"They're gone. Scott whispered, "All the corpses...... It's all gone. ”

"There is not a living person to be seen. Filly asked, confused, "That place feels...... It's kind of weird. I felt as if everyone was still there, walking around as usual, but they weren't ......"

He closed his mouth, his face gloomy, as if realizing that perhaps it was not a "feeling", but a hope.

Last night, the two of them took advantage of the darkness to sneak back to the Collins Temple, wanting to bury the dead priests and see if they could find more clues.

They didn't let Ed know - the young man didn't need any more stimulation to be worrying enough.

Thick fog still fills the plain, but the body last Scott found in the temple is nowhere to be found, and the island of the Holy Sepulchre is completely inaccessible. Whatever they do, they can only circle in the fog outside the island.

Alan looked at Scott, who shook his head slightly and replied vaguely, "I don't feel the same way." But...... The fog seems to have different effects on different people.

"If Goodyear's message is correct...... This shouldn't have been done by Ante. Alan frowned slightly. "He doesn't have that ability either. ”

Only three of his adventurer friends remained. Goodyle, Gavin, and Pansy, and Pansy stayed, mostly because if he hadn't stayed with Gavin, he would probably not have been able to go far and would have been dismembered and destroyed by the people he had offended.

Goodyear stays because he thinks it's easier to get a chance to avenge Lydia for his friend than if he looks around—in short, he thinks Lydia has nothing to do with all of this.

But anyway. His spells and his mage friends in Visa became a rare source of information for Richesburg these days.

According to what he had received, Ante was convinced that the fog of the plains of Collins had been created by the priests of the temple to stop his army. If it weren't for Ayer's opposition. For this reason, he even wanted to put Brooke Xiuan in prison. He sent a patrol into the fog, including Bloomer Crieses...... But they didn't even find the temple.

Soon after, everyone appeared exhausted at where they had set out, thinking in a trance that they had been trapped in the fog for many days, but in fact, they had been in the fog for less than a day.

And Ante himself didn't even dare to go near a place that could be contaminated with a little mist. The king did not live in the comfortable and luxurious room that Quirin Ayer had arranged for him, but under the protection of his own guards. Hiding in Aaron Mancini's mansion on the east bank of the Visa. According to the servants of the Mancini family, His Majesty the King stayed up all night and yelled alone in the room. It seems to be arguing with some unseen guest...... And his eyes, which became more and more cold and crazy day by day, made everyone shudder, and they just wanted to stay away.

Rumors began to spread in the city of Visa, where the god of water was feared more than the king, and it was believed that Ante's actions had angered the gods. Ni'o protected her sanctuary with the mist. and Christenburg, which is closely associated with the Holy Land at all times. Soon. The king will pay an even greater price for his disrespect...... Amid all the speculations, many of the noble lords who had been invited, including Tellina Boford, had quietly left, and Quilin, who was unable to leave, was clearly at odds with Ante.

On the far eastern frontier, Queen Moira's father, Walter Carlos, Marquis of Scan, was rumored to have publicly expressed his displeasure with Ante's actions.

The king, who originally seemed to be close to victory, was surprised by a sudden fog. It seems that in the blink of an eye, the rebellion began to be separated. Even if he was really planning the massacre in the Temple of Collins, he didn't have time to care about the corpses of the dead. Let alone. Alan also doubted that he really had the guts to slaughter the clergy.

"Lydia?" he guessed, rubbing his chin over his beard, "I know that the corpses of the priests are ...... 'useless' to necromancers, but to Lydia, mocking, or insulting...... It's also her favorite weapon. ”

The subtle hint in this sentence made Philip suddenly darken.

"Not her. Scott shook his head, "She might take the body...... But there's no need to clean up the blood. I still think it's Icabard...... He should still be alive. ”

"Do you think, or do you wish?" asked Allen.

Scott was silent.

"The sacristy is empty. All the stuff...... All of them, including those that were hidden, were gone. "Well, it would have been Icabard—but even if it were, with his character, we wouldn't have been able to find him if he wanted to hide...... So what are we going to do? stay here and wait for the fucking miracle to happen, or do something anyway?!"

