"That was a day more than one hundred and eighty years ago..." Austin looked towards the distant mountains and gradually fell into memories. As he narrated, a huge historical picture unfolded in Roy's mind.
The foggy corner that covered it opened before my eyes.
"At that time, I had just done the thing I regretted most in my life. I was in extreme confusion and pain. I was confused and locked in my room every day."
Austin's voice was a little heavy, "Everyone is afraid of me, not only the rebellious southern nobles and soldiers, but also everyone around me. Even my father, under the strong request of the nobles of the imperial capital, ordered me to
Stay in the south forever, and you will not leave my territory without an order."
"And in the early morning of that day, Norton, my only friend in life, rushed to the south from the imperial capital." The flames in Austin's eyes danced, "He is a heraldry officer of the Royal Heraldry Academy, funny, kind...
.....If you know my identity, you should be able to understand that an illegitimate child enjoys more than just glory and wealth in the royal family..."
Roy nodded. Having met the aristocratic children in the academy, he could completely imagine the arrogant treatment of the great nobles of the Roman Dynasty, the disdainful eye rolls of the small nobles under the superficial respect, and the faint sounds they heard behind his back.
jeers and jeers.
Among the aristocracy, there are many concepts that are deeply rooted. The concept of noble and pure blood is one of them.
For nobles, although they are both biological sons, there is a huge gap between a child born to an orthodox lady of noble blood and a child born to a maid from the first second he comes into the world. The former is just a child.
Wrong, and the latter is his son.
Therefore, even if Austin is of royal blood, in the eyes of the nobles, he is still a product of Caesar V's absurdity. Rather than showing respect for an illegitimate child, they are more willing to spend time teasing their own dogs.
"Norton is a true nobleman and the only one who has no prejudice against me. Although he was still serving in the House of Arms at the time and had not yet inherited his father's title, his status was
Very high. At least you don't have to flatter an illegitimate child."
Austin said slowly, he turned to look at Roy, "Few people know the name Norton now. But you should have heard of his grandson."
"Who is his grandson?" Roy asked curiously.
"The founding emperor of your Saint Solan Empire, Grand Duke Solan." Austin said.
Roy's face twitched. You should have heard of it... In this world, I'm afraid there are not many people who don't know the Grand Duke of Saint-Soulan. That was twenty-one bloody battles with the Holy See, and he suddenly came from Pompeii.
Under the attack of the Empire and Fei Lie Empire, the super fierce man who established the Saint Solan Empire!
However, he didn't expect that it was true that Grand Duke Solan's grandfather was Austin's friend.
"Norton was hunted to the south. He didn't even dare to go back to the Principality of Solan. At that time, the strength of the Principality of Solan was still in the bottom dozen among the dozens of kingdoms and principalities in the Roman Empire. And
The person Norton provoked was so powerful that even his family could not protect him."
"The Holy See!" Roy quickly guessed the answer.
Logically speaking, the royal heraldry officer is a core member of the royal institution. Anyone who wants to attack a heraldry officer is tantamount to declaring war on the then Caesar V.
However, Norton, as the heir to the Principality of Solan, was still forced to run away from the imperial capital. He did not even dare to go home for fear of bringing disaster to his family. So, it is conceivable that the power of the people chasing him was at least
To the point where he can compete with Caesar V.
Apart from the Holy See, which had been hiding behind secular power for three hundred years, Roy could not think of any other possibility.
"Yes, it's the Holy See." Austin nodded approvingly and continued, "Because he had nowhere to go, he went all the way south to find my asylum. He knew that this was the only safe place. As long as he crossed the
Once he enters my territory, no one can do anything to him."
Austin's voice was as calm as water, as if he was talking about a trivial matter, but what Roy felt from it was a domineering air of contempt for the world.
Being hunted by the Holy See, even Caesar V could only remain silent. There was absolutely no place for Norton in the world at that time. But there was in the south. Because this was the territory of the Terror Prince Austin. Even if the pursuers were given a chance,
No matter how brave they are, they don't dare to ask Austin for someone.
A necromancer who was supposed to be burned at the stake not only lived under the eyes of the Holy See, but also lived in such a way that the other party was afraid, scrupulous, and pretended to be deaf and dumb. Apart from being domineering, Roy could not think of any other word!
"However, when I saw Norton at that time, he was already seriously injured and dying." The flames in Austin's eyes dimmed slightly, "Although I tried my best to save him, at that time I was just a necromancer.
Moreover, there is not a single magician in my territory."
Roy felt a little sad.
The magician was originally a unique profession of the Holy See, and it was also the foundation for the Holy See to gain people's faith and ensure the strength of its knights. Therefore, the Holy See has extremely strict control over every magician, whether it is the management of people or the secrets of magic.
, are all so strict that they are outrageous.
At that time, Austin was the biggest heretic since the Holy See unified the religious beliefs of the human world. Their hatred for this heretic even exceeded that of the demons. Even after the birth of the Land of Chaos, more heretics appeared, and
No one can reach Austin's heights.
