"Lawrence's method has worked, and now the people of the North are basking in the joy of the battle of Saint-Tak!" Serci signed his name on a roll of sheepskin medallion, which was then stamped with the seal of the lord, and the wolf print of the Dalton family was printed on the last page of the seal. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

"Oh, really?" Nina didn't seem too happy. But a month later, he still couldn't bring Horn back. ”

"Didn't Lawrence write that he had already diverted to Sunshine City?" Sersi put down the recital and picked up a new one, "Maybe they're already on their way back, and Shelley won't let those two boys go easily." ”

"I hope so. Nina's voice was full of helplessness.

"Your Excellency!" the door to the study slammed open. Sersi looked up, and Nina turned around. The person who came was Lady Creo. The old man is now nearly sixty years old, the oldest and most calm and steady of the Scholar Tower, but today he is .....

"What's the matter? Why don't you even knock on the door?" said Sersi as he put down his quill and got up from his chair, "Is there another riot in the city?" or did Lawrence reply?"

"Madam, you are also ....." The old bachelor's face was pale, his forehead was covered with fine sweat, and there was a visible stain on his pale gray bachelor's robe, as well as on his face, which looked like he had run too quickly and fell on the way to the lord's tower. "I ..... Mistress Sersi, Madame, Mira....."

"What the hell is going on?!" Sersi yelled at the old man with saliva.

"Queen of Assyria, Mi..... Mira Kelling is back. The old bachelor fell to his knees in surprise.

"Rice..... Mira is back?" Nina slowly rose from her chair and leaned back on the desk with a shudder. In a few heartbeats, she seemed to know what the old bachelor was going to say next. "Say, Master Clio..... Go on. ”

"Alliance..... The Confederates have returned, ma'am. The old bachelor looked up, his nose twitching, the corners of his mouth trembling, and tears rolling in his sunken eye sockets. He swallowed with difficulty, his mouth opening and closing, and his whole body trembled. "Madam, the southern expedition failed, Lord Kenny was defeated in the Battle of Karta, and only two thousand of the 100,000 troops returned, Lord Mike, Lord Camille of the Icefields, Lord Kane of your, Duke of Elidudack, and Duke Jaime of Assyria, all killed, Lord He..... Lord Kenny also ..... Killed in battle. ”

Kenny ..... Dead in battle?" Nina felt like she was dreaming. But the dream was so real that she felt dizzy, and then there was darkness in front of her, and the door of the world seemed to be closed.

When she woke up again, she found herself lying in her bedroom with the smell of her husband on her pillow. "Nina?" a voice whispered. It seems to be Mira's voice. Nina couldn't hear very clearly. "Come, Doctor, come here!"

The person who came was Steven. Nina felt that she had hands holding herself up, half leaning on the pillow, and always laughing to please her physician Steven didn't say a word today, just opened her eyelids and looked closely. "Your Majesty, Madame is fine, but she still needs to rest. ”

The first person she saw seemed to be none of Mira Kelline, but when her vision became clearer, she realized that she was as old as an old woman in her seventies. "Tell me, he really died, didn't he?" her voice was weak, soft, without a hint of emotion, cold and shivering. "Okay, tell me, is he really dead?"

In her tearful blurred vision, she saw the old woman in front of her nodding. "How did he die?Why did he die all of a sudden?Why did the Southern Expedition fail suddenly?Why did it happen so suddenly?Didn't you defeat the Peace Army in the Battle of Shotoku? Is the news fake?Or is this just a nightmare?Okay, tell me, and how did you end up like this.....

"Nina, you need to rest. The wrinkles on Mira's face go deep into the chasm, as do her hands.

"No, I don't!" Nina didn't know where she could get, but she suddenly got up from the bed. "He must still be alive, huh?" she grabbed the old woman's shoulders and shook wildly. "You're lying to me! You're lying to me! You're all liars!"

"I brought him back. Mira said softly.

"Take me to him. She commanded.

He was placed on a table in the side hall of the North City Hall, covered with a flag, the wolf-patterned flag of the Dalton family, stained with blood. Sersi stood aside, expressionless and expressionless.

"I want to see him. She said.

"Ma'am, Lord Kenny, he'....."

"I want to see my husband. She repeated.

An Assyrian guard gently unfurled the flag.

It's not a husband, Nina thought. This is not the Lord of the North, nor the Lord of Karta, nor the burly knight he loves, nor the father of Horn Dalton. His hands were clasped in front of his chest, and his fingers clasped the familiar black steel sword, but they were not the hands of his husband, the hands that were incomparably strong and full of life, full of sword calluses. They just dressed a pile of black bones in Kenny's clothes, a finely made blue velvet jacket, embroidered with a Dalton wolf print on the left chest, but under such beautiful clothing, there was no warm flesh at all, how many nights of arms and flesh she had spent on her pillow. The skull was sewn to the body with fine gold thread, but all the bones looked the same, and from the hollow recess she could not find a trace of the penumbra of her husband's honey-colored eyes, which had given her strength a thousand times, as resolute as the hardest rock of the Side Mountains, but now there was nothing but a pile of black, dry bones.

Nina turned to face her husband's lover. "Witchcraft? Why did you fail? What happened to him before he died? This is not the bones of a dead man....."

"Not really. Mira wiped tears from the corners of her eyes and nodded slightly.

"Thank you for bringing him back, and all of you," she said, trying her best to restrain the sadness in her heart, turning to the surviving guards of the southern expedition, and telling them in the voice of the lady of the lord of the northern city, "I appreciate what you have done, thank you for your loyalty, thank you ....."

"Nina," Sersi rarely called her. "Go back and rest, Beicheng needs you. ”

She stared at the pile of bones, all that was left of the love of her life. "No, you're the one who should go back and rest. She held her husband's hand. The black knuckle was cold and bone-chilling. "I can't do anything. Let's go, let's go, except Mira. ”

The guards bowed. Sersi paused for a moment, then turned and walked out of the side hall, where the door closed to Nina and Mira, and Kenny's cold black bones. "What the hell have you encountered, tell me, is that okay?" she asked softly.

"Nina," Mira held her hand and trembled slightly, "we came across something ancient, undeserved on the First Continent....." She closed her eyes, and those horrible images appeared in her mind. "Dragon..... Resurrected Dragons ....."