Chapter 541: Aren't You Still with Me?
Yes, standing in front of Levi at this moment is no longer the gentle and generous Prince Altais with brilliant blonde hair as warm as the sun.
It is an evil being with white hair, a face like a dead corpse, gloomy eyes, bloody hands, and greed and malice for all living beings.
This is by no means the one he knew, the Altaïs who once defended the kingdom in front of the prince of Tifanton and fought to the death in the face of the attack of the endless demons!
"Who the hell are you?" said Levi.
And 'Altaïs' also flipped through Levi's identity from memory, and suddenly realized that the silver dragon lord in front of him who turned into a human arcanist was not the culprit who slaughtered their tribe decades ago, causing him to become the person he is now?
So he smiled hideously and said:
"Levi, I... I think you're a nightmare from which you can never escape... Waiting... uh..."
But before he could finish his words, he was stunned to find that the arcanist in front of him suddenly disappeared, appeared in front of him again, and at some point snatched the rune sword from his hand and stabbed him in the chest.
The golden divine light suddenly burst out.
At that moment, his senses and everything in the world in front of him seemed to slowly stagnate.
"No... The strong body I found with great difficulty..."
He never thought that this arcanist in front of him, who was not even a legend, would have the legendary 9-ring extreme arcane [Time Stasis], and why would he still have the Divine Technique of Order...
In the face of this kind of almost buggy arcane, as long as there are no corresponding defense means, critical immunity, or similar spells that stretch their time frame at the same time, the boundary barrier of the legend is basically ruthlessly crushed.
If you are some inexperienced legendary melee professional, there are not many ways to die in this long period of nearly fifteen seconds.
"Sure enough..."
After confirming this matter, Levi seemed to have no more burden in his heart, and he pressed it on the pale and withered face of 'Altais', and the corners of his mouth sank slightly:
"If you don't want to say it, then I'll come by myself. ”
[Spirituality]!
Finally, through this evil spirit, Levi saw a strange and ugly orc face.
The orc's name was Nerio, and he was originally a Prophet apprentice of the Shadowmoon Clan who had been bullied by his kind.
Then Levi saw the orc walking on the banks of the icy Sebrin River in order to forage for food, found a new territory with faint lights, and then rushed back to the territory in ecstasy to report to the tribal leader, but in exchange for a severe beating and humiliation.
"It turns out that you did it back then!" Levi said through gritted teeth.
It wasn't until this moment that Levi finally knew the culprit of the sudden orc attack that year.
The anger of the new hatred and the old hatred stacked together almost made Levi not hold back and crush the other party's soul fragments on the spot!
Nerio suddenly let out a painful wail of the 'soul' being withdrawn, but the eyes of the two Yin Owls were staring at the rune sword held in each other's hands through Levi's fingers, and he was full of joy when he had just fallen into the ice cave.
This means that although he has lost the strong body of Prince Cormier, he can gain an even stronger one!
But when he wanted to take the same way to seize this near-perfect body through the hole in the other party's mind...
Before his eyes... All I saw was pure darkness...
It was a vast, immensable and silent void that could not be described in words.
Boundless fear and despair poured in.
'What kind of presence have I provoked, great master Koschurchi... Master... Save... Help me...'
He could only resolutely abandon the body that he had worked so hard to obtain, and desperately withdraw from Cormier's soul consciousness.
And what made him happy and puzzled was that the other party didn't seem to have any intention of stopping him.
A moment later, on the uninhabited glacier of the Supreme Glacier, two faint soul fires bloomed from the eyes of a helmet frozen in perpetual ice.
But before he could feel scared and happy, a silent portal stretched out in front of him:
"Finally... Catch, stop, you!"
Behind the door was an icy north wind with no temperature, and a rune sword that had been slashed at the head.
There was a crisp sound, and the frozen throne shattered in half.
An ugly and ridiculously shriveled head rolled out and fell into the pale hand.
For half a century, Nerio has wanted to escape from here, but he never thought that it would be in this way.
But the manner and speed with which the other party took all the actions made him dumbfounded, so fast that his brain, which had been frozen for half a century, could not react at all.
Unbeknownst to him, Levi had suffered a loss at the end of the Moon Sea War that allowed the Lich named Agason to escape, so he specially researched a set of methods to deal with these shadow rats.
In Susar City's Storm Horn Square, Levi raised the orc lich's head in the air, and his voice echoed throughout King Susar:
"Scourge Legion, stop the fight!"
As a result, the army of 30,000 undead who had just begun to kill in the entire square seemed to have been frozen by the cold wind blowing from the Supreme Glacier.
