Chapter 17: Maybe Everyone Is a Demon Eater (6800, 1st Update)
Above the sea, between heaven and earth, the gods looked at each other.
The sea began to churn, the water vapor gradually condensed, and large dark clouds gradually appeared in the originally cloudless sky, covering the brilliance of the stars and moon.
On the Deep Diver, Su Sun stood in the middle of the deck, Alber and the sailors knelt in front of him, and the young man just looked up curiously and stared up.
The divine and majestic, such as the dragon of judgment in the mountains in the clouds, is entrenched at the top of the firmament, and the golden dragon looks down on the earth and the seas, its gaze indifferent and ruthless.
Only Su Sun, the one who blocked His judgment of heavenly punishment and was close to one with Him, could only get the slightest bit of attention from this divine dragon.
But then, with a gust of wind whirling, he turned his head to look at the Deep Diver, who had closed his eyes and waited desperately for death.
The pirate's beard fluttered in the wind, showing no sign of resistance.
Immediately after that, the Lord of Judgment spoke, and the divine voice rumbled, shaking the two realms like thunder.
[Judgment.] 】
[Thou hast plundered merchant ships and fishermen. 】
Thou shalt kill the innocent, and thou shalt be good. 】
[Thou art thou stray from the Dharma and the precepts. 】
[Thou, blasphemy of the sacred, faith. 】
When the judgment is pronounced, the dragon of judgment will rule on the sins of the king of the troubled sea, and give the final judgment: "Alber Idris, you are an apostate who has broken the teachings of the Covenant, and has ignored the precepts, and has defied the authority of the law. 】
Thou hast broken the oath of man and God, and hast committed one hundred and seventy-two great sins and nineteen minor sins. 】
[Final Verdict.] Death penalty. 】
[Thunder punishment is urgent. 】
When the voice of God falls, it is the time when judgment begins again.
At this moment, above the sky, an endless sea of clouds appeared out of thin air, and layers of fine golden lightning flickered and drifted among the rolling clouds.
The divine aura pervaded, countless wishes gathered, the eye of judgment took shape again, and the thunder of punishment was nurtured in it.
In the spirit world, there is also an invisible force that collapses, locking the soul, guiding the coming of judgment and giving the final foreshadowing.
All of a sudden, it was as if the heavens and the earth were about to fall, unstoppable, and irreversible momentum spreading.
But this time, after the judgment dragon was announced, Su Sun's hands were behind him, and he didn't have any intention of stopping him.
This is the right way.
At the beginning, Su Sun really wanted to ask Arber for some information, so he didn't kill him in the first place, but in fact, through his unthinking, he had already captured the most important key elements - whether it was the possible existence of the 'Pioneer Family', or the pirates' plan to find the soul of the source water to become a god, he already knew the most critical information, and only some inconsequential details were left to figure out.
Therefore, a wicked man like Alber dies and dies, and there is no need for refuge. Su Ri took refuge at the beginning just out of habit, after all, his 'trial' was not over yet, and the dragon of judgment in this world came over to intervene, which made him a little unhappy.
In any case, Alber is a man of the reincarnation world, and the dragon of judgment pronounces his sins according to the covenant, that is, the order of this world, and crimes must be punished, which is very reasonable.
It's just that Su Sun, who was going to watch from the sidelines, didn't expect that this time the dragon of judgment condensed and incarnated into the world, but it was not just to punish Alber, the great pirate.
[Thou shalt be guilty. 】
After Albert's sentence was pronounced, the dragon's gaze swept indifferently over the Deep Diver, the Boar, and everyone on board—wherever the gods saw was the Domain, and in His Domain, the guilty were destined to be punished.
As a result, all the people on the Deep Diver and the Boar, except for Ammon, felt a mighty and fiery aura, and the rumbling thunder exploded in their ears, which was the gaze and foreshadowing of the Lord of Judgment.
Suddenly, there were those who wept bitterly and repented and prayed; Angry and angry, there are those who die without repentance; There were more people who begged for mercy and trembled, denied their guilt, and did not want to admit the reality, and for a while, because of the gaze of the gods, the two ships were in a commotion.
Naturally, Ned and Sara are no exception.
It was as if a thunderbolt flashed in front of his eyes, clear enough that the aura of destruction was like a substance, just in front of his nose.
