Chapter 138: Recalling those years when I was young... (Added update for Yog-Sothoth's Tears)
At this time, at the top of the council hall.
Old Count Ernst stared out of the window in astonishment, "It's her..."
I saw the dark clouds not far away, and dozens of lightning bolts fell down and wrapped around the girl with white hair and black eyes, as if she was controlled by lightning. By.
At the same time, the ground shook beneath her feet, and magma spewed out, destroying everything around her. Even the council hall where he was sitting could feel the violent vibrations.
If I remember correctly, that girl was the one Alais brought back that year...
Why did she become like this?
Could it be...
Bang!
At this time, Laner ran in panting, his face flushed and said: "Ann, Bishop Andrews, he, he refused to send people to interrupt the sacrifice ceremony of the Abyss Sect."
Old Ernst did not look back, Still looking out the window silently, his face became increasingly gloomy.
"Father, what should we do now? Baron Seth has brought people back just now. According to what he said, the people in the Secret Adjustment Department are unable to move because of the out-of-control forbidden objects..." "Forbidden objects? What forbidden objects?
"
" It seems to be some kind of clown doll..."
"Devil clown!?"
Old Ernst's face changed slightly, and he turned his head to look in the direction of the Secret Adjustment Department. From his angle, he could just see the scene in Dumitru Street.
He had already seen a strange figure in the distance wearing a clown mask and the same black eyes dancing towards the core area.
Behind the clown, there were corpses scattered on the ground, all of which had their heads and bodies completely separated. He threw them to various corners at will, and even threw some of them into the cracks where lava spewed out in a bad way.
When old Ernst saw that scene, he felt a tightness in his chest, and the breath he was holding in his heart made him dizzy.
Seeing the empty Secret Investigation Department and the investigators scattering further away, he vaguely understood something in his heart.
"Damn Alais, you bastard! You dared to fabricate a report about the forbidden clown and leave it in Custer without telling everyone!" "What?"
Bang
, bang, bang...
Old Ens Te burst out without warning, angrily smashed everything around him, and cursed angrily: "Damn, damn Alais, die, die, you deserve to die!!" "Why are you doing this? Why can't you do this
? Send him to Klande honestly?!"
"Die, die, I'm going to kill you!"
Laner looked at him blankly, Alais... isn't that director Alais already dead? ?
"Father, you..."
"Hurry to the church now, go to Andrews and tell him that I already know who caused what happened tonight. Go, go quickly." "Huh? Oh, oh
, I'll go right away..."
Laner looked at the old Ernst who was yelling crazily, and felt that he looked very strange now. He didn't understand what was going on... "
Wait!"
"Father?"
Old Ernst called. She stopped him, but didn't speak again, but was thinking about something to herself, as if she was about to make some important decision.
Seeing his expression, Lan Er's eyes flashed with anxiety. The current situation had completely exceeded their plan.
Not only did the Abyss Cult sacrifice ceremony occur, but forbidden items also went out of control in the Department of Secret Brewing. Even the Cathedral of Krims, which had not had any trouble for many years, now had people blocking the door... For a while, even
he All the plans and participants were panicked.
But what he didn't expect was that the old Ernst, who had always been serious and steady, was just like him...
"Father?"
"Let's go!"
"Go? Where to go..." Laner was stunned.
"Leave Custer!"
Old Ernst took out a bunch of keys from his waist, opened the drawer under the table, and took out the parchment inside - it could be faintly seen from the writing on the side that it was a roll covered with Crane's Letter of appointment as consul of the city of Castel with the seal of the Council of Nobles.
"Why, the current situation shouldn't be enough to give up..."
Bang!
After Old Ernst put away the parchment, he smashed the table, "Idiot, don't you understand? This time we were taken advantage of!"
Laner was a little dumbfounded, "Yes, someone took advantage of us? Who is it?"
" I don't know," Old Ernst strode to the bookshelf on the other side, took out several books printed with ink in order, and with a click, the bookshelf slowly slid aside.
"But the current Custer is too unusual. Let's leave here first. We will come back after everything has settled. With the appointment letter here, Custer will not escape from the hands of our Ernst family." "But
. ..."
"There is no time, hurry up and take away all the things collected by the parliament!"
Laner watched old Ernst walk into the collection room and put the things inside into the space ring one by one. He had no choice but to follow. past.
"Father, I still don't understand. Everything that happened tonight is too weird." "
It's because of many factors beyond the plan that I decided to leave temporarily."
Although old Ernst didn't know the reason, he Years of caution and forbearance gave him a whiff of conspiracy.
Tonight, someone must have taken advantage of them to deal with the Parliament and suppress the Secret Service and the City Guards to do some tricks in various places in Custer.
