Why did the lord rebel

Chapter 333 There must be a...

total darkness.

who I am?
——This was the first question that popped into his mind.

In this darkness, memory seems to be less reliable... Among the fragments of the past and the remains of life in his brain, he can only find some bright colors for a while:

Blue, frosty blue, like ghosts gliding high in the air, spreading cold death with their translucent fingers;
Red, the red of the flames, when the incendiary bomb explodes around you, the bright red will engulf your field of vision, but before that, the first thing you hear is the chanting of the breeze like an elf aria...

Black, finally black, from then on, everything fell into darkness, just like the silent night sky of the Glorious Federation...

Now, everything is also black.

He was immersed in the darkness, and with dull thinking, he managed to dig out a familiar name in the void:

kedwin.

He vaguely remembered that this was his identity.

This is the abbreviation of his decades of useless career:

The captain of the "Hammer of Purgatory" division of the Glorious Federation, Persis Kaedwin.

Right... Captain Kaedwin thought bewilderedly, what happened before?
"The Hammer of Purgatory"... He followed the division through the Dusty Mountains, and entered the Soul-Cracking Wasteland of the Human Empire... They will soon go north and cross the Lion Heart River, approaching the southern border of the Human Empire, and serve as the great God of War. To win and glory...

——Until these things, the memory is still clear.

But what happened after that?
Captain Kaedwin painfully organized his thoughts in the darkness——

air raid.Yes, air strikes.The division's garrison was attacked by air, and they were stationed in a valley between two mountains, hoping to escape the howling wind.

Didn't that kid Marco still ask himself for instructions to scout the way forward?

Speaking of which... where is Marco?Marco Gale, the precious son of the head of the Gale Division?

For this question, Captain Kaedwin couldn't think of an answer - because all his memories stopped at such an unforgettable scene:

When he turned around from where he was urinating, the entire "Hammer of Purgatory" camp had turned into remnants of ruins blocking Hoarfrost, and the orc soldier running towards him was pierced through the brain by a spear-like ice crystal , the translucent ghost was parading in the sky like a Valkyrie, and a burning fireball quickly hit him from the west——

——Everything returns to darkness.

God of War...In the darkness where you can't see your fingers, Captain Kaedwin suddenly felt his whole body trembling: God of War...what happened?
Am I not dead yet?
Where am I?

Where is Marco?

Where is the leader of Gale Division?

Where are the...brothers of Hammer of Purgatory...

He wanted to stand up, but he clearly felt a huge resistance from his legs, and the tightness from his calves made him realize that he seemed to be tied to something like a chair...

He couldn't see anything in the dark, and Captain Kaedwin tried to raise his hand to touch his face, but it also failed: there seemed to be something like a rope that bound his arm in place, only his fingers could move slightly, and the fingertips came The most important thing is the unique cold touch of metal.

A great panic hit him, he wanted to shout something, but swallowed because of a sense of fear for no reason.

Then, there was a loud cracking sound like breaking the skin of a drum.

Captain Kaedwin's eyes blurred, and when his vision recovered, a huge white lighting crystal appeared in the original darkness—the dazzling white light pierced the old orc's face, making it hard for him to even open his eyes. Very difficult.

However, at the edge of the halo, he still saw that there was a long iron table in front of him. There seemed to be some people sitting on the opposite side of the table, but the specific parts of the person's face, due to the existence of the dazzling lighting crystal, made him unable to understand. look straight at.

But intuitively, he realized that the person across the table should not be a fellow orc.

"Name. Identity." The mysterious man across the table said coldly, using the common language of the empire.After asking the question, the mysterious man repeated it in blunt orc language, as if he was afraid that he would not understand.

Captain Kaedwin, whose mind was in a mess under the white light, knew in a trance that he had no other choice but to answer.

"Ke... Kaedwin. Pixis Kaedwin." The orc veteran stammered, "I, I am the deputy commander of the [-]nd Battalion of the [-]th Brigade of the Hammer of Purgatory Division... Sith Kaedwin...Captain."

There was a rustling sound from across the table, as if someone was recording something on paper with a quill.

"Where am I..." Captain Kaedwin asked weakly, turning his face as far as possible to avoid the direct light of the white light, but with little success.

The person on the opposite side was silent for a moment, and then said coldly in orc language:

"This is an interrogation. You don't have the right to ask questions. Go ahead and answer my questions, place of origin?"

Captain Kaedwin, who was restrained all over his body, had no choice but to honestly explain the location of his hometown.

