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"What's the use of your efforts?"

The witch let out a silver bell-like laugh, rested her chin on Maria's shoulder, and her white fingers climbed up Maria's neck like a snake: "All of you are victims, and no one cares if you live or die. ”

......" Mary twisted the air in front of her once more, wondering if there was a way out of danger.

This is, she keenly heard a very soft sound in front of her, and the witch and her looked ahead at the same time,

The witch immediately waved her hand, and the fog in front of her opened to both sides like a door, revealing people who had no sound all over the ground, these were already corpses, and she and Maria quickly determined the source according to the direction of the sound just now-

A small stone.

The witch's doubts first vanished, and then scurried up again.

Stone? It is impossible for a stone to make a sound on its own!

At this moment, Lady Despair noticed a rapidly growing black shadow in the sky, and a person was hiding on the roof next to her, seizing the moment of her confusion and jumping down!

Panatia shrugged off the suicide attack, and streaks of spider silk burning with black flames flew into the air, hanging the figure in the air before it fell on top of her—something was wrong with the silk, it wasn't a living person!

Maria finally seized her chance, and she turned her head violently, letting the spider silk pull a bloody hole in her neck, and then spat at the Witch of Despair!

"I'm going to turn 32 in January—"

"You say I'm a little girl? Old witch, how old are you?! ”

The witch turned around to avoid this unclear spit, and then suddenly found that the spider silk on Maria's body was no longer under her control, which was actually a "bribe" from the lawyer's path! This is actually a "bribe"!

After digesting the non-existent provocateur's potion, Maria immediately distorted her image and hid in the poisonous mist.

"Sharp-toothed girl! When I catch you, I'll ruin the other half of your face! After arresting all your friends and torturing them, do you still have the strength to say this? ”

The Witch of Despair was taken by surprise, but immediately reacted and wanted to capture Maria again, but the living corpse hanging in the sky suddenly struggled violently, his skin was comparable to steel, and it was a real corpse, not afraid of pain and flames, and the spider silk could only make white marks on it. The living corpses whistled, and the surrounding ghosts rushed to the culprit who killed them.

The Witch of Despair shrugged off such harmless attacks, but was tripped up by countless resentful spirits and had to ignite a black flame on her body to isolate herself from them.

But there are so many dead spirits here that it looks like a tsunami when it pounces on the Witch of Despair.

Gavin Leader and Dr. Blake finished treating the previous area, only to find that Maria was missing and had not been contacted. He immediately asked the living corpse to come out to look for it, but unexpectedly found the witch!

The wound on her neck was twisted, and Maria's brow furrowed, effectively stopping the bleeding. Prevents the invasion of toxic mist through blood and wounds. Then she scurried into the mist, looking for the place where the black box in her memory had fallen.

However, the surrounding poisonous fog suddenly became thick again, becoming like a wall.

Mary was disoriented, unsure of where she was facing.

"I remember right here......"

Five seconds passed, and there was the sound of something falling to the ground behind him, and the shadowy spirits around him suddenly disappeared without a trace.

The living corpses have been dismembered, and the necromantic summoning has been interrupted!

She hovered back in a radius of about two meters with a heavy face, and suddenly kicked something.

Maria looked down and saw a black box, she was immediately overjoyed, and immediately bent down to pick it up, but suddenly several black spider silk flew behind her and wrapped around her ankles, pulling her to the ground and dragging her backwards!

Before her fingers could touch the edge of the black box, she was dragged backwards a meter, and under the lightning, Maria gritted her teeth and twisted her outstretched right hand!

Her right arm suddenly became extremely slender from below the joint, and her fingers and forearm were stretched together to two meters, as if only a layer of bone remained. Her fingers managed to touch the hidden button on the box, and the witch pulled her body back, and she broke it and opened it!

The Witch of Despair heard the voice, and she suddenly became vigilant, not knowing what kind of seal was in the box.

Suddenly, she noticed that the houses around her were getting taller and taller, and then she realized that her body was shrinking!

Panatia opened her mouth to scream, but her clothes grabbed her throat, and she grew smaller and smaller, until she became a delicately made puppet and fell to the ground with a clatter.

