028, sunrise
Azir just looked at him calmly: "You are not him. ”
The young man on the other side laughed even more wildly, and he showed off the tattoos on his body, perhaps more branding: "Did you see this?" This thing was engraved on me when I was born, and you have not been able to erase it, proof of slavery! ”
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The black fog gradually dissipated, and people saw the image inside more clearly, Azir's body fell to the ground, and the black snake came to his side with a letter, as if to determine if he was still alive.
All the people of Shurima who saw this scene began to talk again, and they exclaimed, "Isn't this a ritual that has been prepared in advance?"
After the ceremony, His Royal Highness will inherit the throne as a matter of course, and then continue to lead Shurima under the title of Emperor again.
It should all be arranged.
Then everyone's eyes widened in horror, and the black snake opened its abyssal jaw, and swallowed Azir.
This scene was broadcast to the entire Shurima by the various media platforms present in its original form, without any embellishment, and people realized that this was not a pre-negotiated show!
Their prince, the heir who was supposed to lead Shurima's rise, was eaten like this?
Asitaya shouted, "Guards! Guardsman! ”
He pinned his hopes on time, and if the rescue was made in time, maybe they could get Azir out before he was digested.
Empress Vichyna and the Cabinet Scholars were stunned, and in their vision, Azir should transform into an Ascended at a time when everyone was looking forward to it, and then receive the cheers of the people, and he would take over the throne in the halo and be crowned the successor of Shurima.
The unexpected situation caused an eerie silence in the audience, as if an extremely glorious day had turned into a funeral.
The black snake's body writhed wildly again, its painful howl even more unbearable than before, and it needed to cover its ears even from the high wall to avoid shattering its eardrums by the unpleasant sound waves.
"When you get back, behead those damn biologists for public !!"
Asitaya's gloomy eyes instantly turned murderous, and he covered his ears and roared loudly.
The black snake on the field mutated again, and the gene that the biologists had modified in its body had mutated at this time, the membranous wings of the giant snake bulged out behind it, and the claws on its chest protruded even more, and in an instant, it became something like a thick arm.
The pain of the mutation caused the black snake to frantically slam its body against the surrounding boulder buildings, and some stone pillars were hit, and like dominoes, the buildings collapsed layer by layer.
The black snake tore at its flesh with its newfound arms, and then scurried around even more frantically, losing its mind and slamming desperately against the walls around the arena, hoping to alleviate its pain.
The walls trembled as they were hit by the black snakes, and in some places there were even cracks, and the people on the walls screamed in horror, and when Nasus saw this, he immediately ordered his personal guards to evacuate the people.
But the next moment the screams of the people almost reached the point of despair, and the cabinet scholar turned back in disbelief at what was happening before him.
The black snake actually thrust its two newly grown arms into the high wall, and then dragged its bloody body upward.
The people on that wall were even more panicked, but because of the crowd, no one could move half a step, and could only wail in more despair.
Asitaya was still angrily scolding the group of biologists, and when he saw this, he was also stunned, along with the guards around him, stunned.
The black snake's climb continued, when suddenly a stream of fire exploded on it.
When Nasus and Asitaya came back to their senses, they found that Vichyna had snatched a flame gun from the guards on the side at some point, the muzzle of the gun was still emitting black smoke, and the hot wind blew Veshina's hair up.
She threw away the empty barrel of the gun and looked at them with disgust: "Useless man! ”
"Your Majesty...... What do we do now? ”
"What to do? Nonsense! Of course it ran away!! Don't you see that damn monster is already coming towards us?!! ”
"This ...... It seems that Your Majesty attracted it to ......"
"Where's all that?!! Is it putting our people at risk?!! ”
"But His Highness ...... him"
"Your first task now is to run for your lives! My son...... I can't believe that stinky boy can die so easily! ”
Vichyna glanced back one last time, and the black snake was desperately rushing towards this direction, and she hastily faded away under the protection of the guards.
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On the Golden Mile, Azir and Zelas face off from afar, and the two of them are like inside and outside in a mirror.
One was gorgeously dressed, delicate and handsome.
A ragged and dirty, shackled.
"I know everything you've been through in this world, everything you've learned in Kamigawa, and you really think you can change this backward world? No, Azir, do you remember your promise to me? You've failed. ”
Zelas's expression now didn't know whether to cry or laugh, he was obviously grinning, but he was crying, "I was born a slave, I treat you as a brother, I put all my hopes on you...... And you betrayed me, you failed, and you will never succeed. ”
But the next second, Zelas was stunned, because Azir suddenly rushed over and hugged him.
