Sir Aven I Blood Pact

Just as we were trying to figure out how to get to Fort Zoeira, a believer brought back bad news from outside.In order to lure us out, George even brought Sally and the others to the square in Fort Essomi, and even burned them in public!

"What should we do now?!" Peter became anxious, his previous gentlemanly demeanor didn't work at the moment, "We only have one night left!"

"Elder!" Hannah also became anxious, holding her long sword constantly, "Your Highness, what should we do now? If we don't save people, I'm afraid Elder Petra and Miss Sally will be in danger. "

"Hannah, calm down." Mike reached out and patted Hannah's shoulder to calm her down, "Your Highness will definitely find a way."

I was also very anxious. Human life is a matter of heaven, and we cannot delay it. I looked at Aiwen and Sassimon: "What should we do now?"

"Hurry up and save people." Tom came out from the aisle, followed by Bishop Jim. It seemed that Bishop Jim had told him the matter. "Father!" Ivan stepped forward to help Tom sit on the seat, and Sessimon said, "The outside is heavily guarded, how can we save people?"

"The Lightless Moon only appears every 200 years in Essatan. The last time it appeared was when you were sleeping, and this time it happened to be tonight," Tom said.

Now, we suddenly have hope.200 years ago, Taylor risked his life to get Ivan out of danger, and 200 years later, we will also have the hope of winning at this time.

"In this case, we might as well divide into two teams." Ivan thought for a while and stood up, like a leading general, and said seriously, "A team went to Thorn Valley to find out what Taylor left behind. .It would be best if we could come back before dawn tomorrow or before the execution. If you don’t find anything, you must come back as soon as possible to help save people before the time is up.”

"Your Highness, this risk is a bit high." Xeander said, "What should I do if I can't save someone and put myself in? If the team that went looking for things didn't have time to come back, let the team that rescued people get in." Well, isn’t that worth the candle?”

His words resonated with everyone else, and that did have a lot of risk.But Sass Emond, who already understood what Ivan meant, smiled and said: "The time for the Dark Moon to appear is tonight, which means that a group of people must quietly go to the Thorn Valley behind Zoeira Castle tonight." , and Sally and the others are going to execute the fire at noon tomorrow. If the people looking for things don't come back, then the rescue team can appear on the square before noon, and they have to appear in a high-profile way—the more lively the better .” There was a mischievous smile on the corner of his mouth, as if he was thinking of a trick.

"Lively?" Peter suddenly thought of something and laughed, "I like this."

Sessimon smiled at him, it seemed that the two wanted to go together.Thus, our team was formed.I, Ivan, Tom, and Zeander went to the Valley of Thorns to look for what Taylor left behind. If we didn't make it back in time, then Seth Imon, Peter, and Mellon would take Hannah and Mike to Esso Mibao Square is in charge of 'noise', the bigger the trouble the better.

Now, one of our biggest problems is how to get to Castle Zoela quietly in broad daylight without being seen?

"Based on what we know so far," Ivan thought for a while, and said, "It's not impossible to go to Fort Zoela quietly under George's nose." He opened the corner of the curtain and looked The scene outside the window continued: "The news I found out before is that George has now expanded the Knights to five teams, led by Richard's nephew Fried, and the two brothers of the Jacob family led two teams of knights. , and the captain of the knights is Piggot from the Angus family. The guards are in charge of changing shifts with them, and the shift time is between three and four in the afternoon, so we can take advantage of this gap to escape.”

"Pickett and I are good friends who grew up together, maybe we can rely on him to double the odds," Mike said.

"Reliable?" Peter asked.

Mike nodded: "Pickett is an unsmiling guy. Although he doesn't talk much, I know he is upright. He didn't stand up with us just because of his seriously ill wife. I think if he Do me a favor, it's still possible."

"Okay." Sass Emon said, "Mike will contact this Pickett quietly first, and see if he can help us avoid the eyes of the knights and guards." Mike walked toward Sess Eamon with a knight Afterwards, Seth Imon whispered a few more words in his ear, and he left immediately.

