Spear and Cross
Chapter 9
Three days before the temple ceremony, the entire temple became busy.
Whether it was a person like Fraxis who already had a mission, or other priests who had not been assigned a mission, they were much busier than before, let alone ordinary low-level priests and knights.Since it was the anniversary day when the Goddess of Light bestowed light on the mainland during the second dark period, the scale of the ceremony was extraordinarily grand. Even the branches stationed in other places sent representatives to the imperial capital to participate in the ceremony. There were many more people in the temple. Although it doesn't look crowded, it still breaks the usual tranquility.
Fraxis was assigned by the chief priest to ensure safety during the ceremony, so he naturally formed a temporary partner with the two heads of the knight order.
The deputy head, Fernandez Digriste, had just returned from the field after finishing his mission, and just in time for the festival, he was assigned to be responsible for safety issues before he had a good rest, and he seemed a little tired even during the meeting.
"It's a pleasure to work with you, Priest Falunard." He is of noble origin, and although he has been in the temple for many years, he still retains his aristocratic demeanor well, "I couldn't attend your oath ceremony, it's too much Sorry—hope we have a good time working together."
"Of course, I'm also looking forward to it." Fraxis nodded slightly to him and responded with a smile.
Hampton, who was sitting next to Fernandez, knocked on the table, signaling them to get out of this meaningless exchange: "You two, we don't have much time, so let's get straight to the point?"
Fraxis glanced at him, and happened to meet his half-smile eyes, so he frowned, and looked away helplessly.
In recent days, his sleep time has been shorter than before, but the quality has improved unexpectedly, maybe because he is really too busy.In addition, Lilian, who became more and more arrogant after getting familiar with the environment, also caused him a lot of trouble, occupying almost all of his little private time, and couldn't squeeze out the time to practice swordsmanship every day. Si didn't know whether to thank it or blame it.
But he still has occasional trouble sleeping.Although he didn't receive any unusual reports, he always had a bad premonition.This inexplicable anxiety enveloped him, making it difficult for him to fall asleep even though he was so busy during the day.
It was like this last night, he couldn't sleep all the time, so he had to get up and look through the files he borrowed before.The scroll that was found in the half-orc camp in Duken Forest was still with him, and the more he read it, the more he was surprised, because the rewritten spells on the scroll were very subtle, and in his opinion, it was definitely not something that ordinary priests could rewrite.So he privately borrowed the files of senior priests who had entered the temple for nearly 100 years, thinking that he might be able to get some clues from them.
At first, he only searched for priests with questionable beliefs, but he didn’t get satisfactory results—because he couldn’t find any priests sent by heretics to lurk and be caught, or priests who were expelled from the temple because of wavering beliefs. Objects that match the conditions.
In other words, the instigator of this series of events is likely to still be serving in the temple.
He originally planned to start the investigation from the senior priest at the headquarters, but since he is new here, he is not familiar with the situation at the headquarters of the imperial capital, so it is very difficult to do this.Judging from the attitude of the chief priest, he obviously didn't want him to ask the other ten priests for help, so his investigation work just came to a standstill, relying on himself alone, with little efficiency.
But last night when he was flipping through the files, a new method came to his mind.
What inspired him was the file of a senior pastor at the headquarters. The pastor's recorded transfer trajectory in recent years seemed a bit strange to him.He remembered that it was a young man about his own age, with beautiful green eyes, good-natured, and good-looking--the type, no doubt, Mr. Knight Captain liked.
And Francis did hear some rumors about Hampton and the pastor from other people, which made him think of a dishonorable, but perhaps useful method.
"Then let's settle this for now. If there is anything that needs to be supplemented, I will notify the two of you." Fraxis closed the record book in his hand, and smiled at the two knights, "The goddess is here God, her radiance will drive away all evil. May this festival go well."
After discussing with Fernandez and Hampton, he jointly arranged the patrol schedule and key defensive positions for the last three days, mainly inside the temple and the palace. Knight squads patrol the civilian areas and noble residential areas in shifts.
At first, Fernandez was a little puzzled by Fraxis' decision to send more patrols in the civilian area. After hearing what he said about the Anderma phantom butterfly larva, he nodded in understanding and asked, "That larva is in Gut now. Is the priest there? I want to take a look at such a rare monster."
"Priest Gut will welcome you." Fraxis handed the two records to the two of them respectively, "I still have some things I want to ask Knight Commander Brandon for help, so I won't go with you, Di Knight Commander Grist."
Fernandez didn't expect Fraxis to accompany him to find Priest Gut. After all, he had already heard how busy the new priest was recently when he just came back.But when he heard Fraxis say that he wanted to ask Hampton for help, he still couldn't help but turned around and looked at Hampton in surprise.
"I didn't expect you to get along so well." He is a noble himself, so he is very familiar with Hampton's previous hostility to the nobles, "I thought you were like that with all nobles, Hampton .”
"Of course I won't reject nobles who can prove that they are not moths." Hampton lazily flipped through the records that Fraxis handed him, and put them aside without interest after writing them down, "Fell , are you jealous? Because I beat you up the first time we met?"
Fernandez touched his nose in embarrassment: "Can you stop talking about it? Punch me on the bridge of the nose first. This kind of reckless behavior of going out without thinking is worthy of your bragging for so many years?"
"I just know that every time I bring it up it shuts you up."
"Okay, I'm going to visit rare monsters, so I won't invite you to come with me." Fernandez finally chose to shut up, and glanced at Fracis, who was not watching their bickering, from the corner of his eye, feeling that the face of the Knights They threw them all away, "Talk slowly, I'll go first. Your Excellency, good afternoon."
"Good afternoon, Knight Commander Digrister." Fraxis replied without raising his head.
He was sorting out some "order" of the files he'd picked out the night before, and he finished them right after Fernandez went out, shoving them in front of Hampton.
"Chief Knight, I want to ask you to do me a favor." He tried his best to adjust his expression so that he looked more natural, "Maybe you won't want to help me with this favor, it doesn't matter, just tell me."
In his opinion, his behavior is actually a bit shameless. He obviously refused the other party's listening and help before, but now he asks Hampton to help him... Even he himself feels that this is very bad. When he meets such a person, he will definitely refuse without hesitation.
Hampton leaned back in his chair with great interest, looked him up and down a few times, and didn't touch the pile of files.
"I'm very honored that you can ask me for help—it's like I'm finally not 'Knight Commander Brandon', but back to 'Knight Commander', flattered."
He obviously did it on purpose, but Fraxis was not sure if Hampton was thinking the same as him, so he could only clear his throat and said tentatively: "...I want you to do me a favor, Hampton pause."
Fraxis's cautious attitude succeeded in pleasing the knight, and he decided to be more magnanimous, temporarily ignoring the cold reception he received a few days ago.
