Hunter’s Blade - Chapter 199

[Demon Hunter’s Blade Chapter 199]

“It’s important.”

“Have a friendship with the demon? Do you think it’s a friend to you? Do you think the blade demon is kind to you? I have seen your future, and you will be betrayed by your closest friends at the most critical moment. ”

“How do you know the future?”

“You should know that we can speculate about what will happen in the future. The probability of you being betrayed is infinite. At that moment, your heart is as dry as you are, and you are self-loathing and giving up.”

“I’ll try to avoid it.”

“Give me Gladiu, one last time.”

“Never,” said Ciel. “I know it’s malicious, but you’re no good.”

“At least we have a common interest in dealing with Gladius, and that’s the basis of all cooperation. You can say no this time, but remember, don’t let prejudice dictate your actions.”

The Eye of Fire closed and disappeared, and the Ciel passed through the gap between the worlds and fell on a meadow.

Is this where it was before?

How long has time passed?

Ciel pressed his forehead and looked at the scenery next to him. It was late summer when he set off, but now it is late autumn: “Has it been a few weeks? … I thought it would be longer, or is this already the second time? It’s autumn of the year.”

“The time flow in the realm of the Peace Demon is relatively slow, so there is nothing to worry about.” Gladiu said, “Hell is a place that is seriously affected by the wrong time rhythm.”

“I heard you say something similar… The realm of the Demon God of Peace is small and peaceful, so the flow of time is very slow.”

“In other, more chaotic places, time flies extremely fast, and 1 hour when you’re there equals 300 hours outside. But the peaceful world is so peaceful, and time flies so slowly that even 1 hour is equal to here. 2 or 3 minutes.”

Ciel stretched his arms, feeling the wind and air from the real world.

This is his hometown, where tens of millions of people grew up. There may be 10 million people in the Kingdom of Loman, and the Yamanei Empire is several times that of this place. There are even bigger countries farther away, and it is rumored that there is a silk-producing East.

I have to fight the devil, I… I can’t give up fighting hell just because I see the “truth”, I know, I know that fighting hell may have a bleaker ending, but if I don’t do this, tens of millions or even more Hundreds of millions of people will die in the Great Invasion, and I can’t decide for them.

“Gladius.” Ciel bent down and put his hands on his knees, “I still have to keep fighting.”

“Why? Saving the world won’t make the future better.”

Ciel found the direction of Ash Tree Hall and walked towards it.

“You know what? Gladiu,” he said. “The future humans are smarter than me, and they will be able to figure it out. Maybe my generation can’t find a perfect solution, but dozens of generations later can. , they keep accumulating wisdom, experience and technology, and eventually, maybe in a thousand or two or three thousand years… Although I may not see it at that time, there will be a person, a hero, and finally figure out a way to get all this Contradictions, he will play the story of a child, defeat the powerful enemy, and complete the ultimate redemption.”

“There is no such way.”

“It must exist. I believe there must be a way. The demons in hell don’t know everything, do they? My time and experience are limited, and now I can only try to protect this world from being invaded. Damn, people in the future must Be a little bit better.” Xia Er looked into the distance, there was a large undulating forest on the hillside, the leaves were gray and yellow, casting a thick shadow, “People in the future must not let my efforts down, and must find a way, otherwise I will save the world in vain. down.”

“It’s a fool’s idea. One or two thousand years of evolution cannot change the core structure of intelligent life, but within 10,000 years, we can break through the defense line of the white wedge. It just locks the world with space, we can break it.”

“Then we will strengthen it, so that it will be shattered even if the whole hell hits it.”

“I like to see optimists die in solitude at the end, with no one caring about their ideals, and children playing the piano on your grave.”

Ciel called out for anger, but he didn’t respond. After so many days, the demon horse probably didn’t know where to go, so let’s just walk. Walking is good for your body and mind.

“I talked to the Fire Lord,” said Ciel.

“…I read your memory, and it’s dividing us again, ha! The demons know that we’re all good together, so they always want to separate us! But you, you bloody bastard, you’re thinking the dust will settle. Then hand me over.”

“After all, hell is better for you, isn’t it?”

“Bah, of course a beautiful world full of fresh souls suits me, I can kill and eat as much as I like.”

“You know my memory so well, Gladius, show me your deepest heart.”

“I don’t have that kind of thing, am I not as pure as a blank sheet of paper in front of you?”

“I don’t think so.”

