Dust of History Chapter 46: A moment of youth

A report came from the city of Airy, saying that the heretic organization was rampant day by day, please send someone from the church to deal with it.

Under the aftermath of the vampire incident, these strange things were shrouded in a shadow of horror, as if the overwhelming skeleton zombie ghosts could be killed at any time. The nerves of all the officials, especially His Majesty the Emperor, were tense like tight strings, and the slightest movement immediately made a loud noise. In this case, if there is anything related to paganism or monsters, of course the priests should be invited to exorcise evil spirits.

Of course this kind of thing fell on Asa's head. One is because of the trust of His Majesty the Emperor, and the other is the strong recommendation and operation of Bishop Ronis.

Bishop Ronis immediately called Asa to the Academy of Magic and arranged tasks for him.

"After you hunted and made meritorious service last time, I have disclosed to the great priests my intention to promote you to the position of great priest, but they all disagree, especially Cuthbert, who strongly opposes it. But this is also It’s no wonder that their positions have been earned after so many years of hard work in the Academy of Magic. Seeing that you are so young and have no qualifications, but you can immediately be on an equal footing with them, it is really unacceptable. I can directly promote you to be a priest , but the promotion to the great priest requires me and the three great priests to recommend it to the Holy See."

"So this time is your good chance. The heretics in Airi are making a lot of noise. It seems that something happened to the Forest of Whispers. It should be more appropriate for you to deal with this matter. If you can clean up If you want to deal with those heretics, then I recommend you to be the great priest and others can no longer refute."

Asa frowned secretly, but now the priest feels extremely troublesome to do it, and it is too much to add the word "big" in front of it.

"As long as you are a great priest, I can have a showdown with the elves."

"What's the matter with those guys?" Asa almost forgot about these guys, the only one he still remembered was the elf girl who was almost strangled by him.

"Probably Wangdu is the only city in the entire continent that has not wanted you. I have asked the people below to collect your wanted warrant from the Adventurer's Guild and the Thieves' Guild, and informed them that they are prohibited from accepting you again. Wanted." Bishop Ronis took out more than a dozen portraits of Asa from the drawer.

Asa picked up a portrait and saw his arrest warrant for the first time. The elves' hands are very skillful, and the lines are very delicate, which perfectly outlines his appearance. Asa can't help but nod and admire: "The drawing is very good, at least it looks better than mine."

"As long as your identity can be recognized by the Holy See. At that time, the wanted by the elves is like a scrap of paper."

Compared with the elves, the influence of the Church of Light is like a giant beast and a little rabbit. Even if the elves used all their poor property as a bounty to arrest a priest of a church, adventurers and bounty hunters would rather just go and rob it.

"At that time, I can make a suggestion to the elves to let them join our alliance, so they can't help but accept it. According to their nature, they disdain to join hands with humans. But to them, you Indispensable, if we can’t catch you, we can only help you to stand with you. With the addition of the elves, our strength will be much stronger, and we will unite with the surrounding countries and empires to ask the church to support us in dealing with the undead Sanhedrin, the church can no longer ignore it.”

"Oh, that's it." Asa nodded, although it was a bit complicated, she finally figured it out.

"Because this task is very important, I plan to let Rod Hart go with you to assist you in completing this task."

"Oh? Has he come back yet?" Asa hadn't seen him for a long time. Although they are indeed friends, and they have been through life and death together, Asa always feels that there is no match between him and him.

"He has dealt with heretics in other places during this time, and his results are quite good. This is a very capable and promising young man, and he will definitely help you a lot. By the way, last time Ai The local officials and imperial envoys were killed by heretics, you go and solve him by the way. That can add another amount to your political capital."

Asa looked at Bishop Ronis calmly, and recalled carefully, he did not tell him about the imperial envoy. For some reason, His Excellency the Bishop seems to be sure that he can solve this huge headless case that once caused a sensation in the empire, like eating a bun. He tentatively asked: "It's been so long, and there are no clues, so it's unlikely that the murderer can be found?"

"Of course I know that." Bishop Ronis smiled enigmatically. "Of course it's not easy to find, but you can create one. Anyway, there are so many heretics there, so finding a few suitable ones and making up some suitable stories and evidence is naturally a great achievement."

"Oh, that's it." Asa nodded.

