Chapter 19: A Concerto of Light and Darkness

Even a child like Yas can understand that the "thing" that still retains his mother's face will definitely not be his mother. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

"Ah...... Yas ...... Come here. ”

There was no expression on the face like Yas's mother's, but his lips kept calling, and Yas was falling back in horror, he didn't think that the gentle mother would be like this, it must be this monster who ate the mother! Ignoring the fear in his heart, he pushed the chair beside him towards the monster.

"Let's go! Go away! ”

"Hey, you hit me."

The old chair, which had been used for too long, leaned towards the monster, and the heavy back hit the part where the monster was hiding under the table, and a thick tentacle squirmed and pushed away the chair and stretched out, stained with dripping blood and viscous liquid, and an old face grew strangely on this pink flesh-colored tentacle with all kinds of blood, and the chapped lips touched up and down, making a hoarse sound

"Come here... Yas..."

Yas's mother's face called

"You hit me!"

The old man's face glared at Yas with indignation

"It's noisy, it's noisy!"

At the same time, the voices of different ages and genders also sounded, and finally they let out a roar containing common feelings

"Ahh Become one with us—"

Several pink flesh-colored tentacles popped out violently, curling Yas up with irresistible force, the little boy's face flushed but useless, he looked at those empty faces, especially the one like his own mother, and the fear in his heart disappeared unconsciously, and a wave of anger welled up in his heart, Yas stared at the face

"Go..... Die..... You...... Monster and put mom.... Return it...."

He struggled hard, his two short legs were lifted hard, trying to kick away the tighter and tighter tentacles, he gritted his teeth and tried to resist the increasing force, but he could only feel that his vision was gradually blurred, and the feeling of suffocation took his mind and life step by step......

"Blame... Monster ......"

"That thing" seemed to be bored, too, and all of its faces roared again, and the tentacle that curled Yas tightened for a moment, and soon the little boy was about to be twisted into meat sauce like the things on the ground

"Boom!"

Closing his eyes, the little boy in a daze seemed to hear something, and then he felt the force squeezing his whole body suddenly retracted, and he fell from the state of hanging in mid-air, but instead of falling to the ground, he felt a strong arm catch him, and then he heard the sound before

"Whew!"

Then there was the dull thud of something falling on the ground, and the howl of the monster, and Yas's mind cleared up, and he understood what was happening.

Someone saved themselves!

The little boy was immediately excited, he touched the slime on his face, and then opened his eyes to see the visitor, and he was just as the little boy imagined, wearing a complete set of shining armor, from helmet to combat boots, holding a sharp sword, maroon eyes with a determined light, and short flaxen hair peeking out of the slit of the helmet that appeared, like a knight who had come out of a book.

"Don't look."

The knight turned and covered his eyes with his free left hand, and said with gentle luck

"There's your relatives in here, so don't look at it."

Yas only then reacted, the monster ...... Possible...... There is really a part of his mother, he felt a feeling that could not be expressed in words gushing out of his heart, that kind of feeling was the same as when he heard that the eldest brother An Luoluo next door was going to move away, and every time his father worked and involved a wound in his lungs, he was so painful that he didn't dare to move on the bed, but it was far stronger than that, and it was even more ......... Overwhelmed the child.

"I don't, I want to see it!"

Obviously he was still squeezed and out of breath just now, but he didn't know where the strength came from, Yas waved his hand and knocked off the knight's hand that was covering his eyes.

Chim looked at the child in amazement, his voice with a crying tone, his eyes with a deep sadness, but at the same time with some emotion that even he didn't know what it was, Chim sighed softly in his heart, he rarely saw this kind of feeling in the twilight courtyard passing.

This is not fear, not fear, not dazed, not withdrawn, but a feeling called hatred.

He looked at the woman's face on the monster, the same color as the little boy's hair and pupils, and sighed slightly in his heart.

He gave up covering the little boy's eyes, and instead held the hilt of the sword with both hands, and the faint light on the steel teeth flickered for a moment, and then an even brighter light exploded in this small space, and at the same time, the monster that fused different flesh and kept wriggling, and Sim put the sword back into the sheath, as if talking to himself, as if explaining something

"It's called a molten demon, or more accurately a Tana molten demon, and it's a necessary symbol in the various rituals of the Twilight Courtyard, usually transformed by the unwitting general cultists who have been deceived by the Twilight Courtyard."

