May 8th.

The incident in Breil Forest could not be concealed after all. The news of the ambush of "Rose Cross" spread throughout the kingdom through various channels the next day.

When the carrier pigeon crossed half of the kingdom to reach Hollier City, Duke Angma, who was sitting at the desk reading the letter, almost crushed the cup in his hand.

There are no "war correspondents" in this era. All war reports are basically passed down by word of mouth, and they are often distorted and exaggerated during the transmission process--"Rose Cross" eventually escaped at least 30% of the combat troops through hard work in this battle, but in the transmitted war reports, they are exaggerated as "annihilation of the entire army."

However, Duke Angma was very knowledgeable and understood the reason why this kind of war report could not be completely believed. He tried to calm his mind and waited patiently for the subsequent war report from other channels... And in the afternoon, the news sent from Bishop Benjamin finally gave him some hope.

The old friend, who served as the Archbishop of the Diocese, urgently drew all the power he could use, arrived near the Brier Forest on No. 7 with a team of more than a thousand people, assisted some teams in retreat, and confirmed the fact that at least thousands of soldiers survived.

Although it has not been confirmed whether there is Sally in it, the Duke finally breathed a sigh of relief...

However, he then thought of Roddy, who was a little strange in behavior: After the other party left the North City Gate, there was no news yet. After so many days, what was he doing?

The war has been over, does he not even know what happened?

*******

Angma, who is in Everta, is worried about the safety of his daughter, while in the "Temple", Cardinal Moglani is worried about his current situation.

"Sir, this is the current loss report, and there is another... strange news."

Moglani no longer had the energy and confidence look when facing Rubens a few days ago. At this time, his eyes were deep, and his eyes were red because he had not been sleeping all night. When he heard the words of his priest, his eyes turned stiffly, and he reached out to pick up the letter that he didn't want to see at all, and asked casually: "It's not surprising that nothing has happened... Say it, what should I report?"

"The reserve team of Pas Town suddenly left two days before the battle and rushed to the battlefield on the day of the battle..."

Moglani suddenly turned around, and many things were just a moment of thinking about it. His eyes were sung and he asked, "Someone forged my order?"

"It is not yet confirmed, sir." The priest replied in a low voice and continued: "There is another news - a unit in the Borgdo diocese also arrived near the battlefield after a forcibly marched on No. 7, and assisted the main force to get rid of the enemy's pursuit-"

"What does this mean?!"

Before he could finish speaking, Moglani suddenly turned around and slapped the wooden table next to him with a "clang".

The ink bottle was overturned, and the black ink instantly dyed the originally neat desktop: "Why does it sound like everyone knows that my troops will be besieged, and I am the only one who keeps it in the dark?!"

The more he thought about it, the more angry he became. Everything that happened at the moment was like a huge joke, as if everyone in the world knew that "there is a trap there", and only he was the stupidest and stupidest, and he jumped without hesitation...

"Borgdo Diocese, that was Benjamin's order, and he--" Moglani just followed the upward search and immediately found that this matter seemed to be inseparable from the Rubens, who was about to be promoted to cardinal!

When it comes to Rubens, the scene when he mocked the other party two days ago still seems to be vivid in his mind, and Rubens's answer with a mocking tone seems to have a different meaning...

"You are right, Lord Moglani. Any point of view must be explained clearly by facts."

What facts?

The fact is... my blind confidence ruined the lives of more than 5,000 elite soldiers in the "Rose Cross"!

Now it seems that this sentence is completely like slapping yourself in the face!

There was an indescribable depression in my heart, but Moglani found that he had no way to blame the other party... because everything is just speculation and there is no evidence at all.

"Go and check it out! I want to know what they did and why they kept me in the dark!"

This is the first time Moglani has in decades...and perhaps his last misconduct in the position of "Cardinal".

*******

At the same time, Rubens was wondering about the letter from the priest and asked, "You said the pigeon that delivered the letter was very big?"

"The Bishop...is not very big, it's a bit bizarre. When it fell down, it collapsed the entire pigeon cage. We thought it had been attacked, but when we saw it stretching out its legs, we saw a letter here..."

"Collapse the pigeon cage?"

Rubens twitched the corner of his mouth with a strange expression. The pigeon cage in the "Temple" is quite large. Although it is made of wooden structure, it is enough to match the residences of ordinary nobles. Who is the "carrier pigeon" that can crush this thing?

But what he was even more curious about was the letter. After a closer look, the signature on it turned out to be Roddy's name - he quickly tore it apart, but when he read it, he found that the sentences were nonsense. He only saw the words "soaked in water" at the end of the letter. He thought for a while, splashed the letter paper with a water cup, and then saw the sentences hidden between the original words.

