Southern of Angel Empire, border, inside the Coniferous Fortress.

(This morning.) ）

A secret room.

Veltys, at this time, was quietly in it, meditating and cultivating. On his forehead, sweat occasionally breaks out, but it quickly evaporates again. He breathed evenly, constantly absorbing the light elements between heaven and earth to fill his spiritual rune that was about to be saturated.

It's been four months.

For four months, Vertis spent almost all of his time in a meditative state, except for breakfast, lunch, and dinner.

A certain moment.

"Whew—" Veltis exhaled a scorching breath.

He slowly opened his eyes. Unlike when Genosis, Blake, and Roy saw him four months ago, Vertis at this time had more firmness and persistence in his eyes.

This is not quite the same as the idle appearance that everyone saw when they saw him before, and at this time, Vertis can be said to have matured a lot.

"Finally ......"

"Nine stars. ”

Veltis breathed a sigh of relief, not looking too happy, at this time, he had fallen into a state of no waves.

"Second brother, finally no longer evading the problem......"

The second brother in Viltis's mouth is naturally Isya, who fought against Virtis four months ago and beat Virtis into a state of serious injury.

However, Vertis's words at this time made people feel a little foggy.

Vertis breathed a sigh of relief. Rise. He meets the challenges of the future with a fuller spirit.

"Now that I've reached the Nine Star Sacred Domain, it's time for me to go back to the Imperial City. ”

Viltis sighed.

In the past, Asya worked in the Kingdom of Angel as a model and monument. Almost all the high-ranking knights regard Esya as a kind of faith.

Aisya's departure and disappearance must have caused a certain degree of chaos in the Angel Kingdom.

"Seriously, the Soul Suppression Throne is really...... It's too strong. "Viltis only now understands how big the gap is between the nine-star Templars and the eight-star Templars.

It's no wonder that Vertis was barely able to hurt Esya.

In that earth-shattering battle, if it hadn't been for the release of water by Esya at the beginning, Vertis would have died. The gap between the eight stars and the nine stars, and then magnified by the Soul Suppression Throne, is impossible to make up.

"I'm going back to the Imperial City this time, and it's time for me to try and get a Soul Suppression Throne. ”

The biggest difference between an artifact and normal equipment is that an artifact has an independent soul. Therefore, without the approval of this soul, it is impossible to use this artifact.

Therefore, the so-called recognition of the Soul Suppression Throne is to obtain the approval of the soul in the Soul Suppression Throne.

Vertis changed into a knight's gown.

Then he left the secret room, took the elevator, and came to the rooftop square of the coniferous fortress.

"Field, Thompson!" Veltis casually called.

"Report on Your Highness, what are your orders?" Field and Thompson, who were supervising others to train, heard the call of their commander and hurried over.

Veltis frowned, feeling that things were not so simple: "Field, why didn't you see Genosis, Blake, and Roy, aren't the three of them here?"

Field gave Vertis a standard knightly salute and said, "Report to Your Highness, Generosis, Blake, etc., have not returned after the summer vacation. I specially sent someone to check it and found that their knight registration information in the Angel Kingdom had been cancelled. ”

"......! What?!"

Veltis listened to Field's report in astonishment.

Can Veltis not be surprised? Genossis and Blake may not be the one he cares about the most, he cares about Roy the most. Roy was entrusted to Vertis by Frey "with his own hands", and now Vertis has lost people, and he doesn't know how to explain it.

But Viltis soon calmed down, and murmured strangely in his heart: (...... Could it be that the second brother did a good thing?)

"Field, Thompson, pass the order, I'm going back to the Imperial City, if there's any problem with the Coniferous Fortress in the future, you can carry it. Finally, remember, wait until I get back. Vertis explained.

"Your Highness!" Field, inexplicably, felt very reluctant.

"You can do it. Vertis himself was afraid that he would not be reluctant, and after dropping a short sentence, he ran towards the edge of the rooftop square of the taiga fortress.

"Angel Body!"

Just as he was about to reach the edge, Veltis leaped into the air.

"Bang!"

Two explosions. To the left behind Viltis, one side of the wings is unfurled.

That's an angel's feather.

All the knights in the rooftop square of the taiga fortress suddenly stopped, watched Viltis go away, and made a standard knightly salute very respectfully in the direction of Vertis leaving.

