Chapter Twenty-Nine: The Burning Flame
"What are you doing!" Nasha raised her hand and slapped Wayne before running towards Zero who had fallen to the ground.
Leah began to cry, tears gushing out like a spring, and she ran after Nasha to Jeno, then stood there covering her eyes and weeping.
Vangellis grabbed Wayne's wrist, stared at him and said, "Wayne! You're too much! He's your son, I thought that so many years of military career have sharpened you to be stable enough, but I didn't expect you to be as impulsive as you were back then!
"I'm not worthy of being Jeno's father, it's not anyone's turn to comment, let go of my hand!" Wayne said in a low voice, glaring at Vangellis.
Avali stepped forward and said angrily to Wayne: "Jeno is an excellent boy, in my opinion, he has his own ideals, and it is not wrong to pursue the life he wants!
"Shut up!" Wayne glared at Avali violently, her fierce eyes scared her all over, "Everyone knows about me and Nasha, I never take advantage of others' danger, I was a fair competition with him at the beginning, Nasha chose me in the end, these old things, it's not your turn to be an outsider to comment!"
Wayne's body erupted with fierce fighting energy, and the ferocious momentum pounced on Avali. Avali turned pale with fright from Wayne's momentum and fell to her knees with weakness.
Vangellis held Wayne's wrist tightly, he frowned, and said angrily to Wayne: "Wayne! The Holy See of Light is not a place where you can be presumptuous, don't think that you can do whatever you want by relying on your own cultivation, in this Holy See of Light, I am only one person!"
"What did you say?!" Wayne's momentum suddenly increased, and a monstrous fighting spirit gushed out from his body, overwhelming the momentum towards Van Gellis, and the visible fighting spirit was surging wildly around him.
Vangellis's eyes lit up, his other hand clenched into a single fist, and a strong mental pressure spread out from his body, and bright spots of light flashed and exploded around his body. Two completely different powerful forces rubbed violently around the two of them, and the entire space was distorted and deformed by the friction of Dou Qi and Mental Power.
"Enough is enough!
Nasha, who was kneeling on the ground and picked up Jeno, looked back at Wayne and Vangellis, who were fighting each other, and shouted.
Zero's brain was buzzing all the time, and Wayne's slap on him gave him a little concussion, so much so that he didn't feel the pain of his body hitting the wall, and he opened his eyes in a daze, and he saw Nasha's face crying with pear blossoms, her tears kept dripping down his face, he could only see her face vaguely, but he couldn't hear her voice, his ears were temporarily deaf.
It took him a long time to recover, he forced himself to get up from Nasha's arms, and instead of listening to Nasha's words of concern, he leaned against the wall and tried to stand up, but his feet went limp, and he fell to the ground violently. The smell of blood filled his mouth, and he spat out a mouth full of blood and two teeth, leaning against the wall to get up. Nasha cried and went to help him, but Zero jerked Nasha's hand away and shouted, "Don't touch me!"
His voice echoed through the hall, and Vangellis shook off Wayne's hand, and everyone turned their eyes to zero. The left half of his face was swollen, his mouth and nose were full of blood, and he gritted his teeth and stood up straight against the wall tremblingly. His eyes were like torches, and he stared at Wayne in a low but resolute voice.
"Moral kidnapping...... It's useless with me. I did...... If I want to learn magic, I must learn it, and in my life, absolutely...... Absolutely, I will never let anyone else dictate my life anymore!
Wayne stared at the panting Zero, his chest heaved violently, and he let out a heavy snort from his nose and roared, "You still don't repent?!"
"Huh...... Hahahaha......" Zero suddenly laughed, and he laughed low and slowly. The atmosphere at the scene suddenly became weird, a child with a bloody face, laughing instead of crying, there was a creepy feeling.
After a moment, Zero looked at Wayne and said in a cold tone, "Someone like you...... Not worthy of ...... at all"
"Don't make any more noise, I'm begging you!"
Wayne was about to speak, Nasha shouted hoarsely with tears in her eyes, she looked at Vangellis, and cried pleading and said to him: "Fanzhe, you can help Jeno heal, he has shed a lot of blood......"
