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Chapter 443 He Was A Hero Before He Was Born, And He Is Still A Hero After Death (plus two in one)

Kars, Adrian... etc. Baird's friends who came to the great plain have visited the walking dead hero many times.

On certain days, they would often gather around Baird, lament the past, look back at the lost glory, and sit around the bonfire and get drunk. Compared with the host of the banquet, Baird is more like a mascot, a reason for heroes to gather.

These reunited heroes even included those who were killed by Baird on the battlefield. Many of them admired Baird's achievements and bravery more than Baird's friends.

This time, when Kars, who had established a kingdom in the extreme north, visited Baird, he was shocked to find that the face of the hero was almost completely different from before.

In Baird's eyes, there was a little more spirit.

Although his every move still looks like a walking dead, his eyes are no longer as cloudy as before.

"Baird...how are you...how?"

Kars couldn't help but grabbed Baird's broad shoulders.

The latter did not respond, still dumbfounded.

Kars wondered if he had an illusion, so he didn't tell anyone, but planned to observe for a while.

Baird, who looks like a walking corpse, still wanders on the great plain, but these days, he spends more and more time standing by the river.

Because... this well-known hero in the world has seen the figure of his sweetheart many times in the endless river.

As that scene reappeared, Baird's eyes gradually recovered more spirit, and the puppet-like soul seemed to gradually regain its consciousness.

"Where am I...?"

One time, Baird suddenly spoke.

No soul has heard his words, and people have grown used to not bothering the hero on a daily basis.

If any soul knows this, it will be terribly shocked. For the first time in thousands of years, Baird finally spoke.

Silas, who was hiding in the dark, saw this scene,
"Successful... It won't be long before Baird will regain his consciousness."

Sitting on Silas' shoulders, Sophia asked:

"Then how do you guide him next?"

Silas smiled and said slowly:

"Soon you'll find out.

My bet with those judges of the underworld is... Baird will commit crimes that the underworld cannot tolerate if he stays in the underworld.

Because of this, they finally had to banish it from the underworld. "

Sophia looked puzzled.

I can't tolerate Baird's crime of staying in the underworld...

what will that be
However, the Fairy Queen was very patient, and she was not in a hurry to ask about all this, so she nodded and continued to observe Baird's behavior with Silas.

In the days that followed, Baird gradually got rid of his numbness, and the phantoms that appeared in the river water many times gradually pulled his consciousness back from the mud.

Baird is like a newborn baby, sometimes dazed and sometimes sober.

When his friend Kars, who had fought side by side, came to visit him again, he suddenly heard a sentence from his mouth.

"Kars, where is this place?"

Kars was stunned, he turned his head stiffly, and looked at the soul in front of him in disbelief.

"Baird, Baird, are you talking?!"

Kars couldn't believe it.

Immediately afterwards, he heard the answer that made him ecstatic,

"It's me, it's me...where is this place?
I seem to have had a very long dream. "

Although Baird was still sluggish, a soul that had been like a puppet for thousands of years actually spoke, which was enough to surprise and excite Kars.

"You...you finally..."

Kars said in a daze:

"Take your time, take your time, Baird, you reply slowly..."

In the days that followed, Kars visited Baird several times, and the latter's consciousness became clearer day by day. He had escaped from the state of walking dead, and although the words in his mouth were still chaotic, they were more organized than before.

One day, Baird suddenly told Kars that he had a dream.

"In my dream... I saw a being with six wings, and he was filled with the light farther away."

Kars replied:
"That may be an archangel...I heard it from others."

He was happy for Baird's consciousness, and continued,
"It must be that archangel that gradually brought you back to consciousness."

Baird nodded stiffly,

"The archangel...he told me that if I leave the underworld, he will let me see...my lover."

spouse?

Kars was stunned, and he remembered that Baird embarked on a journey to compete for the gems from heaven because of his lover.

He didn't expect that until today, Baird still hadn't fulfilled his wish.

"I want to leave the underworld, I want to leave here...I must leave!"

Baird murmured obsessively, the flame of paranoia burning deep in his heart.

At this moment, it was Kars who panicked.

"What are you talking about, Baird? You think about it.

This is the great plain, the most beautiful place in the entire underworld, even more beautiful than the sum of countless places in the world!
Only here can the virtuous and heroes enjoy the hard-won peace and happiness, only here..."

The words fell like rain.

It was immediately interrupted by a hoarse roar.

"But there is no love of mine here!"

The hero Baird was furious like a wounded lion at this moment.

Kars was stunned again. In Baird at this moment, he seemed to see the hero who gambled with the gods in the past.

Baird vowed to leave the underworld to find his lover, and he was willing to give everything for this.

Karth shared Baird's thoughts, and he was troubled by it. He advised Baird to enjoy the prosperity of the great plain, but his words were nothing but fruitless painstaking efforts.

After Baird gradually regained his original consciousness, he issued an ultimatum to Kars,

"Kars, forgive me for abandoning my past relationships.

I have to question you, do you want to prevent me from leaving the underworld.

No matter what you say, I still have to leave here, I have devoted my life to my lover, she has become the meaning of my whole life, and nothing else will make me feel happy except her.

Now I am eager to return to the world, not because I miss the glory of the past. Those glory really made me happy, but now they have become illusory.

Whatever you do, Kars, I beg you, don't stop me. "

Baird's poetic words shocked Kars deeply. As his friend, Kars finally gave up his plan to stop Baird, and under Baird's persuasion, Kars decided to lend a helping hand to Baird.

