Volume 1: The Aquaman's Sigh Chapter 45: Sacrifice (II)
It is an open terrace in the shape of a pentagram, which echoes the pentagram altar in the stone chamber. The corners of each pentagram were connected to a dark hole, and the faint light of the fire came from the candlestick next to the hole, still the kind of chilling blue flame, like a ghost fire.
Eisen landed steadily on the floor of the terrace, and at that moment, the air that was frantically rolling up the ground turned into a violent explosion, and the violent air rushed fiercely, but did not cause any real damage, like a violent storm from below, blowing his black air upwards and hunting, and then returning to silence after a moment.
A few strands of overflowing soul power swept through Angela's hair, and she froze there slightly, muttering, "Amen...... Senior?!"
The darkness beneath his feet had returned to dead silence, except for the occasional crashing sound of falling ice, it was as quiet as the deep sea, there was no sound of frantic rolling air currents, no sound of heavy steps stepping across the ice, and the figure that had been following closely behind him seemed to melt into the silent darkness, or rather, swallowed up by the sticky and cold darkness.
"Amen, Amen-senpai!" Angela trembled slightly, roaring a little uncontrollably, and her voice as crisp as a bell echoed in the darkness, with loneliness and sadness.
A pair of powerful palms suddenly stretched out from the darkness, and grabbed Angela, who was a little unstable, and Bergis leaned out half of his body from the sky, his narrow eyes were hidden in the shadow of the high raised eyebrow bones, and his expression could not be seen, and the sudden burst of power at his wrist was fierce and violent, and the slender Angela was instantly pulled onto the open terrace. In the faint light of the fire, her face looked a kind of paleness on the verge of despair, and her mouth just kept repeating certain words in a low voice, but because the voice was too small and crying, it didn't sound real, and the gradually dilated pupils were a confused chaos.
"Amen, for us to fend off the monster's attack alone......" Eisen stood on the edge of the terrace, looking down at the thick inky darkness, the sound of bones grinding in his clenched fists, and in vain a vine made of cold ice spun out from his side, stabbing into the stone wall in the distance, the wall cracked, countless cracks instantly extended outward, and a cold ice debris spread in the air, "Damn, first Genera, then Amen......"
A hand rested gently on Eisen's slightly trembling shoulder, and Eisen slowly turned his head to look at Wren, his face draped in a pale. In Eisen's memory, he had never seen such a Wren, his clear eyes were always filled with undetectable vigilance and indifference, as if nothing could touch his dusty heart, just like his self a long time ago, lonely and wandering, and some were only hatred buried deep in his heart.
But at this moment, Eisen saw sadness in Wren's silent countenance, and saw something other than cold hatred.
"We're running out of time, didn't you say you had to trust your partner?" Wren's eyes welled up with tears, "You're the captain, and if you fall too, more people will lose hope." ”
"You ......"
"This terrace is connected to five exits, choose one, don't let the time that Amen's predecessors have bought for us go to waste. Wren looked away slightly, "We follow you, even if it is a mountain of swords and a sea of fire, we have to go on!"
Eisen slowly raised his head and quietly looked at Wren in front of him, the self in the mirror, once upon a time he even thought that Wren was another projection of himself in this world. They are so similar, they are all so lonely, they have only themselves in their world, and only they can exist permanently in the world they have sketched.
At this time, the sound of riots came from the silent darkness, more violent and more manic than the previous two times, as if the monsters sleeping underground were finally about to wake up completely, and the violent and ferocious soul power roared like a tidal wave from the depths of the distant underground, with a roar that shook the heavens and the earth.
The air was torn apart again, and the rapidly rolling tentacles turned into dark golden streamers in the darkness, and they tore the air with their sharp tentacles, and the sharp piercing sound was like the screams of countless ghosts, mixed with the roar of the storm into the mind, and finally turned into a brain-tearing pain.
The sound of the air breaking was instantaneous, and the exploding air rushed down the terrace, and the pitch-black, phosphorescent tentacles easily pierced the stone face beneath their feet, and the explosion of rubble shot out in all directions. Everyone stumbled under their feet, and Angela, who lost her mind, almost fell off the edge of the terrace, but fortunately Veggis held it in time.
"Quick, get into the cave!" Begis and Wren shouted anxiously almost simultaneously.
The tentacles that had suddenly pierced the floor of the terrace had split the entire terrace in two, and the broken terrace had barely collapsed by the stone corridor that connected to the entrance, but it was still only a matter of time, and more cracks burst open on the floor of the terrace.
Eisen and the others obviously didn't have the time to enter the hole, they could only instinctively run towards the nearest hole.
The second tentacle poked out of the deep darkness again, and instead of attacking the terrace, it directly destroyed the corridor that Veggis was running through with Angela, and suddenly a pitch-black and twisted tentacle burst out in front of the entrance of the cave that could be reached in the blink of an eye, mercilessly crossing the exit of the escape.
"Damn!" Veggis gritted his teeth and jerked back, the corridor where they had just landed had broken into several pieces, and the broken stones fell down with a clatter, and if he hesitated for even a second, he and Angela would fall to the bottom with the stones, and then shatter their bones.
More tentacles rushed in, and the terrace was instantly pierced into pieces, like mirrors smashed by stones, cracked into countless fragments.
Behind him was the roars of Ethan and Wren, but Veges couldn't hear what they were shouting, all he could see was the hole that was still barely completely obscured in front of him, and he was at least twenty steps away from the hole, the ground beneath his feet was shattered, his body was slowly losing its balance, and a sense of weightlessness came over him, he wrapped his arms around Angela with one hand, and the black scythe with a long handle in the other......
Veggis's face had never been so tough, his mind had never been so calm, he didn't even think too much, he just instinctively jumped up from the shattered ground, the scythe poked forward, the moment the blade touched the tentacles, burst out of brilliant sparks, the curved blade briefly hooked the tentacles, he pulled the armpits of Angel towards the dark hole, his face outlined a shallow smile in the strange blue firelight......
Obviously, he doesn't care the most, he doesn't care about anything, family, friendship, or love, and any feelings in the world are not worthy of being cherished and respected, because they are all meaningless existences, they are all ethereal existences, like fleeting fireworks, they are only released for a short moment, and finally will turn into a wisp of green smoke, disappearing, and even dust will not be left......
- You are strong, be my partner!
- Will there be more killings to be your partner?
- Yes, as long as you want!
——A rebellious smile appeared on the boy's immature face, the corners of his mouth slowly hooked with the taste of bloodthirst, and the endless murderous aura in the depths of his pupils as blue as the sea rolled like a sharp sword......
But at this time, Beges was smiling, just like when Eisen first saw him, with a slight hook in the corners of his mouth, but the smile no longer hides blood, no longer hides killing. Sacrificing oneself to save others is what Veggis despises the most, and his life should be endless battles, endless killings, and endless boiling blood.
He had never thought about it, and he wouldn't think about it, because there was no one who could make him sacrifice, and he didn't need that kind of person in his life.
But at the last moment, he desperately threw Angel towards the entrance of the cave that symbolized life, and his retreat was completely sealed by the huge tentacles that kept coming up, perhaps, his smile was also full of spitting on himself!
The tentacles caught by the blade suddenly reversed direction and slammed Beges into the stone wall......