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"Dear Audrey......"

In the dimly lit room, after Alfred had written his first words, there was no follow-up.

He stared at his sister's name for a long time, the light of the oil lamp the size of a grain of rice could not fully illuminate his desk, and the whole room was pitch black, just as he had been in the mood for the past few days.

"I've been through some battles in the Southern Continent, and I'm lucky, but the worst injuries only forced me to lie down for a week, and I didn't lose some body parts or lose my life like other soldiers."

"Thanks to my status and rank, the big names in the army treat me more favorably, and I have my own room, my own desk, chair and bed, as well as paper and pen, to write to you in my free time."

Alfred rustled as he wrote, outside the room separated by a wooden door, in the hallways and everywhere there were faint snoring and thin cries, and there were people calling out to their most important relatives in their dreams.

The walls of Behrens were not soundproofed, and the chaotic sounds wafted to Alfred's ears like a myriad of ghosts and ghosts wandering and whispering, always waking him up in the middle of a nightmare.

He shook his head, took back a lot of what he had to say, and let out a long breath, as if he could spit out the uneasiness and negativity in his heart.

"Dear Audrey, how are you doing? You're supposed to be back in Beckland, where the fog is still so bad? Oh, the new year's social season has begun, and our Miss Hall is still the most beautiful and sparkling jewel in Beckland. ”

The tip of the pen brushes across the rough stationery.

"There are always interesting things going on in the army, and I have a new recruit in my team who has just been honored. A cargo ship had left the port, and he wanted to send something to his fiancée, who was far away in Makai County, but he didn't know what to send. In the end, he sent the finger bone of an enemy he killed with his own hands as a souvenir in an envelope...... Hopefully, the girl will understand her fiancé's behavior. ”

Alfred dipped his brow in ink, his frown loosening slightly.

He wanted to write about the new entertainment that circulated among the low-level soldiers - to see whose cookies ran fast, but the principle of the birth of this game was probably not suitable for explaining to a simple girl, and it would make the other party worry, so Alfred gave up.

“…… It may be hard for you to imagine how many times the people of the Southern Continent add spices to their cooking, and how many types of spices they have...... I have to say that their achievements in seasoning are quite high, but I think that food with so many spices will not be unpalatable. ”

"Audrey, you know what? After so many battles, I have never been so eager to see you, to see my father, my mother and your faces, to hear your voices, I miss you so much...... It is no exaggeration to say that even if I see Hibbert now, I am willing to take the initiative to greet him and give him a hug. ”

Compared with the enemies and horrors he faced, the big brother who was just a little narrow-minded was simply kind-hearted.

Whew-

Alfred exhaled again, reaching out and pinching the bridge of his nose and rubbing his temples.

He also wanted to write something more, after all, the opportunity to deliver the letter was rare.

So he carefully folded the unfinished letter, put it away close to his body, and threw away the fragile emotions that longed for warmth and soft affection, so that he could refocus on the present moment.

Just then, he suddenly smelled a strange smell.

"Someone is secretly smoking again?"

Alfred immediately stood up, there were many wooden structures in this small building, and now every room and even the corner was full of people, and secretly smoking and using open flames in such a closed, high-density environment was simply not enough to die fast!

But as soon as he pushed the door open, he knew that he had misjudged - the world in front of him was rapidly distorted, and the loud noise made him temporarily deaf, and all the sounds seemed to be extremely distant in an instant.

The floor beneath his feet crumbled, and dust and flames fell.

"Enemy attack!!"

A stone slab fell, smashing the soldiers at his feet, and he stood on the crumbling building and roared with the loudest voice:

"Enemy Attack !!"

Alfred couldn't hear the sound clearly, and could only guess that he had indeed shouted.

There were several loud tremors in succession, and it seemed that dozens of huge artillery pieces were moving in unison outside the city of Behrens. In just an instant, the firelight broke through the sky, and dozens of fire balls pierced the dark night and smashed into the city like meteors!

Flames rose almost instantly, igniting the wooden houses, and burning debris burst in all directions.

Those meteors are flaming stones, and where they are smashed, they leave only a deep crater, or a sizzling blur of flesh.

The low, close-knit houses are the best fuel, and in the blink of an eye, the quiet city streets in the dark are turned into roaring bonfires, and the billowing smoke pours out of the cracks in these woods, obscuring the space within a radius of tens of meters by the wind, and spreading.

"No flames here!"

One ear begins to regain hearing, and the other ear has tinnitus for a long time. Alfred quickly departed from the rubble of the crumbling building, stumbling towards the smoke and flames—it was not his duty to save the sick and wounded—and shouted:

"No smoke here!"

His unconscious limbs gradually returned to normal, and he touched the place where the letter was placed in his arms, and his expression became solemn as never before.

The fire, smoke, and incendiary objects around him avoided him as if they had come to life. In the area covered by the law, the fire gradually weakened, but the artillery outside the city did not stop there, and the speed of his fire fighting was far less than the speed of the fire spreading!

