Chapter 363: The Sorrow of the High King
late at night.
Leon still stayed in the garden of the House of Nobles.
The place has been cleaned up and looks empty, with only a few statues still preserved.
Li Ang stood in front of a three-meter-high stone statue and looked up.
This is both a statue of Kavala and a street lamp in the Noble Court Garden - all the street lamps in the Noble Court are in the shape of Kavala holding a lamp and shining it forward.
The stone statue of Kavala stands on a stone platform more than one meter high. The statue is almost as tall as a person, with exquisite craftsmanship and lifelike appearance.
"Your Majesty, can I talk to you for a moment? You've been looking at me, right?"
Li Ang brought the ring to his lips and asked softly.
"What do you want to talk about? Do you think you have won? You only got Sarleon temporarily, but I will still kill you in the end..."
Kavala replied immediately, his tone calm and indifferent.
It seems that he has indeed been paying attention to Li Ang.
"No, I just want to ask, why did you create a snake cult? And why did you deliberately spread the Red Death? You founded the Kingdom of Pendor with your own hands, and the people of the entire continent were once your subjects... Most of the heirs of the Pendor royal family died of the Red Death. They were all your own descendants - don't you care about them at all?"
Li Ang really wanted to know the reason.
After a moment of silence, Kavala's voice rang out: "Of course I care... This is my Pande! This is the land I conquered with all my efforts! This is the country I established with the sacrifice of countless comrades..."
"But I do this because I care... and I didn't spread the Red Death..."
"Boy, I can tell you everything I've been through..."
"In order to seal the Gloomy Eye, I conquered the continent, and my comrades died on the battlefield one by one..."
"In order to destroy those damn codes, my wife died in the expedition, and my last brothers also died in the expedition... I have been fighting for the will of the goddess all my life, and I have never stopped!"
"At that time, I was at the mercy of others and gave everything for the will of the goddess... But it was not until I was old that I realized that I had never obeyed my own will in my life!... I was just a pawn in the hands of Eunomia!"
"I conquered the continent, destroyed most of the codes, and made Eunomia the only main god in the entire continent who could descend upon the world... but I lost everything!"
"My wife, my friends, my soldiers, my people... and myself!"
"But what did Eunomia pay?"
"She just gave me a few bland compliments and then said God shouldn't exist... She doesn't even want me to live very long!"
"I didn't know why at the time... After completing the expedition to Bacchus, the only thing I wanted was to enjoy a few more days of peace in my later years. I had been fighting for decades, and I had had enough!"
"But even when I was old, Eunomia still asked me to launch an expedition to the Barkley Continent..."
"I was already seventy-six years old at that time... I had been fighting for fifty-five consecutive years! Leon, can you understand how I felt at that time? Hahaha..."
Kavala laughed miserably as he spoke.
"I do understand your feelings...really. But I don't understand your actions..."
Li Ang sighed.
Eunomia wants to put an end to the chaos brought by the gods, so she has been driving Kavala to continue conquering. In order to destroy all the codes of the gods, all countries and nations in the world must be completely defeated...
But they have been fighting for more than 50 years without giving people a break...
Even a mule can't be used like this! Even the most evil capitalist would cry after seeing this...
However, Kavala was really stupid at that time...
"Boy, if it were you, what would you do in that situation? A god you devoutly believe in asks you to do these things, and it is for the safety of all mankind..."
Perhaps he didn't expect Li Ang to say that he understood him, so Kavala paused and asked about Li Ang.
"Me? I don't think I could have fought for fifty years... To destroy all the codes, we don't have to conquer them directly. Isn't it enough to offer a high reward to lure people to get them back?"
Li Ang smiled and said, "As the Supreme King of the Continent of Pendor, I can afford any reward... Why do we have to fight? Besides... If Eunomia orders you to do something, can't you order others to do something? There are so many people on the continent, who told you to do this yourself?"
Kavala was silent.
After a long silence, when Leon thought Kavala would not reply, he heard Kavala let out a faint sigh.
