Chapter 78 The Last Fire Thief! The Legacy of the Abyss! [End]

Above the bell tower.

A ring of flames spread in all directions, and Xiao En's figure soared into the air. The moment he landed, the pyrotechnics swept in all directions, burning the swarms of flying insects to ashes, leaving only dense corpses of poisonous insects in their place.

"Is everything okay?"

Xiao En supported the staggering Benjamin, handed him the Endless Wine in his hand and said, "Drink it quickly."

This magical item has powerful healing abilities, but it also has additional contamination.

Benjamin was seriously injured at this moment. The swarm of poisonous insects summoned by the cultists' sacrifice was only the size of rice grains. Except for the large-scale ground-cleansing spells, it was difficult for melee transcendents to kill them all. They were almost omnipresent. Benjamin's body was covered with horrifying marks of insect bites, and the poison had penetrated into his body. If he had not been strengthened in the flesh and blood side, he would probably have died on the spot.

Benjamin reached out to take the silver wine bottle and drank it all. He said in a hoarse voice: "I can still fight."

The battle situation in the villa area has been completely reversed.

With the succubus of the moth mother being killed, the dancers and poets of the Doomsday Circus were killed one after another, and the balance of the battle has tilted towards the Night Watch. However, Sean's team also suffered heavy casualties. Gemma died in the clown's sneak attack, and the Black Moon Cult lost two high-level extraordinary people. The figures of the trickster assassin and Daisy are missing. Daisy escaped into the darkness. The wild druid originally had the ability to sneak. If she wanted to hide, it would be difficult for others to find her trace.

boom!
Amidst the shattered window fragments, the figure of a dwarf illusionist flashed out, followed closely by a petite shadow, as if a hunter pounced out from the darkness. Daisy's eyes were full of primitive savagery and madness. Along with a flash of cold light that streaked through the air, it seemed as if something was triggered in the dwarf illusionist's body, and a sequenced spell directly teleported him dozens of meters away.

But Daisy was faster, her figure running on the vertical wall like a cheetah. At this moment, she seemed to have escaped into the shadows. With a flash of afterimage, Daisy's figure appeared behind the dwarf illusionist.

Blood spurts!

Daisy's sharp claws, shining with cold light, directly took off the dwarf illusionist's head.

As soon as the dwarf illusionist died, the darkness and shadows surrounding the battlefield dissipated a lot. When the moonlight in the sky fell, the clown's lone figure also appeared in front of everyone. Before, with the shadows and darkness summoned by the illusionist, the clown was almost completely invisible and could sneak around anywhere, but now it was not so easy for him to hide.

There was a sound of fighting from the roof opposite. The trickster assassin Zels swooped out from the darkness and, with a deadly cold light, he beheaded a gray-robed cult priest. The gushing green blood splashed all over the wall, and under the falling moonlight, a hideous head of a half-human, half-insect creature was revealed.

"Is it over so soon?"

The clown walked out of the darkness, seriously injured and dying. He glanced at the dancer's shattered body, then turned to look at the dwarf whose head had just been twisted off. There was a hint of madness and regret in his expression, and he said slowly: "Night Watch. You win."

"But this is just the beginning! Reality will be shattered one day."

The clown's figure swooped forward.

He locked his target on Xiao En, and with a twisted shadow, he completely ignored everyone else. His whole body was melting, just like the original mistress, turning into a disembodied, hideous shadow.

A deep cold light pierced Sean directly. The clown's dying counterattack seemed to be an attempt to take away the investigator in front of him.

Benjamin's figure instantly switched places with Sean. He pulled Sean past him, and at the moment when the two people passed each other, their shadows overlapped, and the clown's grotesque smile appeared in the shadow. A flash of light passed, blood splattered, and Benjamin's right arm was cut off. He directly used his arm to block the fatal blow for Sean. The next second, his left sword finger pointed at the clown's neck, and a similar scar appeared. This time Benjamin's injury did not transfer, but the clown had the same wound as him.

Ink-like blood splattered, the clown's neck was cut off by himself, and a hideous head with a grotesque smile fell down.

The clown didn't seem to die immediately. He murmured and looked behind Sean, whispering: "I'm sorry, President. We failed."

President?

At this moment, everyone looked behind Xiao En in horror.

Don't know when.

A middle-aged man who looked gentle and elegant suddenly appeared on top of the clock tower, and no one noticed his presence.

The dark festival of the Doomsday Circus successfully attracted the Moth Mother, forcing the demigods of the Weird Kingdom to join forces to deal with the Old One and prevent Him from further descending into the real world.

Their plan had succeeded.

