The Amber Sword

“Who is it?” Brando asked.

“A Cruz, who said he was looking for us, was being hunted down when he met this guy, and we saved him from the cults.” Charles said as he waved to the back and the bushes shouted, coming out of a young man in a tight shirt. The latter looked pale and unsettled, with a hint of vigilance in his grey blue eyes, spinning slightly and finally falling on Brando.

When Brando saw the latter, he felt a little familiar, and then remembered that he had seen each other before, near the Cat and the Beard Hotel, watched him and the waitress girl in the hotel go very close, and thought they should be lovers.

He remembered that they were supposed to go out together, but only the latter came back at this moment, and I think something must have happened.

It's just a mess in the city right now, nothing is surprising, but the girl named Seti is a good girl. He frowned and subconsciously didn't want anything to really happen to him. If something went wrong at this time, even he couldn't help him.

He thought for a moment and asked, "What's going on? What's going on? ”

The young man named Arca, though depressed, was quite clear, and he said, “My lord, please help us, the Secrets want to use Seti against you. ”

Brando became alert in a moment: "What do you mean, what's going on? ”

Arca then repeats in her own language what she will soon hear about the dialogue between the Christians. Brando found the young man's language skills quite remarkable, describing the whole incident in a few short sentences, but then he got angry, he didn't mess with each other, and he didn't expect these goddamn hide-and-tail guys to come to the door.

He was worried for a while, but then he thought that there was still white fog around Roman, and let go of his mind a little. The girl was just an ordinary person anyway, and the white fog was the queen of witches, poisoned in front of it, the chances were really too slim, the treeherders obviously didn't think of that.

It was then that he took his worries into his heart and noticed the doubt in the young man's words, but he had not yet spoken, and Charles beside him had first spoken his mind.

“These guys really want to die.” Charles frowned straight after listening: "Good thing Miss Roman is surrounded by white mist, otherwise the consequences are unimaginable, it's just the relationship between Lord and Miss Roman, how do they know so clearly? ”

Arka worried about Setti, but also understood that he and Setti had a responsibility, and he showed a slight hesitation and finally replied: “I'm sorry, this is what Setti and I told them… The Secret Service has many sights in Rusta, mostly ordinary people like us, but we only told them what guests were in the hotel and didn't know that the lady... is your fiancée. ”

The old Nederweyn, who was watching, suddenly said: "There is no doubt that those who know your identity clearly should be the only ones beside Her Majesty, and those who have the motive to instruct cults to do this are the only ones beside Her Majesty, and it seems that our earlier assumptions are correct. ”

“What guess?” Charles didn't go through previous discussions and couldn't help overhearing this.

“It's Dragon Queen.” Metisa walked over and replied, explaining carefully to the latter some of the speculations made by former Prime Minister Nederweyn.

The young wizard waiter couldn't help but give a rather surprising expression after listening, and he thought for a moment before saying, “Was it the baby girl? ”

“What did you say?” Brando immediately turned to Charles.

Charles slapped his forehead: “I seem to have suddenly remembered a lot of things. Remember the last time you asked me about Miss Antittina's father in Prague, I suddenly remembered what I was looking for, just like them. ”

“What is it? ”

“Are you Mr. Charles?” Brando asked at the same time as the old man, but the latter obviously seemed much more confused, and he took a closer look at Charles: “Why are you so... young? ”

Charles did not answer the question, but went on to say: "Perhaps it was the answer to the question. It was like a clue to a phrase that was scattered in my head. I often remember what I used to look for in the Alkas, but there was no systematic answer, like a dream that became fragmented after a long sleep. ”

“What's that? ”

“The part I remember was inconsistent with what Mr. Turaman had said, and I remember that your grandfather and Her Royal Highness had brought back a female infant wrapped in a bright amber, and that night only me, Heepad and Pamid had witnessed this - and, by the way, Heepad was Miss Antitina's father. ”

“What happened then?” Old Nederweyn's voice is a little trembling, like a mystery that has been going on for decades, and it is finally time to unravel the mystery, which is actually irrelevant to the Queen, the Empire and even the truth itself, and the old man's dreams haunt the mystery itself, which is made up of countless complications.

Brando also kept his mouth shut, a puzzle that haunted him for many years as well.

“I remember when Her Royal Highness was not doing well - oh, that is, Her Majesty the Queen today, she looked weak and emotionally unstable, she avoided us, talked to your grandfather in secret for a long time, and finally your grandfather took the baby out, let us find a reliable person to send her away and ask us to keep a secret for it. ”

“His Majesty was in a very bad condition, what kind of bad condition, with obvious trauma?” Old Nederwen asked.

“No, not at all, but she seemed weak, like a major illness, and mentally unstable, and I remember she was against taking the baby away for a while, sometimes crying in a low voice, making people feel helpless, of course, it was my personal judgment. ”

“Where's Mr. Darius? ”

“Mr. Darius's face looks heavy. ”

“Was that before or after? ”

“Before what, after what? ”

“Before or after His Majesty entered the final battlefield?” Old Ned asked aloud.

Charles looked at the former prime minister of the empire somewhat strangely and replied, “Of course, they brought the baby girl out of there later. ”

“Until then, how was His Majesty? ”

“Good, nothing wrong. ”

Old Ned took a breath and seemed a little hesitant.

