The Sword and The Shadow

Chapter 613: The price of victory

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"..." Lisanna was silent for a moment, then the girl raised her head and stared at Nidhogg and said without giving up: "I don't know what he did, but I know that he was seriously injured in order to repel the wave of death. I You also know that the most unforgivable person is the person who created the wave of death!"

"Do you really think so?" Nidhogg didn't care about Lisanna's rebuttal. He stood up and leaned forward with his hands on the table: "Do you really think that little bastard did a good thing?"

"Yes! He blocked the wave of death!" Lisanna nodded and replied loudly.

"..." Nidhogg was silent for a moment and said: "Then let me tell you, that little bastard, he sacrificed all the soldiers fighting in Costa Fortress in order to repel the zombie tide!"

"They all died heroically! They all sacrificed themselves voluntarily!" Lisanna also stood up.

"I admit their bravery!" Nidhogg admitted frankly, but he continued: "Yes, they all died voluntarily. But what? They may not have voluntarily sacrificed their souls! And that little bastard, All their souls were sacrificed to resist the tide of death!”

"What did you say?!" The other three people present looked shocked.

"Surprised?" Nidhogg sneered. He waved his hand and summoned a light curtain and continued: "Alexander has long known that Costa Fortress cannot be defended solely by soldiers, so before the war began, Alexander entered tomorrow. The cult prayed for the Oracle of the Sun God. And the Sun God did give him a plan. That was to use the souls of all the dead in the war as an energy source, transforming the power of their heroic souls into the purest sacred energy, and beating out the sun. The divine priest’s one-hit killing move—Reckoning!”

"..." Mel, Annelotte and Lisanna were all speechless. They all knew the magic of liquidation. It was a powerful move, but in order to release this magic, priests must sacrifice their own vitality. . And the liquidation released with the souls of more than 10,000 warriors as the source of power is indeed powerful enough to eliminate all the undead in Costa Canyon. It's just that...the souls of these more than 10,000 warriors, who are the source of power, will be completely wiped out by this.

The result of soul annihilation is not only that the soul will be completely reduced to nothingness, but also the possibility of reincarnation will be completely lost. More importantly, people whose souls have been wiped out will be completely wiped out by fate. The consequence is that people will gradually forget everything about these people, their names, looks, stories, etc. In the end, those people will seem to have never existed. Nothing like it has ever appeared in the world.

As for Alexander, he chose to defend Fortress Costa at the expense of completely denying these more than 10,000 warriors. But... after all, those are more than 10,000 warriors who died heroically for the empire! They also have their own families, their own friends, and their own feelings. In the face of disaster, they resolutely chose to sacrifice for the empire. Now, let alone remembering their sacrifices and always being grateful, the living people cannot even remember their existence. Isn't this unfair to those who died generously

What was played on the light screen was the scene of Alexander's discussion with the priest of the Church of Tomorrow. These devout followers of Pelor received the oracle and proposed to Alexander a plan to use this divine magic to defend the Costa Fortress. What surprised everyone was that when Alexander heard the proposal, he agreed without any hesitation.

"If sacrificing more than 10,000 people can save the remaining lives on the mainland, I will be happy." Alexander replied in the light curtain.

"After hearing this, can you still say that he did the right thing?" Nidhogg asked with a sneer.

Seeing Alexander's performance, Lisanna's face turned a little pale. She was silent for a moment, and finally strengthened her belief: "Yes, he is right. He cannot save everyone, so even if he sacrifices some people, even if he suffers extremely unfair treatment, as long as he can save more For a person, his choice is the right one!”

"Then have you considered the feelings of those few people? Or if you were one of those few people, what would you, no, you, what would you think?" Nidhogg glanced at everyone and pointedly rhetorical question.

"..." Everyone present was silent.

"Sacrificing a small number of people in exchange for the interests of the majority of people seems to be a very simple logic of weighing the pros and cons, but the real problem is never that simple, because everyone has different ideas. And you kind of The so-called sacrifice is just despicably standing among the superior groups to force the poor weak groups to pay without any conditions!" Nidhogg suddenly turned to look at Mel: "And I hate this kind of thing. Dirty tactics!"

"Don't think that Alexander didn't pay without sacrifice! He was at the forefront, and he almost died! He will always bear such a heavy fate and be tortured for it! He also sacrificed a lot!" Lisanna argued .

"I don't care how much he paid. I just want to know what he would do if he had the chance to face those more than 10,000 soldiers who died in battle?" Nidhogg asked calmly.

"He'll be sorry," Lisanna whispered.

"Yes, I'm sorry. What happens after I'm sorry? He is still the glorious prince of the empire, and the fate of more than 10,000 people has not changed."

"Don't put all the blame on Alexander." Annelotte took a step forward and said, "You are the cause of all this, and you are the one who really should bear these sins."

"..." Nidhogg looked at Annelotte and said thoughtfully: "I hope that one day, when Alexander wants to apologize to you, you can accept his apology."

"..." Annelotte didn't speak any more, but just gave Nidhogg a strange look.

"Okay, dinner is finished, so the discussion ends here." Nidhogg took a step forward, and the surging magic shop pressed against the people present. He glanced at the three of them and said, "I know what you are here to do, let's get started!"

The first one to react was Lisanna. As the only warrior among the three, she had to rush in front of the two mages to buy them enough casting time. The blast and phantom in the girl's hands weaved a gorgeous and deadly sword energy, and they formed an airtight net and flew towards Nidhogg.

Lisanna gasped violently. The move just now was the most lethal sword skill she could unleash so far. The extremely high-speed swing of the sword even caused wisps to appear on the leather armor on her body due to friction. White smoke.

Nidhogg looked indifferent, his dark pupils lit up with two faint blue lights, and a force field shield was generated. Lisanna's sword energy hit the shield and made a sharp sound, but regardless of these Although the sword energy was terrifying, the light of the shield in front of Nidhogg did not weaken at all.

"You are a good girl." Nidhogg raised his hand and shook it forward. The next second, he suddenly teleported to Lisanna, and the hand he raised just now pinched it very accurately. Lisanna's neck: "But you chose the wrong man."

Ding!

Nidhogg's head fell back as if someone had shot him in the head. He staggered, but he did not let go of Lisanna.

"Let her go!" Annelotte said coldly. Just now, it was her ice flying knife that shot at Nidhogg's forehead at an extremely tricky angle. If Nidhogg hadn't reacted quickly, that blow just now would have happened. At least it would hurt the legendary mage.

"Don't worry, she won't die." Nidhogg looked at Annelotte with interest. He smiled and asked: "Is the instruction spell I gave you back then still effective now?"

"Instruction? It's you!" Annelotte instantly recalled the experience repeatedly emphasized in her backup memory. Back then, she and Regnar attacked Tide City and encountered a strange legendary mage on the way back. It turns out that the mage is Nidhogg!

"Yes, after all, we haven't seen each other for a long time."

"Let her go quickly!" Annelotte's eyes flashed with cold light, which was a precursor to her opening her body of frost and the realm of extreme cold.

"Suppress." Nidhogg said such a word in a calm tone, and then Annelotte was surprised to find that the frost elements in the original space that could be mobilized at will had become quiet.

Nidhogg's hand exerted force, and Lisanna fell into a coma due to long-term suffocation. He threw Lisanna to the ground casually, and then said: "I have to admit that you are very talented, but your training time is still too short."