"Please. Antonio nodded politely.

"If you wish, I dare to be a peacemaker and reconcile your relationship with Your Majesty. Ivan smiled and raised the teacup in his hand and said to Antonio: "After all, we are all for the empire, and in the current chaos, the well-being of the common people is the top priority, and personal grievances are trivial." ”

Antonio thought for a moment and felt that this was undoubtedly a good thing, and if Ivan could really help them ease their relationship with the King of Erus, then it would be of great help to the plague control later.

"Since Your Excellency wishes, I am of course willing to remain in peace with His Majesty the King, and work together to agree on a way to save the people and put an end to this catastrophe. He raised his teacup in approval and said to Ivan.

"In that case, how about we meet at two o'clock in the afternoon at the palace gates, when Your Majesty should have gotten up, and it is a good time to meet. Ivan smiled and took a sip of the black tea in the cup and said.

"Okay, two o'clock at the palace gate. Antonio readily agreed, and got up with General Grammy to say goodbye, and Ivan personally sent the two away.

When they reached the door of the living room, a white parrot swooped down the corridor outside the door and knocked down a porcelain vase on the shelf next to the door.

The falling porcelain vase smashed into Antonio's volley, Ivan quickly waved his finger, and the falling porcelain vase was still in mid-air, but the purple powder in the bottle had already spilled on the shoulders of Antonio's white tuxedo.

"Damn, you uneasy bird, go back to your nest!" Ivan yelled at the parrot, who stared at the three of them for a few moments, then turned and flapped its wings and flew to the other end of the hallway, where Ivan cast a spell to make the bottle fall back into the distance and hurried to Antonio's side.

"I'm so sorry, it's my parrot, it's always a nuisance and knocks over my bottle, but I can't lock it up because it always pries open my birdcage, which is nerve-wracking. ”

Ivan apologized for helping Antonio remove the powder from his clothes, but a large amount of powder still stuck to his clothes like glue, staining his white clothes a mottled purple.

"Please don't worry," Ivan said as he looked at the purple that remained on his clothes, "these things are not difficult to wash, they are just lavender extracts, which will detach as long as they come into contact with water, and will not affect your clothes." ”

"It's okay, it's just a little accident, don't worry about it. Antonio smiled and nodded to him, and left the Earl's Court with General Grammy, and when they got into General Grammy's carriage and returned, the general asked Antonio, "What do you think of Ivan?"

"He's a very slick man," Antonio said to the general, recalling Ivan's voice and smile, "and he is polite and polite no matter what the circumstances." ”

"You're right, this kind of person is the most difficult to deal with, so ......" General Grammy hesitated, looked up and asked, "Are you really going to meet him at the palace?" ”

"Of course, this is an opportunity, and I don't think he would dare to do anything to me in the open, but I want to see what kind of play he can play in front of the king. Antonio said confidently.

When the two returned to the general's house, it was lunchtime, and the butler had already prepared everything, during which Antonio told Tali about the meeting with Ivan in the afternoon, and learned that he was going to the palace with Ivan in the afternoon, and Tali expressed some concern that he wanted to accompany him.

"No, you better stay here, don't worry, after all, I am the supreme knight of the Holy Order, and they don't dare to act rashly against me, not to mention that there is a Grammy General with me, you don't need to worry. Antonio said to Tully without worry.

Seeing him say this, Tali had no choice but to come down, and after the meal Antonio changed his clothes, left the house with General Grammy, and rode to the palace in a carriage.

Alone in her room, Tali was restless in her room, worried about the outcome of Antonio's trip, when she suddenly remembered that part of Antonio's white dress had been soiled, so she went to his room and opened the door, and saw that the dress was placed on a chair.

She stepped forward to pick up the garment, looked down at it for a moment, thinking that human women would wash the clothes of their sweethearts, Tali couldn't help but feel moved, she took the clothes and turned to the laundry room on the first floor, found a wooden basin to cast a spell to fill the basin with water, and then put the clothes in the water and carefully scrubbed it.

As Ivan said to Antonio, when the garment was immersed in water, the purple powder on it quickly broke away and merged into the water, staining the water in the basin a deep purple.

Suddenly, Tali's laundry hand stopped, her eyes widened in surprise, and she lifted one of her hands out of the water, revealing sharp claws on the tips of her fingers, and webbing between her fingers.

"How so?" said Tali, horrified as she let go of her clothes and removed her hands from the water, seeing that both hands had reverted back to the claws of the mermaid, and no matter how hard she tried, she couldn't turn them back into human hands.

