Chapter 22: Goodbye!
No, it's not true, Owen couldn't believe his eyes and ears, he couldn't accept such a cruel fact, step by step, Uncle Merkne, you are not Uncle Merkne, - Owen screamed, turned and ran back
Owen - Princess Sophia chased after her
The other three children also tried to catch up, but the mage stopped them and said to them, "Let him calm down for a while."
The old and hoarse voices of Ray and Regunor sounded again, and Putnain, who was in the middle of the candle, called out to his friends, these children......
Don't say anything, I understand, I'll leave the children to me, Regunor came and sat down next to his friend, and the other three children sat down sensibly beside them
Really, so nostalgic for that youth, that vitality, the paladin turned his head to the direction where Owen and Sophia ran, only to see Owen sitting on the ground with his hands on his knees, Sofia patted his shoulder, and Owen threw him away
Your life, your youth, and your vitality, he will live for you, and the mage sees his friend's life disappearing in the wind every second, not so much that he is comforting his dying friend
The old paladin slowly turned his head back: really, nostalgically, for the time when I fought with you twelve years ago
Rest assured, it won't be long before our glory days will be repeated in these children
I heard a soft sound of horses' hooves, and an old horse paced slowly, and the old horse came to its master, and its two front hooves knelt down first, and then two hind hooves knelt on the ground, and its owner stretched out his dry hand to him, and the old horse touched his master's hand lightly with his head
Phenanthrene...... Sharp...... General...... The master whispered the name of the old horse, and through the old and tired eyes of the old horse, it seemed that he saw the majestic posture of fighting on the battlefield with this good partner in the past, and of course, the old horse saw the same thing through the eyes of the master
The bone-like hands hung silently, and the desolate neighing of horses came from the wilderness......
A prison in Hansar City
The night of May 14, 1675
Ahh
The executioner was very professional in this, he had all kinds of torture equipment in front of him, half of which had already been used, and at this time the executioner was thinking about how to use the remaining half of the torture equipment again without ensuring that the prisoner did not die, and it did not matter if the prisoner had a confession, he only wanted to get pleasure from these tortures, as long as the prisoner was in more pain, the more miserable the screams, the happier he felt, and no one would associate this pervert with the clothes on the executioner's identity that showed his identity, but the two were indeed unified in one person - he was a bishop with a knife
The Twelve Great Capitals of the Holy Light Cult is a unique force of their own country, and the Bishop with the knife is the characteristic force of the Holy Aluphy Kingdom, this kind of armed priest can give blessings in the holy church, and also kill people in the harsh battlefield, and sometimes the distance between the best and the most evil is only a piece of paper, but compared to its evil, the good of the bishop with the knife is more like its fig leaf, just as the country they represent is actually just a huge fig leaf
The so-called Kingdom of St. Auluffi is located on the west side of the glorious continent, the capital Port of St. Sisa, across the sea from St. Papal Island, this country is not large, the population is small, but it is known for its flourishing church culture, in fact, the essence of this country has been openly secreted in the Holy Light society, to put it mildly, the Kingdom of St. Auluffi is the closest country to the Central Church;
The pope of the Holy Illumination has its own territory - the Papal Dominion consisting of the Holy Pope Island, the Key Island and a number of small islands in the Olopa Sea, its own government - the Central See, its own people - 80,000 clergy and ordinary inhabitants living in the Papal Dominion, and its own army - the Knights Templar. However, in another sense, the Papal Dominion cannot be regarded as a normal state, because the Central Church has to act as an international police to mediate the contradictions between various countries of the Holy Illumination, so the Papal Dominion has always given others an impression of absolute neutrality, so in many matters related to face, it is inconvenient for the Papal Dominion to come forward in person, so they adopted a method of transferring flowers and trees to intervene in the dispute, so the Kingdom of St. Auluffie was born, since the beginning of the establishment of the country, the royal family of the Kingdom of St. Auluffie is just a symbol of no real power, the real power of the country falls in the hands of the local church, this country not only acts as the horse of the Pope DominionThey do a lot of things for the Central Church, they want to do but are not convenient to do, and it is also the largest prison area in the Holy Light Society, although the Central Church also has its own Inquisition, but not all prisoners can be tried or punished in the Inquisition. It is not convenient for a prisoner with a certain popularity to be tortured or executed in the Inquisition, as if he was sent to the kingdom of St. Olofe to be tortured on various trumped-up charges, and most of these punishments were carried out by the country's characteristic troops, so the bishop with the knife was not only a master of blessing and killing, but also an expert in torture
The torture expert had long and long selected the other half of the torture tools in front of him, and finally chose a suitable one, he picked up the torture equipment and walked over to the prisoner with a sinister smile
No, no, no, no...... The prisoner was already in a semi-comatose state under the continuous torture, but when he found out that the executioner had brought the same kind of torture instrument, he was frightened and immediately sobered up, and the panicked prisoner struggled violently, of course, he knew very well that when that kind of torture instrument was used on his body, words such as life was worse than death were already invisible
