Soul of Burning Steel

At night time-‘I’ regained consciousness.

In the initial stage of sublimation, in the confusion of consciousness, immersion and great source, one can only feel the endless light and heat hitting the soul, as if all the prayers and curses in the world are poured into the mind.

This kind of day lasted for an unknown amount of time, and in the muddy chaos, in the countless divine whistling tears of consciousness, ‘I’ gradually, little by little, found my name back.

——I am the emperor, I am the lord of the Helgamos Empire, I am the head of the Diamond Family, I am the one who exterminates the orcs, suppressing all the monarchs of darkness, I have slashed the enemy on the battlefield, and broke the army by one. , I am one of the most powerful legends in this world.

——I am Israel Diamond, I am the heir to the **** of justice and power, the first ‘god as a man’ in the Starfall Era.

[I am strong]

All the information is gradually clarified in the memory, immersed in the endless information impact, I retrieved my self-cognition, and the individual’Israel’ gradually recovered my self-but also because In this way, one by one, more serious and obscure questions followed one after another than’who am I’.

——I am the successor of the **** of justice and power, the protector of civilization, I am the creator, defender and improver of order. These are my identity and the most important thing in my self-recognition. step.

and so.

What is justice?

What is power?

And what is the civilization of order?

When the problem appeared in my mind, endless confusion arose spontaneously.

——What is justice, and is it a consensus among the majority?

——What is the power? Is the strong oppressing the weak?

——What is the civilization of order? Is it strong to cut out the weak? Is the majority subduing the minority? Is it true that the truth overcomes ignorance?

For a while, I was speechless and unable to answer. Things that were too erratic could not be answered at all. The more I thought about these aspects, the more I felt the consciousness drifting and trance, named “Israel”. The soul of Wandering in the infinite flame, gradually sinking into the eternal light.

If it is an ordinary person, it must be like this, gradually assimilated by the warm flame, sinking quietly in the ocean of flames, becoming a part of the eternal and infinite source.

But the wall called memory, faith, and will obstructed the assimilation of flames, and the radiance that constitutes the core of the faith of ‘I’ shone, awakening the tranced soul.

——Wake up, Israel. You have already got answers to these questions, and you believe in them.

Remember it.

Therefore, ‘I’ recalled the past, and the pictures of the long past came to mind, making me seem to have returned to the age of innocence and innocence more than 40 years ago.

That was, at the end of Star Pendant’s 799, a decadent year.

At that time, I was still young, my father and brother were there, my mother was gentle and kind, the ministers were courteous, the communication between the nobles was elegant and proper, and the residents of the imperial capital lived and worked in peace and contentment, living well, and totally ignorant of suffering.

At that time, I firmly believed in justice and justice, glory and rules. I firmly believed that the army was an iron fist to protect the people, and the nobility was a strong shield to protect the civilians. I firmly believed that sacrifices must be rewarded, and sacrifices must be reaped. Strong knights shelter weak people. , Leading civilization to expand in the Black Forest-I firmly believe in all this, just as I firmly believe in the truth, I regard it as life, even higher than life.

At that time, I was so proud and honored that I was born in the royal family. I think I am the guardian of all the people. This is my natural mission.

——But I was wrong.

At that time, I was so innocent and simple, and my beliefs were so weak and ridiculous-I was a prince, born in a deep palace and bred by a woman. My father is the emperor of the empire, the lord of the great kingdom of Wancheng, and my mother is After the frontier nobles, they mastered the lifeline of the frontier, and the elder brother was the prince of the empire.

Being in such a garden and such a greenhouse, my future is naturally full of light, glory and praise. They have educated me to be the most noble knight, and they also make me ignorant of the sufferings of the people and the sorrows of farmers-those are not what I need to know. Things, as the second son of the imperial royal family, I just need to become a strong one. In the future, I will guard my brother, guard the glory of the bloodline, and inherit the family name, so that the name of Diamond shines like a flawless diamond.

I thought this was my future.

-Wrong-all wrong.

It all originated in the afternoon at the end of Star Pendant’s 799. In the years of depression, the emperor played a mourning song, all the flags fell, and the court of Morlai Palace was filled with a **** shadow. The biggest disaster of the Helgamos Empire in more than 700 years has arrived-the orcs gathered all The elite and strong of the empire assaulted the Thomas Grand Canyon Fortress on the border of the empire, and the Emperor who was patrolling here died on the spot, and the prince of the empire who was overseeing the army in the rear fortress was also assassinated by the’orc strong’.

In the palace, the shadows rise and fall. The eldest princess locked the door for three days due to her sadness. When she opened it again, she became a corpse. The queen lost her husband, eldest son and eldest daughter in less than half a week. The whole person became mad and was forced to be sent to the deep palace, and almost instantly lost the “second son” sheltered by his parents, elder brother and eldest sister, and was forced to accept the banner of “revenge”. The ministers and the nobles who were “griefed” joined forces and sent them to the front line, and faced the enemy with the orc king’s elite army who was carrying a great victory.

The strong and the weak, the strong and the weak, the justice and the evil… everything is turned upside down in an instant. When’I’ rode a horse in confusion, leading a small group of knights to leave the Imperial City, and the one who greeted me was about to walk across the entire northwest. The orc iron hoof of the plains has already poured down the’green blood disaster’ from the Tatarus plateau.

