Edge of the Apocalypse
Chapter 1216: Sovereign King

Twilight grew darker and darker, and the residual sun prevailed over blood.

A few skinny wolves lingered on the distant slope. They looked down at the bonfire under a stone slope and saw two figures. One of them was busy cooking dinner, while the other sat motionless as if he were asleep. The skinny wolves were very hungry. God knew how much they wanted to go down the slope to hunt, but their keen senses constantly reminded these wild beasts that the atmosphere there was too dangerous.

The cold and frightening atmosphere was like a giant python sitting cross-legged, quietly waiting for food to arrive at his door.

Therefore, under the setting sun, they only occasionally let out a few long howls, but did not dare to go downhill.

"Coward." Bai muttered. This was a word he had just learned. He looked at the drooling wolves on the distant hillside, but had to roast the dry cubes of smoked meat, and then, as Lucy had taught him, sprinkled salt with a simple seasoning, threw it into his mouth and chewed. This kind of dried meat tastes pretty good to the taste of humans. After all, you can't expect a tavern or restaurant to serve you in this wilderness. However, as far as the white man was concerned, fresh wolf meat was obviously more delicious. However, Lucy had said more than once that since he had transformed into a human form, he would have to learn how to be a human.

Everything started from changing the habit of eating raw meat, so he took out his courage to face the strong enemies and devoured all the bacon without hesitation. He licked the oil on his hand and looked at Alan. After Alan found this place to stay the night, he began to temper his Origin Energy. However, the youth did not know that after returning to Heaven Star, Alan had tempered his Origin Energy much more frequently than before. Even Bai could feel that Alan was thirsty for strength. However, the youth did not understand where Alan's thirst came from. No wonder the teenager didn't understand. Alan's experience of the earth was mentioned at the end of the sentence.

Bai only knew that at this time, his duty was to protect Alan. He was happy to do so, just as Alan had protected him from growing up when he was a young snake.

What Bai didn't know was that Alan didn't intentionally temper his Origin Energy tonight. He had already entered the depths of his consciousness and descended back into that strange world.

Patter patter patter patter patter patter.

As if waking up from a long dream, Alan slowly opened his eyes in his world of consciousness. He first heard the sound of rain, and then looked up. As expected, thick clouds covered the sky. The dark clouds were like smoke rising from a large fire. Raindrops continuously fell from the thick clouds, sprinkling all over the corners of the earth.

He had been to this world several times, but it was the first time he had seen rain. Alan stretched out his hand, but he could not catch any raindrops. Only then did he see the scarlet skin on his hand. From time to time, scarlet flames flashed through it, illuminating the nerves and blood vessels beneath the skin. Near his palm, there was a ball of dark fire mist. This dark mist looked ordinary, but it was high in temperature. When the rain fell into the mist, it instantly evaporated. Even the water vapor did not have time to rise. So Alan's hands were very dry. He retracted his gaze and landed near him. Only then did he realize that he was sitting on a throne.

This throne was carved directly from the boulders on top of the hill, and the base was connected to the top of the hill. The throne was large and wide, and it could even be used as a bed for Ellen's slender body. Thus, he understood that this throne was not prepared for him. Its former owner should be Rosie, known as the Shadow of Flames.

Beneath the hill was the Fire Burning Forest. At this moment, the crown of the Fire Tree was dark blue, and the flames retreated to the point where they were almost extinguished, like tiny flames. The raindrops landed on the fire crown. The color of the fire crown was extremely dim, as if it was going to be extinguished in the next moment.

This oppressive feeling made Ellen uncomfortable, reminding him of the unpleasant experiences on Earth. So he stood up, took a deep breath, and suddenly let out a long howl that soared into the sky. Alan's entire body burst into flames. Sparks shot out from the gap between the lava armors. A circle of flames rose beneath his feet, and it looked like a flame crown fell from the hill from afar. The dark fog around Alan suddenly exploded and stretched out to the left and right like a pair of shadow wings.

The pair of wings enveloped almost the entire hill.

The Fire Forest seemed to have awakened from its slumber. The originally dim-colored canopies gradually turned from dark blue to orange-yellow, and finally turned into vermillion-red sky flames that burned brightly. As the flames flew up, a circle of flames lit up in the forest. All the fire trees and sky flames burst forth endlessly. From afar, it seemed as if a flame corridor had appeared on the ground.

Looking at the dazzling flames, Ellen's chest was depressed and empty. His perception also became more sensitive. He suddenly raised his head to look at the sky. This time, he raised his head twice, but the scenery in his eyes was different. At this moment, Alan's eyes were burning with flames, and the dark clouds that covered the sky began to stir. Gradually, they formed a huge face. On that face, Alan felt his line of sight descend.

Someone else was peeping at him in some mysterious way, and the white flames on Allen's head suddenly lit up. It was as if a silver green was furious. He shouted, "Scram!"

A small gap appeared in the middle of the cloud layer, and then the gap rapidly expanded. The cloud layer was like a whirlpool on the sea, rotating around the gap as the origin. The vortex of clouds in the sky became more and more intense. In the end, the thick clouds cleared the sky. The blazing sun once again illuminated the earth, and the earth once again shone brightly.

