Chapter 279: The Foolishness of the Wise
The sharp spike was like a poisonous dragon out to sea, piercing Vasis in the shoulder with precision and force. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. biquge。 If Ewell had suffered such a level of trauma, it would have been the loss of an arm, and it was difficult to say how much it would affect his movements.
In the final analysis, muscle training is the process of muscle burning, and the process of training may be more difficult than fighting to the death. I had to endure the burning heat all the time to accumulate strength for my body. After such a rigorous workout, Ewell has long put aside the small pain in his body.
Being attacked was just a momentary negligence, and if it weren't for the freedom of movement of his body, Evel could have almost never happened. But on the other hand, this is not the case with ordinary people, the shoulder part is pierced, let alone continue to get up and fight, and even ordinary daily life cannot continue normally.
Only you know what kind of pain it is. So Vasis couldn't stop wailing on the ground and inhaling the cold air, and tried to straighten himself up several times but failed. It's hard to believe what kind of pain it is, even though Vasis knows a little bit about combat skills, but he hasn't reached the point where he can scream with the strong.
Behind a real strong man like Ewell, he can only be as weak as a little chicken. But since it was him, he had never put his own life on the line to seek a single thought, and even if it was the biggest adventure of his life, he still had enough physical security.
The Demon Lord of Laziness, Lanros, may not value him as much as he imagined, but in the organization of the smoky and stupid [Near-Demon Near], Vasis is also one of the few smart people who can be reused. As a decision-maker, it is natural that the more capable people under him, the better, and the fewer people who can be of great use will be lost under his hands. So even if he wasn't very happy, he was given enough means to save his life.
As a demon king, the small gadgets made by consuming a little magic power may not be worth mentioning in his eyes, but for many people, it is a very important means of saving their lives. And because of the production of too much, Lanlos also inevitably felt tired.
The ability of laziness [the foolishness of the wise], the supreme illusion ability, even if it is only a little bit, is enough to be called a killer thing.
It hurts, it hurts, it doesn't need to be disguised at all, Vasis just needs to fully release his emotions. There is no need to pretend to be writhing all over the place, and the miserable look is there, because he himself is in pain.
The best acting skills are those that don't need acting. Because the other party's performance was too exaggerated, it was just a prick in the shoulder, and the pain became like this. This is the type of opponent that Ewell has never seen before, and he doesn't know what to do for a while.
Vasis was right. If the other party really kept the condition that he didn't care about his life, then he would have already rushed up with a sharp knife. However, the other party did not come forward for a long time, and frowned tightly because of his exaggerated movements, which showed that he still wanted to get some information from him.
This is also human nature, irrefutable. Evel wasn't a ruthless man, and if he had to get rid of someone, he would rather find a place to be locked up forever. Although it takes more effort and money, it is far less convenient than simply killing them with a single sword. Now, Evel doesn't want his hands to be stained with human blood again. Even if the other party is a complete criminal.
Speaking of which, this was not the case before, when the boy was younger and more ruthless than he is now, forever wearing a black cloak, holding a black sharp knife, and his cold aura was like a death warning others not to approach.
However...... Now it has become so much...... Maybe it's because of the influence of that teenager......
As a brave boy from another world, he has always maintained a compassionate heart, and he is naturally merciless when he kills the demons, but he has never killed his compatriots in the human race. Of course, the empire is not as good as the kingdom, and there are certainly a lot of scumbags of all kinds who have walked into the empire. Just like the shameless aristocracy who chased the girl from the poor family on the street, the society where money and power are supreme has nourished many such powerful guys.
Even so, Han Tuo still didn't take their lives. At most, it's just a matter of using power to scare them back, and scaring them hard is a good solution. But it's also more laborious.
In the end, I became compassionate.
It was obvious that he was a criminal in front of him, and Ewell was just pretending to kill him, but he didn't really want to take his life easily. Thinking that if the other party can say the information he wants in the end, it is not impossible to let him go, but he will not be free to live after that.
Some people knew the purity of his heart at a glance, even if he made an indifferent and indifferent expression, but the light that flickered in the depths of his pupils would not deceive people in vain. It was clear that Vasis was right, and all of this was just a disguise for his last resort.
As Ewell hesitated, Vasis saw an opportunity and suddenly threw something at him. Before he could react, the thing had already exploded in place. It was a closed cloth bag, not a ball of gunpowder or something, but a lazy demon king who used his magic to carefully seal it and compress its power into that small space.
Although the power will not be equal to that of him himself, and the quality of the sealing will also be greatly reduced after a long time, after all, it is a demon king-level ability, and it is not comparable to an ordinary treasure with the price of a diamond.
However, when caught off guard, it is more than enough as a means to save life. A black aura spilled out of the cloth bag, diffusing through the air in Ewell's slightly panicked eyes.
A strange fragrance spread, and when Ewell panicked to cover his mouth and nose, his subconscious told him that it was too late. In a trance, some strange and familiar aroma surrounded him, although he warned himself again and again in his heart that he must not take it lightly. However...... In the haze, the consciousness has a strange sense of dependence on this aroma.
In a foreign country, as a wanderer, the most important thing is the longing for his hometown. Ewell's parents had already died early in the aftermath of the war twenty years earlier. I also knew that as parents, they were very competent, otherwise I wouldn't have been able to save my life when I was still young.
