() You mean, Poppy, Sophia is chilled by the term Alex, oh my God, those are the 'Devil's Flower', and it won't end well for anyone to come along, how can you......

Alex sighed and said, "That's why I said that I have no way back now."

Opium poppy turned out to be a very common value, they were once widely distributed in most parts of Olopa, and even distant islands outside the ocean have poppie stocks, human beings have known the poppy for a long time, the flowers of this plant are particularly bright, Beautiful, once upon a time, many princes and nobles planted poppy as an ornamental plant in the courtyard of their homes, thousands of years ago, ancient human beings also religiously called them the gift of the gods, because the juice of the poppy fruit can greatly relieve people's pain, in the armies of many countries in ancient times, there were a large number of reserves of poppy fruit juice, used as a necessary medicine for wounded soldiers to relieve pain

However, the opium poppy can treat people's injuries and diseases, and when people forget their pain and fear, they can also make people's lives wither in anesthesia, ruin in psychedelics, and long-term use of opium poppies is easy to make addiction, chronic poisoning, and dangerous to the body, and once addicted, it is basically impossible to eradicate poppy for the rest of his life, and when the addiction occurs, it can destroy the willpower of any proud iron man, so that people live in psychedelia all day long

Human beings have become more and more dependent on opium poppies, and even reached the point of madness, due to the large-scale abuse of opium poppies in history, which has caused countless appalling tragedies, many human countries in ancient times attacked each other in order to fight for the soil for poppy cultivation and the right to trade in opium poppies, so that rivers of blood flowed and corpses were scattered all over the field, and many once glorious countries were destroyed because of this, and the tragedy caused by poppies among the people was even more numerous, and many people went bankrupt, sold wives and children, burned, killed, and looted, just for the sake of just a few grams of poppy paste

When human beings gradually degenerated and decadent in the sea of poppy flowers, this plant got a terrible nickname: the devil's flower, but with the advent of light magic and the development of medicine, there are more and more methods used to replace poppies, and poppies have lost their only value as medicine. It is an extremely ironic process that strictly prohibits the trade of opium poppies, which once flooded mankind, and gradually disappears from the continent, from the gift of the gods to the flower of the devil

12 years ago, jealousy ruined me and lost a qiē and nothing, I wandered around the streets and alleys of the big and small taverns all day long, numbing myself with alcohol, but gradually I found that alcohol was more and more unable to meet my needs, not only that, alcohol also ruined my body, and then they appeared

Who are they Sophia asked

A group of clergy, sanctimonious hypocrites, once I drank a lot of spirits, vomited blood, fainted on the side of the road, and they took them back, and in the holy and solemn church, these priests healed my pain, and the thing they gave me medical treatment was them, said Alex turned his gaze to the black tin pot on the bed, and the black ointment extracted from the poppy fruit, and you should be able to guess what happened later

I understand that the Central Church has premeditated the use of poppies to control you, and now I have understood the origin of your inner struggle and grief, because you have carried such heavy pain for so many years

Sophia's words made Alex pause, he didn't expect that he could still get the princess's understanding after his two betrayals, and no one knew whether his heart was chaotic or something else at this time, and this relatively wordless silence lasted for dozens of seconds

Thank you, Your Highness, Princess, for your understanding of the guilty minister, but there was no turning back, and in the end, Alex broke the silence

Don't make excuses for your actions, Sophia said, I believe that as long as you have determination and perseverance, you will definitely be able to defeat the poppy, please stop working for the Holy See

Your Highness, maybe you don't know how terrible those things are, maybe you should experience them for yourself to truly understand that it is impossible to defeat the poppy as a human being

Alex's words made Sophia suddenly feel a chill rise in her heart, she realized that something terrible might happen next, and Sophia involuntarily snorted: What do you want to do

Let Her Highness get addicted to poppies, and then you will obediently cooperate with the Central See, and you will have absolutely no intention of rebelling, just like me now, which is what the Pope has asked me to do

