Kainoran Continent.

The year 1343 in the continental calendar. December 24th.

The Holy Demon Day, December 24th, is the day when six Soul Suppression Knights joined forces to end the Demon Emperor's rule over the continent more than a thousand years ago.

Although the snow was falling heavily, the weather was unusually cold, and the snow was like a white elf flying in the air, it still could not cover the warm and peaceful atmosphere of the village. Families are busy making cakes, turkeys, and some of them are used to pray to express gratitude to the six soul-calming knights who brought light to the continent thousands of years ago.

And the war between the six Soul Suppression Knights who led the whole human race against the Demon Emperor a thousand years ago is known in history: Soul Suppression Holy War.

The church of the hamlet, located in the middle of the village. Although the weather is cold, many children still play in the small square in front of the church and have snowball fights, which is rare.

"Geneross, run!" a short, thin boy hid and watched from afar as the other children chased Generosis and threw snowballs. The short and thin boy named Blake, like Genosis, was adopted by the church, so he was often bullied by other children in the village, even on days like Holy Devil's Day, snowball fights, everyone still attacked them in groups.

Both young boys are 10 years old. But probably because of the lack of nutrition, he looks about the same as an eight-year-old. The pale blonde hair that should have been the same as everyone else was pale yellow at this time, which was enough to indicate that they were malnourished. Because Genosis and Blake were orphans, the clothes they wore were simple and even a little tattered. It's the legendary Hundred Clothes.

However, Genossis looks more hurried, and Blake's looks more scruffy.

"Oh, how can you do that!"

Elusa, a cute girl of the same age as Genosis from the same village, saw several children younger than them throwing snowballs at Genosis, and hurriedly stepped forward to reprimand her.

At this moment, Genesys had already fallen because he was running too fast and his feet were slipping, and the snowballs thrown by the other children were almost about to bury Generos. Seeing this, Elusa took the sticks and quickly dispersed the children and lifted Genesis up from the snowdrift. Because Elusa developed relatively early, she looked relatively tall, like a big sister's head.

"Are you alright?" Elusa asked Genesis who was being helped up by her, a little helplessly.

Genosis sneezed, smiled, and shook his head to indicate that it was okay. His smile was so sunny that Elusa couldn't see a trace of resentment in her eyes.

Blake, who was hiding on the side, breathed a sigh of relief at this time, quietly came to Genossis's side, and smiled wryly: "Let's go, let's go somewhere else to play." ”

"Hmm. Let's go walk under the pine trees in the village and see if we can dig up some pine cones. Geraint thought for a moment, and then said, "The Holy Demon Tree in the church is missing some pine cone decorations." ”

Genosis patted the snow off his body and followed Black away. Elusa looked at the two who were gone, smiled, and followed.

......

Time passed quickly. Before I knew it, it had gone from noon to afternoon. Inside the kitchen of the church. Priests and nuns are busy preparing supplies for prayer in the church.

The church is relatively spacious, about the largest building in the village, but it is also home to orphans who have not yet been able to feed themselves, such as Genosis and Black.

Father Pavlov, the bald man, called Sister Louise, who was busy sorting out the books, "Louise, have you seen someone steal part of my cake?"

"Oh? no. Louise was stunned. The priest looked a little strange, and just as the two of them were about to continue asking each other, they heard something rustling from nowhere.

"Huh?" the priest looked at the voice in surprise, looking at Generosis who had come in, and at this time Generosis was dragging a man.

"People?" the nun hurried up to check.

At this time, Blake walked in while eating the cake, and said with a wry smile: "Father, I'm sorry, when Genosis and I were playing outside, we noticed that a person fainted, and Genosis thought that this person might be hungry, so I asked him to find some food, but this fainted person couldn't wake up, so I ......."

The priest looked at Blake with a smile in his eyes. But he clearly didn't mean to blame Blake.

Genosis looked at the man he had dragged back.

He looked a lot older than him, and he should be over sixteen. Very tall, about 1.7 meters over, a man who looks quite delicate. Strangely, this fainted young man, with silver hair as white as snow, was dressed very thinly, just wearing a simple suit and leather shoes, a white suit shirt, a suit and a black vest, and the sleeves on both sides were rolled up. His left hand was revealed.

His left hand, I should say, the entire arm is pitch black. It exudes a palpitating aura.

The priest's face was a little unpleasant.

"Dark attributes. How many years have it been, and there are still such attributes. However, this is obviously a human being, how can a human being have a dark attribute that only demons have?"

Genosis couldn't understand what the priest was saying.

