Volume VIII, Chapter 36
"Hey, who do you think won?"
"Hmm...... Let's tie - maybe I'm playing a little out of shape......" Phantom withdrew his life card, "I've figured it out too, I'll continue to listen to Arya's words...... Rest assured, I'll keep Orca alive now. β
"Si Wu is coming back, don't you have any opinion?"
Phantom shook his staff slightly, "I still have a lot of scenes to watch before the real Demon Emperor returns, and I have a few opportunities to make cameos." In fact...... You almost came out of Nanyang City that time, I knew that you had been quietly helping your colleagues, which is understandable...... Xiang Grivar's several terrifying disappearances of the army were actually the result of your necromancy, but you accidentally gave Orka the title of Winged Reaper...... It's been a long time since I've fought like this, and I'm looking forward to a reunion and goodbye. β
The Phantom turned around and walked away humming a distant tune under Sheila's strange gaze, a brilliant storm of cards swept around him, and in a flash of light, the Phantom vanished into the space, the ancient tune of the Holy Land that he whispered still echoed in the air.
Sheila nodded inexplicably, turned and stepped out of the dirt pit, slammed her staff with a blow, and disappeared into the uninhabited wilderness with a surge of necromantic elements. The vultures above were still searching for the corpses of the dead in the field that had been seen for an hour from the outside world, and the bloody aura was a striking contrast to the holy white clouds above.
At this moment, the knights of the Silver Mistletoe Sword Knights, who had changed into black uniforms, raised their war spears one after another, and the brilliant silver fighting qi formed a silver wall in front of the fifty knights in a flash.
In the center of the smooth silver wall, a little discordant black suddenly appeared. Immediately, the black color expanded rapidly. Like a spider's web, layers of cracks spread out on the silver Douqi barrier. With a crisp cracking sound, a cloud of darkness glowing with purple light rushed into the center of the black-clad knight with silver spears. However, it is clear that these have no intention of attacking or harming the intruder. After the intruders penetrated that layer of defense, the Knights of the Silver Mistletoe continued to hold their guns. But he did not continue to instill fighting spirit into the war spear.
The shining silver spears of the fifty knights became more and more dazzling in the dark underground world, and the somewhat burning bright spots left by the silver barrier in front of Francis still remained in the center of his vision. But it didn't matter anymore, and when he hurried to Blackwing, he learned that the battle was over and that Lord Orka was seriously wounded.
"What do you mean!" Francis roared, and the Secretary General of the Black Wings, Radian, who stood behind the knights, wore the same black uniform as the guards in front of her, fiddling with the hat in her hand and looking at Francis who landed in front of her with a playful smile.
"Welcome, my dear brotherβ" Radian shook his hat, "now you are only a guest. It's not as easy to meet adults as it used to beβ"
A dark spirit swept away like lightning, interrupting Radian's words. Radiant's somewhat dim silhouette was slightly blurred, dodging the Blood Moon Slash that slashed through the air and causing a low thunderclap, appearing less than twenty centimeters in front of Francis.
Francis was stunned, and just as he was about to subconsciously retreat, the beautiful floral fragrance from Radianne's short orange hair rushed into Francis's nose, causing him to stiffen all over. Seeing that Le Dian was playing with himself in the palm of his hand again, he laughed crisply, raised his hand and pinched Francis's chin with two fingers, and saw that the tips of the noses of the two people were about to touch together-
"Ahh
Francis wolf-like escaped from Le Dien's line of sight. Laughter with a faint temptation resounded behind him all the time. Just as he was about to rush out, the black-style door in front of him suddenly opened by itself, and Orka's long mercury-like hair returned to its previous long braid style, and standing on either side of her were Verin and Joshua, the leaders of the Xiao Long Mercenary Regiment.
Orka looked up slightly. His eyes were as plain as water, looking at Francis, who was about to pounce on him. Francis's expression changed from horror to horror, then to despair and resignation.
"Na...... Francis, welcome back. β
Francis, who was rushing forward uncontrollably under the acceleration of gravity, could still hear the strange slow tone in the midst of the rapidity. Orka remained calm. And the two half-blood demon brothers and sisters beside her were surprised and ready to reach out and pull Orka away.
Francis's front of him turned into a brilliant and disorderly stripe of color as he crashed into Orka's face, and the surrounding qiΔ became blurred for a moment. And when the concussion and pain of landing filled his nerves. He realized that he had landed five or six meters in front of Orka.
Even Joshua, who was well-informed, didn't immediately determine why Francis suddenly disappeared when he crashed in front of Orka, and then appeared not far away and continued to fall to the ground in a trajectory of his fall.
"Da da da......" The faint but resounding sound of high heels hitting the ground appeared in the darkness next to Orka. As a dark red faded into the air, a tall figure slowly walked up to Orka from an angle they couldn't understand.
