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Tristrime is in a mess. In this once extremely prosperous capital of the Kingdom of Kandulas, it has gradually become a paradise for all kinds of demons and evil monsters... those sheep-headed demons, decay demons, sharp blade demons, mutated evil bats, skeletons, zombies, huge monsters, as well as fallen garments or other human guards, etc., they are still caring in this ruined wall with vague burning embers of flames, full of evil auras, and the ruins of endless hideous corpses.

"well……"

Looking at this broken city of death, Deka Kane leaned in the steel cage and couldn't help but sigh again.

Of course he knew why this city evolved like this, because, in the source of all evil in this land of Kandulas, some extremely powerful dark force actually appeared from the city of Tristram, from the Sakalam Cathedral in the cemetery outside the city.

That place is actually not the Cathedral of Sakalam, but the ancient ruins of Diapolo, the king of fear, who imprisons one of the three demons of hell.

Kane still remembers that around 1025 of the Kohastani Age, with the end of the Three Demon Hunting, his ancestors of Kane, the Hradimu wizards, successfully captured the demon god Diapolo in the area of ​​Candras, and successfully sealed its soul stone in the catacomb near the Tassend River, and built the Hradik Monastery above the tomb to suppress it!

In the 1080th year of Kohastani, the Hradim masters who had steadily sealed Diapolo for decades, felt that they could retire with just one's help gradually split, and the members began to go their separate ways.

After all, when the old generation of Hradimu masters who had firm beliefs and sacrifices gradually died, the new generation of those who grew up in a peaceful environment were not willing to uphold the kind of belief that they could not understand and continue to live in the demon's sealed tomb...

Therefore, in order not to allow other unknown people to destroy the seal of Diapolo at will, and to successfully hide the monastery, the new separatist monks deliberately abandoned their Heradik Monastery and the surrounding gatherings together. Then, they deliberately stayed away from the place in anonymous manner and went to other places to wander.

Of course, since there are new sectarian mages, there must be those mages who are still willing to uphold the excellent qualities of their ancestors and are still willing to sacrifice themselves to guard the demons! Unfortunately, Deka Kane is one of the factions, who have been living in seclusion nearby, monitoring even the abandoned Monastery of Heradik.

In this way, the soul stone of the King of Fear Diapolo was sealed underground for more than two hundred years until a new master came to this land.

Kane, who has lived a very long life and has not died until now, still remembers that year...

There was a guy named Leorik who came here from the city of Kurast, the Eastern continent, regardless of the distance, regardless of the distance... because he obtained territory from the source of the Sakalam faith and came here to fulfill his legal right to rule.

Most of King Leorick's deeds when he was in Kurast are now unverified.

After all, the other party was already crazy and dead for a long time, and completely became a past tense and became a dust in history, just like those countless great or ungreat guys... Anyway, as far as Kane knows, most of the people who are still alive, except for knowing that King Leorick was a devout believer in the early stage and a member of the Tranvikan royal family, and later, he was Tristrium's mad king and the big skeleton king in the tomb, he basically knew nothing about other things, and naturally included Kane himself.

“…”

Many things can no longer be verified, because their information may have been destroyed in this city of Tristrime that has been transformed into ashes and ruins. Even Kane himself cannot find them.

Anyway, Kane only remembers...

At that time, for some reason, the high-level parliament of Sakalam suddenly chose Leorik to become the new king of Kandulas, a wasteland that had been abandoned for many years, and asked the other party to go to Kandulas, a Western territory, as soon as possible to settle it.

So, Leorick fell into the sky, and then hit the ecstasy on his head, leading an elite army of Light, formed by many knights, Paladins of Sakalam and priests, to come here, intending to maintain and declare his royal power with them.

At the same time, he led a royal armed guard sent by the family, as well as his wife Aishira, eldest son Aidan and younger son Abectic, his confidant, Archbishop Lazarus... In this way, the stupid guy's family plunged into this broken place without any hesitation, naively thinking that they had found a big advantage!

Obviously, Leorik, who was blinded by the joy and easy access to the royal power, actually did not know the real intention of the Sakalam High Council to send him and Lazarus to the uninhabited land of Kandulas, and he also did not know that the High Council had long become a minion controlled by Mephisto. Quehei Steel Klim himself was killed and was thrown into various places...

Anyway, Leorek only believed that the church must have wanted to send him, who had a sincere faith, to the West to spread the glory of the sect, and that was what he did at that time.

Kane can't remember what happened next now.

Perhaps when Leoric was busy ruling the new country, Lazarus also began to work on the real task of his trip to Kandulas: instigate King Leoric to convert the abandoned Heladik Monastery into the sacred Cathedral of Sakalam, which looked extremely sacred, and carry out his crazy plan in it - releasing the king of fear Diapolo, who had been sealed for more than two hundred years!

