Lord of Hyranza

As long as their whereabouts are disclosed to the law enforcement team of the Magic Union, there will be special magicians who want them. He wondered what kind of involvement Selena would have with the black magic hermit, and he couldn't help guessing in his heart: Could it be from Will the Black Arts Hermitage defect from the mage?

Then he immediately denied his guess. If she is a magician, can she still be short of money?

At this time, Selena had already adjusted her collapsed emotions. She stood up straight and took a deep look at Suldak: "Can I trust you?"

Suldak didn't speak, but pointed to the knight badge on his chest, and said, "I swear on the honor of the knight."

Selena lowered her head, bit her lower lip with her teeth, twitched for a while, and finally said with determination: "Since you want to know, come with me! Actually, you could have known earlier..."

After she finished speaking, she turned and walked into the somewhat simple stone house, followed by Suldak. This stone house has only one room. As soon as you enter the door, you can see the wooden table and chairs in the living room. The wooden bed was built with double-layer partitions to form a hammock, covered with thick hay mats and white-washed linen sheets on the mats.

The fireplace was on the wall opposite the bed, and next to it stood a wooden table with a plate full of chestnuts, an earthenware plate with a fist-sized piece of bacon and a small piece of cassava, and the embers from the fireplace Not extinguished, a piece of cassava showed burnt skin from the grass ash. It seemed that this piece of roasted cassava should be lunch for two people.

There are almost no valuable furnishings in the whole house, but it looks very warm under the careful decoration of the owner.Selena closed the door, and the room became much darker. She stood beside the square table, with her long chestnut hair pulled up high, revealing a section of her snow-white neck.

Turning her back to Suldak, she slowly unbuttoned the skirt, and the long linen skirt was piled on her feet.

The smooth back and slender legs outline the most outstanding figure. Surdak's eyes fell on her back, and he saw a whole black tattoo. It was a bust sunken in the ground, a woman with The woman with a perfect face raised one arm high, and raised her head to look up from the ground well. The face and body of the figure were engraved with strange runes, and a pair of empty eyes looked up at the night sky through the abyss underground.

Behind the bust is a hollowed-out crescent moon, an eye with long eyelashes, and a magic scepter as a line to outline the emblem. The hollowed-out black crescent moon is in Suldak The eyes are extremely eye-catching.

This tattoo almost covered Selena's entire back, and Suldak asked in surprise, "What is this... a magic pattern?"

But what his real eyes saw was a completely different scene. When Selena took off her long skirt, the black mist that surrounded Selena and the woman hidden in the black mist turned into a black streak. The vortex was sucked into Selena's body bit by bit, blending into her body like ink, and imprinted on her bare back.

Selena squatted down, picked up the long skirt that had fallen to her feet, and put it on her chest. She blushed and turned her head to Suldak and said:

"This is not a magic pattern, but a mark."

It was as if some kind of power descended on Selena, and a crescent-like imprint appeared on the center of her brow, as if she had changed for a moment.

It gave Suldak the feeling that the power descending on Selina was like the blessings of gods and demons that descended on him after he offered sacrifices in the sacrificial ceremony.

The only difference is that Selena doesn't seem to need to offer a sacrifice, as long as she wants that power to integrate into her body, she can do it anytime, anywhere.

Before Suldak could say anything, Selina continued: "As a person chosen by the goddess—an apostle of the Goddess of Darkness, or the priest of the Temple of Darkness, my mission is to The Grimm Empire spreads the teachings of the Dark Goddess."

An apostle of the Goddess of Darkness?Priest of the Dark Temple?Spread the teachings of the Dark Goddess...

Suldak didn't expect that Selina was actually a believer, but as the messenger who spread the teachings of the Dark Goddess, shouldn't she leave footprints in various provinces of the Grimm Empire and preach to the people of the Grimm Empire the glory of believing in the Dark Goddess? ?

"Since you are the apostle of the Goddess of Darkness, why did you live in seclusion in Wall Village...?" Suldak found it inconceivable.

But... don't people in the Green Empire believe in the Statue of Liberty?Suldak thought in his heart.

Selena also showed a helpless wry smile at this time. She put the long skirt back on her body, and then asked Suldak to sit down, "Even if you are the apostle of the goddess, you must first ensure that you can live. Almost everyone in the entire empire is Believers of the Statue of Liberty, it is not easy to persuade the stubborn Green people to change their beliefs, and an apostle like me will be regarded as a heretic by the priests in the Temple of Liberty. The priests in those temples may save the world, but only alone will have no mercy on us."

