Black Scepter Chapter 13: Soul crisis
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Since Morpheus knew that Andariel’s strength will steadily increase, he has been thinking about how to deal with this dangerous person. At present, Andariel’s existence is "chicken ribs", but there is no excessive use of value. You can’t just give up. After all, the hatred between the two is the main reason for today’s situation.
Does Morpheus have hatred for Andalil in his heart? Yes, but it has gradually dissipated with her "softness" and various encounters. Perhaps this is the difference between humans and purgatory demons. Andariel's "hatred" cannot disappear, because that seems to be the only reason for her to live. .
When Morpheus returns to the tavern, the sky is getting late-the hotness of countless entertainment venues after the sunset has already explained the prosperity of Buttigia, but for the "night watchman" consul, the arrangement of the night is always monotonous and boring Yes, training, magic training, reading books, sleep time is compressed to four hours Morpheus has been crazy to improve his strength, and after receiving the teachings of Hesser, he can clearly notice his body in Every day changes, and he also feels that the reappearing magic pattern on his body is approaching the edge of being lifted again.
Hegel and Heisel did not venture out, honestly staying next door to Morpheus, and he did not bother to look up at the starry sky andrael outside the house, quietly looking at the classics inside the house.
"Tap."
The door was knocked suddenly, Morpheus raised his head, but was surprised to see Jeanna pushing in the door.
This kind of situation is rare. Jeanna has never been a knight who will take the initiative to take care of others. Especially after experiencing a "death", she seems to have lost the most basic human communication ability.
"What's wrong?"
Morpheus asked in doubt, and put down his classics.
Jeana in a black armor looks hesitant. She stood still in front of Morpheus for a long time without speaking. Eventually, she made a statement in the spirit state: "I want to talk to you."
"Sit down and talk."
Morpheus frowned and looked involuntarily at the figure of Andaril outside the window. The latter looked up at the starry sky without any movement, without a word, seemingly unaware.
"I have never seen you take the initiative to say anything for a long time, but before you speak, I have a question." Morpheus asked frankly: "Is your question caused by Andalil? "
Jona’s black helmet visor appeared to have some hesitation, and finally lowered slightly, saying: "Yes."
No more questions about Morpheus, nodded and said softly, "I just confirm, you say, what do you want to talk about?"
"From...you."
Let Na seem to be unfamiliar with this vocabulary. When she spoke, she took a little stumbling block. "I just want to know, "freedom" is really so important for a person?"
Morpheus looked at the knight in front of him, silent for a while, and shook his head: "There is a book that says: "Everyone has eyes, but it does not mean that they can see the world. Most people don’t look, but only hear others. Said, so their world will always be what others say.'"
Make Na silent, the faint blue light flashing behind that faceplate is slightly dim.
Morpheus continued: "The world is different. In your eyes, in my eyes, in her eyes, it is all like this."
"I don't understand these." Jeana shook her head. "I seem to be curious about many things, and she told me that'freedom' is the goal everyone pursues."
"Curious is not wrong, but you must have your own judgment." Morpheus pointed to himself, "I just said, seeing is believing."
Jeana rarely seems to have said so much. She is silent for a while, and she seems to stop discussing the issue. Then she whispers suddenly, "I seem to...touch the limit of this armor."
"What do you mean?"
Morpheus did not respond, he frowned, "This armor cannot hold your soul?"
"I can't control the growth of my soul. This armor seems to have been unable to completely accommodate my soul... Andariel said that I will eventually dissipate again because there is no "container."
Let Na raise her head, "Although I don't have too many attachments to this world, I still feel my inner fear--the fear of the dissipation of my soul."
"She is threatening you."
Morpheus's heart suddenly became a little unspeakable sullen-a few words of Andariel made Na feel the fear... this is definitely not a good thing.
"No, I can feel that she is telling the truth, although she has her own purpose." Jeana laid her hands over her leg armor and rubbed her fingers gently against the blade, "But I didn't Solution, isn't it?"
Inexplicably, Morpheus suddenly felt the hopelessness that had never been seen from this knight-this silent emotion made him even dare not look directly at Jeana’s faceplate...
"There will be a way." Morpheus took a deep breath, squeezed his fist, and then slowly loosened, "There must be a way."
