Chapter 3 The Gentle Silence of Perfection
The dancing candle flame made Rogge's face flicker and darker, and the beautiful handwriting on the letterhead seemed to come to life. The intricately tangled flower characters completely turn the letter into a work of art.
"Dear,
Forgive me for calling you that, because this is my last letter to you......"
Sitting in the royal palace of Cloudfall, Rogge was reading the letter that Adjani had left for him.
His face was expressionless, but his hands trembled uncontrollably, and he had to put the letter on the table so that he could continue reading.
"Please forgive me for leaving when you needed me the most. These days with you have been the happiest time of my life, but also the most painful experience. I'm just an ordinary elf, and my heart is not as strong as you see. Beloved, these joys and pains have exceeded the limits of what my fragile heart can carry. ”
Rogge took a deep breath, barely calmed down a bit, and continued reading.
"I can't bear this world, I can't bear you.
But, my dear, I had to leave. Rumsfeld and Wind Butterfly grew up with me, and their place in my heart is more important than my own. I know you'd call me stupid, but I'm such a simple elf. Although they have been geniuses of the elves since childhood, they are like children in front of you. I saw you lead them to the edge of the cliff step by step, and let them jump off on their own, but I couldn't do anything about it. My shallow intellect can't fathom your thoughts, and I'm afraid that my ignorance will ruin your plans, so I'll just wait and see.
Rumsfeld is dead, and Raphael is not him. But Wind Butterfly didn't know, she always refused to admit that Rumsfeld no longer existed, just as she didn't know that jumping off a cliff was not the end, but just a beginning.
Butterfly is so proud, I know she'll never listen to my advice. Because she hates you, she hates me too. But she did not know how much pain the distance would make my heart ache every time she called me Miss Adjani! The pain was no less than the pain brought to her by Rumsfeld's death.
Butterfly is proud and hates you, but she's a good girl. Hatred blindfolded her so that she only wanted revenge on you, so she chose the second path. But she doesn't understand how Rumsfeld can truly fall in love with you if she is more important than her life or even her pride? Even if she turns hatred into love, how can she surpass her love for Rumsfeld? She will find that all this will be empty in the end.
If she succeeds, you become the love of her heart, and the tragedy has just begun. The pain of betraying someone I love will be far greater than the loss of life, and this is the limit of the pain that my limited wisdom can think of!
You never told me about your past. You are like a god hidden in the clouds, I worship you from afar, but I can only guess about your world. But I can feel that you're carrying too much, even though I don't know what it is. Still, I beg of you, if Butterfly is really in love with you, please give her a little happiness, and don't let her sink forever in the abyss of pain.
Be kind to the people who truly love you, because their only source of happiness is your concern.
This is the only time I've begged you, so let me have my last name!
You are the person I love the most, and the wind butterfly is more important than my life. My dear, you poor little elf is really in a dilemma. Pain in either direction is beyond the reach of my fragile heart.
So, please forgive me, I only have to run away.
Tomorrow, your little elf will show you the most beautiful moment of her life.
Don't forget my ......, dear"
Rogge silently put down the last page of the letter, closed his eyes, and was silent for a long, long time.
Wind Butterfly had already removed her heavy armor and stood behind Rogge. There was also a sadness on her beautiful face that could not be concealed.
Rogge finally opened his eyes and stood up.
He stared at Feng Die for a long time before he gently put the letter in her hand and said lightly, "You can take a look too!"
Rogge walked out of the room, his back looking extremely gloomy.
There was a thud in the room, followed by an uncontrollable cry of bitterness.
Outside the window, there were still unextinguished fires in Falling Cloud City, and there were occasional screams and shouts in the distance, and some citizens of the Goshawk Country, who were unwilling to give in, were still using every possible opportunity to fight the invasion, but these sporadic revolts were no longer enough to change the overall situation.
