"No, that's not my job. Rogge shook his head slightly, stood up, untied his soaked cloak from his shoulders and put it on his arm, and said to Elizabeth, "I help humanity only out of guilt for humanity, I am neither a soldier nor a priest, and I have no duty to humanity." ”

"But if you kill me, you will be a hero to humanity, for the Bloods will never recover. Elizabeth stared into his face and saw a mocking smile on the corner of his mouth.

"Hero?" Rogge shook his head slowly, walked up to Elizabeth and looked down at her blood-red eyes and said, "I have never been a hero, we all know that in the eyes of humans I am just a beast, just like you." ”

He turned and waved his hand to Elizabeth, and as he turned to leave, he said, "Goodbye, Your Highness Princess, I hope that the next time we meet again, it will be an old friend." ”

Elizabeth stood still looking at his back, suddenly rushed up and pulled him back, and kissed him on the mouth, Rogge raised his eyebrows and looked at her in surprise, Elizabeth left an affectionate kiss on his lips, raised her head and said to him: "You are my hero!"

After saying that, she turned and ran in the opposite direction from him, Rogge stood in place and silently watched her departing back, shrugged his eyebrows and smiled faintly, turned around and walked in the direction of Anne's Trickery Manor, the little furball that had been hiding in the wide-brimmed hat to avoid the rain poked out of his little head and looked behind him, got out of the hat and jumped behind his neck.

"Bad wolf, why did you let the bad princess go?" asked the little furball, staring at Rogge's side face in ignorance.

"Because killing her won't do us any good. Rogge replied softly as he walked unhurriedly in the heavy rain.

"Why? The bad princess is dead, won't the bad bats trouble us in the future?" asked the little furball suspiciously.

"Yes, but there will be more people who will trouble us. Rogge glanced back at Lilith as he walked and asked, "Did the animals in the forest tell you that when they hunt, they will leave some populations for their prey to reproduce and not kill them all?"

"Yes, when we catch rabbits, we don't catch them all, and the big owls say that if we catch too much this year, there will be no rabbits to eat next year!" said the little furball with a nod of his head.

"That's right, if Elizabeth were to die, the vampires would be scattered, and they might not be a threat to humanity, but then the Church would turn their attention to others, such as witches and werewolves. Rogge said, staring straight ahead at the misty rain and fog.

"It's like, a person, a wolf and a tiger, if the tiger and wolf are all alive, people will be careful to avoid provoking the tiger and wolf at the same time, but if one of the tiger and the wolf dies, then people will not hesitate to target the living one and kill it all. ”

He stopped, looked back at the little furball on his shoulder, and said, "This is called the balance of nature, once the balance is broken, it will fall into a terrible result, the person who breaks the balance seems to be the savior, but in fact he will destroy many more people." ”

"I see, you kept the bad princess so that the bad bats would draw the attention of the bad priests and make them dare not mess around!" the little furball opened his eyes wide and flapped his wings and said, "Sure enough, it's a bad wolf who is almost as smart as me!"

Rogge squinted his eyebrows and smiled, and said as he continued walking: "In addition, Elizabeth is alive to make the demon kings of the Cursed Land fearful, although the strength of Her Royal Highness the princess is not enough to control them, they are still afraid of the old prestige of the blood clan, and will not easily cause turmoil, and spread the war to the human realm." ”

"Looks like the bad princess is pretty useful!" said the little furball with an eye-to-eye nod.

"Of course, Elizabeth will play a big role in stabilizing the situation against William, and after this incident, she will be grateful to us, and I think Shirley will also advise her not to be an enemy of humanity again, so that we can do our best against William with all our strength when we are in the rear. ”

When Rogge said this, a sly smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, and he said confidently: "That's why I want to provoke Elizabeth in the walled bandit city, I want to crush her arrogance, shatter her hopes, crush her inner defenses, completely drive her into a corner, and then give her an unexpected new life." ”

"Bad wolf, you must have fox blood, you have a lot of ghost ideas!" said the little furball, shaking the rain off his body.

"You're the blood of a crow, little briquette!" Rogge glanced at her and continued, "But Hunt's appearance was indeed beyond my expectations, he completely disrupted my follow-up plan after I deliberately let Elizabeth go, and now that the Hallows has been broken in two, we will have a lot of trouble in the future." ”

He took out the half-cut white jade staff rod he had picked up from the floor on the second floor before, looked down at its fracture and said to Lilith: "The shattering of the holy artifact may cause the power of the seal to weaken, and the power of the ghost king's soul pouring out of it will erode the people around it, causing an abnormal effect on them, and it must be restored before this effect increases." ”

At this moment, Catherine's figure suddenly came out of the rain and fog in front of her, she trotted all the way to Rogge, wiped the rain from her face and said, "Anne is dead, I avenge Murphy and President Wood." ”

"That's good, have you got the other half of the Hallows?" Rogge handed the half-hallows in his hand to Catherine, who quickly took out the other half of the Hallows from her body, handed it to Rogge and asked, "What now?"