“You’ll see what you want. You fucking, stubborn scumbag.”

Ciel found that he could enter the depths of Gladiu’s heart.

What is the innermost thought of the Blade Demon?

He saw a dusty past memory, and sometimes flashed in Gladiu’s heart.

It turned into a monster with a sharp blade on its head and tough muscles covering its neck below. It moved quickly and shuttled back and forth in the tall, light and shadow city. It chopped glass and jumped into a family. The intelligent creature was extremely frightened. Frightened and screamed, Gladius ignored it.

As it sees the square box in the living room, it was named by Gladius as a product from the technological world of color television.

It grabbed both ends of the color TV with its own hands and stared at the scenes displayed on it. With its understanding at the time, it knew that intelligent creatures were showing pre-rehearsed programs on this carrier.

It wanted to watch channels about mathematics, but no matter how it searched, the color TV was full of news, singing, and long stage plays. No one was practicing mathematics on color TV. Charles could also feel the sullenness.

Since being driven to the bottom of hell by other demons to live in, Gladius is either driving the goblins into a big war with the neighboring demons, or calculating mathematics in the majestic palace where he lives alone.

However, even this hobby is unappreciated, and it climbs the fifth floor of hell in search of math demons, several times in vain.

Rage, restlessness, and unspeakable boredom filled Gladiu’s mind.

It thought it all too absurd, it doubted its own meaning, it doubted everything, and it stared at the color TV for four days, until the army besieging him couldn’t help but open fire and blow it up.

“There must be a color TV show that invites one hundred and twenty mathematicians to solve problems collectively. All intelligent life, about 12 billion beings in the technological world, must sit in chairs and be forced to watch the whole thing.” Gladiu whispered. , “But I have traveled through many worlds before I know that color television occupies only a short period of time in the development of the technological world, is quickly replaced by iterations, sought again and again, ordered them to obey my will again and again, they Must be copied from past products, they must call up all the qualified mathematicians in the world, and I’ll watch with satisfaction until the Great Silence comes…but they…they laugh at me! Laugh at my lofty ideals!”

“Crazy hobby.” Ciel couldn’t understand. He had never studied mathematics, and he didn’t know the meaning of the formulas intertwined with complicated numbers.

“My ideals are not valued! I was trampled under my feet! Every demon says this, and even intelligent beings find it ridiculous when they understand my ideals! Why!” Gladiu was annoyed.

“Don’t you also step on my ideals. Every time I say I want to protect the world…you think I’m talking nonsense.” Ciel disagreed.

“Because your ideal is 100% unrealizable.”

“So is yours,” Charles said.

“You have no idea at all.”

Then the Blade Demon went silent.

They walked quietly and without conversation.

Day turns to dusk, the moon rises to the treetops after sunset, and then a new sunrise.

They still didn’t say a word.

After walking like this for a day, when he returned to the castle town of Ashtree Hall, Ciel said: “You must have the courage to charge towards the impossible ideal.” When he said this to Gladius, he felt that he had For a hundred years.

“You idiot, I have always been, I am invincible!”

“Then I always have.” Charles nodded.

Chapter 254

Ciel entered Ashtree Hall, the streets of the city he could no longer be familiar with.

A mason was plastering the walls of the house. His face was covered in dirt, and he could hardly tell where his eyes were. Two farmers were driving a flock of geese, and the guards drove them all over the street. One geese flapped its wings. , half-flying and half-jumping past Shire’s eyes; the sewers were dry, so the dirty mud filled the deep ditch and was not washed away, and there was a strange smell everywhere; the priest in purple robes held scriptures in their hands , followed by a group of gray-robed apprentices with similar postures. As they walked, they slapped their foreheads with the books in their hands, making a loud noise. The apprentices shook the bowls in their hands toward the street, and about one out of ten citizens would stop. When they got down, they threw a copper coin into the bowl. Ciel’s eyes swept across the bowls in their hands, and they accumulated a little more or less.

All the breaths of life made him feel so awake, he knew that autumn was coming, and next autumn this place would be crowded with noisy little ghosts, and the farms, orchards and towns he knew well would become a dry and noisy place like hell.

This is a business that does not accept losers. Shire believes that people in many industries can reach the middle and stop at a good or bad stage.

But what Ciel did himself had only two endings, victory in the end, or extinction in the world.

Well, there must be a good rest and a good indulgence before the hard fight.

