In the clear blue sky, a magic sky boat was flying steadily, emitting a kind of low, humming sound characteristic of the magic furnace. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

In its cabin, there is a large family crest, the whole is circular, in the center is an upside-down knight's sword, the blade of the sword is pointing to the sky, is being held by a powerful hand, but in the background is a dancing two-color flag embroidered with exquisite patterns, the style is not too complicated, it looks orthodox and majestic, it is the family crest of the Gerald family.

Before Olivia Field ascended the throne as queen, the details of the cooperation treaty between the Witch's Hand and the Kingdom of Chirod had been almost discussed, with only a few minor points still to be discussed. After the enthronement ceremony, it took nearly two days for Alexie and those officials of the royal capital to finally settle the matter, and after dealing with all this, Xia and Alexie left the capital of Berthampur on the magic sky boat that came, although the celebratory atmosphere in the royal capital is very nostalgic, but it is undoubtedly more important to return to the headquarters of the 'Witch's Hand', and in the end, a certain magical girl can only endure the pain and leave.

On the day of Queen Olivia's enthronement ceremony, because she was also in the crowd of lords and nobles, even though Xia was cautious again, she was still discovered by a sharp-eyed imp and revealed her identity, although later Norab Corvich gave up continuing to ask her for the fine of eight gold mannies because of the aristocratic status of the eldest lady of the Gerald family of Alexie, but afterwards, the strange eyes of a certain magical girl staring at her made her feel very uncomfortable, so for being able to leave the capital city of Berthampur as soon as possible, away from a certain hateful imp, someone raised his hands in favor。

"This time, it's really thanks to you, Natsu!"

On the flying magic airship, somewhere in the cabin, two girls were leaning on the railing, enjoying the breeze blowing, looking at the scenery of the distant land, suddenly, one of the girls in a black and purple pleated skirt spoke, turned to look at the other, and there was a hint of curiosity in her voice: "I can't imagine that your negotiation skills will be so powerful?" Xia, how did you come up with such a way to persuade Her Majesty Queen Olivia? If you think about it carefully, it seems to be really reasonable!"

As she spoke, the magical girl seemed to have some not-so-kind thoughts, the corners of her mouth were slightly hooked, a little black, and a little ill-intentioned.

"What does it mean to make sense? It's a truth!"

Hearing Alexie's words, Xia couldn't help but purse his lips and said in an unkind tone: "In my original world, there is such a saying: water can carry a boat, and it can also capsize a boat. ”

In order to avoid this little girl's misunderstanding, she also repeated this sentence through a heart-to-heart connection to clarify its meaning.

"Can water make a ship float or sink a ship?"

Alexie frowned slightly, as if she was thinking about the inner meaning of this sentence, but then, she put forward a different opinion: "That's true, but the establishment of this sentence also requires preconditions, right?"

"Prerequisites?"

Hearing this, Xia couldn't help but be slightly stunned, and finally came back to her senses from a certain contemplative state, and turned her head to look at this little girl with some suspicion.

"yes, look!"

A certain magical girl began to wrench her fingers and counted the same: "First of all, the boat can float on the water, right? So, if it sinks, it means that there are two possibilities, the first is that there is something wrong with the ship itself, where there is a hole, or the whole ship is rotten and damaged, which will cause water to seep and leak, and finally sink." In the second case, the ship is overturned by the waves because of the wind and waves, so it sinks. ”

"Uh...... So what?"

Natsu raised her eyebrows and asked rhetorically, a little unsure of what the magical girl meant by this.

"So, here's the problem!"

Alexie stared at her with wide innocent eyes and announced her conclusion: "If this is a pool of stagnant water, without wind, and the ship itself is strong enough and without a gap, then it doesn't hold?"

“......”

Xia stared at this little girl who had nothing to do with a pair of empty eyes, and said in her heart: Fortunately, you didn't ask which one of the mining techniques is stronger!

"Isn't that right?"

A certain magical girl still looked at her innocently, with a cute expression.

