"This is so unreasonable!"
"It is clear that we are all companions who are born and die together. Why can you become a god of the highest and enjoy all the glory and wealth, and my people and I must become sinners and live on the back of those unwarranted crimes you created?!"
"You bastards! Ungrateful bastards! I'm going to kill you! I'm going to kill you all!"
"Wait! I'm going to pull you off your thrones in heaven and earth, and I'm going to let your children and grandchildren burn in the fire forever and ever!"
In the drowsiness, fragments of memory flashed through Ivan's mind.
He saw a red-haired, tall male knight who was screaming angrily at some people.
Fragments of these memories flashed, and then, he woke up from the stupor.
"Hey, you finally woke up."
As soon as he opened his eyes, the familiar laughter appeared in his ears.
Ivan sat up from the boat and looked to the side. Sure enough, he was now on a small boat, and the hunched, gloomy old man who could not see his face was rowing the boat rhythmically beside him.
"Oh it's you."
Ivan crossed his legs.
"Why am I here with you, I remember, I am obviously in the underground of the forbidden country..."
"That's because you died."
The old man sneered like a night owl.
"I challenged the demon god beyond my capacity, and was involved in its self-destruction. Now everything there has collapsed, and you have also fallen on my boat. I will send you to the underworld."
"What about my stuff?"
Ivan touched his body and was relieved to find that his armor and shield were still there.
"I'm a boatman, not a thief."
The old man looked at him with contempt, snorted, and said disdainfully:
"Who wants the rubbish you picked up from the cemetery? And that shield can only be used by those who have gained the power of a mountain knight. It's useless if I take it."
"So it is."
Ivan breathed a sigh of relief, and then thought of another thing.
Speaking of power, he killed the demon god in the lava lake. Logically speaking, he should have also obtained the spirit of that demon god.
He closed his eyes and felt it, and sure enough, he felt a fiery spirit like lava flowing slowly in his body.
"Hey hey, you are really lucky, you can bear the spirit of that monster."
Seeing his actions, the old man laughed again:
"I originally planned to charge you a little fee for crossing the river, but the spirit in your body is really unbearable for ordinary people, but you managed to endure it, which is amazing."
Ivan stopped the act of induction and remained silent.
"You may not know how that knight became that demon god."
The old man whispered while rowing:
"That involves a great taboo."
"How is it?"
Ivan asked.
"Go to the underworld to find it yourself."
The old man smiled and said:
"I remember, those stone chambers that recorded the lost history of that country fell from the ground to the underworld after the cataclysm. Everything you want to know is there, and there may be more in there. About your history... but well."
He said to Ivan in a tone as if telling a midnight ghost story:
"The underworld is full of demons now. If you can find it, the premise is that you don't become the belly of the demons, hehehe-"
The boat docked, in a never-ending darkness.
Ivan could only feel that the boat collided with something, and then heard the boatman whisper to him:
"The underworld is here, get off the boat."
He exerted his last bit of kindness and kindness, raised the lantern on the boat, illuminated Ivan, and let Ivan see the small ferry that was revealed in the dark, and didn't let Ivan step on the cold and bone-piercing foot. Go to the bottom of the river.
"Can't you just send me back to the world right now?"
Stepping on the territory of the underworld, perhaps because of the deep disgust for the dark instinct, Ivan asked the old boatman.
"Rules are rules, knight."
The old man said mockingly:
"If you can find another ferry here and ring that gong, I can send you back to the world."
After all, he rowed the boat and disappeared into the darkness, and after a while, Ivan finally couldn't even hear the sound of him rowing the oars.
In desperation, Ivan had to turn around and walk into the darkness.
After taking two steps, he began to think about what the Lava Demon God had dropped.
This time, because he fell into a stupor after the demon god self-destructed, and then came directly to the underworld, he didn't know whether the demon god dropped weapons and equipment like before.
Even if there is, there is no way to get it when the entire floating island and even the underground of the forbidden country are bombed to the sky by the devil.
However, Ivan has a feeling that what the devil dropped this time was not weapons and equipment, but directly gave him some kind of ability.
When he just woke up on the boat, he always felt that there was a heat current in his body, and it was not unpleasant.
Following this heat flow, Ivan raised his hand and tried to mobilize this power. He soon succeeded, and a red flame appeared on his palm. In the underworld where no fire could easily burn, this flame not only provided him with a means of self-defense, but also illuminated the way around him.
With the light of the fire, Ivan realized that he seemed to be walking on a rough road, and in the darkness around him, something seemed to be running back and forth, giving him a very dangerous feeling.
After another step forward, his hunch came true.
The monsters that came out of the darkness attacked him. These monsters have no eyes, like a potbellied human, or a spider that walks on four legs, but their abdomens have sharp teeth and huge mouths. The teeth in the big mouths are like ground meat. The machines are average, distributed in circles, with shredded meat and stench, very ferocious and terrifying.
Although this monster was finally roasted into coke by his flames, it still bit Ivan's arm by virtue of its numerical advantage.
"Those things are demons."
I found a dark corner and put on a flower ring to contact the gravekeeper girl. While she healed the wound on her arm and promoted the absorption of the devil's spirit, I listened to her softly explain:
"Whether in the dark age or the light age, they are one of the greatest enemies faced by humanoid races such as humans, dwarves, elves. Flesh and soul feed on flesh and blood, even if the dead fall into their hands, they will be eaten by them and will be imprisoned in their belly forever. Unless someone kills the demon, the soul imprisoned in its belly will never get relief."
After a while, she said again:
"But I didn't expect you to go to the underworld now, Sir Knight. That's a lot of trouble. You must have been careless during the battle."