Chapter 32: The Man Who Holds the Mark

A cold brilliance bloomed out, like an epiphany blooming cold and elegant.

The long sword was wrapped in a blue brilliance out of the sheath, clear and sharp as if it was about to melt into the night, and some diamond-shaped dark lines were all over the sword body, giving people a kind of fierce beast roaring and bleeding for thousands of miles.

"Holy Sword!" Feeling this majestic sword aura, a trace of surprise flashed across Bai Xue's face.

Xia Han also never expected that this sword could flash such a deep light, and then he retracted his mind and turned his gaze to scan the sword.

No, no!

Even after looking at the fine lines of the entire sword body, Xia Han still didn't find a single word. Wu Jing said that the burial address of Wu Jian was engraved on the sword - why not?

"He lied to me!"

Xia Han clenched his sword and raised it angrily.

"Little one, don't wave!" Bai Xue hurriedly stopped, but it was still a little too late.

A cyan sword shadow flew by, and with two booms, it cut off a century-old tree on the side of the road.

Snow and the elves take the summer cold to avoid the fallen trees.

"This is" Xia Han looked at the sword in his hand and was surprised, he had never learned formal swordsmanship!

"This sword is not an ordinary sword, it will absorb the power of the sword wielder and emit sword aura."

"I didn't expect that there were mages in the human country who could add permanent magic to swords."

The elves muttered quietly, no matter how sharp the sword is, it is mortal iron without blessing. Therefore, if a sword wants to become a holy sword, in addition to its own material, it is more important for a powerful mage to enchant the sword and turn it into something extraordinary.

However, enchantment requires a very high level of mage, and even fewer can permanently change the body of the sword - holy swords are very rare.

"It's a good thing you didn't cast its last name, little one."

Bai Xue couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief as she watched Xia Han put the long sword back into its scabbard. Each holy sword has its own unique power, and Xia Han's casual swing was not used, otherwise the magic power in his body would be devoured.

Under normal circumstances, weak people cannot use powerful weapons.

"Little guy, don't pull out this sword casually in the future." Bai Xue lowered her head and admonished, but found that Xia Han's mind was not on her.

He looked behind him with a cold gaze.

"What's wrong?" When Snow turned back, she saw a horse running quickly.

Mankind? Bai Xue then put on his hood, and the elves were ready to be on guard, but Xia Han walked out of the middle of them.

"What are you doing here?" He asked the two men on horseback.

"Father asked me to give this to you."

The red-eyed Bai Yue was dismounted by Xiao Sheng, her eyes were full of hostility and disgust when she looked at Xia Han, but she still handed over the package. And Xia Han, who took the package, opened it and took a look, and tied it again.

"Bai Yue" he opened his mouth and looked at Bai Yue: "What is this?" ”

The crown - the king's headdress, Bai Yue replied, it is a treasure of glory, duty and power, and only one person in the entire Emerald Empire can wear it. The appearance of this treasure shook everyone's hearts, except for Xia Han.

He denied it: "Crown? I see it more like a cage. ”

"I didn't expect your father to want to continue to bind me after his death" Thinking of the new and old hatred on the sword just now, Xia Han couldn't help but start laughing: "This kind of thing, only a fool would want it!" ”

He threw the package back to Hakutsuki.

"You!"

Bai Yue's face was flushed with anger, and anger burned in her eyes, but Xia Han ignored her again.

"You've come just in time, there's nothing on this sword." His gaze turned to Xiao Sheng and examined sharply: "Tell me, where is the sword buried?" ”

The scene was then shrouded in a brief silence, the elves didn't understand what he was talking about, Bai Yue was stunned, and Xiao Sheng sighed.

"I'm sorry, I don't know." The knight bowed his head and replied, "I was still fighting with the Guardian that night, and I don't know how the Lord killed her and where she was buried. ”

He didn't lie, Xia Han could have identified Xiao Sheng's lies long ago after getting along with him for a few years, but at this moment he didn't lie.

"She's dead without a sword?"

Bai Yue looked puzzled, for so many years, she thought that Xia Han's maid had been dismissed.

"Yes, dead and killed by your father." Xia Han held the long sword, he had once again lost the news of the swordless, and he would never know where she was buried after this time.

The anger of being teased poured out from the bottom of his heart, so that Xia Han's eyes flashed with murderous aura when he looked at Bai Yue: this girl had no blood flowing in her body.

He could kill Bai Yue casually, as early as the night when he rushed to Wind City, Xia Han poisoned Bai Yue's body with a handkerchief - he thought that one day he could use it as a backup hand against Wujing, but he didn't expect Wujing to die so simply.

But Xia Han still let go of the hilt of the sword, and Wujing finally saved him, and this girl was also innocent.