Although the priest's face was not good-looking, out of kindness, he still wanted to try to save the young man who was already unconscious.

Then the priest took out a cane, no, a staff to be exact.

Then the priest said, "Ancient and holy spirit of light, please use your light element to heal this young man!"

Then an indistinct beam of light swayed from the tip of the staff, and then hovered over the unconscious young man. But the beam of light only swirled, but it was slow to make contact with the young man.

"Ahhh

"Sure enough, it still doesn't work!" the priest shook his head, and with a thought in his mind, he stopped the healing magic. The swirling beam of light collapsed and scattered at the touch of a touch, turning into a little starlight.

The young man in the suit opened his eyes, revealing black pupils.

Black pupils.

This is very rare in the Kainoran continent.

Father Paplov's face was still not very good-looking. "Louise, help him to the fireplace to warm up, I'll go get some medicine, as you can see, healing magic doesn't do much to this young man. ”

Pavlov naturally had mixed feelings. Dark attributes, naturally, understand what this means.

According to the doctrine, light elemental healing magic is not only incapable of healing dark creatures, but can even cause damage. Moreover, when the two elements of light and darkness are brought together, they will produce a strong rejection reaction. According to Pavlov's previous feelings, that is, there will be a clear discomfort in his heart.

But it's not the same as the doctrine?

Why is it different? Because the demons in the record have a pair of ears that are the same as those of the elves, but they are even more hideous! The young man in front of him has normal ears, and he is obviously just a human. Could it be that thousands of years have changed the appearance of the demon race?......

Pavlov looked at the frescoes of the church.

Six Soul Knights, with the power of the Throne of Soul Suppression, transform into Seraphim and fight a giant serpent with wings. On this continent, there were originally only six elemental attributes: water, fire, earth, thunder, wind, and light, but thousands of years ago, the Demon Emperor, that is, the giant snake with wings, brought an unprecedented elemental attribute to the continent, and of course, it also brought unprecedented disasters to the continent.

Dark attributes.

In other words, the young man in front of him is very likely to be a descendant of the demon race, and he is called the remnant of the demon race.

Sister Louise carefully tended to the seemingly badly injured young man.

"Where did you come from?" Pavlov became a little reserved. After all, he was a second-order priest, and he knew the history of more than a thousand years ago.

......The young man in the suit shook his head helplessly, and said, "You guys, let's run quickly, something very bad and terrible is going to happen here." ”

"What do you mean?" Pavlov looked at the young man with some surprise: "Why should I believe you?"

......Seeing this, the young man in the suit was silent and stopped talking.

Soon, it was getting dark.

It was already snowing, but after the sky darkened, the atmosphere became a little weird.

More than a thousand years ago today, six Soul Suppression Knights defeated the Demon Emperor, that is, on this night more than a thousand years ago, the continent finally ushered in the first peaceful night in decades.

Since then, December 24 has been recognized by everyone as Holy Devil's Day, and the night of that day is called Christmas Eve.

If it weren't for the snow, everyone would have gathered in the small square in front of the church for a bonfire dance.

In the evening, after the nuns in the church had finished praying, they ate with the priest. Including Genossis, of course, and Blake. As for the young man in the suit, he was summoned by the priest to the village infantry swordsman and locked up in the cell of the village barracks. In the dark and secluded cell, there was a shabby stench of putrid smell. That's because the cell is not cleaned all year round. Or to put it a little deeper, it's been a long time since anyone has been caught in the cell.

The young man in the suit was tied up and couldn't move, and everyone was having a big meal at home in the church, and Louise, while eating the delicious food peacefully, asked Blake, "Blake, what, where did Genosis go? By the way, why is this roast turkey missing a chicken leg? He was still here......

Blake smiled wryly, "Oh, I was hungry just now, so I stole a little bit first...... Genesis said he suddenly felt a little sick in his stomach, so he went to that or something......"

..................

Outside the barracks cell. Elusa, who had stolen the key from nowhere, said, "Geneross, come." I got the key to my cell. When you run out of keys, you sneak them back into the militia captain's house, who is now having a big meal with his family and is drunk. ”

Holding some of the stolen food in a piece of chicken paper, Genosis said apologetically and gratefully to Elusa, "Go home quickly, don't let Uncle Peter wait." ”

Elusa nodded, and Generosis watched her walk away, and then entered the cell in the dark.

Obviously, Genosis was thinking about the thinly dressed but well-faced young man he met outside today. I don't know why, but this young man always gave him a very familiar feeling.