Chapter Fifty-Eight, Vera, Awakening

If anyone is curious about what hell is like in a strange way, then he can see hell on earth as long as he comes to Canduras, which has been torn apart by demons. In this land, the small villages dotted with it were originally peaceful and serene, like the stars in the sky, twinkling with an inconspicuous glimmer in the night. But since the advent of Andariel, the demon king of hell, there has been no light in the night, countless villages and towns have been shattered by her evil erosion, and countless families have also been wiped out by her viciousness.

Vera, the daughter of a sawyman, was having her best and most tragic childhood – it was a gloomy and terrible afternoon, and Vera was playing happily with her sister Harissa in the woods next to the village. Seeing that it seemed to be raining, Vera grabbed her sister, who was still trying to run deeper into the woods, and dragged her in the direction of home under her reluctant gaze. Far away, the village seemed as peaceful as usual, but the burning fire and the rancid smell made the young Vera suddenly realize that the inhabitants of the village might not have left, but only their lives. Vera pulls her sister, who is already stuck, and frantically escapes the demon in the rain. The rain soaked through Vera's clothes and gradually froze her young mind.

Vera glanced at her delirious sister behind her, and silently thought, if it wasn't for Harissa, maybe she would have given up a long time ago, right? Eventually, Vera found a cave, and she dragged her sister inside, but the demons had long since stopped pursuing, and the pouring rain had hindered their vision, and they didn't pay much attention to the two children, so they left them to fend for themselves in this dangerous jungle.

The relentless ravages of the heavy rain caused young Harissa to develop a high fever, and Vera watched helplessly, not knowing what to do. But Harissa, who was unconscious, suddenly opened her eyes and ran madly towards the outside of the cave, babbling gibberish. Vera hurried after her, but the exhaustion of running for her life made her so exhausted that it was difficult for her to catch up with her sister, who seemed to be back in sight. Finally, on the edge of the cliff, Vera grabbed her sister's dangling arm with all her might. Underneath Harissa is an abyss, and in her dreams, Vera always feels that she has pulled Harissa up. However, the scene that was deeply enclosed in her heart turned out to be the opposite.

Vera is no different from the walking dead in the Icy Wasteland, and she doesn't know whether to take revenge on the demon or just free herself. Every day, Villa is just surviving. If you don't look closely, it's almost impossible to tell the difference between the young Vera and the zombies wandering the wilderness.

But the twist of fate is sometimes so sudden. Before Vera could decide her fate, her fate found her at this time. On this day, unlike the previous calm, two strangers came to the deserted wilderness. They weren't the food of the demons Vera had seen before, but rather the demons were the prey this time. In their desperate battle, the three demons that ravaged the land were destroyed, and Vera saw for the first time that someone could defeat the demons, which caused a stir in her insensitiveness. Then, driven by fate, she involuntarily walked towards two seriously injured warriors, who wanted to help them.

Flavi sat in a chair with a limp leg and looked at Vera on the other side of her face who was bandaging the burned left hand of the comatose Liszt. A sense of absurdity appeared in her heart, no one would have thought that in this demonic paradise, there was still a strong girl. Like Flavi, Vera is also silent, not that Vera is inherently like this, but that the torment of life has left her speechless.

But Vera's strong curiosity in her heart still made her speak: "Where are you from?" What are you going to do? ”

Vera's abrupt opening interrupted Flavi's thoughts, and Flavi paused for a moment, only to realize that it was the strange girl who was speaking, so she replied: "I am a warrior from Rog's camp, he is a warrior, and as for our purpose, you should see it very clearly, which is to get rid of the demon king in the monastery." ”

Vera, who was bandaging Liszt, heard this answer, stopped, turned her head to stare strangely into Flavi's eyes, and said word by word: "The Demon King can also be destroyed?" ”

"If not, then we wouldn't be here." Flavi was not sure of defeating the Demon King, but after so many battles, she had almost blind faith in Liszt, who in her eyes was synonymous with miracles.

"Then I'm going to join you." Vera said something that surprised her a little, and at this moment, Vera's fate was finally rewritten.

Liszt was tormented by schizophrenic pain, and if he used spells beyond his limits, he would suffer a heavy blow to his psychic powers. Liszt felt that his soul was wandering away from the human and etheric realms, moving him farther and farther away from his body. Fortunately, Liszt's long-term meditation and "intersection" made his mind exceptionally strong, so that he would not be completely lost in the ethereal etheric realm, and thus lose the opportunity to return to the human world.

In this state of imminent detachment, Liszt felt an unprecedented feeling of freedom, a feeling of no restraint, no restraint. Liszt saw that his soul was radiating a strange glow that reminded him of the power that had saved his life twice. In this illusory realm, Liszt first came into contact with the legendary ancient power contained within him. He could feel that this power was a sign of his path—absolute speed, and absolute kill. And that's the singular nature of this power. According to Kane, every human being who has awakened this power has the same essence, but each has its own characteristics. Only then did Liszt finally understand the meaning of Kane's specious words. He didn't know how this power accomplished its ultimate goal, but Liszt was pleased to find that by communicating with this power, he could liberate a part of it. Not even the World Stone can reverse this change.

While the ancient powers did not have the healing qualities, it was also possible to simply repair Liszt's badly damaged spirit. Previously, when Liszt meditated and "intersected", he had always been careful not to completely release his mind, lest he become addicted to the etheric realm and could not find a way back. However, this unintentional complete liberation allowed him to truly touch his own essence, and with the help of ancient powers, he did not get lost in the void like everyone else, but easily returned to his body. Only then did he understand why Kane said that there were many Nephilemas in ancient times, because these Nephilims, who had the power of ancient times, did not need to worry about any adverse consequences of meditation and "convergence", and their efficiency in tempering the power of the mind was far greater than that of any other people.

Liszt's unexpected gain this time made him full of confidence in defeating the Hell Demon King, although he had not been able to wake up due to his physical weakness, but his soul was unusually awake. This time, he is bound to completely eradicate all the demons of hell, so that they will no longer dare to use their evil minions to break the harmony and stability of the world.