One hundred and thirteenth warrior and the first encounter of the devil
Benedy landed on the Demon King's City and approached Lieder. In fact, when it came to status, they were completely unequal at the moment.
One is the demon king of a kingdom, and the other is just a homeless man wandering around with no fixed abode.
At best, he is just a down-and-out prince who ran away from home.
But Lie was obviously not someone who cared about these things. If Zena hadn't handed over the kingdom to him before leaving, he would have been nothing more than a funny fallen brave man.
Lieder's eyes flickered when he saw Benedy knocking the attack away with a slap, but then he was a little dazed when he heard Benedy's words, and he waved his hand to stop the attack.
A group of third-level magicians would not be able to hurt Benedy. Although they borrowed the power of magic tools, the level difference was too big, which was difficult for external forces to make up for.
"Carmion? What's wrong with Carmion?" asked Lieder.
"Camion, the city was massacred. There is no one left alive in the whole city." Benedy looked at Lieutenant's expression carefully.
The conclusion has been drawn, there is someone else who massacred the city.
"Haha, as you can see, I haven't sent out the army yet." Lie De raised his hand. The 800,000 Demon King's army below did not have a trace of blood.
In fact, Liede was not sure in his heart. After all, he did not really control the Demon King's City. Only two of the four kings of the Demon King's army would occasionally listen to him.
There is really no one who is marching secretly, and there is nothing he can do. Hey, the new king has taken office, and the throne is unstable.
"I know..." Benedy restrained his breath. He was really shocked by the sight of Camion. For a moment, he couldn't think of anyone who could and had a reason to do that.
"Besides, even if I really kill Camion, what will happen?" Lieder's tone became cold.
Benedy looked at him and heard the seriousness in Lie's mouth.
"What do you mean?"
Lie asked the two demon kings, Gina and Aiken, to prepare themselves, while he took Benedy to the main hall.
Benedy followed Lieder to a three-dimensional map.
"Look here, do you know where this is?" Lieder pointed at a city mark on the topographic map.
Benedy shook his head. This was obviously the northern region and he didn't know much about it.
"This is Feilong City, the largest trading city in Manting. It is the only city that has unobstructed access to the Central Kingdom and the other three realms." Lieder explained to Benedy.
As he spoke, he pointed at Camion, who was almost in the same straight line as Feilong City: "You said that when you came, you saw Camion's city full of blood and corpses everywhere."
"Have you ever seen how miserable Feilong City is? Are the people in the Northern Territory not considered human beings?" Lieder uprooted Mebis, who represented the royal city, from the map.
Benedy sighed. He knew that the king of the Central Kingdom was a complete madman, but if Camion was not the one who did it, then why...
Benedy's eyes wandered around the map. Not long after, he suddenly saw a large crack that spread for a long distance to the south of Camion.
"The Valley of the Dead..." Benedy's eyes widened. He did not deliberately avoid the Valley of the Dead this time. In order to make time, he even passed through it from a very short distance.
When passing through the Valley of the Dead, he felt that there was a very strong aura of death there, as well as very terrifying magic power fluctuations.
"If you want to march into Antara, it's best not to go through this place." Benedy pointed to the large cracked rift valley for Lie.
"Aren't you here to stop me?" Lie was suddenly stunned, and all the words he had prepared were held in his throat at this moment.
Benedy looked at the dull Reid and said doubtfully: "Why should I stop you?"
"Quickly stop me." Lie De felt very unhappy.
"No." Benedy refused.
"Although I won't stop you, your Demon King's army may not be able to enter the center of the kingdom. The emperor created many monsters carrying mist." Benedy added.
Lied nodded slightly. He also knew that those fog monsters were a threat to people with magic powers below the pentagon level. In front of those monsters with pentagon level magic power, they could only resist or escape.
"Leed, how did you become the devil?" Benedy was a little confused as to why Lie had successfully transformed from a brave man to a devil.
In this case, why would the four kings of the Demon King's army support Liede, who didn't seem serious at all?
Lieutenant didn't speak for a long time. Just when Benedy thought he wouldn't answer, a voice sounded softly.
"Zina and I were childhood friends, and we also lived in a war-torn city."
Zena was the previous Demon King of Manting, and he was also the only Demon King who stopped the chaos in the Northern Territory. It was he who completed the unification of the entire Northern Territory.
"We lost our place of residence and our family since childhood. We were abandoned by the defeated kingdom in the church's nursing home. Those princes and nobles established their own manor in our original homeland."
