Chapter 21 Courage (8000, Big Chapter Asks for a Monthly Pass~)
Agata Kumor Kirba.
The name of the royal family of the Kelba Empire, consisting of three parts: the maternal surname, the own name, and the paternal surname.
Agata means that the mother of the second prince is from the Agata family, Kumol is his name, and he is a member of the Kelba royal family.
Before ascending to the throne, the official title of all princes was the matrilineal surname, and if there was a plural, then subdivided.
The Agata family, the largest industrialized aristocracy in the southern part of the empire, reached their heyday thirty years ago and married into the royal family, and even a few members of the Agata family held important military and political positions.
And the war against the elven royal court was also formulated by them, and its purpose was to completely consolidate their rights in the south and support the prince of the Agata family to become the royal family of the empire - and the royal family with the highest violence, the dragon bloodline, naturally did not mind using marriage to unite the local nobles of this rank.
Twenty years ago, at the end of the Elven War, because of the elves' defeat before the counterattack, a large number of cities and industrial clusters in the territory of the Agata family were razed to the ground, and the momentum suddenly turned from prosperity to decline.
Because of this, the second prince Kumor Kirba, who originally had a great call for succession, gradually moved away from the center of the royal family's power competition.
- There is nothing unwilling, this is the price of choice.
Compared with the increasingly emaciated queen mother, and the matrilineal relatives of Agata who have been much more restrained and have rarely been active in recent years, Kumor, who was still young at the time, understood early on that instead of feeling sorry for himself, reminiscing about the glory of the past, or brushing aside the stains and mistakes on his body, it is better to admit the failures of the past, lie down and look for opportunities to see if he can make a comeback.
As for the fact that he was gradually excluded from the battle for the crown prince, Kumor's attitude was also very simple.
If you don't give it to me, I'll take it myself.
That's his mindset.
Unlike the royal family, which has its own dragon blood and does not care about the changes of the times, Kumor often goes deep into the people, examines the impact of demonic industrialization on society, thinks about the feedback of public opinion, and tries to learn the most common ideas of different people in each region through surveys and statistics, and listen to their wishes.
- the blood and tears of small workshops that were squeezed by industrialization and lost their jobs; too many people were recruited by the factories and began to barren northern farmland; the land annexation of the great aristocracy, and the increasing number of landless peasants who had no land to plant; There are also miners of the Magical Energy Mine, who are more difficult than slaves and need to endure the radiation of magical energy......
"My lord, you are here to investigate? I, I was still farming in Waterdeep last year, but who knows if my land was taken by the lord lord and said that he wanted to build a chemical factory...... If you don't have a field, you can only go to the city to find work, but the factory that needs technology doesn't want me, and there are many people in the factory who don't need technology, and everyone is scrambling to lower the wages, even if you go to work, you can't live with that little pay...... Isn't it a question of whether there is a field or not, and didn't someone come up with some iron machine a few days ago? I heard that that thing can replace the ploughing ox, and a person can plow the field of a village with a machine, this thing is out, how can I do it......"
An ordinary peasant who went to the city complained about Kumol, who had received a basic education, but only recognized a few words and his own name, and the other party's complaint was so sincere that the prince at that time did not know what to say.
He went deep into the people, just to find the context of the times, and hoped to hold it in the palm of his hand, so that it could become the reins of the empire in his hands, but Kumor could not have imagined that the empire that seemed to him to be so prosperous and prosperous was so ugly at the grassroots level.
Standing high on the city walls, Kumor looked down at the entire city that was gradually overrun by factories and magical dust, and the citizens who were crowded in it, staring at the yellow-skinned, insensitive and dead expressions on everyone's faces, the second prince of the empire was finally moved.
- The average life expectancy is no more than 30 years, more than 80% of the population cannot be fed, the educated people are a minority, the increase in production capacity brought about by the industrialization of magic energy is focused on the army, which is used to suppress the rebellion in various places, and the royal family spends enough to feed all the people in the provinces directly under the central government every month......
