On the ground, pale ashes fell like heavy snow.

But what came to the face was not cold, but the pain and heat left behind after it burned out.

As far as the eye can see, on the shadow-covered earth, everything is covered with a layer of gray, cold and distant.

In the ruins, Ye Qingxuan stared at the sky.

Between heaven and earth, where the material realm and the etheric realm overlapped, a vast boundary of distorted vision could be faintly observed. In the borders, all changes are frozen and frozen, becoming a world of eternal stillness.

There, only the cold and sharp city hangs high.

It uses the power of heaven and abyss to penetrate the material realm and the etheric realm, and from this it draws power, and in the midst of the burning of the holy fire, what terrible calamity is brewing.

He stared blankly at the shadows in the sky for a long time, and then lowered his head gloomily, rubbing the things in his palm. It had fallen to the ground, covered in ash, and looked like the remnants of something that hadn't burned out in the fire.

The only remnant.

"......"

He muttered under his breath, clenching his palms weakly.

I don't know how long it took, but the silence was broken, and the sonorous sound of iron armor rubbing sounded. An old man in armor walked out of the ashes, and the ashes flew and were pushed aside.

"Ye Qingxuan?"

The voice sounded after a long absence.

Ye Qingxuan turned around and fell into a stunned state. After a long time, he smiled bitterly and lowered his head: "Father, long time no see...... It seems that every time I see you, I look so embarrassed. ”

Bane was silent, he looked at the child who had grown up beside him, his eyebrows were still the same, his eyes were as stubborn as ever, but for some reason, something seemed to have changed.

He couldn't say it, and he didn't know what to say.

"Long time no see. ”

Bane stretched out his hand. Gently patted him on the shoulder: "You...... It's fine if you're okay. ”

Ye Qingxuan saw his saber and the badge on his shoulder, and noticed the respectful appearance of the Templars around him, so he laughed: "I didn't expect what Mr. Wolf Flute said to be true, Father, you really became a great official." ”

The tone of the laughter was the same as always, but Bane couldn't hear the laughter, as if he were a lame actor reluctantly reading his lines. Full of exhaustion.

"This is not a place to catch up, you go and rest first. ”

Bane stretched out his hand and brushed the ashes from his hair, and his voice was low: "I have heard about you: you have done your best, and you have done well enough, and you have followed the way and the way I have taught you, and you are worthy of it.

As for the rest...... Leave it to God to decide. ”

He turned to leave, and the Templars stepped forward and wrapped him in a blanket. They wanted to get him out of here. But Ye Qingxuan didn't move, just stood in place, looking at Bane's back.

"Father. ”

Ye Qingxuan suddenly called out to him, his voice hoarse: "I want to ask you for something." ”

Bane's footsteps snapped and he looked back at him.

"Ye, you have never asked me for anything, call me a priest today, and ask with me. If it's something that a priest can do. I will not refuse. ”

Ye Qingxuan laughed bitterly, and he said:

"—Please send me up. ”

Bane froze. frowned: "Ye Qingxuan, you are going to die!"

"Even if it's to die, I can't let her be left alone. ”

Ye Qingxuan looked at him with a hoarse voice: "Actually, I should have understood a long time ago, she was afraid ......"

"She has nothing to do with you!"

The priest's voice was cold, "Ye Qingxuan." Do you think she's going to think you're her friend?"

"Surely she's aware of something, Father.

Perhaps, she has discovered that this is not her home, her family may have disappeared, and everyone who knew her is dead.

When I found her. She hid in a corner. She told me that she was waiting for someone. I thought she was waiting for her father to come back, but I now realize that she ...... Waiting for me. ”

Ye Qingxuan raised his hand, and his clenched fist slowly unfolded.

I could vaguely tell that there was a small doll in the ashes in the palm of my hand. It was a strange doll made of dead grass, simple and rough, and it looked strange, not in the slightest.

It was something that Ye Qingxuan picked up from the ashes, and Elsa kept it in her hand and didn't let anyone see it, as if she was protecting her last precious item.

She didn't have guinea pigs, hairpins, or even friends, but she remembered to take it with her.

As long as this thing is still there, then there will definitely be people who remember themselves.

Even if she doesn't remember why she made this thing up, she once had such a friend......

She remembers that she was going to give this thing to someone. ”

Ye Qingxuan's eyes lowered, and he clenched the withered grass doll: "That's why she stayed there and waited, Priest, she was waiting for that person to come to her." ”

"She's waiting for me. ”

"I can't keep her waiting too long. Father, I have to go there. ”

Ye Qingxuan looked at him and said in a hoarse voice: "If even I give up on her, no one in this world will remember her." ”

Bane was silent, frowning, and soon, he raised his hand.

The surrounding Templars approached him, ready to forcibly take him away, but another voice rang out.

