Scepter of Thorns

It's always like this, Lyle thought, always when the person in front of him coldly wants to kill him.

This is what he asked for.

He didn't care about the coldness on his chest, and gently brushed a lock of the Pope's hair.This made the opponent retreat uncomfortably, but the hand holding the scepter was still tight.

"You'll understand," was all he could say.The scarlet curtain of the stage was drawn to both sides, revealing the road leading to the outside.The Pope snorted coldly, put away his scepter and walked out first, followed by him.This road is not wide, and it gets narrower as you go in, and the distance between the two can't help but get closer.

After walking for about ten minutes, this mysterious place was finally revealed.The deep ravine seemed to be chiseled out by a giant axe, and the pope doubted whether he was still in the tent.But facing the front is undoubtedly the abyss, only a few steel wires hanging above it, it seems to be the only way.

There are many protruding peaks, and the tops are all crooked, just forming an umbrella-shaped skeleton to cover the top.The road ahead was cut in two, and the sky was blocked horizontally, but the pope picked up a stone and threw it down, and it took a long time before he heard the sound.

There is still a person standing here, who seems to be worried about the road in front of him.His long silver hair was like a cold spring. When he heard the sound of footsteps, he turned his head unexpectedly and met the Pope's eyes.

is a young man.The Pope smiled politely. The other party's eyes were black, but they were pure, at least not malicious. There was a Tarot card pinned to his chest, Magician.

"You are... the Pope?" The magician glanced at his card, "Also, hey, why is your card white?"

Lyle shrugged, "I don't know either."

"Okay." The magician didn't ask much. "You all came here from a circus tent, and you must have experienced something. I guess it's a tightrope walk to get to another place. I don't care about you guys." Who is it, what is the purpose, I just want to get out of here. So apart from the method of leaving, I don’t need to talk about anything.”

"Me too." The Pope said lightly, then bent down to observe the height of the steel wire, the corner of the diary touched his waist, he suddenly remembered the ring, and shouted to the magician, "See if you have a ring on your hand , touch it, maybe there is something useful."

The magician found that he really had one in his left hand, but there was only a broken violin inside.He was a little disappointed in his heart, but he also felt bursts of sadness for some reason.

"Strange." He sighed, and put the violin back into the ring.

At the same time, the demon world outside the space.

Caesar put down the documents in his hands, and finally under his leadership, the affairs of the Red River got orderly.He hadn't been back to the mansion for a whole week, and today was a very special day. Caesar tidied up the table when Scott knocked on the door and brought in a beautifully wrapped gift box.

"My lord, it was sent by Earl Lilith."

Caesar unwrapped the ribbon, and a note fell out, "Happy Birthday." He couldn't help smiling, and opened the gift box.

Then his face changed.

The black horn products lie quietly on the red silk, round and shiny like handicrafts.But Caesar knew it wasn't. He fiddled with his hair. There was also a pair of horns there, but they were imitations.

Scott closed the door and retreated.Slowly he removed the horns and put on the new pair.The innate unique blood makes him destined not to be a demon, but a different kind.He still remembers the meaningful look in Gunther's eyes when he took over the Reverse Cross symbolizing party power from Gunther, and he also smiled back.Then in the next third month, Gunther died on the body of his male pet, and the beautiful cat boy took out his heart with his claws when he was about to have sex, and ate it with a giggle.

Only Caesar knew Gunther's perverted preference for beautiful boys. He liked mixed races, especially those who were young and convenient. Caesar couldn't even imagine that he had lived in the other's house for five years when he was a teenager. If he hadn't seen Amiens with nausea Gunther's toy curled up in Gunther's arms, and he naively thought that adopting them was just out of kindness.

brother.

Caesar's heart softened instantly.He opened a drawer with a key and took out the violin case inside. The handmade expensive violin was the gift he wanted to give to that person.

He put things into the space ring.Just as he was about to go out, Caesar sensitively noticed that the black fragments in his body were about to move, and thick dark elements filled the space.He quickly closed the door and locked himself in the room.

