Walking through the rainy and misty woodland, Brando, accompanied by Freya, meets Wood. It was the second time he had seen the High Priest of the Flame Temple since Ampesel. Seeing Mephistopheles standing next to Wood, Brando hurriedly saluted, "Teacher." ”

Although St. Osor passed him on as the queen of the wind Jiuyao, Mephistopheles also taught him a lot of practical skills, and nominally they also have the status of teachers and students, and the elf royal sister has no objection to this.

Wood glanced at Mephistopheles in a slightly surprised way, "I see, you've got a good student." ”

"Indeed."

Brando looked up and saw several red-robed Templars behind each of them, and couldn't help but narrow his eyes into a line, wondering what Wood meant. However, Wood had made him suffer a big loss in the name of Tulaman, and Brando would never forget this lesson.

Seeing Brando's expression, the High Priest of the Flame Temple smiled awkwardly, "It seems that Mr. Brando has a deep prejudice against me. He suppressed the surprise in his heart, Williams brought ten Templar knights, even if the Conolia fleet was blocked by the Eruin royal fleet, it would not be wiped out immediately, not to mention the White Wing Knights, but what he saw was the Cruz people who were restrained and dejected, and the flag of the White Wing Knights thrown into the muddy water.

I don't know if the temple has been too covetous for comfort for a long time, or if its enemies are too powerful, Wood looked at the young man in front of him, and his heart welled up with deep unease.

"The Lord Priest knows in his heart that the elves have a proverb to 'do what they get.'" Brando replied.

"Huh," Wood smiled wryly. "So the bitter fruit I planted at the beginning, I will taste it today. But Mr. Brando knew in his heart that this was not a preconception, and that the temple would always need a steady Eruin. ”

"So you chose the nobles of the north?" Brando is aggressive. Even his eyebrows were raised. Wood was right, from the point of view of the Cruz, but he didn't need to put himself in the enemy's shoes, he didn't have such a good heart, "Whether it's the Cruz people or the Eruins, they are all descendants of the Lord of Fire, and they have to serve the glory." The royal family of Sifah has long since lost their throne. After the O'Casey siblings lost the Lionheart's sword, it became known to the world, and the nobles vowed to abdicate Hesse I, promising that his heirs would never covet the throne again. As a result, Eruin today has no second heir other than Prince Haruzer. ”

"I'll admit, the Temple was ill-conceived about it, and Merros was too obsessed with it, and I couldn't stop him." Wood replied with a sigh.

This guy, Brando watched as Wood buckled a basin to the head of the dead Merros. Wood and Williams are not the same. is a typical pragmatist, but when the other party says so, it can be regarded as a concession. This alarmed him a little, as the Temple of Fire had compromised almost unnecessarily.

He stared at Wood waryly.

The High Priest of the Flame Temple smiled bitterly again: "You don't have to doubt it. It was on behalf of the Sanctuary of Fire that I came to ask Her Royal Highness Princess Griffiin for peace. ”

"Ahh Freya, behind Brando, couldn't help but let out a soft snort.

It was really Brando's turn to be surprised, was it just for the Conolia fleet. But isn't the face of the empire more important than a local fleet? If the Cruz people really think so, they are a formidable opponent. But Brando thought of another possibility. "Williams is dead."

"He's dead?" Wood was stunned.

"Exactly." Brando nodded, it was a secret that couldn't be hidden, and besides, Mephistopheles was on the side, and he wasn't worried that the Cruz people would turn their backs and not recognize people.

The High Priest of the Temple of Fire was silent, "This is indeed a nuisance," he muttered to himself, "but it is not unreasonable for Williams to be short-tempered and arrogant, and he insists on going his own way and dying. ”

"What?" Brando almost thought he had misheard.

"Brando, the Cruz people are afraid that they will not be able to bite people everywhere, just like the dog that fell into the mud in order to fight for bones, and they cannot protect themselves. But we have a problem, but we can make a deal with them now. Mephistopheles finally spoke, and as soon as he spoke, he led the knights behind him to glare at him.

