Chapter 245: The Priesthood
A long track spans the Dawn Meadows.
The track, built with technology provided by the Crystal Snow Clan, is named 'Dawn' and is the same as the grassland. The magic-powered train travels on the tracks, not as fast as the green trains of its predecessors, but it is already surprisingly fast in this world.
As the owner of the track, Xia Han has not taken it a few times because of his busy affairs, so he will naturally not let go of the opportunity when he comes back this time.
He rode to the middle of the Dawn Meadow, then transferred to a horse-drawn carriage and drove to Jade City. Due to his black-haired and black-eyed appearance, Xia Han changed to an elf appearance, and to further reduce the strangeness, he also wore a hat.
With a big hat over his pointed ears, he was no different from the Terran youth.
Like the Vermilion Bird Continent, the coastal residents of the Qilin Continent have all moved inland, and the Jade City is crowded. The war on this continent is no smaller than that of the Suzaku Continent, and even some simple tents have been erected on the corners of the streets, and people in ragged clothes are huddled together, and women with yellow faces and thin muscles are carefully guarding their children.
Every time he sees this kind of scene, Xia Han always feels sad.
But he doesn't have any solution, even if there is a war on Earth, there will be such a scene, let alone this backward civilized world. However, all in all, the people of the Qilin Continent were luckier than the Suzaku Continent, and the bumper harvest of the previous years had made the empire more capable of guaranteeing their food.
It's not reassuring for everyone, but at least most people are lucky.
[Can I stop this scene after breaking the seal?] 】
Xia Han suddenly flashed such a thought, and then shook his head with a wry smile, who knows what will happen in the future - besides, he is not such a great man who sacrifices himself for others. If you have the spare power, you can naturally help, but the cost is too great......
The earth has not been able to solve the problem, so why should he bother.
Of course, assuming that the illustrated book is not lying, Xia Han will be able to stop the war after breaking the seal, and his power can protect the Terrans from suffering from war again. However, Xia Han felt that it was unrealistic, he could protect others for a while, but he would still leave after all.
He won't stay in this world.
"Huh?"
Suddenly, Xia Han noticed a sneaky figure appearing behind him and reached into his pocket.
In troubled times, there are the most people who corrupt the order, but many of them are forced to be helpless, and Xia Han's luxurious clothes are indispensable for others. He didn't see that the other person was a bad guy, so he let him steal it - he had nothing in his pocket anyway.
If this guy finds out that he still thinks about it, Xia Han will have to teach him a lesson.
Fortunately, this accident did not happen, and the figure did not find anything in Xia Han's pocket, and turned around and disappeared with a sigh. Xia Han didn't take it seriously, he continued to walk forward, with the intention of crossing Jade City and leaving.
Originally, he could go directly south from outside the city, but suddenly remembered the pastries he had eaten as a child, and entered the city with a nostalgic thought. However, seeing the chaos in the city, Xia Han still lost the mood to enjoy the food.
The direction in which he left Jade City was the same place where the thunderous sword fell, and Wujing died under that sword. Now there are still some scorched marks on the restored city wall, but Xia Han didn't look at them and left straight.
That's not something to remember.
"Illustrated, where do you want me to go?"
After walking a short distance, Xia Han asked, he blindly followed the guidance of the illustrated book, but he didn't know where it would take him.
"Go casually, I will remind the master when the time comes."
The illustrated book replied quite simply, which made Xia Han stunned for a while: "When, what timing?" ”
"The timing of that mermaid's appearance."
Mermaid? At this time, Xia Han, who was alone, had not yet received news from the holy beasts, and he didn't know what happened to the mermaid clan, but when it came to mermaids, he would only think of the girl who had a brief contact back then.
Is the illustrated book talking about her? - Xia Han is crooked, didn't he let Bai Yue test that mermaid priest, I don't know if it's a person.
Xia Han immediately asked Bai Yue, and the report he got from the bottom of his heart made him a little disappointed: the temptation had not yet begun. To be precise, the mermaid priest has disappeared since she first appeared, and there is no report of her appearance during this period, and Bai Yue is also powerless.
"Master guessed right, that mermaid priest is the guy who met you in the first place."
At this time, the illustrated book was once again unexpectedly confessed.
