The bells and drums are ringing!
The jingle-like sound carried an air of murder. Under the ancient temple, the holy knights were arranged in a neat square formation, but no one made any noise. Everyone looked up at the top of the temple with solemn expressions.
I saw a row of old men in white clothes standing in front of the temple door. These people may be tall or short, fat or thin. But everyone has an aura of majesty, and the one standing in the middle with the silver mask is the current supreme leader of the temple, the religious leader of Roland Continent, and the chief elder of the Presbyterian Church, Prometheus .
"In the name of God, this continent will forever be ruled by God's light! Those who believe in me will have peace! Those who believe in me will have eternity!" The sweet alto of Prometheus echoed in the sky, a magical side The brilliance slowly spread out from his hands, and he stood on top of the temple. His body and face seemed to be shining with sacred rising and falling light, like a god.
"I am crowned as pope in the name of God, and I will lead you to spread God's light all over the earth! Your swords will obey my command, and those who blaspheme will receive the most severe punishment!" Prometheus's The words suddenly became harsh.
Immediately afterwards, there were two divine servants dressed in gray, holding an exquisite crown that had already been made.
Prometheus took two steps forward, slowly knelt down on his own, and clasped his hands on his chest. A crown was placed on his head.
"Long live His Majesty the Pope!" Thousands of people shouted in unison.
"Long live the religion of God!".
“Long live the glory of God!”
The Holy Knights seemed to be lighting up. Everyone looked at their leader with holy eyes.
On this day, Prometheus, the chief elder of the Presbyterian Church, was officially crowned as the second pope of the religion in the temple.
Unlike the grand scene of the coronation of the first Pope Moses hundreds of years ago, no representatives from the Roland Kingdom were present at this coronation ceremony.
Later, Pope Prometheus announced that the Roland Continental Almanac was renamed the Sacred Calendar. This year is also known as the first year of the sacred calendar.
However, historians a few years later called this year the "Dark Years."
And this day has also been called "the beginning of darkness" by people!
Rody's big hand gently rubbed Miaosi's face, and Miaosi sighed. He smiled bitterly and said, "Isn't it ridiculous how I look now?"
Rody shook his head and said nothing.
There was a bit of sadness in Miaosi's eyes: "I can't feel any magic power in my body. I feel as if I am dead."
Roddy forced a smile and said: "Okay, you can still walk and move. Everything is like a normal person."
"But I am a magician." Miaosi's eyes were red: "If I always become what I am now, it would be more uncomfortable than killing me!" She sighed faintly: "I have been practicing magic since I was a child, and I have worked hard all my life. , will it be in vain now?”
Rody leaned down, kissed her gently on the forehead, and smiled: "Everything will be fine. Do you still remember the first time we met on the western grasslands of the empire?"
Mentioning the western grassland, Miaosi's eyes showed some tenderness, and she said softly: "Of course I remember it, how could I forget it?"
Rody nodded: "You still remember the first time we met, you defeated me, and then I fell into a coma and lost my warrior power. I didn't fully recover until ten days later, right? You are also hit now. The magic power of that combined magic was just absorbed by them, and it will slowly recover after some time."
Miaosi nodded slightly. Although she still didn't believe it in her heart, the expression on her face had softened a bit.
Rody smiled and said: "Besides, even if there is no magic, so what? From now on, when you are by my side, I will naturally handle everything. When we were in the northwest, we were hunted down all the way, and you were poisoned by the blood of the red dragon." You lost your magic and couldn't do anything along the way. Didn't I take care of you until not a hair was missing?"
A sweet smile finally appeared on Miaosi's face. She remembered that when she was fleeing in the northwest, when Rody kept calling herself "idiot" every day, she felt sweet in her heart and couldn't help but leaned over and gently kissed Rody's ear. Take a bite.
Rody's heart moved, and he felt Miaosi's sweet breath spraying on his ears. As if a string in his heart was plucked, he leaned over to catch Miaosi and kissed her.
The two of them lingered in the cabin for a long time, until there was a knock on the door, and then Seth's voice came from outside: "I don't want to disturb you, I just have something to do. Roddy, you should come out."
Then Seth opened the door, looked at the red Miao Si, and smiled: "I know it seems inappropriate to say this now, but, Your Excellency, the Black Veil Saint, we may see land tomorrow. Now... can you think of a way to turn me back into a man? I don’t want to dress like this. I’m sure the people of the empire won’t want to see their Tulip Duke turn into a woman, right?”
Miaosi was left to prepare some magic potions in the cabin and find a way to restore Seth to men's clothing. Rody left the cabin and walked onto the deck.
It was already night and the boat was not big. And it's not a warship, but an ordinary merchant ship that Old Mark got at the port.
King Sauron had no intention of letting Roddy and others go back, so naturally there would be no ships waiting for them at the port. And Rody had already thought that King Sauron would not be so kind. After the scheduled return date, I tried to find a way to contact the empire.
The current ship is nominally a merchant ship, but in fact it is a ship belonging to the Imperial Navy that has been remodeled and quietly came to take over.
That day, Old Mark took the unconscious Roddy, the injured Miaosi, Nidis and Princess Ruolan. After carefully arriving at the port with Seth, who had no fighting ability, he originally expected that there would be an army from the Kingdom of Sauron to intercept them, but King Sauron had no intention of blocking them head-on, even the old magician Sith. He was only ordered to use the power of the temple to take action, because he did not want to give the Empire of Light an excuse to fall out, and the port really pretended to have a ship that nominally took Roddy back home.
But how dare Mark Lao really get on that boat? He didn't show up at all, but secretly found the corresponding ship parked in the port and left the Kingdom of Sauron.
