261 Temples
"What's going on here?"
The curtain on the stage was still burning, because there was no noise interference, the flame was burning, the sound became clear and audible, and like the police in most planes, the garrison of the harbor was belatedly when the chaos subsided, considering the quality of the Ximen garrison, this does not seem to be surprising, if it weren't for the fact that the leader of this team of guards was a little special, I'm afraid the guard would not be here.
"You're Mr. Diesel?"
The captain of the harbor guard, Giggs, was shocked when he saw the young wizard with a heavy expression, and when he saw the woman in the wizard's arms, he immediately cheered up: "This is Lady Vika?"
"Mr. Captain Giggs?" Penny remembered the man, but he couldn't care about the cold face now, his universal antidote was obviously ineffective against the vampire's special poison, and his intermittent and irregular breathing and heartbeat told Penny that she could die at any time: "Where is the nearest priest?"
Giggs's expression was very serious, and he knew that such a time had to be concise: "Seven hundred yards to the east, in the market area, the Blind True Church, is the nearest and largest church here. ”
The wizard nodded, but before he could thank him, he guided a flying spell and flew as fast as he could to the east.
Vampires are a species with strong vitality.
For other kinds of creatures, after losing all of their bodies below the Xiōng Division, they would definitely not be able to die anymore, but as the darlings of the dark forces, the vampire's strong life force allowed them to survive in this situation as long as they did not suffer further fatal blows.
As a high-ranking vampire, Lavinia's vitality was even stronger, and when her descendant Basti Duncan found her, she was left with only half of her torso, still riddled with holes, a huge wound like a large crack swept across her left flank and right neck, and the charred lobes of her lungs burst out.
But she's still alive.
Her wounds were wrapped in dark power, flesh wriggling and healing, and now it was the night beloved by the Bloods.
Her vocal cords, which had healed enough to even make her speak hoarsely, opened her pupils, pale from blood loss: "Duncan, quick, get me out of here..............."
"Yes, sir. A wicked smile erupted from the corner of Duncan's mouth, leaving Lavinia small
Half of his body was raised.
Although the sharpness of her senses had been greatly reduced due to the loss of blood, the smile was still noticed by Lavinia, and an ominous omen rose from the depths of her mind.
As a blood relative of a low-level vampire, a high-level vampire can largely control the will of a low-level vampire, but in many cases, a significant number of high-level vampires will lose control of their descendants.
Especially when the object of the high-level vampire's initial embrace is a guy who has great power in itself, if the power of the initial object exceeds that of the vampire itself, then it will be difficult for the high-level vampire to control such a descendant, and many incidents of descendants killing relatives appear in such a situation.
That's why vampires never give their first hugs to guys who are too terrifying.
Needless to say, the first embrace of the overly powerful guy is the object of the initial embrace of a wizard apprentice who is not very powerful, and there is still a certain danger to high-level vampires Any spellcaster who has been trained by orthodox mages, no matter how weak the strength is, most of them have a special xìng that makes vampires extremely fearful, far exceeding the will and mental power of ordinary people.
This makes it difficult for high-ranking vampires to detect the thoughts of such descendants in time.
Of course, the subtle influence of vampires and the control authority formed by the powerful power of high-level vampires will reduce this danger to an extremely low level, and ordinary high-level vampires also tend to have some "not so useless." It didn't seem so unacceptable for a guy to take a slight risk as his own servant, but with Lavinia's current miserable situation, it was obviously difficult to maintain his authority.
Her nerves, which were highly sluggish due to the decay of her strength, sensed danger. Before she could act, Duncan had already thrown her out of the way, feeling the air around her quickly become hot, and her body was falling towards the burning opera house. ,
"Damn it!, stop!" and it was only then that she had time to issue an edict against the descendant spirit Hún.
But it's too late.
With a wicked smile on his face, Duncan, who couldn't move because of the shout, was there watching Lavinia's half-body fall into the fire pit and lose all protection, a vampire injured to that extent obviously couldn't survive the flames, as evidenced by a hoarse, high-pitched scream and countless smoke-like dark powers escaping from it.
Now he's free.
Following the rules of vampires, the smoke of dark power that escaped from it continued to fly towards his body, and he took a deep breath, his body crackling as the mist seeped into his body.
Finally he closed his eyes, let out a long sigh of satisfaction, and turned his neck, and the pleasant sound of bones and bones made him feel very pleasant, this is the feeling of strength.
Self-reason, not enough.
And revenge.
He opened his eyes, paused for a moment in the clear moonlight, looked away at the burning opera house, and finally shook his head.
Inadequate...... The strength is still not enough.
Smack~
A cloud of black smoke appeared beside Duncan, his eyelids jumped, and he turned his head to look at the female vampire who came out of the fog.
"Uh, I don't know what to call this adult?" the female vampire looked at Duncan for a moment and frowned, "Oh...... The Duke wants to see you. ”
"Lord Duke?" Duncan's smile grew brighter, but a deep awe of the name made him unhappy.
If you want to be completely free, it seems that there is still a long way to go.
So he made a flattered look and spread out his hands: "Ah, this is really a supreme honor, it is so exciting to be able to meet the great Duke, you hurry up and lead the way!"
"Okay, please come over here. The female vampire nodded slightly, turned into a bat, and waved her wings at the pale moon.
Penny knocked through the guards blocking the doorway and shouted loudly to the priest, although this behavior was very rude, but the identity of the person who came to ask for help was very sensitive, and some priests in the temple immediately took action, carrying Vika to the healing hall with all hands and feet, and various healing spells were applied to her.
"It's a real danger, this gentleman, if someone hadn't used the antidote on her, or if she had been half a minute late, she would have been dead by now. When the treatment was over, the middle-aged priest in charge of the divine art wiped the beads of sweat from his forehead and said to the wizard with a frown.