Francis's first impression of Sheila was that she and Le Dian really had some similarities in temperament, but the charming temperament of this mature woman who looked almost 1.8 meters old was still there, but it was far from Le Din's frivolity, but had a sense of heaviness, grace and luxury. This feeling was not concealed even by her somewhat revealing interracial costume.
He was surprised to find that when Orka, who had an absolute sense of centrality wherever she appeared, was beside her, her sense of centrality was unbelievably broken by this tall woman, and Orka, who had been immediately eye-catching, seemed to have a faint sense of foil by her side.
This feeling shocked Francis, who had been an important element of everyone's determination to be loyal to her for so many years at Blackwings, and that such a sense of faithful centrality was broken, and Francis developed a strong hatred for Sheila out of thin air, which was almost religious.
Francis allows himself to ignore the oddly hostile feeling toward Sheila. Extremely quickly stood up and gave Orka a very standard courtesy.
"Francis reports!"
He felt Orka nod. He took a few steps back, standing behind him with Radian and the knights of the Silver Mistletoe.
"My lord!" Francis asked, seeing that Orka didn't mean to speak, gritted his teeth. "Were you injured in our victory?"
Orka's eyes widened slightly, and then glanced at Sheila, "Now, Orka really doesn't deny this, but with the help of our partner Sheila, Orka has no problem. β
Francis lowered his head again, and by the way, he glanced at the mysterious woman named Sheila. This is the first time Francis has seen a human being on a par with Orka. He didn't expect to feel any strong aura from her, because Orka was quiet. No matter which angle you feel it, it's no different from an ordinary girl.
"Why don't you say a word about the little boy you have just had a crush on you from the fate of 'happily throwing himself into your arms'? Hee stretched out his hand and patted Orka's shoulder, who was only just over one meter six tall, Orka's face remained unchanged, and he glanced at her again, and Francis immediately turned his religious hatred of Sheila into extreme annoyance, and this anger that was about to turn himself into ashes rose rapidly in the constant laughter of Le Dian next to him, and he was about to reach the critical point of explosion.
Francis, who was carried away by the anger, took a step forward, regardless of the terrible consequences that would happen if the fifth-level powerhouse with the most powerful destruction of life force in front of him was provoked. He lowered his head and said loudly, "Ma'am!
Of course, in front of Orka, he has no intention of destroying his image, even if he has decided to give up hope between himself and Orka. But he still hopes that his impression of the past and the present will not be stained in Orka's mind.
"Why do you judge that, little one?" said Sheila, looking at Francis meaningfully, "heartbeat." Respiration, blood flow velocity. After so many years of research, I've found that we humans are actually the race with the most complex feelings. It usually takes tens or even hundreds of times longer to express a word of gratitude or affection than a word of hatred or hatred......"
"Na...... Sheila, we don't need to talk about this kind of thing, right?" Orka touched Sheila lightly and glanced at Francis, who was in a petrified state, "Are you really going to leave so soon?"
Sheila shook her hand as if nothing had happened, "My body is still trapped in Aswan, and every time I come out, I consume the few true life forces of my necromancer-it's ironic, after studying this process, I still can't find a way to change my light constitution to a dark constitution!" she sighed, "It is said that the ancient Nova clan has a secret technique to change the constitution, who is it...... Magnus, is he going to Nova Clan? If there's any news, let me know. β
Orka nodded, Sheila made a puzzling gesture of pushing the door, and then the sight of Verin and Joshua jumping back in surprise appeared, half of Sheila's body disappeared into an invisible separation, the section of the body showed a mirror-like full reflective luster, and the exposed upper body waved at Orka, and finally glanced at Francis lightly.
"You're the first human who has the guts to like Orca!"
With that, Sheila smiled lightly and retracted her upper body, and the spatial mirror continued to cut Sheila's upper body, and each section of her showed a fluctuating mercury-like fluctuating mirror effect, until her whole body disappeared into space.
Orka's sense of centrality finally succeeded in returning to this space, and Francis, who witnessed the switch of space for the first time, was completely filled with absolute power oppression. He was still at the second level and couldn't feel that strange spatial fluctuation, but this spatial transformation that he couldn't understand was completely beyond his cognition, it was a power that transcended the destruction of things and the grandeur and immensity of the power to release different powers. He could only confirm that this power was far beyond himself, and that it was no longer within the realm of what he could have imagined - he even thought to himself that it had surpassed Orka......
But the sense of centrality between the two is still evenly matched. It would only show that the woman named Sheila had the same strength as Orca in her heyday.
As one of the few Black Wings who knew that Orka had been a Legion's Commander, he immediately thought that Sheila should be the same Legion's Commander. Come to think of it. His mind was slightly balanced, and miraculously the inexplicable hostility and shame he felt towards Sheila disappeared.
But the feeling of a pair of slippery, soft arms wrapped around his shoulders immediately brought Francis's hostility back. And quickly changed Sheila's name to "Le Dian ".
"Perverted!!β" Francis let out a scream that was inaudible to both men and women.