His voice rose with a sudden burst of rage, and the last sentence sounded more like a roar.

Alan looked at him in surprise, realizing that what had happened in the past few days had been an extremely heavy blow to Fili as well. Although it usually seems to be a big grin, I don't care about anything...... The Temple of Collins is like home to Philip as an orphan.

Now his home is a silent and cold grave in the fog, and his family is either dead, disappearing, or betrayed...... No amount of nerve can easily accept this.

"So what do you want to do?" asked Novi cautiously.

"I want to hang the head of that King on the walls of Visa. Fili replied without hesitation with a grimace.

Norway and Alan exchanged an uneasy look, but Scott just kept his head down silently.

"At least what happened in the temple...... Probably has nothing to do with the king, doesn't it?" Norway tentatively dissuaded.

"Nothing to do?" Filly sneered, "maybe he didn't do it, but it definitely can't have anything to do with him, otherwise how could the timing be so coincidental!I know what you're trying to say...... The temple had tried to avoid a dispute, but what had we gained? With what Ante had already done, with the deaths of Lowell and Valla, I had enough reason to take revenge on him, whether he was a king or a sailor—as an elf, you should know that the first paladin among men was born for revenge...... That's my job, too. ”

Norway was stunned. Legend has it that the first paladin, Landon Leona, did have another nickname, the "Avenger", and the supreme god Eumer bestowed great power on the unfortunate warrior whose homeland had been destroyed, allowing him to avenge the innocent deaths of the dead. But the enemies he faces are not even humans, but orcs.

Lowell's death does not prove to be instigated by Ante, and Valla's death is an unfortunate accident...... It's just that such a reason may not convince Fili at the moment. Elves know that someone like Filly, who doesn't care much about most things, is harder to convince if he gets stubborn, not to mention that Scott doesn't seem to have any intention of stopping it.

"Even if your 'revenge' will kill more people?" Alan asked with a sigh.

"If I do nothing, maybe more people will die. Filly retorted unwaveringly, "You don't think that Ante would easily retreat from the fog of the Collins Plains, and just give up his desperate attempt to fabricate evidence, and to use lies and slanders to win a victory that has not yet been fully achieved, do you?

"Not to mention the turmoil caused by the death of a king at the hands of a paladin who helped him ascend to the throne...... Are you sure that a new king, such as Tyliner Boford, would be a better choice?" Alan was still unwilling to give up on convincing him.

“...... Why do you have to give the crown to another member of the Boford family?" Feeley lifted his chin disdainfully, "That dynasty's rise was originally based on deceit, betrayal, and blood, and it had barely managed to maintain peace for two hundred years—it might have fallen long ago if it hadn't been for the Temple's intervention. Maybe it's time to get everything back on track, isn't it?"

Alan frowned, and with a suspicious gaze, he went back and forth between Fili and the strange-looking Scott, finally understanding.

“...... So that's your plan?" his tone involuntarily became stern, "restore the Chrissian dynasty...... Let Scott be king?!"

"My plan, not his. Filly admits nonchalantly, "he said he had to think again...... But I'll get him to agree. ”

Alan glared at him as if he were first meeting Fili Zeri, the paladin who always lazily believed that "more is better than less".

"Are you crazy?!" he growled with suppressed anger, "Do you even know what you're doing?"

"It's a little bit. Fili shrugged, "Honestly, I was already tempted to slash through the sword while listening to his nonsense in the tent...... Maybe I should have done that. But in any case, even you can't deny one thing - that guy doesn't deserve to be a king!"

"I agree. ”

A voice that no one expected sounded from not far away.

Alan looked back in surprise. When Norway brought Scott and Feeley to him, he was taking the place of the exhausted housekeeper and was here with the drunken River Singer. Because River had been sitting there with a blank stare, as if the soul was not in this world at all, they hadn't even thought to avoid him.

River's cloudy and red eyes were unusually bright at the moment, and his voice was hoarse but clear:

"If you're going to do this...... Count me in. ”.

(To be continued......)