"Whoaaaaaaaaa
The omen brought by the gaze of the Lord of Judgment startled the Windfolk girl aboard the Boar, and she subconsciously hid behind Ammon - Sara clung to the back of the gray-haired priest's robes, and her little face turned pale: "I'm going to die, I'm going to die, I'm going to die—Hiccup." ”
She shivered, and then she didn't take a breath, rolled her eyes, and fainted.
"What a fucking ......"
Instead, it was Ned, the captain of the Boar, the tall former hunter who had the courage to look up overhead, though pale, and instinctively stepped forward: "I confess my guilt, but according to the covenant judgment, I will never sin unto death!" ”
"Isn't the Lord of Judgment reasonable?!"
But it's clear.
Whether it is repentance, prayer, scolding, begging for mercy, or standing up for argumentation, these are meaningless to the Lord of Judgment.
Under the gaze of the indifferent dragon pupils, countless thunderbolts with infinite power jumped from the eye of judgment at the top of the firmament at the same time, and the thunder snake danced wildly in the air, spanning the heavens and the earth, like a forked tree growing upside down, slamming towards everyone.
"You're judging like this?"
But at this moment, the young man's voice sounded with a little annoyance.
Looking at the momentum of the Dragon of Judgment as if it was going to wipe out everyone present and punish and eliminate all of them, Su Sun could only raise his left hand.
He raised his index finger, and this index finger was like a black hole, and at the moment it was erected, the thunder in the sky seemed to be attracted by a magnet, and all of them turned in an astonishing arc towards this fingertip.
One is divided into ten thousand, and ten thousand are one.
In an instant, all the originally amazing punishment thunder punishments fell on the young man's fingertips, and the thunder flashed, gradually becoming invisible, and was taken into Su Sun's body.
Retracting his hand, Su Sun frowned and bent his index finger a few times, moving his fingers - the thunder punishment of the Dragon of Judgment is not powerful, it is estimated that it is only derived from the corresponding strength according to the amount of the will power received, but in the final analysis, it is also an attack issued by a righteous god of the overlord level, he blocked it all with the thunder method, and he also felt that his fingers were a little numb.
Even he felt a little uncomfortable, if these thunderbolts fell on a little girl like Sarah, how could there be no reason to die?
【……】
The thunder punishment was blocked for the second time, and above the sky, the indifferent gaze of the dragon incarnation of the judgment dragon shifted to Su Sun again—he had no joy or sorrow, and he was not angry because the judgment was obstructed.
But Su Sun also looked at each other, the two sides looked at each other from a distance, the young man's tone was slightly dissatisfied, and he questioned in a deep voice: "Alber and his crew are just that, where are these innocent and good people who have been raging for decades and his subordinates, so you punish them, I won't stop them." ”
"But on the Boar, not to mention that most of those crew members are not guilty of death, although Captain Ned should also be tried, but the punishment with lightning punishment is probably a bit too much - not to mention Sarah, at most, even if she is trying to rob at the critical moment of starvation, it is not a crime, why kill?"
Su Sun's voice echoed in the sky, and his mind crossed the spiritual realm, reaching the body of the dragon of judgment far away.
In this regard, the golden god stared at Su Sun, as if he was listening.
Then, a calm response sounded in the young man's heart.
[Because of hatred.] 】
This voice is the same as Su Sun, but with the vicissitudes of historical precipitation, just like the voice that Su Sun can have after witnessing the reincarnation of the reincarnation world for hundreds of years.
His indifferent answer was as if he were telling the truth: "All the people of fire and the people of the wind hate the pirates, the people of the sea, the apostates, and the transgressors. 】
[Tens of millions, hundreds of millions of people, all of them. 】
[They prayed, they made wishes, they begged me to send down punishment—all wishes, praying for their death. 】
[God, grant wishes.] 】
Therefore they will be judged and chastened. 】
The Lord's response was simple, brutal, and logical.
But, in the final analysis, it still falls under the category of 'tyranny of the majority'.
"That's your reason?"
Su Sun and Shenlong looked at each other, he listened to the response of the Lord of Judgment, and knew that he really wanted to fire puppets in the derivatives of the reincarnation world, and he was not actually angry in his heart, but just wanted to sigh.
Because he had been in Sunset City for a long time, he had already known this clearly when he rescued Sara from the thunder punishment.
The intensity of judgment and punishment in this world is not imposed by the severity of the D&C code violated, but by the strength of the prayer of the multitude.
