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"That was a day more than 180 years ago," Austin looked at the distant mountains, and gradually fell into memory. As he narrates, a vast historical picture opens up the foggy corners that cover Roy's eyes.

"At that time, I had just done the most regrettable thing in my life, and I was in extreme confusion and pain, and I locked myself in my room every day. ”

Austin's voice was a little heavy, "Everyone is afraid of me, not only the rebellious Southern nobles and soldiers, but everyone around me. Even my father, at the strong request of the nobles of the imperial capital, ordered me to stay in the south forever, and not to leave my territory without a decree. ”

"And that very early that morning, my only friend in my life, Norton, rushed from the imperial capital to the south," the flame in Austin's eye jumped, "he is a heraldic officer of the Royal Heraldic Academy, funny, kind, If you know my identity, you should be able to understand that an illegitimate child enjoys more than glory and wealth in the royal family."

Roy nodded. After seeing the children of the nobles in the academy, he could fully imagine the arrogant targeting of the great nobles of the Romance Dynasty back then, the disdainful eyes of the minor nobles under the superficial deference, and the mockery and ridicule that came from behind him.

Among the aristocracy, there were many ideas that were deeply ingrained. The idea of noble and pure blood is one of them.

For the nobles, although they are all biological sons, there is a huge gap between the children born to an orthodox lady of noble blood and the children born to a maid from the first second of their arrival in the world. The former is just a mistake, while the latter is his own son.

Therefore, even if Austen is a royal bloodline, in the eyes of the aristocracy, it is still a product of Caesar V's absurdity. They are more willing to spend time teasing their dog than to show respect to an illegitimate child.

"Norton is a true nobleman and the only one who has no prejudice against me. Although he was still in the heraldic court at that time, he had not yet inherited his father's title. However, his status is very high. At least there is no need to flatter an illegitimate child. ”

Austin said slowly, turning his head to look at Roy, "Few people know the name Norton now. But you should have heard of his grandson. ”

"Who is his grandson?" Roy asked curiously.

"The founding emperor of your Saint Solan Empire, Grand Duke Solan. Austin said.

Roy twitched. What should you have heard of ̈There are probably not many people in this world who don't know about the Grand Duke of Saint Solan. That's a super fierce man who fought twenty-one bloody battles with the Holy See and established the Saint Soran Empire under the attack of the Pompeii Empire and the Philip Empire!

However, he didn't expect that Grand Duke Solan's grandfather was Austin's friend, but it was true.

"Norton was hunted down to the south. He didn't even dare to return to the Duchy of Solan. At that time, the strength of the Duchy of Solan was still within the bottom dozens of kingdoms and principalities in the Roman Empire. And the people Norton provoked were so powerful that his family couldn't protect him. ”

"Holy See!" Roy quickly guessed the answer.

Logically speaking, the royal heraldic officer is a core member of the royal family. Anyone who wanted to do anything to a heraldic officer would be declaring war on Caesar V at the time.

However, Norton, who is the heir of the Duchy of Solan, was forced to flee from the imperial capital. He didn't even dare to go home for fear of bringing disaster to his family, so it is conceivable that the forces of his pursuers were at least enough to rival Caesar V.

Roy could think of no other possibility than the Holy See, which had been hidden behind secular power for three hundred years. ..., "Yes, it is the Holy See." Austin nodded approvingly, then continued, "Because he had nowhere to go, he went all the way south to find my refuge." He knew it was the only safe place. As long as he steps into my territory, no one can do anything to him. ”

Austin's voice was as calm as water, as if telling a trivial matter, but what Roy felt from it was a domineering contempt for the world.

was hunted down by the Holy See, and even Caesar V could only remain silent, at that time, there was absolutely no place for Norton in the world. But there are in the south. Because this is the domain of Prince Austin of the Terror. Even if they gave those pursuers 10,000 guts, they wouldn't dare to ask Austin for it

A necromancer who was supposed to be burned at the stake not only lived under the nose of the Holy See, but also lived so that the other party was afraid, scruples, pretending to be deaf and dumb, except for domineering, Roy couldn't think of any other word!

"However, when I met Norton, he was already seriously injured and dying," the flames in Austin's eyes dimmed slightly, "and I tried my best to save him, but I was only a necromancer at the time. Moreover, there is not a single magician in my territory.

Roy was a little gloomy.

Sorcerers were a unique profession for the Holy See, and they were the foundation for the Holy See to gain the faith of the people and ensure the strength of its Knights. Therefore, the Holy See is extremely strict with each magician. Whether it is the management of people or the secrets of divine arts, it is strictly to the point of outrageousness.

At that time, Austin was the biggest heresy since the Holy See unified the religious beliefs of the human world. Their hatred of this heretic even surpasses that of the demons. Even after the birth of the Land of Chaos, more pagans appeared, and none of them could reach the heights of Austin.