Although reality has not been completely torn apart, ordinary people have already learned the cruel truth of the world.

The Old Days have arrived, and the demigods of the weird kingdom are forced to fight. Naturally, the person who was previously hunted by the demigods also regains his freedom.

Aamon, the president of the Grey Whispering Priory, walked into the battlefield littered with corpses with a smile and went straight to Sean's side.

In full view.

He suddenly appeared in front of Xiao En, smiled slightly, and said in a gentle voice, "Hello."

"I'm Eamon the Fire Thief. You can call me president."

Xiao En's figure froze in place.

He was not wearing the shackles at the moment, so he could see the other person's true face. In front of Xiao En was a middle-aged man who looked a little familiar. Behind this middle-aged man, there was a shadow wearing a gorgeous black and red robe, with a pair of curved devil horns extending from his forehead, and behind him was a pair of wings with blood-red flames. This huge shadow held a dazzling ruby ​​scepter in his hand, and all ten fingers were wearing mysterious black rings. His dark eyes seemed to be an abyss that swallowed everything, staring at the tiny Xiao En in front of him.

In an instant, Xiao En remembered who the middle-aged man in front of him was.

His neighbor, the elegant middle-aged man who lived opposite him.

Xiao En had hardly ever had a formal conversation with him. He only remembered that there was a kind middle-aged man living opposite him.

It's him!

When Sean first arrived in Dorne, the middle-aged man already lived opposite him.

In the shadow of the bell tower.

Fire Thief Eamon looked up at the sky. He looked at the lifeless head of the clown and said calmly, "You have done a good job."

A powerful pressure enveloped the battlefield, which was more terrifying than the legendary dragon's might, making everyone tremble.

Then, he stretched out his hand, and in an instant, as if ignoring the laws of space, he directly pierced through Xiao En's chest and took out a heart that was still beating slightly.

Xiao En's consciousness was gradually fading.

"Why didn't the death replay occur?"

This was his last thought before he lost consciousness, and then endless darkness enveloped him.

"No!" Benjamin's eyes widened. He wanted to attack, but the gap in strength between the two was too great. He couldn't even lift a finger.

Benjamin could only tremble powerlessly in place, his eyes fixed on Eamon in front of him, but the other party just glanced at him casually, and Benjamin's figure instantly fell to his knees on the ground, without any power to resist. His body and his will no longer belonged to him.

"Benjamin Tyrion." Amon smiled and crushed Sean's heart in front of him.

The terrible fire thief leaned over and whispered, "Look, you failed to protect your companions again."

"No power. You are nothing!"

The Fire Thief - Eamon crushed Sean's broken body in front of Benjamin like squeezing foam, and the ground was covered with blood and flesh. Then he stood on the top of the bell tower, looking down at the others present like a demon king, and applauded: "Very good."

"What a wonderful performance! Night Watchmen, you have once again protected the real world."

The crazy fire thief smiled and turned away. Before his figure disappeared, he looked in the direction of the temple area.

"Ma'am. I win this one."

………………

In the gray fog.

Xiao En opened his eyes again and felt severe pain in his body, as if someone had ripped his heart out alive.

Do not!
This is all true.

He literally had his heart ripped out, and he still remembered what had happened before.

Xiao En sat up instantly. He looked at his chest and saw a horrific scar on his chest. The wound was almost healed, but he couldn't feel his heartbeat. When he put his hand on his heart, it was empty, nothing there.

"You're awake." A gentle voice came.

Xiao En looked up and saw a young man with an elegant and handsome face. Although his appearance had changed, Xiao En recognized him at a glance.

The Fire Thief - Amon!

Confusion was placed next to him, and the luxurious bed where Sean had been lying was covered in dried blood.

Why am I not dead?
Xiao En's expression was somewhat unbelievable. His heart was dug out, but he did not die.

Not far away, Eamon walked to the gray stone balcony. He poured himself a glass of wine that looked like blood and said calmly, "Of course you won't die. Because from the beginning, you were not a real living person."

Eamon raised his finger slightly and pointed it at Sean's chest.

Boom!Boom!Boom!
Xiao En heard his own heartbeat, but it was not in the position of his heart. Instead, it was in the center of his chest, where a cystic organ that looked like a heart was beating.

"Undead Cyst."

Eamon raised his glass and drank it all, then smiled and said, "You probably forgot. Let me help you remember."

"You haven't really been resurrected. You have been a living dead from the beginning."

Sean placed his hand in the center of his chest.

He felt the beating sound, and his thoughts seemed to go back to the time when he had just come back to life. In his broken memory fragments, it seemed that the doll-like girl had mentioned this term when he had just come back to life.

Xiao En murmured, "What's going on?"

