Chapter 214: The Conspirator's Past
p.s. This is even more, and there is another one in the evening, and I will try to fulfill the wishes of the readers......
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At this moment, the crow sat alone on a simple wooden bed, and the cold wind poured in through the open window, and hit his hot cheeks, bringing a hint of coolness.
Christina's slap was merciless, but thanks to her slap, the crow was much more sober than when she first saw Angel. Originally, he had only heard about the demon attack and the aftermath from the Augustan Chamber of Commerce, so he went to the street to see Vincent's movements, but unexpectedly met several familiar "old friends" of the magician, and he didn't expect to hear the name that made him feel like he had fallen into the abyss, and to see the girl that he couldn't forget.
The light dark brown hair was still as soft and bright as before, but a pair of eyes that were wide open radiated a gaze of extreme hatred. It is like an avenger who has climbed up from the depths of hell, willing to lose his soul and break the enemy into thousands of pieces, and hates it to the point of being in the marrow.
The pictures that were almost disappearing at the end of the memory all emerged clearly because of the girl's appearance, as if those were all yesterday's events, all the pictures, beautiful, warm, happy, sad, painful, cruel, all like sharp daggers, the slightest touch will hurt the bottom of the heart.
There were no cracks in the hardwood doors, but the room was still not very well insulated.
Faintly, he could make out what Star and Miss Christina were saying. He heard Star mention his name, and he just, didn't want to pay attention to it.
That's right, he was the one who killed Angel's father and destroyed all of Angel's everything, so Angel should hate him and want to take revenge on him. In the autumn of 1917, when Uncle Charles uttered the forbidden words like a curse, he knew that the illusory dream was over, and it was time to ...... When you have to make a choice.
At that time, Angel suddenly appeared beneath the pure white arched door frame of the small house.
He saw Angel's frightened expression on her face, her wide, emerald green eyes staring at the blood stains that had penetrated the scarlet carpet, her trembling little hands covering her mouth tightly, and then she turned around and ran out.
After a long time, the crow at that time thought that he should catch up with her, and he should explain to her, but he was completely stunned at that time, so he never had a chance to explain again.
However, even if she catches up, Angel won't listen to him.
That may not be an explanation at all.
A similar image once appeared in front of the crow's eyes. When he was only seven years old, still living in the region of Yerin, thinking that he would grow up happily in the land blessed by the goddess, and thinking that the ancient kingdom in the distance had nothing to do with their family, disaster befell his home like an inescapable curse.
s1910, also autumn. When he and his father returned happily to their small but cozy home in the city of Light in the Yellin region after attending the church celebrations, he did not smell the tempting aroma of his mother's prepared dinner, but saw the door open, and his mother, in her apron, collapsed in the doorway, blood seeping her clothes and leaving a red on the floor.
The family was not wealthy, and on that occasion, all the valuables in the family were gone, even the only ruby ring in the mother's hand was missing, and the security patrol decided that robbers had attacked the unfortunate home. Lily Yale was so innocent that she opened the door to a stranger when her husband and son were away.
Although this vicious robbery incident attracted enough attention from the church, Strong, but his father Vincent did not show a relieved expression. When he was a child, the crow didn't understand anything, he just felt that the deep sorrow in his father's eyes was not only the pain of losing his wife, but also contained a lot of incomprehensible feelings.
"Rey, your mother...... Not killed by robbers. β
On a gloomy autumn day after that, my father stood in front of my mother's grave and told the truth in a voice that was darker than the gray sky.
"King Charles sent someone to do it, and the person he wanted to kill was actually me, I am the younger brother of Charles Aubrey Elekrix, King of the Kingdom of Aura. β
The trajectory of Rey's life has changed since that day.
His father sued him a lot about what happened before he was born. The man named Vincent Yale was not an ordinary goddess believer in the Yellin region, he had come to the city of the goddess only to hide from another man.
His father was King Aubrey of the Kingdom of Aura, and when his father was still alive, he once expressed his preference for Vincent over his eldest son, Charles, and it was even rumored that King Aubrey wanted Vincent to be the heir to the throne. However, King Aubrey died of a sudden illness and did not have time to leave any will, and according to the tradition of the kingdom, Charles succeeded to the throne.
