Act III: Roman's Background
The pitch-black moon was torn apart in the sky.
At first, its speed was extremely slow to the naked eye, and people saw the moon slowly crack into several large pieces in mid-air, and they slowly separated, and then dense cracks appeared on the entire surface of the moon, and they exploded, cracking into countless smaller fragments, which broke free from each other's gravitational pull and flew out in all directions.
Such a picture scroll was extremely quiet at first, but gradually began to speed up, and after a few minutes, the scattered fragments began to pass through the clouds, pulling out long tails of golden-red flames.
There was a shower of steel rain in the sky, at first there were dots of light, and then the golden lines of progress slowly drew out on the canopy, densely lit up the sky.
The canopy began to grow brighter, as if the clouds were burning, and the light and fire of meteorite fragments reflected half of the canopy in an apocalyptic golden red.
Brando's dark brown eyes reflected the golden lines.
The golden-red sky, the meteorites falling from the sky through the clouds, he remembered when he had seen such a scene, it was in the dream of the battle with Shiro, and the scene in front of him was almost exactly the same as what he had seen in the second dream.
A voice rang out in his head.
Twilight of all worlds, twilight of the gods-
How would people react to the dead silence in the Rose Garden, the central capital of the empire and even the Banks region, shrouded in a bright light of ruin?
Who will be able to protect themselves until the end comes?
At this time, the larger fragments had begun to enter the clouds, and the thick clouds suddenly disappeared, like giant wolves composed of light and shadow running out of the clouds, and they whined and howled in mid-air, and their voices were distant and sad. It's like a funeral song sung for the end of a world.
There was another rumbling roar in the air, like some kind of magical resonance, and the air vibrated and waves of air descended from the sky and hit the ground. There were a few crunching clicks, and the ground of the sunken white rose garden cracked a few long openings. These fissures extend all the way to the plaza outside.
The crowd suddenly staggered, and it was only at this time that most of the nobles reacted, screaming and looking around privately for cover.
The men pushed the women, the ladies and the ladies wept, and the voices of rage and order filled each other, and the scene was chaotic.
It was like a big drama playing out before Brando's eyes, but at this moment he was surprisingly calm in his heart, like the last battle in the Alkashi Mountains, when the undead poured into the battlefield like a tidal wave. But there was not the slightest fear in his heart.
There is only the idea of how to deal with the enemy in front of you.
Black Tea once said that he was a natural warrior, and Bai Jia also felt sorry for this when she left, telling him that if he had more resources and a stronger empire or guild, he might have achieved more than that.
Brando didn't care, though.
His sword comes only from what he approves of.
He turned around, pointed to the chaotic scene, and said to everyone present: "Metissa, you go and maintain order, and find a way to persuade the Yanjun Knights to open the royal tunnels and let everyone hide inside." β
"Charles. You go to the Prime Minister Nedwin and the Holy See of Vala, and only they can control these people with authority. β
"Mordfeth. Andreg, you go and protect the family of Grand Duke Mohama, as well as the nobleman and the young man who came with us. β
Charles, who had always liked to joke about his lordship, was silent for a moment, obviously understanding the priorities, and the four of them nodded and left.
Brando was left with only Akane and the three Valkyries. Veronica and Lady Sidney went to the nobles, and as Empire, they could not stay away from the death of the Silver Queen.
Princess Gloria looked at this scene and shook her head slightly: "It's useless to hide there, you must get out of here." β
Brando fell silent. He replied, "I'm not going to leave her anywhere." β
"It won't help you stay."
"But if I don't stay, I'll regret it."
Princess Gloria looked at him fixedly, "I'll go with youβ"
"No," Brando shook his head, "I'll go alone." β
"You can't be willful, do you know why the Silver Queen gave you that ring?"
"It's just a ring, and no one will take it seriously." Brando shook his head absentmindedly, even if the old prime minister and Vala agreed, what could it prove? The nobles of the empire could not let one Eruin rule over them, they could not change the will of the entire empire, how many people's interests were intertwined?
Princess Gloria did not argue with him, but replied, "It's not just a ring, you're an adult, Brando, you're not a big boy anymore." β
"It's because I'm an adult."
"Since you are an adult, you should understand that those things are not to be done."
"There's nothing that can't be done," Brando hated the aristocratic argument, "only what should be done and what should not be done." β
"Let's say you're going to die?"
"It's not a death, Aunt Jenny," replied Brando, "I don't want to argue with you, I want you to do me a favorβ"
"In that case, then you'll have to listen to me." Princess Gloria replied without flinching.
"No, there's nothing to talk about," Brando shook his head, "Aunt Jenny, I don't care if Roman is the baby girl from sixty years ago, but I at least know that she was raised by you, and I believe in the relationship between you and Roman, who once told me that she wanted to become a businessman just to buy you a lot of good things after making moneyβ"
At this point, he suddenly stopped.
The innocent girl, perhaps the richest person she had ever seen in Buch, was the merchant who traveled from village to village.
He still remembered how he and Roman haggled with the fellows for a little something, and Miss Merchant's bag was full of all sorts of strange treasures, which he and she had saved little by little.
Being able to become a businessman and make money is her biggest dream.
Brando felt that something was stuck in his throat, so that he couldn't even say the rest of the words. He just looked at the latter, not saying a word.
The look on Princess Gloria's face finally softened.
"What do you want me to help you?"
"You've got to tell me Roman first, what happened to her." Brando replied.
"She has a will sealed in her body, and if this seal is lifted, then the Dragon of Dusk is likely to take possession of her body and thus descend into this world." Princess Gloria replied word for word.
