Awakening of Rebirth

His Royal Highness Mingluo:

I haven't seen you in half a month. Your injury should have improved. I don't know how the Southwest Army is doing now?

I am very sorry that I am only writing to you now to report. I have not been able to complete what you told me.

Ten days ago, Senior Lagi and I rushed all the way to Volkris. We wanted to find His Royal Highness Changsheng, but we saw a small area of ​​the east tower was seriously damaged. A total of nearly eight thousand.

It is said that all this is done by the dragon.

Although it sounds like nonsense, everyone insisted that they saw an extremely ferocious white dragon. Today's Volkers is in a state of panic, people keep moving their families, and the law and order in the city have become chaotic. Can't be appeased.

We have searched around very hard, but there is no news about His Royal Highness Chang Sheng and his companions. Senior Lagi seems to be hiding something from me. He firmly believes that His Royal Highness Chang Sheng is definitely still alive, and even believes that her disappearance is related to what people say The dragon mentioned has something to do with it. I saw that he tried to use the Black Flame Stone to track the trail of the night dragon. Although he failed in the end, I still think this idea is too bold.

Anyway, please rest assured, Your Highness, I will definitely do my best to help Senior Lagi find His Highness Changsheng, and escort her back to Mokodo to meet you again.

In my absence, Your Highness, please take care of yourself.

—— Moni

A short letter, sent from Volkers who is worried about him from the bottom of his heart.

The reappearance of the dragon clan, which has been extinct for thousands of years, in the border town of Ainota, had caused a commotion long before the letter came, and everyone knew about it.

Wherever you look now, you hear Vaucris's night in all sorts of embellished and exaggerated versions.

For example: "That night there was a sudden thunderstorm, and a huge vortex appeared in the sky, and several giant dragons flew out of it, covering the moon in the sky with their huge black wings. They spit out flames that could burn everything, and their bodies smashed With a solid city wall, and with despair, turned Volkris into a purgatory on earth! A total of 3 people died!"

This kind is unreliable at first glance, the color is wrong, and the quantity is frighteningly fake.

Let me give another example: "That night, everything came without warning. A giant white dragon suddenly appeared in the sky, and a deafening dragon chant resounded through the sky. The guards tried to resist, but saw that the place where it passed was terribly cold. Suddenly, Volkris was frozen for thousands of miles, causing tens of thousands of casualties!"

This is considered conscientious, at least the number and color are right, although the imagination is a little richer, but the estimation of casualties is still close to the real data.

If you want to get to the bottom of these versions, [-]% of them come from the narrator's friend's friend's friend's friend's friend's friend's relative's relative's relative's next-door grandma's letter from an old friend of Volkers, and the reliability is as high as [-]%. .

But no matter how many versions there are of the last Bailong incident that shocked the whole country, or even the entire continent, the final outcome is very unified.

That is, in the end, when people were helpless, an unknown huge firebird stopped the catastrophe.Afterwards, both the white dragon and the fire bird disappeared, and even the bones were not found, which is really unimaginable.

Ming Luo refolded Mo Ni's letter and put it back in the envelope. After putting it away properly, she fell into deep thought alone.

Changsheng once entrusted an elf named Fengling to send a long letter here, which mentioned a kind of bird, which recurs every 500 years and is reborn after ashes, called the phoenix.Perhaps this phoenix is ​​the huge firebird that people say is the one that defeated the dragon.

What is the connection between the appearance of the unknown white dragon and the phoenix and the disappearance of Changsheng?

"Sister... What kind of danger have you been involved in, what have you experienced, why didn't you tell me? How can I help you now..."

Ming Luo slammed his fist on the table, his arms trembling uncontrollably.

Now that Changsheng's life and death are uncertain, but he is helpless and can only wait for the news, how can he not blame himself?

He knew too little, too little...

***

Half a month had passed since the night attack by the Volkris White Dragon. General Barrod died in the service of his country, and the guards stationed at the tower that night suffered heavy casualties.Before the Kingdom started the war with Eggert, the elite troops were damaged overnight. Lurek immediately used this as an excuse to order Tafil to hand over the command of the Guards.

——You have done a good job, Master Chi is very satisfied with you.

Are you very satisfied?Tafil couldn't help sneering.

Betrayed and hunted down his sister, conspired with Lurek to poison his father, sacrificed his loyal subordinates, and handed over the last military power in his hands.

Heilong is really easy to be satisfied.

However, since that day, Ron did inform him of more plans in advance, and even gave him a list of "people of his own", among which there were people that Lurek didn't even know existed.

Tafil read it carefully, and he already knew it in his heart.

