The Scarlet Sky of Romance Legend

<Even God cannot deny that in the dark corners where the glory of the kingdom cannot shine, there will be seeds of love quietly sprouting. >

Besephone was carefully covered by Pluton's black robe, and the two of them evaded the hunt of the paladins with difficulty and danger, and gradually approached the edge of the city of sighs.

Just when she was about to leave the dangerous place, Besephone heard that vicious curse from afar.

"Don't think that you can easily be forgiven by others just by showing kindness... I will never forgive you... ever!"

A heart-piercing curse came from far away, and Besephone suddenly turned her head, and she saw the black human figure vanishing into ashes under the extreme light from a distance.

That is... His Majesty the Lich King!

Never forgive... how much grief and pain does it take to have one person speak this absolute language to another?

Before she came and thought about it, the voice of the King of Knights had already spread all over the world:

"We have won! The darkness has been dispelled, and the land under our feet will return to light! Justice has won the final victory!"

The bloody but ridiculous declaration echoed in the sky, the human beings uttered deafening cheers, and the undead hidden in the ruins wailed bursts of wailing that humans could not hear.Their king, their leader is dead, the great Lich King once created a safe land only for the undead, but now the king is dead and the paradise is destroyed. The endless despair of the family chasing and fleeing.The land will return to light...to the light of humanity.To the undead, that light is no different from the fiercest and most powerful poison.

Besephone tightened the black robe that protected her from the sun, and her eyes stretched into the distance.She is very weak now and cannot be easily exposed to the blazing sunlight, but the most basic observations are still possible.She saw at the end of the ruins, the human knight king holding up the blood-stained silver cross sword, with a solemn posture like a martyred saint.The King of Knights held his long sword with no expression on his face, as if he was not pleased with the fading of the darkness. The King of Knights' expression and demeanor were completely opposite to the passionate lines before.

Besephone looked around again, all the humans were hugging and cheering, but the King of Knights stood alone at the end of the ruins, like a child abandoned by the world.

why?Why is the one most entitled to cheer silent?It's as if... mourning for the city of sighs for this ruined paradise of the undead, for the Lich King who just passed away.

King of Knights...

Wait a minute.

Confused, Besephone suddenly realized something.

...Knight King.

"Don't believe anything that humans say about God, rely on your own cognition to define things that you don't know, humans always do such stupid behaviors, and the truth they seek is farther and farther away from them. Human It is said that God is merciful, but God is not only merciful. God also kills, God also hates, and God also punishes the devil."

"It's just that human beings always foolishly speculate on God's will. The final result is always wrong."

"Me, Ligeia, and Gloria...the God we've seen has never bothered to convict and condemn. She loves the world and us, just as a mother loves her child...A mother indulges her child, but This does not mean that there will be no punishment. One day, all the evil in this world... will be judged by the hand of God. No one can escape that result... They are punished in the name of love and justice. Mistakes committed will eventually be punished. But you must learn to protect yourself... Fate is never fair, the wicked may be punished in the end, but the good people may not be able to be permanently happy."

What the Lich King said when she was a child echoed in Besephone's ears again, and she finally remembered that small and easily overlooked point.

Ligeia, Garland...

Besephone didn't know the name of His Majesty the Lich King, but she did know the name of the knight king, the enemy of the undead.

Jialanyiluo? Mokanqier? Yiliut, a man of the gods, the holy son of the holy court, the youngest cardinal, and the name of the knight king shocked the nations.

This name is too unique, so unique that you don't even want to remember it.

The Lich King said that he, the Knight King and another person named Ligeia had personally witnessed God's appearance... The point is not that His Majesty the Lich King has seen God, but the relationship between His Majesty the Lich King and the Knight King. "Jialan" is the pet name of "Jialan Yiluo", and people who are not particularly close will never call it that.After all, that is the King of Knights who shocked the nations... Any disrespect to that person will be regarded as a provocation to the holy court.His Majesty the Lich King knew the Knight King, and was very close to the Knight King... His Majesty died, the Knight King must be mourning, right?

Even though they have parted ways due to inexplicable reasons, the former friendship cannot be easily erased.

Killing a friend with your own hands and mourning... is hypocrisy, King of Knights.

You deserve that curse completely.

Besephone glanced at the King of Knights with contempt, then turned her head and continued to follow Pluton's footsteps, and the two quietly fled outside the City of Sighs.

"Ah……"

The black robe fluttered, and a mocking sound came from behind Besephone.

A very light and shallow mocking sound came from a distance, and the King of Knights raised his head as if realizing something, and looked in the direction of the sound, his long black and red hair and torn white robe fluttered like a banner.However, as far as she could see, there was nothing but gray and white ruins, and crowds of people embracing each other with tears in their eyes and being so excited that they couldn't control themselves.