All that left was the shivering people of Corell, who couldn't believe that the shadow of death had suddenly stopped in front of them.
It was only at this moment that Koschurch, the god of frost giants who had been called by Nerio, finally responded.
The lich skull held in Levi's hand was full of soul fire in his eyes:
"A metal lizard, dare you sabotage my great plans in Koschurch, and you will do it for you..."
But before the mind could go from extreme cold to extreme rage, it suddenly realized that his perspective was spinning, and then he fell to the ground, his empty eyes facing the sky that began to snow, and then he was overwhelmed by a shadow.
Poof!
The orc lich's head was crushed by Levi's foot and crushed into the dust.
"Don't worry, I don't need you to come to me, I'll come to visit sooner or later, Koschurch, I heard Bestna say that she's been following you for a long time...", Levi said angrily.
And at this moment, a portal that was comparable to the main gate of Susar's royal capital suddenly opened outside the royal capital.
With the sound of heavy footsteps, Holtz, who heard the movement outside the city, quickly cooperated with the Susar royal guards with eight hundred wolf cavalry and the Zeelandia Eskao militia to control the scene, and a 'forensic doctor' in white robes rushed to the half-elf mother who was dying of arrows, and like his companions, began to rescue the wounded with all their might.
Erleni and Wen Rena came over breathlessly, but what they saw was such a cruel scene, and they were about to cry out in grief when they were silenced by Levi.
The two red-eyed elves immediately covered their lips, but their shoulders trembled uncontrollably.
It was only at this moment that Levi took a deep breath, and with a pop, pulled out the cold rune broadsword from Prince Cormier's body, twisted it into two pieces of scrap iron, and threw it on the ground like garbage, slowly placing the fallen Altaïs on the clean stone slab.
"Uh..."
Altaïs immediately took a deep breath like a drowning dying man, and then grabbed Levi's hand heavily:
"Run... Run... Leave me alone... Tell my father, I'm sorry, I... failed to shoulder the responsibility of carrying Cormier..."
Levi clenched the dying Altaïs's hand, used a spell to block out the sounds around him, and said with relief:
"It's me, Altais..."
Altaïs immediately smiled happily but weakly, and the light in his eyes was extremely dim, as if there was only darkness left in front of him, and he could not see:
"So you saved me again, Lord Levi, I really want to... Had a terrible nightmare. ”
No... I couldn't save you after all.
Levi suppressed the sadness in his heart, but squeezed out a smile on his lips and said:
"Yes, even if you have a big life, your father can't rest assured of your safety, please let us come to you, when I find you, you are almost frozen into a snowman. ”
At the same time, in the solemn royal city, the Cormier guards were full of grief and lifted up the iron princess Lusail, who was lying on the body of Yasan III, and carried the coffin for the great king.
Altaïs was a little anxious and said, "Those soldiers who stayed in the valley... Are they all okay?"
"It's not bad, it's not bad, but it's all good, I didn't expect them to hold out until we arrived. ”
The Eskao militia in the distance poked the first batch of [Protective Undead] iron talismans that were originally used to support Cormier like a sacred iron cross into the chests of these soldiers who were enslaved by evil.
They were originally hideous, but finally gained hard-won peace and slowly closed their eyes.
The prince seemed to breathe a sigh of relief when he heard this:
"That's good... I came back a little late... What a pity... Today's Moon Celebration...
"The half-elves who have been freed... They... Are you happy?"
The square, shielded from the spell barrier, was filled with weeping and wailing, and curses were heard everywhere about the evil deeds committed against Prince Altaïs.
Levi opened his mouth, calmed the ups and downs in his heart, resisted the urge to turn his head, stared into his gradually dimming eyes, and continued to weave the sweet dream that Altais prayed for with lies:
“...... Of course, they all shouted Long live His Highness Altais and long live the Kingdom of Cormier. ”
He paused and said in a deep voice, "Believe me, this is what I've seen... A successful moon celebration!"
"yes... Such... I was relieved. ”
Altais seemed to have gotten rid of all his regrets, and used his last strength to clench Levi's hand:
"Levi's... Thank you.
"I've been happiest when I've fought alongside you at Tifanton... Time. ”
"There's a friend like you... I really feel... Very... Glory... Luck.
As he said this, the prince of Cormier, who had held on until now, was getting weaker and weaker...
His suffering soul... It's time to leave this broken, decaying body...
No!
Levi held the 'friend's hand tightly, as if he could not accept such a sad result.
He shouted in his thoughts:
"Woking!
