Monsters Will Die If They Are Killed

Twenty-two years ago, in the southern part of the Kerba Empire, the quiet frontline of the forest.

Under the gloomy sky, crimson fire light spreads in the dark green forest. While illuminating the front line of the night, it also filled the battlefield with the smell of coke and ashes.

In the town completely torch, countless elven corpses burned to charcoal are scattered among the flames and charcoal. The mutilated corpses may strangle their necks or stretch their heads, as if to I was drowned, trying my best to breathe.

After being bombarded by alchemy fuel bombs, the gathering place for the elves is now being cleaned by exhausted human soldiers. In this hostile forest, only the land that has been burned can be considered safe. Otherwise, it will not be counted as those full of diseases and Poisonous mosquitoes, even a blade of grass, may quietly stretch out sharp branches and leaves in the dead of night, penetrate into the ears of deep-sleeping soldiers, and shatter their brains.

In the fourth year of the Elven War, the Kelba Empire’s First Royal Legion broke through the third layer of defense of the Elven King’s Court and burned the frontline war to the area directly under the Elf King’s Court.

And just in this front camp full of corpses, burnt smells, man sweat and blood, a young priest tremblingly followed behind a general in a black power armor, looking around the piece in a panic. A land full of elves' grudges.

"DìDū Antar's proud disciple, although he said he was brought here for gilding, but his teacher said, it doesn't matter if he died."

The general brought the young priest to the deputy commander of this force. He laughed and pushed the still timid priest forward: "Some time ago, I remembered that you said that there was a lack of an army priest? This is for you."

The priest raised his head and looked in front of him. The commander who was standing in the camp had his eyes calm. Now the machine is motionless, accepting the general's instructions.

At that time, the soldiers' hair did not turn gray, and they were full of high confidence that could definitely win victory and win glory.

The priest's gaze hasn't changed cold, facing the soldier's blade-like gaze, he will even lower his gaze subconsciously, not daring to look directly.

And this is the first encounter between bounty hunter Mikhail and the oath priest Matvi.

Although it doesn’t matter if he is dead, no one really dared to let DìDū’s proud disciple walk on the front line at will. Matvi got twelve soldiers as his guards, and he was responsible for following the striker’s back for injuries. Soldier treatment.

The war on the front line is ignited every day. In order to regain the homeland, the elves are planning counterattacks all the time. The fertility rate of these pointed ears with a lifespan of 180 years is not as low as in the story, as long as there is a stable environment. The population growth rate of their longer fertile period is actually no less than that of human beings, and in the forest, they are more like a fish in water. The human side can only advance along the way through the burning forest warfare, otherwise it will be difficult to move.

The reason why the Kelba Empire attacked the Elf King’s Court was for the super-large mana spar veins in the silent forest. Since the empire’s mana industrialization reform, the value of mana ore that was originally only needed by mages has risen all the way, except for the north. There are no other high-value mana mines in the imperial territory, except for the high-reserve mineral veins in the mountains surrounding the Maiar.

For development and wealth, the lord of the southern empire persuaded the royal family to launch this war, but no one thought that the battle would be so tragic. The fully mechanized army of the empire thought it was invincible and felt that it was invincible. The army will be defeated as easily as the western barbarians and become their cheap labor slaves.

But the war has been going on for four years. The empire has invested enough military power and wealth in it to recreate three DìDū. The financial burden caused by a large number of deaths made it difficult for the military department to even issue pensions, and the Elven King Court even sent the Archdruid. The towns in the southern part of the empire set off a'dark green disaster'. The wild growing trees destroyed many cities and killed countless civilians. The poisonous miasma has not dissipated.

Riding a tiger is the current situation, but fortunately, the war potential of the empire is still stronger than that of the elves. After paying the price of almost annihilating the southern industrial circle and the collective northward movement of the empire’s industrial production areas, Silent Qunsen is now more than half. As scorched earth, the number of elves who died was three times that of the imperial, completely emptying the population of two generations of elves.

