The Fire-Chasing Herrscher Who Destroyed the World

When Otto walked out of the church in despair, he was greeted by the silence shrouded in darkness. The crescent moon hung solitary directly above his head, but it might not be able to shed much light into this dark world.

"Otto... huh, what did that old guy say?"

The sudden sound startled Otto, his shoulders shrugged in response, and then he noticed that there was someone standing in front of him.

Eleanor's title is somewhat disrespectful. As the captain of the Valkyrie Troops, she should respectfully address Nicholas as "Your Majesty the Bishop". As the eldest daughter of the Shaniyat family, she should respectfully address Nicholas as "Mr. Bishop". "Uncle", no... not uncle, her adoptive mother Sabryce is also Nicholas's wife, she should probably call him father.

But now, the man she should have faced respectfully is just an "old guy" in her mouth.

If it had been in the past, Otto would have hurriedly corrected her title to avoid being heard by others... Well, he should probably do this even if no outsiders were present. After all, Nicholas was his father, and no one would like the third person. He slandered his father in front of him...but he was not in the mood to correct him now. Just slander, oh, it can't even be called slander.

But what should he say?

How to answer Eleanor?

Retell to Eleanor everything that happened in the church? That would be too lengthy, but how can I explain everything clearly in short?

"he and I……"

Otto opened and closed his mouth, and finally just shook his head helplessly.

"Knew it……"

Eleanor followed with a long sigh.

"It should be said that it's no surprise. I saw that old guy Luca come out in despair before, and he didn't say anything when I asked him... But, Otto, how serious is the situation? Kallen really... must die. "?"

Otto shook his head blankly.

"Oh? Things have turned around?"

Otto shook his head blankly.

"No...what does that mean?"

Eleanor snorted impatiently, and she took two steps forward until she was face to face with Otto, their faces less than a punch apart.

Only then did Otto notice another thing that had been selectively ignored before - in the past, Eleanor would respectfully call him "Lord Otto", but this time, he did not.

Perhaps, as a third party, she is also disappointed with herself for being so powerless...

But the more this happened, the more powerless Otto felt.

Is it really what he thought? What connects the lonely him to the whole world is nothing else but Kallen.

When he lost Kallen, it was equivalent to losing the entire world.

Just like now, it seems that everything has returned to that warm morning, when she had not yet appeared in his life, when his father ignored him and his companions hated him.

But all this is just returning to the way things should be. In the final analysis, everything I had in the past ten years was an unexpected reward. Even if it is all lost now, it means nothing.

So he didn't say anything else, he just used his shoulder to gently knock Eleanor out of the way, and then step by step, under the dim and erratic moonlight, he walked towards the dungeon where Kallen was imprisoned.

After taking only two steps, he suddenly thought of something, so he turned and turned in another direction.

He was unwilling to give in. It's not that he is unwilling to lose everything, he just feels...

Forget it, there's no need to say it.

"snort!"

Eleanor snorted softly and watched Otto's back disappear from sight.

She sighed heavily and looked up at the moon, which was once again obscured by dark clouds.

Shaniyat... Shaniyat, after all, Shaniyat can stay out of this matter and sit back and watch Kaslana, Apokalis and the Castle Council fight to the death. After all, Shaniyat has The presence of genetic defects in Destiny cannot be said to be very low...it can only be said to be better than nothing. Maybe they won't even notice Shaniyat after all the trouble.

But...she is not willing to give in.

Yes, from a certain perspective, she did hate Kallen very much, but she didn't understand what Kallen had done wrong. No, she didn't think Kallen had done anything wrong at all.

Forget it, there's no need to think about this. Let's just pretend that she was just bored and couldn't help but want to see what Karen could do for the world.

"Everyone is so unreliable, let me think about it... Hey! Maybe that guy has a way!"

She clapped her hands together and couldn't help but feel smart about her previous behavior:

"Fortunately, I am smart and followed the guy when he left... Sigh... If it was the old turtledove, there wouldn't be anything he could do, right? Moreover, Kaslana is still a descendant of him and his comrades, and they always You won’t just sit back and watch, right?”

Eleanor scratched her head and thought about it carefully, she was despicable enough - didn't she just want to encourage that old turtle dove to rob the prison or the court? After all, it is not impossible for her to do this kind of thing herself, but the family... after all, the fate of the entire family rests on her shoulders. Kallen can also learn from the past, so she can't be as reckless as Kallen... No, actually maybe It's just that she's not as brave as Kallen.

"Ahhhhh!"

