Scepter of Thorns

Anado is a small town far away from the center of the Heaven Realm. Its transportation is relatively backward, and its folk customs are simple. The people in the town hardly communicate with the outside world. They own a certain area of ​​land and live a self-sufficient life.

Two girls wearing wreaths carried baskets and went to collect red berries in the woods north of the town.This is a seasonal fruit known for its sweet and juicy taste.What's more interesting is that it is shaped like a heart, so there is a long-standing custom in the town. If any girl has feelings for a boy, she will personally pick a basket of red berries and give it to him.

"Daisy, you are so beautifully dressed today." Lily, the girl traveling with her, looked at her enviously, "I rarely see you wearing this dress."

The girl smiled charmingly, "My mother sewed it for me. It's made of calico. Normally, I would be reluctant to wear it out."

"Could it be..." Lily opened her mouth wide in surprise, she looked at the red berries in the other party's basket, "You want to give it to... that gentleman?"

Daisy is the most beautiful girl in the town. She has golden hair that is as bright as the sun, as if woven with expensive gold threads. Compared with her, any girl's long hair will pale in comparison.The town boys were always talking about her and dreaming of receiving her hand-picked red berries.

Until an outsider came to settle in the small town of Anado a year ago, this girl seemed to be hit by the golden arrow of love.She always tried every means to visit him, and every time she dressed up carefully, but the gentleman seemed puzzled, he rejected her gently and politely, but she never gave up, hoping that her sincerity and love would end. One day you can impress each other.

In fact, when that gentleman came, his handsome face convinced many girls who were waiting for marriage.Daisy is just one of them, but she is very confident in her beauty. This little pride makes her encourage herself after repeated rejections, "I am the best one." She always thinks like this.

After careful preparations, Lily went home, and Daisy knocked on the gentleman's door.

……nobody.

She drooped her shoulders in disappointment, and the carefully woven garland tilted.Daisy looked at the cranberries in her hand, put them in front of the door in frustration, and ran away like a fawn.

Pinned to the basket is a pink card with the words: For Dear Mr. Senna Daisy This is a two-storey villa.The curtains on the second floor were pulled open, and Senna looked at the girl's back, a trace of helplessness flashed in his eyes.The other party's persistence annoyed him, and Senna couldn't use any tough methods on an innocent little girl.His identity is too sensitive and it is not suitable for him to have too much contact with others.

He closed the curtains again, and darkness filled the room.He turned around, looked at the person lying quietly on his side on the bed, and smiled contentedly.

Father.

Senna voluntarily gave up the rights he had acquired, and disappeared with Mephisto in his arms, not because he was afraid of Edward, but because he was afraid of Kylos behind him.He sensed that Kylos was coming, so he put a sleeping spell on Mephisto, and took him to live in seclusion in the remote town of Anado.Senna has always been soberly aware that compared with Kael Roth, the perfect work of the Eternal Ruin, he is just a crude imitation, and there is no comparison in terms of power.

But he is still very lucky, because there are people who love him selflessly in this world. Although it is due to the ties of blood, Senna still cherishes this feeling very much.

"Father." He stepped forward and hugged Mephisto who was still sleeping, deep emotions condensed in his eyes, like ink that could not be melted, "I will always be loyal to you, your wish is what I will fulfill duty of."

Familiar breath descended, Senna tucked up the corner of the quilt for Mephisto, stuffed an old pocket watch into the other's palm, and then quietly left the room as if afraid of disturbing anything.

In the living room, Kylos came uninvited, and he watched Senna with great interest, "It seems that you are doing well."

Senna glanced at the red scratches on the opponent's neck, and pointedly said, "You too."

"I'm sure you know why I'm here." Kaierlos flipped his wrist, and the long needle sword was showing signs, "Do you have anything else to say?"

"You didn't want to kill me because you were emotionally frustrated, did you?" Senna didn't rush, but instead laughed, "As far as I know Edward, he is not a character that can be manipulated at will. I'm afraid you are mutual No one will benefit from exposing the other party's reverse scales."

"Emotionally frustrated?"

A pair of ferocious bone wings tore through his clothes and protruded from his back.Kairos switched to the form of the Demon Race, and his hair color darkened a little bit.

"I think it through now." Blood was flooding in this demonic eye, "It's better to be tough on feelings that will never get a response."

The needle sword came through the air, Senna didn't dodge anything, and let the point of the sword pierce himself.

The sword of Kylos is the only thing in the world that can restrain him. The Eternal Ruin tempers its pointer and bestows it on the perfect creation.He felt the loss of body temperature, but death was always slow. Senna exhausted his last bit of strength and said intermittently, "Gods, Ragnarok is coming, all gods will die, but Mephisto must survive, Become, become the ruler of the heavens..."

"At this moment, you are still thinking about Mephisto, and your feelings are really deep." Kylos admired the passing of his life, "You gave him the sleeping technique, isn't the sequelae of the sleeping technique just forgetting everything about the caster? Do you want him to forget you?"

"Because I'm loved..." Senna's eyes gradually lost their luster, but the corners of his mouth turned up, "Because I'm loved."

