Embers of Embers

Chapter 37 Reasons
There was pure white fire in his eyes, warm and painful.
Suddenly I remembered the story in my long memory, with thunder and heavy rain.
I remember that those Vikings didn’t want to take me to Inverge at all. They were just after their own money. I fought with them on the ship for a long time, but in the end they were thrown into the sea. I thought I would die like this. , but when he woke up on the shore, Yin Erweg's land was at his feet.
That was really the moment when my dream came true. When I woke up from the beach, the sun in front of me was so warm and painful.
……
Fireworks illuminated the dark space. Lorenzo was holding the staff sword. The blade was already halfway in. As long as it penetrated completely, it would pierce Sabo's heart. But at that last moment, Sabo raised the sword. The arm caught the staff sword from different angles. He could only set Sabo's chest on fire, but could not burn his internal organs.
"Mr. Holmes, so you swallowed the secret blood to kill people like me?"
Lorenzo's ferocious face was reflected in his eyes. The dark tattoos were like tangled snakes swimming on the skin, and his gray-blue eyes were shining.
"So you don't mind turning into something like a monster just to fight the monster?"
Sabo showed an ugly smile, and then used four arms to throw Lorenzo away. The barbs at the end of the limbs traveled quickly on the rock wall, and then dived into the darkness. Lorenzo fell on a wooden pile, Holding sword and gun.
"So Mr. Holmes, are you going to kill yourself someday?"
The voice came from the surrounding darkness with an ironic meaning, because Lorenzo could not determine the specific direction due to the hollow in the rock wall.
"This is secret blood given to me by a doctor. He said it was technology from the Order."
The appearance of the epidemic doctor gradually emerged in his mind. He was the same person as the mysterious mentor, strange and terrifying.
"The Order is the first group of people to fight against demons. They pursue their noble character and divine name to hunt monsters in the darkness. Even if they die, they must send weapons made of holy silver into the hearts of monsters. It is really sacred. Believers, I am about to cry..."
The sharp bone blade came from the corner of the darkness. Lorenzo immediately swung his staff and sword to cut it off easily, his eyes scanning back and forth in the darkness, extremely vigilant.
"So? Sabo, the secret blood no longer exists, who is that doctor?"
Lorenzo asked sternly. He obviously knew more than Sabo did, and there was a rare hint of anger in his tone.
People are greedy. Fishermen hunted whales and extracted flammable whale oil from them. The cultists also extracted things that should not exist in the demon's body, which is the source of all evil. Fighting monsters People eventually become monsters.
"This is the Order's fault, that is a power you cannot master!"
"So you can master it, huh?"
As Sabo's piercing roar and mottled stabbing sword fell from the darkness above Lorenzo's head, Lorenzo kicked up hard, and then the stabbing sword cut the wooden stake under his feet in half, endless water splashed, and then The projectile detonated by gunpowder penetrated the water curtain and hit Saab.
It was a dazzling white flame, which not only played a killing role in this darkness, but also allowed Lorenzo to see Sabo's position clearly.
The twisted demon came tearing apart the water curtain with flames. The completely mutated body stepped on the wooden stakes and kept approaching. It wielded the stabbing sword and the bone blade. Iron and iron collided with each other, like meteors streaking across the darkness. Glows briefly.
"You have no idea what you are doing. That is Pandora's box, and all it contains is disaster!"
The shotgun fired again between swings of the sword. Lorenzo used the bullets to scatter, and his figure stopped strangely in the air. Then he sharply cut off the sword blade, and the fleeting light hit Sabo's abdomen, cutting open the flesh and bone. , tearing out huge wounds.
"But in the endless disaster, isn't there still a glimmer of hope?"
Sabo's voice was muddy, and the sword blade slashed Lorenzo's chest from top to bottom, blood splattered, this was a desperate slash that exchanged injuries for injuries, with a trembling murderous intent.
The shotguns fired continuously, keeping Sabo at bay while the distance between the two continued to widen until they maintained a safe distance.
"Mr. Holmes, I thought you could understand me."
The hand covered with mucus and scars gently brushed the huge wound on the abdomen. There were no internal organs, only a wriggling mass of flesh and blood, and the flesh and blood was still healing at this moment...or it was growing wildly, proliferating without restraint. .
Sabo looked sadly at Lorenzo, who was not far away, and a distorted voice sounded from his throat.
"Mr. Holmes, I have had nothing since I was born. I am a pure desperado. No one loves me, and there is no illusory god looking after me. I have no past and no future. All I have is Now that’s all I can get.”
The words became blurred, and the eyeballs squeezed by flesh and blood completely fell into the distortion, and then bright red blood flowed from the gap, just like tears from crying.
"So, to a desperado with nothing, does it matter what's in the box?"
The demon questioned the demon hunter, one side was in darkness, and the other side was ignited by blazing light.
A voice sounded after a brief silence.
"It's not important at all, Mr. Holmes."
It seemed to be laughing, a numbing cracking sound was heard, and a new bone blade was pulled out from the chest, with mucus and blood.
"Endless disasters and a glimmer of hope are like a traveler who is about to freeze to death, but a sea of ​​fire appears in front of him. So... as long as there is a little bit of warmth, what if he dies in that warm sea of ​​fire? ?”
