Nicolai frowned: "I don't understand, the White Blade Guard gave you everything..."
Monty shook his head and sneered, interrupting him: "Of course you don't understand."
"You are the person chosen by Kaslan, the future commander he has high hopes for, and the one who can carry the entire battle flag for the White Blade Guards."
His breathing quickened, and he pressed his right hand firmly on the ground, dragging it with all his might. He looked at Nicolai with eyes full of sorrow and resentment: "Serui Nicolai, you are a glorious snow blade with a shining blade. How could you do this?
Do you understand a dirty crow like me who lives on scavenging?"
"Yes, the White Blade Guard gave us everything, but they didn't give us a choice."
Listening to the other party's inexplicable words, Nicolai felt angry in his heart: "You"
But Monty kept talking to himself, blocking the words of the Fallen Star in his mouth.
"That was the day after we officially joined the team."
Monty said calmly: "Kaslan suddenly said to me that he thought I was very talented in scouting. It just so happened that after 'Coward' Laiken died of illness, the Guard was in short supply of such people. We happened to have a secret mission at night. Do you want to
Go and give it a try?”
Nikolai's cheeks moved slightly as he remembered this incident. He still remembered the envious expressions and sour tone of others when Kaslan said this incident, as well as the uncontrollable excitement and excitement on Big Mouth's face.
but……
Nicolai looked at Monty's eyes with complicated emotions and subconsciously closed his mouth.
"That night, there was no moon..."
The Dead Crow spoke softly, as if he was telling the children a long-standing lesson: "Kaslan took me, together with several other old guardsmen, and covered my face to do my first mission after joining the team.
.”
There was a gleam in his eyes that made Nicolai shudder: "A businessman has mastered something that the king is interested in. We are going to find this thing secretly. By the way..."
Monty paused and ended the sentence in a nonchalant tone:
"...Kill his whole family."
The sun was obscured by a cloud, casting a shadow between the two of them.
Brings a slight chill.
"What?"
Nicolai's face turned pale: "You?"
Monty's shoulders shook, his facial features trembled, and he laughed out loud while leaning on the rock:
"Hahaha," his breathing was extremely unstable, and his speech speed was fast and slow, like a person who had just been rescued from drowning:
"It's hard to imagine going out to kill people and set fires with your face covered in the middle of the night, right? Especially for the majestic Captain Nicolai, the White Blade Guard is so beautiful. Guarding is your most sacred duty."
Nicolai didn't speak, he just stared at the ground blankly.
"The moon was very dark that night, even human blood was black, and I couldn't see the face clearly."
Monty took a deep breath, shivered slightly, and his pupils trembled slightly: "I'm a lookout, so I don't have to do anything."
"But Kaslan, Dominic, and others... these respected seniors in the Guard, they stood among the dead bodies, holding torches, opening numb eyes outside the masks, leaving a privilege
It was given to me as the most special joining ceremony: to kill the last living person."
"An old woman on the hospital bed, dying, dying."
Nicolai, who listened quietly, felt a slight chill in his heart.
"They probably think that since I'm a newbie, I should start with something easier and slowly get used to it. She's going to die anyway."
Monty laughed dryly and said:
"But Kaslan and the others didn't know that when I cut her, the expression on her face before she died was completely different from the expression on my grandmother's face before she died."
"Of course, maybe I remember it wrong. After all, I have experienced so much...the memory of the first target is already very blurry."
But Monty's smile still faded, and his eyes were calm: "But they don't know."
"they do not know."
Nicolai didn't speak. He just stared at the other person blankly. As a white-blade guard who was supposed to protect his brothers, the Fallen Starman didn't know how to reply at this moment.
Monty took a deep breath and watched the clouds above his head slowly drift away, and the hot sunlight shone down again, bringing them into the light.
"That's it, Thornhead, in front of the light of the bright moon, under the witness of heavy snow, you hold your white blade high, drink strong wine, swear a blood oath, and become a white blade guard."
Death Crow said calmly:
"And I, I, in the deepest darkness, in front of the faint torch, facing the deep gazes of my predecessors, I also raised the blade high, using blood as wine, and using the head as evidence... I became another kind of white blade.