Seeing the little boy chanting the name of "Twilight Courtyard" as if he understood something, Chim added the latter sentence in his heart, and if this kind of thing appeared in a medium and large crowd gathering place, it meant that the Twilight Courtyard would at least hold a large-scale sacrifice or pleasing ceremony for more than a hundred people.

His heart was a little heavier, in his previous life, he had never heard of the Twilight Courtyard daring to hold any large-scale ceremony in Romandel's capital Inruta, which was equivalent to going to war with Romandel, you must know that during this period, Romandel was one of the best kingdoms on the entire road, even if it was a legend or above, there were more than a dozen people.

"Now that the Twilight Courtyard has set up a big ceremony throughout the city, and this molten demon is appearing everywhere, I have to rush to other places, so can you please do me a favor?"

Chim pulled something out of his belt bag and shoved it into the little boy's hand, and told Yas.

“............ Hmmm........"

After listening to him, the little boy repeated it as Chim had requested, nodded firmly, and then Chim turned around and prepared to leave, Yas hesitated, but still called out to Chim

"That...... Will everyone be okay? ”

Sim smiled slightly, pulled down the mask from his helmet, and told the little boy who had just lost his mother in a dull voice

"It's going to be fine."

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"Now, I declare that the knighthood certification ceremony is now open!"

The stern-faced Velas ended the traditional obligatory praise of the sages, the lengthy opening speech, and then announced the beginning in a concise manner in his characteristic military style.

Then he turned around, his gray hair was blown by the wind on the stage, and bowed to the purple-haired girl sitting beside him, Her Royal Highness Princess Sylvia, who was sitting on the chair, accepted the salute, and then stood up again, took the first step to help Villas to stand up, and then whispered in the old man's ear

"I was there to accept your salute on behalf of the royal family, and now, it is a little girl who should respect the elderly."

Hearing this, Villas also relaxed his face and smiled, he had always had a good impression of this princess as soon as he came, if it weren't for the fact that Sylvia had already worshipped another person no less than his status as a teacher, he would also want to take this princess as a student.

Sylvia helped Velas to her seat, then stood up again, and slowly walked to the same place where Velas had stood, facing the neatly standing, armour-clad would-be knights, and then she looked away to see the ordinary citizens standing around the square and the soldiers who were maintaining discipline.

Sylvia took a deep breath as she looked at Inruta's neat streets, wide roads, the lush cedar trees, dappled spots of light through the verdant foliage, and the westerly wind that came down from the Branley Plateau, blowing her cheeks and playfully raising her long hair

"I am the princess of Inruta, Sylvia."

A simple self-introduction, but it set off a commotion underneath, the people who greeted Her Royal Highness the princess had already publicized that Her Royal Highness had to greet them in order not to disappoint them, and everyone used their own methods to express their respect for this princess, and Sylvia did not interrupt them, and slowly waited for the citizens to calm down before she continued to speak

"The reason why I am standing here today is not only for the inheritance of the glorious tradition, but also because I want to see if we, the knights who have inherited the glory and conduct of the ancient knights, can be called 'Inruta' knights, and whether we can shoulder the obligations and responsibilities brought by this name!"

Sylvia stood on the stage, with an awe-inspiring majesty, making people unconsciously infected by her words, her thoughts, watching the long violet-like hair flying in the air, Liliania couldn't help muttering to herself

"Thea really has the demeanor of Her Royal Highness the Princess."

"Well, Momo thinks so too."

Sitting on top of Liliania's blonde hair, Miss Leprechaun expressed the same thought.

At this moment, the two of them were also standing on the stage, of course, in the depths that the public could not see, Lilynia did not return to the quasi-knight queue, but was forcibly left here by Sylvia under the pretext of replacing the missing guard Estonia.

"But Miss Estonia...... Is there anything going on? ”

Lilynia was full of worry about the Estonian lady, and although she had deceived herself, the gentle tone and smile did give her great encouragement at the time, and Lilynia couldn't help but raise her hand to hold the delicate bracelet hanging from her wrist, and secretly prayed to the Mother Goddess in her heart.

