Chapter Twenty-Eight: Arrogance

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When the sun finally set over the lowest wall of Adel City, the fishy sailors returned, tired but smiling happily every time they came home, especially when they saw their children running out of the central garden to meet them.

The twilight was hazy, and no one saw the rickety figure slowly departing from under the bell tower, taking slow steps, but quickly disappearing into the city.

"Listen, Dad, the pigeons are screaming very well today. The child holding his father's palm asked curiously as he passed by the bell tower.

"I'm probably hungry. The man frowned and glanced at the bell tower, twisted some bread crumbs out of the cloth bag, placed them on the brightest stone steps in the garden, and walked home with the child.

"Daddy, will the pigeons find something to eat?"

"Yes, kid. ”

"Daddy, can they eat enough?"

"Well, I guess so. ”

"Daddy......"

The sound grew farther and farther away, and a few gray squirrels ran out of the grass, sniffed the food on the steps, held it in their paws and chewed it heavily, and soon there were no crumbs left.

When night finally fell, the mass graves outside Adel City looked more and more mysterious in the dim moonlight, except for the wild dogs running around, only the rickety figures stood quietly on the posts, with iron trees stuck at their feet.

From the achievement of the Adel nobles to the Cult of the Light, and then from the path of conquest to the loss of commoners, Abyss has split the family lineage into two parts, pseudonymous nobles and commoners, hidden in the east and south of the empire respectively. However, it is not known if Abys's excessive killing caused divine punishment, and the family's heirs soon died, and only the eldest daughter was left to survive in the eastern plains.

The moonlight was ethereal, and the three-headed dog of hell weighed the stone in his hand, which had a faint mark of a beam of light blooming, and he put down the stone, lifted the iron catalpa, and began to dig at the highest point of the mass grave.

In the past three years, he has not forgotten to give back to the Pope when he was enjoying his freedom, and the history of the evolution of the Abyss family in the later period was blurred by his flesh and blood under the cover of the night, and finally returned to the original starting point after trekking through most of the empire, because the eldest daughter of the old east has never forgotten this hometown where she was placed in her childhood, and after experiencing the ups and downs of a lifetime of incognito, she did not forget to ask the family to let herself return to her roots.

The catalpa flew like a wheel, and a few broken bones kept falling from the dirt it lifted, while the wild dogs around them just stared at the green eyes and whimpered. Soon, the Pope's shadow sank in the mass grave with the magnitude of the catalpa dug under the baro.

This mass grave is probably the only ancient existence that can be ranked with the clock tower in the city, 2,000 years ago it was still the family cemetery of Abys, but the world has changed, with the decline of Adel City, the belonging of the nobility is not so noble, and it eventually became the soul dump of the Adels.

"Bang", the screeching sound of metal touching hard stone made the wild dogs prick up their ears and watch vigilantly at the high slope where there was no longer movement. The moonlight revealed half of his face through the dark clouds, revealing the situation in the pit, and the three-headed dog of hell in the form of a gravedigger stood in the grave more than three people tall, and at his feet was an intricately carved sarcophagus, even though it was covered in mud and eroded, but it was still possible to make out the beam symbol of the Holy Light Cult on the lid of the coffin.

After thousands of years, the abode of the eldest daughter of Abyss was born under the iron catalpa in the hands of the gravediggers.

"Click. The gravedigger stood on the lid of the coffin and grinned, slowly crouching down his already ecumbent figure, and at the moment when the moonlight hid into the dark clouds, he recognized the name under the relief sign, Vera Menders.

The gravedigger stretched out his claws to clasp the sarcophagus, his shoulders shook slightly, and the coffin lid weighing more than 1,000 catties was broken alive with a muffled sound. The hostess lying in the coffin had long since turned into dry bones, but the white silk robe embroidered with gold on her body was still as bright as new.

"Click. The gravedigger pulled off the skull and pinched it in his hand, grabbed the white robe and put it on his body, and jumped up from the bottom of the pit with a strange smile, looking at the moonlit night sky, and screaming.

"Boom!" a thunderbolt exploded over the Hongtong Magic Academy, and the first rain of summer began to pour, and the person who had been lying on the bed sat up with sweat on his forehead.

"Alan?" said Arthur, lighting the oil lamp at the bedside of his dormitory and looking at the blonde boy who was sitting still. Since joining the library club, Alan has not only brought food to everyone, but also brought the bedding and built a bed between Arthur and Fred.

"Another nightmare?" Arthur walked over to his bedside and handed him a handkerchief, and Alan took it with a blank look and wiped his face, still looking palpitating.

