Tokyo underground city

Chapter 256 Augustus

A huge wound opened on Agustus' body.

Tanya and the Wolf King were stunned for a moment, and Agustus raised his head and looked into the distance.

The tall werewolf was silent, but his snow-white hair burst into scarlet bloody mouths under the blowing wind and snow.

This time, the silver-white liquid no longer flowed from the Wolf King's body, but blood bubbles continued to appear like ulcers.

"What are you doing?"

Without the Wolf King's ability to sense the restrained space, Tanya could barely stand in front of it.

The old-fashioned shotgun had been broken into two pieces, and her right hand hidden under her sleeve had turned into a sharp claw.

And it was precisely because of the use of half-werewolf that she was able to endure the attack of the Wolf King for so long——

Of course, there is also a reason why Agustus deliberately let go.

The Wolf King seemed to have felt something. He didn't pay attention to the wounds on his body, but turned his attention to Tanya——

"The broadcast in the arena should stop. You can take out your right hand."

The white-haired girl gasped, looked at the Wolf King, remained silent for a long time, and slowly took out her arm.

Looking at her white hair, Argus couldn't help but nodded——

"You are indeed my people."

"...you did something to us."

Tanya looked at Agustus with a complicated expression. Even though she had never dealt with the Wolf King before the hunt, she could feel that Agustus was like her uncle Alexander, treating her Show a kind of kindness based on kinship——

Although this kind of friendliness is quite limited.

Strictly speaking, what Agustus is concerned about is only the living conditions of half-werewolves like Tanya in the outside world.

However, by this time, Agustus had also realized——

It failed miserably.

Even if the hunt can be won, the "Kingdom of Eternal Night" has been destroyed, and it has lost the foundation of its existence——

For Agustus, the people of the White Wolf Clan are the "tuberose" of Aster. Although they are inconspicuous, that is its "essence".

It guards them and they sustain it.

It is clear that both parties are exhausted, but the "bond" composed of "loyalty and virtuousness" still forms an indestructible "curse".

This "abnormal" distortion is his "essence".

This is also the reason why it became "Abnormal Body".

So it released its claws that it had been holding in vain and stood up.

What should I say at the last moment...

It thought silently.

But it finally looked at Tanya and decided to start by answering her question.

“Strictly speaking, it’s not what ‘I’ did to you, but what my ‘inhibitory space’ did to you.”

"...'Suppressed Space'?"

Tanya asked with some confusion.

"Yes." Agustus nodded: "You can think that every "abnormal body"... is a 'pus', and the 'suppression space' is the pus and blood flowing out of these' abscesses' '."

"Although I know what it is, it is beyond my control. As long as I still exist in this world, it will continue to pollute the world-"

"As long as I'm alive, someone has to die."

"As long as I still exist, I will definitely cause disaster."

"this is us--"

"The ugly thing called the Abnormal Body."

"So... am I a semi-deviant? Or a semi-werewolf?"

Tanya looked at Agustus and smiled miserably, but the expression on her face was still the same as a smile.

And Agusdu just shook his head——

"No doubt, you are human."

"Although our "abnormal bodies" are also transformed from 'human beings', we are closer to 'germs' or 'dirty' in nature."

"You are a living human being just like those explorers - it's just that you were infected by me when you were a baby, and part of your body was embedded in the fragments of "The Kingdom of Eternal Night"."

"Originally, humans like you will die at an early age...but your body resisted it and formed a symbiotic relationship with it, and the 'distortion' in my body was purified by your body, leaving only the purest Part, and this part not only gives you the ability to transform into a werewolf, but also makes you become more like a white wolf than us "Abnormals"."

Agustus looked at Tanya calmly, with a touch of relief in his eyes——

"Being able to see my people continue in this form is also a blessing to me..."

"But your blessing... is a curse to me!"

Tanya pinched her chest. She thought she would be angry, but at this moment, she found that she was unusually calm.

"Curse... or blessing... do you think there is really a difference between the two?"