Looking at the Morpheus's head-down narrative, Jeanna suddenly had a mood swing that she had never had before.
She doesn’t even know why.
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The next day, Morpheus appeared in front of the gate of the dean of the "Phoenix" Magic Academy in Buttigia.
No one invited this dangerous and sensitive guy to the highest school of Balice’s magic. His uninvited one was also accepted and welcomed by Carlo. The door was opened and was originally William, the dean of William's attack, stepped forward and greeted Morpheus with the Master's Gift.
Everything that followed was very ceremonial. The two didn’t talk too much, and ended in less than an hour. They left “Phoenix”, and Morpheus rushed to the “Frost” Academy non-stop, and also got the Academy. Long welcome-only the "Rock Dragon" where Dean Jiading is located did not let Morpheus enter. The two deans of the three major magical academies had a brief exchange of views with Morpheus.
Why? Naturally, it is the amazing background behind Morpheus’s mentor Della—although the Dean will not “fuck” Morpheus for noble exchanges, he understands that as a member of the Golden Compass Council, he must give some protection to the “Law” Council. Basic etiquette and "face".
Morpheus is not stupid, so while taking advantage of his "protected" identity is not outdated, pay close attention to the use of the resources in his hands-Morpheus can be a great benefit after talking with two dean masters who are more than i-level. First, "Phoenix" provided Morpheus with some books about the soul for research, and there are also two key documents for the construction of the space boundary, which can basically be regarded as an indefinite lease-the talkative Carlo seems to understand the Morpheus identity behind Some other things also provided a valuable robe for Morpheus, saying that as his apprentice Sunderland found a goal in Lampard "thank you."
In contrast, "Frost" is a bit colder, and the dean of the Golden Compass Council, Valdes, gave a rare version of the book of the magic map, and the conversation ended with a few words of greeting.
This is the case with Rao. Morpheus is also quite fruitful. On the fifth day of Balice, the royal family once again subpoenaed Morpheus for the second round of negotiations. This time, His Majesty Hasselblad did not carry out any extra work with Morpheus. Confrontation, straightforward agreement to allow Morpheus to continue to develop in East Ballice, and stated that a considerable number of troops can be sent to fight possible wars, but at the cost of Lampard’s tax increase within ten years, and the kingdom When there is a mission, Lampard needs to obey.
For Morpheus who has been blackmailed all the way, Lampard’s tax increase has been completely unaffordable for ten years.
In general, the royal family was completely in a disadvantaged position in the negotiations, and the final intention reached also showed the softness of the Mocledy family-they did not hold Hegel and Hessel, and Morpheus It is not important to understand that you are unsuccessful in the success of Varian’s "showing good", and nodded in agreement to this brief and secret negotiation.
"The empire does not need the huge profits brought by war, but the stability and well-being of the people's lives," His Majesty Hasu said sullenly before Morpheus left: "If the empire cannot maintain stability because of you, then Next time, I will not make such a regression."
Morpheus did not give any promises or replies. The young man just smiled and turned away as if he was good.
In the evening of the same day, the team of Morpheus went straight back to East Ballice, and even Hegel and Heisel did not expect that the young magistrate would actually fight the royal family and achieve such terrible results, only I can sigh in his heart that he was young.
But Morpheus has a heavy heart and no complacent look. He looked at pages of high authority books about space transmission and soul in the carriage, sleeping all night.
But in the palace, another conversation was profound.
"It's not the first time that the Mocledy Royal Family has done so by retreating."
Hetto never showed up during the meeting of His Majesty the Emperor with Morpheus. He looked at the parchment in his hand, and he didn’t seem to be surprised by His Majesty Hasu’s “soft clothing”, whispering: “It’s just impossible Is the rooting disaster really safe?"
"Hegel and Heisel exerted invisible pressure on me. The northern generals were not playing tricks. To be honest, I also thought I had carried a stone and smashed my foot. He can subdue two guys who should have been dealt with," Hasselblad still admitted his missteps as usual, "but the Empire will not suffer any impact because of Lampard's territory, and the nautical road has just opened. I believe this huge potential is sufficient to recover the wealth and economy lost from him."
