"I don't ......"

Tails had to cover up his surprise with an overturned teacup, until the veiled nun beside Meghan stepped forward enthusiastically and skillfully, and very inconsiderately cleaned up the mess on the table for him.

"I don't understand?"

But this time, Meghan kept silent and silently observed the prince behind the desk.

That's the boy.

The boy who was about the future of the kingdom.

His expression was slightly suspicious when he heard the magic, unlike the old nobleman who was born shrewd and calculating, and his etiquette was disguised and disguised.

But it is no more restrained and ambitious than the nouveau riche of the royal capital.

Gilbert was a little caught off guard:

"Megan, I thought we were just a theology class today, and you explained to His Highness what you know about God......"

As I said, theology has never been about the study of God alone. ”

Meghan interrupted Gilbert, a clever fool who was still so sluggish and hopeless, protested, and continued to look at Duke Tails in front of her.

The young duke's appearance was a little thin, and she was reminded of the poor people who crowded outside the charity in the winter waiting for help.

But his eyes were bright, sharp and alert.

Not only that, Meghan can also see from the other party's other behaviors, such as natural and casual sitting posture, rhythmic movements, bold and direct conversation and other details, that this is not a traditional prince of stars.

At least not like the previous ones.

Meghan glanced at the prince's outfit again: the color was dark and conservative, but the details such as the collar and cuffs were designed with novel shapes, and the silver thread was properly buried, which complemented the nine-pointed star brooch.

The priestess nodded secretly.

It seems that the royal tailor has also opened his mind and knows how to reshape the style and innovate fashion.

Well, probably tired of the retro heavy trend in the aristocratic circle of Yongxing City for more than ten years since the year of blood - just because the master in the Fuxing Palace prefers classical and cold colors, over the years, more or less ordinary tailors in the royal city who have been selling with trendy designs and bold colors have been forced to run out of life.

But Meghan paused for a moment and then understood again.

No, although the royal tailors of the court often let themselves go and practice their craft in the costume design of the various aristocratic courts (and most of the stupid customers who knew nothing about aesthetics would only put on a face of awe-inspiring amazement and admiration to match their sky-high hiring fees), they had no reason or courage to experiment with the second prince who had not returned for a long time and attracted the attention of the whole country.

This is not the style of the new design.

Meghan's heart moved.

The prince wore the favorite style of the former owner of this hall more than ten years ago.

She looked back at the stupid Earl who was still chattering, and continued to ignore the warning glance of the other.

From this point of view, he has worked hard for many years to quickly turn Fuxing Palace into a second home, but he has taken great pains.

It's just that......

Does this really work?

Megan smiled slightly.

"You know what I'm talking about, Tails. ”

She didn't care about calling the prince by name again, ignoring the other party's status.

Under the gods, souls are equal.

Titles are useless, piety is supreme.

Isn't it?

"Not every child in this world has been fortunate enough to experience the confrontation with the dragon. ”

Meghan was satisfied to see the prince's face become solemn:

"In the past few years, for the disaster in Longxiao City...... Don't you bother, don't you wonder, don't you seek answers?"

Tails' eyes froze.

Longxiao City.

"When you hear rumors of the end of the world, when you look at the dramas of the end war, when you read the descriptions of their different faces, and when you listen to the cryptic explanations of the noble teachers, do you really accept them all?"

Magic.

Tails leaned back in his chair and frowned.

So, "the question that has been bothering you for several years" is to say this, because of my experience in Longxiao City.

And not because of ......

Under the table, Tails pinched his left palm, feeling the scar from the dagger slashing it countless times.

He let go of his nervousness, and also let go of all the possibilities he had just thought of:

When the secret department was monitoring himself, he chased suspicious clues? The half-hung doctor Ramon's affair was exposed? Looking for books and leaving clues in Longxiao City? Showing off his feet in class with Ashida? Little slippery head inadvertently leaked secrets? Or even a thousand-year-old ugly old witch who hadn't seen her for many years stabbed a knife in the back and spread rumors?

"Sacrifice Megan, you should have consulted with me in advance......" Gilbert's cough suddenly improved, replaced by his sigh.

Meghan looked back gracefully.

