Volume II Chapter 96 Thirteen and the Statue

The infant baby, with difficulty and luck, survived the most vulnerable stage, got out of the cradle, learned to walk, and began to run.

This is the order, the most independent institution of the Holy Sacrament Congregation of the Vatlantican, with a gold balance badge.

Augustine sat in a dimly lit little study and counted his wealth on paper: the three laboratories of Sheephorn, except for more than seventy researchers, plus the first subordinates, numbered about a hundred. With Miss Rey's help, several of the nails that the mother of the black sheep had planted in the horns were pulled out and became dissected objects on the laboratory table. Now a very clean claw, this secret little game between Augustine and Mistress Haihime was won by the Order Chief in a less glamorous way.

The sixty-nine mature knights of the Clough family can be put into any battlefield at the first time. As for the Hundred Knights who were chosen by the Order from the Lolita slave market, they were good coolies, but nothing more. For this group, it is very contented and grateful to have butter, bread, and shelter, and not to worry about being sold by slave owners to aristocratic lords who like to whip corpses one day. After the departure of the Grand Knight Hera, the Girl Mage Regiment did not expand in size, and lacking Miss Hera's mysterious intuition, Augustine was unwilling to waste a copper plate to feed a group of girls who were not qualified to be cannon fodder.

The closest to the threshold of the Coffin is the Dead Sea Knight Descartes, with nearly a hundred skeletons and undead knights behind him. Ted, a loyal who was cultivated by the sheep's horns, was close to being scrapped after the corpse arrived at the Snare, and there was no possibility of becoming a Hell King Spirit, but he had the opportunity to become a Hell Heroic Spirit second only to the Dark Knight Apex, which was acceptable good news.

Dimmit in the cemetery, the servant of the True Ancestor who has been slowly promoted to the rank of True Ancestor, is Augustine's most important hole card. The two dormant marquis of the Immortal Seed themselves are of little significance, but the two families behind them, Gondehuus and Marshall, are willing to accept the invitation of the Order, and this information is crucial. In particular, Prince Quinn of the Gondehuus family happens to be one of the two great founders of the underworld of poetry, and Augustine has too many small problems to humbly ask the deputy speaker of the Judah Mar Council for advice, hoping that the patriarch of Gundehuus, who signed the "Secret Treaty of the Pink Card", will not become a thief who usurps poetry. However, Augustine did not mind uprooting the only immortal family in the Holy Empire, and the two emperors, because of a royal secret scandal, hated this dark race sleeping in coffins far more than any previous emperor who was already quite disgusted with immortals.

Halfway through writing, Augustine put down the dry quill in his hand and loosened his wrist, this beautiful and tough quill was taken from the black swan in the lake, because of the misjudgment of the leaker, Madame Quentin was punished by the chief of order to pick the outermost five or six feathers of the left wing of the black swan, and the angry Florentine kitten left nearly a hundred sharpened black goose feather tubes to the unkind chief of order in a few days, Augustine had to stop her harassment of the guests of the manor, otherwise the black swan would not be found for the next few decades。 On Augustine's desk, in addition to quill pens filled with pen holders, there were crow quill pens that were more suitable for writing fine fonts, and a few of the most old-fashioned reed tubes, which were a stubborn tradition in the monastery of Meridiana, which was forever a beat behind the Empire, and occasionally Augustine would take out a copy of the Quralan and practice it.

A two-headed golden viper coiled in the corner of the desk, and both heads gently looked at the "father" they saw for the first time after birth, and their scarlet eyes were full of unbelievable humanity. The stingy and mean order chief treats this "bastard" very generously, and does not hesitate to feed it with all the most cherished and expensive food on his hands, Augustine opened a crystal bottle and spread a few grains of bait made of blood dwarf eyeballs and immortal bat wings in the palm of his hand, the golden viper was not in a hurry to eat, first affectionately lowered his head and licked the fingers of the kind "father", and then swallowed the delicious. This action means "worship and tame" in the Golden Subspecies occult dictionary, symbolizing the pride of the demigod species in the second place. Augustine smiled slightly, stretched out a finger and flicked one of the heads, it seemed that the little guy liked his father's pampering very much, and was flicked, so he playfully lay down his head, straight and pretended to be dead, Augustine scratched its gorgeous body with his fingers, and soon, the little guy rolled happily on the table, and the little head bumped into it, so he looked up and looked at his father pitifully, obviously coquettish, not to mention hitting the wall, even if the sword blade cut down, it may not feel pain, and finally the entire golden torso was wrapped around Augustine's arm, Augustine lowered his head and said softly: "Your mother, who misses you in a distant land, loves you more than I do. ”

Augustine then plucked the little one, who was meekly dependent on him, bent down on the ground, and said with a smile: "Play by yourself, familiarize yourself with your territory, the Garden of Eden, and one day the castle of poetry will need your protection." ”

The golden two-headed viper swam out of the study with its twisted body, and soon reappeared in the doorway, Augustine, who had known that it would be like this, glared, and the little one immediately ran away.

Augustine turned to pick up his pen again, dipped it in ink, and continued to flow on the cheap papyrus. His handwriting, even in the Observatory of the Air, would have been praised by the group of elderly ascetics.

There was no antique porcelain in the study, except for the books that I read frequently, and a few wooden boxes with a few drab collectibles, and there was no trace of the exquisite atmosphere of the Tame Gallery, which Professor Shirley loved, and naturally could not compare with Miss Elizabeth's Gothic mixed baroque lavish boudoir.

