Squeaking sounds came from beside his ears. He slowly opened his dry eyes. The pale light shone on the greenish-gray floor tiles. The floor was as cold as ice. Looking up, there were a few rusty iron bars on the tall window, and the shaky wooden window was rustling in the wind.
I propped myself up with difficulty, resisting the sleepiness with great difficulty, and walked towards the window. Every step I took felt like I was sinking into a quagmire, and I couldn't exert any strength.
The window was too high, and I couldn't reach it even if I stretched out my hand. There was a stone stool connected to the wall in the room, and it was the only piece of furniture in the room. However, the stool was too small, and it was very uncomfortable to sit on. It was better to sit on the ground.
I wanted to walk over and step on it, but I couldn't lift my leg.
Just then, a figure appeared behind me. It was a female servant with messy hair and dressed in gray linen clothes. She was holding a basin in her hands. Her head was lowered as she appeared behind the railing.
I turned around and slowly walked towards her, reaching out my hand.
Suddenly, she looked up. Her face was covered in blood and rotten flesh, and I couldn't see her skin. Her eyeballs hung on her cheeks, and she kept looking at me. Her white teeth suddenly opened.
"Master? Master? "
This voice sounded familiar …
The Demon King Richard panted and suddenly opened his eyes. He saw the face of a blonde human girl. Reina was looking at him worriedly.
"Master, I think you had a nightmare. Are you okay?"
She frowned and said uneasily.
The Demon King Richard realized that his forehead was covered in sweat. After taking a deep breath, he quickly calmed down.
Nightmare?
I didn't expect that the Demon King would be frightened awake by a nightmare. Heh, if others knew, they would laugh their heads off.
"I'm fine."
The Demon King held his forehead, and he suddenly thought of something.
"Did anything strange happen when I was sleeping?"
"No, Master."
Reina shook her head. The Demon King heaved a sigh of relief. I was immersed in a dream, so I might reveal my original appearance. It seemed like I worried too much.
He turned his head to look at the entrance of the cave. It was still pitch black outside.
"It's still dark. You should sleep first. I'll keep watch for a while before going to sleep."
The Demon King said indifferently.
"Okay."
Reina was very obedient. She just dragged her blanket and came to the Demon King's side.
"Master, my mother once said that when you have nightmares, if someone is by your side, then the nightmares won't dare to come. So if I sleep by your side, you won't have nightmares." The young girl said some childish words. The cold-faced Demon King smiled faintly.
"Alright, then I'll leave it to you."
Hearing this, Reina smiled sweetly and closed her eyes.
In less than a minute, she started snoring.
The Demon King let out a long sigh and leaned the blanket against the wall.
He still couldn't forget the things that happened when he was a child. Obviously, hundreds of years had passed. Obviously, he had experienced so much, but he still clearly remembered the things that happened at that time. Even if he deliberately didn't think about it, it would still come out to torture him every once in a while.
The Demon King's ten fingers turned into claws and placed on his head. Whenever he thought of these things, he couldn't help but scratch his head.
The Dark Moon Clan was an ancient race. Their appearance was similar to humans, but their appearance was very beautiful and their lifespan was extremely long. They had a very high magic talent and were good at using dark magic and curses.
One day, the Dark Moon Princess who was pregnant with the Demon King's seed gave birth to twins. This shocked the elders of the Dark Moon Clan.
Twins may be very common among humans, but it was unheard of in the demon race like the Dark Moon Clan. The struggle in the demon race was very fierce, and so was the competition within the clan. This kind of competition had already started in the mother's womb. Multiple fetuses competed with each other for more nutrition. In the end, the strongest one would absorb the other fetuses.
Therefore, the demon race wouldn't have the phenomenon of having more than one child, but this kind of thing happened.
This pair of twins was also very strange. One was full of black scales and had a strong physique. The other had white skin, no different from the Dark Moon Clan. It only had two small horns that were as soft as the tip of a little finger and a small tail.
The strangest thing was that the white baby was only one third of the black scaled baby.
Many elders felt that this white baby shouldn't be left alive and should be killed. Maybe it was because of the mother's love, Richard miraculously survived.
But later, he heard from an elder that she originally thought that since this baby had the ability to survive, maybe it had some kind of power that could resist the powerful elder brother. Maybe it would also be a powerful demon in the future.
However, when they were three years old, they found that the gap between the two brothers was very big. The elder brother was very talented and could master new magic in a short time. The younger brother not only had a weak physique, but also was relatively stupid. The power of the magic he used was far less than the elder brother.
When he was six years old, everyone found that Richard couldn't even compare to the lowest of the clan members. His mother also abandoned him and locked him in a cage called a room.
Gradually, the clan members forgot about it. Later, many people didn't know that there were two princes of the Dark Moon Clan.
He had almost died many times. Most of the time, he was almost killed when he was practicing magic with his elder brother. Or in the cage, the servant forgot to feed him for several days in a row and almost starved to death.
Rats, cockroaches, ants, insects, these were all the food he ate. When there was no water, he survived by licking the dew that condensed on the railing in the morning.
He also didn't know why his life was so tough. Maybe those elders also had the same doubts.
At that time, he still felt that his mother loved him. When he was almost beaten to death by his elder brother, she stopped him. When he was about to starve to death, she secretly sent servants to send food, even if it was dry and cold meat.
However, when he was thirteen years old, his world collapsed.
The elders finally couldn't stand the fact that he was still alive and sent people to investigate. At this time, they just happened to meet the servant who secretly sent food to Richard.
Ah!!!
That servant was tortured in front of Richard. His face was corroded by magic and he died in front of him. The skinny Richard stared. He didn't even have the strength to break the door.
However, something even more desperate happened.
Your mother was afraid that your elder brother would kill her in the future, so she stopped him from killing you.
An old elder jokingly said this in front of Richard. It was this sentence that made him feel that the world was gray.
He was still alive. The Dark Moon Clan couldn't kill their own clansmen, but they wrapped Richard up in a bag and threw him into a forest full of wild beasts and magical beasts as if he was a piece of trash. They wanted him to become food for those magical beasts.
The Demon King Richard put down his hand. Those black claws slowly turned back into fingers. Suddenly, he clenched his fist and recalled the scene where he crushed his elder brother's head.
At the end of the war, he killed all of his clansmen. From then on, the Dark Moon Clan no longer existed in the world.
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