Only a corner of it is exposed on the ground, and more parts are buried deep in the soil. There is also a fallen tree on top of it.
In disgrace, Ella used a branch to push away the soil, and painstakingly dug a small pit under the big tree. The gold coin lost its support and fell into the pit after being pressed. Ella used two fingers to lift the gold coin.
He picked it up, blew the mud off it, and put it in his pocket.
Most of the members of the Ancient Church of Abraham died at the hands of Jochebed. Habiba was missing. She could not move the unconscious Gottfried by herself. Although she also tried to walk to a nearby town to seek help.
He asked for help, but since she was penniless, no one wanted to help him.
She was tired and hungry. Fortunately, there were many carcasses of animals that had been burned to death in the woods. Ella dug out some not too burnt food that could barely satisfy her hunger.
The day passed, and Gottfried showed no sign of waking up.
So Ella could only start collecting the gold coins buried deep in the soil as mentioned at the beginning. They were all relics of the Semites. Although their bones were gone, their clothes and other things were well preserved.
It was just that the storm in Jochebed had blown these things down very deep, so it was very difficult to dig them out.
Ella needs these things more than the dead now.
On the second day, Habiba's voice came from the distance: "Apprentice! Apprentice! Scream! I'm here to save you! Master has a unique skill of pretending to be dead. You only need to learn a few or two.
If you succeed, you can survive... Apprentice! Apprentice! Come out quickly! I still have half a roast chicken here!"
After hearing this, Ella responded loudly. After a while, a group of Semitic people came over with a roar. Habiba walked at the front of the crowd, chewing half of what he just said with relish.
Just roast chicken.
"I saw that the situation was not going well, so I ran to Flanders to find help. I knew that there was a village there where the Ancient Abraham Church gathered. But when I got there, I found that there were not many magic people there. Fortunately, Jochebed
They have been killed by the members of the Abrahamic Orthodox Church, and there is nothing left for us to do without us."
Habiba threw the chicken bones back and glanced at Gottfried lying on the ground.
"What happened to my apprentice?"
"I don't know...he has been unconscious for more than a day."
"Dizzy? That's okay. I'll splash him with cold water when I get back and he'll get up."
Ella began to wonder if Gottfried was Habiba's direct disciple.
After reporting the death of the remaining people, the Semites who had followed Habiba quietly dispersed and collected the remaining clothes of the deceased in the forest. They piled the collected clothes together, and then gathered around
Beside those clothes, I bowed my head and started to pray.
Their prayers were so unclear that Ella only understood one sentence:
"Blessed are you, who go to meet the true judge."
After the prayer, they stuffed the clothes into a cart. Habiba said that this was to take them back to the gathering place of the ancient Abrahamic church for burial.
This surprised Ella again: "They and these dead people should not know each other, right?"
"It's all the same," Habiba said, "these who died were the rich, and the ones I brought were the poor. But whether rich or poor, we members of the Ancient Church of Abraham are all homeless.
"
As Jochebed said, the Count of Île-de-France did not actually have any spies. This group of members of the Ancient Abrahamic Church walked straight towards Flanders along the road without encountering any interrogation along the way.
Ella was going to go to the port of Flanders to board the ship and return to Stade by sea, so she followed them. Because they were carrying the relics of the deceased, everyone was silent along the way.
They soon arrived at the village where members of the Ancient Abrahamic Church gathered. It was built on a very remote hill, far away from the cities and villages where the Alemannic Federation people lived.
Suddenly, someone in the crowd let out a scream, breaking the tranquility of the team. He pointed with trembling fingers to the small village in the distance - which was engulfed in a sea of fire.
The crowd became commotion, throwing down their carts and rushing toward the village. They dug out buckets, washbasins, and even wooden bowls from places where the fire had not yet started, and stumbled to the well. They filled the river with water and stumbled again.
He ran back and threw it at the burning houses.
Ella stood there blankly. She had vaguely noticed something - although the fire was so strong, there was no cry from the village.
The fire burned from noon to night before it was finally extinguished. Ninety percent of the houses were destroyed by the flames. People walked silently among the charcoal piles, looking for their relatives.
The good news is that those who remained in the village appear to have evacuated elsewhere, and there were no casualties.
Among the few houses that survived, one had several large characters written in red paint on the wall:
"Go to hell, demons!"
"Devil...?" Ella asked cautiously, "Why is it a demon..."
"A few days ago, people nearby all dreamed about the scene of the burning village of Jochebed. Jochebed, like us, is a Semitic." Habiba's tone no longer had any lightness in it, "Actually,
We are not very popular in the Alemannic Federation."
"I dreamed about that dream too, but it wasn't you who did it! Why would they do such a thing!" Ella shouted, "I will take you to the local lord and ask him to avenge you. Let those who
Those who burned your village will be punished!"
"It's useless. The lords even ignore the people of the Alemannic Federation, let alone us? Besides, we Semites are not within the legal protection scope of the Alemannic Federation."
The speaker sighed, picked up the little food his family had left, and said to the others: "Let's go, it's time to build a village somewhere else."
Others followed his example and found the remaining useful things among the ashes.
"Your village was burned down for no reason! Are you just going to tolerate it?" Ella shouted.
"You can't help them. This is our life." Habiba sighed, "Who allowed our country to be destroyed more than 1,500 years ago? A race that has lost its country can live as a slave.
It’s already a blessing.”
“Isn’t the Tianfang Empire the country of your Semites?”
"That is not our country... From top to bottom in the Tianfang Empire, from the elderly to the children, everyone has gone astray in their beliefs."
"But we are not afraid." Someone said from the side, "There will be a savior who will take us out of our suffering - this is God's promise to us."
Ella suddenly understood why they prayed like this to their dead compatriots:
