Angel on earth

A plump, about 30-year-old woman blocked the way.

The brown-haired, black-eyed saint was in high spirits, but the dress on his body was quite dignified and stable in terms of shape and materials, as if he had just come out of the auditorium for the coronation ceremony.But she was carrying a large package, with gold, silver and jewels protruding from the opening that could not be closed, and a crossed rapier with a pistil-shaped guard hanging from her waist, the tip of the sword protruding to both sides with sharp corners.

Mikhail stopped Emile and nodded, "Hello, Anna."

"Long time no see, Mikhail, you are even more beautiful!—Are you Mr. Edwards? Good morning!"

"Exactly. Good morning, Her Excellency Anna."

"Hello! I wish you good health!"

"Lionheart Queen" Anna took a step forward, tiptoed to shake hands with him, suddenly pulled him off the horse while he was unaware, hugged him with a giggle, held his face carefully, looked up at Mihai Er said:

"Although something went wrong, Aaron seems to be doing well now. I'm sorry, Mishenka, 'omniscient' cannot presuppose human choices."

Mikhail got off his horse, bent over and smiled, "It's okay, Anna. We're fine now."

Anna raised her eyebrows, let go of Aaron, looked at him and said:

"Thank you dad for everything you did for my mom, Aaron!"

The doctor who was forced to bend over blinked suspiciously.

Anna said briskly: "I am the Queen of Verus Island and the Western Isles, the daughter of Maria 'Redemption'. Sorry, Aaron, your father—"

"Oh, nothing." Aaron shrugged. "That was a long time ago. What's more, if father hadn't gone to Lieyang City, our end would be even more shameful."

Anna laughed out loud: "You and Mishenka really look alike. Alright, are you going to Lieyang City?"

Mikhail nodded, and the two said in unison: "Yes, Anna. What about you?"

Anna patted the long sword on her waist:

"This year it's my turn to hold the key of the sanctuary, you two, you know from the looks of it, I'm running away."

Mikhail suddenly said: "So, Jonathan is your father?"

"That's right. He raised me secretly, and tried every means to inherit the throne for me. I have never been to Verus Island, but I know that the title he gave me there was 'Queen of Elegance', which is the name Anna. meaning, or... what he expects of my mother." Anna shook her long hair, her brown eyes were a little golden, "but I have never loved elegance, just like you have never loved the rules of the church, the church I have never loved Mithra’s people in this world. No, the Fourth Jihad is about to start, and I have to go back to help my people. Verus Island has been exploited by the church over the years, and I’m just paying for it Interest."

"Ah, then you have to hurry up." Aaron laughed, "We just came back from the Emerald City, and the Norrens don't even care about the Church, and they've tormented my poor citizens so badly. "

Mikhail frowned: "Has it started?"

Anna raised her head and smiled and said, "Don't think about it, Your Highness, you won't be able to catch up. Isabella is going to be the pope, and she has already eaten Gregory. All these years, she has maintained her life and strength with the power of heretical gods, and now there is no one who can For food, she had to be pope and enjoy—the Last Supper.”

Mikhail opened his eyes wide: "Why didn't you tell me before? I didn't even find out."

Anna said, "There is a time for everything, a time for everything. You have more important things to worry about then, don't you?"

"But she's going to start a war over it, and, besides, it will cost her own life."

"Every saint has lived long enough, except you." Anna sighed, casting a quick glance at Aaron. "This is the wages of our sin."

Aaron asked, "When did it start?"

"Well..." Anna touched her chin, "When Micah and Aaron hunted down the sun god and moon god of the Siegfried Federation, she followed behind and ate their bodies and strength. At that time ...I don't know, Aaron, you see, I only know knowledge, not love. I would like to believe that she was trying to share the worries of God the Father, so as not to let the new divine will contaminate Himself. But their corpses made her become Strong, she doesn't need the Edwards family's prayers, and she can have enough strength."

Aaron raised his eyebrows, folded his arms and said, "She really hates Grandpa Arnold's... charity."

"Aaron." Mikhail couldn't help shouting in a low voice.Aaron raised his head and blinked his right eye, spread his hands, motioning for him to continue.

