The sun sets in the west, and the golden sunset dyes the sunset into a golden yellow.

When the nineteenth prayer came, the northern gate of Gothic City, and the city defense officers at the gate ordered the wooden fence to be pushed out and the civilians were expelled. According to the rules, the door that should have been closed was unusually open tonight. Behind a hill five hundred paces from the city gate, a figure was lying motionless in the bushes.

The man lying on his stomach was called Ares, and he was a bandit. Before the Five Prayers, Ares was still a private soldier of the nobles, because he was a mid-level swordsman, so he was appointed by the noble lord as the captain of the squad, in charge of a small group of soldiers, and received a good salary. After becoming the team leader, the family helped him to arrange a family affair, the other party is an eighteen-year-old girl, medium height, may be the reason for the pampering of the family, the girl's skin is white and tender, and with those big eyes, she can be regarded as a little beauty.

Ares is very satisfied with the girl, and he is very attentive in his relationship, in fact, in the eyes of others, he is a relatively wooden teenager, who does not speak much, although he is very tall and strong, but his behavior is often ridiculed as a fool.

He was afraid that the girl's family would dislike him, and he was afraid that the girl would not look down on him, so he ran to the girl's house whenever he had time, and when he saw any work, he would rush to do it.

He liked this girl very much, he liked her pure and natural smile, and when the girl smiled, he felt that the world was so beautiful. He didn't know what the girl thought of him, but every time he went to look for her, the girl would always be quietly by his side.

After two prayer months, the girl's family suddenly asked Ares's parents to ask him if they wanted to get engaged first, which made him happy, and then that day, for the first time, he boldly took the girl's little hand.

After the engagement, everything went on as usual, and after another half of the prayer year, Ares married a beautiful girl. On the wedding night, Ares asks the girl why she married him, a stupid boy. The girl laughed and said that he was her prince because he had spoiled her as a princess.

If time could freeze like this, how happy and beautiful it would be.

On that day, the flames were mixed with blood, and when he returned home from his patrol, he saw a fire that had engulfed everything, and he rushed into the fire desperately, and in the room, he found the bodies of his parents and his wife, both of whom had been killed with a single sword, and his wife's naked body was covered with whip marks.

After disposing of the body, he rushed to her house, and saw only ruins. Then he was hunted down, and it was his former companions who hunted him down. He escaped, hatred and anger overflowed his heart, and after two days and nights of sleeplessness, he found an opportunity and sneaked into the nobleman's bedroom, and after torture, the nobleman told the truth, the murderer was the heir of a prominent noble family, and he took a fancy to his wife, and the family fought against him when he was violent, and then the murderer killed his entire family, and finally, he got a name, Frank.

He tried several times to get revenge, but each time he failed, and the last time he almost died, and later, he realized that he was still very weak, so he went to Gothic City, not far from his hometown of Stormwind, and became a bandit, silently hiding, waiting for the best time.

Three prayer years passed, and he often missed the girl who loved to laugh, her name was Lillian, which meant a pure lily.

At the small mound at the north gate of Gothic City, Ares retracted his thoughts and crawled slowly backwards, although the city guards would certainly not find him, but he remained alert, crawling backwards for a distance of about five paces, completely hiding his figure behind the mound, before he hunched up and crawled up, and then quickly ran in the direction of the temporary camp.

Ares' gang of bandits is one of the strongest in the Gothic City. Their leader's name is Glenn, who is a high-ranking knight of the twelfth order, and the deputy leader, Yuri, is a high-ranking knight of the tenth order. Five mid-level knights, as well as eight mid-level swordsmen, including him, and fifteen low-level pros were left.

Ten days ago, a man in a gray robe and hood came to their camp, and after a secret conversation with the chief, the leader Gülen led them to pack up their few belongings and retreat to a hidden place nearby, where they watched an army of about 200 men attack their camp that night, but luckily they withdrew early.

Then the gray-robed man took his group of thirty to a manor and took them to stay. At noon today, the leader gathered his gang and went to a makeshift camp.

Five miles away, Ares returned to their makeshift camp and, nodding to the surrounding sentinels, walked up to the leader, Glenn.

"Boss, there is indeed an abnormality at the north gate of Gothic City today, and at the nineteenth prayer, the city guards simply blocked the city gate with a wooden fence, but did not close the city gate. Ares reported respectfully to the chief.

Gülen was a middle-aged man, dressed in a knight's suit of somewhat old linen, with a beard covering his entire face.

"Okay, I got it. Thank you, Ares, go down and rest first. ”

Wait, two more prayer times.

Gülen, who had closed his eyes and was recuperating, suddenly opened his eyes. "Shadow-sama, you're finally here. ”

Out of the darkness came a man, gray in a robe and wearing a hood.

"Leader Glenn, the horses and gold coins are ready, the obstacles on the road have been cleared, the time is up, I will give you everything you want, I hope you will not let me down. The gray-robed man, known as the shadow, had a hoarse voice.