Some information that the royal family can easily know suddenly jumped out of the paper, from a simple string of numbers to a scene that touches the heart.
"Heavenly ...... It's going to change. ”
But can it really become? It's not that the Kelpa Empire hasn't encountered rebellions, but as long as the dragon blood strikes, it is enough to wipe out the city, and the sun dragon divine light from 'Kuloklba' is enough to break up all the armies that resist - it is really sad to discuss the potential of the people in the transcendent world.
"So, if you really want to, if you want to change something—you have to start with the royal family, from me, from the very highest levels of the empire."
"Dragon Ball...... It's only Dragon Ball! ”
It was only then that Kumor finally understood why there were Dragon Balls in this world...... That is the mercy of the first fathers to all the people of the world! In this transcendent world, in a world where all this is solidified and the weak cannot resist the strong, only the wish of Dragon Ball can completely erase the remnants of the previous generation, all classes, and all the advantages brought by birth.
If you hold the Dragon Balls, you can become a strong one, and the winner and winner of the war will get the right to start the next era, a better era!
For this, everything can be sacrificed.
Even if you go down this path, you have to fight against the royal family, against all the nobility, against your own birth and class.
The same is true.
As for the halfway, hundreds of thousands of people died because of the Shenlong War, which is also a necessary sacrifice...... You know, in this day and age, there are more than a billion people who don't have enough to eat, and millions of people are displaced and sold into slavery every day – compared to all the suffering that is happening in this world, just hundreds of thousands of people are dying, which is not an unacceptable thing at all.
I want ...... Change the world.
Blood splattered, silver blades pulled out of the **, Kumor's furious voice quickly weakened, and the toxin from Jörmungard was spreading inside his body.
wanted to call the Leviathan to fight back, but for some reason, the thousands of heroic souls that made up the Leviathan remained motionless in the face of each other, and even humbly bowed their heads and saluted the light.
"You said that...... You want to change the world with me......"
Kumour struggled to look up at the expressionless Matvey, who struggled to say something, whether it was accusation, insult, indignation, or rage...... But he didn't.
Before he died, he just lowered his head and looked at the glassy earth burned by Vika's holy light, next to the ashes of the priest, and the man said in a very sad voice, "You were ...... Obviously not lying......"
"I'm sorry, Your Highness. But I didn't lie. ”
Retracting the silver dagger in his hand, Matvey's voice softened: "You found me who was treating a child in the countryside, and said that you wanted to change the world - you said that healing can save one person, but it can't save the world, and you have a way to make the suffering of the whole world dissipate, and I hope I will help you." ”
"I can't thank you enough for guiding me on this path, but from the beginning, we all had different ideas - you wanted to make the empire glorious again, so that everyone could be well fed, strong and united. And you are the ruler of all, merciful and wise His Majesty the Emperor. ”
"And what I want is for all beings to understand each other, to move forward hand in hand no matter what they are facing—in the world I want, where there is no emperor, no nobility, no class, where all people are equal on the level of personality, and then all wars and strife are eradicated."
"We vowed to change this world, but your world is not mine."
"It's wonderful......"
Shenlong didn't listen to his orders, ** was also eroded by the poison of the giant snake, and Matvey's strength was no less than his own, Kumor finally understood that just like Vika couldn't do anything about himself, he now had no way to fight back in the face of the priest in front of him.
They knew each other so well that if Matvey was really determined to betray from the beginning, he must have anticipated everything about himself: "It turned out to be ...... I've never understood you......"
Matvey just sighed at this sentence: "You know me well...... It's just that, O Prince, you have never understood the world. ”
"Whether it is the change of the times or the social change caused by technological progress, all suffering, in the final analysis, comes from people's **...... If the aristocracy were less greedy, the royal family would not be so drunk and dreaming of death...... No, if there were no nobles and emperors, no superior and inferior people, and all of them were one and one, then naturally there would be no suffering, no strife.
- A decaying empire, an instrument of domination.
