Volume 2, Chapter 64 – Father-like Undead Grand Duke

“…….”

All things considered, Tianyin still did not react to Sargus for a moment.

After all, the information Tianyin received today was simply too messy.

Although Tianyin could not fully process it all at once, she did understand everything the Undead Grand Duke Sargus wanted to express without missing a thing.

And the last point was actually one of the reasons why this whole incident happened, more precisely why the Graveyard represented by Sargus decided to start this war.

The Graveyard looked like it was led by Sargus, but in reality the Graveyard’s forces were actually controlled by many Legendary undead. Although the undead high command were still very willing to follow the orders of Undead Grand Duke Sargus for now, that was only the current situation.

If an opportunity to invade the Main World appeared, these undead high commanders would simply ignore Sargus’ orders and then actively start this war against the Main World.

“But… Why… Why would you want to start such a war? Sargus, I don’t understand.”

Tianyin still could not comprehend.

Just a moment ago, Sargus had patiently explained the origins of the undead to Tianyin, and Tianyin’s impression was that the undead at the beginning had actually been kind and merciful.

After all, a brother who refused to die in order to protect his young sister, a girl who rose again from death for the one she loved, a paladin who crawled out step by step from the abyss of death for the sake of justice inside her heart.

No matter how you looked at them, they were a group whose natures were not bad, people who had given everything to protect what they cared most about, right?

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“Don’t understand?”

Sargus sighed faintly, and under his graying hair his weathered face was full of helplessness.

“In fact, if you think those stories I told earlier were all very beautiful, then you are wrong, Tianyin.”

“Like I said, the undead are actually a group of beings who in the end only know vengeance. In this world, the only obsession left in the hearts of the undead in the entire Graveyard now is what we call vengeance.”

Vengeance.

That was the undead, that was the Graveyard’s single obsession now.

“Do you know? Once a man turned into an undead only to secretly protect his young sister so she could grow up safely. Because he revealed himself once while protecting his sister from being bullied, the young sister took him for a monster and killed him with her own hands.”

“A girl who came back to life for the one she loved was mistaken for a monster by the one she loved, and then was burned alive in front of everyone.”

“A paladin who should have long since died for the Holy Light and for the justice in his heart woke from death and although he killed a powerful enemy, afterwards he was treated as a monster by comrades who shared the same faith in the Holy Light and had his head chopped off while still alive.”

“There are many many such things, and only because of these events… the undead… have changed from those who at the beginning wandered between life and death for simple reasons into what they are now, a people whose hearts hold only obsession for vengeance, who are willing to remain silent for hundreds of thousands of years for the sake of vengeance…”

Tianyin fell silent.

Not because she did not know what to say, but because she knew what she should say and yet she did not know whether she should say it.

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Undead.

At the root, seen from the very beginning, they were actually a product that should not have existed.

Willing to remain in the world for what they wanted in their hearts, then willing to become something neither human nor ghost.

But… when everything they tried for was turned into nothing, when they only wanted others to be well… they were betrayed by those closest to them.

“Is this… the ending of those stories?”

In the end Tianyin still murmured it out.

Before this she had limited the undead’s so-called vengeance to the hatred the dead held toward the living.

But after hearing the aftermath of the stories Sargus told, Tianyin finally understood the meaning behind why the undead wanted vengeance.

However, even so…

“That is not… a reason for you undead to start a war, right?”

Yes, even if that was the case, it still could not be an excuse for the Graveyard to start a war and commit wanton slaughter, right?

At those words Sargus laughed softly.

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“There is no sorrow greater than a dead heart. When a person is blinded by hatred, who can persuade him? Although I am the leader of the Graveyard, holding the title of Throne-class Undead Grand Duke, and I control the Plane Power of the Graveyard plane… I cannot persuade them, nor can I suppress the Legendary undead’s obsession for vengeance, that is what I want you to understand.”

“But… since you possess Throne-class strength, could you not directly use force to suppress them and forbid them from starting this war, would that not work?”

Tianyin asked in confusion.

Sargus shook his head.

“It is not the same. When the undead first appeared hundreds of thousands of years ago, I was there, back then there were only a few undead.”

“It was I who picked them up one by one when they were at their most desperate, most helpless, most lost.”

“To me, each of these undead is my family, each one is the most important person to me.”

“Although I know you cannot understand this kind of feeling, I ask you, if your family were wronged, would you only stand and watch them suffer and not take any action?”

“I……..”

Tianyin fell silent.

Yes.

To Tianyin now, those she considered family were Sister Xiaomu and Xiaomengyao, Little Bingxue and those people.

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If, as Sargus said, she saw them being wronged… then if Tianyin had the ability she would also absolutely… help them take revenge.

“I understand…”

Although she could not accept the Graveyard starting the war, Tianyin chose to agree with Undead Grand Duke Sargus’s way of thinking.

“So it is because of that thought that you took the initiative to start this war rather than wait for the Legendary undead below to start it?”

Tianyin finally understood the cause and effect.

“Exactly. Instead of waiting for them to start this war, I chose to start it myself directly.”

Sargus admitted without hesitation.

“The undead of the Graveyard have been suppressing themselves for hundreds of thousands of years, and they have been lonely for hundreds of thousands of years. Now I have no reason left to suppress the undead’s hatred…”

“Now all I can do is as much as possible provide these little ones who only think of vengeance with a shelter that can shield them from wind and rain…”

For some reason, hearing the Undead Grand Duke Sargus speak like this, Tianyin suddenly felt as if this was an ordinary father earnestly trying to protect mischievous children, to provide a shelter from wind and rain.