Some things are so elusive. When it suddenly disappears from the slow time, and you almost think that it will no longer appear in your world, it just breaks into your world ruthlessly, like a prankster.
My child, you are so cold and cruel at the same time that you will not be able to escape even if you die and become exhausted mentally and physically.
This thing may really be just a thing, or it may be a person that you love and hate. Of course, it may also be just a dream.
For example, Aranza's dream.
Sometimes it's dark, sometimes the sun shines, it's a long dream full of breaks.
Father's dream, mother's dream.
When the eyelids closed on the tired eyes, darkness swept across the whole world, and all the light converged. Until a certain moment, a faint light suddenly appeared in the sight, exuding a bewitching power, like a kind of hope.
Starlight makes people wandering in dreams involuntarily tend to it.
However, when Aranza's consciousness touched this light spot, its light burst out like a spring. The white light spread rapidly and instantly engulfed Aranza, who was lying in the void unable to move.
Aranza struggled and shouted, but no matter how hard he tried, he could not escape from this dream. Even his cry for mercy could only be heard in his throat. It was like being stuck in a quagmire. The more he tried to leave, the deeper he fell.
However, after the white light, the dream world is full of dim colors like the vibrant reality. However, tonight's dream is a little special, it is like a period. In the darkness, the only light comes from the weak candlestick on its side, beating
The flame also shows the dim rhythm.
This is the memory of Aranza's mother, Ling Tulip.
Only she, who possesses the soul of the end, could give birth to such a dark dream in Aranza's mind.
Depression is its main theme.
This is a secret room, and its blue-black stone walls show the years it has been hiding from the light. It actually exists underground in the palace of Gaya, the former Principality of Lane, but at this time, this place has been destroyed by time during the Year of Disaster.
The dragon's demonic flame burned into ruins. But at that time, it was still a place containing secrets, until those secrets that must never be disclosed disappeared with its collapse, and finally only remained in the memories of some people.
Aranza relives her mother's memories.
In this secret room, at the end of her sight, was a circular altar made of stone bricks. The altar had existed for a long time. In the center was an equally ancient stone platform. A circular section was dug out around the stone platform.
The water tank was just the dry smell of hunger and thirst exuding from the water tank at this moment. With the weak flame of the candlestick, the sloping wall outside the altar reflected the gray light of dead moss.
On the stone platform in the center of the altar, a newborn baby was placed gently. There were no protective measures around him. In fact, he was motionless and breathless. However, looking at his figure from a distance, it made people wonder.
Man discovers that he is full of deathly silence, he is full of despair, and he belongs to the rebirth of the final soul.
His name - Alanza Lane.
He has been soulless since his birth, and he has been punished by death since his birth.
Because he is not accepted by this world.
In the dream, when the grown-up Aranza's eyes followed his mother's and fell on him as a baby, he clearly felt that his mother, whose heart had collapsed countless times, once again bowed her head to fate.
Then, the pain in her heart surged out like a flood, bombarding every cell in her body.
It wasn't until... Ling Tulip's eyes turned aside and fell on the man. The rushing flood became a little calmer. It was a standing iron tower, and he would not hesitate to use it all to cover the beloved woman.
Keep out the wind and rain.
This man is none other than Aranza's father, the King of Heroes, Hercules Lane.
But, even so, Ling Tulip still felt the pain. After he calmed her down, it turned into a trickle, flowing slowly and truly through her body.
And this pain, through nearly twenty years, poured into Aranza's heart without reservation.
At this time, a sudden sound of footsteps passed through everyone's eardrums, and Tata's voice was like a rapid drumbeat. After a moment, the owner of the voice appeared in the secret room. Her face was clean and gentle, and she was the mystery who followed the King of Heroes at that time.
The Alchemist, Cecilia.
Her eyes first fell on Ling Tulip, without any warning, so that the latter unconsciously tightened the corners of her man's clothes. In the dream, Aranza met Cecilia's gaze.
For once I felt that the eyes of Aunt Cecilia, who used to be kind and amiable, could be so piercing.
Aranza suddenly couldn't tell the difference between reality and fantasy.
Cecilia tied her hair high behind her head, and her azure robe hugged her body tightly with perfect proportions and elegance. She looked like a noble queen, and against it, the real queen, Ling...
Tulip looked like a cowardly maid at this moment.
"You scared her."
The King of Heroes frowned, and a strong and clear voice sounded. However, there was no blame in the sentence. Instead, it seemed like an order from a superior officer to the soldiers.
Cecilia's eyes were slightly slanted, and the man's coveted blue robe took a slight step back. Instead, her voice was the first to show some concealment and far-fetchedness, saying: "She scared herself."
There was an inexplicable trace on the corner of the King of Heroes' lips. He stopped continuing the topic. Instead, he turned his iron tower-like body and looked smoothly across the bluestone floor of the secret room, climbed up to the raised altar, and looked at the baby on the altar.
The expression on his face gradually became serious.
"...Are you ready for your alchemy?"
"It can be done at any time," Cecilia replied.
"Okay, let's get started."
Cecilia nodded without any unnecessary words. She turned around and walked towards the altar. At the same time, she raised her hand and briefly gestured to the two soldiers standing at the entrance of the secret room, and the soldiers understood and left.
"Really...does this happen?"
Ling Tulip hid behind the King of Heroes and whispered softly.
The King of Heroes did not answer, but turned around and hugged him. The fragrance of her hair echoed on the tip of his nose. The determination of a king was still on his face.
