Chapter 5: Darkness Under the Light
Angelica acted quickly, and it was of course overkill for a Sanctuary-level angel to do this kind of errand, but ......
Who told Victor to be lazy.
When Angelica walked into the restaurant again, it was already nightfall. The sunset outside the window has already completely set, three bright moons are hanging high in the sky, Victor was stunned when he first saw the moon light, but for the people of this world, only one moon is unimaginable strange things.
The incandescent lamps developed by the Holy Light Magic Channeling Technology, which is unique to the Holy City, illuminate the entire restaurant as if it were daytime.
Victor was still sitting at the table, waiting for her arrival.
and Alsace, who had finished afternoon tea and now began to eat dinner.
When I was a child, I often heard that he was smart, beautiful, an iceberg, and so on, and when she grew up, she heard more about being handsome, gentle, and kind.
Of course, this is other people's perception of Victor, in Angelica's own opinion, Victor's inner is definitely not like this, but is composed of ghosts, complaints, and bad tastes, and what has to be said......
There is also a part of the enthusiasm to overcome injustice.
Victor's two black eyebrows were like sharp swords, his eyes were like golden morning stars, and his bright smile was like the three crescents in the sky. There are always many young girls who are pregnant with spring and deliberately look for this gentle papal heir in the Holy City.
Just like in the current restaurant, half of it is to see Victor, and even go beyond half of the holy city to come to this restaurant, and there are many girls outside the door who pretend to pass by because they are full, and they keep glancing inside.
In view of the fact that the thickness of Victor's skin is already in the same place as that of His Majesty the Pope, in the face of this situation, it is natural to receive the love of the girls with peace of mind, which is to put it aside, this guy will often throw flattering eyes at them, or show a warm male smile that has been specially practiced. A boy at this age, it seems to be his nature to tease girls, but he can't give birth to a trace of disgust.
It's just that now he doesn't have a smile at all, and there is a trace of sadness between his eyebrows, but for these girls, it is a novel alternative experience.
"Wow, the melancholy Highness Victor is so handsome. ”
"Hmph, you just noticed that His Highness is handsome, and I am worried about why His Highness is worried. ”
"Look, you see, Lord Angelica, who is inseparable from His Royal Highness Victor, is not here, could it be that His Highness's appearance is because he broke up with Lord Angelica?"
"No, how so?"
"Look at the little girl of the elf clan next to Your Highness!"
"You don't want to say that this is the new love of His Highness Victor, do you! In this case, even His Highness, I will have to report it to the Patrol Paladins!"
"Bah, can you little girl be a little purer in her mind, I mean...... Don't you think this little Lori's eyebrows and eyes are somewhat similar to His Royal Highness Victor?"
"Alas, that's right, yes, the eyes are all golden, can you say ......"
"That's right, this elf Lori is the crystallization of the love between His Highness and a certain elf!
"My mom is so exciting, I've already made up more than 300,000 words of Wei'an's bitter love for the same humanity!"
The whispering of these stinky girls sounds really no different from shouting loudly in Angelica's sanctuary, when did she become the girlfriend of Victor?
That's right, the group of little girls who come to see Victor every day are not simply because he is handsome, how can I say it......
This is the so-called cp powder, tsk.
Angelica stepped forward and threw a large stack of files on Victor.
"Here, I'll find all the files for you. ”
"As for Angelica, don't be angry at me, do you look at the environment like a place where you can look through the files of the Holy Cult Army?" Victor smiled bitterly and gestured around, of course he couldn't really hear the whispers around him, but he couldn't help but have a slut system live broadcast in his mind, "Go back to the Holy See again. ”
"Arthas, we're leaving, stay with us until you find your friends, so I can keep you safe. ”
“...... Good. ”
Seeing Alsace staring at the table of dinner reluctantly, Victor wiped his sweat, this is a different dimensional passage dressed in elf skin!
"Add a few new dishes and pack them together!" Victor came to the counter and swiped the crystal card to checkout, and saw the number popping up on the crystal card consumption machine, Victor gasped.
It's really terrifying, the balance of this crystal card is actually very thrilling to have 20 copper plates left.
"Arthas. ”
"What's wrong?"
"When you grow up, you must at least marry a figure of the emperor's level as a wife......"
"Hey, hey, are you complimenting people for being beautiful in disguise?"
"No, I'm afraid of marrying the king of a kingdom or something, this country will make you poor. ”
Victor patted Elf Lori's head and sighed.
On the way back, Angelica, disgusted that she was walking too slowly, spread her angel wings, picked up Arthas, and then the light on her wings condensed into a rope and tied Victor up.
It's just that this time I didn't use tortoiseshell binding
"Hey!Angelica!I'm shameless!!"
The angel soared into the sky, cutting a bright arc in the night sky, accompanied by a lament that echoed in midair with the flapping of its wings.
The residents of the Holy City had already seen such a scene, there were at least three hundred angels of all levels resident in this Holy City, and to the residents, they were just a relatively small number of aliens.
Although at first they would still think that they were the divine light, the apostles of the gods who followed the orders of the good gods to protect the believers in the lower realm and preach the doctrines, the pious ones were even like seeing the Lord of Light Buddha, and the five bodies were thrown to the ground and worshipped or something.
