Three days later. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

It took Reiner three days and only walked from the 8th arrondissement to the 10th arrondissement. He walked normally and didn't shakily now, but his strength was still greatly reduced, and he could only ignite a faint ball of fire in his palm, and he could no longer control the flames as he wanted. Reiner believes that as long as he obtains the Heart of Cyrim and completes the awakening, he will definitely be able to regain his strength several times stronger than before, and he will have the ability to take revenge on those people.

As he passed through the 9th Arrondissement, Reiner saw that the place where he had agreed to meet them six years ago was in ruins, he saw no troops, and there were far fewer inhabitants in this area. He didn't know what had happened down there in the past six years, he didn't know where the troops who were preparing to attack the ground had gone, but he didn't care anymore. Anyway, all of them won't live long, and once he awakens, everything below will be gone. On the way, he heard that there had been banshees in the Abyss of Zeller recently, but he didn't have the heart to care about it, and getting the holy weapon was his top priority.

Due to his habit over the years, Reiner still tries to stay away from towns and roads, and when he walks to the area where the 10th and 11th arrondissements meet, several sneaky figures who are also far away from the crowd catch his attention.

Surrounded by mountains, the terrain is undulating and dimly lit, with only fluorescent mushrooms providing the light. It's hard to see even a few insects and beasts here, let alone people. Reiner guessed that there must be something wrong with them, but due to the dim light, he couldn't see the faces of those people clearly, so he could only take the initiative to approach to find out.

"Who are you, and why did you come to such a place?" Reiner called out to them from the side.

"Oh no, it's been discovered!" Reiner heard a small muttering from one of them, and although it was far away, he could hear it clearly, perhaps because of the strengthening.

"It's okay to kill him, he's only one person anyway!hmm!" Reiner heard a rougher female voice, but no matter how they sounded, Reiner was sure - they weren't underground.

"Regulus, shall we explain to him, we have not much time left!" Regulus's sleeping memory was once again awakened after hearing the name "Regulus", and more than 1,400 years ago, Anfaron Iradan, who had ruined his ordinary and happy life, told him his real name, Regulus Mar Vodganov.

Reiner gathered a flame in his palm as a light and walked in front of the group, and when his flame was reflected on the face of the leader of the man, he finally saw the face of the man. It was a face he'd only seen once before, but it only took one time for it to stick to his mind.

"Anfaron, you're still alive!!" the flames in his palm slowly gathered into a sharp sword.

"Rai...... Reiner!"

"You bastard who ruined everything, I'll use your blood to start my revenge today!" Reiner slashed at Regulus, but was blocked by a rod stuck in the side. The flaming sword slammed into the stick, and sparks flew everywhere.

"Lord Reiner, please calm down, we are not your enemies, we have something to ask for!" The one holding the wooden stick was a human girl with long blue hair, whom Reiner had never seen.

"I don't have anything to discuss with you, get out of here!"

"Wait, Reiner. The voice he heard at first stopped him, it was a stunned boy in leather armor and a weapon, this kid he had seen before, "Reiner, you should remember me, the man who threw you a sword when you fought the son of Hades, we have been looking for you for three days!"

"Did Randolph tell you to stop me and take the Heart of Cenem?" Reiner's blood-red eyes roamed back and forth over the five men.

"How could the old lady listen to that bastard of Randolph!

"You are mistaken, we already know what you have been wronged, and Randolph has betrayed us and trapped us in this underground. The blue-haired girl said.

"I don't care what Randolph did to you, this person you protected ruined my life more than 1,400 years ago, and I must take revenge on him!"

"Don't be blinded by the darkness that Chloe has created, see the reality clearly! I am a son of God like you, and I was lured into the darkness by Chloe to take away my power, and I blamed my own fault on Regulus, and almost killed him. But after I made more mistakes and hurt more innocent people with my dark companions, it was too late to wake up, and the loss was irretrievable, only endless self-blame and remorse. You still have a choice, restrain yourself, don't let hatred corrupt your goodness, I'm sure Sola and Wright won't want to see you the way you are!"

