Final Lord

Chapter 82 Why fight?
"Ha. Haha. Hahaha!" General Ed suddenly laughed towards the sky, then he suddenly drew out his sword, and with one sword down, countless icicles shot out, tearing off most of the roof of the warehouse and changing the color of the sky!

The cold wind swept through, and many cavemen and harpies were unable to stand steadily in the strong wind, grabbing their companions and screaming.

"General, what's wrong with you? Why are you suddenly so emotional?" Wang Bufu asked. "Please calm down. My soldiers can't handle your aura."

"Hahaha. Let me tell you a joke."

Ed lowered the sword in his hand, and his eyes seemed to contain the wind and snow of ten thousand years.

"The demonic tide broke out, and our messengers went to ask for help on June 6nd, ten days before the king's death.

It wasn't just bad luck. The Second Prince must have received our letter for help and prepared an army to support us. But he chose not to come to our rescue. Instead, he took the army that was supposed to support him and went straight to the capital!

My brothers and I persevered in desperate situations until we were at our wit's end, even eating each other, just to protect the borders of the Eagle Kingdom.

This is all we've got to protect? Young man, isn't that ridiculous?
Ha ha ha ha! "

General Ed's wild laughter shattered his breastplate, and a spiderweb of purple-black veins suddenly emerged from beneath his aged skin. Wang Bufu saw that every one of his veins was boiling, and icy blue blood and inky demonic energy twisted into spirals that crawled down his neck and onto his cheeks.

“Crack—”

The longsword in the general's right hand suddenly sprouted fang-like ice spikes. The icy shards, which should have been crystal clear, instead swirled with a pitch-like black mist. The ice beneath his feet began to rot, the pure white hexagram array stained a foul dark purple, and countless tiny demon embryos writhe within the ice.

The illusion of the ice army around Wang Bufu also began to shake, flickering repeatedly like the snow screen on a TV.

"General! Your eye!" Wei Yi screamed, stepping back half a step. Ed's right eye, once crystal clear, was now completely black, its pupil split into six blood-red compound eyes. His left eye continuously dripped blue icy tears, each tear freezing onto the ground into a screaming ice sculpture of a human face.

The entire ice castle suddenly tilted and twisted, its once-straight walls drooping like melting candles. Wang Bufu grabbed the blind cat as it nearly slipped and discovered that the ice he had touched was oozing a scarlet liquid—the blood of the fallen soldiers forty years before!

"Roar!!!"

Ed suddenly let out an inhuman roar, and six ice crystal bone wings exploded from his back, each dangling from the frozen corpse of a baby. The phantoms of the three ice barrier soldiers closest to him suddenly twitched, and barbed black ice vines emerged from the cracks in their armor, frantically attacking their comrades.

"Don't look into their eyes!" Wang Bufu pressed Wei Yi's head into his arms - a soldier infected by evil spirits was digging out his own eyeballs with fingers that had grown ice spikes, and the eyeballs exploded into miniature ice bombs in mid-air.

The most terrifying change occurred in the direction of the granary. Some of the dead "Ice Armor Ingredients" suddenly began to wriggle. Captain Luke's frozen corpse was bursting the stew pot from the inside. His ribs pierced his chest and turned into bony wings, and his rotting intestines froze into serpent-like chains of ice.

"My soldiers, my comrades! The kingdom we defend has long since rotted away!" Ed's voice morphed into a cacophony of roars, men, women, young and old. With every word he spoke, icy armor crumbled from his body, revealing the black, festering flesh beneath. "Look at that treacherous king, look at that maggot! What right does he have to make us bleed for him?"

It's demonization!
The king felt his back tighten when he was dissatisfied.

General Ed should have been dead forty years ago, yet he could stand here and talk to him, leading the long-destroyed Ice Barrier Army to fight monsters, and even transform into a demon! The king couldn't figure out what General Ed's condition was, but he knew that if General Ed's transformation was complete, their fate would be dire.

"General Ed!" Wang Bufu grabbed the Frost Diary in his hand and shouted, "General, take a look at this diary! Think carefully about who you are fighting for!

Uncle Pido, Uncle Kane, Aunt Linda, Barrel Hank, Red-haired Maggie, Baker Tom, Shepherd Jane...

When the demonic tide arrived, it was these people who risked their lives to buy you time! "Wang Bufu's boots sank into the surging black ice. "Until the moment they died, they believed the Ice Barrier Corps' battle flag would bring dawn to the people of the borderlands!"

General Ed's demonized right arm suddenly stopped, and a wisp of blue light shone through the cracks in the black ice. The sound of ice crystals shattering could be heard from somewhere on the city wall. The phantom of the Ice Barrier Legion trembled, and many fragmented images appeared.

The phantom of a young soldier was digging at the ice with his bare hands, digging out half a moldy rye bread from the frozen soil and giving it to a crying child.

In the dilapidated mailbox at the foot of the city wall, hundreds of yellowed letters lay there quietly. They were the letters home that the fallen soldiers failed to send.

The two soldiers stood back to back, and one of them said, "After we defeat the monsters, I want to help Aunt Lisa next door repair her roof. The hailstorm didn't hit her well last time, and it collapsed."

"I want to go back to my hometown. I haven't been back for a long time. I don't know if my daughter has grown up yet."

……

Wang Bufu pointed at the countless phantoms and shouted to General Ed:

"When you and your brothers were gnawing on your armor, did you ever see a civilian stealing military rations?
Not only did they not cause more trouble, but before they starved to death, they buried their last rations under the granary steps and then lay on top of them!

Not just the people here.

When the second prince was recruiting troops and food, he could not have used the name of seizing the throne. The king was not dead at that time. He could only recruit food in the name of supporting you.

Those who donated food and supplies to the Second Prince all believed that their donations could help you! They donated their precious food for you!
Do you understand, General Ed? Those weak people in the kingdom are the ones you should truly protect!

Your sacrifice was not in vain. A demonic tide of this magnitude would usually consume several, even dozens, of territories before stopping. But the demonic tide over forty years ago only consumed Eagle Beak Territory.

It was your selfless sacrifice that prevented the demonic tide from spreading. Countless people behind you have survived because of you."

General Ed's demonic form suddenly disintegrated into a large block of black ice, but at its core, an icy blue soul fire ignited. Wang Bufu stepped forward on the melting demonic ice, holding up the diary and standing before Ed, declaring loudly:
"Wake up! General Ed! The people of the Eagle Kingdom are not at fault, and neither are you. The only one who is wrong is that damned Second Prince!"

(End of this chapter)