Chapter 20: The Outskirts of Perades
Finn had a premonition that Lilith seemed to be awakening to some terrible fetish, and hurriedly used the index finger of his right hand against the palm of his left palm to make a pause gesture at her, and in a hurry, he forgot whether she could understand the code used to communicate between players. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info
Suddenly, a haughty eagle cry came from the window of the room.
Finn felt that the embarrassment of the moment was suddenly dissolved by this movement, and he was immediately full of gratitude to the eagle that might have just flown in the sky and chirped casually, and turned his eyes to the window on the second floor of the inn, and at the end of his vision was the woods on a hill on the outskirts of the royal capital.
Lilith subconsciously looked out the window with Finn, and in addition to seeing the same scene as Finn's vision, she also saw an eagle soaring with its wings drawing an eastward trajectory line from the two clouds in the sky.
Finn watched the eagle fly east from the position of the Kepesh palace out of the outer city walls of the royal capital, and remembered that the royal family of the Violet Kingdom had begun to domesticate the eagle since they had suffered an intelligence accident in which the carrier pigeon was intercepted, and guessed that the eagle that took off from the direction of the palace might have been an animal messenger sent to Orlan by Princess Tifia or Prince Juventus.
After all, according to the information he had, the Duke of Conlot in the Gorantia Plain was the target that both the Regent faction and the royal party were striving for, and the balance of the situation would tilt to a certain extent to which side the Duke of Conlot's intentions towards.
But then again, what greeting the princess's or prince's animal messenger was going to send to Duke Conlotte of Orlan, Finn knew he didn't know at least now, but the grove on the outskirts of the city in the distance outside the inn window caught his attention, and he thought of something in a flash, and then turned back to the girl next to him and proposed, "Lilith, let's go somewhere after dinner." ”
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Winter nights come earlier than usual on the west coast of the Saint-Flen Sea.
The outer walls of the Violet capital, near the western bank of the junction of the Bernude and Lawrence rivers, were lit in the evening at the piers of the river, so that the soldiers on duty could check the ships entering the harbor at night, and as far as possible so that the night near the royal capital, which fell early at about seven o'clock, would not be mistaken by the patrols.
The fortified outer walls of Perades are close to a rectangular outline, with gates in each of the north, south, east of which are the direction from Orlan, the north facing the Thorn Fortress, which symbolizes the boundary between civilization and barbarism, to the south leading straight to the plain of Loonster under the Duke of Tobs, and to the south, to the east of the direction of the Bernude River to the Count of Charles's Silver Sparrow and the Count of Vilnard's Andorem, as well as to the barony city called Boenigs.
The three gates connected several official roads leading to various parts of the kingdom, making the capital of the Violet Kingdom undoubtedly a transportation hub within the kingdom, and the only reason why the west gate was not set up was because not far beyond the western city wall was the Britton Mountains, a natural barrier to prevent the creatures of the wasteland from invading the civilized country, and it did not have much development value other than being a natural fortification.
King Atrik, the ancestor of the Violet Kingdom, once built the Thorn Fortress on a narrow river valley plain between the Britton Mountains and the Lowen Mountains, the Lowen Mountains are located on the northeast side of the Thorn Fortress, the veins of the mountain communicate the unattainable Moon Cold Plateau, the Lonan Hills at the foot of the South Mountain are still living a group of hill dwarves who submit to the kingdom since the founding of the Violet Mountains, the Britton Mountains are located on the southwest side of the fortress, and the continuous ridge cuts the wasteland and the kingdom's territory along an almost straight line, until the southwest part of the Longster Plain, Arrive at the border of the Fantan Empire west of the Gangcasso Mountains.
At the foot of the Britton Mountains, near the west of Perlad, there is a small grove of trees.
As night fell, two pairs of eyes belonging to the invaders walked along the official road after the north gate of the royal capital for two or three minutes, and then broke away from the official road and turned left into the area of the woods, and gradually followed the cover of twilight to lurk behind a bush, and found an unknown hut in the depths of the woods, the door of which was surrounded by two humanoid creatures shrouded in black robes, and the exterior of the house looked like a small monastery hidden in the woods.
After being excommunicated and excommunicated by Pope Medrus, Vercidis, the leader of the Knights of Shadowlight, hid his secret base in the dagger forest north of Hurenger, and one of the eyes lurking behind the grass observed the small priory in his field of vision, thinking that the small monastery might also be another camp of the Knights of Shadowlight in the kingdom.
The owner of those eyes immediately whispered his conjecture to her companion at a volume that could only hear the sound of breathing.
The other pair of eyes, which were hiding behind the grass and peeking into the small courtyard in the woods, turned their heads slightly to look at her, and whispered in the same volume to remind her of the two black-robed men patrolling back and forth at the entrance of the small monastery.
The owner of the first pair of eyes immediately nodded obediently, and with her special vision, which was not affected by the dark environment, she paid attention to the two black-robed men guarding the door of the small monastery, and it was not long before she found that the two black-robed men not only had the bracelet of the emblem symbolizing the church wrapped around their wrists, but also vaguely heard the two of them communicating in a language that she clearly remembered as unfamiliar, but which she was unexpectedly able to understand:
"Destruction reigns, the Patriarch has arranged for us to lie dormant here for months, and the ignorant and hypocritical Templars must not have discovered us, right?"
"Destruction reigns above, and Naisarian's eyes see through the future, and we only need to do our best to fulfill the high hopes of the Patriarch."
The words of the two black-robed men were accompanied by two sentences of destruction, and ordinary civilians who had lived on the shores of the St. Furren Sea since childhood would be terrified when they heard it, thinking that the person who dared to say such a thing must be a cultist of the Demon Shepherd.
In fact, it is exactly what it is.
Tucked away in the depths of the grove, this monastery was not at all a Templar quarter, but rather an outpost of the Shepherd near Perades, where the two black-robed men patrolling the monastery gates were not only cultists who worshipped demons and the dragon of destruction, Netharian, but also mid-level believers who were two orders higher than the lower ones in the cult.
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PS: Push two books in the fantasy zone, "Blue Oath" and "Fairy Box". (To be continued.) )