"Okay baby, what do you want me to do for you?"
"Could you, I mean, if you'd like, check out the priests on file for me?"
Asking the head of the knight order to investigate the priest sounds more like a deliberate nuisance than a request.But he has no more time, and if Hampton is willing to help him, maybe he can save a lot of energy to investigate other aspects.
Hampton frowned suspiciously, and then opened the first file on the top of the pile of files.
That's the one that Frasist put on top, the green-eyed priest's file, because he seemed like the one most likely to impress Hampton.
Sure enough, after reading the first book, the knight's eyes changed, and then he read the next few books in a row, raising his head to look at him with a subtle expression.
"It seems that you know exactly what type I like." He didn't continue to read, but re-stacked the files he had read, "So you have been using me before? Mr. Noble, Just because you know I like you?"
"Of course not." Unexpectedly, he would turn the question in a strange direction, Fraxis was startled, and retorted subconsciously.
But then he immediately realized that the reason why he did this was because he was sure that he could persuade Hampton to help him?The reason why he has such confidence...isn't it because he has such a feeling?
Hampton found a trace of bewilderment and bewilderment in his eyes, and smiled knowingly: "Look, you have discovered it yourself."
Fraxis wanted to say something to make it up, but he found that he couldn't find an excuse for himself in this matter, so he had to choose to give up the excuse.
"I'm very sorry."
He is very clear that even if he doesn't directly use the other party's ideas, his behavior is no different from using him.Although he and Hampton are partners in name, in fact, he has been trying to use his own rhythm and pace to influence the other party and make the other party serve his ideas.
He has no position to refute or justify.
But Hampton's answer was beyond his expectations. He said: "I don't need your apology."
The knight didn't seem surprised by his reaction. He stood up, walked around the table to Francis, and thought he saw Francis for the first time through those dodging blue eyes. ? Fa Leonard's heart.
"I just want you to give me an answer," he leaned down and whispered into Fraxis' ear, "Come on, tell me, have you—"
He couldn't finish his sentence, because there was a sudden commotion outside the door, and the next second, the door that Fernandez had just closed was knocked hastily.
Hampton gave a "tsk" and left him to open the door.
"Knight Commander, Lord Priest, something happened in the civilian area." Feng Na outside the door obviously just came back from the outside, with several wounds and blood stains on his body, "We can't solve the problem, please reinforce immediately."
Fraxis frowned and stood up, straightened his cuffs, and was about to go out with Hampton, but when he passed by the knight, he suddenly grabbed his right hand: "What's in your hand?"
Hampton knew that Fraxis didn't have the habit of wearing jewelry. Apart from a space ring, he usually didn't have other decorations on his hand.But now on the hand he was grasping, besides the ring with the family crest of the Faronard family, there was also a swirling black swirl pattern.
"……I have no idea."
Fraxis was also very surprised. He stared blankly at the whirlpool on his finger, and slowly shook his head.
As a spellcaster, he was baffled and annoyed by a spell he didn't understand so quietly.He felt a little scary. If Hampton hadn't discovered it, he would have been unaware of the pattern that quietly appeared on his hand, "I'm pretty sure it doesn't exist this morning, and I didn't feel anything unusual. I...just now discovered it."
"How could this be?" Hampton didn't dare to touch the vortex directly because he was afraid of triggering some spells. "This thing looks too strange, why don't you go to Priest Moxi to check it?"
Fraxis shook his head: "Priest Moxi is not in the temple today, and the medicine for Alvira's treatment has made new progress. I heard that he went to Grande to collect spell-casting materials in the morning, and he may not be back until evening. .”
And the current situation sounds too serious, and he is not allowed to go to Priest Moxi again—Fonner said that a large number of undead creatures appeared in the civilian area, and it is suspected that the civilians were transformed by some kind of spell, and they must deal with it immediately .
"Let's go to the civilian area first, there should be no problem for the time being."
Fraxis covered the vortex with his sleeve, and decided to ignore it for now. In his opinion, dealing with the riots in the civilian area is the top priority for him and Hampton.As for the vortex of unknown origin, we will deal with it when we come back.
Hampton originally wanted to say something, but after thinking about it, he still didn't stop him.
According to his understanding of Fraxis, it is meaningless to continue persuading him to confirm the safety of the vortex. It is just a waste of time. It is better to solve the problem in the civilian area as soon as possible, and then bring Priest Moxi back to him for inspection. direct.
That vortex really doesn't look like a beautiful thing. It keeps spinning on its own near the inner side of Fraxis's right ring finger, like a black hole that wants to swallow everything it touches, and like a strange eye, quietly watching them.
He didn't know how it appeared in Fraxis' hands, but he always had an inexplicable premonition—after this vortex and Alvira's accident, it inexplicably appeared in Fraxis' hands, and he couldn't get rid of it related to the smell of blood.
When they rushed to the civilian area, most of the surviving residents had been evacuated by the patrolling knight squad, and only a small part of them lived in the deep part of the street. Because there was a street occupied by undead creatures in the middle, they couldn't be rescued temporarily.
The once noisy and orderly civilian area is now a mess. The streets in front of them are only numb and low-level undead creatures walking. From the bloodstains that can be seen everywhere, it can be seen that there has been a sudden massacre here.
"Where was the undead creature found at first?" The knights who let Hampton command the way cleared the few living corpses, Fraxis frowned and asked Feng Na, "They don't seem to be killed by the undead one by one." Transformed by a mage, it looks like..."
It seems that human beings have been infected with a plague-like curse, and then the infection spreads round after round.These living corpses are the lowest level of undead creatures. Even ordinary young and middle-aged men can resist their attacks. To cause such a big commotion, there must be other high-level undead creatures.
Feng Na reported a general area: "In that area, it is said that a house suddenly emitted black gas, and people who came into contact with the black gas became like this. Many civilians were attacked and injured by them, and the wounds were also black. "
"……I see."
Francis and Hampton looked at each other, and he understood that his worst premonition had come true.
Ever since Feng Na suddenly rushed back to the temple to report to them the situation in the civilian area, intense unease had always shrouded his heart.But now, the thing that worried him has become a reality - the location where the undead creature was first found is almost exactly the same as the address that Rein had left for him before.
Those unconscious walking dead were quickly cleaned up by the knights. Hampton and Fraxis left the reinforcement knight team to guard in place, and led a small group of knights to advance to that area.As they got closer and closer to Rein's home, the undead creatures encountered on the road became stronger and stronger, and even wraiths that ordinary knights could not deal with began to appear.
This is very unusual, because the civilians who were killed in the attack are unlikely to accumulate a lot of grievances in such a short period of time, and the conditions for the formation of vengeful spirits cannot be met.Since this is the case, there is only one possible explanation left, and these grievances are all brought out from the source of "contagion".
