Atlas Battle Song

Chapter 56

After getting ready for the trip, it was time for Egg and the Duke to set off, and they had to leave before Winter God's Day.Ulkhan is located in the easternmost part of the empire, and the distance is far away, and the temperature will drop sharply after Winter God.Trand and Egg didn't have time to get along for a few more days, so they had to say goodbye again.

Before leaving, the two boys held hands tightly and made an appointment to meet as often as possible in the future.The Duke stood watching, feeling a little guilty.But it was to protect the two boys.Egg's father had left them too many enemies.

Trand took out a new lion puppet that had been sewn overnight:

"The little lion is back from a trip. Grandma is in good health. She has been playing with her enthusiastically for several days. The little lion will definitely protect you."

"This is Trand." Egg hugged the lion puppet into his arms, rubbed it for a while, and smiled.

"Ego, I'll come to pick you up... When I have a foothold to protect you, then we won't be separated, and we can live in the same home like an ordinary couple." Trand said It's a little touching.

Egg laughed and said, "Oh, Trander wants to marry! Trander is a lioness."

"I'm a real man!"

"Boss, why is this lion a female? It's different from what was agreed before, return it!" Yi Ge was very happy.

"You heartless bastard!"

The two boys bickered again.After playing around for a while, Trand and Egg hugged each other again, and said goodbye reluctantly for the last time.Before leaving, Trander quietly gave Yi Ge a cloth package and asked him to open it after leaving the imperial capital.

The carriage started on the road, and Egg hugged the puppet lion tightly.As soon as he left the capital, the Duke couldn't wait to remind him that he could unpack the package.When I opened it, I found a short knife and several red fruits inside the cloth package.

"Knife and fruit?" The Duke curiously picked up one and turned it around to observe.

"..."

Egg pulled out the dagger, sniffed it, and smelled the familiar smell of blood.He understood what Trand had done for him.

"What is it?" asked the Duke.

Egg laughed and said, "It's a cat."

They encountered an ambush during the journey, and Count Gorgon's enemies attacked their carriage, but fortunately Egg drove the enemies away.In order to avoid the pursuit of the enemy, the two took a small path, crossed Bald Mountain, and finally arrived at the Duchy of Ulkan safely.

Afterwards, life became much calmer.Although there are servants in the castle, Kaloyalo still likes to do some housework by himself.He likes to cook, and goes to the mountains to pick mushrooms or fish in person.Egg was always by the Duke's side, silently listening to Kaloyalo's passionate poetry by the beautiful lake.The citizens often see the kind Duke and the boy appearing in the mountains and lakes.

Egg lived a simple life, learned to braid his hair, and dressed his clothes and sword with swiftness and precision.

During the day, he accompanied the Duke on outings, or practiced swords by himself.

At night, the abyss-like sticky shadows and tentacles still appeared in Egg's dreams day after day, accompanying him faithfully like friends.A few times, Egg dreamed of his mother, the fleshy monster hugging him tenderly and reading him stories.Egg felt nostalgic.He was terrified every night in prison before, but fortunately, his mother always appeared in his dreams and brought him a "cat" as a companion.

Egg liked "Pussy Pussy".It was different, Egg knew, a fusion of all the cats he'd had before.They were put together, and it wouldn't hurt him to die early any more.Egg thought his mother was right.

One night, Egg was dreaming when he was suddenly awakened by the Duke.

"what happened?"

"Egg..." The Duke was wearing a nightgown with a shocked expression on his face, he seemed to have woken up in the middle of the night and passed by his room, "Have you been having such nightmares?"

Egg didn't know how to answer.

"Nightmare...?"

"You've been talking in your sleep just now. Sorry dear, can I have a look?"

Mr. Kaloyalo put his hand gently on the boy's head.Egg instinctively wanted to dodge, but after thinking about it, he held back.

Mr. Kaloyalo stroked Egg's forehead and said softly:

"Good boy, stop playing with him...he's not your playmate."

Strangely enough, Egg stopped dreaming of his mother afterward, and his black friends stopped coming to him.

But it didn't matter, Egg also had the little Muppet Lion.Letters from Trand came frequently, too, and Sparrowhawk came and went two or three times a month.Sometimes, the Duke would ask someone to bring Egg a new chapter of "The Furball and the Emerald" by Trand.Egg loved it.

But the "cat" was gone, and Egg felt a little lonely. He thought maybe the Duke didn't like cats.