"You are not suitable for arranging and handling these matters. I will tell Rod Hart and let him arrange it properly." Bishop Ronis frowned, looked at Asa and asked, "What's wrong with you? I found that you seem to have been very absent-minded."

"No... probably a little tired. Anyway, you can discuss the details with Rod Hart. I still have something to do, so I'm leaving first."

After leaving Bishop Ronis, Asa went directly to the reference room of the library. Compared with Bishop Ronis's plan, he was more interested in this.

But from the noon to the afternoon, his shoulders hurt from turning over. Asa only found the name "Videnina t Geffenhardt" three times in the thick files and records.

But this doesn't explain anything, it's the same three times, and it's all recorded in the roster of students of the Magic Academy. This name is put together inconspicuously like countless other names, but it can only show that there was indeed this person in the Academy of Magic. But other materials that explain what this person has done here, what kind of experience he has, can't be found at all.

In any case, a man who was once a glorious student of magic and then changed his career to become a lich is by no means unknown. Probably this can only mean that most of her information in the Magic Academy has been deleted. It is really not a memorable thing for a student to become a necromancer.

Asa closed the dusty booklet and shook his aching neck and arms. I came to the library reference room to see what kind of person that strange classmate was before, but I didn't expect to get anything, and I was extremely disappointed.

Although twenty years is not a long time ago, someone should know about it. There are many people in the Academy of Magic who have white hair and wrinkled faces and salute respectfully when they see him, but Asa dare not speak up. ask. This may be a taboo topic in the Academy of Magic. If you ask random questions, it will be troublesome if others report it to Bishop Ronnies. It seems that things about Vidnina can always make the bishop very allergic. If you let him know that the dangerous classmate has contacted him before, and invite him to join the club, the lightest result will be a long lecture and persuasion.

But curiosity scratched and scratched like a restless cat. At this critical and uncomfortable time, the Marquis appeared in the reference room. He came to bid farewell to Bishop Ronnies. He was going to travel again in two days, so he came to talk to Asa by the way.

Asa immediately realized that this was definitely a good person to ask. The Marquis was also a well-known figure in the Academy of Magic twenty years ago, and it seemed that he was not someone who would inform the Bishop.

"How do you know this name?" The Marquis looked surprised after hearing Asa's words, and asked while looking at him.

Asa replied casually: "Well... I just heard it occasionally, and I heard that she is a very interesting person. So I came here to check, but I couldn't find it. Do you know what is going on with her? Help tell May I say hello?"

The Marquis didn't answer, but just let out a long sigh. This expression is really very rare for him who is full of vitality and aura. He walked over to find a book from the densely packed bookcase according to the search on the bookshelf.

Judging from the cover, this is just an extremely ordinary theology book, which is what most students of the magic academy have to learn. And the thick dust on the top of this book means that no one has read it for many years. The Marquis blew the dust off and turned to one of the illustrations.

The illustration is a half-naked Madonna. Undoubtedly, the engravers have devoted a lot of effort and effort to this great image, and the lines on it are extremely fine and beautiful. Maria's kind, gentle expression was lifelike.

Asa just didn't understand what connection this Madonna had with a Lich, but saw the Marquis turn the illustration upside down.

The back of the illustration was originally blank, probably out of respect for the Virgin, the typeface was not stamped on her back. And on the blank area that was originally awe, there is a painting. This is a portrait of a woman from the back side. It seems to have been sketched with pencil and charcoal, the lines are not very delicate, and the paper has turned yellow due to age. It was just such a painting, but Asa was immediately shocked when he saw it.

Comparing the holy and fine engraving on the front with this painting, one immediately thinks that it is just a stain left by stupid things like wood and iron after dipping it in ink and pressing it over.

Those black lines perfectly constitute a woman's beautiful image and charm, and even have an elegant and agile temperament. There is no slightest spot of carbon ink on white paper that is idle and useless, and every trace is there. He is strongly telling the beauty of this woman.

Excellent body proportions like classical sculptures, clear and clear facial contours are incomparably tender and tender, long hair is scattered behind the back, it is clearly rough charcoal, but you can feel the hair Silky soft and smooth shine. These already beautiful places are combined with a broader and more profound harmonious aesthetic feeling. Anyone who sees it will have no way to escape except shock.

