In fact, Ash was not surprised at all. It was because he had expected it that the pain came so quickly. He still remembered that Igula had complained about him, saying that he was always sensitive when he should be dull, and dull when he should be sensitive. If he could learn to deceive himself and be selfish, he might be able to enjoy the beauty of girls without feeling entangled, avoid many dangers without taking risks for others, and escape from sadness without losing important things.
"...What Vichy said actually makes some sense." He said softly.
The dead man took the cigarette back and held it between his lips, "Not only your body, but also your spirit has fallen?"
"Before she became the Supreme of Magic, she was actually unwilling to put anything external into her heart." Ash said: "All the beauty in the world will eventually disappear. The only way to escape sadness is to miss the beauty."
"So you mean you're going to break up with Sonia and the others?" Si Kuang took a sip of wine and tilted his head to look at him: "Should I thank you for letting her go on behalf of Sonia?"
"...Not to mention Vichy and Igula, even Harvey is better at comforting people than you." Ash glanced at the open coffin and said, "Death Maniac, have you ever lost someone important to you?"
Si Kuang looked at the white smoke rising slowly between his fingers. After a moment's silence, he sat down next to Ash and put the bottle down.
"The last day I saw my mother was July 10th. Then I entered the Star Cage. As soon as I got out of the cage, I was promoted to a demigod and entered hell. When I came back, the world had changed." She slowly exhaled a round of smoke rings and raised her head to look upwards. "Looking at it this way, I'm pretty lucky. I even missed the sadness."
Ash looked at her and wanted to reach out and pat her shoulder, but his hand went straight through the phantom. The dead maniac glanced at him, as if looking at a child who wanted to comfort an adult, "It's been a long time since I knew it. Do you think I still care?"
"If you didn't care, how could you remember the date of our last meeting?" Ash picked up the bottle and took a sip. "It's just that as time goes by, sadness ferments into regret, so you don't feel pain, you just get drunk."
He suddenly remembered something, handed the bottle to Death Maniac, and said seriously: "I will definitely go to see her mother with Sword Princess, and then tell them to hand over your daughter to me... I promise."
The dead man snatched the bottle and laughed, "Why do you sound like a bully kidnapping a girl?"
"But now that you mention it, I remember someone." A look of reminiscence appeared in her eyes. "How should I put it? That person and I weren't actually friends. She was actually an enemy that I hated. She framed me several times. Later, her lover got into trouble, and she shamelessly came to me and asked for help. At that time, my situation was not good either, so I kindly advised her not to get involved, but she ended up arguing with me."
"And then?"
"Then she died. Her death was quite funny. She died at her lover's wedding... The funeral of her old lover and the wedding of her new lover were held at the same time. It must have been an unforgettable day for her lover."
"Thinking about it now..." Si Kuang lowered his eyelids and said softly, "If she could survive, perhaps our journey to hell would be much more interesting."
She gulped down half a bottle of wine and burped without caring about her manners. Just the smell made Ash feel a little drunk.
"If you promise, you must do it." The death madman suddenly said.
Ash was startled, then nodded, "Of course."
"Sonia met her mother a year ago. At that time, she had not yet become a magician. She only wanted to take her mother to the Galatian world to enjoy happiness..." Death Maniac said, "She never thought that it would be the last time they would see each other."
Ash looked at the words on the coffin lid and said, "Who could have known when we would see each other for the last time? It's just that we didn't say when we would meet again, and we just went our separate ways."
The reason why he had to trigger the void rift in Guiming Palace was not to get angry with Death Maniac, but to find the Hell Demigod to get information about Igula and Harvey. The two newly promoted demigods would definitely not be able to survive in Hell, and according to Igula's personality, he would definitely seek an organization to join forces.
Everything went smoothly. Ash's reasoning was correct and he successfully found the clue, but he arrived too late.
If he had explored Hell a few days earlier, if he had gone to the Blood Moon Gospel where there were more traces left, if he had caught them and shown off the Sword Princess as soon as they left the Cage of Stars... would everything have been different?
if……
Boom! The castle suddenly shook violently, and with two sharp screams, two spears pierced through the floor. The violent spiral airflow instantly shredded the coffin and the coffin lid into sawdust, like two angry dragons rushing towards Ash!
The Forgotten!
"Ah--" Si Kuang subconsciously pressed the hilt of the sword and prepared to draw the sword, but the person next to her was faster than her!
The wonder of the Soul Heaven glowed with colorful streamers, and one hundred and thirty-seven magic spirits sang and roared in unison. The core magic spirit in the center of the wonder, the "Substitute Magic Spirit", stood up on its body, just like the conductor of an orchestra composing the laws of the one hundred and thirty-seven magic spirits into the melody of war drums. When the source power of the Hell Wing evaporated violently, the beating war drums resounded throughout the Soul Heaven, and the magician's heart roared!
Ash, draw your sword!