"I want to say to you...... I'm sorry, my brother. ”
Thinking back to the days of rebirth, Azir had woken up in his sleep many times, and whenever he woke up, he always felt a shadow watching him by the bedside.
He thought it was the undead of Zelas who had followed, but when he really accepted his identity in this life, and wanted to take this Shurima to a new future, accepting his responsibility, he realized that it was just one of his demons.
He was disappointed in himself, disappointed in the world, and thought about escaping all responsibility, but fate finally pulled him back, and it was better to face failure than to continue to escape.
The past goes with the wind, and no matter how much hatred can twist a person, they were once brothers, and Azir recognizes that.
for it is the dawn in his heart, and the darkness is far away.
"I no longer hate you, and I don't regard you as an enemy, Zeroth, the emperor is invincible, only responsible."
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In the darkness, Azir couldn't see anything, but he could clearly feel what he was holding in his hand, a sword forged from Uru metal.
Azir roared and pushed out his twin swords, then swung them with all his might, slicing all the flesh that trapped him, and he used his sword to unravel the darkness, searching there again when he found a glimmer of light.
With a dull loud bang, the head of the black snake slammed to the ground, the body of the giant beast froze at a high place, and the people who fled in all directions stopped, a series of changes made them still in the stage of the cup bow snake shadow, but they were still curious to find the reason for the matter.
The sun's rays were a little intense, and the people below couldn't see the situation on the black snake's body clearly, but there were still people on the high wall who didn't come just now and escaped, and they exclaimed that it was His Royal Highness!
Everyone was stunned, the black snake's wings stuck on the ground, its arms spread exaggeratedly, its whole body curled, and it looked like a strange throne in the rubble.
And at the neck of the hideous flesh stood a man, panting, covered in muddy blood, but facing the crowd as a victor.
That's Azir.
In a burst of exclamations, Azir's name grew as his people called out.
Vicina laughed in the crowd not far away, and Nasus understood why Azir didn't become an ascender.
He chose to win the battle with mortal flesh and blood.
Things turn around just when you think he's over, and the people run to their prince, they want to meet the triumph of the victor, but the serpent's body collapses, and Azir's body falls.
Immediately afterward, the black mist that erupted from the monster's body filled the entire field, the poisonous mist that had just plunged Azir into a vision, and at the same time, the high walls that had been struck by the serpent finally could not hold up, cracked, and then collapsed, and the people on it were buried in the process.
The people of Shurima, who had fallen into the illusion, saw the natural disaster twenty years ago, countless iron rain meteors appeared in the sky, and the spaceship fleet of the superior civilization appeared in the sky above Shurima, and the war of the gods made the small Shurima full of devastation.
Countless corpses were strewn in the disaster, blood staining the yellow sands of Shurima red, and the people wailed, remembering painful memories that they were most unwilling to face.
They are so small that they are slaughtered.
Everyone fell to their knees and begged the gods to forgive them, not even having the courage to run away, even if they didn't do anything, even though they knew it was an illusion.
In an instant, a ray of light shone in, and that majestic voice made them stand up, and the people of Shurima should not kneel before any god!
In another moment, the eagle of the sky spread its wings, the golden armor shone with the light of the sun, and the majestic light destroyed all illusions, and with a devastating momentum, pulled his people back from the darkness.
The solar disk grew huge again, and he shone behind Azir on every Shurima people, dispelling their fears, and Azir waved his hand, and the collapsed wall was restored to its original state, and the people buried in it were rescued by him.
They looked up at the figure, the figure of the golden eagle armor, and they couldn't make any sound in surprise.
But they knew that it was their emperor.
Shurima should have an emperor, an emperor that Shurima has been waiting for for years!
Shurima, your Emperor is back!
Amid the growing cheers of the people, Nasus suddenly remembered what His Highness had said to him not long ago:
"Even if it is a spark, there is a chance to ignite a raging fire, maybe a little inconspicuous spark may also be an eternal fire, one day when we all pass away, the people of later generations and our successors, those children as long as they see the fire is not extinguished, will not forget the courage to move forward, go forward one after another, never stop."
He saw something revive in the eyes of the people.
If there really is a force in the universe that allows the people of Shurima to break the shackles of their minds and crush their fear of darkness, then this power is not an ascendant.
This power is called Azir.
Like, after a long dark night, the light that fills the earth will finally dispel the haze that has shrouded for many years.
On that day, Azir was crowned emperor.
Then the sun rose, and all the people flocked.