The Amber Sword

“Antina, you open it.” Brando looked at the box and said.

Antitina quickly reacted, looking carefully at her lord, she was moved and then nodded softly.

She placed her hands on an ice-cold iron box, strongly dampening the excitement in her heart, reciting the spell in a low voice, one byte from between her soft lips, low and clear, the lock of the box seemed to be held up by an invisible hand, then slipped away quietly and finally fell to the ground. She took a breath and slowly opened the case, underneath which was a layer of waterproof tarp, underneath which was divided into three tightly bundled packages, the outer skin of which was also made of the same material, while a letter was placed on the packaging, and the seal wax on the letter was also stamped with the crest they had seen before.

Antitina did not open the envelope until she had been prompted to do so, and read the letter in detail, the contents of which were similar to those of her will - if anyone else found the estate, hoping that the discoverer could divide the estate into three parts, he could inherit the richest part of it, while the remaining two tiny parts and some groceries were left to Antitina and Sadie to at least make their lives dependable and also to commemorate the conversation. There are some words left to Antittina, mostly wishing her happiness and forgiving him for his irresponsible father, the lady of staff, who finished reading the last sentence, squeezed the letter with her hands and kept her mouth shut. She lowered her head and her thick eyelashes trembled slightly like feathers.

Brando and Freya looked at each other behind her, and the future goddess of martial arts was filled with sympathy, almost trying to share the grief of the bureaucratic lady in her own generation. She thought of her own life and her heart was soft.

It took a while for Antina to put down the paper, she looked fine, but she looked terribly pale: "Lord, let's open these packages. ”

Brando looked at her like this and couldn't stand to talk. He just nodded. He suddenly felt that he was really here. He thought that Miss Clerk had long forgotten the shadows of the past, but didn't expect these sorrows to be buried so deep in her heart. Antina silently opened the biggest package, and the golden and silver light immediately lit the faces of the three present, with neat bars and silver ingots, and some jewellery stacked with the deeds and deeds of the house, and she quickly estimated, and concluded that at least 100,000 tols of property was a lot of money for a small aristocratic family - but the money was prepared by his father for the discoverer, Antina silently put it aside and opened the second package.

The second parcel is similar, but only about half the amount of the previous parcel - which was left to her mother - was accompanied by a letter signed by Sadie, her mother. Instead of opening the envelope, Antitina looked at the envelope and put it down gently. And then she picked up the third package —— the smallest one, probably just the size of the dresser box, which was left for her.

When she held the package, she felt almost suffocated, but still held her breath and opened it carefully, separating the layers of covered oil paper, which contained a fine walnut wooden box. Then she opened the box, and the lint in the box was padded with a ring, a fine necklace, and she saw the necklace for a moment, and the tears finally couldn't help but roll down along her cheek.

Brando and Freya looked at the necklace and were silent. The original crystal decoration of the necklace was a beautiful recording crystal. When the box opened, the crystal emitted a light that reflected a man and a woman standing side by side. The man had dark hair and a few contours of Antina on his face. He smiled gently at Antina:

“Anna, if you'd opened this box yourself one day, I'm sure I'd be gone by now. My beloved daughter, my irresponsible father, dares not ask for your forgiveness, but you must believe that your father's whole life has been in the pursuit of the greatest justice and justice in the world. Because I know that those who give and take responsibility for this world can never be sinners in other people - Anna, I hope that one day you will see the truth in this world with your clear eyes, not blinded by falsehood, because you are so intelligent and proud of me all my life -"

“This ring is a letter of my engagement to your mother, and with your mother's consent, I left it here, hoping that one day I could leave you as a witness to your happiness, the other half of your heart. ”

“Anna,” said a gentle woman with an eight-point resemblance to Antina, smiling slightly: “May one day you find your own happiness. ”

“Liar...” Antitina suddenly whimpered, as if the feeling of constant repression had finally erupted at this moment, like the flood of a shooting dyke, rushing out, the whimpering of an injured beast had finally turned into a cry, Brando had never seen his quiet, faceless lady reveal such a side, helpless like a child, weak shoulder shaking, other than crying, as if no more sound.

