Awakening of Rebirth

The Kovat Fortress is located on the border of the Far East and has been built for more than 600 years.The fort's terrain is high and dangerous, easy to defend and difficult to attack, and it is impenetrable. It has resisted the invasion of demons for generations. For [-] years, no demons have crossed the border, so it is known as the first fortress in the continent of Elho.

But this first fortress, the strongest line of defense of the Ainota Empire against the demons, was finally broken.

Changsheng couldn't forget that day until his death. The resurrected demon god returned from hell, covered the sky with black wings, brought raging fire, and engulfed the city.The scorched black wreckage and the stern roar filled the eyes and ears.

Purgatory on earth, nothing more.

The soldiers could not get out to fight the fire, so they had to cut off the city and let the fire burn in the west of the city for three days and three nights.

The old and the weak, women and children evacuated amidst the cries and thick smoke. After the young man knelt down to bid farewell to his relatives, he picked up a rusty knife and a stick tied with wire, and became a soldier of the country. Waiting for the dawn after the war.

However, the dawn did not come, and they held on for several days, waiting for a long time without help. Hope and despair were intertwined in everyone's hearts. In the end, they were defeated and had to withdraw from the Kowat Fortress that was engulfed by a sea of ​​​​flames, and fled to the next city - Wuchuan in a hurry.

The sudden heavy rain extinguished the fire in the half-walled fortress of Kowat.

Overnight, on the ruins where the smoke had not cleared, a demon camp was built.

Ugly demons riding war wolves raised swords and sticks in their hands, shouting and carnivaling around the bonfire, and the bloody heads of human soldiers dangled on the backs of the wolves.

When they went out to fight, their armor was bright and their blades were sharp. Now, the corpses are hard to find. Although the world is big, there is no place to bury their bones.

A falling wing demon flew to the throne on the high platform, and carefully offered the human head in his hand to the demon god.

After a few seconds of silence, the demon god took it and held it high.

"This is the head of the king of the Ainota Empire, a signal of their subjugation!" He said, laughing loudly: "Hang it up, let humans see their king."

The voice echoed between the heaven and the earth, the head was thrown from a high place, and a magic soldier took it into his hand and threw it into the distance.

After a burst of cheers, the demon soldiers sang a triumphal song symbolizing victory. The head of the king was thrown back and forth like a ball in the singing, and finally came to the beacon tower at the highest point of the city wall, where it was hung high with ropes and swayed in the wind. .

Above the Wuchuan city tower, Chang Sheng looked at the direction of Kowat from a distance, knelt on his knees, and bit his chapped lips tightly.

A wandering soul stood beside her, hesitant to speak countless times, and finally turned into a sigh.

Outside the city, the soldiers who searched for the lost comrades brought back another person. After a moment of astonishment, Chang Sheng got up suddenly and ran down the tower.

The dying person who was brought back by the soldiers was her younger brother Mingluo.

Chang Sheng remembered that Mingluo always cried and cried when he was a child. He didn't want to learn boxing, he didn't want to touch swords and guns, he hated war and was afraid of death.Compared with practicing martial arts, Ming Luo prefers to stay in the study, pretending that he is reading military books, but in fact, it is all to avoid suffering.

At that time, as long as she went to find Mingluo with a saber, Mingluo would shrink back behind the bookshelf, poke out half of her head and look at her timidly. Her face, which had not been exposed to wind and sun, was white and tender, like A porcelain doll, even blinking, will soften her heart.

At that time, Chang Sheng never expected that his soft and sticky younger brother would lie blood-stained on the battlefield in the Far East many years later, with countless wounds torn by the demons.

His eyes were bloodshot, and he looked at his sister, his pale and chapped lips parted and closed slightly, dragging the hideous claw marks on the side of his face.

"Mingluo!" Changsheng carefully picked him up, so thin and yet so heavy.

She is the one who said that soldiers should be strong, and it is she who said that tears are not lightly shed, but at this moment, she is also the one who is tearing like tears.

"Fighting for the country, although, even death is an honor...don't cry, don't cry..."

The sensible younger brother reluctantly pulled out a smile, and stretched out his hand, as if wanting to comfort his sister, but tried his last bit of strength, but failed to touch the tears in the corners of her eyes.

"Mingluo, Mingluo!" Chang Sheng called his younger brother's name, but he could no longer hear him.

The residual temperature of the body in his arms was slowly dissipating, the blood that was once hot flowed into the ground wantonly, and gradually solidified in the scorching wind.

Closed eyes and lowered hands are the heaviest farewell.

Chang Sheng gritted his teeth and held back, didn't continue to cry, but hugged her tightly in his arms, like embracing the whole world.

But in the end, it was still lost.

In the 779th year of the imperial calendar, the demon soldiers overwhelmed the border. The fourth prince of Ainota, Mingluo Ainota followed his father to defend the border. The reinforcements could not arrive for a long time, and finally died in the Far East at the age of 17.

In the enemy camp in the distance, the head of the defeated king hangs high, looking at the home and country he once defended with his life, unable to rest in peace.

Jiao Yang that day was so intense that it made people despair.

***

The day Princess Changsheng led the army back to the imperial capital Talan from the Far East, the empire did not sound the horn of triumph.

The king died in battle, and the eldest son succeeded him.

In exchange for the generals and soldiers trapped in the Far East, the new king, Lurek, voluntarily ceded most of the Far East, and signed a good agreement with the demons to allow them to enter the Far East peacefully.

The whole country is in chaos.

Soldiers are defending the empire, but in the end the empire has to cede territory and humiliate power to save it. The rioting people/people have protested one after another.

They took off the battle armor they were proud of, hid in the corner, and wept bitterly.

