"..."
"..."
On the top of the City of Holy Light, the old priest, the hostage who was rescued by Isidoro using the 'portkey' three days ago, was currently meeting with an old friend of his, the man from the village near Foggy Valley.
Together with the old priests who came here to take refuge and never left again, they supported the city wall side by side and silently looked into the distance while chatting.
"Hops..."
"A few days ago, I thought we would never have the chance to talk together like this again."
"Look, the world has changed so much. In the blink of an eye, everything in front of you is different from what we old men are familiar with."
"Isn't this the legendary dark age?"
After looking at the farmers in the distance who were hard at work cultivating and resuming production in the vast fields, and then looking at the three or three flying dragon patrols of the Holy Light Legion that flew by in the sky from time to time, I thought that the two of them had been chatting for almost half a day.
While the old priest was sighing in his heart, he somehow fell into a trance for a while, and then he couldn't help but feel a lot of emotion.
In fact, he knows why the world is like this without anyone explaining it to him.
He thought that he had witnessed how it changed. He was at the scene at that time. However, until now, he was still a little unbelievable and could not imagine that such a terrible thing would actually happen in front of his own eyes.
occur.
Especially the miraculous city that replaced Wyndham, the capital of the Kingdom of Mitland, after the burst of white light, the thousand-year-old legendary city that appeared out of thin air, that city in terms of size, scale and majesty far exceeded the small one they were looking at.
The Small City of Holy Light is countless times larger than the great navigation and trading city of Balidanis in the south, and even Falconia, which is far beyond the limits of what people can imagine!
Even though he had stayed in that majestic and dreamlike city for a long time, and even visited and touched almost every corner of the city during that time, but
, every time he thinks about it now, he still feels a little dazed and unbelievable.
And precisely because of his disbelief, he felt incredible that Gus and others could actually successfully rescue him.
After all, in his opinion, the gap in strength between the two sides is too great. It may not be an exaggeration to say that it is just a small drop that shakes the tree. But now, the reason why this City of Holy Light can still exist is probably because of that Farr
Konya hasn't recovered enough yet, or maybe he just hasn't had time to deal with it yet?
However, he did not express the above thoughts and personal opinions easily.
"It seems to be correct.
"That prophecy..."
"In other words, everything written in the Book of Revelations has actually become a fact!"
As he spoke, the old priest didn't know what he was thinking of. First he sighed sadly again, then slowly turned around and motioned with his eyes to his old friend Hopps to walk aside together with him, preparing to walk along the road.
The stairs inside the city wall lead back to their residence in the city.
"you do not say!"
"Eagle of Darkness, Master of the Sinful Black Flock, King of the Blind White Flock..."
"Yes, I still remember that too."
"I feel ashamed to say it. I wasn't quite willing to believe it at the time, but now that I look at it..."
"cough!"
Shaking his head, Hopps also sighed in various ways.
Of course, he shook his head not because he denied what the old priest said. He didn't mean to deny it. He just felt that his idea at the time was too stubborn and he didn't expect that things could develop in this way.
"but……"
"Now, that person calls himself the 'Eagle of Light' and has decorated himself as the 'Savior'. He is not the 'Eagle of Darkness'!"
"Also, based on the evidence currently available, it would be too far-fetched to say that it was a prophecy?"
"That's just a conspiracy!"
"The funny thing is……"
"The faith we have persisted for many years, the church we have fought for all our lives, and the lofty King's Hall, in the end, are just a deformed product and a tool used by others under the conspiracy?"
"perhaps……"
"We will all be the sinners of history, right!?"
Walking to the steps inside the city wall, like the old priest, Priest Hopps, who was originally a middle-level leader of the King's Hall and a regional bishop, suddenly stopped and ignored the soldiers standing guard on the side.
The strange look he gave them made him laugh miserably and sigh loudly.
"Hops..."
"Actually, you don't have to blame yourself."
