Chapter 102: Standing at the Junction of the Past and the Future (Part II)

"Then let's move on. Deirado knew that Reses had done everything he could to help him, and he couldn't afford to hold him back next time.

The discharge fluff around Ermenis shook as its body shook, and the scene in front of it stopped, and then jerked back to where it had left off, continuing to repeat itself at high speed.

As a bystander, the man and the dragon watched the little baby grow into a teenager, watched him leave his hometown and go to school in Augustus, saw him meet Ruidan and Here, and gradually became involved in his destined end.

With the previous experience, Diarlando didn't dare to make a casual decision, he looked back on his life, thinking about what would have happened if he hadn't recognized his biological father, and what would have happened if he had killed Hurley in his early years. When he examines his life again, he finds that one character played a key role in the whole event.

That person colluded with Bran and introduced the dragon king's minions to Turanda, that person colluded with the traitor Leon in a vain attempt to overthrow the king's regime, and it was that person who ushered in Fikelon after Leon was trapped in Black Rock Castle and the dragon king was sealed, which plunged Turanda and countless universes into the current crisis.

And until now, that man is still living unharmed somewhere in this worldly realm, enjoying his wealth and food.

"Can we only see what's going on around me?" said Deirlando, suddenly, asking Emmanis.

The golden dragon asked a little unexpectedly: "Who else do you want to see besides yourself?"

"Zanaya Fury. He was the key figure in bringing things to where they are now. I have a hunch that any change in what happened in my own timeline will not end well, and that to change the future, I must change the fate of someone who is related to me but not close to me. ”

Ermenis let out an interested "oh" and leaned closer and asked, "Why do you think so?"

"I was twenty years old, I had just had a coming-of-age ceremony, and according to tradition, I had to take part in a battle to prove that I was worthy of being the heir to this country," said Dearlando, pointing to the reenactment of what was happening around me. At that time, the merchant ships on the southeast coast were harassed from time to time by pirates from the exiled archipelago. My father decided to let me go to the Royal Navy to finish my first battle as an adult. ”

"It wasn't the first battle I've ever been in. But it was the first time I had participated in a naval battle, and I was fighting in a completely unfamiliar ranks. The commander in charge of commanding Khodaru was a veteran naval officer with more than forty years of experience, but his shortcoming was that he relied on the old and relied on his past experience to fight. ”

One man and one dragon are now standing outside the command compartment of a military ship. Watching the young and vigorous Diarlando in the cabin quarrel with the gray-haired and stocky commander.

"Your Highness. Although you are appointed by the king. But you are still not the commander-in-chief of the whole army, and my opinion is the final order. I've been on board the Goddess Andana for thirty years, and I've been in the Navy more than twice as long as you. I don't think you need your advice on this kind of triviality. ”

"I've studied the charts and the climate in this area, and there's a very unique ocean circulation around January, with intermittent navigation anomalies, and now the way the pirates retreat is so unnatural that it's like they're deliberately luring us along!"

"Yesterday our encounter had already destroyed the mainmast of their largest ship, and like you said, the winds and currents here are strange, so the ship without its mainsail can't sail fast. I didn't expect His Highness to be so timid and fearful, and he didn't even have the courage to go after a pirate ship that had been seriously injured. ”

The young prince slammed his slam on the table, shaking the charts, compasses, and wine glasses on the table.

"Nonsense! It's because I want so badly to win this battle that I can't let you chase such a suspicious pirate ship. According to reports from merchant ships, there should be as many as five pirate ships in this area, and we have only seen two so far. This time we have three ships, and although we still have a numerical advantage, if the other side intends to lead us into an encirclement, then it is easy to fall into a passive position near the Whale Ridge Islands in front. The waterways were narrow, the fog was thick all year round, and the pirates were more familiar with the area outside of these usual routes than we were, and it was all too easy to ambush us there. ”

"Hehe, Your Highness, you take the news reported by those fools too seriously, my people have repeatedly verified that there are three pirate ships, and the reason why they think it is five is because two of them will change the color of the mainsail and flag. According to my careful investigation, the hull structure and hull decoration of the two ships are indistinguishable, and the change of flag is nothing more than a bluff to confuse us. ”

"No, I specifically asked the witnesses, the bows of the two ships are the same, but the scars are not the same......"

