Chapter 6: The Last Freedom
After a long journey, the group finally arrived at the end of the mountain, and it seemed that they had temporarily reached the middle point of the trip, but they had little leisure and immediately started a new job.
On the way out of the Temple of Demons, Pardora grouped the slaves into groups according to race and age to facilitate their retreat, and after arriving at the Termination Mountain, this organized action became more substantial, Pardora divided the people into several different working groups, in addition to foraging for food, and began to receive armed training to strengthen their combat power.
"Wait, what do you want to do? Do you want to use this group of people to fight against the demon elite soldiers? That's impossible!"
When Nier broke into the Ten Thousand Demons Palace, she joined forces with Izumi Sakura, which was really majestic, but that was the perspective of a heavenly martial artist bullying the weak, if it was judged by the standards of the inhabitants of the Demon Realm, the soldiers in the Ten Thousand Demons Hall were still elite troops, and the other tribes were not enough to fight against them, not to mention this group of slaves who were at the level of ordinary people.
"Since you have decided to defect from the Temple of Ten Thousand Demons, you should be responsible for your life after that. Sooner or later, we will meet the royal army, and if we don't take advantage of the current time to prepare more forces, when will we do it?"
Pardora was right, but Niel always found it a little odd, because as far as she could see, the momentum displayed by the slaves when practicing their martial arts was very indomitable, and it didn't seem like it was just for self-defense.
"Don't be too impatient, Yinzhen's old turtle is very powerful, we have to defeat him, it's not a matter of one or two days, we must be prepared for a long-term war of resistance, maybe we have to fight with him whose life is long, everyone must be patient." ”
Nier's words were not so much persuasion as common sense, and no one, including Lancelot and Izumi, thought that this would be a short-term war of resistance, in fact, the Kyushu War had been fought for more than 500 years before the final victory or defeat was reached. However, when these words were translated to the slaves, Niel found them look strange.
"Forget it, it's going to be boring to practice all the time, right? Well, how about you help me build a beautiful grave?"
Because Niel spoke so quickly that the translator couldn't figure it out, this passage caused a big commotion, and it took Niel a lot of effort to explain to everyone that she was not trying to make a grave of her own.
At the beginning, before Nier left the Termination Mountain, she had simply buried the dead in the Termination Mountain, because there was only one person who helped, Hunt, naturally she couldn't make any gorgeous mausoleum, but this time there were a large number of people next to her, and there was nothing to do, so she built a simple and solemn tomb here.
"Middle Finger Mountain is the holy land of the Demon Realm royal family of the past dynasties, can you really build things here casually?"
The slave laborers of all ethnic groups were timid to start construction in the mountain, and did not dare to destroy this holy place rashly, but Niel patted her chest and assured that there would be absolutely no problem.
"I'm the orthodox heir of the Great Demon God King, Termination Mountain is equivalent to my garden, I can do whatever I want, these people are martyred to protect the happiness of the people living in the Demon Realm, they are martyrs who should be praised and praised, and it is only fitting to be buried in this holy place. Don't worry, no matter what the problem, I will bear it!"
In order to reassure everyone, Niel vigorously vouched for it, however, even she sighed secretly, because from all indications, the fear of the inhabitants of the demon world for the royal family is really deep-rooted, and they are obviously determined to rebel against the current royal family, but they are still afraid of the demon kings and undead in the past like a snake and scorpion.
Or, as Pardora said, the Great Demon God King represents the hope of the Demon Realm, because the inhabitants of the Demon Realm still expect the Great Demon God King to bring them to a better world, so they are unwilling to completely rebel against the Aixin Jueluo royal family?
(From this point of view, in order for the demon world to rise up against Yinzhen, in addition to giving them force, we must also give them hope.) Only by giving them a new hope can they break their fear of the Great Demon God King, but ...... How easy is that?)
While Niel was annoyed by the question, someone laughed and brought it to the fore.
"Will the Great Demon God King bring all the inhabitants of the Demon Realm to a better world?Wowhahaha, I can do this kind of trivial matter without the Great Demon God King!"
Lancelot stood in front of a large group of slave laborers like a missionary, and said with a solemn face: "Do you know how to go to heaven? As long as we all commit suicide here, we can go to heaven, where there is a better world than here, where we can sleep all day, without being persecuted by the Great Demon God King, without working all day, and without ...... Oops!"
