Volume II, Chapter 94: Revenge
As a woman who once led the Little Queen Cardinal Knights out of the country to encircle and suppress heretics, a knight who wore the armor of Our Lady of Raphael and sent countless enemies to hell in the Religious Council, a swordsman who was expected to become the youngest sword saint in the Empire, Gochelle Windsor, a court poet, was obviously not a brittle flower growing in a greenhouse, but when she saw the majestic figure of the Coffin Knight Ted in the distance, which was nearly two hundred centimeters tall, and nearly one hundred and twenty hunters shrouded in pitch-black heavy armor, she still frowned and was publicly evaluated by Augustine as good-looking, and only 9 cardinal knights, 13 Gothrontongue royal swordsmen, plus Creed assassins and bounty hunters, the disparity in numbers with the Titan's enemies reminded the Secretary of State of the glorious battle that was too tragic. As for that ally and the four minions, the two dozen assassinations, large and small, have always retained their hidden strength to the greatest extent, are they really allies? She wasn't sure, not even sure if this exposure was a drama he had orchestrated, the young man knew a myriad of obscure theories that could not be reached in academic classes, military operations, constructing traps, identifying plants, dissecting animals, making a homemade compass, predicting the weather, Queen Goschel had to admit that this was an ally with a profound knowledge that was grossly mismatched by age, and she wouldn't mind showing more friendliness if it weren't for the fact that he calmly let his minions become undead puppets for temporary research after the death of the mage and the little queen knight。
Augustine pointed at the Holy Coffin Knight Ted, and smiled at the blonde boy: "Ares, seeing that knight who looks very strong but is actually more powerful, you entangle him and don't give him any chance to support his subordinates, this is your only task, not easy, but it is easier than asking you to defeat Guligli back then, if you complete the task, I promise to take you out to sea in the future, watching the sunrise and sunset on the sea, it is more beautiful than sitting here and watching." ”
Wearing the bundled hair of redemption, the white mask only shows the dark eyeholes, and the two contradictory auras of the sacred and the unclean are entwined and flowing, setting off him like a giant spirit crawling out of the unknown abyss.
Queen Goschel couldn't tell what the strength of this beautiful lame boy was, only that the classified documents of the Ministry of the Sacraments showed that he had appeared alone at the Night's Watch headquarters, which made the Sword Saint Wilde very embarrassed, and the church of confession was almost half demolished.
Can a teenager really contain a mature knight of the holy coffin?
Augustine turned his head and said: "Your Excellency the Chief Secretary of State, I am afraid that you and the valiant knights need to give me a little time to prepare this time, I hope that the scene of Naples pulling the Gray Nest will not affect your mood and cause you to perform at a low level, after all, I am not ready to regard this place as the end of the Titan journey, and I will try to help a little in this regard." ”
The surviving Knights of the Queens and the Royal Swordsmen were clearly prepared to face their deaths, and the honor of being able to fight alongside Queen Goschel was worth their sacrifice.
The Titan Hunters are approaching.
Queen Goschel ripped off her cloak, revealing the quaint Virgin Armor, the only regret was that the long sword in her hand was the Titan Army's St. Cloud broadsword, but it was not bad to cut off the enemy's head with the enemy's sword.
Augustine glanced at the Lich King and ordered, "Naples, throw all five crystal staffs over." Then get busy with your go, today's feast needs your elaborate decoration. ”
Augustine, who had received five high-quality staffs in one go, handed four of them to the female elf, who was more of a vase of love during the travels, leaping into the sea like a mermaid.
