39 A burden not to be of her

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When Lilith opened her eyes, the wind chimes were no longer around, and she stood up in fright.

"Wind Chimes—" Lilith called out in fear, she began to suspect and fear that the reunion with Wind Chimes was just a dream, "Wind Chimes! Lilith began to run, her eyes had grown accustomed to the darkness and were able to move freely around the building.

"Princess?" The sound of wind chimes came from a nearby room, and Lilith immediately followed the sound and pounced.

"Wind chimes! Don't leave me! Lilith almost smashed into the wind chime's arms and stumbled into the other.

"Don't worry, princess, I won't leave you," Wind Chime suddenly understood what Lilith was afraid of, she stroked Lilith's head and gently kissed her forehead, "I'm just here to take a look and see what the place where the princess has been living is like......"

After Lilith calmed down, the two finally began to tell each other about their experiences over the centuries. Five hundred years is really an immeasurable time span, and it even takes months for the story of the two to be finished......

Wind Chime recounts in a short way what happened to her in her search for Lilith, including her recent encounter with Milo and Erin, and specifically mentions that they lived in Windrun at this time, and that she did not hide Mylo's surname, Entekoman, due to inadvertentness, which laid the groundwork for the later story......

Back on the night of the coup d'état on May 5, 1244, not long after the wind chimes and Entkoman in the guise of Lilith left the stable, the rebels followed the blood shed by Entkoman to find the stable, and the alert Earl McQueen immediately carried Lilith on his back and hid elsewhere. The rebels found the Crown Prince's body, corroborating the "fact" that Entekman had killed the Crown Prince, and then they collected the Crown Prince's body and left the stables.

When Wind Chimes leaves Butler in desperation to search for Lilith, Earl McQueen carries Lilith behind his back to find one of the city's knights, his mentor and former Praetorian Commander: Knight Goliath. Knight Goliath was a respected old and declining aristocrat in the Kingdom of Splet, who served as a bodyguard, a sword teacher, and an arbiter in the market...... Because of this, he was respected by people from different walks of life, and because of his great fame, he was finally appointed commander of the Praetorian Guard, but refused to be awarded a higher title. Goliath trained such good warriors as Earl McQueen and Alista Akayi, a position he held until he was old, and he lived in seclusion in the civilian quarters of Butler City, where only a few people knew where he lived.

The knight Goliath took in the exhausted Earl McQueen and the still unconscious Princess Lilith, and since rumors of Entekoman's killing of Lilith had spread, the security on the streets was relaxed a lot, and even the city gates were not strictly checked, and anyone was free to enter and exit. Without further ado, with Goliath's assistance, Earl McQueen and Princess Lilith were hidden in a wagon, and Goliath himself pulled out of Butler City and settled in a small village on the outskirts of the city.

A few days later, Lilith woke up, and Earl McQueen apologized to her and forwarded to her a letter from King Albert, which King Albert had given to McQueen before the coup. Lilith, who woke up slowly, her memory was blurry, and her brain was blank, she finally learned of the tragic death of her father and brother, and what made her even more unacceptable was the disappearance of the wind chimes. When Lilith asked Earl McQueen about the whereabouts of the wind chimes, the other party could only shake her head helplessly in response.

For the next few days, a grief-stricken Lilith locked herself in a dark room and spent her days in tears. It wasn't until more than a month later that she began to accept the reality and try to communicate with others, when the knight Goliath told her the sad news that Earl McQueen had committed suicide by slashing his neck when others were not looking, unable to forgive himself for failing to protect the king and the crown prince dutifully. Lilith, who had just regained her spirits, was devastated by this and cried in the dark room for another ten days, and when she finally calmed down, she found that her eyes began to fear the light.

Meanwhile, Wind Chimes has begun to travel around looking for Lilith's whereabouts, but has found nothing anywhere.

The knight Goliath took care of Lilith meticulously, and he had no children and no relatives at this time, so he simply sold his house in Butler's city and lived in seclusion with Lilith in the countryside on the outskirts of the city. A few months passed, and Lilith almost never went out, and remained alone in the dark room, in a daze, as if thinking about something, reminiscing about something. Goliath was able to understand Lilith's grief, but she also noticed something unusual: except for the fear of light, Lilith did not feel hungry and thirsty, her body never changed, she did not even get hurt, even if she fell hard, she was unscathed...... In the same way, Lilith noticed the strangeness of her body, but she was not puzzled or surprised, she knew that her body was protected by the magic cast by the wind chimes, and she vaguely remembered that she had taken poison, and it was the wind chimes that called her back from the white expanse at the moment of life and death......