The words echoed in the ears like a curse, and even the fearless soul would feel a little uncomfortable and confused. It seemed to be asking Lorenzo, and it seemed to be asking itself, and then an ugly look appeared on its ferocious face. smile.
"It doesn't matter anyway, right?"
It laughs at itself.
Lorenzo looked deeply at Sabo at the other end, with a slight smile on his cold face.
"Yeah, it's no longer important to the desperadoes."
The answer is not important. What is important is that only those who survive can judge whether everything is right or wrong. There is no need to say anything anymore. The sword light and thunder arrive together.
Four sharp blades came towards me. The staff and sword tried their best to parry, and then found an opportunity to counterattack. Lorenzo's blood overflowed and fell on Sabo's body, which ignited a raging fire.
The two of them fought under the shroud of white flames, like moths flying into the flames.
The bone blade slashed hard, but was blocked by Lorenzo. He held the bone blade tightly and pulled it up with all his strength. Then he slashed down with the staff sword, breaking the steel-like bones, but at this moment something else happened. The bone blade fell, leaving wounds on Lorenzo's body.
But Lorenzo didn't care, the black tattoo became hot, and the strange changes were also going on in his body, but Sabo raised his thigh violently, and then kicked Lorenzo's chest, the man fell backwards When he got out, before he could stop, the speeding bone blade penetrated his shoulder like a spike and nailed him to the rock wall.
In an instant, Sabo struck again, the two bone blades intersecting like the fallen guillotine.
The roaring scream echoed in this dark space. Sabo's completely unrecognizable face was close to Lorenzo. The staff and sword were broken by this blow, and the remaining two bone blades were cut like spikes. Lorenzo was nailed to the rock wall.
"That's why we are the same, Mr. Holmes."
The last stabbing sword fell slowly like an execution, piercing Lorenzo's chest and then scratched it. It was a shocking wound, but underneath it was a silver skeleton, which was stained with blood, but under the fireworks Below you can see that the surface is covered with holy words, and the flesh and blood are squirming in it, and it is healing at the same time as it is injured.
"You are also a desperado. If you are not a desperado, why would you swallow the secret blood?"
It was the so-called secret blood that protected Lorenzo, and he was becoming him while he was disgusted. Sabo laughed in victory. In the end, Lorenzo was just the same thing as him, and he laughed heartily.
"There will always be a reason."
Lorenzo still had that cold look, as if nothing could disturb him.
Sabo was slightly stunned, but he lowered his sharp sword as if to prove something.
The stabbing sword in his eyes continued to enlarge. If nothing goes wrong, the position Sabo wanted to stab was Lorenzo's heart. Whether it was a monster, a human, or any other life, there would be such a fatal weakness in that weak body. , one is the heart and the other is the brain.
He lifted the shotgun hard, but the bone blade jammed his joints. In desperation, Lorenzo pulled the trigger, but he could not stop the demon's power.
The stabbing sword fell and penetrated his chest and his heart.
After the brief pain, everything was over, and his vision was a little blurry. Sabo asked softly and hoarsely in his ear.
"Then what's your reason for swallowing secret blood?"
Long memories swallowed Lorenzo like a tidal wave.
Although he said something different, when he was about to die, he thought about his reasons.Sabo's reason is to live, just to live. He longs to live. Life is the only and most valuable thing he has, but what about himself?
The evil nature of the demon eroded his nerves, as if millions of people were crying and wailing in his ears. The illusory pain in his body continued, and countless maggots gnawed at his flesh and blood, turning him into bones.
His will was crumbling, but in the midst of this, Lorenzo suddenly remembered.
He has been in Old Dunling for six years, which is neither long nor short. It is enough to create a new life and enough to forget the old life.
He remembered.
[The secret blood awakens by 9.7%, leaving the stable value range, and the silver-binding bolt begins to melt. 】
His eyes were filled with frost, as if there was anger fermenting and breaking through the barrier.
The chaotic wailing disappeared, and all the maggots were burned to ashes by the fire.
The muscles pulled the bones, and they were torn off the bone blade in a penetrating way. With blood and flames, Lorenzo grabbed the stabbing sword and held it tightly.
"Also alive."
Lorenzo said ferociously to Sabo, and then the whole person broke away from the shackles of the bone blade. His body was torn, but he was also recovering. The power of the demon was released from the blood, with distortion and hatred, and he transformed into the same person as Sabo. s things.
"It's just that I live for others, Sabo."
The blazing light became brighter and brighter in the gray-blue eyes, and the dark tattoos covered his whole body like iron armor. The dense armor grew out from under the skin, layer by layer stacked on top of each other, and with the slightest flicker, There was a harsh sound of friction between steel.
Like wings.
[The secret blood awakens by 9.9%, leaving the stable value range, and the silver-binding bolt begins to melt. 】
[Start connecting to the Temple of Stasis. 】
【Connection failed. 】
It seemed that he was surrounded by countless believers, and his ears were filled with the faintly murmuring prayers.
Sabo has never believed in any gods. Even when he first joined the Evangelical Church, it was just so that he could eat free Holy Communion on Sundays. But deep in the earth, in the abyss that the light could not reach, he saw miracles.
The so-called steel began to be recast, and a substance called metal began to grow on the broken staff and sword. It was burning, just like the flaming sword guarding the kingdom of heaven in the Gospels.
The sword of heavenly fire fell into the mortal world and all evil was purged.
(End of this chapter)