Silver Pine Forest.

Edward and Emilia hurried home.

Emilia regained a layer of Holy Aura, and Edward regained a Demon King Sign.

Although the scattered Forsaken were not a threat at all with their strength, the more powerful people who had reached the top, the more they understood the truth of carefully sailing the ship of ten thousand years.

It would be miserable if you were targeted by some terrible gang.

Edward bowed his head and followed in Amilia's footsteps towards Central City.

This adventure, judging from the results, can be described as a happy one, but behind this happy ending lies a terrible conspiracy that no one knows.

Edward knew that this was just the beginning.

Who is the enemy? What is the purpose of that mysterious organization, and what good is it for them to attack the Wings of Judgment?

Also, what role did the Emperor [***] Fang and the Holy See play in this, and who were the traitors?

These paradoxical questions all erupted after this adventure. From now on, Edward had to face these issues seriously.

A small Black Flame Gang would actually hide a legendary treasure such as the Tears of the Goddess, is it an accident, or is there another hidden secret?

Edward still clearly remembered that when Emilia recklessly rushed up to the Blackflame Gang to ask for the Tears of the Goddess, a minor of the Blackflame Gang said something like this:

"We were betrayed?"

Betrayed?

Whose reaction is this?

Edward still doesn't understand the meaning of this sentence, but he can get a little bit of information from the literal meaning: the news that the Black Flame Gang is holding the Tears of the Goddess has not leaked out, and only another wave of people who can be called "accomplices" know about it.

Therefore, when the people of the Black Flame Gang found out that the news of the Tears of the Goddess was exposed, their first reaction was to think that they had been betrayed by their "accomplices"!

It is also commonly known as black eats black.

In this way, it seems that the Tears of the Goddess were not found by themselves, but were given to them by the "accomplice" for safekeeping, and the reason why the Black Flame Gang was stationed in the Silver Pine Forest may be waiting for someone's orders, or waiting for a deal that has not yet arrived.

Who is the "accomplice" of the Black Flame Gang?

If it were just a group of forsaken people, Edward wouldn't pay so much attention to it, but this Black Flame Gang is not as simple as it seems.

When Edward and Emilia were ambushed in the Everfree Forest, the group of mages who had cast a ninth-level forbidden spell on them were all wearing a special black robe.

Edward discovers that the Black Flame Gang is wearing the same black robes as the magicians!

The black robe alone is likely to be a coincidence, and it is impossible to count. However, there's another piece of evidence that proves something is wrong with the Black Flames: the boss of the Black Flame gang tries to kill Emilia with a dark magic scroll at the last minute!

Black magic, scrolls!

There are more small gangs like the Black Flame Gang in the Silver Pine Forest, why is there such an unheard of thing as a black magic scroll in an organization like this?

When the Everfree Forest was ambushed, the enemy set a total of three traps for Amilia.

The ambush of the little boys, the ambush of the enchantment, the ambush of the magicians. The first of these is the most costly.

The little boy used a seventh-level wind-based magic scroll, the Whirlwind Blade Wall, and gave his life at the end, using the dark magic, Soul Detonation, to weaken Amilia's combat power.

The same black robes, rare magic scrolls, unheard of black magic. In the Black Flame Gang, Edward vaguely saw the shadow of the mysterious organization. Is this really just a coincidence?

Suppose that the "accomplice" mentioned by the Black Flame Gang is the mysterious organization that ambushed Emilia, so the small gang of the Black Flame Gang will have magic scrolls, black magic, and tears of the goddess......

Everything seems to make sense! Could it be that the Black Flame Gang really has something to do with that mysterious organization?

Edward didn't dare to think about it any further, if it was true, then their situation was not only not better, but more critical.

Their relationship with the mysterious organization is like prey to prey. The prey must hide in the grass and be killed by the hunter's musket if it emerges, and the hunter must hide himself, or his throat may be bitten by the fangs of the prey!

It was a brutal fight in peace. The calmer it is, the more terrifying the crisis becomes.

If you can catch a prisoner of the Black Flame Gang, the answer will soon be revealed, but Audrey's guy is red-eyed, and he only knows how to cut when he picks up the big axe, leaving no one alive.

The clue was broken, but Edward also confirmed one thing-

There is indeed a mysterious organization that wants to get rid of Emilia and the Wings of Judgment.

