Chapter 47: The Story of the Past

"You look more like a necromancer than an alchemist. Olga looked at the small iron pot that was emitting a strange green gas, and said to Lulunaka.

Lulunaka picked up the small iron pot, flipped it over and poured it down. The little gas that was still remaining in the small iron pot flowed out of the pot and quickly dissipated into the air. "Like a necromancer? I don't have the interest in manipulating the undead, or wiggling corpses and skeletons. All of what I've done tonight is still within the realm of what an alchemist can do. However, my interests are relatively wide, and I have a lot of things involved, so naturally I can also have my own understanding and practice of other things. ”

After the gas in the iron pot was cleared, Lulunaka put the small iron pot aside, "As I said before, being an alchemist can't be closed to your own world. There are a lot of new and interesting things in this world, if you ignore them, then I am not very interesting as an alchemist. Alchemists, who only know how to play with gunpowder, are not interesting, and they are boring. ”

Speaking of this, Lulunaka paused for a moment before continuing, "But it's not my interest to do this kind of thing, but there is an agreement that I can only work part-time as a soul charmer...... But only temporarily. ”

While Lulunaka and Olga were talking, Patin came to the skeleton of Tours. He crouched down to take a closer look at the skeleton, which was more than a hundred years old. The armored skeleton had many traces of time, but some were there before him. Turce felt that he was unable to use the strength of his left arm because he had an arrow in the bone of his left arm, which had now been taken away by Lulunaka and tied with strips of cloth by her, as if she were actually treating the wound.

Near the spine that connects the body to the head, the bones are stained with green. It was the green gas that Tours had drunk and left marks on the inside of his body. Without this armor, Patin would probably still be able to see Tours' skeleton sprinkled with cookie crumbs. A skeleton eats dry food biscuits, which naturally has no stomach to digest, so the biscuits that are bitten and eaten by his white bones and teeth can only be turned into crumbs and fall on the stomach.

Patin touched the armor on Tours. The armor was covered with moss, but traces of the past could still be seen near the breastplate. The burqa is long gone, and most of the scratched badges have become blurred.

Pattin's five fingers pressed against the badge of the breastplate, and the fingertips scraped off the moss covering it. The tattered badge has lost its moss cover and finally revealed its true face. Patin had tried to find out where Tours belonged before, but Tours didn't mean to say it, and he couldn't continue to ask - asking about the bones of a person who thought he was alive, if he pressed too hard, Tours might become suspicious, and then begin to realize what kind of being he was.

Turce is a friendly undead, but if the undead becomes emotionally unstable, then it's not a good thing. The energy brought about by negative feelings is the basis of the existence of the undead, and most of the undead who have lost this source of energy will disappear immediately. However, there are also Tours who have transformed from the dead into spirits to fulfill their unfulfilled wishes. Compared with the undead, the spirit body is more pure, although there are also malicious spirits, but most of the spirits are harmless existences, but some things have not been completed before death, and there is still nostalgia for the world of the living.

The mutilated badge on the cuirass of Tours is an eagle's head. The head of the eagle is facing left, and only the talons and wings of one side are also facing to the left. Patin touched the missing right.

There should have been another eagle there. The Double-Headed Eagle is the symbol of the Twin Eagle Empire, not this incomplete product with only one eagle head.

Patin knew that Turce was a soldier of the Twin Eagle Empire, there was no doubt about it. But he didn't know exactly which unit he belonged to.

Dead people can't speak, and things that have become dead things, even more so.

"He came from an elite force. "In the Twin Eagle Empire, there are only a few units that can be equipped with the Double-headed Eagle insignia...... Of course, this was more than 100 years ago. In the current King's Fort, any aristocratic private soldier, as long as you spend a little money to get through the relationship, you can get a double-headed eagle banner and this badge. ”

The badge of the double-headed eagle is no longer a symbol of glory, but a commodity full of cheap copper smell - the gold coins of the double-headed eagle can no longer attract the interest of merchants, and the flags and badges exchanged for such cheap gold coins will naturally not be really valuable. Lulunaka had already said that a gold coin with a double-headed eagle pattern was actually equivalent to a copper coin, and that not many people were willing to accept such a thing, except for merchants or travelers from outside the Twin Eagle Empire. Within the Twin Eagle Empire, the Gold Double-Headed Eagle is only an adjunct to a trade, and the two sides of the trade are more likely to use the guaranteed quality of the Gold Lion's Head from the Republic of Vesse, or the Gold Crescent of the Crescent Empire.