Augustine, who had only an aria-level white crystal staff in his hand, didn't make a move, just looked at the sea level, quietly waiting for news from the female elf. On the battlefield, the blonde boy burst out with terrifying combat power, and the golden short spear actually shattered the corner of the knight's shoulder helmet of the holy coffin, and Queen Goschel, who completely let go of the battle for the first time, was as amazing, and split a Titan knight in half with his armor as soon as he saw it, and the second hunter only lost his mind slightly, and became the poor prey of the greatest woman of the Holy Empire, which was powerful and did not lose to any male powerhouse, and the broadsword named after St. Cloud, the most famous knight in the history of the Titans, was cut in two by her, and then slashed off the knight's strong body diagonally, and split the body with a sword, just at a different angle。 In the center of the battlefield, the "loyalist" Ted, who was imprisoned by a lame boy, was shocked, could it be a Juggernaut, a female Juggernaut whose scarcity was comparable to that of a dragon? When did the Holy Empire, a girl who only uses mages to consume the physical strength of a Titan warrior, have a brand new Juggernaut?
It has been a long time since the archon of a holy descending brought about a nuclear explosion to construct a single magic spell, but at this moment, from Augustine's mouth, words that made magicians of the same profession regard it as a nightmare, mercury generally composed of the most complete [Oberon Sacrifice Garland], which is a large summoning technique, although the summoning object is not the evil abyss creature known to the world, but once successful, it will also bring a plague of dark magic, even if it is the cradle of mages- The Holy Empire, it has been too many years since I heard of a heretical magician who can forge a complete sacrificial wreath, you know, this "garland" known for consuming a large amount of nuclear weight and summoning body, even if it involves too many black realms, but many of the most orthodox old magicians can't help but praise from the bottom of their hearts, "It is a very beautiful thing for any magician to end up with a 'garland' in his life."
Will this be the end of Augustine, the magician?
Young Master Augustine in the ears of more than six hundred knights, whispering a profound incantation that every word could not be wrong in terms of syllables and end notes, his vision gently looked at the province of Titan Brimstone, this man who heard that it was called "the greatest bad news of the empire" by historians, from beginning to end, from the castle of poetry to the southernmost part of the current Titan, did not show any grief, so that at first even the chief secretary of state who accompanied him through half of the Titan had an illusion- This contradiction between a cold-blooded politician and a pious clergyman is not so sad about the fall of a genius fat man from the Rotten Child side family.
Two Creed-level assassins stood guard on the cliff, resisting the onslaught of some Titan Hunters at any cost, and fighting for more [Breeding] for the dark giant Time, during this busy and wonderful period of assassination, they at least gradually changed some of their worst impressions, and recognized that the young commander whose surname was Rotonchild had the sinister wisdom shared by more than ten generations of that family, and as for strength, they had a little expectation, and felt that since they could become the fourth archon of the Sacramental Ministry, if not equal to the chief secretary of state, they could at least have half of it, or a third?
The Grey Live is intertwined, and the Lich King Naples controls a number of "naughty" little dolls to turn the spearhead of three relatively well-corpsed Titan Dead Knights.
The battle was tight, with warm blood all over the floor, as viscous as someone had given Queen Goschel a lantern liquid.
The illegitimate daughter of House Windsor, the lioness who stands atop Rachel's Tiger in the Holy Empire, Queen Goschel has slew twelve Titan Knights, and no one doubts whether she is a rising but deliberately hidden Juggernaut, because the twelve corpses that are all separated in half without exception prove everything.
But her single overwhelming superiority could not prevent the heroic death of a cardinal knight and a Gothic tongue swordsman.
A fat man taught a simple truth to the holy empire of rigid chivalry: it is not a shame for a soldier to go to war, whether a recruit or a veteran, a commoner or a nobleman, to die in a foreign land.
She gasped slightly, stretched out her hand, and gently shook the broadsword in her hand, a string of scarlet blood drew a diagonal line on the ground.
She turned her head to look at her ally, who was still unmoving, and the corners of her mouth tugged at a cold arc that would keep the Senate conspirators awake at night, it seemed that it was another war in which no hope could be pinned on him, but she had nothing to fear.
The female elf surfaced, far from the cliff, but Augustine, who had finally stopped chanting, motioned for her to swim some further distance.
Augustine pressed his hands on the crystal ball of the staff that had been inserted into the ground in the first place, and pressed it down, and the whole white crystal exploded.