"That's enough!" the old captain interrupted Deirlando's description with a roar, and then said heavily on his waist, "the reason why I agreed to talk to you privately after the battle meeting is only because of your honorable status, although you now have the position of acting captain of the Lucky Fin, but in my army, you are nothing. In the name of the sir, I order you to stand down!"

"You are a noble young master who can only talk on paper, and it is best to stay in Augustus's garden, and use your delicate fingers to dance the quill pen and write love letters to the noble ladies or something. The glory of the battlefield is just a little decoration in your life, and I will win and give you one or two more medals on your chest, but don't bother me anymore. The old commander gasped roughly, and pointed out the door: "It's not early, please go back to your own ship, tomorrow we will take advantage of the victory to pursue, please don't disturb my rest." ”

"Wow, he's really fierce, and he's brave enough, isn't he afraid of being beheaded by the king if he confronts you like this? As far as I know, human kings or princes have a lot of power, and their disrespectful subordinates are often punished very severely. Emmanis watched as the puffing young prince slammed the door and returned to his ship through the gangplank, and asked Diarlando with great interest.

Diarlando shook his head and said, "My father is known for being strict with himself, and he will not take sides with me in this regard. But in this matter, Khodaru made a serious mistake, and the pirates were really just defeated, as I had assumed. The next morning, our fleet suddenly encountered a heavy fog, in which the compass failed again, and all three ships were pushed forward by the current, and then they were attacked by pirates. ”

"There are six pirate ships there, and in addition to the five we've seen before, there's a golden pirate ship that's twice as big as all the others. Despite our full resistance, two of the three ships were sunk, Khodaru was killed, the captain of the other was captured, and my Lucky Fin was saved from being sunk on the spot because it had been sailing behind the sea. ”

The surrounding pictures were playing at high speed, the warships and pirate ships were firing at each other violently, and the warships that could not see the enemy in the dense fog were in a passive situation until a sudden gust of strong wind swept the surrounding fog into the air. The small and nimble Lucky Fin hit the ammunition compartments of the two nearest pirate ships in time and luckily the moment its sight was restored, causing a big explosion and being able to break out of the dense encirclement of the pirates.

The exploding pirate ship stopped the shortest path pursued by the other ships, and the wind direction and currents allowed the Lucky Fin, which was originally the smallest and fastest of all ships, to escape the trap with only minor injuries.

"You see, I lost my first battle so disgracefully, and for a long time afterwards I was called the lucky prince who ran away. I used to be ashamed of that, ashamed to look back, but now it seems that I was still alive that day really shit luck. In the past, I would have thought that my life was rough and difficult, but looking back now, in fact, I have been able to live until now, and it is completely a miraculous accumulation of luck. ”

Dearlando exaggeratedly stretched out his arms and stretched out his surroundings: "Although I don't know what to do, there is indeed something that has been protecting me in the dark, and those seemingly regrettable results are actually the best of all the choices." Other paths will only get worse. ”

The golden dragon, floating, tapped Dillando's head lightly with its bright blue paws, and then said proudly: "Ha Luha, you really didn't disappoint me, and you figured it out so quickly. How can the people we want die at the hands of other people or other things? ”

Dirrando's face sank, and then he grabbed Ermenes with his hands: "So, my death and resurrection, my mother's death, and my mother's curse are all your arrangements?

This time, his outstretched hand had a thin white glow, and it turned out that he had transformed his magic sword into the shape of a glove, clinging to the skin on the surface of his palm. He knew that Emmanes was just a projection of energy, and it was impossible for the physical body to capture it, so he planned to bet on whether the magic sword, which was also full of energy, would be able to touch this object.

There was a soft "snap" as if something had burst off, and everything around it shattered like a mirror, and Diarrando felt his palm grasp something, but soon the thing broke free again. A tremendous force surged him backwards, slammed into the wall, and then slowly slid to the bottom. (To be continued......)

PS: Time is in a hurry