Some people committed great sins, but the people did not know about them, so there was no thunder punishment, and the temple had to hang, behead, or burn at the stake with its own hands. And there are people who have not committed any wrong, they are just different from ordinary people, they do not want to believe in God, and they do not want to accept the constraints of the precepts, so they are regarded as monsters, even if they have fled to the island, isolated from people, and live alone, they are still deeply hated.
It's like, Demon Eater.
The crime that the demon lord doesn't care about, even if it is a big crime in the eyes of others, is not a wicked person to him, and what others feel as it should be, if it goes against the wish of the demon lord, then it is a wicked person.
To put it bluntly, the supernatural power of the Demon Devouring Lord is nothing more than replacing righteousness with one's own heart.
It is indeed the magic power of the devil, what justice, to put it bluntly, it is the fist of the owner of the magic power, so it can be forcibly pronounced, which is pure arrogance in essence.
Su Sun has been praised and praised by people all the way, just because his concept of good and evil happens to be consistent with the simple justice that ordinary people believe - but if it is different, he is a pure demon, and he is also the biggest and most terrifying type of demon.
Is this a bad thing?
Not really.
The devil has a demonic way, and has its own way to help the world, and the magic power of free mind can be evil, and nature can also be good.
It's just that......
"Lord of Judgment, you are God."
Looking at each other with the divine dragon in the sky, Su Sun stared at the other party's illusory and hazy incarnation body condensed by the power of will, and couldn't help but sigh: "If I am one person, and always be one, no one follows me, no one worships me, no one recognizes, no one believes. ”
"Then I can do as I please, do whatever I want, and there are no shackles that can bind me."
"But this is the way of man and demon – not as God."
"What is the point of God's existence if God's ideas and commandments cannot transcend human prejudices?"
It was precisely because he was the Demon Devouring Lord that Su Yan was very clear about the similar nature and differences between himself and the Lord of Judgment in front of him.
He has traveled all the way, whether it is the Divine Wood World, the Reincarnation World, the Beast God World, the Divine Dragon World, or other things he has done on the earth, the core idea is nothing more than 'for his own pleasure'.
Even if it is to help others, in the final analysis, it is for Su Yan to be able to see it himself, and he doesn't care what other people think, whether they are grateful or hateful, dissatisfied or worshipped.
And the reincarnation world at this time is the same.
It's like Sunset City judging Sarah.
Those pious people of fire, praying for divine punishment from the Lord of Judgment, are nothing more than 'for their own pleasure', and their hatred and hostility all originate from the superiority brought about by faith.
Will the people care what the 'wicked' on the judgment seat think? Do you care if he's innocent? No, the people just want to see someone being judged as a wicked person, enjoying the pleasure of 'the wicked are dead', satisfying their own sense of superiority and the sense of collectivity of many of their peers.
True morality, fairness that requires effort to think about, are all thankless things, and how can there be a sense of freedom.
The Demon Devouring Lord is such a terrifying supernatural power and power, Su Sun knows very well that as long as his three views are slightly crooked, he can grow a moody monster at will and substitute his own will for heaven's will.
For example, in order to obtain ghasts to grow, he can see all the people in the world as wicked people who are 'unwilling to die obediently and give food for their growth', and then see everyone as evil to kill and devour ghasts.
Is it scary? But this is the power of the Demon Eater Lord. Su Sun didn't do this, just because he was Su Sun, and his will was firm and he wouldn't waver in order to gain strength.
The logic of this thinking is no different from 'you don't want to believe in my God, and you don't want to die obediently.'"
Su Sun should have shuddered at this, and he was not in a position to criticize the Dragons of Judgment - because they were actually one, exactly the same existence.
The Dragon of Judgment is also the Demon Eater, but he is a Demon Eater who is composed of more people, a Demon Eater who is composed of the 'wishes' of the entire reincarnation world, all the people of wind and fire - the power of the desire to pray for judgment is the ghast that makes him grow, and the backslidden who is recognized by all ordinary people is the wicked person who is used to devour.
But now, through what he saw and heard in Sunset City, thinking on the judgment seat, and analyzing his own essence again, Su Tian understands very well that the thoughts in his heart are completely different from the past.
And the dragon of judgment is no longer his reflection.
So, once again, the youth spoke out and denied the gods.
"You are wrong, Lord of Judgment."
"Good and evil, righteousness, and righteousness are not chosen in this way. If the opinion of the majority is listened to, and not according to a standard, the trial is nothing more than a riot. ”
"Most of the people are blindly obedient, they are too easy to be guided, just like during the plague, everyone does not want to be locked up at home, wants to move and work freely - but as the presiding order, you should restrain the people in turn for the safety of everyone, and not let the plague spread, that is, the wrong spread."