Don't-you can't do that...... Sophia's heart seems to have been raised, and she knows the history of Olopa well, and she knows that once she gets involved with the Devil's Flower Poppy, her life will be ruined

His Highness had no choice, and Alex said emotionlessly

Get out of Sophia

Suddenly, there was a shout from the door, and then the temperature suddenly turned cold, and countless ice needles condensed in the air, and poured down on Sophia and Alex on the ground, and Alex turned over and jumped off, quickly escaping from the range of the ice needle rain;

Cassius Sophia looked excitedly towards the doorway, and the familiar fat figure came into view, like a man wandering in the sea looking at land

Are you okay, Cassius said to Sophia, who was lying on the ground, and Sophia nodded at Cassius, and saw that this strong partner had finally overcome the pain and woke up from the coma and rushed over, and Sophia was extremely happy

Death to you, lackey of the Holy See, Cassius turned his gaze to Alex, although he didn't know the man in the royal knight's armor in front of him, but what this man did to Sophia made Cassius angry, and remembering what happened to Woody made Cassius even more angry, Cassius let out a loud cry, and stretched his hands towards Alex, only to see a wave of freezing energy condensed between his hands, and the cold frozen magic rushed straight towards Alex with the anger of the caster

Seeing that the fat mage in front of him had actually reached the level of spellless spellcasting, his magic cultivation was at least above the three-ring mage, and for the frozen energy that it shot at him, Alex did not dare to take him hard, and he mistakenly avoided the frozen energy and passed by him, although he did not hit him head-on, Alex still deeply felt the bone-scraping cold

Seeing that the blow failed, Cassius drew a circle in mid-air with both hands, and the ice crystals formed by the two water elements quickly condensed on his hands, and then merged into one into a light blue ice ball, Cassius threw the ice ball in his hand at Alex, but because Cassius was not physically trained, the ice ball he threw had no strength, and Alex easily dodged the ice ball, and the ground hit by the ice ball was covered with a layer of ice

Both attacks failed, but Cassius did not breathe, he raised his hands into the air, only to see a large amount of water elements quickly surround his whole body, and formed a small ice and snow storm with very small scale but strong energy, the temperature in the large room plummeted, as if suddenly entering a cold winter wax moon, and then Cassius's hands clenched into fists and swung towards Alex, and then several waves of frozen energy rushed towards Alex from all directions - Cassius pinned all his hopes on this blow with all his might

However, the ice storm did not hit Alex as Cassius had hoped, and the frozen energy suddenly stopped halfway through the advance, and disappeared into an elemental state in an instant, Cassius spurted out a large mouthful of blood - such a high-intensity spell was definitely not the magic that his body, which was already covered in bruises, could withstand it, and suddenly terminated on its own, causing Cassius to receive magic feedback again

It turns out that you are already at the end of the crossbow, Alex snorted contemptuously, and threw himself at Cassius, in the process of running, Alex had already drawn the long sword at his waist, and when he ran in front of Cassius, the long sword in his hand had already penetrated Cassius's body, and the sharp blade stabbed out from behind was directly inserted into the wall, nailing Cassius to the wall

The pain caused Cassius to scream, and he gripped the sword with his own hands to pull it out of his body, but Alex clenched the sword tightly, causing Cassius' hands to bleed more, but he couldn't make the sword move half a minute

Looking at the enemy in front of him who was resisting in vain, Alex had a cruel smile on his lips, and he slowly turned the blade to twist the flesh and blood of Cassius, and this cruel torture made Cassius's face twist into a terrible pattern, but Cassius did not let go of his grip on the long sword, still holding the enemy's weapon deadly

I admire you, but what is the point of your futile resistance, and Alex unabashedly respects the tenacity of Cassius, even though he does not stop turning the sword in his hand

But at this moment, Cassius's face showed a strange look, this look was not like a sign of despair, but like a relief after some kind of wish was fulfilled; Alex felt bad, he hurriedly pulled the sword out of Cassius's body, but just pulled out half of the blood covering the sword's body, it instantly condensed into crimson blood ice, and solidified Cassius's body and the long sword together, so that it could no longer be pulled out, Alex looked at Cassius in amazement, the young magician, who was desperate for his life, trying to make himself unable to use the sword, why the hell