The pain came as it always did.The snow-like silver pupils were stained with a trace of scarlet, and he endured the more and more violent movements of the fragments, but they stopped in just a second, as if something had pressed the pause button. You Ruowu whispered: "It's Leander's stuff..."

"What did you say?" Caesar tried to distinguish, "Whose thing is it?"

It's just that no one answered him anymore.

Caesar calmed down and reopened the door.Two attendants followed immediately, and he ordered: "Go back to 'Swan'."

When entering the Swan Mansion, Henry came to report: "Mr. Doyle is missing."

Caesar had a vague premonition, "Do the guards have records?"

"Your Highness, this is my negligence. The last time I saw him was in the open area of ​​the garden, heading towards the ballroom. The guards on shift five days ago reported seeing Mr. Doyle near the third side hall, but because he He came to the mansion from here, and you ordered not to intercept him, so the guards did not take any action. But there are no guards in the third side hall, and no one knows where he went."

At this time, Scott suddenly rushed out of the main hall, his action was unprecedented haste, he leaned close to Caesar's ear and reported: "The 02 guest is here."

Caesar also walked into the main hall. Before leaving, he told Henry not to care about this matter, and emphasized: "Strengthen the guard."

He entered the silver star-studded room, where he had received Doyle secretly, and obviously this guest could not be announced to the public.Caesar adjusted his collar and sat in a high-backed chair.Scott immediately served two glasses of wine-red liquid, and stretched out his hand to signal, "Please."

On another high-backed chair, Bender Conns smiled jokingly, "It seems that the hospitality is hard to pass."

"I didn't expect it to be you, the newly promoted Holy Son." Caesar said calmly, "I remember your mother died in a battle on the border of the Demon Realm."

"The real cause of her death is a light arrow shot by the light camp, and this arrow is about to hit me."

Caesar frowned, "Is the Light Arrow Knights so powerful?"

"Yes." Conns restrained his smile, "That's why I control most of the Holy See but I still can only come to you. Mufujie has a history of being in prison and has lost his memory for a while. But even So he still has outstanding bright talent, God is never fair."

"You lied to everyone, Conns." Caesar wanted to laugh a little, "If Edward knew that you thought so, he would definitely pass the throne to you. That guy hates fanatics and ascetics the most. In his eyes, you Great hindrance."

His eyes darkened, "Edward also came to make a deal?"

Mentioning Edward Caesar sneered, "If you dare to be like him, I guarantee you will regret it."

Conns didn't dare to ask what Edward had done, he was afraid that Caesar would not be able to do it if he was in a bad mood.

"Since you have read the treaty, everything is fine." Caesar got up to see the guests off, "I just hope that the arrow of light doesn't become Cupid's arrow."

Conns body trembled inadvertently, and then disappeared into the space door.Only Caesar was left, and while he was rubbing his temples wearily, he opened the space door leading to the top floor.But when Caesar entered, he suddenly felt that something was wrong. The space was filled with strange demonic energy, and someone had broken into this place.He speeded up the stairs, and the moment he saw it, the sea of ​​consciousness ached violently.

The black reverse cross chain was thrown on the bed at random, the sheets were cold, and the floor was empty.

"Heh——" Caesar covered his eyes and laughed hysterically. The fragments rushed into his mind crazily, and he seemed to see another self, full of mockery.

"You finally realized." He heard someone say again, "You can't keep him at all."

Vulnerable emotions shattered the strong pretense he had always been, and no matter what time it was, he was always alone in the end.

"Do you know why? Because you are too weak." The voice was still saying, and he seemed to be muttering, "Your own brothers don't want to be with you. You think those people really Submit to you? They only care about your rights, some people even start to openly oppose you, you are really too young."

"So what..." Caesar replied intermittently, "Gunther's old department is dead, I know, I will deal with the matter in Inverse Cross..."

