Chapter 58: Dusk
Yiling Bernard Castle.
The setting sun slants across the mountainous city, covered in a deep red hue. The setting sun is late and the silhouettes of two or three people make this majestic pass even more majestic and desolate. The reflections of the peaks and mountains are cast on the city walls, watchtowers, and corridors.
Half of the wide atrium avenue was also submerged in shadow. It was as if these vicissitudes of buildings, like the surrounding mountains, had learned to listen quietly to the sound of time passing by, watching the people coming and going indifferently, wondering who was in charge of the ups and downs.
He doesn't care about the changes in the country.
On the walkway leading to the royal camp in the back courtyard, two members of the Royal Knights were walking talking and laughing.
"Hey, is that pretty woman just now Master Fei Yue?"
"Yeah, what's wrong?"
"Wow, isn't she very old? I didn't expect that she can still maintain her beauty and charm." The knight said with a lewd smile on his face.
"Isn't that right? Yesterday I saw her and Prince Reza's daughter standing together. They really looked like a pair of twin sisters. At her age, it's not too much to be a mother to the prince's daughter, right?"
"Ha, how do you know she isn't?"
"Shh! Don't talk nonsense. Be careful, the people from the Resa Corps will listen and tear your skin off."
"Tch, Your Majesty is here. I still don't believe that these Maine people dare to do anything to us, the Royal Knights."
At this time, on the cylindrical tower not far from them, there was a woman who listened coldly to these obscene words, with a scornful smile on her lips. She let the evening wind blow through her frost-stained temples, lightly rubbing her smile lines.
Lift it up slightly and let the afterglow fall, reflecting on your smooth cheeks.
"Falcon" Fetimo, who was hurriedly running up the city wall, was frightened by the scene in front of him. He suddenly stopped and stared at the woman a few steps away without saying a word.
"Here we come." The woman did not turn around, still staring at the mountains to the north.
"Yeah." Fetimo replied softly. He didn't wear his usual pair of gold disc glasses today, and his hair, which was already approaching gray, was carefully taken care of. Looking at the woman's profile, he couldn't help but sigh.
He said: "I haven't seen you for several years, right? You are still the same as before. I am too old to see anyone."
"I have the impression that you have always looked like this all these years." The woman turned around and looked at Feitimo with a smile, "Oh, maybe you have lost some hair."
"Fei Yue, we have been friends for decades. You don't have to be like this, right? I praise you a few words, but you also criticize me a few words?" Fei Timo said with a helpless smile.
"Yes, after you said that, I realized that decades have passed in just a blink of an eye." Master Feiyue said with some emotion.
"Oh, I can still vaguely remember the time when I was studying at Tide College. I had so many classmates and friends. Now that I think about it, I have only a few close friends. Some of them are no longer in this world." Fei Timo recalled the past and also
Then he sighed.
"I'm different from you. I don't have much contact with those classmates. I don't care if they die or not." Fei Yue said calmly.
"Yes, for a person as talented and persistent as you, how many people can fall under your eyes?"
"Are you mocking me?" Fei Yue asked, staring at Feitimo.
"No, I just feel a little ashamed. I often lecture those students, telling them to specialize and be dedicated, but compared to you, I am still far behind after all."
"Why do I feel like there's something in your words?" Fei Yue glanced at Feitimo.
"That's not true. Maybe I'm getting older and more confused. In the past few years, I often ask myself, is the persistence of magic so important? Is it worth a magician to spend his whole life pursuing?
?I always felt that to become a master like you and a role model for my peers is what I should do
I don’t know why, but there is a sentence that often echoes in my mind in the past few years, especially after I saw the magic the child used recently, I have become more and more suspicious of myself." Fetimo said.
Fei Yue looked at the afterglow in the sky, pondered for a while and said: "Most magicians only have an infinite desire for magic power, and their understanding of higher levels of material time and space is too superficial."
"You still remember this sentence..." Fei Timo looked at Fei Yue in astonishment.
"She should be regarded as a woman that I admire more, but... I don't agree with the idea of getting married and having children." Fei Yue said, "By the way, how is his child? Now he is like his mother.
Those things left behind, right?”
Fetimo nodded, "How should I put it, this kid Alvin looks a bit like her, but he's not like her at all."
"Don't talk about these mysterious words. I only know that he played my female student around." Master Feiyue said angrily.
"It's not just the female students in your family, isn't it Master Piro's female students as well?" Fetimo smiled a little unruly at this time.
"Thankfully that little brat isn't here, otherwise I, as a teacher, would definitely teach him a lesson for my own student."
"You are already old, but you still have the same experience as children?"
"How about you become a teacher and take his place?" Fei Yue looked at Fei Timo with a playful smile.
"Oh, no, no, no, you're kidding me. How can I withstand your beating?" Fetimo said with a sad look on his face.
"Old vulture, actually you shouldn't have come this time." Fei Yue smiled and her face gradually turned cold, "Why don't you find an excuse to stay in the academy?"
Fei Timo's heart trembled, and he thought, was she hinting at something?
