When he opened his eyes, it felt like a hundred years had passed. Noel's mind went blank, and his perception of time and space gradually recovered as the warm midday sun appeared in his field of vision and the surrounding walls appeared.
It hurts a lot, my chest feels tight, as if I'm being pressed by a boulder, and I can't breathe.
He wanted to do something, but his arms were numb and stiff. The slightest movement made him feel electric current flowing through him, and he couldn't help but let out a "hiss".
There was a noise on the other side of his sight, and following the sound of footsteps, a familiar face appeared in his still somewhat shaken field of vision.
"Lu...Yu?"
He saw the look of relief on this guy's face, and he couldn't tell how many worries he had vomited out in that long sigh, and then he lay down on the chair next to him with a relieved look on his face.
"I...hiss..." The injured area was pulled, and Noel gritted his teeth in pain, "How long have you been sleeping?"
"Four days exactly."
"Everything okay in Sligo?"
"Because you faked your death once before. Although there are rumors, no one believes it to be true."
Noel didn't expect that his last fake death could pave the way for this incident.
"When did you come?"
"On the day of your accident, I felt that I might not be able to do anything in time..."
"Silent and others...are not in trouble, are they?"
"Everything is normal for the Silent Ones. Unless you die, they will not return to the Empire's will status. But Little Silent One can't wait to avenge you in the name of the Silent Ones." Lu Yu glanced at him sideways, "You are laughing so disgustingly, you know you are
How many people are you worrying about?"
"Feel sorry."
"That's not what I want to hear. I'm sorry, but tell your lovers." Noel was fine. The annoyance that was weighing on Lu Yu's heart was swept away. He felt relaxed and asked, "I only took him with me when I went out."
Limited bodyguards, or even those who sneaked out... Last time they faked their death, this time they are about to die, will they really die next time?"
"If there are too many people, the surprise will no longer be a surprise."
"Surprise? Surprise!" Lu Yu corrected, "What are you doing secretly? Your head maid named Sylphy is tight-lipped about this. The last surviving internal guard that night only said that you asked him to keep it a secret.
, it can be seen that you are trusted by them, and you still don’t let go at this point."
"Gift."
"Huh?" Lu Yu thought he heard wrongly.
"A birthday gift for little Jijie." Noel said, "I once asked her what she wanted most if she received a gift, and she said it was a sword... I asked her a long time ago, and I remember it."
"Can you forge?"
"I'm self-taught. It's not too difficult...well, it's a little difficult. It took me a while to master the skills, but the finished product has many flaws."
"You are the emperor."
"It's just because he is the emperor that he is boring. The gifts that can be exchanged for money as an emperor will not be remembered after a few years, just like those women who broke into my life but left after a short period of happiness...gifts,
Make it meaningful, especially if it’s a birthday gift, both to you and to the person receiving it.”
Noel pursed his lips and smiled: "You should understand me."
Lu Yu sighed and silently expressed his agreement with this point of view - the gifts he and Lulu gave each other on certain holidays were all trinkets made by themselves, which looked like tatters to outsiders, but...he had a taste
Special boxes for storage.
This year, there may be one more person exchanging gifts, Serra.
It is a very small happiness, but when you open that box a few years later, you will find countless totems that can evoke memories, like anchors in life, allowing you to go back to that moment and relive the best chapter in your memory.
This was one of the techniques Laurend taught Lu Yu to resist decay in the classics he left behind, but in fact, they would most likely do this even if they had not read the classics.
Suddenly, suppressed sobbing came from outside the door. Lu Yu and Noel looked at each other and paused the topic in tacit agreement.
Noisy footsteps came, and the door was pushed open by anxious people. After seeing Noel lying down with a mean smile on his pale face, many people had wet eyes and were silent for a long time.
Breathe a sigh of relief.
Xiao Jingjing was hiding behind the crowd, and Noel's eyes could not catch her expression. He and Lu Yu had just tacitly spoken out what was in their hearts as the conversation progressed. He couldn't wait to see the effectiveness of the offensive.
Noel was stunned by the appearance of Kelea. The messy dream appeared in his still stinging mind, and he recalled what Laurend seemed to have said to him when he was young.