"Huh... you're right. But at that time, I was just a warrior who believed in the goddess of order. The goddess asked me to conquer, so I led my troops to conquer... and the code of God would corrode people's souls. At that time, only the Noldor elves and I were not affected, but the Noldor elves were unwilling to leave the continent of Pendor to fight overseas. I never thought of using other methods at that time..."
It seems that Kavala's brain was not very flexible at that time...
That's true. People with smart brains are usually not very pious...
"You didn't want to be at the mercy of the goddess anymore, so you brought Azi Dahaka back from Wengedarian Island? Did you want to kill the goddess at that time?"
Leon did not laugh at Kavala. Kavala became the Supreme King by conquering the continent by force, so he naturally had inertial thinking.
At that time, Kavala's mind was probably only filled with the glory of the goddess and the honor of the battlefield. It was normal for him to only consider direct conquest when encountering things. Even after he was dissatisfied with the goddess, he probably thought of direct confrontation.
This is not surprising, as religious sects in all eras have always attempted to destroy other beliefs through direct military conquest.
Even in modern society, many people still think this way - when it comes to the topic of nations, they only think of war and conquest, military strength and equipment, or who is good and who is bad, who is good and who is evil...
However, Kavala is definitely not such a person now.
Li Ang didn't believe that a man who had been the high priest of the Snake Cult for decades could be so naive.
"I didn't plan to fight the goddess at that time... Ha... How can a human fight against a god? And I didn't even know that a human could become a god at that time... I just wanted to live according to my own will, that's all."
Kavala laughed at himself: "Actually, I just wanted to live a few more years. I just wanted to see more of the country I built and spend more time with my grandchildren. Really. After asking many people, I started to build my own temples and statues. It is said that this can help me live forever..."
"Your reputation should have been higher than that of all other gods at that time, and you should have had many believers... You should have gained more than just immortality through the temple."
Leon looked up at the statues of Kavala again. Every statue of Kavala, whether riding a horse or not, and no matter what action they were doing, was an image of a knight wearing armor and carrying a sword and shield.
"That's right. I didn't expect that I would gain so much faith in just a few years. I actually became a god! But it was precisely because I became a god that I realized I had made a big mistake..."
Kavala continued in a low voice: "My body was still alive at that time! I became a god while I was alive! But I couldn't use any magic at all because my body could suppress magic!"
"Eunomia also found out that I had become a new god... She told me the story of the god and asked me to set out to the sea to attack Barclay immediately to destroy the last two codes. Since I couldn't use divine magic, she didn't do anything to me. But she didn't allow me to stay in Pendor anymore, and warned me that if I returned to the continent, she would come down and kill me in person!"
"I was already eighty-one years old at that time. But I still had no choice but to lead the expeditionary army to leave Pendor. A knight god who couldn't use divine magic was no different from an ordinary old man..."
"But I didn't go to Barkley. I went to the continent of Wengedarian. Originally, I just wanted to go to the ice field destroyed by the magic storm, avoid the surveillance of Eunomia, and try to find a way to use divine arts or magic... There, I found an underground ruin left by the Sindar elves."
"It was a large building buried deep underground. It wasn't destroyed, but it was completely frozen."
"There were corpses of an army of elven men inside, thousands of them, mostly Noldor, all drained of blood. Only one Sindarin Elf was unharmed, but he was also frozen... There was also a huge, completely sealed metal cellar with a winged snake symbol on the door."
"Out of curiosity, I opened the door of the cellar... It was full of frozen blood and a humanoid monster covered in snake scales... Moreover, after thawing, the monster came back to life! It has strong fighting power, but it has no intelligence and will only obey the orders of the first person it sees, just like a newly hatched chicken or duck."
"After that monster came back to life, I realized that I had lost the ability to gain faith... This was not because of my own magic-resistant physique , but because of that monster - it could block everything related to magic or divine arts!"