However, the time was too short, and he didn't know what the other party's purpose was!
"Well, I understand, then...do I need to notify others?"
"Who should I inform?"
Old Ernst suddenly turned around and stared at him, his old wrinkled face full of anger, "Have you forgotten what I taught you before? As a noble, you should never trust anyone else except yourself!" "But
, Mitra, she..." Laner couldn't bear it. At this time, he was still thinking about the beloved of the Desire Sect who had been helping him from the beginning.
"Mitra?"
Old Ernst cursed even more angrily: "How long has it been and you are still thinking about that woman? When Custer returns to the family, what kind of woman do you want? Idiot!
" I..."
"Lord Laner, you are indeed quite stupid."
At this time, a lazy voice came from the side, and the soft voice seemed to have some kind of temptation.
"Who? Mitra?" Laner couldn't help but smile when he saw the person coming, and coughed: "I can forgive you for your disrespect just now, you..." "
Shut up!"
Old Ernst didn't act like that He was so happy, and when he saw Mitra appearing here, he felt an ominous premonition in his heart, and shouted: "Melendez, Levi..."
Two shadow killers emerged from the shadow at his feet. , killing Mitra.
"Father!?"
Mitra leaned against the bookshelf, with a pair of charming eyes that were moist and lively. She just glanced at the Shadow Killers, causing their attack to stop instantly.
"My Lord Earl, are you afraid of me? Are you so anxious to kill me?"
Old Ernst's face became more gloomy. He stared at Mitra and asked, "Are you from the other party?"
"What do you think?"
Mitra After Terra replied with a half-smile, she walked up to the stationary Shadow Killer with enchanting steps, looked up and down, and said disgustedly: "Is this the Shadow Transformer? How ugly!"
Zhizhi Yeah!
As she finished speaking, the bodies of the two shadow killers began to twist and deform, as if a pair of invisible hands grasped their heads and feet, twisting them into a knot.
In the blink of an eye, they were distorted to the extreme, turning into countless tiny shadows and dissipating.
"Tell me, who is he?"
Laner looked at the two dissipated shadow killers, then looked at old Ernst and Mitra, and asked blankly: "What are you talking about?"
"Laner My lord, you are so pitiful..."
Mitra looked at old Ernst, but walked up to Laner, stretched out her arms around his neck, blew a breath and said: "Don't you think so, Lord Earl? ?"
Old Ernst's cheeks puffed up, and he was obviously angry, but after staring at Mitra for a moment, he took a deep breath and threw away the appointment letter and space ring in his hand.
"Let us leave. I won't take anything away."
"Father, why are you leaving? Isn't it good to stay?" There was a faint red light in Laner's eyes, and before he noticed it, the corners of his mouth were also exposed. A smile that looked extremely weird.
"You actually..." Old Ernst saw his expression and turned to glare at Mitra, "Is this how your Desire Sect abides by its agreement? Don't forget that we still have a contract!" "Did you say this?
"
A roll of parchment appeared in Mitra's hand, and she handed it to Laner next to her. She said charmingly: "I remember the original rule that whoever breaks the contract will be punished. Now..." "Wait! Tell him not to move
. , I will promise you whatever you want!" Old Ernst's expression changed. After seeing Laner taking the parchment, he was actually tearing it apart, as if he wanted to record this record of their Ernst family and their desires. The contract signed by the sect was torn up.
"It's too late!"
Tear!
The roll of parchment was torn into pieces by Laner, who had a weird smile on his face. "Father, what are you talking about? There is no contract, isn't it just an ordinary piece of paper?" A
shadow emerged from the parchment, slowly It slowly condensed to form a venomous snake with a triangular head, with a body length of ten meters and the thickness of a fist.
"Is this? Dinner? Or my favorite deep-sea eel..."
"Look, it's not that our Desire Sect didn't abide by the contract, but that you unilaterally tore it up." After seeing the snake coming out, Mitra let go of Laner's hand and took a few steps back.
"Lan Er..."
Old Ernst closed his eyes in pain. He already knew what would happen next.
I saw the giant snake slowly swimming in front of Laner, looking at him coldly, "Follow the contract lord's divine rules, those who don't abide by the contract will be punished!" "It's still a grilled eel that can talk, huh
? ?" The smile on Lan Er's face froze, he came back to his senses, looked at the giant snake in front of him and opened his mouth: "Father..."
"Hiss!"
Before he could finish speaking, the giant snake pounced on him, He opened his huge mouth and swallowed him whole.
"The punishment has been completed!"
As this solemn and solemn voice echoed in the collection room, the giant snake slowly disappeared together with Laner who had been eaten by him.
After a long time, old Ernst opened his eyes and saw that he and Mitra were alone. A trace of sadness flashed across his face. "Tell me, what do you have to do to let me go?"
