Monsters Will Die if They Are Killed

This is a story about freedom and reality.

The imperial royal family holds the greatest power in the world, but at the price, the royal family members are among the least free people in the world.

Perhaps the emperor still has the possibility to act arbitrarily and be a one-man husband, but as a prince, he is also subject to constraints, especially for a prince who is not a prince, whose mother's family is not strong enough, and who is still very low in the ranking.

Living in the palace - or in other words, being imprisoned in the palace, all the prince can see every day is nothing more than the unchanging scenery of his mother's palace and its surroundings, and some are just the cold wind and cold wind blowing from the mountains surrounding the imperial capital. Heavy rain, and incense-laden air.

Raised in the hands of a boudoir woman, this is a term used to mock, and the fact is indeed true. How can one understand the vastness of the world and learn all kinds of things correctly if they are sealed in a small area in the palace? try?

However, the young prince is very smart.

Even compared to his dozen or so older brothers, four or five younger brothers, and more than a dozen sisters, he is still the smartest.

So he learned everything, the common sense taught by his mother, the knowledge taught by his teachers, some cautious secrets taught by his elders, and the hidden clumsiness he learned without a teacher.

Because of this, he succeeded in becoming an inconspicuous person in the palace, but not the worst. Everyone knew his name and abilities, but they did not feel that he was a threat.

As he grew older, the prince's scope of movement became wider and wider. He began to have companions and playmates, and he could also walk in some areas of the palace.

But it was clear that he would not be satisfied.

In his mind were the legends he had seen and described in books, and in his memory were the beautiful scenery in those albums. He was smart and knew that the world was vast, far better than the palaces and imperial capitals he could wander around. As for the Empire, because of his outstanding source energy talent, he can even sense the height and breadth of the heaven and earth with the sound of the wind, which is far better than he imagined.

The most painful thing about smart people is that their intelligence cannot change the status quo.

This is the situation of the prince. He knows everything and understands everything. He knows about the overt and covert fighting among the adult princes when his father was seriously ill. He also knows that it is impossible for a prince like himself whose mother is just the daughter of a minor noble. Become an emperor.

He even knew that he had to choose a brother's team, and even if this brother won, he might not be able to survive.

According to the tradition of the Asmodai Empire, there are very few kings.

——This kind of life is so boring.

He always thought so, sitting on the roof of the palace in the quiet night, looking up at the stars and moon in the sky.

The prince could not help but fantasize about the distant places. He wanted to see the mountains and sea outside the city, trace the source of the river, and walk to the end of the river.

He wanted to explore the lair of the monsters, discover the stunning scenery that no one had ever discovered before, expand his eyes and horizons, and leave his footprints far, far away.

He wanted to, but he couldn't.

The royal family is not free - the management of the clan, the gaze of the old father, the vigilance of the adult brothers, and the inspection eyes of the ministers are all firmly focused on the young prince.

He has even heard several discussions about himself: in the discussions, he became part of the conspiracy several times, became a tool in the overt and covert fights between adult princes, and became a victim of one brother suppressing another brother.

Other brothers have died, and the internal fighting in the Asmodai royal family has entered a fever pitch, while the emperor who wants to choose the strongest heir turns a blind eye. He has so many children that love can only be given to the strongest. That person, like a young prince, with no background, has not been qualified to receive love since his mother was pregnant.

"Leave the palace, Michal."

The prince's chaperone, a decorated border noble, and in a sense the unlucky second son of the Saakashvili family, a young man named Aharonov suggested this, and he knew very well that he should continue like this. , not to mention that the prince named Michal will suffer, I am afraid that he and the family behind him will also die.

"Let's leave the palace and pretend to be dead - your brothers won't care about a prince who declares himself dead. Their energy can't be spent on us. As long as we use this method to completely renounce the right to inherit the throne, at least I can still survive."

"I've thought about it for a long time, Aharonov, but how can we get out?"

The prince was helpless about this. He looked at the crimson moon with a wry smile, and then laughed at himself: "And who said they won't send people to attack and kill me? With my strength, it only takes a small team of people to kill me, and anyone can do it. Come out evenly."

"Hey, friend, I also want to try the pancakes from your hometown to see if they are as delicious as you said."

"I haven't had it for several years. Maybe it's just to beautify my memory?" The noble boy obviously didn't have any good ideas: "Hey, your royal family is troublesome. My dad didn't choose between me and my brother. He's older and his title is not. His?"

"Primogeniture is indeed stable. You can't choose the best one."

The two chatted casually, venting their frustrations about not being able to control their lives.

And the sound of their chat was heard by the prince's mother.

After the sad woman thought about it for several days, the prince's mother made up her mind and taught the prince one last lesson.

