A monster castle appeared in the border wasteland a hundred miles away from the volcano. This is a weird legend that has become popular in border towns recently.
In a hotel in a small town.
A few dirty miners were telling a group of workshop workers about the scenes they saw from a distance. The words contained real witnesses as well as their exaggerations and imaginations.
The lights are on in the hotel, which is the busiest place in the town at night.
People are always afraid of darkness and yearn for light.
"That swamp is dark and gloomy, and you can often hear shrill roars. The castle on the cliff is home to the most terrifying monster king." The miner waved his hands, body language and voice, coupled with the faint lights.
, making people involuntarily creepy.
"What kind of monsters are those?" someone asked, even though they were scared, they still longed for secrets.
"Sometimes they are completely transparent, and sometimes they turn into flames."
"They are the embodiment of fire and a vicious curse."
When the miner said this, he was trembling all over, and he took a sip of water after speaking.
He had actually seen this monster, although he was so frightened that he could not move.
"As long as anyone dares to approach that cursed land, they will be burned to ashes."
"You can't see them, and you don't know when they will appear next to you."
"but."
"When they show up, you're already engulfed in flames."
The miner shouted loudly, and his sudden movements shocked everyone present.
"It eats people from the body. These flaming monsters will penetrate directly into your body and eat your internal organs bit by bit."
Some people also talked about news they heard from unknown sources, or they just made up their own imaginations.
"I heard."
"They are monsters cursed by God, so they are imprisoned there forever."
People in the hotel and the town were all uneasy because they could feel that this was not a completely fabricated rumor.
The mysterious castle and the terrifying monsters.
Not far from them.
In the corner of the hotel, a man wearing a black smock with an unusual identity stood up, attracting everyone's attention.
"Is this what the monster you saw looks like?"
The silk scroll in his hand was unfolded, and inside was a portrait of the fire demon.
"That's right!"
"That's the kind of monster."
The miners screamed and even stumbled over the stone bench while walking backwards.
The man in black put away the silk scroll and walked out of the hotel.
The people in the hotel pointed, saying that a small town like theirs had never seen such a big man wearing a gorgeous smock.
Such people should be embraced in the city's castles and temples, rather than appearing alone at the border.
"Did you see the symbols on the clothes?"
"He is a priest."
"have you seen?"
"I've seen it at the priests in the city. Although it's different, the one with this symbol must be a priest."
The man in black walked out of the hotel and walked directly out of the town.
He looked into the wilderness. Further forward, it was no longer the country of Xiinsai.
In other words, it is no longer a place blessed by God.
There was a sad expression on his face. As a friend who grew up together, he vaguely guessed what Haru was thinking.
"Haru."
"Do you no longer consider yourself a Hinsai?"
The person who came was none other than Lan En, the priest of food.
Ever since Haru defeated Elena, no one has been able to find his traces.
Lan En searched all over Xiinsai but could not find Haru. Today, he finally got news about him in this border town.
turn out to be.
Haru is no longer in the territory of Xiinsai, but has become his own king of monsters in the wild lands outside the country——
Canyon swamp.
Lan En, the priest of food, sat on the sugar crystal giant and walked through the swamp to the depths. The mud in the deepest part of the swamp even directly covered the sugar crystal giant's shoulders.
In the darkness, Lan En heard some strange sounds.
Those were the newly born little fire demons, observing Lan En in the dark.
Of course Lan En also discovered them, although he would run away as soon as he got close to these little guys.
"A new race, a brand new life."
While Lan En felt surprised, he also expressed concern.
It was difficult for him to predict what kind of changes this race born with powerful power would bring to the world of the Three Leaf People.
It is good?
Or is it bad?
At the end of the canyon and swamp, the sky suddenly became brighter, and the moonlight shone on Lan En's body from a high place.
The Sugar Crystal Giant disappeared, and the noodle-brain monsters floating in the air turned into stairs and took turns, allowing Lan En to walk up the cliff.
The fire demon at the gate of the castle revealed its figure, and more than a dozen terrifying monsters cast tyrannical looks at Lan En, but Lan En seemed not to see them, and passed directly through the flame-wreathed flames in their gaze.
The pillars entered the castle.
"puff!"
A gas lamp suddenly lit up, and then the flames of two rows of lamps spread to the depths, illuminating Lan En's path forward.
The flame in the lampshade swayed, and he heard the whisper-like voice again.
But this time, little flaming heads poked out from inside the lamps and looked at him.
Lan En walked all the way forward and arrived in the hall.