Eleanor covered her head with her hands and twisted her hair into a mess.

"Forget it! Only fools think so much, just do everything you think of first."

…………

“Da-da-da-da!”

“Hua-”

“Lord Otto, this is where Captain Kallen is imprisoned… uh, where Captain Kallen is imprisoned. Don’t worry, even if Captain Kallen is in trouble, she is still a noble, and we dare not touch her hair… However, at the request of the bishop, we fed her a decoction from Shenzhou, but don’t worry, that decoction only temporarily prevents her from using Honkai energy, and it has no other effect!”

“You’d better just do this.”

Otto interrupted the jailer coldly, holding a bottle of red wine in his hand.

“How could it be… Hahaha…”

The jailer laughed dryly twice, and then quickly covered his mouth. After all, in this situation, even if the smile was dry, it might not meet the requirements of the atmosphere.

He quickly turned back to a serious look, deliberately raised his voice and said:

"In fact, even if Captain Kallen is not a noble, even if you are not involved, we will treat her well - we also have to subscribe to indulgences! And unlike ordinary people, they can hide and deny, if they have no ties, they can run directly to the wild, although they may be caught as slaves one day, at worst, getting a fake indulgence is also a way, right? But those of us with iron rice bowls can't do that! The superiors hold the indulgence in one hand and the roster in the other. If you buy it on the spot, it will be deducted from your salary directly. You can't escape even if you want to! So Captain Kallen is against indulgences, and we are absolutely subservient!"

"Huh?"

Otto took a step forward and turned his head back in surprise:

"I heard that those knights who forcibly sell indulgences on the streets don't have to subscribe to indulgences, just like the soldiers who participated in the Eastern Expedition."

"Ouch!"

The jailer clapped his hands exaggeratedly, and the key chain hanging on his wrist jingled.

Otto glanced at the keychain, and an impulse surged in his heart, but it quickly subsided.

The jailer lowered his voice and said:

"That's different! If you want them to do something, you have to be a little special, right? Although most of these knights have never been on the battlefield of the Eastern Expedition, destiny directly issued them indulgences on the pretext that they joined the army earlier than the end of the war. Isn't that to make them do things! Otherwise, where would they get the enthusiasm? Oh, yes, they can also get kickbacks from the money of the indulgence, so they are more motivated to work!"

"Yeah."

Otto held his breath in his chest. To be honest, he didn't care much about these things, but Karen cared, so he cared too-at least that's what he thought.

"Okay, no more words..."

"I understand! I understand! Then Lord Otto, please go find Captain Karen, I still have to guard the door here!"

Otto nodded, turned around and walked into the tunnel behind the door.

"Bang!"

The heavy iron fence closed behind him. Even though the jailer deliberately used less force, the sound of the door closing still shook the entire tunnel violently, and even the candles on the walls beside the road swayed forward twice.

After walking a few steps forward, an almost suffocating chill hit him. Otto couldn't help but lean towards the torch, but the warmth emitted by the torch was just a drop in the bucket compared to the chill of this dungeon.

Otto continued to move forward silently. The tunnel was winding like an intestine. Otto sometimes even felt that he was going in circles.

The firelight reflected his figure on the wall. He kept crossing over his own shadow, but on second thought, it seemed that countless shadows kept crossing over him.

"Wait!"

He suddenly stopped and stared at the torch beside him. The flame flickered constantly, and the thin blue smoke floated up. Otto's sight followed the blue smoke upwards and finally stopped above his head.

He narrowed his eyes and carefully identified for a long time, and finally found the outline of the vent on the top of the tunnel that was infinitely close to pitch black.

"So that's it."

This is a dungeon, and there are torches. If there is no perfect ventilation system, people will suffocate to death. But the light here is dim, and the design of the vent is clever, so even Otto didn't find it at the first time.

But he didn't make a sound, but pursed his lips and continued to move forward. How long did he walk? He couldn't remember, and there was no representative, but it was probably ten minutes. He finally reached the end of the tunnel.

Further forward, there were no more torches on the side of the tunnel, just deep darkness.

"Rustle--"

The sound of clothes rubbing against each other came from the darkness, followed by a voice that was so familiar to him that he couldn't be more familiar. In the familiarity, there was a hint of surprise that he couldn't suppress:

"Otto? Is that you?"

The voice was so close that Otto subconsciously raised his hand. He knew that if he just moved his hand forward a little, he could touch the cold iron threshold, and if he moved forward a little further, he would reach Kallen, who was within reach but could not be touched.

"Hmm..."