The moment the clouds disappeared, Alan could vaguely hear a furious roar. The roar was filled with anger, but there was also a hint of astonishment.

He snorted coldly and didn't take it to heart.

At this moment, the sound of horse hooves rang out. Alan watched from the top of the hill. He rode out of the forest and came to the top of the hill along the hill path. It was a knight riding on a Blazing Fire Battle Horse. He was carrying a huge half-moon sickle. The flame cloak behind him pulled out a long tail of flames in the air. The knight arrived at the top of the hill in the blink of an eye. He jumped off his horse and knelt down on one knee to Ellen, saying to him in Eboines' language, "Welcome back, Your Highness the Dark King."

This was a knight who had once served the Flame Shadow. He possessed elementary intelligence and was able to command the army in place of the Flame Shadow. Of course, you don't need to expect him to have such a brilliant strategy. He can simply order troops to charge or retreat. In this fiery world, battles were often simple and violent. Therefore, for this high-ranking knight, it was enough for him to conduct simple commands.

Alan turned around and pointed at the throne that blocked his gaze. A red dot of light appeared on the back of the throne. Then, the dot of light spread out and the throne quickly collapsed. In the eyes of a high-ranking knight, the shadow of flames had once been so high that the throne on it had collapsed, revealing the world behind the hill. Alan looked deeply into the vast world behind the hill and whispered, "Assemble all your troops."

Flames sprayed out of the knight's eyes as he stood up. He stretched out his hand and flames sprayed out from the cracks in his armor, forming a blazing horn in his body. The knight blew his horn, and his voice echoed from afar in the Fire Forest.

The horn sounded three times in a row.

After a moment of silence, the sound of wings flapping sounded from the other end of the forest. Fire-like clouds drifted through the forest. It was a few kilometers long and deep. It was an army of tens of thousands of fire children. They flew through the forest and circled in the sky, making chirping sounds. However, no matter how the fire clouds swirled, no fire boy dared to cross the hill and Allen's head.

To them, there was an invisible boundary.

Then came the fire dwarves, creatures that lived on fire trees or beneath the forest floor. They carried rough weapons, slid down fire trees, or drilled out of the soil, and then ran out of the forest screaming. These creatures had large heads and small bodies, and their appearances were ridiculous. However, their numbers were extremely large. It was like saying that the Fire Boy blocked the sky, so the Fire Dwarf drowned the earth. They floated through the forest like a flood and gathered under the hills.

Not long after the Fire Dwarves appeared, the roars of wild beasts resounded in the forest. One Fire Horned Demon after another dragged its chains and ran out of the forest. Their numbers were relatively small, but there were also several thousand of them. If the Fire Dwarves were floods, then the Fire Horned Demons were dark muddy currents. They tyrannically squeezed out a passage in the flood and occupied the front row. The fire dwarves screamed in dissatisfaction, but none of them dared to challenge the authority of the Fire Horned Demon.

However, even the Fire Horned Demon felt uneasy when the sound of extremely heavy but unified footsteps rang out. Under the orders of a few particularly strong Fire Horned Demons, this dark turbid current split into two and cleared out a passage. Tall, his head was like a ball of flames. The Fire Guards, who were formed from rock formations, stepped onto this path with heavy steps under the leadership of a few Flame Commanders. They were Ellen's personal guards and possessed a higher authority than the Fire Horned Demon. The guards reached the hill, then walked up the mountain path and lined up densely from the foot of the hill to the top of the hill. Several Flame Commanders arrived behind Alan and knelt down on one knee.

The next to arrive were the knights who had served the Flame Shadow. The Flame Knights rode their horses and galloped out of the forest in groups. Their numbers were less than the Fire Horned Demons, but far more than the Flame Guards. Upon seeing his knight appear, the high-ranking knight paid his respects to Alan and mounted his war horse, galloping down the hill to join his army.

Allen's army had finally gathered when the flaming beast with only its skeleton and flaming body, as well as the headless giant with a flaming whip or axe, emerged from the forest. He turned around and looked at his army, then pointed forward and said, "Let's go!"

The Fire Boy let out a scream. The Fire Dwarf waved the weapon in his hand, and the Fire Horned Demon roared towards the sky. All sorts of creatures responded to Alan's orders in their own ways. Then, the army set off. The red clouds formed by the Fire Boys first floated over Allen's head, followed by the Fire Dwarves that covered the mountains. The muddy current formed by the Fire Horned Demon split into two and circled the hill. The last Fiery Beast arrived nearby. Alan picked it as a mount and stood on its head. The beast's flames lit up, and then it took large strides to carry Alan to the front of the army.

This time, Allen's army rushed a thousand miles, and the name of the Dark King gradually spread throughout the land.

A river winds through the low slope, extending westward from narrow to wide. It was littered with rocks and yellow weeds and dark bushes that obscured the unfathomable depths of the pits on the slope. Amidst the dried grass on the scarlet ground, fiery fireflies constantly rose up like sparks flying in the sky. The heat here was astonishing. The high temperature came not only from the ground, but also from the river. That was different from rivers in a broad sense, because what flowed in the river bed was not cool water, but a bowl of bubbling magma. The river of magma moved slowly, bypassing the slope and heading north, disappearing into a canyon that looked like the skeleton of a giant beast.