And just like that, a year passed. Although Lilith rarely went out, rumors of Entekoman's murder of her father and brother also reached her ears, and Goliath was unable to tell her the truth because she did not know the truth.

Finally, Lilith opened the letter that her father had asked Earl McQueen to forward, and it contained two copies - a map indicating how to enter the center of the Desperate Desert from the sea (this map is the same as the one used by Wind Chimes to enter the desert); The other is written by King Albert, telling her that if her father and brother die in a coup d'état, she will take revenge, and in the desperate desert, she has a "weapon" that she can use for revenge.

We know that Lilith was originally very disgusted with politics and intrigue, as Wind Chime said, the burden of "revenge" is too heavy for her, she should stay away from these, is she entangled in her father's last entrustment? We don't know, but it turns out that three months after Lilith read the letter, the knight Goliath sold his family property in the suburban village again, and disappeared with Lilith, and no one knows where they went......

In the dark room, the wind chimes caressed the gravel pile by the faint candlelight, and beneath it was the remains of the knight Goliath. The wind chimes saluted in gratitude and respect, and cut off a strand of his hair and solemnly placed it on a slightly flat stone on the stone pile, and pressed it with a gold coin.

"He spent all the money, bought enough water and food, and a boat......" Lilith said, taking the wind chime's hand, leaning on her arm, and looking at the stone pile with grateful eyes, "...... One man did everything and brought me here, and by that time he was almost seventy years old...... Not long after he arrived here, he fell ill, and when he walked away, it was as if he was asleep, without pain......" Wind Chime couldn't help but sigh, whether it was Earl McQueen, Knight Goliath, and Entekoman, who bore the name of a traitor, and others, of course, including herself...... In the environment of the general trend, they chose to be loyal to the original lord, even if they knew that he was the one who would inevitably lose.

"It turns out that the princess has been waiting alone for more than five hundred years......" the wind chime lamented as she gazed into the darkness.

"More than five hundred years?" Lilith exclaimed, "I...... Have I been here alone for that long? Well...... It looks like it's been a long time......"

"Didn't the princess keep a record of the days? It's 1805. ”

"Huh?! Five hundred and fifty ...... It's been a long time...... "Lilith can only reluctantly accept this reality, but there is nothing to say about it at the moment.

"Oh! By the way, Princess," Wind Chime said as if remembering something, she handed Lilith a small piece of parchment, the same magical letterhead she had given to Milo when she was in Windwalk, "Take this magic letterhead, I've transformed the magic spell during this time, and I can teleport to the location of the magic letterhead, even if I haven't been anywhere, as long as you write on it, I can wear it." ”

"Must be written on it?"

"It has to, because I want to know who's looking for me."

"Great, Wind Chimes!" Lilith cheered, "So we'll never be separated!" With that, she threw herself into the arms of the wind chime again.

"Wind chimes, we ...... Let's get married. Lilith said shyly and tenderly.

Hearing Lilith's words, Wind Chime couldn't help but laugh and responded with a red face: "Aren't we like getting married now......"

"No, it's really going to church to get married, and there are priests, grandmothers, or something to hold a wedding for us......"

"If the princess wants to go, I'll teleport you there at any time...... Is it going to Butler? Anselson? Or the Golden City? There are big churches ......"

"But before you get married, you have to promise me one thing."

"As long as it is your request, I will agree to everything." Wind Chimes said dotingly.

"Help me get my revenge!"

Wind Chime's heart fell to the ice cellar in an instant, and what she was most afraid of finally happened, once upon a time she heard Lilith complain about the cruelty of politics, and promised her that she would not be allowed to become a tool and victim of politics, but now, the ruthless fact is in front of her, and "revenge", which is not a responsibility and burden that does not belong to Lilith, was picked up by her initiative......

"Let's go, Wind Chime," still in that cute tone, but it sounded a little bitter to Wind Chime, "I'll take you to see the 'weapon' I used for revenge." ”

Wind Chimes couldn't help but worry about what would happen to her long-sought reunion after more than 500 years......