The capital of the Aranthian Empire, the city of Kee. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

It was already nightfall, and the people of the Alanthor Empire knelt down in bed to pray to the church bells, and then fell asleep quietly. The lights of every house went out one by one, and soon the city of Kee fell into darkness under the heavy bells of the church.

The people fell asleep peacefully.

But not everyone can get a good night's sleep this night. For example, the knights of the night watch in the church, in the Aranser Empire, where the divine authority of the king is carried out in everyone's heart, the royal family and the church are almost one. Therefore, every soldier of the Aranthor capital can be said to be a knight of the church.

The knights wore silver-gray armor and had a silver-white sword hanging from their waists. Because silver is the color that symbolizes the purity of the church, the armor of the knights shines in the light of the moonlight and fire at night.

"Hey, Jack, your face looks bad."

At the gate of the church, one knight said to another, "Is it okay to have no rest?" ”

Jack yawned and nodded: "Almost, I wasn't on duty tonight, Harvey's kid wife is about to give birth, so I'll replace him tonight." ”

"I said I haven't seen Harvey's kid for a day, but you should be more relaxed, in case someone gets into the church—"

"Come on, somebody got into the church." Although Jack said this, his body was still much straighter, "I'm afraid of being caught by the knight, so what's wrong with you?" ”

Before Jack finished speaking, the person who was chatting with him a moment ago suddenly fell to his knees and fell straight to the ground.

"Hey, Elonson, uh-"

Jack felt someone grab him by the neck from behind, and before he could call for help, he suddenly felt his brain sink and his eyes go black, and then he lost consciousness.

It was only after the two knights guarding the gate had fallen that a hooded figure emerged from the darkness. The man stretched out his slender fingers, fumbled behind Jack's back, and found a bunch of keys, then he picked up the keys and opened the lock on the church door.

With a piercing "creaking" sound, he slowly pushed the church door open. The moonlight poured into the church through the crack in the door, and the man's shadow was elongated by the moonlight and cast onto the church floor.

The man took a few steps forward, the sound of crisp footsteps echoing through the empty church like a clock on the roof. After he had walked a few steps, he stopped, for he saw that it was not empty, but an old man sitting cross-legged on the ground, and in front of him was an oil lamp. The candles on the oil lamps gave a faint glow, and as he opened the door, the night breeze blew into the church, and the candles swayed in the breeze, so that the old man's back flickered in the light.

He took another step and walked straight behind the old man before stopping. He saw the old man's white hair, and the book that was spread out in front of him and placed on the floor.

"I'm looking for Randy." The hooded man spoke, his voice light and beautiful, it turned out to be a woman, "You're Randy?" ”

The old man did not admit or deny it, but slowly opened his mouth and made an incomparably vicissitudes of life: "Is there something wrong?" ”

"Absolutely." The woman took off her hood, revealing her long ice-blue hair hidden by the hat, as well as a pair of moving ice-blue eyes, "I want to ask you to save my eldest sister." ”

The old man turned his head slowly, and a face full of wrinkles and furrows was reflected in the woman's eyes.

"Witch?" The old man asked.

"Yes." The woman readily admitted.

"This is the church, aren't you afraid of being discovered?"

"I'm afraid, but I'm still coming." The woman said, "Please save my eldest sister." ”

"Where's your eldest sister?"

"In the extreme cold."

"You're a witch from the Bitter Cold?"

"That's right."

"You're the only one?"

"I'm the only one."

The old man smiled, and he looked at the woman's face and suddenly smiled. But this is not an ordinary smile, and in this smile, the woman smells danger. She subconsciously took two steps back and looked around, but found nothing unusual.

"I'm sorry, I don't think you can save your sister." The old man spoke slowly, "Also, you have to pay the price for trespassing on the church. ”

At the moment when the old man's voice fell, the sound of dense footsteps sounded outside the church. The witch looked back and saw dozens of knights with silver spears rushing up, holding torches aloft and illuminating the church in an instant, and then surrounding the witch and the old man.

Only then did the woman notice that the old man was wearing a robe that belonged to the priest.

"Looks like I'm in the wrong place." The woman's gaze swept over the faces of each knight, but there was no nervous look, but she looked at the old man with a relaxed face, "Can you let me go, old man?" ”

"Are you joking with me?" The old man smiled and shook his head, "Obviously, no. ”

"That's right." The woman scratched her head pretending to be annoyed, but her tone slowly cooled, "Then it's up to you to see if you can stop me." ”

As the woman spoke, the temperature around her slowly cooled down with her tone. Soon, the knights were shocked to find that in this short period of time, the temperature around them had dropped to the point that they would spit out a cloud of white mist when they breathed out. It's the height of summer!

"Are you going to resist?" The old man withdrew his smile little by little, "Do you think you have a chance of winning?" ”

"If you don't try, how do you know?" The woman smiled at the old man.

The next moment, several ice edges formed under the woman's feet, and then quickly stabbed at the knights around her. Before the knights could react, they were stabbed in the face by the ice edges, and then they were knocked on their backs by the tremendous force of the impact.

The old man's expression changed suddenly: "You are a sage?!" ”

The woman glanced at the old man, but did not answer him, but found a gap in the formation of the knights and rushed over. The knights tried to block her, but suddenly found that they could not even do the simple act of raising their guns, and they lowered their heads to see that at some point, a thick layer of frost had formed on their armor.

So the woman passed through the knights' formation and rushed out of the church. The knights could only watch her back disappear into the dark streets, but they could do nothing - because their legs were frozen. From the beginning to the end of the battle, it took less than a minute for the woman to freeze them all and escape in style.

Seeing the woman running away, the old man didn't mean to be angry at all, but looked at the direction in which the woman left, and said with interest: "Sage? Interesting. ”

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