1:212: Assault on the Morning Light (Part I)

At five o'clock the next morning, the battle conference room of the Southern Heavenly Knights.

"Tomorrow is your duel with Hale, and you really don't think about it anymore!?" Tristan said in surprise, "If you have a missing arm or a leg—" "It's a dead fight, you don't have to worry about my business!" Arthur said angrily.

"I'm ready. Palamides wrapped a bandage around his abdomen, thinking that this would protect his internal organs from injury when moving at high speeds.

"I want to go too, Arthur," Bediwell winked at Arthur pleadingly.

"No, it's seriously full. Arthur said, "I, Merlin, Lianyin, Evan, Tristan, Palamides, and Ryder*. There were seven of us, and that's it. (*Note: Ryder the Rabbit's memories are required to teleport.) "Unless you think your kid can replace one of the people on this team, you might as well stay here. Arthur said ruthlessly.

"Whew. Bediwell, who knew his grievances, shrank back, "Okay, I just want to help Ryder, when he needs help the most." The "Bevel" rabbit was still affected by the operation and was in a state of limbo, and he said indifferently: "I will haode, you don't have to worry." Hearing the rabbit say this, and remembering the rabbit's previous lie to Bediwell's question about "we are friends", the werewolf boy couldn't help but feel a throbbing pain in his heart.

"Alright, it's time for us to go. Arthur urged, "When the day comes, we'll be in trouble." "Actually, the sunrise time in the dark area is noon, and this kind of sneak attack in the early hours of the morning is very stupid, Tristan thought to himself. But he didn't think much of it, and teleported out with the group.

"Whoosh!" the group teleported into a huge space.

"Not good!" Merlin shouted, immediately placing something like a magic shield to protect everyone and fall.

They landed smoothly on the ground, while Arthur looked angrily at the "smuggled" Bediwell.

"Bedi, do you want to die?!" his face became very terrifying, "If you want to die, you can hit your head against the wall and die, don't drag everyone down! If the teleportation fails and falls into the ground, it is equivalent to hitting a solid solid at a speed close to the speed of light, which will produce a very terrifying explosion. "If it weren't for a genius like me who controls teleportation spells, we'd be dead a long time ago. Merlin also came to reproach, "You little ghost, you should be a little self-willed!" Being bombarded by Arthur and Merlin in turn, Beddivi shrank aggrievedly in a corner, "Yes, I'm sorry-" "That's enough, it's useless to blame you now, let's focus on the battle first." Arthur said.

"By the way, where is this?" This huge space should be somewhere underground in the research institute.

Huge iron cages are used everywhere, containing countless creatures.

"This, here—" When Ryder saw this place, his legs immediately went limp, and he lay on the ground unable to move, just shivering, "No! don't, don't hit me!" Arthur looked at the experimental animals in the iron cage. They are very miserable, their whole bodies are pierced by all kinds of sharp needles, and it is estimated that it will be very painful to move!

"What is this going on?" Arthur asked.

"Experiments in cultivating dark tons. Merlin said, "It is very inefficient to grow dark seeds just by eating infected organisms. However, the lightener can react with the brain quantum waves of living things, and the more negative the mental energy, the more it can accelerate the growth of the lighter. Arthur looked blank.

"It's like humans use magic, but instead of photons, they respond to shadows, and the only 'magic' they use is to make them grow. Tristan grabbed the white road.

Merlin, who was still worried and didn't know how to explain it so that Arthur could understand it, couldn't help but be secretly happy when he heard Tristan's (self-made) clever explanation. It saved him a lot of trouble.

Merlin looked at the fish-man boy and smiled, "Well, I understand it very well, that's it, I guess." "Probably?" "....... Shadow's destruction of Shijie is faster than you think, and it is simply impossible to spend time studying how it works. Merlin said with a gloomy face, "The foxes have no idea what a dangerous toy they are fiddling with. They want to win the war like crazy. "Ryder?" Arthur said in a commanding tone.

"Ha, ha, ha" The rabbit man, who was still trembling while panting, slowly took out one bomb after another from the magic pocket on his belly.

"How many bombs do you need to blow up this basement?" asked Arthur.

