Chapter 2 A Story Part I
Where should the story begin? Do you start with the finale and go back in flashback, or start with the climax and explain it with an interlude, or start with a seemingly unfathomable discourse?
After thinking about it carefully, out of respect for the protagonist in the story, it is better to tell it in a more traditional way, so let's start the story with "a long, long time ago".
Once upon a time, the world was peaceful and tranquil, and everyone lived a good life, whether he was poor or rich, whether he was a nobleman or a commoner, regardless of the gender of the other party, whether the other party was a human or a great goblin, and lived a good life as advertised.
Until that day, calamity struck.
It was a very ordinary-looking meteor, like a stone that crooks put on their stalls claiming to bring good luck, but never sold, and according to stargazers, the popularity is nothing more than the phenomenon of stones outside the atmosphere rubbing and burning in the sky when they fall, and the remaining meteorites are stones.
However, that one is different, it does not come from outside the sky, but from a more distant place, and the prophets of later generations probably want to avoid being burned at the stake in order to escape responsibility, so it is said that the stone came from another world.
Of course, what they said could be true, but it didn't make sense anymore, because they had only been making this conclusion for three days, and the royal stargazers were all burned at the stake, not because they hadn't made a prediction in advance, but because they had made the prediction itself.
They've changed.
In fact, this mutation occurred at the same time in the forest where the meteorite fell, as well as at the Royal Academy of Sciences, and the mutation is that a large number of tentacles suddenly appear on the creature's body, and the opponent's mind is completely lost, and it will only attack the surrounding life, trying to infect more people.
The guys from the Royal Academy of Sciences were immediately extinguished, after all, there was a whole division of the Guards around them, and two magic legions, and a few stargazers turned into monsters, which turned into kebabs without even turning up the waves.
But on the other side, the forest where the meteorite fell was not so lucky.
The place where the forest is located is very remote and rural, and there are no resources there, only a large number of magical beasts exist, even the mercenaries don't like this city very much, let alone the forest itself.
By the time the situation was discovered, it was already a huge beast tide, more than 20 towns around the forest, along with a mage black market, had been destroyed, and those infected creatures had a new variant - intelligent monsters.
The other party has a clear wisdom, divided the army into multiple routes, first surrounded and then built the city, before the project, the air troops carried out firepower bombardment, providing the necessary conditions for the later infantry to go to the city, and at the same time, in the bombardment, the races that are good at assassination were also thrown into the city to assassinate the magician.
Of course, this is a sign that they are not intelligent enough.
Since the magicians were trading in the black market at that time, it was an illegal trade, and the protection and vigilance magic of various schools were dense, and those assassins followed the flow of magic to investigate the past, and encountered a vigilance comparable to that of a magic tower, turning into meat puree, green liquid, and fly ash one by one......
But even with the advance warning, because the siege of the city has been completed, only a very small number of magicians can break out, and this small group of magicians has brought bad news about the fall of the empire's frontier.
So the empire sent elite troops to suppress it, especially for the characteristics of these monsters that can infect people, the necromancers of the Western Dead Lands when they came to this side, and the undead creatures under their hands, according to the general opinion, those monsters can only parasitize on flesh and blood creatures, and there should be no good way to deal with skeletons.
Even if the other party was really able to manipulate the skeleton, the necromancer still had the corpse explosion technique available at that time.
However, this elite force was not able to annihilate the enemy, because the number of monsters was too many, and according to the battle, it seemed that the monsters in the wilderness outside the borders of the empire were all infected.
Under the efforts of the elite troops, the monster's attack was temporarily stopped, but this time was only two months, and after two months, the battle situation deteriorated sharply, and the necromantic legion could only retreat again and again.
Because those monsters have evolved, their resistance to negative energy has been greatly increased, coupled with the evolution of the body, there are only a bunch of skeleton shelves, they can be directly pushed horizontally, and most importantly, there are a large number of mentally strengthened individuals among them, which will greatly interfere with the necromancer's control of the undead.
Fortunately, the emergency measures of the empire are not waste paper, the people in the rear have long been transported away, and reinforcements have also been sent here in batches to hold their positions, but everyone knows that this is temporary.
Monsters, no, they can't be called monsters anymore, they have their own bases, their own class divisions, and even their own languages, their own civilizations, their own lands.
During this time, the land occupied by those monsters changed at a speed visible to the naked eye, from the original pale green field, to a blood-red blanket of flesh in the pitch black, no one thought that this thing was green, pure natural and pollution-free, after all, it was black.
The war inevitably went into a war of attrition, or the war of attrition that was most detrimental to the empire.
The war lasted for a hundred years, and it took seven monuments to commemorate the soldiers who died here, and that was still a negligible damage.
Those monsters have a strong infectious power, this is what has been said before, in the past hundred years, although many of the surviving warriors have not been corrupted, but they have undergone irreversible changes, such as skin color has become dark and shiny, blood-red light spots have appeared in the pupils, and even tentacles have appeared on some people.
And all this effort was worth it in the end, because they bought the most precious time.
These invading monsters cannot be completely eliminated, and they have become a stubborn disease in this world. Realizing this, the people abandoned their unrealistic fantasies from the very beginning, aiming to seal those monsters as their goal.
Those monsters are extremely corrosive, and living things, non-living things, organic matter, and inorganic matter can all be called their parasitic bodies, so it is absolutely unrealistic to seal them with a certain place and a certain item, and there is only one one that can be used.
Creature.
He still has a noble soul and a strong will, and he will not lose himself because of the pain of the seal, and he also needs to have a warrior who is extremely resistant to erosion.
And such fighters exist.
From the beginning of the war, the imperial reinforcements have not yet come, leading the city's guards, holding the city, waiting for reinforcements, so that the people can retreat, and then staying here, fighting for a hundred years, from a mere captain of the guard, to the current imperial marshal The man is the most suitable candidate.
So he became the king, the Demon King.