Chapter 4: The Night's Watch

Battle flags descend from the sky.

This scene is very exaggerated, a golden flag seems to be a comet flying from the sky, with a long golden tail flame, just like this, piercing the sky, flying far away.

"Boom!"

A bang!

The stone bricks on the avenue not far in front of Mark exploded, and a large crater nearly a meter deep appeared out of thin air.

In the flying gravel and dirt, the golden flags that were thrown to the ground were hunted in the night wind.

Mark, who was barely able to open his eyes from the flying sand and rocks, was surprised to see the [Bright Eye] emblem on the banner.

"It's ......," Mark dumbfounded.

The ensuing scene made him can't be rectified.

Macho man from the sky!

A man in a black leotard and a black mask spun sideways in the air several times in a very coquettish manner, and finally landed on the flagpole with great lightness.

It's soft, like a leaf falling on a calm lake.

Obviously it was a flagpole as sharp as a red tasseled spear, and he was stunned to make a golden rooster independent posture, just like that, crossing his waist and trampling on the flag that symbolized the goddess of light.

Mark looked at him a little dazedly, and the nine men in black who jumped down from the air.

The men surrounded him in a circle.

Based on the somewhat barren memories of the original owner, Mark could tell from the black eye pattern on their badges that they were from the Cult of the Night.

In this world, the goddesses of light and night are twin sisters, according to the official version of the Wright Empire - they represent day and night, and are the patron saints of the empire.

In private, despite the close cooperation between the two churches, the congregants on both sides were unhappy with each other.

Of course, it was Mark who was even more unhappy.

He didn't know how long it had been since he had seen such a hateful gaze from above.

Mark tried his best to control his emotions, looked up at the sassy man, and secretly thought: The other party did not shoot directly at the first time...... Since these mysterious people represent the will of the goddess of the night, then my life is probably saved.

Sure enough, after a while, after looking at Mark carefully, the sassy man spoke.

"You're Mark Destini, aren't you? We are the Raven Squad of the Night Goddess Cult Night's Watchman! You don't need to know what you shouldn't know, you just need to know – that you live and that is important to us. ”

Accurate!

It's so unpleasant!

It's really unpleasant!

Mark had just experienced extreme fear and anxiety, and after finally breaking away, he was declared safe by this guy like a beggar.

Mark has no fire in his heart, then there is a ghost.

Unfortunately, the Night's Watch is a special organization that is directly above the Royal Secret Agents, and is dedicated to the existence of the Evil Spirit. Before he figured out the situation, Mark could only hold back.

"What? Do you have an opinion? But the voice of the sassy man revealed an unsympathetic coldness and arrogance, as if to imply the moodiness of his master.

Mark was about to speak, when another person on the other side laughed out loud: "Captain, isn't it more handsome than you?" What are you doing to make things difficult for others? ”

There was a subtle change in the atmosphere.

"Shut up...... By the way, I'm really not as good as him? The man pretended to be angry and pulled down his mask, revealing his true face. He has a good face, with clear facial features and deep facial lines, he feels like a sunny man at first glance, in all fairness, his appearance is really not low.

It's a pity, who do you have to compare.

After the crossing, Mark seems to have inherited the appearance before the crossing.

The delicate facial features seem to have been carefully carved by the master artist after countless days and nights, and the eyes are like electricity, and the eyebrows are picturesque. is different from the masculinity of the sao bao man, Mark's face is more handsome with a combination of rigidity and softness.

If you have to say who he is most like, it is probably Claude, the male protagonist of the well-known game "Final Fantasy 7".

Maybe the sassy bag man can attract a lot of wild bees and butterflies, but Mark's appearance is so high that even men have to be envious and jealous.

A few guys next to him looked at it for a while, and they all smiled strangely and said:

"Boss, we can't speak with a clear conscience. This kid is really more handsome than you. ”

"It's probably the difference between 85 points and 100 points."

After being attacked by his subordinates, the sao bao man angrily put the mask back on: "Don't talk nonsense, it's not completely safe here, take people away first." ”

Without telling what Mark could tell, the two men in black next to him freed their hands, grabbed his two arms, and suddenly jumped up.

By the moonlight, Mark dazedly followed the eagle chirping in mid-air, only to see a huge flying eagle swept down in mid-air.

They resemble the Argentine giant eagles of the dinosaur period on Earth, and can have a wingspan of up to eight meters.

The biggest difference from ordinary eagles is their size and the fact that they can be domesticated.

The original owner's memories told him that this was the [Light Condor], and only the elite of the Light and Night Church or the military were qualified to use this bird of prey as a mount.

An elite team of night watchmen was dispatched at one time, and what happened to my Mark being involved in it?

Before he could figure out what was going on, Mark was taken to the giant eagle, and after a moment of mist and fog, he flew up.

This flight is really not good.

The clouds thickened. Without the moonlight, the whole world was a blurry pitch black, and only the rolling hills could be seen.

The wind was so strong that Mark could barely open his eyes.

Five minutes later? Or how long.

Mark found that they had arrived at the last supply point of his expedition before it set off, outside the town of Rohit.

There was a three-meter-high stone wall around the town, and Mark still remembered the rough granite gatehouse he saw when he entered and exited the town.

But the Flying Eagle Force gave a light signal to the ground and flew straight into the town

The town was silent in the middle of the night.