Hearing this, the old priest also stopped, and as if to comfort himself, he patted his old friend Hopps on the shoulder with a wry smile and advised:
"If you think about it, a conspiracy that can take hundreds or even thousands of years to brew is not something that normal people can see through, and the person who creates that kind of conspiracy is probably not an ordinary person, right?"
"That kind of existence is definitely beyond our imagination."
"Now even His Majesty the King of France can be confused and exploited by the other party. What can ordinary people like us who have no power do?"
"We are also powerless..."
"You don't know yet, do you?"
"Clette told me, she said that even the Paladins like them will not be able to fight against that cunning eagle for a long time in the future."
Having said this, the old priest's expression gradually became desolate, then he smiled wryly and shook his head before stopping.
"Too!"
"you're right!"
"I think……"
"Only they may have the chance to stop and change all of this, right?"
"Although that may take a lot of time..."
Then he sighed, and then looked at each other with the old priest. At this moment, old Hopps was still dressed as a clergyman of the church, but he no longer had any of the high-ranking personnel decorations of the King's Hall and the church.
The priest then slowly raised his head and looked at the group of paladins patrolling past on horseback in the distance, and said softly with a smile.
"..."
The old priest said nothing.
This city has changed a lot, and it is completely different from the situation when he led his troops south to go to the Balidanis League. Perhaps just like what Hopps said, this place will really breed.
hope?
In this regard, he was sincerely pleased with Clete's choice, and he was also glad that his daughter could decisively make the right choice in that situation. Otherwise, humans in this world would have completely lost hope.
.
‘…’
‘Roaring…’
And at this moment, as waves of terrifying noises came, when the two of them raised their heads and looked into the sky, they saw at a glance: a terrifying giant roaring and flying at high speed from the top of the city.
Passing by, the opponent's huge black shadow covering the sun quickly passed by the two of them who were talking and flew quickly towards the city lord's castle area in the center of the city.
Of course, the old priest and Hopps knew that the dragon belonged to their own side, and they also knew that it was the mount of the powerful witch Shirji who accompanied the Holy Light Legion. Therefore, of course, they were also on guard with those on duty.
None of the soldiers were too surprised, they just looked up at the sky and watched as the other party roared low and flew away with a pair of huge wings.
"well……"
For a long time, watching the huge figure of the giant dragon go away, the old priest didn't know what he suddenly thought of, but he lowered his head and sighed softly.
"I hope what you said is right?"
As he spoke, he quickly raised his head again, and turned toward the south, toward Falconia, toward the bright branch of the tree that could be faintly seen reaching into the sky from far away.
Look.
seem……
He is still not very optimistic about the City of Holy Light, which already has powerful witches, giant dragons, flying dragons and paladins, and does not really believe that humans in this world really have the opportunity to stop and change everything that has happened.
?
…
At this time, when the old priest and Hopps, two former friends and magicians, had just walked down the steps of the city wall to the streets of the city, Shirji, who was riding a dragon, had already flown from the military camp outside the city.
Arriving at the back garden of the castle, which covered an area of ​​at least tens of thousands of square meters behind the lord's castle, he transformed and instantly appeared in front of a troubled little girl.
"Wow?!"
!?('')
I don't know if it was intentional or not. Anne first pretended to be a little exaggerated and smeared a cake in her hand directly towards the face of Shirji who was suddenly in front of him, and successfully turned the other party into a 'white face'
The witch then pretended to be a little frightened and asked strangely:
"Huh?"
(▽)
"It turns out it's Shirji, you guy, you're shocking everyone!"
(ˊˋ)*
"What's the matter?"
(ˊ)
"Is there anything you need?"
(.)
Of course, while asking, Anne also kindly extended her hand, taking advantage of the other person's opportunity to wipe his face, and secretly put the cream and other sticky things on her hand into the other person's large blue witch robe and green robe.
Rubbing it hard on his hair.
"..."
Shirji didn't answer. She just silently reached out and used the sleeves of her witch robe to carefully wipe the sweet and glutinous food off her face, allowing her to barely open her eyes, mouth and nose.
"All right!"
“Cleaned up!!”
