Chapter 14 I haven't finished yet--
She took two steps back and kept a distance from the Prince of the Sky. The second prince didn't care, but stared at her chest more presumptuously. For him, the meat in front of him is his own sooner or later. As long as he became king, whether it was a beautiful princess or a beautiful queen, he could torture him any way.
"Have you made mind?" He deliberately sighed, "I don't want my sister to be sent to trial as the murderer of the cardinal. Maybe I can discuss with Shelley and find a few witnesses to prove that you have nothing to do with tonight's murder... Of course, it depends on where you stand."
"You answer me a question first."
"Oh?"
"Who arranged the action tonight?" Sophia stared at him and said, "Sally has only died for an hour. You and Mr. Shirley can not only take action immediately, but even blockade the royal city effortlessly. I just want to know who is commanding behind the scenes?
"It's none of your business." The sky looked at her coldly.
Of course it's none of my business, Sophia thought. There is no doubt that even she designed tonight's play, which should have been unreasonable. She knows the skills of Cardinal Sheli and her second brother, both of whom are ambitious and can't find anything. Although Slay was not as capable as the previous church ruler, Nesis, he had always been cautious and died such an unclear death. And the action he arranged tonight to eliminate the snake-haired banshee was undoubtedly leaked out so that he was used. These things can't be done by Shelley and Cangqiong, and there must be a certain force behind it. What really worries her is that she has no clue about this force.
At the beginning, she felt that some things were just a coincidence. For example, the story of the Buride family's private construction of a necromancer in the black crystal mine was revealed to her, but when she went to Longenburg, the shadow blood dragon attacked the royal city. Soon after, the snake-haired banshee also appeared. When she felt that she had almost dealt with the perfect Dossa, Cardinal Sarai was suddenly murdered, and she was accused of being the murderer behind the scenes...
And then? Then what else will happen?
The more she thought about it, the more shocked she became.
The sky saw her standing there silent and thought that she had been moved by her words.
"You still have time to think more here!" He smiled and said, "If you are willing to stand by my side, I will be much happier. My sister, you are not only beautiful, but also much more capable than others. I will come back tomorrow morning, and then there will be more time for us to strengthen our relationship with each other. However, if you dare to refuse... you know what the consequences will be."
After saying that, he slowly retreated.
The door was closed again. He said a few words diplomatically, and then there was the sound of someone locking the door outside.
The candlelight shook and swayed with disturbing shadows, but suddenly flashed out. Sophia stood in the dark, motionless. The night outside the window was getting darker and darker, as if it was filtrating the cold and gradually taking away the warmth from her body.
She stood like this for a long time until a few slight sounds came from her feet. She walked slowly to the table and knocked on the table in the dark. Then, she began to take off her dress. She took it slowly and let the coldness erode her ** skin little by little.
The stone bricks spread on the ground were quietly moved, and someone came out from the ground. Sophia slowly leaned over in the dark and took the thick clothes handed over by the man.
"Your Highness," whispered in her ear was a woman, "Be careful, it's very tight outside."
After saying that, the woman groped for Sophia to put on the clothes worn by ordinary civilian women and helped her get into the secret path of the ground. After re-paving the stone bricks, she flexibly put the dress left by the princess on herself.
*
Led by Molly, Meggie and Greenless sneaked back to the house that Sophia used as a secret stronghold. From time to time, someone covered and responded to them.
Greenless is obviously the first time to come here, but there is no expression on his face. It seems that although it is the first time to come, it is not surprising that Molly can take him to such a secret stronghold.
"Wouldn't anyone find it here?" Megie secretly asked Molly. The movement outside is so big that although this room is not conspicuous, it should also be searched, right?
"Don't worry," Molly shook her head. "This property belongs to a marquis, and that marquis has enough influence in the church that no one dares to come in and search. Moreover, this is the last time it is used here.
Meggie didn't ask any more questions.