Alan stood on a huge rock on the slope and looked at the canyon in the north. He could vaguely feel an extremely tyrannical existence in the canyon, an opponent that he had never encountered before. However, he was not afraid. On the contrary, he had a trace of expectation.

His army was resting on the slope. The Fire Boy went into the deep holes. The dwarves occupied the banks of the magma river. The Fire Horned Demon chose a place to rest. The Flame Knights patrolled around the camp tirelessly. Along the way, although there were no enemies, after removing a few forces, Allen's army had also been reduced a little.

Of course, Ellen didn't feel any heartache about the loss of cannon fodder like the Fire Boy and the Fire Dwarf. These lowly creatures were almost everywhere. Although they had consumed the most energy in the battle, they had gathered more of these two creatures along the way than they had before they left. Even the Fire Horned Demon didn't bother Alan, but the Flame Knights and the Headless Giants were hard to replenish.

Especially the headless giants. Alan would never see their kind again, even if there was only one of them.

The world was vast, and Allen believed that there were more powerful existences and higher beings waiting for him to discover them. He hadn't thought about how far his army could go, but as long as they moved towards the giant shadow at the end of the world, even if the distance they could advance each time was limited. However, as long as he didn't stop, Alan believed that one day he would arrive at the location of the giant shadow. At that time, he might be able to understand the meaning of the existence of this world.

Skyfire sprayed out of Allen's eyes, and the dark fog on his body surged like a shadow, like two wings that were stretched out with all their might. He pointed in the direction of the canyon and was about to order the troops to set off when a flash of fire lit up in the direction of the canyon. In the dim sky at this moment, that flame was so conspicuous. The flame soared into the sky, and after a turn in midair, it flew straight towards Allen.

It moved so fast that one second it was a fingernail-sized dot of light, and the next second Alan saw a desktop-sized ball of flames. The ball of fire flew straight into the air, and when it passed by, a flame burned on the ground. The flames were like paths, starting from the canyon and ending at Camp Allen. Aaron's head burst into flames, and his Qi was released without reservation. The entire slope was buzzing and trembling, and small pillars of fire were constantly emerging from the river of magma.

Alan was ready to fight, but the fire ball in midair suddenly restrained its momentum and slowed down. When it reached Allen's head, it inclined downwards and landed on the ground, turning into a pool of magma. Alan's flame guards immediately rushed over. A Flame Commander raised his axe and walked towards the lava. Alan raised his hand to signal for it to stop. At this moment, the pool of lava began to wriggle, and a protruding head rose from the center. Then, the body, hands, and finally the lava condensed into a humanoid creature, standing right in front of Allen.

It opened its eyes. Its eyes were two jade-like crystals, shining with intelligence that other lifeforms did not possess. It did not look at the soldiers around Allen. Instead, it spread out its hands and bowed to Allen, saying, "Brave Dark King, the flames on your body are as dazzling as the light in the sky. I am Ammondo, greeting you on behalf of the Abyss Flame, Mitinus, young Sovereign."

Allen nodded. "I did not feel hostile towards you. I was surprised that there was such an intelligent life in this land."

"My little bit of wisdom cannot compare to yours." Amondo replied humbly.

"Then please let me know why you're here."

"Yes, Your Highness the Dark King." Armondo asked, "The Abyss Flame has seen your flames. He wants to know where you and your army are going."

Without a word, Alan pointed at the canyon.

"That's the problem," sighed Amon. "His Highness the Abyss Flame's flames enveloped the entire canyon. I'm afraid he won't be able to pass through for you."

"I do not implore you to let me pass, but whatever blocks my path, I will shatter it. Whether it is the fire of the Abyss or anything else."

"Young monarch," said Armondo in a slightly surprised tone, "you will start a war between kings. But don't you know that there is no point in a war between kings? It seems His Highness is right that you were born too soon to know many rules."

"For example?"

"For example, no war between kings is allowed."

"Really? That's a pity. Not long ago, I seemed to have killed a fellow who claimed to be the Shadow of Flames."

"Flame Shadow?" Armondo shook his head. "All the names of kings are in my mind, but there is no shadow of flames in them. As for your name, it has only recently echoed in my mind. The voice of chanting your name is so loud that no one can ignore it."

"Tell me, what is a king?" Allen asked.

Armondo did not have any impatience. He said respectfully, "Monarchs are the kings he recognizes. They have the privilege of eternal life in this land. Monarchs will perish, but they will not die. After they perish, they will be reborn in flames. This is a right that no other life has."

"Him? Who is he?"

Armondo raised his head and looked at the giant figure on the far horizon. "He is our creator and our destroyer. He was the beginning and the end. He's asleep now, and we're in his dreams. When he wakes up, we'll be gone. But we're not going to die here, we're going to appear in another way in his world. We are his most loyal soldiers, whether it be other lives or even kings. "

"As long as he wakes up, we will be his strongest army!"