Chapter 62: Are You Worthy of Sacrifice? (6666)
"Obviously, he changed his mind, and it doesn't look like it's a move to shelter people."
Su Yan frowned: "On the contrary, it is the will of the empire...... I've heard Akhalonov talk to some people. ”
"Indeed."
Irowitz's expression was obviously a little decadent, but he still pulled himself together and told Su Sun the details about the will of the Empire.
Initially, before Asmodee XIII became the Sun Emperor, he and Michal and Aharonov pondered for several years to solve the problem of the extinction of the Holy Sun, and finally decided to abandon all plans to 'stay in Aion' and decided to enter the Void and go to other worlds.
This is a very bold move, but it can bring better possibilities and futures to all beings, after all, we have to face the end of the world, so why not change the world once and for all?
The trio decided to take a gamble.
And the source of the Blood Divine Wood, the Soul Burning Secret Method and the Blood Secret Method, were all improved at that time.
Traveling to other worlds in the void requires unimaginably large amounts of energy, which is not difficult for the Burning Spirit Powerhouse, but the difficulty is how to protect many people and take them through the turbulence of time and space together.
Obviously, the flesh of ordinary people is too heavy and too fragile to carry them through other worlds is an impossible task.
After the trade-off, keeping the soul and giving up the body is naturally the only choice.
However, even though the world of Aion is a world with an unbelievably dense aura, the soul is not something that can be easily condensed - if you are not careful, the soul of the half-hung child will be infected by the source energy, become a demon, and even a monster.
The imperial will is the means that came into being to solve this problem.
- Since the people have no soul, then the emperor gives them -
"With me, Michal, and Akhalonov, two burning spirits, and the souls of a catastrophe powerhouse as the core, we will continue to absorb spiritual energy, create ownerless spirits, and give many residents a 'temporary soul'."
"It's like the sun shining on the earth, the land where the light shines, and the inhabitants of the empire will become soul condensers."
When he said this, although his tone did not fluctuate, Su Sun could sense the pride in Irowice's heart.
In fact, it's something to be proud of.
The man couldn't help but nod and exclaimed, "The empire distributes souls? This is actually the precursor to the cultivation of the whole people, if the Asmodean Empire can really do this, then the end of the world may really greatly promote the development of technology - the same is true on the other side of the earth, but not so radical and urgent. ”
"But it's clear that the plan has failed." He said.
"Yes." Irowitz couldn't help but smile bitterly: "It's not difficult to make souls, and it doesn't take much time, but the results of the trial run are not ideal—the first batch of mobile city dwellers who have given souls have all become demonizers, and they have irrepressibly turned into human demons who fight and devour each other...... Since then, we have realized that the curse of the source energy may be more terrible than we think, and the will of the world hates us, whether it is the Holy Day, the Demon Moon, or the air, which is driving us to a dead end. ”
"He who is not gifted gets a soul, and the result is tantamount to murder. This path was blocked, but we found another way, since the distributed souls will be polluted, then simply cut our own souls, lend them to sentient beings, use our powerful souls as a barrier, protect the memories and thoughts of all people, and wait until there is no source energy in the universe, and then condense the spiritual wisdom to create souls, and give birth to sentient beings again. ”
- This is the way of the Divine Tree.
Su Sun was keenly aware of this, although the method and appearance were much different, but in essence, it was very similar to the process of Shenmu going to other worlds to reproduce.
Before the original Shenmu went to other worlds, in order to bring many seeds of life, it must have gone through many trade-offs, just like the trio of the empire in the past.
The act of creating an ecosystem in another world is essentially similar to recreating a familiar world.
"It's just, it's still a failure."
Su Yan said lightly: "What happened?" Listening to you, the Sun Emperor seemed to be a good person at the beginning? How did he get to the stinking way he is now? ”
“…… It did not fail, but the plan of the will of the empire was halfway through and was not continued. ”
Falling to his knees on one knee, Irowice leaned over and touched the seemingly filthy flesh on the ground, his expression gloomy, as if it had been his own mistake: "He did give him spiritual qualities and sheltered the inhabitants of the Empire, but in turn, the minds and wills of all the inhabitants of the Empire became a part of him, and made him immortal. ”
"The infection rate of demonic people in the empire is much lower than that of people in other regions, and even if there is, it is very strictly regulated, and that's why."