However, Agustus just smiled and looked at Tanya. The flesh and blood on his body was peeling off and carbonized, looking extremely terrifying.

Tanya could even notice that Agustus' body was twitching slightly.

This shows that for it, the peeling off of flesh and blood is not without pain.

However, it didn't care at all.

"Whether it's a curse or a blessing, they are all our obsessions with others."

"Since it is an obsession, there is no absolute good or bad."

"When necessary, blessings can turn into curses, and curses can turn into blessings..."

"The cursed prince married a foreign princess, and the blessed emperor became a cruel tyrant."

"Blessings are suffering, curses are vanity, they are all mistakes, but I still carry this mistake and live in this world little by little——"

"Just so that my people can live a little longer..."

"Is living... enough?" Tanya couldn't help but ask.

And Agusdu just smiled and shook his head: "Of course not enough..."

"But I have their company, and that's enough."

"From this perspective...I am really an extremely selfish Holy King...for my own selfishness, I let them accompany me for so long..."

"But... for them, having a king like you is also their luck and misfortune."

Tanya looked at it silently.

There is half a werewolf soul in her body, and she can feel that great inspiration.

And this kind of inspiration is no different from her grandfather's care for her, Uncle Alexander's company for her, and the kindness of the villagers to her.

They held each other together to form a whole, and this beautiful and strong connection, due to various reasons, festered and festered, eventually forming the twisted "abnormal body" of "The Kingdom of Eternal Night".

Tanya realized that this was something that only her whole existence, caught between humans and werewolves, could feel.

Looking at the "White Wolf King" that was gradually festering in front of her, Tanya couldn't help but ask in the end——

"Excuse me...is the Siberian hunter who used "Heart Wound" to severely injure you, my father?"

Half of the Wolf King's face has melted, but it still looks at Tanya intently——

"I have no idea……"

"But you don't smell like 'him'."

"But it doesn't matter. I have never considered any of you as my enemy."

"It's 'all' of you that I've been watching."

"You and your father, the hunter who injured me, and the hunter's daughter..."

"And all the brave men who have died in my hands..."

"All of you are one..."

"They're connected to you, just like I'm connected to you—"

"What 'he' is trying to save is everyone, including 'you' and 'his daughter'."

"And the people you are trying to avenge are all the dead including 'him' and 'your father'."

"So, I accept your judgment and present my body as a sacrifice to the hunter who hunted me -"

"I am Agustus, the last holy king of the Kingdom of Eternal Night."

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Agustus' body disintegrated in flesh and blood.

Only the skeletons of his raised hands were left, and its body turned into countless streams of light in the scattered white fluorescence, exposing the "Heart of the Wilderness" in the center of his chest.

Under the wash of the flowing light, the "Heart of the Wilderness" slowly faded away from the dirty purple-black color and became pure white and flawless.

When the last trace of purple-black faded away, the ball of light slowly floated up, followed by a strong white light, turned into a silver-white short-barreled rifle, and slowly landed on the raised hands of the Wolf King.

The Wolf King knelt on the ground, holding his skeletal hands flat in front of Tanya, as if he was showing all of himself to the girl.

Tanya stood silently for a while, seemingly remembering, especially praying.

But in the end she did nothing and silently picked up the silver rifle in the Wolf King's skeleton.

The next second, the snow-white wolf bones disintegrated in the wind and snow.

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When Lin Huaien and the others found Tanya, she was holding the weapon in her arms and sleeping soundly.

"After all, it was nearly forty hours without a break..."

Vaskov waved his hand into the sky, summoning the helicopter.

On the helicopter, Siegel, who was tied up, glared at the people in front of him. Due to the consumption of flesh and blood puppets, his body was now only the size of an ordinary person.

Although he could expand it when necessary, the black-robed explorer beside him made him dare not speak out in anger.

"Your Excellency Roslov."

Vaskov looked at the bearded man on the helicopter and bowed respectfully.