"We've got the guild where Deiz went to the Mage Tower, and the mages of the Mage Tower must have a way to fix this. Rogge put the two broken artifacts on his body, and then led Catherine in the direction of Checheng.

"What about Elizabeth?" asked Catherine as she walked, looking behind her.

"I don't know, I didn't see her, maybe she ran away. Rogge replied calmly.

Catherine looked at Rogge's expression with some concern, a little suspicious of his words, but she didn't dare to question him rashly, she hesitated for a moment and asked tentatively: "Then what should we do, are we going to hunt her down next?"

"She no longer poses a threat to us, our top priority now is to repair the artifact, and then send it back to the imperial capital, and leave the rest to His Majesty the Holy Emperor for his own safekeeping, and there is still a artifact in the Shadow Fortress waiting for us to recapture." Rogge replied without hesitation.

Catherine saw him say this, and said nothing, but followed him back to Anne's manor in the rain, where they rested for a while, and waited for the rain to cease, and then left the place in the direction of the car city.

When they arrived at Checheng, the time was close to dusk, and the two of them stood on the hill and saw that Checheng was still surrounded by Deiz's army, and had no intention of retreating. ”

He asked Little Furball to fly with him and Catherine into the car city, and landed in front of the gate of the castle in the inner city, and Rogge, who had turned back to his original form, took Catherine forward to report Antonio's identity to the soldiers, asking them to report the news of their arrival to Antonio.

A moment later, a group of soldiers came to the castle gate and introduced Rogge and Catherine into the castle, and in the castle hall they met the Marquis Hochersky, the lord of Checheng, a middle-aged man in his thirties, with light gray hair, a round face and a tall figure, and beautiful blue eyes with a hint of melancholy.

"Hello Marquis, I am the companion of the head of Antonio, the Itali knight Langaro, and it is an honor to meet you. ”

Rogge bowed politely to the Marquis, and then introduced Catherine to the Marquis, who politely invited the two to sit down, and then said to them, "Captain Antonio mentioned the two before leaving, and I already knew that they might come. ”

"Where has Captain Antonio gone?" asked Rogge, looking curiously at Hochersky's face with a faint sadness.

"He and Miss Tali went to King Deiz. Hochersky asked his servants to serve refreshments to the two of them, and sighed and said, "I never dreamed that things would turn out like this, I thought it would be a feast of peace, but I didn't expect it to intensify the war." ”

"What happened?" Hearing the story in Hochersky's words, Rogge and Catherine exchanged glances, and looked at the Marquis sitting on the sofa opposite the coffee table with concern.

With a sad sigh, Hochersky said, "Yes, you should know that there are frequent frictions and skirmishes on the borders of the three principalities of the empire, and the lords of various places are accustomed to this. ”

"However, due to the recent mass deaths in our country, and the fact that His Majesty the King is under the control of the dark wizards and ignores the government, the national and military strength has been drastically reduced, and we can only respond to the border conflict in a defensive posture and cannot launch a counterattack. ”

"But this is not a long-term solution, King Deiz saw that our army was insufficient, so he sent a large army to Checheng, hoping to take the opportunity to take away the territory of Chechengli, and the commander of the army, Kevin, is his most beloved son and my old friend. ”

"Oh, that's a problem. Rogge nodded suddenly in realization when he heard this, snatched a biscuit from Lilith's small hand and stuffed it into his mouth, and continued to say to the marquis as if nothing had happened: "Good friends meet each other, this must not be what you want to see, right?"

"Of course, Kevin and I have both saved each other's lives and are the best friends, in fact, the reason why Kevin came with the troops was to help me avoid difficulties, so he took the initiative to ask Ying to snatch the handsome seal, and after coming to Checheng, he only besieged here, and did not siege the city. Hochersky nodded in agreement.

"It seems that this prince is trying to put on a procrastination," said Rogwaner with a smile, "it is almost November, and winter in Erus will come first, and the temperature will drop faster than in other principalities, and when the time comes, the army of Deiz will lack cold equipment, and will have to withdraw if it cannot be attacked for a long time." ”

"You're so right!" said Hochersky, nodding his head as if he had seen a bosom friend, "that's what Kevin thought, so he immediately sent a letter with a bow and arrow into the city as soon as he came here, and told me his intentions." ”

"And then, how did His Royal Highness come into the city for the banquet?" Rogge slapped the little hand of Lori, who was quietly tugging at her stubble in his arms, slapped her on her little buttocks and drove her to the side of Catherine's arms, and then picked up a cup of coffee on the table and asked.

"I invited him to come, Kevin led the army to besiege Checheng for a week, we passed several letters, since we hadn't seen each other for a long time, and we missed each other very much, I hesitated and decided to invite him to my castle for a banquet, to make my best beetroot soup, which is also one of his favorite foods. ”

"Everything seems to be fine, why would you say that this banquet has exacerbated the war?" asked Rogge, taking a sip of his coffee.

"Because ......," Hochersky said with some excitement, "because the day after the banquet, Kevin was found dead in his barracks, and the cause of death was poison in his body!"