"Haru!"
"You still like living so high!"
Haru sat on the stone seat, leaning forward with his monster-like burning body, looking at Lan En.
"You finally came."
Haru asked after his voice paused slightly.
"Lan En."
"Are you here to kill me?"
Lan En looked up at Fire Demon Haru and opened his mouth to say something.
Is it a question? A cross-examination? Or something else?
But in the end, it just turned into silence.
Neither of them thought that they would meet again after many years, one as a clover, and the other as a fire demon.
And what made them meet again was not to renew their youth, but because of the death of their teacher Sandian.
Although Lan En knew that Haru's death was not intentional, he did kill his teacher Sandian himself.
And Haru also knows that no matter how much he deceives himself or others.
In the end, he couldn't forgive himself in his heart.
"Haru."
"The teacher didn't blame you in the end. He asked me to take you back."
Lan En looked at Haru with extremely complicated eyes, and he let out a long sigh.
"The teacher asked me to tell you that you and he are both wrong."
"What you and he found was not the correct answer or the future, nor was there any secret to eternal life. Everything was just the wishful thinking of mortals."
"Teacher finally found a way to break through the fourth level. That is the right path."
He raised his head: "Haru, come back!"
"I will help you find a way to regain your body."
Haru didn't feel relieved at all when he heard these words and the teacher's name.
Instead, he looked like he had been touched by the most taboo thing in his heart. He suddenly stood up from his seat and screamed at Lan En.
Flames spurted out from his mouth and stretched in the castle hall.
"So you came all the way here just to tell me?"
"The teacher died, I gave up my body, we paid such a huge price, and we did not hesitate to touch the taboo."
"at last."
"In exchange for a joke?"
Haru's eyes were about to burst, and the orange flames in his eyes became distorted: "It's not wrong, it doesn't matter what you say."
How could he accept that after paying such a huge price, all he got in the end was a wrong direction.
Lan En's eyes did not change at all. Once people like them make up their minds, it is difficult to change: "Haru, the teacher asked me to take you back, and I will definitely take you back."
Haru: "Lan!"
"This is my kingdom, the kingdom of monsters."
The fire demon's voice emerged, becoming violent and uncontrollable: "This is not your Ice Temple."
Lan En didn't say much, but huge puppets appeared inside and outside the castle, and a transparent giant rose up from behind him,
Monsters like mire emerged from the ground, and monsters like brains and heads floated in the sky with tentacles waving.
He looked at Haru calmly and firmly.
Haru understood what Lan meant, and this was exactly what he thought.
He laughed heartily, and the fire demon's body instantly rose to a level that even the hall could not accommodate.
"Then let's prove who is the strongest."
Haru does not accept his mistake, and Lan En must fulfill his teacher's last wish, and he is not willing to watch Haru become a monster.
There is no way for the two to reach any consensus at this moment, they can only fight.
With a loud noise, the top of the castle was overturned.
The fire demon whose body and mind were constantly expanding walked out of the castle, and more third-level fire demons broke free from the shackles of the pillars and appeared on the cliff.
Hundreds of thousands of little fire demons also walked out of the lamps, surrounding the third-level fire demons.
The war began, but it didn't look like a fight between two people at all.
More like.
The war between two monster armies.
The noodle brain monster in the sky exudes a mental barrier and turns into a huge cover, enveloping the entire castle and cliff.
Hundreds of little fire demons soared into the sky, scattering flames like sparks and meteors.
For a while.
The sound of explosions was heard everywhere, as well as the waves caused by the impact of the mental barrier.
On the earth, the fire demons and mud monsters enslaved by Haru were fighting each other.
The mud monster sticks to the fire demon like a piece of mud, constantly extinguishing the flames on the fire demon's body, while the fire demon keeps spitting out flames in an attempt to evaporate the mud monster.
The two were entangled together, and it didn't take long before they were completely combined, turning into a mud-shell giant with magma flowing inside.
It seems.
It was like a giant whose limbs were out of sync, wrestling with itself and rolling all over the ground.
In the middle of it all, Haruze and Lan En's sugar crystal giant started a battle.
"Haru!"
"This is the power of the fourth level, and it is also the right path."
Haru looked at Lan En, who turned into a legion of people, and became more and more irritable and angry.
"correct?"
"Who is right? Why must you be right?"
"Why do you think you must be stronger than me? This is the power of the fire demon, this is the secret of eternal life."
However.