She stood alone in the middle of the ruins, the highest, farthest and closest to the sky, as if all the happiness had nothing to do with her... She silently faced the sky, like a sharp knife drawn out of its sheath, fearing that her sharp edge would hurt the important person. People, therefore, have to endure a long period of loneliness.

"Amsterdenton..." The King of Knights let out a long sigh. She repeated her friend's name again, but couldn't utter any words.

Such a complicated and hopeless reality—has already made people speechless.

"Did I do something wrong...my God?"

She looked at the sky and muttered to herself, as if begging for a response.But the gray-white sky didn't respond at all, and the gods were also silent about the prayers from the mouths of tiny human beings, having nothing to say.

"Do you have a place to go? If not, come with me. You know, it's very dangerous to be alone these days for a beautiful lady like you. Especially when you have to be careful of the mad dogs in the Holy Court Next—but in fact, our status is similar to that group of guys. We are all dogs, but one group works for the seemingly glorious god's agent, and the other group works for the seemingly dark undead lord It's just a matter of hard work. There is not much difference in essence between the two, don't you think, Miss Persephone?" Almost reaching the safe zone, Pluto turned around and said lazily to Besephone.

"'Dog'?" Besephone raised her eyebrows.This place was covered by shadows, so Besephone took off the black ragged robe that had been covering her body to block the sun, revealing her long black and beautiful hair, and her slightly pale but exceptionally beautiful face.

She couldn't understand what was going on in the brain of the guy opposite at all. Did he really regard her as a weak female mage with no power to restrain her?The Banshee Queen is an undead warrior who prefers melee combat, and of course, magic is not bad.Even if that's the case, isn't it too much to position yourself as a "running dog"?What's more - His Majesty the Lich King is different from those greedy and disgusting humans!Besephone doesn't believe in God, she only believes in His Majesty—that is the pillar of faith she erected since she was a child, and it will never collapse!

"But the Lich King has already failed, defeated by the King of Knights." Pluton shrugged, he was not ugly, he could even be said to be very handsome, but the way Besephone looked at him now seemed to be To watch with revulsion and disgust as a fly alighting on a delicious meal.

"Oh, this pretty lady—Miss Persephone, please don't look at me like that with your charming eyes, what I say is the truth—and your Majesty the Lich King does indeed It was a failure... Didn’t you also see it with your own eyes? The victory of the King of Knights, the victory of light and justice—oh, what a great hero! He ① put an end to the dynasty of darkness for more than 300 years! He is the messenger of God, serving mankind The hero who sows the light of the future!——I bet those old things in the holy court will do whatever it takes to describe how powerful and kind the Knight King is, and your majesty will be written by bards as a— - a cruel, cold-blooded and ugly tyrant - believe me, they will do it, those old things can do anything." Pluton imitated the bard's tone, and the tone of his voice was constantly changing, which was lifelike.

Besephone stood stiffly on the spot, as if heels had grown under her feet—slowly growing into a towering tree.

Yes... His Majesty the Lich King is dead, and everything she thinks... is nothing but deceiving herself.Besephone's voice became hoarse all of a sudden, and he couldn't say anything.

"Do you want me to give you some more information, this loyal fan of the Lich King, Miss Persephone?" Pluto seemed to feel that it was not enough, and began to exert pressure again, "You don't seem to have heard that the Knight King The name of the Lich King, he called him 'Denton'... Who was the most famous 'Denton' 300 years ago? Amsterdam Denton? Long Campbell, the last Duke of the Campbell family! The best friend of the Knight King , the guy who mysteriously disappeared after the family collapsed... They are not just familiar. According to the hymn of the bard, they can wear a pair of trousers and share the same woman-of course the latter is just a metaphor. Those who strictly abide by the monastic precepts have more perseverance than other guys in the Holy Court.

"Also, it is said that the divine dancer—the younger sister of the Duke of Campbell, Ligeia, had a crush on the King of Knights for a long time but failed to get any results. Later, due to a series of accidents, she was forced to go to work with Ran Fansile. Hostages - Duke Campbell went to the rescue with the King of Knights, Duke Campbell went crazy on the spot when the dancer died - I guess it was because of the death of his sister that the duke with a bag of brains became hysterical and became the Lich King. There was also a stalk of falling in love and killing each other with my friend, the Knight King... Tsk tsk, 100 years ago, an ancestor wrote a 300 million-word novel based on some information, which was all based on the imagination of the Lich King and the Knight King. ...women are terrible, especially crazy women."

"How do you know so much? About His Majesty the Lich King, about...Knight King?" Besephone suddenly came to her senses, temporarily ignoring the existence of the unreliable ancestor, she only thought that this guy named Pluton It's amazing.