The winning ticket is in hand. Today's Elven King Court has begun to move towards the east, and some of it has even got the support of the dwarves to go deep underground. On the surface, the fierce attack is to regain the homeland, but in fact it is only to delay the emperor's footsteps.

"My lord, something happened before..."

The soldier came to report the situation to the young priest, and was already a little used to the battlefield. At least he nodded his head because he saw the corpse and was not disgusted: "Take me to see."

Then, he saw two young elves trembling, surrounded by soldiers, hiding in a tree hole.

"Two long-eared bastards, ha, it seems that they are less than ten years old, and sending them to the back is not a small exploit!"

The soldiers laughed vulgarly: "The big people above like this taste, it's fucking weird!"

The priest didn’t care about the strange look the soldiers had towards him. He also knew very well the weird tastes of the aristocrats and great priests in the upper class of DìDū, but none of this had anything to do with him. The young man noticed the quivering young elves. The trembling, fearful look in his eyes suddenly stabbed in his heart.

"The first ancestors are on, and the war is cruel, but it has nothing to do with the children."

Leaning down, the priest knelt on one knee and took out the water bag. He wanted to feed some water for an elf child with slightly chapped lips, but the other party refused to accept it.

The gender differentiation of elves will only appear after they secrete hormones at the age of fifteen. Elves before the age of fifteen are all minors, and there is no gender at all. Elves of this age are more expensive and more expensive in the empire. Easy to tame, this is the research result of the Imperial Academy since the Four Years War.

But priests never liked such cold remarks.

According to legend, the dragon of the ancestor created the world, and its soul divided into three parts: the heaven and the earth and the three dragons of life. The heavenly dragon turned into clouds, snow, wind, thunder, rain and dew, and the earth dragon turned into mountains, rivers, and sea islands, while the dragon of life divided again. , Became thousands of groups on the earth.

Everyone is the child of the dragon of life and the descendants of the ancestor. All races are brothers, and the elves are no exception.

In the end, the young priest successfully calmed the two elf children. At this time, the front line did not fight. They were stationed in the camp, ready to wait for follow-up troops to follow up, and by the way handed the two good goods they caught to the logistics team.

But the priest didn't plan to do this. He wanted to pay for the two elf children himself-he couldn't control the war, but at least he could save one.

However, in the middle of the night, the priest who had not been asleep for a long time heard a harsh scream.

"Enemy attack!"

Hearing the sharp sirens, he quickly picked up his scepter. On the battlefield, no one dared to take off their equipment and rest. Even the weapons were placed in handy places, but he hadn't waited for the priest to leave his barracks. A few thin figures tore apart the camp like ghosts, sharp knives and sharp arrows reached his heart and forehead.

At this moment, the priest saw that the two elf children he had placed next to his room were bleeding with one eye, holding an eye-shaped gem that released a bright purple light, and restrained the camp. At the same time as the guard signaled, it also released highly toxic gas, flooding the camp.

And the elite assault troops of the elves have rushed into the camp, and death spread rapidly as countless shadows flashed.

The gods who were dragged out of the camp and disarmed saw that the two young elves who had mixed into the camp with their own eyes as magic gems, the only remaining eyes were full of unforgettable hatred.

All the people in this camp were killed, only the priest was left. He was going to be sentenced to death after torture, but the two elves said a few elves, causing the leader of the elves to let him go. horse.

It has nothing to do with any feelings, just because he is a disciple of a big man, and is of great value as a captive.

For the next thing, the priest didn’t know anything. He was simply locked in a small cage in despair, spending time in a muddle-headed manner, until a few days later, there was another fierce battle, and he was robbed by the empire. Came back.

After coming out of the cage, he was covered in filth and looked around at the surrounding land...there were corpses everywhere, the smell of gunpowder smoke, and the traces of flesh and blood in the dark green forest were so conspicuous and clear.

They were all dead. Whether it was the commander of the Elf assault force or the two Elf children, the corpses were scattered incompletely on the battlefield, while the bloodshot exhausted Emperor was still searching the battlefield to make up for the elves who were still alive.

