The Last Dark King

The dim, gray mist extended infinitely in all directions.

It is light-colored, as if the color has faded and there is no end in sight.

Rhodes stood in this dream that seemed to have lost its color, feeling a little dazed.

"This...I'm back again?"

"So you don't need to seek medical care from a young lady?"

Regardless of his disappointment, Rhodes immediately became happy again.

If the way to enter the dream was that simple, he wouldn't have to worry about finding the truth.

Looking over, I saw the peculiar obelisk at a glance.

But the evil ghost-like black shadow had long since disappeared, and the nagging severe pain had not returned.

This shows that the changes are real and the dreams are continuous.

The truth may be hidden in that obelisk.

Rhodes was delighted and ran over.

The dim mist and pale dust passed by around us and under our feet. Everything here seemed dead and the colors had faded.

Except for the obelisk.

It's cyan.

The damage suffered last time has disappeared, and only a few tiny cracks remain on the monument, which are healing very slowly.

Rhodes came to the monument and stretched out his hand to touch it gently.

The surface of the monument once again became dark, and countless looming light spots like stars appeared again.

In the center is still the light spot emitting dark red light.

After devouring that soul, its light became solid and flowed slowly like lava, much brighter than other lights.

When Rhodes focused his eyes on it again, many incomprehensible words appeared in the light spot again.

Rhodes suddenly had a realization in his heart.

Will it be "tinder"?

In the royal city, "fire" is a word with many meanings.

It is often used to refer to trialists and students who have unlimited possibilities.

It also generally refers to the buds of all hope and the dawn of the future.

At the same time, there is an important meaning.

That is the potential contained in the soul of the Fire Empowerer, also known as the Fire Holder of the "Spark" sequence.

Every time a "Spark" ignites a fire, it will gain an ability.

A simple criterion for measuring the strength of a "spark" is the number of fires.

According to Wayne, the average "spark" can only ignite four or five fires in its lifetime.

A few strong ones can ignite six to seven.

After seven, they are rare. They have always been the best in various fields.

There was only one person who lit up the nineteen. He has become the most well-known legend in the royal city.

If this dark red light spot is a ignited fire...

Rod jumped as if he had been pricked by needles.

So, isn’t it understandable that the Archbishop’s strange partiality towards him is understandable?

Isn't the test of him by the Industrial Machinery Research Institute correct?

This dark red light must be the fire known as the "black rice bucket".

The strange words inside the light spot must have the meaning of "black rice bucket".

Rhodes looked up at these countless light spots, they were looming and almost invisible.

If this point of light could ignite...

Can all these light spots in the sky be ignited?

Suddenly, Rhodes felt a surge in his heart.

But he quickly calmed down.

Rhodes remembered very clearly that the "Black Rice Bucket" only really burned and became its current brightness after devouring the soul of a person named [Flowers on the Shore, Northern Prince Hegeor].

If the elimination method is used, this [Northern Prince Hegeor] is probably the black shadow that attacked him before.

After he killed it with the blessing of inexplicable golden light, he obtained its soul and burned it to the "black rice bucket".

If a soul is needed to ignite a fire, where can he find a new soul?

The most important thing is, doesn’t this method look very evil?

Rhodes suddenly and inexplicably thought of the destruction of the migration team and the strange patterns placed among the corpses.

Could that be some kind of soul-sacrifice ritual?

The murderer murdered the members of the relocation team and sacrificed their souls to obtain some hidden benefit.

Thinking of this, Rhode's heart suddenly went cold.

Did I really kill the person?

Am I the murderer?

"No, not necessarily."

Rhodes found it difficult to accept this inference.

"This is just my imagination, it may not be the case."

"There must be some clues that I haven't discovered yet."

At this moment, Rhodes suddenly noticed a detail that he had not noticed before.

"This obelisk has four sides. One side is the starry sky. Will the other three sides be any different?"

He came to the other side of the obelisk, stretched out his hand, and touched it lightly.

Sure enough, new changes appeared.

The cyan monument surface was gradually dyed black, and large black objects settled down.

The pure black color gradually rises from the bottom, and about halfway through, the change stops.

Rhodes waited for a while but nothing changed.

He didn't know why, so he had to come to the other side and reach out to touch again.

This time, the surface of the monument was dyed golden, and the golden light penetrated from the inside of the monument and settled downwards.

But just like before, when gold occupied one-fifth of the monument, the change stopped, and there was no more change.

Rhodes had no choice but to put down his hand, and the monument surface returned to normal.

He felt that these two sides were a bit like a thermometer, an indicator of something existing.

The last side of the obelisk remains.

Please, give me some useful information.

Rhodes stretched out his hand and pressed it on the monument.

The next moment, new changes really came out.

A line of blood snaked down from the top of the tower, forming dozens of strange characters on the monument.

They flickered slightly, like some strange warning, seeming to foreshadow something.

But he didn't know every word.

Rhodes had never hated himself for being illiterate as deeply as he did at this moment.

He forcibly memorized the shape of each character, planning to go to Jinworth's library to find a way to decipher it as soon as he woke up.

After confirming that all the glyphs were memorized, Rhodes put down his hand and the red characters gradually faded away.

There is nothing interesting to see in the obelisk anymore, and more information can only be learned after he finishes reading the illiteracy.

Rhodes glanced into the distance. The gray fog was endless and endless.

Since you haven't woken up yet, just walk around, maybe you will find something new.

Rhodes walked outside and wandered casually in the gray mist world.

Anyway, as soon as you wake up, you will return to the real world, and you are not afraid of getting lost.

After walking for a while, suddenly, there was a sharp pain on the back of my hand.

Rhodes looked down and saw that the strange eye pattern on the back of his right hand was burning, and the black lines that formed it were boiling, as if they were about to burst out of his body.

"What, what's going on?"

"Is my Demon King's seal going to be released?"

Rhodes was a little panicked, but in the next moment, the eyes on the back of his hand shot out and turned into a large ball of black energy that fell to the ground.