On the side of the road outside Mosco, Tali and Catherine stood on the side of the road looking in the direction of the city gates, waiting for Antonio's return, and behind them, Rog sat with the little owl Lilith on his head, and Locke sat among the tombstones, talking softly with cigars in their mouths.

"How did you know that the Holy Emperor would definitely pardon Antonio?" Locke asked, looking at Rogge curiously.

"Because he needs Antonio. Rogge smoked a cigarette leisurely, and replied softly with the dirt under his feet with his left hand: "If Antonio is dead, who will help him recover the lost Hallows?

He waved his hand holding the cigar and smiled, "No, neither Goethe nor I do trust him, Antonio is the only person he can trust." ”

He glanced up in the direction of Mosko City, and said to Locke in a low voice, "On the other hand, the Holy Emperor also needs a person to restrain Goethe, and every emperor needs a pair of fighting right men to maintain the balance of power in the court. ”

"If the balance is broken and the situation becomes one-sided, the Holy Emperor will not have a peaceful child, he must support Antonio when he is weak, and in the same way, this is also the reason why the Holy Emperor did not delve into the situation when Antonio told the Holy Emperor about Goethe's situation, all for the sake of balance. ”

Locke leaned on his cane in both hands, pressed his chin on the back of his hand, looked at the sly smile on Rogge's face, shrugged his eyebrows and said, "You do know too much, you know the Holy Emperor's mind so thoroughly, shouldn't you bastard still have the ambition to be the emperor?"

"I'm too lazy to sit on that throne. Rogge sneered contemptuously, took a puff on his cigar, and said, "I'd rather sleep until dark and take the little villain in the wilderness to catch rabbits to eat, than sit in the palace and intrigue like a caged bird." ”

"Are you sure your little heart thinks so too?" Locke asked with a teasing smile.

"I still like to catch mice and rabbits in the wild, and although there are good things to eat in the palace, there are also them outside, but there are no small animals in the palace to play with me!" said the little furball bouncing on Rogge's black wide-brimmed hat.

"Yes, even if you have someone to play with, you will turn the palace into a ruin at the end of the day. Rogge said with a smirk.

"Ah, maybe you're right," Locke nodded at the little furball, and then said, "But it's not you, my little darling, I'm talking about careful liver." ”

"Is there anything else that the bad wolf is careful about?" Hearing this, the little furball suddenly stretched his neck, looked at the two of them with a vigilant face and asked, "Bad wolf empathy, don't fall in love?"

"Ah, you know, I don't need to say it explicitly. Locke grinned and turned his gaze to the side of the road, landing on Catherine, who was beside Tali, when he suddenly saw a group of knights coming from the other side of the road.

"They're coming!" Seeing the silver dragon knight in bright armor, Tali and Catherine shouted excitedly, Catherine helped Tali, who was still a little unsteady in her steps, and Antonio, who was walking in front of the team, immediately rushed forward as soon as he saw them, and held Tali in his arms.

"It's great you're okay!"

When this sentence came out of the mouths of the two at the same time, Antonio and Tali couldn't help but be stunned for a moment, and then showed a tacit smile, Antonio hugged Tali and said in her ear: "I'm sorry, it's all my fault for making you suffer so much." ”

"It's okay, it's all gone. Tali snuggled her head on Antonio's shoulder, closed her eyes and whispered.

"Tell me, what happened that day?" Antonio looked down at Tully's pale face and asked the question that had been haunting him.

Tali told him what had happened, and Antonio was shocked to learn about it, he clenched his fists in annoyance and said, "I really didn't expect that it was my family who betrayed you when you needed help the most, no wonder they would say such things on the execution ground!"

"Don't do this," Tali said anxiously, holding his face in her delicate hands, "It's not their fault, they're just scared and don't know what to do, in fact, they're already pretty good, if this happened to Deiz, maybe I'd have been killed on the spot." ”

"At this time, you still intercede for them. Antonio grabbed one of Tali's hands and sighed angrily.

"I'm just saying the truth, the object we should take revenge on is Ivan, who deliberately sprinkled poison on you, and the others were just used. Tali took Antonio's hand and persuaded earnestly.

"Either way, I'll let them give you an explanation. Antonio looked at Tali in a firm tone, and the mermaid snuggled her head against his chest and said gratefully, "Thank you, with your words, all of this is nothing." ”

Antonio looked down at the attachment on her face, and felt a kind of birdly attachment in her body, he knew that she loved him deeply, so she was willing to tolerate the injustice of her relatives, and this strengthened his determination to stay with her.

