Chapter 50: The Past
Adams' hands and feet were locked by huge chains, and his figure was also shriveled, like an old man on the verge of death, he glanced at Susie weakly, and said weakly: "I have answered my question, so it is time for me to ask you, how did you get here?" β
Susie told her what happened, and Adams sighed after hearing it: "It seems that Roosevelt finally understood the truth, what a good person doesn't live long!" β
Susie retorted: "The Countess drank the blood of a virgin, and the Count knew about it and helped his Lady hide it, are these two people also good people?" β
Adams shook his head and said, "You don't understand, it's a conspiracy, Roosevelt and Miss Echo are very kind people, and the real hateful thing is the witch, she deceived the countess to become what she was later." β
Susie was unconvinced: "No matter whether it is deceived or what, the countess has always done that thing, is it because of a witch who deceived her, so she will not pursue the countess?" β
Adams continued to shake his head, "Things are not what you think, in fact the Countess does not know that she drank virgin blood, she is a kind woman. At this time, a smile appeared on the corner of Adams's mouth, and his eyes were misty: "She is really kind, one year there was a great drought in the north of the empire, the farmers had no harvest, and countless homeless people starved to death on the streets, I passed by with her, and was surrounded by countless refugees. There's nothing we can do about things like this, and the best thing to do is not to take care of them, because once you do, there will be countless refugees surrounding you, but she still gives everything on her body to the refugees, and in the end, if I don't drive those refugees away with a sword, the consequences are unimaginable.
But that's it, she still secretly cried, she thought that if she could bring more finances, she would save more refugees, she is such a kind person, how can she hurt others for the sake of her appearance?
Susie did not refute after hearing this.
Adams sighed, "Do you want to hear a story?" β
Listen, of course you have to listen, don't listen how to trigger the plot.
Adams was silent for a long time, as if recalling: "My father was an ordinary peasant in the Empire, powerless and powerless, if there were no accidents, I would be like my father, facing the loess with his back to the sky all my life, or being the most ordinary soldier in the Empire, but I am undoubtedly lucky."
That year, the Temple of Light was planning to recruit a group of Templar Reserves, and my father signed me up without my knowledge. Finally, after a rigorous screening, I was honored to become a member of the Templar Reserve.
It was not easy to become a full member of the Templar, and there were tens of thousands of children enrolled in the empire, and only ten were selected to become full members.
We would get up early at 5 a.m. every day to run, pray, and train until 11 p.m. It was boring, but it was my happiest day, because she, the countess you call her, also trained with me, and every time I couldn't hold on, I had infinite power to look at her.
Speaking of this, a happy smile appeared on the corner of Adams' mouth: "It would be nice if that day could be repeated forever!" Unfortunately, it was only three years. β
In the course of three years, my companions changed one after another, and she separated from me, perhaps because she gave me infinite strength, and after many hardships and dangers, I persevered and was sent to the imperial capital to undergo the final trial, and if I survived the trial, I would become a full member of the Templar.
At the age of eighteen, I stepped into the imperial capital for the first time, and the first time I saw the prosperous imperial capital, the impact on my soul was huge, and I secretly vowed to enter the temple and get ahead, and now I think about it, how ridiculous my thoughts were at that time.
As naΓ―ve as I am, how can I understand that some people are destined to be as brilliant as the sun, leaving us of our generation behind.
Of course that person is not me, he is Michael Hughes, hehe, do you know what people call him?
Clever Hughes.
Hughes was born a genius, he was very handsome, young, very intelligent, and treated others very well, he was deeply liked by Duke Michael, and he was made the heir to the family early, and at the age of fifteen, he was measured to have a genius talent.
Such a genius in appearance, family, IQ, EQ, and talent is the top, which girl would not like it!
Speaking of this, Adams' face darkened and he said, "When a Templar must give everything he has to the Goddess of Light, we cannot have our own love, the only love in our hearts can only be God."
Echo has a good fit with the Holy Light element, and no one is even better than her, and if she enters the Sanctuary, maybe there will really be a female presiding judge!
But she's in love with Hughes! Come to think of it, the two most famous people in the imperial capital at that time were Xiusi and Ai Keer, how could two people who were so good not be attracted to each other!
Akel loves Hughes very much, she can even give up the last trial for Hughes, but Hughes doesn't just love her, Hughes is too loving.