So he held his head high and walked across the two blocks in the attitude of a prince, approaching the Hunter’s Sanctuary.

He was surprised to see the scene in front of him. He saw a large group of people lined up in a long line, standing on the steps in front of the church gate, looking forward to something. There were at least thirty or fifty people, dressed in different clothes and ages. , looked at each other, and sometimes whispered.

As soon as Ciel walked up, a man at the end of the line grabbed his arm: “Aye!”

“What?” Ciel turned his head, the other party was blond, his eyes were stern, he was wearing a white animal skin armor, and there were several belts around his waist. Shield, scabbard swayed by his legs.

“Don’t cut the queue.” He glanced at Ciel bitterly, “This will be at least until tomorrow, don’t try to cut corners.”

“My fault.” Charles patted him. “Where are you from?”

He said a place name in a foreign language.

“Where?” Charles was puzzled.

He repeated the name again, then shook his head: “I don’t know how to say it in Loman.”

“You’re from Frostfalls?” Ciel looked at the other’s blonde hair and blue eyes.

“The Great Frost Falls.” He emphasized, “Our hometown, the land of ice and blood, the fertile soil blessed by the goddess, the horn of the world held up by the giant Baal whales, the land of warriors, the place where iron speaks.”

“Why do warriors like you come to visit… our humble Kingdom of Loman.” Ciel looked up at his sanctuary, “and this is where the demon hunters reside.”

“It goes without saying that I want to become a demon hunter.” He snorted coldly.

“Everyone here?” Ciel was a little surprised, and looked up at the entire team. There were wandering nobles, bastard knights, travelers, adventurers, even owners and beggars, rubbing shoulders and heads.

“Of course, no, what are you doing here?” he asked. “Being a demon hunter requires a lot of barriers. You, like everyone else, are wasting my time here.”

“What’s the threshold?” Charles himself wanted to know.

“First of all, you have to be very skilled,” he said. “Like the master hunter Ciel here, you have made great achievements, and even the royal army is no match.”

“Do you know what he looks like?”

“It must be very powerful.” He said in a serious tone, “Eight feet tall and handsome, I have never seen him, but I have heard many stories about him on the way to travel. Breathing fire, the knife in his hand can cut through anything, the white deer skin on his shoulder can block all damage, and there is no danger in the way you go. To do things under such people, you have to be mentally tough, so that you can against the devil.”

“You must know the devil very well.”

“Wrong, I don’t know, so I have to learn how to destroy demons here.” He looked up at the ancient blue-gray walls of the sanctuary, “In Frostfall, we don’t know how to fight demons, many people hear demons The voice of the man went into the jungle, and became a sacrifice in vain. Many warriors and heroes have been poisoned, and they were bewitched by the voice of evil, and then they forgot their duty.”

With a move in his heart, Charles hurriedly asked:

“What does that have to do with you?”

The man looked at Ciel with disgusted eyes: “What is ‘what does it matter’, demons are a big scourge that threatens our safety, anyone with a little common sense knows how to expel them, to find demon hunters, and to look for the Great Swamp Find a priestess or a holy person, or village after village will be destroyed, and this source of chaos must be eliminated!”

“I mean, as far as ‘you,’ you can totally ignore these things.”

“You fool, I don’t want the devil to threaten my family, my brothers and sisters one day, I don’t want to wait for the devil to find me and I can’t do anything. I love my hometown and my family, isn’t that enough reason? ?”

“Thank you very much,” Charles greeted him. “When I know that everyone needs it, I think… what I’m doing is very meaningful.”

A great idea sprang up in his mind, an idea so grand that he felt he had to do something big that would change the course of history.

I want to call on people from all over the world to come together.

It is very tiring to do such a thing alone, but it will be different if we call on everyone. With everyone in this world, we can form an unprecedented joint force.

“What.” He looked incredulous, “Are you crazy?”

“I hope to see you in the sanctuary in the future and honor you in person.” Ciel ran up the stairs in three steps.

Luo Dan stood at the door. He was in charge of maintaining order, with a sword in his hand. He almost fell asleep because he stood guard for too long, but when he saw Ciel, he jumped up excitedly: “Charle!”

“It’s hard work.” Ciel rushed up to hug him, “Come on.” Then he turned to open the door, and slipped into the back room.

“Charle?”

“Ah, it’s that Ciel!” the people exclaimed, shouting excitedly.

“I want to be a demon hunter!”

[End of This Chapter]