The twilight is getting thicker, and the remnant sun is better than blood. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

A few skinny wolves wandered on the dirt slope in the distance, watching the bonfire and two figures that had been lit under a rocky slope below. One of them was busy making dinner, while the other sat still, as if asleep. Skinny wolves were hungry, and God knows how much they wanted to hunt downhill, but their keen sense kept reminding the beasts that the atmosphere over there was too dangerous.

The cold, terrifying atmosphere was like a giant python coiled down the slope, quietly waiting for the food to be delivered to its door.

So under the remnant sun, they only whistled a few times occasionally, but they didn't dare to go downhill.

"Coward." Bai muttered, this is the word he just learned. He watched the wolves drooling on the hillside in the distance, but he had to bake the dry pieces of smoked meat, sprinkle salt on them and season them simply, as Lucy had taught, and then put them in his mouth and chewed them. In terms of human taste, such dried meat tastes good. After all, you can't expect a tavern or restaurant to dine in in the middle of nowhere. But as far as Bai is concerned, it is obvious that fresh wolf meat is more delicious. However, Lucy has said more than once that since he has transformed into a human form, he must learn how to be a human being.

And everything starts with changing the habit of raw food, so Bai took out the courage to face a strong enemy and ate all the bacon without hesitation. He licked the oil off his hands and looked at Alan next to him. After Alan found this place as a place to stay overnight, he began to temper his source power, and he was no stranger to Bai during the journey. The young man didn't know that after returning to the Heavenly Star this time, Eren tempered the source power much more frequently than before, and even Bai felt that Eren was thirsting for power. It's just that the teenager doesn't understand where Allen's thirst comes from. It's no wonder that the boy doesn't understand that Allen's experience with the earth is not mentioned word for word.

Shiro only knows that at such times, his duty is to protect Allen. He was happy to do so, just as Alan had protected him as he grew up as a young snake.

What Bai didn't know was that Eren didn't deliberately temper the source power tonight, he had entered the depths of consciousness at this moment and re-descended into that strange world.

Drain and drain.

As if waking up from a long dream, Alan slowly opened his eyes in the world of consciousness, first hearing the sound of rain, and then looking up. Sure enough, the sky was covered with thick clouds, and the dark clouds were like smoke rising from a fire, and raindrops continued to fall from the clouds, sprinkling every corner of the earth.

He had been to this world several times, but it was the first time he had seen rain. Eren stretched out his hand, but he couldn't catch any raindrops, and then he saw the red skin on his hand, and from time to time there were scarlet fires flashing in it, illuminating the nerves and blood vessels under the skin. Near the palm of the hand, there is also a dark fire mist, this dark fog looks ordinary, but it has its own high temperature, the raindrops fall into the fog and evaporate instantly, and even the water vapor does not have time to rise. So Alan's hands were dry, and he retracted and looked near him, only to realize that he was sitting on a throne.

The throne is located on a hill and is carved directly out of a boulder, with an abutment connected to the top of the hill. The throne was so large and wide that it could even be used as a bed for Alan's slender size. Then he understood that this throne was not for him, and its former owner should be Rogthea, known as the Shadow of the Flames.

Beneath the hill is the Burning Forest. At this time, the crown of the fire tree was dark blue, and the flames retreated to the point that they were almost extinguished, like small flames. The raindrops fell on the crown of fire, and the color of the crown of fire was so dull that it seemed to be extinguished in the next moment.

This oppressive feeling made Alan uncomfortable and reminded him of those unpleasant experiences on Earth. So he stood up, inhaled deeply, and suddenly let out a long roar to the sky. Allen's body burst into flames, sparks erupted from the gaps in the lava armor, and a circle of flames rose beneath his feet, making it look like a crown of flames had fallen on the hill from a distance. The dark fog that swirled around his body suddenly swelled, and behind Allen, he stretched out to the left and right, like a pair of shadow wings.

These wings envelop almost the entire top of the mound.

The Burning Forest seemed to have awakened from its slumber, and the light of the trees that had been dim in color changed from dark blue to orange and yellow, and finally turned into vermilion sky fire. The flames flew up, the circle of fire light between the forests lit up, and all the fire trees were in flames, and from a distance, a corridor of flames seemed to appear on the ground.

Looking at the dazzling firelight, Allen's chest was empty. Sensing became sensitive, and he suddenly looked up at the sky. This time I raised my head for the second time, but the scenery in my eyes was different. At this time, Allen's eyes were burning in the sky, and the dark clouds that covered the sky began to stir, gradually forming a huge face, and on that face, Allen felt that his eyes were falling.

Other beings were peeking at him in some mysterious way, and the white flames on Allen's head suddenly lit up, like a silver hair roaring angrily, and he shouted categorically: "Get out!" ”

A tiny gap appeared in the center of the cloud, and then the gap expanded rapidly, and the cloud spun like a whirlpool on the sea. The vortex of clouds in the sky became more and more intense, and finally the thick clouds cleared away, and the fierce sun shone again, and the earth was bright again.

The moment the clouds disappeared, Alan faintly heard a roar. The roar was full of anger, but it was also full of surprise.

