Book IX, Chapter XVII
Orka, who had already lost blood because of the Demon Emperor Domain, had just landed and lost the feather in his hand. The Demon Emperor's sword instantly shattered into a mess of feathers, and Orka clutched his broken chest and abdomen, trying to stop the bleeding that threatened to be fatal.
The sky was no longer dark clouds and the platinum cross in the background of the blood moon, the sky was low and dim at dusk, and the endless gloom shrouded in this land that was scorched into a glass surface by the dark essence and elemental surge, and the sadness of the sunset looked mercilessly at the two demons who were both in their dying struggles.
The scarlet angel curled up on the ground, the sharp pain completely taking over her nerves. There was almost no room left for her consciousness, all she knew was that she twitched violently and never stopped. It was a clash between her power and the source of her life, and it could only be ended if one of them collapsed.
The wound on her back was bubbling with sticky purple blood, and the purple intent in the blood touched the spirit child of light hovering around her, and immediately annihilated a little spark. And everywhere inside her, countless sparks were burning her shell.
It's like the night full of fire.
No matter how desperately she tried to forget, no amount of strong and ferocious mental control and magic could erase that night from her life.
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"Ahh
The excessive blood loss had dizzy her vision, the pain was gone, her breathing was inefficient, and the rapid wheezing had made her bloodless body unable to carry oxygen. But she knew that if she relaxed, Sweeney would definitely be separated from her body, and although this would reduce her injuries, the fatal injuries of the other half would definitely be on Sweeney, who was still a child.
Whether it's as Siu's twin partner. Or Sweeney's mother, she wouldn't let this choice appear in front of her eyes.
A pair of cold arms pressed against his wound. A viscous gel gushes out of the palm of the hand, bonding the large broken blood vessels. He stuffed his small intestine back into the abdominal cavity.
The intense vomiting made her dizzy again, but she also knew that her life might have been delayed.
"Don't move, don't think nonsense. ”
"I ......"
"Please don't speak, your trachea has been blocked by a blood clot and I'm going to put you in a breathing tube now. ”
The sharp blade of his fingertips only brought a slight pain to his throat, and the feeling of suffocation immediately eased a lot. After a few seconds, Orka, who found that she was unable to vibrate her vocal cords, realized that her throat had been cut open and another tube had been inserted into her airway.
Milky white fluid was injected into her jugular vein. The temporary replacement of blood solved her urgent need. Leaving little Orka lying flat on the ground, Zino looked nervously at the target.
Orka, whose whole body was almost soaked in gray-red blood, was so fragile and weak that he only needed to reach out and block her breathing tube for a few dozen seconds before Grimel's highest task was completed. He didn't even know that he would save Orka, and with his understanding of his own humanity, shouldn't it be the best choice not to help Orka go?
What puzzled him even more was that Verille didn't even have such a choice, she even temporarily equipped her infinite energy trigger on herself to recover from her injuries, why did her debugger never detect that she had a more strict bug than she had at the beginning......?
Orka struggled to open her eyes and grabbed Zino's hand, which was crouching beside her.
Unable to make a sound, she swiped hard in Zino's palm. It's the text of the demons. But with Zino's number jù library, it was not difficult to analyze her information.
"Help her, she shouldn't have died now. ”
Zino nodded, and laid Orka, who had barely stabilized from his injuries, on the ground. Ran to the position of the Angel in Scarlet Clothes. Velyl looked at her ultimate goal with a blank face, and without remorse, she gave up her mission and walked slowly to Zino's side.
The annihilation of the elements inside cannot be stopped. However, when Zino and Veryl's powerful refrigeration unit was connected to the Scarlet Angel, the rapidly decreasing temperature greatly eased the rate of annihilation. When this threshold finally falls below the recovery speed of the Scarlet Angel. Her jerking out gradually stopped.
The first thing the demon angel who still hid his face tightly in his hood was to reach out weakly and tighten his hood.
The sweat of the whole body quickly turned into ice in the low temperature. The blood behind her had also congealed, but from time to time she could still feel the intense pain from the sparks bursting out of her magic pattern and the sound of pain she barely suppressed, but it didn't engulf her consciousness anymore.
Verrell and Zino sat silently next to the scarlet-clad angel who was slowly recovering, combing through their counts. Moments later, Zino removed the infinite energy trigger from his chest and gave it back to Verille.
