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Chapter 281 Vulcan's Punishment

"know yourself……"

On this day, King Seleus once again stood before the bronze mirror.

Ten years have passed in the blink of an eye.

The kingdom has opened up a large territory, and there are countless beauties in the palace...

The people around him were getting old one by one, and King Seleus felt genuinely confused.

The self in the mirror is no longer like himself, but more like a stranger who has nothing to do with him.

because…

The self in the mirror is too young to match the aging soul.

Over the years, King Seleus had great doubts about his own immortality.

The endless beauty of the noble ministers day and night also made him numb.

In front of the mirror, King Seleus pressed his head to confirm that the person inside was himself.

He stared straight at the reflection, and the reflection stared back at him.

Seleus suddenly seemed to hear...

know yourself.

Father's words seemed to blurt out from his reflection.

King Seleus shuddered.

Not long after, the attendants hurried into the bedroom. Normally they would not disturb the king's solitude, but today, there was an imperial meeting waiting for the eternal king.

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King Seleus sat on the throne, wearing a royal robe that never faded like him.

He looked around at the officials present, they were all old, many of them had hair like frost and snow, and their bodies under their loose robes shivered slightly from the cold.

As the bell rang, the ministers under the throne began to report to the king the affairs of the kingdom.

King Seleus sat and listened to the reports of his ministers. Some people talked about the trade with the three-eyed ape-man, while others talked about several rebellious border city-states and tribes...

In the initial period, King Seleus tried his best to maintain due solemnity, listened carefully to every word and captured every message, but soon, he unknowingly lost his due patience, his eyes gradually became lax, He was absent-minded and lost his mind frequently.

In the end, when it came to the kingdom's most critical tax issue, he didn't even listen to a word.

Though his ears were keen to pick up every sound, not a single one reached his heart.

He couldn't react.

On the throne, King Seleus murmured to himself:

"My eternal life...is it really eternal life?"

After this insignificant remark was heard by several ministers close to the king, they, who were used to being wise and safe, kept silent and pretended nothing happened.

However, the third prince of Seleus suddenly raised his head when he heard it.

From the day of the ceremony, he had doubts about his father's eternal life.

Even in the past ten years, the appearance of King Seleus has not changed, and it seems that he is really immortal.

But the tacit understanding between father and son made him aware of the vicissitudes of his father's heart under his youthful appearance.

"Father!
Are you truly immortal? ! "

The third prince couldn't bear it anymore, he said in a voice almost shouting,

"If you live forever, why are your eyes so old?!"

Seleus froze suddenly.

Over the years, no one has ever doubted his immortality, and all he has heard are praises.

The third prince's questioning was like a thunderbolt, which struck the old heart and woke him up completely.

King Seleus lowered his head and looked at the eternally young body.

Slowly, in his eyes, the flesh began to wrinkle little by little. He stroked his face, and as soon as he touched it, he felt the concave bone. The original bright red hair on his head also faded from its original color.

Seleus suddenly realized.

He finally understood that he had never been immortal like the gods.

I never lived forever!

Panic gradually overflowed from his face, and he lost his due solemnity.

"Eternal life... is actually a dream..."

right now,

It's time to wake up from the dream.

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In the kingdom of celestial bodies, the flames of Ninur, the god of fire, burned the entire temple of the god of fire red.

His wise and intelligent half-god eldest son finally woke up from his dream.

Anger sets the plains of the mind on fire.

"My son, you should not have woken up."

Ninur was talking to himself, and he took a step towards Riboga.

Facing his son who is vainly pursuing eternal life, the eternally irritable Vulcan has lost all patience.

Seleus' obsession with immortality eventually angered his father.

Disasters fell from the sky.

In a blink of an eye, the people of the city of Riboga raised their heads one after another, screaming and screaming, and saw the sea of ​​flames all over the sky, and the punishment of the gods was about to come to the world.

The king of the earth, who claimed to possess the blood of the gods, forgot his due humility and tried to pursue eternal life in vain.

Ninur, the god of fire, controls the sea of ​​fire, and in a fit of rage, he wants to punish his eldest son, even if it violates the order of the kingdom of gods.

The fire rain is about to fall, it is like a rainstorm in the dark clouds, and the biggest difference is that the rainstorm cannot destroy a royal city, but the fire rain of Ninur can turn tens of thousands of lives into ashes.

Despair spread up and down the royal city, and those innocent people were in a mess. They didn't know why the gods worshiped day and night suddenly rained fire.

"Vulcan! Are you going to punish us?!"

Those voices of questioning lingered in the streets and alleys.

These mortals on the ground simply don't understand that they are not worthy of Vulcan's punishment, they are just the price of punishment.

Ninur wanted to burn the foundation that Seleus had painstakingly built, so that the son of Vulcan could regain his humility as a mortal.

Fire rains down from the sky, and destruction is close at hand...

However, in the deserted streets with no greenery in the king's city, among the panicked crowds, seedlings burst out of the ground. They absorbed nutrients from nowhere and grew at an abnormal speed.

In an instant, towering giant trees surged out, like huge barriers, covering the entire king's capital, and the rain of fire fell on the dense canopy.

Thousands of giant trees bear the burning of the flames and protect the royal city.

"Lipa..."

Trees cannot grow out of thin air, and Ninur realized that behind this dense forest-like king's capital, the forest god was behind it.

"Lipa, are you trying to stop me?!"

Ninur asked angrily.

He has always been at odds with the forest god Libo, and the most fundamental reason is that Riboga was named Riboja because its ancestors established the country under the leadership of the forest god Libo, and Ninur's eldest son Sai Lucy, however, became the monarch of this great country.

This caused the two gods to forge enmity, but since Lipa is only a third-level god, while Ninur is a fourth-level god, the former can't do anything to the latter, and can only remain silent for many years .

But today, facing the fire rain that would burn down half of the royal capital, Lipa made a move.

In the dense forest, on a giant tree closest to the sky, there is a woman riding a spirit deer, holding a branch,
"Ninur,

This is my kingdom. "

(End of this chapter)