Francis told Hampton his thoughts, the latter nodded, paused, and then asked in a low voice: "Do you think the origin of the 'contagion' will be Rhine?"
"I'm not sure, because when I sent him out of the temple, there was nothing abnormal about him." Fraxis recalled with a frown. Thank you...it looks normal, at least I didn't find anything weird about him."
Hampton gave him a suspicious look: "Why should he thank me? I didn't do anything."
"But he said that you also proposed to introduce him to a job..." Fraxis said halfway, and then stopped in the same puzzled look under Hampton's puzzled eyes, "Don't you?"
"Of course not. I only visited him once, the time I met you, and I never went there again." Hampton raised his eyebrows, "Why did he lie to you?"
Fraxis certainly didn't know why Rein was lying, but he now knew that Rein was not without abnormalities when he left the temple—or, in other words, he might have been abnormal from the beginning.
He casually cast a purification technique to eliminate an undead pounced on him, and then he was attracted by the aura of the undead at the corner of the street.
"Be careful." He raised a hand to signal the knights not to move forward for the time being, and then exchanged glances with Hampton, both of them saw guard in each other's eyes.
There was a high-level undead creature there, but for some reason it didn't attack them, or even take any action, as if it was standing at the corner of the street watching them, waiting for their arrival.Through a wall, Fraxis couldn't see clearly his appearance wrapped in the black mist cloak, but somehow felt that his breath was somewhat familiar.
He is very sensitive to various elements, and he rarely makes mistakes in identifying the breath. Since he feels familiar, he must have met the other party at least once.Therefore, he has roughly guessed about the identity of the other party—or the identity before his death.
"...Lein, is that you?"
The figure wrapped in a black mist cloak slowly came out from behind the corner, holding a gray-white dagger dripping with blood, almost exactly the same as the one that assassinated Alvira.One glance at them was enough for Francis to be sure that they were all made by the same craftsman.
He slowly raised his hand and pulled down his hood, revealing a pale but still handsome face.If one ignores his complexion, he still looks like an ordinary human being, but those beautiful blue eyes have completely transformed into dark red, like slowly flowing thick blood, looking crazy and frightening.This action exposed a small part of his bloodless arm, and Fraxis noticed that there were traces of stitches and stitches on it, which should have been repaired after being violently torn.
"Are you here to visit me? Your Excellency Faronard." Lein twitched the corners of his mouth stiffly, showing an expression that might be called a "smile", "You came earlier than the agreed time, I I'm not ready to receive you yet."
Before Francis could answer him, Hampton spoke first.
"Line, do you think we are here as guests?"
Although he could talk, Hampton looked at him like he would look at a corpse.He obviously didn't intend to tell Reindo, but he couldn't attack immediately, because his hand holding the holy gun was held down by Fraxis as soon as he raised it: "Wait a minute."
Francis stopped Hampton from raising his gun, but his eyes never left the "smiling" Rein.After a simple thought, he jumped off the horse neatly and landed on the ground at the same height as the opponent.
"Have you been expecting me to visit your house? Shall we go now?"
"Flassis!" Hampton didn't expect that he would give up his height advantage, and even chose to communicate directly with Rein, who had become an undead creature, "Come right back!"
Rein looked up at him, his smile remained unchanged: "Chief Brandon, you are still so annoying. I just want to thank Lord Faronard, why do you always stop in front of me?"
His voice also changed, like rough sand rubbing against the ground, hoarse and creepy.
Fraxis didn't know why he had so much hostility towards Hampton, but he decided to go along with him: "He won't follow, Lein, if you have anything to say, we can come to you Go home and talk."
He had to find out who turned Rein into what he is now, because his sanity is not so clear, it is obviously impossible for him to cast the spell, and until now, he has not felt any leftover from other casters from the other party. down the breath.
He chose Rein, a civilian saved by him and Hampton, as a tool to trigger the riot. It has to be said that his opponent is well aware of the temple's handling of things. Not only him, even Hampton will be involved.In fact, after Rein left the temple, Fraxis asked the patrolling knights to pay attention to him, but the report he received has always been that he had no contact with any suspicious people-until today, he has transformed into undead.
Being able to retain most of its consciousness shows that its actions can still be controlled by itself, but whether its "consciousness" is its original consciousness or a false fragment instilled by the caster, Fraxis has no way of knowing now.He couldn't even be sure whether Rein was corrupted by a curse or transformed by necromantic spells, because he didn't find any traces of undead spells on Rein's body.
"My house?" Rein's dark red eyes stared at him motionless, but he was not very focused, as if he was thinking about what kind of existence this was. After a while, he grinned stiffly and said, "My house is too messy Well, sir, perhaps we can go to the tavern and talk..."
Before he finished speaking, his eyes suddenly fell on Fraxis's hand exposed from the cuff, and an expression called "surprise" climbed onto his pale face almost instantly.He raised his head suddenly, his eyes full of enthusiasm: "Is this the mark you used to give me a gift, Your Excellency?"
"...What?" Fraxis was stunned, and he did not back away after holding back. He followed the sight of Rein just now and looked at it—it happened to be the "vortex" of unknown origin on his right hand.
He was confused by Rein's words, so he raised his right hand guidingly and asked, "Are you talking about it?"
His intuition told him that things were getting worse.If the vortex that appeared out of nowhere had anything to do with this matter, then no matter whether he knew the origin of the vortex in advance, he would be absolutely responsible for Rein's current situation.
Rein looked at him eagerly, his scarlet eyes were almost filled with mad enthusiasm, before Fraxis tried to avoid vigilantly, he suddenly held Fraxis' right hand with his own cold hand, Then he kissed reverently close to the whirlpool.
"Of course, haven't you forgotten?" There was madness in his eyes, but Fraxis strangely read a trace of residual innocence, "You checked the wound for me, just use this hand—it Covered my unhealed wound, healed it like a miracle, gave me strength..."
He let go of Fraxis's hand, and then tore off his sleeve, revealing half of the blue-white arm that was characteristic of corpses.There are several traces of stitches on it, but the stitches are crooked, and there are still a few places where the scarlet flesh has been turned out because the stitches are not dense enough.
"Those forces are too turbulent, and my ordinary skin can't fully contain them, so I have to sew them up after letting go. Your Excellency, I'm sorry."
He talked incoherently and without coherence, but Fraxis managed to sort out some useful information from it.This information is not necessarily true, but it is enough to explain many problems that he could not understand before.
First of all, the black air mentioned by Feng Na should be what Rein called "turbulent power", which can transform living humans into undead creatures.As for the effect, at present, he roughly guesses that the more he contacts, the stronger he will be after transformation, and the civilians who have only contacted a little will unfortunately become the living corpses they saw at the beginning.