The calm sea slowly swayed, and suddenly, a storm as high as several stories was set off, and four pillars of light shot out at an interval of 100 meters, soaring straight into the sky, disturbing the clouds.
Augustine said softly, "Welcome, ancient ruler from the sea. ”
The sea calmed down instantly.
This made many Titans who were shocked by the magnificent scene feel strange and subconsciously relieved.
But an even greater wave broke the silence before the storm.
A massive body seemed to be a boundless ancient monster breaking through the water, and the head of a half-snake, half-dragon rose from the edge of the cliff. Only those scholars with mixed knowledge can know that this is a creature that only exists in mythology, and the golden trident of Poseidon, the main god of Olympia, was nailed to the depths of the Dragon's Back Trench by the golden trident of Poseidon, the main god of Olympia, the mother queen of countless krakens!
The calm priest bowed in salute.
The semi-mythical creature hesitated, lowered its head, and the priest jumped on it.
Its small black and shiny body wandered up the cliff and took up most of the space.
The human who seemed to have tamed the mother queen Kasenus, his hands were wrapped in two bright balls of light, one red and one black, with a diameter of half a meter, and the clouds in the sky began to tumble violently and converge, lightning and thunder.
Completely ignoring the sword and spear, the Mother Emperor is choosing people to devour, and the humans standing above it have created a vast area of brilliant magic befitting their position.
Odin's hammer.
Another unorthodox black magic that can make ordinary magicians feel incomprehensible, is this guy's core as deep as the sea?
Countless red lightning bolts struck, ignoring comrades or enemies.
One of the most brutal eliminations and purifications.
In the end, the only survivors standing in front of Cassenus were Queen Goschel, Ted, the Knight of the Holy Coffin, Young Ares, and the Lich King Naples.
The head of the Mother Emperor was only ten meters away from Ted the Loyalist.
The Knight of the Holy Coffin faced this incomprehensible existence, and for the first time his face showed the instinctive fear of a human being, not knowing whether to raise his sword or retreat. At this fatal moment, a prince-level immortal who had been hiding in the dark appeared behind him, Dimmit, who "gently" grabbed his head with both hands and kissed the neck of the knight of the holy coffin, life passed at a speed visible to the eyes, and the knight in the prime of life immediately turned into an aging old man, and then there was not a drop of blood in his body, and it became a shriveled skin bag that was only supported by bones, Dimmit threw it away, closed his eyes and reveled intoxicated:" The blood of the Knights of the Holy Coffin, I wonder if the cardinal archbishop of the Holy See of Byzantio is also so delicious. ”
Augustine smiled: "The friends of the Papal Hall are starting to leave, Dimitte, you can lead the way, I believe there is a lot of food in it that meets your picky tastes." ”
Dimmit began to run, but still with grace.
Augustine held out a hand and invited a stunned lady, like a nobleman inviting a celebrity to dine with.
Queen Goschel jumped on the head of the ancient creature with her sword and stood behind Augustine.
A boy and a Lich King walked leisurely in the grooves crushed by Kasenus's body.
It's really a "warm" scene.
April 4, 651 in the Titan calendar.
The papal chamber jury died a collective unnatural death.
And the cruel truth is that the most prosperous port of Upton in the Titan Empire was destroyed by a monster nearly 100 meters long.
May of the Titan calendar.
There was still a series of irresistible and intensive assassinations in the southeast of the empire, and the Titans, who had lost the "Lion Hunt" and a Coffin Knight, had to step up their search and arrest efforts, and did not hesitate to mobilize two Coffin Knights from the Red Gogol Plain, which was nearing the end of the operation.
Throughout the year, the Titan Empire was overwhelmed by two wars, and it is said that Prince William's temper was a little more irritable, the most obvious example of which was the former military minister's best-selling mainland work "Flowers and Immortality 3", which was greatly affected by this, and its sales were far inferior to 1 and 2.
But no one could have imagined that the two real protagonists would quietly come to Ouranos, the heart of the Titan Empire.
