Chapter 20: The Shadow
"Seno..."
They marched through an endless land of darkness, living and killing for one man. Shadow Envoys are everywhere in the Blackstone Domain, but any intruder with bad intentions will be strangled in an instant.
In the deepest part of the Blackstone Domain, a huge city rises over the banks of the abyss. In the reflection of that behemoth, the "wandering spirits" from all over the continent are housed, lonely, desperate, and reborn.
Beanna sat on the throne, holding her head in one hand and playing with the surging undercurrent with the other. The queen of the Holy City of Seno, as the lord of the Black Stone. Pronounce the judgment of sentient beings with the will of the sentient.
"Whew!" a dark shadow flashed up the hall, revealing the scar he had cut across his face under the wide cloak.
"My king, someone has broken into the Black Stone Domain. Yelling to see you. We dare not erase him at will, and we are here to report. ”
"Who?" said Beanna's lips and teeth, and her voice was extremely cold.
"The second horn of the dragon, the red dragon Kan. ”
"The dragons aren't extinct yet?"
"He seems to want to work with us. My king, do you want to bring him to the Holy City?" the dark shadow knelt on one knee, and the undercurrent of great turnover surged rapidly.
"The Purple Fire Dragon is not dead, Suo Ao, bring him to see me!"
"Yes!" the figure disappeared from the hall in an instant, and everything was silent again.
Time flowed quietly, and it reminded Beanna of something from the past, the experience of the escape.
"From Qianji Town, we can escape into the dense forest, and through the dense forest all the way to the south, we will reach the sea of sand. Suo Ao pointed to the coordinates on the map.
"Keep going. ”
The group quickly shuttled through the streets of Qianji Town, and at night, they took advantage of the night to enter the thousands of miles of sand sea shelter forest.
The people were already exhausted from the long march, and the tall rainforest vegetation and dense shrubs made it difficult to travel at night.
All kinds of beasts hide in the shadows, watching everyone's every move.
"Childe, when do you think we'll be able to get out of this dense forest?" asked Suo Ao worriedly.
"At the current pace of travel, we will be at the border of the Sand Sea in two days. "All the money is empty, and everyone is exhausted, but the more you get to the time of fleeing, the more likely it is that something will happen. A bad premonition loomed over him.
Just slept hastily, and at about five o'clock the next morning, a group of more than a dozen people walked forward with tired bodies again, and Beanna had to follow them although she was sleepy.
In the dense forest, a few roars of the sickle dragon were heard from time to time, and the scene of the jungle slime squirming on the trunk of the tree was disgusting.
It wasn't until noon that the group walked through two-thirds of the dense forest.
"Plop!" there was a noise at the back of the line. Everyone looked back with difficulty, only to see Suo Ao sitting on the ground, covered with stains and dust from the past few days.
"Soao, you kid. Hurry, we have to get out of this damn jungle as soon as possible. When you get to the sea of sand, you're out of the hands of these guys. All wealth is empty, slightly angry.
"I said, Childe, let's rest for the night, and by the way, we will catch some game for the march on the sand sea. ”
"No!" Beanna shouted to everyone as they were tired.
"Childe hasn't spoken yet?
"The sooner you get out of here, the better. If you are caught up. With our little people, none of us can escape!"
In the midst of the stalemate, there was a sudden rush of whistling in the sky.
"Oh no, it's the sound of the flying infantry's energy!"
Hundreds of flying infantry in the sky almost covered the surrounding forest.
"Really chasing it?"
"Your Highness Yuyi, why did you want to run so far?"
A pilot, open the holographic helmet. Wicked smile and looked at the emptiness of all talents.
"You're from the Machine City?" Seeing the soldier's mechanical eyes, he was quite angry.
"Your Highness don't be surprised, as long as you go back with us, my king will be guilty. ”
"Why should I trust you?"
"If you come with us, you'll be fine. How?"
"..."All Wealth is empty and silent for a while, and Beanna seems to realize that this real name is Yuyi, and he is the third son of the Rain Clan who has been missing for many years. And his sister is Scott's queen "Rain Dance", what is the reason for this guy to leave Scott? Could it be that he participated in the battle for the throne of the Rain Clan?
"Whatever you want, but keep your promises. ”
Those flying machines are all products of Beretta Machinery City, and they are here from Scott. Although Yuyi was taken away, he still had to go, after all, Beanna and these dozen people had no place to live.
These people were told by Yuyi to follow Beanna, and walked out of the dense forest, with an endless sea of sand in front of them. Finally free, as long as you can go to any part of the Four Seasons Imperial Territory, you will have a chance to survive.
They were afraid that Scott's Iron Guard would rebel, and they soon hit the road. Their feet were on the desert, the heat wave was constantly stimulating their feet, and hunger and thirst almost tortured them half to death.
A Scott camp on the border of the Sand Sea was discovered by Soo, and the group attacked the camp at night. Grab a wrecked chariot in the sand.
The men remodeled the chariot and drove it south. However, not long after the departure, the pursuers reappeared, and at night Beanna was in the car with a diary. A group of never-before-seen sand snake knights emerge from the ground, and everyone goes through a fierce battle. Suo was blinded in one eye and wounded several others.
At last...
What happened, you ask?
More than a dozen times we nearly died, either because of hunger and thirst, or because of pursuit. To be honest, the most terrifying pursuit is not Scott's eyeliner, but the elusive sand bandits. They are right at your feet, blessed by the sand, wild and murderous, these murderous monsters, they call themselves "holy beast warriors who are beautiful in brutality", these barbarians have tamed the most ferocious reclusive beast in the sand sea, the "giant scale sand snake", they can always emerge from the ground by surprise, and hit you in the head, heart or other vital organs with a scimitar.
