A look of surprise flashed across Manigault's eyes, and the Cancer Gold Saint instantly returned to his usual cynical expression, as if nothing had happened just now, and Tiya recounted the myth that had been passed down without any knowledge.
The two brothers Edward and Alphonse listened with interest at first, but soon Edward, who was more mature, noticed the content in the fairy tale┉┉It seemed to reflect a familiar person, and then followed Tiya As the story progressed, Xiaodouzi's face began to be covered with cold sweat.
"That evil dragon doesn't mean Lord Yalin┉┉Uh-huh!!"
"What?"
Alphonse asked casually, and before the attendant girl Tia came back to her senses, Edward had already covered his brother's mouth: "Hahaha~ It's nothing! I think I have heard the story about the evil dragon that Al just said. ”
"Oh, really~ Huh!?" Tia smiled shyly and suddenly asked in confusion: "Mr. Edward, why are you sweating so much on your face?"
"Sweat! Oh, well, the weather is too hot~haha~" Edward smiled awkwardly and magically took out a handkerchief and wiped his face.
Hot weather? The attendant girl turned her head and looked out the window. Tiny snowflakes mixed with the cold wind were falling innocently in the sky.
Manigault looked at the two brothers and smiled heartily. Sometimes Manigault really felt that these two brothers were a pair of happy couples. As long as he was with them, they would always make people laugh inadvertently. Suddenly, Manigault put away his smile and looked towards the entrance of the corridor on the second floor. He saw a woman wearing a priest's robe watching his group of people slowly walking towards here. Manigault narrowed his eyes and quickly remembered the identity of this priestess, Priestess Elena, who was in charge of the master of ceremonies during the duel between Princess Luo Jie'an and Silvado.
"Hello, Priest Elena." Tiya quickly saluted.
"There is no need to be polite here. I will show these three visitors around."
Elena's words made Tia a little surprised. The highest-ranking priest in charge of the entire Saxony Kingdom's Temple of the Ice and Snow Goddess actually took the initiative to receive three visitors. However, Tia was more surprised than anything and still showed a smile to the Elric brothers. Then stood aside.
Edward looked at Elena and felt that she looked familiar, but for a moment he couldn't remember it. After all, Xiaodouzi was busy watching the duel at the time and didn't pay much attention to other things: "You┉┉um~ you are┉┉"
"The big sister who is in charge of hosting in the arena."
Alphonse, who was still a bit like a child, reacted immediately. Elena glanced at the 'tall' Alphonse. The priestess had some doubts in her heart. This tall knight seemed to have a similar personality. He is just a child who is not yet under age, and judging from the conversation between the two just now, they are still two brothers.
Priestess Elena didn't think too much about these things and just made a gesture of invitation to Manigault: "Can the three of you come up here to 'visit'?"
Although Manigault has a somewhat careless personality, he still heard the implication of Elena's words. Although he didn't know what this noble priest meant, Manigault still did not refuse the other party's invitation. Especially the other party is a beautiful lady. Soon the two Elric brothers were dragged to the second floor by Manigault. Priestess Elena really had no intention of taking the three of them to visit, but just introduced the three of them into a quiet reception room with a simple and beautiful layout. The most eye-catching thing is just the statue of the Ice and Snow Goddess placed aside, while three cups of hot drinks and some snacks have been placed on the round table in the center.
"Please sit down." Elena waved.
Manigault sat down unceremoniously. Unlike the two brothers, who was still a little nervous, he shook his head and looked at the hot drink in the cup to make sure that no unnecessary ingredients had been added. He smiled and took a sip directly. The hot drink was made from a strange-tasting fruit juice mixed with milk. After drinking it, a warm feeling rose up all over his body, which dissipated the coldness in his body and made him feel comfortable.
After Edward saw Manigault drink, he finally took a sip with relief, but Alphonse, who was in armor, could only look at the cup in front of him helplessly.
"I wonder if this drink suits your taste." Priestess Elena asked after taking a sip from the cup.
"It tastes pretty good. It's really comfortable to drink something hot on a cold day." Manigault looked as casual as if he were at home. He picked up a small snack on the plate and threw it in. Mouth: "But I'm sorry, I'm not the kind of person who can say a lot of polite words. Do you have anything to do with us? Priestess of the Ice and Snow Goddess."
If he behaves like this and speaks in front of a beautiful priestess who serves the gods, an unsuspecting outsider will probably mistake Manigault, who always looks cynical, for a vulgar street prostitute. However, Priestess Elena, who was always very serious on weekdays, showed no signs of getting angry at all and just observed the three of them calmly.
