It is now the seventy-first year of the Holy Calendar. Ten years have passed since the last war between orcs and humans. The Cretan Empire fell apart. The Kingdom of Crete, known as the Bronze Dynasty, has inherited nearly two hundred years of tradition. The collapse of the powerful dynasty caused the entire Zhongzhou to be divided again, leaving the huge land in an ownerless zone.
Eight years after the Holy Lady returned to the Kingdom of God, Pope Hodep, a pope with little talent but who developed the Church of Light to the most powerful level in hundreds of years, responded to God’s call. , left the human world, a series of internal chaos and struggles for power, coupled with the huge losses in the previous battle, and the annihilation and loss of several church legions, made the Church of Light unable to reach out to Zhongzhou.
The powerful Golden Rose King died in battle on the Sumeron Plains of the Cretan Empire. The Kingdom of Mara only had a young queen. The kingdom itself was full of contradictions. As for other countries, they were unable to send troops to Zhongzhou.
All the great nobles in Zhongzhou have established themselves one after another and have completely entered the era of chaos. Over the past hundreds of years, the half-orcs, who have been exiled due to the slave trade and have gradually multiplied in Zhongzhou, have also established their own power here. Seeing opportunities on the Red River Plain, some orc tribes migrated here, and the entire Zhongzhou became a mixed area of humans, orcs, and half-orcs.
Under frequent wars, various customs different from the human and orc countries have emerged here. A large number of orc caravans and human caravans trade here, and the entire Zhongzhou has become a buffer zone between humans and orcs. Humans and orcs The boundaries between orcs become blurred here.
Here, you can see orcs and humans living together, half-orcs doing business on the streets of humans, human nobles hiring orcs as guards, and orc tribes hiring human scholars as staff. This is something that has never been seen before. .
The orc Holy Sevier Empire, just like the contract signed with humans ten years ago, has never invaded the human country again, and peace has descended on the earth.
In the royal palace of Saga, the capital of the Holy Sevier Empire, Verdanti was wearing a large blue robe, and her golden hair was tied up with a crown. Outside the large palace, there were a large number of guards standing in layers. , and inside the hall were many Sun Church priests wearing sacrificial robes.
Within several layers of curtains, there was an extremely weak woman who was already on her deathbed. She was a woman from the werewolf tribe. She had burgundy hair and red wolf ears. She was about forty or fifty years old. She was the original The werewolf princess April is different from Verdante's still youthful face. Wrinkles have begun to appear on her face and eyebrows, but it can still be seen that she was once a stunning beauty. .
For a woman, especially a beautiful woman, aging and losing color is the most terrifying thing in the world. Especially watching herself age little by little while the face of the person she loves never changes at all is simply the greatest punishment for her. .
Especially when she gave birth to Delmedi, although there were no problems with the witchcraft of the pig wizard Uruk, this kind of witchcraft that violated the rules still caused damage to her body and shortened her body life. Uruk also told her about this problem, but she still persisted.
This kind of problem that hurts the origin cannot be cured even by the church's healing techniques and ordinary wizards. Conventional methods have no effect. And April has been hiding this problem. Now, it is already too late and there is no way to cure it. To save her, April also refused to go against Verdante's faith and plead with the wizards.
Verdanti was lying beside the bed, holding April's hand. Her thin shoulders were shaking constantly, looking helpless and sad. However, April was very calm, with a sense of enlightenment as if she had let go of everything.
"Okay, Verdanti, it's good not to be sad, isn't it? I'm already over fifty years old, and ordinary people shouldn't be aging and dying slowly at my age!"
April touched Verdanti's face, as if she wanted to see her beautiful face clearly. She brushed her fingers through her dazzling golden hair, and her pair of lion-like pupils were shrinking continuously at this moment. Looking at her, he suddenly smiled.
"Everyone will come to the end of their lives. I am afraid of growing old. Beautiful people should die while their beauty is still there. I am very happy, Verdanti!"
Verdanti finally couldn't help but burst into tears: "April, thank you!"
"Thank you for supporting me all these years, thank you for everything you have done for me, thank you, thank you very much!"
Verdan held April's hand tightly. April stood up, pressed her face against Verdandi's face, and kissed Verdandi's lips, just like she did on the Amos Icefield. When Verdanti stubbornly took her seriously ill back to the Kingdom of Engido, she kissed Verdanti like this.
Everything is like a cycle, starting from here and ending from here.
"Thank you too, thank God, I fell in love with a son of God!"
After saying this, April seemed to have lost all her strength, loosened her clenched hands, and fell onto the pillow.
Verdanti's head was pressed tightly against the bed, the crown on her head fell off, her silky blond hair spread out, and her originally stubborn and majestic face suddenly became soft and weak.
At this time, the priests of the Church of the Sun who were waiting outside rang the bells representing the journey to the Kingdom of Heaven. Together they recited the eulogy from the Sun Bible and prayed for April's soul to ascend to the Kingdom of Heaven. A large number of guards were guarding her. The knights here knelt down together.
At this time, there was a noise in the corridor outside. Rapid footsteps rushed from that corridor to the door. The door of the room was pushed open heavily, but what they saw was this scene.
Delmedi was wearing a suit of armor and holding a helmet. She had just rushed back from the border, but she didn't expect to see this scene. The helmet fell to the ground in an instant. Her golden hair was the same as Verdante's, but it was longer. , the face is more like its mother.
At this moment, Delmedi suddenly fell to his knees and grabbed his hair in pain: "Why don't you wait for me to come back? Why don't you wait for me to come back!"
Delmedi was immersed in regret, pain and confusion, but suddenly she raised her head and looked at Verdanti: "Why, why didn't you save her!"
Verdanti said angrily: "This is your mother's choice, and what can I do to save her? This is the fate of mortals, the fate of everyone, you and me, and everyone, even the saints of the Church of Light and a rule from which even the Pope cannot escape.”
Delmedi's beautiful face turned red with excitement: "But you are the Lion King Will, you are the son of the gods, how could there be anything you can't do, how could there be you..."
Verdanti said weakly: "I can't do it, and this is her request!"
Delmedi wiped the tears on her face and watched Verdante take out the long sword from her waist and point it at Verdante. She immediately saw a large number of guards surrounding her, and Verdante reached out to stop them. , looked at Delmedi quietly.
"Will the Lion, I hate you!"
The admiration and resentment towards Verdanti that he had felt since childhood burst out in an instant, and Delmedi slammed the door and left. 8)