But strangeness is still strangeness, even if Ewell also maintains a lot of respect for his parents, and it is an indisputable fact that he feels strange to them.
And he himself did not lose his important family members because of this. Not only did it not lose, but the number of ordinary people has increased by more than one or two. Even without elders, a family of five young people of the same age does not lack the basic warmth that an average family needs.
Originally, they should have been in the distant royal capital, but what they saw in front of them was their figures walking lightly through the hazy smoke. Far away they should have kept a longing attitude and waited for their return, why did they appear here? Some doubts are self-evident, and the facts do not match at all, and even a three-year-old child knows the doubts. On the contrary, Ewell did not have the slightest suspicion.
Maybe everyone will have no way to doubt this trick. The magic of the Demon King's ability lies here, there has never been a Demon King in the history of the Terran struggle on the Gedia Continent with such a perverted ability, and the number is not the same as before, and the Terran is currently in the greatest crisis in history, but not many people are really aware of this.
"Brother...... Younger sister...... You ......" Ewell had a rare expression of weakness, one that seemed to be so gentle that it seemed to turn into a melt and flow of spring water, soft as a stream flowing through the hard earth, and before you knew it, it made them soft.
The young man's face, which was quite handsome in itself, was gently watered, and finally withdrew from the cold mask and was crowned with a kind face.
"Little two, little three, little four, little five", even if everyone has their own official name, when they get together in private, they will still call each other by the simple names of childhood. This is a proof of family affection, a special title that is unique to each other. And Ewell is naturally one of the "big brothers".
I have the impression that the teenagers and girls are full of enthusiasm and stride towards them, and the teenagers even hug and seem to want to rush to them immediately. The girls are afraid to do whatever they want to do like their brothers because of the shyness of adolescence, but the deep friendship they project on them cannot be concealed.
That's right...... It's true that they are not wrong, and they can even use their personality to vouch for it, which is indeed their younger brothers and sisters. Because each person's personality is the same, it corresponds to each other's unique personality.
This is also the reason why Avier still does not doubt this even when he is conscious. If it's just a simple and crude illusion, it's full of flaws in the details, and what you see and hear in front of you this time are the extremely important family members in your memory. Even if they were really unreal, but Evel himself didn't believe it. If you deny the meaning of their existence here, won't you deny all of your eighteen long life journeys?
However, it is not impossible. The Demon King's ability [Wise Man's Foolish Loyalty] naturally cannot be compared to those illusion skills of the three sects and nine streams. It stimulates a person's deepest weaknesses from the depths of the user's heart, and presents them in front of a person with concrete images, and almost everyone has no way to stop them.
Humans may be very timid creatures, and if they are fierce enemies, they may not be merciful in battle, but if the other party is the person closest to them, no matter what they say, it is not possible to really kill them.
The things presented by the illusion are the most basic weakness in Ewell's heart, and after a while, the boy has fallen into it. For a moment, any vigilance or vigilance shattered, and Ewell's eyes blurred as he met the man who had opened his hug to him. And the girl with long black hair, with a soft expression, reached out to caress Ewell's face.
Like the whispers between lovers, each other's faces are close to each other, as if they want to tell the longest and sweetest love words.
No one has ever reached, the final other side of Ewell.
This is obviously a little girl, and even a girl who has watched her grow up since she was a child, sometimes she will seem hesitant and hesitant, and sometimes she will seem lively and cheerful, which just proves that she is indeed a living, flesh-and-blood girl. As an elder, there is nothing more exciting to watch the growth of a junior.
So...... It's probably all a lie.
That little four would never do this. Even if I have the same hope in my heart.
There is always some insurmountable gap between reality and fantasy, and the chasms of these chasms constitute a person's strongest psychological defense in the end. However, when these fantasies of destroying the psychological defense line are placed in front of them, some people do not have the courage to return to reality again, which is probably the reason why the Demon King's ability has been tried and tested repeatedly.
It arouses the most primitive weakness in the human heart, and it is also used as a way to escape reality, and it allows one's mind to fall into darkness. Because I really don't have the courage to break through the illusion and return to reality.
The present world is cruel, but it is a place where you need it, so you have to go back again.
Ewell closed his eyes, and when he opened them again, the dreamlike hazy atmosphere was gone.
Instead, there is an eerie atmosphere. It was as if some blood-red mist filled the air, and some kind-faced relatives had long since disappeared, but instead some hideous-looking, beast-like and ferocious demonic beasts were extremely close to his body, opening their spiky teeth, and they were about to bite down on his neck.
Ewell tilted his head, and his face reappeared with a cold and wise expression, and he lightly dodged the attack of the opponent's demonic beast. With a flick of his hand, the black blade slashed along the body of the demonic beast, splitting it in two in an instant.
It's really not even the lowest-level magical beast, it only has the ability to attack with a mouth full of sharp teeth, the speed is not fast, and the size is relatively small, and it is usually just a miscellaneous fish that can be easily solved for Ewell.
Today, it was such a miscellaneous fish and demonic beast that almost killed him.
Avier, who was dripping with cold sweat, quickly wiped out all the remaining demonic beasts, and at the same time looked to the side, unable to stop feeling a little disappointed.
There was only a few traces of blood left there.
Vasis's guy has run away. (To be continued.) )