The barren land is unchanged, and Catherta experiences the four seasons of spring, summer, autumn and winter, but not a single weed grows from this cursed land.

"Boy, you're doing a great job, like when I was younger. ”

Keita held the knight's sword, danced a beautiful sword flower, inserted the sword into the scabbard, and gave a standard knightly salute to the eighteen-year-old boy opposite, because the face of the fight became flushed, and the age spots on his face became more obvious, gasping for breath, and stroking some messy blonde hair.

Tang Ning skillfully danced a sword flower, and returned the sword blade to the scabbard, respectfully performing a noble knight etiquette, which represents respect.

"Uncle Keita, your swordsmanship, like your face, is old and no longer as awe-inspiring as it was then, but your spirit is admirable. ”

Keita stroked the medal on his chest and was silent, the honor he had once won on the battlefield, engraved with the years and war songs of the past, even if rusty, it seemed brilliant and dazzling to him.

This has become a fixture for Uncle Keita after every joust, and at first Downing would ask for stories about the medals, but then he was able to memorize those stories because he had told them too many times.

At this time, the door of the gladiatorial arena was pushed open, and the space inside the Catherta, which was large enough for ninety-nine people to live in, and there was also a place for activities, and a gladiatorial arena was nothing.

Agros walked in and glanced at Keita, and finally his eyes fell on Downing, who had grown into a big man. "Downing, there is an important meeting going on in Kaiserta today, and you must attend. ”

Tang Ning put the sword on the weapon rack next to him, stroked the hair stuck to his forehead, revealed his handsome face, and snapped his fingers. "Eighteenth birthday, Uncle Agros, I won't say hello to all ninety-nine uncles this time, or I'll have to eat late this time, and my stomach won't be able to stand it. ”

Every year, ninety-nine people in Kaiserta will hold a grand birthday banquet for Downing, and the banquet is held in the banquet hall of Kaiserta, a long table, not to mention ninety-nine people, even if it is nine hundred and ninety people, the long table in the banquet hall is too long.

The old lampstand in the banquet hall was lit with candles, and the long tables were lined with countless silver cutlery, which had become slightly black due to oxidation, but this did not affect the luxury of the banquet hall's dinner.

The dishes on the table were conjured by the wizards, mages, and alchemists in Catherta's with supernatural abilities, and Downing felt fresh and frightened when he was three years old, but now there is no novelty at all.

The ceremonial ceremony of the banquet was presided over by Anubarak, and Tang Ning entered the banquet hall in a luxurious silk gown and respectfully saluted the ninety-nine uncles.

"Dear Ninety-Nine Uncles, it is a great honour for you to be able to attend my eighteenth birthday, and as my birthday feast, I have the right to take the lead. Tang Ning respectfully saluted Anubarak, who was part-time presiding over the ceremony. "Uncle Anubarak, please return to your seat. ”

Anubarak didn't refuse, his eyes showed appreciation, and he returned to his place, wrapping a napkin around his chest.

Downing stepped over to his place and picked up the bright red wine like blood. "Dear uncles, now that I have taken over the etiquette of the banquet, you can drink at any time with your glasses, without raising a glass with everyone, and you can make a sound when you eat, and you don't have to be elegant...... Anyway, you can have fun, but please don't fart. ”

There was a burst of laughter in the banquet hall, and everyone had no objections, and they all picked up the silver cutlery and ate the sumptuous dinner on the table, and everyone knew in their hearts that those sumptuous dinners had returned to their original shape, most likely rats in the sewers, or cockroaches in the room, but they didn't mind at all.

There is no holy life in this cursed land, only ugliness and darkness, and rats and cockroaches are already the most delicious food, and their appearance is changed by witchcraft or spells, and when they are eaten, they are no different from a delicious steak.

At the end of the sumptuous dinner, no one left, all sat in their seats, picking their teeth and burping...... Look at Downing.

"Dear uncles, the dinner is over, and now you can go back to your respective rooms and get a good night's sleep, and I think nothing could be better. Downing got up, put his right arm on his chest, and bowed respectfully to perform a gentleman's courtesy.

The banquet hall was silent, and Aegros, the night watchman of Catherta, who sat in the seat of the most distinguished guest, stood up, his expression as serious as a sculpture of a knight in front of the church.

"Downing Stewart ......"

Tang Ning was so favored that he let one of the ninety-nine uncles call his full name, which was still a solemn title that had never been done before, and looked back at the banquet hall, no one got up and left their seats, this must be something important, his instinct told him.

Respectfully placing his arms on his chest, Downing bowed. "Downing Stewart is honored to be able to listen to you, please speak. ”

"Get out of here......"

A voice came from Agros's trembling lips, and at this moment his body radiated with light, eclipsing the countless candles in the banquet hall.

"Leave Catherta, leave the Cursed Lands, leave this land as silent as death, and it's time for you to complete your mission. The voice was solemn like a prayer in a church scripture.

The remaining ninety-eight uncles got up, and their bodies radiated with radiance, and the banquet hall became a paradise, nothing more than a paradise for the wicked.

Tang Ning stiffened and looked at the ninety-nine uncles. "I don't understand ......"

Agros's sonorous voice interrupted Downing. "You are the Lord of Judgment, you are the culmination of our ninety-nine, the representative of darkness, the darkness has been hidden long enough, if it is too long, it will become moldy, so you must get out of here, this is your mission, now I think the best time is it. ”

Downing nodded, he was the Lord of Judgment, the representative of darkness, just like that Lorimas rose, kneeling heavily on the ground, his hands stretched out, as if he wanted to embrace the sky, but he embraced the darkness.

The banquet hall trembled as if disaster was about to strike, and Agros's lips trembled even more, as did the thin hands on the table.

"Downing, you are to go into the world, judge the darkness with darkness, let the true light see the light again, unmask the false gods, and show their true faces, which are uglier than the darkness, so that the world can recognize their true colors. ”

Downing had heard countless dark stories, all from the mouths of ninety-nine uncles, and he knew that the protagonists of the so-called "light" persecution were every uncle here, so they hated the real darkness, and they looked forward to revealing the true colors of those hypocrites and administering justice for the darkness they had endured in the cursed land of Kaitherta.

He knew the masked characters in the stories by heart, as if he had experienced it himself, and Downing knelt on one knee with a reverent expression.

"I will judge the darkness with darkness, and bring back the true light to the earth, and the Lord of Judgment will swear in the name of darkness that the false gods will not be able to hide from it. ”

At the end of the ceremony, Downing walked out of the Catherta with the most valuable gift from the ninety-nine uncles, the Code of Judgment, which had been opened in the rainy season eighteen years earlier, and had opened again in the same rainy season eighteen years later, and the ravines on the thirty-three steps had become deeper.

Dark clouds blanket the sky, darkness descends on the earth, and even a glimmer of light in the Land of the Damned is a luxury.

Ninety-nine Catherta natives stood on the thirty-three steps and watched the boy's back disappear into the endless darkness.

"Agros, there are too many temptations in the outside world, and there are women like delicious food, which will blind his heart and make him unable to distinguish the femme fatale face hidden under that beautiful skin. Keita was a little worried.

"And gold coins as dazzling as the stars in the sky, which would blind him to the filthy truth beneath the dazzling light. Anubarak's grip on the gold coin tightened.

When the ninety-eight wicked men voiced their concerns, Agros let out a ghostly laugh. "If the darkness in him is not enough to fight the real darkness, then let him fall, become a part of the darkness hidden under the light, and wait for the next Judgment King to execute him, which we have been waiting for many years anyway. ”