Volume 2: The Holy War of Blood Chapter 44: Awakening
After passing through the door, Renault was greeted by a huge arena, which was somewhat dilapidated, but he could still feel what had happened here.
There had been many battles here, and Renaud leaned over and grabbed a handful of sand on the ground, and the smell of blood was faintly emanating from the sand, and countless scenes of fighting had come to his mind, and each of these scenes had the same person.
"These are all memories of my fight. Renault shook the sand off his hand, "Then this should be the place to eradicate the seeds of doubt in my heart." β
Before he could finish speaking, the sand on the ground immediately gathered and shaped into one puppet after another with different weapons, the eyes made of sand shimmered with scarlet blood, and the moment they got up, they launched an attack on Renault.
"Then let's give it a try. "Renault rushed into the enemy line like an arrow from a string, and although he did not carry any weapons, he had already forged his body into the most powerful weapon possible. He was like a gust of wind, tearing the dolls made of sand to pieces in an instant.
"That's not enough!" he shouted at the puppet.
Renault smashed off the head of a puppet with a straight kick, and then cleanly slashed off the hand of the puppet who swung his sword at him with a hand knife, and he dodged the puppet's axe with one side, and then stabbed the sword in the hand of the puppet who had just been cut off by his arm into the chest of the figure who swung the axe at him.
At this moment, Renault is completely in a state of battle, and any enemy that catches his eye will be destroyed by him in an instant, this is the soul of a warrior flowing in his blood, and it will burst out according to his will at any time.
"Not enough, isn't enough, can you take me down like this?" Renault punched through the chest of the puppet in front of him, then picked up a battle axe from the ground, and smashed all the dolls gathered in front of him.
When the last doll fell, Renaud just wiped the sweat from his forehead, and he didn't even breathe too much, as if the battle between hundreds of people just now was a very easy thing.
A gust of wind blew, rolling up the dust on the ground, and Renaud raised his hand to block the dust in front of him, but through the gap in his palm, he saw a figure slowly walking towards him in the flying dust.
The dust finally stopped, and the figure finally showed its true face to Renault, who was not surprised in the slightest when he saw his face, and even felt that it was completely reasonable.
"Shore, sure enough, the person I can't put my mind at ease is you. Renault looked at the person in front of him and said, "So the person I have to defeat in this final trial will appear in your image?"
"Teacher, don't you think you're ridiculous?" Shore scoffed, "It's ridiculous to pin your hopes on others when you can't do anything, and to always show your determination when you have so many doubts in your heart!"
"Don't talk nonsense. "What I'm going to do is to break the doubt in my heart and go back to the real world to accomplish everything I was supposed to do." β
"You can't go back, teacher. After saying this, Shore disappeared in front of Renault in an instant, and by the next second, he had already appeared behind Renault.
"It's fast!" Renault's reflexes were almost as fast as Shore's, and Shore's slash missed, and Renault's counter-attacking kicks were also blocked by him.
"There's more to what I've given you. Renault looked at Shore and said, "Do whatever you can, and I'll defeat them all." β
"As you wish, teacher. The corners of Shore's mouth raised a slight arc, and the Maia swords in his hands immediately flashed with dazzling electric light, and Renault couldn't help but smile slightly when he looked at this scene, as long as it was right!
"The awakening of the Word is the only way to be worthy of the difficulty of this trial. Renault moved his whole body, "Come on, let me see how strong you have become!"
Shore didn't say a word, and thunder was rumbling from the clouds that had gathered in the sky, and Renault glanced up at the sky, knowing in his heart that a lightning strike would soon come that would destroy the entire arena.
But if I also enter into the awakening of the Word, all this will be useless. As Renault thought about it, he began to feel the resonance of his soul and the Holy Word, but to his surprise: he couldn't feel anything now!
"What's going on?" Renault looked at his arm, where the golden runes that should have appeared were completely gone, as if he had never had this kind of power, and he didn't even feel the slightest bit of the power of the Holy Word.
"Also useful, teacher. Shore looked at Renault, who was a little at a loss, and smiled, "Don't you understand? You can't use the Holy Word without a firm will, you are just a contradictory whole now, and that power has abandoned you!"
"Have I been forsaken by the Word?" repeated this sentence over and over again, "impossible, is my will already so weak?
"That's right, you're such a waste that can't do anything now, and you're going to be eliminated!" Shoal said, raising his hand above his head, "It's time to get rid of you, come, God Thunder!"
