After telling this prophecy, Madness looked at Gaia.
From the look in her eyes, Gaia knew that she also wanted him to tell a story. Gaia didn't want to pay attention to her at first, but the King of Discipline suddenly said: "Mr. Gaia, I don't know if you have listened to the devil's deal." What do you think after that?"
Yes, it seems that the King of Discipline really doesn't want Madness to speak and is looking for a conversation with himself.
Helplessly spreading his hands, Gaia couldn't laugh or cry: "In that case, let me tell you a story as an answer to you. The story goes like this -
The king asked the brave man to slay the dragon.
It is said that the dragon will be resurrected soon, and once it is resurrected, it will plunge the entire kingdom into a sea of fire.
After receiving the sword, the brave man went out to fight monsters. He passed by a village, and the people there heard that he was a brave man and lined the streets to welcome him. The brave man thought they were troubled by monsters, but the villagers told him that it was the tax collector who troubled them. In recent years, rivers have dried up and food production has decreased, but tax officials continue to collect taxes as usual.
The tax collector is an uncle. He has a beard and comes here every month to collect taxes. He never showed any mercy, no matter how the villagers begged, he would take away the food.
The brave man was furious after hearing this, and when he came, he gave him a lesson without saying a word. The villagers praised him as a great hero, and the brave man was very happy.
The brave man met his traveling companion on the way to fight monsters.
The traveling companion is a girl with silver hair, sitting on the roadside playing the flute. The sound of her flute was very touching and touched the heart of the brave man, so he followed her away.
After walking for a long time, the girl noticed him. It turns out that the girl is blind. She said that she has been traveling the world in the past and will continue to do so in the future. She wanted to hear more distant songs and blow the distant wind. The brave man said he could take her with him to fight monsters, and she happily agreed.
This time, she went with him.
The brave man and his traveling companion met a generous merchant on the way forward.
The businessman rides a tall horse, followed by a luxurious motorcade. He heard the story of the brave man and picked out the best equipment from the cargo and gave it to him. The brave man was grateful and promised to do him a favor in the future. The businessman waved his hands, smiled kindly, and asked his traveling companion what he needed.
The blind girl wanted a hairpin, so the brave man chose a hairpin made of white coral and gave it to her.
"Does it look good?" She fumbled with the hairpin and asked with a smile.
"It's beautiful, it's beautiful." The brave man stared at her. Her white hair reached her waist, like a curtain of snow.
"I hope I can see it later," she said.
"It will definitely happen." The brave man said, "There must be a way to restore eyesight in this world."
As the hero's level increases, he becomes more proficient in fighting. One day, he saw an acquaintance coming. It was the annoying tax collector, with a stern face and a sword in his arms.
"Why is it you?" The brave man drew his sword. "Didn't I teach you enough before?"
"I am sending you the holy sword by order of the king, Lord Brave." The tax collector handed over the holy sword. "This sword is priceless, and now that the king has heard of your deeds, he has decided to entrust it to you."
"No need." The brave man waved his hand. "Give it back to him, I don't need this now."
"Then I'll wait for you here." said the tax official. "Ahead is the forbidden land where the dragon is sealed. I wish you success."
When they were setting up camp, the brave man and his traveling companions mentioned the tax collector.
"He is so bad. When he saw that the villagers were about to starve to death, he did not help them. Instead, he taxed them as usual."
"I heard that some villagers in other places really starved to death." said the traveling companion, staring at the flames with her dull eyes. "That man is famous for his honesty. He carries a carriage full of grain every day, but he often goes hungry. I have been to villages and towns affected by famine, but they are grateful to the tax collector."
The brave man was a little silent.
"So was my attitude towards him wrong before?"
"That's right. In exchange for some grain, he made a deal with the merchants and tacitly allowed the merchants to kidnap some people from the villages and towns as slaves."
"Slave? That businessman is a slave trader?"
"I thought you could hear the screams of the slaves in his carriage."
The hero was restless, looking at the sword in his hand and the armor on his body. When fighting monsters and leveling up, he was in danger countless times, and this equipment saved him. He also thanked the generous businessman in his heart countless times.
Who knew he turned out to be an evil slave trader.
