95. The god of emotional loss
"You take Ash to the Dark Mountains, I should come to you soon. Lycia took out the conch and handed it to Keith. "Give it to those who need it more. ”
She could sense whether Keith was good or bad, and warm contact would disrupt her thoughts.
Keith took the conch and frowned. "You look a little different than you used to. ”
"What's the difference?" said Lycia, glancing at the mud and grass clippings on her toes, and feeling calm.
Keith shook his head, he didn't know. "Father's business. ”
Lycia took a look at the situation around Campbell House. "Leave the matter of Duke Mixiu to me, you take Ash out of here. ”
She didn't call Michau her father, not because she hated Michaeu, but because her emotional capacity was weakening, and she kept using her godhead and weakening that part of her feelings as a human being.
Lycia divined that the Church Army would approach Campbell House an hour later.
Ash ran downstairs without packing his things. "I'm not leaving, Buchton is still here. As she was packing up, she suddenly calmed down.
"No, Ash, you can't stay here. Lycia said with a blank face, and she gave Eshian a six-pointed star and forced her to obey orders.
Keith watched as Ash suddenly turned around mechanically, still muttering. "Well, it's all up to you. ”
At the urging of Keith and Ash, they left Campbell House, and in a hurry, Ash wrote a letter to Buchton.
"I'll hand it over to him, just follow Keith in peace. Lycia struggled to get herself to say a few warm words.
Keith drove the carriage and used his heraldic power to the fullest, leaving the city of Lantkoth in the shortest possible time.
An hour later, the Church Army arrived at Campbell House as they had done in the divination.
"Is that you?" Lycia met an acquaintance, and the leader of the Church Army who came this time turned out to be Ning Tong, the butler of the Heraldic Academy.
"Hello, Miss Lycia. Ning Tong's white gloves stroked the doorknob, he didn't let the other church troops step into the castle, he only took one step and stepped on the threshold.
He is the only Church Army with a 30% opinion of Lycia.
"Some people say they saw a wanted man coming to Campbell's house. "Ning Tong's other hand was holding a crossbow.
"Nope. Lycia shook her head.
Ning Tong laughed lightly. "The rut marks on the grass were left not so long ago. ”
"Truth be told, sir, my father, Duke Michaeu, lost control and became a werewolf. Lycia's hands were clasped together, and she had changed into a clean pair of shoes. "My sister Ash was emotionally out of control and couldn't stay at Campbell's house any longer, so I sent her away. ”
"You look very calm. Ning Tong said. "What about Duke Michau?"
Lycia walked out the door, and the Church Army automatically made a way.
She pointed to the tower not far away. "I kept him there. ”
In the golden moonlight, the red brick towers looked a little scary.
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Keith finally contacted Lycia with a conch, and he gasped as he spoke, as if he had just escaped from somewhere.
"Let's start preparing where to hide, we have found a few strange ships, they must be the boats of the people on the other side, they have already come with a lot of people. ”
The conch was clinging to Lycia's hot ear. "How do you hide? The aggressors will not let anyone go. Besides, they've been here once before. ”
Keith asked, holding his breath. "What? What came once?"
"The holy war hundreds of years ago was actually because people from the other side came over, and their development path was completely different from ours. Lycia said.
"Holy war? Is there really a holy war? I thought it was just the Church boasting about its exploits. Keith gradually calmed down his rapid breathing.
"The church is just black and white. Lycia said. "And at that time, it was the Kamen Knight who saved all beings, what a sun goddess, maybe there was no sun goddess in the first place, but there was a traitor who boldly took the name of the sun. ”
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"I have a very bold idea right now. "After communicating with Keith, Lycia has become aware that the people on the other side have begun to gradually invade the Thorn Empire.
"We need to make a copy of the heraldic stone, not the kind of heraldic stone that mutates people, but a heraldic stone that allows civilians to wield the power of heraldic as well. Lycia said she remembered the recipe for replicating heraldic stones she had heard in the cemetery.
The mud monster doesn't know much about heraldic power, and its power has nothing to do with heraldry.
"Oh, that's perfect. "It took a hit.
"But I just know the recipe now, not how to make it. Lycia thought of Dimitri, who seemed to have been collecting materials for making heraldic stones, and wondered if there was any success now.
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As usual, Lycia returned to Campbell House after a busy day outside.
Now that she and Ash are on good terms, and Duke Michaux often doesn't see the end of the dragon, returning to Campbell's mansion really makes Lycia feel at home.
"Troy, why are you here?" Lycia didn't expect Troy to come to visit today.
"What about your father, Duke Michaeu?" Troy's face was furious, and Ash hadn't come home from work yet.
Lycia remembered what Ash said about Duke Mixiu and Troy's mother as if they had a leg, and not only did she blush for Duke Mixiu.
"I don't know, I just came home and my father wasn't home?" asked Lycia Marianne, who handed her a glass of water.
Marianne shook her head. "Duke Michaeu went out in the morning. ”
Lycia shrugged at Troy. "Do you do a divination?"
"I've done divination! It's because of divination that I see your father hurting my mother!" Troy even picked up the teacup on the table and slapped it vigorously.
"What? What kind of harm do you mean?" Lycia thought it was adult behavior.
"He's killing my mother!" roared Troy. "In the meadow, in a meadow. ”
Lycia sensed the seriousness of the situation, Duke Michaeu's heraldic power had been unstable, and what Troy predicted was very likely to be true.
"Can you describe the scene any more?" asked Lycia.
But soon they didn't have to look for it, and from afar there was a long howl of wolves.
Lycia turned and went out the door, running towards the back of the castle.
Troy followed her.
A werewolf, Duke Michaeu, with blood dripping from his paws, half-hunched, looked at Lycia and Troy as if he were staring at his prey.
