Chapter 1216 King
The dusk is getting darker, and the setting sun is better than blood.
Several thin wolves were wandering on the soil slope in the distance. They looked at the bonfires that arose under a rocky slope below and two figures. One was busy making dinner, while the other was sitting still as if he was asleep. The thin wolves were hungry. God knew how much they wanted to go downhill hunt, but their keen senses kept reminding these beasts that the atmosphere over there was too dangerous.
The cold and terrifying atmosphere was like a giant python hanging down the slope, waiting quietly for food to come to your door.
So under the setting sun, they only whistle a few times occasionally, but dare not go downhill.
"Coward." Bai muttered, this was the word he had just learned. He looked at the wolf drooling on the hillside in the distance, but had to bake the dried smoked meat, and then sprinkled salt on it and seasoned it in his mouth and chewed it. In terms of human taste, such dried meat tastes good. After all, in this wilderness, you can't expect a tavern or restaurant for you to eat. But for Bai, it is obvious that fresh wolf meat is more delicious. However, Lucy has said more than once that since he has transformed into a human form, he has to learn how to be a human.
Everything starts with changing the habit of eating raw, so Bai showed his spirit of facing a strong enemy and ate all the bacon without hesitation. He licked the oil on his hands and looked at Alan next to him. After finding this place as a place to stay overnight, he began to temper his source power. Bai was no longer surprised during the journey. However, the boy didn't know that after returning to Heaven Star this time, Alan tempered his source power much more frequently than before, and even Bai felt that Alan was eager for power. But the boy didn't understand, where did Alan's desire come from? No wonder he didn't understand, Alan's experience on the earth was mentioned in the end.
Bai only knew that at this time, his responsibility was to protect Alan. He was happy to do so, just as Alan protected him to grow up all the way when he was a young snake.
But what Bai didn't know was that Alan did not deliberately temper his source power tonight. He had entered the depths of consciousness and descended again in that strange world.
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As if waking up from a long dream, Alan slowly opened his eyes in the world of consciousness. He first heard the sound of rain, and then looked up. Sure enough, the sky was filled with thick clouds that covered the sky and the sun. The black thick clouds were like thick smoke rising after the fire burned. The raindrops kept falling from the thick clouds and sprinkled in every corner of the earth.
He has been to this world several times, but it was the first time he saw it raining. Alan stretched out his hand but could not receive any raindrops. Only then did he see the red skin on his hand, with vermilion fire flashing from time to time, illuminating the nerves and blood vessels under the skin. Near his palm, there was a dark mist of color surrounded by fire. This dark mist looked ordinary but had high temperatures. The raindrops evaporated instantly when they fell into the mist, and even the water vapor did not have time to rise. So Alan's hand was very dry, and he shrank back, his eyes fell near him, and then he found that he was sitting on a throne.
This throne is located on the hill and is carved directly from the huge rocks. The abutment and the top of the hill are connected. The throne is large and wide, and for Allen's slender body, it can even be used as a bed. So he understood that this throne was not prepared for him, and its former owner should be Rogsia, known as Shadow of Flame.
Below the hills is a fire-burning forest. At this time, the canopy of the fire tree is dark blue, and the flames retreat to almost extinguish, like small flames. Raindrops fall on the fire crown, and the color of the fire crown appears extremely dim, as if it will be extinguished in the next moment.
This feeling of depression made Alan feel uncomfortable, making him remember the unpleasant experiences on Earth. So he stood up, took a deep breath, and suddenly a long roar surged into the sky. A fire burst out from the gap between the lava armor, and a circle of flames rose under his feet. From a distance, it seemed as if a flame crown fell on the hill. The dark mist surrounding the body suddenly surged, and behind Alan, stretched hard to the left and right sides, like a pair of shadow wings.
These pair of wings almost enveloped the entire top of the hill.
The fire-burning forest seemed to wake up from its sleep. The originally dim tree crowns, the fire light gradually turned orange and yellow from the dark blue, and finally turned into vermilion red sky fire. The flames rushed up, and the circle of fire in the forest lit up, and all the fire trees and sky fires spewed endlessly. From a distance, a corridor of flames seemed to appear on the earth.
Looking at the dazzling fire, Alan's chest was filled with depression. His perception also became sensitive. He suddenly looked up at the sky. He looked up again this time, but the scenery in his eyes was different. At this time, Alan's eyes were burning, and the cloud covering the sky began to stir, gradually forming a huge face. On that face, Alan felt a gaze falling.
There were other beings peeking at him in some mysterious way. The white flame on Alan's head suddenly lit up, as if a silver head was angry. He shouted suddenly: "Get out!"
A very small gap appeared at the center point, and then the gap expanded rapidly. The clouds were like whirlpools on the sea, rotating with the gap as the origin. The vortex of the clouds in the sky became more and more intense, and finally the thick clouds washed away, and the fierce sun shone again, and the earth reappeared in light.
The moment the thick clouds disappeared, Alan vaguely heard a roar. The roar was full of anger, but it was also a little surprised.
