【Otherworld】Section 4 Reiner (I)
"I ...... Who is it?"
In the darkness, a flame suddenly lit up. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 Info Reiner walked towards the flame, and when he came to the flame, he felt very warm, and the light of the fire made him feel very reassured. He reached out and picked up the fire, and there was no burning sensation in his hands, the flames pulsed in his palms, changing shapes. Sometimes like a knife, sometimes like a bracelet, sometimes like a chair, sometimes like a person's face. He didn't know whose face it was at first, just as he didn't know who he was, it was so blurry that he could barely see the outline. He brought his eyes together, and the face grew clearer, and he could make out that it was a young boy's face, and he knew the little boy because it was his son.
A gust of wind blew, the flames were extinguished, and the face was gone.
"No...... Wright ...... "Reiner" plopped to his knees, and he remembered, he remembered who he was, and he remembered what he was going to do.
What he wants to do is revenge.
Reiner knew what was going on, and the darkness around him cleared up, replaced by a winding mountain path. He followed the trail, getting brighter and hotter as his surroundings got hotter and hotter as he reached the top of a volcano with the tumbling lava at his feet. Next to the crater, there was a flaming sword, and next to that sword, there were two people on their knees, one was Regulus, who had ruined his peaceful life, and the other was Randolph, who had imprisoned and tortured him for six years.
"Kill them, advance the lava, and complete your revenge!" said the ethereal voice of the vengeful demon god Mira, from the sky.
Reiner stepped forward and drew the flaming sword, stabbing Regulus cleanly in the chest, and he looked at Regulus's face twitching with pain, and his heart felt a wave of ecstasy. He swirled the sword twice around Regulus's chest, then pulled it out violently, scorching blood splattered on the ground and steamed, and he kicked Regulus's body into the volcano with one kick, watching him melt into a pool of blood from his feet to his body to his neck and face: "It's for Sora and Wright!"
He turned to Randolph, who was on his knees at his feet, his face covered with beads of sweat from the heat of the volcano. Reiner approached Randolph and cut a cut in his neck with his sword, then grabbed him by the foot and turned him upside down, headfirst facing the tumbling lava. Randolph's blood flowed from the slit in his neck and dripped into the volcano, forming a thin line of blood-red, but before it could fall into the magma, it had evaporated into red vapor from the heat. Randolph was bled by Reiner until his muscles atrophied and his face turned pale like a dried corpse, and until there was no more blood coming out of his neck, Reiner swung his sword and cut off his head, and then threw his body into the lava together: "This is to repay you for six years of 'care'!"
Killing the two people he hated the most, Reiner felt so satisfied that his blood boiled, but then there was a burst of emptiness. He has lost his purpose, and he needs to continue to take revenge, and revenge cannot be stopped. At this moment, a bunch of kneeling figures appeared out of thin air next to the crater, and those people were high elves, who were at war with his ancestors ten thousand years ago, and it was they who drove his people into the ground and lived a dark life ever since.
"Kill them, advance the lava, and complete your revenge!" said the voice of the vengeful demon god Mira again, still saying the same thing.
Reiner's blood boiled again, and he rushed forward and swung his flaming sword frantically, slashing the group of high elves into pieces of minced flesh and kicking them into the lava piece by piece. After he kicked the last piece of flesh off, he turned his head, and a group of high elves appeared behind him, in the same position as the previous group, kneeling and waiting for Reiner's judgment. Reiner was already addicted, and when he saw a new prey, his eyes lit up, and he pounced on it with a wild laugh, and in a few moments he also dealt with the group of high elves. Not surprisingly, after dealing with this group of high elves, another group of high elves appeared in front of him, and he killed a group and a group of them, and killed a group of them, until he began to feel a little tired, and the high elves finally stopped appearing and were replaced by a group of humans.
"Kill them, advance the lava, and complete your revenge!"