Let's call this organization the Gate of Original Sin

What exactly is the conspiracy of the Gate of Original Sin?

If Emilia were to answer these questions, she would probably not be able to find them in her life, so she had to wait for Edward to answer them. Cutie Dehua doesn't care who the enemy is now, he is very depressed now!

The Tears of the Goddess can indeed help him regain his strength, but ......

His memories can't be recovered!

He had thought that with the recovery of his strength, his lost memories would follow, but he was surprised to find that his inference was completely wrong, he didn't remember anything, and his memory was still blank.

Well, there's only one way left to get your memories back: follow Emilia on an adventure. It seems that only by Emilia's side will his memories come back little by little.

Well, the thought of relying on that idiot made Edward depressed.

There is still a long way to go home, and this trip is unexpectedly leisurely.

Emilia has a layer of Holy Aura, and Edward has also restored a Demon King Mark, they are no longer the stunned pair of "sisters and brothers" when they came, and they are also a lot more relieved to walk in the Silver Pine Forest.

As for the dead Black Flame Gang...... Every day this happens in the Silver Pines Forest, and no one cares about the dead Forsaken, who are forgotten not only by the humans of the God-given Land, but also by their own kind.

The law of the jungle is the iron rule of the silver pine forest for thousands of years.

After this incident, Edward also changed his opinion of Audley a little. That bald man was actually not as stupid as he thought.

There were traitors in the team, and the Imperial military was not on their side, and when they were in a dilemma, Audley, as the captain, chose to take his brothers to form a mercenary group in the sparsely populated Silver Pine Forest.

I have to say that this is an extremely subtle move. As mercenaries, they can make some money on the one hand, and on the other hand, they can hide in the shadows and watch the changes, gathering intelligence and preparing to dig into the ground to counterattack the Gate of Original Sin at any time.

This calm wisdom and free and easy determination are beyond Emilia's grasp. So, who is the real idiot, the answer is self-evident.

Speaking of Audley......

"Hey, Emilia?" Edward called out to Amilia, who was on her way to her own devices.

“......”

Emilia didn't say anything, just tilted her head slightly in response.

"Audrey: Do they like to be mercenaries? ”

"Well, because they turned out to be mercenaries. ”

Emilia said without looking back.

"It turned out to be mercenaries? Then why did they become knights now, and they also joined the Wings of Judgment? I heard that the conditions for recruiting knights are very harsh, and it is not easy to establish a knight order, they were originally just mercenaries, and now they have established a ten-member knight group that is famous in the mainland, how did they do it?"

"I don't know. ”

"Cut, if you don't want to say it, forget it. ”

“......”

Emilia glanced back at Edward, but still didn't say anything.

"Hey, Amilia, do you like being a mercenary too?" asked Edward.

"Hmmm......"

"Then you just go to them, be a mercenary with them, and start a mercenary group or something, isn't it fun?"

“...... No way. Emilia was a little moved, but she shook her head and sighed helplessly, "I have to avenge my mother......"

"Revenge, revenge?"

"No, nothing ......"

The short ice melting period is over, and the stubborn girl freezes her heart again, and the next time it melts, I don't know what year and month it will be.

"Now, Amilia. Edward said softly.

"What?"

"What if...... If one day I help you take revenge and help you solve all your troubles, then let's go and become mercenaries together, okay? The name of the mercenary group is - the Demon King Mercenary Group, how about it? haha!"

Edward smiled sincerely, even the decadent dark circles under his eyes could not hide the yearning in his eyes, as if an innocent big boy was telling another girl his most desired dream.

Twittering.

A flock of birds suddenly flew up from the treetops, and their shrill chirping echoed through the forest, and they flapped their wings and made one noisy noise after another, which was very annoying. The cacophony was accompanied by a violent wind, which blew through and blew away the fallen leaves on the ground.

The cry drowned out the boy's words, and the wind blew away the boy's words.

Edward's intentions were not delivered.

"It's windy...... What did you just say?" asked Emilia, confused.

She didn't seem to hear anything.

"Nothing. Edward shook his head.

"Nothing, then why are you laughing? like a pervert......"

"Tsk...... It's really nothing, let's go!"

Edward scratched his head in embarrassment, and he let go of his steps, overtaking Emilia and walking further and further ahead alone.

"Oh......"

Emilia looked up and stared blankly at the flock of birds flying.

The forest is still the same forest, and the Demon King is still her old enemy, right?