Chapter Twenty-Eight: The Death of the Heart
After this oolong, His Majesty the Vice Emperor pieced together the majesty of the shattered ground, and under the pretext of "national affairs", he drove out the little princess who recklessly broke into the reception hall.
After realizing that he had a fight with the Vice-Monarch of the Empire, and had pressed the other party to the ground and locked him for a half-ring, Yalei was in a cold sweat behind his back, feeling that he had a good chance of being criticized - at least with a fine pay, suspended from his post, and possibly even stripped of his title.
As if he was deliberately trying to mentally torture him, Alex did not express any opinion about the previous incident, but only arranged for the maid to deliver clothes and summoned a team of royal guards to guard the palace gate.
When the black-haired knight changed into a toga robe in the locker room, His Majesty the Vice Emperor was already sitting on the sofa in full dress, like an ordinary host's family receiving guests, and pointed to the opposite where he had just sit:
"Sit. ”
"Your Majesty, the minister didn't mean to ......"
"I told you to sit down. ”
"Yes. ”
Yalei sat down stiffly, bowing his head as if he was sitting on pins and needles, with an attitude of wanting to kill or chop at your disposal.
"How's the palace taste?"
Alex asked him with a smile, and at the same time raised his left hand, and pointed to the standing wine cabinet on the side with his index finger, and the tall and beautiful maid in a white gauze skirt immediately walked over.
"Luckily, it's not as comfortable as I thought. The black-haired knight continued to bow his head, cold sweat rolling down.
"In this reception hall, you can fight with the Imperial Caesar, and you also use the winch technique, and you may be the first one in the past. His Majesty the Vice Emperor said and touched his neck, which was the position that had just been strangled by the other party's triangular lock.
"The minister is guilty. ”
Yare looked up. After seeing each other's eyes, his heart turned sideways, and he put on a resigned expression.
"What is the sin?"
His Majesty the Vice Emperor took the tall glass cup from the maid's hand and shook the wine slightly. There was a smile in his eyes: "If I really want to cure your sins, I won't let you sit down, come, have a drink with me." ”
"Your Majesty forgives the sins of ignorance, and it is indeed wise and merciful, and my subordinates are very grateful!" the black-haired knight immediately rose to his senses and gave a slap in the face.
"That's it!"
Alex waved his hand. showed a wry smile:
"Since my coronation, I have heard countless words of praise and your flattery. Worse than the worst batch. Don't do anything that you are not skilled in, lest you and I be uncomfortable. ”
"Yes. ”
Yalei took the glass from the maid's hand, glanced at the mellow wine in the glass, and immediately felt much lighter.
"Since the end of the Hundred Days Holy War. Father sealed you after Glamorgan. I've been sending people to keep an eye on you. From forming alliances with monsters to destroying the Highland Kingdom, I've been impressed every time by your performance. ”
His Majesty the Vice Emperor looked at the sparkling wine in the cup, gradually cast his eyes on the black-haired knight, and sighed quite distractedly:
"The Fannon family has fallen, and the Highland Kingdom has completely fallen to the Order Alliance, which is equivalent to cutting off the hand of the Freedom Alliance reaching out to the Atrium Land. Not only did it thwart decades of planning by the Papal States, but it also reversed the offensive and defensive momentum of the Cold War. It's all thanks to you. ”
"This is not the ability of the ministers alone, but the joint efforts of the entire governor's palace. ”
Yare, of course, is not modest. If it weren't for Pompey's advice to recruit the Guards, and without the successive votes of the people of the Black Seat, his plan to set up a plan to swallow the elite of the Highlands would probably have come to naught, and he might have suffered defeat.
"I haven't been rewarded for such a great achievement, do you have any complaints?"
"Serving the country is the duty of a knight, and the minister has no complaints. ”
"Well said!"
Alex's eyes flickered, and he immediately sat up straight, leaned his neck and drank the wine in one gulp, and said movingly:
"This is the Earl I know the Green Knight, as long as you have this heart, even if there are many trespassers before, I will not take it to heart. ”
"Thank you, Your Majesty. ”
The black-haired knight saw that he was drinking freely, and then picked up his wine glass and drank it all in one gulp.
"Test you. ”
His Majesty the Vice Emperor put the wine glass back on the coffee table, leaned back on the sofa, and asked with a slightly condensed gaze: "What do you think is the most troublesome thing in the empire right now?"
Yalei thought for a moment, and replied in a deep voice:
"The Magic Stone Innovation Plan, the Cold War, the Magic Calamity. ”
"It's all wrong. ”
Alex looked up, glanced at the crystal lights on the ceiling, and narrowed his eyes:
"The Cold War and the Magic Stone Renovation Project were life and death for the Empire, but for the world they were a change, not a disaster. In comparison, the weight of the Demonic Calamity is smaller, at best, it will cause the empire to lose some vitality, as long as it does not cause long-term long-lasting attrition, it is not a problem. ”
Even a disaster like the Demon Plague is clumsy...... What exactly is His Majesty the Vice Emperor having a headache?