Yes, humans are also guilty, they occupy so many resources on the ground, and they are in the company of the high elves to seal their dark elves' exit from the underground, they enjoy themselves on the surface, while the dark elves suffer underground, so these humans deserve to die too!
Reiner unleashed his ability to manipulate fire, building four walls of fire around the group, then causing the walls to shrink in the middle. He listened to the screams of the humans in the midst of the walls of fire, the sound of vengeance. After dealing with seven or eight waves of humans, Reiner was already gasping for breath, when a group of his fellow Dark Elves appeared in front of him. Why are they here? His fellow Dark Elves are innocent...... No, they are also guilty. The stable life of these dark elves was bought at the expense of his happiness, if he had chosen to awaken in the first place, these dark elves would not have had a chance to live to this day, but they lived their little life in such ignorance and fearlessness, not knowing the humiliation of 10,000 years ago, not knowing the war on the ground, which is a great irony for Reiner. Why are they able to live so shamelessly in ignorance, while they have to suffer and suffer so much?
"Kill them, advance the lava, and complete your revenge!"
"Kill...... Kill...... Kill ......" Reiner's mouth widened, his head flickering irregularly, his eyes rolling, and he popped the heads of the dark elves kneeling in front of him with his hands, and threw their bodies into the lava. He killed one after another, but he couldn't finish it, his movements became slower and slower, his physical strength could not keep up, and the pleasure of revenge in his heart was also exhausted. He began to feel more and more empty, he didn't know what the point was in continuing to kill, was this revenge? Revenge turned out to be such a boring thing.
Eventually, the dark elves vanished, leaving only a kneeling figure by the crater. Reiner stepped forward, only to find that the kneeling man was himself.
"How...... What?" Reiner looked at the kneeling self, and in a flash, he realized that he was the kneeling man, and the other self was standing in front of him with the flaming sword.
"Kill him, advance the lava, and complete your revenge!"
Reiner watched as the red-eyed, madly twisted self stabbed him in the chest with the sword, then kicked him down. "No!!" He fell into the magma, he struggled, watching his body melt little by little, watching his limbs slowly disappear, and finally he couldn't see, because his eyes were also melted by the magma.
Darkness strikes again.
The darkness cleared, and the mountain trail reappeared. He walked down the path again, he resisted, he wanted to turn back, but there was no way. He had come to the crater again, and had seen Regulus and Randolph kneeling before him again, and he didn't want to kill them this time, but his body followed the idea of his first action, killing everyone in exactly the same steps and procedures, pushing them down the volcano. Then he was the one who killed the High Elves, the Humans, the Dark Elves, and finally he became the one who was kicked into the lava. After a brief period of darkness, he was back on that trail, and he couldn't stand it anymore. Is this revenge? Is revenge never-ending until you lose yourself? Or is the object of revenge the most important thing to be in the first place? Or should there be no idea of revenge in the first place?
"I've had enough! I don't want revenge!
"Awaken, Rainer Sulrim, son of the god of fire and craft, Valken!!"
Reiner's mind saw a figure wrapped in flames, and the figure walked towards him, leaving two trails of flames behind him, as if flames would ignite wherever he went. The man walked up to Reiner, dressed in steel armor and wearing a claw helmet on his head, but the equipment was wrapped in flames, as if it had just been forged from a furnace, and was burned red, emitting heat and fire.
"All the sons of God I have chosen have been for one purpose - to avenge the descendants of Serim who stole my divine fire. So I made the return of Syrim's divine power a condition of my awakening, and to return everything he created would mean betraying all the elves, and then I would be able to enjoy the thrill of revenge. Let me tell you about your ancestor, Ayngar Serim, known to your elves as 'Demigod Serim', who was the first son of a god in the world and the only mortal to combine the powers of several gods. Eingael gained the power of the god of life, Hades, the goddess of love and peace, and the god of the earth, and it was the only time that the god-king gave his power to the son of God, and he was left out of the matter after the selection of the son of God. Eengail, who has obtained the power of the god of the earth, has the power to create continents, the power of the god of life allows him to create all kinds of plants, and the power of the Hades allows him to transcend death, and the power of the goddess of love and peace makes him understand the love and care for his people, so he will fight for his people later. I didn't give him strength because I was jealous of him. I cannot tolerate the blasphemy of a mortal elf being able to possess the power of the gods at the same time.
