Chapter 10: The Harbingers and Cause and Effect
γDragon's Breath Wharf of the Radiant Moon Empire in the Western Continentγ
The night has risen like a tidal wave, flooding the sky and the earth, pulling everything into a vast blackness, including sin, corpses and blood.
Something in Ike seemed to wake up as he pierced the killer's heart, a bloody and pure emotion gushing out of his heart, as if a pair of large hands were pushing him forward, sending the blade into the hearts of those who disobeyed. He felt confused, because he didn't want to kill, but he had to do it.
Maybe this was fate, he thought. As fate would have it, his hands should be stained with blood.
When the blade was pulled out of the killer's body, several figures were pulled out of the night, and they threw several daggers at Ike at a very fast speed, like a goddess scattering flowers, and the daggers fell towards Ike like broken flowers, and Ike was a little stunned at this time, his eyes surged with something unknown, no one knew what it was, it seemed to originate from eternity, from the most fundamental thing of living beings, bloodthirsty instinct and desire to survive woven into its existence - killing**.
Just when the dagger in the sky was about to arrive, the spirit bead in Ike's hand flashed, and a brilliant rainbow halo appeared above his head, forming a seven-colored barrier, and the expressions of those killers became a little distorted.
"I seem to have seen the royal family's endless pursuit of this young man." As one of the assassins spoke, a silver light rose from the ground and pierced his throat, Ike's eyes were bloodshot, and a majestic killing intent poured over the river and sea towards the killers, who had been unable to see Ike's traces at night. But now there is a misty white light on his long sword, and the dazzling light of the spirit bead illuminates his figure, even so, the killers do not dare to act rashly, because in this white light, a little scarlet will become extremely obvious, not to mention, at this time, Ike's murderous aura is not controlled by himself at all, and it is released, making the killers feel a tightness in their throats.
"Murder...... I didn't want to, I didn't want to ......" Ike repeated the same words, as if his first killing had affected his mind, although Ace expected that his first killing would have some bad effects, but what he didn't expect was that Ike's murderous aura could be so violent, and it was completely out of his own control.
The light in Ike's hand shone on the bodies of those killers, and a terrifying murderous aura seemed to become a cloud in the light, and he rushed straight towards those killers. Those killers faced Ike as if they were facing a demonic monster that had come out of the sea of blood, and even they who had been trained to be killers had never heard of anyone who could unleash such a terrifying murderous aura.
Perhaps, this kid was born to be a killing god.
They hurled daggers at Ike, only to be deflected by his sword with precision, and he rushed to one of the killers and stabbed him in the stomach in the simplest and most brutal way.
"Hmph...... Even if I die, this mission can't fail, you move the royal things, don't want to continue to survive in this world! As he spoke, the killer grabbed Ike's arm tightly, and the long sword he wanted to draw out couldn't be drawn now, after all, he was only a teenager, even if he had a spirit bead that gave him a lot of strength, he still couldn't get rid of the full limit of an adult killer.
"Boy, die!" Just as Ike was caught by the killer, the other two killers replaced the dagger in their hands with a short knife and rushed towards Ike, trying to cut off Ike's head under the joint strangulation of the two.
"We've killed a lot of people, and I'm not afraid to die again! Boy, you must die, for the glory of royalty! The killer shouted, and at this time, the other two killers had already arrived in front of Ike, and the knife had been raised high by them, and a silver light flashed, and the head fell to the ground......
But, not Ike's head.
The silver light cut off the heads of the two killers with lightning speed, and just five meters away, Cruise's figure appeared on the dark grass, and the killer who was impaled by Ike shouted unwillingly, it could be to no avail, Ike picked him up with his sword in disgust and threw him to the ground.
"Boy! Suppress your murderous aura, the murderous aura of the first birth is so heavy, damn it, you will become a murderer, bastard God, it really makes me feel gratified, there is actually a murderer in my team. Cruise said as he rushed forward and punched Ike in the head, the nearby killers didn't dare to force the attack anymore, they knew that Cruise's strength was very terrifying, and choosing to retreat was also a good way to preserve his strength.
"Hey, Cruise, what's wrong with me...... Oh my God, my head hurts...... Ike fell to the ground, complaining helplessly: "These damn Orientals, are they really going to drive me to a dead end...... Thank God, I don't believe this, but at least I survived. β
"Boy, do you know where that spirit bead came from? You dare to grab this thing, if I hadn't come over, you wouldn't have ten lives enough to die. Cruise was talking, a few screams came, Ace slowly floated over from the side, after seeing Cruise, he didn't say anything and went directly into Ike's body, Cruise looked in that direction, naturally he couldn't see Ace, plus the vision was poor at night, and he didn't see a few onmyoji who fell there, so it was like nothing happened.
"Hey, violent maniac, I'm hungry." Ike's voice was small, he was tired and a little weak now, Cruise smiled, picked him up, and walked in the direction of the docks.
