quicksilver blood

Chapter 474 The Hope You Shouldn't Hold

By the time Gallo regained consciousness from his bloodthirsty frenzy, there was no one standing around.

The armor on his body, which was originally gorgeous and sturdy, was almost soaked in dark red blood at this moment, and it became tattered and lost all its radiance.His helmet was missing, his left arm was bent unnaturally, and there was even his own blood on the broken sword feebly sprayed with dull sparks.

There was a huge scratch across his face, running from his left eye to his right cheek.The flesh and blood were turned outwards, and the shriveled eyeballs hung in the eye sockets, bouncing feebly and spurting out colorless and transparent pus.

It was the damage done when a monster stabbed Gallo's cheek with the weapon in his hand before dying.If Gallo hadn't twisted his head away at the last moment, the sharp cone-like weapon could have penetrated directly through his head.

But in any case, it doesn't matter if you say it's lucky or you say it's tenacious.

Anyway, Gallo survived.Looking for an opportunity to turn defeat into victory from such a cruel war, a mere eight people faced thousands of monsters that had lost their resistance, and killed them all in one night.

But even if they were weak, the mere death struggle was overwhelming.

Gallo remembered that a mountain boy from the Fourth Legion nailed the head of a monster to the ground with a spear from a distance, and repeatedly pierced the spear several times, almost smashing its head like mash. After being completely muddy, the moment he turned his head in relief, the bone spur ejected from the monster's chest pierced through his heart.

These monsters look almost all the same.Although some of the races have obvious characteristics, for the rest of the monsters, they are as featureless as a group of motley troops who were forcibly recruited.

There is no way to identify it, let alone how to prevent it.

Only by adapting to the situation can we resist the dying struggle of these monsters.

After being blinded by the monster in his left eye, Gallo's vision was only blood red, and he fell into madness completely.

Gallo roared and raised his weapon, slammed all the monsters in his field of vision one by one, cut them down or cut them off with his sword, and then rushed to the head to do it again.

After he woke up, the whole world fell silent.

"what……"

Gallo opened his mouth slightly, but found that he couldn't say anything.

With trembling steps, Gallo trudged forward, looking around with confusion in his eyes.

"anyone there?"

Gallo opened his mouth, and it took a long time before he finally opened his mouth, calling out the name of his comrade-in-arms in a trembling and piercing voice: "Sharna? Where are you?"

"...Jason? Paul? Bruce? Caleb? Charles? Sethi...Is anyone there? Is anyone alive!"

However, no response.Only Gallo himself echoed in the air.

The sun hadn't risen yet, but the sky in the distance was already shining with a hazy glow, and a dark golden halo spread across the sky.

The cool spring breeze accompanied by the strong fishy smell from the blood of those monsters filled his entire nasal cavity. The air was full of greasy, wet and cold fishy smell, which made Gallo feel that his face was wet, and the blood stains could not be completely dried. .

"...It's just me, isn't it?"

There was no reply for a long time, and Gallo fell silent.

However, he did not sit on the ground weakly, nor did he squat on the ground and cry.He just slowly raised his hand and dug out his shriveled eyeballs from his face.The severe pain made his cheeks twitch slightly, but other than that, this young man who was only in his early 20s didn't react at all.

His eyes became cloudy.The bloodstains on his face and the slightly rough and dark skin due to lack of sleep made him look almost old like a middle-aged man in his 40s.

"Farewell...lucky guys."

Muttering like Gallo, he crushed the shriveled eyeball he had just dug out, threw it on the ground, and then crushed it with his feet: "If you die in battle, God will be proud of your bravery." .Good lads...all gone, just leave me alone...I'm not very loyal..."

Gallo suddenly snarled: "—Go away you bastards! Don't come back!"

After yelling, Gallo felt his spirit relieved a lot, then silently raised his long sword, and continued to walk west.

He was not as lucky as those bastards to be able to ascend to the heaven of gods so easily.

No... It should be said that he should not ascend to Tire's heaven again.

He no longer believes in gods.No longer believe in any god, any existence higher than man.

Because Gallo realized one thing - in the face of catastrophe, even the gods themselves pray for miracles.It is ridiculous to say that believers pray to the pastor, and the pastor prays to God, so who should God pray to?

God is by no means omnipotent.

Gallo witnessed his friends die one by one, leaving him one by one, and even lost Sharna in the end.Gallo was finally alone.

What did Thiel help him in this process?Did Thiel solve his doubts for him?

Not just Thiel.Those Templar knights are the force of the gods, and the power of the gods is limited in the world.But when they were humiliated, persecuted, and on the verge of death, the gods didn't even think it was superfluous to perform miracles of healing...

Never before had Gallo felt so clearly that they had been abandoned by God.

The divine grace in the body gradually drained, and the blessed armor lost its luster.One by one, the miracles that Tire had done for them failed, and even the power that Tire gave him was lost.

This is really...

However, when Gallo was laughing at himself silently in his heart, he heard a somewhat familiar weak cough.

At that moment, Gallo's body froze suddenly.His eyes lit up immediately.

——He could clearly hear that it was Sharna's voice!
"Sharna!"

Gallo looked around in panic: "Sharna, where are you?!"

But in fact, while looking forward to it, Gallo was also a little worried.

What if Sharna suffers an incurable injury?What if it was just my hallucination?
On this chaotic battlefield covered in thick corpses, Gallo saw a dead silence at a glance.Although he heard Sharna's voice, he had no way of knowing where Sharna was.

"do not come!"

Coincidentally, at this moment, Sharna's weak voice came: "Gallo... don't come here..."

Without thinking, Gallo rushed in the direction of the sound.

"Sharna! Hold on! I'm here to save you! Hold on!"

His thoughts were in chaos, but his only thought was extremely clear - he wanted to rescue Sharna!

Gallo threw out the monster's heavy corpses one by one with his hands. It was difficult for him to walk, but now he burst out with infinite strength.

Finally, after he picked up a large body, he saw the familiar figure.

"Sharna!"

Gallo was almost ecstatic at the moment.

His first thought was, could this be Tyr's blessing?

That's right, it was Tell who guided him to find Sharna——

However, his smile instantly froze on his face.

It was right that he found Sharna, and it was right that Sharna was still alive.

However, Gallo could only see dense and ominous bloodstains engraved on Sharna's skin.

The dead air that had never been exuded from this vibrant young girl swayed in her eyes.

"Gai...Lo..."

Sharna raised her hand weakly, trying to touch Gallo's cheek, but just as she raised it, she dropped it again.

Gallo immediately picked up Sharna's hand before it fell to the ground, put it on his face, and repeated in a trembling voice: "I am, I am..."

"... Gallo... where are you?"

But Sharna didn't seem to hear Gallo's voice, she just muttered to herself.

Gallo only felt that the colder wind than winter was soaking him.

Right now, the sun is about to rise——

(End of this chapter)