Every extra day a necromancer lives in the south is a humiliation to the Holy See. However, they have no choice but to pretend to be deaf and dumb.
And in such a situation, naturally no magician would stay in Austin's territory. Let alone working for this number one heretic, just saying a word to him and staying close to him would not be good for the Holy See.
It was an unbearable betrayal.
Besides, I'm afraid no magician would dare to approach a necromancer.
The two were originally natural enemies!
Roy could fully imagine Norton's ending. At the same time, he also understood why Austin later spent decades transforming undead magic. For this genius, the healing spell transformed by undead magic was for the Holy See.
A slap in the face is also a reminder of Norton.
"Before he died, Norton told me some truth about his pursuit," Austin said. "It turned out that when he was cleaning up the heraldry change records of some ancient families in the Heraldry Hall, he discovered a very strange phenomenon. That
These families, in the decades after arriving in the Land of Redemption, have successively added the images of a golden tongue and a black hibiscus to their family coat of arms."
"Truth and shame?" Roy frowned slightly and asked. The golden tongue represents the truth, while the black hibiscus represents shame. The average family will not add such a pattern to their family coat of arms. Unless, they
We need to remind our descendants to protect the truth or wash away the shame.
"Yes," Austin smiled: "It seems that you have learned heraldry well."
He continued: "Later, when Norton traced the inheritance of these families, he found that most of these families had died out. The originally prosperous families declined in various ways, and their main members either died of illness or accidents.
Falling off a horse, eating poison, or drowning while swimming.”
"This aroused great interest in Norton. He was keenly aware that there was a secret hidden in it that had been deliberately hidden, so he started an investigation. Norton has always been very cautious in doing things, and everything is done in secret.
It went on without attracting anyone's attention.
After a full year of investigation, Norton discovered that although these families have all died out, some of their descendants are still living in other identities. Moreover, many of them are actually heretical organizations that oppose the Holy See.
members of the church.”
The Revelation Cult, Roy had vaguely heard of this name before. More than two hundred years ago, the Revelation Cult suddenly appeared, holding high the banner of heresy against the Holy See. Among the many resistance forces against the Holy See in the past three hundred years, the Revelation Cult was the most powerful.
The largest one and the one that poses the greatest threat to the Holy Religion.
It is said that during its heyday, even many nobles were members of the secret Revelation Cult.
However, their existence only lasted for a few decades, and they disappeared under the siege of the Holy See. That year, the Kingdom of Heaven sent a miracle, causing the Apocalypse to disappear overnight. Thousands of heretics died in the judgment of the Kingdom of Heaven.
To this day, this is still a story that believers talk about.
Austin continued: "When he got here, Norton had already realized the danger of this matter. He didn't want to get involved in the struggle between the Holy See and heretics, so he stopped the investigation. However, he didn't look for things, but he found them.
On his head.——One of his childhood friends found him late one night a few days after he accidentally talked about those family crests in private.
This man was also a member of those ancient families. He told Norton that the original identity of the Apocalypse Religion was an organization called the Apocalypse Alliance established by the ancestors of these families. The original purpose of this organization was not to resist the Holy Spirit.
Instead of teaching, he is committed to investigating the truth of the final battle.
After the final battle, the top brass of the human coalition were wiped out, and all information about this battle disappeared. Neither ordinary people nor historians knew what actually happened in this battle. Everyone just thought that
, that is just the final and irreversible result of the Hundred Years' War...
But, someone knows! The ancestors of these ancient families are all survivors of the Final Battle. They have personally experienced the battle of the Final Battle. The long-term reflection, memories, mutual inspiration and collective deduction after the war made them disagree with the battle.
Later, the identification of that battle was made.
The contradictions focus on two points. The first point is that in the final battle, although the human coalition forces were retreating steadily, their real strength was not as weak as everyone imagined. On the contrary, the coalition forces had been accumulating strength and preparing for a fatal blow.
The final battle is the place chosen by the human coalition for the decisive battle.
That was a trap set by the coalition forces. If nothing unexpected happened, they could completely annihilate the main force of the demon clan and then launch a full-scale counterattack.
Although these survivors were all on the periphery of the battlefield and were relatively low-level, they were not able to understand the complete plans of the coalition's top brass. However, several of them had learned from their smug commanders before the final battle broke out.
A little inside information. And judging from the battle situation they observed at that time, the main force of the coalition forces on the central battlefield should not lose, and it is impossible to lose!
The second point is the hasty condemnation of the Knights of Hanshan Dragonlance, which is now the Knights of Farrington, after the war.
Because at that time, only the civilians and some peripheral armies who had gathered in the nine cities near the Duantian Mountains were able to escape the demons' pursuit by relying on the space channel opened by the Holy Emperor. Therefore, everyone had no idea that there were hundreds of kilometers away.
Something happened in the war zone outside.
Moreover, even those troops in the war zone did not know how the central battlefield, which collapsed first, lost. Therefore, the conviction of the Farrington Knights was entirely based on the accusations of a few people.