And until the end of death, the eyes of all the elves were filled with bitter hatred.

"Ah, ah..."

The priest lowered his head in pain, and he made a hoarse voice... What is kindness and what is viciousness?What is right, and why is wrong?

If it is said that being kind to the enemy is vicious to oneself, then why are the children of the same ancestor dragon, both sides must have defeated this point?

The priest could not understand this, or that he could understand the disputes of interest, but he did not understand why the ancestors would allow such a world to exist.

Therefore, we can only issue deep questions.

"Ancestor... why is it like this?"

Twenty-two years later, the northern outskirts of Maia.

After the southern industrial circle of the empire was greatly injured by the war of elves, the new industrial nobles headed by the Maiar family accumulated a huge amount of wealth, and even faintly became the northern emperor. There are even rumors that the Maiar family is conquering territories. , The planning of independent kingship.

Does all of this have anything to do with the people in the Dragon Ball War?of course.

Because everyone and things in the world are not isolated islands, they are all connected to each other.

"Lieutenant Colonel Mikhail, long time no see."

Standing in front of the bounty hunter, Matvey, whose burns had not healed, stood straight. His eyes were indifferent and his words were clean and tidy. Facing the acquaintance in front of him, his tone was with a light nostalgia: " I didn’t have a chance to say hello when fighting for Dragon Ball. This should be our first meeting since the end of the Elf War."

"I remember, the soft-hearted idiot, my twelve brothers died, and you were the only one who lived alone."

The gray-haired veteran glanced at the second prince on the side. The young man with long blond hair was unexpectedly calm. He controlled the behemoth Leviathan to stop attacking the mountain and nodded slightly at Mikhail.

Suppressing the doubts in his heart, the bounty hunter frowned and looked at Matvi. He said solemnly: "After you were punished, you returned to DìDū not long after. After a few years, you rebelled against the church... When we talked, everyone felt weird. They thought that you were extremely talented and direct. Punishment would not affect your future promotion. Why did you defect?"

"Now think about it, you had already taken refuge in the royal family at that time, and became the dog of the second prince family."

In the old days, General Kommer, the supreme commander of the Elf War in the southern Kerba Empire, was the second prince’s mother and the younger brother of Princess Isabel. Mikhail had a clear memory of that man, especially the Glory War. His speech is almost vomiting.

"If you have to say that, I won't deny it."

For Mikhail's extremely malicious irony, Matvey admitted calmly, hearing the words, the bounty hunter was taken aback, and his eyes became even more disgusting.

"Yesterday, it was you and Zhuzhou who were fighting? Unexpectedly, there was a soft black mist like noodles on the battlefield, but now you will be so desperate-didn't you even kill children? Now turn your head and kill. But it’s so skilled."

This is the matter of turning his gun to attack the young hunter Fendt before satirizing Matvey. Mikhail has been paying attention to Matvey’s reaction, trying to provoke him with pungent words, and seizing the opportunity to take advantage of the other’s emotional ups and downs. go away.

But he found with regret that the other party was not shaken at all.

"Stop talking nonsense, Mikhail, my partner is monitoring your every move from the sky, you can't escape anyway."

With that said, Matvey’s tone is as hard as a rock: “The reason why we don’t kill you right away is that you just think you can be a target.”

"You were also a party to the Elf War. I know your wishes very well. I think our goals are quite the same."

Mikhail stared blankly, then narrowed his eyes and stared at the two flying in the sky. He seemed to want to laugh, but in the end he just gave a cold snort.

"Yes, Lieutenant Colonel Mikhail."

And this time, it was the second prince, Kumor Kelba, whose tone was still instinctive, derived from the aloofness of the dragon royal family, but he was indeed full of sincerity: "The start of the war of elves, let The vitality of the empire was severely damaged, and the south turned from prosperity to decline. I witnessed all this with my own eyes and saw the limitations of this country."

"Obviously it has absolute material and technological advantages, but the empire has never been able to defeat the pointed ears in the forest-I was puzzled about this, but then I figured it out.