"You go, I'm not going to accept this."

After Xia Han finished speaking to her, he turned around and left with the elves.

He didn't want to accept the crown, and even if he did, what could he do? The king is not a king who can wear a crown, the crown is a very minor thing. The power, the heritage, or the allegiance of the guardians, Xia Han, did not have any hope of getting their hands on the throne.

"He just wanted to kill me."

Xia Han walked away, and Bai Yue was still in shock. For the first time, she felt the murderous aura of her peers, the terrifying murderous aura. The two are obviously about the same age, but their strength is very different.

Xia Han in Bai Yue's heart was just a princess who could sing and flatter, but she found out that she was wrong again.

Why did Wujing want her to follow Xia Han? Why did Wujing kill Wujian?

"I don't know anything"

Suddenly, Hakutsuki was terrified: she had never understood the world, she had never understood what was going on. The world is so big, how can she live alone without the protection of her parents?

She definitely can't live, she has no relatives, no direction, she doesn't know which way to go.

"Miss, let's go too."

So, when Xiao Sheng was about to take Bai Yue away, the girl suddenly screamed. She held her head and shrunk to the ground, trembling with fear.

"No, no, no"

If there was an old butler by her side, maybe Bai Yue would not have such fear, but it was Xiao Sheng who was responsible for protecting her - this knight did not have much contact with Bai Yue. Bai Yue didn't know him well, and he didn't even know his loyalty.

Unfamiliar people, strange worlds, approaching monsters

- Follow him

Wujing's words echoed in Bai Yue's ears, follow Xia Han, always follow him - he can take her to live.

"Father, Father must be right"

As if she had caught a life-saving straw, Bai Yue ran forward, and she chased after the elves until Xia Han stopped again.

"Please, please take this."

Bai Yue trembled and held the package in fear, and then looked at Xia Han with begging eyes: "Accept this crown, if your hatred comes from no sword, then I will become no sword."

She's just a child and has fallen into chaos in a series of upheavals: "I'm going to be her, I'm going to stay with you, I'm obedient, I'm more obedient than anyone else, so please"

She just wanted a place and direction where she could stay.

"What are you talking about?"

Xia Han felt that something was wrong with Bai Yue's mental state, and he was a little inexplicable.

Why did this boy want him to accept the crown so strongly, everyone knew in their hearts who was fit to be the king of this country, and why would there be a person who would give the crown to the 'princess of the singer' who had no chance of winning? This fate is so weird

Wait, fate?

Xia Han suddenly froze, and an extremely ridiculous thought surged to him: Could it be that Bai Yue was the one beside him who had accepted the Guardian mark?

The previous Guardian was not optimistic about Xia Han, even if the mark left might be on someone who hated him - Bai Yue hated him very much.

Xia Han didn't have much contact with - Bai Yue was one of the more familiar ones.

The birth of the Guardian requires intense loyalty - and the whole country, it seems, miraculously wants to hand over the crown to him right now.

"No, it won't"

Xia Han swallowed his saliva, this fate is ridiculous, it turns out that there is such a possible surname.

The conditions required for the Lord of Dusk are: Xia Ming, Wujing's death (completed), the love affair of the Imperial Princess (uncompleted), the first hidden condition (the allegiance of the Guardian, not completed), and the second hidden condition

This second hidden condition, Xia Han knew from the beginning.

The second hidden condition is that the Qilin will not be objected to until it obtains the power of the Qilin and becomes king, and Xia Han will not be able to make the people and nobles recognize any other approach at once - and the Qilin itself is a supreme symbol of royal power.

But it is worthy of a legendary plot, even if Xia Han knows all the conditions, he still has no chance of winning.

Even if he guessed now that Hakutsuki had the mark of a Guardian, it didn't make much sense.

She just went into a state of paranoia and was able to return to normal very quickly. And once it returns to normal, Hakutsuki will calm down and hate Xia Han again, and this disgust has lasted for a few years, unless there is a miracle 'disgust and love', Hakutsuki will definitely not be able to become a true guardian.

"Woo please, woo woo"

When Xia Han was stunned, Bai Yue cried.

She cries so easily, just like any other child her age.

"It's useless to cry." Xia Han said this, and then sighed: "Wujian never cries, you can't replace her." ”

In the end, he decided to refuse.

This wasn't because of how difficult it was for the Lord of Dusk, but because he couldn't find a reason to do it.

Becoming a king can increase a lot of faith in a short period of time, but the prospects are not encouraging. One can imagine what kind of constraints a king who destroys the empire will suffer in the Suzaku Continent, and it is estimated that it will be difficult to even become a singer again.

His future freedom may be denied, and the work of collecting faith will be difficult.

It would be better to be free to find a new way to collect faith - provided that he first gets rid of the snow.

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