Chapter 66: The Secret of the Mansion
After the monk finished speaking, he was about to close the door, and the strange young woman hurriedly stepped forward and said:
"Mr. Huigang, I'm sorry to disturb you so late, I'm the lady-in-waiting of Her Majesty the Grand Duchess Antti, and she has something important to ask you for, and I hope you can come with me once. ”
The eldest princess, when she heard the name of the monk, the woman who spoke coldly and did not recognize Fei'er as a princess suddenly appeared in her heart, and she couldn't help but feel disgusted in her heart, and she stretched out her hand to close the door
"The poor monk and the eldest princess have nothing to do with each other, it's so late, it's inconvenient, please go back. ”
"It's about His Royal Highness Phil. ”
The monk's action of closing the door suddenly stopped, he groaned slightly, and immediately made a decision, put on his outer robe, said hello to the two young men next door, and followed the maid out.
The Mayan city in the middle of the night is not deserted, all kinds of all-night business places are brightly lit, but these beautiful lights do not cover the moonlight in the sky, Hui Gang, who already knows a little about this world, looked up at the sky and found that the jade-colored moon was hanging in the air, and another round of blood-red moon was hanging not far away, only a small gap.
It seems that tomorrow is the night of the double moon in this world, the red moon and the jade moon are completely reflected in the sky, once a year, it is said that there is always a round of moon on the night of the double moon every year that will be indistinct to the naked eye, and only after every ten years, the two rounds of the moon will really reflect the night sky at the roundest time.
Hui Gang sighed at the incredibleness of creation, and didn't care about anything. The maid on a horse galloped ahead, and the monk followed behind without lagging behind.
When I arrived at the Grand Duke's Mansion, according to the monk's estimate, it should be at the back of the mansion. Walking to the secluded place, the maid showed her credentials to the two guards guarding the small door. Walked in with Huigang, and halfway through, the maid stopped. Pointing to a tall tower that was clearly reflected in the moonlight, he whispered to the monk:
"Mr. Huigang, I can't take you further inside, that building is where the Grand Duke will live tonight, the Grand Duke has instructed me, saying that you have a way not to alarm the guards to get there, please go over quickly, I am waiting for you here." ”
The maid roughly told the monk the route, and then flashed aside.
Hui Gang was a little worried about whether this invitation would be a trap. But then he gritted his teeth, for the safety of Fei'er, Longtan Tiger's Den was also about to break in.
After taking a few steps forward, the monk jumped up to the height. At this time, the method of feeling the aura that he had just learned was put into use, and all the guards and sentry in his vicinity were as invisible as lights in the dark.
Hui Gang used to use the nocturnal technique of walking the rivers and lakes in the past, as if he had no weight, jumping and moving between trees and buildings so quickly that he could not be detected.
It didn't take long for the monk to reach the tower, which, unlike the timber buildings of the previous life, was mostly made of stone, so it could be particularly tall. There was only a small door downstairs, and two soldiers were guarding the doorway.
However, this is obviously difficult for the monk, and his body firmly sucked in the smooth wall with the 'gecko wall swimming skill', and quickly climbed up.
Soon they reached the brightly lit window at the top, the only window in the tower, through which one person could be seen inside, and the Grand Duke fidgeted and walked back and forth there.
The anxious princess suddenly heard someone knocking lightly on the window, she was startled at first, and then happily opened the window. The monk jumped forward and looked at the woman in front of him, the wife of the Grand Duke, and Fei'er's mother.
The Grand Duchess Antti first hurried to the staircase leading downstairs and looked around, then walked quickly to Hui Gang, knelt down heavily, and pleaded with the monk with tears:
"Save my daughter, please help save my daughter. ”
Although the monk's calm skills are good, he still didn't expect the woman on the other side to say such a thing, it stands to reason that if someone says such a thing, it should be Archduke Edward, after all, in the welcoming ceremony, the attitude of the Grand Duke and his wife towards Fei'er is too much different.
The eldest princess Antti obviously saw that Hui Gang was a little suspicious of her words, and she didn't care about any etiquette at the moment, so she hurriedly told the monk everything.
Although the Duchy of Lange is not a powerful country, the history of the Bill family, which rules the country, is considered to be the longest among the royal families on the mainland, and it is said that it can be traced back to the time of the gods, and the patron god of this family is the goddess of nature. Somewhat similar to the situation where the Fleet family produces a paladin every few generations, each generation of the Bill family will have a girl in her bloodline with the blessing of the goddess of nature.