All of them, including Kane, were deceived by the hypocritical and righteous Archbishop!

Therefore, this action of declaring the kingdom full of conspiracies finally successfully declared the destruction of King Leoerick and his family, and all his kingdom and his family members were buried under the devil's conspiracy and died completely!

Of course, Diapolo successfully broke through the seal and ran out! From this point of view, Kane, the mage of Heradim, seemed to be very incompetent? But it seems that he cannot blame him for this matter. After all, he seems to be the only one left in their ancient mage organization. What can he do if he is weak?

Since the Diapolo's conspiracy succeeded and possessed Prince Aidan, calmly leaving the place where he had been sealed for more than two hundred years, Tristrime was soon captured by the demons... Except for the few lucky people who could escape by chance, all the soldiers and citizens of this capital, tens of thousands of living people, died tragically under the demon's claws, leaving only the sad ruins in front of him.

Of course, it seems that not everyone here is dead...

Because, now in the middle of this ruined city, in this big iron cage, there is still a thin old man with a sluggish expression and a disheveled face, curled up in the corner of the cage!

That's right, this is the last remaining seedling for him, Dika Kane, the Mages of Heradim!

But I don’t know why, anyway, until now, the demons have not killed him! Their evil existences just locked him in this cage, and at most they occasionally sent some demons to question him about the secrets of the Hradim mages or soul stones.

Unfortunately, the stubborn Kane didn't say much about the evil demon and the stubborn Kane! He was not afraid of death as he had already stepped into the coffin with half his legs! And those demons seemed to dare not to force him, perhaps because they were afraid of accidentally killing an old guy who had been told by the superiors to serve him carefully? So in the end, they had to hang Kane and the cage on the large wooden shelf of the guillotine. Every day, they sent the devil to send him food and drink, and the two sides were stalemate...

But in fact, Kane doesn't like this cage at all. In fact, no one likes to be locked in a narrow iron cage for several months, and then eat, drink, defecate, urinate, sleep and solve the problem in this small space. That is simply the biggest torture in the world!

If Kane hadn't had been used to long-term otaku thinking alone, or to be used to being dazed, and at the same time, he had the blessing given to him by the righteous archangel Tyrel, he might have been tortured to death by now by the devils' rough way of detaining prisoners, right?

"Hey……"

"You are... Griswald? Ahha, you've come here again and it's great to be able to take a walk after dinner... My old guy, can you still hear me now? Is your head rotten?"

In real boredom, Kane found a fat red figure swaying here, and then he started talking to an old acquaintance under his cage, just like a joke.

Actually, it may not be accurate to say that it is an old acquaintance? Because, the other party can no longer be called human... The other party is now just an evil and terrifying powerful demon, or a dead creature!

That's right, the poor old Paladin Griswald was swaying here!

Thinking back to the beginning, after the other party was fat enough to wear the gorgeous silver-white armor of the Paladins, he had to retire and work hard as a blacksmith in Tristrime! He originally planned to lose weight and regain his lost honor, but unfortunately, he encountered the demons and called him when he did not lose weight successfully... So, like almost most of the people here, the other party died tragically at the hands of endless terrible demons without resisting a few times. He was also unlucky and tragically remodeled and resurrected by the evil forces, turning into a powerful and vicious leader-level zombie monster!

As for whether the other party maintains human nature, consciousness and memory during his lifetime, Kane is not very clear... Anyway, after studying the other party for so long, he still can't understand this! Perhaps, after he died and when the demons also resurrected him into a skeleton mage, Kane might know?

"Roar..."

After hearing the movement on his head, the fat zombie named Griswald did not think about the intention of a living person. It simply raised its head and showed a rotten and hideous face and red eyes toward Kane, and then roared casually.

Obviously, it had just heard Kane's words!

Moreover, if it weren't for other demons guarding it, it might have pulled the old man off the cage and bitten it and eaten it alive?

"very good……"

"It seems you must have heard my voice. Then let's chat with me, the old man. If this continues, I may not be able to speak human language after being locked up for a long time..."

"Griswald, I think back then... when you were a powerful paladin, you would definitely not grimaced at me like you are now!"

"At that time, you were a kind and upright guy. Even if you know that I deliberately used and distorted your Paladin's honor so that you could help me with your work..."

As Kane said, he was locked up here for so long, so he always needed to find someone to talk with him. Otherwise, he felt that after being imprisoned for a long time, he might even begin to degenerate his language ability, and then his mind would become confused, and in the end he would be like a living walking corpse... If that's the case, then he might as well die now!

but……

Kane really feels a little unable to hold on with this kind of miserable day now. After all, he is very old now. Even with the blessing of justice from the Archangel Tyrel, the divine energy maintains his health and guarantees not to be violated by evil auras and energy, but... the prisoner's day now is indeed an extremely uncomfortable torment for him!

