Chapter 187: Metra
The first time I saw his side face, I sighed in my heart, he is old!
"That's right, I'm old...... "Garnif sighed, turning his head to look at me, his silver white hair was much darker, and his face was wrinkled, "You've grown too." Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info worthy of being a child recognized by the night show......"
Although I was mentally prepared enough, I was still hit in the face by this sentence, and my body involuntarily took two steps back, and my vision blurred for a moment.
"Night Show...... My child ......" Garnif's voice trembled, and if I hadn't heard it with my own ears, I would never have believed that this man at the peak of power on the dark side of Calradia could have such a fragile and old age! Garnif's voice was full of tears, like those ordinary old men who lost their children on the side of the street, and whimpered: "I haven't even seen her last ...... this child"
Garnif's shoulders twitched, his usually straight spine stiffened at this moment, he actually hung his head, leaned on my chest, held a golden box in front of him with both hands, and his body kept trembling: "I have been thinking for the past few days, if I had not locked her up under that cliff at that time, would not have happened in the future? If I had not forcibly taken her child, my grandson, away from her, would she not have died?" If I hadn't stopped her and Leon's kid, wouldn't she hate me......"
Garnif dragged out his crying voice and said: "But, I don't have a chance anymore, Yexiu, she is no longer here, if time can be rewinded, I will definitely not let her get involved in the affairs of the Order, just let her live happily on Drua Island, for the rest of her life, how good...... Do you say, Emmons?"
I was speechless and could only gently hold on to his trembling body.
"You are the godson of Yexiu, that is, my godgrandson, no wonder I felt kind to you at first sight. Garnif stretched out his old hand, gently wiped away the cloudy tears from the corners of his eyes, and said, "Yexiu is gone, you can call me grandpa, call me to listen......"
I blinked desperately, trying to open my blurry eyes clearly, trying to squeeze out the seemingly endless tears in my eyes, but what I was in front of me was still a more and more hazy water, and I trembled and shouted, "Grandpa!"
Ganif immediately threw his arms around my waist and put his head on my chest, letting out a wail like that of a wounded beast. I could feel his sadness, probably the most powerful man in all of Calradia, a helpless old man at the moment.
It was a long time before he sobbed and straightened up, breathed deeply, wiped the tears from his eyes, and said, "They took my dearest daughter, and we are going to make them pay, Emmons, don't you say?"
I looked at him and didn't know how to answer. Fortunately, he did not ask me again, but muttered to himself: "I will kill their parents, their brothers and sisters, and their children, but not them, and hang them in cages, and I will see the process with my own eyes, and I will kill them in a few days, and let them despair while they wait." They have caused me so much pain, they all deserve to die, all of them deserve to die! I want blood, I want fire, I want that storm of thirty years ago, to blow again in Calradia, to blow up, to rip out the heart of every Calradia, I will make them laugh, let them laugh! Let them suffer, let them laugh!"
Garnif levitated from the podium, roaring almost madly, and with his roar, a deep shadow emanated from his body, filling the whole hall, and I bore the brunt of it, but as soon as I made contact, I felt a surging of irrepressible evil thoughts and fury rushing through this shadow, and I almost couldn't help but go crazy, and kill everything in front of me hysterically.
But the shadow flickered and returned to Ganif's body. Then Garnif shook his body and fell lightly to the ground, his voice becoming majestic and calm at the same time, as if the fragile man just now, the hysterical man was not him. He said calmly: "Shirley, inform the legion commander above, come down for a meeting." β
Soon, people walked into the hall one after another, and the voices of people slowly became louder. Most of the legionnaires had two or three retinues with them, and as soon as they entered the hall, they stood apart almost instinctively, according to their positions.
An hour later, all the legion commanders and their retinue descended into the hall. Especially after the arrival of Eumengand and Finreal, the performance of the camp was obvious, and in the camp led by Eumengand and Hull stood five or six legion commanders, and their retinues, fifteen or sixteen people; Heimdall, along with a few new faces he hadn't seen before, numbering more than twenty people, seemed to overpower Umungand and Hull by a head alone.
In addition to these two big camps, there are only two or three new faces in the others, standing far away from the two camps, with gray faces, and they don't dare to raise their heads, as if they are being overwhelmed by these two major forces.
I thought about it for a moment and stood next to these new faces.
Ganif cleared his throat and said in a low and majestic voice: "The most loyal warriors of the Order, I, High Priest Ganif, welcome you to the appointment!"
The court fell silent all of a sudden.
