They had been on their way, and now it was dark.

The darkness pressed over, endless, rich and oppressive, like a lightless drop on a rainy night.

And man seems so small in this wilderness.

Hades stopped with the emperor and raised a fire in the wasteland, which re-emerged from disillusionment and dispelled a small patch of darkness.

Just a little light shone faintly on them, reflecting their faces.

They sat there bored, and Hades stared blankly at the blazing fire, waiting for dawn to continue on his way.

But the child's laughter rang out from the darkness.

Suddenly hearing the laughter of children in the uninhabited wasteland, Hades was excited,

"How can there be children here?!"

He looked at the Emperor, but the Emperor ignored him completely, the Emperor looked nervous, drew his sword, and stood up,

"Fuck off! I don't care about you! Damn guys, fuck off! ”

The Emperor's voice spread far away, but it was soon swallowed up by darkness again, and there was no splash at all.

The mule snorted, stamped its foot, and leaned closer to the fire.

"No, what the hell is going on?"

Hades also hurriedly stood up, but unfortunately he was unarmed.

But Hades felt that he should not face the child with a weapon?

But while Hades was thinking, the children appeared.

Their eerie, dirty figures emerge from the darkness, jumping around at the edge of darkness and light.

"Join us."

They said

"Get out! I don't care about you! ”

The emperor took the sword and made a gesture of lunging forward,

"I'm human, you shit, get out of here!"

"Why don't you join us?"

"We promised you everything."

"Obviously there is no one on the top steps, why don't you take a step up again?"

Said a child with a sly glint in his eyes, who was thin but agile.

"You should face your own desires, hypocritical lord."

A beautiful child said.

"Everything is meaningless in the end, and it is very tiring to struggle."

"You shouldn't be so weak!"

"Climb! You shit! ”

Hades felt like they were all talking crazy, but thankfully none of them cared about Hades, and he was like a piece of darkness, forgotten together.

So he continued to stand aside and watched calmly.

The Emperor couldn't stand the children's chatter any longer, so he scooped up the mud from the ground, then clumped it up and threw it at the guys.

The mud landed precisely on the fat fellow, and the cry immediately rang out.

So the rest of the children dragged him away.

Before leaving, the child glanced in the direction of Hades.

and he was again hidden in darkness.

Hades hesitantly walked up to the emperor,

"What are they?"

"That's what you see."

Well. Kids?

"You hate kids?"

The emperor snorted,

Ah, I hate children, and I can't be a good father like that.

Hades thought inexplicably.

"So what are they talking about, asking you to join them?"

The Emperor's nose twitched, as if he had heard something that disgusted him.

"Never."

"People don't associate with insects."

"Look,"

The emperor seemed interested in talking, and they sat down around the flames again.

The orange light of the fire reflected in the emperor's face, and he held a branch in his hand, which he used to stir up the firewood underneath.

His face was golden, and in a trance, Hades seemed to see the golden crown on his head.

"Even if they promise me everything."

"But what is everything about the child? It's just a mud knick-knack. ”

"They may be fun, but they're not useful for survival."

"They misunderstood me."

The Emperor carelessly picked up some tiny branches, broke them, and threw them into the fire.

He looked at the twigs that had burned themselves in the fire, and continued,

"Live, and you can raise the sword of vengeance against the enemy as you like."

"Nothing else makes sense."

The branches gradually turned to ashes in the fire, and the emperor filled them with some firewood.

Hades blinked, and helped the emperor throw firewood into the fire.

And then the fire was blazing again.

The Emperor glanced at him.

"What about you? What do you want? ”

He?

What did he want to do?

Hades originally wanted to say alive, but it seems that the word "alive" did not stir up a wave in his heart, as if he had seen too much life and death.

Just as he doesn't feel at the leaves on the street.

"Hmm"

Hades suddenly felt hungry again.

Open a hotel?

He suddenly remembered that it seemed that someone had said this to him a long time ago.

It hadn't happened much then, and he hadn't come here one foot deep or one foot shallow.

They were all there then.

"Create an environment where people can sit down to eat, eat, and chat?"

The Emperor looked at him again, his dark brown eyes dyed golden by the firelight from time to time,

"Then you might as well go and stab your enemy."

