Chapter XXVI: The Ritual

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Helen and the others will have to wait a few days before they can go to Wright.

The night moon is also safe to visit and play in the divine blessing.

A few days passed, and she had forgotten about Tia.

For the undead leader, the killer incident was just a small episode in life, and she was just helping a helpless girl on a whim, and she didn't think that they would see each other again.

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Helen and the others didn't stay in Divine Blessing for no reason.

They are waiting for someone here.

His name is Locke. White, a distant nephew of Charles I, a distant cousin of Peter, and a second-class senior priest of the same rank as Helen.

He will lead hundreds of church paladins to escort Peter back to the capital city of Wright.

In fact, these people said that they were here to escort him, but it was better to arrest him back.

It is simply absurd for the future pope to take risks without paying attention to his own safety, and there is no need to take this risk.

And the companions were almost killed and wounded, and this matter is also a troublesome matter that needs to be covered up.

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Due to the getting better and better relationship with Helen, the two of them are now part of Helen's team.

So now they are also eligible to go with Helen to the welcome ceremony.

Alfalfa didn't mean to join in the fun, so the dark wizard, who was a mage and a scholar and was more interested in folklore, set off on his own.

The welcome ceremony was quite chic.

Hundreds of city defense troops lined up at the city gate to welcome them and play military music.

Plans seem to have changed.

There were two teams that came.

One of the teams consisted of several hundred people, dressed in the armor of the Church, and the leader was a handsome young man in a white robe, with blond hair and blue eyes, who was somewhat similar to Peter, and it seemed that it was Locke.

His overall feeling was very different from Peter's.

Peter can always make others feel the pride of his noble status, but Locke's expression is humble and gentle, which makes people feel good at first sight.

The other team was more numerous, more than 1,000 people, but they wore the standard armor of the empire, and the armor and shield were decorated with red lions, and I don't know which general they belonged to.

The leader of the team is actually a girl, she is dressed in red armor, silver hair and silver eyes indicate her royal status, and her delicate facial features and fair skin are even more charming against the background of the red helmet.

However, the corners of her eyes and eyebrows seemed to have some evil and arrogance, which made people dare not approach.

The priest Peter himself greeted him, but Helen stood behind and did not move.

"Miss BrontΓ«, why don't you come over?"

Helen playfully stuck out her tongue and said, "Because Peter and Anna have a bad temper, I still don't get involved......"

"Anna?"

Seeing that Yeyue didn't know who Anna was, Helen patiently introduced: "The two people in front, the young man is Locke. The girl's name was Anna. Wright, it's Theo. Prince Wright's daughter. We've known each other since childhood, and unlike me, she's a very powerful samurai and general......"

Sure enough, the temper is not harmonious.

In public, Peter and Anna have begun a war of words.

Locke was caught in the middle, looking at his wry smile, it was indeed very helpless.

"What are you going to do?"

Now it is Peter who speaks.

"Stop by, I heard that you threatened to find Castle Black and bring back the treasure inside, but you escaped in disgrace?"

"This ...... What's your business? Peter looked a little annoyed.

"I mean, you did a good job of escaping, I thought you couldn't even escape."

"You...... I can't, can you do better than me? ”

"Of course, do you see those pro-soldiers behind me? I'm here to go with them in search of Castle Black. ”

"Then I'm looking forward to your good news......" Peter looked like he was watching the show.

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Hearing this, Yeyue looked at the soldiers behind Anna.

Indeed, it is well-equipped and well-organized.

Many of them still have magical equipment, and their average strength level should be at the elite level.

However, it is naturally delusional to attack Castle Black with this kind of lineup.

The Dead Wastes are now much more powerful than any of the duchy kingdoms of humanity, but humans are still in the dark.

"And when I'm not there, the undead under my command probably won't have any pity...... This kid seems to have good qualities, and if he dies, he may be able to evolve into a high-level undead. ”

At this time, she saw a familiar figure.

The other party was wearing an iron mask, standing behind not far from Anna, and his figure was a little familiar.

Yeyue hasn't seen much living people in ten years, so those who are a little familiar are acquaintances who have known recently.

So she used her mental power to probe carefully.

"Tia?"

Whether it was the magic of the elves on his body or the shape of his body, it was indeed Tia, yes, but he had replaced the mask with an iron mask.

Being able to stand behind Anna means that she is a high-level retinue even in this elite team.

"The relationship is good on the surface, but is it a relationship of mutual assassination behind the scenes?"

The grievances and grievances of the nobles Ye Yue didn't care much, her attention was more on Tiya: "Wear an iron mask, no wonder it's called an iron mask...... The people of the princes and kings ......"

"What are you thinking?"

Seeing that she was silent for a long time, Helen asked out loud.

"Oh, I wonder why that girl is wearing a mask?" Yeyue asked casually.

"You're talking about Tia. Iron Mask. She's a famous beauty. And she is a good sister of Anna, and together with Anna she is known as 'the two roses of the Lion King's fanged army'. ”

"Roses? Beauty? ”

"Yes, she's very mysterious, and few people have ever seen her true face. However, it is said that she is very beautiful, and the reason why she wears a mask is because she is going to battle, and her beautiful face really can't play a role in deterring the enemy, so she uses a mask to cover it...... Actually, there is another way of saying it......"

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Although the Holy Light Empire has stopped large-scale foreign wars, there are still sporadic skirmishes, such as conflicts with orcs and night elves.

A few years ago, the empire had also endured the only large-scale war in recent years - a war against the hundreds of thousands of combined invading armies of the desert peoples of the East.

In this war, the empire was victorious.

The foundation for this victory was laid by Anna's father, Theo. Prince Wright.

In that war, he took a son and a daughter, and used less than 10,000 soldiers to nail the enemy army to his fiefdom before the main force of the imperial army arrived, and this war really established his position under the secular world of the empire.

His fiefdom was in the easternmost province of Leah, a vast province bordered by the Dwarven Mountains and the Abbo Desert.

Because those two places were the locations of several enemy kingdoms, the Dwarven Kingdom and the United Kingdom of the Desert, he fought countless battles throughout his life.

Because he had never lost a battle and used the golden lion as the insignia of his army, he was known as the "Lion King", and his legions, also known as the "Fangs of the Lion King", were one of the most elite legions in the Empire.

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"Is there another way to say that?"

"Some people say that she wore a mask to prevent herself from stealing the limelight from Anna......"

"Indeed."

The Dark Wizard echoed in his mind.

Because if Tia didn't stand with Anna in a mask, people would definitely pay more attention to her.

At the end of the welcoming ceremony, the two teams walked through the crowd that threw flower petals at them and headed towards the inner city.

Helen took advantage of this time to greet Anna in the team, and Tia, who noticed this, also spotted the night moon next to Helen.

Although she didn't see her expression because of the mask, she was visibly stunned.