The screams of the crowd seemed to fade away for a moment, and the sounds around them became ethereal. Brando didn't say a word, and there was silence between the two.
But the latter did not say a word, not because of shock, in fact, he already had a vague guess in his mind, but when this guess was confirmed, he still felt suffocated.
"Back then, the Silver Queen, Darus, and the Dragon Queen Gwendoline found a baby girl on the final battlefield, and that baby girl was today's Roman, but when the three of them found the baby girl, the baby girl was in a dormant state. It was the Silver Queen who inadvertently revived the latter, only to discover that Roman had the will of the Dragon of Dusk sealed in his body. β
Gloria continued, "Originally, at that time, the Dragon of Dusk was about to descend, but the Silver Queen, who realized that she had caused a catastrophe, decided to sacrifice herself to reseal the baby girl. β
"A seal capable of sealing the will of the Dusk Dragon can be repaired so easily? What's more, the means of sacrificing life don't seem to be able to understand the queen of that era, right? Brando asked suddenly.
"Naturally, someone sued her, and this person was the Dragon Queen. In fact, I have always suspected that the Silver Queen was also tempted by her failure to break the seal. However, the Silver Queen is dead, and only the Dragon Queen can answer this riddle. β
"And then." Brando continued coldly.
"But the Dragon Queen only took half of the Silver Queen's soul to complete this seal, using her kind and pure personality to suppress the dark side of Roman's character, according to the Dragon Queen's claims, she did this to save the Silver Queen's life."
"Just a few minutes ago, she killed the Silver Queen with her own hands." Brando interrupted her dismissively.
Princess Gloria also nodded: "So this statement of hers is not worth trusting." The dragon queen may have other intentions, but we don't know. β
"The good side of the Silver Queen is being used to suppress the dark side of Roman's character, and this dark side belongs to the Dragon of Dusk?"
Princess Gloria shook her head: "Roman is Roman, and the Dragon of Twilight is the Dragon of Twilight, although Roman has the will of the Dragon of Dusk sealed in his body." But she herself is a true primordial god and has a complete soul, but before the Dusk Dragon was unsealed, because of the influence of the Dusk Dragon's will, the dark side of her personality was much larger than the average person. β
"But I never felt it," replied Brando, "and as far as I can remember, Roman didn't say anything negative, she didn't even cry. β
"Generally speaking, this is because of the influence of Her Royal Highness's kind side of the character, and the fact that I used the secret method of the witch to seal Roman's negative feelings, so it's not that she can't cry, but she can't cry."
Noticing Brando's gaze, Princess Gloria smiled bitterly: "It's not what you think, I also have my own troubles, when your grandfather handed Roman over to me, she was still sleeping in the crystal, originally the Silver Queen meant to let him kill Roman, but Roman has half of the Queen's soul on him, so your grandfather couldn't do it in the end." β
"Later, I left the empire with Roman and went into seclusion near Pragues. But mortal spells are not as good as Odin and the Witch Queen after all, and Roman has also slept in the crystal for forty years, that is, until only a year after you were born, the first seal on the crystal began to dissolve. After that, she also woke up and began to grow like a normal girl, and it was at that time that the seal began to become less stable. When I was a child, Roman was often controlled by dark feelings, and I was afraid that the dragon of dusk would be unsealed because of this, so I had to seal her negative feelings. β
"When was that?"
"What happened when Roman was seven or eight years old."
"Impossible," Brando shook his head, "I was already in Booch at that time, how did I not know, my impression of Roman is no different from now." β
Speaking of this, he suddenly stopped and looked at the princess of the kingdom in front of him.
Gloria showed a helpless expression: "I've changed the memories of you, Freya, and Roman, because of something, I left you something, and after you left here, you understood what happened at that time." β
"I hope you didn't lie to me this time, Aunt Jenny."
"Brando......" Princess Gloria gave a gloomy look.
"I'm sorry," Brando sighed, "I understand your feelings for me, Roman, and Freya, Aunt Jenny, but this time it was too much for me to expect." β
"I understand," Princess Gloria shook her head slightly, "go find Roman, I probably understand what you're thinking." β
"Until then, I need you to do me a favor, Aunt Jenny."
"You say."
"If the ring you told me about, the Ring of the Highest, if it really has that much authority, then I would like to ask you to help convince the old Chancellor and the Grand Holy See of Vala to agree to open the royal teleportation array and send the Medisa away."
"Of course it has." Gloria's lips moved, wanting to tell him that the ring represented more than he had imagined, and that the greatest treasure left by the Lord of Fire was not the vast territory and supreme power of the Empire.
Any heir with royal blood in his body can be the Emperor of the Empire, but not everyone can become the Lord of Fire.
But she didn't say it in the end, she knew that some things couldn't be forced.
"That ring," Brando continued, "return it to His Highness the Emperor's eldest son when it is finished, I have no intention of getting involved in the throne or in this vortex of strife, not to mention that the Emperor's eldest son can be regarded as my friend." β
"His Highness is lucky to have a friend like you, but this ring can't reach him." A voice interjected, and Brando turned back to see that it was Lady Veronica.
The latter walked back from the left side, with a worried look on his face: "I don't need to go through the Prime Minister for this matter, open the remote teleportation array of the royal family, I can agree, but I think the two adults will not object even if they know, not only Medisa and them, but also a large number of nobles and envoys from various countries who are stranded in the inner city must also be teleported away, otherwise it will be a big trouble." β
Brando then remembered something, and said to the latter: "Then please trouble Your Excellency the Legion, and greet Princess Magdal on my behalf, and thank her very much for her help to us." β
Veronica nodded, and looked at him silently again: "You have to be careful, too." β
β¦β¦ (To be continued......)