"Your Excellency, rest assured. ”

Three prayers ago, Stormwind, Cathedral of Barceló.

Metropolitan Wood sat in his consul's office, dealing with the reports of his subordinate cities, and as the consul of a county, his daily affairs were complicated and important.

Suddenly, Newt's large, heavy mahogany door was knocked lightly, and before he could respond, the visitor pushed the door in. Wood frowned slightly, and then his expression quickly returned to his natural back.

The person who came was a middle-aged man of medium height, dressed in old-fashioned aristocratic and gorgeous court clothes, and wore more than a dozen medals on his chest. As soon as he entered the door, he immediately said, "I have just received urgent information, and it reports an important matter, and I think I should let you know, so I will show it to you immediately." ”

"Oh, is it?" Metropolitan Wood reached out to take the piece of information that had been rolled into a small roll of paper. I opened it, looked at it carefully for a while, looked up at the person who came, lowered my head and looked at it again before I spoke.

"Frank is too impulsive, and Emmed's hand is too good. ”

The middle-aged aristocrat looked puzzled. "The Pope's Hall suppressed your report on the Divine Favor, which is obviously biased towards Emerd's side, Frank had no choice but to spend a month to spend a lot of money to set up this killing game, even if the time is not particularly perfect in a hurry, but killing a small auxiliary priest, it shouldn't be much of a problem, right?

"One sixteenth-order, one fifteenth-order, two fourteenth-order, and at most one twelveth-order, I'm right, right? His idea was right, let the Gothic City city defense force not help each other, the bandits attacked and killed the chapel, and the wolf's tooth mercenary group saw Emmed die, but Frank missed two points, Emmed did not respond in a hurry, he began to lay out from the report of the gods. Also, Emmed wasn't alone, he had allies in Gothic City, and a whole squadron of Holy Knights. Wood saw that the middle-aged nobleman still didn't understand the key, so he could only continue to explain.

"I understand what you think, even if the bandits and the wolffang mercenary group all die in Gothic City, as long as you kill that little aco, Frank can naturally replace him as a candidate for Elan County without being exposed. However, since Emmed had been waiting for Frank to enter the game from the beginning, how could he have been so easily out of the way? His trader's nickname was not a random call, he definitely had a hidden chess hand in some place that I had not seen through. He's trying to drag you and me into the water, but his real target isn't the Divine Favor candidate, but the cardinal dispute between me and Benjamin. Attacking the church and killing the candidate for the Divine Favor, once these two charges are related to me, you and I will be doomed, so Benjamin will become a cardinal archbishop without any obstacles, and Emmed will naturally be able to replace me as the consul of Elan County. It's so calculated. ”

"What then?"

"What else can I do, your son, since my godson has already stepped in, then the two of us can only play together as Emmed wishes. However, in the end, what the result will be, it still depends on whose fists are hard, one side is dead, and the other side is full of money. ”

Twenty-first prayer.

The city defense army of the north gate of Gothic City received the order, and all went to the city lord's mansion to set up defenses, leaving an unguarded and wide open north gate.

In the west city of Gothic City, in a small hotel, the ten members of the Wolf Tooth Mercenary Regiment were fully equipped, and under the leadership of Gail, the leader of the "honest man", they walked out and walked in the direction of the northern city.

In the small church in Beicheng District, a rush of footsteps woke up Oss who was immersed in the book.

"Os... Hurry up, Os, Miss Paran's personal maid has sent a note, she says that the situation is urgent, and I must hand it over to you at once. Elena ran out of breath, but still handed the note quickly.

Oss took it and opened it, with only two scribbles on it.

"Run!"

Oss looked grim and said to Elena quickly, "Go and ring the alarm, I'll go find Father Eta." Immediately after ringing the alarm bell, you leave the chapel and go to Gothic Cathedral to find High Priest Emmed and tell him that Frank has done it and that he should watch out for the city guards. Go as soon as you ring the bell, and don't come back when you find the high priest, just stay ... ”

Originally, Oss wanted Elena to stay in the Gothic Cathedral, believing that it should be the safest place to be tonight. However, suddenly a thunderclap flashed in his mind, and he immediately changed his words: "No, after you ring the bell, immediately go out of the city and find a safe place to hide, don't look for anyone, and don't delay for a moment." Wait outside the city for news from me, and if you don't hear from me tomorrow, you must stay away from Gothic City and never come back. ”

Elena was so frightened by Os's words that she cried and refused to leave, whimpering and saying, "Let's go together." ”

Oss was anxious and yelled at Elena.

"Obedient, go. After I finish looking for Father Eta, I will go to look for you outside the city, and the more you delay, the more dangerous I will be. ”

In this way, Elena wiped her tears and ran away. Oss took a deep look at Elena's back, picked up his sword, and ran to Father Eta's bedroom.

At the north gate, the hooves of thirty war horses stepped into the Gothic city, and the sound was like thunder.