Both of them were so proud that neither of them was convinced, and in the end Echo chose to leave Hughes and walk with Roosevelt, the younger brother of Hughes, and later, Roosevelt inherited the title of earl, and Axle followed Roosevelt, and I finally passed the final test and became a Templar. Hughes disappeared suddenly, and it wasn't until a few years later that I learned that he had joined the army, starting as the lowest-ranking officer and working his way up to the position of commander.
As much as I hated him, I had to admit that he was the best of our generation.
In this way, after thirty years, we are all old, and Duke Michael is finally coming to an end, he will pass the throne to Hughes, but at this time, something happened that no one expected.
"What's the matter?" Susie asked subconsciously.
Adams narrowed his eyes and said, "On the issue of inheritance, according to the laws of the Empire, Hughes has no right to inherit the title of duke. β
"How is this possible without inheritance?" Susie was a little unconvinced.
"That's exactly what happened." Adams said with a complicated look in his eyes: "Hughes's mother's surname is Catherine, and the Catherine family was originally a family with a very long history, but it was later exterminated because she wanted to overthrow the empire.
At that time, Hughes's mother was dead, and according to the regulations, the descendants of criminals could not inherit the Duke's title, so the old duke claimed that Hughes was not born to Freina (Hughes's mother) on the one hand, and on the other hand, he began his plan to kill his other two sons, so that even if it was finally confirmed that Hughes was born to Frena, the old duke only had one son.
The scene was cold, Susie had a monstrous wave in her heart, the tiger poison did not eat children, how could the old duke do such a thing.
As if thinking of what Susie thought, Adam Su solved Susie's doubts: "This is also a matter of no way, the Michael family was already too powerful at that time, and even capable of threatening the imperial family." The old duke and the emperor have been fighting all their lives, seeing that he is about to die, and His Majesty the emperor is in his prime, if the heir is a waste, it will bring ruin to the family.
Hughes is the second, and there is an older brother above him, but this brother is a waste, and he will not do anything but nostalgia for the flower field, and the old duke personally found him a beautiful woman and poisoned the woman's body, and just like that, Xius's brother died on the woman's belly.
To deal with Roosevelt, he found a vicious witch who gave Echoel a poison that rapidly aged, and then directed and acted as a clergyman to tell Roosevelt that she could cure the poison, but needed a special material, and allowed her to collect it herself.
The material collected by the witch was the blood of the virgin, but no one knew whether it was useful or not, and the witch killed the young maidens without the Countess and the Countess, and deliberately revealed the flaws to make people believe that the Countess had killed the young maidens.
Then things went naturally, and the whole imperial capital knew that there was a countess who drank the blood of a virgin for her appearance, and the officials of the duke's faction demanded that the earl be severely punished, and the old duke wanted to kill his relatives in righteousness.
However, the Emperor did not think so, and in fact His Majesty the Emperor had been following Count Roosevelt ever since the death of his brother.
In the end, it was the old duke who was so skilled that he thought of this way to destroy his son. The idea of the Holy Light Temple is the same as that of the Emperor, the strength of the Michael family is already too strong, if Hughes is allowed to inherit the title, it will definitely not be a good thing for the Empire and the Temple, so His Majesty the Emperor said that as long as the Count hands over the Countess, he will be extrajudicial once, and at the same time, the Holy Church also sent someone to investigate the matter, and it was I who served as the captain of this mission, but I never had a chance to announce the results of my investigation. The old duke told the witch of our whereabouts, and we were ambushed, and all my troops were killed, leaving me alone, and the witch tortured me every day in her castle to obtain the secrets of the Light. Until some time ago, she never came again.
Susie listened to the story silently, and the rest of the story Adams didn't know, but Susie did. The Count refused to hand over his wife, and the Empire sent troops to attack, perhaps it was the Duke's faction who led the troops, and killed everyone, including the Earl.
Susie said, "What are you telling me all this?" β
Adams replied, "I just want to tell me these things, for I have been tormented by witches every day all these years, and if it were not for the fact that I still have a sacred stone on my body." Maybe I was tortured to death a long time ago, my body has already reached its limit, and I can still live all these years because someone can fulfill my last wishNo, my last wish is to give my inheritance to my brother's descendants, and you can take half of the property inside, but you must give them a note. There is a ring in my bosom, and the place where my possessions are located is in that ring, and you can take it yourself.