In a secluded tavern in the Russell district of the Titan imperial capital, a young monk dressed as a low-level priest of the Byzantian Holy See smiled and asked the boss for the signature Savoy liquor, and picked a corner by the window on the second floor, and the man in black robe sitting opposite the priest finally took off his cloak, and the tavern owner who served the wine lost his mind all of a sudden, and kept muttering to himself when he turned around, what a beautiful woman, this outstanding height is not worse than that of a Titan man. The woman glanced at the bronze cross on the chest of the madman opposite, and felt a little uncomfortable, the godson of the newest saint of the Vatlantican Holy See, and also had the right to interpret the fourth official classic of the Holy See "Teachings", but she wore the robe of Byzantio, the sworn enemy of the millennium, prayed regularly every day, and recited the words in the Vatican canon's canons in her mouth. After thinking about it, she couldn't help but smile, she was the chief secretary of state of the Senate, he was the leader of the sacramental department of the Imperial Holy See, but the two of them were sitting in the tavern of Ouranos drinking Savoy, which was probably even more awkward.
She asked a question that she had been thinking about for a long time, "That Oberon memorial wreath, since it is a memorial service, and it is also a mother queen, it should require immeasurable sacrifices, so what did you pay, Augustine?"
Augustine didn't drink much, handed it to her, but took out a gold pocket watch, racing against time to complete the final link, this precision engineering condensed between the dimensions with a strong personal evil taste than [order] The perfection was even before the battle of Kepler's gallows, and in addition to the gold case engraved with the strange characters, the little thing that cost Augustine countless efforts and time also had a whole set of chain springs, two kinds of racks, two hammers, pawl pins, worm wheels and countless gears, etc., as well as small things that professional watchmakers could not name and did not understand. In the eyes of Queen Goschel, except for the prayers of the ascetics, the young man spent all his free time on watchmaking, and his expression was even more reverent and focused, and when asked casually, he did not elaborate, but only elaborated on the general rules of operation, and laughed that the timbre of this watch may not be the best in the world, but it must be the most unique, but unfortunately the archon, who did not hesitate to praise her body and swordsmanship, was surprisingly stingy and did not even let her listen to the ethereal tick. When Queen Goschel saw that he had no desire to answer, she stopped asking, he had too many secrets, and if she pursued them one by one, she felt that it would be more difficult than reading those masterpieces with dozens of volumes.
When the watchmaking was over, Augustine carefully put away the only gold pocket watch that he would not share with Elizabeth, and asked, "How many days do you need to stay in Ouranos? I will wait for you for three days at most, and then your whereabouts will probably be revealed, otherwise I will not be able to save you even if I try my best to summon two Kasyanus here." ”
If before the destruction of the harbor of Aps, she heard Augustine say such things, Queen Goschel would only regard it as a humorous joke, but now she does not think it is an exaggerated aristocratic tone, and after a long time, she does not deny that she is very satisfied with the fact that this ally is somehow more neat and neat than her, and even she has to imagine a funny idea many times: if he could be in the Church instead of the Sacriard, would she be half as easy?
Augustine saw that she was rarely in a state of thinking that she was not wary of herself, so he took her wine glass very unceremoniously, took a sip, and said with a smile: "Although I have praised you many times in the past six months, I still want to say that when you think about the problem seriously, it is the most moving." It's a pity that we are enemies, otherwise I would really want to go to work in the Senate and run to the office of the chief secretary of state to see you in a daze if I have nothing to do. Haha, I guess I'm so bored, I'll be fired by you in a few days, it's a headache paradox, it seems that we are born enemies, just like the name of my pocket watch. ”
Queen Goshel was indeed wise: "Fate?"
"Bingo. ”
Augustine snapped his fingers, a phrase he had learned from the Lori Butler, a market term in the Muse Continent that signified that the gambler had won.
Queen Goschel smiled, if it were in the Imperial Academy, this smile would be the most inspiring reward.