Then he smiled and said: "After all, I am also at the level of a great mage. If I don't come, I'm afraid I won't be able to teach in the courtyard anymore."
Fei Yue smiled and said nothing more.
"Hey, what is that? Why is there smoke? Is it water leakage?" Fetimo said, looking at the royal camp not far away.
"It seems so." Fei Yue glanced at it as if she didn't care, "Before the war, the camp caught fire, which is an ominous sign."
"I have to take a look quickly." Fetimo turned around and was about to walk down the city. Before he could take a step forward, he thought to himself: "If I die this time, I will just come to see her for the last time."
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Yaofan coastline. A hundred miles northeast of Xituo City.
An army of more than five thousand people was marching at full speed, stirring up bursts of smoke and dust. No one seemed to care about the dusky waves, and no one was greedy for the gorgeous glow.
"What are you rushing for? Calculating the distance, you must be able to make it in time." Alvin looked at Onian and asked in confusion, then leaned closer to her and reminded her in a low voice: "You haven't seen these royal cavalry, all of them have pale faces.
Bai, they are almost exhausted."
Alvin felt that O'Ni'an had been a little abnormal these past two days, always looking restless. Even though he killed the Tingxiao people so happily that day, O'Ni'an didn't show any joy.
"Where are your brothers? Why do you think there are two missing?" Onian did not answer his doubts, but asked him.
"Are you talking about Lai Wu and Chen Zhu? Of the two of them, one is restricted by his own father, and the other is seriously injured. It's quite difficult for them." Alvin joked with a smile.
"Is Levo the Duke of Nanton's child?" O'Nian asked for no reason.
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"That's right, don't you know?" Alvin thought to himself that with Onian's delicate heart, she naturally knew the pedigree of first-class nobles like Saliushi. Judging from her frowning expression, she must be
Thinking about other things.
"I remember, Chen Zhu should be the son of Duke Qian Xiao, right?"
"Yes." Alvin nodded, "Wait, what do you want to say?"
He also reacted very quickly. He immediately caught some clues from O'Nian's questions, and he frowned and started thinking.
"Don't you think it's strange? First, the two Dukes Nanton and Jisugi left the front line and led their troops to save Xituo City. Then Duke Qianxiao's son also stopped following us to the front line."
Alvin suddenly fell silent when she said this. In fact, he could think of 10,000 ways to refute her, but what he is best at is to think of the worst side of things first, because in this way, he will be more vulnerable to the impact of reality.
He suffered the least damage. From the moment of suspicion, he seemed to have fallen into the abyss of darkness, and kept falling weightlessly. He looked at the light that was out of reach and was at a loss. Like a goldfish, he looked funny.
He opened and closed his mouth, but no sound came out.
Onian looked at Alvin at this time, bouncing on the horse, completely like a puppet.
"Now you know why I'm in such a hurry?" Onian said quietly.
"This doesn't mean anything. Maybe it's just that the Dukes are afraid of going to the battlefield? Plus, they feel sorry for their children, so it makes sense." Alvin said, and he himself knew that this explanation was too far-fetched. He still remembered
My father said, "A thousand-year-old tortoise and a ten-thousand-year-old tortoise." These tortoises made similar actions, which is worth thinking about.
"You've thought about it for so long and you just came up with such an explanation?" O'Nian's words were sarcastic.
"Then we'd better hurry up and leave as soon as possible." Alvin said with an unkind expression.
However, at this time, the urgent team stopped.
The leaders, Alvin and Onian, looked at the burnt wooden trestle in shock for a moment.
"Oh, I remembered that when Tingxiao's mercenaries were surrounded and suppressed, more than a thousand people escaped." Alvin suddenly said, "They must have burned down the trestle because they were afraid of our pursuit.
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"I also thought about too many things, and I forgot about this." Onian said helplessly.
Alvin dismounted and inspected the surrounding terrain, looking at the wide mountain stream to the west, rushing down, directly into the Yaoyuan Sea to the east. This wooden trestle originally spanned the mountain stream, connecting two high slopes.
Yes, now all the supports have been burned and destroyed, only the wooden piles submerged in the water are still intact.
He just wanted to raise his hand to cast magic, but was stopped by Onian.
"what you do?"
"Build an ice bridge to get out, otherwise? More than 5,000 people have to cross, right?"
"Don't waste your magic power here. For such a big project, let the magicians from the mercenary group do it."
"Why?" Alvin asked strangely.
"I guess I won't be able to have a good rest in the past two days. You have spent your magic power now, and it will not be easy to recover. There are many dangerous situations to face when you arrive at the front line of Yiling Bernard." Onian said in a deep voice.
Alvin nodded, "It makes sense. You are still thoughtful."
So he rode his horse to the rear of the team. The four mercenary groups had been marching behind the royal cavalry. He told Langyun to take dozens of magicians to the front to build an ice bridge.
At this time, in Xi Tuo City, the two Dukes who were having a lively chat would have jumped out of their skins if they knew that these damn Tingxiao people would be so abusive. But these two people did not want the princess to be absent at all.
Chapter completed!