The time has come to 5:40, which is very close to the usual wake-up time for people and cats. Chocolate finally accepted the fact that Jenkins wouldn't go to bed until nightfall, and got up from the pillow too, jumping first under the bed and then onto the windowsill.
Seeing Chocolate crawling over, Jenkins naturally reached out to scratch its chin. The cat squinted its eyes and shook its head. The short fur on its head moved back and forth in the morning wind.
"Ha~"
Jenkins yawned against the wind, and the cat followed suit, even though he had slept soundly last night.
"Chocolate, why did you wake up so early? Oh, yes, it's almost dawn."
The young writer sighed, and then waved his hand out the window. Pieces of falling snow flew into the house from the ground, tree branches and roof, and were continuously compressed and shaped near the bedside table, and then turned into many models that were the same as the real ice and snow palaces. .
"Okay, that's it."
Although there is still a long distance from the front line, when everyone got up in the morning and planned to set off on the Nian train, the local church had already received a message from the Loen General Command that this hundred-member team was now You can return.
Last night, some local people also witnessed the vision in the sky. The captains from different churches checked the news from different sources and basically pieced together the truth.
In addition, Jenkins, who "just happened to be insomnia", had a good foundation in astrology and divination, so he analyzed the meaning of the "starry sky vision" and sky phantoms he saw last night, so shortly after breakfast, this one was far away from Ruen and The frontline team has already learned most of the facts.
It took a lot of effort to find a train that could carry a group of people back to Loen, but fortunately, after the coordination of the church, four carriages were temporarily hung behind a passenger steam locomotive heading to Loen this afternoon. People carrying the ice sculptures made by Jenkins lined up into the dilapidated small station that was almost filled with steam and soot.
Those ice sculptures were specially made by Jenkins to help study what happened last night. Because he is the only one who has seen the castle up close at the same time during the day and also saw the phantom of the sky completely at night, the models he provided are very valuable.
As for the palace on the snowy mountain outside the town, people were sent to investigate this morning, and it is now just a bare snow-covered hill. If the palace in the sky last night was not too similar to it, maybe people would think it was a collective hallucination event.
In this way, by the time the train carried Jenkins and his party back to Loen, it was already Saturday morning. The exhausted Jenkins got off the train with an ice sculpture model packed in a cardboard box and his cat, and saw a large number of people waiting to greet him at the gate of the train station.
After thinking about it, he handed over the ice sculpture and cat as souvenirs to Dolores's servants to take them back to the manor, and then got into the church carriage and returned to the church with his companions.
The people who stayed behind in the church held a grand welcome ceremony for the group. Even though they did nothing, and didn't even actually reach the front line, this expedition was quite rewarding.
The ice-blue heart left by the snow monster and dozens of palace models were taken away by the local secret keeper. In addition, the demigod Mr. Rosier (Note), who returned from the front line to the Loen Diocese in an emergency due to the sudden cessation of the fighting ahead, finally met Jenkins.
This is a middle-aged man with a gentle appearance, but he is probably older than Bishop Parode. He was an acquaintance of Bishop Parode, and after chatting with Jenkins about the accident, he talked about Nolan.
He was stationed in Nolan more than 20 years ago, and was transferred away after staying for five years. He is a native of Nolan, and he had been living and working in Nolan before he was promoted to a demigod, so he had known Bishop Parode since he was young, and even knew Robert William who had just fled to Nolan when he was young.
"Saint William, I still remember your father. In that year, the number of poor people who were able to escape to Norland from the worst-hit area of the plague was very small, and most of them found refuge in the church. I still remember that it was on Wednesday In the afternoon, before the sun set, he walked into the church with a small package on his back. After explaining his identity, he hoped to be asylum. I happened to be listening to the sermon of the old Bishop Parcival in the chapel of the main hall... In a blink of an eye, It's been so many years."
This gentleman warmly invited Jenkins to have dinner in the church. During the dinner, he and I talked about Beldyran, Nolan, and Ruen.
As for the ice and snow disaster and Loen's accident this time, he didn't talk much about it, but only hinted to Jenkins that the church and Hampawo officials will ultimately decide on this matter.
Of course, because of the widespread influence of the chaos and disasters in the Stuart royal family, it is still hard to say how it will end. All they can do now, those who have witnessed it, is to write and submit their troublesome report.
"Did you know? It is a unique tradition of the Church of the Sages to write reports on everything, even on the front line. Some people once said that this is a legacy of history and an unhealthy tradition that should be abolished." , but most people think it's pretty good, quite ritualistic."
Only the demigods of the church dare to joke about this kind of thing with Jenkins.
"I am in favor of this approach, I can find a familiar feeling from it... But it is really troublesome to write these reports frequently."
Jenkins had a look of nostalgia on his face.
"frequently?"
Mr. Rossierre asked puzzledly.
It was nearly ten o'clock at night when Jenkins left the church. Before returning to Dolores' manor in the church's carriage, Father Fernando, who was in charge of all his affairs in Ruen, reminded him that the church would be commending him in the near future, and he hoped that Jenkins would be there; Jenkins has new arrangements, so they need to know whether Jenkins will be living in the princess's manor in the suburbs recently.
"Of course, I lived there all the time during my stay in Ruen."
He replied in this way, judging from Father Fernando's expression, the priest seemed to have misunderstood something... It seemed that he did not misunderstand.
King Sarcy II had already awakened while Jenkins was away from Loen, so Dolores couldn't live outside the palace. Only Alexia was at the manor now, and she welcomed Jenkins back with a big hug.