the last king of darkness

Chapter 429 Monster (please ask for a small ticket)
Rhodes froze for a moment, not knowing how to answer.

The fire bearer is the most common warrior in Trorian. It is everyone's dream to pass the trial of fire and ignite the fire of the soul. Even ordinary people know the characteristics of the soul and what the fire is.

It was Taro on the side who spoke suddenly.

"Are you the shadow warrior of Kalil's hidden army?"

Annie raised her head proudly: "Of course, my father said that I am the greatest shadow in history, an unprecedented miracle, and when I am ready, I can become the king who saves mankind."

Rhodes frowned, and he also noticed that behind Annie's golden dress was a turned-up black robe. There was no flame symbol on her collar, but a black sun instead.

Is this the real Khalil hidden force?
He spent some time in the secret branch jointly formed by Jinworth College and Kalil's Secret Force, and he knew that Kalil's Secret Force respected the law of the jungle, eliminated the weak and selected the strong in a cruel way.

However, he did not expect that Kalil's hidden army did not seem to be composed of fire bearers.

Tai Luo asked in a deep voice: "Are you the Black Spirit Bearer?"

Rhodes asked Jessica in a low voice: "What is the black spirit bearer? I have a little impression, but I can't remember."

Jessica replied softly: "White represents resonance, and black represents devouring. The black spirit bearer obtains its characteristics by devouring powerful soul fragments. The advantage of the black spirit sequence is that it does not require resonance matching, and the threshold is much higher than that of white." The spirit sequence is low, but the side effects are relatively large, and there may be various situations such as soul rejection, backlash, and loss of control, so you need to be cautious when increasing your strength."

"Is there anyone in Wangcheng who specializes in practicing these two sequences?"

"Yes, most of the white spirit bearers belong to the Silver Oath, and the black spirit bearers belong to Kalir's hidden army, but many doomsday cultists also use it to gain power. However, their system is quite primitive, with great side effects, death The rate is very high, and the best black spirit system is still in Kalil's hidden troops."

Rhodes nodded, thinking that she was the Black Spirit Bearer.

But Annie showed a smug smile.

"No."

"Then you are..."

Annie replied bluntly, "None."

Taro frowned, his face darkened.

Annie turned her gaze to Rhodes, and asked in an expectant voice: "Brother Rhodes, I want to be friends with you, okay?"

"Uh."

Rhodes choked for a moment, and quickly replied: "Of course, your dream is also my dream. People who share dreams are good friends from the moment we meet, aren't they?"

A golden text flashed past his eyes.

Flower of Humanity +1
Rhodes was startled, is this okay?

Sometimes he can't get the flower of humanity even though he tried his best, and sometimes he can get it with a simple sentence. Is this fate?

Annie showed an indescribably surprised smile.

"Great, we're friends now, so, can you help me?"

Uh, am I being tricked?

Rhodes hesitated for a moment and asked, "What help do you need from me?"

Annie smiled brightly.

"Need your care, encouragement and love, my soul lacks them, so I can't always be fully prepared, my father said, only by making real friends can I get them, and finally become the real king of mankind and save the world .”

At this moment, Rhodes felt that his expression must be very weird.

Is this a story of love and courage?In a desperate situation, use love to awaken the true power, bring the dead back to life, jump up and kill monsters with one blow, and save mankind?
Isn't this funny?
However, at this moment, seeing her pure smile, Rhodes agreed to her unexpectedly.

"Of course, friends should help each other. I believe you can finally realize your dreams."

To be honest, Annie was not particularly beautiful among the women he had seen, but her smile was extremely pure, blooming like a crystal flower.

"Great……"

Annie seemed to have seen the greatest happiness in the world. She had a lot to say, but the black sun on her collar was burning.

"Oh, I'm sorry, my father is looking for me, I have to go there, thank you, Brother Rhodes, Tasnia Starry Sky City, let me destroy it."

The girl made a sunny movement, turned around and returned to the crowd.

Rhodes scratched his head, glanced at Taylor and Jessica with gloomy faces, and asked curiously, "Do you know who she is?"

Taylor didn't speak.