Noel's direct gaze caught Sera's attention. She stepped forward to block Kelaya and personally took over Noel's physical condition check.
"It's basically normal. The fact that your body still hurts is due to overuse of plant essences. The 'illusion' that your body will remain after a quick cure will fade away soon. Now that your body is relatively weak, it is recommended not to do anything beyond your ability.
You know what I’m talking about?”
Noel knew that he had been misunderstood, but he could not defend himself...and he really had no temper when it came to Sera.
"Your Majesty, regarding this assassination, the executioner was Codezon's Shadow Guards."
When he heard about the Shadow Guards, Noel was stunned for a moment, and then he laughed with relief.
"It wasn't Ravennis who did it, was it?"
Nodding silently.
"Let me guess, the Shadow Guards have been torn apart by the internal strife in Cordzoun, and each has chosen the successor to the empire that they think is right... Everyone thinks that what they practice is the best for Cordzonn.
The correct route, so some of the brothers in Ravennis decided to get rid of me."
Silence just threw out the Shadow Guards, and didn't even tell him about Detrull staying at the scene to communicate with him. Noel had already seen the whole thing... It was as if he had never been unconscious.
Marianne, the saint of the Theocracy who followed, frowned: "Riding such a big risk to kill you, what good will it do to them? Codzon does not have an advantage in the confrontation with the aliens. There is no Sligo."
If they don't help, they will only become more passive."
Lu Yu reminded: "Who is Sligo assisting?"
"Codezoun," Marianne repeated in confusion.
"Who is the current orthodoxy of Codezon?"
Marianne suddenly realized: "Ravenness..."
The target of Noel's continuous blood transfusion is Ravenis, who has been questioned, but is the orthodox successor. It has never been his brothers. This year's famine is particularly serious. The Theocracy, Green Shade, Storm and Early Grain Collecting
Results have been achieved. Because of Lu Yu's relationship, the Duchy of Roye has certain trade relations with Sligo and has ample room for business. However, the war in Codzon... has left them with no time to worry about farming.
Ravenis, who was given a blood transfusion by Noel, has resources at his disposal and can dismantle their power without doing anything.
According to Detrull, the elder of the Shadow Guards, today's Shadow Guards already hate each other because of their different opinions.
The Shadow Guards, who firmly believed that Ravenis would lead Codezoun to destruction, advocated killing some important figures, framing Ravennis, and killing others with a borrowed knife. Regardless of Noel's death or life, Codezoun's legitimacy would change hands.
This is called conservative within Codezon, because the radicals believe that the core problem is the shuffle brought about by the magic wave. Since Codezon is already full of contradictions, it is better to detonate it completely and make the entire Mela chaos.
Rise up and be reborn as a new Cordzon through a major event on the scale of the first Infested Spirit disaster.
And this plan requires dismantling the two pillars that are still keeping Mera from falling into complete chaos... Maybe only one is used, because the other one seems to have been pried by the aliens, causing their helping hand to gradually withdraw.
domestic.
When the Shadow Guards, who had various frictions and route disputes, reached a consensus, they discovered that the person they needed to solve was actually the same person, so... they reached a cooperation.
Regardless of whether Noel is just a puppet set up by the Quiet Ones, his death will completely shake the structure of the order.
The dissenting voices within the Shadow Guard have been silenced, which is a sign of the empire's weak will.
It was only on the day of these Shadow Guard operations that Detrul's group was informed by a conscientious comrade... However, it was still a little late.
"This is why I want the Silent Ones to take off the coat of the Empire's will. Did you see that when the Empire's will each thinks that it is fighting for a better future for the empire, instead of uniting under one strong voice, those will
Those who make mixed noises will only bring confusion..."
"I don't think my decision was correct, but...at least we all saw this scene that is worth worrying about."
He said a lot in one breath, which was too much for his brain and made Noel a little tired. He waved his hand and everyone immediately bowed and left, leaving only the head maid Sylvie and Little Silence still standing there.