"But...as the apostle of the Goddess of Darkness, shouldn't you have the blessings of the Goddess and gain some extraordinary power?...No matter how you look at it now, it's a bit too miserable!" Suldak thought of Sai Linna actually wanted to commit herself to marrying a knight like him, so she asked very puzzled.

Selena shook her head, "There is no soil to sow dark teachings in this continent, and there are no believers. You can't harvest the power of faith at all. Naturally, the goddess of darkness will not issue oracles. This place should be a corner forgotten by the goddess. "

"With the power you have, you shouldn't live in seclusion in such a remote village and live such a miserable life. Are you still a penance?" Suldak asked.

At this time, the imprint that appeared on Selena's body disappeared little by little, and turned into a black mist around her again, and the figure of the woman in the black mist faded to almost non-existent.

The crescent moon mark on Selena's eyebrows also slowly disappeared. Selena looked up at Suldak, and what made her feel a little relieved was that Seldak didn't do anything radical after knowing her identity. Behavior, she has met too many people. After learning her true identity, some hope that she can stay away, or wish to report her to the priests of the temple as soon as possible, or hope to get her from her. Get some benefits from her body, after all, she is the one chosen by the Goddess of Darkness.

Every time, Selena wanted to tell those people that the dark goddess, Celine, was just a god with few believers, and she couldn't even perform ordinary miracles.

'Perhaps it was Selina who wanted to spread the teachings of the Goddess of Darkness to others, so that people would be misunderstood as an ominous person. 'Suldak thought so.

Selena shook her head slightly, "No, I'm not an ascetic monk. If I can pray to the goddess for bread and milk, I will certainly improve the life here, and I will never let myself live in such a tight situation..."

In fact, Surdak is not a believer in the Statue of Liberty, so he doesn't care what Selena believes in, but thinks that she is probably the most miserable priest in the world.

At this time, he thought of his own sacrificial ceremony. He provided sacrifices to the demon god and obtained the power from the demon god accordingly. In the eyes of the battle priest of the temple, does this situation also belong to heretics?

"Because of this, those members of the Black Arts Priory want to find you?" Suldak asked.

Selena nodded silently, looking like a poor kitten, looking at Suldak without blinking.

Suldak felt that he should give Selena some comfort at this time, so he gently held the soft hand stretched out from the opposite side of the table, and said, "We have a lot of things that need to be prepared in advance..."

Chapter 278 Disappearing

Although there are temples of the Statue of Liberty all over the Grimm Empire, since the outbreak of the Plane War, the temples have obeyed the oracle from the Statue of Liberty and will not intervene in the Grimm Empire's plane war. All combat priests and priests must stay in the temple.

The imperial people have begun to have various doubts about the Statue of Liberty. Many people even think that they are abandoned by the Statue of Liberty. Some radical lords think that since the Statue of Liberty cannot provide shelter for the people of the Grimm Empire, then many of the Grimm Empire established The temple should be pushed, and the priests and fighting priests who hid in the temple like turtles should be driven out of the Grimm Empire.

The Grimm Empire is a country of freedom of belief. His Majesty Charles Angibald did not issue a decree prohibiting the emissaries of other gods from spreading teachings in the Grimm Empire, nor did he contradict other gods to build temples in the Grimm Empire, which really rejected the nature of other temples It is the great priests of the Temple of Liberty, and they and their cruel and extreme methods suppress the believers of other gods.

Although this kind of thing has not been recorded in the annals of history, from the fact that there are no other temples on the territory of the Grimm Empire, it can be seen that the methods of the Temple of Liberty are very clever and effective.

If there were other reasons, Suldak might find another countermeasure.

But the enemy he was going to face was the even more shady Black Magic Priory, and Suldak felt that there was nothing terrible about it.

He decided to write a letter to Antonio in Everson Province first, mainly because he wanted to have a deeper understanding of the black magic hermit.

Selina saw that Suldak did not feel any disgust, disgust, or fear because he was a follower of the dark goddess Celine, and the tension in her heart eased a little.

Thinking of that timid husband, that is, Signa's father, who heard that he believed in not the Statue of Liberty, but the little-known goddess of darkness, Celine, he was so scared that he didn't dare to leave the house for half a month. From then on, he was worried all the time, and he didn't even get close to Selina, and he was in a trance every day. When the lizard hunting group in Wall Village went out to hunt, they unfortunately died under the claws of sand wolves.