"Can't protect yourself?"

"Mr. Brando, I hope that the princess will abandon the pursuit of the Conolia fleet." Wood Road.

"It can't be," Brando refused forcefully, but he paused and asked, "What about the conditions?" ”

Wood smiled, and sure enough, as he expected, the real mastermind behind the princess's side was this young man. But what made him feel uneasy was that the other party was the same kind of person as him, and the temple was only afraid that it would bleed greatly this time. "We can get the nobles of the north to cede Ampesel."

"Do you mean that we still have to live in peace with these usurpers? Annihilating the Conoria fleet, we can also take advantage of the situation to go north. ”

Wood was already well aware of the way people like Brando behaved, and they must have thought about the outcome before giving such an order, so he wouldn't threaten the Flame Sanctuary with revenge, there was no point in doing that. He thought about it for a moment and said, "As you said, the royal family of Corkova should continue to hold the throne, but there are still many nobles in the north, and it will take time to calm their suspicions. It is better for Eruin to be able to achieve peaceful unity than confrontation. ”

Brando looked at the High Priest of the Flame Temple in amazement, and he heard his voice, Wood meant to recognize the legitimacy of the royal family of Corcova, so that the north would have no de facto basis, and the kingdom's civil strife would be eliminated.

But it was too easy, how could the temple compromise so completely? The remaining forces in the north are not without the strength to fight the princess, and even if they fail, the Cruz people can be stubborn. Or rather, it was another trap, he couldn't help but wonder deeply.

"Mr. Brando, you don't have to suspect this deception this time. I'll tell you why, and you'll understand that the reason lies with Merros. ”

"Murros?"

"You should know that he killed Princess Magdal."

"Nope. Wait," Brando reacted suddenly, and he thought of a very terrifying possibility. "Didn't Princess Magdal break their secrets before she was killed?"

Wood's face was a little ugly. "How could the temple do such a thing, not to mention that she didn't know the temple's plan from beginning to end. Williams was brought in from the main hall and asked for reinforcements from the Empire. But it was a temporary idea for me to read Murros's letter, and no one knew about it except Murros himself. ”

"In other words, Her Royal Highness the Princess broke another secret?"

"I'm afraid that's exactly the case," said Wood, grimly, "Mr. Brando, Merrose is probably the lurker of the All Things Are One. ”

"Ahh Brando couldn't help but exclaim. "So you opened the flame gate of the Flame Sanctuary in the port of Ampesel?" When he saw Wood looking at him solemnly, he understood that there was no need to say the rest of the words.

At that moment, Brando felt as if a basin of cold water was pouring down on his head.

The situation is serious.

He finally understood why Wood had come to him to make peace. It turned out that this whole thing was a huge conspiracy. If Merros was a spy of the One Society, then he knew early on that the Temple of Fire would place the Gate of Flames in Ampesel, and maybe even he was the one who guided it, because the purpose of the Society of All Things One was those Gate of Fire.

The Gate of Fire is a giant teleportation array. The core of the teleportation array specifies the teleportation target, but the teleportation array itself has no intelligence, and can be used to connect to other places with a slight modification of it.

Let's say, the devil's lair, the river of brimstone.

Brando suddenly felt a creep.

Brando. Roman says that she has found a trap and that she is coming to help her, and that was the first thing Antitina said to him when they met. He thought she was talking about a temple trap. Angry at her childishness, but at this moment he suddenly realized that Miss Merchant might have known what she was up against—she had known about the conspiracy of which he was not aware.

For the first time, Brando felt extremely uneasy. even had the idea that he might lose that lovely person who didn't know how to be afraid and would always stand by his side forever.

Once this thought arises, it is irrepressible, and it makes him feel more and more cold when he stands in the middle of this rain curtain. Start with Buch. Brando knew that at least one person in this world would be with him forever, and he could pinch her face unscrupulously and call her stupid, and she would raise her eyebrows at him and play petty.

