Chapter Ninety-Five: Sunset
Auston was ambushed from the Alliance meeting, attacked by assassins, and returned to Hanina after a painstaking return, only to be ambushed again at the Imperial Tomb, the defection of Vina's childhood playmate Nalral, and the sudden mutation of Nolz, and even the strange state after Vina's awakened fire ability.
After the two escaped death, they came here by mistake, and finally Vena left here with the protection of the "King's Mark".
It can be said that Auston told the whole thing calmly without the slightest reservation. Now that you've decided to say it, don't hide it, that's what Alston has always been doing, and that's true for friends and foes.
"In the end, I definitely couldn't survive the attack, so I persuaded Her Majesty Vena to sit on this space-time converter and break through the golden roof of the palace and leave here." Auston is not very eloquent, and narrates the whole thing unpretentiously and unvarnishedly, but the more this happens, the more shocking the thrilling in the middle.
"So, you actually don't know Her Majesty's whereabouts now, and you don't even know if she's safe and sound?" Lockriel thought for a moment and hurriedly asked.
In such a desperate situation, escaping through an unproven and reliable test specimen, the danger of this is naturally needless to say, it is simply a situation of death and death.
Auston sighed, "I don't know where Her Majesty is now, but she must be alive and well, I never doubt that!" ”
Lockrell wondered why Auston was so categorical.
The Pope had been listening quietly from the sidelines, but at this time he let out a long sigh, "General, can you tell me what kind of poison the maid beside His Majesty Vena is taking?" ”
Auston's eyelids jumped, and he replied with a flicker: "It's a blood poison, it seems to be made with blood as a medium, I'm ashamed, this poison should belong to the category of magic potions, I really don't know anything about this." ”
The Pope kept staring at Auston's eyes, but Auston's eyes kept wandering, and there must be something hidden in this.
"God loves the world, and I really admire the loyalty of the general, but it really hurts my heart to use 'Sunset' as a vicious method of the ruler of your country!"
"Sunset?!"
Lockrell looked at Auston in disbelief, she had only heard of what Sunset was, and this was because she was a high priest, not to mention the common people in Colandis, even the clergy did not know the name.
Because it's a banned drug!
This potion is very peculiar, and after using blood as a medicine, this alone makes it tinged with a hint of evil.
In simple terms, it connects the life force of the person taking it to the blood provider, like an invisible blood vessel! No matter how badly the blood provider is injured, he or she can get a portion of the life force replenishment from the user to speed up the healing of the injury.
Unlike the magic contract of life force sharing, this transfer is one-way, so to speak, as long as the user who provides life force does not die, then the blood provider will continue to gain life force! What's even more terrifying is that this effect is not a one-to-one relationship, as long as you can find someone who is willing to take the potion made with your blood, you can expand your "blood bank" without limit, and the larger the volume of the "blood bank", the faster the life force is transferred, and the better the effect!
As soon as this elixir came out, it caused an uproar, and there is no doubt that its effect is indeed very rebellious, and theoretically it can even make a person immortal!
However, the pope at that time immediately ordered a permanent ban on the recipe and production process, this decision was extremely correct in the eyes of later generations, and there was an equal price to pay for obtaining anything, this potion seems to have no side effects, but it corrupts people's hearts!
Think about it, when a person gains power, status, and wealth, what is the most hopeful? It's all forever! What is the most fearful? It's death! It is precisely because of the natural rules of birth, old age, sickness and death that people's desires are limited, and civilization can develop in an orderly manner.
Thanks to the wisdom and wisdom of the Pope, he was not carried away by the "eternal life" at his fingertips, which, if spread, could have consequences enough to completely destroy a great civilization.
The potion was lost in the archives of Clandis, and was gradually forgotten. And the reappearance of this potion is also full of legends.
Thousands of years after its appearance, Clandis ushered in a dark age, it is said that the Pope of that generation was a power-hungry dictator, he tried in vain to turn the religious beliefs of the Clandis system into a tool of his rule, under his rule, the social class is very polarized, the privileged class is drunk and rich, life is rotten, while the ordinary people are miserable, not to mention basic food and clothing, even survival is not guaranteed.
And all this is claimed by this dictator as a test given by the gods, he distorts the deal, falsifies history, he is the papal honor, what he says is the will of the gods, plus all the military power is in his hands alone, the people are blinded, no one can resist him.
This tyrant himself is also an unfathomable powerhouse, coupled with the fact that a large number of elite guards are gathered around him all the time, many assassinations by the rebels against him have ended in failure, and the assassins are all masters, just when the darkness is about to engulf Clantis, the formula of this potion magically reappears, and the reason for this is impossible to verify.
Perhaps it was the hope of the gods, and if this potion fell into the hands of the tyrant, then it would not be possible for Clandis to see the light again until the end......
Fortunately, the potion did not fall into the hands of the tyrannical rulers, but into the hands of the rebels of the time, and because of this, it became the key to their complete overthrow of the dark rule.
As a result of years of repression, the rebels were left with little strength left, and in the last assassination attempt against the Pope himself, 3,000 fearless brave men drank the potion, and it was the leader of the rebels, who was also the most powerful of them.
There are not too many historical records of that ambush battle, but there are many wonderful descriptions made up, but the historical truth restored by later scholars is a heroic picture of one step at a time!
That's when the potion was given the name "Sunset", the last ray of hope that flickered before darkness covered the earth! It is also a portrayal of the glorious life of the 3,000 rebel soldiers.
"How do you have such a thing? Even in Clandis, this potion has long since been lost! Lockriel was surprised.
"Hanina's mastery of this potion involves a secret with Corandis, don't mention it, it's just a general's ......" The Pope turned to Auston and continued, "I didn't expect Hanina to have this kind of thing that shouldn't exist in the world, and you shouldn't use it as a tool to enslave a person, it's a blasphemy to life!" ”
The Pope changed his moderate attitude, and it was clear that he was very dissatisfied with what Hanina's royal family had done.
Auston's heart sank, a tool to enslave a man? Perhaps it was, and he suddenly remembered the hysterical accusation that Nalal had finally thrown himself on Vena......
"It was you who sent everyone to the gallows with false glory and loyalty!"
False...
False...
Like when he stood on the city wall and looked down at the devastated ground, like he felt when he saw the empty eyes of the refugees, like the young guard answering his question......
"What are we fighting for, you say?"
"Naturally, for the glory of the Empire!"
Glory......
False... Glory... Is it?
No!
When Auston raised his head again, he met the Pope's gaze, and a resolute look appeared on the general's face again.
"Maybe you're right, we really shouldn't force a person's will with such a thing, but... As long as there are people who voluntarily take it and are willing to defend their faith through Sunset, you can't say that it shouldn't exist! ”
As the sun set, the light from the ground gradually dimmed, and Auston solemnly saluted the place on the dome where the afterglow was shed.
Only this time, he didn't do a military salute... It's a great gift from Hanina's courtiers to meet His Majesty!
"Lockel, do you know why I'm so sure that Her Majesty Vena is safe? That's because I also took the 'afterglow' made from His Majesty's blood! As long as I stand here well, Your Majesty will still be alive! ”
"I joined the army since I was a child, and it has been more than 30 years since I am a child, and I have fought many times with Gray the Great in the north and south, and I have witnessed how the Edra royal family fought bloodily for the glory of Hanina! Now that Hanina is in turmoil, people are displaced, and the thousand-year-old civilization is likely to be lost to our generation, but I'm glad I won't see the day Hanina fall......"
Auston turned to look at the two of them and smiled slightly, "Because I'm going to die before that!" The last sunset of the empire! ”