The first ominous rumors about Selena probably came from this man.

Selena stood behind Suldak and watched Suldak quietly. He was writing a letter to the magician Antonio on the wooden table. His concentration made Selena feel a warm current in her heart. Putting his hands on Suldak's broad and strong shoulders, he pressed them tightly from the back, wrapped his hands around his chest, and let his sharp chin rest on his shoulders.

Her heart was beating wildly, eyes closed, she just wanted to quietly enjoy this long-lost tranquility at this moment.

He stopped the quill in his hand, and stroked her warm and smooth cheek with his hand, and the atmosphere in the room became a little more charming...

"Mom, I'm hungry!" The little girl's sweet and glutinous voice sounded at the door, and I don't know when Signa actually stood at the door, looking into the room curiously, her big watery eyes looked pitiful , looking into the room and asking: "When shall we have lunch?"

Selena hurriedly left Suldak's back, tugged at the folds of the long linen dress with both hands, hurriedly picked out a piece of scorched cassava from the ashes of the fireplace, squatted in front of Signa, and quickly Gently peel back the charred crust of cassava to reveal the sweet, caramelized flesh inside.

Signa was drooling, and a sweet smile appeared on her small face. She took the hot cassava, tilted her head and looked at Suldak with a smile, and then ran out of the yard.

Suldak came out of the house and said to Selina: "I'll go to Uncle Brett to discuss the matter of the cistern. You don't have to be afraid of those robbers, I still have everything."

Selena nodded gently to Suldak.

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The news that Wall Village wanted to build a large reservoir upstream of the village quickly spread in the surrounding villages.

The main reason why this incident spread wildly in the surrounding villages was that Village Chief Bright recruited [-] bricklayers and [-] laborers from other villages.

The head of Bright Village came out to make a promise to everyone. The bricklayer paid 70 copper coins per day and provided two meals for free every day. Free accommodation can be provided, and the start date is about a week after the Harvest Festival.

The period before and after the Harvest Festival is the season for harvesting wheat. Even the villagers of the Pubao Mountain Sulfur Mine have to rush back to participate in the autumn harvest. For farm work, I came to Wall Village to build a reservoir, so the old village chief set the start date for the construction of the reservoir after the Harvest Festival.

According to the practice of previous years, for a period of time after the autumn harvest, most of the villagers in the nearby villages outside the mountain pass will leave the village to find a job outside, and they will return to the village one after another until the first snow falls. Most of the wages returned will be used to buy some winter storage materials. This is how it is spent almost every winter, and the villagers are used to it.

But this autumn, the news of the construction of a water reservoir came from the village of Woer, which made several surrounding villages boil. If you don’t have to leave your hometown, you can find a job and earn a sum of money that can subsidize your family before winter comes. , then who is willing to go out of this mountain and go to the unfamiliar city of Hailansa to find a job.

All of a sudden, many people who were familiar with the old village chief or who were not familiar with him ran to Wall Village one after another, wanting to take the job.

The old village head didn't expect that just after he spread the news about the construction of the reservoir, the people who applied for the job almost broke the door of the old village head's house just three days later, and now the old village head is a little worried The problem was not that there were not enough people to recruit, but that there were so many applicants that it was difficult for him to make a choice.

During this period of time, Selina became a full-time clerk next to the old village head, not only to record the sulfur mines brought back from outside, but also to register these villagers from other villages who came to apply for the job. During the autumn harvest, the grain field in the village is full of wheat stacks. In the past, the old village head would arrange the time for each household to thresh wheat on the grain field. As for the order of each family, it was recorded in the old village head .

This year is different from the past. The old village head is much busier than in previous years. He is responsible for more things. Some things cannot be avoided and will be forgotten. In order to avoid unnecessary disputes, the time for each household to harvest wheat is also determined. Linna recorded on a piece of parchment.

Suldak also took the opportunity to teach Selena to use tables for records and statistics. He filled the parchment with grids and recorded the dates when each household used the grain field in the grids. Then these things seemed to be It is obvious at a glance.

As for the matter of Selina, it is not a problem for the old village head at all. He submitted a report of missing persons to the clerk in charge of household registration in Hailansa City. Selina is counted in the account book of population Disappeared.