"Of course, when the time is right, I will let him understand what a mature ruler will decide."
"You mean, will the royal family fight this guy sooner or later?"
"Whoever has a war with him will not be limited to the Mocledy royal family. I believe that the existence of a threat to him on this continent will come to the door sooner or later, and let the decision be announced to the public, Mocle. The Di family can disintegrate the Glass family in a generation. What can a young Mao child do?"
His Majesty Hasselblad narrowed his eyes and continued: "After all, the meeting place of the Knights of the Round Table parliament is in Balice, which is not simply a coincidence."
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Cityline.
In the month after the lord left, one team after another came from Sibalice-logically speaking, although East Balice and Sibalice had trade, they were actually On the other hand, it is not frequent, because the slightly barren East Palice is short of supplies, self-sufficient and okay. "Trade surplus" is already an unimaginable concept, so when these seeming caravan guys appear in the west In Sellin, Sunderland, who lives in the city, did not understand what this meant.
However, he soon discovered that most of these teams came to enrich the resources of the post-war city-such things as transporting a cart of food, armaments, cloth, etc. to the Earl’s Court without asking for return Needless to say, who knows who did it.
Sunderland fully accepted the materials brought by these teams. It is even more incredible that there are three more than 100 knights and a sufficient number of war horses. Finally, the Morpheus that was a shabby carriage appeared. The number of carts is unimaginable.
This is the result of the blackmail by Morpheus along the way, just like the elf slavery team that has not opened for three years and has eaten for three years. The harvest of Morpheus has made the Lampard territory breathe from the wounds of war almost immediately.
However, when he returned to the territory, he still did not have any relaxed expression. After Hegel started to reorganize the order of the territory, Morpheus directly led Hessel and Jeanna into Arantis, while Andariel He was ordered to stay in the Earl's Court underground, and he was not allowed to move around.
"I have never known why His Majesty Hasselt valued you so much, and even would rather promise you harsh conditions rather than tearing his face," Heysel said with wide eyes when he first entered Arantis. I don’t have a clever opinion, "This underground city has made your territory more than the sum of the three big lords of East Ballice, which is incredible!"
"The territorial area cannot explain any problems, if possible, I would rather not have this extra territory."
Morpheus took Hassel and Jeanna to the top of the first underground world by gravity. After nearly a month of reconstruction and construction, the team of thousands of people has changed most of the appearance of the entire underground world. ——First of all, the brightly lit aboriginal buildings have become a residential area suitable for human habitation, and part of the city has become the unique red glow of the furnace-more than 500 powerful blacksmiths are here almost day and night Constantly striking and striking, amazing weapons for the makers of the territory, and after the return of the Morpheus blackmail, this area was obviously expanded again, at least thousands of blacksmiths were the cavalry to be built in the future. The regiment and infantry regiment armaments provide a strong guarantee of productivity.
In the area under construction, three lumber yards occupying different edges of the city have been established. In the corner, the night elf Krenze leads the members of the ethnic group who are willing to come to make long bows. Create a long-range weapon with amazing range for Morpheus.
Morpheus first inspected a circle, arranged in his heart the three other teams to live in, and then exchanged some opinions with Krenze-this night elf brought some good news, One is that night elves have more and more people choose to come to live in the first layer of the world, which means that the amount of longbows will be made larger and larger, and it is after he learns that the Brest family has been taken by Andariel The decision made after the direct genocide: the night elves are willing to teach their ancestral archery as a return for the disappearance of their "enemy".
This Morpheus agrees happily, but apparently Krenze still has something to say, which seems inexplicable. Morpheus understands this. After all, the night elf race is difficult to completely open to humans after being closed for too long. What to talk about.
However, just after leaving the area where the night elves lived, Heisel who was always by the side of Morpheus said in surprise: "Boy, I really did not expect there are elves here...you know, in the north, those ice and snow are still there The guys who can hit a target 400 meters away are almost extinct!"
"Have you ever seen an elf?"
Morpheus Although I have heard from Elendal that the elves are living in the north, they did not expect that the northern nobleman had even seen it-but Hegel never said a word about it.