Richard Ernst came out of the fog, picked up the puppet, and wrenched her head.

At the same time, she looked around, and suddenly reached out and snapped her fingers, and the entire Eastern District who had been poisoned but had not yet been killed felt at the same time that her body was light, her breathing was smooth, and she no longer had a fever.

She twisted the entire East Side virus into a "curse" and carried it herself.

The poisonous mist instantly lost its damage to the humans, and Maria breathed a breath of fresh air and felt a lot clearer.

The toxin in Sequence 4 didn't have much effect on the angel, and thousands of miles away at sea, Richard, who was reading the newspaper, coughed twice, sneezed, and then had to go back to his room to rest because he coughed so badly.

The puppet in her hand shattered into pieces of lenses, and the figure of the desperate lady appeared at the end of the long street, and she was terrified, desperate to run into the distance!

After running two steps, she suddenly turned into a puppet again, with a rather cute smile on her face.

The puppet was picked up with the other hand, and Richard looked at it and saw a young man with soft features but no warmth.

Richard frowned, naturally identified him as an enemy, and was about to attack, but felt that her strength was gradually disappearing, becoming less and less, and finally her consciousness was actually squeezed out of this body, turning into a "faceless puppet" and falling to the ground!

The young man walked over and picked up the doll as well.

After looking at it for a moment, she flipped the doll over and found an "E· W", thus confirming that this extraordinary object was the hand of the previous version of "Edward", or that it was a small toy that he had given to the scroll more than 100 years ago.

Maria struggled to stand up, she tried her best to restore her arm, but due to severe bone deformation and muscle strain, she could only temporarily maintain the appearance of a fracture, and it is estimated that she must find a pharmacist for treatment as soon as possible to avoid sequelae.

She picked up the little black box and looked back at where Richard Ernst was, only to find that she had disappeared from where she was.

Standing there at this moment was a stranger holding a "faceless doll", she was startled, and was about to speak, when she saw the young man with purple hair smoothly turned his face to herself, and after looking at herself for a few seconds, she turned her face away without any reaction.

Then, suddenly, he was gone.

Maria walks forward and sees the mutilated living corpse, and further on, she sees Freya and Mrs. Liv hugging each other and dying, but Daisy, who has the best relationship with Alia, is not among them.

She clenched her fists, blood pouring from between her fingers.

At sea, a deep black vortex suddenly appeared behind Richard, who was thinking about what had just happened, and she was dragged into the vortex almost without having time to resist.

In the eastern side, the yellow-black fog began to flow again, and a light cyan aura was mixed into it.

……

Queens, inside the luxury villa of the Earl of Hall.

Audrey stood by the floor-to-ceiling window, looking apprehensively into the distance. She saw that the fog on the horizon was gradually thickening, and the yellow was dyed with iron black, and slowly rendered in her direction.

"There's something wrong with that." Susie, the big golden retriever, crouched next to her, looking out at the usual haze.

Well, hopefully it's too late to stop ...... Audrey didn't know what the mist meant, but silently prayed to the goddess and Mr. Fool, asking them not to let the "primordial witch" come.

Suddenly, she noticed that the branches outside the window were shaking, and the glass was shaking slightly.

"The wind is coming...... Audrey felt inexplicably happy.

Jowood District, Cathedral of the Holy Winds.

A terrifying storm visible to the naked eye suddenly appeared outside it, and then an unimaginable hurricane surged to the east.

Woo!

The sedimentary mist was blown away, and the rich yellow and iron black quickly melted.

Woo!

Dry branches fell to the ground, and dust and dirt rose into the air and disappeared with the mist.

Woo!

Many pedestrians' hats were off their heads, and their bodies were so shaky that they had to hold on to trees or walls.

The sailors in the docklands seem to have returned to the port city and are witnessing a typhoon.

The smoke in the eastern and factory areas has become sour, and the slight discomfort of healthy people has been relieved.

Bang! Bang!

Lightning jumped, thunder exploded.

They quickly subsided, and the rain began to wash the ground.

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"It's raining."

Empty, only in the kingdom of the gods of the blood-colored sky and the black earth, the Decayed King muttered to himself calmly, and then turned to look at Richard, who was nailed to the ground by dozens of thorns piercing his body:

"Is there anything you'd like to say?"

