It's dark.

Xia Lan covered her bandaged belly and sat in a messy room, looking up at the bright moonlight outside the window. When it was quiet, she seemed to hear the passage of time and felt inexplicably empty inside.

After killing Selle in the square at the entrance of the church, Xialan did not leave Cologne immediately, but found a looted, unmanned room to rest and recuperate because he was injured and was seriously injured by a sword.

It is never a simple matter to defeat a strong enemy through the level. Any confrontation that blindly ignores the class gap often does not have a good result. Reality is not a knight novel circulating in the market. The exciting plot of the protagonist in the story being in a desperate situation but suddenly reverses is entirely due to some attractive design needs. Unless he has the determination and trump card to die, such absurd and unexpected plot will rarely be staged in reality.

It was Xia Lan who paid a terrible price to kill Sel, which resulted in him being unable to break out of Cologne alone. He could only find a place to recover from his injuries and avoid Casar's side's eyeliner as much as possible.

Sel's sword almost cut half of his abdomen. If it weren't for his strong physical fitness and timely self-rescue, he might have been in danger now. Although the large amount of blood loss and trauma seemed serious, what really affected his physical injuries was the violent energy that invaded the opponent's sword and raged wildly into his body. Even if he was in full state, he needed to be slowly eliminated, let alone the severe damage in his current body? Being able to barely suppress it is the result of his efforts.

In order to avoid the worsening of his injuries, he cannot take action easily now. He can only make the next plan when his health improves.

Or, he could wait for Mommer's rescue.

To be more precise, he could wait for Heris to arrive.

He had a premonition that this day would not be too far away.

The sun rises and sunsets, and the clouds roll and unfold, as if they are in isolation from the world. All changes and news from the outside world have begun to become strange and distant. There have been movements of soldiers and guards patrolling in the surrounding streets and alleys, three or five mobs are swaying across the city, and there are displaced townsmen crying.

Xia Lan in the house could not see the outside world, and the people outside did not know that the people in the house seemed to be in two parallel lines without intersection, and each other did not disturb each other in their own planes.

Until one day.

Someone pushed open the door of the room and saw Xia Lan in the corner of the wall. Then he let out a low scream. The exclamation came to an abrupt end, as if someone had suddenly covered his mouth.

"Brother! There are corpses here, so terrible! We shouldn't stay here."

A tender voice made a pitiful and scared begging.

"Just just a corpse. Haven't we seen enough these days? Don't be afraid, if you have your brother here, you will protect you."

An equally tender voice pretended to be brave.

"But...brother...I still don't want to stay with a corpse."

"So would you like to face a body in this room or face a bunch of bad guys outside?"

"I……"

"Don't worry, Brother searching for time will remove this body from the room."

It seemed that the whispering conversation between the two children did not hide from the alertness of Xia Lan. He did not open his eyes or move, and there was no need.

Since the other party will not cause threats or troubles to him, he would rather focus on the violent energy that he is trying his best to drive away in his body in these days.

The two uninvited guests who rashly entered the Xialan world seemed to regard this place as their hidden new home, and were constantly placing something in a hurry. After a long time, the two of them started to rest and chat with breathlessness.

"Brother, we don't have much food."

"I know, I plan to search for nearby houses at night to see if there is any food! I hope that those damn robbers didn't grab everything like locusts."

"I'll go with you!"

"Be good! I'll do it alone! I'm afraid something unexpected happens with you."

"No...I don't want to separate from my brother!"

"Melly, are you afraid of staying alone in the house?"

"...Well! I dare not stay in the same room with a corpse."

"Ha! What's the point of fearing about corpses? He won't jump up and kill you and eat you! I'd rather stay with the corpses than those damn robbers. At least the corpses won't hurt us."

"But I'm still afraid..."

"Let's do it. When there is no one at night, I will drag the body out and hide it. In this way, you won't be afraid anymore, right?"

"I...I...I still want to be with my brother."

"I said, it's enough for me to be alone at night. I don't want you to have an accident."

Perhaps it was because my brother's attitude was very firm, and my sister did not continue to get entangled. After a brief silence, my brother changed the subject and tried to divert the stiff atmosphere just now.

"When I was looking for food in Luhua Lane yesterday, I heard that many townsmen successfully escaped from Cologne and went to the garrison of the Knights Brigade outside the city to take refuge."

"oh?"