Field and Thompson already knew that when Vertis decided to leave, he must have reached the level of a nine-star Templar. Once I went this time, I don't know when I will come back.

Thompson paused suddenly, and gave an order to the surrounding knights: "All the troops listen to the order, adjust the alert level to the second highest!"

Thompson's strength level is not very high, but in the coniferous fortress, he is the existence of Wiltis's horn. As the brainchild of Viltis's side, Thompson's words, when Viltis was not in the Coniferous Fortress, were equivalent to Viltis's orders.

The entire taiga fortress was suddenly busy.

Thompson's decision is actually very important that when Weltis is not there, it is equivalent to one less top combat power.

Field looked at Thompson and asked, "Is there anything you need from me?" ？”

Thompson shook his head and remained silent.

..................

Veltis soared through the sky with the angel feathers spread out in his angel body, flying in the direction of Angel's Imperial City.

"It's weird, the last time I duel with my second brother, I obviously grew wings on my right side. ”

Virtis recalls the duel with Asya. At that time, Vertis ...... Veltys uses "sacrifice" to burn the light element in his body to the maximum. At that time, Vertis had white wings of eight and six meters on the left and two wings of four meters on the right.

Now, even though his strength had reached the Nine-Star Sanctuary, Veltis still hadn't been able to summon the Four Wings again.

“...... , Genosis or Hexawing...... This kid, maybe......" Veltis recalled the time when he performed the knightly awakening ceremony for Genosis.

"Forget it, I don't want to think so much, I have to secretly find someone to find out where Roy's three children were got by Esya. I'm coming back to the Imperial City after a long absence!Also, the Soul Throne, I'm here!"

A whistling.

Veltis flapped the angel's feather again.

..................

On a cliff southwest of the Demon Cloud Mountains.

The three rugged mercenary men were all hit and fell to the ground. Because it's been a while, the blood from the wound has begun to dry up.

But after a while, one of the mercenaries suddenly woke up, looked at the torch planted in the ground, and looked at the hemp rope tied to the tree.

Very slowly, he picked up the torch and climbed towards the twine tied to the tree.

"Shh

He lit the flame of the torch on the twine. Watching the hemp rope being gradually burned off, he also gradually lost consciousness.

..................

Roy came out of the cave.

"Let's go, let's go inside. Roy beckoned to the crowd waiting outside the cave.

Genosis looked at the newly uplifted dirt slope in the small meadow beyond the cave at the bottom of the cliff. It's very strange.

What the hell is going on.

Originally, in this world, people should be able to understand each other.

Why, the buried people under the dirt slope, want to mock my dreams. Where did his hatred for me come from?

Although, Wenoss was not killed by Geneross, and Geneross did not feel a sense of guilt for Wenos's death at this time, Genesys has gone through this period of experience as an E-class mercenary in Demon Cloud City, and already knows-

Being a mercenary is like rolling on a knife, where danger and profit are always intertwined. Many times, it is easy for mercenaries to cause such cruel things because of a little conflict of interests, and no one is to blame.

Genosis is a state of incomprehension.

It's a state of incomprehension for people with such violent emotions.

"Why can't you say it well, it's just that you want to fight to the death. Genosis sighed, no longer wasting time on this lost life.

"Honey, let's go. Elusa pulled the stunned Genosis.

"Well, let's go. ”

Just as Geneosis was about to turn around, a strange voice suddenly rang out from above Generos.

"Whoa!"

“？？？”

Geneosis's first instinct was to raise the Starfall Shield in his hand and block it above Elusa.

"Brush!"

"Ah......h

Elusa was the first to discover what had fallen on her shield.

"......?What the hell?" Genosis grabbed the hemp rope and looked at it, his heart shook: "...... Our hemp rope was actually burned!"

"......!" said Geraint, who was stunned, staring at the top of the cliff deadly:

“...... Luna Tees said you weren't ruthless enough...... I don't think she's ruthless enough...... Topmost...... There was a mercenary who didn't die and burned the rope with a missing torch......"

Geraint took a deep breath and said, "Let's go, let's go into the treasure room in the cave and take a look. ”

Geraint's retreat is long gone. So he didn't care.

Geneross' face was a little ugly, he nodded, and followed Elusa, Geraint, and Huck and Mary, the owners of the pharmacy who were frightened, towards the treasure room in the cave.