Updated: 2012-11-11

The Seven Dragons Anniversary on the night of May 13, 1034, Alaris

The clean and tidy bedroom is filled with various religious artworks. Under the warm light, it is full of sacred atmosphere, but also looks extremely elegant and unique. On the large bed covered with white mattresses, there is a middle-aged man with short brown hair and haggard face, like an old man with a broken life.

If you don't understand the inside story, most people will think that this is just a poor person with terminal illness, but those who truly know the inside story will never look at him with pity or contempt, because in the past few decades, at least tens of thousands of people have died at his hands, and his names with his companions have become a symbol of disaster...

He is [Famine], one of the Apocalypse Knights of the Church, and the most powerful killing machine of the Dragon of Light.

"Senior Famine, can you tell me why war betrayed the church?"

But now, this powerful man who once stopped the night crying of a child seemed extremely weak and his eyes were very dim. At the same time, on his left hand, Fayer, with a solemn face, was sitting on the chair, quietly watching the butcher with bloody hands.

"Ahem...Fayer, do you know how we all become Apocalypse Knights?"

Turning his head and looking at Fayere with a solemn face, Famine suddenly showed a faint smile, but soon a flushing creeped onto his cheeks, making him unable to stop a suffocating cough...

"Senior Famine, is it okay?"

"fine……"

He gently pushed away the water cup handed by Fayere, and Zhang Wu took a deep breath and forced the blood and energy that was about to move in his throat.

"We...Fayer, do you believe in reincarnation?"

"Reincarnation?"

"Hahaha, it sounds ridiculous, right? But the reason why the four of us can become Apocalypse Knights is because of the so-called reincarnation..."

He smiled bitterly, and the hungry face was full of tired color, like withered ears of wheat.

"Fayer, do you still remember the original sin?"

"Um……"

With a slight note, Fayer certainly remembers this theory proposed by the Inquisition and was once circulated in the Kingdom of Humanity.

During the period when the church reached its peak, some priests proposed such a theory that people carry all kinds of sacred people at birth, and those sacred people are a manifestation of human imperfection, a measure by the dragon of light to punish humans for their past belief in the heretic dragon god, and a sin borne by humans themselves.

Therefore, they also believe that the human soul is unclean from the moment of its birth. Only through devout prayer and atonement can the sins on one's body be erased to achieve the purpose of ascending to heaven after death. Those who have not succeeded in "atonement" will fall into hell and become the lowest demon...

Of course, this theory had a great conflict with the Moon Cocoon theory, which was popular in Asia. However, the church was in its heyday and its power covered all corners of the human world. Therefore, the fanatics in the church began to strongly support the development of this theory, and the representative power of which was the Inquisition.

They not only believe that the statement that everyone is born guilty is correct, but also advocate that the Dragon of Light has overtaken all Dragon Gods and is the true Lord of Dragon Gods.

In order to strengthen this theory, the leaders of the Inquisition put forward an extremely unreasonable statement. They first acknowledged that reincarnation does exist, and then explained that only the purest soul can ascend to heaven, while ordinary souls can only reincarnate in the world without limit until their sins are completely cleared...

At the same time, they also proposed that some demons in hell escaped from the bondage and sneaked into the passage of reincarnation, so there was a distinction between good and evil in the world. The souls of good people are pure and the souls of evil people are degenerate, and good and evil are innate.

Such a theory completely subverts the worldview of most races in Asan, so it is basically not accepted by any race, or even most humans, but the Inquisition stubbornly believes that it is not wrong!

"But... hasn't this statement been completely overturned in the Ali Tomitein's proposal?"

"Overpool? You underestimate the stubbornness and fanaticism of the Inquisition... They, they don't take any of them seriously, except the lofty dragon god..."

So, the Inquisition began to look for some "empirical evidence", which is the so-called "sinners" who escaped from the shackles of hell and sneaked into the world to prove that their statement was not wrong.

Their method is also very simple. According to their theory, the demons who slipped out of hell will bring misfortune to the world when they were born, their souls were born full of sins, and they were destined to be punished by the Dragon of Light, so they looked at the captain of the orphans...

A large number of orphans were collected and divided into four categories according to their respective causes of death: war, plague, death (shocking, accident, etc.), and famine.

In order to prove its correctness, the Inquisition adopted extremely absurd means. They believed that the four "heaven punishments" symbolize the four greatest sufferings in the world, and suffering contains the power of demons. Therefore, they identified the orphans, the weak will be purified, the strong will be trained, and activate their own "devil" power at the age of thirteen...

The activation method is also very ridiculous. Orphans of war will bear the power of hell, orphans of plague will be infected with various epidemics, orphans of death will absorb a large amount of death energy, and orphans of famine will have to... devour each other.

In order to prevent the orphans from dying prematurely, the Inquisition will treat them regularly, but in such torture day after day, the orphans will die one by one...

Such a cruel "experiment" was finally discovered by the pope. The Inquisition was extremely harshly warned, and that theory was also plagued with heresy. However, before this, thousands of orphans had already died, and only four orphans survived that tragedy...

