The Blackening Journey of the Abandoned Knight

The knight stood on top of the wall, "Is this the imperial capital?"

The leader of the smokers was standing beside him, "Yes, this is the imperial capital."

Lu subconsciously blinked.

He is very familiar with the emperor. It is not only the political center of the empire, but also the economic center of the empire. When he was young, he worked with other children in the cathedral of the imperial capital, worshiped, prayed, and trained, and later stood as the lord By his side, living and working, this city is like his hometown.

He remembered every trail, in order to better hunt heretics and prisoners, he remembered everyone, for the warm smiles they showed when they faced him, but now...

"What's the matter?" he asked. "Even if it's a curfew, the sun above our heads is my eyesight?"

"It didn't seem to be destroyed like this when I left before," the leader didn't answer his question, but turned his head to look behind him.

A masked member of the Smokers emerged silently from the shadows.

"Their search intensity suddenly increased a few days ago. It wasn't the second prince's order, but those mysterious people."

Another shadow appeared and said.

"However, what you see now is that the second prince has issued an order of martial law. It seems that survivors have spread the news of what happened yesterday. That honorable highness is acting very frightened."

The leader raised an eyebrow, and the knight smiled.

The current imperial capital is different from the one he remembers. Maybe it’s because the flowers on the streets have not been taken care of for a long time, leaving only withered branches, or maybe it’s because all the closed shops and streets are wandering around. The city defense army in gray uniforms, with expressions, movements and behaviors like punks, may be... the depression in the air and the desire to leave the city at the same frequency as the people in the city.

Under the sun, the imperial capital looked like an old man on the verge of death.

Lu frowned, suppressed the discomfort in his heart, and turned to another issue that he was more concerned about.

"His Royal Highness, you are in the Prince's Mansion, right?"

"As far as I know, I have never moved my position. The Second Prince will not bring His Highness the Crown Prince back to the palace to add to the barrier. When I set off to compete with the Holy Temple...the group of fake Holy Temples for the Holy Five Stars a month ago, there was no inside information. news of death."

Shadow interfaced behind him: "It didn't happen until yesterday, but the entire Prince's Mansion was suddenly under martial law at [-] noon yesterday, and the internal line only had time to report that the maid who took care of the Crown Prince ran out of the room of His Highness, and the rest were gone. .”

"It's nothing, there are already a lot." The leader waved his hand and let the two shadows go down.

He turned to Lu, "Then, sir, this location is too conspicuous, let's go to a slightly more secluded place."

The hiding place the leader mentioned was his mistress's small bungalow.

The place where the upper-class people live is still a little different from what the road saw on the city wall. For example, in the small garden of the bungalow, there are even one or two bright red Rosaceae flowers blooming in the cold wind. She didn't ask them to open the door, invited them to sit down, brought out steaming tea from the kitchen and put it in front of the two of them, then turned and left without asking her how the man was feeling today.

The leader saw that the knight looked at the woman with curiosity.

"She is a good woman. Two years ago, I thought about whether to retire and marry her," he said, and then immediately changed the subject, "So what are you going to do now?"

"As far as you are concerned, those mysterious people are difficult to deal with," said the knight.

"It's not very difficult," the leader said, "but it's very difficult. Now our activity frequency has been reduced, so it's okay. In the first month when His Majesty was suddenly imprisoned, neither rescue nor destruction was successful. During that time, I It even felt like someone was watching me all the time, watching my every move, every order I issued and they responded before I thought the reaction time, and the news from all departments was failure, failure, failure."

"Actually, there is a possibility," Lu said, "Shouldn't the first suspicion be that there is a mole?"

"At first I thought it was a traitor, but then we checked the people several times and found nothing. Even later, we adopted a random method and flipped a coin to decide the location just before the attack. They were still surrounded by groups. They just knew everything."

"You seem to be doing well now." Lu was puzzled, "It doesn't look like you have experienced too many blows."

"Because after the most difficult month, the mysterious man was taken back by all the tentacles as if he had accomplished his goal, leaving him a chance to breathe. The second prince after that... doesn't matter."

If the second prince's ability is one-fourth of his elder brother's, or even one-half of his father's, this drama is nothing more than an ordinary transfer of power between the royal families, but he doesn't have it. Make it look like this is a difficult situation for the people.

"How is Your Majesty?" Lu asked.

"The Crown of the Great Cross is a holy artifact, and it can still protect His Majesty's safety at present. We don't know the rest."

"Is there no news about the Pope and the senior saints?"

"If there is news, I will not pin my hopes on you, after all, you are now..."

is a dead man.

The opposite of light represents.

"You want that kid to be a helper." It was Ada he was talking about.

"After all, you are the new owner selected by the Holy Five Stars. Everyone knows what happened to the Scythian defense line, but no one can rehabilitate you in the current situation, but if there is a leader who stands on the bright side The character would be great." The leader's tone was very exciting.