Mikhail asked: "What is Isabella going to do, Anna? Has no one stopped her?"

"Well, I don't know either. Oh, Aaron, don't look at me like that, your Misha can't do a lot of things, don't be so demanding of 'knowledge'." Anna tilted her head, "Maybe it's for Revenge, maybe... she wants to save our father as much as Micah."

The eyes of the two people on the opposite side were wide open, and she sighed: "In the knowledge that God the Father gave me, I have seen Isabella. It is true that she suffered a lot in the church when she was a child, but the part of the Second Jihad The days were her happiest, and even after the death of Arnold Edwards she was still doing the work of a saint. I don't know what made her change, but in any case, she was going to wage a war."

"But it was her companions in the Second Jihad who saved her, not the war itself," Mikhail said.

"Don't be fooled by 'Isabella', Your Highness." Anna laughed, "'Non-violence cannot change', before you left the church, both the church and the rest of the world have already reached this point. Even if Isabella does nothing, and what you do at Wakefield will be a start. Nobles want to overthrow theocracy, capitalists want to overthrow kingship, workers and peasants want to take back the lives they deserve from their employers; Red The Moon people could not endure slavery and massacre. The Bronzini cut off the heads of 900 people and created 9000 angry rebels. The Norens transported [-] tons of rubber and needed [-] lives to make up for it; Siegfried The Federation wants to expel foreigners from various fields, and the coalition forces taught by Candy Kane will attack the palace within five years; at the same time, the four kingdoms are still mourning the tragedy of the Crescent Islands hypocritically, wanting to become her patron saint."

"And we are murdering God the Father." Mikhail said in a low voice.

"No, we killed His ghost." Anna said with her head held high. "Whether they know it clearly or complain in private, everyone who wants to resist now knows: God is dead! The third jihad is His last struggle, and then He gave up and looked around for his beloved son who could once again assassinate him with the spear of Longinus!"

Aaron suddenly opened his eyes wide and said, "You are crazy."

Mikhail and Anna looked at him at the same time, and he let out a long breath and repeated: "You are crazy."

Mikhail tilted his head suspiciously.

Aaron bowed his head sadly and even angrily: "You have had countless opportunities to stop this war, but none of you stopped Isabella before she was fully prepared...God loves the world, but the saints never only Love him alone. You have managed the church and mankind in a mess, but you have carefully planned this war as his farewell gift!"

If it cannot be called calm, then the expressions on the faces of the two saints should be "suddenly enlightened".Aaron couldn't stand it anymore, he patted Mikhail's arm and giggled:

"Everyone, everybody! Have you heard it? It doesn't matter if you didn't hear it. The saints are carrying the crystal coffin of God the Father around the city for seven days. It takes seven days to spread the blood from so many corpses on the ground to make a blanket. It takes the whole world A farewell salute is fired from every corner!"

The people who had been following them one after another since the day they stepped into the territory of the Church, and who had spread across the mountains and plains for dozens of miles at this time, raised their heads and cast glances at him with unclear meanings, perhaps nothing at all.They didn't understand what the saints were saying solemnly, about heretics and heretics doing evil things, and the holy words should not be understood without interpretation; they just crowded carefully, trying to touch them The tassels of the high priest's garments, carrying the Urim and the Thummim, were the first to deliver the bread and fish at lunch.

"But," Anna looked at him with some pity, "you are our accomplice."

Mikhail made a gesture as if he wanted to block Aaron, bent down, and said in a reproachful tone, "Anna."

"Well, Mishenka, I won't bully you! — that's right."

Anna slapped her head, pulled out a crown of thorns made of glass from the package, hung it on tiptoe over Mikhail's head, and clapped her hands.

"I almost forgot, I'm here to give you this, the crown condensed from the blood and sweat of the First Coming Son."

Most of the crown was a translucent emerald green, like the eyes of the Edwards family, and from some angles in today's sunlight, there was also a blue-purple color of the sky in the middle of the Siegfried Federation mixed in.Mikhail raised his hand to help him, a thorn cut his finger, and every thorn on the crown glowed for a moment, revealing dark red bloodstains.

