Chapter 1570: Abyss of Agony

Abyss of Agony

The Amber Knight silently clenched both fists as he walked through the Lingxu Base. His pace was messy and heavy. When he stepped out of the base's main gate, a calm voice sounded from the side:

"Something on your mind?"

The Amber Knight turned his head to look, only to see a figure wearing a dark cyan Knight uniform leaning against the wall, quietly looking at him.

Seeing that person, the Amber Knight's originally taut body gradually relaxed.

He stood halfway up the mountain, overlooking the Spirit Void Domain below. The original residential areas had been cleared and demolished, and a massive tower rose from the center of the city. Countless black shadows moved around it like ants.

"The Spirit Void Domain in the past... wasn't like this," the Amber Knight murmured to himself.

"...Indeed." The Grand Master of the Raven Knights slowly spoke,

"The Spirit Void of the past, although relatively far from other domains, could basically be self-sufficient... There was no climate crisis, no political struggles, and Calamities rarely appeared. Coupled with the influence of the Path of Strategy, the trend of games was prevalent. Whether it was physical sports, mental competitions, or folk games, they could provide endless joy..."

"But now, we 'players' are being forced to kill people!" The Amber Knight turned to look at the Raven Knight. "Don't you feel this is absurd?"

The two Knights just looked at each other silently. Their eyes flickered with a faint light, and they could both see that something fierce and firm was hidden beneath each other's eyes.

"It is very absurd... and then?" the Raven Knight slowly asked.

The Amber Knight took a deep breath.

"Perhaps..."

"We can try to resolve the source of all this."

...

Smack——!!

With a crisp explosion sound, a window of the Lord of Hidden Clouds' office shattered with a bang. Half a brick fell heavily onto the floor, and glass shards splattered all over the ground.

The Lord of Hidden Clouds, who was leaning on the desk dozing off, was awakened by this loud noise. Those bloodshot eyes looked up ahead. After seeing clearly the flying brick, his entire person froze in place...

Immediately after, waves of noisy sounds rang out from outside the broken window!

"Lord of Hidden Clouds!! You beast worse than pigs and dogs!!"

"Give me my husband back!!"

"Let me tell you! Others are afraid of you, but this old lady isn't afraid of you! I don't care if you're one of the Nine Monarchs! What guardian deity! In my eyes, you are just a dog! A stinking dog raised by the Lord of Spirit Void!!"

"Lord of Hidden Clouds! You're amazing, huh! Your power towers over the heavens, huh!! With one order, you transferred my husband to the Spirit Void Domain! To build that whatever broken tower! Leaving me and my child who isn't even a month old yet to wait bitterly at home..."

"For over a month, no money, no clothes, no house... I endured it all. I held my child and slept in Bridge Underpasses, using cardboard boxes to keep him warm. When the child got sick, I couldn't even beg for a decent medicine... Our mother and child pair have tough lives, we suffered through it all!"

"But you... but you guys! On what basis did you execute my husband by firing squad in public!!??"

"He just couldn't stop worrying about our mother and child pair, he just wanted to come back and see us!! What did he do wrong?!!"

"What right do you have to take him away from our mother and child pair?! On what basis do you decide his life and death? Did he break the law? Did he do bad things?!"

"Now my husband has been shot dead by you guys, and the child also died of illness... You... you... you tell me how to live?!!"

The woman's hysterical angry roars echoed on the street.

It was already winter at this time. Cold snowflakes fluttered down from the sky. A woman wearing thin clothes was holding an infant in swaddling clothes, weakly kneeling on the road. She sobbed painfully as if she had exhausted all her strength, and no matter how she roared and trembled, the infant in the swaddling clothes was like a stone, without the slightest reaction.

Many people had already gathered around her. They also wore thin clothes, their figures haggard and skinny, coughing from time to time.

The gazes they directed at the woman were full of sympathy. Some people immediately stepped forward to comfort her, wanting to support her up. Others were ignited with anger and resentment in their hearts by these words, pointing at that shattered glass and hurling abuses:

"Lord of Hidden Clouds!! You son of a bitch!! Hurry up and send my son back from the Spirit Void Domain!"

"The hospital beds are not enough! Those medicines also can't cure my and my mother's illness! As the guardian deity of the Hidden Clouds Domain, can't you think of a way?!"

"What dogshit Lord of Hidden Clouds! In my eyes, you and that dictator of the Spirit Void Domain are birds of a feather!!"

"Both are Nine Monarchs, but you can't even compare to a single hair of the Lord of Hanging Jade and the Lord of Tianshu!!"

"Pah, don't put his name together with those two. It's simply an insult to the Nine Monarchs!"

"..."

The Lord of Hidden Clouds didn't stand up.

He just sat quietly in his chair, listening to the abuses and tearful complaints outside the window. Those bloodshot eyes slowly closed... Wisps of fresh blood flowed down from his palms. At some unknown time, his fingernails had forcefully pierced into his flesh.

At the same time, several figures quickly walked in from outside the door. Seeing the half brick in front of the desk and the glass shards all over the floor, their expressions were all somewhat ugly.

"Quick, quick, go seal up the window!"

"You few! Go drive away the people causing trouble downstairs!"

"..."

While everyone was in a flurry, a figure in green clothes walked in from outside the door. He glanced at the scene in the room, and his gaze subsequently looked toward the Lord of Hidden Clouds... He let out a light sigh and took the initiative to step forward.

"...Mister Qi, you..."

"I'm fine."

The Lord of Hidden Clouds silently hid his hands in his sleeves and stood up from his seat. "I'm just... a little tired."

The Lord of Hidden Clouds lowered his head. His bloodshot eyes revealed a deep exhaustion, as if he hadn't slept well for who knows how long. He rejected the support of the figure in green and slowly moved toward the outside of the office door alone.

In the next second, his heart abruptly stopped. He staggered and almost fell to the ground.

"Mister Qi?" That person in green was quick-witted and still caught him.

The Lord of Hidden Clouds didn't speak. He just shook his head. After indicating that he was fine, he once again took steps and walked outside.

He walked through the corridors of the Cangyun Base, not caring about the gazes of the base staff coming and going. He walked down the stairs step by step. As he went deeper, there were fewer and fewer people passing by around him.

When he arrived at the deepest part of the Cangyun Base, there was already only him left on this entire floor.

Only the Lord of Hidden Clouds could enter here.

As he slowly pushed open a large white door, a figure lying on a hospital bed, its entire body covered in various tubes, entered his line of sight.