Rogge walked out of the palace aimlessly, and the coalition soldiers who shuttled along the way couldn't hide the fear and respect in their hearts when they saw him, and saluted with the most standard military posture. But Rog was expressionless, oblivious to all this, and in his pupils, there was only a fire still burning in the distance.
At this moment, in his heart, all the flames he saw turned golden.
This gold is like Adjani who has turned into a burning meteor......
On the battlefield at that time, the dark side of the moon led by Adjani was like a sharp knife, and in the blink of an eye, it cut through the enemy's camp, and the tip of the cloud cutting sword pointed at it was the throat of Anas!
Anas's face changed dramatically. Adjani's golden fighting aura flame had risen more than four meters high, and in front of her, the densely packed army was like ice and snow meeting the spring sun, and it was quietly dissolving.
Anas made a quick decision, turned around and ran.
Hundreds of guards armed with four-meter stabbing spears shouted 'hey', and the front points of the stabbing spears were neatly aligned, instantly forming a steel thorn forest, blocking in front of Adjani.
As if she had no sight of the Iron Forest, Adjani sprang up from her horse and rushed straight forward.
"Adjani!!" Rogge roared like thunder!
Countless magic arrays on his body couldn't help flashing, and the whole person chased after Adjani with a remnant shadow!
Ryoma let out a scream, and it couldn't withstand the force of Rog's leap out, and all the bones of his body were shattered, and he collapsed to the ground.
More than a dozen spears pierced Adjani in the front of the chest and out of the back......
Adjani's fighting flame suddenly retracted, and it had transformed from a raging flame of light into a real flame, and at this moment, Adjani had already stepped into the ranks of the sixteenth-level powerhouses.
The embodied flames of fighting qi instantly melted all the bayonet spears, and Adjani's speed did not slow down, and in the blink of an eye, she swept past the hundred guards of Anas, leaving behind only dozens of charcoal-like corpses in her wake.
She only felt that the flames in her body were getting hotter and hotter, and everything in front of her began to blur, and when she could still vaguely distinguish the figure of the Duke of Anas, she raised her hand, and came out of her hand like lightning and thunder, and swept over the Duke of Anas's body in a blink of an eye!
The Duke of Annas was still galloping, and after running dozens of meters, suddenly a bloody arrow spurted out, and even the man and the horse had been neatly divided into two pieces from the middle line!
Endless power poured out of Adjani's body, and the light of the flames even reflected the heavy armor on her body! Her helmet suddenly exploded, and her blonde hair flew up, and her body rose like a light feather......
"It's hot! That's ...... Is this the power of the Sanctuary?" Adjani's consciousness began to blur, and she struggled to keep her eyes open and vaguely saw the outline of Falling Cloud City.
"Adjani!!Stop!" Rogge's roar shook for miles!
In the blink of an eye, Rog had rushed to the center of the Anas battle array, but he only caught a golden flame tail, and he watched as the golden meteor fell slowly towards the tall walls of Falling Cloud City......
At the last moment, Adjani only saw a golden ocean in front of her, and a soft voice quietly sounded in her head: "Good boy, you are too tired, come on, come and rest for a while......"
The battle on the entire battlefield stood still for a moment.
Tens of thousands of officers and soldiers quietly watched the huge golden ball of flame that rose into the sky, listened to the subsequent earth-shattering loud noise, and watched wordlessly as the ten-meter-high wall of Luoyun City slowly collapsed.
"Adjani, are you leaving......"
Rogge stood, looking at Adjani's last, thrilling beauty.
One of the coalition soldiers suddenly noticed that the enemy on the opposite side was turning his head and looking back, so he slashed him diagonally with an axe. The screams ignited the flames of war again.
"Adjani, why ......"
A strange smile appeared on Rogge's face, he grabbed the helmet of a hoplite beside him, lifted him over, as easily as carrying a chicken, and then rubbed his hands together, crumpling his heavy iron helmet into a ball of scrap metal, and thick blood mixed with white brain pulp squirted out of it, splashing Rogge's face.
"Adjani, you have something on your mind, why don't you tell me......"