Verrill accepted it and remained silent.
Orka lay in her wings, feeling the indentation of her injuries. Her will could no longer stop the injury from spreading to Sweeney.
Such a young child......
She slowly picked up a piece of the sharp feather of the feather, held it in her hand, and pressed it against the jugular vein two centimeters, found the location of the artery, and then stabbed it hard little by little.
Orka's soul will be attached to you, and then it's up to you to save me!
"Mommy !——"
In the Sea of Souls, Sweeney desperately shook the last transparent soul chain, trying to awaken his true self who could not see his face in the depths of the chain.
"I'm sorry!!"
The sound in the sea of souls slowed down the movement in Orka's hand, and Orka blinked, and the movement continued-
"Mom, you know, I'm the last one with the best soul...... My existence is simply not supposed to be, and my relationship with my mother is nothing more than a false fate...... I'm sorry, I would have been-"
"Don't say it. ”
Tears flowed down the curves of her bloodstained face, and she didn't know this? The rootless soul derived from the empty shell coveted this pure maternal love. Eager to perpetuate this beautiful but meaningless emotion forever-
"Mom is upset. ”
Little Sweeney hugged the transparent soul chain with all his might, melting into a gray air stream. Penetrated the last shackles that sealed the Demon Emperor.
"Mom is very sad. ”
Once again, warm tears remained, melting the crusted blood clots.
It's still too late—
The power poured into the fingers. The feathers tore open the flesh and the walls of the carotid arteries, and the last gray demon blood spurted out meters high under the weak pulsation of the heart—
Light——
The gray blood turned into an endless stream of light in the sky, a light that was so pure that there was no trace of variegation, a mass of light that was not composed of light elements at all, and did not have any energy fluctuations, but it was really in this world.
The rootless edge corresponds to the beginning of the distant world, and opens up the rootless world from the vast chaos.
Who dares to say that he is a child with roots, and who dares to say that he is a traveler without roots?
Where the bonds are. It's the world.
In the misty light, Lilith's virtual image flashed away, and the last shackles turned into light and returned to the hands of the Holy Son. Sweeney's delicate little face was full of tears, and he looked at his mother's confused face one last time and kissed her the cheek.
Lilith wrapped her arms around her, and floated towards the end of the light, another world above the sky.
The scarlet angel struggled to turn around in the icy air, kneeling down before Lilith's phantas, his hands folded on his heart.
The Lord said. Let there be light. "Void.
Boundless.
Endless light.
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It was not dazzling, but it covered the pure brilliance of a qiē light and drifted away into the sky, and finally disappeared on the other side of the sky.
Every demon of Osiria raised their heads at this moment, looking at the empty direction of the sky. A dark gold color lingered in their vision between the virtual and the real. Endless numbers of quaint symbols are circling and dancing. Although its meaning was unclear, in the leap of the talisman, their hearts seemed to suddenly have something. At this point, they remembered the respect and submission to the Dark Pole and the Demon Emperor engraved in the history of the bloodline.
The light of the dossier shinas stiffened his fingers for a moment. The slender quill fell from between the white fingers, and the aqua blue eyes pierced through the gorgeous palace walls of the Holy Land Imperial Palace, thousands of miles of time and space. I saw another ray of pure light that had finally risen on the land of Osiria.
The sky falls on the morning star, and the six paths are unsafe. Light and darkness have no phase, who can be clear.
The purest light is as clear and bright as the purest darkness, and it is the origin of the world that transcends the material element. The agent of the gods in this world is nothing more than to give this primordial power to life itself, and use the power of life itself to sketch and paint this world that belongs to them.
It is precisely because of this that there is a desire to covet the beauty of this world. Six thousand years without the peace of the War of the Two Emperors has led to the rapid development of Osirian civilization, and beneath the same calm surface has bred even more terrifying threats. Isolate light and darkness from the origin of the world, and create a new god position—the fourth transcendent—a candidate for the fourth god.
The Black Mage is this rhapsodic who uses the fragmentation and subversion brought about by the aurora and the extreme darkness to dye the peaceful world spirit source with a touch of his blackness.
Nanhatt stood silently beside Sinas, and the Empress sighed softly, picked up her quill, and let fate dash Osiria into another orbit.
