For the first time in either of his two lives, Alvin realized that physical pain had no limits...
The feeling of something exploding inside him, every cell bursting, made his whole body feel like a balloon stretched to its limit, ready to pop at any moment...
"Being cut to pieces" was an apt description of what Alvin was feeling. If anything, there were probably ten times as many blades as that.
Alvin thought he should have passed out, but the instant his consciousness faltered, something that could only be called "Resentment" surged straight into his mind...
A towering giant knelt before a great hall, kowtowing again and again...
Each time the giant's forehead struck the ground, it rang out like a massive bell!
The entire palace, surrounded by clouds and mist, seemed to tremble...
At last, realizing he might never receive an answer, the giant rose and cried out to the heavens in anguish...
"I have contended with Heaven! If I cannot win, then I shall die!"
As soon as the words left his mouth, the giant raised a massive axe and cut off his own head, then threw himself face-first onto the ground to show his contempt and defiance...
Then his entire body turned into a streak of light and fell into a massive coffin...
A golden-winged Roc clutched the coffin in its talons. It began to summon the strength of its blood and flesh. Its wings, thousands of meters across, beat as it let out a shriek of unbearable grief and struggled to soar into the heavens.
The man and the Roc charged together, fighting an enemy whose whereabouts were unknown...
Alvin was going mad just watching it...
He had no idea what this Don Quixote-like figure was trying to do, but his "Resentment" was already torturing Alvin