Blood, brains, and scraps of flesh kept falling from Rog's mage robes, and his eyes flashed with a silver glint as he walked towards the huge gap in the walls of Falling Cloud City with a bit of a dazedness. Behind him, scattered corpses and internal organs along the way. In front of him, the soldiers of the Snowfalcon Nation retreated like a tide on both sides, leaving him with a path to Falling Cloud City.
Not only the soldiers of the Snow Falcon Country, but even the elves and Snow Bear Riders subconsciously avoided Rog.
"Adjani, what have I done, you must choose this path......"
With a roar, a huge crossbow shot towards Rogge from the top of the city! Rogge's eyes were full of silver, and he grabbed the tip of the crossbow, his hands were covered with a layer of dark purple scales, and his fingertips stretched out sharp claws that shone with cold light. The impact of the giant crossbow caused Rog to fly more than ten meters and fall heavily to the ground!
Under the horrified gaze of the soldiers around him, Rogge jumped to his feet, carrying a giant crossbow in his hand, unharmed.
"Adjani !!!" Rogge roared up to the sky!
A black circle of fire suddenly spread from Rogge's body, and everyone who was affected screamed in a scream! The black flames on their bodies could not be extinguished no matter what, and they could only watch the flames scorch their flesh and skin! The flames were so fierce that in the blink of an eye, they melted the armor, scorched the flesh, and hollowed out the bones and internal organs.
The giant crossbow in Rogge's hand also burned with black flames, and a black pillar of fire rose from his body again!
That flaming giant crossbow flew back towards the head of Luoyun City silently!
Boom! The ballista that fired this giant crossbow has been blown to pieces.
Rogge, who was covered in black flames, looked a little more sober, and he walked towards Luoyun City step by step, one magic array after another lit up around him. At a time, five magic missiles whizzed out, smashing the few daring enemies who dared to approach him into a sieve.
As soon as Wind Butterfly gritted her silver teeth, regardless of her weakness, she instigated the war horse under her seat and chased after Rogge. The Elven King's Bow in her hand flickered, and invisible magical arrows rained down, knocking down the enemy soldiers around Rog. The group of elven warriors followed, and a rain of arrows from close range sent the enemy down in pieces.
In the distance, the stunned Marshal Amos also came to his senses, and when he saw that the time had come, he immediately gave the order for a general attack.
It's finally over......
Rog didn't know when the battle had stopped, or how he had sat in the palace in Cloudfall.
He vaguely remembered that he had sorted out the things left by Adjani with Wind Butterfly. Adjani had already put everything in order, and the letter was neatly placed on top of a dress.
It's night.
Rogge wanders aimlessly through Cloud Falling City...... Adjani's voice echoed in her heart repeatedly.
"Be kind to those who truly love you, because their only source of happiness is your concern. ”
In his lifetime, the women who had left traces in his life flashed through his heart one by one. Lilith, Adjani, Elesis, Androni......
Rogge sighed secretly, all along, he had only focused on Elesis, on revenge against the Church of Light and the Duchy of Bavaria, and never paid much attention to the people and things around him. All day long, in addition to fighting for power and strengthening the existing forces in his hands, what he thought about all day long was how to strike at his opponent and throw out the stumbling blocks in front of him piece by piece. Time flies incredibly fast.
How many of these things have you missed?
When Adjani is around, Rogge tends to ignore her presence, let alone pay attention to her thoughts. In his mind, Adjani is a very beautiful and lovely elf, nothing more. In addition to the time to think, Rogge would bury his head in meditation and accumulate magic bit by bit. He is like the most stingy miser who calculates his property, counting every minute and every second of his time. In Rogge's memory, Adjani would appear beside him at the slightest call. The things entrusted to Adjani are always appropriate. And when she was busy, she seemed to disappear from the air again.
Adjani seems to have always occupied a place in Rogge's heart.
But when she fell like a meteor, Rogge realized that in an instant, the gap in his heart was so huge! It was so huge that it couldn't be filled, so huge that it made his world tilt!