"There is no need to hide it, there is no need to hide it," Sunset knew how much effort it took her to hold back the subconscious 'fool' and keep smiling:

"Count Cassel. ”

"Talking about mages doesn't lead to disaster, and reflecting on magic doesn't lead to the end. ”

Her unabashed words made Gilbert's face change suddenly.

"Only those who are obsessed and blindly superstitious will go astray on the path of no return. ”

Meghan turned her head and looked straight at Tails with a complicated expression:

"Precisely because of ignorance. ”

"With arrogance. ”

Tails was silent for a moment.

Gilbert's sigh grew deeper:

"A long time ago, I have explained to His Highness the evil ...... of the calamity"

Megan's tone was gentle, but she retorted without showing weakness:

"Do you really think Count Cassel is going to be a fool who gets out of class and listens to the lectures, and then rushes to eat, drink, and have fun, and no longer cares about what he learns?"

"Do you really think he'll sit back and relax, be foolish, and stop caring about what once threatened his life for the rest of his life?"

Gilbert was slightly dumbfounded, and he and the sacrificial gaze swept to the prince behind the desk.

But Tails was silent, thinking about the unknown.

Gilbert's tone was a little weaker:

"He's still young......"

But Meghan's cross-examination is getting stronger and stronger:

"He's old enough. ”

The elder priest said coldly:

"If magic really aroused the young man's unbridled curiosity, it would not have to wait until now, for he had indulged himself in it and indulged in it in the six years he had been away from your sight, ignoring the taboos and not knowing where to go. ”

Gilbert looked at the prince, frowning slightly, but said no more.

All right.

In the first few seconds, the nervous teenager exhaled.

"Well, indeed," the prince's tone returned to lightheartedness:

"I'm curious. ”

Tails smiled slightly and said sincerely:

"Magic and, scourge?"

"Gilbert said something a long time ago, and some of it is said in the Exeter's books, but not much. ”

Gilbert's face changed again.

"Look, Tails. ”

"Your confusion, God knows," Meghan looked at him kindly, with a confident expression:

"If you believe, God will protect you. ”

Sunset.

If you protect me......

Tails let out an unabashed sigh:

Can you get her to stop being so godly first?

Meghan looked at his expression and knew in her heart.

As expected, he grew up in the North and did not believe in God.

Not surprisingly, since the end of the war, most northerners have stopped believing in the gods that were once revered as orthodox by the Empire, or in all the beliefs connected to them—instead to what the Founding King, who was not ashamed of interbreeding with foreign beasts, brought to the table:

Arrogant and ignorant, arrogant and self-contained.

Megan pouted.

God knows how much the Bright Moon and the Temple of the Nightshade sacrificed to survive in that land.

But that's the magic of faith, isn't it?

Just like how many years ago, wasn't I also immersed in vanity and impulsiveness, thinking that I knew my own life, and found the pursuit of this life, so as to ignore God's teachings and arrangements?

Fortunately, God is selfless and uncomplaining.

There is only protection and tolerance.

Meghan gratefully made a prayer gesture in her invisible sleeve so that little Nia, who was nervous in the back, didn't have to repeat it with her.

"First of all, where did magic come about?"

Tails shrugged his shoulders with a smile on his face, indicating that he didn't know.

Just kidding, if only I knew.

No, it would be bad if she knew I knew.

Meghan gestured to the young nun behind her:

"Nia. ”

The thin, pathetic-looking maiden in the veil was prompted, and with great difficulty but with great care, she pulled out a large, metallic square box from the luggage they had brought with them, and placed it on Tails' desk.

And so on, it's not a box, it's made from top to bottom, it's made of sheets stacked one by one, leaving no gaps.

Seems more like a - book?

The pattern on the top of the metal box is a life-like carving, surrounded by everyone, the carving style is simple and simple, but easy to understand, and there are some symbols engraved around Tails that look very familiar and are somewhat similar to the ancient imperial script.

"What is this?"

Tails frowned, and subconsciously reached out to open the metal "book".

Syllable!

"Don't touch it!"

Tails retracted his palm in shock, only to find that the person who had beaten him was the little nun named Nia.

I saw Nia habitually stretching out her hand, and you could vaguely see the vicious appearance under the veil.

It's like she's done so countless times, warning anyone who wants to touch the metal-paged book.

But in the next second, when the little nun realized who she had hit, she suddenly panicked.

"I ......"

Nia lowered her head and muttered:

"Yes, yes......"

