Angel on earth

So before their injuries healed, the two packed their bags and got out of Emerald City, Noren and even Canaan Continent.

When the two arrived on the flood plain, the annual flood had passed for some time.However, before starting to help local residents deal with the bodies left by the flood, Aaron fell ill himself.

The north where the Emerald City is located is cold and cold all year round. Although Aaron often runs around and goes hunting with his friends, he is healthy enough, but he still can't adapt to the hot and humid climate of the flood plain at first.Mikhail told him that it would be hotter further south, and proposed to stay here until the next flood.

The two monks stayed in the home of the local aborigines.In the early morning, Mikhail would follow the strong hunters to find prey, while Aaron was learning the local dialect, while gesturing to communicate with others about the medical and epidemic prevention here.Because of Mikhail's tall and strong and Aaron's good medical skills, their missionary work went smoothly.

In this way, when Aaron was 17 years old, they saw the great flood of the Flood Plain for the first time.Aaron also tried to ask Mikhail's age, but the latter refused to say anything, so he had to give up.

The local old people said that this is the most gentle flood they have ever seen in their lives, and it is nothing like previous years.However, people let go of their courage because of this, and if Aaron and Mikhail had not been running between several hills in a small boat, perhaps as many people would have died as in previous years.

In the second year, the flood was even smaller.The third year has completely passed, and the flood has not come ashore at all, even Lieyang City is surprised by this.

Lieyang City has always had a plan to spread the Gospel to the place of origin, and has also sent many missionaries one after another to help people build villages and even towns on high mountains, reclaim wasteland to grow food, and fence up wild animals.The couple who took in Aaron were the first to be baptized and converted to religion, and later became the president of the church here, and it took more than 80 years before they passed away one after another.

After the ancestors of faith left the continent, the flood plains turned back into Noah's plains again, and even the east and west coasts were built with reliable piers, and they were no longer abysses that swallowed ships.After settling down, people shook hands in the church to make peace and established their own kingdom.

In the fourth and fifth years, the flood still did not come, so Mikhail and Aaron took a pair of orphan brothers and sisters they had adopted in the area, bid farewell to the residents of the Noah Plain, and set out for the hinterland of Ikolapondi.They found two new names for the siblings, the elder, Matthew Mikhailovich Edwards, who was about ten years old and a tribal warrior when his parents died in the flood; The younger sister was Molly Mikhailovna Edwards, and Aaron had to take her with him to recuperate because of her poor health.

The four, together with some missionaries and merchants from the Noah's Plain, ran into Ocampo's army just a few weeks after leaving the territory that would have been visited by floods in the past.Leading the army was Samson, the new king of Ocampo, with long braids hanging down to his waist, bells braided in the braids trembling on the horse's back, and his eyes were as fierce as lions and tigers.Only then did the church learn how false the preaching reports submitted by the missionaries and armies of Noren, Iris, Aiden and other countries were. people.

Mikhail and Aaron joined Samson's army before the instructions from the city of Sunrise, turned to the northwest, and pulled out the Noren, Iris, Aiden, Baal, Bronzini along the Annan River. people and even the towns of Abaddon and the Federation.With muskets and cannon on one side and sorcery and violence on the other, the Third Holy War broke out just two years later, from Ikrapondi to the Emerald City in just three months.

The Edwards family fled into the Mithra Dynasty overnight, and Lily slipped away in the chaos.Neither Noren nor the Church's rules were too annoying, and no place or age gave a woman like her enough freedom, so she ran away.

After Lady Catherine was sad and hopeless for more than a year, Aaron bumped into his younger sister who was sunburned like a wild monkey on the Annan River.A few days later, Blaise Raven caught up, and Lily surrendered to him.According to Lily, Blaise Raven had been lying in ambush in the forest to the south before they fled the Emerald City, followed her all the way, and almost captured her back several times.

After contacting through the altar, Roberto agreed that Lily would stay in Ikolapondi, but he had to let the church watch over him and report the latest situation to Lieyang City every week.In the third year of Jihad, Lily and Blaze were married on the ship.The ship was the Noren warship that their team had just captured. The master of ceremonies for the wedding was Mikhail who came from another battlefield after a three-day journey. colleague.

On the night of the wedding, Aaron got into a fight.All the wine on board was requisitioned by the medical squad to refine alcohol. After the wedding, the excited soldiers brought out the alcohol and mixed it with water to drink.They didn't listen to Aaron, it was Lily who wanted to listen. Some of the locals couldn't understand the dialect of another tribe that Aaron spoke, misunderstood a few words, and started fighting.

