The pale golden sun shines desperately, the tide whispers at her feet, Tia's reflection across the planks of the dock is deep and long.
The fate of this ancient city depends entirely on the girl's thoughts.
"Tia..." Ed muttered in a low voice, his words so pale and weak at the moment. Once she wavers, things will end in the most tragic way.
Sylvie, can you upgrade the program for me now?
Ed secretly requested. The projected flame text appeared before my eyes:
[No problem, my dear good sir. The estimated upgrade time is about 2-3 minutes, during which your brain will keep running at high speed, unable to act or think, and there is a 17.93% chance of a system crash. Are you sure you want to do this now? 】
Yes, let's get started.
he confirmed. This is a risky move and the only hope for a comeback.
[Okay, you have the final say. Please keep your mind empty and avoid emotional fluctuations. 】
As the handwritten flame text went out, darkness suddenly fell in front of me. The senses such as vision and hearing were gradually shut down. My thinking was stagnant and slow, and I entered the minimum activity, leaving only the pale white printed text in the center:
【》》》Upgrading to version 2.0》》》]
At the same time, Tia stopped in front of Elder Issyk. She looked into those aging scarlet eyes, and something was shining in them:
"No, Elder Issyk, I cannot let you complete your wrongful revenge in this way. It was Richard II who committed these crimes, not the city."
"...Even if you burn this city to the ground, the seeds of hatred will continue to be sown in the ruins, never ending, until death. They will kill more of our compatriots in the New World to compensate for what you have done. Just as we did in the Old World when we burned the rebels among them at the stake and sprinkled salt on their soil.”
"I understand..." Issek nodded seemingly calmly.
Suddenly, his face twisted together like crazy, and he gritted his teeth:
"You are a damn traitor, just like Holland. The only difference is that you will never die as cleanly as he did!"
The words were loud and clear, and the bones on the ground stood up again because of the vicious curse, and staggered toward Tia resentfully.
Tia pulled away to dodge, and the flaming whip danced towards the tide of corpses.
Wherever it touched, all the corpses turned into flying white petals, drifting away in the wind.
Suddenly, there were terrifying ripples in the sky——
"They shall know that my righteousness is a swift storm and an everlasting fire..."
Bloody clouds condensed and gathered from mid-air, and umbilical cord-shaped tentacles slowly descended from the sky. The octagonal tentacles pierced Issik's spine and ignited a huge flame.
"What happened before will happen again. What caused me to fall into the sea of fire will eventually be consumed by the flames..."
Flames flowed in his veins, and the muscles melted into a vague and sticky mass of flesh and blood, squirming and staggering. Every neighing sound made people feel their heart tightening, as if they were tightly grasped by burning hands.
The eyes of Mentilosa on the necklace were wrapped in flesh and blood, and a physical body was gradually born:
It was a head-sized, swollen, double-pupil eyeball, embedded in the weird turkey-like sarcoma of the throat, pushing the distorted face to the left.
"An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth……"
In the undetectable murmur, Isek turned into a burning monster. Jellyfish-like growth appendages sprouted from the severed limbs, and the tentacles alone were nearly three meters long, filled with an extremely uncoordinated sense of terror.
"Kill, kill...!"
Issek transformed into a ball of creeping flames, holding a giant sword in one hand and waving a thick tentacle in the other. He jumped up with his legs and ran towards Tia.
Tia turned sideways to avoid the slash of the giant sword, then turned over and jumped to avoid the sweeping sweep of the strange arm, landing on the swollen back of Elder Issik.
The flame whip once again wrapped around his neck, like a rein on a horse's bit, trying to pull him backwards.
Balrog swung his strange arm and grabbed it on the back, but because the arm was too big, it couldn't grab the back at all. So he exerted force on his legs and fell backwards.
Seeing that Isek was about to knock her to the ground, Tia let go of the whip and jumped up, trying to retreat and distance herself. Unexpectedly, he was grabbed by the tentacles on the strange arm and hung in the air.
"finally……"
The monster in front of him let out some kind of gloomy, completely unhuman growl. It muttered like a confused old man:
"You will see everyone you care about die in front of you before you die in pain. When you have been through what I have been through, may you still be able to forgive your enemies."
Buzz——
Suddenly, Mentilosa's pupils, which were originally burning with red flames, glowed with pale white fire and rotated uncontrollably.
Wherever he looked, thousands of stone pupils were suspended in mid-air, like ghosts with thousands of eyes, staring at Elder Issyk who had transformed into a fire demon.
The tiny blue ribbons condensed by the light were connected to the silver curved hooks, like sharp claws, drilling into Elder Issyk's bloated torso, pulling him until he could not move.
The red flames that originally enveloped the body gradually disappeared in the azure blue. The sudden change awakened the remaining consciousness of Elder Issyk, and he looked around in horror——
He could no longer feel the power of Mentilosa's eyes, but he had no idea what was happening.
There were only three consciousnesses in this dream. Apart from him, the elf girl was held in his palm. Could it be...
Issek turned to look at the black-haired, ant-like human.
In the battle at the passage just now, he didn't even play the slightest role, so that Issek ignored his existence from the beginning.
Even casually pulling him into a dream only prevents him from taking action in reality.
Did he do it?
The young man didn't give him any time to think anymore and lightly snapped his fingers.
The next second, the bright red blood blurred Isek's vision, and the dream itself was torn to pieces.