Perhaps it was the mercy of the Dragon God that the four orphans actually gained some powerful power in the real purgatory of humanity. When the Inquisition discovered this power, they were also deeply shocked because the entire team of paladins they sent to deal with were actually annihilated by the four teenagers!

This matter was soon announced to the Pope. After seeing the powerful power of the four teenagers, the Pope gave them a very high status, even surpassing the heads of the Inquisitions, because the church needed this matter to be concealed forever and their powerful power.

The four teenagers agreed because they had no intention of resisting the church. They destroyed the Paladins only to protect themselves. So when the Pope came forward, they chose to obey without hesitation. Perhaps after experiencing such a nightmare, they longed for that kind of redemption, that kind of unreachable redemption...

Therefore, the church has added four Apocalypse Knights, who symbolize the four punishments of the Dragon God on earth and are also given the right to punish all sins in the world.

"That year, my parents and relatives died of famine, and I... survived by eating corpses."

"Um!?"

"It's very scary... When the people from the Inquisition saw me, they immediately concluded that I was the incarnation of [Famine] Reincarnation. Of course, there are many such incarnations..."

"Senior, do you mean... the church hasn't stopped such cruel training?"

"Training? That's not training... it's cultivation, breeding real killing machines, just like the wizards put poisonous insects together to cultivate the last king of poisonous insects... The Apocalypse Knight is also human, and he will die one day, but the church needs that kind of power."

"How could it be..."

Looking at Fayere's dull look, Famine suddenly showed an apology smile.

"Sorry, saying such a cruel thing must have affected the purity of the church in your mind, right?"

"No, I know the cruelty of the church, but..."

"Generation after generation, the Apocalypse Knights are like a nightmare, shrouding the human world... When we are sent to the Inquisition, we are always instilled with the idea that we were once fallen demons and must use killing to cleanse our sins."

It seemed that I recalled the unbearable past, and my famine's eyes gradually became dazed...

"...We began to kill under the supervision of the previous Apocalypse Knights, constantly killing, because everyone is guilty, and killing the people around me is not guilty, but atonement... But my thoughts at that time were only to live, simply live, and all the apocalypse and heaven were thrown away... When I killed the last person and swallowed his heart, a mysterious power began to pour into my body... So, I became the next Apocalypse Knight."

“…………”

"Ahem...Fayer, do you know what the final outcome of the Apocalypse Knight will be?"

He turned his head with difficulty, picked up a quaint metal badge carved with a sickle on the desk next to him, and whispered weakly:

"It symbolizes the right to punishment. This is my mentor, the previous generation of famine gave me, and then the next second... my hand penetrated his chest and dug out his heart. This is the ending and destiny of the Apocalypse Knight. Birth is death, and it will always be reincarnation in the world until..."

He fell back on the bed powerlessly, and the famine seemed to have exhausted his strength.

"So, you know why death, plague, war, and the three of them betray the church... because they can't stand being a simple killing machine, and that kind of tragic fate... so they betrayed not because of evil, revenge or temptation. They just simply want to go another way and want to deviate from the original path without end. It has nothing to do with good and evil. Every generation of Apocalypse Knights have thought of this... because our fate has long been determined, and we bear the name that does not belong to ourselves and bear the sin that does not belong to ourselves, and kill the lives that they do not want to kill."

After saying that, Famine closed his eyes weakly. He had suffered severe injuries to stop the war and was likely to be unable to wait for his successor...

"I see."

Standing up, Fayer bowed deeply to the famine and walked gently to the gate.

"Senior, can I take the initiative to ask you a question?"

Suddenly, just as he was about to leave, he seemed to suddenly remember something and turned back.

"Say it...I will answer any questions you have before I can speak, after all... Andrewson is my only friend."

"Why do you stick to it?"

"Hahaha... Because, I don't have the strength to think about anything else anymore. Now I just close my eyes and my mind is full of those who were killed by me in the past, and my ears are full of wailings and screams. I... am really tired. Maybe the fate of the Apocalypse Knight should really be in our generation after all."

"Thank you for answering my question for seniors. I will always remember your words, and the Apocalypse Knight... will never appear again."

Hearing Fayere's words, a peaceful smile appeared on Farge's haggard face...

"That's really thankful..."

"Third, I'll say goodbye."

"Um……"

When Fayer left, Famine suddenly took out the badge that symbolized the Apocalypse Knight, staring blankly at the traces left by time on it, and became crazy...

"Teacher, your ideal is finally coming true, and the Apocalypse Knight is finally going to disappear..."

But suddenly, just as he was in a state of consciousness, the moonlight that had originally sprinkled on the ground through the window gradually dimmed, as if something was covering the moon.

"Um!?"

I noticed something was wrong, but I forgot to see outside the window, and my face turned marble-like pale, and I rolled off the bed in a mess.

"this……"

I stood up with difficulty and struggled to the balcony. In the frightened eyes of famine, the gluco-white bright moon began to slowly be swallowed by the shadows!

"Luminous Eclipse!"
Chapter completed!