The black-haired knight's thoughts flickered for a while, and he thought of a lot of things, because there was no real evidence, and he couldn't guess freely, so he could only wait patiently for the other party to solve his doubts.
His Majesty the Vice Emperor looked at him with burning eyes, and there was a faint flame leaping in his blue pupils, which seemed to be sharp enough to penetrate everything:
"It can be seen that your origin power has grown to the limit, and it is close to the state of deification. In that case, you should also understand the difference between the Knight of the End and the true god. ”
"Yes. ”
Yalei raised his head, and under the deliberate traction of the other party, two golden beams of light flashed in his eyes:
"The true God is the embodiment of the rules, and we are the near-true concept. ”
"Because of this, we are stronger!"
Alex smiled, but there was a torch-like scorching light in his eyes: "As a real concept, the complete Knight of the End is immortal and eternal existence, which can only be sealed and cannot be destroyed. ”
"As far as I know, the Knights of the End are not invincible, they will hurt, they will hurt...... Will also die. ”
The black-haired knight bowed his head slightly, his gaze cast on the pure, transparent goblet, the sunlight shining through the flawless glass, leaving a rippling streamer on the coffee table.
"I know what you're thinking, but Casper's perfect body isn't really the ultimate lifeform, and O'Lelia and Ebenezer aren't complete knights of the end...... To be precise, there is no complete Knight of the End in this world. As long as you reject the will of deification, as long as you retain your feelings as a human being, you are not a true knight of the end. ”
His Majesty the Vice Emperor closed his eyes and was silent for a moment, then exhaled and said softly:
"The true Knight of the End, unlimited by endurance and unbound by emotion, is the perfect weapon of war with endless power. They don't hurt, they don't get tired, they don't get hurt, they don't die, and there are no human shortcomings. Bernstein, I don't know if your teacher, General Casper, ever told you what it means to be a 'heart destroyer.' ”
"Nope. ”
Knowing that he was most likely approaching a secret involving the core secrets of the Empire, Yalei immediately cheered up and replied intently:
He just told me to be very cautious about my deified self. ”
Alex opened his eyes suddenly, his gaze passed through the space like lightning, and stared at him tightly: "So, have you ever considered that once the human and divine suppression state fails, what state will the final knight enter?"
"Consciousness is completely deified, erasing the ...... of human feelings," the black-haired knight said calmly, and the last sentence made his throat tremble:
"To be a 'god' in the truest sense of the word. ”
"This is the 'heart extinguished'. ”
Alex snapped his fingers, and the maid beside him immediately filled him with a drink, and held the glass to him.
"Forcibly negating the deified self, the technology of human and divine suppression, itself has a lot of risks. Do you know that from ancient times to the present, how many knights of the end have lost control under the suppression of humans and gods, and have become monsters that have exterminated everything and only existed for themselves?"
His Majesty the Vice Emperor took the goblet, and without waiting for the black-haired knight to speak, he took a sip of wine before answering himself: "According to the records of the secret organs, there are a total of two hundred and thirty-one cases of knights who have gone out of control. ”
"Are there so many?" asked Are, as ...... as he spoke.
"Some of them, when they know that their condition is about to deteriorate to the limit, and it is difficult to support the existence of their personality, choose to kill themselves in various ways when they are dying. The other part, either afraid of death, or lucky, or too late to do it themselves, have lost control and released the strongest power belonging to the final knight. ”
Alex put down the wine glass with a calm gaze and said word by word:
"In this part, there are forty-seven in total. ”
"Forty-seven complete knights of the end, since they can't be destroyed...... So they were sealed away in the end?"
"Yes, those who know all of this call these out-of-control Knights of the End the Sealers. Each of these monsters is no weaker than any of the Chaos Evil Gods you've ever seen, and the strongest of them even has a power close to the source power. ”
His Majesty the Vice Emperor suddenly pressed his hands on the coffee table, leaned forward, and said with a solemn expression:
"Think about the current demonic calamity, each of them appears alone, they all have the power to independently call the demonic calamity, no, it won't be only to this extent, they know the imperial system, and their destructive power will only be stronger. ”
"Do you mean that these sealers have been released?" the black-haired knight clenched his fists and stood up from the couch with a heavy expression.
"It's not bad enough to be this bad, but something did go wrong at a certain sealing point. ”
Alex raised his left hand and pressed it down slightly, signaling him to relax a little, and at the same time, picked up the hardcover book of Hurricane Phantom from the sofa:
"Sealers are extremely sensitive to each other's power fluctuations, so if a knight above the god level goes there, it will cause a terrifying force field resonance. I've chosen all the warriors, including the Kingsguard, but no one is better suited than you, Secretary Bernstein, would you like to go to the Sealed Lands for me?" )