Then there was a murmur of people wearing armor. Soon, these kingdom heavy cavalry took away all the valuable things in the house and left the villa sparsely.
He tied the baggage to the side of the horse, then got on the horse, quickly walked out of the fence, and quickly disappeared around the corner of the street.
After waiting for a while, Friela carefully slipped down from a rope on the edge of the roof. She quietly entered the villa and soon ran out with tears on her face and clothes stained with blood.
In her arms she held a saw-like cross sword and several old books of varying thicknesses. These were all the treasures she had collected over the years.
A white line was drawn around the villa, forming a circle, and a white flag was planted on the grass inside, slowly fluttering in the wind.
Frila closed her mouth tightly to prevent herself from crying. She looked around blankly, not knowing what to do next.
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After Angele and Weiwei played two games of chess, they unilaterally tortured Weiwei to the point where she started cheating on her chess. After losing two games, she stood up and left speechlessly.
He walked along the street to his small shop. Most of the residents passing by in twos and threes on both sides of the street looked confused and fearful, chatting while walking.
Angelet vaguely heard words like 'church', 'white flag' and 'knight'.
"Hey Green!"
A bearded man with a hoe said hello. "Did you know something happened at Mayor Loria's house?"
"Uncle Misu? What's going on?" Angelet was slightly startled.
"I heard that those who colluded with wizards have been circled and raised a white flag." The strong man lowered his voice and said, "I heard that anyone who has been raised with a white flag is an associate of wizards recognized by the church and the kingdom and must be cleansed.
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"Uncle, you've heard about it too." A young girl passing by interjected, "I heard that the white flag was put up at noon. I guess the people inside will have been judged long ago..."
"It's a pity. I always thought that Mayor Loria was a good person. I didn't expect that he was an accomplice of the wizard. Maybe the ghost house on the mountain was the stronghold they created." Uncle Misu lowered his voice mysteriously.
"There are also those people who disappeared in the town a few years ago. Maybe they were captured by the wizards and turned into toads and bugs." An aunt also came over and said vividly.
A few people walked and chatted. For a time, the mayor, who had a fairly good reputation, was suddenly described as a kind-hearted but actually sinister and cunning wizard ally.
I listened silently to the chatter of a few people. Thinking of Friela who had just left my shop not long ago, I sighed slightly in my heart.
He had long known about the atmosphere of the kingdom's knights and the church from Brigitte and the wizards' letters. Many times, these people in power simply satisfied their selfish desires in the name of wizards. Mayor Loria had nothing to do with wizards.
Angelet is the clearest.
"It is said that Little Tom of Loria's family has not been caught yet, and a reward has been posted. Twenty kingdom gold coins, almost two thousand silver coins. Tsk... such a high reward for the capture of a child..." Misu
The uncle shook his head and said nothing.
"If the Loria family is a confederacy of wizards, even a child is probably not a good person. Doesn't he know the comings and goings of wizards at all? Who would believe it?" The aunt curled her lips and interrupted. "Anyway, I am.
I’m tempted, if I can really catch that kid, twenty gold coins will be enough for my family to survive for decades!”
Angelet didn't listen any more. While several people were chatting animatedly, he quietly turned into an alley on the left and took a shortcut towards his shop.
There were only two cylindrical black leather trash cans in the alley, and some fruit peels that couldn't be piled were scattered aside. They gave off a slightly sour smell.
As soon as I walked into the alley, there was a sound of neat footsteps behind me.
Bang bang bang...
Angelet looked back. A small group of town guards in white leather armor were trotting past in formation. These lazy drunkards, who usually like to eat and do nothing, were actually full of momentum at this time, and they barely looked like soldiers.
"If you discover Little Tom and report it immediately, you will receive a reward of ten gold coins!!" The town guard shouted loudly as he ran. "Discovered..."
The shouting was repeated over and over again, and the sound of trotting footsteps gradually faded away. Angelet finally looked back. When he walked between two trash cans, he suddenly stopped and reached out to gently open the trash on the right.
Bucket lid.
A small head protruded from inside, with a pair of bright and beautiful blue eyes on a dirty little face. It looked at him clearly and horrified. An oval-shaped black birthmark was clearly visible on its forehead.
Angelet looked at those eyes calmly, which were slightly red and swollen. They were full of fear and panic, as well as begging and pain.
"Tom?" He suddenly asked in a low voice, "No... no, you are Frila, right? We met this morning."
Listening to the familiar gentle voice, Friela could no longer hold back, and her tears flowed down again, leaving two long lines of gray on her gray face.
A hint of helplessness flashed in Angelet's eyes, he rubbed Frila's hair and pulled off a rag on it. "If you have nowhere to go, just follow me."
