Light Spirit Epic Chapter 2711: 0 years of loneliness (8)
Chapter 2711 A hundred years of loneliness (eight)
The early morning of June 2, 1431, outside the Port of Marseille, France.
A carriage is parked in the jungle. Judging from the coat of arms on the carriage, the carriage belonged to the Chamber of Commerce of the great merchant Cole. But the carriage has not entered the city for a long time, and seems to be waiting for something. Inside the carriage, a blond boy was taking a nap.
"Here," cried the white parrot on the young man's shoulder.
"Finally." The blond boy jumped out of the carriage and glanced at the forest.
A big white wolf is coming with a teenager on his back, taking advantage of the early morning fog to drive silently in the forest without attracting anyone's attention along the way.
"Hey~!" Verne waved to Arthur as soon as he approached: "We're here!"
"Verne, why are you here?" The King of Knights was a little unhappy when he saw the boy: "Didn't I tell you to find a new life of your own? We plan to go to Rome this time, and the future is dangerous. Not to play."
"I know. I've seen the note tied to the crow's foot before." Verne replied without hesitation, "But I came because I wanted to. The time when Lord Silan was on an adventure together was the brightest day of my life. Now that I can go back to an ordinary life, I can't do it anymore."
"You will die. Absolutely." Arthur said coldly: "The Order of the Pope will kill you without even half a second."
"Even so, let's get to know him." The boy said. I don't know where the stubbornness came from.
"Ow!" Bedivere snarled at Arthur.
"You're a good man, too, Bedi." Arthur gave the big white wolf a white look. No matter how Verne pestered Bedivere and asked him to bring him over, it was still easy for Bedivere to leave Verne. But this guy brought Verne all the way.
"It doesn't matter." The king of knights grunted: "Then take one step and count one step."
"So what's next? Take the boat directly from the port to Rome?" Verne asked.
"No. France has sent a lot of people to monitor the port." The knight said, "The ship can go out, but there are many eyes and ears. If we sway to go to Rome by boat, our identity will be seen by the French."
Arthur had previously warned Charles VII not to get in his way. Charles VII did comply and did not block the port. But this cunning king sent a large number of people to monitor the port, because it was just [surveillance], not [obstruction]. But Arthur didn't like being watched, and he didn't want Charles VII to know his identity so soon. God knows if that old fox still has a hand?
"So...not by boat, by land? Along the coast?" Verne asked again. He himself felt that this approach was unrealistic, so his tone was full of doubts.
"No. It's still a boat, but we have to find another way." The King of Knights replied: "And before we set off, there is one more thing to do."
"What?"
"Go to Marshal Gilles." Arthur said.
Baron Gilles de Reis, a marshal in the Anglo-French War and a loyal comrade of Joan of Arc. After Joan of Arc was framed and publicly executed, most of the "Saintess" who originally followed the Saint were sentenced or deprived of their rights by Charles VII for various crimes, while others had retired or fled France.
Only one of the original national salvation fathers, Marshal Gilles, although he was clearly identified as a supporter of Joan of Arc, no one dared to provoke him. Even King Charles VII of France had to give face to the high-ranking marshal.
If Arthur wants to get in touch with the [Saints] in order to raise enough power to compete with the Church, the Gilles Grand Marshal is the first person he will contact. It is said that the marshal was devastated by the death of Joan of Arc, and is now retreating to a village in France for recuperation. But no one could have imagined that the marshal had quietly moved to Marseille, the port city.
Arthur knows this information that most people can't know because of Merlin's help. The fact that Giles secretly moved to Marseilles is quite suspicious. Maybe the marshal has already found out the whereabouts of Joan of Arc and plans to go to Rome. If that's the case, Arthur must find and talk to Marshal Gilles about saving Joan of Arc before he leaves.
The remnants of the [Saintess] are all people who have been convened by France and have been helped by Joan of Arc. But most of them are just a group of ordinary people who don't understand the mystery and danger of magic. Let this group and the Pope Knights confront each other and they will die.
"Gills? I think it's better that you don't have contact with that kind of demon heresy." A voice said suddenly.
"Who?!" Arthur was startled.
"Be careful, Uncle Arthur!" Hyosung, who had been pretending to be a parrot in front of Verne, suddenly spoke, and except for Arthur and Hyosung, the others suddenly fell to the ground, as if they were caught by someone Bewitched by a powerful illusion.
A small, barely perceptible object flew out of the hood of Verne's clothes. The thing that was talking just now turned out to be a bee.
"Who are you?" Arthur asked calmly with one hand on the weapon at his waist.
"Good to meet, King Arthur." A deep and mysterious echo came from the bee: "This is my familiar. And my name, Your Excellency may have heard it. My name is Patu. Nas."
"Patunas..." Arthur spent half a second thinking about it. correct. Is it the old dragon that Shaxing mentioned before? The nail-biting household who has remained in England and refused to leave. And this old dragon is estimated to be really powerful (after all, it has lived for such a long time), even the evil star who is now the Dragon Emperor has no choice but to let this old dragon go.