A moment later, the dragging sound of chains across the ground was heard, and one after another shackled prisoners were escorted by guards into the secret room. Their eyes were covered with black cloth, and their mouths were also blocked with cloth.
Not a single cry could be uttered.
This is just the beginning.
Ling Tulip had already blocked her eyes with her hands.
Each prisoner was forced to stand around the altar. When the innermost prisoners stood in a circle, another group of prisoners continued to stand side by side in a second circle. More and more prisoners entered the secret room.
There seemed to be no end, until more and more people stood in a circle, filling the entire secret room. Even the noble king could only stand in the corner of the secret room with his lover in his arms.
It wasn't until the last prisoner was escorted in that the guards closed the door to the secret room with force.
The stone door was so heavy that the guards, who were senior warriors, had to mobilize all their strength.
"You see, they are all death row prisoners and they should have been executed."
The King of Heroes stroked Ling Tulip's back and comforted her.
In fact, in order to ensure the purity of the souls produced by alchemy, the prisoners standing here are just ordinary people wearing prison uniforms. They are dressed up like this just to make the Hero King's wife feel better when she sees this scene.
Some of them even enjoyed a certain good reputation in their respective lands. Most of them were good-hearted people who were praised by others. Unexpectedly, kindness became the reason for being secretly executed.
Cecilia has silently given orders to the guards.
The guards standing at the edge of the altar stepped forward one after another. They were silent. Starting from the innermost prisoners, the exquisite daggers in their hands pierced and pulled out, constantly shuttling in front of the chests of each "prisoner". They were well-trained.
, every sword must hit the heart without missing a beat. The chest pierced by the dagger was quickly stained with a bloody flower, and each body fell limply. Their blood flowed from the heart from the chest along the traces of the dagger, like water.
It poured onto the floor and merged into the specially-made grooves under their corpses. Cecilia then activated the magic to allow the fresh blood to flow along the grooves and into the altar.
Blood sacrifice, pouring out a new soul with blood.
Ling Tulip did not remove her hand that was blocking her sight. She was very scared, but the plop of the "prisoner" falling still reached her ears one after another, shaking her eardrums. She felt scared, and she began to cry. However, strangely
What's strange is that when Aranza felt the emotions in his mother's heart in the dream, his own feeling was indifferent.
Maybe it’s because I’m used to seeing life, separation, and death.
Finally, when the last "prisoner" fell, scarlet blood also filled the altar, and the baby lying on the stone platform in the center of the altar was like a lonely boat drifting in the sea at sunset. The smell of blood replaced the secret room.
Other smells include the fragrance of the Hero King's nose.
"It's our turn."
The expression on the King of Heroes' face did not change at all. He patted his lover on the shoulder, with a mechanical and relieved exhaustion in his voice.
Ling Tulip buried her face in the chest of the King of Heroes and covered her eyes with her hands. She sobbed and shook her head. She suddenly did not dare to step over the blood-stained place.
A trace of regret finally appeared in the King of Heroes' eyes, and he said, "Look there, that's our child."
This sentence shocked Ling Tulip's body. She moved her hand, looked around the iron tower-like body, and stayed on the altar timidly but bravely. What's funny is that at the edge of her sight, Sisi
Leah stood quietly, her face turned so holy at this moment, just like a saint in the Holy See.
Ling Tulip bit her lower lip and finally began to take trembling steps.
Cecilia chanted a complicated and convoluted spell, and when the King of Heroes took his lover's hand and walked up to the altar, a small blue magic circle appeared right in front of them.
"Press your hand in the center of the magic circle."
Cecilia explained calmly.
Without any hesitation, the King of Heroes pressed his rough and strong hands in the center of the magic circle in front of him; while Ling Tulip also raised her delicate arms tremblingly after sobbing for a moment.
As if she had lost something in an instant, Ling Tulip's mind suddenly became empty, and something was rushing towards the magic circle along her body. She persisted hard until the lost thing left its final trace,
She felt relieved, and then fainted. The King of Heroes, who was as powerful as the legendary strongman, actually turned pale at this moment.
Aranza's dream should have stopped with his mother's fainting. This should have been his mother's memory. However, the dream still continued. However, the source of his sight suddenly changed. The starting point was from the stone platform in the center of the altar.
From here, I walked through the blood pool and looked at the figures on the edge of the altar, Aunt Cecilia, and my father supporting my mother who had fainted.
This sight came from him as a baby, and it was something he saw himself.
"Wow——!"
Aranza was startled and suddenly let out a violent cry.
At this time, the cry suddenly turned into a sharp sword, abrupt and sharp, instantly piercing Aranza's dream, and an unspeakable pain immediately exploded in Aranza's mind!
"ah--!"
Aranza screamed and sat up suddenly. He was panting heavily, and cold sweat unknowingly covered his forehead and the shirt under his armor. The scene in front of him also changed from the blur when he first woke up.
Seeing clearly, Aranza looked around nervously, but what she saw was a bright green color.
No, how can there be green in the Silent Domain?
"Master! Master! You finally woke up!"
The sound of rumbling immediately sounded in Aranza's mind. It turned out that the bright green color came from Rumong's body, which was lying down and protecting Aranza with its huge wings.
"Well, what's wrong?"
Aranza shook his head vigorously to throw the things in his dream out of his mind. He asked casually, and at the same time raised his hand and patted his rumbling wings, signaling it to move away from the eyesore of green.
Longlong did not answer Aranza's words, but raised his wings obediently, letting Aranza see the scene in front of him. But at the first sight, Aranza could not stop being shocked.
It's a skeleton. What's different from usual is that these are endless skeletons pouring out like waves!