Garif looked down, nodded, and said, "It's been a long time since I've been out of your field of vision, and during the time I've disappeared, it's always been the Grand Elder Tramesino and Loki who are in charge of the internal affairs of the Order, maybe many of the new Legion Leaders haven't seen me in person during this time, but it's okay, soon you will get acquainted with me, I'm a good talker." As he spoke, Garnif laughed, but it sounded so dark to me.
"Then, the commanders of the legions should report on their own work first, and I will also hear what earth-shattering things you have done in the past two years. Garnif said with a smile.
According to the order of the legions, the first to report was Finreal's first legion "Thunder of Destruction", followed by Hull's second legion "Arrow of Judgment", and then Eumengand's third legion "Hammer of Conquest", but the first thing Finreal said was: "I don't have anything to say about debriefing, it's all about previous years." Why don't we ask our Fourth Army Commander, General Emmons, to talk about something different. β
As soon as Finreal spoke, everyone turned their heads to look at me, and many of them buzzed like mosquitoes.
"The finger is coming. Finn whispered in my ear, "Hold your ground and don't fall for them." β
I said calmly, "Start with me?" It seems that this is not in line with the Order's practice. The Finreal Divine Envoy is too wrong to love. β
Finreal immediately laughed, and said, "In the eyes of General Emmons, there is such a thing as the practice of the Order......? Since General Emmons is modest and shy and unwilling to show off in front of others, it is up to me to promote it for His Excellency. β
As he spoke, Finreal took out a stack of parchment from under his black cloak and read it slowly: "General Emmons's Fourth Legion has vigorously developed production in the past two years, recruited displaced people, and expanded the army. As of last month, in addition to the Seventh and Eighth Brigades under its original jurisdiction, the Fourth Army Corps had also added a heavy infantry brigade, a cavalry brigade, and a special siege weapons brigade, which was far more than doubled...... Expanding the army without authorization, changing customs, accommodating traitors, and so on, have long gone beyond what is allowed by the canons of the Order!General Emmons, in front of so many colleagues, are you not going to explain this?"
As soon as Finreal's words landed, a buzz of discussion erupted in the hall, and the Legion Leaders standing beside me immediately took a step back and distanced themselves from me.
Expanding the army without authorization, changing customs without authorization, and accommodating traitors are all serious crimes of expulsion from the Order, especially the one for accommodating traitors, and it is clearly written in the canon that those who accept traitors are guilty of the same crime as apostates! That is a great crime that requires three swords and six holes, and being burned at the stake. Even Garnif looked at me with a frown.
I sneered, but fortunately Lao Tzu was well prepared when he came. I took out the same pile of parchment from my black cloak, shook it open in front of everyone, and said, "Since the Divine Envoy is so zealous to report on my work, why don't I also report on the Divine Envoy's Missionβthe last year alone, the First Legion of the Divine Envoy." The Thunder of Destruction has invoked the Inquisition to assassinate me and my men a total of seventeen times, and from the information I have intercepted, you have in fact planned a total of fifty-four of them, of which thirty-seven have been detected by us in advance, and in the last year alone, the Divine Envoy has infiltrated five hundred and sixty-eight spies into my Fourth Legion, resulting in thirty-three mass poisonings and sixty-four fires. In addition, it instigated a total of seven large-scale rebellions in our department. This is the second year in a row that the Divine Envoy has attempted to dismantle my Fourth Legion since the Rachel Rebellion instigated and planned by the Divine Envoy two years ago, and as the chief Divine Envoy of our Order, I really can't understand what the Divine Envoy has done to my fellow Catholics in the past year. β
As soon as the words were uttered, there was an uproar, and the commanders of the Eumengand's camp immediately took a small step back vigilantly, and Hull's face showed an expression of sudden realization.
Garnif's sharp gaze had already pierced Finrier: "Is what Emmons said true?sedition, sabotage, assassination...... That's how you treat your colleagues?"
I saw that the sweat on Finreal's cheeks had come down, and his body was still standing straight, but his face had turned a little pale, "I'm all for the good of the Order! Emmons has a big heart, and keeping him is always a hidden danger to our Order......"
But before he could finish speaking, he was interrupted by an angry roar that rang out from the flat ground.
"Shut !! up"
It was Garnif, who was floating directly above the podium at the moment, his long gray silver hair fluttering in all directions, and his white piping black cloak was blown by the raging currents.
"Finreal, you get down on my knees!" Garnif roared.
At the moment when these words fell, a thin figure wrapped in a black cloak on the side suddenly stepped forward, half-knelt on the ground, and said in a hurry: "High priest, be merciful to your subordinates!"
