~.-~ Chapter 40 Two generations of Dark Popes

"My daughter, because that's not yet time." The Dark Pope held the scepter and looked at Anne and Lin Feng calmly.

Annie was stunned and couldn't help but step forward: "It's not time? Mother, what does it mean to be no time?"

The Pope of Darkness did not answer this question immediately. She looked at her daughter, and a complex light appeared in her deep eyes.

Putting the mask on the ground casually, the Pope of Darkness stretched out a hand, gently stroked Anne's face, then looked into Anne's eyes, and slowly said, "Anne, do you remember when I left you and your father?"

"When I was four." Anne said this without any thought. It was obviously a profound memory for her. She grabbed the hand of the dark pope touching her, and her voice trembled: "Seventeen years...you have not changed."

The Dark Pope seemed to be afraid to look directly at Anne, and lowered his head slightly: "Do you hate me?"

"No." Anne shook her head firmly and looked at the Pope of Darkness seriously: "I have always believed that you have difficulties."

After saying this, Anne couldn't help but look dark: "But I never thought that His Majesty the Pope of Darkness would be my mother, and my mother has always been by my side, and I never noticed it."

"Anne." The Dark Pope raised his head again: "Do you know why I became the Dark Pope?"

Anne was silent for a while before nodding vigorously.

Seeing this, the Dark Pope suddenly turned his head and looked at Lin Feng. Lin Feng knew it, shrugged his shoulders, and smiled indifferently: "Do you want me to avoid it first?"

"No." The Dark Pope shook his head unexpectedly and looked at Lin Feng seriously: "You stay here, because you will face a choice in a while."

"Please?" Lin Feng frowned immediately. Seeing that the Pope of Darkness didn't look like he was joking, he felt a little inexplicably.

Anne didn't understand the words of the Dark Pope, and looked at her blankly: "Mother, what do you mean by the choice?"

"Child, when you were four years old, I was really involuntarily leaving you and your father." The Dark Pope looked at Anne again, and did not explain immediately, but told her story, his voice sounded a little melancholy: "I always remember that it was a cold winter, colder than every winter I remember. Even if I always use the Dou Qi to protect my body and stay by the stove, I can still feel the cold air everywhere."

Lin Feng listened to the words of the Dark Pope, for some reason, a faint sense of resistance arose in his heart, but looking at Annie's focused gaze, he took a deep breath, hugged his arms with both hands, and continued to listen in silence.

"Many people were frozen to death that winter, including your grandfather and grandmother." A trace of sadness was hidden in the deep eyes of the Pope of Darkness: "At that time, your father had just been promoted to the Holy Land, and he used pure gold fighting spirit to separate my brother and your brother from the cold. You hid in my arms, grabbed the corner of my skirt and asked eagerly why I didn't take you out for fun."

After the Pope of Darkness said this, Anne seemed to piece together the pieces of memory that were dusty in her heart, with a smile on the corner of her mouth and a warm gaze.

"But I realized that the curse in your body became extremely unstable under the cold cold, and there would be danger of exploding the body at any time. After discussing with your father for a long time, I decided to go to the Pope at that time to ask clearly. So, I came to the Temple of Darkness alone..."

Speaking of this, the expression of the Dark Pope became a little weird: "In fact, His Majesty the previous generation of Pope had a weird temper. In my opinion, he was a very calculating person without any feelings. Every time he promised someone something, he had to get what he wanted. Except for your grandfather who could get such a little benefit from him for the rest of his life, no one could do it.

When I went there, he had already known the death of your grandfather, but he did not show even a slight sadness, and he was not willing to pretend. Even though I cried and begged him to save you under extreme vulnerability, he was unmoved. He had only one condition. As long as I promised him this condition, he would decide to save you."

At the end of the day, even the tone of the Dark Pope was mixed with a sense of sorrow.

"What conditions?" Annie asked almost subconsciously. At this moment, listening to her mother's story in person, she seemed to be able to deeply understand her mother's heart that was about to break at that time, and she couldn't help but hug the Dark Pope's arm.

Although Lin Feng was not as excited as Anne, the words of the Dark Pope reminded him of his own mother Nena, a series of sacrifices he had made for himself when he was young. Thinking of this, he suddenly felt empathy.

"Let me be his heir." The voice of the Dark Pope was faint, and there was also an indescribable power hidden in it: "After his death, he inherited his throne and continued to do things for him that he could not accomplish."

"Why? Why did he choose you?" Annie asked urgently: "If I remember correctly, you only had the mid-level level eight at that time, and it was also to save me, but why didn't he choose his father who had reached the holy realm, but chose you? Can you convince the public with your eight-level level eight at that time?"

"Haha... I asked him that too." The Dark Pope shook his head with a wry smile, glanced at the abyss below the bridge, and then turned back to Anne: "But he did not answer me, but just asked me to agree or not."

"So...you agreed?" Annie's heart twitched suddenly.

"I have no choice." The Pope of Darkness took a breath: "So, you are saved, and the curse in your body stabilized. In exchange for the conditions to save you, I signed a contract of master and servant with the Pope of Darkness."

"Master-Servant Contract?" Lin Feng suddenly interrupted, his face becoming a little ugly: "Is it the kind of master-Servant Contract signed by the human magician and the monster?"

"Not bad." The Dark Pope looked at Lin Feng with admiration.

Lin Feng immediately cursed hatefully: "Damn, he is such an inhuman guy!"

Looking at Annie's confused look, Lin Feng sighed and explained: "Annie, unlike an equal contract, once the contract of master and servant is signed, as a servant, he must not violate the will of his master at any time. Moreover, the master has the power to judge the life and death of his servant at any time, just like a relationship between a magician and a monster."

Lin Feng's words were all pointed at the most important position. Looking at the dark pope's face gradually getting colder, Lin Feng immediately pretended to be innocent and shrugged: "Sorry, Your Majesty, I am not questioning your words. But, as far as I know, once His Majesty died in the previous life, the contract of master and servant would disappear, and you will be free."

As he said that, Lin Feng took a step forward to make sure that Anne himself was within his control and continued: "It can be said that you are a total victim. But I really want to know why you did not return to Anne's side after the death of His Majesty the last Pope, but instead continued to work hard for the person who framed you for so many years?"

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