It had been three days.
It had been three days since Allen had entered the castle. During these three days, Alice and Shauna had stayed at the entrance of the underground space. The two women did not speak and only waited silently.
Suddenly, a familiar yet strange aura rose in the castle. The reason he was familiar with it was because he knew that the aura belonged to Allen. The reason it was unfamiliar was because there was something else mixed in with that aura.
Alice and Shauna looked at each other and looked in the direction of the castle.
After a while, someone walked out of the castle. Who else could it be other than Allen? The two women flew over and met Allen outside the castle.
Allen looked a bit dazed, as if there was another person living in his body. When Alice saw him scratch the side of his face, her eyes welled up. She stepped forward and said, "Creator, is that you?"
Allen walked over and sighed, "It's me, but I will disappear soon and become a part of Allen's will. Alice, no, Alice.
.....”
Reaching out and holding Alice's face, Allen said in a trembling voice, "I'm sorry, I'm sorry. I should have let you sleep forever that day. Because of my selfishness, I let you be reborn in another form. But I left you and let you live alone for so many years. What on earth have I done … "
Tears finally fell from Alice's eyes. She shook her head desperately and said, "No, you don't have to apologize. Creator, from a very early age, I knew I was Alice's substitute. But I have never hated you, because to me, you are also my father. I love you as much as Alice does. "
"I love you, father."
What a familiar phrase, one that only existed in a distant memory. It was so distant that it was like a dream from a past life.
That sad night seemed to be right in front of her eyes again.
After leaving Suroshi, Lan Jie rode toward Evil Gale Gorge. If White City Suroshi was a paradise, then Evil Gale Gorge was undoubtedly a hell. The chilly wind howled there all year round, as if the devils of hell were whispering in the wind. The horse gangs from the Evil Wind Gorge had been hiding in the gorge for a long time. However, the terrain in the gorge was complicated. Although White Town had organized several crusades, they had failed.
This time, the Evil Wind Valley's horse gangs had attacked White Town in retaliation for the crusade a year ago.
The mounted bandits had their own secret passage, which protected them from the wild winds of the gorge. As a hunter, Lan Jie naturally had a set of tracking skills. He found the traces left by the Horse Gang and followed them all the way to the depths of the canyon. It was already nighttime, and the moon could not be seen from the canyon. The canyon was shrouded in haze.
There were a few times when Lan Jie thought that he had lost them. Fortunately, he persevered and finally saw some light in the darkness.
He chased them all the way to the Horse Gang's lair. From afar, he could hear the loud laughter of the men and the screams of the women. Lan Jie clenched his teeth and snuck into the horse bandits' lair. Some of the horse bandits were venting on the women they had captured. They had no idea that an uninvited guest like Lan Jie had snuck in.
Suddenly, Lan Jie heard a soft shout. It was Alice's voice. Lan Jie lifted his head and saw Alice running toward him on a wooden bridge on both sides of the mountain wall. She seemed to have escaped. Lan Jie was delighted. He did not care about hiding himself and jumped out, shouting, "Alice, I'm here!"
A few of the mounted bandits nearby were startled. They could not care about the women under them anymore. They jumped up and drew their swords, rushing toward Alice. Lan Jie quickly cut them down and ran toward the wooden bridge. But at this moment, there was a flash of light on the opposite cliff, followed by the sound of a cannon.
Alice, who had almost reached the end of her run, was suddenly engulfed in flames. The cannonball landed right next to her. It was a bomb on the wooden bridge. The impact of the explosion made Lan Jie stumble. By the time he steadied himself, the wooden bridge had already been hit by the bomb. The wreckage of the bridge had fallen more than ten meters below the ground. There, Lan Jie saw a girl who was pinned down by a few rocks.
"No, no, it shouldn't be like this!"
Lan Jie arrived at the foot of the mountain amidst the laughter of the mounted bandits. He pushed the rocks away and looked at the girl covered in blood. Tears welled up in Lan Jie's eyes. He quickly squatted down and lifted the girl's head. When he touched the girl, he knew that Alice could not be saved.
The girl opened her eyes and tried to force a smile. She said weakly, "Don't cry, I'm fine."
"Yes, you'll be fine. Let's go back now. I'll find the best doctor to treat you, "Lan Jie said as he picked Alice up.
The girl smiled and said, "No need, I can't take it anymore. I know, I feel so light now, as if I'm about to fly. "
"No, no, I won't let you go. Do you hear me, kid? Live obediently, I won't let you fly! "
"No, it seems that this time, I can't do as you say." The girl looked at Lan Jie and revealed a smile as bright as the sun in March. "I love you, Dad."
Then, her eyes slowly closed.