Rein himself has become a more powerful existence.On the one hand, he has a certain degree of consciousness. Although his mind is not so clear, he is still supported by some kind of obsession, directing his dead body to move; on the other hand, the "power" in his mouth makes his body even Lost life, but still able to move freely, even like most high-level undead creatures, more flexible and agile than in life.Fraxis read a lot of classics about undead creatures after entering the temple, and saw some types similar to "him", but he couldn't tell which one it was - the process of Rein's transformation was really not very smooth. Ordinary, unlike any transformation spell he knew,
As for where these "powers" come from... Fraxis looked down at the black vortex that was still spinning in his hand, and roughly made some guesses.
"That's enough, Rein." Hampton suddenly intervened in their conversation, and without Fraxis' obstruction, his gun point had already been aimed at Rein who was not far away, "Put away your crazy Confess, if you have anything to say, go to the temple and explain it to the priest of Troy?"
Afraid of the strong holy aura on the Holy Lance, Rein took two steps back vigilantly, moving a little further away from Fraxis.He looked up at Hampton on the horse with hatred, like a child who has been robbed of a sugar bowl: "Chief Brandon, I have seen your dirty desires since the first time we met, you Do you think that you are more noble than me when you sit on a horse and claim to be the representative of the goddess of light? Aren't you just like me—"
"enough!"
Fraxis couldn't bear to interrupt this meaningless quarrel, and then raised his left hand in the direction of Rein, and finally played the "Punishment of Light" that he had prepared a long time ago and originally planned to deal with the surprise attack.
He didn't know how Laing saw Hampton's "not noble" thoughts, and he didn't care about it, but he couldn't let Laing say it.And besides that, Rein had an abnormal emotion towards him, which he hadn't noticed before... Maybe this subtle emotion turned into a morbid frenzy after he was transformed. Fraxis couldn't think of a better way than to tell him to shut up.
He couldn't let Lein continue talking in front of a whole team of knights, making the whole thing worse and worse.
Rein seemed to be defenseless against him, but because Francis didn't aim at his vitals, he was only hit in the arm at close range.After the bright light passed through, a piece of bluish-white left arm that was patched up to a disgusting degree fell to the ground.
"Why did you hit me?" It opened its eyes wide, as if thick blood was slowly flowing in the eyes, and it looked even more terrifying, "Your Excellency, I am so grateful to you and love you...but why are you Burn me with light?"
The broken part of its left arm was burnt to the point of leaving a scorched black wound, hanging empty in the air, while the left forearm that fell on the ground was emitting black air and began to rot gradually, like a struggling worm. It keeps shrinking, and finally only a small pile of black residue remains.
"You are no longer human, Rein, do you know this?" Fraxis only glanced at the stump on the ground, and then fixed his gaze on Rein again, "Whether you urgently want to What to do, it's all taught to you by the guy who made you into this - we're all being calculated, you understand?"
All of these things, since Alvira was assassinated... No, maybe since he and Hampton rescued Rein in the abandoned house on Lower Slope Street, they have already fallen into that person's trap.Now Fraxis is almost certain that the black vortex that took root in his hands and "infected" the curse to Rein was provoked by him in Enbogle's manor.It may be the assassin, or it may be the curse on the dagger, and it is more likely that it was cast on Alvira in advance, but he did not notice it at all, which is enough to explain the ability of the caster.
The smell of blood that couldn't be washed away was a curse in itself.
Laing blinked in confusion.
"I don't understand what you're talking about." He glanced at his broken arm, as if he was a little puzzled that he didn't feel pain, "but I know very well that what I do now is out of my true feelings, there is no People are manipulating me."
"Fracis, he is no longer Rein, don't you give up?" Hampton said impatiently, "No matter how much you try to persuade him, he is just an empty shell without self-awareness, and he won't be obedient. back to the temple with you."
He understands what Fraxis is hesitating about, but the current situation is already obvious. Even if Rein becomes like this, Fraxis needs to bear certain responsibilities, and he should not continue to try to awaken his sanity—for him who is so fragile For ordinary people, under the control of someone, it is almost impossible for their own consciousness to exist in the dead body.
"Knight Commander Brandon, please don't interrupt our conversation." Lein glanced at him displeasedly, then clenched the gray dagger tightly with his remaining right hand, and his eyes fell on Frasey again. Si, "Your Excellency, are you together?"
"What?" Fraxis was startled, but quickly realized, "The knight commander and I are here to deal with the riots here, but I don't think you are referring to this. But if you continue to 'pollute' the Resident, we have to kill you on the spot."
He intentionally left some leeway in his words, but it was a pity that Rein didn't notice it at all, and opened his eyes in disbelief as if he had been greatly deceived.
"You obviously gave me strength and made me feel warmth and love, why did you betray me again?"
"I never gave you any power," Fraxis noticed that he had a tendency to lose control of his emotions, and took two steps to the side without any trace, carefully no longer facing him head-on, "the one who gave you 'power' That person is not me, Lein, this is not a good power, it makes you lose everything you have..."
"No! You're lying to me!" Rein abruptly interrupted him, "You're a fake, the real Lord Faronard won't lie to me!"
When Fraxis tried to persuade it, he suddenly looked a little dazed.Those two sentences were more like convincing himself than negating Francis, and these two sentences seemed to have played their due role, making him firm again.
"You are with Knight Commander Brandon, deliberately pretending to be Lord Faronard to deceive me." He raised the dagger in his hand with his remaining right hand, and pulled the corner of his mouth stiffly, looking at himself. The inference is very proud.
In the next second, he raised his dagger at a speed that was definitely not that of an ordinary undead creature, and attacked Fraxis.
Hampton never put down the gun in his hand, and kept staring at Rein, so when Rein attacked Fracis, he reacted faster than Fracis who was closest and prepared .The Holy Spear touched the dagger swung by Rein, and there was a piercing sound of metal collision. Hampton picked up the tip of the spear with one hand, trying to fly it out, but Rein took the opportunity to use his strength on the spear to stabilize it. The body landed lightly on the ground, then immediately turned around and attacked again.
Fraxis took advantage of this opportunity to quickly get on his horse, and added a protective spell "Holy Light Barrier" to Hampton.He himself carried a talisman specially made by the temple according to the requirements of each priest, and facing the agile Rein, Hampton had an advantage over him as a spellcaster, so Fraxis shot at Rein. In an instant, he was ready to assist Hampton's attack.
