Chapter 11: To the Royal City
A day later, in the afternoon, the West Gorantia Plain, along the north bank of the middle and upper reaches of the Lawrence River. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
Yesterday's night's winter rain made the air cool and fresh along the way, the merchants' chariots and horses left horseshoe prints and traces of wheels running over on some muddy roads, a few scattered snowflakes faintly fell in the blue sky, and a pure white adult owl spread its full-fledged wings and flew over the caravan, and after a while, it whirled down and stopped on the canopy of a carriage in the procession, waiting for the window to be gently lifted by a white hand. It immediately slipped into the carriage like a wild child who had managed to find its door, stood on top of Lilith's hair, squinted happily and dozed off in a ball of white velvet flesh.
Since being radiated by the magic of the obsidian codex, Pol's body has now officially grown to the maturity stage of a demon pet, but even if this cute wind spirit owl has been stocked by Lilith in the Alfred family's Lord Manor for a week, it still doesn't seem to have realized the slightest bit of consciousness as a bird of prey, so it is now in addition to the ball-like body that has changed from fat to strong a little, it will still be lazy when it should be lazy on weekdays, and it will not move when it is okay to sleep with the black hair on Lilith's head as a nest.
If it hadn't been for the experience of its growing combat abilities in the pure white room in the deepest part of the ruins a week ago, Finn would have suspected that he and Lilith had picked the wrong breed at the jewelry store in Orlan in the first place.
But then again, Finn was sitting next to Lilith at this time, his eyes looking sideways at the black-haired girl with the owl on her head sitting quietly in the carriage, and he always thought that there was an empty seat for a companion next to Lilith, and thus remembered that Arya, who was unwell, was still recuperating in the Lord Manor of the Alfred family.
Leah chose to stay in Orlan for the sake of his family, and he and Leah both trusted each other, so when he left the Lord's Manor, he was relieved to leave Arya to Leah's care for a while, after all, he didn't want his next planned trip to cause the elven girl's illness to worsen.
Except for the fact that he suddenly missed Arya, who stayed in Orlan to recuperate, the news of the Boenigs rebellion had recently come from the south, and he had heard about it somewhat, and he couldn't help but be worried about the safety of Arroyo, Raymond, and Tina, but he didn't know that this big news was made by his concerned companions.
If he had known that a rebellion would break out on Bunigs's side that he expected, he would not have arranged for Arroyo and Raymond to leave the group and go west with the half-elf girl Tina.
"Mr. Finn." At this moment, in the carriage of the carriage, opposite Lilith's seat, Countess Kaleya, who was sitting upright, calmly raised her head and looked at the young paladin sitting next to Lilith and said, "According to the agreement between you and Her Royal Highness the Princess, I think that since you have asked me to get in touch with Lord Tobes and Her Royal Highness the Princess, then your position must also be on the side of the Regent faction to support Her Royal Highness the Princess, right?" ”
Hearing Countess Calea's words, Finn was silent for a second, then looked back at her from the top of Lilith's hair.
Since receiving a reply from the royal capital Perades yesterday morning, Leah has contacted a caravan in Orlan that is also planning to go to the royal capital through the contacts of Terkes, who was now the tax collector of the lord, and then Finn and the Countess of Callea have set off at once according to the arrangement of the reply, and the caravan that has been taken care of by Leah in advance is expected to arrive in the royal capital before the sun sets tonight.
Fain remembers the time he and Lilith and Arya had found Countess of Callea in a room in the lower level of the ruins a week earlier, when the countess was under siege by several puppet guards, and the explorers she had brought to the ruins from the plains of Lonster had been wiped out, leaving her alone with the original professional expedition.
In the blink of an eye, the immortal countess had erected a monument to her former colleagues in the cemetery on the outskirts of Orran, and now she was worried from time to time along the way about Finn's intention to entrust her to contact Princess Tiphia at the Lord's Manor, after all, although a person with a Heroic Spirit Contract is undoubtedly one of the worthy objects in the current situation, who can guarantee that he is not a spy sent by the royal party to approach him?
Just by virtue of the bracelet around his wrist that he claimed to be a traveling priest?
Thinking that the silver lion of the church was still an earl in the kingdom, the countess shook her head unconsciously, saying that this was not necessarily the case.
While Countess Kalea pondered Fein, Fain also looked at her, thought for a moment in his mind, and then told her, "If there is a choice between Prince Juventus and Princess Tifia, I personally prefer Her Royal Highness, because I think justice is indeed on your side." ”
Considering his current special status, he did not speak too thoroughly, and deliberately brought a bit of stubbornness peculiar to the priesthood in his tone, so as not to be suspicious and too wary of Countess Kalea, and not to spoil the princess's impression of herself because of this little thing.
Of course, Finn's attitude towards Countess Callea was not false in the slightest. One of the most important reasons why he expressed his preference for Princess Tiphia between the Regent faction and the royal party was that he had memories of his previous life, remembering that when the black knights of the Dark Alliance took advantage of the internal war to invade, and the orcs outside the Thorn Fortress also eyed Violet's land, Princess Tifia at that time was reluctant to transfer the Black and Gold Lion Legion guarding the Thorn Fortress even if she was in a shortage of soldiers, and Prince Juventus, as the leader of the royal party, shamelessly sold several cities along the coast of the kingdom to the Dark Alliance, thus earning a ridiculous covenant at the hands of Skeleda Leoleta.
The news of Prince Juventus's alliance with the undead at that time reached people's ears like five thunderbolts, and the players of the human kingdom once crowded the game forum of "Ferdia" several times, angrily rebuked the betrayal of the royal party, and spontaneously organized volunteers to help the army of the princess or rushed to the front line to resist the undead, but in the end they still failed to stop the iron hooves of the black knights' male march.
History later became known as the world - after winning the civil war with great difficulty, Princess Tiphia has been committed to resisting the invasion of the Dark Alliance, but the weak power of the country still forced her to marry herself to the Prime Minister of the Faentan Empire, and used her body as a bargaining chip to pin her last hope on marriage.
Unfortunately, the once invincible empire had already shown signs of decay from within before that time, the generals and governors of the empire were busy with infighting, the minor emperor Alexios II was under the control of the prime minister, and the reinforcements of Faentan finally came a step late when Violine died, and the exhausted princess then chose to commit suicide, and the iron hooves of the undead continued to invade along the Hainan line of the St. Furn Sea.
Later, the Empire's once-proud armies suffered numerous defeats in the battle against the Dark Alliance, proving that the truth is true in all ages, but it doesn't change anything anymore. (To be continued.) )