【Mask】Section 3 Danke (I)
Danco Wells never had any ideals, never thought about what kind of person he wanted to become, didn't think about what kind of big things he wanted to do, and didn't think about what his ending would be. Pen ~ Fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info his life began on the day he escaped from his nightmarish home and ended with Taylor dying in his arms. Danco Wells had been dead since the day his beloved wife was humiliated and killed on that hillside.
When the dream god Shimuth showed him the memories that had been spied into Regulus's brain, in that short moment, he saw more than Regulus and Shiemus, and he saw eternity. In that brief eternity, he was revealed to the fact that the Son of God was able to maintain the barrier between the Sanctuary and the mortal realm, making it impossible for mortals to reach the sanctuary from the mortal world and posing no threat to the sanctuary. The gods have chosen their own spokesmen in the mortal world, and they all have part of the power of the gods in their bodies, and as long as the Son of the gods does not die, no one else will ever be able to actively approach the gods of the Sanctuary from the earthly realm, unless the gods will let you in. But if all the sons of God are killed, then the barrier between the earthly and the sacred realm will be broken. The sons of the gods don't know this, and the gods today don't know all of them. And Danco would know all this because the one who revealed this fact to him was Hecalis, the god of light who had been one of the previous gods.
Hecalis told Danko that he was sealed by the god of the earth and Hades, the god of the earth, and Hades, who staged a coup d'état in the Sanctuary, along with the former god-king Uranus and Elwil, the goddess of healing, and that the remaining gods of life, wind and freedom, and war were brainwashed under the pretext of being the new god-king, and that the goddess of love and peace and the goddess of the moon had not yet appeared, so they did not experience this brainwashing.
Before the upheaval in the Sanctuary, there were already unformed forces in the Otherworld that were contrary to the gods, and there were only a few lower species created by the gods of life and various plants created by the gods of wind and freedom. In order to maintain the balance of the three worlds, the god king Ouranos ordered the godsmith to create a divine sword to seal the passage between the otherworld and the earthly world, and the god of light, Hekaris, came up with the idea of using their own incarnation to enter the earthly world and maintain the barrier between the earthly world and the sacred realm, which was the prototype of the later son of the god. The Sanctuary is stable, the otherworld is responsible for change, and the earthly world is sandwiched between the two as a bridge that connects but cannot communicate.
But after the three of them were sealed away by their respective gods, everything changed. The god-king was unwilling to ensure the balance between the Sanctuary and the other world, and coveted the power of the sword, so the god of war, who had been trained in the earthly world, pulled out the sword and took the first step in breaking the balance, and since then the legend of "Alcatraz" has appeared in the world. Since the Excalibur was drawn, the seal of the Otherworld has become weaker and weaker, and the Demon God has been able to interfere with the mortal world many times, and launched a "Great Purge" campaign against the mortal world at the end of the First Age and the beginning of the Second Age. The gods sent sons of gods to stop them, but the gods did not know that the appearance of the demon god was caused by the god-king in the first place. For tens of thousands of years, whenever there has been a crisis between the barrier between the earthly world and the sacred realm, or between the earthly world and the otherworld, the Son of God will appear to resolve the crisis, and after the crisis is resolved, the survival of the Son of God will no longer be a problem. And now, the barrier between the earthly world and the otherworld has become useless, the gate of the otherworld has been opened, several demon gods have appeared in the earthly world, and the barrier between the earthly world and the sacred realm is also in danger.
Danke saw a vision of the future at this time - the sons of the gods did not unite together, but each had a ghost in their hearts, and they were suspicious and fighting with each other, and the demon gods took advantage of it and broke it one by one. The sons of the gods were all killed, the Otherworld invaded the world, the gods of the Sanctuary fell, and the whole world was reduced to purgatory, full of demons and destruction. Heccaris told him that this crisis could only be overcome by uniting all the sons of the gods.
"Why did you choose me for this mission?" Danco remembered the Knights' trip to Sanctuary two and a half years ago and the task of guiding the Son of God from Valcen, when Valken gave him a strange feeling, and they had not helped with anything about the Son of God so far, maybe it was time to fulfill his original promise.
"Because of your experience, your choices, I believe that you are a knight of light who walks in darkness. Those demon gods want to turn you into a demon, but I know you're the least likely person to be a demon because that's not what Taylor wants. Hekaris' voice said that he did not appear in any form in front of Danko, but only voices.