But these are things of the present, not of the past. Tours belonged to the era of more than 100 years ago, and the coat of arms on his body had a deeper meaning: it symbolized all the glory. Not only because the Twin Eagle Empire was still a powerful country straddling the continents of Oran and Yilan more than a hundred years ago, and could use the Sea of Darkness as its own inner lake, but also because of one person.

Paladin Paladin.

In that era, long before Patin's birth, except for the emperor of the Double Eagle Empire, only the knight Paladin was qualified to hold high the double-headed eagle banner, and only his legions and troops could be equipped with the badge of the double-headed eagle. He is invincible, as strong as a god descending from the heavens, slaying dragons and killing enemies, and omnipotent. He can cut off mountains with a single sword, and pierce through mountains with a single shot. He is like a hero who only existed in ancient mythology, bringing countless victories to the Twin Eagle Empire, and making his fame spread throughout the continent of Oulan, even the easternmost part of the Yilan continent can hear his story, the desert sea in the south and the sea across the sea are singing the praises of his great achievements, and the frozen tundra in the north is whispering about him.

His prestige spread far and wide, even surpassing that of the emperor at that time. But he was loyal and self-disciplined, and he never did anything unfavorable to the Twin Eagle Empire, nor was he disrespectful to his own king, and his loyalty was also rumored to be a good talk.

But that's all in the past. In a civil strife more than a hundred years ago, the Twin Eagle Empire lost Paladin, the protector knight, like losing its backbone, and began to decline like the afterglow of the sunset, until now.

Aside from the King's Castle, the Twin Eagle Empire no longer has any other territories and no longer has any vassals. On the contrary, it itself happens to become a de facto vassal of someone else. Surrounded by the territory of the Crescent Empire, humbly and cautiously survived. Only the cast iron crown of the Emperor of the Twin Eagle Empire proves what kind of glory the Twin Eagle Empire once had. Ironically, it was supposed to be a crown made of pure gold and studded with multicolored gemstones, but it had been snatched from an invasion and plunder years ago and had fallen into the hands of one of the consuls of the Republic of Vis.

There is no eternal empire, this is an eternal truth, even the once glorious Twin Eagle Empire cannot get rid of this truth. Perhaps the only thing that sets the Twin Eagle Empire apart is that it has a much longer history than other countries - the history of the Twin Eagle Empire, which has been replaced by the collapse of the old empire. The thousand-year-old history of the Twin Eagle Empire continues to this day, even if it has become a country within a state.

Patin's muttered, "He's from Paladin's legion. If my guess is correct, he is going to flee from a rout after Paladin's disappearance. ”

"The Paladin Paladin?" asked Olga.

Patin nodded, "The civil strife more than a hundred years ago was the prelude to the collapse of the Twin Eagle Empire - Paladin's whereabouts are unknown, and this prelude was sounded. Paladin was ordered by the emperor to suppress the rebels, but ......"

At this point, Lulunaka interjected and interrupted Paladin, "Mr. Edgar, this is not the time for history lesson. And no matter what time it was, I wasn't interested in taking history class. She wanted to walk over to the bones of Patin and Tours, and stood beside them, patting them with her hand. "Your history is just a book, maybe there is a real place, but I don't think anyone can write a correct part of this history. The person who has really experienced it is right in front of you, so don't talk nonsense. ”

Whether Lulunaka was referring to herself, or Tours, who had been reduced to bones, Paddy and Olga didn't know. But even if Lulunaka was referring to herself, neither of them would be surprised. An alchemist who plays with necromancy will not be as simple and ...... as it seems Young.