Hades shrugged.

"Isn't that what you want to do?"

"If it's already happening, it's not wanted."

"Short-sighted and superficial."

The Emperor muttered.

"I never said I was a wise man."

Hades said,

"I'm a hapless man."

"Indeed,"

The Emperor nodded,

"But who isn't?"

yes, who isn't?

Hades stared at the flame, it was too small, even though it was burning hard, even though it ate so much firewood, it was still too small.

The rest is endless night.

Hades didn't know when he had fallen asleep, all he knew was that he was blown up by the early morning wind.

He forced himself to open his eyes, and when it was dawn, the emperor was packing his belongings.

"Let's go."

The emperor mounted the mule, and Hades naturally followed.

So they hit the road again.

Walk, go, go, go.

They have been gone for a long time and have been through a lot.

They went through the puddle, but the emperor cleared the water, though Hades felt that there was no need to separate the shallow puddle.

They went through the abyss, but the emperor kicked the mule directly, and Hades dragged the mule's tail and followed it directly.

The air is getting thinner and colder.

Finally, they arrived.

It was a wilderness of fat, green grass, on which a cow was leisurely nibbling on it.

Some bright green and bright red cracks crawl on the cow's pattern.

Not far away, many hay stacks that had only been nibbled one or two were casually thrown on the ground.

The emperor dismounted from the mule, and he drew his sword and stared at the cow tightly,

"You have to avoid its attacks."

？

"It's."

Hades racked his brains and thought,

"This is a dragon?"

"Yes."

The emperor ignored him and rushed straight up!

The cow also rushed towards the Emperor, directly at the Sword of the Emperor of God.

This.?

However, the bull that was fighting with the emperor suddenly looked at Hades and spat at him.

But the spit rushed towards Hades at an alarming speed!

Hades dodged quickly.

And the emperor took advantage of the moment when the cow was distracted and stabbed the cow with a sword.

A gurgling black liquid poured out of the cow's wounds.

They dripped to the ground without making a sound.

Seeing the liquid gushing out, the emperor directly pressed the cow to death,

The cow was still mooing.

"Come here! Come here! ”

"Come here, Hades!"

Hades hurriedly ran over, and was then smeared with black liquid by the emperor.

"Drink it, hurry up!"

"Drink as much as you want, fast!"

What is this???

But Hades did so in a daze, and he ducked out of the cow's struggle, holding the pitch-black liquid in his hands and swallowing it.

The liquid tasted strange, stuck to his throat, and Hades felt his internal organs burn.

He was still dying, as if he had given himself an order to drink to death, as long as he did not die, he would drink to death.

He's burning.

"Ahem, ahem!"

When Hades finally felt like he was dying, his vision began to blur, and he looked forward-

The emperor was dressed in golden power armor, and the sword in his hand was engraved with gorgeous patterns, and his spiritual energy fluctuated rapidly, and he was crushing the dragon.

Massive, incomprehensible, sparkling dragons.

Its huge tentacles cover the sky and the sun, the luster of metal changes all the time, and all the laws of the universe bloom above it.

It's bleeding.

Hades glanced down at his hands, which were covered in dragon blood.

He fainted.

When he opened his eyes again, Hades felt a chill on his back.

Macado looked at him with his head upside down.

Ah, I haven't woken up yet, he thought.

"Get up, don't sleep!"

Machado struck Hades on the calf with a stick.

？！

Hades opened his eyes again, and he found that they were on the Plateau of Tassis.

"Huh?"

"What the hell is going on?"

Hades struggled to brace himself up,

Machado glanced at him,

"You've gained knowledge, that's all."

"What knowledge?"

Hades felt like his mind was still empty.

Machado gave him a blank look,

"You know how to drive a tank, but what a tank is if you haven't seen it yet?"

Hades blinked, not understanding.

Macardo ignored him, and he walked off into the distance, as if calling out to the swarm of Collier Jersey.

Hades stared at Macardo's back in a daze.

The setting sun was on the other side of the plateau, pulling Makado's figure to the ground for a long time.

Machado followed the light and went away.

Leave Hades alone in the dark.

He felt sleepy, so Hades closed his eyes and lay down in peace.

As if he was darkness in the first place.

(End of chapter)