Chapter 69: A Year Later
A year has passed since that disaster, and the people who survived the apocalyptic disaster have finally ushered in the long-lost peace, rebuilt their homes, and welcomed a new life. [No pop-up novel network]
In that disaster, mankind lost too much, according to statistics, seventy percent of the empire's cities were destroyed in those three events, meteor showers, only large cities with protective systems like Van Duo survived, and those ordinary small cities and small villages have long been in ruins.
Because it was not only the empire that suffered severe losses from this catastrophe, but also Salonia, and in that few short months, the total population of the human world on the eastern continent was almost halved.
In view of the fact that the strength of the two major human nations has been seriously weakened, and in view of the fact that the barbarians, orcs and other foreign races seem to have sensed the catastrophe of the human race, they have gradually begun to attack the human race tentatively.
In the face of this grim situation, the Reich and the Holy See put aside their previous prejudices, opened their borders and worked together, and the two countries, which had been on the same page, now functioned as one state.
Eventually, at the Third Brain Council, the Empire's top brass and the cardinals of Thessalonia formally agreed to merge the two states into one, i.e., the Holy Empire.
This is a new kingdom ruled by both monarchy and theocracy, and according to the agreement that was introduced, the rights of the king were once again restricted, and the power of the king was only nominally owned by the empire, but the actual control of the state was controlled by the nobles such as the Flores family (Sasson), the Vormisli family (Artac), the Ogier family (Galik), the merchant guild (Operills), and the Holy See.
In addition to the control of the military by the central and local nobles, who were "responsible for the defense of the country's military, and the Holy See had the power to adjudicate everything from the punishment of the nobles to the punishment of the prisoners", the Holy See also gained the right to freely disseminate the doctrine to the people.
When the two countries were united, Sassen, which was re-established on the ruins, was also renamed Hedpal, which means sacred place, and here the Holy See sent a cardinal to coronate King Theo again, signifying the Holy See's recognition of His Majesty.
According to this agreement, the Holy See established churches in every important city, such as Sassen "Van Do", etc., who, although they surrendered the right to govern the country, but in the year they successively absorbed many believers.
The empire gradually evolved into a composite state where polytheism and monotheism coexisted.
The world of Gu has changed back to peace, and Dia is happy from the bottom of her heart, "because her husband will not leave her again because of the war, and she no longer needs to worry about her husband's comfort all the time."
He's right next to him......
Oh, by the way, the current Dia should be called Mrs. Kleist.
"Mrs. Kleist" Are you here to buy groceries?", "You look good today" "Dear Mrs. Kleist!"
"We have recently arrived in a new dress, which I think is perfect for your ......", as she passed through the streets of Van Do, the magicians, merchants, and inhabitants of the streets saluted Dia, and Dia "smiled sweetly at them."
After a year of getting along, the inhabitants of Van Doe already knew that "the beautiful and gentle woman in front of him was the wife of the great magician Volmontcrest."
The Great Magician Volmont, who is Kleist?
That's the man who saved the world!
"Whew!" The enthusiastic Vandor residents once again took Dia several times longer to buy the day's dishes, she rubbed her cheeks, sighed with a little tiredness, put the purchased vegetables in the kitchen, and seeing that it was still early, she picked up a magic book on the table, lay down on the sand and read it carefully.
"Tuk tuk tuk ......", suddenly there was a sound of footsteps upstairs, and then, Sos yawned and walked down, only to see him ** upper body, a coat hanging on his right shoulder, looking sleep-deprived.
"Heh", it seemed that he saw Dia lying on the sand reading a book, Soth smiled slightly, walked to her side, leaned over, and said, "Look at Shiyou so seriously?", "Ahh
Gently kissed Dia on the lips, Soth sat next to Dia, while putting on her clothes, she asked, "What are you looking at?", "The information of the level magic qualification assessment", I saw Dia move her body, gently tap her head with her hand, and complain, "These will be examined in two days, but I still can't remember, the evaluation of the Vandor Magic Association is strict!"