A lightning bolt full of devastating power streamed down from the sky, and at this moment, Renault had no possibility to dodge at all, and all the thunderbolts fell directly on his body.
"Ahhh
"Why? Why can't I do anything?" Reynaud asked himself weakly, "Is the suspicion in my heart so strong? Even the Word has abandoned me, and perhaps I am not worthy to fight on behalf of justice, and I might as well sleep forever." β
A black mist emanated from Renault's body, and in this black mist, the blood vessels of Renault's whole body emerged, and the originally red blood began to slowly turn black, and a strange red light emitted from the depths of his pupils, and when Renault stood up from the ground, his appearance was no longer human.
"Have you fallen into the darkness, Mr. Reynold?" Shore seemed to have foreseen what was going to happen in front of him, "this is the posture you should have, this terrifying aura, you should have become like this a long time ago." β
"Destroyed!" Renault's blood-red eyes stared at Shore, who only felt a shock when he looked at those eyes, and by the time he reacted, Renault had already appeared in front of him, stretching out a hand and firmly pinching his neck.
"Ahemβthat's right, kill me, Mr. Renault. Shore was already starting to feel an uncomfortable feeling of suffocation, but he smiled at Renault. "Just wipe me out, and you can fall into darkness completely, come on!"
The force that Renault exerted on his hands grew stronger and stronger, and Shore's eyes almost bulged out under this tremendous force, and his trembling teeth bit his lips, and blood oozed from his mouth.
But he was still smiling, as if he didn't care about the impending death, and he kept tugging at Renault's heart, constantly stimulating him to kill himself quickly.
Die, die right now in front of me! Renault's heart roared, whether it is you or anyone else, there is no need to have the value of salvation at all, let a world be destroyed! Everything is no longer important, I want to be liberated!
"Is this really what you really think?" a light suddenly appeared in his mind, and in this light Renault saw everything he had experienced in the past.
Growing up in a family that is not wealthy, although there is not much material support, but life is very happy. Until one night the monsters broke into his life, and in a life-or-death situation, his father handed Maia over to him and told him to live.
On that night, he lost his parents, his brother and sister, and he was left alone to live in this world.
Then he joins the BPRD, where he finally has the opportunity to fight the nightmares of his past, and again and again, again and again, and in these countless battles, Renault has found his goal to fight for: to make everyone live in this world with a smile on their faces.
In this way, Renault finally earned the title of "Sword of Hope", and he himself was hailed as a legend. After that, he met Shore and Kane and became a teacher to both of them.
Every time he trained, Renault would unconsciously overlap himself with Shore, because the two of them were so similar that sometimes even Renault couldn't tell the difference between reality and the past, and he firmly believed that Shore would inherit everything he had and become a warrior beyond him.
Then came the darkest hour, when he lost both battles with Mephistopheles and finally joined the Wild Hunters for last resort, entrusting Shore with everything he had, because he believed in him and believed that the infinite possibilities in this young man would accomplish what he had failed to do.
Yes, this is it. Renaud was deeply touched because I believed in him so I entrusted everything to him, I should not doubt it, because human beings have infinite possibilities, and before everything is settled, anything can be reversed, which is why human beings can create the future!
Renault's pupils returned to their previous state, and he let go of the hand that was holding Shore's neck, and the black mist emitted from his body disappeared in an instant.
"How come?" Shore looked at Renault in disbelief, "You should have fallen into the dark abyss, how could you possibly be back to your original state?"
"I've crawled out of that abyss!" said Renault to Shore, "and now I don't have any doubts, I know what I'm going to do." β
"What are you kidding!" Shore roared loudly with a twisted face, "this world you can't save, you are waste, you are waste! How can you change the doomed fate of mankind!?"
"Enough is enough, impostor. The golden runes spread on Renault's arm, and a dazzling lightsaber between the lightning and flint had pierced into Shore's chest, and he looked down at the lightsaber on his chest, still with a look of disbelief in his eyes, but it had all been done.
"The real Shore would not say such things like you, he would believe in the possibilities of humanity and would be willing to use his life to create the future. Renault looked at the corpse of "Shore" who fell to the ground, and said word by word. "An imposter like you will never be able to understand. β
He put away his lightsaber, and his whole body suddenly became hot, as if something was calling him, and a pillar of light descended from the sky, enveloping his body in a blinding light, and in this light Renault closed his eyes.
"Ahh
Renaud took a big breath of air, his consciousness had completely returned to the present world, and he smiled when he looked at Glenn, who was almost speechless because of the shock in front of him, it was already time, it was time to start intervening in this war!