He snorted coldly, not taking it to heart.
At this time, the sound of horse hooves sounded. Alan looked down at the top of the hill, rode out of the forest, and came to the top of the hill along the hill path. It was a knight riding on the fire war horse. He carried the huge half-moon sickle, and the flame cloak behind him pulled out a long flame tail in the air. The flame knight came to the top of the hill in a blink of an eye. He jumped off the horse, knelt down on one knee to Alan, and said to Alan in the words of Eboines: "Welcome back, Your Highness the Dark King."
This is the knight who once served the Shadow of Flame. He has primary intelligence and can command the army to fight instead of Shadow of Flame. Of course, you don’t have to expect him to carry out a wonderful strategy. He can only simply command the army to charge or retreat. In this fire-like world, combat is often simple and crude, so for this high-ranking knight, it is enough to be able to conduct simple commands.
Alan turned around and pointed to the throne that blocked his gaze. A red light spot appeared on the back of the throne, and then the light spot spread, and the throne quickly collapsed and melted. In the eyes of the high knight, the throne that the flaming shadow once stood above collapsed, revealing the world behind the hill. Alan looked at the vast world behind the hill, and then whispered: "Assemble all the troops."
The knight seemed to have flames spewed out, and he stood up in awe. He stretched out his hand, and the flames spewed out from the gap in his armor, forming a horn of flames in him. The knight blew the horn, and the sound spread from afar in the fire forest.
The horn sounded three times in a row.
Then there was silence. After a moment, the sound of wings began to sound at the other end of the forest. A cloud like fire floated across the forest. Its head and tail were several kilometers long and extremely square. It was an army of tens of thousands of fire children. They flew through the forest, flew and circled in the sky, making squeaks. But no matter how the fire clouds rotated, no fire children dared to cross the hills and over Ellen's head.
For them, there is an invisible boundary.
Then there were fire dwarfs, these creatures living on fire trees or under forest grounds rushed to appear. They held rough weapons, either slid down fire trees, or drilled out of the soil, and then ran out of the forest with screams. These creatures were big and small, and looked ridiculous. But they were extremely numerous, just like a fire boy blocked the sky, and the fire dwarfs flooded the earth. They scattered across the forest like a flood, gathering under the hills.
Shortly after the fire dwarf appeared, the roar of wild beasts sounded in the forest, and fire-horned demons dragged their chains out of the forest. Their number was relatively small, but there were thousands. If the fire dwarf was a flood, then the fire-horned demon was a turbid current with a deep color. They tyrannically squeezed out a passage in the flood and occupied the front row. The fire dwarfs screamed dissatisfiedly, but none of them dared to challenge the authority of the fire-horned demon.
But when the extremely heavy but extremely unified footsteps sounded, even the Fire Horn Demon felt uneasy. Under the instruction of several of the particularly strong Fire Horn Demons, this dark turbid current, divided into two, clearing out a passage. It was tall and its head was like a ball of flames. The flame guards with rock formations took heavy steps under the leadership of several Flame Commanders and stepped onto this passage. They were Allen's personal guards and had higher authority than the Fire Horn Demon. These guards went straight to the hill, walked up the mountain path, and lined up from the foot of the mountain to the top of the hill. Several Flame Commanders came behind Allen and knelt on one knee together.
Then they arrived were the knights who had served the Shadow of Flame. The flame knights rode out of the forest in groups on war horses. Their number was smaller than that of the Fire Horned Demon, but far more than the Flame Guards. Seeing their knights appear, the high-ranking knight saluted Allen, and then rode on the war horses and galloped down the hills to meet with their army.
When there was only a skeleton but the flames were squirting all over his body, and the headless giant holding a fire whip or holding a flame axe came out of the forest, Alan's army finally gathered. He turned around and looked at his army, then pointed forward with one finger: "Go!"
The fire boy screamed, the fire dwarf waved the weapons in his hand, and the fire-horned demon roared to the sky, and various creatures responded to Allen's orders in their respective ways. Then the army set off, and the red cloud formed by the fire boy first floated over Ellen's head, followed by the fire dwarfs all over the mountains. The turbid current formed by the fire-horned demon broke into two and walked around the hills. The last giant fire beast came nearby, and Allen picked it as a mount and stood on its head. The giant beast lit up the fire, then took a big step, carrying Allen to the forefront of the army.
This time, Alan's army broke through thousands of miles, and the name of the Dark King gradually spread on the earth.
A river meanders across this low slope, extending to the west, and the terrain is narrow and wide. It is full of rock fragments and yellow weeds grow. They and clumps of dark-colored shrubs cover the pits on the slope that are unknown how deep they are. Among the dead grasses, fireflies keep rising, like Mars flying all over the sky, and the heat here is amazing. The high temperature comes not only from the ground, but also from the river. It is different from the river in a broad sense, because it is not the cool river water flowing in the riverbed, but the magma that is constantly rising. This magma river flows slowly, and goes north around the slope and disappears into a canyon like a skeleton of a giant beast.