Who can use it with confidence, who needs to be carefully deceived, and who needs to be patient and perfunctory, all determine whether he can bring down Lurek.

Even if he is a puppet of the demon clan, he will never be willing to share power with that idiot.

Besides, he never thought of truly surrendering to the black dragon.

How could Ainota's 700-year-old foundation be reduced to a puppet kingdom of demons?

It's just that this journey has been uncompromising, and step by step until now, when he gradually has a plan in mind, he lacks a trustworthy person after all, so that all grand plans can only be hidden deep in the bottom of his heart, and a little bit of siltation forms knots.So sad that Lurek mocked him for having nothing now, and he didn't know how to refute it.

For some reason, he thought of someone.

That Franke who had betrayed him long ago, had been suspended and grounded by him for a long time, and had been closely monitored by someone.

He suddenly asked his subordinates about Frange's recent situation, and the result he got was just as he expected. The guy seemed to be willing to die rather than surrender. He really saved his life, and he lived quite comfortably.

Recently, besides practicing, Flange just eats, sleeps and drags people to chat. Occasionally, when he wants to drink, he will ask people to buy wine for him, and then he will be drunk alone, and everything will return to normal

In the past few months when he was grounded by Tafel, a lot of things seemed to have happened outside, and he also heard a thing or two from his subordinates. Although he still felt indignant in his heart, after calming down, he was left with nothing but helplessness.

No matter what Tafil became, what he did, no matter what happened outside, everything had nothing to do with him.

He couldn't get out of this yard, Tafil sent people to watch him like a thief, and he wanted to do something, but he had more than enough energy.

Suddenly someone pushed the door and entered, Frange yawned and raised his eyes, and found that the person who came was Tafil, a trace of surprise flashed in his eyes, and then he laughed at himself: "Your Highness, what wind brought you here? Is it because the important matter at hand is finished, and you want to punish me if you think about it?"

The former brothers, who hadn't seen each other for several months, began to choke when they opened their mouths, which made Tafil frown.

"Still angry?"

"Is this a matter of anger?" Frange rolled his eyes, and said in a sly way: "What have you done yourself, don't you have any idea? Now, you come to ask me if I am still angry, what does it mean? What answer do you want to hear? I'm not angry anymore, can I fucking forgive you?"

"Are those useless justice and passion so important to you?" Tafil couldn't help asking.

Frank asked angrily, "Is power that important to you?"

"I don't offend people, people will offend me eventually. This is not Mokodo. Unarmed enemies are sometimes more cruel than killing gods with knives!"

"So you became such a cruel person?" Franke couldn't help sneering.

Tafil was unmoved: "This is no different from war, all sacrifices are for the ultimate victory."

"Fart!" Frange lost the patience to continue arguing with him, and stared fiercely at this former best friend, writing full of disappointment: "Tafil! You were not like this before! The day I left What happened during this period of time! You said that we are soldiers, and we must fight for Ainota in this life, and we must not be blinded by the desire for power, have you forgotten? Have you all forgotten! "

His tone became more and more excited: "Why do you push Princess Changsheng into a dead end, why don't you send troops to support the southwest? Knossus is eyeing the Xili Fortress while you and Lurek are fighting for life and death. This is their best plan." Once the border defense line is broken, and there is no danger to defend in the southwest theater, they will definitely drive straight in! Lu Kelei doesn't understand this, don't you understand!"

Tafil didn't respond, just looked at him quietly.

Such an almost indifferent look made Flange even more disgusted: "What's wrong with you? Who stole your former pride, who destroyed your heart... You are so unscrupulous, at all costs... Baroud Dead, there is no one trustworthy around you, so you think of me?"

"What do you want me to do? Do you also feel that your despicable, cruel and shady methods are a bit dirty, so you lack a knife to point where to hit?" Flange said, and the anger in his chest was instant Exploding, couldn't help clenching his fists and rushed towards Tafil.

Tafil raised his hand lightly and tightly clenched Flange's fist, angrily said: "I came to see you, and you treat me like this?"

"The people who believed in you and were loyal to you were all killed by you, and you are still so calm." Franke gritted his teeth and asked, "Are you a fucking human being?"

As he said, he instinctively wanted to hit the person in front of him severely, but he was easily subdued by him.

"Frange!" Tafil, with red eyes, strangled Frange's neck and pressed him firmly against the wall, "Didn't you say that you would always be loyal to me? Why are you looking at me so hard now? Disgusted? Now that you are capable and dare to attack me, are you really not afraid that I will kill you?"

"You..." Frange stretched out his hand in pain and grabbed Tafel's arm, the grief and bewilderment in his eyes gradually turned into disbelief.