Augustine was a thief and generally "polluted" by himself The wine glass was put back in its place, Queen Goschel was made to cry and laugh by this childish action, and glared deliberately, Augustine smiled, poured himself a glass, and looked out the window, Ouranos was more prosperous than expected, it seems that the Titan Empire was forced to pay attention to lowly commerce by the Divine Empire that had risen in wealth within fifty years, but it was obvious that the pace was still a little smaller, after all, the emperor who had the courage to award honorary knighthoods to merchants, the entire epic continent, was only Jupiter the Great.
Queen Goschel changed a wine glass and said softly, "We will meet here tomorrow, if you don't wait for me, you can return directly to the Holy Empire, there is no need to wait." ”
Augustine certainly understood the subtext, but shook his head unexpectedly: "Without the exact news that you have been sent to the beheading, I will still try to save the worst situation, of course you don't have to be grateful to me, I just don't want someone to end your life in my place." ”
Queen Goshel nodded and smiled, "But if I didn't wait for you tomorrow, I wouldn't waste time." ”
Augustine took a sip of wine, glanced fiercely at her breasts, which were so well disguised by the black robe, that they couldn't be better, and scolded in a low voice: "Beautiful women have no patience and conscience. ”
Queen Goschel was not angry, looked at the sky, and said, "There is still some time. Augustine, you mentioned domain behavior in the harbor of Apus, and I'm curious, can you explain that? I can probably guess that an ancient creature as powerful as Kasenus must have a vast exclusive domain, similar to a dragon, and the size of the domain should be the same as the level of strength. I can think of temporary predation and breeding domains, plus permanent domains like foxes and hamsters that never migrate, what else is there?"
Augustine laughed, "It's gone." ”
Queen Goschel stared at Augustine.
Augustine smiled and said, "Really, but if you can tell me the size of your boobs, I can play at a super level." ”
Queen Goschel narrowed her eyes and spun her glass with two fingers.
Augustine looked very insincere and deliberately afraid, "Ah, forget that my sister is a sword master. ”
Queen Goschel stood up, put her cloak and hat back on, and left the second floor of the tavern.
Augustine's secretly tense body relaxed, and quickly restrained his flirtatious look, Ares, Dimmit, and the Lich King Naples were all carrying out assassination operations in the southeast, so only he and Goshel Windsor arrived in Ouranos, he had been trying to find an excuse to test the nominal royal swordsmith, the consequences may be serious, but it is very tiring to suppress the darkness in his heart. Especially when she began to walk alone, Augustine couldn't help but want to break her neck many times, the reason why she didn't make a move, was not to cherish her body that was still very charming despite all her identity, but the odds were really small, and the choice in front of Augustine was that both of them died in Titan and left alive. Augustine leaned back in his chair, closed his eyes, and said to himself, "Wait." ”
Augustine paid a dozen silver Titan Mark coins, left the tavern, and walked alone in the twilight of the city of Ouranos, knowing that there was a utopian trading area in the northeast corner of Russell District that claimed to surprise all customers, weighed his net worth, and slowly walked towards that strange prosperity.
In the crowd, the Titan people, who were not very in awe of the Byzantian Holy See, did not pay much attention to this young priest, but some young ladies who were dressed up and traveled more or less had hot eyes, but they did not get their wish, and after seeing the high emblem, their interest was greatly reduced.
I don't know how these people would have felt if they knew that the shabby priest had dozens of Titan family insignia in his luggage, and many of these family members happened to have died in assassination within half a year.
Augustine buys a set of two copies of Flowers and Blood 3 at a bookstore , The author is the old prime minister of the Titans, he is a rather funny old man, if he hadn't borrowed Miss Elizabeth's two collections, the archon who has always been diligent and thrifty to the realm of picking the door is still willing to buy it, although it is nominally a personal biography of a Titan veteran, but it is mixed with a lot of interesting things, such as the old prime minister will write some fairy tales by himself, like some superficial prince and busty witch playing games, the ugly dwarf gives his beloved girl to a handsome knight, the princess likes the dragon who took her from the palace, and so on, which is simply too in line with Elizabeth's heavy taste, can't blame her for trying to kidnap the old man and hang him to force him to write a sequel, such a warm and warm adult fairy tale, even Augustine is very fond of it.