It's a pity that the faint smile on the corner of her mouth exposes the true thoughts of this little girl.

“...... So, what exactly are you trying to say?"

Someone resisted a certain impulse in his heart, and the whole person lay on the railing, trying not to look at this girl who was smiling a little hateful, and his tone was helpless.

"What I want to say is that if it wasn't for the problem with the ship itself, it must be because of the 'wind' with ulterior motives that is making trouble, otherwise, it would definitely not be possible to rely on a pool of stagnant water!"

Fortunately, Alexie finally restrained the expression on her face and raised her index finger and shook it lightly, meaning something.

"Well, you're actually trying to say that the church is the 'wind' with ulterior motives, right?"

Hearing this, how could Xia still not be able to guess this little girl's thoughts, and couldn't help but sigh lightly.

"That's right!"

However, as if she couldn't hear this guy's sigh, Alexie raised her tone slightly, and said to her: "The so-called 'water' is actually the existence that is most likely to be used by people to incite emotions, as long as people with intentions create a certain atmosphere and fabricate some false public opinion to mislead them, they can use their power to achieve their ulterior purposes! A large part of the water, they don't even have the most basic ability to think for themselves, if someone else says something, the more people say it, the more they believe it, and then blindly follow it!"

As she spoke, the magical girl's eyes became brighter and brighter, and she seemed to have figured out something, and continued to say to her: "And the people of the church, they take advantage of this, so they will fight against our witch's hand, but they do not compete with the lords and nobles for wealth, but only spread their own teachings, in order to be able to dominate public opinion one day in the future, create a 'wind' to influence the 'water', and create a 'wave' that will sink the ship!"

"Hey......"

In this regard, Xia just sighed lightly again, ignoring this eager little girl.

"Natsu, don't you think that what you said to Her Majesty Queen Olivia can be the best weapon against the Church?"

Alex finally said her purpose, and looked at her with burning eyes: "You know, a large part of the strength of the church depends on the number of its believers, the more people who believe, the stronger the church, the stronger the church, the more people will believe, this is a very terrible cycle! And your words, Xia, it is very likely to be able to completely end this terrible cycle, as long as we spread it among the kingdoms that have been influenced by the church!"

"That's right, that's where the weakness of the church lies!"

Eventually, a magical girl announced that she seemed to be able to foresee some kind of scenario in the future.

"Yes, it does. ”

Hearing this answer, Xia knew that she could no longer avoid it, she stared at Alexie, and her tone was a little wary: "But, little girl, have you ever thought that it will be dangerous for you to do this?"

However, before Alex could speak, another voice answered---

"Yes, it's dangerous!"

Xia suddenly raised his head and looked in the direction where the voice came from, but his hair was cold.

I saw that on the horizon of the sky, above the faintly undulating mountains, somewhere in the sky, a figure appeared in a person, it was an old man in a red robe who couldn't see his face clearly.

He walked slowly from afar, his bright red robes, dancing in the wind, looking very dazzling.

One step, two steps......

From the far side of the mountain, in just a few steps, he crossed the long distance between him and the magic skyship, and moved like a ghost, to put it mildly.

After the third step fell, he was already standing less than twenty meters away from the Demon Sky Boat, standing in the air without any evidence.

Then, the red-robed old man waved his hand lightly.

The wind has stopped.

The magic skyship was frozen in mid-air, unable to move forward even a millimeter.

It was as if at this moment, the whole world stopped, and only the red robe on the old man's body was left agitating.

Legend?!

Xia's heart suddenly slowed down by half a beat, and he immediately reacted, looking at the old man with great vigilance, and an indescribable sense of great panic and threat hit his heart.

"Summer!"

Alexie's voice came from the psychic connection, with a hint of horror and unease: "I... I can't move......"

She turned her head to look, and sure enough, the magical girl's whole body movements were the same as those of the magic skyship, and the whole person froze, as if it was frozen in ice, unable to move.

"You guys, it's dangerous!"

The old man spoke, a pair of cold eyes staring at them.

"It seems that I have more than one object to purify. ”

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