Chapter 460: Hands-on (4k6)

Denise raised an eyebrow and looked at everything around her.

Nothingness, darkness, nothing.

The same is true for time and space.

This is a place that could probably drive a person crazy within a few hours.

Some people may think that pure darkness and silence would not be that unbearable.

But in reality, this is a very horrible torture.

Because its true horror lies not in the darkness itself, but in the fact that it obliterates all standards for measuring existence.

But you know that you exist!
This is the most terrifying thing about this environment.

It is also a place specially designed for Denise.

Because compared to mortals who have existed since the beginning.

Denise had to go through such emptiness for a long time before she received the gift called “self”.

She knew better than anyone how terrifying it was to lose the place where one could measure one’s existence.

Because she has experienced it.

But as a goddess and a weapon.

At first, Denise was able to endure everything in silence.

And think seriously about why you are in this situation.

She remembered that she was going somewhere for something very important.

But, what exactly happened?

The deprived memory could not tell Denise the answer, she could only ponder in the void.

I don’t know how much time has passed, it could be a few hours, or it could be hundreds of years.

But this still did not shake Denise’s heart.

After that, I just continue to endure this boring and dull life.

Gradually, even Denise began to be unable to endure such torture.

Because she has her own heart and soul.

But this darkness denies all of this.

This is something more terrible than death.

But Denise was still able to continue fighting against it with her strong heart.

How much time has passed?
Thousands of years? Tens of thousands of years? Or just a few days?
Denise didn’t know.

But she knew the worst was coming.

Because she began to fictionalize light and sound in her cognition.

These phosphorescent phantoms will not become her support, but will instead further erode her memory and soul.

Because this means that she began to fear the darkness!
For the first time in years, Denise’s breathing began to quicken.

Even gods would be defeated and even weapons would be shattered before such torture.

As time continued to pass silently in the darkness.

Denise finally reached the brink of collapse.

And at this moment, a voice sounded in the void.

That was not her hallucination, but a real existence.

“Do you want to give up? As long as you give up, you will be free!”

Denise, frail, looked up in the direction of the voice.

The proud and cold goddess of weapons seemed exceptionally fragile at this moment.

She asked the question she had been thinking about:

“Giving up what?”

“Give up the things that don’t matter to you. As long as you give up, you can be free from here. Otherwise, you will continue to endure it. And I will no longer care about you.”

Someone once described that there was a huge mountain made of sand in the distance, and every day a bird would fly from afar and carry away a grain of sand from the top of the mountain.

When the mountains are leveled by birds, the first second of eternity has just begun.

This is what Denise is going to face.

If she doesn’t agree to give up that thing that she doesn’t even know what it is.

Then she would be trapped here forever until eternity was complete.

This seems like something anyone would immediately agree to give up.

But Denise said weakly:
“I do not want.”

“what?”

“I said I didn’t want it, I forgot what it was, I forgot why I was here, but I remember that it was more important to me than anything else.”

“So, I don’t agree. Go away!”

Even if a weapon is broken, it will not betray its master.

In endless pity, Moon took a step forward with heavy breathing and trembling body.

Denise had endured too much.
–
Led by the Blood Moon, the vampires defeated all their enemies.

Became the true overlord of this world.

Elves, dwarves, orcs, goblins, humans and even dragons all chose to surrender.

Became the food and dinner plate of the vampires.

This is a good thing for Selene Serafield.

Because she is a member of the Serafield family, one of the seven dukes of the blood clan.

Although she was born out of wedlock, she was still the daughter of a duke.

There will be no worries and pain.

Just living a boring life day after day.

But this is actually quite good.

Because she is an outlier among the vampires – a bloodless being who does not need to suck blood.

Her parents once tried to force her to drink blood to change her condition.

But for some reason, she refused desperately when she was a child.

After all, she was her own blood, so her father never came to see her again, the daughter who had brought shame to him.

But at least no one forced her to suck blood.

She also found this strange, because she felt that she was not resisting sucking blood, but she did not want to suck other people’s blood.

Even the blood of elves and dragons is the same.

But what is it for?

This was a question that troubled her throughout her life.

But on this day, the small manor where she lived suddenly became noisy.

This has never happened before.

Soon, to the horror of the servants, she saw the father she had hardly ever seen.

The other person stood in the sun with a cold expression and said to her:
“I don’t care what you thought before. Now, you must prove that you can suck blood. I can find you anything you want as food.”

“Why, father?”