The elves fought bloody, fighting for their own race and land. This nationalist spirit is a more advanced idea than our empire. The empire of Connaught is not one at all, but we are divided into Southerners and Northern Barbarians. , The mountain people in the west and the dumplings in the east—they are a unified whole, but we are a divided and contradictory group of people, not the "glorious citizens of the Kerba Empire"."

The second prince talked freely. When he said this, his face became gloomy: "This is why we can't completely defeat the elves. There is no cohesion in this country. Everyone fights on their own - and my purpose , Is to change all of this and rebuild this empire with the power of the ancestor!"

"laugh."

In this regard, Mikhail just wanted to laugh. He even laughed out loud. The man whispered: "The country that cannot afford pensions, is still talking about cohesion... This country still exists now, just because there is no People rise up, erecting the banner of rebellion."

"Yes."

Matvi was extremely calm and responded directly.Like Kumol, he didn't think there was anything wrong with this statement: "That's why it needs to be changed, right?"

"I have changed, I killed the past me, changed my own cowardice and innocence, and then, I should try to change the surroundings and change the world."

"So go to be the dog of the royal family?" Mikhail remained unmoved.

And Matvey sneered: "What about you? You have been doing nothing for so many years, just to make money as a bounty hunter? You have a lot of love and righteousness. In the end, you didn't make a desperate bet, and ran over to make a wish. You didn't plan at all, and bet 10,000 points. One of the odds?"

"Ha, it's like the royal family will make you change...wait"

Mikhail intended to continue using words to delay time and look for opportunities, but suddenly, he noticed something. The bounty hunter turned his head in shock and looked at the smiling second prince: "You said you want to take a wish? Isn't it a royal conspiracy? It's the private of the two of you..."

"Yes, the royal family didn't know that I stole the Dragon Ball."

With that said, Kumor stretched out his hand, and in a split second, the dragon ball inscribed with the weird book totem, hidden in Mikhail's arms, suddenly disappeared, and then recondensed in the hands of the second prince. He smiled: "Dragon Ball Acknowledge me, this is how I am, take it out of the treasure house."

"Now the Dragon Ball War has begun, and probably tomorrow, the night shadow troops sent by the father to kill my rebellious son will be in the north-but by then, everything has already ended, I will give him this great gift ."

"Surrender, Mikhail."

Regarding the silent bounty hunter, the second prince magnanimously said: "After I become the emperor, I will definitely change this empire and bring a new order to this land-I don't have to hide it from you, if it's not for the sudden walking alone, The Maia family in the Northland is also my ally, and there is also a dragon ball holder. I gave her dragon ball secretly, and I definitely don't mind joining me."

"Except for you, Vika, who represents the church, and the boy in the mountain who accidentally got the dragon ball, I have already got four dragon balls, and the boy in the mountain has already died for the first time, and the lone candle day is seriously injured. Worry, you and Vika are the only remaining threats."

Speaking softly, for many years, the second prince who has been treating people with a frivolous appearance, but secretly collected four dragon balls, showed wise eyes, he confidently persuaded: "Join my banner, let us change together This empire and the world!"

"I swear to my ancestors-Kumor Kelba will strive to make this country better throughout his life!"

The oath is sonorous and powerful.

In a world where the ancestor still has miracles, no one dares to abandon the oath made in the name of the ancestor. This is the oath of the god destined to keep the promise.

Everything was silent.

The huge Leviathan stared at the gray-haired man standing on the mountainside.

The middle-aged veteran, the strongest bounty hunter bowed his head blankly.

——Why did I come here to participate in this war of desire?

Isn’t it just to change this country and the world?

Kumol and Matvi are very familiar with both of them. Although they can say acrid irony, it is because they have both experienced the hell 20 years ago, so he understands that the other party's beliefs are also absolute. Not false.

To change this country, although the methods we want to use are different, but the purpose is the same. As long as there is the blessing and wish of the ancestors, all problems can be overcome.

At this moment, Mikhail suddenly recalled the battlefield of the past, a comrade-in-arms who died rather than alive because of meaningless wars, and there was nothing he could do, so he could only pick up the blade and liberate them.