Caught under his armpit is said to be the final episode of "Flowers and Blood 3" , Augustine walked aimlessly in the bizarre utopia trade area, minus the night's accommodation fee, and a little mark silver coin left, and finally came to a doll shop that was not doing well, even the well-informed he was inevitably dumbfounded, because the things here are too maverick, the pewter knight sculpture, but it is a skeleton knight, the imitation dragon is the skeleton of the Dandong black dragon, the supreme Olympian gods in the minds of mankind are all shaped to be cute, and there are some similar lamb puppets that pull out of the belly, no wonder the business here is so cold that there is only one customer Augustine, and the shopkeeper is an uncle who does not treat customers as gods at all, Sitting behind the counter with his face to debug a miniature piano, Augustine turned around, and finally took a seppuku black rabbit cowering in the corner, he believed that a friend far away in the Muse would like this little thing, Augustine's real friends, it is really few to make people sigh.
When Augustine reached for the black rabbit puppet, his other hand held it almost simultaneously.
Augustine didn't look up, and with little effort at capturing details, he noticed that it was a delicate little hand with no blemish to speak of, very ladylike, like a work of art, very different from the Assassin Lady Quentin and the female knight Hera. Shifting his gaze slightly, Augustine found a blue peacock jade bracelet that was still very rare in the Epic Continent, it was genuine, not an imitation, in fact, the price of this kind of imitation fake was as high as smacking, not to mention that it was a genuine thing that was well-made and belonged to the royal tribute of the Mauryan Dynasty, and it exuded a round and charming healthy brilliance with the owner's skin. Augustine, who came from an ancient family on the front lines of the Holy Empire, was more knowledgeable than anyone else, and was more sure than anyone else that this bracelet was worthy of a medium-sized estate rich in fine wines. So, did you meet a titan noble lady with a unique taste?
Shouldn't we find an opportunity to break her fair neck?
All this happened in a few short seconds, Augustine raised his head, his eyes were quiet and gentle, looked at the Ouranos socialite wearing a luxurious white fox cloak, smiled and explained in a standard Titan accent: "Sorry, I took a fancy to it first. ”
Very pleasing scenery, her appearance is as moving as her little hands, even if she does not take off her hat, she is still so cute that it is almost comparable to the moon goddess, she has a pair of eyes full of art, her face is as delicate as porcelain, she is simply a grown up princess Mi Peifen.
Augustine marveled at the generosity of the Creator, a woman who was probably the most beautiful and fragile little stunner he had ever seen.
Unlike mistaking Empress Kamiao for an ordinary aristocratic woman, Augustine immediately determined that she had a half chance of being the crown jewel of the Titan Empire, Princess Barbara.
There was only an old butler standing at the door, short and old, but Augustine was very rational to suppress the idea of breaking the porcelain, whether it was Princess Barbara, nor the flowers of the city of Ouranos, they were not worth as much as his own life.
She seemed to know her superiority very well, and poor Baba looked at Augustine, her little hand still unwilling to let go of the puppet that she had fancied at a glance.
Augustine shook his head insistently.
She stared at the Byzantian monk in a daze.
Augustine tugged at the puppet, but the young lady was stubborn, and instead grabbed the tight-cut rabbit that made her eyes shine, and refused to compromise, and she had already given it a nickname.
Augustine always had some unreasonable little insistence, so he also increased his strength ungentlemanly.
She pleaded softly, "Give it to me, and I'll give you a hundred charathus, no, two hundred." ”
She's not a lady who likes to squander her pocket money, and that's already a big concession.
Augustine smiled and said, "I'll give you 8 silver marks." ”
She tilted her head in disunderstanding.
Augustine blinked, "That's all I can pull out at the moment, and it proves that I care more about this puppet than you do." ”
She opened her mouth wide to express her surprise accurately, but she finally reluctantly let go. He's not a gentleman, but she's ladylike.