“Because our Lord God heard about you, he thinks your existence tarnishes the sanctity of our people.”

“So, prove to our gods that you are a pure blood race and that you have not tarnished our nobility.”

This was undoubtedly a bolt from the blue for Selene.

“Don’t look like that. You were going to be burned to death. I fought for this opportunity for you.”

“And I’m guaranteeing you in the name of my family. If you don’t want to implicate our entire family, then prove it to me right now!”

Selene stepped back tremblingly.
“No, Father, I can’t!”

The Duke said as if he had heard something incredible:
“What do you mean you can’t? It’s just a matter of finding a random food to suck blood. Why are you so resistant? What? Have you forgotten the kindness our family has shown you? Do you want our entire family to be buried with you because of your childishness?”

“Do you really still have me and your mother in your heart? Do you really still think you are my daughter?”

In the face of the Duke’s powerful aura, Selene retreated again and again.

“No, it’s not, Father. I. I just.”

“Just what?”

The Duke pressed on step by step, not giving her a chance to explain.

And looking at the Duke who was getting closer and closer and the shadow that was becoming more and more blurred in the memory.

Selene could only retreat further and said:
“I am. I just don’t think this is right.”

“What’s wrong with that? You are a vampire, so it’s natural for you to suck blood. You are my daughter, so it’s only natural for you to make profits for our family. So what reason do you have to refuse?”

Selene was completely speechless.

The Duke said impatiently:
“Don’t be stupid, tell me right now whose blood you want to suck? Forget it, I’ll arrange it. You, come out!”

The Duke simply waved his hand and called out his servants, wanting to use them as food for his daughter.

The servant did not hesitate and immediately stepped out and came before Selene.

He raised his neck and offered a dagger.

“hurry up.”

The Duke looked at Selene without any wavering eyes.

In the face of that coldness, Selene trembled as she picked up the dagger.

This made the Duke look satisfied:

“That’s right. Kill him and then suck his blood dry to prove that you and our family have not brought shame to our God.”

At the Duke’s urging, the dagger stabbed down neatly, but it was not the servant who was stabbed, but Selene’s own heart.

She forgot whose blood she could suck.

But she remembered that she would never go against this.

So, when she could no longer resist, she chose death.

Yuanchu clapped her hands, and this real world disappeared in her applause.

Moon took another step forward.
–
The Holy Grail and the Queen sat facing each other in a small room.

In front of them was a dagger.

It was stained with blood from someone unknown.

They did not have their memories wiped like the other girls.

They still remember everything, and they were even told what they were going to face.

That was the Creator responding to their expectations – solving the problem of who would be the queen.

But in the most malicious way possible—only one of them can survive.

“The Holy Grail wants to become the Queen, and the Queen wants to take back everything that belongs to her. So, it’s very simple. Just make the other one disappear completely.”

“So let me enjoy a good show!”

Looking at the bloody dagger in front of him.

Both queens fell silent.

After a long time, the Holy Grail broke the silence and said to the Queen:

“Obviously, it’s time for me to leave. After all, you are the true queen, and I am just a puppet created in response to your wishes.”

The Holy Grail pushed the dagger towards the Queen.

The queen looked at the bloody dagger and then at the Holy Grail that pushed the dagger towards her and said:
“That’s not right. Because I forced all this upon you. You didn’t have to get involved, and you didn’t have to die.”

“There’s nothing wrong with this. Let’s end it all. This way, maybe he’ll remember me, too?”

The Holy Grail looked very calm.

The queen took a deep breath and cut off a strand of her hair with a dagger.

He held it tightly in his hands, put his hands behind his back and said:

“Wrong is wrong, so let’s guess which hand I have hair on. If you don’t guess it, you die.”

“And if you guess it, I’ll die! I just hope you can bring him my hair.”

The Holy Grail said in astonishment:
“No, I said so.”

The Holy Grail’s voice was interrupted by the Queen’s roar:

“That’s enough. I forced you to give me everything I have. How could you not want to live and stay with him?”

The queen stubbornly stretched out her clenched hands and said:
“Let’s get started before I regret it!”

The queen’s eyes were timid but unyielding.

The Holy Grail, whose defenses were caught by her, was finally defeated.

In silence, the Holy Grail reached out and held the Queen’s right hand.

In the center of the lake in the Land of Mist, he was holding his own right hand.

So the Holy Grail chose the right hand.

And as the queen spread out her hands.

The severed hair just lay in the palm of her hand.

“Well, congratulations.”