Tails could only smile awkwardly (what else could he do? let D.D come in, drag her out and kill her?), and retract Hulai's left hand in a huff.

But Megan's sacrifice quickly relieved him:

"This is a metal nameplate found in the tomb of King Anset. ”

"King Anset?"

Tails' eyes moved:

"Wait, I've read the name......"

Tails used his little brain to recall the time in the library in Longxiao City.

But apparently Meghan is not ready to give him the opportunity to show his memory and knowledge, straight to the point:

"He is one of the first kings of mankind in the Chronicle of Kings, and a royal in-law of the ancient kingdom of Chauvin. ”

"In the century when the last line of defense collapsed, the Predator King was killed, the Northland was lost, the chauvin perished, and the ancient orcs marched south, it was the King of Anset who raised his arms and shouted, and he fought against the crowd to unite the kings in the human ranks that fled south in terror, form a joint council, hold the fortified city, and wait for an opportunity to counterattack......"

Tails let out a proper sigh, remembering the initiator of the joint meeting of kings and the symbol of the Chronicle of Kings, but he looked at the metal nameplate on the table, and then his expression was strange:

"King Anset......

"You ...... Robbed his tomb?"

Megan's sacrificial expression froze.

"Not us. ”

Her tone was a little dissatisfied.

Tails coughed and said stupidly:

"Of course not. ”

You're just...... Good-natured, innocent and innocent buyers and collectors, right?

"And this is ......" Tails shifted his attention back to the metal nameplate in front of him, watching as Nia expertly opened the first few pages, flashing a few images:

The walls collapsed, the sentry posts were shattered, and countless people were in different places;

Huge figures came one after another, carrying heads and weapons, approaching a group of soldiers who had no way to retreat;

The king on the cover sits at a round table, waving his arms and making an impassioned speech.

"In ancient times, when neither paper nor printing existed, people put important deeds and historical records on inscription pages made of special alloys, so that they would not be forgotten. ”

Meghan sat in place and said lightly:

"As far as I know, there are some places, including the Northland, where this tradition is still alive. ”

Tails remembered.

When he was still in the Northland, it is said that the White Blade Guard's "White Blade Heirloom" was written in this way, but Tails has never figured out how the account of the White Blade Guard should weigh dozens of tons after hundreds of years, can the dead man's face with thin arms and legs be moved?

In the distance, a surprised Gilbert wanted to step forward without losing his grace, so he could only crane his neck in place to look, and Tails could see in his eyes the amazement of the metal nameplate.

"In the beginning, when the world was not fully explored, when faith was still divided, and when humanity was still small and humble......"

Megan said slowly, and Sister Nia turned the page cooperatively:

On the page, the kings wearing crowns are small, standing back to back in a group of huge figures.

"At that time, humanity was surrounded by powerful alien races that did not fit in: the bloodthirsty orcs who worshiped their ancestors went south, the elven kingdom that believed in nature was in full power, and the dwarven kings who respected iron and fire were ambitious......"

"Dragons and beasts ......"

Tails moved:

"Doom...... What?"

Megan had to stop again and sighed:

"Evidence from an archaeological discovery shows that our world was ruled by many huge beasts of prey, long before the advent of human drawings and writing. ”

"It's unimaginably huge. ”

"The dragon is just the first of them. ”

"They travel between the sky and the earth with impunity, rule over the mountains and the seas, use the world as hunting grounds, use living beings as slaves, and take and take the little insects, showing boundless coercion. ”

Tails just knew.

Nia turned another page:

A man wearing a crown stood at the head of the city, and many figures stood beside him, some armed with weapons, some in robes, some leaning on canes......

"And among the human race, there is such a group of strategists, who, by virtue of their experience and wisdom, in the tents of the tribes, in the courts of the nobles, and in the towers of the cities, dutifully give advice and try to give mankind a chance to breathe. ”

"It's no different from the Count of Cassel over there. ”

In the distance, Gilbert's face darkened again.

"At that time, the hostile environment almost drove the lowliest, weakest human beings to the brink. ”

Nia turned the next page.

The engraving of this page attracted Tails' attention:

In the bare sky, a vaguely carved figure appeared in the pattern of the sun, and it looked down awe-inspiringly, and from the sky, stretched out its arms to the king and his advisers.