"Whether Pickett agrees to help us or not, you will all be ready to go in two hours, at 02:30." Suss Eamon said, "Be careful." The atmosphere is very tense at this time, and I can feel all People's breathing has a strong sense of tension, and it feels more like a sense of mission from the heart.

In the church, we tried our best to find weapons that could cut off those thorny thorns. Unexpectedly, in the storage room of the church, we found a few hoes, sickles, etc., which were practical, but the thorns grew longer. After so many years, I don't know if these things can be easily cut down. If it is difficult to cut down, it will take a lot of time, which may not be good for us.Moreover, when they came here, they tried to chop off those thorns, but they all failed. For us, it may not be that simple, right?

"Are these the only ones here?" Peter looked at the things we found with a sad face. They were either rusted or broken, and almost none of them were intact. Is it more difficult?"

"There are only these here, and we generally can't use those sharp weapons." Bishop Jim said embarrassingly, "We don't even have swords here."

"So what? If the thorns are hard to get rid of, wouldn't it take us a lot of time?" I also feel that this situation is really not in our favor. "These may be quite sharp after being sharpened." Ivan held a sickle and looked at it for a while, "I'm afraid these worn-out ones won't be used." The things on the ground turned out to be only a sickle and two large scissors for trimming garden plants. It can barely be used, and the others really can only be recast.Sessimon has been squatting on the ground looking at those things: "As for the sword, Hannah and the others still have swords to use, but we also need to bring weapons for self-defense when we go to the square to make trouble."

Ivan folded his arms and seemed to be thinking about something, as if he had thought of something, he called Peter, and the two walked quickly towards the chapel.After a while, the two came back cheerfully, holding or holding a few long swords and axes.It turns out that these are the weapons in the hands of the knight statues. These are actually made of real iron, the size is just right, and there is no decay. It seems that Bishop Jim and the others clean every place in the church every day.

"Great." Mike gestured happily with the long sword, "This is similar to our knight's sword. It can be used as a weapon, and it's also thicker."

"Here are three long swords and three axes." Ai Wen said, "We will use the axes to cut thorns, and you will use the rest for self-defense."

Peter threw a long sword to Ivan, and said, "You also need to keep one for self-defense." Ivan smiled slightly, playing with the long sword in his hand, as if he had acquired a familiar thing that could no longer be familiar.I later heard from Peter that Ivan's swordsmanship can be ranked among the top five in Elsatan, which makes me feel quite normal.

During the two hours of waiting, we were unusually quiet, only Peter was very excited, as if he was going to do something very extraordinary.

During this waiting period, Tom called me into another room. He seemed to have something to say, but he hesitated for a long time and didn't speak for a long time.Tom finally said: "Mr. Xiao, that kid Anwar has done a lot of things. I know that he has wronged you in many ways. For the sake of his life, please forgive him."

It turned out that what Tom wanted to talk about was about Anwar. I smiled and said very calmly: "The Pope is serious. I didn't blame Anwar. I can understand."

"Mr. Xiao is really similar to Taylor." Tom smiled with relief, "the same understanding."

"The Pope is amazing." I shook my head slightly. "I'm still far from Taylor. His great wisdom really opened my eyes. Everything he said was so accurate."

"Yes. I remember when I first met Taylor, I was shocked by his words." Tom seemed to be remembering the past, with a smile in his eyes, "After he was rescued by me, he woke up. The first thing he said was my full name, which really surprised me, since he has never been to Essatan, let alone met me. He can match the name."

"My lord, I wonder if I can ask you a question?" I asked.

Tom looked back at me and nodded: "Please tell me."

"Why did Taylor build two sanctuaries?" I asked, "Is there any purpose in this?"

"I also feel very strange about this." Tom said, "I knew about the establishment of the sanctuary under the ancient well back then, but I didn't know about the establishment of the real sanctuary. It was Taylor before the plan started. Tell me. At that time, I asked him, what is the connection between these two sanctuaries, but Taylor did not answer me, but said that after his reincarnation got the things in the true sanctuary, I would naturally know , why establish a true and false sanctuary."

This Taylor is really strange, but what I'm more curious about is how this sanctuary was established?Perhaps like the sanctuary under the ancient well, the gate is opened by spells?In fact, it is still a normal building inside?Could it be that Taylor built a house in the thorny col?But he might not be able to build a house by himself, right?But why no one knows about it?