But he never forgot the promise she had made with him that night.

"Why don't you go over?" The eldest lady seemed to be sitting on the rock, holding her bag in her hands on the knees of her leather skirt, and a pair of round scalp shoes bobbing back and forth in the air.

"They don't like me."

"Why?"

"My aunt and I are weirdos in their eyes, and besides, there are ordinary girls who want to be businessmen. So it's normal not to be pleased. ”

"I haven't seen them, and my aunt has been with me for as long as I can remember. My aunt said, little Roman, you have to repay your aunt when you grow up! ”

"That's why you want to be a businessman?"

"Yes."

"What a strange idea."

"It's okay—"

From that moment on, he understood that he was deeply in love with that eccentric girl. Because they share some kind of trait, he is not an eccentric person in the eyes of others, but they both share the same pursuit.

She's going to be a big businessman, and he's going to save Eruin in his heart, which are all weird goals that ordinary people can't imagine, but it doesn't matter-

As long as it is agreed, it will be fine.

"Brando, Roman, she ......" Freya reacted, the simple-minded girl from the countryside of Butch worried about her best friend even earlier than Brando.

But Brando gave her a reassuring look, although he also felt a chill in his heart, "Lord Wood, guess that the unity of all things will be able to control those flames?" He asked, with a last chance of luck.

"Mr. Brando, this is no need to guess, we lost them just before we got here. The unification of all things will connect them to the ground of Jogandigang, and you should know what it is. ”

"River of Brimstone." Brando replied through gritted teeth. "So what am I to do, order to stop the pursuit of the Conolia fleet, and then turn around and go to battle the demons of Jogandegang, here, on the land of Eruin?" He couldn't help but scold, "Look at the good things you did, Cruz's bastard!" What a bullshit temple of fire! ”

It was the first time Freya had seen Brando so angry that her face turned white with fright, the last time was in Ridenberg, but she wasn't there.

"Well scolded," Mephistopheles replied, "that's a bit of a man." ”

Wood was speechless, it was an indisputable fact that the Temple of Fire—and even the Four Great Temples—had been infiltrated by cultists. It's just that the situation has never exceeded their expectations as much as today, and this time the Flame Sanctuary has really lost a big face. Even bigger than the Cruz fleet was defeated by Brando. "We're going to fight with you." That's all he can say.

Brando scoffed, he didn't trust these Cruz people at all. If he had known early on that Merros was an incubator of the One Things, he might have guessed what the other party was up to at the first moment he saw the portals. It's a pity that Murros missed this opportunity in history, there was no major war in Ampesel, and the Cruz people did not build the Gate of Fire in Eruin until after his tenure.

Later, when Murros returned to Cruz, and Brando traveled north to St. Osor and Farnzan, some news of the Temple of Fire faded from his memory.

And he never missed the chance to identify Murros.

"Well," Brando concluded, "I will persuade Her Highness the Princess to give up the pursuit of the Conoria fleet, but you must also persuade the Northern Coalition to join us." If the situation is allowed to develop, the presiding priest knows better than I do what will happen in the vicinity of Ampesel. ”

He pointed at Wood again and said, "I hope the Lord Priest remembers what he said today, otherwise he will regret what he said before." ”

Brando's heart was burning with rage, but now he was only worried about the safety of Miss Merchant, and if Roman had the slightest damage in Ampesel, he would definitely make the Temple of Fire pay for it.

This is not just empty rhetoric.

As he turned, Wood vaguely heard Brando muttering, 'I hope that the number of demon armies teleported by the Oneness of Everything will not be too large,' and the High Priest of the Flame Sanctuary seemed to be stunned for a moment before he reacted.

What seems like the young man knows too much?

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(PS: 4000, in addition, thank you for making the character table, I will use this as a blueprint to check it myself to make a character card, so that I will be much easier, very grateful.) In addition, I put the LOG of the second regiment today. )