Arthur patted him on the shoulder, wondering how this thing had been having nightmares lately, when Alan suddenly shed two lines of tears and sat on the bed in a daze. The dim lights of the dormitory reflected the lightning and thunder outside the window, and Fred was woken up, rubbing his hair as if he were in the chicken coop.

"Alan, tell us what's going on?" Arthur asked the blonde boy with a solemn look on his face.

"I ...... I don't know, but I ...... in my heart It's very uncomfortable. Alan clenched his fists in confusion, and the light element under his skin surged wildly, shining brightly, as if he was the brightest oil lamp in the dormitory.

"It's okay, it's just a dream. Fred had sleepy eyes open, trying to comfort his companion in his sleepiness. Alan came back to his senses and wiped his tears, pulling the corners of his mouth far-fetched.

"Sleep. Arthur walked back to his bed, lay down quietly, and listened to the sound of the rain, but did not blow out the oil lamp.

Arthur pillowed his hands, and recalled in his mind the letter sent by the old butler, which was about the old family of Figo and Mentrust, and they really did what they wanted, and stayed in the ice field for the past three years, honestly developing their strength.

Interestingly, the letter mentions an anecdote that when the Mentrust family was preparing to get involved in shipping affairs in Kessler Harbor, they had a big fight with a teenager who claimed to be the King of Warren, and at first the Mentrustas family did not take this nonsense teenager to heart, but when the Warren underground emperor William personally came forward to reconcile, bluntly said that the boy was the owner of Kessler Harbor, and euphemistically proposed that the boy participate in this shipping plan, Mentrustas began to face this hippie smiling boy.

Looking at the young man with a blue nose and swollen face and a playful smile, with Mentos's violent temper, he had no choice but to pinch his nose and give him a 30% stake to jointly develop the shipping business from Kessler to the North Gallon Sea.

Arthur tugged at the corners of his mouth, Mentoras had a short temper but definitely no lack of brains, and it was not enough to be one of the only two remaining members of the eight collateral families. That young man must have something that Mentrust was interested in, so he would have handed over this little friend, otherwise with the weight of the Warren underground emperor, he would not be able to scare this battle-hardened family.

"I'd love to go to the ice field when I have the chance. Arthur meditated, and couldn't help but look forward to the magnificent scenery of the sky and the earth covered with snow and ice, especially in Deppshire, where the winter was only cold and there was not half a snowflake, and ice and snow became a rarity.

At his insistence, the grave keeper of Dusk Castle also carried a gun to the ice field, leaving the place he had guarded for half his life. Everyone in the current Leonis family is a screw, and only by staying where they should be can this huge machine have a chance to run again. Arthur felt that a great knight of the empire should not be tied to the cemetery and immobilized, and Neo should be the outstanding man who swept the world with a spear in his hand.

As for Rena, her unfathomable magical cultivation had been roughly aware of Arthur's ability to activate the wood element, and Arthur had roughly estimated that if a knight team and a few high-level magicians assisted them launched a frontal charge against the Dusk Castle, Rena could easily play them in the palm of magic and then blast them to the scum. Because, this is the fundamental difference between a space mage and an ordinary mage.

Imperial space magisters are not very rare, but most of them are affiliated with the military and registered with the Magic Society, but Rena is an exception. Her magical talent was a miracle that was unexpectedly activated after she was twenty years old, when the elite of Dusk Castle was in full swing, and no one really noticed this rough-looking girl, except for her mother, Viv Raonis. Viv has always been kind and delicate, and she has repeatedly encouraged and provided the young maid with the necessary magical materials, so that this taciturn maid has made great progress on the path of space magic, reaching the level of the Imperial Magus at the age of twenty-seven, which is simply another miracle.

Space spells were once considered pseudo-god magic, and in the space created by such magicians, all people will face an absolute existence beyond the gods, and life and death will be manipulated between overturning. Rena's rise to fame quickly attracted the attention of the Magic Society, who enthusiastically extended an invitation to the maid, but the rough-looking girl unexpectedly rejected the invitation and abandoned it, instead following the head of the family, Ashlaw, to the battlefield for a few years, and then returning as a Legion Magical Advisor with a gold star shining on her shoulder.

By the way, the handmaiden who didn't talk much then did something that made everyone dumbfounded, and at the family's celebration banquet, Ashlaut half-jokingly asked her if she had any gifts for the mistress, and the young magister nodded, took the gold star off her shoulder, folded it into a gold ring, and gave it to her respected and close mistress, and everyone laughed good-naturedly, and their magister was not even willing to spend the money for the gift.

Few people know that Viv Raonis wore the gold ring until her death.

The stubbornness of this family is simply outrageous, Arthur tilted his head, and his nose suddenly became a little sour.