They had been on their way and now it was getting dark.
The darkness pressed down, endless, thick and oppressive, like a lightless drop of liquid on a rainy night.
And people seem so insignificant in this wilderness.
So Hades followed the Emperor and stopped, and started a fire in the wasteland. The flames flickered and then rose again, dispelling a small area of darkness.
Just a little light shone dimly on them, illuminating their faces.
They sat there bored, Hades staring blankly at the burning fire, waiting for daybreak to continue their journey.
But the laughter of children rang out from the darkness.
Hades was startled when he suddenly heard a child's laughter in the desert.
"Why are there children here?!"
He looked at the Emperor, but the Emperor ignored him completely. The Emperor looked nervous, drew his sword, and stood up.
"Get out! Get out! Damn you guys, get out!"
The Emperor's voice spread far and wide, but was soon swallowed up by the darkness without making any sound.
The mule snorted, stamped its feet, and moved closer to the fire.
"No, what happened?"
Hades also stood up hurriedly, but unfortunately he was unarmed.
But Hades didn't think it was right to confront a child with a weapon
But while Hades was thinking, the children appeared.
Their strange, dirty figures emerged from the darkness, jumping on the edge of darkness and light.
"Join us."
They said,
"Get out! Get out of here!"
The Emperor held the sword and made a gesture to lunge forward.
"I'm human, you pieces of shit, get lost!"
"Why don't you join us?"
"We promised you everything."
"There's obviously no one on the top step, why don't you go up one more step?"
Said a child with a cunning light in his eyes. He was thin but agile.
"You should face your own desires, hypocritical sir."
A beautiful child said.
“Nothing is meaningful in the end, and it’s exhausting to dwell on it.”
"You shouldn't be so weak!"
"Crawl! You pieces of shit!"
Hades felt that they were all talking nonsense, but fortunately, no one cared about Hades. He was like a piece of darkness and was forgotten along with them.
So he continued to stand aside and watch calmly.
The emperor couldn't stand the chattering of the children anymore, so he scooped up mud from the ground, rolled it into a ball, and threw it at the guys.
The mud fell accurately on the fat guy, and crying immediately rang out.
So the remaining children dragged him away in a fuss.
Before leaving, the child glanced in Hades' direction.
Then he hid in the darkness again.
Hades hesitantly walked up to the Emperor.
"What are they?"
"It's just what you see."
Um. Children
"You hate children?"
The Emperor snorted.
Ah, hating children doesn't make a good father.
Hades thought inexplicably.
"So what are they talking about, asking you to join them?"
The emperor's nose twitched, as if he had heard extremely disgusting news.
"Never."
"Man does not associate with insects."
"Look,"
The Emperor seemed interested in conversation, and they sat down again around the fire.
The orange-yellow firelight reflected on the emperor's face. He held a branch in his hand and used it to stir the firewood underneath.
His face was golden, and in a trance, Hades seemed to see the golden crown on his head.
"Even though they promised me everything."
"But what is a child? It is nothing but a little clay figurine."
"They may be interesting, but they are not of any use to survival."
“They misunderstood me.”
The Emperor casually picked up some small branches, broke them off, and threw them into the fire.
He looked at the twigs that were burning themselves in the fire and continued,
"To live, and to live with the ability to raise the sword of revenge against the enemy as you please."
“Nothing else makes sense.”
The branches gradually turned into ashes in the fire, so the emperor added some firewood in.
Hades blinked and helped the Emperor throw wood into the fire.
Then the fire burned brightly again.
The Emperor glanced at him.
"What about you? What do you want to do?"
he
What did he want to do
Hades originally wanted to say alive, but it seemed that the word "alive" did not stir up any ripples in his heart, as if he had seen too many lives and deaths.
Just as he would not sigh at the leaves on the street.
"Um"
Hades suddenly felt hungry again.
Open a restaurant
He suddenly remembered that someone had said this to him a long time ago.
Nothing had happened yet, and he hadn't walked here step by step.
They were still there at that time.
“Creating an environment where everyone can sit down together, eat, and chat?”