A necromancer, every extra day he lives in the south is a humiliation to the Holy See, but on the contrary, they have no way to take Austin, so they can only pretend to be deaf and dumb.

And in that situation, naturally not a single magician would stay in Austin's territory. Not to mention serving this number one heretic, even if you have a word with him, staying close to him is also an unbearable betrayal for the Holy See.

Besides, I'm afraid that no magician has dared to approach a necromancer.

The two are natural enemies in the first place!

Roy could have imagined Norton's end, and he understood why Austin would later spend decades trying to transform necromancy. For this genius, the healing spell transformed by necromancy is a slap in the face to the Holy See and a nostalgic tribute to Norton.

"Before he died, Norton told me some truth about his hunting," Austin said, "It turned out that he had discovered a very strange phenomenon when he was cleaning up some ancient family heraldic records in the heraldic courtyard. That is, these families, in the decades after coming to the land of redemption, have successively added a goldtongue and a black hibiscus to their family coats of arms. ”

"Truth and shame?" Roy asked, frowning slightly. The goldfinch represents truth, while the black hibiscus represents shame. Ordinary families do not add such a pattern to their family coat of arms. Unless, they need to remind their descendants to protect the truth or wash away the shame.

"Yes," Austin smiled, "it seems that you have learned heraldry well." ”

He continued: "Later, the heirlooms who followed these families found that most of them had disappeared. The once thriving family decayed in a variety of ways, with its main members either dying of illness, accidentally falling from a horse, ingesting poison, or drowning while swimming. This aroused Norton's great interest, and he was keenly aware that there was a secret hidden in it, so he began to investigate. Norton has always been very cautious in doing things, and all the qiē is done in secret, and no one notices.

After a full year of investigation, Norton discovered that although the families had all died, some of their descendants were still surviving in other identities. Moreover, many of them turned out to be members of the heretical organization [Revelation] that opposed the Holy See.

Apocalypse taught Roy to hear the name in a trance before. More than 200 years ago, the Revelation Church suddenly appeared and raised the banner of heresy against the Holy See. Among the many rebel forces against the Holy See over the past three hundred years, the Revelation Cult is the most powerful and the most threatening to the Holy Church.

It is said that in its heyday, even many nobles were members of the secret Revelation Cult.

However, their existence lasted only a few decades before disappearing under the encirclement of the Holy See. That year, the kingdom of heaven sent a miracle that caused the Cult of Revelation to disappear overnight. Thousands of heretics died in the judgment of Heaven. Until now, this is a story that believers relish.

Austin continued: "By the time we got here, Norton had already realized the danger of this matter. He did not want to get involved in the struggle between the Holy See and heresy, so he stopped the investigation. However, he did not look for something, but it did find him - a friend of his childhood, who found him late one night, a few days after he had inadvertently talked about the family coats of arms in private.

This man is also a member of those ancient families. He told Norton that the original body of the Apocalypse was an organization called the Apocalypse Alliance, which was founded by the ancestors of these families. The original purpose of this organization was not to rebel against the Holy Religion, but to investigate the truth of the final battle.

After the final battle, the top brass of the Human Coalition was wiped out, and all information about the battle disappeared. Neither ordinary people nor historians know what happened in this war. They just think that it is just the final irreversible result of the Hundred Years' War

However, some people know that the ancestors of these ancient families were all survivors of the final battle, and they had personally experienced the battle of the final battle. After the war, they reflected, recalled, and inspired each other for a long time, and collectively deduced, so that they did not agree with the post-war identification of that war.

The contradiction is concentrated in two points. The first point is that in the final battle, although the human alliance is losing and retreating, the real strength is not as weak as everyone thinks. On the contrary, the coalition forces have been gathering strength and preparing to kill them with one blow. And the final battle is the decisive battle chosen by the human alliance.

It was a trap set by the coalition forces, and if nothing else, it would be able to annihilate the main force of the demons, and then engage in a full-scale counteroffensive.

Although these survivors are all on the periphery of the battlefield, and their own ranks are relatively low, they are not enough to know the full plan of the coalition high-brass. However, several of them had learned a little bit from their ambitious commander before the final battle broke out. And judging from the battle situation they observed at that time, the main forces of the coalition forces in the central battlefield should not lose and cannot lose!

And the second point is the hasty conviction of the Hansan Dragonlance Knights, which is now the Farrington Knights, after the war.

Because at that time, only the civilians and a part of the peripheral armies that had gathered in the nine cities close to the Broken Sky Mountain Range in advance were able to escape the pursuit of the demons with the spatial passage broken by the Holy Emperor, so everyone had no idea what was going on in the war zone hundreds of kilometers away.