But soon, when she saw that her body, hat and hair were all covered with the sweet cream that was difficult to clean, she thought about it and simply used a cleaning spell to instantly relieve her originally embarrassing situation.
It becomes clean and refreshing.
"!!"
⊙﹏⊙‖∣°
"Sister Shirji..."
()
"Do you usually focus on such boring and useless spells?!"
(ˇεˇ)
Finding that her prank was instantly solved by the other party, Anne's originally perfect mood suddenly showed a hint of unhappiness, and then, of course, she pouted and asked in displeasure.
"Erica!"
"And Clete, are you here too?"
However, Shirji ignored Anne's question and angry look. She just slapped the student Erica and the paladin Clete who were playing around with Anne just now.
After greeting her, she quickly told her what she wanted to do when she came here:
"Annie, I came to you for something very important!"
"We just had a meeting with Gus in the military camp. No one had any good ideas, so I wanted to ask if you have any good ideas?"
Then, seeing Annie starting to look at him curiously, Shirji did not shy away from Erica and Clete who were standing beside him, and directly told her what she had just heard and the thorny issues that everyone was struggling with, plus the special
Si planned and probably already used his brand to find the war demon soldiers lurking in certain places.
"??"
(°ー°〃)
"Have you found the lurking demon warrior?"
(′～`●)
First she blinked and looked at Shirji for a while, and then Annie began to think seriously.
"how?"
"Is there any feasible way?"
After waiting for a while, seeing Annie looking over again, Shirji asked impatiently.
"Of course I can find a way!"
(ˉ▽￣~)Cut~~
"That's so easy!"
(︶)
Queen Anne, yes, she is the kind of person who is the most, most, most, most, most, most... well, anyway, she is very, very powerful.
In fact, no matter what the problem is, as long as she is willing, it is not a problem here, and there are even countless ways to solve it, let alone those boring ones the other party mentioned, which in her opinion are only a little big.
Things are broken.
"!!"
"Really?"
"Very good!"
"Then tell me quickly?"
After receiving Annie's affirmative answer, Shirji naturally cheered, and then ignored Erica and Clete who were standing aside, and continued to eagerly move forward and ask again.
“It’s actually very simple!”
(ω)
Anne didn't say it directly. She took a look at it first and saw curiosity, expectation and anxious expressions on the faces of Shirji, Erica and Clete.
After whetting the appetites of the three of them, they said in a crisp and unhurried voice:
"The best way to defend is, of course, to attack!"
(｀)
Yes, in Annie's opinion, the best defense is indeed offense!
At the moment, the passive defense method of Farnese and the other stupid guys relayed by Gus or Shirji is undoubtedly the stupidest and stupidest method, and it is completely undesirable.
"Don't they want to sneak attack us?"
|ω)
"That's not as good as this!"
(ψ｀▽′)o
"We might as well go to their Falconia and wreak havoc!"
()
"Let's steal each other's houses with those monsters to see who can move faster. Then, maybe we can force those bad guys who are playing hide-and-seek to run back by themselves?"
|˙˙)
So, Anne began to officially tell her bad idea, and she felt good about herself and looked expectantly at the astonished Shirji, Erica, and Clete.
"This is what we will do when the time comes..."
(σ)σ
Then, Anne gave a specific action plan.
The specific method she wanted to talk about was to let Shirji take advantage of the enemy's special forces that were wreaking havoc, that is, those war demon soldiers who didn't know where they were hiding, to directly take a ride on the dragon or before they made a surprise attack.
Use the other party's somewhat unskilled teleportation magic to teleport to the hot city of Falconia, and then directly use the other party's equally unskilled and uncontrollable powerful spells, such as the Fire Curse.
Or some other magic to directly destroy the opponent's legendary thousand-year city?
Although Anne felt that with Shirji's current abilities, it was possible that he might not really be able to destroy the city and that the opponent might not have any countermeasures and defense means, but that kind of thing was not important.
Because, their main purpose is to cause destruction and force the opponent's special infiltration troops to show up or be forced to return. As long as they keep burning and destroying, she doesn't believe that the opponent can hold it back!