So, when you are in Kane, chatting with the undead or demons all the time, and when he thought he would continue to choose a day in a mess, pondering and resting today, suddenly, he unexpectedly heard waves of demons and noises from the distance from the distance?

"Roar!!"

The fat blacksmith zombie Griswald obviously heard the movement in the distance, and then he gave up on confronting the living person in the cage hanging in the air, but turned his head and rushed out in the direction where the sound came.

Then, for granted, all the sheep-headed demons, skeletons, sharp blade demons, etc. guarding him near Kane began to rush towards the direction of the sound with excitement! After all, the demons are also intelligent creatures, and they also need entertainment. However, all the living people in Tristram were killed by them, and the only remaining old man who was nagging was not allowed to be killed, so they have been bored for many months!

Now, when they find new lifeless humans breaking into this place, where can they let go? Especially those sharp blade demons, who have the same roots and origins as the sinking demons, but they are just different in skin color, but they are also keen on eating people. They really hope that those fresh and tender Roger female warriors will continue to break into this place. In that case, they can have fresh and delicious meat to be put into the pot without having to go to the rotten corpses in the city to pick and choose and eat the rotten meat that is difficult to swallow.

Whoosh!

Whoosh!!

Whoosh swosh swosh!!!

However, in Kane's surprised gaze, he was lying beside the iron cage, and only saw that blue magic arrows shot from a distance, instantly clearing out almost all the monsters. In addition to the fat Griswald, all the demons and evil monsters were shattered by the terrifying blue magic arrow that flashed by!

The monster that was rushing up just now was clamoring and cheering, instantly turned into rotten meat, bones and black corpses...

“…”

Soon, at the end of the street, a group of strange guys wearing black cloaks and only revealing women's heads appeared. They first shot and killed one by one, or the new demon monsters that escaped or appeared, and then they searched with interest at the decapitated square where Deka Kane was imprisoned.

Then, as they passed the fat Griswald's broken body, their leader seemed to stop and looked at a former blacksmith and old paladin who died tragically under the other party for a while.

Kane didn't understand who they were. He had a dizzy eye and cataracts. He could not see clearly if he was too far away... So, he just stood up in the iron cage tremblingly, and tried hard to stretch out his thin hand and waved hard towards the group of cloaked warriors in the distance.

"Hey! Heroes, look, I am a living person, I am here, hurry up! Come and save me!"

"Angels are here, I finally look forward to you..."

"I've been suffering for countless days and nights, you've finally arrived... Please hurry up and help me open this damn cage. I can't wait now..."

After taking a deep breath, Kane was as worried that the other party would not see him, waving his arms vigorously while shouting heart-wrenchingly.

Although I don’t know who the other party is, and I’m so powerful that I can clean up all the demons, including the powerful Griswald, Kane only knows that the other party is definitely not a group of demons, so the enemy is a friend, and he will definitely save him, the old man who was hung in the iron cage in the air.

"Heroes! I'm here, come and help me..."

"That's right! That's it, please hurry up?"

As if he was afraid that the other party would not notice this, while shouting loudly, Kane shook the iron cage hard, and took out a copper basin that the demons usually feed him, and kept knocking on Tie Lanshan. His movements were so great that the originally stable cage began to shake left and right like a pendulum.

Kane knew very well about the number of demons in this city! So, after seeing that there seemed to be only twenty-one people on the other side, he became a little anxious, fearing that the other side would slow down and would make the demons counterattack here again. In that case, he would be in vain.

"Oh? It's you..."

When the other party gradually approached, when the old eyes were dizzy, Kane barely saw the appearance of the woman in the other party's head and the hairstyles of all other women from the shaking iron cage, he nodded with emotion and breathed a sigh of relief.

Since he was an acquaintance, that would be great! Sure enough, the old man, he has a great reputation and has always been thought of. So, someone actually took the risk to come to Tristrime to save him?

"Ha! Kane, you old guy is not dead yet. This is really unbelievable..."

Walking under the iron cage, Kasha did not directly rescue the other party. While she waved her hand to warn the surrounding streets, she looked up leisurely at the old man hanging on the huge guillotine wooden shelf by the demon, as if she wanted to confirm or study how the other party could survive until now?

You know, when they came here, even Kasha had no hope. After all, it had been a long time since the last time Roger scouts reported to her. She always thought that the old guy here was dead! And they came here just to leave fate and try their luck, but how could they think that the other party was really alive?

This matter seems a bit intriguing!

"Ahem..."

"Little Kasha, you little guy is still talking like you used to be unforgivable! Okay, stop reminiscing about the past, put me down first, right? You may not know that I have been hanging here for a long time..."

Thinking of how he came through this period of time, Kane really felt like he was reborn... Of course, thoughts or experiences can be written slowly after he goes back. Now, it’s better to leave this cage quickly and leave this Tristrime!
To be continued...