Mike returned safely within two hours, and Pickett agreed without hesitation to help the patrol team secretly help us open a road, giving us 10 minutes to cross.Before we set off, Sussimon told us again: "Listen well, you can only sneak under their noses in the 10-minute gap, no matter what happens, don't stop."

"My lord Pope, Your Highness, my subordinates will cover you all the way to the place Pickett said. When the shift changes, Pickett will appear to deliberately distract the two teams, and then you can go there," Mike said.

"Okay. Let's go." Tom turned up the hat of his cloak to cover his face, and we all turned up our hats. The four of us followed behind Mike, and quietly walked down the mountain from the back door of the church to Fort Exomie ran down.We were careful to guard against anyone along the way. To our surprise, at this time, there were no people on the road from the church to the outskirts of Fort Essomi, but when we bypassed Fort Essomi, we entered the town without encountering the same. As for the others, only the guards and the Knights visited and passed by. It seemed that George's deeds had frightened everyone in Essatane to hide at home, not daring to go out at all.

We came to a very hidden small door under the guidance of Mike. Mike knocked lightly on the wooden door three times, and a thin man opened the door for us. His eyes were very flustered, but his movements were very cautious.As soon as he saw it was Mike, he quickly let us into the house.

It turns out that this is an ordinary carpenter's house where wood is placed, and all the wood is placed inside.

"Lord Pope!" The thin man closed the door, turned around, knelt down to Tom, and bowed to Tom very reverently, "God bless you, you are safe and sound!" It seems that this man is Tom's loyal man .

"Get up." Seeing that Tom was going to help him, Mike hurried to help him up first, "Is Pickett here?"

"Master Angus has already come." The man said, "He has already explained that the younger one will chop wood outside. When those people change shifts and Lord Angus dismisses them, the younger one will notify You can pass along the path in the alley next to it."

"Okay." Mike nodded, and turned to us and said, "Your Highness, Your Highness, I will wait for you to pass by, then go to the city to inquire about news, and then I will wait for His Highness Hadley and the others here. Along the way , you guys, please be more careful." We understood what he said and nodded.All of this seems to be proceeding step by step within our assumptions, but I faintly feel that there seems to be something wrong, it seems to be too smooth?

That skinny man was chopping wood outside the door with an axe, and the sound of his axe could be heard all over the place.Finally, when it was time to change shifts, the man named Pickett appeared as scheduled. He made up a lie and dismissed the two teams who were about to change shifts, and we slipped away smoothly under the guidance of that thin man. Entering the dark alley behind the patrol point, we bent over and ran towards our target at a fast pace.I was very surprised. I was not physically strong at first, but now I ran without even panting, as if I was walking. I could clearly feel that my heart rate did not increase due to running, which made me On the contrary, I felt a little excited by the accident. Afterwards, I suspected that it was the blood of the vampire in my body.

After we avoided another team of guards three times, we entered the woods next to the road leading to Zoela Castle very smoothly. We used the cover of the woods to go around to the broken part of the ruins of Zoela Castle. behind the wall.Zeander whispered to us: "The valley of thorns is behind this, we have to pass through Zoeira Castle, the bushes here are too dense, it is difficult to walk." The bushes in front of us are bigger than what Zeander said To exaggerate, it is almost like a few huge spider webs, several of which are connected together, and it is not clear which one is entangled, and it is completely impossible for people to get involved in it, so we had to quietly avoid it. The knight guards who stayed at the gate of Zoeira Castle, the cat entered Zoeira Castle, and passed through the castle at the fastest speed without stopping.

Soon, we were standing in front of the legendary Valley of Thorns, and behind us was the high wall of Fort Zoela.I looked up, and couldn't help but marvel at the uncanny workmanship of nature again. This is indeed called the Valley of Thorns. It is completely covered by thick thorns and vines. I can't find a place to go in. I just stand on tiptoe. I can see some scenes that come out of the inside, which seem to be more intricately entwined than the thorns outside.Zeander handed us the ax he brought, and each of us took one. Aiwen waved the ax and raised his sleeves: "Let's do it quickly before it's dark."