After the fight, Aaron took a bottle of wine and went to find Mikhail on the deck, wanting to see if the federal man drank.His skeleton has grown completely, and in the dirty white robe, he can still see the typical figure of an adult Norren male. No matter how he looks at it, he is a mature man, but Mikhail, from his From the age of seven to today, nothing has changed.

Sure enough, Mikhail refused to drink and told him to drink less.He drank the whole bottle of wine sullenly, looked over the dark starry sky above his head, and looked at the battlefield with red-hot clouds in the distance, as if it was not the warm current on the Annan River that lifted his short hair and robe, but the explosive wind from the falling shells .

Mikhail also looked there with those eyes like morning stars and morning mist, and suddenly said:

"There is indeed a kingdom of heaven on earth in the east. Depart from the port of the Rhine, pass by Misbah and the Moon Islands, and get ready at the port of Glazov in the Siegfried Federation. Avoid the hurricane sea in the east and go directly to the south. The endless sea, you can reach it all the way to the east after landing. You can plant some flowers and plants on the boat. As for me, as long as you believe in me, I can live a healthy life. I will split the waves for you, smash the rocks, and prevent the storm Hurt you; I will respect you, love you, and protect you from—"

"Mikhail!"

Aaron screamed, and looked up at the boy's white and peaceful face in the darkness, his heart clenched by inexplicable fear and joy that shouldn't be.

The young priest lowered his head and waited for his answer.

The doctor raised his hand to touch the stubble on his face that he hadn't managed in time, and touched the dry and cracked wound when he was on the road.Then he came to his senses, took a step back, pretended he hadn't heard anything, and entered the cabin.

The jihad lasted 16 years and ended with the death of three saints and countless ordinary people.

"Lord of War" David died in the fifth year of the Jihad.The Norens pretended to negotiate. After David and his followers arrived at their destination, the Norens flooded them and all the Noren officers with bombs that filled the entire camp, and then continued to shoot at the ruins with enchanted mithril bullets. For a quarter of an hour, none of them survived.

"Horn of Glory" Isabella died in Jihad No.11.On a winter night, the Abaddons rode Giant horses across the frozen Grand Canal and raided the northern city of the Church, taking Harry Edwards and Princess Dinah away.The Norrens redeemed Dinah and her two children. Isabella went to the rescue after hearing the news, and finally died in the trap with her great-grandson.Three months later, Dinah assassinated Queen Noren and her brother Charlie's family, and committed suicide in the palace on the same day, but her and Harry's two children became Noren's most preferred legal heirs.Their eldest son, Aaron, was born in the first year of the war and was a firm believer in the sun god. Therefore, Noren took the lead in stopping the war, and many problems occurred in the country because of this.

Azariah, the "pre-priest of God," died a year before the end of the war.When the Irisians challenged the Garden of Nations for the second time, he bypassed Iris and entered Aiden, intending to hold King Aiden hostage, but was attacked by the black star sea mermaid and killed on the cliff near the sea of ​​Aiden's capital.

After the war, Aaron visited "Aaron" and "Norma," his brother's son and daughter, in Noren.After news of Isabella's death came, Norma changed her Christian name to Isabella. "Aaron" was about the same age as he was when he left the Emerald City. When he saw his middle-aged uncle, he could calmly show a decent smile and say, "You look a lot like my father." "Isabella" lived in the monastery as an ascetic monk. Aaron asked her if she would like to go to Lieyang City. She said that she would stay here to look after her mother and brother, especially her brother.If her brother becomes a tyrant, she will behead him with the same sword that her mother killed her grandmother.

After leaving Covenant City, Aaron went to Emerald City, took a last look at his long-lost hometown, and then set off for Sun City, never returning to Noren.

Mikhail was canonized as a saint for his missionary and war achievements, and Aaron took over his father's burden and became the chief physician of the church.

Another 50 years later, Mikhail still hasn't changed.The saints who had survived two holy wars were exhausted, and the other newcomers had all kinds of innocuous flaws, but the church needed a stronger and calmer leader.Therefore, in the year when Aaron retired from the Academy of Lieyang City, Mikhail sat on the throne of Pope according to the oracle.

Aaron is very old, so old that breathing has become a heavy burden. The war and the climate prevented him from becoming the good doctor he thought he could be when he was young, and he could still swing a knife and guide a needle at the age of eight or ninety. Now, he They even need to be fed to drink water.And his pope is still as young as he was when he was a teenager, as if he never and never will cross the boundary of youth.