This also proves that the timing of the illustrated book is when the girl Xia Han knows appears, but what does that mermaid have to do with breaking the seal?
This time Xia Han didn't ask, he saw a red light flashing in the sky, it was the light of the Vermilion Bird, it seemed that the Vermilion Bird was looking for him - Xia Han did not deliberately hide his whereabouts from the Holy Beast, and the White Tiger may have predicted his location.
But it should be unstable, because the Suzaku flies farther and farther...... There must be something important for them to come over, Xia Han couldn't be shocked, and quickly got up and turned into white light and chased over.
"Py-"
Suzaku hissed, apparently spotting the figure following behind, and it fell to the forest below, and when Xia Han followed and landed, he only saw a girl with red hair.
"Your Majesty Xia Han, this is a letter from my king."
The holy beast really came to look for him, and Xia Han took the letter when he was relieved, and Suzaku didn't wait for a reply, turned around and flew away again.
Don't need to reply? Xia Han opened the envelope and looked at it, this kind of letter written by magic would disappear when he read it, and he had the style of a magical guardian.
Needless to say, Suzaku expounded on the news of the Sea Clan's rebellion and the unknown life and death of the Mermaid Queen, and asked Xia Han to hide temporarily - how did they know that the demon clan was looking for Xia Han?
Xia Han didn't tell his own affairs, could it be that those holy beasts would also know about the illustrated book?
This is impossible - perhaps the Holy Beast is just worried that he will be poisoned like the Mermaid Queen, and if there is another accident for the Terran after something goes wrong with the Sea Clan, there really will be no hope for this world.
After reading the letter, the magic letter paper automatically disappeared as a blue point of light, but Xia Han's face did not improve for a long time.
He was surprised, if the Demon Woman's actions were because of the information he gave to the Holy Beasts, then she would be really powerful. The woman had already seen through Xia Han's ability to escape, and she gave up the clueless pursuit, and instead took the opportunity to take the holy beast.
Originally, Xia Han spread the news of her just to let the holy beast go to her for trouble, but who wanted to make trouble didn't work out, but the situation was even worse.
Now that the holy beast is hostile to the Sea Clan, the possible surname of peace has basically disappeared. The Sea Clan's attacks on the land continue unabated, and the war intensifies, and no one benefits - except for the demons who sit back and enjoy it.
What to do?
[Is the illustrated ......]
A chill welled up in Xia Han's heart, wasn't what Tu Jian had just confessed closely related to this matter? It knew a moment ago that the information of the holy beasts would arrive, so the identity of the mermaid priest was to let Xia Han go to her?
Is she the only hope for the Terrans?
Without a queen, the highest commander of the Sea Clan is the priest, and the illustrated book says that Xia Han can break the seal soon, so the road ahead is almost clear.
Six seals, six different races. Terrans, elves, crystal snow, orcs, and blood - there are already five here, although a few are enemies, but their rulers are all closely related to Xia Han, and the conditions for faith absorption are all in line.
The last race is the Sea Clan.
The horror of the illustrated book once again shows that the 'death' of the mermaid queen has long been doomed, or has it been calculated in the future by the illustrated book when Xia Han and that mermaid met back then?
After many years, Xia Han once again has the feeling of childhood: it can't be violated! He could not go against the path laid down by the illustrated book......
Now, what else can he do but meet with the mermaid priest and praise her as queen in an unknown way? No matter what you do, it seems that it will not be enough to solve the current crisis, and the Sea Clan is an enemy, and a formidable enemy, and there is no other way but peace talks.
"You're too much......"
With some bitter voices, Xia Han asked the illustrated book, "That demon clan is also in your calculations, right?" ”
Of all the things in the world, no one escapes the calculations of the illustrated book. Xia Han couldn't see what the demon woman had done on the mermaid queen, and he didn't know that she was going to catch her while he was meeting with the priest - but he was sure that no one could escape the calculations of the book.
Such a golden finger is too powerful, so powerful that people feel uneasy to continue to stay......
[After the seal is broken, it must be destroyed.] 】
Xia Han was uneasy about the Illustrated Guide, and for the first time he clearly found that he could not tolerate its existence, no matter what he became in the future, the Illustrated Book was too weird.