He snorted coldly, not taking it to heart.

Then the sound of horses' hooves sounded, and Alan looked down at the top of the hill, and rode out of the forest along the hill path to the top of the hill. It was a knight on a fiery horse, carrying a huge half-moon scythe, and the flame cloak behind his back pulled a long tail of flame in the air, and the flaming knight came to the top of the mound in an instant. He jumped off his horse, knelt down on one knee before Allen, and said to Allen in the language of Ebones, "Welcome back, Your Highness the Dark King." ”

This is a knight who once waited on the Shadow of the Flames, possessing a rudimentary intelligence that allows him to command armies in place of the Shadow of the Flames. Of course, you don't have to expect him to be a brilliant strategist, he can simply order his army to charge or retreat. In this fiery world, combat is often simple and brutal, so for this high-ranking knight, it was enough to be able to give simple command.

Eren turned, pointing to the throne that was blocking his gaze. A red spot of light first appeared on the back of the throne, then the point of light spread, and the throne quickly collapsed and dissolved. In the eyes of the high-ranking knights, the throne that had once stood high on the shadow of the flame collapsed, revealing the world behind the hills. Alan took a deep look at the vast world behind the hill and said softly, "Gather all the troops." ”

There seemed to be a flame in the knight's eyes, and he stood awe-inspiring. Reaching out, flames erupted through the cracks in his armor, forming a flaming horn in him. The knight blew his horn, and the sound was heard far and wide through the Burning Forest.

The trumpet sounded three times in a row.

There was silence afterward, and after a few moments, the sound of flapping wings began to sound on the other side of the forest. A fiery cloud drifted through the forest, several kilometers long from head to end, and at the extreme, an army of tens of thousands of fire boys. They flew over the forest, flying and circling in the sky, chirping and chirping. But no matter how the fire cloud swirled, no fire boy dared to go over the hill and over Alan's head.

For them, there is an invisible line.

Then there are the fire gnomes, creatures that inhabit fire trees or under the forest floor and rush to emerge. With crude weapons, they slid down fire trees or burrowed out of the dirt, and ran screaming out of the forest. These creatures are ridiculously large, small-headed. But there were so many of them that it was like saying that the fire boy covered the sky, and the fire gnomes flooded the earth. They overflowed the forest like a flood and gathered under the hills.

Soon after the fire gnomes appeared, the roar of wild beasts sounded in the forest, and one after another fire horn demons dragged their chains out of the forest, their numbers were relatively small, but there were thousands of them. If the fire gnomes are floods, then the fire horns are dark turbidity currents, and they domineeringly squeeze a passage through the flood and occupy the front row. The fire gnomes screamed in dissatisfaction, but none of them dared to challenge the authority of the Fire Horn Demon.

But when an extremely heavy, but extremely uniform footstep sounded, even the Firehorn Demon felt uneasy. At the behest of a few of the particularly strong Firehorn Demons, the dark-colored turbidity current split in two, clearing a passage. Tall, flame-headed, rock-shaped flame guards stepped through the passage with heavy strides led by several Flame Commanders. They are Allen's personal guards, and they have a higher authority than the Firehorns. These guards reached the hill and then walked up the mountain path, which was densely packed from the foot of the hill to the top of the hill. Several Flame Lords came up behind Eren and knelt down on one knee together.

Then arrived the Knights who had served the Flame Shadows, who rode out of the forest in droves, fewer in number than the Firehorns, but far more numerous than the Flame Guards. Seeing his knight appear, the high-ranking knight saluted Allen, mounted his warhorse, galloped down the hill and joined his army.

When the skeletal but flame-spewed behemoths and headless giants armed with whips or flaming axes emerged from the forest, Allen's army was finally assembled. He glanced back at his troops, then pointed ahead: "Go!" ”

The Fire Child screamed, the Fire Gnome waved his weapon, the Fire Horn Demon roared in the sky, and all kinds of creatures responded to Alan's orders in their own ways. Then the army set off, and the red cloud formed by the fire boy floated over Alan's head first, followed by the fire gnomes that spread all over the mountains, and the turbid current formed by the fire horn demon split in two and bypassed the hills. The last of the flaming beasts came nearby, and Eren chose it as a mount and dodged over its head. The behemoth flared up, then strode forward, carrying Eren to the front of the army.

This time, Allen's army advanced thousands of miles, and the name of the Dark King gradually spread across the land.

A river winds its way through the low slope, which extends to the west, narrowing to widening. It was littered with rock fragments, withered yellow weeds, and clumps of dull shrubs obscured the holes on the slopes that were unknown how deep. Among the dry grass in the red ground, there are constantly fireflies rising and rising, like sparks flying in the sky, and the heat here is amazing. The heat came not only from the ground, but also from the river. It is different from rivers in the broad sense of the word, because instead of cool water, the river bed flows in the riverbed, but the magma that is constantly bubbling up in a bowl. The river of magma slowed down, skirting the slopes and heading north, disappearing into a canyon like the bones of a giant beast.