And even those armies in the theater of operations did not know how the central battlefield, which was the first to collapse, lost. Therefore, the conviction of the Knights of Farrington was made solely on the basis of the accusations of several people. ..., these accusers are the commanders of the outer theater of operations, and the theater of operations is close to the defense of the Knights of Farrington

In court, they jointly accused the Knights of Farrington of not blowing the horn at the critical moment as planned, leading several associated forces to miss the plane, and at the same time losing valuable time to reinforce the central battlefield, thus leading to the defeat.

The presiding judge accepted the testimony and accusations of these men, but ignored the Knights of Farrington's defense of being ambushed by demons. Convicted the Knights of Farrington and ordered them to defend Fort Farrington permanently.

As low-ranking officers in the coalition army, the ancestors of these ancient families had great respect and trust for the Knights of Farrington. They didn't believe that these knights who had been fighting with the demons from the easternmost part of the continent to the foot of the Broken Sky Mountain Range, and who were not afraid of death, would make such a mistake.

However, there is no evidence to prove these two contradictions.

They could neither prove that the human coalition at the time could not have lost the battle, nor could they prove that Farrington was wronged.

The Broken Sky Mountain Range cut off the possibility of them going to the central battlefield to find the truth. And their vision was limited by the narrow field of view of the position they were in at the time, and they could not see through the fog of war that hung over the great war without more information.

In this way, with the completion of Fort Farrington, the battle gradually calmed down. And the people who have just arrived in the Land of Redemption are faced with the hard life of fighting against the barren and bitter cold environment and endless demonic beasts. As a result, the controversy over the final battle soon ceased to be of concern.

Although the people of these families are still concerned about that period of history, trying to find out the truth. But their stubbornness did not bring them good luck. Not only are they hitting walls in their investigations, but their lives are becoming increasingly difficult. All sorts of calamities befell them

Twenty years after the war, these families had fallen into disarray, replaced by waves of new aristocrats, buried in the dust of history, and almost no one knew about it.

Just when these ancient families thought that the truth of the final battle would never be revealed, one family, by chance, obtained a transcript of the orders of the military confidential clerk.

From this original manuscript, they found something unusual. Taken together, they felt more clearly that they were all pawns of a great conspiracy in that war. Back then, an invisible hand moved them, causing an irreparable end.

Perhaps fate was destined to reveal the truth of the year, and soon after, a major event occurred in the Holy Maiden Temple, which was composed of the widows of many gods of law and war who died in the final battle. The widow of a high-ranking member of the coalition forces suddenly left the temple of the Holy Virgin.

A few months later, she was found in a slum in a city, declared blasphemous by the Holy See, and burned at the stake in Vendinburgh. Rumor has it that she was convicted because she was the soothsayer of the elves and had received a revelation from outside the gods.

Though man died, the matter was great.

At that time, the struggle between the angry Virgin Temple and the Holy See even alarmed the kingdom of heaven. And the revelation that this widow received was also obtained through an extremely secret and accidental channel by these families who persisted in the pursuit of the truth.

In the backyard of a family, after watching this [Devil's Apocalypse] sealed by the Holy See, the participating families knew that things were beyond their power. If you want to do anything, not only will you not be able to reveal the truth, but it will bring ruin to your family and even the entire human race.

So, in order to hide the secret while sticking to the truth, they formed the Revelation Alliance in the name of the Revelation. The family coat of arms was added one after another, with the goldtongue, which represents the truth, and the black hibiscus, which represents shame. In addition to reminding future generations to defend the truth and wash away shame, the goldtongue and black hibiscus patterns of each family's different shapes are scattered with secrets about the scribe's orders and the book of revelation.

As time passed, the ancestors of these families died, some died, and some descendants went further afield.

And the secrets of the year have gradually become shapeless. ”

Speaking of this, Austin sighed silently, "That childhood friend came to Norton because Norton worked in the heraldic academy. They've pieced together a part of the apocalypse, knowing that there's a key that can unlock the mystery of the final battle, hidden somewhere. What is needed now is more coats of arms. ”

"Did Mr. Norton help with this?" Roy asked.

"If he hadn't helped, maybe he wouldn't have died. Austin sighed and continued, "After Norton died, it took me decades to find a verdict. It took me a long time to study it, and I realized that through its energy channel, you can pass through the Broken Sky Mountain Range and come here. ”

He raised his head, looked at the sealed battlefield under the castle, and said to Roy, "All the secrets are in this battlefield. As long as we break the seal, we will know what really happened back then. ”

"How do I untie it?" Roy followed Austin's gaze.

According to the book of Revelation, when you break the seals of all the disciples in the judgment, you will be able to break the seals of this battlefield. Austin smiled slightly and looked at Roy: "I'm optimistic about you." ”

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