The flustered Tali stayed for a moment, turned around and wanted to leave the laundry room and run back to her room, but just after taking a step, she felt dizzy, and her body fell to the ground, hitting the wooden basin behind her, and the water in the basin poured all over her body at once.

Hearing the sound of water in the laundry room, a maid in a nearby room came over suspiciously, and when she looked into the laundry room, she couldn't help but scream in horror and ran in the direction of the living room.

The maid's screams soon attracted the butler and Antonio's parents, who followed the maid to the door of the laundry room, where they were surprised to see a topless woman lying on the ground.

Her ears were like fish's fins, her hands were blue claws, her fingers were webbed like ducks, her upper body covered her chest with only two shells, and what was even more surprising was that she had a fishtail covered with blue scales from her waist down.

Everyone stood outside the door in horror and no one dared to step forward, until a young and strong manservant stepped forward, lifted the long blue hair covering the mermaid's face, raised her head, and exclaimed, "This ...... Isn't that Miss Tully?"

"I knew this woman wasn't a good person, she was a banshee!" Antonio's mother said in a trembling voice, and Catherine shrank behind her, shivering at Tali lying on the ground.

Antonio's father hurriedly turned back to discuss with the butler what to do, but the butler hesitated for a moment and decided to send someone to report to the Holy Order, and the manservant immediately left the general's house and hurried to the Holy Church Temple to report the news.

More than 20 priests arrived at the scene in full gear, saw Tully fainting on the ground, tied her hands, tied her with a net, dragged her out of the general's house, and carried her to the temple in a carriage.

When Antonio and General Grammy left the palace, it was already late in the evening, and with Ivan's mediation, Antonio and the king of Erus reached a settlement, and the king entrusted Ivan with full authority over the resettlement of the people, and asked Antonio to consult with him about the aftermath.

Just as Antonio and Ivan were parting, the bell of the Temple of the Templar suddenly rang, and the people who heard the bell came out of their homes, and after believing that it was the bell of the Templar that had summoned the whole city, the people left their homes and gathered in the temple square, and Antonio and General Grammy followed the crowd to see what was going on.

In front of the statue of the god in the center of the square, a huge pyre has been built, the top of the pyreck is covered with a layer of gray cloth, and a silver-robed chief priest stands in front of the pyre, speaking loudly to the crowd.

"For a long time, our people have been haunted by death, the demons summoned by witches have been taking away our loved ones, and those vicious devils want to break our will and make us depraved, but they are delusional!"

The chief priest's impassioned voice echoed through the square, "And now, we've finally caught one of them, and here it is, a cunning banshee!" he reached out and tugged at the rope hanging from the pyre behind him, and the gray cloth covering the top of the pyre fell down, revealing Tali's unconscious figure.

The eyes of the people in the square widened in horror as they looked at the woman with a long fishtail tied to the wooden shelf at the top of the pyre, and heard the chief priest shout: "Today, we will put an end to this evil and disperse death from the sky above the royal capital, and in the near future, we will completely defeat the demons and make all the witches pay for their blood!"

The crowd in the square was boiling, people waving their fists and shouting "Burn her!" and "Burn the evil banshee!" and "Go back to hell, witch!" and many threw their shoes and hats at the pyre, and cursed in their mouths.

Seeing this, the chief priest turned around and waved his hand, and several priests stepped forward with blazing torches and lit a tall pyre, and the fire was about to ignite, and the flames flew several meters high in an instant, and the light of the fire and the bloody setting sun reflected Tali's pale face red.

Suddenly, the crowd became agitated, and a red-haired man in a black tuxedo rushed out of the crowd and shouted, "Put out the fire, you can't do this!" Several priests stepped forward to try to stop them, but he knocked them to the ground with his fists.

Antonio's right hand flashed, and a golden hammer appeared in his hand, Antonio threw the hammer at the pyre, only to hear a loud sound, the burning wood suddenly collapsed, Antonio ignored the burning fire, rushed forward to hug Tali who was tied to the wood, turned around and rushed out of the fire.

"Stop him!" Seeing this, the chief priest was furious, waved his hand at Antonio and shouted, and the surrounding priests swarmed him around, and Antonio shouted angrily: "I'm Antonio, the head of the Knights of the Silver Dragon Wings, you bastards, do you know who you want to kill?"

He glared at the priests and onlookers present, and shouted hysterically: "She is not the so-called banshee in your mouth, she is the high priestess of the mermaid clan, she followed me here to retrieve the lost holy weapon, you stupid bastards, who allowed you to kill her!"

The people present were silent, and after a short silence, a gloomy voice suddenly came from behind Antonio: "It's me." ”