"You said it wasn't what Taylor wanted......" Danko's heart was touched once more - if he still had a heart. He thought back to Taylor's cheeks, to her voice, to her dreams. Yes, he doesn't have any ideals himself, because Taylor's dreams are his ideals. Taylor wants him to be a hero who guards the world, and now is the time for him to be that hero. "What should I do?"
"If it weren't for being sealed and losing my divine power and turning into a concept, and being isolated from the Three Realms, I would have really wanted to choose you as my son of God! But now I don't have this ability, I can't give you any help, I can only tell you some information, how to solve this information is all up to you. ”
"On my own?"
"In addition to your qualities, I will choose you for another reason: you are the closest person to all the demon gods, and the one who can best understand their plans and defeat them from within, because you are the thirteenth demon god. Of course, I know you don't want to be a demon god, but in order to accomplish this task, I'm afraid you'll have to be the last person you want to be. However, as long as you keep your original intention, I believe that no temptation can interfere with you, and you will not give in to these demon gods!"
Danko thought about what he could do at the moment, and then said, "I can pretend to accept the Demon Gods, carry out their Heartless Project, and then absorb their abilities. It is useless to unite the sons of God by persuasion, but to give them a common enemy, and it seems that I can only be the enemy. It's just that the biggest uncertainty of this plan is that the third demon god Sehir, who has the ability to be omniscient and omnipotent, should be able to see through my thoughts. ”
"As the head of the Knights of the Holy Light, for the sake of the overall situation, you have become darkness and have been able to set off the light, but in fact, you are the real light. That Cehir is tricky, and I don't think you need to fight her head-on, you can seal her away, just like Sercius and Hades did to us. But it's a pretty difficult road, no one knows what you've paid for, and for the sake of this world, you have to put on a mask and hide your former self, and you will become the enemy of this world. Are you enlightened?"
"For the sake of Taylor's ideal world, I have no hesitation. ”
Danco wakes up from a dream of Regulus that he was shown to him by Shimus, but Shimus does not know that he saw Hekaris in his dream. Danko also heard the phrase that haunted Shiemus, "Get the stone, you will naturally know the truth", Shimus didn't know who said it, but Danko knew that it was the former god-king Ouranos mentioned by Hecaris. Ouranos didn't know about Danko's plans, as the three of their sealed gods were separated from each other and couldn't communicate with each other, and as Hekaris said, no one would know how much sacrifice Danko would have to make.
"Heartless, you should have had enough of it, which side are you going to stand on now?" said the dream god Verge to Danke, who had just risen from the ground.
Danko sorted out what he had seen and heard in his dream, when he saw Marshall hiding behind a boulder in the distance, and his face was full of shock and puzzlement. Dan Ke has always felt a little guilty about Marshall, because he led Marshall to the path of the Knights, but he ignored Marshall's many evasions, and only communicated with his superiors towards his subordinates. The Danco Wells who guided Marshall on the right path was accompanied by his beloved wife Taylor, a knight full of sunshine and confidence, and that Danco would definitely be able to become friends and brothers with Marshall, but he couldn't. Having lost the world and seeing his own darkness, he instinctively sealed himself off, shut out everyone who tried to approach him, did not share his inner world with anyone, and buried all his secrets and suppressed pain in his heart. For so many years after becoming the head of the regiment, he was alone, and he also wanted to find someone to talk to, but he didn't know who to believe. Because he believes in no one, he only believes in himself. He tilted his head away, deliberately not paying attention to Marshall, for fear that his slightest movement would expose Marshall's whereabouts, and said to Verbie, "I will go with you, it is not appropriate to fight again, we should retreat." ”
The dream god Slums said that he would take Dan to meet the other demon gods and discuss the plan, and Dan knew that he was going to the other world again. He watched as a gust of wind swept up in the wind, wrapping him and Nate Mayer as cover, and then entering the passively opened passage to the Atlas before them, opposite which Danko felt the oppressive power of that Cehir. Before leaving, Danco looked in Marshall's direction again, and in order to dispel his concerns, Danco said in Marshall's mind, "Believe me, Marshall, I will find a chance to prove myself to you!—if there is still a chance." He finished the second half of the sentence in his own heart.
There was a brief darkness in front of him, followed by a blood-red color that filled the sky. He was back to the place where the nightmare began, to the other world he had managed to escape from at the cost of sealing Taylor's soul so that she could never be resurrected.