23 The unstoppable victory

"We won the war, but we lost the northern barrier."

February 24, 1244, 13 days after the Kingdom of Split won the Battle of the Black Gate.

"General, do you have something to do with me?" Wind chimes step into Alista's tent. Seeing the wind chimes come in, Alista put down the letter in his hand, and his slightly tired face became refreshed.

"Don't be nervous, there's nothing particularly important, just thinking that you guys will leave for the capital tomorrow, and I want to talk to you a few words." Alista said kindly, quite like a father takes care of his daughter, of course, in terms of age, he can indeed be the father of wind chimes. He motioned for the wind chimes to sit down, and personally poured a cup of tea and handed it to her.

"General, you're gracious, thank you." The wind chimes responded politely.

"It's me who should say thank you, you saved me twice, and I can't reciprocate."

"Twice? I remember the only time I dragged you out of the encirclement of the enemy......" said Wind Chime, pretending to be confused.

"On the day of the decisive battle, if it weren't for you, we would all be finished." Alista said with a smile, not intending to pretend to be confused. Wind Chime smiled bitterly and took a sip of tea.

Alista continued: "Although no one else knows what to do, I still noticed something, 'that' is you, right...... Rest assured, you wish to keep a low profile, and I will keep it a secret as well. Wind Chime smiled bitterly again, but still did not speak.

"So, thank you for saving the northern frontier of the kingdom, and for saving everyone here." Alista suddenly bowed to the wind chimes. Seeing this, Feng Chime was startled, and hurriedly stood up and helped Alista, "Don't be like this, General, victory is the result of everyone's hard work, not my ......"

Alista waved his hand to signal that the wind chimes didn't need to continue, "That's all for this topic, no matter what, you are my savior, and you should repay you...... So, this sentence—" He helped the wind chimes back to his seat and uttered his family's creed: "I will make a shield to protect you with a heart of gold." When the wind chimes heard this, they tilted their heads, not understanding what the other party meant.

This sentence is the creed of the Akayi family, and I hope you will write it down. If one day you need help, just find a member of our family and say this creed, and the Akayi family will be your back, which is our family's way of repaying the savior. ”

"I see, 'I will make a shield to protect you with a heart of gold,' I wrote it down."

Alista nodded, "I don't have much more to say, I'm going to be too busy to talk to you anymore, or even have time to say goodbye to you, so I'll ...... You see what else you have to say to me. ”

Wind Chime didn't speak, stood up and approached Alista, and hugged him with open arms. The general smiled and hugged the wind chimes like his father. In a moment, the two parted, and the wind chimes saluted, turned and walked out of the tent, while Alista watched her leave. At the last moment, neither of them said a word, but the friendship formed by blood congealed was left in the camp.

This was the last time the two saw each other.

The next day, February 25, a group of 10,000 troops of the Kingdom of Splalet arrived at the Black Gate, not reinforcements, but here to take over the city's defenses, which was the annual border change day. The defenders, who had fought for nearly half a year, had only 4,000 men left, and they reluctantly bid farewell to the general and would go to a nearby city to regroup, where they would be greeted with a heroic welcome.

Wind Chime returns directly to the capital with the five remaining apprentices of the Demon Court, and they have to do a good job of comforting the families of their fallen comrades, but their exploits will not be known. For the wind chime, this is nothing, and it is enough for her return to make a person happy and happy.

As Alista said, he had been busy with the change of guards, and did not have time to say goodbye to the wind chimes and others, until a few days later, at dawn, he finally had time to climb the city wall and look at the scenery in the distance - the camp of the Eustid Kingdom army in the north was now a desolate land, and the day after the decisive battle, the Eustid army all retreated, and never appeared again, hearing that they were sent to suppress the riot in the country. The enemy was gone, but Alista was not happy, and he looked at a crack in the wall: it was the place where his eldest son had died, the third day after the battle, and he had fought for half a year to this day. Now the defenders have changed, and he is staying, he doesn't love the battlefield, let alone the war, but he loves his country, he loves his family, and he will continue to stay here to guard the northern defense line for the kingdom.

Armista stretched out his trembling hands and took out the directive from the king that he had been looking at yesterday:

"Demolition of the walls of the Black Gate for three months." It is stamped with the king's seal.

Alista Akayi, who did not cry even when his eldest son was killed, hid his face and wept at this moment.

At the beginning of March, Wind Chimes and her party finally returned to the capital city of Butler, and she asked the other apprentices to return to the castle to inform His Majesty, and she went to visit the families of all the fallen apprentices to comfort and comfort them one by one, and of course she did not forget to visit the widow of Dean Tucker.

After all this, she went to the Wanyuan Sect Cathedral, where she lived as a child, and although she had been out before, she had never had the opportunity to visit here. When the wind chimes stepped through the church door, she finally understood what it meant to be a thing: the familiar church still stands, but the familiar people and animals are long gone...... Tears of retrospective and nostalgia for the past were shed, and the wind chimes quietly left the church.

Wind Chimes visits the best tattoo parlor in the city, asking the tattoo artist to cover up her scars - she doesn't want Lilith to see them.

On March 5th, the wind chimes returned to Butler Castle and returned to Princess Lilith, who was not to mention how happy, excited, and excited. The two started the happy life they had before, intimate and glue-like.

On March 8, Lilith's birthday, everyone was shocked to learn of the king's order to demolish the walls of the Black Gate, and some ministers even bluntly said: "This is tantamount to giving up the northern barrier!" Wind Chime did not show any dissatisfaction with this almost mediocre order, but she also felt sorry for Alista, and the gains she had won so hard were about to come to naught......

Numerous exhortations and persuasions followed, but to no avail, and His Majesty insisted on carrying out this directive. The ministers were disappointed, if it was a kind of confidence and strategy not to send reinforcements for the front-line war before, now this order is already unreasonable. For a time, the castle's council chamber was always full of people, and the ministers overwhelmingly pressured the king to retract his order, but it still backfired.

Disappointed, the ministers no longer hoped to change His Majesty's mind, but turned to his younger brother, Prince Ryan Royer. The ministers had long since discovered that while Prince Lane was usually obedient to his brother, it was only "some form of respect" and not necessarily his own intentions, and that his usual vigorous style was rather like that of a bold reformer. Slowly, there was less and less opposition in the council chamber, and the prince's mansion was full of people......

Thus, an event destined to change the fate of the Kingdom of Splitlet is about to happen.

"I have agreed with my father that you will be the teacher of those royal and aristocratic children." Lilith said smugly to the wind chime.

"Hmm...... It's a good job, too. Wind Chime responded with a smile, expressing in her tone that it didn't matter, the Demon Court where she was located was no longer able to function normally due to the previous losses, and the relevant personnel had to temporarily take on other positions.

Since the princess is over 17 years old, Wind Chime does not need to continue to serve as a companion, so Lilith arranges a good errand for her - a teacher of royal and aristocratic children, and the place of class is in the royal living quarters, where she can meet Lilith often, unlike in the Demon Court before, the two have to be separated for half a day.

As the chamber grew quieter, it seemed that everything in the castle had returned to normal, and neither Wind Chimes nor Lilith noticed that danger was approaching them step by step in this comfort.

And then ......

"And then there's a coup d'état."