This kind of divine gift can make this girl have great vitality, and it is an excellent condition for cultivating natural spells and life spells, but I don't know when it began, a certain generation of Lan and Grand Duke did not know the way to learn from there, and sacrificed his daughter who had been blessed by the gods, and obtained a healthy body and a lifespan of nearly thirty years, and this divine blessing became a curse.
Every generation as long as there is a girl with the blessing of the gods, it will be used as a sacrifice to grant the king's wishes - mostly the wish for the throne and life, but the news has never spread, and everyone outside has only heard that every girl blessed by the goddess of nature cannot bear the huge vitality and will die before the age of sixteen.
After Fei'er was born, she was detected by the court sacrifice that she was the girl who received the gift of God in this generation. At that time, Archduke Bill Edward was very affectionate with the Grand Duke Antti, and promised Antti that he would not send his daughter to the altar. It's just that after four years, the Grand Duke is addicted to wine, and his health is getting worse day by day. The Grand Duchess Antti felt a little uneasy, and finally one day, Antti arranged for the female elf Jani to hand over the girl to a priest who had been greatly gracious to the Antti family. The priest's name was Philip, and he used a spell to erase her memories of when she was five years old.
Next, the Grand Duke arranged for the female elf to assassinate the court priest in charge of the sacrifice. Although she fell out with Archduke Edward because of these things, she thought that her daughter would live safely in Gravel for the rest of her life.
But a year ago, several people claiming to be from the Green Leaf Guild found the Grand Duke and promised to reopen the magic circle, at this time, the Grand Duke's body was almost collapsed, and it was obvious that he could not enjoy more time in this rich position, and it was a necessary wish to extend his life at this time.
Then things fall apart, first betrayed by the loyal elf Jane, and then, when she is ruthless, Phil is brought to her. At this time, all the eldest princess Anti, who was in despair in her heart, could do was deny the girl in front of her, not her own daughter.
Of course, after Fei'er entered the palace, the eldest princess was placed under house arrest.
In the end, the eldest princess couldn't cry, but she was afraid that the sound would alarm the guards outside, so she could only suppress her emotions. She received news that tomorrow was the so-called once-in-a-decade night of the double moon, and the ritual of sacrifice would be held at that time, and she suddenly received a message from the female elf Jiani, telling her that she could ask Huigang for help, and helped her pass the news to her confidant maid.
The monk was silent for a long time, and after a while, he let out a long breath. The eldest princess over there, Anti, was so worried that she couldn't get an answer for a long time.
"Please tell the poor monk where the ceremony will be held, such a terrible thing."
The eldest princess hurriedly told the monk where Fei'er lived now, although Huigang's face remained calm, but he couldn't suppress the monstrous anger in his chest, and he didn't say anything to the eldest princess, and got up to leave.
Seeing that the monk's expression had not changed, the eldest princess Anti thought that Hui Gang was not moved by the words, and was in a hurry, and was about to continue to say anything more to impress Hui Gang, but found that deep footprints had been imprinted on the marble floor under his feet, which showed that Hui Gang's heart was extremely angry.
The Grand Duchess Antti was also a person who had seen the market, and he knew that it was very easy for a samurai to easily stomp on a stone slab, but how powerful it must be to make deep footprints on the stone slab so silently. According to her recollections, the strongest samurai rank 14 general in the Principality of Lan and Ch could not do this.
The windows made of glass on the tower are surrounded, and the two bright moons have risen in the air at this time, reflecting the room like a fairyland on earth, but this fairyland is used to put the eldest princess under house arrest.
The monk turned around and had already opened the window, and when he was about to jump down, he felt that the moonlight in the window behind him suddenly dimmed. Hui Gang's heart froze, and he turned around quickly, only to see a shining arrow coming out of the left chest of the eldest princess Anti, and the terrifying blood stains continued to expand from there.
Antti slowly fell to the ground as if she was losing her strength up and down, and the monk didn't care about any male and female defenses, so he rushed forward to help the eldest princess, and hurriedly entered the internal force.
But such a fatal injury is obviously irreversible. The eldest princess gasped rapidly, desperately trying to speak. The monk was there with his hand against the back of her heart, the holy power of light and true qi continued to enter, she suddenly grabbed the monk's hand as if returning to the light, and said hurriedly:
"Save my daughter, save her"
Antti paused slightly, as if gathering what little strength she had left
"Tell Fei'er that we are lying to her, her parents have been ...... a long time ago"