These accusers were all commanders of the peripheral theaters, and the theaters they were responsible for were adjacent to the theaters defended by the Knights of Farrington.
In court, they jointly accused the Knights of Farrington of not blowing the horn at the critical moment as planned, which caused several related troops to miss their fighter planes and also lost valuable time to reinforce the central battlefield, leading to the defeat.
The presiding judge accepted the testimonies and accusations of these people, but ignored the Farrington Knights' defense that they were ambushed by demons. He convicted the Farrington Knights and ordered them to permanently guard Farrington Fortress.
As low-level officers in the coalition forces, the ancestors of these ancient families have great respect and trust in the Farrington Knights. They do not believe in any way that these knights have been fighting against the demons from the easternmost part of the continent to the foot of the Duantian Mountains.
Knights who fight bravely and are not afraid of death will make such mistakes.
However, there is no evidence to prove these two contradictions.
They could neither prove that the human coalition forces at that time could not lose the battle, nor could they prove that Farrington was unjust.
The Broken Sky Mountain Range cut off their possibility of going to the central battlefield to explore the truth. And their vision was limited by the narrow field of vision at that time, and they were unable to see through the sky that enveloped that unprecedented battle without more information.
The fog of war.
In this way, with the completion of Farrington Fortress, the war situation gradually calmed down. And the people who first arrived in the Land of Redemption were faced with a hard life of fighting against the barren and cold environment and endless monsters. Therefore, about the final battle,
Debate, and soon no one will care anymore.
Although the people of these families are still concerned about that period of history and trying to find out the truth, their stubbornness has not brought them good luck. Not only have they encountered obstacles in the investigation, but their lives have also become increasingly difficult. Various
All kinds of disasters befall them.
Twenty years after the war, these families have completely declined, replaced by waves of new nobles, buried in the dust of history, and almost no one knows about them.
Just when these ancient families thought that the truth of the final battle would never be revealed, one family, by chance, obtained a copy of the order records of the confidential military secretary.
From this original manuscript, they discovered some unusual things. Combining these anomalies, they felt more clearly that they were all pawns of a huge conspiracy in that war. Back then, an invisible hand moved them
, resulting in an irreversible outcome.
Perhaps destiny was destined to reveal the truth of that year. Soon after, something big happened to the Holy Lady Temple, which was composed of the widows of many gods of law and gods of war who sacrificed their lives in the final battle. The widow of a high-ranking allied force officer suddenly ran away.
, left the Holy Lady Temple.
A few months later, she was found in a slum of a city. She was immediately declared a blasphemer by the Holy See and burned at the stake in Vatican. Rumor has it that she was convicted because of this man.
The prophets of the elves received revelations from other than the gods.
Although the person died, things were still very troublesome.
At that time, the angry struggle between the Holy Lady Temple and the Holy See even alarmed the Kingdom of Heaven. And the revelation that the widow received was also obtained by these families who persistently pursued the truth through an extremely secret and accidental channel.
In the backyard of a family, after reading this devil's revelation that was sealed airtight by the Holy See, all the participating families knew that the matter was beyond their power. If they wanted to do anything else, they would not be able to reveal the truth.
, but it will bring disaster to the family and even the entire human race.
Therefore, in order to hide the secret while sticking to the truth, they established the Apocalypse Alliance in the name of Apocalypse. They gradually added the golden tongue, which represents the truth, and the black hibiscus, which represents shame, to the family coat of arms. In addition to reminding future generations to defend the truth
, in addition to washing away the shame, the golden tongue and black hibiscus patterns of each family's different shapes also contain scattered and hidden secrets about the scribe's order records and the Book of Revelation.
As time goes by, the ancestors of these families have died, some families have disappeared, and the descendants of some families have gone to further places. And the secrets of the past have gradually lost their shape."
At this point, Austin sighed silently, "That childhood friend came to Norton because Norton served in the Heraldry Academy. They have pieced together part of the Book of Revelation and know that there is one that can unlock the final battle.
The key to the mystery is hidden somewhere. What is needed now is more coats of arms."
"Mr. Norton helped with this?" Roy asked.
"If I didn't help, maybe he wouldn't have died." Austin sighed, and then said: "After Norton died, it took me decades to find the verdict. It also took me a long time to research.
Only then did it know that through its energy channel, it can pass through the Duantian Mountains and get here."
He raised his head, looked at the sealed battlefield under the castle, and said to Roy: "All the secrets are in this battlefield. As long as the seal is unlocked, we will know what exactly happened back then."
"How can I untie it?" Roy followed Austin's gaze.
"According to the Book of Revelation, when you unlock the seals of all the disciples in the Judgment, you will be able to unlock the seals of this battlefield." Austin smiled slightly and looked at Roy: "I'm optimistic about you."
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.I really don’t want to write these things, it’s too difficult to write. I have to give out a little information, but not too much. I was so entangled when I was writing that my head hurt just thinking about it, so I managed to control myself and give out a small part of the secret.