Friela carefully dug out the trash can, lowered her head and stood in front of her. Her body was filled with stench, and swarms of black flies were buzzing around her.
"Let's go. From today on, you will be Furila, the little boy in my store. Apart from your parents and relatives, I should be the only one who knows this name, right?" Angelet asked in a low voice. He looked at Furila slowly.
Nodding, he ignored the stench of garbage on the little guy's body, pulled her over, pulled off the black coat and covered her.
"I just came from Ebony Town. Are you not used to the environment here? The temperature difference here is huge. Be careful of getting sick." Angelet covered her completely with his coat and held her hand and walked to the other end of the alley.
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In any case, those knights and church personnel came for them, but instead they harmed little Tom's family. For this reason alone, Angelet could not ignore the helpless little Tom.
What's more, Angelet has a very good impression of Little Tom after so many years of getting along with him. After all, he is one of the main sources of income for his shop.
He took Furila secretly all the way back to the store.
Angelet asked her to take a shower in the backyard and rinse herself off. It was getting dark.
The fluctuations emanating from the center of the town are getting stronger and stronger. After seeing a cavalry team from the Black Robe Church entering the town in the afternoon, the fluctuations became stronger and stronger.
Angelet was not worried that he and Weiwei would be discovered. After living for hundreds of years, the most basic technique of restraining power fluctuations was a very basic skill.
What he has to do now is to completely deal with these two teams that disturb their lives after night falls.
hiss...
The silver-white blade slowly rubbed across the whetstone, splashing out tiny golden sparks.
Angelet was sitting in the backyard, holding a silver-white cross sword in his hand and slowly sharpening it on the rectangular whetstone.
After sharpening it for a while, he picked up the cross sword and gently dipped it into a basin of water at hand.
After scrubbing it, Angelet carefully put the cross sword back into its scabbard and wore it around his waist.
He stood up and glanced at Furila sleeping on the bed through the crack in the door of the inner room. Angele gently flicked out a ray of dark red light, which penetrated into Furila's nostrils like a thin thread.
The little girl tilted her head and fell asleep more deeply.
"It seems it's time to teach these overly arrogant guys a lesson..." Angelet gently pressed the hilt of the sword with his hand, closed his eyes and recalled the various sword skills he had used and witnessed. "I haven't used it for a long time.
Use pure swordsmanship to deal with the enemy."
laugh!
His figure disappeared instantly.
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On the mountainside, Green House
The small building with white walls painted white made a faint sound in the night wind.
The sky was dark, the small building was dilapidated and pitch black, and the surrounding fence was covered with green vines and thorns.
In the woods in front of the fence, two groups of people slowly walked out. One group was dressed in black robes and black cloaks. The other group's bodies were like tin cans, glowing with silver.
The leader in black robe looked at the small wooden building in the evening, with a solemn look in his eyes. "Is this the ghost building rumored in the town?"
"It should be right." A man in black robe behind him replied in a low voice.
The leader in black robe turned to look at the tin cans on one side. "Alice, you lead people to surround the surroundings. You are both the Knight Commander of the Kingdom and the Judgment Knight of the Church. You can temporarily mobilize the manpower of both parties."
"Follow the instructions." The tall man at the front of the tin can nodded. "Are you ready to go in? I don't think it's necessary. We just need to set fire to the outside. If there is something inside, we can definitely force it out easily."
"It's a good idea. Let's do it together."
The men in black robes and the cavalry immediately dispersed and surrounded the entire small building.
The black-robed leader took a torch handed over by his subordinates and drew it casually.
The torch ignited with a hiss and lit up with a bright yellow light.
"The eyes of God are watching us..." The leader prayed in a low voice and gently threw the torch forward.
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In the dense forest on the mountainside, Angelet was dressed in tight black leather armor and hurried to his small building.
After searching the town for a while but finding no one, he realized that all these people must have gone up the mountain quietly, so he had to rush up the mountain quickly.
Suddenly he stopped and looked in the direction of the small building from a distance. There was a little bit of firelight looming there.
"Are you here already?"
He slowly pulled out the cross sword and casually held it in a sword flower.
Suddenly, like a flash of lightning, the cross sword crashed into the ground.
boom!!!
The ground shook violently and there was a strong rumbling sound, as if the entire mountain began to shake.
Starting from Angelet's feet, a huge black crack snaked rapidly towards everyone in front of the small building. It was like a giant snake in the night.
Click!!
Spider web cracks suddenly appeared under Angelet's feet, and his whole body was ejected instantly, turning into a black line and rushing straight towards the black-robed leader holding a torch.
The leader turned around in a daze, and the torchlight clearly reflected his astonished old face.