Afterwards, similar interrogations continued for [-] or [-] sentences. The mysterious guest across the table learned everything about Captain Kaedwin's failed life, and even confirmed one by one that he was far away in his hometown of the Glorious Federation. tribal relatives.

During this inexplicable interrogation, Captain Kaedwin's brain gradually recovered, and he roughly deduced his situation:
He was captured, no doubt about it.

The interrogator on the opposite side of the iron table under the protection of the illuminated crystal couldn't see his face clearly, but the orcish language of the other party had a distinct southern accent of the Empire - a similar accent that Captain Kaedwin had heard from the human merchants from the Empire. countless times.

So... Captain Kaedwin thought desperately while answering the other party's cold interrogation, I... I didn't die, but I was captured by a human bastard... God of War... But what about "Hammer of Purgatory" now? What?My god of war...

Captain Kaedwin was so cranky that he answered more than 30 questions in a daze.

The last question is, "Who in the empire knows you".

After Captain Kaedwin gave a truthful answer of "no one", the human interrogators across the table finally fell silent.

There was a rustling sound of paper rubbing against each other, probably because the human interrogator had carefully sorted out the paper pages on the iron table used to record the content of the interrogation.

Then, through the edge of the halo, Captain Kaedwin vaguely saw the interrogator turn around slightly, and seemed to whisper to another person who had been standing behind him in a common language:

"Do you have anything else to ask?"

The answer was a rather young voice:
"I'll do the rest."

The sound of chairs rubbing against the floor.The interrogator stood up and gave his seat to the man behind him, a young-sounding human with a calm tone.

The human reached out and snapped his fingers.

There was another loud bang, the white light that filled the field of vision disappeared, and the lighting crystal dimmed. It took Captain Kaedwin's eyes a long time to adapt to the changes in the surrounding light.

With the recovery of vision, the surrounding scene came into view.

Captain Kaedwin found that he was sitting on a stainless steel armchair with a backrest that seemed to be specially built for interrogation, and his hands and feet were fixed to the chair by thick hemp ropes as expected;

This is a rather human-style living room, but the religious patterned wallpaper on the wall is a little peeling, and mold is growing in the corner, it seems that no one has lived here for many years;

There were windows in the room, but the thick curtains were drawn so that Captain Kaedwin couldn’t tell whether it was day or night outside at the moment——the light that provided the lighting for the entire room was the star hanging from the ceiling with a rope, the light intensity A huge illuminated crystal that can be freely controlled.

On the opposite side of the captain is an iron table, and there are two humans on the opposite side of the table:
Sitting was a black-haired young man wearing a gorgeous short robe with gold patterns on a black background, who did not look like a common man. Standing behind this young man was a gray military uniform with a stern face and armpits. There is a human officer with a writing pad under him.

Captain Kaedwin realized that it was the human officer who was interrogating him just now.

"Introduce yourself." The young human across the table smiled slightly, using the kind of medieval orc language that only human nobles can learn, and his expression was so kind that he didn't seem to be talking to a captive, "I'm Elliott Igor, the Duke of Frost Maple Ridge in the Empire, the president of Southern Military Affairs... Sorry, but also the one who defeated your 'Hammer of Purgatory', the winner of this war."

Captain Kaedwin cried out in his heart:
God of War!what did he say? !

Win... "Victor"? !

No, it can't be true...

Has "Hammer of Purgatory" lost? !No, he must be lying, even if I was captured, it is impossible for the elite soldiers of the Glorious Federation to lose to humans...

But on the surface, he could barely squeeze out a smile that was uglier than crying.

"From the look in your eyes, I can see that you don't believe...the failure of your 'Hammer of Purgatory'." The young man who called himself Elliot Igor, Duke of Frost Maple Ridge smiled. The belief in winning has always been something I've admired...but I think you might as well look at this... Sean."

The young human duke spread his hands, and the human officer on the side respectfully put a long sword in his hand.

The human duke leaned slightly from behind the table, and handed the long sword to Captain Kaedwin's eyes.

The old orc's pupils constricted instantly.

Because in an instant, he recognized that the sword in front of him was the command saber that the commander of the Gale Division usually hung around his waist!

God of War!what... what...

The sword of the head of the division, how could it be...