Rubens narrowed his eyes and read it, then widened his eyes in surprise, and even took a breath!

He suddenly grabbed the letter in his hand with a little disobedient, and spent more than ten seconds recalling what he had just seen, and immediately tore the letter into pieces.

Picking up the quill, Rubens immediately wrote the order to dispatch troops on a new piece of parchment, and then printed it with the ring on his hand: "Give up all other actions and go and execute the order now..."

The priest took the letter and was obviously stunned by the content above. Then he did not ask much and turned around and left...

*******

At night, in a forest fifty kilometers away from the edge of the Breer Forest, Roddy was staring at the bonfire in front of him in a simple camp, slowly turning the hare in his hand.

After killing Goethe from the edge of the Breer Forest, Roddy and others evacuated the villagers of Mogra village, and then set out in teams with only 67 people, marched from Mogra village to the northeast. After a day and a night, they arrived at the forest and finally stopped.

The soldiers around had long been exhausted and sat on the ground. They did not carry much food when they set out from Mogra village. At this time, the food rations of more than 60 people were solved by Roddy hunting two wild boars and three deer. He was also the "leader" designated by Sally, the current supreme commander of the team.

"Sister Sally, are we going a long way?"

"I don't know either, just listen to him."

"Uncle Roddy..."

"He is not that old, just call him brother."

Sally smiled and corrected Nafei's mistake, then took her little hand and sat down next to Roddy, took the rabbit meat handed over by Roddy, but handed it to Nafei: "It's a bit hot, eat it carefully."

Roddy looked at the intimate look of them, his mouth twitched, his eyes moved away, and he coughed dryly, "Has the sackcloth been found?"

"Well, are these enough?"

Sally handed over a roll of linen in her hand, but then saw Roddy stretching out her hand: "Give me the scepter, too."

She handed the "Viridian Kiss" over without hesitation. Roddy's movements were settled. Sally stuffed the scepter into his hand and asked in confusion: "What? What's strange about it?"

"No, I just think this scepter is a little different."

The trust Sally gave him had long been unreserved, even if it was a magical tool, there was no doubt or nostalgia... Roddy held the cold "Virgin Kiss", but she felt a little emotional inexplicably - his eyes swept over [equipment attributes], and his lips were involuntarily pursed.

The Viper's Kiss (Awakening)

Two-handed staff

Artifact

Attack power 217-315

+37 Intelligence

+59 Spirit

+129 spell effects

+90 shadow resistance

Equipment: Get extra spell effects when casting spells.

Equipment: It has a "deterrent" effect on all snake beasts, monsters and low-level dragons.

Equipment: Can activate the halo effect.

Alecto's Halo of Fear: All offensive spells have the probability of causing "Fear" effects, causing the enemy to fall into "Fear state" within five seconds.

Mogala's enhanced halo: provides 65% effect increase for most spells.

Tiscifene's Halo of Revenge: When attacked, it uses shadow energy to backfire and cause a certain amount of damage.

(Only one halo can be turned on at the same time and the cooling time is 1 hour.)

"The viper's revenge never stops."

【This equipment is bound and cannot be used at present】

Even though he had observed this day and night many times, whenever he saw this amazing attribute, he would take a breath...

This is not a surprise of "winning the lottery", but a sense of crisis of "every man is innocent, but he is guilty of being guilty of possessing a treasure"!

The word "Awakening" in the Viper's Kiss proves that its true power is far more terrifying than what is shown now. The "Virgin Scepter" mentioned by Bishop Flak at the time should be this thing...

In other words, it seems that the artifact that "Virida Cross" just obtained was actually "intercepted" by Roddy and Sally...

When the players could even rebel against each other for a piece of equipment, the guild was disbanded, let alone a scepter that might change the fate of the sect?

Roddy has been moving forward carefully for the past two days, so he set up a maze, detour, and went into the jungle, trying all his strength to cut off any possibility that the absolute party was aimed at him--and what he was about to do at this time was to prevent the true body of the scepter from being exposed to others.

The linen was tightly wrapped around the scepter, covering the scales and delicate snake head.

"I also feel that this scepter is a little different. It... changed my body at that time."

Sally looked at Roddy's careful look and couldn't help but recall the feeling of being infused with energy. Then she shivered and couldn't help but sit close to Roddy: "It contains very cold power, which makes people... afraid."

"That scepter?" As he was speaking, Nafi's little face suddenly came over, and then pointed to the "Virgin Kiss" wrapped in sackcloth in Roddy's hand, and said casually: "It seems very powerful, always emitting purple light, even if it is wrapped in sackcloth, it can't be stopped..."
Chapter completed!