Ke-style law enforcement officers

Chapter 887 Separated by a Wall

The remnants stormed into Os-Nargay.

No, to be precise, after the appearance of the Shadow, there was no further effective resistance from the Eternal Kingdom.

Even their king had completely surrendered, and the other priests of the Emerald Temple and the fat guards either bowed their heads or fainted.

……

This is just another historical problem left behind by the gods.

Shadow readily solved the problem.

...

The moment the city wall broke through, a flicker of emotion appeared in Milo's eyes.

He did not go directly to see Kang.

Instead, he suddenly remembered Kai, whom he had initially left in the corner of the restricted area. His figure slowly disappeared beyond the city wall, and the gloomy haze made way at the gap in the city wall. This time, the stream of light that had been confined to the Eternal Kingdom finally cast its light on the restricted area.

No one knows where Shadow went after he suddenly disappeared.

Even the way Shadow left seemed a little awkward, but everyone tacitly dismissed this subtle detail as an illusion.

...

Milo did indeed pretend to be serious and decided to go find Kai first.

In reality, he didn't need to take care of her so personally. Kai was no longer the weak child she used to be. With the power she now possessed, she could walk in the forbidden zone without any problems. Moreover, Milo had already cleared out 99% of the abyssal insectoid creatures.

But he needed to use this as an excuse to take a good break first.

Let me think about what I should say to Kang when I see him later...

...

When Milo found Kai, she was almost at the foot of the city wall.

Why are you walking so fast?

As for the phrase "being scolded," Kai found it very strange.

...

……

The remnants and permanent residents faced each other for the first time in countless years, and the scene was somewhat strange.

The strange thing is that there wasn't any obvious hostility between the two sides.

One is a race exiled to a world of suffering, and the other is a guardian imprisoned by a deception. Their identities seem to be somewhat contradictory, yet no hostility erupts upon meeting; instead, there is a strong sense of unfamiliarity.

Those remnants, carrying heavy swords and giant axes, seemed to have never seen the light before. Their eyes were full of curiosity. Many of them looked up at the stream of light above the Eternal Kingdom, their eyes filled with tears, speechless for a long time, their hearts filled with sorrow.

As for the eternal inhabitants, when the remnants first began to cross that broken high wall, they were filled with fear. They worried that these rebellious races, as the gods called them, would enter the city and begin a massacre.

But that fear, shortly after it was born, was drawn away from their minds by a strange force, as if it had vanished into thin air.

...

A young survivor, covered in blood, knelt down on the ruins with a thud.

He couldn't believe he had really walked out of that forbidden zone of death, couldn't believe he was bathed in flowing light, a gentle warmth he had never experienced before covering his body. It was an experience unlike any other sensation he was familiar with, such as stinging or icy cold. At the moment he touched the flowing light, even fear showed in his eyes.

The boy put down the axe and began to sob quietly.

His cries contained a hint of ecstasy, but more so a sense of bewilderment and deep grievance.

All the magnificent buildings and the onyx-paved streets of Os-Nargai could not capture the attention of the young survivor. His eyes were fixed on the shimmering light, which was all the survivors had ever longed for.

...

A figure cautiously approached the kneeling, speechless young survivor.

She is a permanent resident.

Before the wall was breached, she, like all the other eternal inhabitants, believed that the other side of the wall was a collection of sin and cruelty.

But when she saw the elderly, weak, sick, and disabled people before her, and when she realized that the boy's only arm was much thinner than her own, she was stunned. She hesitated for a long time before finally slowly squatting down and handing her handkerchief to the stranger.

……

The Eternal Kingdom was once a place of great bliss.

Before the shadows fell, the people here didn't know what crying was.

The survivors, separated only by a wall, weep today for the eternal, tedious celestial light.

...

……

"This is the power of the gods..."

"They can create and subvert dreams, allowing a race to live forever in a false bliss."

"It can also condemn you to purgatory, where you'll never be able to escape for millennia... You won't even be able to die."

...

The square was empty.

An elderly man with a hunched back gazed at the broken gap in the city wall and uttered these words in a hoarse voice.

Milo was standing right behind him.

He could always sense the despair and despondency emanating from the old man. It wasn't just because of the blood moon or the attack he suffered while crossing the world barrier, but more so because he had witnessed the terrifying control that the gods had over all those below them during those years.

It was a feeling of powerlessness.

As he himself said, "I want to die, but I can't."

But even so...

At the breach in the city wall, after the eternal resident girl handed over a handkerchief, more and more eternal residents mustered their courage and rushed forward. They helped to lift up the children of the survivors, supported the wounded survivors, and completely flattened the last section of the city wall at its base.

When this scene came into view, tears finally welled up in Kang's long-dry eyes.

Whether they are the eternal inhabitants or the descendants of the exiles, they are all merely objects of the gods' deception.

Only after the wall crumbled did they discover that the so-called millennia-long enmity simply did not exist.

...

But the old man's next words touched Milo slightly.

He said this:

“I thought they had killed my daughter and two sons.”

...

The old man let out a laugh from the bottom of his throat.

But the laughter sounded like the weak gasps of a dying patient.

...

In a moment of clarity, Milo suddenly felt that perhaps disappearing into oblivion with an era, like all other ordinary beings at the bottom of society, without their awareness, would actually be a merciful outcome.

Because ordinary souls, once caught up in such a catastrophe, will only suffer endless pain.

...

Under the radiant light of the heavens.

Milo rummaged around in his coat for a moment, pulled out a crumpled cigarette, and lit it for Kang.

Then, Milo stood beside Kang, calmly gazing at the no-longer-eternal Os-Nargai before him, at the scarred man in the distance carrying a greatsword with neither arrogance nor servility, and at all of this.

He promised Kang in a very calm tone:
"I will definitely kill God, Kang."

(End of this chapter)