Roslov just looked at him with a smile: "You did a good job."

After saying that, he raised his head again and looked at Lin Huaien: "You too, a young man from Shangdu."

"Thank you for the compliment."

Lin Huaien didn't know what Roslov's status was in the Moscow Association, but judging from Vaskov's expression, the other party should not be an ordinary black card explorer.

Considering that he once acted with the supporter "President Zhou" from Shangdu, he was at least an officer-level black card explorer?

Lin Huai'en speculated in his heart, but he couldn't express it too much.

As for Siegel and the others...

Originally, according to the agreement, Lin Huai'en and the others allowed Siegel and the others to leave after the suppression space in "Eternal Night Kingdom" disappeared.

But both Siegel and Lin Huaien knew very well that the "Kingdom of Eternal Night" was surrounded by black card explorers from the Moscow and Upper City Associations, and the possibility of the two of them escaping alive was very low.

But this is already the best option.

"It's not surprising that I was captured..."

Lin Huai'en murmured softly, letting Tanya lean against him and making way for Yuan Ximu.

Although Yuan Ximu's strange look made him a little embarrassed, Tanya was unfamiliar with everyone present. As the only woman present, Yuan Ximu was a small person who could not use a shoulder pillow.

So he could only let Tanya lean on him.

"it is finally over……"

Lin Huaien looked at the silver rifle in Tanya's hand and couldn't help but shake his head.

Only two months have passed since he arrived in Siberia.

But to him, it seemed like it had been half a year.

Thinking of this, he couldn't help but raise his head and look at Sigel and the Wolf sitting opposite him——

"Looks like you won't get a chance to go back to Alaska for Christmas."

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After Tanya woke up, she went to see Siegel and the Wolf in prison.

She was carrying a rifle on her shoulder. Both Vaskov and Lin Wynn were worried that she would "misfire", so they followed her.

But the white-haired girl just looked at the two people in the prison silently, and did not raise the gun and shoot as they imagined.

Lin Huaien didn't know whether this was Tanya's character or whether the battle with the Wolf King had changed her.

But from Tanya’s eyes, Lin Huaien could at least understand one thing——

That is, the girl has recovered her memory a long time ago, but she silently did not show it.

"But... I should say, it is worthy of her style..."

"Silent, low-key, and tenacious. I guess if my legs were broken and I was exposed to the enemy's sniper line, she would kill me with one shot without hesitation..."

Vaskov was chatting with Lin Wynn, and he was playing with the medal in his hand a little bit. This was the reward he deserved as the suppressor of the "White Wolf King".

"But a medal of this level is just an ordinary contribution award..."

Vaskov seemed happy, but also said with regret -

"Teacher Roslov seems to have also watched the live broadcast. According to the committee's discussion, they believe that in the process of suppressing the "White Wolf King", the person who made the greatest contribution was Tanya, followed by your daytime thieves team."

"Second in ten thousand years..."

Lin Huai'en couldn't help but shook his head, but didn't say anything.

Although he did not personally participate, he watched the battle between Tanya and Agustus.

Even though Agustus repeatedly betrayed Tanya, Tanya was still covered in injuries. If she hadn't delayed the time in the end, even with Lin Wynn's advice, the Moscow Association would not have been able to completely destroy "The White Wolf King".

"Without Hara Yugure's skills, without Minister Shino's mediation, without Tanya's efforts, without Vaskov's rings, without the missiles of the Upper City and Moscow Association..."

"I am just a dead ghost in the snowy field now, so being 'alive' is already the biggest reward for me."

Lin Huai'en clasped his hands together and leaned against the wall of the prison, feeling slightly comfortable.

If he had any real dissatisfaction, it was that after killing so many white werewolves, he still failed to obtain a skill that satisfied him when he reached level 45.

In the end, he chose the [Dagger Drawing Technique (Gold)] skill.

"Perhaps...this is the so-called bottleneck period..."

He thought silently in his heart.