"I heard that it was the Knights of the Holy Tribe who came to support Cologne to break the city gate and let go of all the escaped townsmen who were blocked near the city gate! The scene was said to be very terrifying. The hundreds of soldiers intercepted at that time were all slaughtered, with blood and corpses everywhere..."

"What happened later?"

"Later, the Knights who dominated all this said that there were heresies in Cologne who controlled Cologne. They came to save everyone. Many townspeople saw them striking all the way to the Church of Valla, and the result...ah..."

"What's the result?"

"As a result, the clans had no news after entering the church, and everyone said that they had all died in the church."

"How could it be?! Isn't that no one came to save us?"

"I don't know either...but I'm sure that the Holy Church will send people to save us sooner or later! Those hateful heresy are the ones that have caused us to fall to this point today!"

"...I, I miss my parents."

“…”

Um?

Xia Lan suddenly felt a sense of confusion when she heard the conversation between the two siblings in the house. He did not expect that the noise made by his side in Cologne was known to him. Even the two homeless children knew it. Inferred in this way, many people who stayed in Cologne should have known this. Logically speaking, the heretics who control Cologne will not allow such discourse that is not conducive to them. So how did this matter spread?

Bold speculation, as expected, there must be no hidden temple in Cologne, and the inside should secretly push and influence public opinion.

Generally speaking, the inside of the temple should not appear easily unless...

It seems that Mommel is ready to take action.

Why? Has Heris come? Or is the people from Revelation Mountain come? Or are there both?

Xia Lan knew that he could no longer pretend to be dead and escape.

So, he opened his eyes and moved his body.

Then, the two brothers and sisters who noticed the movement saw the so-called "zombie fraud" with horror.

...

...

Balia Church.

In the deep courtyard full of plants, Baron Ksvo sat leisurely on a chair, holding a cup of fragrant tea in his hand and sipped slowly. On the table in front of him, there was another cup besides the pot of tea, which was obviously specially prepared for someone.

"I thought you wouldn't come."

Baron Ksvo suddenly spoke.

"There was some accident on the way here, and I had to delay the time."

A gentle and crisp sound sounded in the illusion. At some point, Heris sat opposite Baron Ksvo.

Baron Ksvo nodded, poured a cup of tea for the other party and handed it over.

"I didn't expect that the famous witch of Dojo would also encounter trouble."

"Haha." Herris smiled without saying a word.

"Long story, what answer do you decide to give to our proposal?" Baron Ksvo suddenly said solemnly.

"Before I arrived in Cologne, according to the latest news I received, the Heather Empire's army seemed to have successfully broken through the sacred defense line in the Brunswick-Sarus area." Heris held the teacup lightly and avoided talking. "They should be placed in it, which is really eye-opening."

"After all, this is our careful planning that took decades." Baron Ksvo frowned and stared at the other party with a bright look. He didn't know what Heris was thinking about for a moment.

"If nothing unexpected happens, I have reason to believe that you can overturn the dominance of the Church in Elderland in one fell swoop. I did plan to reach an alliance with you, but something that happened not long ago made me hesitate." Heris said slowly.

"What's the matter?" Baron Ksvo said in a deep voice.

"Do you know why the Holy Church has been reacting to the movements you made?" Heris said to himself, dominating the right to speak from beginning to end. "Because our great Pope John was not on Mount Revelation at that time, and do you know where he is?"

"..." Baron Ksvo kept silent, just staring deeply at her and waiting for the following.

"He's in Tyranheim." Heris said leisurely.

Baron Ksvo, who got this answer, immediately his pupils shrank because he knew very well what Tyranheim meant.

The Pale Song of Wu Ting.

"I forgot to say something. In addition to the one whom he met, there was also the supreme judgment of the arbitration scale, the white-robed sage of the tower of magic, and the blind-eyed lady of the Forest of Stars..."

"The worst result finally happened." Kswo shook his head and sighed after being silent for a long time.

"It's normal. No one wants to see you drag the whole world into the abyss of darkness." Heris sipped the tea as if nothing had to do with him.

"So you decided to stay neutral?" Baron Ksvo said coldly.

"At least we have the same enemy, don't we?" Heris smiled.

When Herris learned this information from Perio, she completely cut off her idea of ​​being an alliance with the other party. In the coming war, joining either party means a life-and-death confrontation, so Heris will not lose his mind and participate in it.

She was very clear about telling each other that although they could not become allies, they would not become enemies, and in some way she was on their side.
Chapter completed!