"- Raise your swords in your hands, therefore, knights, and show your valor, not to me, but to the people of the kingdom that are behind you, who feed you, and who are under your protection!"

In Sylvia's last call, the atmosphere of the whole ceremony came to a climax, and the knights drew their swords to express their emotions, of course, they still withdrew after a while, because the martial arts was a one-on-one battle between would-be knights, and although the venue was extremely wide, only two people could be left as participants in the first scene.

"Hmph, Vana, that Bretch guy escaped, do you dare to accept my challenge!"

Seeing the opportunity, Weisda extended an invitation to Vanner, who had left the plaza and walked back to his seat, to challenge him, who snorted coldly

"Brecht must have had something, with his character, he wouldn't run away in the face of someone like you, not to mention that as a knight, how could such a big thing as a knight be absent."

"It doesn't matter if Bretch is a coward without guts, now it's a question of whether you're a coward or not, do you dare to accept my challenge!"

With his chin raised, Weisda proudly said to Vanna, who looked at him with a slight disdainful smile and walked back to his seat without responding.

"You guys turned out to be a spineless piece of waste!"

Weisda shouted at the back of Vanna leaving, and then several of Weistar's younger brothers whispered behind him

"Brother Weisda, have you forgotten, the martial arts is first between the quasi-knights one-on-one, and after the quasi-knights are finished, it will be our turn to ask them for advice."

"Yes, yes, Brother Weisda, let's take a rest first, recuperate our spirits, and let Vana be arrogant for a while."

Wei Shi nodded, but his face was still not good, and he took the younger brothers back to their seats when he noticed that something was wrong

"Hey, what about Adelaide? Why isn't he there? ”

"Adelaide has gone to Instructor Bamanf for you."

"yes, I'll be back in a minute."

Only then did Weistar relax and return to his seat.

"Were you the first one against me, Seber?"

The sturdy knight asked with a frown, a short gray-brown hair that could barely cover his head, and the long-handled axe he carried behind him showed what he was good at, and in contrast

"Ah, it's me."

The opposite Seber could be a head and a half shorter than him, although his body was also well-proportioned, but he was a little "thin" compared to this strong knight, Seber showed a helpless wry smile on his face, and then slowly pulled out the long sword at his waist

"I don't know where that guy has gone, so I'll have to take his seat first."

The stout knight frowned, and said with a little displeasure

"I've always wanted to fight against Brech, I didn't expect such a thing to happen, it seems that I can only wait for later, you are not my opponent, hurry up and admit defeat in a while."

Hearing the words of the strong knight, Seiber also put away his smile and looked serious

"You can't say that, no matter how you say that I, Seber Genatain, am also an official quasi-knight!"

As soon as the words fell, the long sword in Seber's hand pierced the air and rushed towards the stout knight with a scream, and the latter also silently took off the battle axe behind his back and raised it high

The next moment, the sparks from the clash of the long-handled axe and the longsword bloomed between the two of them.

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"Ahh

The sword light flashed, and a round head fell to the floor, and then the headless corpse also pounced down, Himm pulled up the face, and there was already a slight sweat on his forehead, but the long sword in his hand did not stop, and the extremely fast sword light flashed, and it cut the ceremonial table made of human flesh into pieces of minced meat.

And after those red and black pieces of meat were cut, they were scattered on the ground and still writhing, as if they had their own life, and the large and small circular gaps were distributed on these minced meats, expanding and contracting without stopping for a moment, just like breathing.

"It's only only then that the first few have been solved, and the lower-class cultists have been discovered, and the scale of this ritual is probably .............."

Sim groaned for a moment, then he frowned and looked in one direction, which was in the direction of Inruta's Folding Sword Square

"Now that it's started, the certification ceremony has begun, and it seems that I won't be able to catch up."

As he was saying this, a flash of inspiration suddenly flashed in his mind, and a few fragments flickered, remembering something

"Knight Certification Ceremony......... Twilight Courtyard ............ Can't catch up............. I know! ”

Only then did he remember the overlap between the memories of his previous life and all that he was experiencing now, and he also discovered the biggest conspiracy, and even its consequences......

"Lily, Seber, and everyone......... This is the knight certification ceremony! ”

He bit his lip, gripped his steel teeth, and hurried to his feet

"Be careful!!"