Invade the white dove

Chapter 133 The New King 4

A catharsis.

Julius looked at the citizens who had vowed to guard Stanley with Kyle, and watched them move all the things that could be burned and smashed in the Lion Castle Palace to the open space in front of the main hall, and set a pile of fire in the castle. A soaring bonfire.The countless figures seemed to be burned and deformed in the high temperature of the flames, elongated and twisted, and finally turned into devils with sharp beaks and fangs.

He put the shattered ring pendant in his breast pocket, apologizing to the Angel of Thoth, and no longer wanted to watch the carnival.

Maybe he can secretly let Ivan go while everyone's attention is here.

The envoy didn't try to keep him too much, but warmly invited him to participate in tomorrow's "God's presence" ceremony.

"The believers of Stani may have misunderstood you many times before. Tomorrow I will explain your identity to everyone in the ceremony. My child, although you have been cursed since birth, your heart has never been shaken. You They deserve their forgiveness and understanding."

The envoy stroked Julis's short red hair with a loving expression on his face.

Julis retreated into the darkness in silence, and only after he was sure that there was no one following behind him did he limping around into the queen's bedroom in the side hall.

To his relief, Ivan was still hiding under the bed, but his spirit was highly tense for a long day, and both the boy and the baby girl in his arms were listless.

"My lord duke!" Ivan crawled out of the small cubicle and knelt down at Julis's feet. "My lord, I thought I would never see you again..."

Julius hugged the soft Esper in his arms, and after making sure that the baby girl was fine, he covered Ivan's mouth who was still crying: "Do you have any other family members outside of Stanley? "

Ivan blinked, shook his head slightly, tears overflowed from his brown eyes, and dripped on the back of Julis's hand.

"You have no savings? Don't you know any relatives or friends? Don't you know any cities other than Stanley?"

Every time Julis said, Ivan nodded, until it was finally confirmed that even if the boy escaped from Stanislavia, he would most likely be robbed by robbers on the way and sold into slavery again, Julis took his hand from Ivan's Take it off your mouth.

"My lord..." Ivan sobbed softly, "We are bound to die, aren't we?"

——Until now, this innocent boy still thinks that Julis is the "Duke Utur" of Gaman, and he trusts and relies on him without any scruples.

After realizing this, Julis suddenly waved away Ivan's hand holding the corner of his clothes with some annoyance.

But after seeing the slightly trembling shoulders of the other party, Julis regained his composure: "I will take you to the small square in front of the main hall later, where many Stani people gather, you have to learn their movements , join this carnival, if you can do it, you can survive."

Ivan nodded, a little confused: "My lord, what about you? Many of them have seen your face, you can't hide it. Otherwise, I will wear your clothes to attract their attention, and you will escape in the chaos. Knowing a subterranean channel to the outer city, I can't swim, but you can..."

Julis frowned, and before he could say the words "you don't need to worry about me", a contemptuous sneer came from the bedroom, which was originally as quiet as stagnant water.

"Poor servant boy, you still don't know that the 'Duke Utur' you love is actually a spy sent by the Holy Court?"

Julis was very familiar with this sharp but deliberately lowered voice. It was Sean who had been promoted all the way to the commander of the unit and was in charge of [-] soldiers.

Light and slow footsteps sounded, and Julius's ears moved slightly, judging that the other party had stopped by the chaise longue outside the bedroom.

He stood up, raised his left arm to protect Esper in his arms, and kept Ivan behind him.

With a sound of "flutter", Sean lit the candle, and the dim yellow candle flame instantly filled the space where several people were.

"Hiss..." After seeing that the soft thing under his feet turned out to be the internal organs of a palace man who had been disemboweled, he curled his lips in disgust, took a step forward, and jumped away from Yuli. Si stood at a distance of three steps away, "Prince Ulis, should I call you that? You finally overthrew the Garman Empire, and soon, Odong will usher in his new king."

"My lord?" Ivan called him suspiciously from behind him.

"Sean, why are you here?" Ulis asked without comment.

"Where should I be if I'm not here, my lord?" Sean imitated Ivan's tone, and called out in a strange way, "My lord, do you know how terrifying today's battle is? Undead soldiers, undead white bears, dragging half The body of a griffin... It's even more terrifying than hell, and we, as Gaman's defenders, know that it is impossible to survive, but we still have to fight against that irresistible force. My lord, do you know that, Everyone was terrified!"

Sean held the candle and approached Julis step by step.The yellow candlelight illuminates his face from bottom to top, with pale skin, black pupils, and blood-studded hair, he looks like a ghost crawling up from hell.

"My lord, other people may still be able to hide behind their companions to delay the arrival of death, but I, as the commander of the unit, have to be stared at by countless sharp eyes. Once I have a slight retreat, I can feel Seeing those eyes piercing like poisonous snakes... in front of me are undead, and behind me are soldiers who expect to use me as a human shield. Do you know how desperate I was at that time?

"My lord, you knew that Stanislav would be captured by the Holy Court, why did you promote me? Did you already pronounce me dead when you appointed me as the vice-captain? My lord!"

Sean gritted his teeth and stood in front of Julis: "You don't want to let anyone in Gaman go, right? Odong fell under the knife of Gaman soldiers, so you also want all Gaman people, for Your people are buried with you, right?"