Amon stood up and looked at the gray fog in the distance, and said calmly: "The masterpiece of the demigod lich. The power of the Book of the Dead."

"The immortal power of the Rot Cyst Matrix has been implanted into your body."

"So you have no fear in the first place."

"Because you are not really alive!"

Why is this happening?

Xiao En's thoughts seemed to have been shocked, his expression was a little painful, as if his thoughts were confused, knowledge was whispering, and they were extremely manic.

He looked up at Eamon in front of him and said in a hoarse voice: "Are you saying that they deceived me?"

Amon turned his head and said calmly, "It's not all deception."

"The Butcher did a lot of things for you in secret, even killing one of my right-hand men." "But you are an important pawn in the hands of the demigods, and there are some things he can't do anything about."

"According to my script, my subordinates would find a way to take you away directly after you left the high wall. But unfortunately, the lurking Whisperers were caught by them in one fell swoop."

"From the beginning, they had no intention of letting you live. After you were implanted in the rot sac mother, there was only one way for you to be promoted. That was to become one of them, a new demigod lich."

Amon was more patient than anyone Sean had ever met before, and his words even seemed extremely sincere. He whispered, "The Butcher wanted you to have more humanity before you were promoted to a lich, so he tried his best to send you to the real world."

"To feel everything that is mortal."

"Ms. Hecate is the protector he chose for you. Without her protection, you would have been transformed into an undead witch long ago."

"The butcher is a qualified guide."

Eamon applauded and praised: "He is different from us. He is a truly good man. It's a pity that he is too weak."

Xiao En looked up and stared at Eamon in front of him. His mind was in a mess and he was a little confused. He was very frantic. He said slowly: "What about you? Why did you bring me here?"

This is a magnificent palace, located very high and towering into the clouds, from which you can see the gray mountains and land in the distance.

“I’m different from them.”

"I am a demon. I was a demon before I entered the weird kingdom. A soul from another world." Amon looked at Xiao En calmly and said, "As for why I brought you here, I just don't want the last outsider to be raised by them."

"There are already enough liches in this world!"

"They have wasted your potential and are almost turning you into a weakling!"

After saying that, Amon bowed to Xiao En in front of him, made a welcoming gesture, and said with a smile: "Xiao En. Welcome to Abyss City!"

Displacement!

Sean's figure was directly teleported to the balcony by Amon. Looking down from his position, there was a spire towering into the clouds in the gray mist, and right below his sight was a magnificent and majestic city.

Tall buildings were scattered at his feet, with a large number of pedestrians walking among them. Sean's sight passed through the fog, and he saw groups of mercenaries, gray dwarves carrying heavy battle axes, cold and lonely dark elves, half-demons with strange horns, short halflings and dwarves walking among the crowd, succubus maids dancing in the tavern, and rough and sturdy beastmen drinking. Opposite it was a more burly and ferocious ogre. The city gate was guarded by giants as tall as mountains, and above the towering city walls, the hideous figures of demons, devils, and evil spirits could be seen patrolling.

Not only humans are here, but also all the legendary non-human races and even mythical creatures!
A terrifying roar was heard.

In the rolling clouds, ferocious subspecies of flying dragons broke through the air. They looked like the flying dragon mounts of the Ringwraiths, with their tattered wings spread out to be more than ten meters wide. On their backs were strange-looking and powerful half-dragon riders.

Everything he saw brought Xiao En an extremely huge visual impact!
He murmured, "Is this the weird country?"

Eamon smiled and poured a glass of blood wine for Sean, handed it to him, and whispered: "Yes. The weird kingdom. This is not the real world. But this is the real reality."

"They told you that only the Twelve Realms of Clock Nirvana is a refuge for mankind."

"really."

"Although that place is a miracle of mankind, a miracle of destiny, there are still many people outside that place who have not given up on reality. Strictly speaking, that place is just a shelter for ordinary people."

"This is Abyss City."

"It is one of the territories of the seven ancient wizard kings. My other identity is the lord of the Abyss City."

Amon waved his hand to disperse the gray fog.

At the end of Sean's sight, he saw a vast plain with a large number of cultivated fields planted with many crops that he was not sure of. However, those working in the fields were not ordinary farmers, but skeletons. They were busy working on the vast plain just like farmers.

Further away is a livestock farm, where are kept not ordinary animals, but various hideous and brutal beasts. They exude a hint of corruption and are fierce, violent, and extremely aggressive.

There are quite a few undead wizards here.

Do not!
There are even many druids here, corrupted Blighters who sow death and corruption throughout the land.

Here life and death intertwine.