"Ha!" Mitra clapped her hands, and the hands of the two clocks swayed with her movements, "That adult is right. , you will always only think about yourself. Even if your own son dies in front of you, you will be indifferent."
"Oh? That sir?"
"You want to know?"
Old Ernst took a deep breath, the aristocratic temperament he has cultivated over the years. It made him look more majestic and solemn, "Let's talk, maybe he will agree to make a deal with me..."
Bah!
Before he could finish his words, Mitra had already thrust a sharp sword into his throat and said with a smile: "The Lord asked me to tell you that he will kill all members of the Ernst family..." "
And the Glory Society. Everyone is sent to another world so that you can reunite there!"
"Ho, ho...Rong, Guanghui...ho, ho, I'm waiting for them!"
Old Ernst grabbed the blade of the sword with a weird smile on his face, tilted his head and let the blade pull off the entire head and roll it to the ground.
"Quite decisive."
Mitra curled her lips and was about to turn around and leave. As if she remembered something, she took out a bottle of magic potion from between the clocks and poured it on old Ernst's body.
"I almost forgot... that adult told me that if you are so cunning, you will probably choose to fake your death, so you must ask me to turn your body into ashes." "You--"
Old
Ernst's head suddenly opened . Opening her eyes, her bloodshot eyes stared at her, "I curse you, curse all of you!!" "
It seems that the adult understands you."
Mitra shrugged, and the shoulder straps followed. Her movement slid down, revealing a large piece of the hanging clock dial.
It wasn't until Old Ernst's body was reduced to ashes by the power of the potion that she picked up the things on the table and turned around to leave the collection room.
"Finally we can leave Custer. It's scary. Let's go quickly..." ...
...
At
the same time, inside the Cathedral of Krims.
Bishop Andrews was still standing under the statue of the Lord of the Dawn, staring at Tina outside through the colorful glass windows.
"Master Bishop."
A guardian knight appeared outside the door and said respectfully and seriously: "All clergymen are ready to sacrifice their lives for our Lord at any time!"
Andrews withdrew his gaze, lowered his head and thought: " What's going on with the Abyss Sacrifice?"
"The Judgment Knights, led by Her Majesty Carly and Lord Melbell, have gone to stop the ceremony." "
Oh."
Carly, Melbell... or so... ...
Andrews said solemnly: "For the glory of the dawn, go and let the disaster see the glory of the dawn!"
"Yes, Lord Bishop!"
When the chapel returned to calm again, Andrews showed a gentle smile on his face again, looked at the statue of the Lord of the Dawn in front of him, and saluted respectfully and seriously.
"Praise the dawn."
With these beautiful words, he stepped forward slowly, reached out and took out a fist-sized ball from the left eye socket of the statue - it was a black and white ball with tiny blood lines. The round ball can be vaguely identified as an eye.
"Forbidden object 0-78 Rover's left eye..."
Andrews read out its sequence, his expression seemed to be reminiscing, and he seemed to be sighing something, and murmured: "Recalling that when I was young, I I just left home with you..."
"You have a strong personality and stubbornly want to save the world. No matter whether the evildoers are aberrants or not, you have to kill them all. For this reason, you have suffered a lot along the way..."
" What's even more outrageous is that you still call it a beautiful name, and you can't tell whether it's an aberration or not, so... Well, please forgive me, Dawn." "
Well, I mean, your behavior really caused me to suffer a lot. I have to lose at least twenty kilograms..."
"You fart, at most ten kilograms!"
At this moment, another voice appeared in the chapel.
I saw a man in a black hooded robe walking from the corner, cursing and saying: "Are you not going too far? At that time, you were thinking about saving people all day long, and the people were about to die, and you still attacked them?" Stuffing the flesh and blood of those aberrations in your mouth..."
"What else can I say? After the people who were about to die were contaminated and turned into aberrations, they also survived in disguise." "
Look, are you speaking human language?"
Andrews held the eye in one hand, and took out a wine barrel from nowhere with the other hand and placed it on the ground. He turned around and said with a smile, "Ales, you owe me an explanation." "Explain what?
Explain why I didn't Die? Or explain why all these years of persecution have not crushed me?"
The person who came reached out and pulled down the hood. There was a monocle on his old face, and his gray and white hair was standing up at the roots. He also had the same gray and thick beard, and his eyes were not bright. Sharp, but turbid, with the aura of old age that is getting old at any time - it is surprisingly Ales Coulibaly who died with the Abyss Sect before.
"Drink first?"
"Okay." Alais sat casually on the ground, pulled down his entire robe, and was wearing a red uniform of a senior executive of the Secret Brewing Department. He still looked very strong against his generous figure. But the left sleeve was empty, obviously an arm was missing there.