No matter how hard Haru refused to acknowledge Lan En's power, the huge difference between the third level and the fourth level was still reflected.
Haru's fire demon can only obey his orders, like a piece of loose sand; while Lan En's puppet is like his clone, like an arm wielder.
Haru's fire demon is just the blood of wisdom and power fused together through mental pressure, while Lan En's mythical blood has undergone transformation and has a fourth-level mythical organ.
Lan En's mythical organ, the brain, emitted light, and the power of mythology directly shrouded the cliff.
He was like a net, involving all the puppets, constantly putting pressure on Haru.
After a fierce battle, Haru was continuously divided and became independent.
In the end, a dozen of his third-level fire demons were tightly sealed by the mud monster, and hundreds of small fire demons in the sky were also blocked by the mental barrier of the noodle brain monster.
Even he himself was surrounded by Lan En's three sugar crystal monsters.
Haru couldn't accept it.
He kept retreating and retreated to the edge of the cliff.
He fought hard to attack the sugar crystal giant, and the flames transformed into various forms.
However, the core of the Sugar Crystal Giant is the blood of myth. Even if it is broken, melted, and turned into a puddle of syrup, it can be reassembled immediately.
It's like an immortal existence.
If you cannot defeat it from the level of divine blood, there will be no way to completely destroy these fourth-level puppets.
This is also the essential difference between third-order and fourth-order.
"Why?"
"Such a powerful power, the secret of immortality, and the immortal monster."
"How could I lose to you?"
Lan En, the priest of food, looked at Haru in a strange way. His face seemed to be taking turns showing joy, anger and joy, and he could even see the faces of other people.
Lan En's face became serious, and he even felt that Haru's voice became a little strange.
just like.
Became another person.
"what happened?"
"Haru, what's wrong with you?"
Haru heard Lan En's voice and finally stopped.
He stood on the cliff and looked back at Lan En. He said in a slightly unwilling tone that he would admit defeat.
"Lan En!"
"The teacher is right, but I was wrong."
"You are right, there has never been any secret to immortality."
"everything!"
"It's just our greedy delusions."
Haru let out a long sigh: "How could the secrets of gods be so easily spied upon by mortals?"
Although the hidden dangers of Haru's secret technique of reincarnation were alleviated because the target he chose was the fire demon he created, it still broke out in the end.
Haru already knew about such serious consequences.
It's just that Haru doesn't want to admit it, or at this point it doesn't matter whether he admits it or not.
Many times once a choice is made, there is no room for regret.
Lan En felt something was wrong, and he controlled the sugar crystal giant to step forward: "Haru, you lose."
"It's all over, follow me back!"
"I will bear all the mistakes and all the failures for you."
"Haru!"
"Teacher, I'm waiting for you to go home."
It was okay that Lan En didn't talk about the teacher. As soon as he mentioned the teacher's name, Haru fell into madness again.
The moment he heard the name, a sad smile appeared on Haru's face.
"No!"
"I don't have a home anymore."
"The teachers are dead, this is my home."
Haru laughed wildly: "I am a fire demon, and this is my kingdom."
He looked towards the canyon and swamp, and his words were full of expectation, or perhaps crazy gibbering.
"ah!"
"Look!"
"This is another world, where I will be reborn."
He jumped into the swamp, and the huge fire element that filled the low-lying areas of the swamp was instantly ignited.
"Boom!"
Huge flames spurted out from the canyon, and the fire dragon stretched for more than ten miles, dyeing the night sky crimson.
The entire dark swamp was ignited, and the fire stretched into the sky endlessly.
The place where Lan En stood immediately suffered the strongest impact.
"The Giant with the Divine Seal."
A giant tens of meters tall wrapped Lan En in his body. It had a hat and eyes made of noodles, a torso made of sugar crystals, and the blood flowing in its body was Lan En's food ointment.
The huge force of the explosion was cushioned by the elastic noodles and mud paste.
Lan En was not hurt at all.
But the dozen third-level fire demons that Lan En had restrained before broke free from their control and turned into gas and broke through the sky.
Hundreds of little fire demons scattered like meteors, rushing out from here in a steady stream.
That's not all. More small fire demons existing in the canyons and swamps were also corroded and ignited by Haru's power, and rushed out of the fire dragon.
A large part of them rushed towards the border of Xiinsai.
"not good!"
Lan En knew that he had to stop these fire demons from going crazy and out of control.
This place is on the edge of Xiinsai. The appearance of so many fire demons will definitely bring disaster to the border towns and the Trileaf people.