For a moment, he thought of his teacher, who was also the pride of the heavens, ——— Karthas, the last consul of Netheril.
Why...
Why are they all so talented, ambitious, and selfless dedication to their motherland, silently burning their geniuses, but they all have a bad fate like being cursed by the world and die young!
He could almost foresee what Cormier, who had suddenly lost these two virtuous monarchs, would face... It's a darker and more boundless future!
In the whole of Cormier, there is simply no successor with such ability to take on this heavy responsibility.
Once the thousand-year-old country of Cormier collapses, will their darker Northland survive the disaster?
The goddess Woking was as always on call, but when she saw this scene, she was full of apologies:
"I'm sorry, but his body has been completely eroded and corrupted by the abyss, and even I can't get it back.
"Don't look at me like that, although I admire this prince too, I am not omnipotent, I cannot cross the rules of this world and lead his soul to my kingdom of God before he arrives in the Misty Realm after his death, besides, he is not my believer either!"
Xu was stared at by Levi's reddened eyes and couldn't stand it, and this goddess, who had always been unreliable, suddenly patted her head and said:
"It occurred to me that there was a possible solution. ”
But her eyes suddenly became serious, and she looked at Li Weidao:
But that wasn't necessarily a benevolent choice for Altaïs. ”
Levi took a deep breath and said:
"So... Leave this choice to himself, and say, what's the solution?"
Woking didn't answer, but glanced at him meaningfully:
"It's not me, it's you. ”
"Me?" Levi pointed to himself with some confusion.
After a few seconds, Levi, who was a little numb, seemed to have thought of something, looked at Altais and said:
"You've got to face everything that is true... Do you have the courage to bear all the sin and suffering?"
"My friend... Altais..."
Altais, who was dying, opened his mouth and could no longer make a sound.
But Levi felt the faint strength from the other party's cold hands, which was his determination to protect Cormier and protect the people.
"I see—" Levi placed his drooping hand on his hollow chest and slowly closed his eyes.
......
Three days later, another of Altaïs's spell teachers, Bedas Krys, rushed back to the capital of Susar with a group of court mages.
They were going to hold funerals for the two deceased kings.
All the deceased who died in the calamity were placed in a coffin with a [Protective Necromancy] amulet, along with the remains of Ahsan III and Altaïs.
The only difference is that the figure of Ahsan III is longing for a figure in front of the tomb and is engraved with a prayer:
The first soldier is invincible, and the order between the ruins is recast.
The gift of God belongs to you alone, and the spine of the world is broken in the heavens.
O great king who put an end to all vanity.
Bear the worry and loneliness alone.
Bring the gift.
Humble people.
Altaïs' body was buried in the most remote corner of the cemetery, without any characters engraved on it.
Legend has it that this was the punishment that the prince would have suffered for committing his sins.
The kingdom needs a memorable king, and that is the glory that belongs to Ahsan III.
The kingdom also needs a person who bears the wrath and reproach of millions of people in the royal capital, and Altais bears this hatred and curse.
In the wind and snow, there is grief that cannot be hidden.
After the memorial service, everyone left one by one.
Only a tall figure shrouded in golden paladin armor remained, silently accompanying Lucer, who had just been crowned Queen of Asan IV, standing silently in front of the tombstone of the previous king.
No one found it strange that it was the guardian knight sent by the godfather of the former king to protect the queen for Princess Iron during his lifetime.
It is said to be a constructive being who will only obey their orders.
But what no one knew was that after all of them were gone, the knight in costume slowly came to the tombstone and knelt down on one knee, put his cold arm on the tombstone, and slowly rested his head against the tombstone.
It took a long time to get up, and returned behind Queen Ahsan IV, and carefully put his hand on her emaciated shoulder, and said softly:
"Little Tyna, are you afraid, afraid to take on all this?"
"Tyna is not afraid. ”
But little Tyna held on to her red and swollen eyes to prevent herself from shedding tears, slowly raised her head and showed a bright smile, leaning on the latter's chest and said:
"Aren't you still with me?
"Isn't it?
"Daddy..."
The big hand that the knight was about to put on her shoulder suddenly froze, then folded towards the little queen's head and rubbed it, and then lightly flicked it on her forehead, and corrected:
"Call me Godfather, little Tyna. ”
"At least... When there are others. ”
His last sentence was very light and light, and was quickly drowned out by the wind.
PS: This chapter was supposed to be complete with yesterday's chapter.,As a result, the death line in the morning can only be sent in advance.,I didn't expect it to be such a result.,I won't do such a thankless thing to kill in the future.。