But these apostles of the gods carry a basket to buy vegetables every day, and they have dinner in major restaurants when they have nothing to do, female angels like all kinds of cute trinkets, and some male angels even pursue ordinary human women. To put it more exaggeratedly, a few angels have been hovering in the sky of the Holy City because they have drunk too much, and they are singing the hymn that he meows while circling!
In the end, he was tortured and detained for 15 days by several regimental commanders of the Holy Religious Army, on charges of drunken singing and interfering with the normal production activities of the residents.
From then on, the inhabitants could no longer regard these angels as apostles of God.
Victor's bedroom was located in one of those towering spires, and Angelica, who landed on the terrace, pushed open the huge floor-to-ceiling windows, and threw Victor on his own bed while letting go of Arthas in her arms.
"Arthas will be handed over to you tonight, you better not do anything that is so angry with you, I don't want to send you directly to the Inquisition. Angelica shook off the words and pushed the door open, leaving Victor's room.
Looking at the door that was being pushed back and forth by the angels of the Sanctuary, Victor couldn't help but stand still, staring at Arthas.
"Why don't you chase it?"
"What am I chasing? Chase after me and let a sanctuary-level angel blow my dog's head? Alas, no, why do you say she's angry? Just because I asked her to run errands today?"
“...... How do I know that they are still minors? ”
"Sixty-two-year-old underage child, can you go to bed?" Victor squatted down and rubbed the top of Arthas's head, he seemed to like touching the head of this dwarf winter melon, he looked directly into Arthas's eyes, his ignorant eyes were full of worry, "I'll help you get all your friends back." ”
"Really?"
"Well, it's not just your friends, but other people who are worried that their friends have disappeared, and I want to get them all back. ”
Arthas reached out two small hands to hold Victor's cheeks, squeezing out a pouting grimace, but her expression was very serious, not at all like an underage elf Lori.
"I'm really going to help Arthas and the others find their friends, and they talk about it!"
"Of course. Because friends...... Very important. Victor grinned, but it was a little funny on the face that was forced to squeeze out the grimace, but the sincerity in his bright golden eyes was reassuring enough, "Eat something, and rest." ”
Even at this moment of true affection, Victor did not forget today's terrifying memory, and put all the packaged dishes on the long table from the space ring, allowing Arthas to feast on them, while he drank the fruit drink taken out while flipping through the dozens of dossiers word by word.
......
"Erin Atkins, the Cat Clan, a third-order thief of Cold Steel. ”
"Maggie Harper, Dragonborn, Golden Seventh-Order Heavy Swordsman. ”
"Emilia Edgeworth, Terran, Meteorite First Order Spellcaster. ”
"Lily Cohen, Snow Werewolf Clan, Golden Sixth-Order Boxer. ”
"Moon Rabbit Clan, Flower Leopard Clan, Dark Moon Werewolf, Half-Blood Cloud Giant, Forest Demon, Flower Demon, ......"
Victor finally read the file preliminarily, although no one was found, but the investigation process of the Holy Cult Army and the information of the missing persons were recorded in great detail, and even all the contacts in the five days before their disappearance were investigated, and it was a lot of waste of time to read them all.
"There are so many people, involving almost all major races......" Victor's eyes stared, looking at Arthas on the side, the elf Lori, who had been eating and stuffing all day, finally ate and drank enough during the time that Victor was reading the dossier, and fell asleep on the sofa.
Victor shook his head, gently picked up Arthas, placed her on his bed, and pulled the cold quilt over the bed and covered her.
"Arthas, Arthas. Victor gently smoothed the elf Lori's slightly frowning brow, "The prisoners are dedicated to capturing beautiful women of all races, and the meteorite-level sorcerers have been arrested, this guy's strength is a bit low, whether it is an unknown cult sacrifice or a slave trade, this number is too small......"
"And when the target selection conditions are so clear, not a single elf is missing?Even you are just disturbed by your perception, and it also excludes the possibility that the prisoner will not catch Lori, but Lori Mewris, who is similar to you, has been captured......"
At this point, Victor suddenly realized something, and he finally understood what this sense of disobedience that had existed all along.
He looked through the dossiers again, each one only turning the first page.
"Sure enough, sure enough. Victor put down the last dossier and walked out onto the terrace, leaning against the white-stone railing, and looking up at the triangular, to which he had become accustomed.
Suddenly, the wind rose, and the moon was obscured by the blowing black clouds, with only a glimmer of light passing through the clouds, but it also turned into a dark and cloudy halo of darkness. Victor was on top of the minaret, listening to the huge canopy of the ancient giant trees that were slightly shorter than these minarets rustling in the summer night wind, and the sound was terrible and slow, as if it was not the canopy of the trees that was blown, but the dark green sea, and the lights in the holy city, which set off this quiet night.
Victor's nose twitched twice, sniffing the faint fragrance of summer flowers swept by the night wind, mixed with the smell of spices on his clothes, forming a unique olfactory enjoyment of the summer in the Holy City.
Victor listened quietly to the muttering of nature, as if revealing a very dark prophecy.