Su Sun's voice could be heard clearly even by everyone on the Wild Boar in the distance.
When the divine dragon above the sky heard this, he also made a simple response.
God is a wish. 】
[The prayer of all beings is the heart of God.] 】
"Their guilt is beyond doubt. 】
Meanwhile.
Boar, on deck.
Priest Ammon looked up at the distant sky, and for a moment, his heart was in turmoil.
- Two masters?
- Still fighting and arguing with each other?
What's going on here? The Covenant doesn't say anything about how to deal with this situation!
But with the big heart that has been tempered by walking with Su Sun and witnessing what the other party has done recently, Ammon quickly calmed down.
"Don't think about the appearance, but about the essence."
Saying to himself, the priest closed his eyes and thought to himself, "Very well—I now know that the Lord in the form of a dragon has come and wants to kill everyone on the Deep Diver and the Boar except me. ”
"The Lord in human form protected Alber at first, but it was supposed to be instinct, and at the second judgment, he did not hinder at first, apparently thinking that the sinner deserved to die, just as the Lord did at the judgment seat in Sunset City to judge the man who spread the plague."
"But then, he once again blocked the judgment of the dragon-shaped lord and protected everyone."
When he was done, Ammon opened his eyes.
At this time, he had already made up his mind a conclusion.
"The Lord in human form is right."
Thinking of this, Ammon turned his head at this time, he unbuttoned his robe, covered Sarah, who had passed out behind him, under the robe, and then carefully set it aside, he muttered to himself, "At least, I think it is right." ”
Ammon could feel that the little girl's body was light and weak...... It took a long time for the Sara clan to wander all the way from the Sea of Troubles, and it was only during the time that she was captured for hunger and robbery and brought to trial that she had eaten a little fish on the shore.
How can such a weak person not faint from fear in the face of God's foreshadowing of judgment?
People are empathetic, and Ammon empathized with him, thinking about what if he wanted to trade with others for food to survive when he was about to starve to death, but was rejected by them because of his faith.
So will you snatch it yourself?
If you snatch it yourself, whose sorrow is it?
Naturally not those fishermen who were robbed, they were not wrong. There was a 'fault', and it was indeed Sara who snatched them.
But the real root cause, the real 'sin', is the pirates who drove the Sara clan away from their homeland...... And, the precepts that have created the present state of affairs allow people to discriminate against those who are not evildoers for no reason!
Wrongness and sin are worlds apart.
"What is sin, exactly?"
[The Divine Word of the Lord of Judgment says: Those who fight monsters should be careful not to become monsters. When you stare into the abyss, the abyss is staring at you. 】
[The same is true of the struggle and struggle for righteousness, when we fight against the wicked, we should be careful that we become monsters ourselves. 】
After setting Sara in place, the priest slowly raised his head, and he once again looked at the dragonoid lord who was already very tense in the atmosphere, as if he was about to rain down the thunderstorm for the third time, and the humanoid lord who wanted to stop the other party.
Ammon was sad, he didn't know what sin was—he was just a priest, not a pope, not a god, and he had no right to determine what sin was.
However, he understands it very well.
"At the very least, no one who has not made a mistake can die innocently."
"If such a thing is allowed to happen in the name of the righteousness of the majority, then we are also wicked."
And at the same time, heavenly.
For the Judgment Dragon, who had begun to gather his Wish Power for the third time, condensed the Thunder Punishment, and wanted to continue to judge everyone by himself, Su Sun only shook his head slightly, took out the Blade of Extinction from his personal space, and aimed it at the incarnation of the Divine Wish Power above his head.
"God of judgment, you may be a good god to your people."
"But you're far from being a good ordermaker."
The Dragon of Judgment did not respond to Su Sun's sentence against him.
It's just that at the top of the firmament, light golden electric light shuttles back and forth in the clouds, and then condenses into thunder balls of light in the blink of an eye, like the sun instantly illuminates the night sky in the middle of the night.
For a moment, the magnetic field between heaven and earth began to change violently, and under the control of the dragon of judgment, the endless spiritual power drove the clouds and electric light to rotate restlessly, forming a huge dark cloud vortex with a diameter of tens of kilometers - his will caused the electric charges in the atmosphere to collide with each other, forming a golden divine thunder that shook the heavens and the earth.