Guard."
"I don't even know if the handle of my knife is the customary snow white color."
"Because it was so dark that night, so dark that I couldn't see the color clearly. I couldn't even identify the old woman's neck blood, let alone whether the knife I was holding was a white blade."
Nicolai took a deep breath: "Fuck."
"It took me a long time to realize that the White Blade Guards of Longxiao City had been doing this kind of work secretly for a long time. It was earlier than we thought. Beyond the shining and tough snow blades, someone had to give up.
, get your hands dirty and do rough work, these are Kaslan’s exact words.”
Monty took a few breaths, and his eyes became more and more bloodshot:
"But they are old. The secret and ugly side of the White Blade Guards also needs to be replaced. Kaslan needs fresh blood and successors."
"Not to be an elite scout or a frontline sentry, but to be a killer who is not afraid of getting blood on his hands, a cold, ruthless and unwavering blade, a tool with no limits and no principles."
The Death Crow suddenly raised his head!
He stretched out his hand and slapped his chest feebly.
"And among so many people, Kaslan chose me."
Monty gritted his teeth and looked miserable:
"I was chosen."
The wind whimpered.
The two seriously injured men looked at each other in silence.
"From that day on, I put down my snow blade, put on my crossbow, and put on a mask," Monty faced Nicolai with his lower half of his face burned, trembling teeth: "I became an ominous black crow chasing death and carrion.
.”
Nicolai pressed the ground slumped: "Why, Big Mouth, why don't you tell me these things?"
"Tell you what?" The Dead Crow took a deep breath and looked up to the sky with a desolate laugh.
"What can you do? Stinger?"
"Go with me? Or beg Kaslan to let me go and just pretend that this unknown thing never happened?"
Nicolai closed his eyes tightly.
On the other side, the unconscious Thales groaned in pain.
Monty sneered lightly: "You don't know... it's not as simple as signing up for the lord's guard in the countryside. You just have to stand guard and sweep every day, accompany you in hunting, and occasionally send letters and run errands."
He struggled and raised his right fist:
"Nun is a very ambitious man. He doesn't want to be just the king of Longxiao City, but he sticks to neutrality and the darkroom with limited functions cannot meet his expectations. What he needs is not eyes and ears, not guards, or even soldiers, but a team.
A blade, a black hand, a cruel mercenary who has no bottom line and is absolutely loyal to him regardless of the reason, to fulfill his ambition for him."
"Kaslan is one of them, and I am his successor."
Nikolai was silent, constantly thinking about Kaslan before his death.
Recall the complex iceberg: the severe iceberg, the laughing iceberg, the sad iceberg, and the iceberg of relief before death.
He once wondered whether he had not matured quickly enough and could not share the burden on Kaslan's shoulders.
That's what finally led to such a tragedy.
But he suddenly understood today.
There is someone else who shares Kaslan's burden.
"For more than ten or twenty years," Monty stared at his fists: "You can't imagine where I have been, what people I have met, what things I have done, and what blood I have been stained with.
"
"Killing people and silencing them is only the most insignificant part of it."
"Remember after the Battle of Deep Valley, when we were each wounded and drinking in the Freedom Alliance military camp?" the Dead Crow said with a bitter smile: "You complained that you were guarding the palace gate all day long, it was too boring, and you envied me being out on duty all day long...
"
Nicolai frowned: "I..."
"But what do you know..." Monty shook his head.
"Every day, every night, every minute, every second, I have to wear a mask with different colors and the same dark cloak, walk in the shadows, rush among the blood, kill, kidnap, deceive, and rob
Plunder, threaten, spy, snipe, poison, provoke, rape, torture, torture... He has done almost all the dirty things he can do!"
Monty's expression tightened and he swung his right fist hard.
"From Camus to the stars, from the golden corridor to the thorny land... the undercover agent who blends into the crowd, the scout who patrols the front line, the robber who murders and sells goods, the prisoner who has committed many crimes, the killer who snipers at the target, the sentry who sneaks into the enemy camp and starts the war
I am a spy. For the King of Nunn, I will become whatever he needs. Everything is just to serve power. Especially after Kaslan retired, my work has only intensified."