The slave traders' base is not far away. They live in the Forbidden Zone and are said to have made deals with sleeping dragons. They prepare for the resurrection of the dragon, who gives them strength and ensures their safety in the aftermath of the apocalypse.
When the brave man approached the center of the forbidden area, he found that it had turned into a huge market town. I don't know when, people have built buildings and houses next to Longyuan, and they are prosperous. These people were originally criminals exiled by the king. Over the years, they have married wives and children, and live and work in peace and contentment.
The slave trader's men found the brave man. His smile was still kind, but the brave man seemed to be hypocritical. The brave man raised his sword and pointed it at him, but he looked at the sword edge in front of him with care and sighed. It has been meticulously cared for and has not had a single scratch over the years.
"What else can you say?" The brave man was angered by his attitude and was ready to chop off his head at any time. On the way here, he did see many weak people locked in cages.
"Like you, I want to save more people." The slave trader raised his head, his eyes clear and devoid of fear. "It's just that you took the easy way and I took the hard way."
"If those people outside don't follow me, they will starve to death in their original villages." The slave trader pointed to the cage outside the tent. "I feed them, clothe them, and let them work. If they work enough, they can redeem themselves. But it's not them I save."
"I want to save the dragon. The dragon has power and knowledge." He said. "The dragon can change food, gold and silver. It only needs the sacrifice of some people. We dedicate the people who are about to die to it to obtain blessings."
"Perhaps you have not experienced famine and do not know the horror of famine. At the last moment, people gave up their reason and ate each other. I escaped from such a nightmare and made a wish that there would be no more hunger in the world. The dragon responded to my wish, It gave me food, but it only required me and sacrificed a few people.”
"Isn't this how the world has always been? The few are sacrifices for the many. We poor people, who committed sin, were sent here, and we were sacrificed to justice and justice. But I found a new redemption, It can save many, many people with very few sacrifices..."
Before the slave trader finished speaking, the brave man turned around and ran out. He felt that these things were like a mess, which made him upset.
The brave man and his traveling companions sat on the edge of the cliff, overlooking the lights of the forbidden city. The place was filled with people and smiles. It was nothing like the terrifying forbidden area in the kingdom's rumors.
The brave man is still lost in the fog of justice and cannot extricate himself. The sad faces of the slaves, the tax officer's determination to enforce the law, the righteous eyes of the cruel-faced slave trader, and the prosperous city in front of him. Everyone seems to be qualified to defend themselves, and everyone seems to be a sinner.
If you report back to the king, the king will definitely send cavalry to kill all the people in the city. The kingdom had to increase its tax burden, making more peasants miserable. If left alone, they would come out in force, kidnap more people as slaves, and use sacrifices to resurrect dragons.
At this moment, he was resting on her knees. His traveling companion silently stroked his hair, which was the only comfort he had when he was upset. Just like her, she is the only companion on this journey.
The meaning of the dragon-slaying journey becomes increasingly unclear. He wanted to save the world, but found that no matter what, some people would always be hurt and some would cry. He really wanted to escape from this mission and find a place with her to hide in seclusion. When we have time, we can travel around the world together...
"Let's go." The brave man opened his eyes. "Let's find a small village and live together. We won't care about dragons and kingdoms anymore, and just live our lives casually like that, okay?"
"Okay." She said. "You would think that when the time comes we hold hands and visit the whole world again, and then we grow old together and let this world come to an end, right?"
"Yes, but how did you know..." The hero was a little confused by her response.
Her eyes were no longer blind, and suddenly they shone brightly. She looked at the brave man in her arms and said:
"Because I am a dragon."
The dragon was sealed in this land two hundred years ago. People say that the dragon has huge claws, huge wings, and can breathe fire from its mouth. Once resurrected, it will burn everything in this world.
These rumors are all correct, the dragon was indeed like this before it was sealed. But the saint two hundred years ago sealed the dragon in her body and jumped into the abyss. After a hundred years, she regained some strength and climbed out of the abyss. The sinners around her made wishes to her, and she agreed. In order to continue to gain her power, these people began to sacrifice to her. Gradually, her limbs, mouth and ears returned to normal, but her eyesight failed to return.
This is also her last seal. Once the seal on her eyes is lifted, she will truly be resurrected. After resurrection, she will gradually transform back into a dragon, and finally transform into a scorching sun - which is why the dragon was sealed.