The gray-haired knight stood up, he looked at Su Sun, and said softly, "The plan is still being implemented, and the Tower of Babel is sending the light of domination to the interior of the Holy Day to communicate the remaining power within. ”
"The Holy Day is meant to be extinguished, so before we leave the world, it is better to bring it to its short-lived heyday, illuminate the Void, and help us select the world—and the Flame of Flame will burn violently as a result, giving the Sun Emperor the power to surpass the gods for a short time."
"Theoretically, at that time, we will leave the world of Aion, and those who want to stay can continue to stay...... But now it seems that Michal wants to stay for the time being, he always says that 'preparation' is not enough, but I don't know what he is going to prepare! ”
What to prepare? Prepare fuel, of course.
At this moment, Su Sun had already understood everything.
What this Sun Emperor wants to do is definitely not simply to leave the Aion world and find a suitable new world to live in - his ambition is definitely big enough that after four hundred years, he will burn up the entire Aion world and turn it into smoke and dust in the void before setting off.
What he did during these 400 years is impossible to know even if it is perfectly deduced.
But Su Sun didn't have to guess at all, as a demon devourer, his experience after eating the souls of countless wicked people allowed him to easily deduce what the Sun Emperor had done: the other party must have been using the imperial will to create souls uninterruptedly in the past four hundred years, massively creating alternative soul collections such as the Blood God Tree, and then harvesting them as crops, hoarding an unbelievably large amount of soul energy.
And even if the Blood Divine Tree is incomplete, it is still a Divine Tree in the final analysis, and so many Divine Trees have been continuously spawned in the past four hundred years, and finally the entire world has been devoured, what is it that is strange?
Whether it is friends, residents of the empire, beings on the Aion continent, or even the entire Aion world, they are all tools of this Sun Emperor to achieve his own goals.
"Leave him alone."
Su Sun's fist stiffened, and he snorted: "You have to kill this guy as soon as possible, otherwise the longer this person lives, the more people will suffer." ”
Su Sun didn't lower his voice, and Irowitz also heard him talking to himself, so the knight got up, shook his head cautiously, and said, "You can't kill him." As I said, the Sun Emperor is immortal. ”
"Through the will of the Empire, he is already the embodiment of the entire Asmodee Empire, the empire is immortal, even if you destroy that physical body and mental light body, the new Sun Emperor will be born again from the thoughts of the people of the empire."
Su Sun didn't reply, because he could hear something in Irowitz's words.
Sure enough, after a pause, the knight took a step forward, and his momentum began to regain and even became even hotter than when he flew towards the Xiguang Mountains before.
"I want to ask a question."
Originally, because of the betrayal of his friend's death, Irowiz's eyes dimmed, but now, the knight's eyes began to burn with a dark golden light: "What do you want to do to this world Svetley, of Xiguang?" Why would you want to do that? ”
"What am I going to do?"
Su Sun glanced at Ilovitz, and he shook his head: "Don't you have eyes and ears?" All I did was in the north, in the Xiguang Mountains and the Yanshuang Territory, in the Inheritance Hall of the Far North Ice Field. You know why, why are you asking me? ”
"What I want to do is for everyone to be free to choose their own lives, for everyone to have their own meaning, for everyone to be equal, for no more suffering and suffering, and for every day to be better than yesterday."
"As for why I did it."
At this point, he raised his head and stared at the holy sun on the firmament, and even the countless universes in the void above the firmament.
"Because time is flowing, because life is being born."
"Because a better tomorrow is out there, and I can 'imagine' it, so I'm going to make it happen."
“…… That's great. ”
The knight looked at Su Sun at this moment with envy, and he couldn't help but repeat: "It's so good...... As you deserve to be Nozomi, your answer is better than I thought......"