Alan stood on top of a boulder on the slope and looked out over the canyon to the north. He could vaguely sense that there was an extremely strong presence in the canyon, an opponent he had never encountered before. But he was not afraid, on the contrary, there was a glimmer of expectation.

His army was dormant on the slopes, the Fire Boys burrowed into the deep pits, the gnomes occupied the banks of the Magma River, the Fire Horns chose their own place to rest, and the Flame Knight tirelessly patrolled the camp. Along the way, although he finally encountered an enemy, after eliminating a few forces, Allen's army was also reduced a little compared to before he set off.

Of course, Ellen doesn't feel heartache about how much cannon fodder like Fire Child and Fire Gnome loses, and these lowest-ranking creatures are almost everywhere. Despite the greatest consumption in the battle, the number of these two creatures is now more than before the departure. Even the Firehorn Demon didn't take Alan to heart, but the mid-rank classes of Flame Knights and Headless Giants were hard to replenish.

Especially the headless giants, a journey of a thousand miles, Alan will never see their kind again, even if there is only one.

The world is vast, and Eren believes that there are more powerful beings and superior beings waiting to be discovered. He didn't think about how far his army could go, but as long as he made his way towards the giant shadow at the end of the world, even if the distance was limited at a time. But as long as he doesn't stop, Eren believes that one day he will reach the place where the giant shadow is. When the time comes, he may be able to understand the meaning of the existence of this world.

Allen's eyes erupted with heavenly fire, and the dark mist like a shadow on his body surged up, like wings stretched out on both sides. He pointed in the direction of the canyon and was about to order his army to set off, when a little fire lit up in the direction of the canyon. In the dim sky at this moment, the light of the fire was so conspicuous. This bit of fire soared into the sky, and with a turn in mid-air, it sped straight in the direction of Allen.

It was advancing so fast that one second it was a fingernail-sized point of light, and the next Eren could see a ball of fire the size of a tabletop. The fire flew straight out, and as it passed, a flame burned on the ground. The flames are like paths, starting at the canyon and ending at the location of Camp Allen. The flames on Allen's head burned wildly, the qi engine was released without reservation, the entire slope was buzzing and trembling, and small pillars of fire continued to emerge from the magma river.

Eren was ready to fight, but the fire mass in mid-air suddenly retracted its momentum and slowed down. When it reached the top of Alan's head, it descended diagonally, falling to the ground and turning into a pool of lava. Allen's Flame Guardians immediately arrived, and one of the Flame Lords walked towards the surging magma with a great axe, and Eren raised his hand to signal it to stop. At this moment, the pool of magma began to wriggle, and from the center rose a light bulging head, then the body, the hands, and finally the magma condensed into a humanoid creature, standing in front of Allen's eyes.

It opened its eyes, two hedrons like black jade, shimmering with a light of wisdom that no other life had. It didn't look at the many soldiers around Allen, but spread out its hands, bowed to Allen, and said, "Brave Dark King, the flames on your body are as dazzling as the light in the sky. I am Amundo, and I greet you only on behalf of Mitinas, the fire of the abyss, young king. ”

Alan nodded: "I really don't feel hostile to you, I'm surprised that there are intelligent beings like you in this land." ”

"I can't compare to you with some of my wisdom." Amondor replied in a humble tone.

"Then please let me know what you are here for."

"Yes, His Highness the Dark King." Amundo asked, "The Abyssal Flame has seen your flame, and he wants to know where you and your army are going?" ”

Without saying a word, Alan pointed to the canyon.

Amondo sighed, "That's the problem, the flames of His Highness the Abyssal Fire are enveloping the entire canyon, I'm afraid he won't be able to pass for you." ”

"I don't beg you to let me pass, but whatever stands in my way, I will crush it. Whether he's the fire of the abyss, or something. ”

In a slightly surprised tone, Amundo said, "Young king, you will start a war between kings. But don't you know that there is no point in wars between kings? It seems that Your Highness is right, the time of your birth is too short, too short to know many rules. ”

"For example?"

"For example, there shall be no war between kings."

"Really? That's a pity. Not long ago, I seemed to have killed a guy who called himself Shadow of Flame. ”

"Flame Shadow?" Amundo shook his head: "All the names of kings are in my mind, but there is no shadow of flame among them. As for your name, it has only recently echoed in my mind, and the voice of your name is so loud that it is impossible to ignore. ”

Alan asked, "You keep talking about kings, tell me, what is a king?" ”

Amundo did not show any impatience, and he said in a respectful tone: "The king is the king he recognizes, and he has the privilege of eternal life on this land. Kings fall, but they don't die. After the fall, the king will be reborn in the flames, a right that no other life has had. ”

"He? Who is he? ”

Amundo looked up at the shadow on the far horizon: "He is our creator and our destroyer. He is the beginning and the end. He is asleep now, and we exist in his dreams. When he wakes up, we will cease to exist. But we will not die there, but will appear in another way in his world. We are his most loyal soldiers, no other life, even a king. ”

"As long as he wakes up, we are his strongest army!"

ps: I wish all the book friends who participated in the college entrance examination a victory, come on!