Another period of time passed.One evening, Egg was practicing his sword, and it was strange to see his own shadow by chance.He squatted down and touched the shadow on the grass.Suddenly, a black tentacles touched his finger.Egg was expressionless, and stretched his hand into the shadow that had turned into a dark cave, as if searching for a ring that fell into the crack of the table.

Egg groped for a while, and something grabbed his hand out of sight.Warm and fluffy, like a dormouse's little hand, gently holding Egg's finger.

what is that?Of course he does.

"What," Egg smiled, "you don't want to play with me after all."

The invisible thing was wriggling, and it seemed that some small toothless mouths were rubbing against the back of his hand, as if they were showing favor or being coquettish.

Egg sighed: "Okay, then don't tell Mom."

"Cat" came back again, but Egg didn't tell the Duke and Trand for fear that they wouldn't let him keep him.But it doesn't matter, he can keep the cat secretly in the shadow.The puppet lion knows, but it is very loyal and will keep the secret.

The Duke's castle has a large garden.

Later, Egg secretly raised the Dormouse, a little fur ball as big as a thumb, which could sleep in the heart of a rose.He said it was "breeding", but in fact Egg didn't bring the dormouse back to the house. He just remembered their smell and went to the garden to look for them when he wanted to see them.Egg used to sit in the garden with his knees crossed and watch the little dormouse snoozing in the bushes.Cute little thing he can watch all day.

The Duke knew that Egg liked animals, so he would take him to a lake a little further away to fish and observe the otters playing by the lake.Sometimes the Duke was busy, and Egg would wait until the sword practice was over and go by himself.

Once, Egg was walking on a mountain road and met a thief holding a knife to rob him, and he said some greasy/erotic words to him.Egg felt that this was in the way, so he killed the bandit and went on to see the otter.

This angered the entire gang of bandits. When the boy went to the lake alone again, more than a dozen bandits who had been lying in wait for a long time jumped out to seek revenge.It was a bit of a hassle, but Egg killed them all too.It took a long time that day, and it was dark when we got to the lake, and the otters should go home to sleep, so Egg could only leave in disappointment.

After returning home, the Duke saw the boy covered in blood and was so frightened that he almost fainted on the sofa. The maid hurriedly brought smelling salts, and it took a while for the Duke to recover.

"Ego, are you injured! What happened to you...?!" Mr. Kaloyalo rushed over and touched the dirty boy from head to toe.

"I went to see Otter, and I did some exercise on the way." Egg shook his head.

"How could it be... this... what kind of blood is this? Did you encounter a beast?"

"robber."

"Bandits... Did you kill the robbers you met on the road?"

Egg nodded.The maids brought clean clothes, hot water and towels.Egg wiped all the blood from his face.

The duke sat down in shock, and said despondently:

"Ah, there are a lot of thieves in the mountains near Vulkan... This is my responsibility. Passing merchants often come to petition. As a lord, I don't have soldiers and knights... until now... okay , I see, I will deal with this matter."

Egg remembered this sentence.

Later, there were very few robbers in the mountains.According to hunters and farmers, it was a knight in black who drove away the thieves.

Egg was also very happy, he could go to the lake to see Otter again without hindrance.

****

A few years passed.

Trande has also grown up, from a childish boy to a heroic and heroic teenager.That year, he was officially canonized as a knight.

But Trander took the initiative to ask for a demotion to become a small cavalry captain.The knight commander didn't agree at first, because it was a very marginal cavalry team, only responsible for cleaning up the monsters that appeared outside the imperial capital.Trand still insisted.Although it is a safe choice to stay in the Second Royal Knights, it is impossible to climb up.The position of the head of the Royal Knights has always been reserved for pure-blooded Sybil nobles from well-born families.

Trande has an audacious goal: he wants to create a knightly order of his own, so that ordinary humans, half-Sybyls, and sybyls as commoners can all have equal opportunities.

For this goal, the teenager worked hard and achieved results soon.Trander believes that if he can personally bring together an ordinary cavalry team, they will be unexpected and outstanding... One day, the emperor will canonize them as the Royal Seventh Knights, and the position of knight commander None other than him.

Every summer, Trander would ask for leave to visit Egg secretly.The two went to have picnics in the mountains and forests, go fishing by the lake, and watch otters together as they did when they were children.

When they go home in the evening, the Duke will be waiting for them to have dinner together.Friends sat around the dining table, talking and laughing lightly.