Richard Ernst was silent, his pierced arms moving forward to the victor, fingertips just a few centimeters from the Decaying King.

She silently stared at the image of Beckland's East End in front of her, watching the wind howl and the thunderstorm fall, but the black and yellow poisonous fog spread out again out of nowhere, as if playing a game of hide and seek with the rain clouds.

"Teacher."

She whispered, "What price do I have to pay to stop this disaster?" ”

The King of Decay was not surprised by this title, and she calmly replied:

"Nope."

"I am willing to give my life for you."

"You're taking your life too seriously, Richard Ernst." God is unwavering about this, "You should have died for me, and this is the most meaningful death you have ever died." ”

A child with good qualifications, a child who can successfully become an angel, can find an opportunity in the future to snatch the extraordinary characteristics and uniqueness of the bound god and Siea into her body and forcibly fuse. These things are so soaked in the pollution of the Mother Tree of Desire that you don't have to risk your own life, and Richard Ernst is the filter for this.

She will go crazy because of the pollution, and die out of control in a short time after becoming the king of angels, and the characteristics and uniqueness that she has filtered once will be much safer, even if the identity of "Edward" is accommodated, it is sure that it will not get out of control.

Richard smiled bitterly: "Yes, teacher, you saved my life, educated me, gave me the opportunity to be promoted, and are willing to fund my unattainable dream, my life can indeed be returned to you at any time." ”

"Can you give me a reason?"

"I'm going to destroy the world."

“？”

The Fallen King held the witch puppet in his hand, and carelessly controlled the black and yellow mist to drift around the East End, even occasionally letting it float out of the East End and past the edge of the Queens. And the wind outside was getting stronger, and the sky in Beckland was almost completely overcast, and it seemed that the archbishop of the Storm Church was angered, and soon a heavy rain would hit Bakeland, which was heavy enough to flood Beckland.

"I'm sure you've got the doomsday."

She said: "You should know that there are gods outside the sky, and many sects have legends of the end of the world. And this round of 'big year' is coming to an end. But I have another purpose than the Plunder trait, and that is to destroy the world as it is. ”

"Do you hate humans?" Richard asked tentatively.

This question silenced the outer god for a moment, as if she were teaching, and she quickly gave an answer:

"I don't hate humans."

"Actually, humans have long defined their own race."

"What is a human being? In your own commentary, you are a primate, a mammal, a hominidae. The species is widely distributed, adaptable, and increasing in numbers, and there is no major threat that will lead to a decline in the overall population, which has created a certain degree of resource and habitat crisis due to the excessive overall population. ”

She read the phrase as if reading a dictionary, and then added: "At the same time, there are explanations within your community—that you are free, peace-seeking, happy-seeking, imaginative and creative, foolish but wise, cruel but kind...... An animal. ”

Richard listened quietly.

"So, judging from my research and your literature, it was the humans who used their arms to drive away wild beasts and light the fire of civilization; Those who let their imagination become reality, who can send things and even lives into the universe with the hands of mortals; Dare to resist, dare to think, even if you are burned to death as a blasphemous heretic, you must let your doctrine pass on...... It's human. So what are these now tame lambs, devout believers, creatures imbued with the virtues praised by the gods? I don't know, it's not human anyway. ”

She seemed to have wanted to say these things for a long time, but it was only now that someone finally asked the question.

"Then you should know that this is not a human sin!"

The Angel of Temperance argues: "If you want to impeach the feudal monarchy and the long-standing slavery, it should be the fault of the powerful and high-ranking who let these exists unleashed." If you're going to impeach bad technological development, it's the sin of the gods, because their words are the truth of Proverbs! ”

"When the gods exist, who would dare to attract thunder and lightning and sunlight from the sky as an energy source? I know that in the Quaternary Age, human beings still dared to rebel against the gods, although it was also to seek the throne of God, but after all, it proved that human beings still have the ambition to point directly to the throne of God, and have the courage to doubt and oppose! It is not the fault of humanity that mankind has come to this point! ”

When the King of Decay heard this, he nodded, and then spoke:

"Exactly."