Hearing this, Vangelis hurriedly walked to Jeno's side, squatted down and performed light healing techniques to treat him, and Nasha hugged Leah, who was crying beside her, and kept comforting him.
Zero kept staring at Wayne, the depths of his silver-gray pupils seemed to be a cold and piercing pool, Wayne looked into his eyes and stood in place without saying a word.
After a while, the effect of Vangelis's light healing technique was immediate, and at this moment, Zero's originally swollen left face had almost recovered, and the gums in his mouth that had just fallen out of the tooth had stopped bleeding, and Nasha brought water for him to rinse his mouth.
Wayne stood still until Zero was back and then walked over to Zero.
"Come with me to a place. He said to Zero with a serious face.
"What are you doing? What did you do to beat the kid? I won't let you touch him again!" shouted Nasha as she looked up at Wayne.
Wayne glanced at Nasha and said, "I'm not going to hit him, I'm just going to take him to a place to see." ”
"No! he must stay by my side now!" Nasha said, her eyes red and her arms outstretched in front of Zero.
"Humph!" Wayne reached out and pushed Nasha away, grabbing Zero's arm, ignoring Vangellith on the side.
Zero gritted his teeth and reached out to break Wayne's palm that was holding his arm, but the other man's palm clamped his arm firmly like a tong, and Zero couldn't move no matter how much he struggled. Walking to the closed door of the main hall, Wayne kicked open the heavy door, and the loud noise alarmed the passers-by outside the hall.
The sky began to darken at some point, and dark clouds drifted by, obscuring the bright sunlight before, and the wind and rain were coming. Wayne jumped directly in front of the main hall, jumped over the entire hall with Zero, and flew towards the back hill of the Holy See of Light.
Nasha shouted in the main hall, but was stopped by Vangellis. Vangellis sighed and comforted Nasha, saying, "Okay, let's let the father and son talk alone." Tiger poison doesn't eat children, no matter what Jeno says, he is also his son, you better not interfere with them, so as not to cause extraneous branches. ”
"But......" Nasha couldn't speak, so she could only rub her red eyes, crouch down and hug Leah, who was still sobbing on the side, to comfort her.
"You kneel for me!"
Wayne flew to the Gray Cemetery with Zero, and the two of them stood in front of Bishop Sainz's tombstone, and Wayne pointed to the tombstone and said sternly to Zero.
Zero frowned and stood there without saying a word, Wayne kicked Zero in the calf when he saw this, and Zero fell to his knees with gritted teeth in pain.
"Show me clearly! Whose grave is this? You came to pay your respects not long ago. Wayne asked Zero angrily.
Zero stared at the epitaph on the tombstone, "May there be no more pain in the world", and reluctantly replied in a low voice: "This is the grave of Grandpa Sainz, what do you want?"
"What do you want? What do you want?!" Wayne said angrily, "Do you know that you can live as you are now, and live a stable life like ordinary people, all thanks to Bishop Baisère! If you hadn't saved you with your own life, you would be the one lying in the grave now! Do you still think that your own life belongs to you alone? You are wrong! You are the continuation of Bishop Sainz's life, and you should do what Bishop Sainz has been trying to achieve all his life, that is, to expel the demons from the mainland! This is the responsibility you must shoulder! You can't learn magic, you are destined not to have too high achievements in magic, if you want to expel the demons, you must have strong strength, and learning to fight is your only way! You shouldn't touch such flashy things as magic!"
"Why do you despise magic, just because of your own opinion, you despise all the magicians in this world? Just because you yourself are the Sword Saint? But there are so many Dharma Venerables in this world, and they are also people who stand at the top of this world, do you also look down on them?" Zero asked, staring fiercely at the tombstone.