At that time, I did not understand conspiracy and tricks. My heart was flooded with righteous anger, full of sparks of revenge. I firmly believed that this battle would be won, and the empire would be able to drive out the enemy and promote the prestige of the country. The parents and elder brothers avenged their revenge and comforted their spirit in heaven.

Until reality smashed the fantasy.

The raging anger was completely extinguished by the frosty ice water.

As I was racing along the road leading to the front with the knights, I saw a village.

The village was burnt to charcoal, and there were no villages left in ruins. The humble villagers heard the knight’s footsteps and fled like frightened birds. They looked humble and ridiculous with fear, and the knights beside them laughed rudely. But after a burst of unknown doubts, my heart suddenly fell into an ice cave.

——This is the territory of the empire, far away from the front; this is the hinterland of the empire, without orcs; this is within the territory of the empire, and there is no enemy behind — in that case, why are the villages of the empire burned down and there will be people of the empire Displaced? !

I growled angrily and wanted to ask the villagers forward, but when the villagers saw me coming, they knelt in despair and closed their eyes, as if it was not the knight to protect them, but the one who brought death and fear. The devil, and some people even stretched their necks actively, seemingly to make it easier for me to draw the sword.

“No, what I want to ask is why, why do you…”

The knights grabbed me. These numb, mocking smiles, but they couldn’t really laugh. The knights whose expressions were worse than crying blocked the action I wanted to ask the villagers. Pulled away from the burned village.

“It should have been caused by the collapse of the army, your Highness, don’t care too much, we have to hurry.”

“Yes, for so many years, these villagers who still live in the border areas should have been used to it… if they don’t move out yet, that deserves it.”

“Hey, our ending may not be better than these villagers. They can at least eat some bark. When we get to the front line, I am afraid that we were eaten by the orcs as snacks.”

“Let’s go, let’s go, alas, these young masters who don’t know the sufferings of the people, after so many years, what’s weird…”

The knights’ chattering words were mixed with complaints, explanations and helpless self-deprecation. An older knight stopped this small riot. He calmly said to me: “Your Highness, such a village is in the frontier. There are eight hundred in the surrounding area. For those who can’t sympathize, we have to rush to Fort Clay before winter, otherwise…”

At that time, I didn’t listen carefully to the knights’ follow-up explanations.

I just saw the desperate villager who closed his eyes. After seeing us leaving, after seeing us as the devil who brought death in his heart, the villager who took the initiative to stretch his neck actually wailed loudly—he The cry of sorrow and pity, this cry seems to be asking why they are not even given the easy and evasive death, why are they allowed to live after depriving them of everything, so miserable and desperate, there is no slightest Hope to live.

I was well educated, and my father always told me that the nation is the cornerstone of the empire.

They pay taxes, serve, and contribute everything for the country. The empire’s army confronts the orcs on the front line. Every bit of food and every trace of resources consumed is cultivated by countless citizens and paid countless blood and sweat. This is what they get. It is precisely in tens of thousands of villages and towns that all residents, farmers, hunters and craftsmen have selflessly devoted everything to the empire, and this has allowed the frontline sergeants to block the fierce attacks by the orcs over the centuries, and the aggressions again and again. .

However, such citizens are being plundered and humiliated by their own people. The citizens who have worked so hard and have given everything are so weak and lacking strength that they will be burned, killed and looted by the defeated army. They will vent their fear and The object of failure and depression, and it sounds, it seems that they have suffered more than once, and they have suffered, time and time again, in their own hands.

I can see that in the eyes of those villagers, in addition to fear, there is also unforgettable hatred—they hate the empire, hate the soldiers, hate the invading orcs, hate everything, including the world.

It shouldn’t be like this.

The relationship between the strong and the weak, the glorious shelter and dedication, should not be like this.

“Israel, this is the truth about the empire.”

Teacher Nostradamus-he is also in this Cavaliers team. The middle-aged mage rode a horse and stood side by side with me. He calmly said: “Years of war have caused the weak to be endlessly exploited and squeezed. The frontline soldiers have also suffered heavy casualties. The service standards have dropped again and again. From the innocent family, Until now, the ruffians can wear armor, and once the poor people cannot meet their needs, it is not surprising that they will end in destruction.”

“But even so, the nobles in the rear are still singing and dancing, holding dinner parties for one inexplicable reason after another, and one meal eats enough frontline soldiers to support a month of wealth~www.wuxiax.com~ and even in the ruthless royal family It’s a big joke to be able to teach a simple prince like you.”

The pungent language hurt my heart. At that time, I was extremely angry, but it was not painful because of being ridiculed… Nostradamus is my teacher. He has been teaching me since childhood, but Before today, he had never told me this, told me the truth about the empire, which made me feel a deep betrayal.

But the teacher sneered at my naivety—he didn’t say before, he couldn’t say, and he didn’t want to say, he was just a prince’s teacher, just an ordinary Zhiyi mage, above him, there were other royal mages, and Other powerhouses at the Extreme Yi level, he has no rights, no power, and an ordinary person in his life experience – he doesn’t even have a surname, and he has come to the present step by step purely relying on his own efforts.

So of course he knows that it didn’t make any sense to say these to a living muddy prince before, and he would even put himself in disaster…Unless this muddy little guy grows up, he has the consciousness and belief, and wants to master it. Own destiny, become…

“Israel, you need to be emperor.”

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