"But, Richard, if you want to prove that a building is not dangerous, you shouldn't say that its materials are good, but the environment is not suitable, the workers are not skilled, the designers are planning wrong, the cement ratio is not good, and the skeleton is wrong...... The more you try to prove it, the more you show that good bricks should not be wasted on this dangerous building, and that humans should not continue to stay in this world. ”

"Humanity in the past has denied you now, even though there are a thousand reasons to ......"

The Decaying King felt she should let out a sigh to set the mood, but she wasn't going to do it: "It doesn't change the facts. ”

After saying this, the whole kingdom of God fell silent.

God shepherds human beings as lambs, chooses pious human beings as wolf dogs, and pampers gentle human beings as pets.

People are no longer people.

"And I just need a node of calamity, a calamity that symbolizes human cannibalism, the fate of the earth's demise is suppressed by the gods, and I need a node to pry it."

The outside world began to thunder and rain, and there was no hiding place for the poisonous fog. Seeing that the number of dead and wounded had reached its goal, Decay naturally dispersed the mist, stuffed the witch puppet into a collection case, and straightened it to make a living but dead-like ornament.

"Teacher, if I take the initiative to give my life, what can I get from you?"

The Decayed King was silent for two seconds.

"If you want to die so much, for the sake of your hard work and no regrets, I can give you a mercy."

She crouched down, pinched Richard's chin with her hand, and looked carefully into Richard Ernst's eyes with eyes that looked like stagnant water.

The King of Decay saw the threads, countless threads of transparency, extending from infinity and connecting to Richard's body.

Under the 200 years of philanthropic activities and the grand desire to save people, the threads of fate all over the world wrapped around her legs, her hands, her body, her neck, she was bound by the whole world, and she also moved forward with the hope of the world and people.

What binds her is people's lives and prayers, and what she carries is the weight and hope of the world.

She willingly was bound and dedicated her will, her beliefs, to the world.

She can be a "bearer" or a "bound person"!

I know. God thought quietly.

As early as when Richard accepted the old ideas, recognized the reality, and began to give up "what he can", but "go all out"-

I knew you were better than I thought.

You have this potential, but you are not destined to be the true God. Because if you become a god, won't everyone know that the Seven Gods are sending Hanako?

Richard Ernst, who is running for humanity with all your heart, but you are ostracized by the human community, and you are disgusted by the gods, you are precarious, and you will definitely die - you are better than the Great Smog, the evidence for "arguing that mankind should perish" is just that I can't bear to kill you.

"You kill yourself."

She said suddenly.

"You commit suicide, give me your soul, and I will make the Southern Continent independent, and Byron and the Highlands will be restored."

"I will protect them, they will convert, although they will not be free, but they will no longer be oppressed by the Northern Continent."

Richard listened carefully to this sentence, and suddenly smiled:

"If you don't say that you are an outer god, I will definitely regard you as one of the ancient gods in the Blue Star, such as the God of Bondage."

The King of Decay also replied to her: "Torzna, the god of bondage, whose name has a wonderful occult connection with me. If it weren't for the disappearance of a sequence of the prisoner's path, I would have been the god of bondage, not a demonic path for a long time. ”

"It seems like a great reward, and I'm glad my soul and life are worth such a high price."

She smiled, with a hint of cunning that resembled Edward's, "But let me refuse, teacher, I swore when I became an angel that I would never again put my hope in God's mercy. Teacher, if you want to liberate the Southern Continent, you have to oppose at least several gods, why is my life worth this? Is my death worth more than my soul? ”

That's right, your suicide is worth more than your life, and as soon as you die, the human beings who live because of you will be directly affected, and they will commit suicide in despair or even go crazy on the spot...... The end of the road, forced by helplessness, comes from the desperation of this group. It's even higher than this witch's massacre...... Seeing you, thinking of you, I decided to slow down this judgment for the time being.

"I'm a little curious what you sweared."

"I swore to kill the gods." Richard said briskly, "If one day I can become a true god, I will kill all the seven gods of the Northern Continent, and kill the evil gods as well, I will clear all the extraordinary ones, seal all the extraordinary ones, and then I will kill myself." ”

Since you can't change spiritually, at least change the environment back.