At night, Egg lay on Trand and whispered in his ear: "I want to tell you a secret."

"Tell me baby, what's the secret?" Trander smiled and hugged Egg.

"My lord duke recently met a new friend, a young mage. It rained a lot that day. We came back from Tadrin by car and saw a young man in the wilderness, drenched in the rain alone. He was about to cry and faint. The Duke picked him up and let him live for a few days to calm down. It turned out that the guy was really a mage, and the Duke was very happy."

"Is she a beauty?" Trander smirked.

Egg nodded: "It's Peleas."

Trande whistled: "Okay, the Duke has finally fulfilled his long-cherished wish of 'wanting to make friends with the beauty mage'."

"Not only that, but I also want to speak ill of my friend." Yi Ge smirked, bit Trand's ear, and continued: "After a while, this beauty mage brought back a child and said that he would Raise this child."

"He gave birth? It's not easy, the little beauty raises the child by herself."

"No, the mage has black hair, and the little boy is blond and blue-eyed. He should have picked it up on the road. That little guy likes swords, and the Duke asked me to teach him." Egg said.

Trander was even happier: "Then you will be the children's swordsmanship teacher from now on!"

"be a teacher!"

"That's great..." Trand sighed and hugged Yi Ge deeply in his arms, "It's great, my young master Yi Ge has made more friends. Are you happy to live with the Duke?"

"Ah."

Egg got up and hugged the puppet lion, then got back into Trent's arms again, and found a comfortable position to rub against.Gradually, Egg became sleepy.

"Sleep, sweetheart." Trand kissed him. "I love you."

Dazedly, Egg felt that he was no longer afraid to sleep.Because he had Trander, and the Duke, and his friends, and his mother, and the cat.

After the night and the nightmare, after waking up, he will return to Trand.

"Good night, silly lion," said Egg.

END.

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Prologue·True.

It was a fine day.

Little Trent and little Egg came back from fishing and walked along the river one after the other, picking wild flowers.When they passed the wheat fields, they went to look at the hedgehog's nest.

They are about twelve or thirteen years old, and they are at the age of crazy growth, and their trouser legs will be shortened in a few days, revealing their smooth ankles.The children jumped up and down, ran for a while, rested for a while, and played with each other.

Little Trande whistled and invited his companions like an adult:

"Come on, let's have a drink."

"What to drink?"

"What else can I drink? Mead, of course! Shouldn't you be rewarding yourself after a day's work?"

"The hotel won't give us credit."

"Then exchange them with fish and crabs." The boy shook his net bag, looking very generous.

Little Egg was preoccupied and didn't answer.

"what happened?"

"No, I just thought of last night..."

Little Trand became vigilant and asked his friend, "What happened last night?"

"It's nothing, just a dream. I'm a little... scared..."

"What's so scary about dreams? But it's not necessarily true. I used to dream of wild dogs knocking on the door and eating people. I was so scared that I didn't dare to open the door at night, but my mother beat me up. What did you dream about?"

"..."

"Let's talk! Don't be afraid, it won't be scary if you say it!"

Little Egg said hesitantly:

"I dreamed of a square, the sun was dazzling, and there were crowds of onlookers everywhere. In the middle of the square stood several statues of gods that were blacked out. They looked very scary. There were many people tied to the statues...they were struggling all the time, but they had no tongues. They couldn't scream. The soldiers cut off their tongues."

"Are they criminals?"

"I don't know... It's like some kind of sacrifice. Then an old man in a white robe ordered, and the slaves poured hot molten iron down... The molten iron melted the statue, and melted those who were tied to the statue. Do you know... When the red, shiny liquid slowly flows and touches the human body... the skin, muscles and bones are scorched and rotten, and the shape of the whole person gradually disappears. I was terrified. They looked like they were screaming, writhing in pain, limbs falling off...but they had their tongues cut out so they could only make a hoarse guttural sound. There were a lot of people watching, yelling excitedly, Some were still laughing. And a bunch of kids were being brought in to watch the execution."

The two children were silent, shivering like chilled kittens.Little Trand said:

"I heard that there is a strange place nearby...sometimes some weird people gather there late at night and light a fire...sometimes you can hear screams, and people will disappear the next day. Adults I never mention it, but I know it in my heart: the missing person was sacrificed to something."

"Stop talking!"

"Hahaha look at you! Believe it all, do you believe the werewolf?"