The world shouldn't be like this. His heart was roaring at that time. As a soldier, he felt that war and death were not unacceptable, but it should not be this kind of war and this kind of death.

Mikhail still remembers how Matvi was crying after he was rescued. The young priest asked everyone bitterly and sadly at that time. He asked, this painful and mutually torturing everything is because the ancestor created all living beings. The purpose?

At that time, Mikhail's answer in his mind was naturally "no".

Because he remembered the answer in his heart that day, he felt that someone who would shed such tears might be worthy of trust.

Above the sky, the silent prince and the always calm priest looked down at each other, waiting for their answer.

"last question."

After ten long seconds, Mikhail slowly raised his head, and the tired-faced veteran asked softly: "You become the emperor, after you change this empire... can you guarantee the same for your descendants?"

"...I will educate them, but this kind of thing..."

The prince was taken aback for a moment. He is not even the prince now. How could he think of the problem of becoming an emperor and descendants after death, so he hesitated a little, and then slowly shook his head: "At least it will be better than now, won’t it? Maybe I You can rule the country as a monarch and establish a constitution, but I don’t know about this..."

"So, as long as the emperor still exists, this question is unsolvable."

Slowly raising his head, Mikhail's voice was a little sad: "Perhaps you can indeed become Mingjun, but what about the next generation? What about generation after generation? Do you have to repeat this cycle?"

"I don't know the order I want, but it's definitely not the case. It's the'change' of changing the soup without changing the medicine!"

Without any hesitation, the bounty hunter stretched his hand into his arms and grabbed the dragon ball inscribed with the "world snake", his eyes became fierce and firm in an instant.

"Kumor and Matvey, I refuse your invitation!"

"Really, it's a pity."

With a long sigh, without any hesitation, Mattwei and the second prince, who were ready for battle earlier than Mikhail, attacked at the same time with their dragon.

The huge Leviathan uttered a roar, and just before the roar rang through the world, the bounty hunter was shocked to find that countless translucent and overlapping'human figures' appeared around him, firmly restraining him. Every part of the body.

"This, what power is this? Leviathan? But how could Leviathan—"

"This is Leviathan, but it's not Leviathan either."

For Mikhail's doubts, Kumor didn't mean to explain, he just drew his gun from his waist, and aimed at Mikhail, who was held down by layers of figures.

——Leviathan, a behemoth in the sea, originated from the legend of the mother god Tiamat from ancient Sumerian mythology, and a behemoth basilisk born in the Hebrew land. Its original image is The coiled snake that symbolizes the maelstrom of the sea.

However, the form of Leviathan is changeable. As the prototype of the symbol of the "big sea beast", it sometimes derives from the seven-headed serpent, sometimes it derives from the mountain behemoth like a whale, and sometimes it is The hovering snake entwined in the sea, the scaly giant crocodile emitting flames.

It is jealousy, distortion, and whirlpool.

Nature can also be a'human being', a'country', and a'monster made up of people'.

Just like countless myths and legends, using the name'Leviathan' to give meaning to the behemoth with countless images.

Hundreds of years ago, a scholar once again used this name in his work and used it as a metaphor for "country".

"Leviathan, or the essence, form and power of the church state and the citizen state"

Or translated as "The Great Spiritualism"

Human power, if dispersed, is so fragile, human groups without cohesion are as fragile as biscuits, so human beings have always been united and cohesive, just like the fish in the sea, they will gather into huge fish beasts. To protect yourself.

However, when the school of fish becomes a whole, part of the fish must be protected and part sacrificed, just as a hero can raise a sword to protect the masses, or grow dragon scales to oppress the masses.

But even so, mankind has been so tirelessly creating such a behemoth, creating a'Leviathan' condensed by mankind. At the beginning, it represented the family, the tribe, and the city-states. In the end, They created their own final creation-a behemoth that allows everyone to have a sense of belonging and cohesion.

'country'.