Brando is also silent. There are feelings in this world that always touch the heart and strike the softest part of it, and affection, undoubtedly, is the kind of emotion that is always cut - no matter how strong it is in his eyes, how indifferent it is, as if he had not remembered everything from the past, but in front of his parents, Antitina still cried like a child - not biting her lips, tears spinning in her eyes, but completely losing her voice, weeping and screaming like a beast.

Freya also turned her head and wiped her eyes with her hands.

I don't know how long it's been.

Miss Clerk finally sorted out her feelings. She blushed and tried not to see Freya and Brando, as if she were afraid to tell them to watch the jokes. “Lord, I have examined it carefully, and it appears that there are no relics of Lord Darus.” As soon as she opened her mouth, her face couldn't help but get redder because the sound was so dull that it almost looked like someone else was talking.

Brando looked at her with some concern and asked, "Are you all right, Antina? ”

Antitina shook her head and took a gentle breath of relief. Her heart was chaotic, and for a moment she didn't know if it was really all right. But anyway, after I got what my father left her, the hatred in my heart for that other father seemed less intense. She thought silently that perhaps the adult mother had already known where the father had gone when she was holding her hand on the bed, and they had always known, because the father had never cheated on the mother, but they had joined forces to cheat on her. She smiled and then shook her head gently. Tear marks were still hanging on her cheek, but the lady bureaucrat smiled very cutely.

Brando was finally relieved, and he looked at Freya, and the good-hearted Bucchi girl was relieved.

There was no relic of Darius in the box, and the exact opposite was written in the letter, which was both expected and unexpected by Brando. He thought for a moment before answering: "Antittina, your father, he can't guarantee that you will be the one who discovered his estate, or that the one who discovered it will keep his promise to give it to your mothers and daughters, so he's unlikely to put something so important directly in the estate. ”

Antitina nodded.

“But he clearly wrote in the letter...” Freya asked somewhat puzzlingly: "It was a private letter, he didn't have to lie, did he?” She immediately reacted and suddenly said, “I see, he doesn't have to put Lord Darius's relics in his estate, but he can leave a clue in the estate...”

Brando looked at her with some surprise: "… how did you suddenly become so smart? ”

Freya stared at him with her teeth bitten.

“If my father left me a message in the estate, I think it was only in my package.” Antitina thought about it, answered.

“But isn't it also possible in your mother's package?” Freya asked back.

Antitina shook her head: "My mother's parcel was basically full of possessions, and Father, he would surely have estimated the greed of the hearts and minds, and all that was left of me was almost nothing but groceries, which did not attract attention. And I checked my mother's parcel before, and that letter, and there was nothing worth noting. ”

“Antina, you figured it out a long time ago. You're so smart.” Freya was somewhat envious that she was never the smartest one in Knights College, or even a little dumb, but she was only envious and not a little jealous of someone who was truly talented and intelligent. Her Royal Highness told her that her father was Eruin's most talented knight lord of the last era, which made her very distressed and why she was so clumsy by herself.

The clerk lady smiled.

“Have you checked?” Brando asked again.

Antitina nodded: "I checked the necklace and the ring and the inside and outside of the box, and found no clue.” She thought about it and replied, "I don't think my father would leave such important information in a conspicuous place, and I'm afraid it's only by taking them apart that we can know exactly where the clues are. ”

“But that was your father's last relic...”

“It's all right, Lord,” replied Antittina softly, "it's my father's wish too, and he won't blame us for that, especially if we miss someone, it's in our hearts, not in these things. ”

She opened the box, but Brando pressed her hand. “I'll do it.” He said, "Show me the necklace. ”

Antitina glanced up at the lord and nodded and placed the necklace in his hand. Brando took the necklace, examined it carefully, and then he pinched the necklace's fall and gently turned it. For a moment, the fall did loosen up, and he lowered it in a certain direction, then carefully lifted it up against the lights in the house and drew a note from it, wrapped in a single strip.

His move was stagnant at all, as if he had thought about it in advance, guessed long ago that the note was hidden in the necklace, and watched Freya and Antina next to him completely.

“Lord... Lord?” Antitina opened her mouth slightly, almost thinking that her lord was truly an all-knowing god.