"You kid, although it's very dangerous, but that spirit bead is a good thing, haha, the Oriental people should be in a hurry now." At the sound of Cruise, Ike fell asleep slowly, he was exhausted all night, and the night was a sleeping agent for the tired, so he quickly fell asleep.
"Boy, I found out that you really aren't an ordinary person," Ace said to Ike in the dream, "The average person's nascent murderous aura is not so heavy, and besides, your ability to use spirit beads proves this even more, no wonder the Duke handed you over to me, although I still don't know what kind of guy you are." β
"To be honest, I feel the same way as you, and I don't know what you're like about you, the scoundrel who has been eating and drinking with me." Ike plucked his nostrils and looked at Ace, looking nonchalant: "I think if you continue to eat like this, I will have to go back to my old business, but you are so powerful, it should be easy to get some money." β
"I'm not telling you about this now, I want to tell you the origin of the spirit bead, and don't you think you're very unusual?" Ace asked him, and he thought for a moment before he said:
"People who have been thrown into a small town since they were a child and rely on others to help them live, can they be ordinary people......" As soon as he finished speaking, Ace was stunned, and then Ike felt a pain in his abdomen: "You...... How to do it. β
"I am the Apostle of Dreams, and in my dreams, I can do anything, including letting you die in your dreams, and those Onmyoji were forcibly pulled into the dream by me and then killed. Would you like to try it? Ace smiled weirdly, and Ike suddenly felt that this guy who ate for nothing still had some effect.
"Well, I don't feel any different, other than being unusually sensitive." Ike's words made Ace smart, and he hurriedly approached him, stared at him and said, "What feels sensitive, you can make it clear, tell me specifically, what's going on." β
"That's it...... I can see the source of magic in Mars's body, and the orb, I can see the strange energy in the orb, and ......" The more Ike said, the more excited Ace became, and finally he was about to stick to Ike's face, and the brown hair had swept to Ike's forehead.
"And what! Why don't you tell me about such an important matter! Ace was agitated and abnormal.
"I can communicate with the power in the orb, it seems to understand my words, and ...... I seem to have something to do with it......" Before Ike could finish speaking, Ace was already patting his chest and cheering God long live: "Do you know something, why do you have such an expression?" β
"Damn duke, you actually hid me so hard, do you know who you are?" Ace asked him, he shook his head, and looked at him with great contempt, "If I knew who I was, would I ask you?" β
"I don't know if you know such a legend, of course, I just know that this is a legend, whether it is true or not, I don't know, do you know what controls the world? Or rather, what is the center of this world, you know? Ace looked at Ike with an extremely fanatical expression, Ike was numb by his eyes, he thought for a moment and said, "You...... Are you laughing at my shallowness? β
"Idiot, you! Forget it, I'll tell you directly, somewhere in this world, there is a place called 'Hub', where all the cause and effect in the world are recorded, and in the 'Hub' lives a guardian, who exists outside of time, is not affected by time, has existed for thousands of years, and one day, a mortal arrives at the 'Hub', and the Guardian is very curious, how did he enter' He was tested and found that he had some kind of perceptual ability, which could sense the existence of various powerful energies, and that he was able to change cause and effect, which surprised the Guardian immensely, because even the Guardian could not change the occurrence of cause and effect. Ace spoke very energetically, but Ike was just digging his nostrils, not interested in the slightest.
"Oh...... And then what about ......"
"Then he changed his cause and effect at the 'Hub'! Think about what a terrible being it would be to be able to change your own cause and effect. Ace said fanatically: "And you, it's likely to be the next guy, change cause and effect!" It's really exciting. β
"So, what happened to this man?" Ike didn't care about what Ace said at all, as if it was none of his business, it was meant to be, that guy was able to find that kind of place, he was definitely not an ordinary person, now look at his strength, so, what does it matter to him......
"The legend has only come here, and this legend is recorded in the Courtyard of the Gods, and that person is likely to be the one who built the Courtyard of the Gods, that is, he is likely to be a god!" Ace's last sentence surprised him, but he didn't feel that it would help him, even if that guy was a god, but wasn't he still a weak chicken? Not even a group of Assassins from the East could defeat them.
"That man, known as the Harbinger, seems to be the master of the world, a man who can control fate, who can change cause and effect! If you think about this kind of thing, what else is there but God? β
Ike was silent, and when Ace saw him with this expression, he couldn't help but ask, "What are you thinking?" Don't you feel excited? β
"I just want to know, what cause and effect did that person change? And why change cause and effect? β
Ace was stunned, he looked at Ike silently, as if he was not facing a weak eleven or twelve-year-old boy, but a person who had existed for thousands of years, he didn't know why he felt this way, because, he saw something in Ike, that thing, he felt that it would be like a light, shining on this era.