And the old village chief also issued a notice to the whole village from door to door that night, whoever dares to disclose the news of Selina to outsiders, let him roll up his luggage and get out of Wall Village.If someone asks about Selina's news, everyone will say, "a group of robbers came to the village a few days ago, not only took away a dozen gazelles in the village, but also took Selena away." '

As for the clerk who was in charge of population statistics in the northern suburbs of Hailansa City, before the Harvest Festival, he rushed to Wall Village very dutifully and investigated the missing persons case. The ashes and lingering warmth in the fireplace felt that this was a bit strange, but when the old village chief sent him out of the village, he asked him to remove a fat gazelle.

So his report clearly stated: After investigation and verification, Selina, a villager in Wall Village, was hijacked by the bandit group. The evidence is solid. Please follow up the matter with the security group...

Chapter 279 Karl Visits

For any matter related to the Black Magic Priory, the law enforcement departments of the Grimm Empire will respond extremely quickly.

The bandit group plundered noble manors and some natural villages on the outskirts of Hailansa City, and rose to the level of the Black Magic Priory. The clerk of the population statistics submitted a written report to the city hall, and the high-level officials responded quickly, dispatching an out-of-city patrol team from the High Lansa City Guard Battalion to Wall Village to continue the investigation.

Under normal circumstances, this kind of missing persons case would end here, but this time it did not. This made the clerk who was in charge of the population statistics of the northern suburbs of the city a little worried. Send a letter to the old village chief.

Just after the old village head once again carried out ideological work on the whole village, the ideological understanding of all the villagers in Wall Village has been comprehensively improved. The point where life is closely related.

Selena would still follow behind the old village head every day, holding an account book and standing in the valley on time.

The men in the village are still collecting sulfur ore in the sulfur mine. There have been three batches of sulfur mine piled up in the warehouse of the village. This time, the horse team brought enough supplies and returned to the sulfur mine in Pustout Mountain. The men will return in a week. Wall Village, to participate in the Harvest Festival and the coming-of-age ceremony for the children of the village.

And before the men in the village came back, the autumn harvest in Wall Village started ahead of schedule under the auspices of the old village chief.

Harvesting wheat requires helpers. If you only want to harvest your own wheat, it will take at least seven or eight days for a laborer to harvest the wheat at home. In a few days, they appear concentratedly on the grain field, but if seven or eight households help each other, one family's wheat field can be harvested every day, and the threshing field in the village is divided into different periods.

Don't look at those village women with bucket waists and are used to walking with twisted buttocks. Their normal walking movements are a bit clumsy, but when they stand in the wheat field and wave their sickles, it is a different scene. Just look at the rows of wheat Falling down neatly, the village women can tie a wheat knot with one hand and tie up the wheat bunches neatly. Their chatter and laughter can be heard far away in the wheat field.

The wheat fields in Wall Village are only on the slopes on both sides of the ravine, and the wheat fields of each household are extremely limited. For the villagers in Wall Village, this wheat field is the whole of their life, and each wheat field is very clearly divided. There are clear boundary marks on each pond stalk, and now Suldak is sitting on the pond stalk, accompanying Karl to watch a group of village women harvesting wheat in their own wheat fields.

Rita and Natasha were also among the wheat harvesters. They were the youngest and most agile, standing at the front of the wheat harvesting echelon.

When the wind blows the wheat waves rise and fall, Rita and Natasha's golden ponytails swing rhythmically with the scythe. Only Rita occasionally stands up straight from the wheat field, watching her fall far away Standing at the forefront of the echelon with a victorious attitude.

When Karl first saw Suldak's wife and sister, he was also secretly surprised that the saying "beauties come from deep mountains" was true.

Of these two young girls, one is cheerful and the other is demure and docile.

Although the aristocratic ladies in the city are fair-skinned and beautiful, and their manners are generous and decent, they wear masks all the time, as proud as a blue peacock.But the beautiful girls in the country have another kind of beauty, which is a healthy, energetic and sunny beauty, with round arms, full breasts, and waist without any fat. Running hard on the ridge.

Old Sheila walked out of the village slowly, holding little Peter in one hand and a jug filled with honey and lemonade in the other.

Karl is the chief officer who came to Wall Village to investigate the "robbery of Wall Village by the bandits". I watched a group of women harvesting wheat from the pond stalks in the wheat field.

