Chapter 18: Arathi's Diary (Volume 8: Darkness Descends—Preface)
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"Once upon a time, I was a viscount lord in Shangwu County, Nord Kingdom. In the Battle of the Black Wind Valley, I was forced to lead my troops into the Black Wind Swamp. I thought we would escape from the Black Wind Dale like that woman, but this was just the beginning of a nightmare.
The Black Wind Swamp is dangerous, and one wrong step is a life. At one point, the soldiers also tried to rescue their comrades who were swallowed by the swamp, until all those rescued were mercilessly swallowed by the swamp. Again and again, the soldiers went numb. The sun is not visible during the day and the stars are not visible at night. The soldiers could not discern the direction, so they could only move in one direction in a daze. Moving forward is blind, maybe walking for a long time, many people have died, but then returning to the original place.
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Despair......
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Time destroys everything, I don't know how long I've been gone, I don't know how many soldiers have strayed into the swamp and never come back. The most terrible thing now is not the devouring of the swamp, but the people around you, and the food is gone.
The team was still moving, and every time someone fell into the swamp, everyone did not go to save him, but to snatch back the part that could be recovered while he was not completely in the swamp. One knife goes down, and it's an arm. An arm, and you can eat it for a while. Hunger corrupts human nature, and the soldiers have long forgotten their comradeship, only the instinct to live.
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Indifferent......
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The ranks are still moving forward, and the soldiers are getting thinner and thinner, and they are only skinny and bone-skinny! An even bigger crisis arose, and the water here was no longer drinkable...... The water is gone. Now most people are dying not from swamps, but from starvation and thirst. When a person dies, the body is gone. Soon, only the skeleton remained, and not a single drop of blood would be left. The others seemed to lose sight of the skeleton and moved on numbly.
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Numbness......
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I don't know how long we walked, we finally walked out of the swamp, it stands to reason that Black Wind Valley didn't do this, but we really walked for so long.
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There is no vegetation, no trees, just black, all black. Black rocks, black earth, black sky, black water.
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I collapsed, I couldn't stand it anymore, I wanted to kill myself, I picked up a sword and put it around my neck, but I didn't have the courage, I died, what should I do with these brothers who are still following me?
I am cursed by God, to live is a pain, and to die is a relief to me. I desperately want to put an end to this, but why is death leaving me?
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Cowardly......
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I'm still leading the soldiers. The army that was once still there is still less than 3,000 bones left.
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God is not merciful at all, and they take pleasure in making fun of people.
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We found a big gold mine. It's a big gold mine, and there are countless amounts of gold! The soldiers actually fought for gold. Why bother, what's the use of gold now? All I want is a loaf of bread.
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Greedy......
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The procession is still advancing, and God's 'gift' has finally arrived.
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We found an oasis with a small village on it. The soldiers rushed into the village in a frenzy, devouring everything they could eat, including the people of the village, if they were people. I don't know what race it is, it's not so much a human being as a sheep, a sheep with horns on its head that can stand.
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The soldiers finally got hot food and drank water. I had a good rest and fell asleep. There is no sun here, I don't know if it's day or night. There was a black ball of light in the sky, emitting an eerie light.
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Gourmand......
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I was woken up in my sleep by the guards. The sheep-headed monsters that were supposed to die have come back to life, and the flesh is gone, only skeletons, slaughtering my soldiers.
Slaves of hell do not deserve sympathy. We've all died countless times, and we're still afraid of these lowly undead! Soldiers, send them back to hell.
The flames of war burned.
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Rage......
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My journal continued, the soldiers continued on their way, and we found one sheep head village after another.
These demons from the abyss, even if they only have skeletons, they will get up after a while. It's my duty to send them back to hell.
I continued with my troops, and my diary was already very thick. I know for sure that we are in hell, although I don't know how long we have been there. But there is absolutely no way that Black Wind Valley is that big. We drink the water of hell and eat the demons of hell. We are also corrupted by hell, and in a few hours, the soldier who has died in battle will crawl out of the grave and attack his former comrades. "Why didn't you die, but me?"
It's all horrible. Great God of Light, can you feel my sincerity? Help us.
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Jealous......
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I don't know how long it has been, but I have forgotten the concept of time. The soldiers discover the end of their journey, a portal, a portal that glows with blue light.
Finally, I ran to the dark abyss of hell. The abyss stretches infinitely before me, but I have nothing to fear.? Along the way, what else is terrible, what hell is like, I want to go and see. I was the first to walk through the portal.
What does hell look like? There are mountains, water, birds, flowers, and food that you have never seen before, but you can eat. The grasslands here are full of animals that have never been seen before. There are abundant products here, and I have been afraid of hell all my life, but I did not expect that the legendary hell turned out to be the same as heaven. We intend to settle here and survive. For the rest of our lives, we still have less than 2,000 people, but fortunately, there are still some female soldiers, and we are crazy to release our desires on them. Perhaps, we can develop a tribe. Thank you to the True Demon God for granting me happiness.
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This is the last page of the diary, I wonder if someone will come to hell by chance and see my diary......
(The following is not recorded in the diary.)
One day, Arathi went out hunting with a group of soldiers, a giant mammoth that only a brave man of Arahi's might could capture. The soldiers carried the carcass of the mammoth and sang cheerful songs. Not far from the tribe, the soldiers found that black smoke was rising from the tribe, and something had happened to the tribe!
Arashi led the soldiers back to the tribe, which was full of sheepheads, and the soldiers were fighting the sheepheads.
The battle went on for a long time, there was no concept of time here, and Arashi only knew that his body had reached its limit. Arathi struck the sheep-headed man beside him with a hammer, and when he looked around, there was only the raging flames of war. The brothers who followed him all the way are gone.
"What the hell am I doing wrong!" Arashi went crazy.
Arathi looked up and saw him. It was a huge sheep-headed man, significantly larger than the others.
"He's waiting for me to join in, rather than preparing to attack?" This strange idea popped into Arathi's mind.
"Gradually, I understood what this clear idea entailed, which was beyond my comprehension."
The huge sheep-headed man did not attack, but waved his hand, like a waiter leading the way.
"I don't know what I'm thinking, and I don't know how long I've been following him. When I walked into the abyss of hell, the unspeakable truth loomed in front of me. My eyes were full of white, miserable, skeletal skeletons, and the armor on the skeletons proved that they belonged to my brothers. One mountain after another, the skeletons are not visible at a glance, at least tens of thousands. Is it that the bones of all the fallen soldiers in the Black Wind Swamp are here? All I wanted to do was to save my brothers, but now, I was the only one left in the tens of thousands of people. The person I want to save is dead and irretrievable. ”
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Extrication......
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"At the end of the Sea of Skulls was a steep black cave, and a rope appeared in front of my eyes, and I grabbed him. The cave resounded with the cheers of the abyssal devil. The cave was vulgar, dark, and stinking. But I don't care anymore, I really don't care......
They didn't want my brothers' lives, they just came to claim their long-coveted prize, to claim the souls they really wanted.
What they want is me, I am the source of all terror, it's all my fault, I deserve to live in terror.
Arathi followed the rope and walked into the eternal darkness.