Of course, we didn't see the Four Seasons Emperor. I haven't seen it to this day, and it took a month to cross the entire sand sea, until I stood on the edge of the Black Stone Domain...
Gaze at this dead land, hollow, quiet, dark around every corner. That pure endless abyssal place!
Days of hunger and fear wore down everyone's hearts. Now when faced with such a place. Almost without exception, all of them were in utter despair.
"Miss, we have crossed the border of Yukilik. It's a pity we didn't see it. There is no road ahead, everything is over. ”
"Let's go, there's still a way until I die!" Beanna turned off the induction changer on the chariot, and the seemingly transparent roof turned back to a solid metallic hue.
"But this is already the end of the continent, is that the Black Stone Domain? For thousands of years, no one has ever come out alive!" The entourage was already scared into a cold sweat just by seeing this dark place.
And the wayward Suo Ao before didn't say a word at this time. Went through the pain of this month. It was as if he had changed into a different person. Every time I looked at Beanna, I felt a shame that I couldn't hide.
Even if you are a man, how can you not even be as good as a woman?
I don't know when Beanna has become the spiritual leader of these people. The heart that is too strong to surpass, and the style of resoluteness. As if she... Born to be kings.
"Keep going!" At the sound of an order, the group slowly disappeared into the vast darkness, and as soon as they entered the Black Stone Domain, the night fell. The already dark and eerie place is even more eerie.
Glowing black stones cover every piece of land here, a dark glow wriggling in the suffocating air. There are no other substances here. There were just endless torment, fear and a dozen people shrouded in the haze of night.
"Uh... My head... Head... It's dizzy. One of the entourage, with wide eyes, suddenly fell to the ground, and everyone went up to snort. Dead.
No one knows how he died, but next. The terrifying scene almost made everyone around them pinch a cold sweat. I saw that the man's pupils lost their luster at a speed visible to the naked eye, and finally the pitch-black pupils gradually turned white.
"What's going on?" one person dropped his burden, and most of them retreated with trembling expressions.
"I can't stand it anymore! How far do we have to go in this dark place? At the end of that is the abyss, and you and I know that we are going to the abyss, but each of us has a pitiful hope. ”
"I'm going crazy, ah!!" Someone cried out again, covering his head, he didn't care about anything else, this mental torture was far more terrifying than physical pain.
Bei Nan got down from the chariot, her face was sallow, and she was wearing a long robe of the Bei clan that was no longer recognizable: "When I first came here, I already thought that it was better to die in this confusion than to become the opposite of others' trampling and killing. ”
Everyone looked at Beanna in despair, only Suo Ao was slightly excited.
"You and I were dead long before we set foot here. Dead, let's keep going, follow me, time has no meaning at this point. ”
The road ahead is a dead end, and the entourage falls one by one. Beana's consciousness was blurring, and the Blackstone Domain was able to devour matter, consuming life invisibly. The undercurrents that emerge from the blackstone contain the magic of transforming nothingness and reality.
Moving forward, it seemed as if after countless years, she finally saw some changes in the darkness...
"Plop!" she collapsed on her back, unconscious. I don't know how long it has been. When she sat up again, she had come to the end of the darkness,
Ahead of the abyss, the edge of which was a large, eerie petrified dead tree, a tree made of black stone. The end of the abyss seemed to be part of a monster, and she couldn't tell what it was.
In the back of my mind, a voice called out Beana's name over and over again, and that voice seemed to resonate with the dead wood.
In the Blackstone Domain, there is no other substance except the Blackstone, not even the dust.
"People have no heart, but wood has spirits. Dead wood is a mullion. This is God's will. ”
"My lord, I've been waiting here for a long time. In my head, hoarse voices came and went.
"Who? Who's there?"
The human woman who inherited the will of the mullion is the giver of God. You will be..."
"King Blackstone!"
Swish!!
In the dead wood, countless undercurrents suddenly gushed out. A terrifying storm of energy swept across the abyss.
A figure appeared out of thin air with his back to Beanna: "Monument, do you remember me?"
The man's entire body was hidden under the huge cloak, and his voice was cold and empty. It gave her a strange warmth. It's him?
The man turned, his blue eyes and melancholy eyes all too familiar.
"Why are you here?"
"Girl, save those who are displaced. When the desperate enter this place, I think they should all be reborn, and as ordinary people who have inherited the will of the mullion, you will merge with the Blackstone. I think you should give our forces a nice name to let the humans who are trying to control the Black Stone understand that the divine will of the high dimension cannot be blasphemed!"
"Benefactor... Do you want me to build a presence here against Scott?"
"No, not confrontation. I need your presence, and when the time comes, you'll know what I want. ”
A few years later, the Cloudmare Kingdom in the middle of the continent was destroyed. The capable have become a scarce human being. The hostility of ordinary people and Scott's hunting have made people who should be on an equal footing with Scott's empire at the peak of the continent become "batteries", or servants of other countries to guard the courtyard.
At the same time, a huge blackstone castle was built in the southernmost part of the continent.
Known as the "Holy City of Seno"
Beanna sat on the throne, controlling the dark energy at will. It also bestows on the followers in the shadows with the same powerful dark matter energy.
She looked at the middle-aged man with a red face and a beard under His Royal Highness, the real dragon life pattern on his shoulder was really beautiful.
"What did the dragon send you for?"
"My king, I swear in the name of the dragon. This cooperation is good for you. ”