"Until the gods look down and have mercy on the weak. ”

Meghan's words became more and more profound:

"Prophets and oracles came to earth to show the way for mankind and to spread faith in the gods. ”

"And the group of people I'm talking about ......"

Megan looked up:

"Some of them accepted God and faith, and were pious and humble. ”

Others are skeptical or even scoffing. ”

Tails froze, and then he saw the next page that Nia turned to:

Under the sun, the man wearing the crown stood in the middle, and several groups stood beside him, of which the two groups at the left and right ends were the most conspicuous: those on the right bowed in worship with humble expressions, and those on the left stood with their backs and movements.

Looking at the two very different groups of people beside the king, Tails's expression became solemn.

Meghan's words continue:

"The former builds churches, takes root in the people, and educates the people. ”

The latter came together and stood on their own, finding their own way. ”

Meghan changed her words:

And this was the beginning of the later division between faith and magic, between priests and mages, between the temple church and the Tower of Magic. ”

Tyres, who had figured it out, couldn't help but speak:

"What?"

He looked at Meghan, who just smiled:

"Now, do you know why, the extinct knowledge of occult magic in the past, is only mentioned in our theology classes?"

Tails was incredulous.

"Faith and magic come from the same source," I saw that the old priest was upright, and said solemnly:

"Depend on each other and prove each other. ”

Tails looked at the Megan sacrifice in front of him in a daze, and countless thoughts passed through his mind.

Meghan's words kept talking, quite towering like a mountain, and even Gilbert couldn't help but be solemn:

"They were brothers, inspired by God. ”

Megan sighed slowly:

"But the eldest son is faithful, and the younger son is rebellious. ”

Meghan's words were tinged with respect:

"But they all worked for one goal: the survival and prosperity of humanity. ”

Tails listened in disbelief, thinking that this was another argument.

Faith and magic, religion and mages, originating from the same origin?

"The firstborn of God reshaped the spirit of the people, bringing with them faith in protection and salvation, so that they would leave behind weakness, dissipate fear, leave perseverance, and give birth to heroism. ”

The youngest Son of God gave the people a powerful weapon to make them more comfortable in the victory that was bound to come. ”

As Nia flipped it, there were many scenes on the metal nameplate that caught Tails' eye:

Desertion.

Banquet.

Mobilization.

Marriage.

Celebrate.

War.

Funeral.

And so on.

But those two groups of people appeared from time to time.

Those who bow down always sing in the ceremonies and feasts, and those who carry their backs always appear on the battlefields and in the city.

Tails frowned as he looked at the simple but profound drawing.

"In the self-evident and unanimous cooperation between the two of them, humanity gradually rose and gradually counterattacked. ”

Meghan's tone softened slightly.

The old priest took a deep breath and sighed quietly:

"Eventually, on the Quegul Ice Field, in that battle where both sides were running out of chips and gambling on the future......"

"King Anset, along with the other six human kings, together with their three thousand iron horsemen who believed in piety and regarded death as their home, broke into the tens of thousands of heavy infantry formations of the orcs......

Tails was shocked!

The story is ......

"They never returned, but at the cost of their lives, they successfully attacked and killed the Supreme Saint Chief of the Ancient Orcs. ”

Nia flipped to the last few pages:

The king, dressed in several wounds and holding his sword, lay quietly in the middle of the battlefield, but the huge figures carrying human heads had long since disappeared, and only countless small figures led horses and spears, surrounded the king, and stood solemnly.

And above the sky, the clouds and fog dispersed, illuminating the battlefield.

"With the loss of the Supreme Holy Chieftain, the leaderless ancient orcs were defeated. ”

Megan raised her head and raised her voice clearly:

"Yes, the battle that opened an era is called ......"

"The Battle of the Saints. ”

Tails was silent.

Gasping softly, Nia struggled to close the metal inscription.

Cover this thin dozen pages, but it contains the record of the magnificent life of King Anset thousands of years ago.

"The pursuit of saints is over, the old times have changed, the blood and courage of the orcs are no longer terrible, the rule of the elves has declined, the arrogance of the dwarves has disappeared, and the fears brought by dragons and beasts have finally returned to unknowable legends. ”

So the aliens went into hiding, and the faith of the gods spread throughout the land. ”

Meghan looked gloomy and looked at the sunset outside the window:

"The prosperity of mankind is coming. ”

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