Necromancy God of Heroes of Might and Magic

2020-12-18

  Chapter 1646 Suffering and wild beast

Sitting by the fire, looking at the name directly opposite Woman, Rhodes seems to have found something.

In Rhodes' memory, he seemed to have seen the woman, but he couldn't remember where he had met her, just a few impressions in his mind.

After waiting for a while, Rhodes asked, "Who are you?" The woman didn't answer Rhodes' words, but just gave Rhodes a faint look.

From the darkness behind her, she picked up a handful of dry branches and put them into the fire in front of her. For a time, the flames in the fire burned even more vigorously.

When she was done, she laughed with satisfaction, then looked at Rhodes and said, "Tell me what you think about suffering."

Her voice was low, not like The effect of deliberately lowering the voice, but the voice itself.

"Misery? What do you mean?" Rhodes gave her a puzzled look, not understanding the meaning of her question.

In this unfamiliar environment, Rhodes doesn't know how his answer will affect the follow-up. The best choice is to ask the woman in front of him first. According to her answer, he Answer again.

"What people suffer, what makes them feel painful," she explained slowly, "maybe it's physical suffering, death, sickness, disability, or maybe it's mental, madness, pain. , love."

"Love?" Rhodes seemed to have found something, slightly frowned, looking at her and asked, "Is love also a misery?"

"Of course." She nodded, "When all creatures are just born, their hearts are peaceful and happy, with no fear, no desire, and incomparable innocence. Have you ever observed the eyes of any kind of newborn creature? There is no impurities in it."

Rhodes was silent, listening to the woman with a calm expression.

"However, with the contact with the outside world, the original happiness and harmony of the newborn is destroyed, fear and desire arise, and distractions appear in the innocent heart, causing people to lose eternal happiness. It is the existence of suffering. Since we were born, everything we have experienced, even the love that can bring people short-term happiness, is suffering."

Speaking, she paused, her eyes carefully Staring at Rhodes: "This is my understanding of suffering, and I want to hear from you."

Rhodes thought for a moment, replied: "I think suffering can give people strength and make them heroes. "

"Hero? Is this your understanding of suffering?" She looked disappointed, giving Rhodes a dissatisfied look.

Rhodes nodded: "If suffering has any meaning, it is to make people go beyond it. There is no way people can do this in their own power, only by being a hero."

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She smiled slightly: "Although I don't agree with what you said, I agree with one of your words. The meaning of suffering is to let people transcend suffering and gain eternal happiness."

Rhodes seems to realize something: "Eternal happiness...that's not easy to achieve. Even Lich, who seems to be eternal, will die when he encounters a stronger enemy. What kind of happiness, can Eternity lasts?"

"There is only one being that possesses such happiness. In the ancient legends of Erathia, that being is called 'God'," she exclaimed, standing from the fire When she got up, the large robe immediately enveloped her body, "We meet again, Rhodes."

Hearing her say this, Rhodes' expression suddenly changed, and he subconsciously entered a state of vigilance.

In Rhodes' impression, after he came to hell, he never revealed his real name and always called himself Elliot. However, the woman in front of him called out his real name and listened. Her words, it seems that she is not seeing herself for the first time.

Thinking of this, Rhodes seemed to realize something. He glanced at the woman unexpectedly, knowing that his soul would come to hell. It seemed that there was only one person.

"Mexiga, is that you?" Rhodes asked with some doubts. Apart from Messika, he couldn't think of who else could be in front of him.

Facing Rhodes' question, she did not answer directly, but a smile appeared on the corner of her mouth, which was regarded as acquiescence to Rhodes' words.

At this point, Rhodes also recalled where he had seen the woman's face. In the Temple of Revelation not long ago, the statue belonging to the greedy king was clearly made in the image of the woman in front of him.

In the past, under the influence of the realm of the dead, Messika took the form of an old woman, but in the trial in the depths of hell, Rhodes saw her true form, or Said she used to be.

The difference between the two looks is so great that Rhodes wasn't used to it for a while.

"I found the guide you left." After a moment of indulgence, Rhodes slowly said, "When you just disappeared, I used treasure to investigate your situation and found that you were hanging on a lava lake. , Now it seems that your state is better than I thought. You can find me in the trial, and it seems that you are safe and sound."

However, Messika looked the head: " What you see now is just a small trick. My body is still on that lava lake and I am being punished... The lava lake you see is the lake of fire in the trial, and my location should be A place called the Door of Betrayal."

Rhodes' face changed when he heard Mexica's words. Before that, Rhodes had long known from Hela's story that among the ten gates leading to Flame Seal City, the first one was the Gate of Betrayal. Unexpectedly, Messika was locked there.

"Why are you locked up there? What did you do?" Rhodes asked with some doubts. He didn't understand what Messika did. As one of the kings, she, To be punished like this.

"That was a long time ago." Messica didn't answer Rhodes' question directly, but just called the head, "I am imprisoned at the gate of treason as a 'wild beast' 'One of the offerings of birth, if you can get me out, I might be able to help you a lot."

"wild beast? What is that?" Rhodes asked, seeming to have found something.

"Ultimate creatures." Mexiga said slowly, "all creatures that fail the trial will become part of the wild beast."

Rhodes frowned, in his memory In the game, there was no such ultimate creature in the game in the previous life, maybe because the player at that time disrupted the process of the game, or for some other reason, Rhodes can't rely on memory for everything that happened in hell. get any help.

(end of this chapter)