Hampton was entangled by Rein, Fraxis gestured for the knights to retreat by themselves, and told the squad leader to be careful, and then turned to look at the battle between the two.In fact, he is not worried about Hampton's safety, because even counting the transformed combat power
Whether it was a person like Fraxis who already had a mission, or other priests who had not been assigned a mission, they were much busier than before, let alone ordinary low-level priests and knights.Since it was the anniversary day when the Goddess of Light bestowed light on the mainland during the second dark period, the scale of the ceremony was extraordinarily grand. Even the branches stationed in other places sent representatives to the imperial capital to participate in the ceremony. There were many more people in the temple. Although it doesn't look crowded, it still breaks the usual tranquility.
Fraxis was assigned by the chief priest to ensure safety during the ceremony, so he naturally formed a temporary partner with the two heads of the knight order.
The deputy head, Fernandez Digriste, had just returned from the field after finishing his mission, and just in time for the festival, he was assigned to be responsible for safety issues before he had a good rest, and he seemed a little tired even during the meeting.
"It's a pleasure to work with you, Priest Falunard." He is of noble origin, and although he has been in the temple for many years, he still retains his aristocratic demeanor well, "I couldn't attend your oath ceremony, it's too much Sorry—hope we have a good time working together."
"Of course, I'm also looking forward to it." Fraxis nodded slightly to him and responded with a smile.
Hampton, who was sitting next to Fernandez, knocked on the table, signaling them to get out of this meaningless exchange: "You two, we don't have much time, so let's get straight to the point?"
Fraxis glanced at him, and happened to meet his half-smile eyes, so he frowned, and looked away helplessly.
In recent days, his sleep time has been shorter than before, but the quality has improved unexpectedly, maybe because he is really too busy.In addition, Lilian, who became more and more arrogant after getting familiar with the environment, also caused him a lot of trouble, occupying almost all of his little private time, and couldn't squeeze out the time to practice swordsmanship every day. Si didn't know whether to thank it or blame it.
But he still has occasional trouble sleeping.Although he didn't receive any unusual reports, he always had a bad premonition.This inexplicable anxiety enveloped him, making it difficult for him to fall asleep even though he was so busy during the day.
It was like this last night, he couldn't sleep all the time, so he had to get up and look through the files he borrowed before.The scroll that was found in the half-orc camp in Duken Forest was still with him, and the more he read it, the more he was surprised, because the rewritten spells on the scroll were very subtle, and in his opinion, it was definitely not something that ordinary priests could rewrite.So he privately borrowed the files of senior priests who had entered the temple for nearly 100 years, thinking that he might be able to get some clues from them.
At first, he only searched for priests with questionable beliefs, but he didn’t get satisfactory results—because he couldn’t find any priests sent by heretics to lurk and be caught, or priests who were expelled from the temple because of wavering beliefs. Objects that match the conditions.
In other words, the instigator of this series of events is likely to still be serving in the temple.
He originally planned to start the investigation from the senior priest at the headquarters, but since he is new here, he is not familiar with the situation at the headquarters of the imperial capital, so it is very difficult to do this.Judging from the attitude of the chief priest, he obviously didn't want him to ask the other ten priests for help, so his investigation work just came to a standstill, relying on himself alone, with little efficiency.
But last night when he was flipping through the files, a new method came to his mind.
What inspired him was the file of a senior pastor at the headquarters. The pastor's recorded transfer trajectory in recent years seemed a bit strange to him.He remembered that it was a young man about his own age, with beautiful green eyes, good-natured, and good-looking--the type, no doubt, Mr. Knight Captain liked.
And Francis did hear some rumors about Hampton and the pastor from other people, which made him think of a dishonorable, but perhaps useful method.
"Then let's settle this for now. If there is anything that needs to be supplemented, I will notify the two of you." Fraxis closed the record book in his hand, and smiled at the two knights, "The goddess is here God, her radiance will drive away all evil. May this festival go well."
After discussing with Fernandez and Hampton, he jointly arranged the patrol schedule and key defensive positions for the last three days, mainly inside the temple and the palace. Knight squads patrol the civilian areas and noble residential areas in shifts.
At first, Fernandez was a little puzzled by Fraxis' decision to send more patrols in the civilian area. After hearing what he said about the Anderma phantom butterfly larva, he nodded in understanding and asked, "That larva is in Gut now. Is the priest there? I want to take a look at such a rare monster."
"Priest Gut will welcome you." Fraxis handed the two records to the two of them respectively, "I still have some things I want to ask Knight Commander Brandon for help, so I won't go with you, Di Knight Commander Grist."
Fernandez didn't expect Fraxis to accompany him to find Priest Gut. After all, he had already heard how busy the new priest was recently when he just came back.But when he heard Fraxis say that he wanted to ask Hampton for help, he still couldn't help but turned around and looked at Hampton in surprise.
"I didn't expect you to get along so well." He is a noble himself, so he is very familiar with Hampton's previous hostility to the nobles, "I thought you were like that with all nobles, Hampton .”
"Of course I won't reject nobles who can prove that they are not moths." Hampton lazily flipped through the records that Fraxis handed him, and put them aside without interest after writing them down, "Fell , are you jealous? Because I beat you up the first time we met?"
Fernandez touched his nose in embarrassment: "Can you stop talking about it? Punch me on the bridge of the nose first. This kind of reckless behavior of going out without thinking is worthy of your bragging for so many years?"
"I just know that every time I bring it up it shuts you up."
"Okay, I'm going to visit rare monsters, so I won't invite you to come with me." Fernandez finally chose to shut up, and glanced at Fracis, who was not watching their bickering, from the corner of his eye, feeling that the face of the Knights They threw them all away, "Talk slowly, I'll go first. Your Excellency, good afternoon."
"Good afternoon, Knight Commander Digrister." Fraxis replied without raising his head.
He was sorting out some "order" of the files he'd picked out the night before, and he finished them right after Fernandez went out, shoving them in front of Hampton.
"Chief Knight, I want to ask you to do me a favor." He tried his best to adjust his expression so that he looked more natural, "Maybe you won't want to help me with this favor, it doesn't matter, just tell me."
In his opinion, his behavior is actually a bit shameless. He obviously refused the other party's listening and help before, but now he asks Hampton to help him... Even he himself feels that this is very bad. When he meets such a person, he will definitely refuse without hesitation.
Hampton leaned back in his chair with great interest, looked him up and down a few times, and didn't touch the pile of files.
"I'm very honored that you can ask me for help—it's like I'm finally not 'Knight Commander Brandon', but back to 'Knight Commander', flattered."
He obviously did it on purpose, but Fraxis was not sure if Hampton was thinking the same as him, so he could only clear his throat and said tentatively: "...I want you to do me a favor, Hampton pause."
Fraxis's cautious attitude succeeded in pleasing the knight, and he decided to be more magnanimous, temporarily ignoring the cold reception he received a few days ago.