"Sora and Wright......! How do you know they're ......" Reiner stopped when he heard the names of his wife and children, and his whole body began to tremble slightly.

At this time, a blonde girl in a white dress behind Regulus suddenly knelt on the ground with a pale face: "I...... I'm a little ...... A little breathing...... But here......" She gasped for air, but she couldn't seem to breathe in a breath.

"Luna, Luna, what's wrong with you?" the tall woman behind her immediately hugged her, looking terrified.

Reiner had seen this scene six years ago, when he saw the humans he used for experiments in Randolph's underground exclusion zone, and they would be poisoned and suffocated to death after staying in the air of Zeller's Abyss for too long.

"Did you drink Randolph's 'anti-prosthetics' before you came down? But it seems that the effect of the medicine is almost up, and she is going to die. Reiner said.

"For ...... Why are we all right?" the tall woman asked.

"Different people have different physiques, and the effects of the medicine are also different, but they are not too different, and you are all about to die. ”

"Wo...... Vorrell ...... The lady ......in white trembled weakly in the arms of a tall woman in blue armor, who put her left hand around her and put a black sword on Reiner's neck with her right hand: "You can save her, can you?"

Reiner's mind conjured up the people crying for help within the countless barriers, the green gases, and Randolph's indifferent face. Last time he couldn't do anything but sit on the sidelines, but this time it was different, he could save her. But his own voice, which had spoken to him countless times in the past thousand years, sounded again: "Why save her, she is human, I am a dark elf, she has nothing to do with me, if you want to blame, you can only blame them for falling into Randolph's trap." ”

With a "plop", Regulus suddenly knelt in front of Reiner, "Please, please save Luna." I know that in my previous life, I broke your peaceful life, and that the sins I committed were borne by me alone, and they were innocent. As long as you can save Luna, save the rest of them, you can take my life!"

Reiner didn't expect Regulus to do this, he looked a lot different from more than a thousand years ago, much younger, and no longer so cold. Reiner was tempted for a moment, and really wanted to save them, but the fire of revenge in him pulled him back again, reminding him of the cruel choice that Regulus had made for him.

Reiner walked up to the kneeling Regulus, tried not to pay attention to the girl's weak moan, looked down at the back of Regulus's brown-haired head, and said sharply: "One thousand four hundred and seventy-two years ago, you gave me a choice: awaken the power and betray the whole clan, and my family can be saved, or give up the awakening, save the whole clan, and lose control and kill my family." I chose the latter, and every day for the next 1,472 years I regretted and blamed myself. Now, I'll give you a choice. For more than a thousand years, I have not told my people the truth about the world, they do not know the humiliation of their ancestors, but in order to survive, they still have the idea of venturing into the ground. Six years ago, I volunteered to go to the ground for them, but Randolph caught them. The reason why the current dark elves have not declared war is because they do not know the truth, they do not know that the ground can survive, and they do not know the hatred of the race ten thousand years ago. After the previous battle with the son of the god of Hades, I believe that the kid over there has already told you about an obsidian stone on me. This magic stone was discovered by my ancestor Oshahit Serim 10,000 years ago, who used it to change the memories of all the dark elves and sealed them, but then it was obtained by Randolph thousands of years ago, and was thrown down the abyss of Zeller before the High Elves were defeated. The truth of the war was sealed here 10,000 years ago, but I don't have enough power to make everyone remember the truth, and now, you have three sons of the gods here, and you have unfathomable power that you can use to power the magic stone. My choice for you is this: give all of your strength, unleash the magic stone ability to change the memories of all the dark elves, and they will be able to attack the ground in one fell swoop, take revenge on the High Elves, rule over the human race, and you can be saved, and watch how I slowly destroy everything for both humans and the High Elves. If you refuse, then I will let you live for a few more days, watch them die slowly, and then wait for me to get the heart of Serim and complete the awakening, and I can still complete the revenge on my own!