"And soon after, all my expeditionary forces died...died of the Red Death. Their bodies were festered, their skin fell off, and they died like fallen beings."
"I also died at that time. But I didn't die of the Red Death. Instead, I lost my faith, became weak, and froze to death in the ice ruins... After all, I was already 83 years old at that time."
"But my soul didn't die. However, at that time I didn't know how long I could live in the spiritual state, and I needed a body to sail away from the continent of Wengedarian..."
"You are a very smart person. You should have known everything... The monster in the box was Aziz Dahaka. It was the only body I could use at the time - the others were dead and frozen. Only Aziz Dahaka could move."
At this point, Kavala stopped.
After a pause, he asked Li Ang: "Now, let me ask you again... If it were you, what would you do?"
Li Ang was silent for a while. To be honest, Kavala was indeed quite miserable.
He was exploited by the devout goddess of order all his life, and he fought wars all his life but never had any enjoyment.
After being used, he became a god because he was unwilling to die of old age, but was expelled from the continent because of this. He could no longer return to the country he founded, and he could not even go to see his descendants.
In the end, the old body froze to death alone in the deserted ice field, surrounded by only a large number of frozen corpses and a monster created by the Sindar elves - and only that monster could move, as it was the only body that Kavala's spirit could use.
"So, you used Azi Dahaka's body... to go to Bacchus..."
Li Ang sighed. What else could he do?
At that time, Kavala just wanted to survive. It was an instinct.
"Haha... No one is nobler than anyone else... Yes, I took over the body of Azi Dahaka - it has no spirit at all, because it does not belong to this world. It is actually just a humanoid weapon made by the Sindarin elves."
"I took the bodies of the elves, used them to jam the ropes and masts, and sailed to Bacchus alone... I was alone, and there was no way I could sail the ship back to Pendor."
"Besides, all my expeditionary forces died from the Red Death. I don't dare to go back to Pendor directly. I don't want my kingdom to be infected by the Red Death. I really don't want to."
"But I didn't expect that Azi Dahaka would gradually weaken after leaving the blood in the box... It is an artificial puppet and must be continuously supplied with magic power by the blood of the Noldor elves, otherwise it will die soon!"
"But the corpses of the Noldor elves I brought back were devoid of blood. There is no elven blood to replenish them on the continent of Bacchus... and the only Sindarri elf, Maltis, was not actually dead. She woke up after the ice was lifted. But her soul was already incomplete and out of control. She could only obey simple orders to a limited extent. Moreover, she turned those elven soldiers into undead as soon as she woke up..."
"But I still cannot use divine magic, because Azi Dahaka's body is more powerful in suppressing magic..."
"I had no choice but to try to establish the Snake Cult on the continent of Bacchus and worship Aziz Dahaka as a god... Because my old body lived two more years after gaining faith, I wanted to use faith to keep this body alive."
"With my previous experience, I successfully created a god again. The spirit of Azi Dahaka is myself. I can indeed gain all the faith... but it's useless. Azi Dahaka's body is still weakening..."
"At that time, I didn't know that the spirit would be free after the body died. I just wanted to live, even if I had to live in this ugly body of Aziz Dahaka... So I had no other choice..."
"I know there is a place with a lot of Noldor elves' blood... That is a blood pool created to suppress the Gloomy Eye. You should have discovered it, right?"
"So I must return to Pendor."
"I dived into the blood pool of the Nobles' House and solved the problem of survival..."
"I even used that body to enter the Temple of Order and found Eunomia's code - her own code was not destroyed... but I destroyed it. Moreover, I melted the code into another thing..."
Kavala was probably tired and his voice became smaller and smaller.
"You made it into a ring? The one on my hand? No wonder this ring got a response from Eunomia... Then, where did the griffin in the ring come from?"
Leon has realized what the code has become.
"Haha... didn't you deal with another Aigrim? This kind of abyssal evil spirit can only live in the code except for occupying human bodies... You still can't think of the origin of the griffin?"
Kavala laughed.
