Scepter of Thorns

Have you ever felt like this-

Half asleep, unable to move.You can clearly hear the voices of people talking in the room, hurried footsteps, and the messy rain outside the window.You can't open your eyes, but you see scattered images in your consciousness, as if you are dreaming intermittently, but you know it's not.

Those things you have experienced and buried in the depths of memory are like swallowing vortexes that firmly fix you at the edge, and all struggles and resistances are just fine waves that dissolve into the rolling waves.

"The drawing of the healing circle has been completed - it has been launched successfully, a large amount of dark elements have been released, and the patient has no adverse reactions for the time being."

He opened his eyes.

The doctor's long white sleeves were dragged to the bed sheet, and the middle-aged man wrapped in a white robe turned his head and looked at him with a smile: "Are you awake?"

Edward leaned on the bed frame and sat up. He is now lying in his room, surrounded by two doctors.The one on the right is a young man with tight lips and a serious face, as if he is undergoing an important operation.Contrary to the person on the left, he was wearing a simple and neat military uniform, as if he had just arrived from the barracks.

"Ah, I forgot to introduce." The middle-aged man rolled up his sleeves, bowed and said, "I am His Highness's exclusive doctor, and I am here to treat your wounds. This is my apprentice, Ke Qie, who is currently serving as a military doctor in the Ninth Army Corps. .”

The young military doctor took a step back and gave a standard military salute.

"Thank you." Edward said hoarsely. The wound on his shoulder seemed to be recovering well. He could only feel itching, which might be scab. "Where's the crow?"

The doctor lowered his head and said with some regret: "After being hit by the light element, it melted on the spot."

The door of the room was knocked suddenly, and Henry's voice came through the door: "His Royal Highness heard that the master woke up, and asked me to come and take care of it. I don't know if it's convenient for the two doctors."

"Oh, please come in." The doctor winked at Keqie, and he quickly stretched out his hand on the bed, only then did Edward realize that a magic circle had been drawn on his quilt by a magic wand.The military doctor moved very quickly, and the magic circle disappeared immediately. He only had time to take a quick glance, it seemed to be a magic circle absorbing and releasing...

Henry pushed the door open with a tray and walked in, with no emotion on his dark face.He put the tray on the bedside table beside him, "His Royal Highness is looking for the assassin, sorry for not being able to ask the master personally, let me express my concern."

On the tray is a bowl of medicinal soup and two black and red fruits, "Axanthiae fruit in the morning and evening, and the medicinal soup is for eating now."

"Okay, I see." Edward closed his eyes, "I want to rest for a while."

The doctor and Henry glanced at each other, and then they all exited the room.

Edward, who was lying still, suddenly propped up his body, and he opened his eyes to stare at his own shadow, with an indescribable evil in his eyes.

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The black widow was wiping the pentagonal pyramid, and the familiar at the side gloated: "I heard that you failed in this mission wearing women's clothing? Oh, who can resist our An'an's charm, please take a picture of women's clothing!"

"Get out." His face under the black curly hair was tense, he spit out a syllable angrily, the familiar laughed, and didn't obey the order at all, "Mission failed, the employer wants to talk to you haha, hurry up and write a review!! "

"His employer, not the dean, let the review book die." The black widow took out a mirror from the messy table, and after chanting a spell, a face with a mask automatically emerged.

"How do you do it!?" The person on the other side was obviously very annoyed, "Even an ordinary assassination failed! It's because your employment fee is so expensive!!"

"You have already met with my agent when you made the reservation. You should know that you have to pay half of the amount in advance, even if you fail." The Black Widow said impatiently, "And failure is failure. I admit that I am not capable enough. What else do you want?"

"You..." The man choked for a moment, not knowing what to say.

"Next time, ask the boss behind you to find someone who is good at talking. I haven't seen such a fool in finding faults." He threw the mirror away, took out a notebook, and after the option "Assassinate Caesar" I made a cross and wrote a line of annotation: black history.

"Damn." He closed the notebook with a look of unrequited love, "The second black history."

The familiar laughed and rolled on the ground.

The thrown mirror flew over, and there was another masked face, and the black widow nodded: "Hello?"

"I'm sorry, that one just now is new and doesn't know the rules." The person inside said in a deep voice, "I hope to know the details of the assassination."

The corner of Black Widow's mouth twitched, "Your people must be at the scene of the assassination. Did you see that Caesar reacted very quickly, or so fast that he didn't look like a normal demon at all. Even if he knew in advance, he couldn't be there before The elemental shield was condensed within half a second, which itself is suspicious. I suspect that there is something wrong with his bloodline, which normal demon has silver pupils?"

"And I suspect that he already knew about it." He added, "I feel that after I sneak in, I can easily get in touch with some core things in the mansion, but the role I play is just a maid, and he may be doing it on purpose."