The white frost in the passage was instantly shaken and flew everywhere. The Forsaken's double guns were pressed to the ground by Ash's double swords. The angry dragon of destruction had its head pressed down and crashed into the floor, destroying the foundation of the castle!
The Forsaken wanted to draw back his spear and continue fighting, but when he moved his body, his arms were broken; when he stepped back a little, his legs broke into countless small pieces; when he wanted to activate his source power, half of his body had turned silver and the flow of his source power stagnated; when his eyes rolled, his head was cut in two by the flames!
When the Forsaken fell to pieces, he saw four phantoms standing behind him. The phantoms were as dim as candles in the wind, but anyone who saw them could clearly feel the destructive background they swept across everything: purple-red fury, black-white viciousness, silver-grey madness, and dark blue cruelty!
Middle-level wonder: Sword Servant!
A Forsaken of the Triple Hell Wings was completely shattered by just a single miraculous counterattack!
As Ash's Blood Vibration returned to its sheath, the phantoms disappeared without a trace. Death Maniac glanced at the location where the phantoms disappeared and said with a smile, "Interesting. Are you trying to show off your achievements over the past two months to me?"
It was actually an accident that Ash was able to create the Sword Servant miracle.
He has a lazy personality to begin with, and with the addition of the two months of recuperation, he plans to be a carefree stress reliever. But precisely because he wants to help everyone relieve stress, as their emotional exchanges gradually deepen, Ash can slowly feel the negative emotions they suppress deep in their hearts.
Not only could he feel it, he could even draw it out and store it in his soul.
Ash was not surprised at his ability. The Firefly Princess had given him the ability to sense thoughts a long time ago. Perhaps the Firefly Princess had almost recovered, or perhaps the close-up thoughts would trigger special effects. In short, Ash could extract the deepest darkness of the Sword Princess and the others.
At first, Ash didn't have any special thoughts, he just thought he would live up to his reputation as a trash can. Later, when he was bored and observed the Soul Heaven, he found that the substitute Shuling, this fool, actually took the initiative to touch the negative emotions of Sword Princess and others, and then it transformed into Sword Princess and their appearance.
He had a flash of inspiration, and with these dark emotions as raw materials, he constructed with inexplicable feelings, and naturally constructed the Sword Servant Wonder. He immediately told everyone excitedly about his first original wonder, but everyone's reactions were very flat. Sword Lady and Witch both said that "I get flashes of inspiration like this from time to time", Silver Lantern praised him for being so good, and Vichy commented that his soul attainments needed to be improved.
Sometimes Ash does forget that his operators are a group of talented female magicians, and the skills he is more talented than them seem to be all about intimacy...
The updated Sword Ancestral is completely different from the previous one. The previous Sword Ancestral miracle was to summon Ash's phantom to assist in the attack, while the current Sword Ancestral miracle is to summon four operators to join the battle. Although the Sword Ancestral is only a mid-level miracle, as long as Ash consumes enough source power and dark emotions, the operators he summons will be extremely close to their real combat power, and even the attacks they launch are the miracles and miracles they are best at.
Even Ash was a little surprised at his own results, or rather, surprised at the fighting power of Sword Princess and the others - even if it was intentional, the Phantoms' full-force attack and siege were able to instantly kill a Forsaken with triple prison wings!
"How is it?" Ash was a little curious about the dead man's evaluation.
"A lovers' spectacle." Death Maniac hit the nail on the head: "Without the dark emotions they provide, this spectacle is just an empty shell. But using the lovers' dark emotions as weapons, hehe..."
“However,” she paused and sneered, “In the hands of a small trumpeter like you, this wonder is no less than a heavenly wonder.”
"I also hope that one day I won't be able to use this wonder anymore," Ash shrugged, "but until then, let me borrow their power with a guilty conscience."
At this time, the castle was already crumbling, and the ceiling began to collapse and shatter. Ash let out a long breath: "Let's go, it's time to collect resources for the third level of hell."
"You calmed down so quickly?"
"Because I know that if there hadn't been the World Devouring Serpent, none of this would have happened." Ash said, "I'm tired of being angry at myself for being powerless... This is a world full of miracles. Even if I've lost something, I still have a chance to get it back. I must keep what I haven't lost yet!"
"Besides, being with you will only make me more depressed. It is better for me to hurry up and collect resources. When I return to reality, I will hug Sword Princess for comfort."
The death maniac subconsciously raised his hand to slap him, but after thinking about it, he put his hand down and followed him to break through the window and escape from the collapsed castle. It was only then that Ash discovered that the castle was actually built on a wide golden river. He looked up and still couldn't see the sky, but it was not because the sky was stolen, but because there was no sky in this world.
This is a huge cave world. The rock walls above are covered with bright fluorescent grass, and a wide golden river stretches through it. The dazzling golden light spreads in all directions, like a golden mist in the darkness.
"Welcome to the third level of hell," said Death Maniac: "Black Hell."