As the saying goes, if the cunning rabbit dies, the fate of the hunting dog will not be much better. After Esther failed the nine divine punishment knights and ascetics, it can be guessed that her identity will be exposed sooner or later. This
If you return to Yalaschi at this time, it is really tantamount to seeking death!
Whether it is the Temple of Life or the Temple of the Sun, for their so-called interests, I am afraid that they do not want to exist. After so many years of intrigues, she really knows everything about the temple. So, as a knight with only the strength of a middle-level knight and at the same time active
As a traitor who has abandoned her magic, hiding is her only option.
It may also be because after being a spy for a long time, Esther has quite a lot of experience in how to hide herself. For example, she actually chose to stay in Zemas at this time. In this seemingly dangerous place, there is probably no one there.
She could think that she would still stay here. Of course, she did this just to confuse the people who might be chasing her. Staying here for the rest of her life was not what she thought about. Just like now, Esther put down the newspaper in her hand because
Out of caution, she had been trying to reduce the number of times she went out, which also delayed the time for her to obtain the newspaper announcing the peace between the Sun Temple and the Life Temple for several days.
Looking at the content in the newspaper, Esther knew that her plan to escape from Britain could begin. After all, she didn't want to live like this, with black and white reversed, and darkness. As for where to escape, Esther had two ideas.
a choice.
The first is the Charia Empire, a country of unbelievers. Although there are branches of the Sun Temple and the Temple of Life there, few people believe in them, so the influence of the divine power in that country is the weakest. It is said that each temple
Usually those clergy who are not taken seriously will be sent to that place, anyway, it is just a name.
The second one is Sin City, but Esther doesn't know much about Sin City. She only knows that it is ruled by a very powerful and low-key Necromancer, and the people gathered there are villains.
Rogues, killers, mercenaries, there won't be any good people anyway, and its geographical location is very special. In order to stay away from humans, the necromancer built the city in the southernmost part of the entire Faerun continent.
Under the huge swamp surrounded by mountains, it is also the only place in the world of Faerûn without a temple.
"Even if it is a country of unbelievers, even if the influence of the divine power is reduced to a minimum, there will still be people from the temple." Esther murmured a few words to herself, then made up her mind and decided to go to Sin City. "
Although he cannot take any transportation for concealment and can only rely on his feet, but with his strength as a middle-level knight, if he goes out day and night, he will probably be able to get there in a month! Anyway, this matter has passed, I believe even if I
No one will believe it if he jumps out and preaches it now. The advantage of this is that whether it is the Temple of the Sun or the Temple of Life, as long as he does not take the initiative to appear in front of them, I believe they will not waste extra energy to hunt him down.
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As the saying goes, time waits for no one. If you stay in Britain for one more minute, you will still be in danger. So after Esther made up her mind, she started to pack her bags. She didn't bring much, just a set of clean clothes.
, a pair of shoes, the most is a pile of underwear, almost occupying most of the place in this luggage.
After all, she is also a woman. She would never accept wearing a piece of underwear for a month. As for the golden armor, she had already thrown it away! At this time, she was wearing linen clothes commonly worn by ordinary adventurers, casually
There was a long sword hanging on her waist and a small luggage on her back. It was obvious that she had decided to set off now!
Esther took a deep breath and glanced at the place where she had hidden for more than half a month. There was nothing missing, and there was no information left to prove her identity. In fact, she herself had been tired of it a long time ago.
After living this kind of life, it is basically difficult for her, who has been exposed to the dark side of the temple, to believe in God. After all, she is not a fanatical believer!
When I first joined the temple, I just hoped to live a better life, but in this position, you can't just leave if you want. Now that you have an opportunity to escape from the sea of suffering, Esther is more or less happy.
There was a feeling of being reborn.
At night, in the silence, Esther gently opened the door to the house, and then the smile that was born because she was about to be reborn froze on her face, because at the door, she saw someone she least wanted to see.
Person, Lanthe Farrell.
"You were changing clothes just now, and I wanted to wait until you finished changing before going in. Although I'm not very interested in women's bodies, I still have to have basic respect."
"Bang!" Esther's luggage just fell to the ground, and a trace of despair flashed across her face. Obviously, in front of this archbishop of the divine envoy level, she would not have any chance to escape, or even to commit suicide.
"This is where the nine Knights of Divine Punishment died," Esther, who was carrying a bag and holding a torch in her hand, looked like she had already accepted her fate. She stretched out her hand and said to Lantes who was walking next to her.
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After thinking about it all the way, she figured out one thing. As an archbishop, it was unlikely that he would come directly to arrest her, because the first was the issue of identity. The temple sent a regional leader to arrest a little boy of hers.
As a young middle-level knight, Esther didn't think she was that charming.
There is one thing, that is, the archbishop as the envoy of God cannot leave the temple easily. Although the archbishop is fine most of the time, that is a default rule! Therefore, the only explanation is that for some reason, the archbishop secretly
If he came out, then he might still have a chance of survival. Moreover, Esther always felt that there seemed to be something wrong with this archbishop, and she always felt that something was strange!