"That's what my family does—record history, and to put it bluntly, it's digging gossip. So I always know more than others." Pluton shrugged, "But the family has long since fallen, and now I'm the only one left idle I even ran to become a necromancer—I wonder if the ancestor’s undead would crawl out of the tomb and strangle me, an unfilial descendant?”

"Why, Persephone, are you interested in this unskilled industry? If beautiful women want to join, I welcome it." Can't see emotion.

It seemed to be an invitation, but it seemed quite casual, and Besephone was momentarily not sure if he meant it.

But looking at those dark eyes, she suddenly believed it.

"I...joined." For the first time, the first time since being hurt by humans... Besephone so firmly trusted a living person, a living person who was not undead.

She didn't know where this inexplicable trust came from, she just thought... the man in front of her was very interesting.

Maybe in the future... I won't be alone anymore.

She stretched out her hand, as if inviting, as if agreeing.

"Girl, you actually trust me so much? Well, well, in order to live up to this trust, I will do what a reliable man should do." Pulutong scratched his hair in surprise, and immediately held it She took Besephone's outstretched hand and grasped it naturally, as if she was familiar with an old friend, "You will be with me from now on, Miss Persephone."

The human warmth at your fingertips is so reassuring, reassuring enough to make you forget...a future destined to be fruitless.

three years later.

The silver-white crossed long sword passed through the chest of the Banshee Queen, and the sharp blade turned up and down, bit by bit crushing the ugly heart.The throbbing soul in Besephone's eyes weakened little by little until it was completely extinguished.

She is dead.

"Serial number 28, 'Queen of the Banshees' Besephone Royna Vincent, has been wiped out. Report to the Secret Council of the Cardinals, complete the relevant files, and return them to the Central Sanctuary for preservation." Wipe off the last touch on the sword Dirty bloodstains, the King of Knights put his sword back into its sheath, and sighed wearily.After the First World War in the City of Sighs, the surviving undead fled in all directions. She has been chasing and eradicating them all these years, and her hands are already stained with blood that cannot be washed away.

"Honorable Knight King, what should I do with the human who accompanied the Banshee Queen? Should I take him back to the holy court to wait for the trial and purification?" The white knight in uniform stood aside respectfully, escorting the man with long black hair.The expression on that person's face has always been blank and empty, like a soul residing in a dream.

"Bring it back——" just as the word "bringing" came out, before the lingering sound fell, she swallowed the rest of the words forcefully.

God speaks in the ears of the humans she shelters, for those who have been born but have not awakened.

"Kill it, throw the corpse anywhere." The King of Knights said, his voice was so hollow that it didn't look like himself.

"Yes."

——The god in charge of death must be a dead person.

——This is a rule that no one can disobey.

"My god, I'm scared."

"Ah? What are you afraid of?"

"After Pluto wakes up, will he really not trouble me?"

"Ahahaha, this...cough cough, he won't have a chance to trouble you."

"I don't know."

"You will lose your freedom, but my authority in your hands is greater than his."

The master of the stream of souls... lonelier than Pluto, but also more powerful.

Many years later, the world that the King of Knights loved and hated finally came to an end, and the god she believed in and followed accepted her into the Kingdom of God, so that she would not have to die for the dilapidated old world.In the glorious Kingdom of God, she was fortunate to see many familiar faces, including the man who had been with her during the last three years of the Banshee Queen's life, the man who was ordered by God to kill her. The man, the god who has transformed from a mortal to Hades.

The King of Knights asked Pluto, no, his name should be Hades now.She asked Hades if he still remembered the banshee queen Besephone who had been together for three years and was named "Persephone"?

The awakened king of the underworld tilted his head, his eyes wandering into the distance, as if he was making a major decision, or thinking about some unexplainable puzzle.

The King of Knights waited for a long time, but Hades still had no desire to reply.In the silence, the King of Knights gradually felt that this was a stupid question, feeling embarrassed and ashamed.Obviously she also knows that the body after the awakening of the gods and the predecessor before the awakening can be regarded as different individuals, and it is not necessary to generalize. Why do you ask such questions like "Do you still remember your ex-girlfriend?" stupid question?The King of Knights waited in embarrassment, and waited for a long time. Finally, she couldn't wait any longer, and turned around and wanted to leave.Just before she left, the Pluto finally spoke.

The voice of the king of the underworld is soft, and any words uttered between the lips have a poetic beauty:

"Of course I remember her...Persephone, or Besephone, my dear Queen of Hades."

① The Queen of Knights disguised herself as a man and declared her gender to be male. Therefore, the description of King of Knights in the narration of people who did not know her real gender was in the male third person.

The author has something to say:

I thought about it, and I still don't have a clue about how many episodes about Glory and the Demon King, so in the next chapter, let's start with the fourth part, Six Paths of Calamity... secretly looking forward to Sister Rui's undercover Demon King [Hey, you are the author] ah

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