- Greedy aristocrats, blood-sucking bugs.
- Opposing races, the source of division.
- Different minds, contradictory natures.
- each individual's personality, the starting point of the dispute.
This world is full of suffering, strife, tears and despair, all because of these elements, the ancestors divided heaven and earth and the three dragons of life, life divided into thousands of races, and human beings alone divided into royalty, nobles, commoners, untouchables, and whether it is royalty or nobles, commoners or untouchables, which can continue to differentiate, divide into endless contradictions, and even a person's own thoughts, are constantly differentiated, and then people's thinking is also changing all the time.
Differentiation is the source of all evil, and as long as all are one, then the earth is a perfect paradise. ”
"Your Highness, you just want to solve the chaos of an era, and I want to solve the source of suffering at the root.
Kumour didn't hear what Matvey said later.
The second prince knelt on the ground, his eyes staring at the ground, there was dark blood dripping from his mouth, and his unwilling eyes had not been closed.
He's dead.
At this point, Evelyn, Mikhail, Fend, Kumor and Vika, the Dragon Ball War of the Seven, have five dead.
Only Matvey and Ola remained.
And the dragon balls of 'Jörmungard', 'Gorgon', 'Fafna', 'Ying Dragon' and 'Leviathan' are all in Matvey's hands.
The dragon balls of 'Quetzalcoatl' and 'Candle Day' are in the hands of the android Aura.
“…… Let's go, Ying Long, and continue our plan. ”
Staring at the corpse in front of him, Matvey was silent for a moment, and then, he reached out, and just like Evelyn, Kumor's body also dissipated in a burst of rainbow light, turning into nothingness, and his soul was thrown into the priest's body.
"Why don't you kill the candle?"
The Heavenly Dragon was so curious, he did appreciate Su Sun's old family, but it was precisely because of his appreciation that he had to be wary and be more ruthless.
What's more, the other party is indeed a bit outrageously strong, and taking it seriously is also a kind of respect.
"There's no need, even if he recovers his full glory, it won't be possible to defeat me."
Circles of light slowly appeared around his body, and Matvey's body slowly floated towards the sky above Maia City, and the huge Ouroboros phantom began to spin behind him, like a cog that moved the world.
If there were priests and priests of the Ancestral Dragon Church here, they would have bowed their heads in fear and offered a great gift when they saw this sign.
[23-At the beginning of the world, all things did not exist. 】
[24 - The spirit of God hovered in the dark void and became a ring, and the world was born in the ring. 】
[25 - God sleeps around the world, and his soul is divided into three parts, for the gods of heaven, for the gods of the earth, and for life. 】
[26-Life is the father of all things, and God is the father of all things.] 】
[27-And give us the world.] 】
[28-Whoever has flesh, let him remember this grace.] 】
[29-Praise, Dragon of the Ancestors!] Praise be to the God of creation! 】
[———— Leviticus 1, Grace]
For more than a decade, Matvey had wondered why God would tolerate such an ugly, hateful, hateful, death-filled world.
But suddenly one day, he realized that God was not a human being, and that the God of creation did not need to be bound by human thoughts.
God created the world, and His Spirit is divided into all that is in the world, and in it, all the struggles are the result of a part of God Himself.
It's like a stone falling downwards and water flowing downward, but I wonder if this common sense is also a kind of struggle in a sense? And is the struggle of human beings a common sense?
Perhaps, only people can give these common senses the meaning of "happiness" and "despair" that only people can understand.
Therefore, if you really want all living beings to live happily.
Then become a god, engrave happiness in common sense, and make it an instinct of life.
Then, recreate the whole new world.
Five dragon balls floated in front of him, and in mid-air, Matvi began to mobilize the power in these dragon balls, and then, with the power he had perfected for decades in the Kobol Mountains, he began to trigger them one by one.
Above his head, a pure white aura began to emerge, like a snake coiled, flickering with a light that attracted the soul.
