Durin's Diary

Chapter 734 Unfinished
Looking at the azure light in the distance, the old cardinal was speechless for a long time.

The Demon Realm is crumbling, the city is collapsing, and the Chaos monsters are rapidly melting in the sunlight rising in the distance.

On the distant horizon, the World Tree is emerging. This is the Nameless God's Kingdom connecting with this demonic realm.

"Is this the end?" a witcher asked in confusion.

"The Demon Lord must have been killed. All that appears here are twisted monsters of the Lord of Secrets." The old cardinal looked at the large pool of fluorescent blood on the ground. "And before the signal was sent, the whispering disappeared. The node demon didn't appear here. It either escaped... or was destroyed."

"Destroy it. Angario doesn't have the ability to do so. Facing the big devil, he can't even protect himself alone." A bishop analyzed.

The old cardinal shook his head and said, "It can't be him. It can only be His Excellency Du Lin."

"Durin? He is too young. I even doubt whether he can pass the test of will." Another bishop came to his side.

"The fact is that the coordinates have been established. Lord Sage of True Knowledge cannot defeat the Great Demon. Only Lord Durin has achieved the Third Perfection. His transformation into a Bone Lich can even ignore whispers. As for others, they don't have such abilities."

As the old cardinal finished speaking, a young grassland elf appeared among them.

Church members saluted.

"You can go back." The Nameless One opened a teleport for them and said goodbye. "Durin lost Janos Christian, and the three witchers from the Snow family were killed. Whoever chose them will receive ten lashes when they return."

After the church members had left, the Nameless One straightened his fur robe and looked at the rational being: "It looks like you've missed the target this time."

"It's okay. One less alien god to kill, one less identification to go through. Let's let that guy who keeps secrets but likes to pry into secrets keep the Demon Lord's divine power for now. But I think Du Lin must be very annoyed now with what he did." The rational being sighed as he looked at the coordinate light column that was dissipating in the distance.

"It's really infuriating. That great demon was defeated by his will. A knife in the sea of ​​consciousness, a knife in reality, his true body and soul were destroyed, his spirit and soul were annihilated. He has the same ruthlessness as I did back then." The Nameless said with a smile and opened another door: "Come, let's go and take a look at them."

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When the Nameless One and the Rational Being walked out of the portal, Durin was sitting on a pile of Chaos believers' corpses smoking a cigarette.

"Everywhere else has changed back to normal, but here I am, it's the same as never before." Du Lin said as he jumped down from the pile of corpses. "I can't see anyone outside like this."

"A great demon just died here, and the purification of the World Tree will take some time. Furthermore, your current appearance is a projection of your own sea of ​​consciousness. When you go out, you'll still be that cute little Candle Dragon." The Nameless said this, looking Du Lin up and down. "I'm really surprised. You look like this. You said you were from Earth. When did you come from Earth?"

"An Earth that has experienced destruction and renewal. This is the battle uniform the Tower issued us. For some justice that seems insignificant to others, we came to this city and slaughtered all our enemies. That night, I lost many, both friends and enemies. The dead were either sent to the Black Monument or pushed into the incinerator. We who survived became true butchers."

At the end of his speech, Du Lin rummaged through the bag on the waist of his power armor, but found no cigarettes.

Then he remembered that it was after that night that he learned to smoke.

"What do you think of justice?" the rational being asked. "It's not worth mentioning, and it's not worth a penny." Durin walked over to Mr. Genos and pulled an old cigarette box from his pocket.

It contained original tobacco. He picked it up, lit a cigarette, and put the cigarette box in his pocket.

"Then why do you and your friends still stand up for justice?"

"Fish need water, humans need air, and life requires food, just as each of us craves justice." Speaking of this, Du Lin smoked, letting the smoke flow through his lungs. The intense stimulation made him feel a long-lost discomfort. "I never imagined that the great demons in the legends of my world actually existed. How could people back then defeat them?"

"It must be a sage as powerful and fearless as you." The Sage of True Knowledge joined the conversation. He first bowed to the Nameless One and the Rational Being, "We will fulfill our mission, my Lord, and Her Majesty Nuwa."

"I'm just an incarnation. I don't like becoming a god, I'm just a little stronger." At this point, the rational being looked at Du Lin and said, "I don't know how to praise you enough for being able to invade through the will of the Lord of Secrets, the Great Demon."

"No need to praise me. I simply re-did what I believed was right." Having said this, Du Lin turned his head to look at the corpse of the great demon. "She thought I had regrets. If I could go back in time, I would definitely follow her and leave that city."

"She was wrong. I have regrets because I hesitated, and it was because of my hesitation that my friend died at her hands. If God gave me another chance, I would kill her without hesitation."

"Even if she is your favorite woman."

"Even her appearance feels unfamiliar to me. She is no longer the person I love. All that remains between us is a life-and-death struggle." After saying that, Du Lin threw the last cigarette butt to the ground.

"This place is essentially my kingdom of God. Next time you smoke, take your cigarette butt out and throw it away." With a small hand, the nameless person stretched out his hands, and the cigarette butt in mid-air instantly turned to ashes. "Well, you should all go back. The Demon Realm and the Kingdom of God are not good places for mortals. Even if you have the strength of a demigod, you are still not ready to become a god..."

"Of course I don't want to become a god. I want to go back and see if the tower is still there, if people still have hope for the future, and if... justice is still the same as it was when I left, something everyone thought was insignificant, yet everyone was willing to sacrifice everything for it."

"You are afraid." The rational embodiment was curious: "Why are you afraid?"

"I'm afraid that no one in this world will ever remember the beauty of justice. I'm afraid that in order to find lost justice, I'll have to slaughter all living things, dissect every life and search through it. Maybe even until the end of the world, I won't be able to find justice." At this point, Du Lin smiled and walked towards the opened portal. "But I have no regrets. In a world without justice, I will destroy it with my own hands."

The sacrifices of so many people will never result in failure. Even if I become a demon, I will not go along with them.

Some people say that civilization is a freak. From the perspective of human nature, every step of civilization should get better and better.

But from a historical perspective, not every step of civilization is progress.

The same is true for people. I can be a revolutionary or a conservative.

As long as it's for justice, I can be an assassin who kills the king and his riders, and what I'm best at is the so-called... going against the tide of history.

Nothing more.

(End of this chapter)