Captain Kaedwin's heart was still shaking violently. The Human Duke had already retracted the commander's sword of Gale Division, and smiled calmly with his fingers crossed:
"I might as well tell you... your 'Hammer of Purgatory' division has been completely annihilated by our Frost Maple Ridge in the Soul Breaker. I have ordered someone to take the head of your Gullit Gale division commander. If you want to see it, I can appreciate it for you in a while."

"I, I, I, I..." Captain Kaedwin felt his brain go blank, and beads of sweat were constantly oozing out from the green skin on his forehead.

"However, my dear Mr. Pixis Kadwin. You are lucky." The young human nobleman continued to smile, "When your brothers in 'Purgatory Hammer' died bravely, our Sentinel I found you lying in the ruins of the Red River Valley, and judging from the situation at the time, you seemed to be running away...and your statement just now also confirmed this."

The young human noble tilted his head and looked at Captain Kaedwin with great interest, playing with his taste:
"So, the person sitting in front of me turned out to be a federal orc who fled...Mr. Kaedwin, am I right?"

Captain Kaedwin only felt a hot face, and a huge sense of shame welled up from his chest.

At this moment, faced with a question from a young human, this orc veteran was so ashamed that he couldn't even say a word:
The majestic federal orcs, the majestic "Hammer of Purgatory" division, there have always been only martyrs who died in battle. Where have there been cowards who feared the battle and escaped?

Xia Houyan admired the embarrassment of the orc deserter for a while, waved his hands and said with a light smile:

"Mr. Kaedwin, there is no need to be ashamed... Survival is the instinct of life. Human beings are like this, and so are you orcs. You just made a decision based on instinct at that time, and there is nothing wrong with it."

Captain Kaedwin nodded with difficulty, but his face was still hot.

"So, look, my dear Mr. Kaedwin." Xia Houyan didn't look at Captain Kaedwin, but admired the commanding sword of the head of the Gale Division in his hand, "In the Red River Valley, in the east split soul Hey, my army and I killed countless orcs, but we didn't kill you—the reason is, I need an answer. I need to know, do you still have the same instinct to survive now as you did back then?"

Speaking of this, Xia Houyan raised his head, stared directly at Captain Kaedwin's trembling eyes with cold eyes, and asked:

"Mr. Pixis Kadwin, do you want to die, or do you want to live?"

Captain Kaedwin felt as if his entire chest had been emptied.He looked at the young human aristocrat across the table in panic. The countless tribal mottos he had heard since he was a child, the indoctrination of the senior federal soldiers, and the supreme Holy Spirit in his heart seemed to be roaring, making him spit on the human face opposite him. Then die like a true orc hero, and share the glory of death with thousands of "Purgatory Hammer" brothers...

But, in the end, what he uttered with his trembling lips was an inaudible sentence:
"I...want to live..."

The young human aristocrat looked very satisfied, but seemed a little disappointed.

"Very good. Mr. Kaedwin, I think I have roughly understood the survival instinct of your orc race..." the human noble said playfully, "Now, we, Frost Maple Ridge, need your help to do something—— As a captive, you don't have any choice, understand?"

Captain Kaedwin nodded tremblingly, his heart still hurt like a knife because of his cowardice.

"You don't have any objection to wearing mage robes, do you? You may wear them often in the future. Although the size is not suitable, I will arrange for someone to change it to a larger size..." Xia Houyan pointed to the side of the table, Kaedwin Only then did the captain realize that there was a crumpled robe piled up there, "In addition, you still need to memorize some lines and perform a few plays. Sean will be responsible for the arrangement of these things. In the end, you will not be Pixis in the future." Kaedwen is dead, you need to change your name. Let's call it... well... let's call it 'Ner'zhul', I always think it's a good name."

The young human noble muttered to himself for a long time, and Captain Kaedwin trembled after hearing him finish:
"Respect, respected human duke... If, if I do what you say, I will, I won't die, right?"

To Captain Kaedwin's astonishment, the human aristocrat laughed out loud after hearing this.

"Who knows?" Xia Houyan finished laughing, stretched out his finger, and tapped lightly.

Captain Kaedwin was horrified to see gray mist gushing out from the young human's fingertips!
What was even more frightening was that Captain Kaedwin involuntarily lowered his head with the finger of the young human, like a marionette controlled by the human's movements.

In endless fear, Captain Kaedwin was forced to lower his head, and heard this human nobleman named "Eliot Igor" laugh across the table:

"Sure enough, the necromancer is still dressed as a living dead, which is interesting, my dear Kaedwin... Ah no, Mr. Ner'zhul..."

(End of this chapter)