He stretched out his hand and pressed it against the hilt of his sword, and Irowitz couldn't help but sigh after admiring it, "If only you had shown up sooner...... Akhalonov doesn't have to go against his nature to capture the demons he sympathized with back then, nor do he slaughter the inhabitants of the empire who shouldn't have died or rebelled, and he won't die before you. ”
"And you have another way to save the world, I know that the Burning Divine Tree is better, more humane, and more ...... than Your Majesty's."
At this point, he seemed to be a little short of words, but soon, Irowitz found a fitting word.
"More full of love."
"That way, I won't have a reason to fight you."
Su Yan glanced at the other party's hand that had already held the hilt of the sword, and he shook his head slightly: "It's not too late now, you may have many shortcomings, but at least you are a good person worth saving." ”
"Well, it's a bit out of place, and it's a bit silly, but you don't even have a grudge on you, and you're a good person."
The main reason why Su Sun is willing to talk so much to Ilovice is because of this.
This first knight of the empire is the strongest and purest 'good man' he has ever seen in the world of Aion.
There was not the slightest grudge in him, neither did his enemies, the people loved him, his colleagues respected him, and even the Sun Emperor, who seemed to be taking advantage of him, did not think Irowice was bad.
What kind of person does it take to have such a pure soul?
The answer is actually quite simple.
Just like dusk, just do nothing.
"It's just, I think, you'd rather be a bad person than a good person." This is Su Sun's epilogue.
Then, he was shocked to see the knight in front of him, who was clenching the hilt of his sword in his hand and seemed to be about to draw his sword to fight, and was crying silently because of a word.
Big tears dripped from the corners of Irowice's closed eyes, but he was laughing, and he could already see that the old Burning Spirit powerhouse laughed and laughed at himself: "Yes, that's it - I didn't do anything in the past, I didn't become a marshal who could restrain Michal, I didn't become a minister who could check and balance the emperor, I didn't fight for control of the will of the empire - this was my biggest mistake." ”
"How can I trust in people's nature, believe that a person will never change, and will always be as high-spirited, kind and respectable as he was when he was young?"
Su Sun watched as tears dripped from the corners of Irowitz's eyes and fell on the earth covered by the remains of the Flesh and Blood Divine Tree in the Mobile City, and he saw that the majestic source energy contained in the tears instantly purified and volatilized those flesh and blood, and there were storms and thunders exploding in the steaming mist of tears.
He didn't despise the other party because of the other party's crying, on the contrary, Su Yan understood it better than anyone else.
- When a man starts crying uncontrollably, he doesn't care about anyone else's eyes.
He only wept for himself, regretted the mistakes of his life - he was not vulnerable, not vulnerable, but had completely lost his shackles, lost his reason to stagnate, and made up his mind.
- So, when you are sad, you cry.
And then.
Su Sun saw the knight pull out the long sword at his waist—a dark golden sword completely constructed from souls, condensed from the shining light soul of Irowitz!
- So, if you want to fight, you will fight.
On top of the corpse of the Flesh and Blood Divine Tree, the two powerhouses confronted each other, and Irowitz drew the long sword in his hand, which was his heart light body, his soul, and his will! A divine weapon flowing with endless divine light, forged in order to cut off injustice and injustice.
The celestial phenomena had begun to change, and the source energy had begun to change because of the actions of the strong, causing storms and thunder to be born in the sudden clouds, and the voice of Irowitz resounded in the wind, rumbling like thunder.
"Svetley of Xiguang!"
"In front of you is the son of Belgrade, the peaceful Iloviz, the first knight of the Empire!"
"Kill me, there will be no one to protect the Sun Emperor, the empire will fall apart, the nobles will question the authority of the empire, and no longer obey the emperor's orders, and the Sun Emperor's actions will be greatly stagnant."
"Kill me, the pillar of the Sun Emperor will fall, a pillar of the will of the Empire, my Soul of Burning Spirit will collapse - he will get greater authority, gain more power, and become the sole host of the will of the Empire, but because of this, he will have a temporary flaw, he will no longer be immortal, and he can be killed!"