The man who spread dangerous thoughts was hit by a large rock thrown by Nile and buried in the earth like a frog.
"Don't say that to them, what if they do?"
"No, no, I'm just kidding, they don't ...... The guy under the tree, the guy next to him, hurry up and give that rope to ......."
Because of Izumi Sakura's alertness and prevention, there were no regrettable problems, which made Lancelot get his sister's eyes.
"Promoting collective suicide is the job of the ghost woman, and she's not here, why are you rushing to do it?"
When Niel made such an accusation, Lancelot could only shrug his shoulders and smile bitterly. Through his interactions with these slaves, Lancelot gained a deeper understanding of the inhabitants of the Demon Realm and the environment of the Demon Realm, and at the same time, the archaeological work in the mountain was terminated.
Xiaocao's prediction was right, when everyone came to the Termination Mountain, the people who touched the Termination Mountain's magical facilities were not Niel and Lancelot, but Izumi Sakura, who had the same attributes as the demons. The magic mechanism hidden in the termination of the mountain has a great reaction to the arrival of the dragon enemy, and several times in succession, the magic mechanism in the termination of the mountain is activated, and the spring Sakura is attacked.
The vast majority of these attacks do not come from pre-set mechanisms, but from the demonic energy that lurks in the Terminating Mountain. For thousands of years, the Great Demon God Kings of all generations will come here to retreat, practice martial arts, while refining the martial arts, with the personal forging chain, the demonic energy will also remain in the valley, becoming an unstable free energy;
These demonic qi are not usually aggressive, but when they encounter the aura of the dragon clan with similar attributes, the demonic qi is touched as if it has touched a catalyst, and it turns into an attack of various natural energies. Black fire, purple lightning, black ice, and wind, these attacks suddenly appeared, and under the restraint of the geographical advantage, Izumi Sakura had a hard time coping with them, especially those phantom warriors with erratic figures, as if the former Great Demon God King appeared one by one, and used his proud skills to put her to death.
Fortunately, Lancelot always followed her, whenever Izumi Sakura was in crisis, he immediately struck, the Heavenly Demon Gong was like a river bursting embankment, surging towards the enemy, and all kinds of elemental attacks were crushed at once, even the phantoms of the various Great Demon God Kings were not his opponents, and they swayed at will, easily breaking the phantoms cleanly.
"Hey, what's going on with these things? Why are they more useless than the other? Were they like this when they were alive?"
In the past few days, Lancelot has defeated dozens of Phantoms of the Great Demon God King in a row, and his Heavenly Demon Skills have been honed, but he is also extremely puzzled in his heart, is it because of the weak residual energy, so he can win consecutive battles? But he deliberately suppressed his strength later, and used the power of the same level as these Phantoms to fight, and he was still able to defeat the enemy easily, what did he do?
"Because you are indeed the strongest monkey in history! In the history of the Demon Realm, most of the Great Demon God Kings only have a small Heaven Rank, and several of the more famous martial arts masters have all practiced to the Strong Heaven Rank; there are only a handful of Great Demon God Kings who can practice to the Zhai Heaven Rank, so even if these kings are reborn, they will not be your opponents. ”
Padora's analysis made Lancelot happy to hear it. Whoever it was, when they knew that they could be ranked in the top ten in the history of demon kings, it was quite an honorable thing and something to rejoice about, however, a bucket of cold water that Padora had given him was immediately poured down.
"Even if that's useless, because Yinzhen is still stronger than you, even though you are the strongest monkey in history, but the other party is enough to rank in the top three men in the history of the Demon King, once the two of you meet, the result will be...... Woohoo, alas, still feasting. ”
"Hey, don't make it a sacrificial text at the end of the conclusion!
Lancelot was annoyed by Padora's conclusion, and although he knew it was true, it was the fact that it was annoying.
It's been nearly a month since I came to the Demon Realm, even if I came to the Termination Mountain, it's been a few days, and I've examined the results, and I've not found nothing, to be serious, and even every day, I've found some new things and information, proving that Xiaocao's calculations are very reasonable, and Izumi Sakura is indeed the best person to trigger the secret of the Termination Mountain, but the things that have been found can help too little, and they can't change the current disadvantage that everyone is in.