"You still need a cross, I'll carry it for you." Aaron looked at him, took out a sun cross from his chest, and commented.Mikhail moved closer to him, realized that Anna was still there, hesitated, and kissed him anyway.

"Okay, thank you, Aaron." Mikhail looked at him, couldn't help but narrowed his eyes with a smile, "When the kingdom of heaven is approaching, I will take you in like this."

"I don't want to go to heaven." Aaron complained, "Didn't 'Mithra' send my family to hell?"

"Then I'll go with you." Mikhail smiled with his eyes closed, "I can make it rain and quench the eternally burning fire."

"Ah, I know that." Anna stood on tiptoe and waved her hands before their eyes. "If that world can be called heaven, then all our dead relatives are there."

The two looked at her together, and Aaron suddenly said: "Anna, you are a few years younger than me. I remembered... After Aunt Maria gave birth to you in the Emerald City, Harry and I took care of you. "

"Ah." Anna's eyes widened, and her mother's eyes exuded a light golden light, "Should I still call you brother! I never thought that besides that man, I have relatives alive. "

"Dear?"

Anna said naturally: "According to the definition of Emerald City, we are relatives."

Laughing, Aaron spread his arms and bent down to hug her, keeping his legs a good distance away from her:

"Neither did I. My sister Anna!"

"Aaron!" Anna kissed his cheek, giggled and let him go, "If you get tired one day, Verus Island welcomes you anytime!"

"You can also go and see the new Emerald City." Aaron raised his eyebrows, "Although it's still bad... But at least we will have relatives to accompany us when we go to hell."

"That's great!" Anna sighed happily.

Mikhail looked at Aaron and then at Anna, feeling very strange.Anna was a mature and cunning woman, one of his many teachers; Aaron looked younger than her and had taught him a lot, but Anna would never kneel and ask someone for forgiveness.

Anna's expression changed suddenly, she looked back, and said with a grin: "Someone is chasing me, I have to go! Probably Grey, beat him up, Mishenka, and my brother!"

After finishing speaking, she stepped on Emile's legs nimbly, tied a few knots in the long skirt, quickly left a kiss on their faces, jumped over the horse's back, passed over the heads of everyone, stepped on the branches and the wind to Northwest fled.

Aaron couldn't help turning around and shouting:

"Anna, be careful, run slowly!"

The few figures who were chasing after him also shouted loudly: "Your Excellency Anna!"

Anna tightened the knot wrapped around her chest, quickly pulled out the crossed rapier from her waist, turned her head and shouted:

"Our ancestors on Verus Island were pirates! Pirates want to rob you! You are just worse pirates!"

The laughter of the Queen of Verus Island was as happy as freedom, and soon disappeared without a trace.When those few people approached, the crowd consciously parted to the two sides. Priest Ronge Lei and several other black-clothed monks stepped forward to have an audience.

"Sorry, Your Highness Kupala, Your Excellency Anna may have misunderstood." The "Black Tulip" in black robe solemnly saluted, "I am only here to greet you and Mr. Edwards on behalf of the Holy City, not to pursue her. the property of."

Mikhail supported Aaron's waist and thighs and carried him onto the horse, then turned over and sat behind him, and was about to nod, when he thought of the crown, he stopped, only looked into the distance, and said:

"Then, please lead the way, Priest Grey."

The little baby-faced boy laughed out loud, because Mikhail, who was wearing a crown, white robe, and cloak, was holding a willful vampire in his arms, and he really didn't have the slightest majesty when ordering people. Not to mention frightening him.

"Okay, okay." He covered his mouth and giggled, "The Holy City has indeed changed a lot. Welcome back, Your Highness Kupala, Pope Isabella is waiting for you."

The pure black robe completely exposed the Abaddon features of the boy's blue eyes. No matter how bright his smile was, it looked cold and false.However, he didn't care, he just bowed again, turned around, and strode towards Lieyang City in the southeast.