"Xi Luwei, you and her should leave first... I'm tired." Noel smiled and waved his hand again, "I want to talk to Lu Yu again."
Sera took Kelea's hand and quickly left the room where Noel was recovering from his injuries. She seemed to be afraid that Noel would use the fact that he was weak and needed to be taken care of to gain Kelea's sympathy and take the opportunity to do something - he could do it.
come out.
"Didn't I say I wouldn't do anything to Kelaya?" Noel tilted his head and looked at Lu Yu.
"When these words come out of my mouth, the credibility will be very high, but when they come out of your mouth, they don't taste like that. It's time to reflect on why this is the case." Lu Yu said, "Moreover, not only Sera is nervous,
The Theocracy will also treasure her very much in the future, she is the one who snatched you back from the hands of death."
On the day Noel was seriously injured, the moment Marianne sensed that his consciousness was fading away, Kelea's Holy Light Healing Technique burst out with endless radiance, and the soft and bright light filled the entire room like a tide, rhythmically
In the rhythm of the song, many people saw the silver maple leaves falling behind Kelaya...
No one has ever witnessed this miraculous healing technique. Wherever the light covered it, Noel's bleeding body gradually healed. The flesh and blood penetrated the injured area and grew granulations at a speed visible to the naked eye. It slowly wriggled and converged, and the wound was eliminated.
Intangible.
Even if the radiant incarnations personally released the radiant healing technique, it would not be able to reach the scale of the power that Kelaya was stimulating at this moment... Not only the magic power, the high-level magician clearly felt another strange rhythm from the power to heal Noel,
It's like they are entangled with magic, resonating and complementing each other.
The caster Keliya knew nothing about this. After she released the unprecedentedly powerful radiant healing operation, she staggered and fell down and was in a coma for two full days. During these two days, her body was always in a state of no magic power.
Just like an ordinary person who has never learned magic, the magic power overflowing around him is insulated from him and cannot enter his dry body.
If Kelaya hadn't still been breathing and heartbeating, they would have thought that the Chosen One had been summoned by the God of Glory.
Kelea woke up one day earlier than Noel, and it took another whole day to regain control of the magic power... In the initial stage, she once felt that she was rejected by the magic power, as if she was rejected by her most familiar friends.
The feeling of loss outside lingers in my heart.
When asked what she saw before she fell into coma, Kelaya could only recall a vague scene... She seemed to be a waiter serving tea and water in a certain tavern for a while.
There were only two guests in the tavern, one was a young man who looked very gentle, and the other seemed to be... Noel.
In the dream, I was really curious about what the tea tasted like, so I couldn't help but drink a cup, and then... nothing happened.
Lu Yu's retelling made Noel's eyes widen. He swallowed and remained silent for a long time.
"I...I had a dream too."
"What kind of dream?"
"The old man and I were drinking tea in a tavern..." Noel wanted to describe it in detail, but suddenly, he frowned and sweated profusely.
The dream that was particularly clear when he woke up has become blurry at some point. He can no longer retell the details in the dream that are so real that he doubts that they were dreams. All he can remember is that... he drank a cup of tea.
There seems to be a pattern on the bottom of the teacup?
What pattern?
Seeing that Noel was sweating profusely, Lu Yu handed him a glass of warm water.
"Can I have a glass of ice?"
"Patients have no right to be picky. If you still do this, I won't cooperate with you next time." Lu Yu said, "Do you know how upset I was when I heard the news?"
The topic circled back to the starting point, and Noel apologized again.
"It won't happen again, I promise."
"Sending gifts and seeking confidentiality measures will no longer be done in this way?"
"No, I promise you."
"Promise me something more?"
"you say."
"Hurry up and find an heir...even if it's for your people and subordinates." Lu Yu said, "If the Silent Ones hadn't silenced you and suppressed you, and you had already started to attack Cordzon when you were unconscious, would they have
Stay calm, you should know better."
Noel was silent, but unlike before, he seemed a little shaken.
Maybe it was life and death that gave him some different insights.
"If you haven't done anything yet, then I can laugh at you."
"Laughing, why?"
"I, Sera, Lulu, one problem has been solved, only another problem remains."