On such a night, a burly middle-aged man walking alone on the path of Faust stands out. He was tall, with an angular frame, a cotton robe common to commoners, his short, slightly messy hair that stood on end like steel needles, and a full beard that looked like it hadn't been shaved in days.

The aura of power on the big man's body was not obvious, and it seemed that he hadn't even reached the Holy Domain. But when the countless killers who were secretly lurking in the dark saw him, they felt inexplicably uneasy, but where the uneasiness came from, these sanctuaries and even the legendary powerful killers couldn't tell clearly.

Although many of them were ordered to remove any suspicious targets without identification, none of them had made a move until the great man had passed through Faust. As long as they have murderous intentions, they will inexplicably find a bunch of reasons for themselves not to act.

Many killers watched as the unfamiliar man ascended the stairway leading to the Eternal Dragon Palace.

No one would admit that they didn't make a move because of fear.

It was a gloomy night, and the month of July, with only six quarter-moons left, was also dim.

The big man has long hands and long feet, and his steps are very large. However, when he went up the mountain, he walked up one step at a time, and did not miss any steps. Although his strength is not strong, he naturally has a spirit of looking down on the world, which makes people clearly feel that he is honestly climbing the ladder like this, not to respect the Eternal Dragon Palace, but to express a kind of commemoration.

The big man walked to the gate of the Eternal Dragon Hall and walked into the hall by himself. When a young goddess saw him, he was stunned, walked over quickly, and asked, "It's getting late, and if you want to sacrifice, you need to do it tomorrow." ”

The big man was dressed ordinarily, but his incomparable bearing made the goddess official dare not neglect it.

Dahan looked at the goddess official, and suddenly said, "Go and sue Sù Fanlin, just say that I came." ”

This is a clueless sentence at all, if it is said by another person, the goddess official will immediately call the Templar and blast him out. But when Dahan said it, she naturally answered yes, and hurried to Fanlin's exclusive temple.

In the process of galloping, the goddess official's heart was also filled with a trace of doubt, not understanding why she would be so obedient to this big man she had never seen before, as if the big man was her master.

The young goddess ran all the way to Van Lin's temple and knocked lightly on the temple door. Fan Lin's soft voice sounded inside the door: "He's here?"

The goddess officer was confused for a moment, and instinctively replied, "Yes, he has already come." ”

Fan Lin in the hall said, "Okay, I see. Go down, and I'll go to him myself." ”

The young goddess stepped back as she was told.

In the main hall of the Eternal Dragon Palace, the middle-aged man stood with his hands in his hands, casually looking at the gorgeous decorations in the hall with the breath of a long time. Except for the height of a whole head taller than a normal burly man, there is nothing special about him. But he stood in the main hall like that, and neither the priests nor the knights of the temple came and went unconsciously bypassing him, and no one came forward to interrogate him, as if he did not feel that there was anything wrong with the great man standing there.

A moment later, Van Lin walked out of the temple. When I saw the middle-aged man, I was suddenly stunned.

The middle-aged man also saw Fan Lin, and then smiled heartily and said, "Why, can't you recognize me anymore? Thirty years ago, wasn't I like this?"

Fan Lin stood in a daze, tears suddenly flowed, but she didn't realize it, she just screamed in a trembling voice: "Philip ......"

The big man touched the stubble on his chin, and suddenly said: "Ah, I forgot, thirty years have passed, and I have become old."

Fan Lin suddenly ran, jumped up, threw herself into the arms of the big man, hugged him tightly, her hands almost sank into his iron-like muscles, and choked up: "No, you are still the same as before, exactly the same"

Tears were like an unstoppable flood, wetting the robe on Philip's chest in the blink of an eye.

Philip hugged Van Lin, gently stroked her hair, and said, "You haven't changed." I almost thought that these thirty years had not passed at all, that it was just a dream. ”

Fan Lin refused to look up, her hands were trembling, and she clung to Philip and didn't say anything.

Instead, Philip said, "Take me to where you're now." I still have some time, and we can talk for a while. Also, I miss the town of Tik a lot. ”

A moment later, the scene in Van Lin's temple had changed.

It's a small town surrounded by mountains and rivers, and there is a small but stylish tavern at the entrance of the town. Van Lin and Philip sat in the open-air seats outside the tavern, smiling at each other.

At this time, it was the first time that Philip and Van Lin, who had gone out on adventures, met. All the details are still in the bottom of Fan Lin's heart, with her ability at this time, and in the temple forged by the power of time and space, all the fragments of memory will be reproduced in reality.

