The Amber Sword

“Yura,” Ike said suddenly, "you take our daughter with you. I have to stay. I am the owner here, and I have to be responsible for the guests. Besides, if I leave, Bernichel is in total disarray, His Royal Highness is still here at this moment, and it is in His Royal Highness's trust in us that he can come, and I must guarantee their safety. ”

Eulamer nodded.

“Be careful. ”

“I understand," said Ike with a gentle smile on his face: "Even for our daughter, I wouldn't easily joke about my life, and if I can't do anything, I'll catch up with you. ”

Yura relaxed, holding her husband's whitened hand tightly, although her face was calm as usual, revealing her true feelings inside.

A few people soon arrived directly beneath the Count's mansion, inside a secret chamber, at a moment when a middle-aged knight had been waiting for him, apparently entering through a secret passage connecting the Count's mansion outside. When Ike saw the man, he had to show a little surprise: "Mr. Cosica, is Uncle Makaro here? ”

“Lord Eko, you have finally arrived. The attack outside was somewhat unexpected. Lord Makaro wanted to come himself, but he was discouraged by us and has now turned to the city hall. He asked me to bring you a few words, but not at this time, we have secured the entrance and exit of the secret passage. My lord, please move to a safer place before we discuss the next issue. ”

The middle-aged knight answered face-to-face.

Ike grabbed his wife's hand and confronted her silently for a moment before releasing his hand and taking over his daughter from the nanny and handing over the world's most precious treasure to Yura solemnly.

“Yura, go, it's gonna be okay. ”

“Mmm.”

“Lord Eko, you? ”

“I'm staying, Mr. Kosika, and His Highness Haruze is still out there, and I have to see if the knights control the situation or not. ”

The middle-aged knight looked at him with complexity.

“Well, I'm with you, Lord Eko.” He turned around and said to the knight beside him: "Escort the lady and lady out of here and protect them. ”

“I understand, my lord.” The two knights nodded immediately.

The knights opened the secret passage and allowed Yura to hold Elara first, then the nanny and the two followers, and finally they followed in, closing the secret passage door from inside.

“Thank you, Mr. Cosica.” Ike saw his wife disappear behind a secret door before he lost it, he said.

“You're welcome, Lord Eko. Let's go. I'll give you the last ride.” The middle-aged knight replied faintly.

Eko was slightly stunned. He was just about to turn around and suddenly felt a tingle in his vest. The young Duke of Lantoniland stared shockingly, unbelievably at the bloody blade stabbed from his chest.

In an instant, he felt all his strength go away from him, and he opened his mouth hard and immediately sprayed a bite of blood mixed with the pieces of his gut.

“Why…”

“Lord Makaro asked me to deliver a message to you, Lord Eko, who said he regretted and suffered, regretting that he should not teach you the spirit of so many knights… Your righteousness and goodness please him, but Elouin cannot be saved by naivety and justice. ”

The middle-aged knight replied calmly.

“You…”

“Eruin is not Eruin in the one room of the Corcova royal family, Lord Eko, would you like to see the Ophilia family go out of smoke in your hands, so I'm sorry, sometimes only blood can save everything...”

“Makaro… uncle…, Leewoods… teacher…" Eko's eyes poured out tears of blood, he opened his mouth and breathed hard, as if to catch something. He slowly extended his hand forward, seemingly in endless darkness, and saw his wife's face, his daughter's face: “Yura...”

The candle went out.

Became silent in the darkness.

The middle-aged knight sighed slightly, pulling the dagger out of the young man's cold body very gently, then holding him with his hands, carefully laying him flat on the ground.

He drew a symbol of golden flame on his chest and forehead with his hands, whispered something, and finally took off his coat and covered it with a young duke who slept forever.

“The future of Eruin," he said softly, "may go another way, only right and without justice. ”

In the darkness, the secret door opened again.

He stepped in and took a final look at the room before closing the secret door, everything in the basement, at this moment returning to eternal silence.

Behind the secret door, the middle-aged knight walked silently in a long tunnel, taking off his bloody gloves and throwing them away at will. The light soon appeared ahead, and his knights were waiting for him there.

But the knight was obviously a little panicked, and his face was even a little pale, and he looked around subconsciously, lying on the ground with four bodies - two of his followers slit their throats, a sword in the back of the nanny, and poured into the blood, but the rest was not the Duchess, but his knight.