Sean tilted his head and looked at Ivan behind Julis: "Where do you want to take him, my lord?"

This young man said "adult" in every mouthful, but it was blatantly ironic.

"Sean, if you want, I can get you out too." Ulis stepped back to prevent the baby from being touched by Sean.

But upon hearing this, Sean laughed sharply: "Save me? When have you ever cared about my life? If I hadn't opened the inner city gate of Stanley, I'm afraid I wouldn't be alive to stand by your side now! You now But you said you want to save me?"

Julis choked for breath: "The inner city gate?"

"That's right." Sean shrugged, "Stubborn resistance can only lead to death, but voluntary surrender has a glimmer of life. If it were you, what would you choose?"

Julius did not answer.

"My lord!" Sean shouted, "Stop pretending to be merciful. Give me that baby girl. I'll give her head to the angel. Maybe the angel will reward me with a title. You also heard yesterday that the angel pep talk, all 'believers' will get their way in this holy war..."

With a bang, Sean pulled out the steel sword at his waist, swung the tip of the sword lightly, and pointed at the swaddling baby in Julis' arms.

"Put down the sword." Ulis persuaded.

"My lord." Sean called out again, "Do you still think that you are the Duke who is pampered by Garman, who is under one person and above ten thousand? Garman is a thing of the past, and you have not sat on Odon's throne. At this moment You and I are ordinary Aushen believers, why do you stop me from pursuing my 'dream'?"

After a pause, Sean laughed again: "My lord, please do me a favor, I have done too many wrong things in the Gaman barracks, but the envoy said that handing over the heads of the Gaman criminals will allow us to These people who have gone astray will wash away their sins faster. We are all believers..."

Can a piece of parchment that has been dyed black return to its original color?

Sotiria was always right.

Ulis took a deep breath, and stopped talking to Xienduo. He turned sideways at the moment when the sword cut towards his left hand. While leaning his back forward, he bent his left leg back and kicked hard at him. Sean's wrist jingled, and the long sword fell to the ground.

"My lord, I am willing to be a believer, please forgive me..." Sean cried out in panic as he fell to the ground.

"Faith is never a justification for condoning sin."

Julis picked up the table knife scattered on the ground, turned to the right at the same time as his left foot landed, swung his arm, and the table knife accurately slit Sean's throat.

This suspenseless battle ended in the blink of an eye, and he didn't even draw the contract sword.

Julis turned around, blocked the blood gushing from Sean's throat with his back, and pulled down the swaddle that wrapped Esper.

He threw away the blood-stained knife and looked back at Ivan.

The poor boy was shaking.

Julis walked over slowly and put his hands on Ivan's shoulders, but his thin body trembled even more, his pupils dilated dully, as if he was on the verge of collapse.

Julius had seen a similar expression on Lisa's face before, when he avoided the girl asking for help, but at this moment, he didn't intend to give Ivan any choice.

"Ivan."

He let out a low cry, the boy raised his head subconsciously, Julis quickly raised his hand, and slashed at the other's neck.

The boy fell limply and was caught by Julius again.

He put the unconscious Ivan on his right shoulder, hugged the sleeping Esper with his left hand, and kicked the fallen candle to the flammable curtain intentionally. Amid the rapidly rising smell of burning, he Quickly dodge into the banquet hall. In the northeast corner of the banquet hall, there is a stone door less than half a person high, which can quickly lead to the dungeon of Lion Castle.

Even with Ivan on his back, his footsteps were still quick and light. In this quiet and dark corridor like a sheep's intestine, even his breathing was inaudible.

This is the secret passage dug by the Mulder family at the beginning of building the castle, in order to prevent the royal family from having no way out after the castle is breached.

It is said that the end of the secret passage is the drainage channel outside the city of Stanley. Like Odon’s chamber, it can only be opened by the pure-blooded descendants of Mulder.If it is really necessary to escape, the descendants of Mulder will naturally be able to open the mechanism and escape, and even if others find this place, they will only see a huge black iron gate with a thickness of ten meters in the end.

It was an exquisite design, but with the fall of the last pure-blood Mudd, it became a tomb.

But Julius didn't want to escape from here.

The corridor not only leads to the new world, but also connects to Stanislav's bloodiest past.

- the dungeon.

This was once the closest place to hell, but now it has become Julius' sanctuary.It would take a lot of effort for people outside to find this place, at least in the dungeon, he could let Ivan take a good rest.

Not only that, there may be...

Just as he was about to turn right and enter the prison that he had stepped into countless times, Julis suddenly began to hesitate.

Sotiria.

From the moment he opened his eyes in the morning, he had been consciously or unconsciously avoiding the name, but it hurt his soul all the time.

After cutting off Sotiria's chains, he didn't say a word, he heard Sotiria's convincing, but he still chose to escape at that time, and now the time has almost passed a whole day, Sotiria Is Ria still, waiting for him?

The one who was hurt by him countless times and left him with countless scars, but who healed him tenderly, Mr. Knight.

--------------------

It seems that Sean appeared in Chapter 32, and Chapter 37 has Sotiria's evaluation of him.