Recording that crystals have a physical property, that their crystal structure is hollow, and Brando first thought of this when he checked the necklace, and he tried to remove the fall, and he didn't think it would succeed, but he did find a clue from it, which is also a coincidence. He exchanged the necklace for Antitina, he couldn't help but smile and tell the reason again. Antitina looked at her lord with great admiration, but she did a magic guide assembly study. She was most familiar with all kinds of crystals, but the recording crystal was a deviant one, because it was an artificial magic crystal that really understood its physical properties very little - and only her lord, who had learned so little about it, could lift so much weight.

The three of them opened the note and found some strange symbols on it. It was like graffiti for a child. Brando and Antitina didn't see what it really was the first time. Instead, Freya said softly, "Ah, this is a military secret. ”

“Military secrets?” Brando was slightly stunned, knowing that there were often secretive messages to be conveyed militarily, that countries had a secret symbol that had been changed from ancient symbols, that he was familiar with the military secrets of Eruin, that he could interpret both the ‘Ansen' thirty years ago and the new ‘new secrets' after the cold frost had changed dramatically, but obviously these were not any of them at hand. He looked at Freya around him with the look of questioning, and the future goddess of martial arts nodded to him with certainty:

“It's a Krutz military secret, and it's half a century old, and I studied it at the Wang Li College. ”

She said so, and Antina reacted. “Yes,” the stewardess replied as if she remembered something. "When I was a kid, my father taught me some of these secrets, but he didn't tell me what they were. ”

Brando didn't expect Freya to learn the Krutz secrets, and he immediately asked, "Can you read them? ”

Freya read it carefully and nodded: “It's not a big problem, Brando, it looks like a map...”

……

“What are these? ”

There are three things in front of Freya, a light grey crystal, some reddish brown stone pieces, a map of saffron paper that only outlines a few lines —— all three of them from the same iron box, which she decrypted and then took out from under the floor of an old house in the Hood area —— and of course, she doesn't know any of them.

Brando managed to get Dion to spend a little money smuggling Antitina's father's estate out of the cemetery, he applied elemental guardian spells on the box so that those people couldn't open the box; and there was a lot of ‘work' going in and out of the cemetery, and most of the wizards who sneaked in and practiced black magic wouldn't carry out a single body with a big banner, so it was not surprising to use the box, Brando was worried that it would be suspicious, but he still underestimated the extent to which these things were commonplace in the eyes of the burglar.

The tomb keeper, after getting a sum of money from Dion, patted his chest and promised him not to say to send out such a box, even if he was going to lift a few coffins out of the cemetery, there would be absolutely no problem. Then he didn't know where to find some handsy people. In Brando's eyes, those guys acted in quite a bit of style. There were some traces of the Brotherhood of Thieves. In short, with the help of these people, the box was smoothly smuggled out. The process didn't have half a wavy fold. The people transporting the box didn't know how much of this kind of work they had done over the years. The box filled with gold and silver was in their hands like moving a rock, and they didn't even look at it from beginning to end.

Brando couldn't help but be fortunate that he was smart enough to put a wing technique on the box, otherwise in the experience of these people, I'm afraid the weight will be problematic at first hand.

It was almost evening after they returned everything to the estate and went to Hood District to retrieve the last relics of Antina's father - or rather the relics of Sword Saint Darus. Brando opened the box in his study and took out the contents of the box before the scene appeared.

But compared to Freya's confusion, Brando and Antina looked a little different.

“Lord, these tablets…” The lady clerk remembered sharply: "When I was a kid, it seemed like my father had bought them from a merchant for the first time, as if he had received treasure, and he had been buying them everywhere ever since. I remember he'd been working on these tablets for quite some time. ”

“Has he told you anything?” Brando stared at the gray crystal and didn't ask back.

Antitina recalled it, but shook her head: “I was too young to remember my father saying it a few times, which seemed to mean the keys to something or something, but then the tablets gradually disappeared from my view, and I thought my father had lost interest in them, and I didn't expect him to save them. ”

“Antina, you didn't think these things were actually about my grandfather.” Brando replied.

“I'm afraid so, according to the letter, this box contains the relics of Lord Darius, as well as fragments of what my father called the 'landscape’ - are those the stone pieces?” Antitina questioned with some confusion.

But Brando didn't answer.

He stared dead at the grey gem.

……