His friend had changed, and the strangeness frightened him.

"I regard you as my best friend and never hide anything from you. Even if you choose to betray, I have given you a second chance to choose. Do you really want to touch my bottom line again and again?"

Frange's body trembled uncontrollably, not from fear, but from grief.

In this life, the person he trusts and admires the most is Tafel, but since Fengling brought Chang Sheng's letter, Tafel has changed.

Tafil began to pursue the desire for power, and began to use unscrupulous means, and even released the unforgivable Lucret to work with him.

He saw that Tafil sent his subordinates to join forces with Eggert's fatuous power to kill Chang Sheng, and even let Lu Kelei poison the king, and sent Barod to carry out the mission of ten deaths and no life... Tafil seemed Treating everything as a stepping stone on the road to power, the whole person becomes like a devil.

Now, Tafel is holding his throat tightly, and he can only hold on to Tafel's arms, with grief and indignation in his heart, but he can't say a word.

Tafel once told him that he must have his own judgment on everything, and he should not trust anyone easily, and this included Tafel himself.

At that time, he had expected that Tafil might have made a dangerous decision, so dangerous that he might be involuntary, and even lost himself.

He should trust Tafil, no matter what choice he makes, he has his last resort.But now, he really can't tell whether Tafil is the one he should trust at this moment.

"Go on, didn't you talk a lot just now? Why don't you say it now!" Tafil sneered, and his anger made him look hideous: "Are you determined to betray me to the end?"

Frange couldn't help smiling wryly, his neck was tightly strangled, and he laughed intermittently, unable to conceal the desolation in his heart.

Now, if Tafil wants to force him to tell the truth, then he just says it.

"Your Highness used to be my... most respected... and most cared... brother..."

Tafil took a deep breath, and the word "ever" was spoken from Frange's mouth at this moment, which stabbed him so hard that he could hardly breathe.

Frange called him His Highness, with a self-deprecating tone, as if he was ashamed of him.He was obviously the person he trusted the most, but now he is no longer loyal to him... He just wants to protect himself, just wants to get what he deserves, is it really so wrong?

"Frange, you are the person I trust the most!" Tafil's hands couldn't help shaking a little. He should kill the person who betrayed him, but he couldn't do it no matter what.

Frange gritted his teeth in pain and said, "The night the wind chime came... you also... told me so..."

"Wind chimes?" Tafil's eyes gradually blurred. He shook his head and let go of the hand that restrained Flange. He staggered back a few steps, and finally fell down on the deck chair.

There was an indescribable feeling welling up in his heart, he wanted to grab it, but he couldn't.

"You really forgot..." Frange sat on the ground and coughed, clutching his neck, and there was unbelievable surprise in his eyes.

Tafil couldn't help gritting his teeth. Frange said more than once that he had forgotten, but he couldn't understand what he had forgotten.

"She came from Wodo... the day you first met her, you just asked her if she was thirsty, and you poured her water more than a dozen times." Flange said with red eyes: "She I handed a letter to you, you thought about it for a long time after reading it, and suddenly asked me to go out of the city overnight to find someone for you, and when I came back, you gave me something, and never mentioned her again."

"What are you talking about!" If it was something he had really experienced and someone he had met, how could he completely forget it!

Frange smiled bitterly: "Everyone remembers, only you forget."

Everyone remember?

Tafil walked out of the room in a daze, walking around the huge mansion aimlessly.

He thoughtfully looked at each of the servants passing by, and finally stopped one, pretended to be nonchalant and asked a few words, and then said inadvertently: "I don't know what happened to the wind chime. "

"Miss Fengling has been away from Taran for so long, and His Highness is also a family member, why is she still so obsessed with it?"

There was even a hint of dissatisfaction in the servant's tone, as if he felt aggrieved for the mistress of the house, which made Tafil stunned.

After regaining his senses, he found another person, pretending to mention the word "wind chime" inadvertently, and got various responses. The only thing in common was that everyone had such a word in their memory. A person, a person who has been completely erased from his memory.

He learned from his servants that he had paid great attention to such a woman, she was from Wodo, and she was an elf.

——Everyone remembers, only you forget.

Frange said he had changed. Could this change be related to that missing memory?

He was sitting on the usual roof, but his mood was different from the past.Someone said that he didn't like the roof before, but because Feng Ling likes to sit on a high place, he gradually got used to sitting there.

Why, can't remember anything...

Tafil began to hesitate, he couldn't help denying himself now, just like Frange denied him, doubting whether his thoughts and memories were true.

Who changed me?

Am I... really me?

