowledge and life rises from the ground behind a pair of lovers who symbolize love and happiness, lush and strong.On the right side of the lover's card, the "World" card lies quietly on one side, its surface shining brightly as if illuminated by holy light.

The author has something to say: Hey, it's a transitional chapter, and the perspective will switch back to the main line next time. . .The Alcana cards are actually Tarot cards, and the interpretation may be a little one-sided, so please be gentle with the old drivers. . . =v=

【Lemon: I know you just wanted to write the cross Prey at the beginning.This pervert.Are you feeling good, Luo?

Luo: ...it hurts...the skin fell off.

Lemon: Me too, it's like hugging a hedgehog. 】