Kiri stopped pressuring Fioni, and it seemed that she agreed with Peg's claim. But neither Peg nor Lothar thought Kiri was such a good talker. The two of them glanced at each other, and came to an agreement to watch the latter closely in the next action. As for Hela, the Grave Girl was thinking about something else, and she was the least closely related to a few of the people in the entire team, but that made her the one who could think calmly.

"No offense, Mr. Fioni. Hela tried to greet the shapeshifter in the gentlest tone, but the Kraken was far stronger than she thought, and Kiri's continuous questioning did not make Fioni, who had suffered worse, angry, "I still want to confirm a few things. Of course, if you don't think my question is necessary, you don't have to answer it. ”

The Kraken nodded, "It's okay, just ask." And just call me Fioni, I'm not used to human honorifics. ”

"Then I won't say polite words. I want to know why you led us to assassinate the High Priest, and before you ran to meet her. IMHO, but your actions can't help but cast doubt on your position. I trust the judgment of the Great Witch, but I still hope to hear a reasonable explanation. The Gravemaiden asked the most important question in the argument, it didn't matter what Fioni had to do with their assassin before, the question was whether he had really made up his mind to kill him.

"It's because I don't want to see her die. There was a smile on the shapeshifter's face, it wasn't a self-deprecating laugh, there was no helplessness in it, it was a smile that Hela couldn't understand, "It's ridiculous." Actually, I made up my mind before and made a deal with your big witch. But when it came to the end, I couldn't help but go to her again. I still can't imagine her stopping to breathe in front of me, but I have to. The High Priest of the Burning Waves must die, and I only hope that person is not her. ”

"Ha, I'll just say this guy can't be trusted!" Qili said immediately, pointing out the Kraken's self-defeat. But no one agreed with her, and Lothar gently pressed her shoulder, signaling for silence.

"So what do you think now?" asked Hela.

"I had only one idea from beginning to end, and it was already clear when I left the hot waves. I'm going to make the priest of the Lady of the Tides disappear from this water. Fioni uttered these two words in a light but firm tone, not out of hatred, but out of something more sublime. Lothar knew what it was, and in his homeland, that was called the Mission. The shapeshifter believes he has a mission to end the false beliefs of the Rising Waves and lead his former people astray, even at the cost of blood.

The Crypt Daughter stopped talking, and Peg tried to ask more, but the Count stopped her. "He will not betray us. Or rather, even if we all die in the course of this mission, he will continue to do it. The arrows that are shot do not look back, although it is painful, but the world is like this. ”

Kiri was surprisingly silent at this point, but the Count still heard a message from the Thorncrest from the witch alone, only three words, martyr. This surprised Lothar a little, he didn't think that Kiri was the kind of person who could say these three words, and he even doubted that Kiri could understand what a martyr was, or what a martyr could be and what a Tao was. But when he looked at her, the earl's pupils instinctively contracted, it was not the Qili he knew. Of course, the witch's appearance has not changed, but her temperament gives people a completely different feeling than before. This kind of thing can't be disguised, and at this moment, Qili feels like seeing new snowflakes fall on the unmelting ice and snow of Dragonspine Mountain.

"You've been through something. Lothar asked the crown of thorns to pass this sentence only to Kirly. The latter smiled at him, "It's part of the legacy. ”

The conversation between Lothar and Kiri did not affect the rest of the team, and after most of the team members recognized Fioni's credibility, they finally began to discuss the mission in substance. "To put it simply, there is absolutely no way we can complete this assassination without being detected. It's not a question of whether we're good enough to stealth or shoot. Even with the help of magic, I still don't think the process doesn't change. The most pessimistic and practical view is that we are better off thinking that the other side already knows the existence and purpose of our team. ”

"Because of the Tides, right?" The knights were always used to seeing to believing, so they always scoffed at witchcraft and other supernatural powers. Lothar was undoubtedly a knight, and even though he did not have an actual knighthood, his conduct and requirements for himself were much stricter than those of knights in realms other than the Greylion. But he had seen and experienced too many things that common sense could not explain, so he understood that the world did not work according to those childish imaginations. Especially the beings who are called gods, they never follow common sense.

Fioni agrees with Lothar's speculation, "It's too hard to kill His favorite priest in front of Lady Tide." The bloody sacrifice of the Burning Waves is as addicted to blubber as you humans suck, and He won't let it go so easily. This will also be the biggest obstacle we encounter, not from the Kraken, but directly from the tides. ”

"Wouldn't we have no chance of winning, and we're in the middle of the tide right now. If you are the one you say, it wouldn't be surprising to kill a group of scorching waves from above now. Peg said with a frown, she had a point. If the gods worshipped by the Sirens really existed, it would be too easy for them to help their followers in the waters.

"Not necessarily. The Count shook his head, his left hand grasping the wrist of his right hand, and on his right hand, the tattoo symbolizing the Lord of Destiny was unusually obvious, "If the Tide Lady exists, the father of the sharks will not be a fake, and in general, there must be many gods in this sea that we know or don't know." Lady Tides pampers His followers, and Father Shark will not abandon them, especially if one of us has a Sharktooth Siren. He'll help us get revenge, right?"

The Huntress showed hesitation and uncertainty in the eyes of the crowd, "Father Shark never uses his power to satisfy our selfish desires. Killing and revenge are between us and the Mighty Waves, who are also mortals, and there is no reason or need for Him to intervene in them. In particular, I've lost my partner and am a hunter who doesn't deserve to go to Father Shark..."Jaquia's struggle and weakness was almost unexpected by everyone. The current huntress is like a little girl who has done something wrong, and she doesn't know if she can get help from adults, and she doesn't know if she is still eligible for help from adults. And as the one who disqualified her from being the hunter who glorified the Shark Father, Lothar felt she had to say something.

"You've avenged your partner. I'm pretty sure you did. As for why I'm still standing here, that's another matter. But one thing I'm sure of is that none of the shark teeth I've fought have insulted the name of a hunter. If Father Shark had only measured your worth by your successes or failures, he wouldn't have received the faith of so many generations of hunters, would he?"

Jaquia stared at Lothar for several minutes. It's the human in front of him who killed his partner, but he won the dignity. When the two were hostile, they had fought for their lives, and now they came together for a common reason, and it felt subtle. Should she be hateful to Lothar? shouldn't she? The hunter's dogma doesn't teach that. But a mature hunter must trust his own judgment and choices.

"I'll try to ask Father Shark for help. This grove should be able to help. ”

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