- All life in this world essentially has the same origin, so there is no reproductive isolation between humans and elven dwarves, and even fish people, and the organs of all living things use dragon blood as an intermediary, so they can ignore rejection.
- All things are originally one, whether it is ** or soul, this is the case.
"Let's get started."
As he said this, he could see that a ring of light appeared in Matvey's eyes, and the surface of his skin began to appear in layers, scale-like lines and metallic sheen.
He looked down at the entire city of Maia, and said compassionately to all the dead souls, as well as ordinary people who had not yet died, and were still weeping, "Let us be one. 】
At this moment, the ears of all the souls and humans in the entire city of Maia heard a crisp and loud bell.
The bell rings like the sound of death and the song of redemption.
Those who are still alive do not know why.
But all the souls of the dead, for some reason, leaped up with great joy and flew towards the place where only they could see, a bright and gentle light, where they could sleep and rest in peace.
And then, just like that, be a part of the light.
- The dragons of the sky, the dragons of the earth, the dragons of men, and the elements that reproduce the division of the gods of creation have all gathered.
In the dragon balls of Ying Long, Gorgon, and Leviathan, there is something pure aura that is slowly overflowing, and then condensed together, becoming light, and Ying Long is watching all this with interest, looking at the small person in the light, as if watching a certain existence that has ascended to the sky in the past.
In this light, Matvey's body began to slowly differentiate in bursts of rainbow light and became illusory, but his expression was resolute, and layers of spiritual barriers rose to prevent him from collapsing.
Throughout the city of Maia, hundreds of thousands of dead souls poured into his body like a school of fish returning home.
I could only hear that gentle voice with firmness.
Let us be one. 】
[Then, return to greatness again.] 】
At this moment.
Kobol Mountains,
"It's here, Su Day."
Ora held the head in his hand so that he could examine the corpse of the giant serpent in front of him.
And the head also made a voice with satisfaction: "This **, not bad!" ”
Observe carefully, the degree of damage to Jörmungard's ** is not high, only the head is a fatal wound - it seems that even Ying Long and Leviathan can't suppress Jörmungard in terms of pure **, so they can only attack with targeted cohesion.
This is naturally a good thing.
Without any hesitation, Su Yan directly summoned his true body with only one head left after roughly reviewing Yermungard's **.
At that time, the head of the huge immortal dragon, the dragon of candlelight, appeared in the air, and the human ** of Su Sun also returned to his neck, and was reorganized in a 'click'.
And this series of processes made Ola, who was watching all this, grow his mouth slightly and show envious eyes.
"It's amazing, Su Sun!"
"Hmph, there's something even better!" Although Su Sun didn't know what Aura was envious of, it didn't prevent him from showing off his carefully crafted true body to the android who was only five days old.
When he landed, he could see Su Day, who was in human form, snapped his fingers, and the head of the huge Candle Sun Divine Dragon spewed out a cyan blue spiritual light, and then flew towards the ** of Jörmungard not far away like a rocket.
I have to say that after Jörmungard swallowed a mountain, its ** swelled to an extremely terrifying point - Su Day's real body was nearly 100 meters tall, and the dragon's head was also more than 10 meters high, which was already very huge, as big as a small building.
It's just that compared to Yermungard, whose total body length is estimated to be more than five thousand meters, and his head alone is three or four times larger than Su Tian's entire real body...... Su Sun's head didn't seem to be able to rest on the other party's body at all.
But how can the transcendent be speculated by common sense?
When he landed, as Su Sun canceled the rocket flame, the head of the huge immortal dragon derived a large number of nerve roots condensed by spiritual power at the bottom, and these nerve roots were entangled together, turning into a drill-like shape!
Then, the dragon head fell, and the drill bit was directly inserted into Jörmungard's **!
At this moment, it can be seen that at the huge head and forehead of Jörmungard, centered on the head of Su Sun embedded here, there is a blue-purple aura, which is spreading towards the ** of the entire big snake!
Deng-I can see that at the head of the black giant snake, the eyelids are slowly raised, and the two snake pupils that should have been silent are shining again.