Jessica said softly: "Little Rhodes, I know why there are so many people here suddenly, look, the chief priest Megan is here."

Rhodes followed her gaze, and saw an old man standing on the steps at the end of the hall. He was wearing a gold and red priest's robe, holding a huge staff, thin and short.

"This is... the officiant of the Trial of Fire?"

Rhodes pulled him up from the bottom of his memory. He was the one who presided over the trial of fire.

"He is here, what does it represent?"

Jessica's tone was a little complicated.

"The chief priest, Megan, was the strongest son of fire many years ago, but after a certain secret operation, he withdrew from the position of son of fire and disappeared from people's sight. When he reappeared, he had already Became the chief priest, and at the same time presided over the secret laboratory of Kalil under the stone city, and became Kalil's behind-the-scenes manipulator."

"With his efforts, the modern Khalil hidden army was established, and gradually became the strongest card among the many trump cards in the royal city."

"During the heyday, shadow warriors wearing black robes could be seen everywhere in the royal city, and some members of the elders even proposed to list them as the first legion."

"However, in a serious accident five years ago, both Kalil's secret laboratory and Kalil's secret army were sealed up. The high priest Megan stayed in the upper city all the year round, only performing the duties of the high priest. Appearing here means that the king has lifted the seal on Kalil and officially activated Kalil's hidden troops."

Rhodes frowned: "What exactly is Kalil's hidden army?"

"A shadow under the Fire Throne."

An old voice suddenly sounded beside him.

Rhodes turned around in an instant, but what he saw was the chief priest Megan.

He turned his head again, and Megan on the steps had disappeared without a trace.

Taylor and Jessica bowed slightly: "Good day, Your Excellency the Priest."

Megan showed an old smile.

"Good day, three newly promoted guardians, welcome to the main hall, you are about to go to the battlefield of Starry Sky City in Tasnia with my children."

Rhodes was surprised: "Your child?"

Megan smiled and said: "Yes, my children, they are my blood, my soul, everything I have pursued in my life."

For some reason, Megan's words made Rhodes shudder.

Tai Luo said in a deep voice: "Your Majesty, no matter what, I cannot agree with your point of view. Soul and life should be respected, and human beings should also have a bottom line."

Megan said with a deep smile: "Tayro, you are the most dazzling new star of mankind and the hope of Trorian's future. Everyone is focusing on you, but they don't know that your power can't protect mankind at all, even Can't protect myself."

He opened his hands toward the hall.

"Look, these sixty first-level fighters are all the strength of Kalil's secret force."

This time, Rhodes was really shocked. There were sixty first-level combatants in a legion, and there were only two hundred first-level combatants in the entire Trorian, and he accounted for nearly one-third.

Taro's face was gloomy and he was speechless.

Jessica was also silent.

Only now did Rhodes come to his senses. The battle on the outer battlefield of Starry Sky City had already started for several days. The first-level fighters that Trorian could use had long been involved. How could there be so many people?
It must be that Wang Cheng felt that the combat power was not enough, and the king lifted the seal of Kalil's hidden troops, so there were so many first-level fighters in the main hall.

Megan seemed to know what Rhodes was thinking, and said with a smile: "They are not first-level combatants, but the shadows of first-level combatants."

Jessica sighed softly: "In this battle about the future of mankind, Trorian has played all his cards."

Megan glanced at her, and there was something unclear in her eyes.

But just for a moment, he turned his head and stared at Rhodes.

His eyes are large, silvery white, with a gray film on the pupils, which makes people feel creepy.

"Rhode, I know you. I wanted to talk to you a long time ago, but I never had the chance."

he said lightly.

"Now is an opportunity, come on."

Megan turned and walked into the hall.

Rhodes froze for a moment, and both Taylor and Jessica urged him with their eyes.

Rhodes could only keep up.

"Rod, you are very unusual."

Megan said lightly, but he didn't go on with the topic, but asked instead.

"Do you understand ancient languages?"

Rhodes nodded slightly. In order to learn dream language, he had studied almost all the languages ​​controlled in the royal city.

"You spelled out the word Kalil in the ancient language."

Rhodes calculated in his mind and asked in surprise, "A shadow under the darkness?"