In fact, the young Vincent had no intention of snatching the throne, but when Charles became king, he found that the accidents around him became more and more frequent, and at the age of twenty, he was attacked by a group of masked robbers on his way back to Ode City from the frontier fiefdom. The coachman was cut in half by the robbers, and he escaped under the desperate protection of the guards, and when he returned to the city of Oder, he immediately told the royal brother that he wanted to go to the region of Yerin to concentrate on the teachings of the goddess of light, and thus left the kingdom of Orah.
The kingdom of Aura is also a country where the cult of the goddess of light is prevalent, and the family of Electrics has always believed in the goddess of light. Vincent originally thought that as long as he came to the city protected by the goddess, he would be able to live in peace. It was here that he met Lily and had a new life of his own.
But in the end, this happened! King Charles never let him go, and it was another "robbery incident", and Vincent had already figured it all out the moment he saw Lily's body.
"As long as King Charles is around, he will hunt us down, and this is the only way to live. King Charles is a cruel and ruthless monarch, and as long as he is alive, many people will suffer. β
Rey took his father's words to heart. Over the next two years, father and son traveled from city to city in the Yellin region until the spring of his ninth year.
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"As the Duke of the Kingdom of Fatland, you should know what King Vincent had been before. β
At the small wooden table on the second floor of the hotel, Star stared at Christina's stunned face with a rare serious expression, and Christina stared at him in astonishment, without coming back to her senses.
Star patiently continued to explain.
"When King Vincent decided that he wanted to become the priest of the goddess, Rey was only nine years old. Perhaps it was because his father, who had renounced his royal status, was so focused on the cause of the goddess that he didn't even have time to take care of his only son, so he entrusted his son to the royal brother to raise. In doing so, he showed King Charles that he had indeed devoted himself to the work of the Church, that he had abandoned the tediousness of the world, that it was impossible to threaten King Charles' position, and that for King Charlesβ"
β...... A crow is the equivalent of a hostage. β
Christina took the words softly, her eyes finally clear. She lowered her head and muttered as if she were chanting a mantra. "Vincent has always had a high reputation in the kingdom of Aura, and Charles can't be reassuring about him. However, if Vincent's son was in his own hands, Vincent would never dare to rebel, and Charles must have thought so. β
"However, Charles knew almost nothing about the 'new magic technology'. β
Star took a deep breath and looked up, "Rey has shown an amazing talent for magic since he was a child. King Charles was always reluctant to use new magic techniques, so he didn't know what a 'magic magic weapon' was. The Black Elf, a magic wizard of the Wind and Darkness attributes, was hiding near Rey at the time, but they only examined Rey and what he was carrying. The Black Elf is a dagger that can fly freely and disappear in the darkness like a shadow. β
"Black elves?" Christina frowned, "are those daggers?"
"Those are just replicas of the Black Elves. Xing shook his head slowly, "The 'Wind Blade Black Elf' that Rey is using now was recreated for him by a trusted craftsman commissioned by Holy Flame, and it has no dark attributes. The real black elves should still be in Ode City. After Vincent's wife, Lily Yale, was murdered by 'robbers', he bought the dagger through illegal means, and has been raising Rey as an assassin ever since. β
β...... So that guy has been an illegal sorcerer since he was a child!" The horrific story made Christina scoff, "Hehe, that's great, that guy doesn't just steal......"
The spring of 1912 was beautiful, and the ginkgo trees in Ode City stretched out their green leaves, dotting the pale blue sky like fluttering butterflies.
Although the kingdom of Aura in the north is colder than the Yerin region, the city of Ode is warmer here, and Rey stands in front of the tall and mighty bronze statue of the knight, looking up at the majestic and solemn white palace like a church but with a unique exotic style, holding his father's handwritten letter in his hand, and his heart is as silent as night.
Only twenty centimeters long dagger "Black Elf" lurked at the bottom of the black carriage. The soldiers of Oder City had no idea of this strange weapon. It is dangerous to be able to hide one's own magic channel, and the magic guide alliance will definitely strictly control such a magic guide secret weapon, however, even the magic guide alliance has many things that they don't understand.
The kingdom of Aura does not welcome anything related to new magic, here, there is no office of the Wizard Alliance, no magician, no one can discover the black elves.
However, if the black elves were discovered, they would undoubtedly be executed, and Rey knew that very well.
- Just be patient until Charles says something like that to you.
Rey's father's instructions were firmly in his heart. Surrounded by sword-wielding guards, he stood motionless in the middle of the Knights' Square, waiting for the man his father had mentioned so many times. The story of him and Angel and another friend begins and ends in this place.