"Some old guys think that young and energetic people are destined not to be a good leader, so they secretly collected information about your family and planned to use this to drive you off the throne of consul. Are you willing? The Demon Realm belongs to you , Caesar. The so-called royal family took away the honor due to the clan, you should stand up and fight back instead of cooperating with them."

Caesar leaned on the bed frame and sat down, "What exactly do you want?"

The black fragments were constantly rotating and splicing together in the sea of ​​consciousness, and finally formed an incomplete pentagonal prism.

"You are half of my soul." The voice suddenly became high-pitched, "I will give you strength, and you will fuse with me."

His hand began to fiddle with the inverse cross on the bed. No one thought that this symbol of party power was just a chain of imprisonment in his eyes, locking up the only warmth in the cold and long days.He began to recall his not-so-short life, some things were damn clear.The other self I discovered since I was a child, the corpse of my parents lying in a pool of blood, my brother's embrace, Gunther's adoption, the anger of seeing the truth, the hypocritical smile, the joy of accepting the anti-cross, the back of my brother who resolutely left, and The acquaintance of Lilith, the signed treaty against the Black Queen, and the silver cage.

Caesar suddenly felt that he was really trapped in this room.

"Okay." He calmed down, "In my 20 years, I have never lived a satisfactory life. Whether it is love or rights, I am a complete loser. Ten years ago, my brother was what I depended on for my survival." Capital, and he will be my lover ten years later. I know my feelings for him, so I can give it to you with confidence.

"Amiens is the eldest son, the legal heir to the throne of the Demon Realm. I cannot give him the honor he deserves, but you must take my responsibility and push him to the throne." Caesar paused, "If that's the case, I agree. "

The voice hesitated for a moment, "...OK."

In the distant God Realm, Orion Phaethon, the God of Darkness, emerged from the shadows.He walked out of the temple, and the gray sky was covered with rain, finely brushing his sleeves.

There is a broken pentagonal prism in the sea of ​​his consciousness, which is a godhead that he can't repair until now.But it was different from today, Phaethon laughed lowly, and then disappeared into the air as a black spot of light.

This is a silver space, he wakes up in a strange body.The two broken pentagonal prisms are tightly adsorbed together and blended into one.

"My godhead, finally..." He stood in the room, almost overwhelmed by tension and joy, but he calmed down quickly and began to examine his body.

"Ah, that's really good. As expected of a pure-blooded clan, it even has Leander's dragon horn." Phaethon spread out his bone wings, "After war and civil strife, the Demon Realm really needs a new order and a new master." gone."

Finally, he stretched out his hand and grasped it lightly, and the space began to be fragmented, collapsing silently, revealing the outline of the main hall of the mansion.The space no longer exists, only an inverse cross is left shining in the air.

Phaethon held it in his hand and kissed it, then smiled lightly and said, "Brother."

----Chapter40. Awakening & End----

The author has something to say:

A girl left a message on the post bar saying that she didn't understand everything except the meat chapter, so the stupid author just read the plot again, starting with the first meat chapter.

After Xiao Shou was attacked by Xiao Gong, he went to the banquet held by Caesar, but in fact the banquet was to cover up the donations of nobles who supported the Reverse Cross Party to govern the Red River.The Black Queen hired the killer Black Widow to assassinate Caesar. Caesar knew the identity and preferences of the Black Widow very early because of the reminder of the Seventh Prince. He gave Edward the medicine to temporarily stabilize the demon form. In the form of the Celestial Clan, Caesar deliberately asked Anna, the outside maid pretending to be the black widow, to help Edward back, so he saw the blond hair.

In order not to accidentally injure Edward during the assassination, the black widow hypnotized the crow with a pentagonal pyramid and drugged the milk.But because he added honey to the milk, Edward hated sweets and threw it away.The crow is actually another incarnation of Kairos. It knew that the pentagonal pyramid was a godhead, and resisted the hypnosis, so it began to suspect that Kairos had done something wrong.