Thirty years have passed, and time has not left any traces on Van Lin's body, but it has left Philip's face with vicissitudes and nicks. The current Philip is not handsome, but he has an indescribable bearing. It seemed to be the heroism of knowing that he was about to reach the pinnacle of humanity. Philip, who appeared in the small town of Tik back then, was not even a sanctuary, but he already had this wonderful bearing. As for the fat that used to be, it only appeared on the body of Emperor Philip.

Van Lin looked at Philip, smiled and said, "You're old. ”

Philip did not hide the love in his heart at all, and said with emotion: "Yes, it is indeed old. I let my appearance pass with time, because I am afraid that you will be immersed in the temple space and forget the time that has passed. But you haven't changed at all. ”

Fan Lin smiled lightly and said, "I don't change, because I'm afraid you won't recognize me." ”

Philip grinned, laughed a few times, pointed to his heart, and said, "You are here, you will not admit your mistake." ”

Fan Lin glanced at him and said, "I don't know how to change it." ”

Philip scratched his head and said with a smile, "No." ”

After a moment of silence, Fan Lin said, "How are you ...... All of a sudden?"

"I thought I could wait a hundred years, but after only thirty years, I couldn't help but want to see you. ”

Fan Lin's head lowered slightly, and suddenly a drop of water dripped from her face and shattered on the back of her hand. But her voice did not change in any way, and she asked calmly: "I heard that you were framed by some people, is that so?"

Philip smiled lowly, waved his big hand, as if sweeping away a cloud of ant dust, and said indifferently: "Just those fools, what conspiracy can hide from me? I just couldn't bear to wait alone, so I just found an opportunity to beat you twice at random, and then gave myself a reason to come to see you." ”

Fan Lin put her hand in Philip's big hand, and her head still didn't rise, but said, "You stupid, you've only been thirty years, why can't you wait?"

"I've been here for thirty years, and yours might be three hundred years, five hundred years. How can you keep me waiting?"

Van Lin's temple, like the temple of quicksand, has the ability to adjust time freely. Outside, for a moment, ten years may have passed inside the temple. Two generations of gods suppressed themselves in the same way, hoping to be temporarily numbed by the passage of time in exchange for a temporary peace. It's just that no matter how time washes away, the pain in my heart is still clear like an anchored lighthouse.

There are two of them, one lives like a year, and the other lives like a day.

Fan Lin put both hands in Philip's big hand and asked softly, "Is there anything else you need me to do from the Holy Alliance?"

Philip shook his head and said, "I have laid down the place of the rising sun, even if I am worthy of my ancestors and the entire human race." I don't want to worry about anything else, just let them go. The dead deserve to die, and only the living lion can become the king of beasts. ”

After a pause, Philip smiled helplessly and said, "For thirty years, the only thing I regret is that I have never been able to take you out of the old dragon......"

Philip's voice gradually deepened, Van Lin still lowered her head, but the tears suddenly flowed like a waterfall, constantly rushing down, and she could no longer be stopped.

I don't know how long it took for her to raise her head, and it was empty, Philip, the tavern, and the town were gone, and all around her was a vast desert, with no edge and no end to the sky. She looked at her hands. The hands were still clenched tightly, but it was not Philip's big hand that was grasped, but only a handful of pale golden time sand.

Van Lin suddenly threw herself into the desert and wept bitterly. It had been hundreds of years, and this was the first time she had cried.

The desert scene was constantly changing, the sky was getting darker, and a vast darkness appeared in the distance, slowly but surely advancing towards it, devouring a qiē.

It was a world without light.

The day of Faust has dawned, and a new day begins. The big and small nobles living in this cauldron drunk city didn't know what happened in the Eternal Dragon Hall last night, even if they knew it, they didn't care, and the affairs of the top magnates were as far away as legends, and the conversations at many afternoon tea parties were at most used to win the exclamations of the beautiful ladies and ladies. The upper nobles have something that worries them even more, and that is today's meeting to elect the heir of the empire.

Fourteen floating island giants, a total of thirteen votes, a total of four candidates, the variables can be infinite. Behind the bloody and dark night of murder are countless alliances and confrontations, old and new, but until the last moment, who knows whether the deal off the table will finally be fulfilled on the stage.

The meeting will be held in the chamber of the House of Lords, and all the nobles above the earl level will be able to witness the fairness of the entire election process, except for the floating island magnates and all the candidates. (To be continued)

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