Andrews looked there with a little bitterness on his face: "Ales, you have paid a lot for this opportunity..." "
I have endured for so many years, and I don't just give without expecting anything in return." He held out his right hand and motioned for him to pour the wine, "It's hard for you to hide it, right?"
"Hide it?" Andrews poured two glasses of dark beer before raising his hand to reveal the lines on his arm, "Did you say it?"
"The time is almost up?"
"Well, there are less than ten days left..."
"That is, three months ago?" Alais held the wine glass with his good arm, took a big sip, and nodded: "I Just say, you have been testing for so long, why are
you showing your tail now?" "In the end, I was deceived by you..."
Andrews sighed, also picked up the wine glass and took a sip, "I don't know when you started, He has changed. He is no longer as reckless as he was when he was young. He has become more thoughtful and tolerant..." "
Wasn't it forced out by you, the parliament, and the noble committee?" Alais untied The button on the collar shows a relaxed look, and you can vaguely see his cheerful appearance when he was young.
"Why not force others, but you? Haven't you thought about it?"
"I have thought about it, but in the end I still feel that your idea of not treating people as human beings is wrong!"
"You misunderstood," Andrews shook his head. "The world is already in ruins, and the fittest survive. No matter whether we force it or not, each of them is living with their heads hanging." "So? You are going to do it
. Clear away all those who stand in the way so that everyone can be like you?"
"You don't understand..."
"I don't understand, but I know that after this time, you, Dawn, the nobles and the parliament will all play together. Finished!" Alais snorted.
Andrews pursed his lips. The cloudy night made the chapel with only candlelight appear dim. It also made his face hidden in the shadows, making him look unusually eerie and indifferent.
Seeing him like this, Alais couldn't help but grin, "I've known you were narrow-minded since a long time ago, but I didn't expect..." "It's
just that I don't understand why you are like this? Custer?" The presiding judge in charge of justice in the city-state, the bishop of the Dawn Church, the dictator of Krims Cathedral, what else are you dissatisfied with?"
"Not satisfied, maybe..." Andrews shook his head and took another sip. He drank the beer slowly, as if he was recalling the last moments. He had a premonition of what would happen today, but he would not regret what he had done.
"Just like when you were not satisfied with the title of West Coast Legend and wanted to find an artifact that could protect everyone..." "
How ironic," Alais sneered, "I wanted to protect and save people, but you guys I was clearing the way. When I came back, all the investigators of the Secret Investigation Department were almost killed by the clown!" "
Haha, that's why from then on, I became suspicious of you hiding in the Secret Investigation Department... ...Facts have proved that my suspicion was not wrong, you are indeed plotting against us."
"Calculation? Let's do it...tell me, how did I plot against you?"
"Ales, where do you have the courage to admit your mistakes ? Go?" Andrews pointed at him a few times and asked with a smile: "You have already discovered that old Ernst is the mastermind behind the scenes, right?" "
Seventeen years ago." Alais admitted.
"Then you also know the role I played in it."
"Well, shit stirrer."
"Pfft, cough cough cough..." Andrews almost choked on his breath and glared at him, "I was Balancing the relationship between the nobility and the parliament!"
"Hmm, whatever you think, what next?"
"Your plan started when you discovered that there was something strange happening between old Ernst and those nobles, right?"
" That's right!"
"What's the purpose? I always feel that in addition to their family and Archon Samir, your arrangements for me and the Church of Dawn are too, too heavy!" "Oh? Heavy?" "
Level
3 The disaster species and the clown are out of control, are you behind the control?"
"Yes," Alais took off his monocle and said with a half-smile: "Tina is a good girl, and the clown is also a good one. Forbidden object, don’t forget, you brought it here in the first place."
"Where is the Abyss Sect? Since you are not dead, I guess Elder Mateo is still there?"
"Haha..."
Andrews looked at The smile on his face showed that he had guessed correctly, and he asked seriously: "So, what is your purpose for doing all this? At the expense of the entire city-state?" "Sacrifice the city-state...me?" Alais repeated this several
times
. After a few words, the smile on his face gradually disappeared, and two black lights suddenly appeared in his cloudy eyes, which instantly infected the entire eye socket.
"Isn't that what you want? I just pushed it along. As for the purpose of doing all this..." "
Of course it is for the forbidden object hidden somewhere in this cathedral. 0-34 Resurrection Coffin!"
"You, Alais, your eyes are...distorted?"
Andrews looked at Alais's appearance in shock, and the forbidden objects he said echoed in his mind, thinking of what he had said all along. If so.
My time is almost up, Andrews...
No matter whether you are dead or alive, it only increases your worries...
I...
"You, you want to be resurrected, no, to live forever?!"
(End of this chapter)