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Chapter 517 Chapter 613 I am Fire (Part )
She was swallowed up by the darkness outside the town and turned into one of the countless dark shadows wandering on the plain outside.

never come back.

This is a very common thing. For everyone living in this small town, it is something they are extremely afraid of, but they have to face it.

After turning into shadows, they were no longer living people, but at the same time, they could not really be considered dead.

Because I can never find rest, I can only wander in this wilderness, wandering forever.

Death is not scary. For most people in this world, there is only one scariest thing, and that is——

eternal.

Becoming an eternally immortal 'Immortal', he lives in endless torment forever, with his soul imprisoned in an intangible cage, in a daze.

And days like this will never end.

This is the most terrifying thing in the world.

People living in the city have towering walls and a protective shield covering the entire city. Compared to those who live in the wilderness and have no shelter outside the town, the lives of the citizens are naturally better than theirs.

The middle-aged man and his companions here are extremely envious, but what can they do about it?

His companion, a successful businessman in the town, a man who meticulously groomed his hair every day, was unable to send his wife and children to the city to become honorable citizens.

This is the perception of most societies in the world that businessmen are like this.

They lived a wealthy life, but their status was definitely not as good as that of craftsmen, or even farmers.

A free farmer can spit at a businessman with confidence because they own their own land. Even a tenant farmer will not feel inferior when facing a businessman.

Because businessmen are lowly like this.

However, merchants are always indispensable in people's lives, because they are responsible for transporting goods from one city to another and keeping the economy flowing.

Of course, it was the mercenaries who were responsible for escorting the goods. As for the merchants themselves, only a small number of small vendors who could not afford to hire people would choose to go out of the city to escort the goods themselves.

They only instruct others and do nothing themselves. This is why businessmen are despised in this society. As for those businessmen who do everything by themselves? They are just unlucky. After all, this is how the entire group is viewed by others.

Businessmen are cowards, opportunists, cunning people who can sell their souls for profit. Although the companions of middle-aged people are definitely not like this, and middle-aged people also admire their companions very much.

But that doesn't change how people outside this town see him.

The merchant's son died on the way to escort the goods to another town, or rather, it cannot be called 'death'.

He simply became immortal.

This is also the most painful part for businessmen.

The middle-aged man with gray hair on his temples is the head of the mercenaries under the merchant, who is responsible for transporting goods. His daughter and the merchant's son are childhood sweethearts, and they agreed to get married a long time ago.

But unfortunately, his daughter broke the promise.

Five years ago, Bellina, the daughter of the mercenary Mori, disappeared outside the town. She was sixteen years old that year, and two years away from marrying her lover Roland.

And a few days ago, Roland, who lost his lover, also disappeared outside the town.

He also became one of the countless 'immortals' wandering outside the town.

"Oh my God..." After drinking a glass of malt liquor, the alcohol did not improve the man's mood. Instead, it made all kinds of painful memories from the past emerge in his mind.

So, like his companions, he put his forehead on his arms in pain and prayed again to the gods that he had prayed to countless times but never received a response:

"Please, my God..."

"Save us, save this town..."

"Even if it means destroying us, please send down fire from heaven to burn away this darkness that has enveloped everything..."

At this moment, a series of noisy sounds came from outside the tavern. In the streets of the town late at night, there were a lot of footsteps and people shouting in panic or surprise:
“It’s on fire!!! It’s on fire!!!”

"Look! Look outside!!! Oh my god, oh my god--!!!"

"Are we, are we finished?"

“Oh my god!! Oh my god!!!”

“Let the fire from the sky fall!!! Burn everything here and end our suffering!!! Hahahaha, HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!”

Late at night, people were running, shouting, and roaring on the streets, either because of fear, or because of joy, or because of relief.

Various emotions filled the not-so-wide streets of this small town, filling the entire town with a magnetic field, a magnetic field called 'emotion'.

Fire, in this world, fire is sacred.

It represents destruction, but it also represents the light after the endless darkness is burned out.

The flames will pierce the darkness, burn those dark shadows, and bring them true...death.

Even the most common fire has such an excellent effect. However, outside the city and outside the settlement, fire is not so easy to light.

People rely on the flames protected under the cover to illuminate themselves in the endless darkness when they are outside of civilization. In this world, the light of the day is extremely limited, and the sun is too far away for the humans in this world.

It is always at a very high place, and always looks as dim as the moon, weak and lifeless, as if it is already in its twilight years.

This is the dying sun, shining its last light in the sky.

But although it is rare, it can bring some comfort and hope to people.

Without it, and the moon, the endless darkness would be the real despair.

People are afraid of this despair.

But today, at night, on this night when the moonlight was extremely dim and darkness enveloped everything, people saw the light.

That might be the most dazzling light they had ever seen in their lives.

It rose from the plains and engulfed everything on them. Even though people were very far away from the raging flames, their skin was still burned by the distant flames.

This is also the feeling most people experience for the first time in their lives.

'Scorching', 'scalding'.

But beyond that, there was a hint of coldness.

(End of this chapter)