Grant's trembling lips moved.
He was too injured, and in this situation, he didn't know whether he could speak or not - in fact, Gu Bei just felt that he needed to say something, so he asked, not really intending for Grant to answer.
An ice needle appeared in his hand, and he was ready to give Grant a clean death.
But at this moment, Grant's body covered in blood shook violently again. His eyes widened, like a terminally ill patient, staring at Gu Bei, his eyes filled with desire and struggle for life. He opened his mouth and said painfully: "Don't... don't kill me."
Hearing this, Gu Bei shrugged: "With this position, just accept your fate."
"Do you really think... if you kill me, everything will end?" Grant suddenly calmed down and said in a broken voice, "You... you don't know how the church got to where it is today, you don't know those secrets... you Maybe we can be eliminated temporarily, but one day... we will come back."
"So what? If new ones pop up, we'll kill them again." Gu Bei narrowed his eyes, snorted coldly, and replied.
"No... you don't understand, the true church is still hidden on this continent, observing everything secretly..." Grant did not give up, "You... do you think that the good days of mages will come after we die? I tell you , when magic reaches the point where it becomes taboo, they will appear..."
When Gu Bei heard this, he frowned, thought for a moment, and said, "Are you referring to the Mage Heritage Association?"
Grant was about to say something, but was suddenly stunned.
"Sorry, I've met them a long time ago." Seeing this, Gu Bei spread his hands and continued, "I know that they are from the ancient church, and I also know that they have been secretly recording everything, but... save it, they don't She will come out to revive the church. In fact, the old lady of the Rise family is also a member of the Mage Heritage Association, and she will not help you take revenge."
A look of disbelief appeared on Grant's face again.
"Is it... grandma?"
"Yes, she is a mage and she is living a good life now." Gu Bei nodded, "Awkward? But don't worry, she has temporarily lost all her memory, so she has no feelings about the crimes you committed. And wait for her When you regain your memory, your body will be cold and you won’t have to face her again.”
"…the crime I committed?"
Gu Bei sighed and said, "You probably don't want to mention this matter. It doesn't matter. I will end your pain right away."
As he spoke, he controlled the ice needle and aimed it at Grant's heart.
"What qualifications do you have to accuse me? You..." Grant suddenly became excited at this moment and shouted in pain, "It was you who caused the trouble! What can I do? Claude... He brought it upon himself! He never brought it upon himself. I see him as his son. He's just... a coward."
If Benjamin heard this, he might be so angry that he would punch him, but when Gu Bei heard... In the end, he shook his head.
"To be able to say such things, I still overestimate your conscience."
"You have no right to accuse me." Grant shook his head, his eyes full of resentment, "You are his son, no matter how incompetent you were before, no matter how big of a disaster you caused... And what about me? No matter what I did, No matter how good I am, no matter how talented I am or how obedient and well-behaved I am, he never takes me seriously... I am just a tool for him to gain favor in front of the church."
"Come on." Gu Bei couldn't stand listening anymore, "The treatment you received when you were a child wasn't good enough? Stop being hypocritical here."
Grant was still shaking his head: "Why do you think? Because I earned all those benefits! Before I was born, the Reese family was on the verge of bankruptcy and had to sell off their fiefdoms and move out of the royal capital... How do you think he climbed to the position of Duke? On? How do you think his character got mixed up in the aristocratic circle? I have brought everything to this family! But no matter what time, your name is always on his lips. Benjamin did it again yesterday What, what happened to Benjamin today..."
At this point, his nose wrinkled, and tears mixed with blood remained: "He regards you as his son, and regards me...as a monster."
Gu Bei frowned.
"... He always talks about me, isn't it because I often get into trouble and need attention?"
"What about me?" Grant closed his eyes, "No matter how well I do, I can't get any attention from him, and as long as I make a small mistake, he will look at me sideways with that look. Is this fair? ? A good person must always be good without any flaws. Everyone takes this as a matter of course. But a bad person doesn’t matter. As long as he suddenly does something small, it will impress others."
When Gu Bei heard this, he shook his head and said, "That's because he has greater expectations for you."
"What he expects from me is to please the priests and bishops in the church!" Grant became hysterical again, "Because... he knows, and deep down he can feel that I am different from ordinary people. I will never be able to To fulfill his expectations for a son, so he only regards me as a tool, a tool that makes him ashamed but has to rely on!"