"Husband, your martial arts are already very strong, and it is of course not easy to make further progress. If you only have a strong heavenly position today, after a few days of competition practice, you will be able to duel the great demon god kings of the past dynasties, maybe you will be able to ascend to the Zhai heavenly position. ”
"I know this kind of thing, but you know, I know, that guy Yinzhen doesn't know. ”
In the face of Izumi Sakura's encouragement, Lancelot also seemed very impatient. In terms of martial arts, he was the strongest of his own, and this realization brought responsibility, which made him feel heavy pressure and anxiety, and although he tried not to show this feeling, Nile and Izumi Sakura still felt it.
It's not just Lancelot who uses the Demon King's Phantom to practice martial arts, Niel also seizes the opportunity to practice; Izumi Sakura's martial arts path is not suitable, and she can't practice Heavenly Demon Skills like them, but she has become the person who can watch the situation coldly, and finds that while Lancelot and Niel are practicing, Padora is doing some actions.
Using the special spar of the Demon Realm, Pardora ordered someone to take pictures of Lancelot and Niel when they practiced martial arts, and those pictures of fighting and winning against the Great Demon God Kings of the past must be a very impactful scene in the eyes of the inhabitants of the Demon Realm. Pardora sent messengers to send these videos to various places, and although Izumi Sakura could only understand the simple Demon Realm, judging from all indications, these videos seemed to be given to the leaders of the various tribes in the Demon Realm, inciting them to unite against the current Demon Realm Imperial Family.
"There are many levels of war, and the current common sense is that the Heavenly Position War can determine the outcome of the Celestial Position War, but thinking about it backwards, the Soldier War may be able to affect the outcome of the Heavenly Position War. There are things that a heavenly martial artist can do, and there are things that ordinary people can do, if we want to defeat Yinzhen, we can't give up any hope, as long as we can do it, we should try it. ”
It sounds a bit like a "dead horse as a live horse doctor", but Izumi Sakura agrees with Padora's idea, if she doesn't hold this all-pervasive spirit of drilling, how can she let the towering giant tower named Yinzhen fall?
However, just as Nile was suspicious, Izumi also felt that Padora's actions were a little strange, that the slaves were too murderous in their martial arts, and that certain words and phrases appeared repeatedly in their speech.
It's not just Lancelot and Niel who try to learn the language of the Demon World, Izumi Sakura also cares about the information of the Demon World, and compared to the pair of brothers and sisters who can be called martial arts geniuses, Izumi Sakura is a generalist who excels in all aspects of learning;
The night of the blood moon is an astronomical phenomenon in the demon world once in a thousand years, which will cause large fluctuations in natural energy, and many magical facilities will change as a result, so many mechanics deliberately use this phenomenon to make their facilities activate once in a thousand years. Pardora believes that even if there is no such setting in the Terminating Yamanai's magic mechanism, it will be affected and fluctuate, and it can be said to be the last chance for everyone who is bent on finding the secret of the Heavenly Demon Skill.
Izumi Sakura already knew this. If the hope of himself and Niel is the common hope of all those who rebel against Yinzhen, then it is not surprising that the slaves are nervous about it, but is this really the case?
Pardora sent people to contact the various tribes of the Demon Realm, I don't know how this organizational activity is going, after all, the Demon Realm is vast, so many races can't be connected in a short period of time, and the messenger can't come back for a while, that's all common sense. However, when Izumi Sakura tightened the clockwork for her vigilance, she paid special attention to whatever seemed normal.
In the eyes of others, Izumi Sakura, like Lancelot and Nier, can't understand the language of the Demon Realm, so the slaves are not shy about talking in front of her, and every time Izumi Sakura also shows a gentle smile, there is kindness in her eyes, but there is more incomprehension, just a look of incomprehension. No one noticed that she had gradually understood the grammar of the Demon Realm, and secretly confirmed and memorized many words to understand the semantics.
"Blood Moon...... Revolution...... Attack ......"
When the slaves gathered to talk, the more they talked, the more excited they became, and the group of people were extremely emotional, standing under the tree ten feet away and looking at the spring cherry blossoms in the distance, and listened to those words word for word, although they could only translate five or six meanings, but the conclusion she got was very surprising.