In the direction of the center of the town, more than five hundred houses, sleeping in the dark.

Only the churches directly east of the town are brightly lit.

In the open space in front of the church, the brazier in the shape of an eye is the clearest guide.

The giant eagle landed, flapping its wide wings and whipping up a gust of wind in the meadow.

Some guys who were also dressed in black greeted them and said from afar: "Please wait a moment, according to the regulations, we must first make sure that you are not 'abnormal'." ”

That's right! According to the Night Church's Night Code, everyone who has been exposed to the Anomaly should be examined.

Mark, who was caught from the eagle's body, noticed the strange artifact in the clearing.

It was a golden bronze pillar similar to the one outside the underground dance hall before, but the size was very small, about sixty centimeters high, less than one-third the size of the sacred relic in the dance hall.

As the man in black poured holy oil into the hole on the side of the pillar and lit it, Mark noticed that the eye on the pillar came to life, and began to slowly open.

In the darkness of the night, the divine golden light shines brighter than the lighthouse.

The golden glow of the Eye of Light swept over the Night's Watch one by one, and this spotlight-like light stayed on Mark, the only one who was not an exception, for the longest time.

It was a sad feeling to be the center of attention, and it took twelve or three seconds for Mark to hear the relieved voices of the night watchmen around him.

"Thank you, the goddess of light and night." Captain Raven became serious: "Don't take it lightly. [Anomalies] are often difficult to detect. They invade the soul of man silently. The more advanced the weirdness, the more difficult it is to discern the pollution it brings to people. ”

"This, and what's next?"

"Of course!"

Pushing open the rusty iron door of the church and through the stone walls, the night watchman's leather boots barely made a sound on the potholed cobblestone road.

The wooden doors of the front of the church have not been painted for a long time, and on either side of the porch are twelve candles that are significantly larger than the candlesticks. The holy golden light illuminated the doorway as if it were day.

A kind old priest with white hair and white beard and long eyebrows was waiting here.

He was dressed in a spotless white robe, with a small red melon hat on his head, and in addition to the epaulettes and cuffs trimmed with gold wire, the most striking thing was the [Eyes of Light] that hung around his neck like a gold chain.

The golden eye was the size of a fist.

He squinted, smiled, and said, "I'm Albert, the Pastor on Duty today." Child, you are frightened. ”

"Uh, I...... I'm Mark Destiny. Mark returned the salute a little flustered. He found that all the night watchmen around him saluted at the same time.

"Please follow me."

There was a magical power in the old priest's voice, and Mark was unconsciously convinced, and under the guard of the two night watchmen, he followed the old priest into the church.

The holy church is lit with candles. The smell of holy incense permeated the audience.

Not an illusion, the moment Pastor Albert stepped into the church, the whole church lit up.

The aisle in the middle of the church is flanked by benches where the faithful sit and where the Mass is celebrated every day.

As the old priest walked by, the candles beside the benches were shining brightly.

All the way to the statue of the goddess of light with open arms, under the gaze of the eyes of light on the holy pillars on both sides, Albert turned around, and his eyes, which were like two slits, suddenly opened, and slowly asked, "Are you Mark Destini?" ”

Mark didn't understand why the old priest asked this, but he felt that from the old priest's emerald green eyes, there was a mysterious power that penetrated people's hearts!

This power is mysterious and mysterious, full of wonderful rhyme.

All of a sudden, Mark was put into a state similar to that of a slight drunkenness.

As if he was drunk but not drunk, the surrounding scene was like a dream, and many bubble-like lights and shadows rose from the edge of his vision in the confusion.

Drinking and spitting out the truth, nothing more than this.

Only when Mark was about to get drunk, the deepest part of his brain suddenly woke up: not good! This is probably a god's version of the elixir.

Mark half-raised his eyelids, drunken and hazy: "I'm Mark." ”

The corners of Albert's mouth raised slightly, and his eyes were a little softer: "Why did you go to Le Mans Mans?" ”

"Parker, that guy said, I'm almost graduating from the occult, how can I finish the oc......cult if I don't take a risk," Mark recounted the 'go-and-go' adventure from memory.

The Q&A went on for a while......

"Why did the puppet let you go?"

"I danced with her."

"And then?"

"I was so scared that I ran away after the jump."

After a question-and-answer session, which took twenty minutes, at the end, Pastor Albert smiled: "Thank you for your honesty, child, I have no problem." ”

The old priest put his hands on his shoulders: "Praise the light." ”

Mark followed: "Praise the light." ”

It wasn't until this moment that Mark suddenly woke up: "I, just ......"

Albert laughed, "It's the law - everyone who has come into contact with [the anomaly] is to be questioned by the priest of the Church of Light." Child, you passed. ”

Mark breathed a long sigh of relief, and for a moment, he thought that he was a goof, and he was found to be a traverser.

Thankfully, the mysterious old priest didn't deliberately make things difficult for him.

"Well, I can ask ......"

"Nope! You can't. Albert interrupted him: "[Abnormal] is not for you, you must not ask, you must not say, you must not look directly, otherwise there are likely to be serious consequences." Next, you'll need to accept the Night's Watchman's arrangement. ”

"Understood. Thank you, Your Excellency. Mark bowed.

"This kid is very tired, let him go down and rest first." Albert commanded.

"Do your will." The two night watchmen nodded.