That is something like "fate", which is indeed "one's own".

The prince whose mother accidentally fell into the pond and died was given the opportunity to return to her hometown with her mother's body. The grieving prince certainly knew the meaning of what his mother had done. She used her own life to bring a living child to her children. opportunity to go down.

"Live well, Michal." The note with his mother's Juanxiu handwriting was swallowed by the prince. He could not leave any evidence behind, and then he embarked on the road back to his hometown.

And sure enough, in the middle of the road, a group of people came to attack him, but they did not find the prince or his companion.

At the very beginning, they had already left the convoy and came to the wilderness.

Surviving in the wilderness is not easy, it is even very simple. Fortunately, the prince and his companion are not weak, and they have prepared for this moment for a long time - they were successfully chased by the passing energy beast and the whole world was in chaos. Before they were eaten, they were saved by a talented young hunter who lived in a mountain village.

The tall young man swung a giant wooden stick that was as tall as anyone else. With just one blow, he beat a black-spotted giant python to bloody pulp and its head was sunken.

"At that time, I only relied on brute strength, and my skills were really unsightly."

Ilovic rarely thinks about the past, but as he gets older, he always does.

Powerful people in disaster situations have long lifespans, but they have to endure the pain caused by huge source energy. The energy they can control exceeds their own size. This is helpless and is the world's punishment for killing the descendants of the creator.

But the realm of Burning Ling is different... Burning Ling is a god.

And the fate of the gods, in this world where the gods killed the Creator, is destined death.

Iloviz knew that he could not live long. It might be a few decades, or a hundred or two hundred years. It sounded very long, but for the gods, it was almost eternity and could be regarded as an immortal life. It was just a short period of time. A short moment.

As the highest concentration point of source energy, the heart-light bodies in the Ranling realm are so powerful that even if they exist, they will absorb the surrounding source energy. Eventually, gradually, their heart-light bodies and even souls will be transformed into Make a 'source energy singularity'.

In other words, they will self-destruct due to their own excessive source energy and be completely eliminated.

Unless... looking for a sustenance.

An indestructible sustenance that can withstand almost endless energy.

The story of the prince, his companion, and the hunter boy has ended a long time ago, but back then, they were adventuring on the land and exploring ancient ruins. They walked in the world like brothers who were truly connected by blood.

The prince saw the mountains and distances he dreamed of. Although it was difficult, he never regretted it.

The accompanying student was free. He didn't have any obsessions. He just felt that it would be good to eat something good and live a peaceful life.

The talent of the hunter boy was so high that it seemed a bit incredible. After the prince taught him how to practice source energy, this genius who lived in the mountains and forests became a real transcendent. He excitedly told the two Friends announced that he would become their knight in the future, guarding them and abiding by all codes of loyalty and morality.

"Come on." In response, the prince smiled and said, "It's like I'm still the prince - we are friends!"

"You'd better improve your barbecue skills." The accompanying student was washing mushrooms by the river. He complained: "The moa legs you grilled last time were fucking raw inside. You used to live on this kind of thing." ?”

"Hey, Michal, you idiot, don't soak your smelly feet upstream, I'm washing vegetables!"

These days of freedom lasted for quite some time, and they even gradually became famous among adventurers and mercenaries.

And just when the prince was excited to form a mercenary group and continue their adventure on the continent of Aian, a royal guard appeared in their small manor in a fixed village.

In the manor, there are grapes grown by the companion and workers hired. In addition to making wine, the hunter boy also dug a small pond with his bare hands, saying that he could raise some fish for food in the future - this is not only their base and home, but also the prince's heart for the next three years. The base camp of the mercenary group.

But when the guards in black armor opened the door, everyone knew that such a future no longer existed.

"Good day, Your Majesty, Your Majesty has requested that you return to the Imperial Capital."

"...I don't want to go back, as you can see. I don't want to be a prince, and I don't want to inherit the empire. Why can't I continue to die here without any incident?"

"It's not up to you, Your Highness. Your achievements in the past few years are dazzling enough. His Majesty admits that he was wrong. Your ability has been recognized by His Majesty. If you are qualified to compete for the throne, you must go. This is the emperor's order."

The prince was silent for a long time.

He longed for freedom and exploration, but he knew very well that if he refused, the only possible outcome would be death.

Even if he doesn't die, his two friends will die.

After death, everything is meaningless, whether it is freedom or the dream of exploring the future, everything will disappear.

Freedom is just a dream, survival is an unavoidable reality.

He has no choice.

"Mihal, relax...we will stay with you."

At that time, the knight flexed his arm muscles and comforted the other party stupidly: "The worst thing is that we will die together. The three of us will not be lonely!"