"But I've heard them gather and sing carols, 'Save us, daughter of the sea, unsullied star'..."

"It's all fake, don't be afraid."

The two boys put their arms around each other's shoulders.At the fork in the road, they had to say goodbye.Little Trande is going to the town with his nanny today to look for purchases.

"Are you picking enough flowers today?"

"That's enough, Mom will like it. Besides the flowers, I also prepared this gift, and I will show it to you quietly..." Egg smiled, and took out a handkerchief from his trouser pocket, with two little yellow cats sewn on it, "This It was mom and sister, I did it."

"It's really like a cat."

"Tsk, I won't show you! Go away!"

The friends stood at the intersection and played for a while, then said goodbye.

It was getting dark, and Egg, who was holding flowers, hurried home.

He was a little anxious and wanted to give it to his mother when the flowers were fresh.She has been ill for a while, and the illness comes and goes, but she has been much better recently.Egg's birthday is coming soon, and his mother promised him to go to the puppet show together.

Egg ran hastily, racing the growing shadow.The blood-red sunset outlines the edge of darkness, and the boy runs between the shadows and the afterglow, with the white flowers in his arms swaying.

"Mommy mommy!"

He ran through the garden, past poppies in bloom.The house was unlit, and there was no one in sight, but he could hear tinkling and footsteps.

"Mom, look, I prepared a gift for you today!"

Egg ran excitedly to the bedroom.The flowers were still delicate and pretty, so he felt relieved, wiped the sweat from his forehead with a handkerchief, and stretched his collar and trousers, like a little gentleman holding flowers.

Knocked on the door.

dong dong dong.

Dong dong dong

thump.

"Mother?"

He is a little anxious.

The sound of the wind blowing through the crack of the door was sharp and small, and sweat slipped from the temples.There were footsteps all over the house.It was noisy, but it was too dark for him to see anything.

What happened?

He heard the neighing of horses in the distance. What are the adults shouting about?It could be that Dad is back.

pat.

There was a sound in the room, like a glass being broken.

"Mother?"

Egg pushed the door open, and it opened—

With the large blood-red windows, the setting sun is like a furnace, and the dark room is covered with iron sheets.

The glass shattered, and the bright red liquid spilled all over the floor, reflecting the figure of the boy holding a white flower.Immediately, the bouquet fell to the ground, and the pool of blood rippled, staining the white flowers.

The wind blows, and the white gauze flutters.

"Mother……"

Egg's spent.He raised his head and stared blankly at the wriggling creature on the bed.

TBC.

Let my heart wither and my brain still beat

If you throw it on fire, burn it

Then I will still support you,

with blood

——Rilke

[Volume [-] + Concluding Speech]

【1. About pen name】

Hello everyone, this is Hagio, the id used for the waste article is Hyperion, and the Weibo is @卡罗_Jalo.Let me explain the confusing pseudonyms first lol.This series of Western Fantasy is a product of the imagination in middle school. Mr. Kaloyalo was the first to design the character. He also wrote many versions of his stories, but they were all scrapped because the writing was immature.When I first started surfing the Internet ten years ago, I used the duke's name "Caroyallo" as my screen name to write some APH fans, so my friends used to call me Carlo.But then I started to write this Western Fantasy again, so I returned the name to the Duke and took the pseudonym Hagio again (it’s not easy to remember, anyway, the author himself is secondary, as long as readers can remember the name of the story) Hahaha).

Hagio has the meaning of "saint biography" (Hagi- this prefix is ​​saint, which is also derived from Haji, the hero of "Blood+" I like), and this pen name is to finish the Atlas series, just like the legend of heroes birth.

Atlas has the meaning of "atlas". The original meaning of "Atlas" is the Titan giant who supported the sky and the earth in Greek mythology. This image of "creating a new world" is quite suitable for Western Fantasy, so it is used as a The general name of the entire series (in fact, it was just a prefix added for the convenience of marking the same series, but readers thought this series was called "Atlas", so they happily adopted everyone's opinions hhh)

And the id "Hyperion" Hyperion of the waste text is also one of the old gods of Titan.

【2. About "Old Gods"】

As the "Old God", Titan also coincides with the main line of the story.

Many friends know that in Greek mythology, Gaia, the goddess of the earth, first gave birth to the Titans, and the Titans ruled the world. Then Zeus and his brothers overthrew the rule of their father Cronus. Titan defeated.