The blond-haired, blue-eyed young man completely lost his vitality, his wound no longer bleeds, but gradually faded, and his body turned into nothingness, disappearing forever.

"This is our destiny." As if mourning, Kylos sighed, "Because we are the creations of the Eternal Ruins, I will eventually return to nothingness, along with all the Protoss."

He opened the room where Mephisto was sleeping peacefully, and the familiar power fluctuations were surrounding the sleeper.Kyle Rose finally knew why Senna was killed so easily, because he used all his strength to protect Mephisto. Even if he was himself, it would be extremely troublesome to break through the defense set by Senna, let alone the needle. The sword is only aimed at the creations of the Eternal Ruins.

Kylos snapped his fingers, and the invisible force spread out to the surroundings like ripples, completely isolating the villa from the town of Anat, and it "disappeared".Everyone who has come into contact with Senna will completely forget him, because the law deleted his existence.

Only inner strength can break through this invisible barrier.

"It's really touching love." Kairos put away the needle sword, with a half-smile, "It's a pity, Mephisto may never know that someone loved him deeply."

But what right does he have to laugh at?Kyle Ross is undeniably jealous of this feeling, if Edward can—

Forget it, he thought.Because it is never possible for anyone to love him deeply, he is destined to endure loneliness in this world.

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The lord of elves, Zagari Joan, happily raised the teacup, "Long time no see."

"Yes." Edward's eyelashes drooped, and he played with the pearls and gems in his hand, "I recently..."

He was a little hesitant to tell others what he was going through.

"You were locked up by Kylos?" However, San Zagalli pointed out this fact, "Didn't your leg be broken?"

Edward didn't know what to say for a while, he was silent for a while, and asked, "...are you disappointed?"

San Zagalli was still so calm and breezy, he sipped his tea slowly, the brown tea leaves swaying slightly in the cup.

"You made a deal with the Eternal Ruins?"

The elf stared at Edward with dark green eyes, and changed his tone of statement, "You made a deal with the Eternal Ruins."

"I have to do that, or I can't escape at all." Edward stretched out his steel wings. "He tore my wings once, and now I think he wants to tear the metal apart."

"Hehe." San Zagal seemed to be sneering, "You are always hurting each other."

Edward didn't answer, and he didn't know how to answer.

"Since you have been recognized by the Eternal Ruins, I can tell you some things." Saint Zagari changed the subject, "Kellos is the creation of the Eternal Ruins, and I am the designated intervention of the Eternal Ruins Or, it gave me some power over other gods. Because the puppet was out of control, it thought of many ways to fix this loophole, one was to create an imitation that was almost the same as Kaier Luosi, and the other was to create an imitation that was almost the same as Kaier Luosi Choose a god to intervene a little bit in Kylos' behavior. Of course, there are other things, but I don't know that's all."

Then, he put down his teacup, "But I don't want to do it, there's no reason."

"and then?"

"Then?" Saint Zagari smiled disdainfully, "Kellos came to your door. At that time, he had just seized your godhood and was in his prime. The Ruins of Eternity can't take care of itself, and some of the power it gave me I was firmly suppressed in front of Kylos, and he couldn't kill me because of those powers, so he threatened me to be a bystander—it just happened that I was too lazy to intervene."

Hearing this name, Edward couldn't help but clenched the pearls and gems in his hand, "If so, is the Ruins of Eternity willing?"

"No, isn't it still dragging you into the water? That clock hasn't finished running for thousands of years. Who knows what will happen when it finishes running. It's like living in a countdown."

"What exactly does the Ruins of Eternity want to do? What is the purpose of its existence?" Edward asked the questions he had been pondering for a long time, "It is a symbol of the law, and Kairos is the executor of the law. What does it matter?"

"I don't know about the latter, but I know a little about the former." Saint Zagalli replied, "This world is built by laws.

"The law is extremely powerful and terrifying. It stipulates this world. For example, the patriarch of the sky has wings, the patriarch of the demons has bone wings, the elves are close to the branches and leaves, and the dwarves live underground, etc. But no one has ever asked why, why ordinary races Need to eat to maintain life? Why can't this world be permanently peaceful? Why do years change and history change? These are all created by laws, but no one has ever known why it happened.

"Because the law needs a power, and I guess it is this power that keeps the clock going. This power is rooted in the world, and we can never see it, because we are the source of the power."

Edward heard this and thought about it.

"It's progress, not a clock, but the progress of life." Saint Zagari reminded him.

"Our magic is getting stronger and stronger, and our thinking is getting more and more avant-garde, which drives a kind of power, and the Ruins of Eternity uses this to survive." Edward said slowly, "This is the reason why we will never be able to defeat the law. Because our interests are the same, while being strong, it will inevitably lead to its growth.”

"Wars and disasters are catalysts. The revival of every race must be accompanied by pain and awakening in pain. We need to eat, but resources are limited, so there will be conflicts between individuals, which will lead to wars. The world cannot be permanently peaceful; we record the history and record the humiliation experienced by our race, so the peace between the heaven and the devil is extremely difficult, we can't forget that our own kind was killed, we will hate each other, this is eternity The purpose of the Ruins."

"And life arises out of war and suffering."

----Chapter97. Clarity & End----