"Only a few times, about ten years ago, a group of elves passed by the area where we lived. The tribe had a conflict with them, but ended in defeat. Our warriors were shot into the sieve without even having time to come. Fortunately, they haven’t been around for too long..." Heysel narrowed his eyes to recall the details that had happened, but his answer also confirmed the fact that Hegel did not know about this matter, because the Glass family was in the early twenties. It fell apart many years ago, and Hegel came to Ballice ten years ago.
No more questions, Morpheus took Heisel to a house that had been built and turned his head and said: "I am the chief governor of the "night watchman" and I have hired you as an infantry instructor in the territory. If you refuse, I will not have any opinion, but just dismiss you as a deputy head of the Cavalry Regiment after being deprived by the royal family to arrange a more suitable identity for you."
What does the silly Heisel want? Once he used his own efforts to gain recognition from others, and proved that he was not stupid, but the facts told him ruthlessly that he was not suitable for embarking on the path of pursuing power, so after being cut to death by his subordinate knight Heisel has completely understood what he needs now.
"I just want to ask one question." Heisel hesitated and seemed to organize the language. "If one day, you really fight with the royal family, can you spare those brothers who are also from the north?"
"I have no problems letting them go, but the only question I need is...whether the royal family will let them go."
Morpheus has a meaningful and honest answer.
Heysel is also a little silent, his own experience may be the encounter of those brothers.
"I will find a way, and I will do it." Morpheus sighed and promised.
Heysel nodded, realizing that he seemed to owe this young man more and more, and replied: "I will not say more about other things. I have no problem with the instructor."
"This is your work area. The next time, the territory will select the strongest soldiers to come here to receive your training. The power is in your hands. Let them reach their potential limits." Morpheus then pointed to For yourself, "Of course, don't forget to guide me."
Heysel nodded, his expression serious.
Finally let Na follow Morpheus to the renovated Kleinman family castle. All the internal repairs here have been completed, and the renovated building is completely suitable for the night watchman to take root here.
When I came to the study room where Prince William might have stayed, Morpheus looked around. There was no gloomy feeling in the underground castle. Lighted candles and various solid wood furniture and warm-toned carpets were not worse than the Byzantine Duke’s House. It's just a lot of luxury, and it's luxurious, but the original books on the bookshelf have been decaying in the long years, and now it is a magical theory book that Morpheus has moved.
Stay in this room that may be the main office area of Morpheus in the future, he directly started the next work-"Jeana, can you take off your helmet?"
Morpheus finds records about the state of the soul from the words and words in the book. At this moment, Jeana is in the "condensed state" of the soul, that is, between the "spirit and soul" of the positive **** and the "ghost" state of the dead creature. .
Jena hesitated for a moment, and finally reached out and took off her helmet in accordance with the requirements of Morpheus. Behind the slow movement, her long blue hair shone like a waterfall, and her face was translucent. It is exactly the same as what Morpheus remembers, but it is as vague as a layer of gauze.
It's just that her eyes are no longer as pale and dull as before, but it seems that she has never used this face to show people. She rarely lowered her head and seemed a little ashamed.
Morpheus suddenly felt a little bit tight in his heart-because it was all caused by his negligence.
He reached out and wanted to touch Na's long hair in Jean's somewhat surprised eyes, but his fingers passed straight through, and he could not touch anything.
"Why can’t I touch your soul, but you can support this armor?"
Morpheus pursed her lips~IndoMTL.com~ asked in a low voice.
"I can only support this armor-it can be controlled by the soul, and no other armor can do this." Saying, let Na reach out and take off the Kel'gar holy armor Gloves, long and equally translucent palms reaching Morpheus, but through the chest.
"In a sense, this armor is my other pair", but it is endowed with some other abilities-such as devouring weak souls. "Janna is willing to help Morpheus The intention of cooperation is to actively say many words that are not known to outsiders. "And without it, I can only be a ghost in the eyes of others. I can do nothing but burn soul energy."
"But in that case, will the soul not be damaged?"
Morpheus frowned, "If the armor can't hold you, why don't you just take it off?"
"It's a shackle, and I can't leave this armor completely." Jeana pointed to her chest. "Its designers didn't seem to intend to let any soul that entered this armor leave."
"No." Morpheus shook his head and resolutely replied: "Since it is artificial, there must be a way to change it."