The Three Demon Gods of Hell are demons after all, and negotiating an agreement with demons is basically the same as signing a contract with a liar.
Moreover, these are a group of powerful liars with extraordinary power.
Facing Mephisto's tendency to fall out with each other, Gu Galu had no way to check and balance him. Although he had a good argument with the devil in the prison of hatred, nothing changed in the end.
Mephisto skillfully played with his mind, exploiting his weaknesses and the resentment in his heart induced by the demon's power to force him.
It told him to accept the order or die.
And if he dies, he will have no value, there will be no revenge, and there will be no point in any ambition.
The hatred and desire in his heart were infinitely amplified by the demon, and Gu Galu finally retreated.
He doesn't want to die, he still wants to live until the day Mephisto fulfills his promise.
He wants to be the administrator of Kurast Seaport, no matter whether the people under his command are humans or demons.
So he succumbed, and before nightfall, he took the six strange dolls who had been infused with a large amount of hell energy by Mephisto and about 500 "members of parliament" demon clone troops towards the Kurast seaport.
Rush to the front line.
Behind the harbor wall on the other side, the cessation of the Demon Legion gave the warriors of the Human Professional Legion and the mercenaries of the Iron Wolf Mercenary Group a hard-won time to prepare and rest.
People seize this short time to replenish all supplies, or bury their fallen comrades with their own symbols to comfort their spirits in heaven.
From the day professionals are fully recognized by the Holy Contract, their bodies have become part of the will of the world.
Professionals above level 40 will not have corpses after they die in battle. Their bodies will return to the embrace of the will of the world as a reserve energy for the next inauguration ceremony.
According to the parlance of this world, his soul returned to Akarat's arms.
Xue Hua stood quietly under a dead tree, looking at the professional soldiers who were burying the relics left by their comrades.
Those small shallow graves are the last tombstones left by these warriors in this world for their families and friends to pay tribute to. After all professionals reach level 40, they will take a representative object from their body and give it to their family members or comrades.
This way when one day they die in battle, his relatives and friends will at least have something to bury.
"Is this the first time you've seen such a scene?" A heroic female voice came from behind Xue Hua. When he looked back, he saw that Sothea had already stood beside him at some point.
"Actually, that's not the case..." Xue Hua turned around, with a trace of memory in his mouth: "During the battle in the Stone Wilderness, I once buried a close friend with my own hands, and he died trying to save me.
, and I still don’t know his name..."
"I didn't expect that you look young, but you have experienced a lot of things." Sothea glanced at the little guy next to her in surprise, and then a relieved smile appeared on her face.
"But that's right. The greater the power, the more complicated the things you experience will be."
"Is this what this sentence says?" Xue Hua blinked and looked back at Sothea: "Shouldn't it be 'the greater the power, the greater the responsibility'?"
"With great power comes great responsibility?" Sothea was stunned for a moment, and then a bright smile appeared on her face.
"Yes, that's not right either." She nodded, then shook her head slightly.
"What do you mean?" Xue Hua was a little confused.
"If your strength comes from your diligent study and hard work, and you have gone through all kinds of difficulties before you have the strength you have now, then you have no responsibility for anything, and no one has the qualification to forcibly tie you to responsibility.
In other words, your good and evil are all stored in your heart, you are not bound by anything, and your actions are based on virtue."
The female paladin turned her head and looked again at the small graves on the land in front of her.
After a long time, she spoke again in a clear voice.
“But if your strength comes from God’s gift, is the result of the contribution of others, and you also carry the hope of the person or thing that gave you strength, then you must shoulder the responsibility you should shoulder, no matter how big or small the burden is.
No matter how hard it is, don’t give up lightly.
Because at this time, it’s not just your soul that flows through you, everyone’s vision for the future is weighing heavily on your shoulders.”
After saying this, Sothea suddenly turned to Xue Hua and smiled.
"Fortunately or unfortunately, the power of us professionals comes from God's gift from the beginning, and all the people of the first world are our responsibility, so when it comes to us, what you said is not wrong.
With great power comes great responsibility.”
Xue Hua quietly looked at the soft but determined expression on the female paladin's face, and something seemed to begin to loosen in her heart.
He had convinced himself that he stayed in this world and fought just to protect the people he loved.
Everything else has nothing to do with him.
Demons, angels, and other humans in Sanctuary World, fight as they please, as long as they don't hinder you, then let them go.
If the devil gets in his way and threatens to harm his lover, then he fights the devil, as he is doing now.
But is the reason really that simple?
Then why was the resentment and sorrow in his heart so strong when he first entered the Kurast harbor and saw the piles of human corpses filling the streets?
Why did he feel so painful in his heart when the paladin risked his life to help him deal a fatal blow to the assassin in the cabin?
To him, is this world really just as he thought, just a passing inn?
When one day, the swarm of insects is strong enough to break out of the universe, can I really abandon everything in this world with peace of mind and just take my lover on the road to find the so-called "return home"?
Where is the way home?
Past and Present?
Xue Hua couldn't help but feel a little lost in thought.
Sothea didn't care about him, just took out a bouquet of flowers from the inventory and walked slowly towards the small graves.
Just when Xue Hua was lost in confused meditation, a sharp alarm suddenly sounded in the main nest mind.
At the same time, Isha also immediately issued a warning to Xue Hua, and instantly pulled Xue Hua out of his thoughts.
"Warning, warning, the insect swarm unit is under enemy attack!"
"What's going on? Where is it?"
Xue Hua was stunned for a moment, and his first subconscious reaction was that the demon army was attacking the city again.
But when he raised his head to look at the top of the city, he found that the professionals on it were still resting, and the insect mothers did not issue an alarm for the incoming enemy troops.
"All the Monitoring King Insects and Node King Insects in and around the enemy's stronghold location 'Cui Fanke' were suddenly wiped out by the enemy's ground-to-air defense means. Only one Monitoring King Insect had time to transmit back to the main hive mind before being destroyed.
surveillance images."
"What's going on? Aren't all the Overwatch Insects in the stratosphere? Doesn't Choi Van Kri have a surface-to-air railgun?"
After hearing Isa's report, Xue Hua couldn't help but widen his eyes.
The Supervisory King Insect and the Node King Insect have always been the most secretive eyes and ears of the insect swarm. Now that they have been messed up by the demon army in Cui Fank, it is obvious that Mephisto should have discovered the existence of the two Overlord Insects long ago.
"Send the final image to me for a look." Xue Hua calmed down a little, and then immediately ordered Isha.
Soon, a clear image appeared in front of Xue Hua from the main nest mind.
That is a panoramic view of Cui Fanke taken from a high altitude.
The most eye-catching part of this panoramic view is a group of black-robed men gathered at the gate of Cui Fanke, apparently preparing to cross the rain forest.
The number of these men in black robes is about 500, and each of them is wearing mysterious clothing and is passing through the embankment in front of Cui Fanke's gate.