Orka calmly looked at Francis, whose face was pale and forced herself not to vomit, and Radian, who had a defiant smile on her face. Nodding to Verin and Joshua beside her, Verin beckoned, and a figure stepped out of the darkness.
It wasn't until they were completely out of the darkness that Francis spotted the teenager standing at the front who was about his height, with a look that was eerily similar to his own a few years earlier. Behind him, a figure who looked to be twelve or thirteen years old, with a pair of folded wings, stared a little pleading at the back of the young man standing in front of him.
Francis finally remembered that these two were the two teenagers he had seen from Professor Grimmel when he met with Orka after Blackwings captured Nanyang City last year. The one standing in the back. It's supposed to be humanoid...... Dragons, right?
"Evan, Miller," Orka whispered, "this is Francis, your former officer. This time, Francis will return to Nanyang and ask him to guide you -- Francis, you can make appropriate adjustments in the outline of military affairs, and you have a higher say in this regard than Evan. β
Francis was stunned for a moment, "former cadre"? It seems that Black Wing still maintains the tradition of letting the younger generation of elites sit in the high position of cadres early...... Looking at Evan's slightly chilled expression. The sparks of competition that erupted between peers, especially equally good peers, lit up the dark space around them in an instant. Francis stared at Evan's dark blue eyes steadily, then gave a military salute.
Evan silently returned the salute, and then handed over a copy of the paper that was on the file bag with both hands. The word "Top Secret" is printed on it in blood-red color.
"Please advise. Evan spoke in a low voice, the coldness and fiery in his tone that surprised Francis. He nodded, and glanced at the dragonborn named Miller who didn't know what to do. As the new Black Wing cadre left the black underground hall where Le Dian and Orka were the two people he was most reluctant and willing to see.
"Francis, wait until you get back. Sue your teacher and tell him not to worry. β
Orka's voices converged into a single beam. Pierced Francis's auditory nerve with precision. Francis, who was about to open the file, was suddenly startled and looked back at Orka, who had not changed at all. But the voice of these words still reverberated clearly in his mental space.
Teachers don't have to worry...... Could it be that there would be no confusion in the leadership of the Black Wings, as the teacher said--But what could be the possibility of turbulence in the rock-solid Black Wings?!Could it be a betrayal or an assassination? This-this, it is simply impossible! Even if such a thing really happens, with Orka's strength, there is no need to worry...... Strength?Orka's injury is really healed, healed Orka's injury, Sheila?Sheila...... Why was she able to get Orka's trust, and was this trust real?
What exactly is the teacher worried about? The daily solidarity has been restored, and all variables have been cleared...... He believed in Orka's trust in Sheila-
ββSiuββ
The name that only had a vague impression appeared in his mind, and he didn't know why he thought so.
"Senpai, it's time for you to go. Evan's voice rang in the ears of Francis, who was standing in the doorway, and outside the door he was about to walk out, a group of knights of the Knights of the Silver Mistletoe were preparing to pour into the black hall.
Orka stood motionless in front of Radian, but her purple eyes did not fix her eyes on Radiant in front of her. She sensed the fluctuations of Siu's life in the spatial ring, more than five hundred years of waiting, nearly 200,000 days and nights of torture, and finally came to an end. At this moment, the strongest emotions can no longer be expressed with expressions, only the purple light that fluctuates to the extreme through the eyes and returns to calm.
Le Di'an's expression became stern, he clapped his hands slightly, and a secret door opened with the sound of a click, and Ibeh, wearing sunglasses and a neat officer uniform, walked through the darkness and appeared beside Le Dian. Behind him, a full hundred knights of the Order of the Silver Mistletoe, dressed in black and armed with silver spears, walked into the huge hall with uniform steps. The black uniform quickly melted into the omnipresent darkness, and then only the flash of the sharp tip of the silver spear flickered at the end of the darkness, like a lone star in the night sky.
Ibech whispered a few words to Radian, and the two of them immediately glanced at Orka at the same time, but the spirit of the Black Wings and their master did not give them any instructions. Then the order was once again confirmed, and the two men nodded solemnly at each other, and then turned and walked in opposite directions. The red diamonds on the epaulettes of the two of them flashed with a different strange brilliance, and the Fourth Knights of the Continent, a full six hundred people, with the leadership of the two Black Wing cadres, centered on this dark hall, forming four concentric circles of defense that were so strong that they were terrifying. Countless powerful weapons combining machinery and magic surround this dark hall.
As the last knight of the Silver Mistletoe stepped out of the hall, the space fell to absolute silence. Orka was left alone in the middle of the hall.
Time passed without a sign, and Orka stood there with her hands crossed, and after an unknown amount of time, her pale lips opened slightly.
"Grimmel, get ready. β
The Chief Scientist of the Black Wings, wearing a white coat that had not changed for seventy years, walked slowly to Orka's side. The eyes behind the thick reading glasses shimmered strangely, but Orka's purple eyes didn't notice it. (To be continued......)