And this time, the aura that flickered at the bottom of his pupil was no longer the pitch-black light of the Great Snake of the World, but the blue-purple aura that belonged to Su Day!
With the controller moving in again, Jörmungard's **, this huge chariot, was activated by Su Sun!
"Come here, Ora."
Boom - With the spread of Su Sun's aura, he began to regain control of this body, and Su Sun, who was in the form of an immortal dragon, opened his mouth, controlled the wind, and dragged Ola, who was watching this scene, into his mouth: "Don't worry, this is the safest place." ”
This is not a lie.
Because now, Ola's situation is protected by a four-layer nesting doll.
The first layer of the matryoshka doll is the flesh of Jörmungård.
The second layer of the nesting doll is the dragon head of Su Day.
The third layer of the nesting doll is the protective structure designed by Su Sun in his mouth.
The fourth layer of nesting dolls is the dragon scale exoskeleton armor on Ora's body.
In terms of graphs, this is the case.
【Yemeng【Su【Armor【Ora】Armor】Day】Gad]
In addition, Ola himself is also a specially equipped android, so it is not so easy to damage...... Now her safety is really different from the beginning!
Who can break through the defenses of the four-layer nesting doll?! Su Sun can't do it himself!
At this moment, except for the fact that he is not very good at using long strips of body to fight, Su Sun can be said to have recovered his combat effectiveness in his heyday!
"You're finally turning into a strip."
And at this moment, from the personal space, the voice of the snake spirit sounded, and the tone was gloating: "Let's recall, who said that the bar will never change?" ”
"It's just temporary." Su Yan didn't care about Yala's teasing comment: "Now, it's time to launch a counteroffensive...... Well? ”
Just when Su Sun noticed something, he turned his head in shock and looked in the direction of Maia City.
In Maia City, with the convergence of countless souls, he completely turned into a human body and a snake tail, and Matvey, who had a winged form on his back, also raised his head in surprise and looked at the mountains in the distance.
[Jörmungard, moved?!] 】
[How is it possible, it doesn't have the legend of immortality, how can it be resurrected...... Wait, it's hard to say, candlelight?! 】
However, the surprise was only for a moment.
The aura like an Ouroboros above his head shone more and more, and Matvey, who was blazing white all over his body, quickly calmed down: [But this is useless...... He couldn't beat me now. 】
Then, with the presence of a human body and a snake's tail, he continued to bow his head and carry out his work.
Gaia, the mother goddess of the earth, represents the source of creation, the root of heaven and earth, and is the original creator god who gave birth to the gods, whether it is the god of the sky, Ouranos, the god of the sea, and the god of the mountains, Uria, all of whom are his descendants.
The myths of Mother Earth are as numerous as the stars, but in Mycenaean mythology, the origin of the dragon and the serpent is him.
Typhon, the child of Gaia (Earth) and Tartarus (Hell), is the King of Monsters, the Father of Demons, a giant with a hundred snake heads, feathers and wings, and the union of Typhon and his wife has given birth to countless monsters, including many powerful dragons and snakes.
Gorgon was not the son of Typhon, in fact, it originated from the children of Gaia and Pontus, the children of the father of the Hundred Monsters, Phocus and Keto, which is the most widely told mythology, from which the legend of Medusa derives.
However, even earlier, there were other epics that were sung about the original origin of Gorgon, one of the djinn who was directly conceived by Mother Earth during the Battle of Titan, when Mother Earth God tried to overthrow the gods.
Gorgon, the direct descendant of Mother Earth, a monster with dragon scales, was one of the djinn who went to war with the gods, and was eventually killed by Athena, the goddess of war, whose corpse even became Athena's armor and shield.
He has the direct lineage of Mother Earth and inherits the power of life, which is best manifested by the power of the Pegasus Pegasus and the giant Chrysaor, born from the corpse of Gorgon.
And now, this life power from the earth dragon, mixed with the human power from the 'Leviathan' and the heavenly supernatural power from the 'Ying Dragon', is being driven by Matvey.