The crowd that meanders for tens of miles is like a sea tide slowly surging with the group of people. Some people are constantly reciting the sentences in the Sun God's tome in a low voice, and stepping forward to caress Mikhail's cloak that hangs in the air, Emile's illusory cloak, and even Aaron's black windbreaker, and then silently and orderly gave up the position to others.Almost all injuries were healed, and Aaron heard someone staring at Mikhail whispering "Our Father in Heaven" in a low voice.

The two on horseback gazed into the distance, and even Aaron found that this land was quite different from what he had imagined.

Glorious cities rise from the ground, billowing smoke turns into clouds and merges into the clear sky; the forests are dense and straight, the rivers are clear under the sun, there is no desert or wilderness, and even the foot of the holy mountain is lush and green, exuding the breath of spring .

Mikhail rode his horse and followed Priest Grey, and saw that the 6000-meter-high sword-like holy mountain was glowing in all directions, like a flaming sword guarding the Garden of Eden, casting no shadows in any direction.At the foot of the mountain, besides Lieyang City, there are many other big cities rising up next to it. Every time someone arrives in a city, some people leave the team, and more people follow the smiling priest out of the city to meet him.

He wants to close his eyes, but Aaron is in front of him, so he can't be afraid; he wants to take a closer look, but the crown of the Son of God is on his head, so he can't bow his head.

But this should be a scene he is familiar with.Deserts, wildernesses, forests, rivers, cities, harvests, almost all the most dramatic changes were brought to Lieyang City by him, but he was more intoxicated than Aaron in the winter 300 years ago.

On the day when the spring flowers bloomed the most, they came outside Lieyang City.

Emile stood still in front of the Arc de Triomphe, and [-] horns sounded on the boundless and tall city walls, and the magnificent music composed by Jonathan Bianchi in his youth to praise the Restoration War resounded in the city.

The crowd remained outside the city, and Mikhail, Aaron, and Emile followed Priest Gray through the city gate.

The soldiers made way out of the way automatically, and returned to a neat formation, no one looked back at him.

Subsequently, the Quds Army, Ruby Army, Second Army, Crescent Army, Crusaders, Bronze Snake Army, and Wansheng Army broke through the embankment like a flood, from Canaan, Rock, Styx, Triumph, Red Sea, The seven gates of precepts and virtues rushed out, like seven giant snakes opening their mouths and neighing to devour all the nations of the world, turning into seven beams of light and descending on Norn, Aerys, Aiden, Abaddon, Red Moon, and Siegfried Federation , the capital of Potosí.

The earth trembled.In it, Mikhail saw many faces who accompanied him through his youth before the age of 15, from the Templars of the cathedral to the rabbi priests of the monastery, from the armored knights who accompanied him in battle to the magicians. He recognized 3000 of the hussars, the most devout fanatics with ashes in their faces, their eyes blazing with indifference, going to burn the blood of a whole heretic nation for burnt offerings.

He looked forward and saw at the end of Tianhuo Avenue, Isabella was standing in the gate of Lieyang Cathedral, with the ten-meter pillar statues of 99 saints under her feet.

She wears a triple crown on her head and an overlapping black gauze dress. Her lips are as red as roses, and her amethyst-like eyes are shining with violent brilliance.On her left stood Jonathan, and on her right stood Ethan and Constant. Priest Gray stepped forward and stood behind Jonathan.

"Anna is an idiot, she doesn't know anything. Compared with you or Micah, Father God loves her most." Isabella saw Mikhail's first sentence was this, "I am in the I tasted the taste of God during the Second Holy War, but no one asked me about the origin of 'Kanova', not even Micah, who fought side by side with me and conspired to massacre."

The triple door, decorated with seven embossments, slammed shut.Isabella dragged her long black gauze dress and walked dignifiedly towards the back of the hall, with Emile following behind.When passing the first row of lecture halls, the two men in black sitting on the left also stood up and followed them to the Pantheon.

Without looking down, Aaron knew it was Tristan Hardy and Ashley Dubois.

The author says:

Carrying the cross is a stalk in the New Testament when Simon, a man from Cyrene, carried the cross for Jesus when he was escorted to be crucified.

In the next two chapters, there are a lot of meaningless comparisons. If you don’t want to read it, you can skip it, probably ()