He lowered his head and kissed the corners of her forehead, slowly cupped her face and kissed her cheeks and lips, not caring at all about the eyes of the people around him, as if the world had nothing to do with them, nothing could prevent them from having each other, race, creed, blood, everything, everything had become unimportant.

"Grand Master and Sister Yu are so affectionate, I also want someone to kiss me like this. The little furball lay on Rogge's hat, his eyes wide open, and he looked at the two with envy.

"I can. Rogge said, flicking the ash of his cigar.

"Go kiss the stupid girl, I don't want you to kiss, Mr. Bacon!" the little furball gave him a disgusted look, flapped his little wings and flew to Locke's top hat.

Rogge smiled and glanced at Catherine, who had returned to him, and the girl blushed and lowered her head, I don't know if it was because of the kissing scene not far away, or what Lilith had just said.

After meeting with Rogge, Antonio thanked him for his efforts to rescue him, and Rogge smiled slightly and said, "You don't have to be polite, Captain, this is all the grace of His Majesty the Holy Emperor, I just asked Miss Tali to help me go to the imperial capital and send a message to your knight." ”

He sat down with the others between the tombstones, took half a cigar in his mouth, and said, "As for the rest, it is our focus at the moment, Ivan has controlled the king of Erus with his mental occupation, we need to find a way to crack his control magic, rescue the king and then kill Ivan." ”

"Can't you just kill him?" asked Catherine, confused.

"I think Miss Tully has more say on this issue. Rogge said as he looked back at the mermaid sitting next to Antonio.

"Rogge is right, we can't kill Ivan directly," Tali nodded approvingly, "Psychic possession will seal the soul that occupies the target, the king is actually just a shell now, once we kill Ivan, there may be two scenarios." ”

"The first possibility is that his soul will be transferred to the king's body, in that case, he will completely disguise himself as the king, we have no evidence that he is Ivan, if you want to kill the king, you will have to bear the charge of killing the king, if you don't kill him, Erus will fall into the hands of Ivan. ”

Tali looked around at everyone's worried expressions and continued, "The second possibility is that Ivan's death will lead to the death of the king, because the king's soul has been sealed and can no longer control the body, he and Ivan live and die together, and we must separate them." ”

"I see, so what should we do?" Catherine nodded in realization, looking at Rogge expectantly.

"We've encountered this before, remember the forward base of the Lizardmen in the Death Swamp?" Rogge smiled at the crowd, and Tali suddenly woke up, "Yes, that Dark Wizard used similar magic to control the daughter of the Lizardman Matriarch. ”

"That's right, similar magic requires a charm or something like that on the person being controlled, Sasha, the daughter of the Matriarch of the Lizardman, has a voodoo doll left by the dark wizard, and I'm sure Ivan must have left a similar spell on the king, we need to find and clear it first. ”

Hearing Rogge's words, Antonio took the initiative to ask: "Leave this matter to me, it is easier for me to get close to the king, let me go and explore the road first, see if I can find some clues, and then we will act." ”

"That's what I think too, as for Ivan's side, Locke, you're in charge of monitoring his every move, be careful, that guy thinks he's very alarmed, the last time I went to his house with the little villain, he should have known that we started investigating him. Rogge turned back to the magician beside him.

"So, what are you responsible for, protecting the ladies?" Locke asked Rog half-jokingly, shrugging his eyebrows at Catherine and Tully.

"Don't worry about me, I'm an idle person. Rogge smiled mysteriously.

After the discussion was decided, Antonio asked Joel, the deputy head of the Silver Dragon Wings Knights, to lead the knights back to the imperial capital of Bahrain through the dimensional passage of the god of lights, and he and Rogge led the others back to Mosco City.

They booked a room in an inn in the city, and due to the scarcity of travelers due to the plague, most of the rooms in the hotel were empty, and the boss, seeing that there were guests busy, gave five people five of the best rooms at a low price in order to retain these rare guests.

After settling into his accommodation, Antonio left the hotel and went to the palace to meet the king of Erus, Salenchesky, and Tali offered to go with him, Antonio was a little worried, but could not resist her insistence, and finally agreed.

When the two men came to the gate of the palace and asked the soldiers of the palace guard to inform the king of their request, the soldiers were very surprised, but they immediately reported to the king, and the king of Erus, when he learned that Antonio had brought Tali to see him, immediately ordered the soldiers to let them in.

"I'll talk to the king in a moment, and you can look at him and see if you can find anything like a magic charm. On the way into the palace, Antonio whispered to Tali.

Tali nodded slightly before she could reply, when a young man's voice suddenly came from the corridor behind her: "Captain Antonio, Miss Guardian, it's such a pleasure to see you here!"