Later, Caesar condensed the magic shield and held the dagger. He is a clan, so the magic energy is not the same, and it is not affected by the light elements. During the banquet, Edward was accidentally injured. Playing in different places, when I was in the Temple of Heaven, I happened to be seen by a person with paternal blood relationship.That person is the king of the Celestial Clan. When he saw the child next to the main god, he immediately thought of Edward's father, Dorsas. He speculated that his child was favored by the main god, so he pardoned Daulsus Senna and took some time to recall him to the god. boundary.Because the time axis of the heavenly world is different from that of the human world, one day is equal to one year on earth, which corresponds to when Edward was 16 years old when his father killed his mother and left him.

But it was just a dream, Edward couldn't remember clearly after waking up, he only vaguely remembered something from his childhood.At this time, the doctor invited by Caesar and his assistant Ke Qie (do you still remember the demons that Edward just came to the Demon Realm to kill at the border? I had contact with the patient and found out that he was of mixed blood, so when he got the officer, Valentine, out of the bar, he was plotted against by Valentine, and the memory was copied and sent to "someone", so it can be seen that Valentine is a traitor .

The crow dissipated because of protecting Edward's form in the demon world, so it was reborn in the Eternal Ruins, and Kyle Ross came to end him. The crow told the truth that Kyle Ross used Edward to kill himself, and it knew that it was the law. The one who came out to contain Kylos had to agree to disappear because the law wanted to kill Edward.So the law used Kyle Rose's feelings for Edward to control him again, making him violent and possessive, which might seriously hurt Edward.

The black widow was complained by her employer because of the failed assassination. He told the employer that Caesar's blood was abnormal, and it is very likely that he knew about the assassination in advance, because it is impossible for ordinary demons to condense the demonic energy that can resist the light elements in just a few seconds. , and revealed that Caesar and eleven nobles raised funds to control the Red River, saying that the Duke of Angostia was at odds with Caesar. To be honest, his identity is quite complicated.

After Edward recovered, he found Henry for training, and then went to investigate the assassination scene, which is the banquet hall, and found several cleaning sponges that had absorbed Caesar's magic energy in the corner.He wanted to go to the underground city, so he went to the third side hall according to the route he had come to Caesar's mansion, but he tripped over a broken violin, accidentally crushed the cleaning sponge, and suddenly a silver space made of demonic energy appeared , when he walked in, he found that the magic energy in the sponge was not enough, and the space forcibly absorbed his magic energy to fill it up. As a result, the state began to be unbalanced as soon as the magic energy was sucked away. Edward was turned into a mixed-blood state by the golden fragments. Amiens in captivity.

Then the two made a deal, and Edward knew that he would be finished after seeing Amiens, because Caesar had always wanted to kill him, but he didn't know that Doyle was Edward.Amiens took the opportunity to ask him to get out, the two signed a contract, and was informed of the identity of the clan, Amiens took the violin and followed the secret road to the dungeon.

The two happened to meet the black widow who came to try their luck, and they hired him as a guide without knowing it. Two of them talked about the apostle lich of fate, and a piece of history that Edward casually said did not exist. Black widow The denial made him suspicious of his notes and memory, and after parting, he and Amiens found a hotel that didn't need to register magic energy, and began to look through his diary.

Because they made an appointment to go to the Warcraft Forest in the central square, when the three of them entered, Amiens felt something was wrong, so they withdrew first, and Edward was responsible for getting the guide out.Black Widow set up a formation in the Warcraft Forest to take Edward away, but he didn't expect Edward to be so strong, so he was in a stalemate with him.At this time, a strange force brought the two of them to a different dimension, and Amiens was also involved because of the contract.

The three were scattered and lost their memory. Edward took out the diary, because he had read his childhood diary before, so he lost his memory and found it as soon as he flipped through it, which happened to be the space he was facing now.In fact, the reason for this space should be very clear. Before Xiaogong in the hotel, he inspired his celestial blood to fight in a dream, broke his wings and tattooed on his back, saying that he would embark on the road of redemption, but in fact it was Refers to the abandoned space created by the main god, and Edward needs to remedy what he has done.