It's dawn. The gray sky is still floating with the dust that has not yet fallen.

Ella and Amy walked back with a large bundle of branches and leaves. The main hall in the center of the temple had been turned into sand by Ibn Sina. The attached complex surrounded Kurseidra's body in silence, like a tomb specially built for her.

Draguer cried in front of Kurzedra's body all night and fell asleep exhausted. She held the black dragon's head and rubbed the black dragon's cheek intimately in her sleep, with a smile on her face. But when she woke up and saw her sister who was still motionless, her mouth tilted and she immediately cried again.

But this time, she could not shed tears. The tears of Draguère had been shedding all night.

"Okay, Drague, come here." Ella reached out to her, "It's almost time."

"What do you want to do?"

Draguer glared at Ella and the branches in her hand, holding Kurzedra's body tighter.

"Draguère, stop crying, come with me," said Ella. "The apostles will not be drowned by our tears. Come with me, let's think about the ways to deal with the apostles."

"The temple has collapsed, what can you do?" Draguè shouted. She pointed at Amy with her finger: "You - your magic is not as good as me." She pointed at Ara again: "And you, royal family, you don't know how to magic at all!"

Ella's hand froze in the air. After a deadly silence, Ella withdrew her hand and turned her gaze to the hazy sky. She had known that the apostles were powerful magicians, and had experienced their strength again and again. In Antilia, Gregori killed the wandering undead of Jabir through half a world, and teleported a whole fleet thousands of miles away. In Bremen, the ancient church of Abraham gathered the power of the twelve tribes, but fled in the attack of Crodis. In Stad, she even faced one of the apostles directly. And the difficult battle with the priest Avicenna in the Island Republic was enough to make her realize what a powerful magician the apostle was better than the priest.

But none of these experiences scared her more than last night. In Antilia, she was protected by the Sword Saint. In Bremen, she directly ignored Crodis's magic. In Stad, she even made a deal with Gregorian. But last night, Ibn Sina came directly for the murder. She didn't understand magic and could not intuitively understand how powerful Ibn Sina's magic was. But Amy was already the most powerful magician around her, and Kurzedra, who was considered far superior to her, was killed by Ibn Sina so easily.

"Twelve steps."

Ella said the number unconsciously. From the time they left behind the pillar to escape, when they were killed by Ibn Shina, she had only had time to take twelve steps.

“Four.”

Another number appeared in Ella's mouth. This was the number of apostles. For magicians like Ibn Sina, the Tianfang Empire had four - and must have four.

"millennium."

This is the time that the Seven Hill Empire has experienced from killing the Son of God. While reciting these numbers, Aila couldn't help but feel a puzzle in her heart: If the Tianfang Empire had four powerful magicians every year for this thousand years, how could the Seven Hill Empire survive until today?

"Amy," Ella asked suddenly, "had you ever heard about the apostles when you were in the Seven Hills Empire?"

Amy shook her head: "No, your majesty. The first time I heard of the existence of the apostles was in Antiliad."

"I'm the same." Ella turned her gaze from the sky to her palms, "I have always known the power of the Tianfang Empire. But when I was in the Qiqiu Empire, all the civil and military officials, including me, always believed that the Tianfang Empire had only a few 'elves'-level magicians. It was obvious that the Qiqiu Empire and the Tianfang Empire had been in a confrontation for thousands of years. The Qiqiu Empire had no idea of ​​such important information at all - what was going on?"

"Speaking of this, your Majesty's parents are just elf-level magicians, just like me. But they won again and again when fighting against the invasion of the Tianfang Empire. In the end, the Tianfang Empire designed to trick them out of the country and killed them." Amy also realized something was wrong, "If your Majesty's parents appeared on the battlefield like last night, they would be wiped out by the apostles immediately."

"Before heading to the Tianfang Empire, my father and mother were fully prepared."

Ella continues to recall the past.

"The place where the negotiations are not far from the border, and my father has already put heavy troops on the border. The army of the Tianfang Empire and the place where the negotiations are also maintained at the necessary distance. Both my father and mother are powerful magicians. According to previous experience, even if the Tianfang Empire suddenly uses force, under the protection of the guards and the magic of their fathers and mothers, they will not be unable to escape. But as a result, they were killed without any resistance... and even a guard who reported the news did not run out. Thinking about it now, they probably met the apostles at that time - but why did the apostles never appear on the battlefield before?"

"It's the blessing of this temple! The stupid royal family!" Hearing Ella's words, Draguai shouted in grief, "The apostles have attacked the Qiqiu Empire many times! But whenever they want to deal a fatal blow to the Qiqiu Empire's army, the temple will shine, and then the apostles will retreat! Without this temple, why can the Qiqiu Empire last for so long? And you don't even want to give the funds to build this temple! Well, now the temple has collapsed, it's over, it's all over!"

"Even if you appear in front of me again and ask me to allocate funds for repairing the temple, I will not agree." Ella responded lightly, "I never believe what the priests said, nor do I believe that a mere temple can protect the Seven Hills Empire. Swedish priests were all removed by me not long ago."

Ella's words were so angry that Draguè suddenly stood up: "What did you say?"

"This is very obvious. The Qiqiu Empire has never protected this temple. If the temple is destroyed, it can solve the problems encountered by the Tianfang Empire. It is as easy as last night, then this temple will no longer exist, right?"

Draguè was stunned for a moment.

"It seems to be right... If I were facing the apostle, my sister and I could not protect this temple at all. Why didn't the Tianfang Empire come to attack this crucial temple early? But if it weren't for the temple, then what stopped the Tianfang Empire's attack? Could it be... Could it be..."

Draguè suddenly realized something and ran towards the distance.
Chapter completed!