Lantes didn't seem to care about these little things in Esther's heart. He just bent down and squatted in front of the piece of land that had no traces anymore, and touched the ground with his hand, "It seems that that guy is also a very careful person."
Where are the people!”
Lantes could feel that the soil in this land was newer than that in the surrounding areas. It was obvious that the mage cut off a layer of the surface before leaving, especially after more than half a month.
Even the faintest spell fluctuation has disappeared, and there is no way to know what spell he released here!
"Pa~pa~" Lantes clapped his hands, "Do you know where the ascetic died?"
"It seems to be on a mountain a few kilometers away from here."
Under the light of the fire, the tomb at the entrance of the cave halfway up the mountain was very conspicuous. There was no tombstone, just a dirt bag. Obviously, this should be the tomb of the ascetic who died here.
"Weird person," Lantes waved to Esther behind him, "Let's go and have a look in the cave."
"As expected," after wandering around, Lantesi sighed slightly. Apart from the damaged cave walls left from the fight, there were no other traces in the cave. "It seems that the only
The clue is the corpse, he is really a cautious guy."
"Gulu," Esther swallowed, "Mr. Bishop, are you sure you want me to dig this grave?"
Lantes took out a shovel commonly used by civilians from the space ring and handed it to Esther, "I stole it on the way here. Of course I'm sure, or do you think you have the ability to bargain with me?"
"No, no," Esther threw away the bag she was carrying on her back, took the shovel and started digging the grave, but secretly, she had already begun to hold her breath. It was simple, even if it was winter, in her eyes
It's been more than half a month since I arrived, and the body has at least begun to rot.
After Esther flattened the top earth bag, she continued to dig down. She thought she would dig out a bone or something with a shovel. Who knew whether the ascetic's body would remain intact after fighting with that perverted mage.
!
The result was beyond her expectation, and it was also beyond Lante's expectation. When Esther dug up the entire tomb, what appeared in front of them was not a rotted corpse, but a piece of crystal clear ice.
The ascetic's body was wrapped in the ice. Lanster put the torch close to the ice crystal, and could vaguely see the magic circle carved on the ascetic's chest. "It's really..." Lanster said in a rare expression.
With a hint of speechlessness, "Weird mage!"
Obviously, the mage didn't want the ascetic's body to rot, so he deliberately set up an ice magic circle to protect the ascetic's body. Esther looked at the ascetic's body through the ice crystals.
The magic crystal couldn't help but curl his lips, "Does this mage really have too much money and no place to spend it? This magic crystal is worth at least several hundred gold coins!"
"Take it," Lantes handed the torch to Esther. His hands gathered some light, which seemed to be the magic of the sun. Then he gently pulled his hands, and the ten fingers were connected.
Five rays of light appeared. When the rays touched the ice, they made a squeaking sound. The ice was not melted, but directly vaporized. One can imagine how high the temperature of this ray of light was.
"Bang!" When the ice was almost completely cut, Lantes put away the sun magic and lightly knocked on the ice a few times with his fist. Finally, the ascetic's body completely leaked out, because he was dead.
Coupled with the relationship of being frozen for a long time, the ascetic's whole body is pale and pale. Coupled with the pair of eyes that have been blinded and the silent environment around him, there is indeed a somewhat permeable feeling. Of course, as a
Archbishop Lantes could not possibly be afraid of this, he was just checking his body very seriously.
"There are six scars on the body, on the back of the neck, on the forehead, both eyes, and two on the chest. The one on the left side of the heart should be a fatal wound! But none of the scars on the body are caused by spells, they are all sword wounds!
"This made Lanster a little suspicious, "Is it that the woman named Kyle is hiding her strength? In fact, she is a great knight?"
But then this somewhat illogical idea was extinguished by him. Judging from these wounds, the ascetic's defense methods were gradually disintegrated. Compared with Don Quixote, who knew almost nothing about the ascetic.
For me, Lantes needs to know better.
For example, he knew very well that with the ascetic's air film and golden light body protection, this kind of injury was absolutely impossible, so the only explanation was that the mysterious mage had some way of breaking the ascetic's defense!
Not only that, with the strong hand-to-hand combat ability of the ascetic, even if the defense ability is lost, it is impossible to be blinded! So the mage should also have the ability to restrict people's movements! "A strange, powerful, cautious mage, indeed
A tough opponent!"
"Bury him," Lantes waved his hand, and the surrounding ice and the ascetic's body were blown back into the grave.
"Oh," Esther handed the torch to Lanthes again, and reached out to pull out the magic crystal from the ascetic's chest, but Lanthes stopped her, "What are you doing?"
"Rather than let it go to waste here, it's better to leave it to me."
"Do you think you can survive?"
"certainly."
"Why?" Lantes looked at Esther with a smile, looking curious.
"At least you didn't stop me while I was carrying my luggage. If you wanted to kill me, you wouldn't have done that!"
"Smart little girl~ But don't touch that magic crystal. Anyway, I hired him for a job, so I'll leave him with his whole body~"