The atmosphere became a little solid for a while.
"So... this is the reason why you killed your biological father?"
"Because I'm tired." Hearing this, Grant lowered his head with a very stubborn look on his face, "He doesn't treat me as his son, why should I treat him as my father? I'm tired of being careful about being a good person. The Ser family has sacrificed so much, spending every day in the church school, enduring the moody bishops, enduring the molestation of the teachers, and even trying every means to please them. And after I come back, I will continue to be that flawless genius. Nobles, including you, you asked me to clean up whatever trouble you caused outside, but in the end you couldn't even get a word of thanks... I'm tired, I'm really tired."
“…”
Gu Bei said nothing.
To be fair, he is not Benjamin, and there is no need to tell Grant this here. Enemies are enemies. Even if there was a little bit of brotherhood between the two sides, those friendships belonged to the two brothers, and his surname was Gu.
It's just... He not only lives in Benjamin's body, but also in his life. Some things are hard to explain clearly.
The ice needle was still half a meter away from Grant's heart and had not been launched yet, and Grant looked even weaker due to blood loss. Gu Bei frowned. It was hard for him to imagine how complicated the scene would have been if Benjamin had not died, but followed Cain and Abel's script and came here to confront Grant.
"You know what? I hate this so-called genius title." In the silence, Grant took a deep breath and spoke again.
Gu Bei still didn't speak.
Therefore, Grant continued: "Since I was a child, everyone around me has regarded me as an alien. They did not look down on me, but they also isolated me from that world. I tried my best to blend in, and I learned from other noble children. Chatting and doing stupid things with them, but it’s useless, no matter how hard I try, in the eyes of others, I will always be a genius with eyes higher than his head.”
"And I..." At this point, he closed his eyes and choked, "I just want to be like an ordinary person."
"The lives of ordinary people may not be as good as you think." Gu Bei snorted coldly and said, "At least, countless ordinary people have died in this long war."
"So... we can end this." Grant heard this, opened his eyes, and looked straight over, "After today, the church will no longer exist, and I will no longer go against the mage. If you are still not at ease, you can destroy me The spiritual power, or destroying the runes engraved in my consciousness, will prevent me from performing any magic from now on. In short... I no longer want to be the pope, please... let me live. "
"Destroy spiritual power? You will become a fool."
"That would be better than my old life."
After speaking, Grant closed his eyes, as if waiting for Gu Bei to make a decision. The remaining holy light around him had dissipated, and his whole person was completely empty. His blood-stained face looked extremely pale.
Gu Bei looked at the face that was quite similar to his own, and his expression finally changed.
After a long silence, he sighed.
The ice needle flashed past and penetrated Grant's heart. The next second, Grant opened his eyes with an expression of disbelief and looked at Gu Bei. His eyes were not filled with shock, but with unwillingness.
"Be an ordinary person in the next life...if there really is an afterlife."
Gu Bei spoke, and while saying these words, he dispersed the Ice Prison Technique.
The shadow of the chain turned into blue light spots all over the sky, escaping like fireflies, and the buoyancy of the magic also disappeared. He watched Grant fall, watched his left fist loosen, and there was a newly formed magical rune hidden in the blood-stained palm.
After losing its owner, the rune began to dissipate the moment it was first formed. It seemed to be a little reluctant to let go, like little starlight, slowly draining from the gaps in Grant's palm.
The body fell straight from a height of 100 meters.
At that moment, the square below was in an uproar.
"Is it over?"
The local villagers closed their eyes, and even some soldiers from the two armies looked away. All the believers knelt on the ground in unison, their heads buried extremely low, and faint sounds of mourning could be heard. They came from all over the country just to witness the church's funeral, but no one dared to open their eyes and watch the real process.
Then…
flutter!
There was a muffled sound, and some sticky solid liquid splashed everywhere.
The square fell into dead silence.
In the sky, Gu Bei's eyes did not follow Grant all the time - the moment the body landed on the ground, he suddenly turned his head and looked into the distance. The sun penetrates the clouds and shines sparsely on the mountain road. The noisy flock of birds rose from the forest, flew against the light, and hurriedly disappeared from sight.
The kingdom is vast, as calm as a dying old man, as calm as a newborn baby.