"Okay baby, what do you want me to do for you?"
"Could you, I mean, if you'd like, check out the priests on file for me?"
Asking the head of the knight order to investigate the priest sounds more like a deliberate nuisance than a request.But he has no more time, and if Hampton is willing to help him, maybe he can save a lot of energy to investigate other aspects.
Hampton frowned suspiciously, and then opened the first file on the top of the pile of files.
That's the one that Frasist put on top, the green-eyed priest's file, because he seemed like the one most likely to impress Hampton.
Sure enough, after reading the first book, the knight's eyes changed, and then he read the next few books in a row, raising his head to look at him with a subtle expression.
"It seems that you know exactly what type I like." He didn't continue to read, but re-stacked the files he had read, "So you have been using me before? Mr. Noble, Just because you know I like you?"
"Of course not." Unexpectedly, he would turn the question in a strange direction, Fraxis was startled, and retorted subconsciously.
But then he immediately realized that the reason why he did this was because he was sure that he could persuade Hampton to help him?The reason why he has such confidence...isn't it because he has such a feeling?
Hampton found a trace of bewilderment and bewilderment in his eyes, and smiled knowingly: "Look, you have discovered it yourself."
Fraxis wanted to say something to make it up, but he found that he couldn't find an excuse for himself in this matter, so he had to choose to give up the excuse.
"I'm very sorry."
He is very clear that even if he doesn't directly use the other party's ideas, his behavior is no different from using him.Although he and Hampton are partners in name, in fact, he has been trying to use his own rhythm and pace to influence the other party and make the other party serve his ideas.
He has no position to refute or justify.
But Hampton's answer was beyond his expectations. He said: "I don't need your apology."
The knight didn't seem surprised by his reaction. He stood up, walked around the table to Francis, and thought he saw Francis for the first time through those dodging blue eyes. ? Fa Leonard's heart.
"I just want you to give me an answer," he leaned down and whispered into Fraxis' ear, "Come on, tell me, have you—"
He couldn't finish his sentence, because there was a sudden commotion outside the door, and the next second, the door that Fernandez had just closed was knocked hastily.
Hampton gave a "tsk" and left him to open the door.
"Knight Commander, Lord Priest, something happened in the civilian area." Feng Na outside the door obviously just came back from the outside, with several wounds and blood stains on his body, "We can't solve the problem, please reinforce immediately."
Fraxis frowned and stood up, straightened his cuffs, and was about to go out with Hampton, but when he passed by the knight, he suddenly grabbed his right hand: "What's in your hand?"
Hampton knew that Fraxis didn't have the habit of wearing jewelry. Apart from a space ring, he usually didn't have other decorations on his hand.But now on the hand he was grasping, besides the ring with the family crest of the Faronard family, there was also a swirling black swirl pattern.
"……I have no idea."
Fraxis was also very surprised. He stared blankly at the whirlpool on his finger, and slowly shook his head.
As a spellcaster, he was baffled and annoyed by a spell he didn't understand so quietly.He felt a little scary. If Hampton hadn't discovered it, he would have been unaware of the pattern that quietly appeared on his hand, "I'm pretty sure it doesn't exist this morning, and I didn't feel anything unusual. I...just now discovered it."
"How could this be?" Hampton didn't dare to touch the vortex directly because he was afraid of triggering some spells. "This thing looks too strange, why don't you go to Priest Moxi to check it?"
Fraxis shook his head: "Priest Moxi is not in the temple today, and the medicine for Alvira's treatment has made new progress. I heard that he went to Grande to collect spell-casting materials in the morning, and he may not be back until evening. .”
And the current situation sounds too serious, and he is not allowed to go to Priest Moxi again—Fonner said that a large number of undead creatures appeared in the civilian area, and it is suspected that the civilians were transformed by some kind of spell, and they must deal with it immediately .
"Let's go to the civilian area first, there should be no problem for the time being."
Fraxis covered the vortex with his sleeve, and decided to ignore it for now. In his opinion, dealing with the riots in the civilian area is the top priority for him and Hampton.As for the vortex of unknown origin, we will deal with it when we come back.
Hampton originally wanted to say something, but after thinking about it, he still didn't stop him.
According to his understanding of Fraxis, it is meaningless to continue persuading him to confirm the safety of the vortex. It is just a waste of time. It is better to solve the problem in the civilian area as soon as possible, and then bring Priest Moxi back to him for inspection. direct.
That vortex really doesn't look like a beautiful thing. It keeps spinning on its own near the inner side of Fraxis's right ring finger, like a black hole that wants to swallow everything it touches, and like a strange eye, quietly watching them.
He didn't know how it appeared in Fraxis' hands, but he always had an inexplicable premonition—after this vortex and Alvira's accident, it inexplicably appeared in Fraxis' hands, and he couldn't get rid of it related to the smell of blood.
When they rushed to the civilian area, most of the surviving residents had been evacuated by the patrolling knight squad, and only a small part of them lived in the deep part of the street. Because there was a street occupied by undead creatures in the middle, they couldn't be rescued temporarily.
The once noisy and orderly civilian area is now a mess. The streets in front of them are only numb and low-level undead creatures walking. From the bloodstains that can be seen everywhere, it can be seen that there has been a sudden massacre here.
"Where was the undead creature found at first?" The knights who let Hampton command the way cleared the few living corpses, Fraxis frowned and asked Feng Na, "They don't seem to be killed by the undead one by one." Transformed by a mage, it looks like..."
It seems that human beings have been infected with a plague-like curse, and then the infection spreads round after round.These living corpses are the lowest level of undead creatures. Even ordinary young and middle-aged men can resist their attacks. To cause such a big commotion, there must be other high-level undead creatures.
Feng Na reported a general area: "In that area, it is said that a house suddenly emitted black gas, and people who came into contact with the black gas became like this. Many civilians were attacked and injured by them, and the wounds were also black. "
"……I see."
Francis and Hampton looked at each other, and he understood that his worst premonition had come true.
Ever since Feng Na suddenly rushed back to the temple to report to them the situation in the civilian area, intense unease had always shrouded his heart.But now, the thing that worried him has become a reality - the location where the undead creature was first found is almost exactly the same as the address that Rein had left for him before.
Those unconscious walking dead were quickly cleaned up by the knights. Hampton and Fraxis left the reinforcement knight team to guard in place, and led a small group of knights to advance to that area.As they got closer and closer to Rein's home, the undead creatures encountered on the road became stronger and stronger, and even wraiths that ordinary knights could not deal with began to appear.
This is very unusual, because the civilians who were killed in the attack are unlikely to accumulate a lot of grievances in such a short period of time, and the conditions for the formation of vengeful spirits cannot be met.Since this is the case, there is only one possible explanation left, and these grievances are all brought out from the source of "contagion".