"Yes, brother, no matter how ferocious your brothers are, are the ruin guard puppets we have seen even more ferocious?" The companion shrugged. Although he was not as free and easy as the knight, he was obviously not that sad, and he seemed to have prepared himself mentally. Prepare.

The comfort from his friends was indeed comforting, but the prince had always been silent since then.

Without rights and power, there is no freedom and no survival.

My father can arrange his life as he pleases, and he has no way to escape unless he comes to participate in the battle for the throne according to his will.

Moreover, without rights and strength, he could not judge the evildoers he wanted to judge, could not kill those enemies who hindered him, and could not change the empire and world that he deeply hated.

But the most important thing is to survive without it.

He must live, otherwise, whether it is his mother's sacrifice or everything else, it will be meaningless.

People have no freedom. They can only do what they should do under existing conditions.

Just like people can't choose their parents, they can only choose what they do.

Therefore, in this world, whether it is dreams, freedom, or everything else humans pursue, they are essentially rooted in existence.

Death is nothingness.

The memories of his youth flashed through his mind. Although Ilovitz was flying in mid-air, his eyes were always fixed on the land.

The strength of the emperor's guards back then was irresistible to them when they were young, but to put it bluntly, it was nothing more than the peak of their spiritual power and touching the edge of divine will. Not to mention that they can kill ten thousand people with just one breath now. In a few years, He surpassed him.

But being weak also has the advantage of being weak, at least it won't be so strong that it spontaneously combusts.

The improvement in strength in the Burning Soul Realm, unless it can surpass the entire world of Aian, is equivalent to accelerating suicide. Even if Michal chose the branches of the Burning Soul Divine Tree as his sustenance, the fragments of the Divine Tree cannot carry it. This is an almost endless source of energy.

Therefore, they set their sights on things that are not objects or souls.

That's the whole empire.

In order to help his overly powerful friend, after becoming the emperor, a huge network was created in the hands of the former prince. A huge network was established between mobile cities. They have no entity, they are just a mark, and the mark covers the area , is the territory that belongs to the true empire.

The Burning Spirit strongman can rely on certain oaths and contracts to transfer the source energy pressure he needs to bear to all the land, buildings, and humans in the entire empire.

In contrast, the Soul Burners can also draw on the power of the entire empire to increase their own output.

The genius idea was jointly implemented by three people. The emperor joked that the knight had now become the spirit of the empire. The knight rolled his eyes. He felt that the emperor himself would reach this state, so he had no right to make fun of him.

As for the former escort, the current general is not that strong, but he is the most handsome. Now he is married and has a child.

In order to celebrate, the emperor even concealed his identity and left the palace to celebrate the birth of his friend's child for a night in person.

…

So, when did it become like this?

Probably...after knowing that the holy day was about to go out.

The world is about to be destroyed, and all the environments that humans can live in will disappear.

There is no way to escape or ignore it, it is right in front of you, and for the strong who can live for a long time, it is almost tomorrow.

After finally reshaping the Nuo Empire and spending all his efforts to complete the reform, he suddenly learned such news.

Comparing his feelings, Ilovitz would also feel that Michal would be severely hit, and even feel that everything he did in his life was meaningless.

However, Michal clearly cheered up and found a way to keep more people alive. He quickly made plans and arranged the steps. He was the strongest and most powerful person in the Asmodai Empire since its birth. A good emperor does have the qualifications and can save this civilization.

"I also understand that it is a necessary evil. In order to survive in the mouth of the beast, the cattle will leave behind some of the old and weak to facilitate the survival of the cattle as a whole...but why?"

Why did Michal become like this?

Iloviz didn't understand, he never understood, just like he never understood why the nobles would exploit the common people to death, nor did he understand that taxes had to be so high that even the peasants couldn't survive.

He didn't understand why those meaningless luxuries became fashionable among the upper classes, nor why resources that were enough to feed millions of people ended up being consumed by a banquet in the imperial capital.

There are obviously not many points worth fighting for in this world! Everyone should be themselves, do the right thing, everyone should deal fairly, empathize with each other, and work together when encountering difficulties, unlike the current world of Aian, which has to split into so many large camps in the face of the end of the world. interfere with each other...

As long as you are not selfish, content, and know how to choose...

If everyone could do this, where would there be so much nonsense, so much war and killing!

Obviously, life and life should be friends, friends who work together to survive, instead of competing and exploiting each other, and becoming enemies!

"Obviously if everyone acts as a good person, everyone will be happy... Michal, you also know, you obviously also know that if everyone takes a step back, everyone can get more than taking a step forward!"

However, the Cavaliers also understand.

If you take a step back, others will take a step forward.