"Hey, wait a minute." I stopped him, and looked at the thorny vines in front of me for a while, which were more than ten meters high. "These thorny vines grow very strangely."

"Weird?" The other three looked at me strangely, and then at the thorny vine. "That's right." I nodded, and pointed at the thorn vines, "You said that when Essatan was first established, I wanted to cut down these thorns, but they were thick and big, and they were very difficult to cut. However, although these thorns grow very huge and spread very widely, have you noticed that these thorns seem to grow to the edge of the valley and stop growing?"

Those thorny vines seem to be controlled by someone. Not far from our feet, we can clearly see that the thorny vines seem to be blocked by a transparent wall, and they all turn in one place, and then or What grew inwards and to the sides grew past.

"Since Taylor was able to establish a sanctuary here, it should be Taylor who did it." I said, "It seems that these vines were cursed by Taylor. If we break the spell, maybe we don't need to cut it with an ax so hard. They are gone, which saves a lot of time."

Ivan and Tom looked at each other, and they took turns to read the spells that Taylor taught them to the thorny vines, but the thorny vines didn't respond at all. "How come?" I was very surprised, suddenly thought of something, I asked Aiwen for a long sword, standing in front of the thorn vines, Aiwen asked me strangely: "Xiao, what are you going to do?"

I smiled at him, if the spells are useless, then there is only one way to verify whether my idea is correct, and this is the method Taylor used - my blood, the blood of the reincarnated Taylor.Without hesitation, I pinched the sword body slightly with my hand, and with a little force, the sword cut through my hand and flowed down the sword body.However, the strange thing is that I didn't feel very painful about it, it seemed that I was just slightly pricked by a needle. Is this because I have become a vampire now?I couldn't help asking myself again, I seemed to be begging for an answer, an answer that would make me feel comfortable, only this answer, I thought I would get it after it was all over.

The blood drop on the arm fell on the thorn vine without any deviation. Sure enough, the thorn vine suddenly began to move very quietly. They twisted each other, as if they were avoiding something, and gradually appeared in front of us. A hole of thorns as tall as a man.We were very happy, didn't think much, and hurried in.Although the road inside is relatively smooth, there are still many thorns and vines that grow on their own. We used axes to chop off the thorns blocking the road as we walked.There are only three turns in this road. When we pass the third turn, there are three forks in front of us. We are all confused now. How should we choose?We stood at the intersection and looked at the three forks from left to right. They looked almost the same, and even the road behind us looked like them. If we hadn’t stood at the intersection of the road, I’m afraid we would have four forks. Until we choose.

We thought about it for a long time, and Tom suddenly turned to look at me and said, "Mr. Xiao, why don't you choose."

I froze for a moment, looked up at Tom, let me choose?Will this be a little stressful? "Xiao." Ivan also agreed with Tom's words at this time, "Choose." I am a little embarrassed, what should I do if I choose the wrong one?However, the eyes of Ivan and Tom were very sure, and they insisted on me choosing. In desperation, I had no choice but to bite the bullet, stand in front of the three forks, calm down, let out a breath, just relying on my first choice. Six senses, as soon as I close my eyes, I stretch out my finger to the road on the right: "It seems to be this road." I don't know how I got this feeling, and I can't describe it. Anyway, my first feeling is this road. , I have no urge to take the other two roads, maybe this is a kind of human intuition?I don't know if I made the right choice, but my gut tells me this is the only way we can go.

Oh, God bless, my choice was right!Surprisingly, my intuition turned out to be extremely accurate. After we walked for a few minutes, we stood in front of a huge stone gate surrounded by thorns. The style of the gate was very old, and it was double-opening circular. The stone arch, and carved on the stone gate is a unicorn with its front legs raised. Judging from the shape, it should be roaring.I saw that under the raised two front feet of the unicorn, there was actually a poisonous snake spitting out apricots hiding behind the bushes. What does this mean?

"It seems that this is the gate of the real sanctuary." Tom looked up at the slightly magnificent big stone gate and was very emotional, "I didn't expect Taylor to build such a splendid sanctuary here. Look under these thorny vines, I'm afraid this temple is as big as Fort Zoela and Fort Esome."