"At that time, only the God-King and the Immortal knew what Eingar Serim's mission was, and our other gods were only given orders to give him power. The power of my craft is a vital force for him, and without my power, he would not be able to process and create. So he secretly stole my divine fire from my palace, bringing exquisite craftsmanship and hope to the world. Actually, the loss of the Divine Fire is nothing to me, but what I can't tolerate is that kind of humiliation, and I immediately set out to hunt him down, vowing to let him never be reborn, but was stopped by the God King. The God-King said that he should not interfere until his mission was completed, and that he would reclaim all his divine power after he completed his mission. However, after the completion of his mission, he did not take the initiative to return the power, but fought to the death, turned into everything in the Hemo Continent, and sealed my divine fire into his heart.
"As a god, I can't personally get back the divine fire from the Nether, so I curse all the elves, curse their appearance, and bind my son of the god to the descendants of Serim, to the survival of the continent of Hemo. For tens of thousands of years, I have been looking forward to the time when my Son of God will betray my people, and the moment when my vengeance will be completed. However, the sons of the gods I have chosen for thousands of years, but none of them have chosen to awaken, and even Nesterin Serim, who stopped the demon god in the Second Age, would rather sacrifice his life and turn the heart of Sylim into a seal than choose to awaken and betray his people. I began to get bored of the long wait, and my vengeance against Sylim slowly became less sensitive.
"More than 700 years ago, the god of war who was recalled from the world was seized by the king of Hades and fell into reincarnation, and the goddess of the moon also suffered. The God King does not allow us to mention the God of War and the Goddess of the Moon in the Sanctuary, saying that there are no more gods in the Sanctuary. The other gods of us had become terrified, not knowing what Hades was up to, not knowing if I was the next victim, so I didn't think about revenge on Sulim or anything. I recorded this message thirty years ago, and I already knew that I had chosen you as my son of God more than a thousand years ago, and I also knew that you had the opportunity to awaken halfway but gave up because of the guidance of the God of War who had lost his divine power. Now, I'm not going to ask for all of Serim's powers to be taken back, and I'm not going to ask you to betray your people, for I'm probably going to be able to protect myself. I don't have any more mission to impose on you, do whatever you want, and maybe help us solve the crisis in the Sanctuary - if I haven't been poisoned.
"Your power is divided into the power of fire and the power of craftsmanship, and the power of craftsmanship needs to be represented by the power of fire. Your current awakening will not make the Hemo continent disappear, you will be able to perfectly control the power of the flames when you awaken, you can set anything on fire, even water, and you can also use the flames to increase your armed protection. Your fire is the fire of judgment, capable of consuming all sin and the souls of the dead. The power of the craft requires you to forge with the power of fire, and what you have forged will be much stronger than before, and you will be able to repair any broken equipment, reshape any inanimate object, and change the form of any object. Your artifact, Serim's Heart, was transformed by me at the end of the First Age, and the folk legend that the so-called "get it and become the king of the elves" is completely false, the heart of Serim does not allow you to dominate all the elves, it is just a tinder, and the original premise of Ayngail Serim is that whoever can inherit his legacy and continue to benefit the elves will will inherit his power. The power of his seal was so powerful that it was a legend, but those who did not inherit his will could not get it. I didn't change this setting when I transformed it into a holy artifact, because as long as my son of God awakens, all the elves will die, and there is no meaning to benefit them, which is also a curse I have set. But now that the curse has been revoked by me, you, who have inherited the will of the demigod Serim, will be able to use this power to benefit your people, but I don't know how long this world will exist. Alright, if there is fate, let's see you in the Sanctuary!"