The Emperor looked at him again, his dark brown eyes occasionally tinged with gold by the firelight.
"Then you might as well go and give your enemy a blow."
Hades shrugged.
“I don’t want to do this.”
"If it's already achieved, it's not called wanting."
“It’s short-sighted and superficial.”
The Emperor muttered.
Hades said,
"I'm an unlucky guy."
"really,"
The Emperor nodded.
"But who isn't?"
Yeah, who isn't
Hades stared at the flame. It was too small. Even though it was burning hard, even though it consumed so much firewood, it was still too small.
All that remains is endless darkness.
Hades didn't know when he fell asleep, he only knew that he was woken up by the morning wind.
He forced himself to open his eyes. It was daybreak and the Emperor was packing his luggage.
"Walk."
The emperor got on the mule, and Hades naturally followed.
So they set off again.
Walk and walk. Walk and walk.
They have been walking for a long time and have been through a lot.
They passed through puddles, but the Emperor parted the water, though Hades saw no need to part the shallow puddle.
They went through the abyss, but the Emperor simply kicked the mule, and Hades grabbed the mule's tail and followed it across.
The air was growing thinner and colder.
Finally, they arrived.
This is a wilderness covered with lush green grass, and a cow is grazing leisurely there.
Some bright green and bright red cracks crawled across the cow pattern.
Not far away, there were piles of hay that had only been eaten once or twice and were thrown randomly on the ground.
The Emperor dismounted the mule, drew his sword, and stared at the cow.
"You must avoid its attack."
"This is."
Hades racked his brains to think about it.
"Is this a dragon?"
"right."
The emperor ignored him and rushed forward!
The cow also rushed towards the emperor, directly facing the emperor's sword.
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 astonishing speed!
Hades quickly dodged.
The emperor took advantage of the bull's distraction and stabbed it with a sword.
Black liquid gushed out from the cow's wound.
They dripped to the ground without making any sound.
Seeing the liquid gushing out, the emperor held the cow tightly.
The cow was still mooing.
"Come here! Come here quickly!"
"Come here, Hades!"
Hades hurried over, and was smeared with black liquid in the face by the Emperor.
"Drink it, quickly!"
"Drink as much as you can, quickly!"
What the hell is going on here
But Hades did as he was told without thinking. He hid outside the range of the bull's struggle, and desperately scooped up the black liquid with his hands and swallowed it.
The liquid tasted strange and stuck in his throat, and Hades felt like his insides were burning.
He was still drinking desperately, as if he had given himself an order to drink until he died as long as he didn't die.
He is burning.
“Cough cough cough!”
When Hades finally felt that he was dying, his vision began to blur, and he looked forward -
The Emperor was wearing golden power armor, and the sword in his hand was engraved with gorgeous patterns. His psychic energy was fluctuating rapidly, and he was suppressing the dragon tightly.
A massive, incomprehensible, sparkling dragon.
Its huge tentacles cover the sky and the sun, the luster of its metal is constantly changing, and all the laws of the universe bloom on it.
It's bleeding.
Hades looked 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.
Malcador tilted his head and looked at him.
Ah, I'm not awake yet, he thought.
"Get up, don't sleep!"
Malcador hit Hades on the calf with his stick.
!
Hades opened his eyes again and found that they were now on the Tasis Plateau.
"Um?"
"What the hell is going on?"
Hades struggled to stand up.
Malcador glanced at him.
“You gain knowledge, that’s all.”
"What knowledge?"
Hades felt that his mind was still empty.
Malcador rolled his eyes at him.
"You know how to drive a tank, but what if you haven't seen a tank?"
Hades blinked, confused.
Malcador ignored him and walked away, apparently calling to the swarm of insects in Collier Jersey.
Hades stared blankly at Malcador's back.
The setting sun was on the other side of the plateau, stretching Makado's shadow very long.
Malcador followed the light and went away.
Leaving Hades alone in the darkness.
He felt very sleepy, so Hades closed his eyes and lay in the darkness peacefully.
As if he was originally darkness.
(End of this chapter)