Megan shook her head: "No, that word cannot be interpreted in this way. The repeated root expresses the opposite meaning, which is the shadow under the firelight."

Rhodes was silent, he actually knew, but the word involved the grammar of the Word of God, and he didn't want to expose the dream.

Megan continued: "For a long time, human beings have been plagued by insufficient combat power. The fireman system under the rules of fire cannot make up for its emptiness. While human beings are trying their best to improve it, they are also looking for more power. system."

"After numerous failures, they turned their attention to the monster."

Rhodes was startled: "Are you referring to the Silver Pledge and Forbidden Arms?"

Megan shook her head: "The Silver Pledge is too restrictive. It is impossible to directly control monsters. They are the product of disorder, chaos and high entropy. The strongest monsters they transform are only strong, and their effects are too low. , the side effects are too great, and the only useful ones are taboos, but they are just a drop in the bucket, I gave up this direction very early on.”

Rhodes was surprised: "Is the silver oath related to you?"

Megan replied softly: "If you are talking about the current silver oath, there is indeed a part of my traces, but it is a dead end, it has come to an end, I gave it up and turned to a more promising path , it even surpasses the black spirit sequence that directly devours the soul."

He paused and said solemnly.

"The fusion of humans and dark monsters, the combination of human wisdom and the power of monsters, to create an unprecedented road to super soldiers."

"I call them unawakened people, and use numbers to represent the proportion of monsters in their bodies. For example, one unawakened person is a person whose body is occupied by monsters."

Megan's tone became excited, changing her previous aging image, and becoming eloquent and eloquent.

"The higher the number, the higher the proportion of monsters, the higher the degree of demonization, and the greater the risk of losing control. Generally speaking, only the strongest with the strongest will can reach the level of nine. Look, the monster in front of you This one, is such a genius."

Rhode followed his gaze, and saw a fat man sitting on the ground, his whole body was wrapped in a black robe, his face was hidden under the shadow of the hood, so he couldn't see clearly.

"Maxiu, the unawakened Nine, has fused most of the body of a lifestealer. His controllable psionic ability is as high as level eleven, and his uncontrollable psionic ability exceeds level twelve, which fully meets the standard of a first-level combatant."

Matthew sat motionless on the ground and did not respond to their words.

Rhodes felt a very weird power echoing in his soul, and a creepy feeling rose from the bottom of his heart.

"Won't he go crazy?"

Megan said proudly: "We have a way to control him. He will not go crazy within the validity period."

"The validity period?" Rhode looked at him in shock: "What if the validity period has passed?"

Megan quickly replied: "We will arrange him into a suitable battle. He will turn the unawakened into the awakened, unleash his full power, and then reduce to ashes."

Suddenly, Rhodes understood the meaning of this weird name.

Once the unawakened person wakes up, they will turn into madness, become monsters, and finally die after burning all their strength.

This is more than cruel.

Such an experiment, if you think about it with your brain, you will know that it is inhumane.

Rhode's eyes fell on the fat man, he was silent and did not respond to the outside world.

But his fate was sealed.

"This is your research?" Rhode's voice became hoarse at some point.

Meghan, basking in his great feat, said in a tone of immense arrogance.

"That's right! I created a brand new sequence, a sequence that is more radical than the Black Spirit sequence. I call it the monster sequence."

"Yes, the black mist is endless, and the monsters are extremely powerful. You have been fighting for a long time, and you should know that, in the same class, the spiritual power of monsters is always one or two levels stronger than humans. The soul characteristics that humans desire so much, Even the law of origin can be found in the souls of many monsters, and they don't even know how to use it."

"Since then, I have been thinking, what would happen if you possessed the wisdom of humans and the power of monsters?"

"If you can turn the monster's power into ours, then what's so scary about this endless black mist?"

"However, human beings always think that they are the inheritors of fire, and they cannot cast aside their secular perspectives to face up to a research that can change everything."

"Although I have proved its strength, Kalil's hidden troops still cannot act openly. They always wear black robes, cover their faces, and remain anonymous. Even Kalil's truth is classified as top secret. Only Guardians and characters above them are eligible to know."