“What's going on?” Anger in the middle-aged knight's heart, "where's Miss Yura? ”

“I don't know," the knight replied nervously. “We were halfway there, and the Duchess suddenly sobbed softly, and we were afraid things would change, so we had to do it in advance. But I didn't expect Rowen to scream suddenly after killing those people. When I lit the torch, it was like this...”

“Waste!” The middle-aged knight turned over the body of his knight and found a sharp dagger stuck in his waist. The dagger actually penetrated through the armor between the heavy chain armor, killing him and falling clean. He took a long breath and stood up: “What are you still doing, you idiot? Go and tell the wizards! ”

“Yes, my lord, I'm on my way.” When the knight heard Yan Rumeng's amnesty, he turned around and ran away.

……

Sewage flows through the darkness, Bernichel's underground drainage system has in fact ceased to function half a century ago, the internal debris is already piled up as mountains, the water is constantly seeping out at the top of the waterway, and the tickle-tickle-tickle-tickle-tickle-tickle-tickle-tickle-tickle-tickle-tickle-tickle-tickle-tickle-tickle-tickle-tickle-tickle-tickle-tickle-tickle-tickle-tickle-tickle-tickle-tickle-tickle-tickle-tickle-tickle-tickle-tickle-tickle-tickle-tickle-tickle-tickle-tickle-tickle-tickle-tickle-tickle-tickle-tickle-tickle-tickle-tickle-stink.

With a luminous moonstone in his hand, Caglis swept through the dark tunnel with cold light, and from time to time saw a large group of mice running in groups.

He frowned, and the sewer was built almost a hundred or two years ago, and since Vieiro was merged into Eruin, it has been forgotten with the abandonment of the fortress, and the old and unrepaired drainage system has collapsed everywhere, and is itself fraught with danger. And there are unknown monsters hidden in the darkness, and the purple liquid stained with his sword is actually the blood of a corpse eater.

It's too dangerous, he doesn't have to eat it with a few more heads. Of course he's all right, the point is to take care of the two kids, it's really messing him up.

“I should have known His Highness would have picked up a sword too. What could I have done? His swordsmanship was personally taught by the Count. What could be worse?” Caglis thinks he's really out of luck, and he's starting to lose consciousness.

Fortunately, the little girl who guided them was very reliable and didn't walk into any dead ends on the way, but now that Caglis has reacted, this little girl named Mikaya is clean and neater than the daughters of ordinary civilians, how can she live in such a filthy place?

He tacitly felt he had fallen for it, but could not say why.

Several people had been walking in the sewer for almost half an hour, and it was at that time that Micaya suddenly stopped.

“What's the matter?” Caglis asked.

“There's someone in front.” The little girl replied calmly.

“Who?”

“The people I met earlier at the banquet. ”

“How do you know?” Caglis asks with surprise, how is it possible that the little girl has already determined her identity without even realizing which direction she is in?

Unless this little girl's real strength is actually higher than his.

“Because I'm out of magic," replied Mikaya, "I've been avoiding these people with dark magic, but now I can't, and I can only feel them leaning towards us. ”

“What?” Caglis felt he must have heard something wrong, or he was still awake in his dreams.

“Actually, Mikaya is a witch," Haruze replied with a bitter smile. "Mr. Kagris ”

“What?” Caglis finally figured out what went wrong, and he felt like a fool being played with: “You mean, you're actually a lord's subordinate? ”

The little girl crooked her head and puked her tongue at him with embarrassment.

This was a lovely move, and now it looks like a little devil to Caglis.

“Damn -” Caglis suddenly shut up, revealing his vigilant divinity, putting up a finger and making a silent gesture at Haruze, who was about to speak: “Footsteps sounded. ”

He always raised his head on the road and carefully guarded Haruze and Mikaya behind him, turning back and whispering, "Are you sure it was them? ”

Mikaya nodded.

“Is there any way to avoid it? ”

The little girl thought, "I lost my powers, and now if we move on, they'll be alerted. ”

“So we're hiding in this place. Can they see it? ”

“If they don't pay attention, perhaps not," replied Mikaya, "the wizards are not more perceptive than the average person, nor are the people of silver, but if they use magic to detect, we are invisible. ”

……