The knight held his sword in front of him, his voice like a sigh, but louder than thunder, he did not move, but only with a movement of will, a shining thunderbolt was so bright that it could destroy a city slashed from the sky.
The speeding thunder was like an excuse, with the power to retreat from ordinary disasters, and the atmosphere burned in its pass, and the plasma fell like rain, turning into a torrential rain that could burn the entire mobile city.
The purpose of Ilovitz's speeding all the way has finally been revealed.
He came to die, to atone for his mistakes, at the cost of his own life.
As one of the creators of the will of the Empire, the very existence of another Burning Spirit in the trio, the knight, represents a partial condensation of the 'Will of the Empire' - in order not to compete for the glory of Asmodee XIII, he chooses not to be an official, not to hold a military position, not to become a nobleman, not to clamp down on any actions of the Emperor.
This choice was proven wrong, there will always be a time when a person slides into the abyss, and this time needs a friend to reach out and pull a hand, and the Sun Emperor has obviously not been held back in the process of falling.
His friends believed him so much that he couldn't even realize he was wrong.
But even so, Iloviz remained an important part of the will of the Empire, which speaks volumes about his importance.
How can you stop the crazy plans of your former friends? If it was a head-on battle, Irowitz didn't think that he could defeat the Sun Emperor, who was also a burning spirit and had a higher authority of the Empire's will, and if he was killed by the Sun Emperor, his authority would be plundered by the other party on the spot, and he would not even have the slightest weakness.
He must tell the truth to another powerful man who has nothing to do with the will of the Empire, and kill himself with his hands.
Irowitz did think so, and he did so, he was attacking Su Sun now just to give the other party a reason to fight with him.
In the same way, the battle is also a test, testing that the other party does have the power to defeat himself and defeat the Sun Emperor who is stronger than himself - only those who do their best to fight against themselves and win the battle can truly save the world and give the Aion beings a future.
"It's too arrogant."
However, Irowice got one thing wrong.
That is, when he said this, he chose the wrong person.
At this moment, the knight who drew the sword of light in his hand suddenly felt that he could not breathe.
It's not air, the Burning Spirit Strongman doesn't need air for a long time, and the feeling of suffocation comes from the source energy, and the gray-haired knight suddenly noticed in shock that with himself as the center, within a range of five thousand kilometers in diameter, or even larger, all the source energy began to surge, roar, and begin to condense in one direction.
— not in your own direction.
"It's too arrogant."
The thunder that cleaved from the sky suddenly dissipated into nothingness, as if it had never been there.
A voice rang out in front of him. The agitated source energy was supposed to expel all the surrounding air and turn the atmosphere into a vacuum, but this voice was quite unreasonable and directly crossed all media, using aura and soul as the carrier, and smashed into Irowez's mind: "How dare you say that?!" ”
The knight's eyes widened, and he looked at the figure of the white-haired old man in front of him, where a huge shield was condensing and forming, and the center of the shield was condensed with a brilliant glow that was more dazzling than the sun, and then, like that, it became bigger and bigger......
Right up to his eyes!
Rumble!!!!
The sturdy shield turned into an indestructible hammer and slammed directly into Irowitz's body.
"You also deserve to be in front of me, saying you want to die?!"
Su Sun's expression was cold and terrifying at this moment, and his red eyes burned with a light that was more scarlet than blood: "You also deserve to evade your duties!?" ”
At this moment, above the sky, the clouds surged into a tide, and then turned into the appearance of dragons and snakes and knotted together, and the four giant dragons condensed into a divine tree, and then turned into a heart light body like a giant hand, and in this way, it was attached to the giant shield with incredible power, and blasted out at the knight!
In an instant, the speed of the knight who was knocked out of the air outpaced the meteor, and a roaring humanoid tried to stop his retreat.
But no matter how hard he tried to stop himself from flying out, he still turned into a starlight shining in the sky, at a speed of 170,000 meters per second.