"Magician...... Hmph......" Wayne snorted, his tone mixed with a hint of contempt, "Child, you are still too young, fancy and colorful magic has confused your eyes, you think that magic can compete with fighting spirit, but you have seen its great power, do you know? Magic is dead, but people are alive, and the enemy will stand still and obediently wait for you to finish chanting and cast magic on him? Too naïve! I can tell you without exaggeration, it is not me who boasts about myself, and none of my contemporaries can defeat me!" Vangelis is also a Dharma Venerable, do you think he can defeat me? It's impossible! Why do you think your mother chose to be with me in the first place? It's because Vangelis is not as strong as me! He lost! Failed! No one likes the weak! I have walked the mainland for so many years, and my deepest experience is that no one will accept the weak! You are only strong enough to hold those things in your hands in the palm of your hand, and the weak are not qualified to talk about fairness! Do you think the emperor's marriage is unfair to you? If you want to change the facts, you have to become stronger, and only if you are strong enough, others will not dare to arrange your fate!"
Zero gritted his teeth fiercely, and the gums that had just stopped bleeding were bleeding again because of the hard bite, and the smell of blood diffused in his mouth, he swallowed the blood, and said in a low voice: "The weak eat the strong...... Am I wrong to pursue my dreams?"
Thunder flashed in the sky, and thunder rolled in, shaking the world.
Wayne saw Zero in a depressed mood, his face softened, and he calmly said to Zero: "Jeno, you're right, it's a good thing for people to have dreams, and dreams are the driving force for people to move forward." But sometimes, in the face of reality, we have to compromise, God did not let you have the talent to learn magic, but he did not block your way to become stronger, your physique is very suitable for learning fighting spirit, as long as you study seriously, sooner or later, you can also become a generation of strong people. At that time, naturally no one dares to arrange your fate, your own destiny should be controlled by yourself, but the premise is that you must be strong enough, understand? No one will want you to become stronger than me, I am your father, I will not harm you, the reason why I am so persistent in hoping that you will learn to fight is because I want my child to become strong, so that he will not be bullied, so that he will not see the things he loves but does not even have the ability to fight, that kind of life is more sad than not being able to learn magic. ”
Zero lowered his head and did not speak. The wind grew fierce and slammed into his face, and he knelt there expressionlessly, fists clenched. From time to time, thunder flashed in the sky, illuminating his pale cheeks.
"Bishop Sainz spent his life expelling the demons and defending the stability of the continent during his lifetime. He died because of you, so to speak, he entrusted his unfinished mission to you, even if it was just to repay his kindness, you should work hard to cultivate, and in the future you will have enough ability to fight the demons and protect the peace of this continent. At present, the demon race is rampant, and it has evolved an immune body that is not afraid of light magic, and the fate of mankind is in jeopardy, and it is far from enough to rely on our older generation. If you new generation do not step up your efforts, it is likely that you will not have the comfortable life you have in the near future. Think about it, Jeno, is it important to learn magic, or is it important to have enough strength to defend your family and friends? You're not a kid who doesn't know right from wrong, and I'm sure you'll make the right choice. Defeating the demons and defending the continent is the duty of you and everyone else, not just Bishop Sainz's long-cherished wish, I hope you can see clearly. Wayne stood aside and persuaded earnestly.
Zero knelt silently in place, listening to the various sounds coming from his ears, there were wind, thunder, the "rustle" of the wind blowing the grass and trees, and the shouts of people from afar...... The rain fell, and in a short time it drenched his whole body, and the rain ran down his hair from the top of his head to his pale cheeks, and his thoughts traveled back to the day Sainz died, and the rain that day was as lonely and cold as it is now.
"Grandpa Sainz said something to me on his deathbed......" Zero said calmly.
Then he gritted his teeth, stared at the thunderous sky, and said word by word: "No matter what kind of blow your life has suffered, no matter how your dignity has been trampled on, no matter how your will has been destroyed, no matter how much your faith has been questioned, if there is still that flame in your heart that has not been extinguished, you must let it burn!"
The boy's voice was mixed with the wind and thunder and spread into the distance, and the thunder light illuminated his immature but resolute face. His eyes were firmly fixed on the thunder surging in the clouds, and the fire in his heart began to burn violently at this moment.