To his surprise, this time, he not only met the lone wolf General Leot, but also the former court magicians Urenos, and even Anna Sue and Will. Will's eyes lit up when he saw them come in, but after seeing that only three of them came back, he immediately faded. Molly walked over, patted him on the shoulder and sighed.
Anna didn't notice what was wrong with Will and ran to Meiji happily. Because there were too many people on the side, she was embarrassed to hold his hand, but stood there blushing.
"Why are you here?" Megsy asked her doubtfully.
"I and I have just arrived," Anna replied in a low voice. "The teacher suddenly woke me up and brought me here. I don't know what's going on. It's very messy outside now. Will was already here when I arrived.
"That's it." It seems that Leot has already taken emergency measures. In the event of an accident, the first step is to protect Will and Anna. However, Anna is important because only she can access the blue planet fragments in the ruins of the heavenly garden, and Megie doesn't quite understand why Will is so important. At least, in this period of joint training, although the magic shown by Will is good, it has not been replaced by no one. After all, the most indispensable thing in this country is the priest.
When it comes to the priest, he thought of the god of war priest Bougel, who used his life to protect himself and stop the pursuit of the enemy. When he fled, he didn't feel that there was anything wrong with giving up a person who had only been together for an hour or two for himself, but in hind thought about it, he still felt a little guilty.
However, that's his own decision, and I didn't force him to stay... It can't be my fault, right?
They stayed in the hall for a while until someone came in.
That's Princess Sophia. At this time, she was wearing the clothes of the most ordinary civilian woman, followed by two rose knights. As soon as he saw her appear, Leot immediately greeted him and knelt down on one knee, and the others also saluted. Instead, Meji, because she has been used to getting along with Sophia these days, not only forgot that she should also salute, but even almost called her "Sufia" directly.
"Your Highness," Leot raised his head. "The situation is not good."
Suffia nodded, signaled everyone not to be polite, then walked to Will and sighed, "Will, I'm sorry."
Will suppressed his tears, shook his head vigorously and whispered, "My father died gloriously in the battle, and the God of War will definitely give him glory."
Only then did Meji know that Bugle was Will's father. I remember that when they first got together, Will said that his father was wanted by the church, but he didn't expect to fight with him tonight and die to protect himself.
After comforting Will briefly, Sophia went to the room on the second floor with Leot and Urenos. It seemed that there was something important to discuss.
Anna was kind-hearted. After knowing that Will had just lost her relatives, she subconsciously left Meggie, stayed with Will, and even held his hand. She almost cried for him, which made Meggie's heart sour - not want to cry, but jealous.
Forget it, for the sake of his father, lend little Anna to him for the time being...
**
The room on the second floor.
Sfia sat at her desk and tried to make herself feel calm and relaxed. However, after hearing the latest situation reported to her by General Lone Wolf, she still stood up holding the table in shock.
"What happened in the three northern counties*?" She looked at Leot and felt as if her head had been blowd by something.
"This is the message sent back by our own intelligence personnel, and the official channel may not be sent back to Wangcheng until tomorrow." The one-eyed man whispered, "The * elements of Hortonshire killed the chief executive sent by the royal city, and the whole area fell into chaos. Some nobles dissatisfied with the kingdom gathered together to form a private army on a large scale in the name of protecting themselves. There are also some people who are set fire everywhere, trying to provoke a bigger panic.
Suffia suppressed the feeling of a splitting headache and slowly sat back.
"As for now," Leot said coldly, "Shallley is searching everywhere in the name of arresting the murderer, breaking into the residences of church personnel who used to be at peace with him, and collecting the 'crimes' of those people."
"That idiot," anger flashed in Sophia's eyes, "Since Sarai is dead, as long as he can stabilize the church and slowly buy people's hearts, it will be a matter of time to fully control the church. What he is doing now is simply forcing his opponents to unite to resist.
Next, the old man Urenos sat in a chair and said faintly, "Shallly is just a fool. The problem is that because this kingdom is already deeply rooted and rotten in its bones, fools like him who occupy high positions are everywhere.
Sofia was silent, and Leot didn't say a word. Don't they know what the old man said?
