Atlas Double Star Book

Neil walked along the path.He is carrying a bag of yams, his back is slightly bent, and his broken felt hat is slanted on his black hair, looking dusty.The alley is very narrow, not enough for two people to walk side by side.Sometimes the cook would stop him and ask how to sell the yams.Most of the time, he is unobtrusive, he looks like a young farmer, and he will take off his hat to greet the patrolling knights.He stopped and went, detoured constantly, and finally came to the "Vulture's Nest" in the east of the imperial capital.The dense adobe houses climbed up the slope, the smell of lice and mud permeated the air, and the tens of thousands of narrow windows were like empty eye sockets, dark and dull.

Poor child, Neal thought, she couldn't kill the Banner.

Neil thought it would take a lot of effort to find out where the girl lived, but he found it easily from the laundresses.They had a good impression of the girl named Yiya, and they all praised her for being gentle and capable, and she supported her young siblings and grandmother by herself.Judging from their attitudes, the neighbors probably didn't know about the young girl's assassination of the Sybil nobleman. Neil didn't get much useful information, but there was one thing the women said that caught his attention.

Eya once studied with a tall sorceress.

"Ah, you mean her sorcerer master? It's scary," the old lady hurriedly wiped her wet hands on her apron for the convenience of gestures, "Look at the young man, that sorcerer almost came to you, here, eyebrows. About as tall as you, and about as strong as you, come to think of it, that's a woman! What kind of freak is that, huh? Kinda weird to look at, a muscular woman? And her hair is light Yes, I guess she must be of barbarian blood. Do you know about the barbarians of the ice plains? I'm afraid the country is not well informed. In short, those brutal barbarians want to harm us and covet our land and girls. They often come from the north to provoke But this time it’s all right, don’t you know? The Seventh Knights just came back from a successful battle and quelled the unrest of the barbarians. The leader of the Knights is strong and good-looking, but he’s a bit dark.”

"It's really too dark, like rye bread." Neil added, pulling the aunt back from the topic: "How about that tall warlock? Why didn't you continue to teach Yiya some spells or something? It's not good to go to the academy ?"

"Learning magic is good. It can cure diseases, repair things, and deal with barren goats and barren women."

"I guess the latter two probably won't work..." Neil smiled wryly.

The aunt continued: "But isn't Yad supporting the family? Her grandmother is 63 years old, a rare old age. A few years ago, she was able to do laundry and make money. She has a pair of siblings, one is four years old and the other is like 12 years old? Without her No. That’s why she didn’t go to the academy with the warlock. But these years, she has earned enough money, and her younger brother is about to grow up. I heard that she plans to go to the academy with the teacher again... Oh yes, boy, you have to Ask clearly, if she goes to the academy, wouldn't your cousin plan in vain? You have to ask clearly, getting married is the most important thing in life... Young man, are you married yourself?"

"I, I have a fiancée, and I will get married next year."

After Neil finished speaking, he regretted it, why did he brag!But... he thought about that person's appearance in the embroidered gold and white dress, and his cheeks became hot.

Neil thanked the aunt and went to the girl's residence.He thought about the sorceress just mentioned: tall, with light hair that symbolized the blood of the ice field... So, that is the sorceress he met twice?Neil saw her talking with Peleas when he returned to the city, and met her in the tavern.She turned out to be Yi Ya's master?Could it be that she taught Yi Ya some deadly spells?

The girl's home is indeed better than the surrounding houses, at least she has the only house behind the orphanage.Neil observed for a while, and knocked on the door after confirming that the surroundings were safe.The lock was unlocked, but it took a long time for the door to open. The old woman's red and swollen eyes appeared in the darkness, and her thin body almost merged with the darkness, like a person without shadow.

She already knew what happened to her granddaughter, Neil thought.

"What are you doing?" The old woman bowed her waist, looking like she might collapse at any moment.

Neil endured it, and said, "The master warlock sent me here, and told me to give this to you." He opened the sack, revealing a pile of yams.

"Thank you... Please come in and drink some water..." The old lady was about to take the bag, but Neil was afraid of crushing her, so he hurriedly carried her into the room.

The interior of the house is simple, but the furniture is complete, and there is even a yellowed tapestry hanging on the wall.The old woman asked Neil to sit down and brought a glass of clean water and a few walnuts.Neil felt that the home itself was like a walnut, only broken.The two children half-hidden on the stairs to watch, with expressions similar to those of the old woman, their eyes motionless as if they were fixed.Neil was a little sad.

"The warlock is very worried about you, and she asked me to bring you some money." Neil put the ten gold shields on the table, and his wallet was emptied by a third.

The old woman was indifferent, and pushed the gold coin back to the young man.

"She wants to help you guys."

"Why did you make up a lie and say that your cousin is going to propose to Yi Ya? Who are you?" The old lady looked at the walnut and said slowly, "Aunt Su Li said that the young man brought a bag of sweet potatoes. I think you are right."

Neil thought badly, he didn't expect the gossip to run faster than him...

