"Antitina, open it." Brando looked at the box and spoke.

Antitina was stunned for a moment, then reacted, she looked at her lord carefully, her heart was a little moved, and then nodded slightly.

She put her hand on the cold iron box, suppressed the excitement in her heart, and whispered the incantation, byte by byte spit out between her soft lips, low and clear, the lock of the box seemed to be held up by an invisible hand, and then quietly slid away, and finally fell to the ground with a thud. She took a breath and slowly lifted the box, underneath it was a waterproof tarpaulin, and underneath it was a three-fold package that was divided into three tightly bundled packages, the outer skin of which was also made of the same tarpaulin, and on the package was a letter, and the wax on the letter was also stamped with the emblem they had seen before.

Antitina opened the envelope and read it carefully, the contents of the letter were similar to those in the will - if someone else found the inheritance, it was hoped that the discoverer would divide the estate into three, and he could inherit the richest part of it, while the remaining two parts and some miscellaneous items were left for Antitina and Sadie, so that they could at least live on and talk about memorial. There were also some words left for Antitina in the letter, presumably hoping that she would be happy and forgive him for being an irresponsible father—Miss Staff read the last sentence, clutching the letter in her hands for a long time, her head bowed, her thick eyelashes trembling slightly like feathers.

Brando and Freya glanced at each other behind her, the future Valkyrie's eyes were full of sympathy, and she almost wanted to share the grief in the heart of the staff lady in her own place, and her heart was also soft when she thought of her own background.

It took a while for Antitina to put down the letter. She looked fine, but her face was terrifyingly pale: "Lord, let's open these packages." ”

Brando couldn't bear to talk to her like this, but nodded, and he suddenly felt that he had really come to the right place this time. He thought that the staff lady had long forgotten the haze of the past, but he didn't expect that these grief would be buried so deeply in her heart. Antitina silently opened the largest parcel first, and the gold and silver light immediately illuminated the faces of the three people present, and inside were neatly stacked gold bars and ingots, as well as some jewels and stacked house deeds and title deeds, and she quickly estimated that there were at least more than 100,000 tor's fortunes here, which was a lot of money for a small aristocratic family—but it was a sum of money that his father had prepared for the discoverers, and Antitina silently put it aside. The second package was opened.

The second package contained similar things, but about half the amount of the previous one, which had been left for her mother, and a letter signed by Saidi, her mother. Antitina didn't open the envelope, but looked at it for a moment before putting it down. Then she picked up the third package—the smallest one, about the size of a dressing box. And this package was left for her.

She felt almost suffocated as she held the package. But holding her breath and carefully opening it, she parted the layers of oiled paper, and inside was a delicate walnut box. When she opened the box again, there was a ring and a thin necklace on the flannel cloth inside the box, and the moment she saw the necklace, she finally couldn't help but tears rolling down her cheeks.

Brando and Freya looked at the necklace. It is also silent, the crystal pendant of the original necklace is a beautiful record crystal, and when the box is opened, the crystal emits light. Just in the reflection of a man and a woman standing side by side, the man with black hair, his face was a few outlines of Antitina, and he smiled softly at Antitina:

"Anna, if you open this box one day, I believe I will be long gone. My beloved daughter, my irresponsible father does not dare to ask for your forgiveness, but please believe that your father's life is in pursuit of the most just and fair things in this world. Because I know that the person who pays and takes responsibility for this world can never be a sinner in the mouth of others-Anna, I hope that one day, you can see the truth of this world with your clear eyes, instead of being blinded by vanity, because you are so intelligent, and I am the pride of my life——"

"This ring is a token of my engagement to your mother, and with your mother's consent, I will keep it here, hoping that one day it can be left for you as a witness, witness your happiness, and the other half of your heart."

"Anna," said the gentle woman who resembled Antitina, smiling slightly, "may one day you find your own happiness." ”

"Liar ......" Antitina suddenly whimpered, as if the feelings that had been suppressed had finally exploded at this moment, like a flood that burst the embankment, rushing out, and the sobs of the wounded beast finally turned into a howl and a cry, Brando had never seen his quiet, calm staff lady show such a side, helpless as a child, her weak shoulders trembled, as if she could not make any sound except crying.

Brando was also choked up and speechless, there are some feelings in this world that can always touch people's hearts and hit the softest place in people's hearts, and family affection is undoubtedly the kind of feeling that will never be cut - no matter how strong and indifferent he is in his eyes, as if he has long forgotten the past, but in front of his parents, Antitina still cried like a child - not biting her lip, tears swirling in her eyes, but completely losing her voice, crying bitterly, and screaming like a beast.