The power of the wish is intertwined with the celestial phenomena of reality, and the transcendent phenomena created by the spiritual power are combined with the real thunderclouds, and the power instantly skyrockets tenfold.
The first and second trials were blocked by Su Sun, and the power of the thunder punishment increased accordingly, and now the third trial has reached the point where the overlord level is going all out!
The next moment, with the earth-shattering sound of thunder, one after another almost substantial thunder was condensed in the center of the dark cloud vortex, they were so dazzling that they illuminated the heavens and the earth as if it were day. In the thick clouds, the lightning flickered, like a spider's web, and just as it condensed into a thunder spear that was almost substantial, the thunder punishment of judgment fell with a bang!
And just as this terrible thunder punishment fell, the voice of the dragon of judgment resounded in the heavens and the earth.
[I am, wish. 】
[That is, correct.] 】
"Correct size!"
And Su Yan simply and neatly denied, at the moment when the thunder punishment fell, he clenched the divine knife and shouted in a low voice: "You are wrong - so was me in the past!" ”
At this moment, facing the dragon of judgment that represented his past mistakes, the young man's mind was clarified, and he swung out with all his strength, slashing not only the thunder punishment and the divine dragon, but also the last trace of recognition of his past self in his heart.
A terrible roar sounded, and the divine sword was full of flames, and the majestic sword light mixed with the red golden flame rolled upside down in the sky, and met the thunder punishment head-on.
The brilliance of the boundless wish power condensed on the blade of extinction is no less than the divine thunder spear condensed by the dragon of judgment, and Su Sun is the main body here, and the power of condensation is far higher than that of the dragon of judgment who is only the embodiment of the power of will.
Therefore, the thunder spear that bloomed in this third judgment was instantly pierced by the sword light that slashed vertically, tearing it into two pieces and collapsing like an illusion.
Behind it, a huge vortex of dark clouds was splitting in two along the path of the knife, the rift covered in blazing red flames.
After the split clouds split into the sky, the sword momentum still did not stop, and it still extended and slashed towards the other side of the distant sky like lightning - behind the dark cloud vortex, above the sky, the incarnation of the Judgment Dragon's Wish Power was also cut by a knife mark hundreds of meters long and more than ten meters wide, and the huge Wish Power incarnation began to gradually turn into a point of light like a rain of light in the sky, and gradually collapsed.
A straight light of the stars and moon hung down the crack, illuminating the ocean covered by the dark clouds that had appeared due to the confrontation between the gods.
Su Sun withdrew the Blade of Annihilation, turned his head, and no longer looked at the sky.
This time, he completely repelled the incarnation of the Dragon of Judgment, interrupting this lightning punishment.
I have to say that the power of the Dragon of Judgment does have an overlord level, even if it is a distant attack with the incarnation of willpower, the condensed thunder punishment power is also extremely strong, and the thunder spear that gathered all the spiritual energy condensed within dozens of kilometers just now is probably enough to destroy a small city in an instant, and kill most of them.
If Su Sun didn't hold a weapon, I am afraid that only by showing his true body could he block the thunder light while ensuring the safety of everyone.
Slowly descending back onto the Deep Diver, Su Sun now felt that he might have roughly understood what the Great Beings thought of each other.
"-Is that right?"
Saying to himself, the points of light formed after the collapse of the dragon of judgment were slowly falling, Su Yan looked around at these rain-like points of light, he couldn't help but shake his head slightly, then stretched out a hand, took one, and said in a deep voice: "No wonder great beings are not used to each other, there is indeed no compromise in the slightest about the right struggle...... Hey? ”
Just thinking about it, suddenly, Su Sun sensed a familiar feeling from such a point of wish light that he had received.
Of course, it's not that the breath or the essence of the power is familiar, after all, Su Sun and the Dragon of Judgment have such a close relationship, and it's strange to be unfamiliar - what really makes Su Sun sigh softly is the aura faintly carried in this Wish Power Light Point.
"The soul of the earth? No, it's a different feeling...... This familiar feeling, I've definitely seen somewhere else outside of the world of reincarnation! ”
Thinking like this, after all, he was a person who had eaten a lot of wisdom fruits, and Su Yan quickly thought of where this familiar feeling came from.
That's the Divine Dragon World, the otherworldly dragon snake that I haven't seen many times in the Dragon Ball War, 'Leviathan'!
To put it another word - the dragon of humanity!