"Hey!", Soth couldn't help but laugh, blinked and said mysteriously, "Do you want me to teach you a trick?", "What trick?" Dia asked curiously.
Soth spread out his right hand, and only to hear a pop, a quill appeared in his hand.
Looking at the quill, and then at the wicked smile on her husband's face, Dia suddenly understood, and tapped her little hand lightly on Soth's chest.
"What's the matter, I think it's pretty good!", Soth said with a wicked smile as he put his arms around Dia.
"It's not easy to use!" Dia said angrily, and then as if she thought of something, she sneered, put her arms around Soth's neck, tapped his cheek with her hand, and whispered, "Okay, Alan and they will come over later, you can also prepare, and when the guests come, see you wearing this, what do you look like!"
"Yes......" Soth nodded helplessly.
Just when the two were intimate and warm, there was a knock at the door.
Soth walked over and opened the door, only to see that the door had just opened, and a golden sword was handed over as fast as lightning.
As if expected, Soth easily dodged the knight's sword, looked out the door and said angrily, "Hey, it's like this every time, can you change your tricks, Alan?"
I saw that Alan outside the door was wearing a casual dress and a golden cloak, put the ten swords of the year into the scabbard, and said with a smile, "Isn't this to test whether your strength has regressed! Yo, Senior Sister Dia, you are getting more and more beautiful!" As he spoke, he gave a simple salute to Dia who came over.
I haven't seen him for a year, and he already has a small tuft of beard on his chin "He looks burder and more masculine than before."
"Alan is really!" Dia covered her mouth and giggled, looked at his wife Lisa beside Alan, and said with a smile, "I'm tired, let's sit down first, I'll prepare tea." ”
"Don't bother", Lisa untied her cloak adorned with gems, smiled politely at Dia, and then asked curiously, "Scott, haven't they arrived yet?"
"No," said Dia, as she walked to the kitchen, "you're the first!"
"Oh!" Lisa nodded and walked into the room.
Closing the door casually, Alan casually threw his cloak on the sand and said with a smile, "Galik seems to be very lively lately, the barbarians come to harass him from time to time, and I originally wanted to ask that guy to hunt together, but now it seems that there is no fun, by the way, "how are you?" buddy?"
"It's okay!" Thosson shrugged.
"Okay?" Alan smiled strangely, looking at the nondescript outfit on Blame's body, and said with a smile, "Hey, I said man" You're the dean of Reochs Academy, so you should pay attention to what you're wearing.........
"Isn't that awkward?" said Thuss, looking at his pajamas-like clothes.
"Hmm" Alan touched his chin, thought for a long time, looked at Soth and teased, "This is the worst I've ever seen............
"Come on, your taste isn't good!"
At this moment, Dia walked out of the kitchen with tea, handed the tea to Alan and Lisa, quietly pulled Soth aside, and said softly, "Before anyone arrives, let's go and change your clothes...... ,......
"Isn't that good?"
"It's good," Dia said helplessly, "but it would be better to change clothes, go quickly......"
Shaking his head, Soth walked helplessly towards the stairs.
At that moment, there was another knock at the door......
One by one, at the same time, Van Do, Helily Oaks College saw one by one in the corridor, two professors holding umbrellas and knocking on the door of the dean's office with the transcripts of the students on campus.
"Come in!" a very imposing voice came from the room.
Listening to that voice, the two professors swallowed uneasily, looked at each other, and one of the professors whispered, "Oops, it's from Belia...... ,...”
"Hmm!" the other professor nodded curtly, cautiously pushed open the office door, looked at the person sitting behind the desk and read the papers, and whispered, "Faculty ...... Courtyard to ...... ,... This is the statistics of this year's students.........
I saw Beria, who was wearing a black magic robe, stopped his pen, frowned at the whole stack of papers in the hands of the two professors, nodded, and said, "I know, put it here!
"This .........," one of the professors hesitated, took out a stack of invitations from his bosom, bowed his head, and said, "This is an invitation from the nobles of Sassen, please go to Sassen with Dean Walmont to participate in the dance...... ,......
