Chapter 611 Immortal Lords (1/2)
Chapter 611 Immortal Lords
After a while, shrouded in darkness, Elyas suddenly spoke, addressing Sunny in his usual one-sidedAwakened had developed a habit of sohtening creature could not respond with anything more than an occasional nod, a shake of the head, or an indifferent shrug Talking to Shadoas not much of a conversation, but
Perhaps this was one of the few things that were keeping him sane
…Sunny could understand why the youth had to do that, since his own inability to talk was one of the things that were driving hi him of even more of his humanity
"Hey, demon Do you… do you think it's true? About the wooden sword…"
Sunny stared at the young ed He had no opinion on that topic, since he didn't knohat the wooden sas
Elyas sighed
"Before the Warers captured us, I had heard of their cruel Trials Everyone back ho every parent tells their children, to rew silent, and then continued after some time, his voice even:
"But they also say that there is a way to escape this terrible place If one is brave enough… if they are righteous enough… then they would eventually be given a wooden sword, and earn the right to fight for their freedo his head
'What a nice fairy tale…'
The poor kid was deceiving hi to just let thehteousness… these concepts were alien to the insane zealots
Or rather, they understood it all differently
Sunny had spent enough tiers, as Elyas called them — to understand that they were not evil people, or at least did not consider themselves as such Their worldvieisted and ruthlessly cruel, but le, and glory One had to struggle to achieve glory, and the struggle itself was theThat hy they were happy and joyful atching their new favorite, Shadow, slaughter his way through the arena, no htmare Creatures or their own friends and faainst an overwhel by his hand was a privilege and an expression of virtue
The only thing er enemy… was to kill that enemy instead
In theirto the slaves not as a cruel injustice, but as a benevolent gift The slaves were not forced to slaughter each other for the entertainiven a chance to walk the path of righteousness and strive toward glory
That hy Sunny didn't think that any of the slaves would ever be allowed to walk free of the colosseureatest sin, a shaers, in their perverse benevolence, would never visit upon their prisoners