Constantly thinking about such a question made him almost collapse.

He couldn't resist getting up and rushing to Frange's room. Frange seemed to have anticipated his arrival, and calmly pointed to a string of wrist bells on the table.

Frange said lightly: "This is something you asked me to keep for you."

At that moment, a sharp pain surged into Tafil's heart, and the heart that seemed to have a vacancy seemed to be filled with desolation at this moment.

And deep in my heart, there seems to be a voice screaming:

——It's time to wake up, all this is not what you really want!

He felt a splitting headache, and when he recovered, he saw his best friend who was silent but his eyes were gradually turning red. He couldn't help laughing. The laughter was full of sarcasm. All around became silent.

He remembered everything.

At that time, the black dragon was eroding his will day by day, and he happened to get the news about the black dragon's planned resurrection that Changsheng sent back from Wodo. count.

He asked Frange to find someone for him, that was an excellent hypnotist, he asked that person to hypnotize him deeply, forcibly split his personality into two, and let the personality dominated by greed occupy his body , From now on, obey the black dragon, so as to gain the trust of the demons, and wait for the opportunity.

In order to prevent himself from being unable to look back, he decided to throw away the memory that belonged to Fengling, so that the personality dominated by greed would not be complete, and one day "he" would question that incomplete self.

He designated the key to awaken his master personality as a token left by the wind chime, and handed the wrist chime to Frange before he forgot it. He only hoped that one day when the "self" who had gained the absolute trust of the black dragon could not turn back, There is someone who can wake up the old him.

Even he himself would forget about this plan, at that time only God knew, and he would never worry about leaking anything halfway.

He is betting that the person he trusts can bear this trust, and he can guess his intentions from the only words left before he lost himself.The key to all this is whether Frange trusts him enough to give him up.

Now, he has found himself, but he has also made an irreparable mistake.

——Power, money, everything that the world yearns for, why not keep moving forward?

——Those are not what you want, you said, to protect Ainota!

——You are brave and resourceful, grasp the supreme power of Ainota, and lead the empire to light, why not?Is there anyone else who could have done a better job than you?

——Why did you give up your self, that courage, lost in front of the desire for power, and never get it back?

——You can’t go back, so many sins, you still want to make up for it?No one will forgive you!People who have been hurt by you wish to tear you to pieces. If you take a step back, there will be an abyss behind you!

——Are you going to betray your original intention!So far, do you still make mistakes again and again! "

Do not……

No, no, no!

Tafil had a splitting headache, curled up with his head closed and his eyes closed, and the two "I"s were tearing apart frantically in his body, as if they were going to tear him apart completely.

"Tafil..." Frange was at a loss.

After an unknown amount of time, he suddenly opened his eyes and let out a deep breath almost trembling.

He got a glimpse of many secrets and gained the trust of the black dragon.

It's not too late, it's not too late for anything.

Tafil closed his eyes, as if he could hide his pain in this way: "Frange, revolt."

"us……"

"It's not us, it's you." The moment he opened his eyes again, Tafil's gaze was extremely firm: "Find Chang Sheng and assist her."

Frange recognized this look, it was the Tafil he was familiar with.

"then you……"

"Lu Kelei and Tafel are wolves with ambitions. They killed their fathers and usurped the throne. They colluded with the demons and assassinated Princess Changsheng who already knew about it. They tried to cover up the sky with one hand, cover up the truth, and deceive the world forever. It is absolutely heinous." Tafel said, Looking at Frange, whose eyes were bloodshot, he said, "After you find Chang Sheng, let her kill me for this crime."

"The rebel army should be led by you, I... I can't do it!"

"I'm Chi's puppet, how can I leave Talan?" Tafil said, smiling: "He always thinks he can control people's hearts, but he never thought that the puppet can regain his heart. This is my chance to fight back! Lange, I have always trusted you, and this time you have lived up to my trust, and in the days to come, I hope you can trust yourself." He pressed Franke's shoulder and said, "You can do it."

"Tafil!"

Tafil closed his eyes and shouted sharply: "This is an order! Don't you even listen to me!"

Frange clenched his teeth, and after a few seconds, he sniffed and replied with a sob: "Yes! Your Highness!"

"Let's go." Tafil gradually clenched his fists, "After dawn, I will try my best to arrest you...in the name of treason."

"Yes!" Frange gritted his teeth fiercely, and stepped back to the door step by step.

He finally gave a military salute to Tafil, and after turning around, he never looked back.

Tafil watched Frange's leaving back disappear into the night. He sat at the empty desk beside him and quickly calmed down.

From this moment on, everything can start over for the long term.