Chapter 20: The Contract between the Witch and the Knight
Unconsciously, the force field in the flower hall that originally sorted out the detached and stagnant thinking had disappeared, and the aristocratic ladies present did not remember the strange appearance just now, but they heard the conversation between Eleni and the mysterious girl, and couldn't help but whisper quietly.
"Did I hear me wrong? Your Highness, are they talking about witches and witches?"
"Is there a difference between witches and witches?"
"Who knows, but isn't it always said in the story that witches are good at using spells and concocting secret medicines?"
"Yes, yes, witches and witches are powerful monsters who can turn people into animals with evil spells, such as the poor frog prince and swan princess!"
"Ah, although the witch is very bad and bad, but it is really enviable! that can make my sweetheart fall in love with him, that can make people young forever youth, if I can have these, how good it would be......"
"Don't say that, don't you know that in ancient times, many queens and princesses were powerful witches or witches themselves!"
"Ah, I remember, those fairy tale princesses and queens all have strange powers, are they really witches and witches?"
In this northern land of the continent, which is covered with ice and snow for half of the year, witches and witches, knights and princesses are the eternal themes in fairy tales.
In various fairy tales, the witch's abilities range from mixing potions to dominating people's hearts, to casting spells to bring the dead back to life, from summoning evil spirits to direct demons, to cursing creatures to play with fate, almost omnipotent. In the minds of these aristocratic girls who grew up listening to stories about witches and witches, the names of witches and witches themselves are symbols of evil power.
However, unlike those noble ladies who only know from fairy tales and legends that witches and witches are bad witches, they only curse princes and princesses.
As a princess of the royal family of Ray, a descendant of the Heartless Knight and the Snow Queen, Eleni knows many secrets that ordinary people don't know, and has a deep understanding of the power of witches and witches.
Witch is a more ancient spellcaster than mage, is a special title for women in wizards, originated in the primitive dream of human beings in the wilderness era, its antiquity is almost the same as human civilization, although this power system with the development of human civilization and the rise of new professions, gradually away from the perspective of human beings, has become a hidden legend outside the field of vision of mortals, can only be explored in the ancient legend of its mysterious ability.
But no one with insight dares to ignore the power of wizards, not because of anything else, but because this kind of power, which has been born since the enlightenment of human civilization, has gone through countless years of precipitation and accumulation, and has already developed to a level beyond the imagination of mortals. Compared to this, whether it is a mage or a warlock, a priest or a knight, they all seem too young.
The witch is an achievement of the witch, an exclusive title, compared to the witch who is still in the realm of ordinary people's understanding, the existence of the witch symbolizes the ultimate mystery beyond the understanding of mortals.
Even Eleni doesn't know the secret of the witch, but she knows that the existence of the witch is a taboo. The birth of a witch is often accompanied by a series of disasters.
The White Disaster that swept the continent back then, the White Witch and the Great Egil the Great who single-handedly created the Holy Norman Empire, but personally lit the fuse of its destruction, gave the Knight King the most sincere love, but was finally swallowed up by jealousy and despair, and personally directed the "Elegy of the Knight King" The Banshee of the Lake, Morveil, who almost destroyed the Glorious Church at its peak and brought more than a third of the death to the entire continent, and the Haunting and Disappearance in the shadow of history. The undead witch and Kamen Rider who caused the fall of one thousand-year dynasty after another.
Behind the appearance of every witch, it represents a major historical turning point, but it brings almost all violent turmoil and countless blood, so the appearance of the witch is also regarded by almost everyone in the entire continent as an ominous demon and the embodiment of calamity - the Church of the Lord of Radiance is crazy about hunting witches, witches and everything related to it, not completely without reason.
The bloodline of the royal family of Ray Grace also comes from witches and knights. The story of the Heartless Knight and the Winter Maiden is still sung in the bards, but few people know that in the mythological epic, the Winter Maiden, who is known as the incarnation of the Ice Goddess and single-handedly established the Church of the Ice Goddess, is actually a witch who came out of the Kingdom of Danlun.
In the long history, the royal family of Ray Grace has married witches from the witch kingdom several times, and its blood also flows with mysterious demonic ingredients.
As a result, Eleni also knows many secrets about witches that no one else would ever know.
Now, she finally recognized that the handshake ceremony between the mysterious girl and Alicia that seemed to be a marriage vow was actually the ritual when the Demonic Daughter signed a contract with the Contract Knight - the marriage ceremony that is now circulating in the Northlands, the ritual of clasping hands under the gaze of the sacred goddess of ice and snow, is rooted in the legend of the past when the Heartless Knight and the Witch of Winter made a pact of eternal life.
Alini didn't want her sister Alicia to become a contract knight of witches, not only because she didn't want her sister to face the blood and trials that she would have to face in the process of becoming a witch. What's more, because the contract between the witch and the knight is a kind of soul link, a kind of life form of some kind of completion, once the contract is signed, the relationship between the two is intimate, it is more intimate than the blood bonding relatives, the heart of the couple.
Although Alicia does not have the emotions that humans should have, Alicia has always believed that she and her sister have a bond that transcends the blood ties of sisters, and with her efforts, her sister will one day regain her lost emotions and return to her normal human state. Therefore, she didn't want anyone to get closer to her sister than her, and she didn't want her sister to sign a contract with the mysterious girl. Because that means that she is about to lose her most revered and cherished sister, and lose the belief she has always insisted on.
Eleni hugged her sister tightly, raised her head high, and stared fiercely at the mysterious girl named after the blue moon, her firm obsession supported her heart and will, making her ignore the difference in rank, not caring at all that the other party was a demonic daughter who was more mysterious and weird than the legendary powerhouse, and looked at each other without showing weakness.
The mysterious girl didn't see Eleni's undisguised hostility, she just looked at Alicia and said seriously: "I'm Luna Cynthia Sarina Phoebe Diana Artemis...... Angelo Leo Fennir, who followed an ancient contract and was guided by the blood of his ancestors, came here. I ask you, will you make a pact with me to be my half-body, to live with me, and to die with me?"
Alie's heart suddenly tightened, and she quickly turned around and stared at her sister Alicia tightly. She wanted to open her mouth to obstruct her sister not to agree, but an inexplicable pressure restrained her body, so that no matter how anxious she was, she couldn't open her mouth.
Alicia looked at the mysterious girl calmly, and after a moment, she opened her mouth slightly and replied, "I do!"
"Then make my blood your blood, my eyes your eyes, and my Spirit your Spirit...... In my name, the scorpio is a mirror, the white horse is the alliance, the contract is located, life and death go hand in hand!"
Behind the mysterious girl, a scorpio phantom with a halo of twelve knots of time rises.
Behind Princess Alicia, galloping out of the phantom of a white horse trampling the waves of the galaxy.
Eleni's heart sank fiercely, and at this moment, she only felt as if she was a seraph expelled from heaven by the Lord of Light in "In Praise of Light", falling from the heavenly mountain to the bottomless abyss of hell......
Endless grief of loss filled Eleni's heart, leaving her eyes in the dark, and she could not see any light. At this moment, she just wanted to find a dark and uninhabited space, huddled in it alone, not to think, not to think, only to let eternal sleep soothe her wounded heart.
Unfortunately, this is a wish that is not destined to come true. No matter how painful, no matter how sad, no matter how lost, reality is reality after all, and nothing will change because of her escape.
Before she knew it, tears had flowed from Elenie's beautiful eyes, dripping to the ground like pearls.