(This thing...... Shouldn't they want ...... )
In order to confirm this, Izumi Sakura quietly followed Padora at night, and finally one night, she was heard gathering with the leaders of the slave laborers of various tribes to discuss raising troops after the night of the blood moon and began to raise the banner of rebellion against the present royal family.
“...... The messengers sent to the tribes sent a response through a magic scroll...... The arbitrariness of the Aixin Jueluo royal family, many tribes are very resentful...... We may not be alone, but we still have to ...... This may be our first and last chance, and we need to ...... well."
Pardora spoke the Demon Realm language, Izumi Sakura only knew fragments, but it was enough to piece together the facts. Although she still had some doubts in her heart, she saw the angry expressions of the slave leaders, and she believed that the facts she had heard and pieced together were not wrong.
To confirm this, when the secret meeting was dispersed, Izumi Sakura appeared in front of Padora, who was alone, and the other party did not seem to be surprised, as if she already knew that she was spying on her.
"Don't waste time, if you have anything to say to me, just say it. There's still a bunch of things to do after dawn. ”
"I ...... I probably recognize you. ”
Izumi's first sentence surprised Padora, but it didn't shake her composure.
"Oh, when did you see me under the veil?"
"Nope. It's one thing to look like it, but I recognize your scent, the dragon race is different from humans, and there are some things that are imperceptible to humans, if we seriously pursue them, we can still ...... Well, other than that, I asked those Sherts, you didn't come long before us. ”
Izumi Sakura said, "They said that you also appeared in the Ten Thousand Demons Hall almost a month ago, organized them, and led them to escape...... In just one month, such organization and group action, this kind of planning ability in the dark, only ......"
"Enough. What you're going to talk to me about, you shouldn't be complimenting me on my skills, right?"
"Well, I wonder, why rush at such a time? You know very well that they are simply not strong enough to officially raise troops. At such a time, if you provoke Yinzhen, they will definitely be killed one by one. ”
Izumi Sakura didn't think that Pardora could fail to see this, because in terms of strategy and wisdom, this woman's means were superior to her own. But Izumi Sakura had to wonder if Padora would plan to sacrifice these slave laborers and use the lives of these tens of thousands of people to do something? This kind of strategy that belongs to the dark world is something that she is not used to or understand.
"What do you think I'm going to do at the expense of them......? That's always the way we've always done, but this time you're a little mistaken. ”
Padora said: "The awe of the inhabitants of the Demon Realm for the Aixin Jueluo royal family is deep-rooted, and it can even be said that they almost dare not have the idea of resisting, why do you think they are willing to raise troops?"
"It's because of Niel. Niel's inheritance of Temujin's blood and prestige was also the reason why these people were willing to follow, and it was this savior who gave them courage. ”
"That's true, but it's not all, you didn't see what it was like when I first came to the Demon Realm......"
The situation when Padora came to the Demon Realm was indeed beyond Izumi Sakura's imagination. When she first came here, she happened to encounter the slaves at the bottom of the Temple of Ten Thousand Demons preparing for action, but this action was not a rebellion, but an extremely common collective suicide.
"Collective suicide...... Husband, he's really right!"
"Yes, that monkey's crow's beak is indeed not simple. ”
For the slave laborers who have lived in the darkness for generations, rebellion is a luxury that has no hope of success, and it is doomed to failure in the end, so instead of bleeding and being injured by hard work, it is better to die a hundred, so every once in a while, there will be a large-scale wave of suicides in the Temple of Ten Thousand Demons.
It was under such circumstances that Pardora came to the Temple of Ten Thousand Demons. She tried hard to persuade the slaves, wanting to inject life into them who were like ashes in body and mind, after all, there was nothing important in life except death, since they all had the determination to die, why couldn't they fight and burn the jade and inflict heavy losses on the enemy.
With thousands of years of experience, it is impossible for an excessively large disparity in strength to cause the jade to be burned, not to mention that even if the enemy is wounded, he will not feel it, resistance is just a futile move, and the slaves have no will to fight at all, until Pardora proposes such a theory.