Hidden dangers will always erupt, and if you sense that something is wrong and ignore it, it will only lead to more trouble.
The werewolf Mixiu lunged at Lycia, suffocating her with blood foaming from her mouth.
Troy ran to the hollow of the grass, where his mother was lying on the ground with a huge hole in her chest.
Lycia had no way to kill her father, she had lost all her sanity and was only thinking about destroying and killing, and Lycia could only break his forearms and ankles, leaving him unable to move, only able to squirm back and forth on the ground.
"I'm sorry, I'm really sorry. Lycia didn't know what to say to comfort the red-eyed Troy.
Although he is attentive, he is very gentle and kind, and his mother must be such a person.
And now he was killed by Duke Michaeu, this rotten man.
Lycia was pretty sure that her mother had been killed by Duke Michaeu.
She didn't know why she had deceived herself, but she should have deduced it.
"I'm going to kill him! Michaeu Campbell! It's Campbell again! Everybody in our family can't escape Campbell!" Troy, who was rarely emotionally uncontrollable, got up from the ground, his mother's blood still on his hands.
Lycia discovers that the progress bar above Troy's mother's head is still there, and that the opinion rating may be on a dead person.
So she closed her eyes and used her godhead to contact Troy's mother, who had just died, and she found that Troy's mother was indeed not dead.
"Troy, your mother is still alive. Lycia filled the gaping hole in Troy's mother's chest with a silver glow.
Troy, who had already raised the short knife in his hand and was about to plunge it into Duke Mixiu's chest, stopped moving, froze in place for three seconds, and looked at Lycia for five seconds.
Then he threw down his dagger and ran towards his mother.
True, the divination results changed, and the mother did not die.
Troy stared blankly at Lycia.
It is no accident that no one can change life and death so easily, except God.
He remembered the images of the forced divination in his head for several moments, each of which had something to do with Lycia.
Could it be that Lycia is a god, another god besides the sun goddess?
"That's all I can do, I hope your mother is safe and sound, I'm really sorry. Lycia withdrew the godhead contact.
Troy's mother, who was still in a coma, gave Lycia a bright six-pointed star.
"No, it's not your fault. Troy came back to his senses, and he already had a strong sense of how extraordinary Lycia was. "Lycia, you look a lot like my father's lover, the woman I told you about before, with a pearl hair ornament. I now know who she really is, it's your father's sister, Clanda Campbell. ”
The speculative glass in Lycia's heart was broken, and she was indeed not Duke Michau's biological child.
This made her breathe a sigh of relief, and she didn't want to explore why she had become so relaxed after confirming this matter.
"She was removed from the Campbell family, by the entire Thorn Empire. Lycia said.
The Werewolf Mishu was still struggling on the ground, making a roaring sound.
Troy hugged his mother. "Because of her exposure to darkness, she was judged guilty, and she was not tolerated by the sun goddess. ”
"What are you going to do with him, your father?" asked Troy. "If I'm not mistaken, your power probably doesn't come from the Sun Goddess, no heraldic power can change life and death. ”
Lycia didn't answer no.
"It's nothing, you saved my mother, and you saved many others. "Troy didn't think that way before, he believed in the sun goddess and considered pagans sinful.
But the last few times he has been forced into divination, he always wonders if he has been forced to betray the sun goddess.
Troy now understood that it was Lycia who had betrayed the sun goddess.
He looked at Lycia and felt that her every movement seemed to call him to worship her.
Troy nearly fell to his knees.
"I'm going back with my mother, and I hope Lycia will tell me tomorrow what you're going to do with it. Troy didn't dare to look into Lycia's eyes any longer.
Lycia also felt confused, what to do with Duke Michaeu.
Everything was stacked on top of each other, and if this was to be poked out, it would obviously create an even more chaotic situation, with a large number of Church troops coming to the Campbell family to search and keeping an eye on her and Ash.
Lycia tested her father with her godhead, and she couldn't detect the slightest fluctuation in human emotions, including the favorability bar above Duke Michaeu's head, which had faded to the point of being invisible.
He might soon be a godoutcast, Lycia thought.
Before Lycia could think of a countermeasure, the favorability bar above Duke Michaeu's head disappeared completely.
When Ash got home, Lycia sat down on the couch tiredly.
"Ash, I have something to tell you. Lycia patted the couch next to her. "You have to be mentally prepared first. ”
Ash put the brown paper bag in her hand on the coffee table, she has been borrowing a few books for Lycia every day lately, and occasionally she will read the books herself, it doesn't seem too bad if life has always been like this.
But now Lycia's reaction made her very uneasy, and for the first time Ash felt how dependent she was on Lycia.
"I will, you can say. ”
Marianne beckoned the maids to step aside, and she also stood a little farther away, looking down at her toes.
Lycia told Ash everything that had happened today, and she thought Ash would cry.
But no, Ash was only stunned for a moment, and then began to laugh maniacally, laughing until tears welled up in his eyes.
"Hahahahahaha
She closed herself off and deceived herself for a while, but none of this worked.
"He killed his mother, hahahaha, he deserved to die. After laughing for a long time, Ash stopped. "Don't be afraid, Lycia, such a brute is not worth shedding a tear for him. ”
Duke Misheu, the werewolf Mixiu, was imprisoned in the tower by Lycia and Ash.
That tower is not far from the main castle.
Lycia set up a circle so that Michaeu Campbell could not leave the tower.
"I never thought that one day I would imprison my father. Ash patted the sawdust off her hands, she and Lycia had just brought a plank bed for the werewolf Michaux.
"This year's family has changed really, hey. Ash sighed. "If my brother hadn't made that mistake, maybe our family wouldn't be what it is now. ”