Francis told Hampton his thoughts, the latter nodded, paused, and then asked in a low voice: "Do you think the origin of the 'contagion' will be Rhine?"
"I'm not sure, because when I sent him out of the temple, there was nothing abnormal about him." Fraxis recalled with a frown. Thank you...it looks normal, at least I didn't find anything weird about him."
Hampton gave him a suspicious look: "Why should he thank me? I didn't do anything."
"But he said that you also proposed to introduce him to a job..." Fraxis said halfway, and then stopped in the same puzzled look under Hampton's puzzled eyes, "Don't you?"
"Of course not. I only visited him once, the time I met you, and I never went there again." Hampton raised his eyebrows, "Why did he lie to you?"
Fraxis certainly didn't know why Rein was lying, but he now knew that Rein was not without abnormalities when he left the temple—or, in other words, he might have been abnormal from the beginning.
He casually cast a purification technique to eliminate an undead pounced on him, and then he was attracted by the aura of the undead at the corner of the street.
"Be careful." He raised a hand to signal the knights not to move forward for the time being, and then exchanged glances with Hampton, both of them saw guard in each other's eyes.
There was a high-level undead creature there, but for some reason it didn't attack them, or even take any action, as if it was standing at the corner of the street watching them, waiting for their arrival.Through a wall, Fraxis couldn't see clearly his appearance wrapped in the black mist cloak, but somehow felt that his breath was somewhat familiar.
He is very sensitive to various elements, and he rarely makes mistakes in identifying the breath. Since he feels familiar, he must have met the other party at least once.Therefore, he has roughly guessed about the identity of the other party—or the identity before his death.
"...Lein, is that you?"
The figure wrapped in a black mist cloak slowly came out from behind the corner, holding a gray-white dagger dripping with blood, almost exactly the same as the one that assassinated Alvira.One glance at them was enough for Francis to be sure that they were all made by the same craftsman.
He slowly raised his hand and pulled down his hood, revealing a pale but still handsome face.If one ignores his complexion, he still looks like an ordinary human being, but those beautiful blue eyes have completely transformed into dark red, like slowly flowing thick blood, looking crazy and frightening.This action exposed a small part of his bloodless arm, and Fraxis noticed that there were traces of stitches and stitches on it, which should have been repaired after being violently torn.
"Are you here to visit me? Your Excellency Faronard." Lein twitched the corners of his mouth stiffly, showing an expression that might be called a "smile", "You came earlier than the agreed time, I I'm not ready to receive you yet."
Before Francis could answer him, Hampton spoke first.
"Line, do you think we are here as guests?"
Although he could talk, Hampton looked at him like he would look at a corpse.He obviously didn't intend to tell Reindo, but he couldn't attack immediately, because his hand holding the holy gun was held down by Fraxis as soon as he raised it: "Wait a minute."
Francis stopped Hampton from raising his gun, but his eyes never left the "smiling" Rein.After a simple thought, he jumped off the horse neatly and landed on the ground at the same height as the opponent.
"Have you been expecting me to visit your house? Shall we go now?"
"Flassis!" Hampton didn't expect that he would give up his height advantage, and even chose to communicate directly with Rein, who had become an undead creature, "Come right back!"
Rein looked up at him, his smile remained unchanged: "Chief Brandon, you are still so annoying. I just want to thank Lord Faronard, why do you always stop in front of me?"
His voice also changed, like rough sand rubbing against the ground, hoarse and creepy.
Fraxis didn't know why he had so much hostility towards Hampton, but he decided to go along with him: "He won't follow, Lein, if you have anything to say, we can come to you Go home and talk."
He had to find out who turned Rein into what he is now, because his sanity is not so clear, it is obviously impossible for him to cast the spell, and until now, he has not felt any leftover from other casters from the other party. down the breath.
He chose Rein, a civilian saved by him and Hampton, as a tool to trigger the riot. It has to be said that his opponent is well aware of the temple's handling of things. Not only him, even Hampton will be involved.In fact, after Rein left the temple, Fraxis asked the patrolling knights to pay attention to him, but the report he received has always been that he had no contact with any suspicious people-until today, he has transformed into undead.
Being able to retain most of its consciousness shows that its actions can still be controlled by itself, but whether its "consciousness" is its original consciousness or a false fragment instilled by the caster, Fraxis has no way of knowing now.He couldn't even be sure whether Rein was corrupted by a curse or transformed by necromantic spells, because he didn't find any traces of undead spells on Rein's body.
"My house?" Rein's dark red eyes stared at him motionless, but he was not very focused, as if he was thinking about what kind of existence this was. After a while, he grinned stiffly and said, "My house is too messy Well, sir, perhaps we can go to the tavern and talk..."
Before he finished speaking, his eyes suddenly fell on Fraxis's hand exposed from the cuff, and an expression called "surprise" climbed onto his pale face almost instantly.He raised his head suddenly, his eyes full of enthusiasm: "Is this the mark you used to give me a gift, Your Excellency?"
"...What?" Fraxis was stunned, and he did not back away after holding back. He followed the sight of Rein just now and looked at it—it happened to be the "vortex" of unknown origin on his right hand.
He was confused by Rein's words, so he raised his right hand guidingly and asked, "Are you talking about it?"
His intuition told him that things were getting worse.If the vortex that appeared out of nowhere had anything to do with this matter, then no matter whether he knew the origin of the vortex in advance, he would be absolutely responsible for Rein's current situation.
Rein looked at him eagerly, his scarlet eyes were almost filled with mad enthusiasm, before Fraxis tried to avoid vigilantly, he suddenly held Fraxis' right hand with his own cold hand, Then he kissed reverently close to the whirlpool.
"Of course, haven't you forgotten?" There was madness in his eyes, but Fraxis strangely read a trace of residual innocence, "You checked the wound for me, just use this hand—it Covered my unhealed wound, healed it like a miracle, gave me strength..."
He let go of Fraxis's hand, and then tore off his sleeve, revealing half of the blue-white arm that was characteristic of corpses.There are several traces of stitches on it, but the stitches are crooked, and there are still a few places where the scarlet flesh has been turned out because the stitches are not dense enough.
"Those forces are too turbulent, and my ordinary skin can't fully contain them, so I have to sew them up after letting go. Your Excellency, I'm sorry."
He talked incoherently and without coherence, but Fraxis managed to sort out some useful information from it.This information is not necessarily true, but it is enough to explain many problems that he could not understand before.
First of all, the black air mentioned by Feng Na should be what Rein called "turbulent power", which can transform living humans into undead creatures.As for the effect, at present, he roughly guesses that the more he contacts, the stronger he will be after transformation, and the civilians who have only contacted a little will unfortunately become the living corpses they saw at the beginning.