"Even the smallest damage can add up, and one day it will become a serious injury that will break the enemy. Even if we die today, if we defeat the enemy, our children and grandchildren will be liberated and have the opportunity to gain light, as for the harsh environment of the demon world...... That's for the next generation, and if we don't set them free first, how can they change the Demon Realm......? It's been passed down from generation to generation. ”
Padora's words struck a chord among the slaves, making them think seriously about the possibility of this, and Padora took advantage of the situation to come up with the legend of the savior, telling them that the savior was coming, which might be the best opportunity in thousands of years.
"The legend of the Savior gives them hope and makes them willing to look forward to the future, so your arrival has really done me a great favor, otherwise I wouldn't know how to talk to them. However, they have seen your predicament as well, so their common decision is to wait until the night of the blood moon to see if you can find out. ”
If nothing is discovered on the night of the blood moon, it means that Lancelot and Niel can only use their current strength to fight against Yinzhen, and there will be a long and fierce war in the future, but the end of the war is still a dark world with no hope.
Seeing this, the slaves were not willing to wait any longer. For them who have been freed, there is nothing more unbearable than returning to the dark prison, rather than waiting for many years and finally returning to the original point, it is better to fight hard and gather the power of all the tribes in the demon world to fight together.
"At the meeting just now, a man said that no matter how much he resisted in the past, it would not have a real effect, because even if there was a wound left on the enemy, no one could enlarge the wound, and no one would benefit from it, but now the situation is different, the savior has come, and their brother and sister are good people who can entrust their future to them. ”
Izumi Sakura was quite surprised when she heard this, because of the language barrier before, she always thought that the idea of Pardora and the slaves was to provoke the Ten Thousand Demons Palace, and then involve the three of them, and use the combat power of the three of them to fight against the Ten Thousand Demons Palace, but she didn't expect that she underestimated the bright side of human nature, and they were raising troops with the idea of self-sacrifice.
"No, that's too high, it's not really bright, it's just that I don't want to endure the darkness anymore. They've had enough of it, and they don't want to live that hopeless, terrified life anymore. ”
"But...... There is no point in doing this, with their strength to challenge the Ten Thousand Demon Palace, this is a dead end. ”
"You know, I know, and they know. But...... Man always has the freedom to choose the way he dies, and that's it......"
Izumi Sakura couldn't take it lightly, and when she heard Padora say this, she just wanted to speak, but was interrupted by Padora first.
"Instead of trying to stop them, you have to think about it first, whether you have figured out the seriousness of the demon race's attack on the human world. The attitude of Nier and the monkey is also the attitude of most people in Reyns, right? Born in the new generation after the Kyushu War, he has never seen the dark world that is really ruled by the demons; Lu You has been careful to guard against the return of the demons all his life, which may seem pedantic and ridiculous in your eyes, but he is a person who has actually seen the dark world, and now the demons are really here. ”
Padora said: "Long-term resistance, long-term resistance...... This is a general direction, but have you realized the sacrifices that must be made in the long-term war of resistance? The wolf is really coming, and you are still relaxed, are you really mentally prepared to face the war? In the world ruled by the demons for a long time, you have already seen with your own eyes, and if you are defeated, this will be the common fate of the entire human world. ”
Word by word, Padora's words went deep into Izumi Sakura's heart, and she also understood why Padora didn't say this to Lancelot and Niel, because of personality problems, saying these things to the two of them was probably only counterproductive, however, these words were not wrong.
Including Lancelot, the leaders of Reynces are all experienced in a hundred battles and have seen countless winds and waves, but the winds and waves they have experienced belong to the competition of warriors, and they have not encountered the real war of exterminating the race and destroying the country, and the two may be completely different experiences, and everyone does not realize the seriousness of this. In Padora's eyes, the Demon Realm operation planned by Reyns this time may be very undisciplined, which makes her frown very much.
(However, we are also very helpless, and not everyone has a huge intelligence and espionage network like yours, since there is no information, we can only go anywhere...... )
Looking at the back of Padora's departure, Izumi Sakura's heart became heavy, especially when she thought about the future and her children, it was really a bad feeling.
Once again, Izumi Sakura deeply realized what kind of situation she was facing, and if she lost this battle, the slave labor in front of her might be the future of her children and grandchildren.