It's time, fellows, Cassius shouted with a laugh

Before Cassius could finish speaking, two figures suddenly jumped up from behind him, a long sword and a crimson spear head straight in Alex's face, Alex let go of his weapon, took a few steps back, and the sword and spear flew into the air

It turned out that he gave his life to take my weapon in order to let the two of you sneak attack me, and Alex stood firm, disdainfully telling the two sneak attackers that it was a very tragic tactic, but it was also very stupid

Shut up, you're not qualified to judge us, Ray stared straight at Alex, this man seriously injured his brother like this, and Ray wanted to eat him alive

Well, it's all here, saving me from going to you one by one, and killing you all is also one of my tasks, now it seems that it can be done ahead of schedule, Alex lifted his guard, put his hands in front of his chest, and didn't take Ray and Joyka in his eyes at all, and several of you seem to have suffered very serious internal injuries, looking at your pale face, it is obvious that you have lost too much blood, and now you only have half a human life left, even if I don't do it, you will die quickly, but the process of death is extremely slow and painful;

Alex was right, Joyka and Ray were indeed seriously injured, although when Owen rescued the two of them from the Knife Mountain Hell, they were also baptized by the wind of hell to heal the external injuries on their bodies, but the internal injuries were not alleviated at all, plus the two injuries they had suffered before, anger and greed, I am afraid that now their internal organs have already hemorrhaged a lot, not to mention the fighting, even if they are thrown there without any healing, I am afraid they will not live long

Joyka and Ray also knew this, but they didn't flinch at all, Joyka sneered at each other: My life is not so easy to take, everyone who wants to take my Uncle Joyka's life will eventually lose their lives to me, if you are not afraid of death, come

Joyka is talking nonsense with this guy he doesn't have a sword in his hand let's go up and slaughter him together Ray said

The two nodded at each other, and the weapons in their hands were used at the same time to lunge towards Alex

Do you know who is the easiest person to die in this world, that is, stupid people, Alex raised his right hand while speaking, only to see the blue cloak that was hanging behind him towards Joyka and Thunder, and the head was cleaved down, Joyka and Ray were cold, and the opponent would come with such a move, Joyka and Ray, who were covered by the cloak and couldn't see things, waved their swords and spears in a panic, and the cloak was torn to pieces, but at this time, there was a dull crash, Alex took the opportunity to fly up and kicked the thunder closer to him away, Joika slashed out a sword sideways, Alex took a quick step back, and the Mithril alloy longsword brushed the armor of Alex's abdomen, which was also made of Mithril alloyCheng's armor was left with an ugly scratch

Seeing that this stinky boy actually damaged his armor, Alex was enraged, he quickly reached to his waist and pulled out the dagger that had been kept unused, at this time, Joica's second sword slashed again, and Alex met the dagger to block it

The dagger was severed by the Mithril longsword, but the wielder of the sword cracked open under the powerful impact of his opponent, and the sword flew out of his hand, and Alex moved very quickly, he flew forward to catch Joika's sword in mid-air, and then stabbed the weapon into the back of its original owner before Joika turned around

As the sword was drawn from her back, a fountain of blood erupted from the wound, and Jojica snorted and fell down

You brute saw that Joyka had also fallen under Alex's sword, and Ray's anger reached its apex, and he rushed madly at Alex with a bloody dragon lance

Alex, who had a good sword in his hand, no longer had any fear, and swung his sword to meet it

In the face of rich combat experience and sophisticated sword skills, Lei was like a fledgling, he received more and more sword wounds on his body, but the spear in his hand could not touch the opponent for half a minute...... In the end, Alex ended the one-sided battle with a swift sidestab

Damn...... It would be nice to be able to use the 'Power of the Dragon'...... Ray collapsed in a pool of blood with reluctance.