The Kelba Empire, the second prince Kumor Kelba, whose dragon ball summons was not the "Sea Monster Leviathan". He chose to abandon all the myths and legends of Levi’s natural divine power, whether it is the mighty power that can stir the sea, It was also a demon that symbolized jealousy. He abandoned them all, and then equated it with the country of the'Kerba Empire'. This summoned this'humane dragon' that only the royal blood could summon.

At this moment, the huge Leviathan showed his true appearance-it was a huge school of fish composed of countless translucent figures and translucent souls, all originated from the Kerba Empire, this one occupying the world Most of the national heroic souls, part of its power has been put into this beast. His power is not a human being in the Mikhail area. Even Yemengade was suppressed in the spiritual world and could not move.

Kumor's magic spear has begun to accumulate power, and the sacred light summoned by Matvi has begun to bloom.

Death is approaching, and time seems to be slowing down countless times.

Until this moment, Mikhail finally understood that he really had no chance of winning, and his path would end at this time.

There are still many things left...I can't die. If I die, who will support the elderly whose sons died in the war?Who will support the wives and mothers who have lost their husbands and sons?Who will take care of the children whose fathers have died and cannot accept what happened?

This world may eventually be changed by someone, but those who only I care about, they...what will happen to them?

Although there were countless unwillingnesses in his heart, in the depths of Mikhail's heart, suddenly felt something unraveled.

……Yes.

At least, the war is over.

Facing death, the veteran sighed, then smiled in relief.

——Finally, I can face the things that torment me.

The shadow of the glorious war covered the earth, countless comrades died tragically in an unfamiliar foreign land, alone facing a widow who endured grief, facing the world alone, there is no way to start, no way to change, until the hair is gray and wrinkled. Hengsheng, the world has not changed at all.

The years of walking in the blood became Mikhail’s nightmare. The war that took place in the Elven Forest 20 years ago may have been over, but the war in his heart has not stopped, and it lingers in his soul all the time. Among.

Pursuing dreams and wishing, pouring everything into the small hope of'collecting dragon balls' and wishing to the ancestor is his last redemption.

This is probably the pity left by the ancestors, Dragon Ball's desire, so that all desperate lives have hope to chase.

Then, try to change the world.

——Come on, death, I'm ready.

All the magic power in his body broke out. At the last moment, Mikhail broke free from Leviathan's shackles after all, pressed his magic power on the Dragon Ball, and relieved the restriction he was always in. The seal in his heart that intends to destroy the entire old world, the desire for terror and destruction.

His wish is to create a new order?

If this is the case, then I would probably agree to the invitation of the second prince and Matvi before.

However, Mikhail's true desire deep in his heart is to destroy the entire old world!

Then, there will be new things, reborn from the flames that have burned everything, just as a new dawn was born after the dusk of the gods brought by the group of beasts such as Yemengade.

Because of this, he was able to summon the most ferocious and evil snake that caused the dusk to descend!

"Yemengjiade-eat it!"

Laughing, Kumor's magic gun bullet penetrated Mikhail's heart, and Matvi's hammer of light also smashed his head.

However, before the corpse fell, the final order had been issued.

"Then, pass everything about me to Zhuzhou and Vika-tell them the truth!"

So, the next moment.

The black giant snake, with a roar that made the mountains tremble, rushed out of the soles of the man's feet, head straight into the clouds in the sky.

The world-swallowing serpent swallowed its own summoner and dragon ball. The behemoth that appeared out of thin air between the heavens and the earth faced the Leviathan who was waiting in front of him, and the pale yellow heavenly dragon hidden in the clouds, sending out a shock of the heavens and the earth. roar.

And far away, next to the small town of Maia’s main city.

The little white-haired girl hiding in an unmanned shed holding a human head looked into the distance.

In the crimson eyes, the increasingly active'curiosity' turned.

"What's the matter, Ola? Let me see."

Suddenly, there was spiritual power shaking the atmosphere, and the same curious young voice came out.

Hearing these words, the girl nodded obediently, then raised the head in her hand and looked towards where the fighting broke out again.