The Queen’s voice was trembling at first, then relieved.

The Holy Grail was forced into this by her, and she didn’t want to deprive her of her life.

However, the Holy Grail that held her right hand suddenly held her left hand.

This surprised her:

“and many more!”

It was too late, her left hand had been forcibly pried open by the Holy Grail.

There is also a strand of hair there.

Such a scene made both of them fall into silence.

The Queen dodged the Holy Grail’s gaze and said:
“You were dragged into this by force. You can’t sacrifice yourself for my willfulness. You have already paid too much.”

The bloodstained dagger was already in the queen’s hand, pointing at her heart.

The vicious soldier who had pierced someone’s heart is now going to take another heart.

But the dagger just couldn’t move.

It was not because the Queen was timid, but because the Holy Grail held her back and said:
“Wait, we still have a way!”

“what?”

The voice of the Creator sounded at the right time:

“I said, only one person can walk out!”

The Holy Grail stood up, looked proudly at his Creator who was hiding in the void and said:
“I never thought I would go out!”

She took the Queen’s hand holding the dagger and said:
“It would be torture for him if either of us survives, but we have another choice, which is that we can go to the end together!”

“God and the King are one. My Creator, this is what you have ordained for us!”

The Holy Grail’s answer made the Queen stand up, and the Creator looked at her deeply.

Then, everything here came to a standstill.

And Moon took another step forward.

She was only four steps away from Moon and clapped her hands and said:

“Congratulations, there are only the last four steps left!”
–
The last holy tree among the goddesses looked at the Creator in front of her very seriously.

Just by looking at it, she couldn’t help but want to kneel down.

This power was far beyond her understanding.

The other party said to her playfully:

“Do you know that you can never beat me?”

“I never thought I could beat you.”

Under the gaze of the Holy Tree, she put away her playful expression and asked in a very serious tone:
“Then why are you still standing here? Why are you still rebelling against your maker?!”

Facing the Creator’s question, the Holy Tree bowed deeply and said:
“Because I knew I couldn’t hurt you, I had no hesitation in my actions. And because I knew he wanted me to be with him, I would never back down.”

She respects her Creator and will not abandon her King.

The Creator said more sarcastically:

“Really? Then you come and defeat him!”

The cold white world changes rapidly.

Warmth, sun, and shade appeared in front of the sacred tree in a distortion that was almost like a frame being pulled out of focus.

The Holy Tree remembers this place, this is the Holy Tree Forest. This is the old palace at her feet.

Then, the Holy Tree saw a scene that made her pupils shrink sharply—her king!

The scarred Eternal King stood opposite her.

This was the opponent chosen for her by the Creator.

Since you want to accompany your king.

Then I will let my king face you!
“This is not some simulated trick, nor is it some ridiculous fabricated puppet.”

“Have you finally remembered why the Eternal King died?”

In order to reclaim the night sky, the Eternal King ascended from the Chalk Wall into the starry sky.

Finally, the starry sky was taken back by the king, and the king came to an end.

But no one knows where Wang died in the end.

The Creator’s playful voice continued to sound, and the heart of the Holy Tree almost stopped beating:
“He didn’t die in the starry sky, he died in your hands!”

There is really nothing sacred about sacred time to the Creator who created the concept.

The king, who had risked his life to return to the foot of the sacred tree, first looked at the sacred tree in surprise, and then walked towards her as if he had suddenly realized something.

Even though I’ve never seen her like this before.

Her king still recognized her at a glance.

But it was this action that made the Holy Tree take several steps back in fear.

This made the king look endlessly confused.

“Either kill him or stop here. Make your choice! Don’t worry, after you kill him, he will remember it and he will definitely understand. But now ‘he’ will understand why you killed yourself.”

“After this, and in the time before this, he will always remember that you killed him!”

The Creator’s playful voice was still ringing. The King couldn’t hear this voice, so the Eternal King just walked towards her strangely.

But soon, the Eternal King stopped.

Because in front of him, the holy tree trembled and raised its hand towards him.

The spear made of the roots of the sacred tree was pointed at the heart of the king in the hand of the sacred tree.

This was undoubtedly a scene that the king could not understand, and it was also a scene that the Holy Tree could not bring itself to do.

Just saying.

After a brief moment of confusion, the Eternal King nodded to the Holy Tree and said, beyond her and her imagination:

“Do it!”

His breath hitched and he thrust out with his spear.

The king didn’t know what was going on, but he believed in his goddess.

(End of this chapter)