Half of the buildings in Behrens were made of wood, and countless firewood and human bodies were piled up and burned around the city. Thick black smoke rose into the air, as if a black curtain was dividing every part of the city. Although he was able to block out the smoke, Alfred could barely see the outside, and he had to endure the pungent smell of the smoke, so he had to blindly cast the law to dispel everything around him.

At this moment, he suddenly felt as if something was around him, and someone seemed to be watching him in the shadows.

"No peeping here!"

He immediately let out a roar of rage, and spiritually sketched a picture of the shadow under a corner of the wall behind him to the left, and began to wriggle, and he stood up, squeezed out of the shadows like a man, and then immediately jumped out of place with another shadow in succession!

There was another series of loud bangs, and Alfred suddenly felt chills all over his body, and when he looked up, he saw dozens of huge fires rushing towards all parts of the city, and one of them was actually facing him, encompassing him and the houses around him!

The scorching heat seemed to be rushing towards his face, and Alfred had seen the wind and waves before, but at this moment he was still overwhelmed by great fear, even though his reason shouted "Run!" Run! His legs were still as if they had been filled with lead, barely moving. The distance between the Meteor and him quickly closed, and just as he was about to take a desperate gamble with the Decree, an indifferent, majestic voice echoed throughout the city—

"The reality of this place has weakened, and the mystery has intensified."

Cha. As if the candlelight had been gently blown out, the fire meteor and the spreading flames had dimmed, and the trajectory of the boulder that had not yet fallen became erratic, as if it had turned from a stone to a piece of paper. Shadows and spirits began to appear, the stars in the sky lit up one after another, and a cloud suddenly tilted to the side directly above the city gate in the distance, it was actually an airship that had quietly entered the interior of Behrens!

With this life-saving decree, Alfred immediately rolled over as if he were to dodge the burning stones.

"Why hasn't the army been mobilized yet?"

Frightened, Alfred looked left and right, looking for allies.

Only now did he feel the earth shake slightly in an orderly manner, it should be the garrison that began to move, this reaction speed was really shockingly slow, and he suddenly remembered: "Yes, Major General Levitt seems to have another mission......

"These cultists actually chose to attack the city late at night!" Alfred felt fear creep up on his shoulder, he sat in the corner of a collapsed house and inhaled heavily, thinking of those fire meteors, cold sweat gradually spread over his forehead and back, "If I hadn't been thinking about writing some letters tonight and hadn't fallen asleep, I would have been dead at the first wave of attacks......"

Once again, he reached out and touched the place where the letter was hidden, pointed out the red moon on his chest, and prayed to the goddess that he would still have this good fortune in the next battle, and that he would be able to return alive to reunite with his family.

At the same time, he had a hunch that even if he could return alive, these flaming boulders falling from the sky would become a nightmare that would accompany him for the rest of his life.

After a little trimming for half a minute, Alfred gritted his teeth and stood up and ran towards his troops.

……

"Prince Grove is out."

With the help of the eyes of the "hermits" in the army, Don General made a quick judgment.

In the airship above, the hunters are still doing extreme maneuvers, trying to make this expensive and limited number of behemoths land on the ground as smoothly as possible, so as not to ignite the wrath of the higher-ups.

"Warlocks continue to lurk in the city, ready to withdraw at any time, and the siege team remains on the offensive and ready to be on standby."

"Oh, divide a team, take the route of tonight's grain delivery team, and see if you can touch that little golden retriever, the fewer people who can lead the soldiers, the better."

One order after another was given in an orderly manner, Don touched his chin with a few stubbles, and looked at the airship that was gradually and smoothly landing in the sky under the extreme operation of the hunters, and smiled.

"Mystic enhancement? Just what the doctor ordered. ”

"Machinery and weapons are add-ons, and wars have to be fought by people."

If it weren't for the fact that there was "a little more time to let the countries outside the Southern Continent ferment public opinion as much as possible", I really wanted to rush over and fight with that Prince Grove...... Don regretfully began to be in a daze.

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The morning sun shone into the hotel room, and Crane slowly opened his eyes.

Probably because what he saw yesterday was too shocking, and it caused him some psychological shadows, Klein had a strange dream for a long time, dreaming of his past life, dreaming of the newly established Tarot Club, and Melissa, who was heartbroken after cooking for the first time and was addicted to delicious food.

These are all allusions to his heart, some of the good memories he has in this world, Klein Moretti and Zhou Mingrui are mixed together, and they have long been inseparable.

Crane got up quietly, got dressed with the help of his secret puppet Enzo, and went into the bathroom to wash up.

He had just finished washing up and was about to leave the hotel to find some food when he heard a knock on his door.

"Who?"

"It's me." Ms. D's voice.

Klein opened the door, only to see Ms. D's expression a little serious. Seeing that her companion's mood seemed to have recovered, Ms. D showed a hint of a smile, but her mood still did not change relaxed:

"Sir, there is a battle at our destination."