Freya turned her head away and wiped her eyes with her hand.

I don't know how long it took.

The staff lady finally sorted out her feelings, and she blushed, trying not to look at Freya and Brando, as if she was afraid to make them see the joke. "My lord, I've checked it carefully, and it doesn't seem to be a relic of Lord Daurus." As soon as she spoke, her face couldn't help but turn even redder, because her voice was so hoarse that it almost looked like someone else was talking.

Brando looked at her with some concern and asked, "Are you alright, Antitina?" ”

Antitina shook her head and breathed a sigh of relief. Her heart was very confused, and she couldn't say for a while whether it was really okay. But in any case, after getting what her father left her, the hatred in her heart for the father who left her without saying goodbye seems to be not so strong. She thought silently, maybe her mother was holding her hand on the sickbed. They had known where their father had gone, and they had always known about it, because he had never deceived his mother, they had just worked together to deceive her. She smiled, then shook her head slightly, tears still hanging on her cheeks, but the staff lady smiled very cutely.

Brando finally breathed a sigh of relief, and he looked at Freya, the kind-hearted Buchi girl also looked relieved.

There are no relics of Daurus in the chest. Contrary to what was written in the letter, this was both expected and unexpected by Brando. He thought for a moment before replying, "Antitina, your father can't guarantee that the person who excavates his inheritance will be you, nor can he guarantee that the excavator will keep his promise to give it to your mother and daughter, so it is unlikely that he will put such an important thing directly in the inheritance." ”

Antitina nodded.

"But he clearly wrote ...... letter," Freya asked, a little puzzled, "It was a private letter, he didn't need to lie, did he?" She reacted to it on her own. Suddenly, he said, "I understand, there is no need for him to put Lord Daurus's relics in his inheritance. But he can leave a clue in the legacy—"

Brando looked at her with some surprise: "...... How did you suddenly become smarter. ”

Freya glared at him through gritted teeth.

"If my father left me a message in his inheritance, I think it could only be in my package." Antitina thought for a moment and replied.

"But isn't it possible in your mother's package?" Freya asked again.

Antitina shook her head: "My mother's parcel is basically full of possessions, and my father must have estimated the greed of the human heart, and only the inheritance left to me is almost all sundries." Unobtrusive. And I had checked my mother's package before, as well as the letter, and there was nothing of note in it. ”

"Antitina, you guessed it early on, you've got a good brain." Freya said with some envy. She was never the smartest one when she was in the Knight Academy, and she could even be said to be a little stupid, but for the truly gifted and intelligent people, she only had envy and no jealousy. Her Royal Highness told her that her father was the most gifted knight lord of Eruin's previous era, and she was very distressed why she was so clumsy.

The staff lady smiled slightly.

"Have you checked?" Brando asked again.

Antitina nodded: "I checked the necklace and ring, as well as the box inside and out, and found no clues." She thought for a moment, and then replied, "I don't think my father would leave such important information in a conspicuous place, and only by taking it apart can I be sure that the clues are clear." ”

"But that's the last relic your father left you—"

"It is all right, my lord," replied Antitina softly, "that this is my father's wish, and he will not reproach us for it, and if we miss someone, it should be in our hearts, and not entangled in these external objects." ”

She opened the box, but Brando held her hand. "I'll do it." He said, "Show me the necklace." ”

Antitina was slightly startled, looked up at her lord, then nodded, and placed the necklace in his hand. Brando took the necklace and examined it carefully, then he pinched the pendant of the necklace and turned it slightly. In a moment, the pendant came loose, and he lowered it in a certain direction, then carefully held it up to the light in the room, and then pulled out a piece of paper wrapped in a strip.

He didn't hesitate in the slightest move, as if he had thought about this in advance and had already guessed that the note was hidden in the necklace, and completely stunned Freya and Antitina next to him.

"Collar ...... Your Excellency? Antitina opened her mouth slightly, almost thinking that her lord was an all-knowing and all-powerful god.

