Chapter 23 Chapter Twenty Two

Tears blurred my vision and I can't see anything now. Even though I know he'll be back soon, stronger and more beautiful, and immortal.But seeing a loved one die slowly is not something anyone can bear. An intense grief swept through my guts like a storm.A heavy stagnation builds up in my chest, my windpipe seems to be blocked and I can't breathe.Dizzy and reeling, I reached out to grab Murphy's arm because I was about to fall.But so close, I couldn't see his face clearly.The person in front of me was distant and indistinct. What is clear is the screams one after another, they are ringing in my ears one after another, getting closer... I feel cold... No, I want to stay here!I must see D open those gray eyes that dazzle me again.

Murphys held me up.His figure gradually emerged in the darkness, as if he was walking towards me through a thick fog.But in fact, he stood there the whole time, not moving at all. "Your time is running out." He said to me in the softest tone.I could hear the sadness and helplessness hidden in his voice.He is a succubus with great powers, he can turn his hand into clouds and rain in dreams all over the world, he knows everything and is omnipotent.But now he can only watch me step by step towards death without doing anything. I swallowed hard and pretended I didn't hear anything.I'm about to wake up.I can feel it without him saying it.

But I can't go, not yet.I want to see D open his eyes and see him with Odile from six hundred years ago.I would fantasize that this is who I am now - that we've become equals, that we can finally be together. Murphys sighed softly.I know what he wants to say. "Shh..." I put a finger to my lips and stopped him in time, "Don't tell me anything, please show me the rest." He nodded.The figure in front of him disappeared again.I returned to the mermaid battlefield. There was a strong smell of blood in the wind.The suffocating smell of blood is like a huge and sticky net, engulfing all things in the world, and the people who survived the battlefield are as miserable and helpless as the little bugs attached to the net.

The devil's zombie army has all been wiped out.The few remaining mermaid warriors who were still alive opened their eyes wide and terrified, looking at the collapsed corpse in the middle of the battlefield in disbelief. The invincible demon is dead.Killed by their commander, Theodore, and the "Dragon Knight" who fell from the sky. They saw the heroic and fearless commander drenched in blood. He limped and ran from a distance, threw himself on the body of the stranger, and screamed the name of the stranger frantically. They have never seen the commander-in-chief cry.They are all battle-tested aquatic warriors, but they have never seen so much blood.

The man in the commander's arms seemed to have drained all of his blood.His dead face was pale and cold as marble, and his sword was still gripped tightly between his stiff fingers. Theodore felt that the opponent's body was gradually getting colder.He knew Vlad was dead and would never come back.Although I once wanted him to leave this battlefield, the result was that the other party died in order to save him.He couldn't accept this fact. He watched him there for a long, long, long time.Until Vlad's body was completely cold, there was no trace of life anymore. Theodore took a deep breath.He looked at the person in his arms and said to him: "I should have put you into the bubble and sent you into the sea according to the tradition of the water tribe. In the kingdom of the water elves, we do this to all the soldiers who died in battle. But you It's not the same. You are a dragon knight. I must bury you on the ground where you once fought." He swallowed hard and continued, "I hope you don't blame me, because I don't have a coffin or a tombstone .That's all I have." He took off the helmet on his head, and with the short sword he chopped off a strand of golden hair.He put them together on D's chest.

"You gave me my life, Dragon Knight. But I can't die for you, not yet." Theodore said softly, "Before I give this life back to you, please let me die." Instead of me, they sleep with you on this blood-soaked land." Theodore looked at him for a while, finally heaved a long sigh, and stood up reluctantly.He closed his eyes, stretched out his hands to the turbulent water waves above his head, and summoned the power of the water element. Following the mantra chanted in Theodore's mouth, a wisp of white mist suddenly appeared, slowly covering D's body, and then spreading.The clean water mist washed away the blood on his body, and slowly condensed into ice all over his body.He lay quietly in the transparent ice layer, his expression was serene and peaceful, his brows that had been frowning all the time were relaxed, and there was even a hint of a smile on his lips.He is so pure and beautiful, like a sleeping prince.

At his side lay his sword.He wore his rings on his crossed fingers. The light passed through the ice and refracted on the dragon. Theodore raised his hands again. The ground under D suddenly parted, and the entire ice coffin sank. When all this happened, the girl in black was standing not far away, looking at them anxiously.She hesitated to go forward because she was afraid of Theodore.But now that D's body was gone, she rushed forward with a face full of panic. But she was still a step too late.She fell to the open ground.The land there has been closed again, and the ground is as smooth as ever.

The girl knelt there in a daze, holding a handful of blood-stained soil in her hand.She didn't know if it was Vlad's blood, or the demon's.Or from the hundreds of merfolk warriors who died on the battlefield. "Get out of here!" A threatening voice suddenly sounded. The girl raised her blurry teary eyes. "Get out of this land! Devil!" snapped Theodore. The girl wiped away tears, she stood up, wanted to say something, but was choked by the overwhelming grief. "I won't kill you, because there are already enough people who died today. But if you take another step into the aquarium territory in the future, I will never let you go!" Theodore drew out his short sword and pointed at him, with a determined expression on his face. Fortitude.

The girl didn't look at him, her big, bright black eyes were still staring reluctantly at the re-closed land under her feet. "Can't I come and see him?" She whispered, as if humbly begging the other party, or muttering to herself. "Don't you think it's enough to kill him?" Theodore's anger rose sharply. He rushed forward and shouted with his sword, "You killed him! If you don't come here, this tragic war will start from the beginning." It's not going to happen at all!" "But I just..." The girl took a step back involuntarily, her beautiful eyes filled with tears.

"Go away! Dirty things! Get out of the water tribe's territory!" Theodore slammed down the short sword. The girl exclaimed and disappeared immediately.