This beauty is the highest in the secular world, enough to make any man obsessed and intoxicated, and women have to let worship and admiration suppress their jealousy. This painting doesn't show the woman's facial features, but just such a profile is enough to make all the viewers overwhelmed.

"This is what I painted twenty years ago when I was young." The Marquis's eyes were full of youthful light, and he remembered with emotion.

"...It's so beautiful." Asa sighed. He marveled at the beauty of this woman, and also admired the Marquis's hands that could express such beauty. Of course, he doesn't know anything about painting or art, but he was shocked immediately when he saw this painting, but he was also a little regretful. "But why don't you draw the front, so you can't see the shape."

"My clumsy hands that have been corrupted by the world of wine and sex, how can I express her peerless face." The Marquis looked at this work of his youth, and even his voice was full of young people intoxicated with emotion As melodious and intoxicating as in the movie.

"Then you must like this woman very much." Asa nodded, he could feel the emotion in every stroke of the Marquis. Such a peerless beauty is indeed worthy of the love of a romantic and talented man like the Marquis.

"I once proposed to her. I used 99,999 flowers of every kind that could be collected, and spelled out the phrase 'I love you' in the field on the outskirts of the capital." The Marquis said Under the two black and slender eyebrows, the deep and handsome eyes glow with the wine of memories, which is enough to intoxicate any woman who dares to look directly. And just imagine these eyes and then erase the slight crow's feet at the corners, match the Marquis's somewhat feminine handsomeness, if he regresses to that young age, Asa even suspects that many men will be tricked.

Asa shook his head and sighed: "Every kind of flower? Ninety-nine thousand nine hundred and ninety-nine flowers? Your spirit is really good enough."

"I just hate that my spirit is not good enough to complete this work by myself. It took almost all the gardeners in the whole country, took a month, and cost thousands of gold coins. The spelled characters must ride She ran along the handwriting to see it clearly. But she only smiled when she saw it. You know, just this smile, I think everything is worth it."

Asa was shocked in this romantic history that can be regarded as legend and poetry, yearning for twenty years ago, to experience the face of the peerless beauty and the equally peerless courtship of the Marquis. After a while, I finally remembered what I was going to ask. "But does such a beauty have anything to do with Vidnina? Could it be..." Could it be that his classmate was jealous of this beauty's beauty, killed her, or ruined her appearance? Based on Vidnina's identity, Asa subconsciously drew this sinister inference of committing crimes.

The Marquis' words were very gentle: "The person in this painting is her, my classmate at the Magic Academy twenty years ago, Wangdu, no, the number one beauty, Vidnina Te Geffenha Special."

The masseter muscles around the mouth completely lost control. Asa opened his mouth wide and couldn't close it at all. His eyeballs almost fell off together with his tongue and chin.

Asa felt that his brain became the kind of miscellaneous stew in Oufu City in an instant, boiling and sticky, with a strong but greasy taste. No matter how you use the power of reason, it is difficult to combine the two extreme impressions. It is absolutely impossible to connect such a woman with extraordinary beauty and that lich who is not even ugly, but horrible and disgusting. He once scratched her mask in the Forest of Whispers, and saw her withered and disgusting half face like a skeleton, but now the side face in this painting is indeed so shockingly beautiful. One side is an angel in the world of mortals, and the other side is a living evil spirit.

"What's wrong?" Marquis asked looking at his aggressive expression.

Asa tried her best to control her thoughts and words, and asked: "Then what will happen to this person...? What happened? Why have I never heard of someone like her? And in the records of the Academy of Magic, only one name can be found, but there is no information?"

The Marquis sighed, and began to narrate the deeds of his sweetheart in a passionate voice: "She is a member of the royal family. But for a person like her, what kind of status doesn't make any sense. In terms of magical talent, she is a hundred years old. A rare genius, it only took one month to be promoted from a junior magician to an intermediate level. In terms of mind, she is even more intelligent. She never participates in theological research and debates, but I, the debate champion, have never won a private debate with her. Yes, she said that she had already read all the works of theology and philosophy, and found them to be nothing more than nonsense. But compared with her beauty, these ingenuity and unique insights are nothing, they are just small At that time, all the most outstanding heroic youths in the whole country fell under her incomparable charm, just to get that smile, even if it was a mountain of swords and seas of fire. But she seemed to only concentrate on On the way of seeking truth and magic. Because there is no one-in-a-million aptitude, even Bishop Ronis made an exception to accept her as a disciple. It's just that she is just over 20 years old, and she is almost promoted to the royal chief scholar." The voice of the Marquis Suddenly, these legends came to an abrupt end. "But, suddenly she died."