Alan stood on a huge rock on the slope and looked at the canyon in the north. He could vaguely feel that there was an extremely powerful existence in the canyon, which was an opponent he had never encountered before after a thousand miles of decisive journey. But he was not afraid, but on the contrary, he still had a little expectation.
His army was lying dormant on this slope to rest. The fire boy drilled into the deep pits, the dwarf occupied the banks of the magma river, the fire-horned demon chose a place to rest at will, and the flame knights were tirelessly patrolling the camp. Along the way, although they finally met the enemy, after deporting several forces, Allen's army also cut a little more than before setting off.
Of course, Alan didn't feel heartbroken about the loss of cannon fodder like Fire Child and Fire Dwarf. These lowest-level creatures were almost everywhere. Although they consumed the most in battle, the number of these two creatures now was more than before they set off. Even the Fire Horned Demon did not care about Alan, but the median troops such as the Flame Knights and the Headless Giant were difficult to replenish.
Especially the headless giants, Alan will never see their kind again, even if there is only one.
This world is vast, and Allen believes that there are more powerful existences and superior lives waiting for him to discover. He has never considered how far his army can go, but as long as he moves towards the giant shadow at the end of the world, even if the distance of each advancement is limited. But as long as he does not stop, Allen believes that one day he will arrive at the place where the giant shadow is. At that time, he may understand the meaning of the existence of this world.
Alan's eyes spurted out of the sky fire, and the dark mist like shadows surged up like wings on both sides. He pointed to the direction of the canyon and ordered the army to set off. At this time, a little fire light appeared in the direction of the canyon. In the dim sky, the fire light was so conspicuous. The fire light soared into the sky, and turned in the air, and rushed straight towards Alan.
Its advancement was so fast that the previous second was a light spot as big as a fingernail, and the next second, Allen had seen a fiery fire ball as the size of a tabletop. The fire ball flew straight, and when it passed, a flame burned on the ground. The flame was like a path, starting with the canyon, and the end point pointed directly to the location of Allen's camp. Alan's head was ignited wildly, and the air was released without reservation. The entire slope was buzzing and trembling, and small pillars of fire continued to emerge from the magma river.
Alan was ready for battle, but the fire ball in the air suddenly restrained its momentum and slowed down. When it came to Alan's head, it slowly descended, and then fell to the ground and turned into a pool of magma. Alan's flame guard immediately rushed over, and a flame commander held a giant axe and walked towards the magma. Alan raised his hand to signal it to stop. At this time, the magma began to wriggle, and a convex head raised from the center, followed by his body, hands, and finally the magma condensed into a humanoid creature, standing in front of Alan.
It opened its eyes, and its eyes were two crystals like black jade, flashing with the light of wisdom that other lives do not have. It did not look at the many soldiers around Alan, but just spread their hands and bowed to Alan and said, "The brave Dark King, the flames on your body are as dazzling as the light of the sky. I am Amondo, and I only greet you on behalf of the fire of the abyss, Mitinas, the young king."
Allen nodded: "I did not feel hostile in you. I was surprised that there was still a life as intelligent as you in this land."
"Some of my wisdom cannot be compared with you." Amondo replied humbly.
"So please tell you what you want."
"Yes, Your Highness, Dark King." Amondo asked, "The Fire of the Abyss has seen your flames, and he wants to know more, where will you and your army go?"
Allen said nothing and pointed to the canyon.
Amondo sighed, "This is the problem. His Highness of the Abyss Fire's flames cover the entire canyon, and I'm afraid he will not be able to pass through you."
"I do not beg you to let me pass, but no matter what is blocking my way forward, I will crush it. Whether it is the fire of the abyss or anything else."
Amondo said in a slightly unexpected tone: "Young King, you will start a war between kings. But don't you know that war between kings has no meaning? It seems that your highness is right. Your birth time is too short, so short that you don't know many rules."
"For example?"
"For example, no war between kings shall begin."
"Is that so? That's a pity. Not long ago, I seemed to have killed a guy who called himself Shadow of Flame."
"Shadow of Flame?" Amondo shook his head: "All the names of kings are in my mind, but there is no shadow of flame in them. As for your name, it has only recently echoed in my mind. The sound of chanting your name is so loud that it cannot be ignored."
Allen asked, "You keep talking about the king and tell me, what is the king?"
Amondo had no impatientness, and he said in a respectful tone: "The king is the king he recognized, and has the privilege of immortality on this land. The king will fall, but will not die. After the death, the king will be reborn in the flames, which is a right that other lives do not have."
"He? Who is him?"
Amondo looked up and looked at the giant shadow at the far end of the horizon: "He is our creator and our destroyer. He is the beginning and the end. He is now sleeping, and we exist in his dreams. When he wakes up, we will no longer exist. But we will not die, but will appear in the world where he is. We are his most loyal soldiers, whether they are other lives or even kings."
"As long as he wakes up, we will be his most powerful army!"
PS: I wish all book friends who take the college entrance examination a victory, come on!
Chapter completed!