"So, you hate them?" I thought of the twisted people in the camp and asked, "You want revenge on Gray Town?"
"I hate everyone!" The priest's voice was weak but sharp. "I hate the lie that imprisoned me, I hate those people who are weak enough to need lies to survive, and I hate Jin's parents! So, I re-developed the magic of sky fire to deceive the mayor. Become my helper. Anyway, the existence of the priest is a lie, and it doesn’t matter any more lies. Anyway, the final fate of this gray town is still destruction. Although it was not caused by my own hands, you see, the result is not bad. What."
The priest looked at the scene of Gray Town being destroyed by ferocious beasts, with a strange smile on his face, and gradually became silent.
"She's dead." I didn't know what kind of mood I was in when I said this, but I just heard everyone's sighs coming from my ears.
The ravages of the ferocious beasts continue, and we see that the surviving residents have fled the center of the disaster and are running towards the exit of Gray Town.
Jhin sighed at the casualties of the residents and said to us: "Let's leave too. The priest is dead and the skyfire magic will not appear again. There is nothing we can do here."
We nodded, worked together to support Jhin, and followed the fleeing residents outside. This feeling makes me go back to the moment when I migrated with my tribe. Maybe they had foreseen the disaster and left. I have no way of knowing what that disaster was, and I may never have the chance to know it in the future. But at this moment, I realized how much courage it took for the tribesmen to make the decision to leave. Looking at the people in a hurry, I feel full of compassion. Maybe they don't know how scary the outside world is.
Although I have experienced the dangers of the outside world many times, what happened next was still beyond my imagination.
The first thing I heard was the crowd shouting, "There's light ahead!"
Following this shout, people's pace quickened and walked towards the light. Because we had to support Jhin, we were quickly left behind at the end of the team. The light in front became stronger and stronger, making me feel a touch of the sun's warmth. However, Jhin suddenly became frightened, and he murmured, "Could the light in front of me be..."
I looked carefully and saw that the light was orange and flashing like life. The surrounding trees were cast into shadows and swayed as the light shone.
Di looked at the light and uncontrollably accelerated his pace, even forgetting Jhin behind him. We chased after him and saw a tall and majestic mountain with flames rising into the sky.
"Demon volcano!" One Eye also showed a look of fear.
"Come back Di quickly!" Jin shouted.
Di turned a deaf ear to this and walked forward. In front of him, all the residents of Ash Town have gathered around the foot of the Demonic Volcano, jumping and running wildly but still unable to leave the light of the Demonic Volcano. The blazing flames burned their bodies and burned their gray robes to black. They screamed and struggled in pain, waving their limbs wildly, as if they were dancing a dance called death. Finally, Di also joined the crowd. Under the illumination of the demonic volcano, flames rose from their bodies, and they screamed and danced wildly until the end of their lives.
The only ones who were not affected by the Demonic Volcano were me, One-Eye, and Jhin. It seems that as aliens, we are immune to the influence of the Demonic Volcano. But Jhin saw his brother's death with his own eyes, and his whole body fell into extreme depression, which was no different from death.
"We have to get out of here! No matter what, we must survive!" One-eye and I forced Jhin to turn around and leave in the opposite direction.
However, when I turned around, I saw a tall golden figure slowly walking towards us. The ferocious beast seems to have lost interest in continuing to destroy, and its pair of eyes shining like the sun and moon are looking at us with interest.
"Everything... is over." Jhin finally regained his consciousness and said this, "This is the fate of Gray Town, the fate of us humble and insignificant mortals. I have worked so hard, but the result is like this. Everything... everything is gone!"
For the first time, Jhin became so negative, as if I had seen so many dying people, speaking words of despair, turning around and walking into destruction.
"You can't think like that!" I wanted to persuade him, but I didn't know what to say.
"If destruction is our destiny, then let's accept it calmly!" Jhin stood up straight, as if all the previous pain had disappeared.
The beast was surprisingly quiet, holding it on the ground and looking at us curiously. It is a minion of the giant, and it may already know everything, and just wants to see what Jhin's final fate will be.
Jhin didn't even look at the ferocious beast. The threat of death was no longer enough to scare him. On the contrary, he was about to embrace death at this time. I looked at the direction he was heading, and it was the demonic volcano that destroyed Ash Town!
"Jin! You can't go there!" I shouted loudly and said to the one-eye beside me, "Quickly persuade him, we can't let him die like this!"
But with a relieved smile on his face, One-Eye said lightly: "Since the camp was destroyed, my only reason for living is Jhin. No matter what he does next, I will only be with him."
"What!" I was stunned, One Eye wanted to die with Jhin.
One Eye showed me a gentle smile that I had never seen before, and said: "You are different from us. You still have your tribe, and you still have reasons to persist."
"No! You can't do this!" I tried to persuade them, but deep down in my heart I already knew that this would not change their determination to die at all.
"Looking at you, I suddenly thought of a legend." One-Eye said, "In the legend, your family has terrible abilities. When you dance, you can cause storms, storms that even giants are afraid of. However, this is just a legend. Well, maybe, that is just a lie that your clan relies on to survive. After all, we are all small beings!"
"Goodbye!" One Eye waved to me and followed Jhin's footsteps. "I have to say that this journey with you was really a wonderful and thrilling story. Now, it's time to write the ending. "
There were explosions from the Demonic Volcano, as if playing music to welcome the warriors who were going to die. I watched Jhin and One-Eye perform a shocking and dazzling dance at the foot of the mountain, bathed in fire. At the moment of death, they bloomed with the last light of life, which was so dazzling.
Eventually, I became alone again.
The ferocious beast lay on the ground, breathing heavily, and every breath seemed to be blowing a gust of wind. I saw its eyes closed, as if it was asleep. We are so insignificant in front of the ferocious beast. When it has enjoyed enough killings, we will become non-existent.
It turns out that we are really so small. A feeling of despair spread, and I almost went crazy. Looking at the magic volcano, I seemed to have the urge to go there. The moment I took that step, One Eye's words rang in my mind. Yes, I still have a reason to continue living. I want to find my tribe. Putting aside my chaotic thoughts, I walked towards the outside of the jungle.
Because I had to bypass the Demonic Volcano, I walked to a strange place where the terrain was flat and the light of the Demonic Volcano shone on the ground without any hindrance. There I saw figures walking back and forth that were taller than ferocious beasts. They were the legendary giants! As the giant roared, the originally sleeping beast suddenly woke up and flew towards them. Different from its previous ferocious demeanor, the ferocious beast actually sat obediently at the giant's feet.
I looked at everything in front of me in shock, not noticing the danger at all.