"Facts have proven that I, who have abandoned conscience and morality, are the most outstanding tool. Clothed in the skin of the White Blade Guards, during the years of serving them, I killed countless political opponents, created countless opportunities, and provoked three wars.
Nunn was very satisfied with me, and he even handed me over to Prince Suril, expecting me to be his assistant in the coronation and become his royal assassin."
Monty lowered his head, but raised his eyes, staring at Nicolai with the whites of his eyes, gasping like a man before hanging:
"Do you understand it."
"You don't understand Kaslan, Thornhead, because I am the person closest to him."
Nicolai was in a heavy heart and could not say a word.
Death Crow slowly raised his left palm to cover the left half of his face.
"The person you admire most, Kaslan Lumba, whom King Nunn trusts most, has two faces around power."
A relaxed smile appeared on the right side of his exposed face, with the usual arrogance and rudeness of the unabashed brown-haired knight, just like many years ago: "Under this face, he holds a white blade, guarding the kingdom and the dragon.
Xiaocheng."
Monty gently moved his left palm to cover the right side of his face, revealing the left side. The smile gradually disappeared. His eyes were cold and sharp, and paired with the blackened left chin, he looked extremely ferocious: "Under the other face, he was full of
Covered in blood, spreading darkness and shadow."
Nicolai looked at him blankly and couldn't help but let go of the stone in his pocket.
He remembered the words carved on the stone.
【Caslan Insurance Holder Thalia】
Monty gently put down his palm, his face no longer showing any expression.
Appears cold and stiff.
Not popular at all.
"Under the banner of 'For Exeter', Kaslan was painfully caught between these two faces, suffering from it all his life and unable to extricate himself."
Nicolai trembled slightly.
Monty snorted coldly: "Maybe he doesn't want the tragedy to repeat, maybe he has had enough of everything, so he... hum... he is inheriting the White Blade Guards and training the last batch of newcomers..."
He stared at his old friend in front of him:
"The 'earth-shaking' Kaslan, the invincible Kaslan, he tore his contradictory self, his two-sided self...into two halves alive and bloody."
Nicolai's breath paused.
The Death Crow slowly stretched out his index finger and pointed directly at the meteorite.
His eyes were focused on it seriously, as if this was the aim before a sniper attack:
"He gave you the bright and dazzling half."
With a serious look on his face, he spoke in a loud voice: "Seri Nicolai, the Fallen Starman who made great achievements in front of Broken Dragon Fortress."
"The leader of the White Blade Guards, the battle flag that never falls, the indestructible iron wall. You are the descendant he has high hopes for. You lead the future of the White Blade Guards like the leader of the wolf pack, and protect the wind like the wings of a snow eagle.
Northland in the snow.”
The Fallen Star said nothing.
The breeze blew again, and a thin cloud invaded the path of the sunlight. The earth became dark, and the two people facing each other were indistinct.
Monty retracted his finger, slowly turned it halfway, and pointed at his chest.
Although the man raised his lips, the emotions bursting out in his eyes were extremely complex and unfathomable:
"And he gave me his dark and dirty side."
He smiled playfully and said softly: "Ned Monty, the dying crow lingering in the endless hell."
"A nameless killer, a beast in human skin, a cold-blooded blade, and even dregs with bloody hands, covering the ladder of power on the throne like a shadow under the clouds, and chasing the carrion like earthworms in the sewer And the fishy smell.”
Death Crow's smile became even brighter.
"The two of us are the two sides of the legendary 'Earth-shaking' Kaslan."
"Inheriting his supreme glory..." On the ground full of burning smell, Monty took a deep breath, as if tasting the freshest air:
"...and endless sin."
Nicolai's expression was bitter and his mood was complicated, and he could not speak for a long time.
But Monty just looked at the sky with a smile.
It seems like there is his hometown there.
"Forehead……"
Not far away, Thales was lying on the ground, moaning in pain, as if he was experiencing embarrassing torture.
Nicolai frowned and looked at the prince.
At this moment, Monty's right hand moved suddenly!