On the great plain, Kars held a secret banquet among heroes in the name of Baird. He summoned Baird's former friends and heroes who still worship Baird to this day.

When Baird's face appeared on the banquet, when the hero among heroes spoke, all the souls in the audience mistakenly thought that they had been under the illusion of the god of lies and tricks.

It wasn't until they confirmed repeatedly, and Kars and Baird's repeated explanations, that this group of heroes finally confirmed that it was really Baird, the Baird who had regained his self-awareness.

When the heroes heard that Baird planned to leave the underworld, they were shocked. In the past ten thousand years, no one has heard of the deeds of a soul that can leave the underworld and return to the human world. They persuaded Baird to give up the idea like Kars, but the hero had already made up his mind.

"I know you want to persuade me, but who can really persuade me?

I used to sleep, because I fell into great despair after the bet, and now I wake up, because the figure of my lover makes hope reappear.

If I stay here, then I will still sleep and go back to the life of the walking dead. "

The hero's words moved everyone present, so under Baird's call, one-third of the people decided to join the ranks. They had their own desires, in order to gain glory after death, to create a new legend, to leave the underworld with Baird, or simply to be moved by Baird's words.

The remaining two-thirds were asked to keep secrets, and they swore to the gods in front of everyone that they would never tell what they saw and heard today.

After that, the great plain temporarily returned to peace and tranquility, and Baird discussed the next plan with the heroes he united.

The underworld, the land of the netherworld, the destination of the souls after death, it is so easy for the living to set foot there, all they need to do is die, but it is not only as difficult as going to the sky for the dead to return from it.

That was unprecedented. Since the birth of the underworld, except for the time of the great judgment imposed by the father of the gods, no soul has been able to leave the underworld, let alone return to the human world.

But the great souls still have great enthusiasm and blood, and they began to make plans under the leadership of Baird.

Because they were heroes when they were alive, and they are still outstanding after death.

someone said:
"I heard that although Nakbet, God of Death, is unreasonable, his queen Esrona is not.

Even if Ethrona is seldom seen before spirits, her benevolent reputation is often spread in the underworld, and that will be our hope. "

This proposal was approved by all the heroes, and the heroes decided to cross the river Styx, which divides the various regions of the underworld, to meet the hostess of the underworld, Esrona.

It’s just that the River Styx, which separates the great plain from the palace of the underworld, is surging and dense, and its color is like mercury. Even the best sailors cannot struggle in the water. If souls want to cross the River Styx, they must take a ship.

There is only one ship on this river, and that ship has only one boatman. The boatman is named Somi, and he only serves Nakbet and his queen.

So the heroes begged the boatman to let them cross, for which they would do anything for him.

"You don't have to think about it, my loyalty is like gold.

Your temptation is silver, but ten silvers are not as good as one gold. Your threat is fire, but real gold is not afraid of fire. "

Facing the helpless heroes by the river, Suomi shook his oars and sneered at them.

At this time, Adrian on Baird's side whispered to the other heroes:

"I remember that Somi the boatman had a grandson.

Although he was the son of a hero, he made a big mistake and his soul was left in the wilderness of punishment.

Suomi is so loyal now, just to atone for his grandson's sins. "

The heroes then asked Adrian what great mistake his grandson had made and what they could do about it.

Adrian continued:
"The grandson threw the body of his father Aston into the wilderness just to take the money from the coffin to gamble, and he has committed a crime ever since.

Because of this, when the judge of the underworld made a ruling, Aston testified in court and sent his son to the wilderness of punishment.

Although his father was in the Great Plains, he was still bitter about not being able to bury his body.

If we ask him to forgive his son and allow his son to meet, then Suomi will also allow us to have Esrona meet. "

Therefore, Baird and others turned back to the great plain. They met Aston, and in the name of the same hero, they asked him to forgive their son and reduce his punishment from the judge of the underworld.

Aston learned about Baird's desire to return to the human world. Under the strong demands of the heroes, Aston agreed to the matter, but he also put forward his own conditions.

"Baird, if you return to the underworld, you must properly bury my body."

Aston asked Baird to hold a funeral for him in the name of several gods, and threatened Baird that if he did not hold a funeral for himself, he would curse Baird to be punished by the gods.

Burial for relatives and companions is an obligation stipulated by the gods, and it is also related to the face and dignity of people after death. Obviously, Aston's son did not fulfill this obligation, and finally suffered the due judgment.

Baird learned a lesson from this story. He swore to the gods that the first thing he did after returning from Hades was to bury Aston's body.

Aston was deeply moved by the promise, and he slowly revealed the story of his life.

It turned out that Aston was brave and good at fighting, and had extraordinary wisdom. He didn't die in a war-torn battlefield, nor did he die in an adventure full of unknown dangers. It seemed that luck had always favored him and wanted to give him a peaceful old age.

But this hero ushered in an absurd death—he was plowing the farmland, but because he swung the hoe too hard, the hoe broke and just hit his head, causing him to die in the farmland.He is a hero, his figure appears in poetry, but death comes so suddenly.

What is even more sad is that after he died, his son, without filial piety, threw his body into the wilderness, making him who lived like a hero die like a clown.

"How rough and abrupt your fate is,

I hope nothing like this will happen to me on my next trip. "

In Aston, Baird saw impermanence.

The impermanence of life is best interpreted in him.

(End of this chapter)