"Actually, it's me who should apologize. I was paying attention to your situation when you first entered the temple." Elena stood up and apologized slightly: "Please forgive me, for a visitor with the aura of death, I will do it anyway." Put some caution on our part.”
"The breath of the undead? Ha~ I really don't understand what you are talking about. At least I think I should be alive now."
"Indeed! This is really puzzling. As a living person, your body contains the power of the dead, as if you are standing at the intersection between life and death. Ordinary people, even low-level magicians, may not be able to feel it. "
"Interesting~ Then how did you figure it out?"
Manigault no longer intends to hide it, but is a little surprised. In the long time since he left Ulduar City and went from Bellica Town to the King of Saxony, this is the first time that anyone has felt this except the three undead he met before. The breath of death on his body.
"This is the temple of the goddess of ice and snow. No one can deceive the eyes of the gods."
"The eyes of the gods? Haha~ Is this the so-called ┉divine magic┉?" Manigault's eyes narrowed.
Elena did not directly answer this question: "I have been observing you from the moment you entered the temple. Although you have the breath of death in your body, you are not malicious. Tiya took you to visit the temple along the way. You He and the other two younger brothers exude pure and kind souls.”
"I thought the goddess of ice and snow rejected death."
"Although death is a taboo word in the eyes of secular people, birth and death are two sides of the same coin. Where there is creation, there is destruction, where there is light, there is darkness, and where there is good, there is evil. Even if people hate death and taboo it, they always Death will come one day, and the alternation of life and death is the greatest law in this world. Therefore, the five supreme gods do not regard death as a dirty thing. For all living things in the world, death is just a new beginning."
After saying that, Elena turned her gaze to Alphonse: "And this little brother, what you exude is not the aura of the undead but pure soul power. If I guessed correctly...you shouldn't have sex?" "
This time it was the turn of brothers Edward and Alphonse to be surprised. Edward, regardless of the occasion, stood up excitedly and asked loudly: "Can you see Al's state?"
"It seems that my guess is correct. This little brother named Al should just use some kind of power to inject his soul into the armor, just like the undead creatures like the 'Revenant Armor'. It's just that your soul is completely intact. It's like you are still alive. It's not like your soul was bound and fixed on the armor after death. You should have been forcibly stripped of your complete soul when you were still alive and fixed on this armor. Up?"
"No, that's right!" Edward was extremely excited at the moment. In this wonderful world, human beings have a very clear understanding of the soul instead of an incomprehensible state. Maybe there is something here that really makes him and Al completely understand each other. How to recover: "Actually, I have been looking for a way to restore my brother Al to his original body."
"It seems that you are indeed a good brother, but I want to ask one thing: who ripped off your brother's soul so cruelly?"
Elena's expression became serious with her tone. Recently, the Holy City has received a lot of news that some of the undead entrenched on the Island of the Dead in Esolos have begun to set foot on the mainland, and not long ago, the town of Belika in the border area also News was sent to the capital of Saxony that three necromancers entered the town and killed several townspeople and mages. Fortunately, the actions of these necromancers were discovered and eliminated by some adventurers and magicians. , and now the town of Belika has also stepped up its vigilance. These messages can tell which blasphemers who should have been expelled from the mainland are beginning to get ready to take advantage of the unstable situation in the mainland.
And now there is another innocent victim who has been transformed into the 'Revenant Armor'.
Obviously, the child named Alphonse in front of him must have been forcibly stripped of his soul by a certain necromancer and transformed into the 'dead soul armor'. This degree of almost complete stripping of the soul and fixing it on the armor shows that the strength of this necromancer is definitely not low. , the most important thing is that whether the undead army is strong or not is related to the strength of the soul that has been injected into it during life and the degree to which it remains intact after death. If the necromancer masters the method of completely stripping the soul of the living and completely controlling it, then Ai The strength of the undead army on Solos Island of the Dead will increase exponentially at a geometric rate. If it is not extinguished in time, it will be a terrible threat.
Edward and Alphonse suddenly looked at each other. The two brothers stared at each other with big eyes and small eyes, not knowing what to say for a while.
"Actually, that..." Edward finally took the initiative to say, "I was the one who made Al become like this."
"What! Did you make your brother become like this?" Priestess Elena couldn't help but be surprised. The boy in front of her looked like a child of fifteen or sixteen years old. How could he turn a person's body into something like this? The soul is separated from the body alive.