"How did Taylor build it?" I couldn't help but blurted out, this question stunned all three of them, and I quickly explained what I said, "I mean, look at the height of this stone gate, It is at least three meters high, so its top is estimated to be multiplied several times. The construction of such a huge temple requires a lot of manpower and material resources, right? How did Taylor manage to build this place without anyone knowing it? of?"

"Mr. Xiao, you are right." Tom nodded, also in a daze, "When Queen Somiya ordered the construction of Fort Esomi, almost half of the subjects were mobilized to build six The construction of the temple in front of us requires at least several tons of stone materials for the stone gate alone. Without advanced machines from outside, it will take at least four months to complete it only by manpower. However, at that time, there was no one in Essatan to do this."

"Father, Xiao." Ai Wen said, "Let's think about this issue later, right? Now Sally and the others are still waiting for us to rescue them, so let's open the door and go in first."

We also reacted, put down the question immediately, and the two of us went to push the stone door, but after pushing for a long time, there was no movement at all.We quickly tried a few more times, but nothing worked, and we noticed that there was a keyhole where the stone door was slit.We were wondering where to find the key, and I suddenly remembered that I had one with me. It was the key that once opened the secret compartment on Aiwen's tomb, and it was inlaid with a dark green diamond.

I originally wanted to give it a try, but I didn't expect that when I inserted the key and turned it left and right a few times, the stone door would automatically open inward after two consecutive beeps of 'click, click' , This is really unbelievable, maybe this is also Taylor's arrangement?No wonder, Ed asked me to carry two small boxes with me, and I didn't expect such a use.

The stone gate hadn't been opened for many years, Kazkaz slowly opened it, and a lot of dust was raised at the same time, we hurriedly took a few steps back, covered our faces and waited until the stone gate was fully opened, revealing the dark scene inside, We just took a few steps forward to observe it.

"It's very dark inside, probably because the thorns covered the windows, so the light couldn't get in." Zeander took out a few flashlights from his backpack and handed them to us respectively, "Your Highness Hadley really has the foresight. Let me bring a few more flashlights from the outside world."

We turned on the flashlight and walked in step by step carefully. It was really dark inside, and we couldn't see our fingers. Our flashlight shone around under our control.Generally speaking, the environment inside the sanctuary is similar to the sanctuary where Mellon lived. Opening the door is a large hall, with huge stone pillars on both sides supporting the beams, which seem to be made of stained glass. The cast glass roof can reflect colorful light when our flashlight hits it.Going straight ahead, there is a pope's throne in the middle, which is almost the same shape as the Pope's throne in Fort Essomi, which is not surprising, it seems that it is placed in the style of Fort Essomi.It's just that there are no other passages on both sides. It seems that there is only one room in this true sanctuary. There are some things like pennants on the walls on both sides, and the family emblem of Essatan is rusted on it.

We walked in along the right, and on the right was a compartment near the Pope's throne. In the compartment, there was something like an altar, and a thick, dusty book was placed on it at an angle of 45 degrees. , Ai Wen reached out and gently wiped the dust on it, saying that it was a Bible.Cain is worshiped in St. Somi Church, but the Bible is served here. Could it be said that Taylor is Catholic?Put a bible in the true sanctuary?

"Come and see!" Suddenly Zeander yelled on our left, and we all turned around to see, in a compartment on the left, there was a altar, which seemed to be enshrining someone.This altar is like the altars in many churches. It is about two meters high, with half a circle of unlit white candles inserted on it, and there seems to be a marble slab with a name engraved in the middle. With a portrait.

"This is Taylor." Tom and Ivan looked at the portrait in unison and said.

As soon as I heard it, I immediately looked up at the portrait. It was an oil painting. It hadn’t seen the sun for many years, so its color was kept quite intact. A kind, very kind old man with a white beard, wearing a set of clothes similar to a magician, and his face made me feel very kind, between his brows, his eyes seemed to be talking to me, looking at his portrait, I A voice suddenly came from my ear, and a familiar scene seemed to appear in front of my eyes...