"That's the duty I chose!"
But soon, the knight who had turned into a star returned at a faster speed than before he flew, and his whole body turned into a flowing dark golden light, completely transformed into a phase, and only the sword in his hand was clearly visible, like an entity: "Death is the meaning of my remnants!" ”
But roaring was useless, there was no use in being angry in the world of the transcendental, especially since the power Irowitz faced was so unreasonable.
In the face of his anger, Su Sun responded with a barrage.
Thunder, light streams, electromagnetic cannons, and blades condensed by the wind, all kinds of attacks took over the entire canopy in an instant, filling the knight's perspective.
On the way back, the lightsaber in Iloviz's hand flew one after another, and the knight slashed through all the source energy condensation points with extreme skill, and the speed of his sword was almost light, breaking through all the attacks within 7,500 meters in front of him in a thousandth of a second, blocking all the pursuing storms and thunder, as well as the torrent of electromagnetic cannons that pierced through him.
At such a speed, even if it is 3,000 rounds per second, each round is 200,000 meters per second, and the warhead of an electromagnetic cannon hitting 600 times the speed of sound is as weak as a child's slingshot.
The first knight of the empire, indeed worthy of his name, the sword in his hand has simply reached the limit of skill, no matter how fierce the attack, no matter how swift the shot will be blocked by him, and even counterattack, the high-frequency shock storm blade was dissociated into a gentle breeze by him like unbuttoning, and the ultra-high-speed kinetic energy cannonballs that were better than the combined bombardment of all the fleets of the entire empire were directly picked up and smashed on the surrounding land, splashing countless magma, making the rock layer shatter like a biscuit.
Even, even the light, the fiery beam of light, was predicted by him, and the glow sword in his hand was either absorbed or flying.
Extremely skilled.
However, what he has to face is the source energy that has also reached its limit.
At this moment, Su Sun was standing in mid-air, the mobile city under his feet had been directly pressed into the ground by the fluctuations that had overflowed around him, and the entire city and the surrounding earth rock crust were constantly spreading and collapsing, like a huge abyss, and the cracks revealed the golden-red lava deep underground.
However, the brilliance around Su Tian's body was even more dazzling—the source energy of the materialization even condensed into a viscous liquid, and finally condensed into crystals, which solidified into a crystalline giant tree behind him.
In an ultra-high-pressure environment, solids can flow like liquids, and invisible source energy can also condense into entities, and 'form' has lost its meaning, which is the truth defined by human beings by their own subjective standards.
With the power of the Divine Tree, and the terrifying source energy density of the Aion World.
At this moment, Su Yan used another body to transcend the constraints of the Dao of Sex, crossed the boundaries of the Dao of Spirit, and possessed a source energy reserve that only the Shenmu clan could have, hundreds or thousands of times that of a powerhouse of the same level.
and, instantaneous output capability.
Raising his hand, he spoke.
"Who allowed you to die?"
"You deserve to be sacrificed?"
Then, Su Sun danced his shield like a heavy hammer, and he mercilessly struck a shield in front of him, and finally overcame the obstacles, came to the knight in front of him, and after beating him in a trance, he made up for the second shield smash!
Click! In an instant, the entire mobile city that was sinking into the earth collapsed, and the mobile city made of steel and solid rock shattered into countless debris as if it had been struck by the heavens and the earth, and in this flying dust and rock rain, Irowitz, who had no time to attack Su Sun, was pressed into the earth's crust by the great force that fell from the sky.
He was like a nail, driven into the mantle by a shield, and went 100,000 meters into the ground!
"What...... What the hell?! ”
The dark golden light condensed throughout the body continued to vibrate, and although he was a little delirious and even a little confused, he was still in the mind of Irowiez, who was constantly falling deep underground, and a ridiculous thought subconsciously surged out.
"This Svetley is saying he won't let me die......"
"But isn't this just hitting me with enough force to kill me?!"
Not big enough()
But this chapter is exactly 6666 words!
(End of chapter)