His chest was heaving. Rather than saying it was a response, it was just a heavy nasal sound from taking a deep breath. So he quickly added:

"I'm here, Kallen."

The other side of the darkness fell into a long silence. Otto had no idea how long the silence lasted this time.

He only knew that when Kallen spoke again, her tone returned to that lifeless one, as if deliberately reminding him that the slight surprise, the uncontrollable restlessness, the deep powerlessness and despair, and the unconscious request for help when she called his name before were all just his, Otto Apokalis's fantasy.

"So...what do you want to say?"

After all, Otto couldn't hold back. He knelt down on one knee first, then stretched his right hand forward a little, and accurately grasped the slightly damp iron railing, but that was all.

"Karen, fulfill your engagement with me. I...I...I won't let you die. This is me..."

This is the only chance I can get.

He didn't finish what he said, not because of the biting chill in the dungeon, or because Kallen interrupted him, but...

He believed that Kallen could understand the meaning behind this sentence, and he already knew the answer that Kallen would give, so there was actually no need to say anything more.

"Your father doesn't care about my life or death, let alone my relationship with you. Of course, he doesn't care about you either. Fulfilling the engagement... This engagement is just a cover from beginning to end, haha, it's just a thought. Just let me be his hostage to control the Kaslana family."

In an instant, Otto concentrated all the strength in his body on the hand holding the iron sill, so that the ridiculous barrier that separated him and Kallen trembled violently.

He knew, he knew Karen would answer like this.

"But...but! What does it matter! Kallen! This engagement is just a cover, and it can be a cover in the future! My father, he is not in good health anymore, Kallen... Of course, this It doesn’t matter, what matters is that you live, you can live...just live, that’s all.”

"rustle……"

There was another sound of fabric rubbing in the darkness. It was Karen moving. Otto could imagine her changing her position. She sat on the ground and wrapped her arms around her knees.

"Perhaps it is indeed wonderful to live. But...I don't accept it."

Karen's voice was light, with a hint of determination and powerlessness, and seemed like ashes that could not be blown away.

Facts have proved that even if it is something that has been expected, an answer that has been expected, and a rejection that has been expected, it can still make people feel heartbroken.

Otto put the red wine on the ground, and grabbed it forward with his free hand. He held the iron sill tightly with both hands. The iron sill was constantly trembling with the twitching of his body muscles, and the echo of "click" was pulled by the tunnel. Got to be lengthy and fragile.

Kallen refused.

This is not surprising at all.

But does Otto care?

No, he doesn't care. He doesn’t accept it either, never accepts it!

In order to realize her wish, he has done so many things in the past ten years that she would not agree with or agree to, so why not do it again?

Isn't this time...isn't this time more noble than any other time? Because this time, he just wanted to save the noble soul in front of him!

He had already planned it. With just one glance, he had recorded in his heart the shapes of the more than ten keys in the jailer's hands. With the help of Void Manzo, he could reproduce all the keys and then open the iron threshold in front of him.

Of course, it doesn't matter even if the key is useless. It's nothing more than constructing something else. It's not difficult to open the cage in front of you.

The jailer's decoction also became a help invisibly. She couldn't use Honkai energy, which meant that she was as weak as a normal person at the moment. He could take her away directly.

Then what? Vents! right! It's the vent!

Kallen was able to go out through the vent, and he returned to the tunnel and left openly. No one knew that the dungeon was empty. Even if he found out, it would be a few hours after dinner, and they had enough time to leave Ke Rosten, when the time comes, head south, go all the way to Venice and sail to Quanzhou in China via the previously opened new route, and then go north to Taixu Mountain to seek the protection of Immortal Red Kite... He has everything planned...

But when he just wanted to do it, he only heard a "click" and something like glass in his heart broke into countless pieces.

He suddenly thought of a possibility——

If he loses Kallen, it is equivalent to losing the whole world, then what does Kallen have now?

Kaslana betrayed her, fate imprisoned her, and her subordinates abandoned her. What else did she have?

She only had Otto left.

But unfortunately, she is destined to never have Otto again.

why?

It was precisely because he had let her down.

Although Otto did not let her see the tragic situation in his laboratory, in fact, the time on the Qinchak Grassland could already explain many problems, right? Also, is his disguise all along, too hypocritical and too obvious?

And if you put it this way, isn't it the person who makes Kallen become despairing and just wants to die... at least, at least, he is one of them.

"Yes, Otto, you are a murderer too. You are also the one she fights against. You are the darkness she swore to eradicate."