Augustine said thank you, then took the seppuku black rabbit puppet and finished the payment, and calmly left the shop.
Somewhat disappointed, the young lady walked to the door of the shop, got into a carriage without the family logo, picked up a pen and paper, and sketched a picture of the ungentlemanly Byzantian monk, although she deliberately scandalized it in anger, but looking at the work, she still thought he was quite handsome.
The old butler smiled and said, "Although he exudes a little bit of danger, the next thing is more of an aura similar to that of a saint, so old Ferdinand did not stop this priest from leaving." ”
She looked away from the sketch and was surprised: "Saints, the second inquisition of the Byzantian Holy See has arrived in Ouranos?"
The old butler nodded and said softly, "This priest may be a special person in the Pope's Hall. ”
She groaned, not very interested, and threw away the sketch in disgust.
The Titan is the closest country to the immortals on the continent, the child of war, and has never had a good relationship with the Byzantian Holy See, which likes to point fingers the most.
Augustine stayed in a moderately priced hotel that night, and went out at noon the next day, and sat in the tavern selling Savoy liquor until dusk, when Queen Goscher sat down punctually in her cloak, Augustine could not say whether he was relieved or regretful, and the secretary of state, who had infiltrated Ouranos at great cost, looked very calm, and could not tell whether it was excitement or loss. Augustine had a modest dinner with her and left the Titan Imperial Capital, never asking her if she had completed her mission or had wasted more than forty of the Empire's elite. The two silently walked through the Titan territory, did not carry out any more unnecessary assassinations, and even intentionally or unintentionally bypassed the Red Gogol Plains where the smoke of gunpowder gradually faded, and they finally stepped back to the borders of the Holy Empire, Augustine was going to Moby Dick Fortress to wait for a few servants of Dimmit, as for the human and undead knights led by the Grand Knight of Jurgen, they had already returned to Black Swan Lake, and the war that took place in the territory of the Titan was destined not to be officially recognized and rewarded by the Empire.
At night, on the edge of an unknown stream, Augustine counts his belongings.
Map of the province of Titan with two dozen crosses.
Forty-two coats of arms from thirty families, including the Rattlesnake family badge of the Grand Duke of Enlatin and the Brown Bear War Medal of the First Class, and the tragic Meloti family had a few more because the family crest was too elaborate.
Regardless of the obedience, the death of the middle-level bureaucrats of the Titans was 579 people, plus the tail sweep of Dimitt, no matter how it was calculated, there were 650 people.
Augustine was more satisfied with this result, not to mention the death of the little queen cardinal knight and the Gothron tongue swordsman, which also made him feel good, this trip, which lasted more than half a year, summoned the mother queen Kasenus, killed a knight in the coffin who may not be able to make up for many years once he died, met Miss Imperial Capital, who may be Princess Barbara, and bought "Flowers and Blood 3" and a seppuku black rabbit puppet, plus recognizing the hidden strength of His Excellency the Secretary of State, Augustine put back the items one by one, and then lay on a stone and looked up at the starry sky, the starry sky in summer is always so deep and beautiful.
Queen Goschel took off the armor of Our Lady of Raphael and sat on the bank of the stream not far from Augustine, her sword still the same St. Cloud's broadsword.
She said softly: "Augustine, I didn't expect you to be a madman who cultivates all professions, no wonder you can live to this day, you deserve it, I begin to regret that I did not agree to the request of Marquis Todd at that time, and dragged you into the mud of His Majesty's distrust." It won't take me a few years, and maybe I'll have to deal with a true Sacramental magnate. ”
Augustine said flatly: "I hope that next time I go to the Academic Council, you can invite me to drink a cup of black tea that you brewed with your own hands." ”
She laughed it off and said no more.
Augustine sat up and laughed at himself, "Maybe soon you will have a chance to judge me." ”
Queen Goschel frowned and said, "Are you really going to find Count Dürer, who is temporarily idle?"
Augustine did not answer.
