Volume 2 Don't Chapter 26 New Year (Part II)
The queen's chariot was followed by a number of ministers on horseback, and there was an almost completely enclosed carriage, which was tightly wrapped, but the crowd knew that it was the princess Dana. According to the rules of the royal family, the princess is not allowed to reveal her face or voice without the permission of the queen. Although Usef's blood is cursed with gender, Geis brings another favor, and every girl born in the royal family is destined to be a beauty. Beauty is a good thing, but beauty is also an obstacle, and as a princess of the future queen, she may lose many opportunities to learn and see many real scenes because of beauty. For this reason, hiding their identity and original appearance has become a process that these future queens must go through. The magical "Veil" can make their beauty disappear and their appearance will be mediary, but at the cost that the princess will not be able to see the scene in front of her clearly, like a layer of fog in front of her. Therefore, if it is not necessary, the princess will physically block it to make herself better.
At the end of the line was another troop of cavalry, which followed this troop of cavalry. The crowd of onlookers began to disperse, and the queen did not return to the palace that day, but would pray in the chapel of the church until seven days later, which were originally the days of the original New Year, during which the grandest show and the magic of the night sky would be staged.
"That's... Father Pacus?" Rhodes watched the queen come to the door of the church, and then he found an old man in a white robe greeting him, and it was Pacus.
"I remember him saying that it was the Grand Priest who met the Queen, which meant that he was... Archpriest?" Lott was also surprised.
"Why didn't he ever tell us," Rhodes watched as the queen and Palgus walked into the church, and then the door was shut. The ministers and other persons involved were taken to other parts of the church by the other clergy.
"Maybe Father Pacus doesn't like to be public. I saw that other people called him just Father Priest. As Lott spoke, the crowd around them had begun to dissolve.
"Forget it, when the New Year is over, let's go and ask him. "Let's have lunch, there's going to be a show here, we have to hurry!!!" ”
The following afternoon, the performance arrived as scheduled, and as the festivities continued, it soon became evening.
Starting today, there will be a dance party every day in the square, and the musicians of the royal palace will come here every day for seven days after today to play a piece of music, and men and women of the right age will meet to dance here. Dancing here is equivalent to receiving the Queen's blessing to them.
In addition to the ball, tonight is also a magical night, and as Pagus once said, the great magicians of the Maids will light up the night sky with magic tonight. Enjoying the musicians' performances, Rhodes and Lott also looked up at the sky from time to time, hoping not to miss this grand performance.
But there were so many people in the square, and they were always crowded, and Rod and Lott didn't dance, so they decided to leave the ball area and went into a nearby alley. Rhodes and Lott come to this alley often, and although it's not much fun, the teenagers have made this their own little stronghold, and they can hide from everyone else here to imagine their future, or just take a lazy sleep, and just leave it, it means returning to the hard training of Hopler. The alley was not far from the square, and the music could still be heard, and it was still no one, and it was a wonderful place for tonight, so the two of them sat down on the ground and looked up at the sky for the magical night.
As the show time approached, a sound was heard at the entrance to the alley.
"Someone's coming, Rod. He didn't really care, Lott just reminded him habitually.
"Let's go to the roof, it's so narrow here, and it's going to be crowded again. Rod suggested.
Lott also agreed that so many days of training were not in vain, and the two climbed to the roof very quickly, which was the roof of a private house, and the place was quite wide, so the two lay on the roof and waited for the show to begin.
"There's no one here. A woman's voice came from the alley downstairs, and Lott glanced down warily. And this glance really scared him.
"Rod, Rod!" Lott hurriedly dragged Rod, "Look down, that girl is so beautiful." ”
Lott pointed to the place where they had just stayed, a mysterious man dressed in black came to the alley with a girl who looked like a young lady, this eldest lady had an extraordinary temperament, wearing a silk robe, her hair was draped down and looked very casual, her facial features were very beautiful, especially her eyes were shining with a jewel-like luster, which made the two people on the top of the building reluctant to blink.
"Wow, this must be even better than a magic night. "Rod and Lott will be twenty-one years old after the New Year, and they also have some yearning for the opposite sex, and they naturally can't resist seeing such a girl at this age.
But as time went on, the young lady at the bottom seemed to be uneasy, and the mysterious man also stood up, and they whispered something, and then the eldest lady's appearance changed.
"How..."
"Be careful!!" Lott pushed Rhodes away, and in the next second, a knife flew to the position where the two heads had been, and then the mysterious man in the alley jumped onto the roof with the knife in hand. Lotter's keen instincts, cultivated through years of wandering, have saved his life several times, and today is one more.