At that moment, the world before Lan Jie's eyes seemed to be shrouded in darkness, and a great sadness hit him like a flood. The girl who had lived with him for almost ten years finally called him Dad for the first time, but it was also the last time.
"Why …"
"Why!"
"Why did you take her away, give her back to me!"
Lan Jie raised his head and screamed at the top of his lungs. The corners of his mouth even cracked, so the tears that flowed from his eyes mixed with the blood at the corner of his mouth and dripped to his feet, splashing plum blossoms.
An arrow cut through the air and stabbed into Lan Jie's shoulder.
Above, the horse bandits shouted and rushed down.
Lan Jie gently put Alice down, and the girl smiled as if she had fallen asleep. He tore off a corner of his clothes, wiped the blood off the girl's face, and put her hands gently in front of her chest. After doing all this, he silently turned around and pulled out his sword.
The next moment, a series of screams came from the foot of the mountain.
Blood was splattering.
The wet and warm blood splashed on Lan Jie's body, but it could not wash away the endless sadness in his heart. He only raised his hand and waved his sword mechanically, killing all the horse bandits he could see.
That night, the horse bandits in Evil Wind Gorge became history. When the women who had been captured by the horse bandits returned to Suluth, they only knew that a crying demon had killed all the horse bandits.
When the morning light fell into the gorge, Lan Jie, covered in blood, left with the girl in his arms. He looked at the girl who seemed to be sleeping soundly and said softly, "You will wake up again, I promise."
"Because we are called the Gods of Creation and Destruction."
When Allen came back to his senses, he saw Alice's tear-stained face. He raised his hand and gently wiped it away for her. "He's gone."
Alice nodded.
"But he will always be here watching you." Allen pointed to his chest. "No matter what, you are his proudest daughter."
"I know."
"No, you don't. He didn't tell you that there is a part of your body that belongs to Alice. "'" So you are Alice, "Alan whispered." So you are Alice and Alice. You are not a complete substitute, do you know? "
Alice looked up, a startled expression on her face.
Ellen nodded vigorously. "It's true.
”
This time, Alice's tears flowed again, but there was a smile on her face.
"Let's go back."
Allen sighed softly.
He had harvested another will of dusk here, and at the same time, he had touched a sad soul. Unlike Taylor, Lan Jie was more like a nobody. He didn't care about power and status, which could be seen from his refusal to join the mercenary corps. He preferred to live his own life, but the appearance of the Bloody Path made him unable to resist his fate. Losing Alice, however, made him throw himself into the fate of the Bloody Path without hesitation.
All he had to do was walk to the end of the Bloody Path, sit on the throne in the name of destruction, and become the Son of Dusk of that era. Then he created Alice before his instincts awakened, allowing his daughter to awaken in another form.
And the reason why he chose to create on Agares …
。 Alice. It was very simple. Because there was no life on Agares at that time, it would be a planet forgotten by the Sons of Dusk.
Leaving the Black Gate of Canon, he returned to Alice's castle. Allen spent another week digesting part of Lan Jie's experience and obtaining his most precious power.
Absorbing Taylor's will, Taylor left him an endless sword armor. As for Lan Jie, he gave Allen a battle skill. It was a battle skill that Lan Jie had created in despair and regret. It was called …
Dusk!
When Allen walked out of the door that had been closed for a week, Shauna and Alice exchanged glances. Allen seemed to have matured a lot more, and he now had a sense of maturity that did not match his age.
Other than the fact that he had more experience than his peers, he had also received Taylor and Lan Jie's wills, which meant that he had two more lives than others. At the same time as receiving the will, Allen had experienced the lives of Taylor and Lan Jie, carrying their joy, sadness, pain, and anger. Under the wash of those emotions, he was able to not lose himself, and his willpower could already be said to be strong.
He came to the Forgotten Realm alone, and when he returned, he was also Allen alone. Shauna and Alice did not leave with him. Allen did not want to expose these two guardians to others. Only when they were needed would Allen summon them. And before that, they could live in peace in the Forgotten Realm.
It was already evening when he returned to Demonic Ring City. Allen stood in the garden of the palace, in front of two tombstones. He reached out and gently stroked the tombstone, feeling the rough touch of his fingertips. It was only at this moment that he truly walked out of Lan Jie's life.
Allen let out a heavy breath.
At the entrance of the garden, Lucy and Lola looked at him quietly. In their eyes, Allen was a little more unfamiliar. That was the phenomenon after receiving the will of dusk. They looked at each other and saw a trace of worry in each other's eyes.
If Allen continued to receive the will of dusk, would he completely become a different person?
This was a worry that neither Lucy nor Lola spoke of.
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