Elves, dwarves, gnomes, halflings, lizardmen, dragonborn, half-dragons, orcs, giants, ogres, demons, devils, monsters, etc. In the abyss city under his feet, Sean saw almost all the legendary races recorded in the secret files.

But there are no ordinary people here!

All residents of Abyss City, including humans, are extraordinary beings. Even if they are just the waitress in the tavern, the waiter on the roadside, or the apprentice in the blacksmith shop, Xiao En has not seen any trace of ordinary people.

This city belongs only to extraordinary people.

They are rooted in a weird country and live under the gaze of many old days.

"The abyss, the origin of demons!..." Xiao En murmured.

Amon smiled and said, "Yes. The Abyss is where demons originate from."

“We are not human.”

"We don't need to escape from reality. Although the Weird Kingdom is crazy and worse than the Abyss, for us, survival of the fittest is the right choice."

"Xiao En."

“The real world is great, but it’s not for you.”

"They took great pains to come up with the ritual of Soul Echo, hoping to integrate the souls of other worlds into this world. But in fact, many people, like you, only inherited the memories of the natives, but not their emotions."

"Right?"

"Everything about Sean is nothing but a broken memory to you. You don't even remember that young man's parents and relatives are still alive. You rarely even think about them."

"The soul echoes that those people spent so much effort to arrange are nothing more than self-consolation."

“We don’t belong here.”

"We are all prisoners trapped in a weird country. We don't want to integrate into the natives. What we want is to tear apart the gray fog and put an end to the madness here, or escape from this starry sky that belongs to the old days."

Xiao En took a deep breath, looked at Eamon in front of him, and said in a hoarse voice: "Then why do you want to destroy everything in the real world?"

"Do you know how many people will die?"

The disaster of Dorne.

Maybe all this is really a game between demigods, but in Dorne, those who fought to the last moment of their lives to protect reality, those investigators, those night watchmen, those light chasers who never regretted until their death, and those innocent ordinary people who suffered...

where are they?
Are their existences worthless? Are they only worthy of being pawns that the demigods can easily sacrifice?

They are also trying their best to live and fighting bravely!

Eamon seemed to have read Sean's thoughts. He looked into the distance calmly and said softly, "This is a weird country. This is a world that does not allow for a trace of mercy."

"The game between demigods is more cruel than you can imagine!"

"The gifts left by the unknown people are being depleted. Everything that seems beautiful now is just the last bit of their legacy to the world."

"They've been gone for a long time."

“The real world has changed, too.”

"You've only been to Dorne, which is well protected by the Night's Watch. You haven't been to other places. You don't know what other parts of the real world have become."

"You are right. Everyone is a pawn in the game of demigods, a bargaining chip that can be sacrificed."

"You want to change all this? Sure! When you become a demigod one day, you will be qualified to make decisions for others!"

"Now. You must first learn to survive here!"

Eamon smiled.

At this moment, he seemed like a real devil, tearing apart his gentle and elegant disguise. He showed a cruel smile and said slowly: "If I want to force them to give in, someone must sacrifice."

"No matter how many people die, this is the price that must be paid!"

"The demons that emerged from the abyss [blood battle] are the real strong ones."

"The humans who are kept here have no chance of winning against the Old Ones! The Night's Watch are just weaklings with courage but no power!"

"In the weird kingdom, all living beings are pawns of the demigods."

"Before we fight the Old Ones, we must get all the chips first!"

“This is the fate of mankind.”

"It is also the fate of all the natives, alien souls, and outsiders trapped in the weird country."

………………

Dorne City.

In the drizzle, Benjamin appeared in bandages, his expression solemn and sad. Beside him were the night watchmen and investigators who survived the war. Daisy, with red eyes, followed Benjamin silently, holding a black coffin with both hands.

Benjamin and William carried the coffin. Amid the priest's prayers, many watchmen stood in the rain in silence in front of a tombstone with the name 'Sean' engraved on it.

not far away.

A young mother held her young daughter and cried silently in front of a tombstone, where there was also a tombstone.

——"Hank Brende. Fearless light chaser."

The names of the victims were engraved on the tombstones: Jean, Jima, Erland, Rocky, Carol, Mallory... These were names Sean knew or didn't know. They fought until the last moment in danger and finally rested here.

In early June of the Fourth Era 1001, an evil blood sacrifice called the "Dark Festival" broke out in Dorne. The reflection of the past reflected the present, and fear and despair enveloped this once extremely prosperous metropolis. In this extremely tragic battle, 6 night watchmen, investigators, and logistics personnel died, and more than 327 innocent ordinary people were killed.

The real world was torn apart in the cruelest scene.

………………

(End of this chapter)