The battle was ultimately won by the members of Lance's team, but it was impossible to fight an enemy as strong as Alphonse unscathed, and the price was quite severe. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

In addition to Troy's lack of injuries, Christopher's condition is special and his condition cannot be determined for the time being, Kyle, Moll and Vina are all in a state of serious injury and mana exhaustion after the battle, because of excessive blood loss - it took a lot of effort to stop the bleeding for him, although they can use blessing magic but their magic is still exhausted, Moll is still in a coma until now, and Vina even used the "forbidden art" Thunder Emperor's spear that will reduce her future growth space, and paid a more painful price than her current injury.

And the culprit of all this, Alphonse, finally died completely after leaving two words worth pondering. In a matter of seconds, his body that had fallen on Kyle's body was like his severed arm, and the man who had been captured by the Endless Darkness was left with no corpse left.

That's right, it's all a good thing that the Shadow Gift does, and the simple wristband, which doubles the length of the battle, is quietly placed on the ground at this time. Knowing its terrifying powers, Kyle put the matter of judging the authenticity of Alphonse's last words on the back burner, and the depressed man immediately leaned down to pick up his saber and used it to pick up its wristband, causing the boy to rip off a sleeve in an attempt to wrap it around it without touching it.

That's when a small episode happened.

Explaining to Troy why he had tore his clothes nearly broke the knight's mind, but Vena, who arrived in the end, helped him with the task, sealing the wristband in a loose strip of cloth.

To be honest, this can only be considered psychological comfort, but it is better than nothing.

After doing this, the physically and mentally exhausted knight finally collapsed, and even Vina seemed to finally feel the pain and fatigue in her body, and fell down with it, leaving only the young man standing in place, facing the exposed arm.

Time flew by in the dispersion of consciousness, and by the time Vina and Kyle woke up again, the sky had begun to darken, and there was a lit campfire in front of them, next to Mohr, who was still unconscious, and Troy staring at the flames.

And Christopher, through the boy's vague retelling, the two who woke up knew that it was a very indifferent girl, and when they were unconscious, they instructed Troy to drag a few people out of the pirate camp, and randomly found a soft ground to settle down temporarily, waiting for Kyle to wake up, and then found the magic carriage parked in the distance according to the original setting, and returned to the peninsula.

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"Huh, I must have misheard...... You say you're not human, but, 'puppet'?!!"

"Yes, I am. To be precise, I am the latest 'self-discipline doll' made by Devin, a proud disciple of the Grand Magister and 'Blessed One' Levi, and a mid-ranking cadre of the Order, codenamed 'Ice Mint'. ”

“...... Huh, is that so?"

"What is the Great Magister, what is the Order, Proud Disciple, Cadre, What do they mean, Self-Discipline Doll, Ice Mint? are all incomprehensible words. ”

Facing the girl who came from afar, with a holy light all around her, she didn't have time to show her naked surprise, and a simple "Actually, I'm a puppet" made Vina's thoughts interrupt in an instant, and her mouth grew in surprise, and her vocal cords involuntarily made a sound of shock and confusion.

If you look closely, the girl's naked body is as white as ever, but the perfect body has a little "flaw", just like Kyle saw before, Christopher's flat left breast

In the face of her companion's question, Chriss's long eyelashes blinked, and gave her a more detailed explanation in a flat tone.

She is not a human, but a "self-disciplined doll" made by a human being—a doll with self-awareness.

For Kyle, this was 70% expected, but what he said by himself was still difficult for the Cavaliers to accept. The knight who said "That's so" and didn't turn his head stopped thinking about Alphonse for a moment, the amount of information contained in Christopher's "detailed explanation" just now was too much.

The question raised by Troy, who was puzzled, was not entirely due to his lack of "common sense", in fact, every word that puzzled the teenager was something that really shocked Kyle.

The first is the "Grand Magister". At Southwell, the term represents the highest recognition a mage can receive, and the designation, which has been around for a hundred years or so in the Cindi calendar, means that the mage who receives this distinction is not just a "learner" or "drawer", but has played a pivotal role in the development of the magic system.

It is very difficult to obtain the title of Archmage, and it is absolutely impossible to do it nowadays. Actually, the conditions are "simple", although the original origin and the initial stage of Kyle are not clear, but since the Goddani Great Empire unified the whole territory of Southwell more than 200 years ago, placing magic in a position almost equal to royal power, a mage can only be awarded the title of Grand Magus after obtaining the approval of five archmages.

Now, it was impossible to get the approval of the five archmagers. Because to this day, there is still no clear news of death, and perhaps there are only two surviving archmages left.

One is Cauchy, the "Last Archmagister", who has been in first place in the list of magicians released by the "Mage Association" for thirteen consecutive years. This elusive man is a once-in-a-century genius, and his achievement of obtaining the title of Grand Magister at the age of eleven is unprecedented.

However, since it set off a "channeling revolution" in the wizarding world that was judged by the "temple" to be an act of "blasphemy against the true gods", Cauchy, who began to be considered by the vast majority of people on the continent to be just a madman, has gradually faded out of people's sight.

And the other is the "well-wisher" Levi in Christopher's mouth, if the information is correct and Levi is still alive, then this master who opened the "Age of the Sage" with two other great magisters and is known as one of the "Three Sages of the Age of the Sage" may be 100 years old, which is unique in the history of Southwell.

Then, ignoring the "middle-level cadres of the Order" for the time being, it was too impactful for Li Wei to have "another" disciple. According to Kyle's understanding, the master who specializes in "blessing magic" and proposed the "life force theory" has only accepted one disciple in his long life, and that is Doma Master, one of the "Three Sages of the Mage Guild" and the founder of the Mage Guild...... Wait, "Puppeteer"? I see, so that things can be understood.

That's right, the crux of the matter is that Christopher is too human-like, and if it weren't for Alphonse's heavy blow this time, revealing a body material completely different from that of a flesh-and-blood human, Kyle would never have believed that this ice-cold girl would only be a "doll" made by humans.

In Southwell, puppetry and puppetry, as a rather hidden part of the all-encompassing enchantment, are unique to a mage who can master them. And the "dolls" that most people know are quite shoddy "toys", "puppets" that can only be manipulated by their mage masters.

The puppet made by the new generation of "Three Sages" Doma Master is different, and Kyle's knowledge of this person is limited to hearsay.

It is said that the puppets made by the skilled hands of the "puppeteer" have a look that is enough to be realistic, and according to unreliable information, he even made a new type of puppet with a human mind, well, it seems to be called a "self-discipline puppet" or something.

Kyle scoffed at this when he first heard the news, and now that he thinks about it, he must have been too lonely to hear about it. Christopher is so much like a human being, both in appearance and in thought. After thinking about it so much, even after confirming it herself, this is where Kyle still finds it hard to believe.

Even if the skin of her body is not filled with flesh and blood, and her "heart" is just a frozen sapphire, but apart from these, what is the difference between what is attached to this body?

Kyle suddenly felt a sense of fear, a fear that had grown from the depths of his heart and stemmed from an assumption:

If Christopher is indeed just a created puppet as he claims, does this mean that the "consciousness" and "soul" of human beings are things that can be artificially created?

If this is true, then how can the absoluteness of the true God be guaranteed?

The knight could no longer follow this line of thought.

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