However, at this time, Xia Han didn't know what would become of the illustrated book he was determined to destroy in the end-he forgot that no matter how human-like, no matter how emotional his voice and tone were, the illustrated book was just a system, without a real soul, but a system that created a false and real intelligence.
"When is the time for me to meet with the merfolk priest?"
After calming down, Xia Han spoke again, and the answer given by the illustrated book was very vague.
"One day, two days...... Two weeks at the latest, it depends on what the host does. ”
"What do you mean?"
"That priest was not originally a man of war, and the death of the queen made her sad, but it did not drive her to take the initiative to start a war, but chose to retreat."
The Bestiary retains a lot of behind-the-scenes stuff, and it doesn't lie. The good priest had been involved in the war to find an opportunity to stop it, but now that the queen had died, the Sea Clan's anger needed to be vented, but she retreated to the back - which was equivalent to giving up the peace she had insisted on and choosing to sit on the sidelines.
She is a little mermaid, and it is not difficult to understand that she changed her mood in this accident.
Of course, Xia Han didn't understand, he was just confused - what kind of action did he have to take to meet the priest?
The answer from the illustrated book is-
"The master wants to see her, so he can only force her out."
"The other priests have already started a war, and the merfolk will soon hear the merfolk singing the ballad of death...... Master, you are to capture a priest alive and use her to call out the target. ”
A plan that is simple and straightforward, and even a fool can understand. Xia Han frowned, so the so-called timing is determined by the speed at which he captures the priest alive, it is not difficult to capture him alive, but the difficult thing is where to find the priest.
"The master can walk as he pleases, and if he follows the route he has taken in the past, he will definitely meet the priest."
The illustrated book didn't give a definite answer, but Xia Han decided to do what it said, and it was certainly right to say it - but God knows if it was calculating something again. Xia Han felt that he was a little overly sensitive now, but sometimes the conclusion he got from sensitivity might be the truth.
In the past, when Wujing was not dead, Xia Han had a period of time running all over the coast to find the grave of Wujian, and the route at that time was already very vague, and he could only follow the general impression.
After the orc war and the revival of mankind, many of the main roads of the Qilin Continent have changed their locations, and the surrounding scenery has also changed to a certain extent. After spending a lot of brains, Xia Han barely reunited with his previous path, and in order to regain his senses, he even bought a horse.
A simple horse can't be said to be strong or beautiful, but occasionally sitting on it and squinting has a different kind of taste.
Perhaps it was Xia Han's good luck that he walked for a day, and when he passed through the forest the next evening, he heard a soft and beautiful singing.
The mermaids' singing voices are very simple and can be distinguished, their voices are naturally infectious, and they have a different temperament from other races, Xia Han recalled the girl in the past when he heard it, and he hurried forward without the slightest hesitation.
There is a battlefield ahead, and if you enter rashly, you will likely be startled, and you don't know if the other party is a mermaid priest.
Ordinary mermaids can also sing, and they will also have an effect on humans, Xia Han, who is sheltered by the illustrated book, is not controlled by singing, and he can't feel the specific power of singing, so the way to distinguish the priest can only be seen by how effective it is.
The horse that sat down seemed to be tired, and the horse's head was drowsy up and down, Xia Han tied the horse to the forest, hid its body and sneaked out.
Arriving at the battlefield, the sight in front of him surprised Xia Han. There was no fierce artillery fire, no shining weapons, no angry cries - the whole battlefield was dead.
The coastline was straight, the roads were blocked, and all the human soldiers were sleeping on the ground, while their horses, like the one in Xia Han, were sleeping, and they were sleeping lying down. Horses generally sleep standing up, and it is quite rare for horses to sleep lying down, but at this time the battlefield is lying down in groups.
The sea breeze is biting, the waves are rattling, and it is obviously not normal to sleep in this kind of weather.
Xia Han heard a strange sound, he raised his head and looked at the ocean, and some small figures began to appear in the depths of the boiling waves, densely packed, glowing with a terrifying light in the light of the twin moons - if it weren't for Xia Han's sharp eyes, he really couldn't have noticed it.
Sea Tribe...... There is no doubt that the owner of this mysterious song is the mermaid priestess, and although I don't know who it is, her singing voice is enough to make people fearful.
This kind of war started by the song that can cause the army to sleep is no longer a war, but a massacre, which is simpler than killing chickens and dogs.