But in the days before she was fully resurrected, she was pleasantly surprised to find that she could leave here and roam the world. She was also like this originally. When she was not sealed, she would travel around wrapped in flames, but she was regarded as a disaster by the kingdom and sealed regardless. Now, she just gets to see the world.
Then she met the brave man.
"You once made a wish, hoping to see the hairpin given to you and see how beautiful you are. Now, you can see it." The brave man walked with her on the street, towards the abyss in the center of the town. Her original body is stored there, and she can be resurrected if she touches it.
"Will you regret it?" Long asked. "You have been traveling with your old enemy for so long, and you still want to spend the rest of your life with her."
"No regrets." The brave man looked at her. The power after resurrection left traces, and she gradually grew scales. He caressed her hands, which were unfamiliar to the touch. "Did you really promise me?"
"I promised." Long said. "If you are willing, I can still stay with you for the rest of your life and come back here to resurrect you when you grow old."
The brave man hesitated.
Before this, all the choices were just the struggles of passers-by. Now, the problem really fell on him. Should you give up everything, live happily with the one you love, and then wait for the flood after death, or cut off the front line and sacrifice what you love for the future of everyone on this earth?
He doesn't know the answer. He only knew that before, he thought that the world could be divided into many parts, each part competing with each other, but now he understood that there were only two parts in the world: those that belonged to me, and those that did not belong to me.
The brave man grasped the holy sword tightly.
The holy sword was delivered yesterday by the tax collector who was all bruised and bruised. The slave traders decided to cut off the water source, exacerbating the drought, and allowing more people to join them. The tax official tried to stop him, but was beaten by his men. Finally, knowing that he was not going to die soon, he took back the holy sword and gave it to the brave man.
"There's another secret..." the tax official drawled. "Once the dragon is resurrected, it will overthrow the entire forbidden city. Its promise is only for itself..."
He coughed up a few mouthfuls of blood, and then said in a groan-like tone:
"This is the holy sword that countless farmers worked hard to forge. Only with the holy sword can the dragon be truly killed."
The tax official said nothing and fell to the ground. The eavesdropper outside the door has quietly left.
The hero tightened his grip on his sword and looked at her hesitantly.
Behind her, the shadow of the abyss reflects countless images, revealing possible futures. In some pictures, they finally get married, in some pictures, they fight each other to the death, in some pictures, the brave man aids the villain and chooses to help the dragon burn the ground, and in some pictures, the brave man leaves alone, leaving behind the second sun in the sky, roasting the earth. Anxious. In those future scenes, most people in the kingdom are destined to experience suffering.
Suddenly, a horn sounded. Many people suddenly appeared behind the brave man. Among the crowd, the figure of the slave trader was particularly conspicuous. He learned from his men that the resurrection of the dragon would destroy the city, and he wanted to prevent this from happening.
But it's too late. The brave man hugged her and then watched her jump into the abyss. After a while, the earth shook, and a giant white dragon poked its head out of the abyss.
The crowd dispersed, and the dragon's head came over. The brave man stroked her scales, and she was no longer blind. The white dragon's huge blood-red eyes were staring at him silently, as if saying goodbye.
The sword sank into the dragon's body.
Blood flowed freely, but the dragon didn't roar or struggle. She just lay down quietly. At this moment, she already knew that the dragon could read the trajectory of the future, and she knew her fate from the beginning.
It's just that even she once had some unrealistic fantasies.
"I killed the dragon and came back. The sinners in the forbidden land were executed by the cavalry. Everything seems to be over, but many people are still suffering."
"At least not everyone is in pain." The brave man knelt in front of the king's throne. "At least, at least I sacrificed everything to prevent the kingdom from being destroyed. This is all I did." He recounted his experience to the king.
"Got it." The king said expressionlessly, waving his hand to signal the executioner to swing the butcher's knife. The brave man killed the dragon, but the dragon's favor was cut off. Without the food conjured by the dragon, many places fell into famine again. People in the forbidden area spread the word that all this happened because of the brave man. He did not seal the dragon as required, but killed the dragon.
As a result, public dissatisfaction boiled, and people strongly demanded that the brave man be executed. They said that this was the only way to appease the dragon's anger.
"You saved the world, but I can't save you."
The king held the body of his only son in his arms and wept. "