Not everyone thinks about a win-win situation, everyone just wants to ensure that they can survive.

The lives of other people are insignificant in the eyes of some people. They don't care, even if hundreds of thousands or millions die, they can remain indifferent.

In fact, many people don't even care about their own lives. Even if they are in the midst of a plague, they will not take any protective measures. They simply feel that they are the chosen ones.

In all worlds, there are too many people like this, so the world can never be peaceful.

The knight flew through the air, causing thunder and storm.

He is not selfish because he is not afraid of death, which means nothing to Ilovitz.

He may have been an illegitimate son abandoned by a noble relative. He had no parents or relatives. He was adopted by a childless hunter alone. The hunter was killed by a wild beast when he was still young. He struggled to survive until he met the emperor and the general. .

During that initial period, he didn't know the meaning of life at all. He couldn't taste whether the food was delicious or not. He couldn't figure out what was considered happy. He just imitated the hunter's past lifestyle, day after day. When you are alive, you don’t need to mend your clothes if they are torn, and you don’t need to repair the leaky house. In short, you are just alive, just like a walking zombie in emptiness.

It was not until then that the prince taught him how to practice. This kind of thing that was far more interesting than anything else finally gave the knight a real sense of living. He began to feel that becoming stronger was what he should do, and becoming stronger itself also gave the knight more He came up with many ideas so that he could help his friends and make his existence meaningful.

To this day, Ilovitz still does not regret saving Michal and Aharonov that day, and the joy of their adventures in the past has not been forgotten to this day.

Moreover, it is very likely that it is not the emperor who has changed, but himself and Aharonov.

He changed from the nihilistic son of Orion to a guardian of morality and the first knight of the empire.

He went from being the prince's companion and a young man who just wanted to live a peaceful life to an imperial general and a defender of imperial order.

And he. Michal. It's the same from beginning to end.

He is just a man who wants to live.

——Life is selfish.

This selfishness trumps everything else. Even if you cannot survive, your descendants must live. If your descendants cannot survive, they must leave a mark and legacy on the world.

For some people, inheritance may be more important than bloodline, but in the final analysis, it is nothing more than existence and continuity. How could Ilovitz not understand? He once accompanied the emperor and generals on their adventures and explored the ruins of the previous era. They felt the emptiness after the demise of civilization, and also felt the inheritance significance represented by the existence of the ruins.

And facing the end of the world, if you want to survive 100%, you have to be more selfish than anyone else.

He made his choice.

"It's just possible that you have forgotten your original intention and why you want to live. You just live for the sake of living."

Closing his eyes, Ilovitz whispered to himself: "You are obviously an adventurer who wants to explore distant places, aren't you?"

"Did you forget it, or is this part of your plan?"

At this moment, the knight could already see the Xiguang Tower. He could sense the extremely powerful source energy fluctuations at the top of the tower, which seemed to be able to cover the entire mountain range and the sky.

That's where the man who made Akharonov commit suicide, Svetrey the Hikari, lives.

A truly good man. It was so good that the knight was ashamed of himself.

Nothing he does is for himself, or just for himself. His eyes are always looking at the whole world, staring at all things equally.

His thoughts and actions are correct, and his program is organized and orderly, far clearer than his own who only worries about 'why'.

The knight had no intention of revenge, and even if he had to fight, it would not be for this reason.

He walked forward, just wanting to ask the other party a question.

"What are you living for?"

or.

"You have existed so far, become so powerful, and protect all living beings... What is the meaning of it?"

But soon, the knight who noticed something frowned.

He turned his head and looked to the south, sensing incredible spiritual energy fluctuations - there, on the land where the southern nobles were, the aura of hundreds of powerful men suddenly appeared, almost like a disaster.

The celestial phenomena reacted, and even half of the world of Aian was roaring with an unstoppable wind.

This is obviously not right, it can even be called weird.

If there are hundreds of powerful people in the disaster realm, if the nobles in the south have such power, as long as there are a few top disaster realms among them, they will be piled up to death, and after their death, the emperor with the same contract will also be affected.

All in all, the nobles of the Southern Territory will become the largest force in the world of Aian on the spot, and can easily bulldoze the entire world.

Therefore, he turned directly and flew towards the south.

Then the knight saw it.

He saw the sacred trees that were growing and spreading in the city.

Wails, cheers, roars and cries were all mixed together, spreading miserably in all directions under the light of the blood moon.

Subconsciously, he stopped flying and was suspended in mid-air. Ilovitz stared blankly at this scene.

He saw the dance of flesh and blood, the condensation of bones, and the ultimate fusion of 'life' and 'existence'.

He saw it.

One tree is entrenched above the mobile city, and all its branches and leaves have human faces, the sacred tree of blood.