"Do you know what you're doing?"

Lin An's hand stretched out to the brass doorknob paused slightly, turned sideways, glanced at Sophia, and asked calmly.

Sophia trembled uncontrollably, but the hand holding the letter opener did not waver in the slightest, pressing it on Athena's neck, tightening inward.

"I'm sorry, I'm sorry...... Please, put that one, the priest, down! Please! We can't kill him! ”

"He's coming to kill us, and you're going to save him?"

It wasn't Lin An who couldn't help but question, but Athena, who was being held hostage, and her eyes widened incomprehensibly.

"Nope! You don't understand, you don't understand the power of the Holy See! If we just kill the priest and abscond, we will never escape the Holy See's search! My children and husband, they will all be implicated by me and burned at the stake! ”

As if thinking of some terrifying picture, Sophia's expression became fierce, "Let him go!" Go drink that cup of black tea, or I'll kill your daughter!" ”

"Black tea?" Lin An frowned slightly, "So, you poisoned it?" When I was leaving? ”

"I don't want it, I don't want it - you forced me! You forced me! Sophia was very excited, and her originally beautiful face looked hideous, "Go and drink that cup of black tea, hurry up!" Just go! ”

She held down the letter opener, despite the fact that her strength was enough to make the sharp and thin blade cut deep blood on the girl's delicate skin, and the whole person was completely in a frenzy.

Lin An's mysterious and unpredictable strength gave her too much pressure and fear.

In particular, Lin An and Athena's invariably calmness made her extremely uneasy, although she couldn't observe calmly, she instinctively felt her current absolute disadvantage.

Athena sighed, "Master, you won the bet again this time!" ”

She didn't know when she appeared beside Lin An, and Topaz looked at Sophia with big eyes, "People are too strange, she is for the people who want to kill her." Trying to kill the person who saved her? ”

"Because of fear, and the instinct to be weak and avoid the strong."

"But it's clear that we're stronger," Athena widened her eyes and flattened her mouth, "can't she even see that?" She couldn't help but look at Sophia with a pitying IQ.

"Sometimes, that's not how strength is calculated.

We were defenseless against her, she had a chance to do it behind her back, and the priests wouldn't give her that chance;

What's more, the priest has the huge power of the Holy See behind him, in her opinion. No one can contend with it. In addition to Toucheng. She barely survived, but she could still be lucky if she did it to us—we had saved her out of mercy, and now we know that she had to betray her for the sake of our children. Maybe we'll let her go again.

Even if we don't let her go, for the sake of her pleading, and we are about to evacuate, we probably won't take revenge on her family and children. ”

Especially when Lin An and Athena are young women, or a mother-daughter combination, this probability increases greatly.

"So, she thinks that the cost of betraying us is less, so she can betray? Still think we're going to let her go? Athena became more and more confused, "We are not her." She's already going to kill me, aren't you going to take revenge on her? ”

The logic of these people is so strange that she actually lost the bet with her master for such an inexplicable reason.

"This is dictated by the circumstances in which they live, and they have lived in the shadow of the Holy See for many years. Some people will be more persistent and determined about this, but some people will be crushed by such pressure and give up the bottom line - such a person will not be the only one, nor will he be the last. ”

Under the rule of the Holy See, it is not surprising that the soil here produced deformed flowers.

In a certain way, Lin An can even understand Sophia's thoughts, if she is Sophia, in order to keep her child, maybe Lin An will make a similar choice.

Sophia's biggest mistake was to misestimate their strength, and for this, she lost her best chance to save herself and her children.

"So what do we do with her now?" Athena looked at the woman who was crazy with excitement.

She was still in the environment that Athena had made, her empty arms as if she were clinging to something, shouting hoarsely into the air, not realizing that the other two were not where she thought they were.

"You've decided, Athena."

Born at the bottom, experienced complicated, and more pitiful situations have seen too much, Sophia's is no longer enough to impress Lin An.

From the moment he noticed the change in Sophia's mentality in the small reception room, Lin An remained silent, just to teach Athena a lesson, and by the way, to take her as a model to see the hidden mage mentality in the Holy Empire.

The human heart is a very complex thing, sometimes surprisingly simple, and what she just said to Athena can be transplanted to most of the mages in the Holy Empire.

The Holy See has been buying and rebelling against the mage forces in the territory, and if she wants to make further contact with the mage forces in the Holy Empire in the future, then she has to guard against this.