"Dead? How did he die?" Asa asked. But he knew that it shouldn't be death, but probably becoming a lich and joining the Necromancer Guild.

"Not very clear. I just heard that she died when I came back from the Sandfes Mountains. Bishop Ronis announced that she violated the taboo of the Magic Academy and conducted a forbidden spell experiment without authorization. The experiment failed and she died. The consequences of that experiment were very serious. I remember that even the cathedral was completely destroyed. Almost half of the buildings in the Academy of Magic were in ruins, and many people died. Probably to take care of the church and the royal family Fame, Bishop Ronis and His Majesty the Emperor at the time destroyed all her materials, and issued an order to strictly prohibit talking about anything about this person."

Asa suddenly remembered the lament that Bishop Ronis once had, lamenting a person who had gone astray. It turned out that the person was her. However, the reason and process are not known.

Asa asked: "What did you do at that time when you went to the Sandefez Mountains?"

"I'm looking for a poisonous dragon flower that only blooms there. It is the most beautiful flower on the mainland. According to legend, as long as you use this flower to propose marriage, no girl will not be moved."

"Then you are going to get it..."

"After seeing the countless flowers I prepared for her, she said that these flowers were hand-carried by others. Countless people in the world have seen them before. She wanted to take a look at the legendary poisonous dragon flower, so I went to the Sand Fes Mountains to find it."

Asa couldn't help but sighed: "In order to propose like a woman, you ran there alone. Even I can only say that you have a problem with your head."

The Sandefys Mountain Range is the most dangerous area in the continent. Even if Wyverns and bulls are infested, the Lizard Swamp full of poisonous insects will immediately become a beautiful mountain with beautiful scenery and beautiful water. Even the most top travelers and adventurers in the mainland dare not set foot there easily.

"It took me nearly a year to cross the wild highlands into the Sandefis Mountains and search for it. I almost died several times during the process, but I finally found the flower. I picked the flower and kept going. I sealed it in the ice with ice spells and preserved it. But when I returned to the Magic Academy, I only saw the wreckage on the ground, not even her body...I heard that she died After I died, I stayed in that ruin for three whole days, the flower lost its protection of ice, was exposed to the air of this secular world, and completely withered and disappeared in my arms..." The Marquis said in his last memory He was silent and did not speak.

Asa also fell silent along with the Marquis, partly because of resonating with the Marquis' sorrow, and partly because there was a strong thought in his mind now. The teleportation scroll that Vidnina left him is still in Sandro's big house. He wants to go to Dejagu to meet this legendary classmate, and ask her personally what made her give up such a peerless beauty. Beautiful, choose to be an undead monster who is not even qualified to be ugly.

If the Marquis knew that she had not died but had become a lich, what would his reaction be, and what would he do? Asa couldn't help but glanced at the Marquis.

The expression of the Marquis, who was immersed in the memory, was not sad, it had surpassed sadness, but a kind of dead emptiness and bewilderment. He was silent for a while, then said softly: "Goodbye, I'm leaving." He turned and left.

Looking at his back ~IndoMTL.com~ Asa suppressed the urge to stop him and tell him the truth. Maybe he doesn't know what's best for him.

Back to the big house, Asa hesitated for a while, but did not go to get the scroll for the time being, but asked Sandro: "Do you know Vidnina before she became a lich?"

"Yes." Sandro nodded half dead.

"Then tell me why she came to the Necromancer Guild and became a Lich..."

Sandro's eyes suddenly lifted to Asa. There was no dazzling light or majestic aura in those black and white eyes, but just looking at it like this, Asa immediately shut up unconsciously.

"I find that you are becoming more and more annoying, kid, what are you doing asking about other people's dicks?" Sandro's expression and tone were not severe, as if there was no difference from usual, but Asa felt very uncomfortable .

"I'm just curious..."

"It's better for you to know less about some things." Sandro said lightly, sitting on his simple wooden bed and closing his eyes.