While Lie was talking, he had already led Benedy to a simple and ordinary lobby. A dark purple staff was quietly leaning on a seat in front of him.
The handle of this staff is dim yellow, with a round bead at the bottom root, and three curved spikes similar to claws at the top, with a purple ball wrapped inside.
"The nursing home is very good to us. We have food, drink, sleep, and a group of partners who support each other. There are teachers who will lead us in prayer every day. I like that kind of life very much." Lied picked up the staff on the seat.
, eyes dropped slightly.
"At that time, Zina would give me money to help the church every month. I was very happy at that time, thinking that I finally had a friend I could absolutely trust."
Benedy saw a large portrait hanging behind the seat. The person painted on it was handsome, elegant, and had a particularly extraordinary temperament.
Lieder stroked the staff in his hand, as if someone's warmth still remained on it.
"I always felt that I was the same type of person as Zena, until I saw him showing pity for an injured puppy in the ruins." Lieder's voice was trembling.
Lie seemed to be caught in some kind of memory, and an unforgettable memory came to his mind.
...
From time to time, there were calls for help, and the adults in the church spread out to help.
Little Lie followed Zena with a basket full of supplies on his back. They walked on a road full of ruins, and from time to time they had to climb over collapsed houses and deep pits.
"Zener!" Lieder suddenly saw that Zener had deviated from the original route. He looked around timidly and found that no adults had noticed them.
Lied hurriedly carried the big basket and followed the one inside. After a while, Zina stopped. He wiped the sweat from his head and put down his basket. His long purple hair was stuck to his head.
cheek.
Lie was much stronger than Zener. He held the straps on his shoulders tightly with both hands and carefully looked at Zener who was squatting down.
"Zina, what's wrong with you?"
At this time, Zina, who had a pretty face, raised his head and looked at Lieder who was following him with bright eyes.
"Leed, look."
Zena showed Lieder a small thing in his arms that was only as big as two palms.
Lie was stunned for a moment, but he was not frightened by the little life in Zina's arms, but was attracted by Zina's eyes that seemed to be glowing in front of him.
He had never seen Zena show such an expression. He once thought that he and Zena were the same kind of people, but at that moment, he realized that he was wrong, very wrong.
Later, Zena put the puppy into a basket and took it back to the church. Along the way, Lieutenant's eyes never left the basket that Zena was carrying.
The irritation brought by the smell of gunpowder smoke on the tip of his nose is not even as big as the impact of a puppy. It is better to say that he has long been accustomed to the smell of gunpowder smoke in this chaotic city.
After returning to the church, the things behind Zina's back were inevitably discovered by a nun from the church. Under the other's stern gaze, Zina carefully opened the basket.
Lie stood not far away and looked at Zena, who was in a depressed mood. He really wanted to see Zena's angelic expression again...
The nun carefully picked up the awakened puppy in the basket. All the children here had never seen this kind of creature.
There are only a few creatures in their knowledge, the church, nuns, priests, as well as the terrible knights and the cruel Chimera!
The children looked at the little animal with bright eyes one by one, and they all looked excited and excited when they saw it.
Only then did Lie realize that the truly different and strange person was himself.
Lie's mind was a little confused. He didn't know what the nun said. Everyone ran forward and cheered happily, but he stayed where he was.
In a daze, it was also the first time that Li had seen an expression called a smile on Zena's face.
For a moment, he felt that his heart had been hit. He moved the corners of his mouth with his fingers in despair. How could he show such an expression?
He once thought that he and Zena were the same kind of people, because Lieder could never forget the night when he and Zena met.
A night full of smoke...
Standing in front of a pile of ruins, little Zena was looking at the fire-filled distance with eyes filled with boundless hatred. His red eyes were filled with bloodshot eyes, but no more tears could flow from his dry eyes.
That look, that emotion, that back figure, standing in tatters not far from little Zena, he felt that he had found someone of the same kind, and his heart was beating fast.
"Let's walk together, to the south." Lie's feet stepped on the gravel and approached Zina. Countless blood stains were all over his delicate little feet.
They were only ten years old at that time, and it was their first encounter.
In the days that followed, everyone named the puppy Ariel. For some reason, Ariel was very nice to everyone in the nursing home.
But only Zina and Lieder were the closest to them. Lieder obviously kept a straight face all day long, but Ariel was like a living treasure, wandering around Lieder every day.
Days like this lasted for several years. Just when Lieder felt that he was about to forget the past and start a new life with everyone, Zina stood in front of him with a calm face.
"I want to go back to the north, Lieder." Zina said the words that shocked Lieder the most.