quicksilver blood

Chapter 279 The Price of Betrayal

Roland heard absolutely right, Helena did call Her Majesty the Queen just now.

The "Queen" related to Roland, no matter how I think about it, I can only think of the Silver Queen.

In addition, neither Bansa's mad dog nor Su Ze's noble and glamorous queen, nor the queens of other Ya'an clans had anything to do with Roland at this moment.

If Helena had a relationship with the Silver Queen, Roland would be very happy to chat with her, have a good relationship, and then kill her and send her back to heaven.

——However, after Roland turned around and asked, she denied what she had just said, and she still lowered her head and did not dare to look up at herself.

So Roland said hehe—do you think I'm stupid?You said you didn't say anything and I really believed it?
Roland narrowed his eyes slightly.

Without any warning, Roland retracted the blade that was only an inch away from Helena's eyeballs into the stick sword with a bang, and danced the stick in the air.

"That's right."

Roland asked casually: "I'll give you one last time..."

"You misheard..."

Before Roland finished speaking, Helena raised her head as if nothing had happened, and stared at Roland with her gray pupils.

Reciprocity was common -- Roland also didn't wait for her to finish speaking, and the sharp blade that popped out of the cane pierced Helena's forehead in an instant, and pierced out from the back of her head with a cloud of fine blood mist.

The huge kinetic energy brought her upper body backwards and hit the ground heavily.In less than a blink of an eye, Roland completed the entire process from drawing the sword to attacking in just an instant, nailing Helena directly to the ground with a brutal gesture.

Roland half-kneeled by Helena's side, his right hand tightly holding the stick sword inserted into the ground at a vertical angle, slowly shaking the stick sword stuck in her forehead like changing gears in a car, the blood-stained brain Being squeezed out from the gap between the blade and the skin.

"It's useless, this level of pain."

Helena didn't seem to feel the pain of being pierced through the head by the blade at all, let alone trembling in pain, she didn't even shed a drop of sweat on her face.She closed her eyes just like that, and said quietly in a tone that was completely out of the way.

Roland was silent for quite a while, and then his voice suddenly softened: "Do you dare to look at my face and say this, Helena?"

Helena, who had closed her eyes and looked uncooperative just now, suddenly widened her eyes with an expression of disbelief when Roland pronounced her name abruptly.

Time seems to stand still here.But five or six seconds later, Helena, who was staring at Roland's face, suddenly laughed.

Her laughter grew louder and more presumptuous.Even because of her wild laughter, even Roland's stick sword piercing her forehead was almost ejected from the ground.A large amount of blood flowed out from under her head, and the flowers around her that were nourished by the blood became more delicate and beautiful.

Roland didn't stop her, he just squatted beside her silently, waiting for her to laugh enough without saying a word.

It took another few minutes before Helena's laughter died down.At this time, Purcell's sixth eye had been cut to pieces by Scott, and the outside world less than five or six meters away from Roland had turned into a hell on earth.

There are black ripples wandering around randomly in the air, and they will bounce back when encountering things, while the ground has become completely lava and cannot stand.When those black ripples approached Anvillia's floating garden, they didn't bounce back, but just stood still in the air, and then quietly faded away.

Roland didn't even care about Saier's life and death, so he stared at Helena with so calm and cold eyes.

And Helena's words made Roland raise his eyebrows: "You are not her."

Probably because she knew it was useless to pretend to be stupid now, Helena taunted unceremoniously: "No matter how good you are, you are still just a fake."

"If it's her, if it's Her Royal Highness, she will definitely forgive me..."

"—Forgive your betrayal?"

Roland suddenly said something, and the second half of Helena's words got stuck in her throat.

However, she didn't mind her gaffe in the slightest, she just reprimanded loudly with an awe-inspiring attitude: "So what? I just want to save more people!"

Roland remained silent without saying a word, but the sword in his right hand became stronger.

Helena dismissed this weak reaction: "Have you ever heard of war? Do you know what war is like? No, at your age, you certainly don't know."

"It is a cruel purgatory that can only be experienced by those who have personally experienced it. There is no hope on the battlefield, and what remains in the blood stains are only despair, fear, madness, and the wailing that surrounds the ears and cannot be forgotten at all. .”

"It's not an arena of glory. There's no glory on the battlefield, just blood and corpses, the dead and the living who killed them. There's only life and death, and nothing else matters."

"Do you know the battlefield? After the death of the Silver Queen, Elcate was already doomed. Why did you send the people to the meat grinder? I don't understand! I really don't understand!"

Helena reprimanded almost furiously, her gray pupils gradually burst, and a trace of bright red flowed in them.

"I saw thirteen and fourteen-year-old children performing transformation ceremonies in batches, hastily turned into undead and put on armor on the battlefield; I saw a father picking up the minced meat of his children on the battlefield while shedding blood and tears, trying to put them Put it all together."

"I saw the holy fire of the sky burn Elcate into the desert inch by inch. I saw a young scarlet warrior without a wife who was always at the forefront, leading the scouts to carry down the endless legion of angels .Their corpses were sent to the rear. First, their arms and legs were replaced, then their internal organs and heads were replaced. In the end, there were no complete fragments, so they put their souls together..."

"—there is nothing more foolish than waging war."

Helena's emotions gradually calmed down, and her gray pupils were completely shattered, revealing the blood-red eyes inside.It can be seen that her eyes are full of pity.

"If war is unavoidable, end everything in the shortest possible time. A war requires the participation of two parties to become a war. Moreover, war is more often used as a means rather than an end. Therefore, satisfying them is alright."

"Facts have proved that the greed of the gods is nothing more than that. They got Elukardo, disarmed the Scarlet Crusade, and retreated after Elcate built the temple and deposed the temporary ruler. If Otherwise, how long will the war last, and how many comrades will go crazy in the endless war..."

"—Is this the reason for your betrayal?"

Roland suddenly spoke, interrupting Helena's chatter.

"...What do you mean? Isn't this enough?"

On the contrary, Helena looked incomprehensible: "It was a completely meaningless war, without any hope of winning. It was a massacre, why did it continue? Just for that ridiculous glory? Don't be kidding , glory and dignity are not as important as being alive. If you die, you will have nothing, but if you are alive, you will have everything..."

"So, you betrayed the whole of Elcate just for your own life?"

Roland's face was expressionless.

Obviously keeping everyone alive—— Helena wanted to retort like this.

But inexplicably, a familiar yet unfamiliar power made Helena open her mouth but couldn't say a word.

"Betrayal is unforgivable. There is no excuse for betrayal, no matter the reason."

Roland stood up slowly, and a silver thorn rune gradually appeared on his forehead.

Helena's pupils instantly shrank to the point of a needle.

"...This is...the crown of thorns?!"

Roland ignored Helena's meaning.He didn't even bother to look back, as if looking at Helena would dirty his eyes.

He just asked softly into the open space: "You heard it all, Elcardo."

"Ah... I heard that, Lord Roland."

From the shadow of a nearby flower, Elcardo's figure gradually emerged.

There was an almost cruel smile on her face, but there was no smile in her eyes.

The surrounding air seemed to freeze, and Helena felt her teeth chattering, making a crisp sound as they collided with each other.

"You...you're not..."

Surprisingly, Roland didn't get angry. He just glanced at Helena for the last time with pity. Then he turned and walked towards the center of the garden, and said lightly, "Elucardo, it's up to you."

"You will be satisfied... my master."

Elcardo bowed deeply in the direction where Roland was leaving, showing a very bright smile.

(End of this chapter)