At this moment in the Taran Hall, apart from Lurek on the throne and Chang Sheng kneeling in the hall, there are only dozens of loyal guards with swords.

Chang Sheng knew what he was facing.

Lurek has military power and is in an important position, but he resists the king's order and does not help, regardless of the safety of the Kowat Fortress.

Most of the Far East fell into the hands of the demons, the foundation of the empire for more than 700 years was shaken, the death of the father and Mingluo in battle, all the crimes were related to his inaction, but now, she will bear it.

"The death of the father and the fourth brother is an example for the soldiers, Ainota's loss! And you?" Lureke got up from the throne and walked arrogantly to Chang Sheng's side, slamming every word like a knife point. Flesh and blood: "Changsheng, you are the general that Ainota bought back from the demons after cutting off the land, and you are the defeated one."

Under dozens of pairs of almost indifferent eyes, he stretched out a condemning index finger, pointed at his silent sister, and yelled loudly: "The motherland needs the guards of soldiers. As a soldier, you want the motherland to compromise and save you! Do you know that?" I know, do you understand, you are a disgrace to the Ainota royal family!"

"You are not a victor. You took young sons and daughters to war. Not only did you fail to bring them back properly, but you also lost what you had originally!"

As Lurek said, he suddenly leaned into Chang Sheng's ear, and asked softly, "Eldest brother also doesn't want anyone in the royal family to be marked with shame. Before you are convicted, would you like to have a drink with elder brother?"

"Aren't your dogs inventing my merits and demerits?" Chang Sheng raised his eyes and looked at Lurek. There was not only stubbornness in his eyes, but also a trace of hatred.

He is the king, and Ainota's current sky, as long as he says a word, who in the empire would dare to say "no"?

"Look, you are my sister, but you look at me like a beast." Lurek straightened up and walked towards the throne.

He said: "I've given you a chance to choose. As long as you want, Princess Changsheng may be seriously injured after the war and die. She will become a hero of Ainota's generation. She will be buried in the royal tomb with her father and fourth brother. Enter the Hall of Heroes, and future generations will worship you year after year."

Lureke spoke without a trace of fear, and all the people standing inside and outside the hall were his confidantes. As long as he gave an order, even the best experts would be unable to fly.

Chang Sheng's eyes looked like a wild animal, but he knew that it was just a trapped animal in a cage.

The servant came to bring the wine, Chang Sheng raised his eyes and saw the wandering spirits who had been following him to the side to stop him, but it was only a spirit body, no one could see it, let alone be touched by her outstretched hands.

Youhun turned to look at Changsheng, his eyes were full of worry: "Changsheng, don't drink!"

Chang Sheng couldn't help laughing wryly, it's really unexpected that at this time when people's hearts are against each other, the only one who really cares about him is a wandering soul of unknown origin.

She took the glass and stared at her own reflection in the glass.

It seemed that everything he had once had turned into nothing in his eyes one by one.Now she is so embarrassed and so alone.

"Changsheng!" Youhun shouted her name unwillingly, it was her only comfort at the moment, but it could not be salvation.

"Thank you." Chang Sheng said softly to the wandering soul.

Sometimes, only the survivors can understand, living is more cruel than dying.

Mingluo, sister is glad that you died in the Far East and became an indomitable warrior.

Now, our dear brother is blinded by the desire for power, he sheds the same blood as us, but he drives us to the end one by one, putting Ainota's safety at risk, how can I tolerate it?

I know that my choice may not be correct, but I have nowhere to go.

In the name of killing brothers, let my sister recite Jiuquan and kowtow to apologize in front of you and your father.

Chang Sheng closed her eyes, pretending to drink up the poisonous wine in one gulp, when the guards at the side were relaxing, she suddenly jumped up, snatched the long knife from the hand of the guard closest to her in the blink of an eye, and immediately Raising the knife and falling, the sharp blade pointed directly at the new king, and a bloody head had already fallen behind him.

She is a trapped beast, doing the final battle of trapped beasts.

When the knife was up and down, he couldn't tell whose blood was on his body, and he only wanted to kill.

However, the eyes that were gradually blurred by the pain, as well as the strong hatred and despair, finally drained her strength, and the world fell into darkness and silence.

The lofty new king clutched his bleeding left shoulder, pushed away the guards around her body, frowned, shook his head hypocritically and sighed softly: "Why is this so necessary?"

The consciousness left in the palace became weaker and weaker, and in a trance, it seemed that someone was calling her name.

It seemed that it was the wandering soul who hadn't been able to touch it before he was alive, stretched out his hand, and gently pulled her up, cold and slender, leading her forward in the chaos.

Vaguely, Chang Sheng heard Youhun talking, so gentle and cautious.

——When I was young, there was a crabapple downstairs in my house, which grew new branches every year and was pruned every year, but the more it was like this, the more beautiful it bloomed in the flower season.

——I can take you back, as long as you trust me.

——You go forward, keep going, don't stop when you see anything, until you can't go anymore!

Those hands pushed her back hard.

She dragged her heavy steps, gritted her teeth and walked forward, everything around her was gradually visible.

Time began to flow backwards in a strange way.

She saw herself kneeling in front of Lurek, saw the soldiers being scolded by everyone when they returned to the city, saw her younger brother and father died in battle, and saw Kvat igniting a fire...

Her steps began to hesitate.

——Don't stop, at this time, you can't change anything!

She gritted her teeth, didn't stop, closed her eyes and started to run wildly, countless images flashed through her mind, but she turned a blind eye to them all.

As the footsteps quickened, everything around him began to become distorted and blurred.

Until his physical strength gradually weakened and he completely lost consciousness.