Recording crystals have a physical property, their crystalline structure is hollow, Brando first thought of this when he checked the necklace, he tried to remove the pendant, but he didn't expect to succeed in one fell swoop, and sure enough, he found the key from it, which was also a coincidence. He exchanged the necklace for Antitina and couldn't help but smile wryly and explain why. Antitina was stunned, but she still glanced at her lord with great reverence, she was doing magic guide construction research, and she was most familiar with all kinds of crystals, but the record crystal was a sideline, because it was a man-made magic crystal. Very few people truly understand its physical properties—and only their own lords, who are almost unheard of, can be so lightweight.

The three of them opened the note, only to find that there were some strange symbols drawn on the note, which looked like children's graffiti, and Brando and Antitina didn't understand what it was for the first time, but Freya whispered "ah" and blurted out: "Ah, this is a military secret text." ”

"Military Secrets?" Brando was slightly stunned. He knew that there were often some secret messages in the military that needed to be transmitted, and each country had a set of secret symbols changed from ancient runes, and he was very familiar with Eruin's military secret texts, whether it was the 'Anson Secret Text' thirty years ago or the new 'New Secret Text' after the frost upheaval, he could interpret it, but these were obviously not any of them, he looked at Freya beside him with an inquiring gaze, and the future Valkyrie nodded affirmatively to him:

"This is the military secret text of the Cruz, and it is an old cipher from half a century ago. I happened to study at the Wang Li Sergeant Academy. ”

When she said this, Antitina reacted too. "Yes." As if she remembered something, the staff lady replied, "When I was a child, my father taught me some of these secret texts, but he didn't tell me what it was. ”

Brando didn't expect Freya to have learned the secret script of the Cruz, and he immediately asked, "Can you decipher it?" ”

Freya read it carefully before nodding, "It's not a big problem, Brando." It's like a map......"

……

"What are these?"

There were three things in front of Freya, a pale gray crystal, some russet stone flakes, and a papyrus map with only a few lines outlined—all three had been taken from the same iron box, which she had deciphered the ciphertext. Pulled from under the floor of an old house in Hood - and of course, she didn't know a single one.

Brando managed to get Dean to smuggle Antitina's father's inheritance out of the cemetery for some money, and he cast elemental guardian spells on the chests so that they couldn't open them; And there is a lot of 'work' in and out of the cemetery, and most of the wizards who secretly practice black magic will not carry out the corpses one by one with great fanfare, so it is not surprising to use boxes, Brando was originally worried that it would arouse suspicion, but he still underestimated Cheng Dù, who was used to these things in the eyes of tomb robbers.

After receiving a sum of money from Dean, the grave keeper patted his chest and assured him that not to mention sending such a box out, even if he had to carry a few coffins out of the cemetery, there would be absolutely no problem. Then he did not know where to find some people with quick hands and feet, in Brando's eyes those guys behaved in a way that was a bit of a thief of the Brotherhood of Thieves, in any case, with the help of these people, the box was smuggled out smoothly, and the process was not the slightest twist and turn, and the people who carried the box did not know how much of this kind of work they had done for many years, and the box full of gold and silver was like moving a stone in their hands, and they did not look at it at all from beginning to end.

Brando couldn't help but rejoice, fortunately, he was witty enough to bless a wind wing technique on the box, otherwise with the experience of these people, I am afraid that as soon as he gets started, he will find out that there is a problem with the weight.

By the time they had brought everything back to the manor, and had gone to the Hood District to retrieve Antitina's father's last relics, or rather, those of Sword Saint Daruth, it was nearly evening. Brando opened the box in his study and took out the contents one by one, and then the above scene occurred.

However, compared to Freya's bewilderment, Brando and Antitina looked a little different.

"My lord, these stone flakes ......," the staff lady keenly remembered, "I seem to have seen them when I was a child, and when my father first bought them from a merchant, it was like a treasure, and he has been buying them everywhere ever since. I remember for quite some time he was fiddling with the stone chips. ”

"Did he accuse you of anything?" Brando asked without looking back, staring at the gray crystal.

Antitina recalled, but shook her head: "I was too young at the time, and I vaguely remember my father saying a few times, which seemed to mean something like a key to something that these stone tablets lead to, but then these stone chips gradually disappeared from my vision, and I thought that my father had lost interest in them, but I didn't expect him to save them." ”

"Antitina, you didn't think about it, these things are actually related to my grandfather." Brando replied.

"I'm afraid yes, according to the letter, this box contains the relics of Lord Darus, and fragments of what my father calls the 'picture'—are these stone chips?" Antitina asked rhetorically, a little confused.

But Brando didn't answer.

He stared at the gray gem.

…… (To be continued......)