The man in black took a closer look at the two and found that it was also a woman, although his face was covered and his chest was not protruding, but the shape of his waist and the posture of the whole person were obviously exposed.
"Who are you?" asked Rod the mysterious man.
"She won't answer you," Lott dismissed his companion's question, "It's certain that she's here to kill us, there's no need to tell the dead her name, right, big sister?"
The woman was holding a short knife in her hand, which was no stranger to the two of them, and they couldn't help but suspect that the person in front of them was also a thief. The woman looked at the two of them for a moment after dodging the attack, but without giving them much time, she rushed again.
Since the other party has murderous intentions, he can't sit still, Rod is no longer the cowardly and timid child he was at the beginning, and he pulled out his sword completely out of habit.
The holy sword erupted in a shining light in the night, and the woman's eyes were shaken by the instantaneous light, which was expected by the two of them, and the tactical research carried out earlier came into play at this point, with Rhodes slashing at the woman from the front, and Lot quickly reaching behind him.
The frontal attack was unexpectedly ineffective, and the dazzling time was not enough to affect the woman's judgment, and the short knife and the holy sword collided together. If it is a mature adventurer, such an impact is actually a woman's loss, after all, the force was dazzling and slightly hasty, and the quality of the weapon was also at a disadvantage, but because of Rhodes's own unfamiliar combat skills, he did not create any advantage after the impact, but he was forced back by the woman.
This made Lott behind him fall into embarrassment, he was carrying a wooden sword for training, and while Rhodes was forced to retreat, the woman turned around and slashed directly at Lot.
Seeing this, Lott hurriedly retreated, and the woman immediately pressed over, Lott raised his sword to block, but the wooden sword was directly held by the woman, and the short knife was plunged into his neck.
Rhodes arrived, and he raised his sword to stab the woman in the back. The woman had been wary of him, she felt that Rod had raised his hand and stabbed him, she let go of Lot directly, and dodged to the side in a flash, such a reaction and speed Rod couldn't imagine at all. Without a woman to cover him, his sword stabbed directly at Lot. The boy hurriedly withdrew his hand, but the stiffness of this retraction gave the woman enough time, and the woman did not hesitate to stab Rhodes directly. Lott had already thought of this situation when the woman let go of him, he saw the woman stabbing at Lot, and he stabbed directly at the woman's leg, the force of the blow was not small, and the woman directly lost her balance. When the woman fell, Rod took a few steps back because of fright, not wanting to be the roof, and stepped on the air, and his body was about to fall. When the two of them turned around to look for the woman, they found that there was nothing left where the woman had fallen.
"Be careful!" Lott reminded his companions, and women would never let them go easily. They looked around, but for a moment they didn't notice her.
"We stood apart, and she couldn't have knocked out both of us at the same time. Rod's idea was very reasonable, so the two quickly separated their positions, but there was no movement for a while.
Lott didn't stop thinking during the battle, after trying to judge the opponent's position with the environment This idea didn't work, Lott tried to empathize, if he was the other party, choose one of the two, which one would he choose? The answer was too obvious, Lott immediately looked back at Rhodes, "Eska, help us, light up Rhodes's surroundings!"
Lott shouted the Holy Sword in the air, and the Holy Sword also heard his call, and his already very dazzling light suddenly increased a little more, and Lott looked around Rhodes, and soon saw the hand lying on the wall, "There!" Lott raised his sword and pointed over.
The woman knew that she was discovered, she turned over directly and came to Rod, after all, Rod's combat skills were still too immature, and after only two blocks, his stomach was punched hard by the woman's other hand, and this blow dropped his painful sword to the ground. The woman wanted to go under the knife, but the hand holding the knife was grabbed by Rod, and considering that Lott was behind her, she could only knock Rod down with one punch first.
Rhodes had just collapsed when Lott rushed over. He confronted the woman directly, and after that, it only took one move before the wooden sword was cut off by the short sword. Then Lott tried to hold the woman's hand hard, but the difference in strength was huge, and he was easily flipped to the ground. The woman took advantage of the situation and rode on top of him, holding a knife in both hands and stabbing him down on the head.
Lott didn't struggle either, letting the knife go down, he knew it was useless to struggle with such a huge difference in power. He estimated the direction of the woman's stab based on the position of her arm and the direction of the tip of the knife, which was a risky gamble, but he had no choice. With the short knife stabbing down, Lott tilted his head according to his own judgment, and the tip of the knife drove the wind to blow in Lot's ears, and he succeeded. Too late to celebrate his luck, Lott raised his already clenched fist and smashed it on the woman's face with all his strength.