"How is she now?" Although the deadly gray-purple sè above Vikapi began to fade gradually under the effect of the divine magic, the ups and downs of Xiōng's mouth were still intermittent and irregular, which obviously did not reassure Penny.
"Calm down, calm sir, we have pulled out the toxin, she is no longer in danger of life, but the damage that the venom has done to her body is not so easy to recover, she needs to rest for a while, at least for the next day, do not move her body. The pastor was relieved: "Rest assured, she's safe." ”
"Safe?" Penny breathed a sigh of relief, then shook his head, looked through the door, and fell on the outer hall of the temple, which had been a mess when he rampaged in, and bowed to the priest a little ashamedly, "I'm sorry for the trouble here, but I hope you can understand my eagerness." ”
"It's not human life that matters, and my lord doesn't care about these minutiae. The priest returned the salute and pointed to the icon placed in the corner of the room: "If you feel rude, you may wish to convey your apologies directly to our host." ”
The wizard's expression became serious, and he bowed solemnly to the icon, looking up to see the appearance of the icon, the one-eyed majestic old man with a cane, he frowned slightly, feeling that this lord seemed to be a little familiar, but he couldn't remember that the god had such a look.
As a wizard, it was not unacceptable to be so-so about the study of the gods at times, but it was undoubtedly an irreverent thought here, and he was ashamed to think that it was thanks to the priest here that Vika's life was preserved, and he bowed to the icon several times more seriously.
The priest was undoubtedly satisfied with this piety, and he nodded, reciting the words from the canon and walked to the other chuáng, where there were many patients in need of treatment, and the wizard sat down beside Vika's chuáng, gently squeezing her hand. ,
There was a cold feeling without heat in his hand, and although he knew that the priest here would not lie, he still couldn't let go of the worry in his heart, and he took the cold hand with both hands and put it in front of him.
Such an action seemed to be able to convey a little bit of vitality in the past, her eyelids trembled slightly, and her mouth spat out a vague call, and even if Panny tried to listen, he could only hear vaguely: "Sedan Pennig Kirklaude"
The wizard frowned, one of these four names sounded very unfamiliar, but in the past twenty years of Vika's life, it was obvious that the people she had met could not be all familiar to Penny, and what attracted the wizard's attention more was Vika's voice.
It was vague and faint, but it undoubtedly indicated that she was getting better, and Vika's next murmur from his nose made his nostrils sore: "I love you guys......"
He grabbed her hand harder, pressed it tightly against his forehead.
A pair of eyes quietly looked at Penny in the doorway, but the wizard who was so focused on Vika was clearly unaware that his perception had always been keen.
There was sadness and pain in these eyes, but as time passed, they gradually turned into numbness and relief, she blinked, and wanted to turn away, but the plan was disrupted by a call: "Lady Grofia, are you back?" Although it was not deliberately heard by Penny, the sudden voice was still enough to divert Penny's attention, and he turned his gaze to the door, raising his eyebrows slightly.
Serra hesitated, sighed secretly, and walked over to the wizard, not wanting to meet him in this situation, but having already met her, she was not allowed to run away like this.
"It turned out to be the sanctuary of the Lord of Justice. The wizard turned his head to look at the one-eyed lame icon, and his tone was a little abrupt.
Serra nodded, but didn't say anything in reply, her low mood obviously made her act rude, but she was in no mood to pay attention to this, her eyes fell on her: "This lady ..............."
"She's Vika. ”
"Lady Vika of Ed Méng?" a strange look swept over Serra's eyes.
The mage nodded, and the atmosphere fell silent again.
"It seems that you care about her. She leaned down and looked more intently at Vika's face.
Penny nodded again, and continued to look intently at the unconscious Vika on Chuáng: "Her presence is very important to me. ”
"That's right. A sense of despair filled the paladin's heart, her heart filled with disappointment, and more pain filled her nerves, making her dizzy, but she managed to keep herself awake and began to pray to Tyr for salvation.
After being silent for a while, she opened Lan Sè's eyes and looked at Penny lightly: "So, she is your wife?"
That's a question. , she began to regret it, because she suddenly found that she didn't seem to have such a position to ask questions, and there was no reasonable relationship between her and Penny, and the closest relationship between the envoys could only be regarded as former comrades-in-arms and friends, and it seemed a little too much to interfere in each other's affairs.
But an irrepressible impulse made her very desperate to get an answer.
The wizard was stunned for a moment, took his eyes off Vika's face, and glanced at Serra, causing the latter to lower his head in a sudden sense of weakness, but soon curiosity and a glimmer of hope caused the paladin to raise his head again, looking at the wizard's face, waiting for an answer.
“... Yes, it can be said. Penny nodded, focusing on Vika again.
Although he had never considered the relevant questions, Serra's question was enough to make him reconsider the relationship between his boss and wife, and the inescapable fact that he could not accept Vika into the arms of others, which was enough to make him sure of his attitude.
"Oh, I see. Hearing this "answer", Serra did not feel the pain she expected, but her heart seemed to "snap", and all the positive and negative emotions flowed out of this opening, leaving only a numbness and a faint blankness: "I hope she can recover soon." ”
Penny nodded.
She turned around and walked over to the middle-aged priest's side: "Priest Keldan, what's the ............... Need help?"
"Lady Grofia, your face looks a little wrong, are you too tired?"
"It's okay......"
"Oh, please take care of your body. ”
Thank you, Priest Keldan, and now let me help
...”
"Oh, okay......"
"Penny, Penny!" A panicked call flew through the door, and Hiccor hurried in with a small group of centaurs, who had no flying skills and had to deal with some heads and tails, and now arrived here: "How's Vica? Is she okay?"!