The Righteous Player(s) Chapter 252: The truth appears
The gray demon's pupils suddenly shrank.
The sobbing side of him still had no reaction, but the other side showed obvious pain.
Under his pupils, a rainbow-colored light slowly lit up:
Everything around him seemed to stop here and move backwards at a rapid speed... In the blink of an eye, Annan felt that his sight came under a holy church.
——That is the Bone Cathedral.
Annan quickly recognized it.
This statue belongs to Bone Burial Granny, which is exactly the one that was crushed by Bone Burial Lord not long ago.
Now it is enshrined high in the church.
The giant boy with white hair, white skin, and one amber eye like a sun wheel knelt down on one knee.
He looked up at the statue of the Bone Burial Granny, his face solemn and his eyes seemed to be shining.
"——Midas Immortality.
"My son. My heir...my continuation.
"The Eternal Lord of this generation."
In front of the boy.
Wearing a pure gold mask and pure white armor, [Emperor Yongsheng] held the dark gold giant sword with a string of runes etched on it with both hands, lowered his head and asked solemnly:
"How will you... treat my citizens?
"How will you treat this country?
"How will you treat yourself?"
Three weighty questions in a row.
But the boy with amber eyes did not waver at all.
Without hesitation and eagerness, the young man read out the vows he had already thought about to his father.
"I swear that I will show mercy to all living beings and care for the weak at all times;
"I swear that I will be impartial and selfless and strictly abide by the law at all times;"
"I swear that until my death, I will always have justice and love in my heart;
"I swear, I will be the one who eliminates the most pain, and I will be the one who creates the greatest happiness;
"I will be a candle, and I will burn out. But before I burn out, I will do my best to dispel the darkness for future generations;
"I will erect monuments to bury the things that are about to die, and I will not allow the dead to walk on the ground as far as I can see;
"I will do my best and then turn into smoke - and my bones will eventually become the cornerstone for the giant to rise again."
But only his father knew how difficult it would be to fulfill...what a painful oath it would be.
——You will regret this.
He thought to himself.
However, he didn't say anything in the end.
Respect the will of the next generation of Eternal Lord... This is the curse passed down from generation to generation by the Eternal Family.
"Then, as you wish."
Yongsheng Gong said in a deep voice.
He raised the giant sword and patted his son's left and right shoulders with both sides of it.
Then.
He handed the giant sword into his son's hand, turned around, and took off his cloak.
Few people know.
The armor on Duke Yongsheng’s back is a slit like a pupil.
That position is for...
"Farewell, father."
Midas muttered in a low voice, pointed the giant sword at his father's back - and stabbed hard.
The moment the sword blade penetrated the body, it suddenly burst out with divine heat.
Without any resistance or any pain, the previous generation of Eternal Lord turned to ashes in the blink of an eye... and the sacred armor worn by Eternal Lord as the "Paladin Captain" also fell to the ground in pieces.
Midas was silent and put on the white-gold armor that fell on the ground.
——As the Eternal Lord, he is not even qualified to collect a handful of ashes as a memory.
At that moment.
At the moment when Lord Yongsheng felt self-loathing, a vague thought came into his mind.
"I want to... break with this disgusting tradition."
In order for my descendants to no longer have the right to keep their father’s ashes...
It is for [justice] and [love].
"I will be a candle, I will burn out."
But before it burns out... I will do my best to be kind.
The next moment, the whole world turned gray and stopped instantly.
"Do you remember, Midas?"
The only colorful Elle stood at the place where Midas' father disappeared, looking at his gray-white, frozen back.
"...Your first dream was not to obtain a physical body, nor to obtain a divine status. It was to break away from this tradition... It was a lofty wish to [hope that tragedy would never happen again]."
It is a simple and noble dream like "I want to be a partner of justice".
It is a sincere wish without any problems or dirt.
Purge the undead. Help the weak. Help whoever you can. Save those you can save.
This is... what Midas did during the first thirty years after he inherited the throne of "Eternal Lord".
Natural.
He is also a mortal and can fall in love with others.
He will also get married and have children...his son will eventually inherit his position.
But the first trouble came.
His son... is actually a fool.
"——Your Majesty, I will take the first step."
These were his wife’s last words when she committed suicide with the holy sword [Buried Embers] after her son had grown up.
One swipe of force is enough to clear away the undead from ten miles away.
Such a holy sword...it is most commonly used to commit suicide.
