Flying high in the forest, Todd used his eagle eyes and clairvoyance powers to observe the blood stains scattered on the ground.
While flying forward along the blood trail, Todd said to himself: "Where does this guy want to go?"
The blood trail went north from the battlefield and penetrated deep into the heart of the Kingdom of Connaught.
After several hours of circling and tracking, Todd finally flew over a circular arena built on the top of a mountain.
"How could a gladiatorial arena be built in such a remote place?" Todd carefully and slowly lowered his height and approached some of the buildings below him.
After some observation, Todd discovered that the arena had only completed the basic civil construction and greening, and the decoration had not been completed. It could only be regarded as a half-built construction site. However, the stands of the arena were full of people.
"People" packed all the seats.
What makes Todd strange is that these "audiences" in the stands are just sitting here still, not talking, not even moving, and the whole space seems weird as if time has stopped.
Lowering it a little further, Todd gasped in shock at the scene in front of him.
Looking around, the thousands of "audiences" sitting here are not living people at all, they are all corpses wearing clothes, and some have even rotted into withered bones.
Among these corpses were civilians wearing ordinary clothes, nobles wearing fine clothes, and even kings holding scepters and wearing crowns.
Everyone was nailed to their seats with iron nails, their faces forced to face the center of the arena, and a wooden stick was tied to their backs to support their bodies.
Todd, who was stunned by the scene in front of him, slowly landed on the ground, looked at everything around him, and murmured: "What kind of madman is this that would do such a thing?"
"Todd..."
A weak voice sounded, and Todd turned around and saw the monster dragging his injured leg at the entrance of the arena.
"Cuchulin..." Todd opened his golden dragon eyes and waved his dragon wings towards the audience: "These! You did all this?!"
Cu Chulainn, who was stabbed by the Spear of Death, was sluggish and weak. His upper body showed half a human face, and he said in a low voice: "This... this is my resting garden, it's mine.
A holy place for the soul..."
Todd looked at Cu Chulainn in disbelief, his shock and anger making him forget his words.
"Look at the highest stand. There are King Conchieber of Ulster and King Aegir of Connaught sitting there. Beside them are a number of kings or lords of small countries." Cu Chulainn smiled.
Looking at the auditorium, he said with familiarity: "In the front of the auditorium are the nobles of Ulster; and in the back are the people of the kingdom..."
"That's enough!" Todd slammed his forelimbs into the soil, and the huge impact caused cracks in the earth like spider webs: "I made a mistake before! What you did was even a beast.
Not as good as that!”
Cu Chulainn stopped his movements, looked at the furious Todd, grinned and said: "Todd, I have heard about you, and I have always wanted to ask you a question... What if we encounter an invasion now?
It's not Ulster, it's Twilight City, what will you do?"
Todd was stunned: "What did you say?"
"What would you do if the Duxi City that you built from scratch and worked so hard to end up in Ulster's current situation?"
Seeing Todd fall silent, Cu Chulainn continued: "When Muxi City was swallowed up by the flames of war, the invaders' iron hooves stepped on every inch of your land. The nobles only cared about self-preservation, and even betrayed the country for glory; while the people forgot about the kingdom.
Glory, betrayed the original oath, gave up the only faith... What would you do at that time?"
Cu Chulainn stretched out his alienated limbs and pointed at the black dragon in front of him: "You will become as crazy as me... No, you will be more violent and cruel than me."
Todd raised the dragon's head and stared at Cu Chulainn: "No, I am different, and Muxi City is different..."
Cu Chulainn laughed, as if he had heard the funniest thing in the world: "Look at me, then look at yourself! We are no longer human beings! What are we?! We are tyrants! We are beasts! Are we like beasts?
In this world, is there still good and evil?"
"What we need is flesh and blood, killing!"
Cu Chulainn paused for a moment, slowly lowered his forelimbs, and said with a sad expression: "But for you and me, the brutal behavior and terrifying appearance are just to keep the last little light in our hearts, which is the motherland.
…”
Todd frowned and looked at Cu Chulainn without speaking for a long time.
Two tyrants, two beasts, stared at each other in a land filled with death and despair.
After a long time, Todd spoke first: "Cu Chulainn, give up...come back to the Kingdom of Shadows with me, Scathach is waiting for you."
Cu Chulainn shook his head and smiled bitterly: "Wait for me? You can even tell lies so poorly."
Pointing to the wound on his thigh, Cu Chulainn said to Todd: "Why did my master give you another handful of Death Silence? Do you really not understand, or are you just pretending to be confused? This means that she has given up.
I mean what she wants to see is my head!"
"When I went to the Kingdom of Shadows and narrowly escaped death in the trial, I wanted to prove myself to my country and the people I loved, to prove that I had the ability and willingness to protect them, and to prove that I was their hero!"
Cu Chulainn's spirit became worse and worse, and his human form was gradually swallowed up by the monster form, and his voice became lower and lower: "In the end, the king, the nobles, and the common people all betrayed this country, and I am the only one left to suffer.
I struggled to support myself; and the people I loved, my fiancée, my friends, and my master, all abandoned me one after another, leaving me alone to survive like a ghost... What did I do wrong? Why...
"
Finally, the last human eye on Cu Chulainn's face was swallowed into the monster's body, and no trace of human existence could be seen in the entire body.
The monster's body began to mutate, growing in size again, reaching a height of about fifteen meters. Countless iron whip-like tentacles grew on its back and chest, and countless compound eyes were like the holes of a honeycomb, blooming like flowers on the wolf's face.
The forelimbs slowly became thicker and evolved into two huge sharp blades, while the hind limbs slowly degenerated into sarcoma and retracted into the abdomen. Eight sharp claws protruded from the ribs and extended outside the body surface, becoming something like a spider.
of limbs.
All these changes made Cu Chulainn look like a giant monster with a body like a wolf and legs like a spider.
Todd looked at the monster in front of him and suddenly realized a troublesome fact.
Cu Chulainn, who has completely lost his humanity, has entered the second form of a tyrant.