"I'm not interested!" Beria didn't even raise his head, and said lightly while continuing to review the papers, "Lose it, and tell those fools that if you dare to send these boring things to bother me, I'll kill them!"
"Yes, yes............" The two professors subconsciously wiped the cold sweat from their foreheads.
"Anything else?"
"Start...... ,... Gone.........
"Get out!"
"Yes!" I saw the two professors panic and put the sheets on their desks, and left the room with a relieved expression.
Looking at the back of them leaving, and then at the thick pieces piled up on the desk, Beria's face showed a little annoyance, and he picked up the teacup next to him, but there was no tea in the cup for a long time.
Slamming the teacup on the desk, Beria squeezed the quills pen in his hand and cursed hatefully, "That bastard," as he spoke, his words abruptly stopped.
"Giggles, it's hard!"
Suddenly, there was a giggle in the office.
I saw Beria glance at the woman who appeared in the office at some point, and said lightly, "I think I've warned you many times, don't bother me, 1ì1ì!"
"Hey, I'm kind enough to come and visit you...... "Then please come in through the main entrance!"
"Okay!" in Beria's speechless gaze, "1ì1ì opened the office door and went out, and after a second walked in again, looked at Beria with a smile, and said, "So you are satisfied, right?"
Beria felt tired, covered her forehead and said angrily, "What do you want to do, 1ì1ì?"
I saw 1ì1ì walk to the desk in a few steps, support it on the table with both hands, half-leaned over, looked into Beria's eyes and said seriously, "I want you to be my man, Beria!"
Beria opened her mouth in astonishment, and glanced at her stupidly, "Suddenly there was a dinging pin on the desk."
After a rush of footsteps, a professor slammed the door open, panting and said, "Yes" and "Any orders, Dean?"
I saw Beria raise his finger and point at 1ì1ì Silk and said lightly, "Miss Telwitz is going back!"
"Oh?" the professor looked at Beria as if he didn't understand, and after a full two seconds of pause, he reacted politely, "then, I'll send you," ...... but before he could speak, he was interrupted.
I saw a little anger on 1ì1ì's face, "slammed the table" and said angrily, "Beria, what do you mean?!"
Beria met her angry gaze without flinching, although he was no longer the Belial with infinite power, but his courage did not diminish in the slightest.
After looking at each other for more than ten seconds, for unknown reasons, 1ì1ìsi's gaze suddenly softened, "glared at Beria hatefully, then turned around and looked at the professor, his eyes flashed a strange red light, and said in a deep voice, "Go out, tell everyone not to come in!", "Yes......"
Looking at 1ì1ì's strange eyes, the professor nodded mechanically as if under control, and walked out with a confused expression.
"Hmph!", 1ì1ì glanced at Beria proudly, her meaning was obvious, as long as she didn't want to leave, no one could drive her away!
Looking at the smugness of 1ì1ì silk's eyes, Beria shook his head speechlessly, put down the pen in his hand, folded his arms, frowned and said, "What do you want to do, 1ì1ì silk, don't think I'm afraid of you, even if I lose most of my strength, but if you want to underestimate me, I think I will make you pay a heavy price!", I saw 1ì1ì half sitting on the desk, looking at Belia condescendingly, chuckling and saying, "How can I underestimate you?Beria, you are a man who can threaten the ancient will...... Suddenly, 1ì1ì Si lay down, lying on the desk, holding her chin, looking at Beria, slightly exhaling a few hints of fragrant breath, and said softly, "I like such a strong and affectionate man, Beria, I want you to be my man's ......", she said, she seemed to see Belia have the action of pressing the alarm bell again, chuckled and said, "It's useless, even if you call more people in, I can still let them out again......"
"You ......", Beria angrily tapped his hand on his forehead, looked at 1ì1ì Si looking at himself with a smile and groaning, and said strangely, "I remember, you should hate me very much to ......", "Yes", 1ì1ì Si did not have any intention of concealing, and complained, "At the beginning, I just wanted to find out your details, but you injured me without saying a word............ "Is that so? I remember that you used the power of God to control my subordinates, right?" "Okay, let it be like that, although you made a very bad first impression on me, but when I knew that you wanted to destroy the world for the sake of the woman you loved......", Beria defended with a little inexplicable embarrassment.