Of course, Queen Anne herself would not easily help in this process, but that did not prevent her from following along to give guidance and continue to come up with more bad ideas while watching Shirji and others go.
Have fun for her.
(…)
(●￣￣●)
"Yes!"
“It’s really a good idea!”
"Teacher Shirji!"
"Then what are we waiting for?"
"Without further ado, let your dragon fly down quickly, let's set off now!"
At this time, Erica and Clete looked at each other at first, and then they cheered and urged Shirji.
Especially Erica, unlike Clete who was a little hesitant but afraid to speak, she directly showed a very excited and impatient look, her eyes were still shining, and she seemed to be as excited about the future as Anne.
Are you looking forward to going to Falconia and wreaking havoc?
"ah?"
"No, it can't be done!"
"Can't do that!"
However, Shirji just shook his head vigorously and refused flatly after thinking for a while.
"??"
(**;)
"why not?"
(へ╬)
Seeing this, Annie became a little angry.
You know, that was a great idea that she finally came up with. Moreover, it seemed that she hadn't been to that Falconia city yet. She was just looking for an excuse to join in the fun, but she didn't expect it.
Were you poured cold water on this abominable Shirji in front of you?
"no!"
"Really can not!!"
Seeing the dissatisfied looks of Anne and Erica, Shirji could only sigh and explained seriously:
"Think about it, there are at least dozens or even millions of refugees gathered in Falconia now. Once a large-scale destructive magic like the Fire Curse is used, so many people will definitely be destroyed by that time.
Heavy casualties!"
"Those people, most of them are innocent!"
"Besides, I can't really control that kind of magic until now. I can't even imagine what will happen then."
Just as she said, if she uses her own big wand, the power of the fire spell can only burn down a house or a small castle at most, so it is of no use; but if she uses the one given by Anne,
With a short wand, the whole of Falconia might be reduced to a sea of ​​fire, and the casualties would be horrific!
And Shirji would never agree or accept such evil and terrible things.
She is not opposed to destroying the evil 'Eagle of Light' Griffith and his apostles, soldiers and monsters. However, if it is to kill innocent people indiscriminately, she will never agree to it.
.
"But!"
(~)
"If we don't burn it seriously, how can we force those war demon soldiers to show up or run back?"
()
Anne was obviously not satisfied with Shirji's timid attitude.
After all, the true meaning of stealing from each other is to compete with who is faster and who is better. If someone is as timid as the other party and does not dare to use his full strength, he will definitely not be able to achieve the expected results.
Besides, Anne didn't think that the current Shirji could defeat the 'Eagle of Light', even with the wand she gave her. She just found an excuse to trick him into taking the lead in going to that Farr.
I was just wandering around Konya, so I didn’t expect to actually achieve what the other party said.
"It just doesn't work anyway!"
Blushing, Shirji wanted to say something, but in the end he just smiled bitterly and lowered his head.
"never mind."
"I'd better think about it myself..."
Then, she pursed her lips, turned around, and walked toward the castle alone. She only thought about things by herself, and no longer talked about Anne, whose expression changed from shock to indignation, and Anne who wanted to say something but was still lustful.
Erica and Clete were speechless.
"It's useless to think about it!"
(ψ｀╭╮′)o
"If you don't listen to others, just wait and cry!"
(`^)
In the end, Anne shouted something behind Shirji, but the other party ignored it, and maybe he didn't even take it seriously. Instead, he quickly disappeared around the corner of the garden in front of him.
"hateful!"
()
Of course, Anne was very unhappy about this, because her plan was actually rejected by the other party. She could only feel better about that kind of thing, and then there would be undead!
but……
"..."
乛乛
"..."
()hey-hey!
When she saw Erica who was also aggrieved, she suddenly thought of another brilliant idea.
(…)
(●￣￣●)
"!!"
"You, what do you want to do?!"
"??"
"Annie?"
"you"
Seeing Anne's terrifying look, Erica and Clete naturally shuddered, then subconsciously got together and asked timidly.
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Chapter completed!