The other party quickly grasped the main point: "What are the core things?"

"No comment."

"I'm willing to pay a thousand gold coins to buy it."

The fox was cunning and said: "You pay half of the money first."

Looking at the [-] extra gold coins in the account, he hesitated between money and beauty, and decisively chose beauty, "Caesar wants to control the Red River, and he will raise funds from the eleven noble families under his command in the ball room. , A total of seventeen crystal shells were raised, and he gave out five crystal shells himself, two from the Beckery family, and one from each of the others. The recent situation of the Beckery family...you know, but what you don't know is, Although he belongs to Caesar, he has not been very obedient and is a role that can be won."

"This news is very useful." The other party said, "I hope you can provide me with a similar one next time, and I will buy it at a price that satisfies you."

Black Widow cut off the conversation without saying anything.He fiddled with several mechanisms on the carvings at the head of the bed, and walked into the revealed secret passage.The secret door closed behind him, and he walked down the stairs, and soon reached a small room.

There were fine statues piled here, each with long, fair hair, and good features.He walked along, caressing them with his eyes, and finally stopped at an empty spot.

There will be a new hybrid of the Heavenly Demon Race here soon, he thought of the blond beauty, and couldn't help chuckling expectantly.

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This is a place without light.

Kaierlos walked here slowly, opening a path in the chaos.Wherever he walked, the darkness collapsed and receded like a tide, forming a band of light.The long robe skirt swept out of the light band, and quickly melted into the darkness.

It seemed to be the end, he stopped and listened quietly to the click of the clock.

Suddenly, a blood-red beam of light lit up where he was standing, and then gradually rendered the entire darkness, covering the place with a faint red veil.If someone looks down from the sky, he will find that this is a huge surface, and the light band just plays the role of the hour hand.

The human figure of the crow appeared from the central point, his face was pale, and even the red light could not paint him a little blood.His wings spread out from the other direction, leaving a trail of black feathers, forming a minute hand that echoes the hour hand.

"you lose."

"Yes, I lost." Crow sneered, "I'm not as cruel as you."

Kaierros lowered his eyes and remained silent, his eyelashes leaving a small shadow in his eyes.

"I should have remembered that with Caesar's caution, how could it be possible for a maid to help Edward back to his room? He had been told by you that Anna was disguised by the Black Widow. You know that the Black Widow has a crazy collection of people with mixed race and blonde hair Desire, so you gave Caesar medicine, and after Edward drank it, Anna found out that he was a half-breed demon, and everything followed logically: In order to prevent accidentally injuring Edward during the assassination, the black widow specially prepared the opposite medicine and put it on Edward's body. Food and drink. Based on what you know about him, he never touches things of unknown origin, so let him go to the ball after stabilizing his demon state.

"As for Caesar's ability to escape the assassination, a large part of the reason is that he foresaw the plan of the Black Widow in advance. It is impossible for you not to know that the pentagonal pyramid is the fragment of the pentagonal prism of the godhead. Edward has fragments of the godhead in his body, and it will instinctively rush towards him. You also know that I will desperately protect him, so I added a deadly light element to it, in order to kill me completely..."

The boy with black hair and red eyes trembled, and asked: "You have calculated so much, did you never think that if I don't save him, he will be completely killed?! At that time, there will be no more fragments to reshape for you , are you really ruthless?!"

"You will surely save him," he said. "No one knows myself better than I do."

The crow suddenly felt very powerless, "...Aren't you afraid of the punishment of the law? Even if I die, it will give birth to tens of thousands of me in order to contain you."

"I've always, always thought the law was a nuisance," Kylos said softly. "It wrote the script, set the stage, and made us put on our costumes and play our parts. We're all just its Chess pieces, unknowingly already doomed their future destiny.” Finally, people got rid of the shackles of gods, and everyone became their own gods. In this brand-new land, freedom shrouded every day like a rising red sun. Personal mind. 'What about us, our existence is absurd and ridiculous, and because of it we all must die."

"Are you willing? He has paid so much for the law, even losing his godhood, but he can only die in the end." He asked the crow, "Are you willing?"

"But it doesn't matter if you are willing or not." Kairos smiled, "Because I will make you willing. Look, there is not much time left. The more you struggle, the faster the minute hand moves. The distance is getting closer."

The crow was silent, his eyes were pure red, as if blood would drip in the next moment.

"Okay." After a long time, he finally replied, "But next time, no one will protect him."

The figure of the crow gradually faded away, and the minute hands made of feathers also scattered one after another, disappearing into the darkness.The boy with black hair and red eyes moved his lips, as if he wanted to say something, but he couldn't say anything.

On the scarlet clock face, the minute hand is gone, leaving only a frozen and shining hour hand.The man whose whole body was hidden in the shadows sighed lightly.

----Chapter32. Rules & End----

The author has something to say:

Xiao Gong is really dirty.