So that day finally came, and his apprentices put him into the coffin early as instructed, but they didn't close the lid.His weakened hearing could clearly perceive that the organ in the cathedral was singing "Day of Wrath" loudly in conjunction with the choir, because it was the music of the soul inspired by magic.

Mikhail arrived in a magnificent robe of red, white and gold, with a scepter and a triple crown.He looked at the pair of blue-purple eyes without pupils, like morning stars and mist, and his lips moved, smiling at each other.He made a breathy sound from his throat:

"I am now poured out, and the hour of my departure has come. I have fought the good fight, I have finished the course, I have kept the faith. Henceforth, the crown of righteousness... …keep it for me."

Mikhail pushed back his forehead, kissed his wrinkled brow, eyes and lips, and said softly:

"Sleep, my child."

—Aaron opened his eyes.

Mikhail was sleeping soundly next to him, breathing steadily and brushing up his loose hair.He was taller than Mikhail in the dream, and his hair was as white as snow.

Aaron crawled out of his arms gently, and put on his underwear, shirt, vest, and trousers.Then he put on his coat, slowly opened the front door, and walked into the depths of the dark Amexist forest.

With his eyes open and his mind blank, he followed his intuition and walked to the lake.

He stood on the stones and stared at Diana's Blood Lake, feeling the roundness and coldness of the stones under his feet.It was here that he met Micah.No matter how many blessing songs he sings for Mikhail here, no matter how many happy things he does with Mikhail here, he can't forget that Mika in the early morning, and how he became better than each other more than ten years later. And miserable self.

But now, he can forget about it.

He closed his eyes gently.

The leaves above the head are rustling, and there are no birdsong in the forest in the early morning, and the clear wind is the snoring of the hometown land.

He has never been happier.

——A pair of big hands suddenly stretched out from behind him, grabbed him off the rocks on the shore, and pulled him into his arms.

"Aaron." Mikhail's voice trembled from the depths of his chest, "You forgot to put on your shoes."

Aaron belatedly felt the cold, and then the fear.He didn't know what he was afraid of, after all, even if he really jumped, he wouldn't drown.

However, just as Mikhail was trembling with fear, Aaron coughed violently for a while, and then a sickly, blackened blush appeared on his face, and he gasped violently.

He opened his eyes wide, breathed deeply and quickly, and kept breathing, and he didn't even have time to find a suitable position in Mikhail's arms. For a while, he couldn't care about anything but "breathing", because he wanted to live , at least not in front of Mikhail - he needs to breathe, he needs air that is so cold that it freezes Mirror Lake, and he still doesn't know how it all happened.

After a while, his thoughts returned to his soul from the distant place where his tinnitus was ringing, and he said intermittently:

"Mi, Misha, let go..."

"I do not want!"

"I can't breathe... Really! Ha... Ha... I..."

It was only then that Mikhail realized that something was wrong, and bent down to see his situation but couldn't see it, so anxiously touched his face with the hand he had just lifted the shoe.But Aaron really didn't care, but became more and more calm and more and more habitual-breathing.

Almost like a living person.

"...It smells so good." Aaron said suddenly.

"Yes, yes!" Mikhail nodded with a smirk, and was so happy that he didn't know what to say. "This morning, the plum blossoms brought from the Garden of Nations bloomed."

"No, I didn't mean that..." Two lines of tears rolled down his right eye, "God, Misha. This is the cream that got on your clothes yesterday, isn't it from the lemongrass store? It smells so good ah!"

Mikhail stood there dumbfounded as if struck by lightning.

Aaron buried the tip of his nose into his chest and took a deep, hard breath, as if to fill his lungs with him, to remember him forever.

"So your smell is like this, Misha." He murmured, "It's more complicated than I imagined...It smells a thousand times better. It's so good."

Mikhail opened his mouth wide, his pretty face crumpled.He wailed, kept wiping his face with the back of his hand, couldn't say anything, couldn't think of anything else.Amidst Aaron's ravenous breaths again and again, he just kept sobbing, adapting to crying harder than Aaron had just relearned and used to breathing, and then coughed and laughed with tears and snot.

The author says:

This chapter is finally finished! ! !The last chapter is numbered 39. Although there are setting decryptions later, but after thinking about it, some of them may be cut out for the sake of the overall atmosphere and become metaphysics.Anyway, let me say this first: Narrow Gate explained when it appeared in the article, "Those who are qualified to ascend to heaven alive are qualified to come out." Mesha went in with strong prejudice and desire, so he needed help to come out; Lun went in by accident, and had a good time before going in. He didn't have that kind of worldly desire.