"Really?", 1ì1ì chuckled and glanced at Beria, waved her finger, and giggled, "You can lie to others with this kind of words, but you can't fool me, I'm an apostle who can grasp people's feelings...... You do that because you love her, not some sister and brother............" Speaking of this, she sighed faintly and said self-deprecatingly, "I used to think that love was false and a product based on interests, but you broke my previous view......"
“......”
"Be my man, Beria!", "Impossible!" Beria refused, and the refusal was categorical, without any room for negotiation.
"Why?" "1ì1ì sat up angrily, frowned at Belia and said, "I can allow you to miss your beloved sister, as long as you give me half of this true season's affection......" "Hey!" Belial couldn't help but laugh out loud and pouted and said, "Can this thing be divided into half?" Calm down, 1ì1ì, I'm just a mass of embodied energy now, my body and Soth's kid have fused ......", "Don't try to lie to me", interrupting Beria's words, 1ì1ì Si snorted coldly and said, "I spent a year observing you, you think I can't see it?" when you and Soth merge "I admit that you can indeed be seen as one individual at that time, but when you are separated, you are two different individuals" You don't live by his magic at all, the part of your power will come back into you, just like ...... now" she said, her eyes glowing with a few hints of reddish, but after that reddish light, "Belia was not unusual.
"Right?", looking at Beria, who couldn't speak, 1ì1ì said with a chuckle, "Even if you lose most of your power, you are still a strong person who has mastered the source power, if you really don't have the slightest power, but just a mass of embodied energy, then, how can you not be controlled by me?" , Looking at the smugness of 1ì1ì silk eyes, Beria chuckled, and suddenly, a few faint blue lights flashed on his body, and before 1ì1ì could react, he heard a snort, Belial disappeared, and left the office silently with his exquisite magic.
"This bastard!", 1ì1ì subconsciously ran to the window and looked out of the window, but there was no trace of Belial, too, the other party was a master of space magic, and the space teleportation of thousands of yards and tens of thousands of yards was effortless at all.
"Damn!", stamping her foot hatefully, 1ì1ì shouted out the window, "You wait for me, you bastard! I won't give up!", with that, her body turned into a dark aura and disappeared.
Listening to the angry rebuke, Beria, who was lying on the roof of the castle of Reox, shook his head slightly, only to see him look at the blue sky, put his head on the rest of his hands, and sighed silently.
"Maybe one day, we will meet again in the corners of the world...... If it were, I would have waited, waited, for years, ten years, twenty years, until I died and became a soul, until even my soul was wiped out of the ......", and by dinner time, Soth's house was already full of guests, and all of them were very familiar friends, Mr. and Mrs. Allen, Mr. and Mrs. Scott, Ulrique, Nina, etc., and today was the day they had agreed to meet.
For this date, not to mention Alan and Scott, even Ulrique and Nina, who went out*, returned to Vandor, it is worth mentioning that Ulrique went to Salonia and became a trainee monk under the recommendation of Soth, while Nina went to the cold Northland alone with the purpose of cultivation, looking for a place where the legend is said to be full of thunderclouds all year round, but unfortunately, she has not yet found the place where the legendary golden dwarf lived.
Before dinner, Alan told Scott about his rebuilt Knights with a bit of ostentation, and because of Scott's comment from a tyrant, the two began to quarrel again after a long time, perhaps this is a testimony to the so-called friendship between them.
Apart from Lisa, Larella, Dia, and Nina, Katerina was the only woman in the guests, a young girl from Thessalonia, who had stayed in the church branch in Sassen as one of the papal missionees, and she was already a qualified nun, but her personality was still as timid and shy as before, and she quietly listened to Nina tell interesting stories about the north, sometimes smiling, but definitely interjecting.
Like her, Eddie, Gert, and Geller, who were friends of Sos in Thessalonia, have now become official clergy and remain in Sasson, but unfortunately they are not able to attend today's meeting because they belong to the Holy Cross.
As she prepares for dinner, Nina talks about her trip in a few days, much to Thos's surprise.
"Can't you stay longer?"
Listening to her brother's inquiry, Nina couldn't help but laugh bitterly, and the smile on the face of Dia, who was greeting the guests, reached out with a somewhat inexplicable look and gently knocked on Soth's head, and then, gently hugged Soth's waist and whispered, "As long as my sister knows that you are doing well, then I will be satisfied...... Don't worry about it, every year I come back for ............", "Nina ......"
"What kind of expression are you", Nina raised her head and looked at Soth funny, and was about to reach out to pinch Soth's nose, but suddenly heard the voice of Dia walking in, and quickly let go of her hand.
"Soth, where did I ask you to wash the dishes?", "...... Here it is!"
"Give it to me, Sister Nina, sit outside, Soth, don't be busy, I'll take care of the rest." Not seeming to see the unnaturalness on Nina's face, Dia took the plate that Soth handed her.
"Uh, well, okay......" Nina nodded with a somewhat unnatural expression, and as soon as she looked up to meet South's slightly embarrassed gaze, the two looked at each other and fell silent.
After more than ten seconds, in order to ease the embarrassment, Nina diverted the topic and said, "What about Belia?"
"That guy has never been interested in this kind of thing," Soth shook his head boredly, and said with a little sigh, "Although he survived in a half-human, half-soul way, but now he no longer has the courage he had at that time............ Now he is numbing himself with work most of the time......", "What do you say, it's obvious that you want to be lazy!", Nina glanced at Soth angrily, which made Soss feel a little embarrassed by the debunked.
After laughing a few times, Nina suddenly asked, "What about Lavia?", only to see Sos shake her head, and whispered with a somewhat inexplicable look, "Of course I invited her, but she won't come......", Sos was right, Lavia still didn't come in the end, perhaps, she was still thinking about what happened here at the beginning, which made Lisa and Lyreira feel a little regretful.
However, halfway through the dinner, there was a sudden knock on the door.
"Could it be Ivey?" everyone in the room stopped, encouraging Soth to open the door himself.
In the end, Alan almost held Soth hostage to open the door, but to everyone's surprise, there was no Lavia outside the door, but on the stairs outside the door, there was a tightly wrapped baby, a chubby, very cute baby.
"This ......", Allen, who was thinking about watching a good show, was a little stunned, with a somewhat angry expression on his face, and frowned and said, "Whose parents are so excessive?", as he spoke, he hurriedly chased out, but did not see any pedestrians on the street.
"It's too much............ Dia took the baby in her arms from the inexplicable Soth with an unbearable expression, and looked at the sleeping baby with a bit of maternal love.
"It's so cute, ......", the women in the room gathered one after another, and couldn't help but reach out and pinch the baby's smooth face.
"It's a boy," Lisa muttered with a somewhat envious expression, "such a lovely child can't bear to throw it away, what a parent who has gone too far............ Huh?", suddenly, she had a note in her baby's clothes, picked it up casually, and said curiously, "Hmm, here is the child's name......", she said and covered her mouth in surprise, with an expression of disbelief.
"What's wrong, what's wrong?", Allen, who had a premonition that something interesting was about to happen, took the note from his wife with one hand, glanced at him a few times, and saw that he looked stunned, his eyes widened and his face was incredible.
"What's going on?", Soth looked surprised and wanted to look, but was blocked by Allen's right hand.
I saw Alan glance at the inexplicable Soth, and then at the baby in Dia's arms, coughed strangely, and said with a grin, "This little imp has a very good name, Holpe, Vormisley, Kleist!", "Kleist, that's not ......", Scott and Ulrike subconsciously looked at Soth, with a look of surprise.
"Womisley?" Lerella covered her mouth in surprise and looked at Dia's baby in disbelief.
That's not ......