Karl didn't express any opinion on the bandit group's looting of Wall Village. He watched Suldak take off his leather armor, dressed as a farmer, and the long sword in his waist turned into a curved sickle. The pair of long leather boots were covered with mud, and he couldn't help rubbing his forehead with his hands, showing a hint of distress, and asked Suldak: "Hailansa City Knight Academy has started for almost half a month, are you okay?" Planning to pack your bags and go to the academy to enroll? If you miss this semester, you will have to wait until next spring at least to enroll again. Speaking of which, you are still a reserve knight after all, so you need to get your knight certificate back as soon as possible."

Speaking of this, Karl sat up straight from the ridge of the field, and whispered to Suldak: "To put it bluntly, if one day Earl Mond Goss receives bad news from the Warsaw plane, your reserve knight qualification will be reduced." No one can admit it anymore, it will be much more troublesome than it is now if you want to become an official knight."

Suldak also felt that once Count Mund Goss returned from the Warsaw plane, it would be hard to say, so he made up his mind: "The things in the village will probably come to an end after the Harvest Festival. Report to the Knights and apply for a letter of recommendation!"

Karl didn't shirk, put his arm around Suldak's shoulder and said:

"If you really make up your mind, leave the matter of applying for a letter of recommendation to me. After you've dealt with the matter at hand, just report at Highlandsa Knight Academy. Oh, by the way, you're going to attend classes at Highlandsa Knight Academy ?"

Suldak was a little puzzled:

"Otherwise? Where else can I go?"

Carl smiled slightly, hesitated to speak:

"There are quite a few places to choose from, but the time is a bit tight and the road is a bit far away..."

When Suldak heard Karl say that the road was far away, he shook his head resolutely and said, "Then what's the point of going, it's just to get a certificate, it's not the same everywhere!"

Old Sheila brought little Peter with lemon tea. The women in the wheat field went to the edge of the pond to drink sweet water. They sat on the other side of the pond and did not disturb Suldak. All have a fear of the nobles, and these women don't even dare to look up when they face Karl.

Karl approached Suldak, smiled and said, "Hey, I thought you had something to go back to the village, but it turned out that you were rushing to intercept and kill the bandits."

Suldak stood up from the pool stem, patted the dirt on his buttocks, looked back at Baron Karl Casement with some doubts, and said, "Cough! I really have something to do... I am in a hurry to go back to the village , and I didn't intend to intercept and kill the gang of robbers, they robbed my goods, I had no choice but to act, there are also many unpredictable dangers in it, I didn't want to take risks..."

"Okay! Although...honesty is one of the eight virtues of knights, but you can say it a little more grandly. This is definitely something worth showing off." Karl patted Suldak on the shoulder, with a look of praise look at him.

"I don't want to show off... No one knows about this matter yet. I don't want those bandits' companions to come to my door in the middle of the night to take revenge on me." Suldak said.

The two walked towards Wall Village together. Karl never thought that Suldak would kill the robber and make meritorious deeds, but he just dismissed these deeds...

I didn't know what to say for a while.

Chapter 280 Before the Harvest Festival

Just when the clerk in charge of population statistics in the northern suburbs of Hailansa City was worried in the city, worried that there would be a flaw in the missing persons investigation in Wall Village, which would lead to a poor evaluation in the intelligence assessment next month, he went to Wall Village to investigate the disappearance. Baron Karl Casement, the villager investigating the case, was sitting in front of Suldak, with a square table between them, and the lemon tea on the table had a faint sweet smell.

Karl and Suldak sat face to face solemnly, looking at each other with serious expressions.

On Karl's left sat a clerk of the guard battalion, who was responsible for recording all the details of the investigation and evidence collection, while the guard battalion knight sitting on Karl's right was Karl's assistant, considered Karl's confidant.

At this time, the clerk resisted the urge to roll his eyes, and complained in his heart: "As soon as you two met, you went to the wheat field shoulder to shoulder and walked around a lot. The roast lamb in the yard has been roasted golden, even if you are a fool." It can be seen that you have a very close relationship. Is it really necessary to engage in this kind of formalism? '

However, the clerk of the guard battalion did not dare to express his psychological thoughts. He reached out and took a sip of the lemon tea on the table, thinking about how to cooperate with Lord Karl Casement to perform this scene. go down.

In fact, Karl did not make it too difficult for the accompanying clerk. He paused for a moment, and the assistant next to him pushed a piece of parchment in front of him. , asked him with his eyes: Are you ready?

The clerk immediately picked up the quill filled with ink and nodded to Karl.

"Don't worry, this is just an ordinary investigation, just say what you know..." Karl said to Suldak pretendingly.

"I heard that the village was ransacked by a group of robbers?" Karl asked.