Lu's eyebrows twitched together, "Ada is still a child."

"A child, a pure child," the leader's voice seemed to be laced with honey, "After cleaning him up yesterday, he looks a little like a little angel. As your heir, at least he has passed in terms of appearance."

Lu lowered his eyes.

He never underestimated his own influence, so he naturally knew what would happen if the heir who was said to be the Pale Knight appeared.

The leader told him that the current resistance forces are just a mass of scattered sand, the emperor's, the prince's, and the temple's. No matter what, there is no way to mix them together. If the boy is pushed to the surface, it is indeed a good integration excuse.

But Lu remembered the trembling shoulders he saw when he opened his eyes in that remote rural cabin.

The leader suddenly laughed.

"I have always felt that you have changed a lot since yesterday, but now it seems that you have not changed much."

The white undead lightly touched the steaming teacup in front of him, and a layer of hoarfrost immediately formed on the surface of the red tea.

"Yeah, nothing has changed, I'm still me."

Lu raised his head, his eyes were firm, "I have a plan, I don't know if you want to hear it or not."

***

dark.

Endless darkness.

The darkness here does not refer to the concept of "nothingness", it is not empty, it is not the beginning, it is not the end, and it is not the process, it is simply here, it is "darkness".

In the dark, someone is talking.

"I found you, Lu Qing."

The illusion of the crown prince was suddenly shattered.

That voice was too familiar, and it was so obviously different from the counterfeit just now, the gap was like a bird that never lands and a whale that can only swim in the sea, so Lu only took a second to notice it and know Who is it that calls him.

"Your Highness... the lord!"

The knight took a step forward, and found that in the "darkness" of up, down, left, and right, he didn't know where the sound was coming from, and he didn't know where he should go, even if he knew he should go. Whichever direction he went, the omnipresent darkness would block his way as fog, mud, chains, or something else.

Struggling out of the hallucination, Lu remembered the black mud that engulfed him, and when he thought that he was inside that disgusting thing, he felt uncomfortably tumbling at the tail.

I heard the voice of the lord just now, is it really the voice of the lord, is it his illusion?

Or is it the beginning of another hallucination and deception?

"Lu Qing," said the voice, "Long time no see."

With a smile in his words, Lu remembered that he was working as a bodyguard for the runaway crown prince, and the two of them walked through most of the empire's territory together, the sunny fields, the grape arbors under the breeze, the slowly rotating stars in the night sky, the blond man always They all smiled happily, and it was the same today.

He said, "Although it took a lot of work, I still found you."

Intuition told Lu that this was true.

He turned his head and looked around, trying to find a trace of this person in the chaotic darkness, "Your Highness, where are you?"

"Of course I am," the man said, "always by your side."

"I didn't see you," Lu said.

The crown prince avoided answering, "Hey, Lu Qing, you will always be by my side, right?"

Lu who was confessed in the illusion just now frowned, but still replied without hesitation, "I am by your side, and I will only be by your side."

The voice seemed to be sighing, "That's all right."

The darkness fell silent again.

Then the voice called again, "Road."

The knight responded subconsciously, "Master."

The falling voice was accompanied by a crackling sound, and the sticky darkness shattered directly under his response, as if some force shattered it like breaking glass.

From behind the open crack, the pure white color can be seen.

The top is pure white, and the bottom is darkness, like a heaven high above and a hell thousands of miles away from the human world. The broken cracks change from large to small. Under such circumstances, white and black blend together like a two-color weaving.

Being distracted by such a strange scene, Lu Zhi didn't realize until this time that he was falling.

Plunge into bottomless darkness.

And in the pure white heaven, another person with a blurred face leaned over to look at him.

That is... the Father, the Father of All, Lord of the North Pole.

[Unlucky prisoner, your profession is Magical Girl lv.1]

[You are upgrading, your ability has awakened, you have upgraded to Magical Girl lv.2]

[... High-dimensional forces invaded, you left the Tianluo Prison Gate career system...]

He saw his father reaching out to him.

"Come back, child."

Lu subconsciously wanted to hold his hand, but at this moment, someone called him from below.

His Royal Highness the Crown Prince.

"Lu, look down, I'm here."

***

"Your Mightiness?"

The leader yelled softly.

They were still in the small bungalow with blooming roses, time passed silently, and the sun slipped from the middle of the sky to the edge of the horizon.

The leader was a little curious. As far as he knew, the undead did not need such things as sleep, but just now Lu Lu lay on the sofa with his eyes closed, just like a living person sleeping.

"I'm fine," Lu said.

The leader glanced at him and made no objection, although he felt that the undead looked very tired.

Lu lowered his eyes.

He was fine, just remembering his experience in the black mud back then.

"According to the plan, we will act tonight," the leader said.

If there is an accident, please speak up as soon as possible.

The knight just nodded.

"Let's begin then.

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The section in the middle is what happened after the road broke the illusion in the black mud