She picked up a handful of stream water, splashed it on her face, and said softly: "I only know that His Excellency the Grand Consul rushed to Marceau County immediately after returning to the Empire, and the Senate can prove this in writing. ”
Augustine laughed and said, "Who said that a beautiful woman has no conscience?" ”
Queen Goschel smiled.
In return, Augustine immediately went to roast some fragrant fatty fish for the chief secretary of state.
The bonfire illuminates two of the most powerful faces of the empire in the future.
At least for the moment, they are still more like a pair of friends.
The two parted near Moby Dick Fortress without much goodwill.
In the southern part of the empire, in the glorious residence of Count Dürer, the former commander of the Grand Army, in the study, the middle-aged nobleman who has been climbing rapidly in the imperial administrative pyramid is writing a letter of thanks that will be sent to the military minister of Jupiter, if it were not for the intercession of the number one powerful person in the military world, His Majesty the Emperor who was furious would not only remove him from the status of the commander of the Grand Army and demote him to the first level, but really send him to the gallows as Prince Columne said, like the unfortunate Duke of Rotonchild, his noble family did not mind a powerful nobleman temporarily taking a back seat, and what they could not let go of was that the whole empire was insulting。 Halfway through writing, Count Dürer threw away his quill and gritted his teeth and cursed: "The damned traitors of the Rotonchilds, who can still let a restless dead fat man make me suffer such humiliation, and one day I will make the disgusting obsidian something that everyone tramples on!" There is only one Augustine left hiding in the countryside of Marceau, and a Gakka Miao who ran to the Mayan temple to make a disgrace, hehe, I heard that this sorceress is good-looking, I don't know if the moaning on the bed is as skilled as chanting incantations, if it doesn't satisfy me, but let her eat a leather whip!"
Applause rang out.
A young man stood in the shadow of the study, and it was he who applauded, stepped out of the shadows, and said with a smile: "I like to deal with the great heretics with ambitions, and I get pleasant results every time. ”
Count Dürer, oh, now Viscount Dürer, said calmly, "Who are you?!"
The young man said apologetically, "Augustine-Rotonchild, a country friend from the Congregation of the Sacraments. ”
Count Dürer suppressed the doubts and fears in his heart and asked, "How did you get in!"
Augustine, who infiltrated the province of Racine from Moby Dick Fortress, said disapprerovingly: "I have been waiting for you here early in the morning, and during this time I have to look through a military book of the old general of Monte Cristo on the shelf, and I have only read half of it, it is a very good work, it seems that you have not read it yet, just as an ornament, I propose that you have time to read it a few times." As for the few friends of the sacrament ministry who have not entered the study now, they are not educated, and they really don't know how to get along with the nobles, so in order to save trouble, they send everyone who can see them to hell. ”
Standing behind Augustine and walking out of the shadows together was the prince-level immortal Dimmit, who said regretfully: "I may be the only member of the Order who understands the cultivation of human nobility other than my master, but unfortunately, I don't like dirty blood, and I can't let the relatives of the viscount die peacefully." ”
Count Dürer's face turned pale instantly.
He said frantically: "You have no right to judge me! Even neither the Leestellar nor the Teutonic priests have this right, and His Majesty the Emperor has forgiven me!"
Count Dürer probably didn't know that the Night's Watch butcher, who had never been very fond of talking to heretics, was used to having his hands dirty.
Augustine held out a hand, and the Servant of Darkness handed over the five daggers that had been prepared long ago.
On this day, Viscount Dürer's hands, feet, and neck were nailed into daggers and hung on the wall.
All that was left was a puddle of foul blood and a gold balance badge on the desk.
In the dead Silent Mansion, Augustine did not hurry to leave, but sat at his desk in the place that belonged to Viscount Dürer, with a wide-eyed corpse hanging on the wall behind him, and he patiently read through the military treatise.
Putting the book back on the shelf, Augustine looked back at the corpse before leaving the study, pouted, and said, "It's really a good book to read." ”
The eye-catching badge that was left behind began to officially appear on the stage of the empire.