If she had put a little more attention to her and cared a little more about her feelings, why would she have gone to a dead end?!
Rogge felt a little annoyed in his heart, and suddenly a mouthful of blood spurted out, and his face immediately turned a little whiter.
Ian Age's voice rang out in his heart again: "You need to be a man!" When he first heard this, Rogge thought it was just the old man's pedantry. Things have always needed to be clean and neat, and murder has always had to be cut down to the roots, and leaving room is not asking for trouble. And now Rogge finally understands that the meaning of this sentence is far more than he understood at the beginning. He suddenly remembered that Elder Hus had also said, "I'm afraid you won't be able to pay these costs in the future!"
Yes, he has already paid the price. This price was completely unexpected, and he could not afford it. Rogge used to think that everything was under his control, and he was only wary of these old men, but he didn't pay much attention to their advice. Now, he has finally paid the price for his arrogance.
Rogge, who was already not afraid of the cold and heat, felt for the first time that the night in the north was so cold.
He tightened his clothes and looked behind him habitually, but the delicate figure that had been silently following him was gone.
Adjani is gone.
She walked so thoroughly, so brilliantly, completely burning her life in the golden flames, leaving no trace in this world.
Rogge couldn't find her **, and he couldn't find the mark of her soul at all. It was completely unexpected, and with his otherworldly sensitivity, the soul of any newly dead could not escape his tracking. How could you not feel a trace of Adjani's soul at all?
Perhaps the only explanation was that the power of her Douqi Flame was too strong, powerful enough to burn her soul. In the final moments, Adjani had stepped into the Sanctuary. And the power of the Sanctuary is still far from being able to grasp by Rogge.
"You demon! Die!" a slightly childish crisp cry suddenly came! Then a black shadow pounced on Rogge, and the short sword in his hand stabbed Rogge in the chest.
Rogge was still immersed in his thoughts. Seeing that Rogge didn't dodge, the assassin stabbed harder with his short sword!
The tip of the inferior dagger pierced through the mage's robe, but it was completely helpless to the whole body armor under the robe. The short sword and the armor slashed a series of sparks, and finally snapped and broke in two.
Rogge casually raised his hand, already pinching the panicked assassin's throat. With a slight strain on his fingers, he was ready to break the Assassin's neck. Although Rogge did not use his spiritual power to strengthen **, and the scales and claws on his hands have also disappeared, crushing a person's neck bone is still a trivial matter that can be achieved at the heart of a thought.
Rogge's heart suddenly moved slightly, and he brought the assassin to his eyes.
He was clearly still a half-grown child, and his big eyes were full of fear, panic, and anger, and his face was beginning to turn purple because he couldn't breathe.
Rogge could feel the Assassin's skin unusually smooth and his fingers loose, and the Assassin immediately gulped greedy for fresh air.
"You little girl can't save your life, why are you here to kill me?"
"Because you're a demon! Everyone in the Goshawk Country is a warrior, and although I am a woman, you can't look down on me! Do it, Demon! You have killed so many of us, but as long as you can't kill all the people in the Goshawk Country, someone will come to you for revenge!" The girl's extremely angry voice sounded crisp and pleasant.
I don't know why, Rogge suddenly saw Lilith's shadow in the girl's stubborn eyebrows.
Lilith, like Adjani, is a fierce surname who is soft on the outside and strong on the inside. It's just that at that time, he was just a short-sighted scoundrel who only knew how to accumulate wealth and cling, and he didn't experience the gentleness of Lilith, who had always been silent. Since escaping the Duchy of Bavaria, he has not heard from Lilith.
"I don't know if she's doing well!" Rogge thought to himself.
He sighed, and as soon as his hand was released, the girl fell to the ground.
"Let's go!" Rogge turned and walked towards the alley.
The girl sprang to her feet and cried out, "You devil, why don't you kill me when you kill so many people?"
Although her courage is commendable, after escaping death once, she does not dare to seek death again, so she only dares to shout from afar.