"puff!"
With a loud noise, a dark cross-arm crossbow flew from the air, pulled by a very thin iron wire, pulled from Monty's back across the low rock, and flew into the hands of the Death Horn Crow.
The Meteor's expression suddenly changed!
"Damn it!"
The battle resumed, and the two men, who had recovered a little strength, started moving almost at the same time!
Nicolai struggled up from the ground, holding a saber, and limped towards Monty with all his strength.
Sitting on the ground, Death Horn Crow gritted his teeth, put his feet into the pedals of the crossbow machine, and cocked the bow with all his strength, regardless of the injury on his hands.
The Meteorite rushed one meter in front of Monty, but the Death Crow used one leg as an axis to roll on the spot, struggling to avoid Nikolai's first knife!
He also kicked up a large amount of dust, and Nicolai narrowed his eyes slightly under the stimulation.
Monty looked ugly, and his rolling aggravated his injuries.
Just listen to a "click" sound and winding is completed.
Death Crow calmly pulled his feet out of the crossbow pedals.
Nicolai's heart tightened!
Oops.
The Fallen Starman did not delay, he activated his remaining finishing power and roared towards the Death Crow in the smoke!
Monty struggled to raise his crossbow, and with a long crossbow arrow that had been set up on it at some point, he turned towards the Fallen Starman.
One is sitting on the ground, the other is flying, both of them have ferocious faces at the end of the crossbow. They are only one meter apart, and the blades and crossbow arrows are facing each other!
The next moment.
"clang!"
This is the sound of the blade hitting the crossbow.
Nicolai stared at the enemy in front of him and breathed a sigh of relief: he finally hit Monty's weapon before his opponent fired the crossbow.
Facing the Rising Sun Saber, the black crossbow miraculously did not break, but it deviated from the direction after all.
"Whoa!"
This is the sharp sound of a crossbow arrow leaving the string.
A roaring crossbow arrow missed the side of Nikolai's face and shot to an unknown place.
"Boom!"
Nicolai hit him hard with his knee, knocking the helpless Monty until he vomited blood and fell back to the ground. His only arm crossbow barely escaped his hand and flew away into the distance.
"Hold!"
The Meteorite roared angrily and limped backwards, barely holding on to the rock wall before falling:
"You just don't give up, right?"
On the ground, with blood on his face, Monty tried his best to raise his head and smiled.
Looking at his expression, Nicolai suddenly felt that something was wrong!
"Tsk-dong!"
Without any warning, as if being pushed hard by an invisible arm, Nicolai's whole body slammed into the rock wall and stuck to the rock wall!
"Clang!"
With a few crisp sounds, the Rising Sun Saber flew several meters away and fell to the ground, its red blade gradually cooling down.
"ah"
The meteorite screamed in agony!
He lowered his head in disbelief and saw a crossbow arrow that was slightly longer than its kind. It first penetrated his left forearm, then passed through his left upper arm, and finally penetrated into his left shoulder, nailing the Fallen Man's entire body firmly.
On the rock wall!
How is this going?
Feeling the severe pain from his arm to his shoulder, which made him almost unable to move, Nicolai, who was dripping with cold sweat, looked at the crossbow arrow in shock, and then at Monty who was smiling: Did he obviously miss the target?
I wasn't...didn't I avoid it?
"Yeah, yeah," the Dead Crow spit out a mouthful of blood, trembling and tried to get up, but eventually fell down again: "I forgot to introduce."
But when Monty looked at Nikolai, who was nailed to death by a crossbow arrow and was filled with shock and anger, he still snorted coldly and pointed at the inconspicuous black arm crossbow in the distance.
Following his gaze, the Meteor's expression changed.
"This piece of junk."
"There has never been anything it can't shoot." Monty's face darkened and he took a sip. Looking at the crossbow lying on the ground, he seemed to be extremely disdainful. "There has never been anything it can't shoot. Its existence is to torture.
Every master."
Nicolai endured the severe pain, extremely angry, and looked at the weapon with confusion.
"Legendary Anti-Devil Armed Forces,"
Just listen to the voice of the dead howl crow slightly dissatisfied: