Chapter 422: The Purest Spirit
Hearing the voice, Antonio turned his head sharply and saw a middle-aged man in a golden robe standing next to the idol with his hands behind his back, his right eye wearing a golden blindfold, and a hint of hatred in his only eye.
"Goethe......" Antonio looked at the high priest in surprise, Goethe stared at him coldly and nodded: "That's right, I can't think of it, Captain Antonio, I didn't expect that when I first came here, I encountered such a big event." ”
"You bastard, you know ......" Antonio shouted at him, but was interrupted by Goethe before he could finish his sentence. I only heard him sneer: "I am following the will of the people, and the people reported to me that a banshee appeared in their home, so I sent someone to bring her back." ”
He looked around at the people present and stretched out his hands and said loudly: "Captain Antonio, you see, the whole city is here, they want to get rid of this banshee, this is the will of the people, and you, as the supreme knight of the Holy Order, do you want to openly protect her?"
Goethe's words provoked a fierce response from the crowd of onlookers, who shouted the slogan "Kill the Banshee" and reverberated like thunder in the temple square in the afterglow of the sunset.
Antonio held the unconscious Tali in his arms and looked at the angry crowd around him, he wanted to make a confession, he wanted to tell everyone that Tali was not the banshee they called her, she was a kind, kind, gentle woman, she had never hurt any innocent people, she had saved many lives.
However, no one listened to his arguments, no one gave him a chance to speak, and the crowd drowned him out, making him feel as humble and small as an ant, and he glanced down at Tully's pale face, and a sense of helplessness suddenly welled up in his heart.
"Anton!" Antonio looked up at the sudden shout, and he saw his mother standing at the edge of the crowd, looking at him eagerly and shouting, "Wake up, leave that banshee, don't be fooled by her again, come quickly, come to us!"
Antonio looked at her silently, moving his gaze from her face to that of his father, who saw the reproach and the regret on the face of Catherine on the side, as if he were an unrepentant sinner.
Finally, his gaze fell on General Grammy's face, whose expression was unusually calm, and when he felt his gaze, the general shook his head slightly.
Antonio understood that what the teacher meant: you can't fight the whole world for her, you represent the Holy Order, and confrontation means your betrayal of the Holy Order, it means a betrayal of God, a betrayal of the faith.
"Do I really have to choose between this world and you?" Antonio looked down at Tully's unconscious face and muttered to himself in a deafening shout, when suddenly, a whisper came from his ear, and Antonio's eyes lit up and he jerked his head.
"I see, please......" Antonio nodded meaningfully, looked down at Tully one last time, kissed her lightly on the forehead, and put her on the ground to her feet.
Seeing this, the surrounding priests stepped forward and prepared to drag Tali up, but Antonio's body diffused a divine energy, and the priests who were caught off guard were suddenly shocked and flew out, and at the same time, a blue energy fell from the sky, picked up Tali and tore a dimensional crack in mid-air, and drilled into it.
"Damn it, arrest me this traitor who let the banshee go!" Seeing that Tali was rescued by the god of lights, the high priest Goethe was furious and waved his hand at Antonio, and the priests rushed up and pressed Antonio to the ground.
"Please, save Tully," Antonio, who had been pushed to the ground, looked up at the last rays of the sunset that was about to fade, and muttered to himself, "Don't let me down, Rogge." ”
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The deep night outside Mosco was restored to calm by a shining light, and the lamp god who had escaped from the city placed Tali on the grass and gently called her name, but Tali never responded.
Seeing that he couldn't wake her up, the lamp god had to use the dimensional map to search a large area outside Mosco City, and after nearly an hour of searching, he finally determined the location of the target.
When the dimensional passage suddenly cracked from the campfire, Rogge and the others, who were eating dinner in the field, stood up in surprise and saw the lantern god hurrying out with the unconscious Tali in his arms, he put Tali on the ground and told Rog what had happened.
"Damn, this bastard always comes out looking for trouble when it counts!" Hearing that Goethe appeared in Mosco City, Rogge gritted his teeth and clenched his fists, he walked over to Tali and crouched down to check her body, and Monica, the little flower spirit, stepped forward to help him.
"Do you smell a special smell," Rog sniffed at Tali and asked Monica beside him, "It seems to be a special plant, I remember seeing it at the teacher's place, but I can't remember its name for a while." ”
Monica landed on Tully's abdomen, leaned over and held up a grain of powder that had not completely melted with her small hand, grabbed a handful from it and put it in her mouth to savor it.
After a while, she looked up and said to Rogge, "I know, it's a sea lizard grass, an algae that grows on the bottom of the sea, it is highly poisonous, it is a very dangerous thing for a mermaid, it will make a mermaid lose the ability to transform, and in severe cases, it may be fatal." ”
"Oh, what can I do, will Sister Yu die?" asked Lilith, standing behind Rogge, worried.
"It's okay, we'll save her. Rogge replied softly and continued to ask Monica, "Is there anything that can cure this poison?"
"I don't know, it's something that grows on the bottom of the deep sea, and even if we had, we wouldn't be able to get it. Monica shook her head helplessly.
The people present looked at Rogge worriedly, and Catherine said anxiously, "Otherwise, let the god of lights send Miss Tully back to the Oak Temple, I think Master Augustine will be able to save her." ”
"Wait a minute, don't rush just yet, let me think about it. Rogge raised his hand to stop her, and he got up to leave the crowd, remembering in his mind the record he had read in the book about the sea lizard grass, and he remembered that the paragraph about detoxification said the following line: The purest river of spirits.
"The purest liquor river...... Rogge's mind recalls the contents of the book, remembering that the book says that the poisoned are often located on the shores of the empire, and the clean water of the detoxification is exactly in the opposite direction and thousands of miles away from the place of the incident, so it is extremely difficult for the poisoned to be treated.
"The poisoner is on the seashore of the Empire, and only Deiz is on the sea," Rogge's mind flashed and he clapped his hands, "In this way, the antidote is in the opposite direction and thousands of miles away, it must be in the east of the Empire." ”
"I know where the antidote is!" Rog turned and rushed to Tali's side, picked her up from the ground, and said to the lamp god, "Take us to the Vodka, quick!"
The lantern god immediately opened the dimensional passage and sent everyone to their destination, a vast river appeared in front of everyone, the river flowed quietly in front of them at night, Rog walked to the river and gently lowered Tali into the river, and himself went down to the river to help her and let her body float on the river.
"Are you sure this will save her?" asked Catherine, a little confused.
"Yes, vodka means the purest liquor, and the water in the vodka river is the water in the purest river of spirits recorded in the books, and the people of Urus used the water from this river to make their famous spirits, hence the name of the river. Rogge replied firmly.
"It's better for us to believe in him," Locke, who was standing beside Catherine, shrugged his eyebrows and whispered, "That guy's ghost idea is unmatched in this world." ”
Catherine nodded silently, secretly praying for Tali in her heart, Monica, the little flower spirit, flew to Tali, and the night vision saw that in the dark blue river at night, there were continuous waves of water dyed dark purple from Tali, she turned back to Rogge and said, "It looks like it really works!"
Rogge nodded silently, stared down at Tali's face floating on the water, only to see her eyelids twitch a little, slowly opened, he showed a smile of relief, lowered his head and whispered: "Tully, look at me, I'm Rogge, how do you feel?"
"Where am I?" asked Tali in a faint voice.
"We're by the Vodka, you've been poisoned by sea lizardgrass, and the god of lights has just sent you over. Rogge whispered to her, and Catherine and Locke, who were standing on the shore, also leaned over to look at her, and the lantern god flew around her head with the little flower spirit and the little furball, and greeted her with concern.
"Thank you, I don't know what happened, I was doing the laundry for Antonio, but all of a sudden I was ......" Tali thought back to the moment when it happened, feeling like a nightmare, and when she was discovered, her mind still had the last vestiges of clarity.
She heard the accusations made of her, and remembered that the priests of the Congregation had bound her like animals, and that she could not remember what had happened after that, until the lamp god told her what he had seen.
When Tully had recovered a little more and felt like she could transform into a human body, Rog carried her ashore and laid her on the soft grass, and he took off his wet shirt and wrung out the water in his clothes as he said, "Did you ask Antonio how that dress got dirty?"
"He seemed to tell me that it was at the house of the count, named Ivan, that a bird knocked down the bottle containing the spices, and that Ivan told him that it was lavender extract, and that it would be fine as long as it was washed, and that he had to hurry to the king, so he left his clothes down for the time being and left. ”
After listening to Tali's answer, Rogge sat down beside her, lowered his head and pondered for a moment, and said, "That's not lavender at all, it's a highly poisonous sea lizard grass, the other party is obviously prepared, this is a premeditated poisoning behavior." ”
"Premeditated?" Everyone present was taken aback when they heard this, and Catherine on the side asked in surprise, "You mean, that Ivan deliberately wanted Miss Tali to appear in front of people?"
"Yes," Rogge nodded affirmatively, "The powder of the sea lizard grass will quickly dissolve in water, and as the water evaporates into the air for atomization, it can easily spread in a small environment, even if Tali did not wash Antonio's clothes at the time, as long as she came into contact with the sea lizard grass toxin in the air, it would still appear." ”
"Oh my God......" Tali's eyes widened in surprise, and Rog looked at her meaningfully as she said, "Obviously, that Ivan knows you very well, he may even know our team very well, sea lizardgrass is not something that ordinary people can have, as far as I know, the most proficient masters in this way come from the Shadow Fortress." ”
"...... do you mean?" Catherine suddenly woke up when she heard this, and Rogge nodded slightly and stood up and said, "We have to rush back to Mosko City, Antonio is in the middle of Goethe and Wilhelm, we have to help him!"