Megan clenched his staff tightly, gritted his teeth and said.

"Not only that, but I also improved the practice system of the black spirit bearers, making the black spirit sequence stronger and more stable, so that Kalil's secret army can enter the stage of history."

"And the appearance of the monster sequence pushed it to its peak."

"My achievements have inspired countless people with the same ambitions as me. With their efforts, Kalil's laboratory is thriving, and one strong man after another has been produced. My system fully proves its infinite vitality and possibility. Sex, the shadows of these sixty first-level fighters can fully illustrate this point."

"However, the treatment I received couldn't match it at all. The resources I received were less than any legion, and the restrictions I received were endless."

"This is human prejudice and their arrogance. Without breaking this shackle, human beings will never be able to achieve real victory."

Megan turned her head and looked at Rhodes eagerly.

"Your Excellency Rhodes, you are highly valued by the king and the First Elder. I believe that you will become one of the top leaders of Trorian in the future. I hope you can support my research without being restrained by worldly eyes. I also will prove that it will be the only way to save humanity."

Rhodes was silent for a moment, then suddenly asked, "What sequence is Annie?"

A smug smile flashed across Megan's face, and he said in a greater tone.

"She is the only successful test subject under my latest theory, the owner of the double sequence, the black spirit bearer and the seven unawakened ones, she has devoured an extremely powerful soul core, has super light energy aggregation characteristics, and at the same time She has also integrated the body of the Demon Dragon of Gang, and her physical fitness is extremely strong. If there is anything that can save the world, it must be her!"

His tone became regretful again.

"But it's a pity that among the thousands of experimental products, only she succeeded. Although she is incomparable, she still has some flaws. I haven't been able to replicate the factors of her success so far. If I can find it, hmph, Star City What, it won't be long before humans can rule the four continents again!"

"I reject."

"What?" Rhodes spoke so fast that Megan couldn't even catch it for a moment.

"I said, I refuse."

Rhodes repeated this sentence accurately.

"I share their disapproval of your attitude to life and soul."

Megan fell silent for a long time before showing a faint smile.

"It's okay, Your Excellency Rhodes, you still can't understand it now, but when you see the real cruelty, you will understand my approach."

He looked at Rhodes with gray silver eyes, and said calmly.

"It is actually the greatest kindness, the true cruelty, you guardians of fire."

He turned away.

The hall was still noisy, these super soldiers called "Shadows" seemed to be unaware of their tragic fate, and they were still talking enthusiastically about their upcoming battle.

From the outside, most of them are normal.

But what monsters exist, Rhodes is very clear, human flesh and blood are fused with monsters in the dark, there is no other way except to go crazy.

Open the eyes of the soul, and sure enough, more than half of the people here have deformed souls, and the darkness is climbing on their gray souls like the claws of hell.

These are just the winners standing here. Although Megan didn't say it directly, from his words, Rhodes knew that under them were the corpses of countless losers.

Even after crossing the mountain of corpses and the sea of ​​blood, and surviving the terrifying experiment, what awaits them is only the fate of death.

But now, they are still talking and laughing, and they don't seem to think that their experience is tragic.

Until this moment, Rhodes finally understood what Wang said about human dignity.

Therefore, he didn't want to support it, but he couldn't oppose it either.

This is a compromise for survival, Kalil's covert forces are too powerful, although this power is limited.

Not far away, Tyro and Jessica have already integrated into it, chatting and laughing with them, and don't seem to mind their identities.

Rhodes also wanted to join, but he couldn't speak when he thought of the cruelty of the unawakened.

I must be stronger.

he thinks.

Otherwise Khalil's covert force will last forever and be stronger.

After an unknown amount of time, Archbishop Horus finally arrived.

The hall quickly fell silent, and everyone was looking at him, with light shining in their eyes.

Horus stood on the steps, looked around, and said loudly.

"My warriors, time is running out. What is before us is the future of this race and civilization. Please unite your will, trust each other, and regain the seeds of the holy fire for mankind!"

The crowd answered in unison.

"Humanity will last forever, and the dawn will surely come!"

　Ah Shan is here to wish everyone a Happy New Year in advance!

　
(End of this chapter)