At that moment, Midas had an unprecedented resistance to [Mission] and [Oath].
And...
Resistance to [death].
The giant should not have had such thoughts.
Because of the lack of emotion between them, they only need to live for themselves. Even the most tired immortal family is "specially forgiven" and only needs to live for forty years... As long as the children reach adulthood, they can pass on the armor and holy sword to the next generation.
From this point of view, even the Eternal God... has the same concept of life and death.
However, at the moment when his wife died.
In Midas's heart, an almost absurd sense of mission arose.
If I die... can my son really inherit his path?
But when he keenly realized that he alone could not fight against the heavy "tradition" accumulated over thousands of years of history... Archduke Midas took a cowardly step back.
...He is not helpless.
Twenty years after he inherited the throne of Eternal Duke, the year his son was sixteen years old.
After the white-haired boy and Lord Yongsheng entered the secret room again.
Same as before...only the somewhat crazy Yongsheng Gong came out.
But no one knows.
The one who died this time was not the previous generation's Eternal Lord... but his idiot son.
"Perhaps at this moment...your original wish was changed."
——Killed his own son with his own hands.
It is undoubtedly the most unforgivable capital crime in any country.
After getting "twenty years" for killing his son, as well as a new wife and son... Although this son is a smart man, his ability cannot be compared to that of the four-year-old son. Midas with ten years of ruling experience.
"I will be a candle, I will burn out...but my life is more valuable than theirs."
With this thought in mind, Midas killed his wife and son again.
In this way, generation after generation... He killed all his heirs and spouses, playing the role of "Eternal Life Duke" with different personalities from generation to generation.
Finally, he faced his greatest limit.
——An invisible wall named [Lifespan].
The "limit" that is almost impossible for the giant race to reach.
At that time, the undead were almost extinct... The Elf Empire also stopped using curse technology, which led to the contraction of political power. That was undoubtedly a turning point for the Eternal Principality...
Unable to give up, Midas finally chose the biggest taboo.
The country of the Paladins, the country of enemies of the undead, the country of immortality, the country of burials and funeral songs - in a country where everyone is the enemy of the undead, their immortal prince, the most lofty paladin, transforms himself For the undead.
Ignore ethics. Beyond the law. Betraying the one you love...
He did all the forbidden things.
"Dreams are the poison that makes good people confused and evil people crazy..."
Annan murmured in a low voice.
When did it start...
Has that boy with the twinkling eyes... begun to degenerate?
"You were betrayed by your dream after all. Your talents were exhausted, your mind was dry, you were betrayed by everyone... and you finally betrayed your dream.
"That is Ai Lei's sacred contract. It transcends time, space and cause and effect, and confirms the root of the truth of [betrayal] - that is, you, the Eternal Lord.
"From the very beginning, you have been living under the curse of Airei... The most ridiculous thing is that Airei was born because of your fear and regret of the 'skeleton'.
"The dream betrayed by you has become your biggest curse and deepest nightmare, haunting you for the rest of your life...making you regret everything you abandoned for the rest of your life.
"Until now, 'the creator was killed by his own creation'... This is the highest sacrificial ceremony of Bone Bones. ~IndoMTL.com~ And now that Bones Duke is dead, only one body survives. You will finally In turn, it will become Airei's nourishment - the sacrifice specifications you set with malicious intent in the past, the ritual that killed Airei... will eventually bury yourself completely."
If Mr. Bones doesn’t intend to **** Ai Lei’s body.
Then the fact that He was killed by Ai Lei was enough to make him the real God of Betrayal - it was precisely because of his instinctive dislike of the "skeleton" that he lost his body and his soul. The ability to respond to rituals.
And now...
"Here, the principle of [betrayal]...is completely proven."
Annan opened his eyes and returned to the broken world full of sand and dust.
The next moment, a rainbow-colored brilliance condensed on the fingertips of "Ailei".
Under the gaze of the tired gray demon pierced by countless iridescent chains.
A strong rainbow-colored light rose from the ground.
"Ailei"'s voice was filled with rumbling echoes.
"As you yourself said... what you fear is not 'death has come', because you have already known that 'death has come'. Just like the oath you swore, 'I will be a candle, I It will burn out'.
"You looked in the wrong direction from the beginning, tombstone...
"You will burn up here."
A ray of light condensed in Ailei's hand.
That is the book of truth that carries the principle of [betrayal].
——"Atonement".