"Wait a minute, wait a minute...... Don't worry. ”

Master Anglo, who had been missing for a long time, ran over to the ashes, stopped the Templars, and pulled Father Bane aside.

"Don't rush to lock him up, Father...... Don't worry, let him go, and I'll cover him!"

The maestro hooked his shoulders and back, not like a musician, but like a gangster who came out to talk about things, and whispered: "As for the time of 'Faust', the last thing to worry about is him, how to say that he is also ...... The one who is optimistic. The next action, with him there, may be able to help somewhat. ”

"It's none of your business. ”

Father Bane looked at him coldly, "Even if you are a master sent by Anglo, please do not interfere in the military affairs of the Templar Order. ”

"Don't do that. The master stomped his foot, sighed, and quietly stuffed something from his sleeve: "Look at this, you still can't believe me?"

Bane looked down at what he was holding, his brow furrowed. looked at the master coldly, the master was still wearing a hood, but he laughed twice.

After a long time, Ban En retracted his gaze and glanced at Ye Qingxuan in the distance.

Ye Qingxuan was also looking at him.

"- Someone, armor for him!"

After Bane gave the order. Don't stay any longer, turn around and leave.

Soon, the iron whale in the air dropped an iron cabinet, and the black iron cabinet was engraved with intricate patterns. The two Templars opened the iron chest, revealing the sleeping steel armor within.

With the cooperation of several knights, the cyan power armor was quickly assembled on Ye Qingxuan's body, and the heavy metal after fusing lapis gold did not hinder Ye Qingxuan's induction of the ether, but became clearer and clearer.

Soon, the last 'artificial spine' was attached to the steel muscles. The fine tenon holes are tightened, and those complex and strong parts are tightened, tightly combined, and there are no more gaps.

The heavy armor fits Ye Qingxuan's body, as if it was tailor-made for him, and there is no inconvenience in moving, but it is becoming more and more flexible. The body is light as if it is about to fly.

The armor model is the same as that of the Herald Knight, and it is not too bulky and bulky. Lightness and agility are maintained, but defense is increased in vital areas.

At last. The Templar handed a document with a fire paint seal to Ye Qingxuan: "This is the activation password, key parameters and usage method of the 'Sword Dancer', you have ten minutes to remember him, but it is forbidden to spread it." ”

Ten minutes later, the Templars burned the papers to ashes in front of him and turned away, leaving only one sentence: "Order from Lord Bane: assemble in three minutes." Obsolete does not wait. ”

It was only now that Ye Qingxuan had the opportunity to thank the master who had never taken care of himself all along.

"No thanks. In the darkness under the hood, the master's voice seemed to be laughing, and his tone was strange and ambiguous: "I'm always responsible for you, right?"

“......”

Ye Qingxuan was speechless, just quietly moved back a little. lest this master with an unknown body and suspicious sexual orientation really do something to himself that he is responsible for-

Three minutes later, under the huge shadow of the iron whale, a small cabin slowly landed on the ground along the steel cable and opened.

Except for Mr. Hu, who was not under the jurisdiction of the Holy City, several masters who had been temporarily recruited entered and sat in it, and Ye Qingxuan, who arrived last, was intercepted by Father Ban at the door of the cabin.

"Next, as a Templar, you enter with several masters. ”

Bane looked at him, his voice grim: "Remember, the Holy City cannot allow the Romulus people to plunge into the realm of the Abyss.

Half an hour, you only have half an hour. Half an hour later, if you don't return, I'll order the Gates of Heaven to be activated, and ask His Majesty the Pope to use Destiny." ”

Destiny ......

Thinking of the ultimate movement known as God's Judgment and Punishment, Ye Qingxuan was cold, nodded immediately, and walked into the cabin in silence.

Father Bane took one last look at him and closed the hatch.

With a roar, the cabin was pulled by the steel cables and lifted into the sky, and after a minute, the whale would fall directly into the city, where time had frozen.

The priest watched as the cabin rose and watched them away.

After a long time, the Templars quietly arrived, whispering beside him, "Caligula is willing to speak." ”――

Iron Whale airdropped the forged raw materials, and with the Templars assembling them, the prototype of the headquarters was quickly built on the ground. And in a metal prison made of steel, Caligula sat in a chair, her hair unkempt.

He didn't seem to be being treated harshly, but he still looked haggard.

It's like getting old by decades overnight.

Father Bane motioned for the others to guard the door, and when the gate closed, he sat down across from Caligula and looked at him indifferently: "You ask for the natural calamity...... Why?"

Caligula raised her messy hair and looked at him, and suddenly smiled, "Do I ask your god who doesn't exist?"

Bane's expression was still indifferent, but he raised his voice:

"I'm asking you, why?"

"Why...... What?"

The elder scratched his gray hair and repeated his question in confusion: "If you want to ask why, I am at a loss. ”

"Probably...... I guess I have to do it. (To be continued.) )