"Go back and tell them that Black Wings has removed the status of an illegal organization. Don't be so strict with the three legions guarding them - this year's Alliance Annual Meeting, invite representatives of the Black Wings to attend. Shinas said in a bland and irrefutable tone.
In the depths of the Minar Forest, the two dragon kings on the giant wood throne also opened their eyes from the slumber of cultivation. The huge dragon eyes looked at Osiria's autumn field, and the two dragon kings saw resoluteness in each other's eyes almost at the same time, and immediately spread their huge dragon wings that covered the sky, and swept into the distance under the gaze of the wind and the dragons.
"It's time to bend down. ”
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The light dissipated, the silver hair fluttered, and Orka gently brushed away the tears that were wrapped around the corners of his eyes.
The corner of her eye surprised her for a moment, at this moment she was not wearing the black and silver military uniform with black wings, but a set of pure gray traditional burqa. She vaguely remembered that it was the clothes of the extinct Winged Demon Clan.
Gently moved his wrist. The comfort of the disappearance of the injury made her feel a slight sense of fear. The silk gray robe that flowed like water on his wrist was not really composed of matter, but a dark element that was controlled by the extreme delicate and delicate elements that floated on the surface of his skin.
It's empty.
That's how she feels. The field of vision is just a vague halo of light. She could only see a few details in her eyes. The weightless body seemed to float in a space of light – no matter how tactile it was, it wasn't Osiria, where she had lived for more than 500 years.
"Orka. Dead?"
"In that case, Sweeney will be rescued, and Siu will wake up, right?"
"That's enough......"
"Then why is Orka crying?"
The smooth and white little hand pressed on his heart, and tears poured out from the corners of his already dry eyes without warning, even for no reason. Wrapped between the thin silver wires, it can't be erased or dried.
Sweeni ...... Sweeney - Sweeney!!"
No one answered "Mom" anymore. Sweeney is a cute and obedient child who never makes Orka angry or makes her mother anxious.
The floating feeling was a little heavier, and her purple-soaked eyes opened slightly, and she saw her own reflection.
I have never looked at myself so beautifully. His skin was as bright as snow, his long hair was as bright and supple as silver that had been tempered by endless ice, and his eyes were clear and deep, flashing with purple light like a succession of void drunkenness.
The very light lips opened slightly:
"Brother?"
"Well, no, Orka is a sister, Siu is not an older brother. ”
The light was gone, and in the far distance of the gaze was the vast sky that disappeared at the end of space. The slender silver light that fell between his forehead and his eyes. From the other wing of the Wing Demon Twins.
Siu Ivey Sarbaneswan. Winged Demon Supreme. The Silver Demon Emperor.
He hugged his other slender shoulder, supported the crook of her leg, and gently pressed her against his chest.
"Orka, this is Swu's heartbeat. ”
The sound of a low, resolute heartbeat shook Orca's eardrums. Almost at the same moment, the heartbeats of the two were already synchronized.
"I'm sorry, Orka didn't let Siu see Sweeney......"
"Siu will bring him back. O our children. ”
The Silver Demon Emperor watched Orka fall asleep in her arms and kissed away the tears from the corners of her eyes. Then slowly lift your foot and step towards the ground.
Buzz –
A slight humming sound rang out from all directions. The shattered earth, the trees that were pushed, the turf that was lifted up—slowly returned to its original position at a speed visible to the naked eye. There was no release of power, no fluctuations of the elements, no light of fighting spirit, no one could see how Siu did it, and the only witnesses, the Scarlet Angel, Zino, and Veryl, only saw the Akino Plains, which had been restored to its original appearance between breaths.
After the gray-clothed emperor finished this qiē, he hugged the sleeping Orka and slowly walked towards the scarlet-clothed angel. Although there was no oppressive force, the light and ethereal posture of the gestures, and the ability to use the law of time to restore the earth to its original appearance in the flip of the hand, still made the right hand of the scarlet angel holding the sword weakly loosen.
Siu didn't bother to look at the stigmata behind the scarlet angel and the face under the hood, he silently stared at the celestial burial flower in her hand, and then turned his head away.
"You are all family people, don't you, go home, Siu should go back too. ”
The scarlet-clad angel landed on one knee and let out a muffled thud.