At least judging from Sophia's attitude, the bottom line of their betrayal is lower than Lin An originally imagined.

She had sworn before, but now Athena hesitated, "Master, will her child really be implicated because we killed the priest?" ”

"Probably," Lin An replied, "even if there is no such thing, the son of a female mage whose identity has been revealed, his situation will not be much better." ”

What's more, Sophia was exposed in order to save him, which has been witnessed by many people.

Of course, if the civilians here were brainwashed deeper than she thought, perhaps the child would have thought that his mother had been replaced by a witch, as the bazaar did, after all, such rumors were widespread in the Holy Empire.

"It sounds miserable, then she has already suffered the revenge she deserves," Athena thought for a moment, and suddenly said, "Since that's the case, let's keep her here, she doesn't know anything anyway." ”

Are you sure this is not revenge? This decision is a little worse than killing her directly!

Lin An glanced at Athena in surprise.

The latter frowned, clenched his right hand into a fist, and struck it into the palm of his left hand, making up his mind.

……

A day later, a burner was erected on the port square of Domindun, where countless nobles and commoners gathered.

At the last moment of her death, the female mage apprentice who was burned at the stake finally regained her senses:

She viciously cursed the prisoners, the nobles, the Holy See, and especially the boy and her husband's family, claiming that she had placed a curse on them and that they would not die well.

“…… The powerful mage who saved me will definitely come back to take revenge on you, so wait! Hahahaha......"

As the flames flooded her head, the voice of the female mage's apprentice still came from it, as terrifying as a night owl, echoing over the square, making the ordinary people watching the execution unable to help but be terrified under the anger.

"Great motherly love."

Hiding in the frenzied crowd, Lin An sighed lightly.

"Why did they want the boy and his father to put down the first two torches with their own hands?" Athena stood beside her, and the people around them seemed to be unable to see their existence, and their distorted faces reflected the bright light of fire.

"Because it clears their suspicions."

"Then why doesn't Sophia resent them?" Although through the raging fire, Athena was able to tell that Sophia did not have a strong grudge, and she did not even hate Lin An who abandoned her again after saving her.

"It's something she's willing to do."

"So, isn't she really going to curse her own child?" Athena's eyes lit up slightly, and she thought for a moment, "I see, she wants them to move away as much as possible, afraid that we will come back to take revenge on them." ”

Lin An nodded slightly.

"Master, I'm feeling a little uncomfortable, it's stuffy here." With her little hand on her chest, Athena said with some confusion, "This feels weird. ”

"It's emotion." Emotions that belong to you.

Lin An swallowed the waves in his eyes.

The spirit of the temple who has lived for tens of millions of years, even Lin An, who is the master, can't guess at will, when the time of a living being's existence is often calculated in 10,000 years, it is destined to be impossible to measure each other by the scale of ordinary people.

The time when the spirit of the temple closes its eyes may be equivalent to a person's life, which is a vast difference that cannot be crossed.

Athena usually laughs and plays, and looks no different from an ordinary little girl, but how can a real temple spirit really have a mind exactly like a little girl? It is nothing more than the result of her imitation.

But imitation is not the same as truth, just like she and Andre Salin had a good time, when they separated, Athena actually did not have the slightest nostalgia in her heart.

Really speaking, Athena really has status and feelings in her heart, but Lin An is still alone, and maybe she can also add her curiosity about the outside world.

This was only discovered by Lin An when he was threatened by Remus last time and was forced to teleport back to the temple.

Even William, who had played well with her, was in extreme danger at the time, but when Athena sent her back to the temple and dissuaded her from going back, she did not hesitate at all, and did not consider the safety of William and Titiandere and others at all.

It's like she has a definite sequence in mind, and when this sequence is stimulated, her choices are like a machine, unable to tolerate any feelings.

As Athena's covenanter, this is undoubtedly in Lin An's interests.

But Sky City was more than just a temple - the location it guarded, the upper level inside it was sealed like a taboo, and the secrets behind Sky City made it impossible for Lin An to treat it as a temple.

Especially when it is connected to the plane, and is in a key position in the fate of hundreds of millions of lives in the two planes, Lin An cannot bypass this point no matter what his future plans are.

However, the Sky City, which could not be fully controlled, made Lin An uneasy all the time.

This temple was not built by her, and the sequence that Athena adhered to was not instilled by her, and in the face of her safety, Athena would have eliminated the rest, so what if there was a higher order of priority before her order?

(To be continued) RU