That voice is actually Tramercino's, why is it Tramercino?
"For the sake of me following you for many years, don't kill Finreal!" Tramercino's voice was flustered and weak, "I'm just such a son......" This news was more shocking than any previous news, and I was almost rushed by this sentence. No wonder Tramercino has always been on Finreal's side.
I glanced at Finreal, and the guy froze in place, his eyes wide, full of incredulity, and his whole person's sharpness was rapidly draining, like a cat in a hurry.
The turbulent air around Garnif slowly eased, and his flying hair slowly fell. Tramesino went limped on his feet and collapsed to the ground.
It was then that I noticed that Tramersino was much weaker and thinner than the meeting in Paraven two years ago, and it seemed that his vitality had been squeezed and drained in the short period of two years.
Although Garnif no longer exerts that terrifying momentum, there is always a majestic aura that people can't look at directly, and it is a kind of prestige of the superior, which seems to have been suppressed for so many years, and finally broke out. He said coldly: "You have followed me for so many years, that's right. But I still know the thoughts in your heart. I was in retreat on Drua Island, and you and Loki were in charge of the Order, but you didn't seem to give me any satisfactory answers. Two years ago, I was surprised that you summoned the flame god Medius, causing the Temple to collapse and nearly ruining our Order's plans. β
When Tramersino heard this, his body stiffened and he bowed down in despair.
"Forget it, I won't pursue this matter for the time being. Garnifer said coldly, glanced at the depressed Finreal again, and said, "Finreal, I will forget your affairs, but if I let me know that you abuse the power of the court for personal gain, I will abolish your efforts and expel you from the order!"
Finreal lowered his head and stepped back, not saying a word. I know that at this moment, this proud Finreal has been irreparably damaged, both inside and out.
"As for you, Emmons!" Garnifer's eyes swept over me, and it actually made my heart skip a beat: "What Finreal said just now, you expanded the army without authorization, changed the customs without authorization, and accommodated traitors......"
I was nervous, didn't I just clean up Finreal's gang, why did I suddenly come to trouble me again? What is my plan for this newly recognized grandfather?
That's when I heard Fein whisper in my ear, "Don't be nervous, the High Priest's cheeks are furrowed, his eyelids are constricted, he has no ill will towards you." β
I relaxed all at once.
Ganif followed: "I won't pursue the matter of expanding the army and changing the conventions without authorization, young people are always a little sharp, not to mention that you are also for the good of the Order." Just remember to restrain your men and keep them loyal to my order at all times. But accommodating traitors is extraordinary, and you have to give us an explanation!"
Finn's mosquito-like voice sounded again: "The expression on both sides of the high priest's face is asymmetrical, his sternness is disguised, and he is asking you to cooperate with him. β
I immediately nodded and said, "When the Divine Envoy said that I accommodate traitors, I should be talking about the original Seventh Legion, the Fourteenth Brigade's Kress and his people." I tolerate them because when I was an ordinary Nord villager, they were my fellow villagers, when I became a pilgrim of the Order, they were my partners and comrades-in-arms who trained together at the base, and when I faced civil strife at the base and the rebellion of my subordinates, they appeared in time and stood firmly with me to help me put down the rebellion and grasp the overall situation, which is why I accommodated them!"
I glanced at the Legion Commanders on the field, and then said: "But I never know when they became traitors, what I know is that Frey, the Commander of the Seventh Legion, eradicated dissidents, conspired with civil strife, colluded with the Nord government army, and even personally dispatched the elite to slaughter most of my comrades in the 14th Brigade in one fell swoop, and even killed the former Captain of the 14th Brigade, General Edgar and Squadron Leader Pami, without even giving a reason!" Afterwards, they did everything possible to cover up, and even dispatched the army of the Seventh Legion, and when I returned to the division to quell the rebellion, they obstructed in every possible way, pursued and killed thousands of the most loyal and best soldiers of our Fourth Legion, and even participated in and launched the sabotage and incitement of our Fourth Legion countless times after that! In contrast, I don't know whether the so-called traitors to the Order are General Frey, who is in a desperate situation against the Order's brothers, or Kress, who is desperately resisting and defending the righteousness of our subordinates!"
"You fart!" Frey roared, and as soon as he lifted his black cloak, he pulled out his golden sword from below, "Who doesn't know that you Emmons have long had a strange heart, and I will eradicate you as a great traitor for the Order today!"
I sneered and turned on a hundredfold output of the mecha.