The old woman began to peel the walnuts. She was too old and weak to squeeze her skinny hands in vain.The children came down from upstairs and came to grandma.

"Can I still live to see her?" The old man suddenly asked, "I have said everything I need to say before, and they have written it down. Lord Knight, I beg you..."

Neil lowered his eyes, unable to even say words of relief.

The old man cried.

"Looking around, those soldiers came... She never came back, we don't know what happened to her..." The old woman was suddenly agitated, and wanted to grab Neal's wrist, but she was shaking so much that her hands seemed to be shaking. It was two heavy and tall poles, and she could barely lift them.The old woman suddenly shouted: "What happened to Yiya? What happened to her..."

Neil listened quietly, saddened.

"They won't tell us anything, those men...they just search things, they won't tell what's wrong with her! Even Master Shi Nan won't tell us...even if she reassures us, how can we be at ease?" the old woman He almost cried on Neil's shoulder, "I should have objected at the beginning... I can't let her stay, why didn't I let Master Heather take her away? Why didn't I insist on letting her go to the academy as an apprentice... It was me , it's me! Yiya, Yiya, I'll never live to see you..."

"Grandma, I..."

Suddenly, the door was kicked open!

The door panel hit the ground with a loud bang, and the children screamed in fright!The old woman covered her face in panic, and Neil jumped up, instinctively wanting to draw his sword.

Several knights broke into the house, holding swords in their hands, and came menacingly.

Neil thought, "Oh no, they're coming for me! Gotta run!"

"We are the Seventh Knights, belonging to Trande Muawia! Eja Ephta assassinated the nobles of the empire, and you are also guilty!"

lie!

Neil was furious, he didn't know these people at all, these filthy things dared to pretend to be their Seventh Knights and do evil in the name of Trand!

The children screamed, and the old woman immediately knelt down and begged.

"Who are you!" Neil was full of anger.

The knights looked over after hearing the reputation, and saw a black-haired young man standing on the stairs, holding a knife, with a dignified posture and blue eyes glaring at them.Although the young man was dressed as a peasant, he was obviously a well-trained warrior.The knights couldn't help but tense up, ready to fight.

"We are the subordinates of Trande Muawia." One of the men disagreed, and pointed to the golden snake ring on his chest with a playful smile, "We are here to kill people, Trande ordered that bitch to assassinate the magic flag, we You can’t sit idly by those who know. Do you remember what I said, kid? You are the only survivor, remember to say that, Seventh Knights.” The man grabbed the little girl’s hair, and the child trembled in fear , crying heartbreakingly.

The man pointed at the old woman, Neil and another boy with the tip of his sword, and said with a smile, "Then, you three must die."

"Liar, you are not members of the Seventh Knights at all, you framed Trand."

"What the hell are you? How dare you..." The knight threw the little girl away and slashed at the young man with his sword, but before the sword fell, the severe pain in his wrist made him scream and drop the sword.

The dagger pierced through a gap in the armor and stuck in the knight's wrist. Neil said coldly, "It's too slow. This is not the speed of the Seventh Knights." The speed of his hands was astonishingly fast, and he could snatch the opponent's sword with bare hands, and then he turned around and inserted the sword into the attacker's joint.After a while, the four impostor knights all fell to the ground wailing.Neil doesn't intend to kill them, the important thing is to find out who these people are.They are obviously not Sybils, and it is much easier to fight.Neil breathed a sigh of relief.

But there was one enemy left... Neil stared at the door vigilantly. A gloomy lion-clad knight was sitting there, like a dormant giant beast, with roaring lions adorning the pitch-black armor.That guy was about the same size as Tland, a damn impostor!This person's status is obviously higher than these miscellaneous soldiers, because from the beginning, he just watched the miscellaneous soldiers do things in silence, and even when his subordinates were stabbed, he had no intention of stepping forward to rescue them.

"Who are you?" Neil picked up a sword.He regretted a little that he hadn't brought the sword of Venus, because ordinary swords could hardly withstand two or three violent swings from the Sibyl.

The Lion Armored Knight stood up. He was indeed tall and burly, with the lion's roar helmet worn so low that his face could not be seen clearly.The man drew out an epee, which was astonishingly big, almost just a piece of iron. I am afraid that even monsters would howl and shrink their tails in fear when they saw it.

The man was completely silent, and his killing intent was like cold air.

The beast came slowly, and the old woman and the two boys hid behind Neil, holding their breath in fear.Neil is extremely anxious, the space here is narrow, if this monster jumps over, it is likely to hurt the elderly and children... He put his hands behind his back and prepared an ordinary brilliance spell, unless it was a last resort, he really unwilling to do so.

Neil said, "Give your name, if you have the honor of a knight."

"I'm not a knight," said the man, holding an epee in both hands, "but you are, Neil Bernhard."

Too bad, it was still recognized.

Between the lightning and the flint, the wind of the sword was overwhelming, and the epee had already flashed in front of Neil——

So fast! ?He instinctively blocked it with his sword, but was thrown away by the opponent's brutal force in an instant, and his back fell hard against the wall.