When there is no longer a god in the world, when the royal family is no longer an angelic family, when there is no longer such a disgusting force in this world...... Perhaps at first they will be panicked and helpless, but there are still more ordinary humans in the world who have no power, and those who have lost God will sooner or later have the opportunity to embark on a similar path of development as the old civilization.

"It's good, it's crazy, it's a prisoner." The King of Decay casually complimented, "I'm among them too?" ”

"The Point Guard Is Here"

"You're one of them, too." Richard admitted it directly, then shook his head and smiled bitterly, "It's a pity that I have no way of knowing the path to becoming a god, and until now there are only so many people I can protect." ”

The King of Decay sighed in boredom, not paying any attention to the student's rebellious remarks, and spoke to Richard as if it were a normal teacher-student chat: "You can be proud of yourself, and they will only need to suffer for another eighteen years to be liberated forever." ”

Richard immediately hit the snake on the pole:

"Teacher, in that case, why don't you look at me? Look at the Pilgrimage sect more, look at us more, we have done so many things, we have saved so many people, and we have not perished for more than 200 years, maybe this is the reason why our ideas can be widely accepted? Teacher, look at me, look at the people who are still working hard, and then make a decision. ”

God sneered:

"I'm not just you on Earth, some of them are trying to change some of the order and laws, some want to promote the equality of people through teachings, some are trying to develop technology, some are trying to build industry...... Each one of them is so bold that he dares to anger God for the sake of man, and I have given many opportunities and cultivated many possibilities for human beings to be reborn...... Guess why you haven't seen any of them? ”

"Richard, don't try to impress me with emotion. Tell me, why don't you learn to cherish life? Everyone knows that only by being alive can we have a chance, and by being alive can we protect more people, so why do you always take the initiative to seek death? ”

"I can make a living and wait for the future, but these people don't even have the present."

The King of Decay laughed:

"Good. Second question. ”

"Would you like to exchange your life, the life of an angel, for the lives of everyone who is left in the Eastern District?"

"Is this a good thing?" Richard said, "I do! I'm ready for you to kill you, and there will be no survivors in the East Side! ”

Completely expected answer. The King of Decay did not speak to her, and continued:

"One last question."

"Maria, your subordinates, or any important person you are familiar with, or the people of the East End, which one do you choose?"

The question didn't silence Richard for long, and after just two seconds of thought, she answered immediately.

"I choose—"

"—Decided by lot."

The King of Decay looked at her. Richard also looked at his teacher.

"In the second question, I chose to sacrifice myself because I am also a life, and I can dispose of my own life."

She replied in an unusually calm and rational tone:

"All souls are created equal, and I have no right to decide the lives of others, so I want to let the fate of death be equal. Of course, I am willing to draw lots in person, and whoever is sacrificed is a decision I make. ”

God looked at her. With the eyes of looking at the walking tombstones.

"Good."

The King of Decay said, "You speak very well. ”

After that, she looked at her students, word by word, with a glance, and said in solemn words that were almost cursed and like blessings:

"I give you the opportunity to carry the fate of others."

"Richard Ernst, an angel I made with my own hands, a stupid child, a naïve man, you are trying to convince me with your fate to save the human beings you are going to protect. As you wish. I pity your short-sightedness, I pity humanity, I pity the fate of this planet, until the day you die. ”

The Angel of Temperance was stunned, then bowed his head and accepted God's "gift" like a true believer.

Once again, fate has changed, and these words have become a foreshadowing of death, limiting the verdict to the individual "Richard Ernst" in a more subtle way. She's critical enough, small enough, and hidden enough.

Have mercy on you, human beings, you always take your planet too seriously, and it is a virtue to be obsessed with your homeland and your race, but you also do not understand that your planet is no different from the other dust and sand in my hands.

Have mercy on you, human beings, you are protected in the first barrier and will never be able to comprehend the vastness of the sea of stars.

Have mercy on you, Richard Ernst, you don't know your fate, you don't know that your death will be the straw that will crush the fate of this planet, and you will be my final verdict. At that time, I will no longer curse this continent, but the entire planet.

…… However, it is also bright enough to make me feel sorry.

TBC

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