"At least four are needed. Merlin said, measuring the size of the basement with his hand, "Just put one in the south, west, and northwest, and the explosion will ensure that this place will become a sea of fire, and all the dark creatures will be burned clean, leaving no trouble." "Very well, it seems that bringing in extra bombs is the right choice. Arthur looked at Ryder, "You're still a little useful once in a while." "The rabbit man broke out in a cold sweat and didn't say anything, and it seemed that this place scared him a lot.

"Bedi, since you're here, carry that rabbit on your back, and don't let the two of you be a burden to our team. Arthur said.

"Got it. Being said to be a burden, Bediwell was angry, but he knew that it was his fault, so he swallowed his anger and picked up Ryder, who was still trembling, "Okay, Ryder, don't be afraid, I will protect you." (Even if you don't consider me your friend.) "Evan is on guard, let's split up and plant bombs." Arthur said.

Bediville and the ** Division Merlin went to the east flank to plant bombs. As soon as he reached the east wing of the basement, a large glass container was reflected in front of the werewolf boy's eyes.

Countless darkness stirred within the vessel. The black creatures, which looked like worms, devoured each other, bited and then spit out what they had eaten, giving birth to more dark worms.

They screamed in horror anyway, hated each other, killed each other, but they were all immortal, so this kind of killing went on forever.

Bediville was horrified and his scalp tingled. He saw not only the monsters in front of him, but also the essence of human malice.

"I'm cultivating shadows. The ** teacher explained as he planted the bomb, "Put the creatures in the container and let them fight each other, increase the hatred and pain of each other, so as to multiply the shadows." What a disgusting practice, the person who came up with such a thing has a real problem with their brains. "What if—" Bedi swallowed and asked, "If this planet is completely infected by shadows, will all the creatures on the planet become like this?" "It's not that disgusting, but it should be the same nature." Merlin said.

"If the whole universe were filled with shadows, the universe would be surrounded by such chaos, and the living beings (matter) in the universe would devour each other, and the situation would be more similar to this. Bedi gasped. This kind of thing should be avoided no matter what. How sad it would be if he himself became this horrible, fighting each other with his former friends.

A golden light catches Ryder's eyeballs.

It was a bracelet on the body of one of the monsters, reflecting the golden color.

That bracelet was exactly the same as the other one Ryder was wearing.

"Dad, Mommy" the rabbit man looked at the black container and burst into tears.

"Ryder, is it going to be—" "They've been threatening me with the lives of the entire caravan. That's what happened to my failure. Ryder sobbed, "I'm afraid most of this stuff is from the caravan. "They sold you for three thousand gold coins, and they ended up worse than you?" Merlin asked, "Are the foxes crazy?" "Because I have a good fit with [that], I was favored by the elders of the fox people to put [that] in my head." Ryder said bitterly, "Then, in order to ensure that the capture of Bevel's Jihua was safe, they went to take the caravan that sold me in the first place as a hostage." "Don't say it. Sensing Ryder's trembling violently, Bediwell stopped the rabbit from continuing, "Let's load up the bomb and blow this place to ashes." I don't even want to look at anything like this again. "Hmm" Ryder sobbed on the werewolf boy's back, and the more he didn't think about it, the more memories of the past came back to his mind.

"I'm sorry, Ryder. The father said to the rabbit man in the small iron cage, "There is no extra money left in the caravan, and even food will be a problem if this continues."

Just stay here. It's a more haode place. (Liar.) The rabbit boy was like a laboratory animal, naked in a small cage, unable to even turn around.

Researchers pierced his body with needles, electrocuted him with electricity, and kept the cage in the heat and cold. They used every means imaginable, day after day, to increase Ryder's humiliation and pain.

In order to cultivate a heart full of darkness.

Ryder could understand Sefer's pain because he had been in the same hell as Sefer. No, I'm afraid it's worse than that. Physical pain is far less than mental humiliation. Ryder survived the torture and humiliation year after year.

But his heart was not completely broken. Even if he is made to die and live, he still has a will that supports his spirit.

Hatred for Bediville.

The foxes got (bought) Ryder in the first place to complete the capture of Jihua in Bedeville. Ryder vaguely knew this.

Just because he used to be a friend of Bedeville, it became this tragic end.

That's not fair!, so he couldn't help but hate his former friend.

(Why, while I'm suffering, you're stupidly living your happy routine?!) Especially now that this guy in front of him is smirking happily, the hatred in Ryder's heart is growing even more.

Ten days ago, when Ryder first met Bedwell, he decided to take revenge on Bedeville.