In the Atlas series, the long struggle between "new gods, old gods, and humans" is also involved.However, the old god Titan is not a giant, but a "dragon".As the servants of the new gods, human beings have experienced a long war with the old gods (that is, dragons), and finally the supreme king Megacines defeated the world dragon.In the era that the duke lived in, there were no "dragons" anymore, and people didn't think that "dragons" ever existed. (Peleas also questioned: Why don't dragons exist in this world?)

The specific plot will be revealed later in the main story line haha~

【3. About the tone of the story】

Generally speaking, the themes of the Atlas series are: destruction and rebirth, love and courage, pain and redemption.As you have seen in the previous plots, there will be a lot of bloody plots and some knives, but the protagonists will stick together with tenacious will and love for each other, and finally overcome difficulties together.Once again, I assure everyone that the ending of all CPs is HE in the secular sense! "They lived happily ever after" like that!

I know that Western Fantasy is already cold enough, and the plots of blood and knives are even more dissuading, and my writing style is not good-looking, and I can't write copywriting... But I still want to assure everyone that I will try my best to provide you with Good reading experience.Even if bloody plots such as "amnesia", "disappearance" and "injury" appear in other chapters after they appear, they can all be overcome and recovered, similar to the first "Atlas? Twilight Book" Neil Case. Cp are thick double arrows, there will be no qjlj, cheating and the like.I'm not good at copywriting, but I will clearly mark the cp type.

This story has accompanied me for more than ten years, I cherish them very much, and I also like myself and the readers to have fun in the story QwQ (No one wants to chase millions of words and end up with a knife, they will hit people!)

[4. About other cps]

This "Atlas? Battle Song" is the third part of the series.The timeline of the first two "Twilight Book" & "Twin Star Book" took place before the war song, and the protagonists are Neil x Peleas, a gentle knight and an autistic mage.

Trand and Egg also appeared in the first two films.In the first part, Yi Ge accompanied the young Neil on a journey to find and save the teacher.At that time, Egg was quite reliable. As Neil's swordsmanship teacher, he gave the boy a lot of guidance and help.Because the pretense is too reliable, so there is a big difference from what he did in the battle song hahaha, I can only say that Egg did it in front of Trand and the Duke.

In the second part, Trand was framed as the head of the Knights and was imprisoned.In order to rescue Trand, the friends tried their own methods.The duke continued to ask for help to find someone.Egg's approach was to kidnap Trand's younger brother x (well, it's not a day or two for Egg to let himself go, anyway, he had a good time.

The third pair of CP is the Duke and his attack, Prince Amer of the Islands Kingdom x Duke Kaloyalo, two happy and sweet people who have their own secrets at the same time.

As the silly son of a landlord (no), Amir is leisurely, rich and smart, and he doesn't have to bear the heavy responsibility of inheriting the throne (the king is his elder brother), so he has developed a personality that is quite a game of life.Because he loves animals too much, he is almost a nerd naturalist (he and Egg often exchange their experience of observing wild otters).Amir likes to read the stories of ancient kings very much, and he will get angry when he sees some np Raven, but he doesn't know that Raven is actually written by Kaloyalo hhh.In short, they are a lively, silly, white and sweet couple x.

In the second volume of the battle song, he and the Duke should both appear.After the battle song, there is a new story with these two protagonists.In an entire Atlas series, all cps will continue to appear because they are good friends (the empire gay circle, not x).

【5. About the third volume of war song】

It should be finished this summer.When the time comes, the full text has been saved, and I will continue to come back for daily updates~

Whisper it, if you search for the keyword [another bowl of braised pork] on my Weibo, all the cars in this series will appear x

There are a lot of comparisons, so let's stop here.After that, I will write the setting set and post it (information that can be disclosed hh).

Finally, I would like to thank everyone!

Thank you readers for willing to take the time and energy to read this story, and come to communicate and play with me!Western Fantasy is really transparent and cold, and I don't have any expectations, as long as the stories I write can be liked by others!I am really happy to play with everyone during the waste time!

You can download the word version of the series that have been completed before. For details, please see my Zhiding Weibo 【@卡罗_Jalp】.

There is also my love post address on the top Weibo, friends who are willing can ask for snacks hhh

By the way, I will send beautiful greeting cards to everyone every year as a thank you (also a forced meal replacement as a peripheral x of the Atlas series), I will send another wave in June, and I will say on Weibo that I want a postcard greeting card My friends can just say www

Really no more nonsense, and finally thank you little angels again!