Wow--yaa......a Wow--yaa......a The prisoner screamed horrified under that torture instrument, and the two soldiers standing guard outside the cell were frightened by this sound, they were the soldiers of the Fayele Empire who were in charge of taking over the prison, and at noon today, when the knife-bearing bishop of St. Auluffie brought the prisoner here, the two of them were driven out of the cell to stand guard, and in this war of annihilation against the Kingdom of Pole, the Fayle Empire was nominally allied with St. Auluffy, but in fact with the Central Church, so their superiors would let this obviously impolite behavior go unchecked
I said George, he had been tortured for more than twelve hours, without food or water, could he stand it, and a soldier asked his companion
It's someone else's family matter, Benjamin, let's leave it alone, George replied, I heard that it was his master who became a traitor, and he would suffer like that
Suddenly, the two soldiers felt a dark shadow approaching quietly and quickly, only to hear two snaps, snaps, two clicks, and Jermin and George fainted on the ground, and the robbers didn't think about hurting people's lives, but just knocked them unconscious, but the bishop who was skilled in the art of execution was not so lucky, and the torture he used on the prisoners angered the robbers, only to be cut in two by the angry robbers - although the bishop with the knife was dutiful, the difference in strength was too great, and the battle between him and the prisoners ended in only two rounds
With a thud, the rope that bound the prisoner was cut and the prisoner was helped down
The host - cough, cough, cough...... The prisoner realized that someone was coming to save him, and when he opened his eyes, he was very excited when he saw the person in front of him, and he wanted to speak, but the severe pain made him speechless
Don't talk, let's get out of here first, I'll heal you later, he stopped what the prisoner was about to say, then ripped the clergyman's robe from the dead body of the knife-bearing bishop, wrapped the prisoner's naked body, and ran out of the cell with the man on his shoulders
The robber carried the prisoner and ran out the same way, all the way were knocked unconscious, the soldiers of the Fayale Empire and the soldiers of St. Auluffy, and the only thing that was really killed was the bishop with the knife who was personally executed in the cell, when the two of them had just rushed out of the prison gate, countless torches suddenly burned around the door, and through the fire, the robber saw that there were hundreds of crossbow arrows aimed at him and the prisoner on his shoulder, and the prisoner the prisoner on his shoulder gasped, because he noticed that the enemy he had to face was not only a hundred crossbowmen, but also nearly a hundred light infantry who were good at hand-to-hand combat behind these crossbowmen, of course, compared to these two hundred soldiers, the most difficult to deal with was a strong man standing in front of the two hundred soldiersA strong man in battle armor with a cloak hanging from his back, and his two hands rested on the broad hilt of a two-handed giant sword standing on the ground, although his back was to the firelight, and his face could not be seen clearly, but the prisoner knew who the man was
Milorus didn't expect you to arrange so many people to deal with me, I am really flattered, and the prison robber sneered
The other party replied in a loud voice: If you were not so stupid and came back to risk it for an attendant, you would not have fallen into this trap, but it is too late to say anything, and it is impossible for you and your attendant to leave here, William Mano
Serre Village
At the same time
After two days and a night's work, more than a hundred graves were finally built, and magic was a very convenient thing, otherwise a weak nerd and five small children would not have been able to accomplish the work in such a short time
Owen and Princess, let's go, Joika, Cassius, and Ray, who were standing in front of the hatch of the floatship, shouted to Owen and Sophia, who were still standing in the grave
At this time, the boy and the girl each stood in front of a tombstone, and since the two tombstones were built side by side, the two children also stood side by side
Owen finally looked at the tombstone in front of him, then took a deep breath and said: We are really going to go, Uncle Merkne, then he turned to the direction of the girl, dragged the girl's right hand with his left hand tied with half of the handkerchief, and tied the other half of the handkerchief, and whispered: Your Royal Highness Princess, let's go
Uncle John, Sophia, will come back to visit you when she has time, and a hot tear rolls out of the girl's eyes and falls onto the grass
The two children passed by the grave, and Owen saw the old horse guarding the tombstone where he had just stood and refused to leave, and he patted the old horse on the neck and said, "Goodbye Philip."
At this moment, there was a faint sound of horses' hooves, and I saw a brown horse in the distance, jogging all the way over, and the horse looked skinny
It was Pique, who was tired, but it still followed, and Sophia said in surprise
Like Philip, it just wanted to stay with its master all the time, and after that, Owen took Sophia's hand and walked towards the airship
At the hatch, Owen waved his hand to the ruined village: Goodbye to my hometown
The airship slowly lifted into the air, leaving only two loyal warhorses to accompany their knight master alone
Inside the Royal Palace of Hansar City
Also at the same time
The fourth prince of the Fayele Empire and the commander-in-chief of the French army, Durris, fell into deep thought, he knew that once his decision was implemented, there would be no turning back, but this was not the purpose of his participation in this war
The Central Church and the Fayele Empire joined forces to launch this war of aggression against the Kingdom of Pole for their own interests, and he was very aware that his interests were different from those of the Central Church, and the Central Church was for the sake of the Pole royal family, and the Templars were trying their best to hunt down the fleeing princess everywhere;
In this game of taking what you need, it is best to be able to do not interfere with each other, tomorrow is right, as long as you get to the end of tomorrow, the purpose will be achieved, Duris thought of this, and smiled knowingly, and then he turned his eyes to the north, and said in a voice that only he could hear: Goodbye my hometown;
At this time, his adjutant, a knight of the royal power, walked in and whispered a few words in Duris's ear, and Duris's face suddenly became gloomy.