Others, far apart, did not understand what was happening here, thought that they were arguing, that the noise of the quarrel was coming from far away, that a few wild dogs wandered along the edge of the forest far away, and that they saw the crowd over here, then clamped their tails and avoided.

Someone saw a fire in the direction of Rusta, and the stars dotted the red, dark night sky.

The air smells dry and scorching.

“Are you sure the baby girl is wrapped in amber, Charles?” Brando asked.

Charles nodded.

“And after that? ”

“We found a reliable man in the coalition, your father's fiancée, Princess Gloria, who was then the envoy of the coalition on the Eruin side, commissioned her to bring the baby back to Eruin overnight. ”

“And then what? Have you seen her? ”

“Later, when I returned to Eruin, I met her about three years after the Jihad, in a small town near Jean de Neil. ”

“Where's the baby girl? ”

Charles shook his head: “I didn't ask, she didn't say, I just asked her about your grandfather. ”

“Something about my grandfather. ”

“Yes, the fourth day after we sent that baby girl away, the Bukas and dragons arrived, and Her Highness's attitude was cold, and she described something quite different from what had happened, which meant that your grandfather had to take the blame for her. The three of us who knew about it were very confused, and we asked your grandfather about it, but he didn't want to talk about it more, and you knew about what happened..."

The young wizard attendant sighed: “The three of us have been searching for answers to this question for decades to come, and now it seems that the closest thing to the truth should be Heepad, but he died too soon. ”

Brando took a deep look at him and said, "Maybe you too, Charles. ”

Charles was slightly stunned and reacted: “Perhaps so, Lord. ”

Brando looked at the old prime minister beside him, his face mixed with the colour of thought. “I seem to have caught something, but I always feel like there's a layer of window paper, and it's really sad.” The latter couldn't help but shake his head and answer.

“Whatever the truth is, we have to go. Perhaps seeing Her Majesty will solve the last question in our hearts--”

He glanced at the burning city of Rusta and gently closed the watch form.

At this point, Arka, who was staring at the little Nederweyn next to Old Nederweyn, suddenly said carefully, “Are you the Chancellor? ”

Little Nidewen was slightly stunned, and few would call him that at his father's side, but he saw the latter coming to understand that there were not many people throughout the empire who could associate themselves with the title of Empire Prime Minister, but there were still many who could recognize themselves in Rusta and its suburbs.

He nodded silently.

Arca couldn't help but look at the others present, the noble lords, who could not recognize much, who had thought that it was only Brando's noble servants, but the appearance of the little Nederweyn clearly upset his view.

His gaze on Old Nederweyn became more complicated, and he could hardly believe - the old man had been in the empire for quite a few years, but after the death of Grand Toti, he had lived for decades, and if he hadn't looked a little like Little Nederweyn, Arka couldn't believe that he was the legend in front of him.

With this conviction, his eyes were completely different when he looked at Brando.

“My lord.” He draped his head cautiously and respectfully said.

Brando glanced at him and, although the behaviour of this young man and the girl might cause him trouble, he knew that the little man had no choice, not to mention that Setti's brother had indeed died on the battlefield in Ambethel, and although the war was not initiated by him, it could not be blamed on the girl.

Perhaps this is the greatest mistake of the Temple and Her Majesty, who have invisibly changed the fate of so many people that they have never felt guilty about it.

Such arrogance has been entrenched in the hearts of nobles for centuries.

He replied, "Don't worry, White Fog. Ten decent people. Setti is just an ordinary person. He won't do anything to her. ”

Arka doesn't know who White Mist is, but a noble lord reassured him that he looked at Little Nederweyn and the Old Chancellor and had to rest assured - not to mention that the noble lord's men saved his life.

He was silent for a moment and said, "My lord, if you are going to enter the city, I may know a secret passage that will allow you to enter the inner city. ”

“Secret passage? ”

Brando was stunned.

“The nobles of the inner city built tunnels, the priests of the Council bought them, and I happen to know by chance where one of the secret exits is?” Arca replied.

Brando was less interested in the secret passage itself, and he just asked, "Is the secret passage guarded by a cult - what you call a secret? ”

“Yes, but there were not many people on weekdays, and the secret passage was remote and the entrance was not large, which belonged to the priests' alternate passage,” he looked at the others present and reckoned silently: "But I think it should be enough to pass the adult's men. ”

“So the cults prepare these passages for many people? ”

Alca was stunned, and apparently Brando's questioning was somewhat unexpected, but he was a smart young man, aware of the problem, frowned and replied: “I don't know, but I think it should be. ”

“Do you say you know where one of the secret passages is?” Brando asked again.

“Not much, but it should be more than two or three. ”

Old Nederweyn listened to the conversation, and his eyes flashed: "The inner city is in danger. ”

“This is our chance.” The little Ned Man beside her seems a little excited: “Her Majesty is too arrogant, perhaps the dragon queen Gwendolyn has blinded her, and the herdsman must have been ready. ”

“The problem is that we don't know exactly what she's trying to do. ”

“There's no need to know.” Brando replied softly, "We don't follow the secret lane. ”

“No secret passage?” Alca, I really don't understand what this nobleman is thinking.

Brando looked cold and replied coldly: "Before we meet Her Majesty, let's collect the bill.”

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