At this moment, everyone on this ship, from the sailors to the captain, were naval officers from the Empire of Light. In order to fear that the Roland people might have other tricks, they avoided the main route and made a circle, sailing towards the Empire.
The sea breeze at night is quite strong. The sails on the mast were blown up high and made a whirring sound. The sky was full of stars and the moon was bright.
Roddy took a deep breath. Seeing the open sea around me, I felt that the depression in my heart for many days was gradually relieved.
At this moment, he heard a faint sigh.
A pretty figure stood on the bow of the boat, her hair flying in the sea breeze, and her delicate figure leaning on the railing.
This back figure fell into Rody's eyes. He couldn't help but feel a little guilty and walked over gently.
Nidis heard the footsteps behind her and knew who it was. But she didn't look back, still looking at the starry sky dreamily.
"I... you..." Rody stood behind her, and for a moment he didn't know how to speak.
Nidis turned around and smiled with a charming face: "Don't you even know how to speak?"
Roddy looked at this charming face so close and whispered: "I want to say... thank you." He coughed slightly and said seriously: "That day, if you hadn't saved me, I would have... "
"Didn't you say you killed the Sith?" The smile on Nidis' face faded, and there was a bit of sadness in her eyes: "I don't want to hear those three words you said."
"Then what do you want me to say?"
Nidis looked at Rody quietly for a while, and what she saw in her eyes made Rody panic. He actually didn't dare to bear the other person's gaze and lowered his eyelids.
Nidis smiled bitterly and said: "I didn't want to follow you here that day, let alone show up again... Do you know? I still can't convince myself to forgive you!"
Her eyes gradually turned cold: "When you ran away that day, you only looked after Miaosi, but you didn't realize that I wasn't by your side! You actually ignored me... At that time, I really wanted to watch you die. !" There was a deep hatred in her tone, but then she smiled bitterly and said: "Unfortunately, although I am a vampire, I still have the feelings of you humans... I can't help but stand when I see you in danger. Come out."
Rody listened to her quietly and gritted his teeth and said: "Then, I still want to say thank you, and...I...I'm sorry?"
"Sorry?" Nidis sneered, "Why are you sorry?"
"For a lot of things!" Rody said seriously: "A lot of things! You understand."
There was bitterness in Nidis's eyes, and she murmured: "Yes... I... understand... I should understand."
Rody breathed a sigh of relief: "After getting off the boat, I will return to the Imperial Capital. What about you?"
Nidis's eyes gradually became moist, but she shook her head and said, "I... I don't know, maybe go to Xilin... Well, maybe not, because that is the fiefdom of the Tulip family."
Rody felt an inexplicable pain in his heart and said nothing.
Nidis suddenly smiled. Although she was smiling, her eyes became cold: "Don't worry, I won't pester you. I'm different from your other women... I..." She gritted her teeth. Then he raised his face and said loudly: "Rody! You bastard! I admit that I love you! Yes, I, Nidis, a vampire, I fell in love with you, a human being! But I am different from those women of yours ! I won’t tolerate sharing a man with anyone else!”
Rody listened quietly without speaking.
Nidis had tears in her eyes, but she was still smiling: "Do you think I will be like Miao Si or Miss Nicole? And that little girl named Dan Yue Wu! Do you think I will be like that?" Follow you and become one of your women? Then give up everything, give up yourself, and wait for you to give me a pitiful love every day? "
She suddenly used all her strength: "I can't!"
Roddy still didn't speak, just looked at her quietly, just watching quietly.
Nidis wiped away the tears from the corner of her eyes, bit her lip, and suddenly whispered: "Rody, let me ask you something... you... you answer me honestly... "
"Say it." Rody sighed.
Nidis's voice suddenly trembled: "In the dwarf country, we... those days when we were together... did you... did you ever... even just a little bit... a very, very small bit... did you ever have a crush on me?"
Rody was stunned for a moment, with all kinds of complicated feelings welling up in his heart. He opened his lips slightly and was about to speak.
Nidis suddenly rushed over and threw herself into Rody's arms. Then she raised her face and kissed Rody hard on the lips.
Rody seemed to be dumbfounded and seemed to want to push Nidis away, but when he stretched out his hand halfway, he instead hugged her gently.
Nidis' lips were soft, but tasted a little salty from tears.
After a while, Nidis raised her head slightly and whispered: "You... you still don't have to answer... just give me some good imagination."
After saying that, she walked out of Rody's arms and walked to the cabin without looking back.
The sea breeze blew, and Nidis' back seemed to have no weight at all. Rody felt a pain in his heart and couldn't help but said loudly: "Yes."
Nidis seemed to stiffen for a moment, turned back with a silly smile, and left immediately.
Rody looked at the starry sky, but couldn't figure out the feeling in his heart, and couldn't help but let out a long sigh.
And Nidis did not go far. After she turned the corner, she leaned against the cabin. All the strength in her body seemed to have been drained. She bit her lip hard and tried her best to control herself. She did not dare to look back. Rody was scared, fearing that if he looked back again, he would be unable to control himself and want to run back and throw himself into Rody's arms.
She murmured in her heart: "The farthest distance in the world is when I stand in front of you and you don't know that I love you, and the most painful thing is that you know that I love you, but you don't love me. "She bit her lip so hard that a trace of blood flowed from the corner of her mouth.
"It turns out that my blood is salty..." The moonlight shines on the smiling face, which is a bit sad.
The man and woman who are struggling with love don't know that all this has been seen by one person.
Old Mark stood on the mast, looking down at the two people with a weird smile on his face.
"Hey... these young people, do you want me to help them solve these troubles... Humph..."