Chapter 43: The Boundless Sea of Suffering
Above the sky, the waves are stormy.
The ancient battleship "Princess Anne the Bound", the summoned ghost soldiers on the deck, under the lich king's understatement, all turned their guns and charged towards their summoners.
"Woohoo ......" - A high-speed spinning double-edged battle axe flew out of the black hole cabin and flew back and forth through the crowd several times, smashing the ghost soldiers into pieces and then destroying them in pieces. Obviously, the summoners in the cabin are no longer able to relieve the summoning of these controlled subordinates by their own power, and can only rely on the most primitive methods to return the soldiers who died thousands of years ago to the silent realm of death.
"Knock", "knock", "knock", "knock......
Amid the sound of heavy, sonorous footsteps of military boots, a strong, young, and handsome knight appeared at the hatch of the ship, dressed in a knight's armor engraved with gorgeous patterns, with a shining knight's sword hanging from his waist, and the knight's left hand was held forward, and the double-edged battle axe that had stopped on the deck automatically flew back into his hand. The knight took the battle axe, slung it on his shoulder, held the hilt of the sword with his right hand, and looked directly at the Lich King, his imposing expression hidden with anger.
"Have you finally appeared? You should be Victor Pannidel, the one of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, who has mastered the scourge of war. First meeting, the former pride of the Panidel family, the hero of the Medine Empire. "As far as I know, you were born on the battlefield, and your mother gave birth to you in a bumpy chariot. You grew up in a barracks, and on your 6th birthday, you killed for the first time, killing an escaped captive with a knife that your father gave you as a birthday gift. At the age of 13, he began to follow your father into battle to kill enemies. At the age of 15, he was made a knight. At the age of 18, he became the youngest general in the Kingdom of Medin. At that time you were the brightest star in the entire kingdom, and at that time, no one would have doubted that in a few years you would become a great man beyond your father's generation......"
"What the hell do you want to say, Lich King?" seemed to be touched by the other party's words, and the expression of "War Knight" Victor Pannidel became more and more ugly.
But the Lich King Karlovan did not stop at the other man's face, and continued: "Your father did his best to help his little - a certain prince who was next in line of succession staged a coup d'Γ©tat and put him on the throne of king, later King Valentine. On the battlefield, you and your father fought in the north and south, annihilating internal and external enemies one by one, and consolidating the position of King Valentine. However, because of the great merits of the Lord, your Pannidel family, although they already have control over half of the army of the Kingdom of Maidin, has finally been cut down on a trivial matter, and has been betrayed by your most trusted king......"
"That's enough!" shouted Victor, apparently not liking people talking about his past.
"Despite this tragedy, is this why you, after returning from prison, resolutely defected to the death city-state of Nairo and became the command of Little Jack?" You're not such a small person, and little Jack won't accept short-sighted subordinates. β
"Is that what you're for? You deliberately provoke me with the past that I spurned, just to try to trick me. Victor calmed down a little. He was aware of the Lich King's routines.
"So what?" the Lich King admitted without hesitation, "we should find something to pass the time in our long time." β
"Don't blame me for not reminding you, you're flouting the commander-in-chief. β
"I admit that no one dares to despise the strength of the Death Knight, but what is there to fear about a Death Knight who cannot move? But in order to maintain the existence of the 'Boundless Sea of Suffering', and thus the ship beneath your feet, little Jack simply cannot leave the city-state of Nailo, or rather, he cannot leave his throne as the leader of the Death Legion. What am I doing out there, and what can he do to me?"
"What?" Victor looked slightly surprised, surprised that the outsider in front of him knew more about the commander than he did about his subordinate.
For more than a thousand years, I don't know if it was to punish himself or the woman named "Annie" tied to the bow of the ship, the death knight Jack Moraison sat in his original position every inch, and did not even change his posture at all, just to let the "boundless sea of suffering" continue to coexist with the real world;
"Go back, War Knight. The Lich King let go of his hand and "parted" into black gas and rose into the sky, "The body of this battleship, and the true 'Boundless Sea of Suffering' that preserves it, can't be too far away from Little Jack. What he brought you with was just a real phantom. β
The black gas of the sky turned into a giant scythe.
"Wait! Don't be too arrogant, Lich King. Although it is true that the commander did not come in person, you will definitely pay the price for despising me for this. Victor's displeasure was already on the rise, and he drew his sword from his waist and lifted the double-edged battle axe from his shoulder, as if he was about to dry it.
"Oh?!, didn't the woman named 'Karen' share with you what she had learned?" said the Lich King with a smile.
"If there was only one 'Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse', or you wouldn't be in sight, but what if two came?" another voice rang out from behind the Lich King.
I saw that in the waves in front of the bow of the "Tied Princess Anne", a figure gradually emerged in the water vapor. A man with black hair and yellow skin was resting his feet on a steel fork on the surface of the sea, floating and sinking with the waves.
"I heard that among the 'Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse', one of them is a warrior from the Eastern Vast Land Continent. I think this person should be you, the deceased prince of the Li Dynasty of Hualang Kingdom-Li Zhenzhe. "As a small country, caught between the two great powers of the True Kingdom and the Early Sun Empire, you have been aggrieved and paid tribute on both sides, but in the end you have suffered the fate of ruining the country and being divided up tragically, as the only survivor of the royal family, you have crossed the ocean to Olopa and become a subordinate of the Death Knights. I don't think it's just about revenge and revenge. β
The man standing on the steel fork froze, and the Lich King's words touched the man with a distinctly oriental face.
"Lee, don't be swayed by his words. Victor reminded.
"Of course not, the mission is not done yet. The man on the steel fork replied with a calm face.
"First 'war', then 'disease', the 'Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse' came at once, plus the 'Boundless Sea of Suffering' and this battleship, Little Jack really made a bloody investment. However...... "In the face of the front and back attacks of two strong enemies, the Lich King was not the slightest nervous," he still underestimated me. As long as Little Jack doesn't show up himself, even if all of you four horsemen of the Apocalypse are gathered, what can you do with me?"
With that, the Lich King tapped his fingers. The huge scythe in the sky immediately slashed down.
"I know the purpose of your trip. Little Jack always wanted to get the Tower of Babel. Go back and tell your commander to wait another half a year, and I will definitely give him an answer then......"