"Just last night, Behrens sent a squad to attack our food convoy and the wounded, so the Sages of the Iron Cross quickly fought back. Now that Behrens is completely enveloped in war, if we go any slower, your mission may fail. ”

"Fighting? So fast. ”

The other side of the war is Rune, and his own side is the side of the true creator and the god of death. Theoretically, Rune was Crane's longest-lived and most affectionate country, and his brother and sister lived there, and Crane felt that he should be a little nervous, or feel a little uneasy, and not know which side he should help-

But strangely, Klein is feeling nothing at the moment, quite calm, and even feeling a little bored.

Fighting?

Oh.

Ms. D also noticed that Klein was a little too calm, and she guessed that it might have something to do with the other party's recent experience. She paused for a moment and asked, "Shall we speed up?" ”

Otherwise, if Behrens really loses, where are you going to send these things? Will you ever be able to return to Rune?

Klein thought for a moment and nodded:

"Yes. Go ahead as soon as possible, no matter what, and get this done first. ”

The purpose of doing this is to gain the favor and connections of the upper class? That does make a little bit of sense, at least try to get them to donate some more money, or continue to adjust the bill and do something for the civilians of the Northern Continent...... Crane thought so, and regained some of his spirit a little, but soon he frowned again, what about the Southern Continent? The colonial approach will certainly not change......

"Okay." Seeing that he seemed to be immersed in thought, Ms. D took a step back and turned to leave, "I'll arrange it first, I'll see you later." ”

"I'll see you later."

The Southern Continent probably doesn't need his help from a Sequence 5 yet, they already have their own Grim Reaper, and the True Creator is on that side. What's more, Melissa, Benson, "Justice", "Magician" and others are all Runnes and live in Beckland, and the brother and sister are sheltered by the Church of the Night.

Maybe it's because he hasn't done evil openly or preached his conversion to the true Creator, and being able to come back alive from the hidden town may be the limit of the goddess's open side, if he stands on the side of the Southern Continent again, Klein is a little afraid to think about it.

"Forget it, I'm going to think about these things slowly...... In this world, you have to be powerful to have more voice. ”

It was the same in the old era, except that power and class were more intuitively replaced by sequences, the church and the gods......

Crane took a breath to calm down, then closed the door and returned to his bedroom.

Pulling out the corresponding items, Crane quickly set up the ritual and transferred the radio receiver from the Source Fort to the real world.

He's going to contact "Magic Mirror" Arodes!

He had paid £350 to obtain the spiritual coordinates of Calderón City from Miss "The Magician", and had been alerted that it was very dangerous, so he intended to obtain more information from both sources in preparation for the "hunting operation".

Those two channels, one is to ask the "magic mirror", and the other is to ask the "red light" - under the suggestion of Azik, Klein decided not to hesitate anymore and take the initiative to expand his "network", at least not to hang himself on the tree of the "Goddess of the Night", and at the same time, he must not tie himself too closely to the real creator, he must always find some strength to balance, and the relatively friendly Seven Lights of the Spirit World is the best object at present!

With the appearance of the radio receiver, the surrounding jungle became cold and dark, as if the spiritual world had blended with reality here.

That is, after ten seconds of work, a da-

"Great, supreme, transcendent master, your faithful, modest, humble and humble servant Arodes has come at your call. (v)”

"There's no danger here, don't you think?"

Seeing the flattering title, Klein breathed a sigh of relief silently, and finally confirmed that it was the "Magic Mirror" Arodes.

He was very afraid of the "I want to give you a baby" on a blank piece of paper.

Of course, he had divined the danger of contacting the "Magic Mirror" Arodes above the gray fog in advance, and got an answer that didn't have any questions. However, the example of the "Mother Tree of Desire" interfering with his successful divination was the first, and his own interpretation of the revelation behind the Chanis Gate of St. Samuel's Church was wrong, and he was really not too relieved.

"Indeed." Klein nodded reservedly and asked instead, "What do you know about Calderon City in the Spirit Realm?" ”

Da Da Da, a piece of illusory white paper hesitantly left the radio receiver:

"I don't know much about that city, I don't know the specific situation inside, I can only confirm that there were once sages who fell there, and there were also some angels, 'travelers' and spirit creatures who went in to explore, and left relatively smoothly alive, but there was not much to gain."

"Also, I know where that city came from."

Without waiting for Klein to ask, in the da-da-da-da

"It used to be called 'City of the Dead', and it was the earthly kingdom of the ancient gods, the ancestor of the immortal birds, Gregali."

"Ever since the ancient god carved out the underworld, his kingdom has been transferred there, and the 'City of the Dead' has gradually become a sacred place for his descendants and followers."

"Before the ancient god Gregali, the ancient god was shattered by the ancient sun god, he uprooted the city and threw it into the depths of the spirit realm, where no one from the inhabitants came out. The name Calderon comes from the Abrahamic angel who first entered, which means 'unknown spirit' in the language of the dead. ”

TBC

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Klein: What's the use of thinking so much, let's find a way to move up to Sequence 4 first.