The magic array of the Twelve Zodiac Palaces has tended to be grand and refined. The power-hungry Louis butler has integrated into a new life, and as long as he can bring power to this beautiful man, he can be dark or light, and the Count of Marseille is happy to build an arena with such a partner. Lady Fiona, the Empress of the Salon, seemed to have changed from a to a saint overnight, in addition to training Lolita's carefully selected maidens and children into "swallows" and "crows" every day, consulting the Order's spiritual practice with the Order, and praying regularly every day, the body of the already rotten and rotten plaything began to exude an air of unfeigned piety. With the addition of the Champs-Elysées Witches half-strip, the Château de la Snère, which had no land revenue, gradually had a regular source of gold coins. The female elf Heyman writes the elven language at the request of her master.

Augustine picked up a blank piece of papyrus and wrote "Two Bourbons." "Oscar the Clown. "The unpublished ninth, tenth, eleventh, twelfth and final thirteenth volumes of the Teachings. ”

But soon, Augustine burned the paper with a small magic spell that gathered the elements of fire.

Got up and came to the tulips on the fifth floor, Hall was explaining the history of the empire to the girls, Augustine was sitting in the last row, Hall and the girl had adapted to the occasional arrival of the chief of order, and the position where the chief of order had sit, no one dared to approach, only dared to peek a few times from a distance with the awe of pilgrimage.

Augustine listened to Hall's account as his thoughts drifted away, the last smoke of gunpowder dissipated on the Red Gogol Plains, the Holy Empire had won for the first time recognized by the Epic Continent, and the arrogant Children of War finally admitted that in addition to Kamiao's Iron Horseman, there was an opponent on the continent who could confront the Titan Knights head-on. The hard-fought victory of the Holy Empire was at the cost of more than 20,000 soldiers, as well as 3,500 mages who were awarded official certification badges, and huge war loans borrowed from the great lords and bankers, which was an astronomical Caesar. The Plantagenet Dynasty has been declining for a hundred years, and historical observers are convinced that it is this bad act of overdrawing the credit of the empire that has created a vicious circle, endless borrowing, like a child and not repaying, and then forcibly expropriating in the name of the empire and the royal family, and finally, the tired empire and the angry aristocracy began to refuse any war, making the giant Plantagenet a military cripple, so that the Holy Empire, which has risen and grown at an astonishing speed in the Eastern Continent, has also begun to take the initiative to enter the strange circle?

Augustine remembers a question and answer that took place between him and the chief secretary of state during his travels.

She asked, "Why are the magicians of our empire so powerful, is it really the favor and gift of the magic gods, as explained by the Magic Guild?"

Augustine replied: "These are irresistible mysteries, but what I see in my eyes is that after the end of the war, His Majesty the Emperor has resisted the criticism of the priests by the great noble families behind the waves of fallen knights. On the battlefield of the epic continent, honor belongs only to knights, and the assistance of mages is taken for granted, but once a mistake is made, resulting in the death or injury of a knight, he will face scolding and questioning by a military court. What His Majesty the Emperor does is to appease and mediate, this is not a trick, but it requires a lot of courage and mind, in the Holy Empire, His Majesty the Emperor is not worried about the large-scale demise of mages, and mages are not worried about being retaliated by the knight group for mistakes, this is the tacit understanding of a virtuous circle. ”

Augustine came back to his senses and said to himself, "It is so difficult to govern a poem, so much so Emperor Jupiter, Empress Kamio?"

Quietly leaving the classroom halfway, Augustine went to the Sheep's Horn Laboratory, this time not playing a sex game with poor Miss Rey, but asking for one of the best mammoth tusks, and the Chief Research Officer, who was not "pampered and humiliated", looked at the back of the archon, his eyes were complicated, he took a deep breath, and returned to the intense experiment, the corpse of Tyde, the knight of the Holy Coffin, gave Sayuri a big problem, to meet the minimum requirements of that demon, to create a hellish heroic spirit, and the road was full of thorns. Augustine returned to his study, took out a razor, cut the ivory half a meter long into a dozen knots, picked out the middle section, and began to sculpt.

The first rule of the Knights: We are soldiers.

Article 2: Second, we are the knights.

Rule 3: Don't forget that we are nobles, remember to surrender if you lose, you can be redeemed, but don't forget to get a little secret in the rival camp, which is also a war achievement.

Article 4: The handsomeness of the Captain Reinhartay must be sincerely praised, and it must be recognized that the wisest of the Knights is always Lord Reinhardthai.

Rule 5: On the battlefield, you can escape, but you can't leave your comrades behind.

Article 6: In order to emphasize the importance of Article 5, Article 6 is the same as above.

Article 7: The regimental commander will bring a medal to each person.

Article 8: Victory is the first honor of a soldier, fuck the knightly virtue!

Article 9: Don't always let the head of the regiment come forward to wipe your ass in person, whoever beats you up and pulls the team to beat you over, Lao Tzu gives you this right.

Tenth: Writing love letters, writing essays, all twenty Caesars, friendship price, nine percent off.

Eleventh: No matter how hostile you are on the battlefield, please aim your spearhead at the enemy on the battlefield.

Twelfth: Please keep in mind the collective wish of our Knights - whoever can sleep with the princess of the Titans will be the greatest hero

Thirteenth: We are never alone.

That night, Augustine carved a fat knight and gently placed it on his desk.

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