"I attacked the land of the goshawk because you killed my elves first. If there is no greed, where is the war? You don't understand this truth. You go, don't let me change my mind. Rogge said lightly, his lonely figure was almost at the end of the alley.
"I'm no match for you, but the people of the Goshawk Nation will come to you for revenge!" the girl screamed at Rog's back and ran into the darkness.
"Revenge?" Rogge snorted coldly and said secretly, "The object of your revenge will be from the Layton Kingdom." ”
It's almost dawn.
Rog returned to the palace in Falling Cloud City, and found that Wind Butterfly had been crying for an unknown amount of time, and was now asleep on her desk. In addition to Adjani's death having a great impact on her, forcibly using the Elven King's Bow also completely overdrew Wind Butterfly's fighting spirit. No matter how tough she is, she can't support it at the moment.
Rogge quietly picked up Adjani's letter from the side of Wind Butterfly's head, and wanted to open it to read it again, but his hands kept shaking. He hesitated, sighed quietly, and a black flame turned the letter to ashes.
Looking at the sleeping Wind Butterfly, Adjani's words sounded in his heart again: "If Wind Butterfly is really in love with you, please give her a little happiness! ”
The room occupied by Rogge doesn't know which favorite concubine originally belonged to Grand Duke Goshawk. He casually lifted a fox fur cloak, put it on Wind Butterfly's body, and then quietly walked out of the room.
The wind butterfly woke up suddenly. She saw that Rogge was about to walk out of the room, and called softly, "My lord, where are you going?"
"Go kill someone. ”
Feng Die was taken aback and asked, "Haven't you already captured Luoyun City, and who else are you going to kill?"
"Anas has a lot of relatives in Falling Cloud City, and they should all be captured. I will kill all these people, and I will not leave any of them. Rogge's tone was flat, but Wind Butterfly could hear the surging anger hidden inside.
She stood up and said, "My lord, I'll go with you." ”
Rogge stared at her for a moment and sighed, "I'm because of Adjani...... will anger these people. You'd better have less blood on your hands, especially the blood of people who are powerless to resist. Do you want to be a second Raphael?"
Feng Die's face turned white, but she still gritted her teeth and said, "I'll go with you!"
The secret prison of the Goshawk Nation is not far from the royal palace. It was cold and damp inside, and the air was filled with all kinds of foul smells.
Led by the jailer, Rogge and Wind Butterfly walked down a narrow passage to the black prison at the bottom.
Marshal Alam is so sophisticated, on the battlefield, he has already seen from Rogge's abnormal reaction that Adjani is important to Rogge, and without waiting for Rogge's proposal, after attacking Falling Cloud City, he immediately ordered all the people related to Annath to be arrested and put in prison, waiting for Rogge's disposal. He has a close relationship with King Romon and is a great magician who controls the Elven Guard, and Marshal Elmen hopes to bring Rogra to his side no matter which way he thinks about it.
Long screams echoed through the dungeon for a long time......
Rogge plunged the dagger into the heart of a pot-bellied middle-aged man with great slowness, allowing him to let out a scream of exhaustion. The jailer next to him whispered about the man's background: a distant cousin of the Duke of Annas.
Wind Butterfly stood behind Rogge, watching all this in silence. She trembled and tried to make a move, but Rogge stopped her.
"Be kind to those who truly love you, for their only source of happiness is your concern. ”
Although he knew that Wind Butterfly would only hate himself to the bone now and would never fall in love with him, Rogge was no longer willing to disobey Adjani's last wish.
After killing three people in a row, the evil breath blocked in Rogge's heart finally dissipated a little, and his heart returned to clarity.
But the pain in my heart has always lingered.
"If I care more about the people around me, if I care more about Adjani......." Remorse lingered endlessly.
In the flash of light, he finally remembered what he had been worried about in his heart, but he had always ignored!
"The people around you, the people around you...... Fengyue!!"
Rogge suddenly broke out in a cold sweat!
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