"The old man actually cares about the affairs of the human world?" Hyosung snorted. One of the tasks that Shaxing left to Hyosung was to monitor Patunas who remained in England—to monitor without irritating the old dragon.
"I had some holidays with the church. After all, they killed my lover." Patunas said: "So you have to deal with the church, and I will be happy to help."
"Oh? How exactly?" Arthur smiled and said, "Isn't the old man planning to rush over from England to help attack the Holy See?"
"I'm getting old, so leave the physical work to you young people. I can provide some help from the side. For example, to give you useful information."
"For example?"
"Marshal Gilles is actually a dark wizard, proficient in all kinds of evil black magic. His previous research was so evil that he was even spurned and expelled by the Mages Association. He was expelled from the Mages Association. I won't go into detail about the means used to become a nobleman in France." Patunas' voice echoed in the bee, "but I don't think he is that easy to change. The essence of human beings is extremely difficult to change, even if he encounters a saint like the dawn in his life."
"Interesting." Arthur hummed: "If we touch this Grand Marshal at will, we may offend another force that can be used. Is that what you mean?"
"That's exactly what it means. Even now, people from the Mage Association are still monitoring the Grand Marshal Gilles. If Mou Ran contacts Gilles, it will definitely attract the attention of the Mage Association."
"But conversely, you can also use this to contact the Mage Association." Arthur suddenly understood the other party's intention: "The Mage Association also hates the Church."
"Exactly." Patunas hummed. That kind of laughter echoed off the bees, quite eerie.
This is the hard part. It is not only necessary to contact the Marshal without irritating the Mages Association, but also to form an alliance with the Mages Association without angering the Marshal and the Saintess. If you want to borrow troops from both sides at the same time, you don't want to offend either party, but it is quite difficult.
"Anyway, get in touch with Marshal Gilles first. There will always be a way." Arthur said, at the same time he picked up Bedivere and Verne, who had fallen to the ground, and threw them into the carriage.
"I'll ask you one last question." Patunas said: "In order to save the Holy Maiden, you are determined to fight against the Church. But to what extent are you specifically planning to fight against the Church? Only to save the Holy Maiden Even if it still paralyzes the command center of the entire church, or does it want to completely destroy the church?"
"Is this a test of me?" asked the King of Knights.
"I'm just confirming your measure, His Majesty King Arthur." Patunas hummed: "Depending on your answer, I'll decide how much help I actually lend you."
"Yeah." The King of Knights scratched his head irritably: "In this era, almost all people believe in religion. Isn't it obvious that they can't fight against the church and let such a huge organization be destroyed?"
"Indeed."
"Then, logically speaking, I only need to save Joan of Arc." Arthur said: "My ultimate goal is to save Joan of Arc. We are not people of this era, once we save Joan of Arc , it's time to return to the era that belongs to us, and have nothing to do with this era.------Is this not possible?"
"It's true." Patunas said: "But has your Majesty ever thought that even if your spirit leaves this era, it will continue without your era? You left, but were brought to you by you. What about the people on the battlefield? What about the people who are involved in disputes with the church because of this? You are just trying to save your woman, and you are setting off a never-ending bloodbath in this era. Have you thought about making up for it all?"
Arthur smiled: "How could a reclusive old dragon care so much about humans? Which side are you on, sir?"
"I have lived for a long time, and have been observing human beings during these long years. Human beings are more interesting than imagined, much more interesting. A species that can have [Golden Will] and [Dark Heart] at the same time, Creatures who can compose a hymn of courage with their own blood and flesh are only human beings on this earth.
So, King Arthur, Rong Laoxiu asks again:
Are you going to take a shortcut, just take the Holy Maiden and leave it alone?
Or take the hardest path and win this war and give everyone a real future? "
"Of course it is------" replied the King of Knights: "Find out and kill the mastermind behind this series of events~IndoMTL.com~ Completely annihilate the Pope's Knights, and wipe out the central system guarded by the Pope. , let the church be destroyed. Not a single guilty person will be spared, and all of them will be caught and killed. In the name of God, they are doing the devil's deeds behind their backs. Such hypocrisy will be punished by heaven!"
The other party was silent for half a second.
"Good answer." Patunas said: "Then I will observe for a while. If you sincerely want to fulfill your promise, the old man will lend you his strength."
The bee suddenly accelerated and flew forward, Arthur dodged subconsciously. But the moment the bee brushed past Arthur's face, it turned into something else, the bee needle pierced the earlobe of Arthur's left ear, and a dark gold earring was set on the earlobe. Arthur started to buckle it, but found that the earring was almost integrated with his earlobe and could not be removed at all. This is probably a powerful tracking spell cast by Patunas.
"Uncle Arthur, are you okay?" Hyosung asked.
"It's fine." It doesn't hurt or itch on the earlobe, you can leave it alone for the time being. Arthur jumped into the carriage and whipped the horse with a whip: "Anyway, go and meet the Marshal Gilles first."