The archmage, the badge of the Holy Cross, the staff, all of these seem to symbolize the Sanctuary, and have nothing to do with the small shopkeepers in the slums. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

The guards were suspicious, but they didn't dare to move the moment they saw the staff. They lowered their swords and bowed silently. The leading guard stepped forward and knelt down on one knee: "My lord, I'm sorry for the offense. But recently, the murderers have been rampant, and they have to be strictly inspected. ”

Rose put away his staff, stepped over and dismounted, and said to Dopp, who was sweating and panting heavily, "Get up, don't be rude." The guards didn't do it either. It was my mistake, I didn't want to bother the adults in the city, after all, the Sanctuary doesn't get involved in worldly things. ”

No matter how stupid Dopp was, he knew he should listen to the stranger's orders. He let go of the chief guard's neck, and by this time the palace officer's face was purple, and the fresh air had rushed into his lungs, and he coughed and gasped violently.

The chief guard got up from the ground in great embarrassment and bowed to the archmage: "We follow the will of the true god. ”

Rose walked over to the haycart and patted the solid, bulging part, in a gentle but irresistible tone: "This is the Yelin I found on my way back from the Sanctuary—a precious beast that can be tamed by mages, and whose fur, bones, and hedrons are the finest raw materials for making staves and circles, and cannot see the light. ”

"I didn't want to bother the adults in the city to escort me, so I asked this pious man to help me. He has received my favor and wants to baptize and serve God. Although the behavior is reckless, it is better to have a pure mind and not be polluted by the world, so please forgive me. I was in a hurry, and the gates were closed after dark—and he was in a hurry. ”

The archmage said, looking impatiently at the sun setting in the west.

Unable to stop him, the guards calmed Dopp, who was still staring at him, rearranged the overturned hay carts, returned even the gold coins to him, and bowed down to escort Rose, his servants, and his convoy out of the city.

It wasn't until the trees on the outskirts began to thicken, and even the farmers were scattered, that Odin rolled over and sat up, laughed and patted Dopp on the shoulder: "Thank you, honest man, it was really thrilling just now." Arthur can't live without you. ”

Dopp was still apprehensive about what had just happened, and now he was even more red when he was praised.

"I will serve the prince with my life!" he said, swearing his oath, trying to make himself look as dignified as a knight.

Odin smiled and told him to go back to his life, looking for an opportunity to tell Arthur that the warlock had left the city safely and was ready to return to the south. Dopp obeyed and left.

Then, the warlock looked at the robed mage on the gray horse and couldn't help laughing, "Rose, you really don't leak a lie. ”

"It's not like a compliment. The mage rode on horseback and walked leisurely, as if it was not himself who had just played the play.

Odin stepped onto the brown horse and rushed in front of Rose: "Why did you just show up? Aren't you in the Sanctuary? Why did you ......?"

The Warlock omitted the rest of the conversation, as he knew where Rose was going.

"I sent you a carrier pigeon yesterday, and I guess you will be returning to the south in the next two days. The gates are heavily guarded, and I have sent men to keep an eye on them, so that if anything goes wrong, I will come to my aid. Sure enough, something bad happened. ”

Rose's deep brown eyes looked ahead, and in front of him was a low plain, with woods, rivers, and swamps. Then there were the foothills, and they had to start over the hills, up the mountains, through the deep valleys, and then back to the south, back to Paliva.

"I have renounced my faith, and it is time to see what the new faith looks like. The archmage still had a benevolent countenance, and he spoke with ease and disobedience to the mage's robes, as if his whole being was a fake skin.

"So, you don't want to stay in the Golden Dawn Society as a professor and be in the company of Corelli. You have to tear your face with the Sanctuary and throw yourself into battle. The warlock smiled.

Rose raised his whip and chanted a mantra of riding, and the gray horse broke through the dust, and flew like there was no way under his feet.

"It's a pity that I'm missing a good pair of ears. Odin shook his head and sighed.

"If the so-called traitors do not advocate the freedom of all people and follow the will of the world, as you say, then the first thing I will deal with is you. "Ross is still an out-and-out idealist.

"Ha, I'm curious, if it weren't for your amazing talent, how would an unpragmatic person like you survive until now. "Odin also used the skill of riding, and the horses ran like a gust of wind.

"No, you're actually very pragmatic. This is inherited from your maternal grandfather. ”

"The old man—I've only met him once, and it's a little different from what I thought...... How can I say it, I don't miss him at all, but I don't hate him at all. Rose's hair flew out, looking more like a knight than a god acolyte who knelt in the Templar all day. He's more like Sully Larsson after all.

"Then again, how do you deal with eight thousand Imperial troops and two hundred Sanctuary forces?" Rose frowned, he was not optimistic about the battle: "As far as I know, there are only two or three hundred renegades in Paliva, and even if you add what you said, the hundred family mages in Deep Valley City are less than four hundred. ”

"You know, now that the Larsen family has nothing, the family knights are scattered around as mercenaries, and they may turn their heads against their old masters. The rest are all unarmed people, and the strong ones can run, and the rest cannot be used to resist the iron horses. Even if all these people are counted, there are no more than two thousand. ”

Although his aspirations were unrealistic, Ross was never ambiguous when he saw things clearly. He quickened his whip and allowed the grey horse to catch up with the warlock's brown horse.

The warlock smiled. =

"Don't worry, the power of the Origin Principle is much more powerful than you think, it can empower everyone, make everyone free. The freedmen can defeat the Iron Knights, the renegades can take on the Sanctuary, and I have other weapons, and Paliva is a good weapon in its own right. ”

Rose was slightly stunned: "You mean, the circle of Paliva City, isn't it destroyed on the day of the festival?"

He remembered vividly the Warlock's use of the Poppy Theater circle to destroy the canopy. The circles that dot the city of Paliwa are ancient ruins, with the Sanctuary as the center, providing shelter to the city, and are incomparably powerful. The Poppy Theater's circle was part of the city circle and relatively independent, and he had never known it had the effect of amplifying attacks.

Generations of mages have been able to restore and maintain these god-given legacies over and over again, gilding them with Mithril and Ugin every year. However, the overwhelming red eyeballs, which Odin called - nightmares, said to be a kind of devil, turned the ruins into a thousand holes. Could he have been able to complete such a huge and elaborate restoration work?

"Fix them all - I can't do it right now. The main purpose of the magic circle in Paliwa City is to resist the invasion of demons and support the canopy. But it's much easier to drop this part of the feature for a while and let it amplify attacks. The Warlock answered Rose's doubts.

"Where did you get this knowledge?" Rose couldn't help but be amazed again and again, and this amazement made him feel more and more that his doubts about faith and magic could be answered in the warlock.

"Once in the hands of the sages of the Empire, you have forgotten it, and I am just picking it up again. Odin replied.

Then they easily jumped over a stream, a stump of a rotten tree that had been struck down by lightning, and sped through the rising night. Riding makes the horses block like the wind.

"It only takes about three days to get back to Paliva. Odin spoke in a brisk tone.