It can be seen that in the city of Maia, among the corpses and pools of blood of the countless dead, all kinds of 'monsters' are appearing - recreating myths, legends of monsters born from the corpses of Gorgon, thousands of monsters began to find those ordinary people who still exist in the city, and then bring them, even kill them on the spot, so that their souls are 'merged' with Matvey.
[Death is only the beginning, your **will**, but the soul will live forever with all people.] 】
We will be united and reproduce the miracles of life, so that there will be no more strife and contradiction between people, and happy eternal life will come. 】
The voice of mercy resounded through the heavens and the earth.
But Su Sun couldn't hear all this.
He just controlled his body, wrapped around the mountain peaks, looking out at the distant city to the other side.
There, the entire city of Maia turned blood-red, and the raging fire even lit up the sky, and the light that seemed to dissolve everything gave him a sense of danger, comparable to the dragon king of Tianchi in the past, and even more so than the god of water!
"Good, strong ......"
Whispering to himself like this, Su Ri's brows furrowed.
He sensed the swarm that had appeared in large numbers, and he didn't understand what was going on over there.
However, even if you don't know, you can guess that over there, there is a certain Dragon Ball holder who is doing something big, and this big move has caused the death of a large number of ordinary people!
Life is like the crops in a wheat field, harvested at will, and the swift and smooth speed is like an assembly line harvesting human life......
"There is no one left in the city - there are people fighting in the city, killing most of them, and there are still people dying fast!"
The young man's face was ugly, and his demon-devouring powers, as well as his thoughtless heart, could detect the aftermath of death from a distance—either the curse of a curse, or the final wail of the soul voice: "Extremely dangerous—the sense of danger that this place gives me is like saying, 'If you go, you will die'!" ”
"I have reformed Jörmungard's body...... Even so, is it so dangerous? ”
But can he not go?
Of course not.
“…… Hmph, let's not talk about Dragon Ball. ”
Controlling his huge dragon body, controlling the body of Jörmungard, he slowly untied himself from the mountain peak, and the eyes of the huge dragon snake began to flash with brilliant spiritual light.
And Su Sun's Immortal Dragon's expression gradually changed from shock to calm: "I heard someone crying, someone praying, such a number of innocent people died...... That's good enough. ”
"It's time for another fight."
Su Sun strengthened his thoughts, the huge dragon snake began to move, it was like a moving mountain range in an instant, flattening the valleys along the way, shattering the undulating stone hills, the body of the giant snake contained incomparably terrifying power, whether it was a mountain peak or a snowfield, he had to retreat when facing him!
"But, Su Day, I felt it just now, and you were scared for a moment."
However, in the body of this huge dragon snake, Ora, who was protected, stared at the light curtain floating in front of him and asked in confusion, "Are you scared...... Didn't you say that when you encounter something you fear, you should avoid it? Only in this way can you survive and win...... That's not right. ”
In response, the dragon stopped moving.
"Well, you're right."
Su Yan laughed, he shook his head and said: "Ola, you are indeed a good student, I teach you to fear, teach you to question, teach you to be decisive, you have learned very well, and you can always apply what you have learned." ”
"But am I right? Do you have to comply? Do you know the truth again? ”
Asked so suspiciously, Su Yan let out a long breath, which made the long dragon chant resound through the heavens and the earth: "Right and wrong is a thing of free mind, after feeling fear, whether you retreat or step forward, it can be right or wrong - but it doesn't depend on what I say, but it depends on what you think." ”
"So, stay calm, girl, now that it's happened, then we're going to respond."
With that, the serpent started again, and he scurried towards the distant city of Maia, with a huge roar like thunder.
And Su Day's calm voice sounded in the ears of Ola thoughtfully, the dragon snake carrying the artificial girl from the other world, speeding through the empty snowfield, he laughed and said, "Since you learned to fear before. ”
"So now, I'm going to teach you what 'courage' is with my actions."