"Sybyl..." Neil struggled to stand up, his back was so painful that he almost lost feeling.Ringing in his ears, he hurriedly clenched the sword, only to find that the blade was cracked.How are they doing!Neil looked around in a hurry, and saw the old woman kneeling on the ground crying with her two children in her arms, and a beast-like man standing in front of them.

Neil yelled, "Let them go!"

The lion-clad knight raised his sword, and the child and the old man were crying. Neil couldn't care less, and summoned a spell of brilliance when he swung his sword to block, and the dazzling light burst out instantly, like daylight.

The whiteness passed, the room gradually darkened, and the gasps and sobs returned.The old woman couldn't see clearly, and her tears were blurred. She touched the children in horror, and the two children were not injured!When her eyesight gradually recovered, she saw the two men deadlocked in place.The sword of the blue-eyed young man was pressed against the neck of the strong man, blood dripped down, and the strong man held the sword with his hands,

The other wounded knights groaned and tried to get up.The old woman's legs were so weak that she couldn't stand up, she rolled and scrambled to protect her two little grandchildren and retreated to the corner.

"Who are you?" Neal asked, the blade pressing against the man's artery.

"The Seventh Knights, an old acquaintance of Trande Muawia."

"lie."

Neil held the sword more vigorously, the palms of the strong man's hands were bloody, and the two of them were in a stalemate, their tense arms were almost trembling.

"It's interesting that you can use spells, Neil Bernhard. Fighting to protect the weak is also very dramatic, worthy of the star of Petriar. But..."

Hearing the name of his homeland, Neil trembled all over.

The lion armor knight continued: "You should see that a man can do anything to survive."

The sword felt bad, and Neil knew it was bad.Sure enough, the strong man squeezed his hand suddenly, and the sword broke completely——

Neil quickly dodged backwards, dodging a menacing slash, and after a loud noise, the big sword plunged deeply into the ground.The Sibyls are really amazing!Neil was terrified, and just about to find a new weapon, he found that the attack target of the lion-armored man had changed.

Blood spurted out, and a head rolled to Neil's feet. It was the fake knight who was injured and fell to the ground before!The target of the strong man turned out to be a companion?The other wounded soldiers were stunned.

"Team, Captain!" The wounded soldiers were so frightened that they begged for mercy and crawled on the ground, fearing that their superiors would be angry.Their joints were stabbed and they were unable to stand up.

"Why... aren't they your subordinates!"

"Look, now you're thinking about these people again. Neil Bernhard, let me teach you a lesson. Trand didn't teach you this." The lion armor knight took a step forward, casting a mountain-like shadow on On the supplicant, he raised his sword and cut off the heads of his subordinates one by one.

Neil really couldn't understand, this man must be crazy.

In an instant, corpses were scattered everywhere in the messy living room, blood flowed all over the floor, and the corpses of several fake knights were piled up at the feet of the monster-like strong man.Neil vaguely heard the sound of horseshoes, it is likely that the movement just now attracted the patrolling knights... This is really bad, he must run quickly!

The strong man walked up to the stunned old woman, pinched her chin, and said viciously, "Who did you see killing these knights just now?"

Neil was taken aback.

The old man shook his head tremblingly, being lifted up like a chicken waiting to be slaughtered, he could only let out a moan from deep in his throat.

The lion armor knight forcibly turned the old man's face to Neil, and continued to ask: "I'll ask you again, you saw it just now, who killed these knights?"

The old man couldn't stop crying, and she shook her head desperately.The strong man hung his sword over the children's heads.

"Yes...he..." the old woman wept and begged, she looked at the murderer for a while, and then at the children for a while.The poor old man couldn't stand the intimidation any longer, and pointed at Neil, "That man killed it, that man...Neil Byrne..."

Neil really couldn't stand it anymore, he really couldn't bear the old woman's fear, she was like an old tree about to be broken by a malicious storm.

The sound of hooves was too close, and the knights on patrol were coming, and he could not be caught yet.

"Do you understand, Neil Bernhard?" The Lion Armored Knight continued, "Trand Muawia instructed that woman to assassinate the Demon Banner, and you, as his lackey, actually wanted to kill the person who knew it. Killed and silenced, and also killed the royal knights who were chasing you. You see, we now have three witnesses."

The old man looked up at the strong man with sobs, and nodded tremblingly.

Neil looked at the old woman and the two children. They looked terrified, trembling in each other's arms, and at the mercy of others.For a brief moment, Neil felt depressed.But he also thought of the hardships in the world, why do poor people always suffer humiliation?It's not fair.That's not how it should be.

So, he no longer hesitated.

"It's okay grandma," Neil smiled, and said softly, "May you be well, goodbye."

The patrolling knight broke into the house and saw a miserable scene. The old woman was protecting her two cubs like a hen that had been bled.A black-haired young man escaped through the back door, he must be the murderer!

"Come on!"

The author has something to say: Hello everyone, it’s the weekend again, I wish you a happy weekend XDDDD I’m moving this week, and I found a house I like, and I’m quite happy.