Rein himself has become a more powerful existence.On the one hand, he has a certain degree of consciousness. Although his mind is not so clear, he is still supported by some kind of obsession, directing his dead body to move; on the other hand, the "power" in his mouth makes his body even Lost life, but still able to move freely, even like most high-level undead creatures, more flexible and agile than in life.Fraxis read a lot of classics about undead creatures after entering the temple, and saw some types similar to "him", but he couldn't tell which one it was - the process of Rein's transformation was really not very smooth. Ordinary, unlike any transformation spell he knew,
As for where these "powers" come from... Fraxis looked down at the black vortex that was still spinning in his hand, and roughly made some guesses.
"That's enough, Rein." Hampton suddenly intervened in their conversation, and without Fraxis' obstruction, his gun point had already been aimed at Rein who was not far away, "Put away your crazy Confess, if you have anything to say, go to the temple and explain it to the priest of Troy?"
Afraid of the strong holy aura on the Holy Lance, Rein took two steps back vigilantly, moving a little further away from Fraxis.He looked up at Hampton on the horse with hatred, like a child who has been robbed of a sugar bowl: "Chief Brandon, I have seen your dirty desires since the first time we met, you Do you think that you are more noble than me when you sit on a horse and claim to be the representative of the goddess of light? Aren't you just like me—"
"enough!"
Fraxis couldn't bear to interrupt this meaningless quarrel, and then raised his left hand in the direction of Rein, and finally played the "Punishment of Light" that he had prepared a long time ago and originally planned to deal with the surprise attack.
He didn't know how Laing saw Hampton's "not noble" thoughts, and he didn't care about it, but he couldn't let Laing say it.And besides that, Rein had an abnormal emotion towards him, which he hadn't noticed before... Maybe this subtle emotion turned into a morbid frenzy after he was transformed. Fraxis couldn't think of a better way than to tell him to shut up.
He couldn't let Lein continue talking in front of a whole team of knights, making the whole thing worse and worse.
Rein seemed to be defenseless against him, but because Francis didn't aim at his vitals, he was only hit in the arm at close range.After the bright light passed through, a piece of bluish-white left arm that was patched up to a disgusting degree fell to the ground.
"Why did you hit me?" It opened its eyes wide, as if thick blood was slowly flowing in the eyes, and it looked even more terrifying, "Your Excellency, I am so grateful to you and love you...but why are you Burn me with light?"
The broken part of its left arm was burnt to the point of leaving a scorched black wound, hanging empty in the air, while the left forearm that fell on the ground was emitting black air and began to rot gradually, like a struggling worm. It keeps shrinking, and finally only a small pile of black residue remains.
"You are no longer human, Rein, do you know this?" Fraxis only glanced at the stump on the ground, and then fixed his gaze on Rein again, "Whether you urgently want to What to do, it's all taught to you by the guy who made you into this - we're all being calculated, you understand?"
All of these things, since Alvira was assassinated... No, maybe since he and Hampton rescued Rein in the abandoned house on Lower Slope Street, they have already fallen into that person's trap.Now Fraxis is almost certain that the black vortex that took root in his hands and "infected" the curse to Rein was provoked by him in Enbogle's manor.It may be the assassin, or it may be the curse on the dagger, and it is more likely that it was cast on Alvira in advance, but he did not notice it at all, which is enough to explain the ability of the caster.
The smell of blood that couldn't be washed away was a curse in itself.
Laing blinked in confusion.
"I don't understand what you're talking about." He glanced at his broken arm, as if he was a little puzzled that he didn't feel pain, "but I know very well that what I do now is out of my true feelings, there is no People are manipulating me."
"Fracis, he is no longer Rein, don't you give up?" Hampton said impatiently, "No matter how much you try to persuade him, he is just an empty shell without self-awareness, and he won't be obedient. back to the temple with you."
He understands what Fraxis is hesitating about, but the current situation is already obvious. Even if Rein becomes like this, Fraxis needs to bear certain responsibilities, and he should not continue to try to awaken his sanity—for him who is so fragile For ordinary people, under the control of someone, it is almost impossible for their own consciousness to exist in the dead body.
"Knight Commander Brandon, please don't interrupt our conversation." Lein glanced at him displeasedly, then clenched the gray dagger tightly with his remaining right hand, and his eyes fell on Frasey again. Si, "Your Excellency, are you together?"
"What?" Fraxis was startled, but quickly realized, "The knight commander and I are here to deal with the riots here, but I don't think you are referring to this. But if you continue to 'pollute' the Resident, we have to kill you on the spot."
He intentionally left some leeway in his words, but it was a pity that Rein didn't notice it at all, and opened his eyes in disbelief as if he had been greatly deceived.
"You obviously gave me strength and made me feel warmth and love, why did you betray me again?"
"I never gave you any power," Fraxis noticed that he had a tendency to lose control of his emotions, and took two steps to the side without any trace, carefully no longer facing him head-on, "the one who gave you 'power' That person is not me, Lein, this is not a good power, it makes you lose everything you have..."
"No! You're lying to me!" Rein abruptly interrupted him, "You're a fake, the real Lord Faronard won't lie to me!"
When Fraxis tried to persuade it, he suddenly looked a little dazed.Those two sentences were more like convincing himself than negating Francis, and these two sentences seemed to have played their due role, making him firm again.
"You are with Knight Commander Brandon, deliberately pretending to be Lord Faronard to deceive me." He raised the dagger in his hand with his remaining right hand, and pulled the corner of his mouth stiffly, looking at himself. The inference is very proud.
In the next second, he raised his dagger at a speed that was definitely not that of an ordinary undead creature, and attacked Fraxis.
Hampton never put down the gun in his hand, and kept staring at Rein, so when Rein attacked Fracis, he reacted faster than Fracis who was closest and prepared .The Holy Spear touched the dagger swung by Rein, and there was a piercing sound of metal collision. Hampton picked up the tip of the spear with one hand, trying to fly it out, but Rein took the opportunity to use his strength on the spear to stabilize it. The body landed lightly on the ground, then immediately turned around and attacked again.
Fraxis took advantage of this opportunity to quickly get on his horse, and added a protective spell "Holy Light Barrier" to Hampton.He himself carried a talisman specially made by the temple according to the requirements of each priest, and facing the agile Rein, Hampton had an advantage over him as a spellcaster, so Fraxis shot at Rein. In an instant, he was ready to assist Hampton's attack.
Hampton was entangled by Rein, Fraxis gestured for the knights to retreat by themselves, and told the squad leader to be careful, and then turned to look at the battle between the two.In fact, he is not worried about Hampton's safety, because even counting the transformed combat power
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