"Majesty!"
"The person you are loyal to is a black magician, and Siwu can't afford to say 'Your Majesty'. The cold but unquestionable tone fell, and the scarlet angel trembled.
"Do you believe me?"
"Let's prove it with practice. Siwu sighed slightly, "Since Siu is back, it is estimated that Sheila and they will not plan to use Siu as a support for the black mage." Then, Siu will have time. ”
After these words were finished, a pair of illusory and transparent silver long wings unfolded behind Si Wu, and when the wingspan trembled, the emperor of the demon clan had already flown into the darkness.
The scarlet-clothed angel picked up the Heavenly Burial Flower, and the dark essence coiled by the sword of rebellion at this moment had dissipated, and the ancient appearance of dull silver and bronze had been restored. The crucifix of Lilith on the hilt of the sword is still lifelike, and there is no longer any demonic and morbid element.
Putting the sword of the former Supreme Emperor back into its sheath, the scarlet-clad angel turned his head to look at Zino and Veryl, who were standing up with each other.
"If you want to be a human in the future, please keep it. If you want to continue your stable but insensitive life, then you don't need to worry about it anymore. ”
After that, the three illusory wings of light behind the scarlet-robed angel lit up, and the pale fingers that stretched out their sleeves and robes gently swiped the space in front of them with their purple fingertips, and the mirror-like spatial faults were combined into a new spatial channel. The light wings behind him trembled and pushed, and the scarlet-clad angel flashed into the spatial crack and disappeared.
“EmergencyDebuggerInstall!”
The two sensory ecological cyborgs who had the debugging authority of the other party almost clicked their fingertips on each other's eyebrows at the same time, and shouted the password for the installation of the emergency debugging program.
"Time coordinates, 12:20 a.m. to 16:60 p.m. on September 22, 371 A.D. ”
"Time coordinates, 12:20 a.m. to 16:60 p.m. on September 22, 371 A.D. ”
"Emergency obstacle disk defragmentation cleanup is confirmed. ”
The illusory operation interface appeared in front of the retinas of the two, as long as you stretched out your hand and touched it lightly in the position of "yes", the first battle of this contemporary grand battlefield, the first encounter between the two in human mode, will completely clear each other's brains.
However, the fingers of the two of them were still hovering on the operation interface without zài at the same time, and they did not press it for a long time.
The same mental activity, except that only Zino imprinted a confused and contradictory expression on his face, while Verille, who bowed his head in front of him, did not.
Could it be that this is why Verille has been cleansed of her memories so much less than she has over the years? she knows how to hide her heart with an expression, and he always shows this qiē clearly on this face.
“Exit!”
Quite tacitly, the two crippled humans withdrew from the program.
"How can I see you in the future, Veryl. ”
Verrill didn't answer, and she brought up the command execution menu. Virtual screen images appeared in his field of vision, still connected to each other.
The "Supreme Execution Order" marked in red font has changed from "incapacitating the training target itself" to "forcibly formatting No. 46 and bringing it back."
Zino subconsciously looked at his command menu, but he was physically disconnected from Glimeel's room and found that it was just a blank space. The blank space of the enforced menu informs him that the shackles he has been carrying for more than twenty years have been broken, and now he is facing a free world that can make the ecological cyborgs feel a sense of endless confusion.
Having gained freedom should be a sign of being a human being. But at this moment, Zino didn't feel the slightest joy or even confusion.
In front of him is Veryl's dense list of enforcement commands, and the red highest execution command at the top of the menu is the same as "force formatting" for killing yourself.
Zino looked up at the sun that had begun to set in the west, at this moment, Gigmont should also get off work, right? The first thing he did after work every day was undoubtedly to come to his room and ask how much his memory had recovered, and at the same time, he somehow pulled out a few old photos or small things from their childhood from that corner to show him. However, these memories, which have long since faded, can hardly cover the days and nights of his life with Veryl in the monotonous flat room of the real yàn - it is not life at all, but only "alive". Maybe not even "alive".
So what was Gigmund thinking as she struggled to throw weights at the scales of "memories as humans" to balance them with the heavy and bitter "memories of being machines"?
Is his past really worth Gigmont's persistence?
Is it really worth giving up completely because of Gigmont now? (To be continued......