"Teacher, what do you think we should do now?" The princess asked.
"From the overall situation, in fact, we can't do anything at present." The old man sighed, "Since Shelley and the second prince feel that they have the ability to control the country, let's secretly help them. At this time, instead of fighting with them, it is better to stabilize the situation in the king city as soon as possible.
"They will only send this kingdom into the abyss."
"This kingdom has entered the abyss," the old man looked at Sophia pitifully. "What else can you do? Child, I know how capable you are, but unless everyone is at the most desperate moment, they will not agree with a woman to lead them.
"I don't want to lead them, I just want to..."
"There is no difference, child," the old man shook his head. "If you can't let the so-called nobles with their heads full of wine lees think that you are their only hope, then no matter how good an idea is, no one will listen to you. You will have to go to dances one by one because you want them to listen to your opinions. Even so, their drunken heads will forget what you said the next day.
General Lone Wolf did not intervene, but nodded silently.
"But," the beautiful princess hesitated, "if you keep watching like this until the situation is completely out of control, is it too late?"
"Instead of slowly dying with elephants in the desert that have lost their water, it is better to set a fire and then regenerate in blood and fire, just like *." The old man replied in a low voice, "As far as I know, there is a * in the fog girl forest. Every 400 years, he has to throw himself into the fire and let the parasite attached to it turn into ashes with its aging body, and then be reborn in the fire. If I'm not mistaken, its rebirth will come soon... just like this kingdom."
*? Somehow, the princess felt that the old man's metaphor seemed to imply something.
"Of course, we can't just watch and do nothing," the old man continued. "The most important thing now is to get the blue planet fragments in the deep blue sea. We should arrange for Molly and the others to go as soon as possible. Anna's unfinished training can be taught to her by Greenless on the road.
Leot said coldly, "Greenless is the best assassin, and Anna Sue needs exactly this knowledge."
"Well, call them in now." Sophia felt that her head was getting more and more painful, but she didn't want to be too weak at this time.
Leo nodded, looked at her worriedly, and turned away.
"Sofia, you should go to rest." The old man sighed.
"It's not the right time, it's not the right time..."
"No, it's time to rest, because everything hasn't started yet," the old man said with a pun. "It's also a good thing for qualified leaders to relax properly. Don't let people think that you are reluctant, let alone make yourself feel powerless.
After a long silence, Sophia couldn't help asking, "Teacher... will I let you down?"
Shaking his head, the old man said, "I don't know, Sophia. Even if it is a prophecy, sometimes it just points out a relatively easy way to go. But sometimes, there is no easy way to go. At this time, what can make people stick to it is just his own belief. Sophia, I don't have much time. I can't be with you all the time. I have to rely on you for the future.
"Teacher, what are you talking about?" Sophia looked at him in shock, "I don't know what to do without you."
"You will know," the old man smiled. "I'm old and don't have the energy to wait for that new future. I will die with this rotten kingdom, but I don't regret it, because I believe I have done my part for that future."
At this time, Leot came in with Molly, Megsy and others.
The uneasiness in her heart became stronger and stronger. Sophia did not speak any more, but Leot briefly told them about the current situation and informed them that he would arrange for the five of them to get out of the royal city tomorrow evening. Molly will be the captain of this mission, and Anna Sue will be taught by Greenless for the rest of the training.
"So, Meggie will also join the mission to the deep blue sea?" Molly asked.
"That's right." General Lone Wolf nodded.
"Wait a minute, I haven't..." Meggie doesn't remember that he promised Sophia at that time.
"After getting the blue planet fragment, you must immediately go to the coastal city of Fe'an," Leot ignored Meggie's protest at all. "There, someone will respond to you and re-forge the blue planet debris."
"Listen to me..." Meji shouted.
"Brother Meggie," little Anna happily took his sleeve. "It's great that you will come with me."
I haven't finished yet...
"I will tell Molly in detail. You can go down and have a rest first. I have arranged a room for you. Leot announced its dissolution.
Hey, I said, is my personal intention so worthless?