Vol 4 Chapter 13: Soul crisis

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Since Murphys knew that Andariel’s strength would steadily increase, he had been thinking about how to deal with this dangerous person. At present, Andariel’s existence is "chicken ribs". In this way, after all, hatred between the two is the main reason for the situation today.
Does Murphy hate Andalil in his heart? Yes, but it has gradually dissipated with her "softness" and various encounters. Perhaps this is the difference between humans and purgatory demons. Andariel's "hatred" cannot disappear because that seems to be the only reason for her to live. .
When Murphys returned to the tavern, the sky was getting late-the hotness of countless entertainment venues after the setting sun had already explained the prosperity of Buttigia, but for the "night watchman" consul, the arrangement of the night was always boring and boring , Training, magic training, reading books, sleep time is compressed to four hours, Murphy is always crazy to improve his strength, and after receiving the teachings of Hessel, he can clearly notice his body It changes day by day, and he also feels that the reappearing magic pattern on his body is approaching the edge of being lifted again.
Hegel and Heisel did not venture out, honestly staying next to Murphy, and he did not bother to look up at the starry sky Andalil outside, quietly looking at the classics inside the house.
"despair."
The door was knocked suddenly, and Murphy looked up, but he was surprised to see Jeanna pushing in.
This situation is not uncommon. Jeanna has never been a knight who will take the initiative to take care of others. Especially after experiencing a "death", she seems to have lost the most basic human communication ability.
"there is a problem?"
Murphy asked suspiciously, putting down his classics.
Jeana in a black armor looked a little hesitant. After standing in front of Murphy, she did not speak for a long time. Eventually, the soul of Jeana came out: "I want to talk to you."
"Sit down and talk."
Murphy frowned, and looked involuntarily at the figure of Andaril outside the window. The latter looked up at the starry sky without any movement, without a word, as if he didn't notice it.
"I haven't seen you take the initiative to say anything for a long time, but before you speak, I have a question." Murphy asked bluntly: "Is your question caused by Andalil?"
Jeanna's black helmet faceplate seemed to have some hesitation, and finally lowered slightly, saying: "Yes."
Murphy no longer had any extra questions, nodded, and said softly, "I'm just confirming, you say, what do you want to talk about?"
"free."
Jeanna seemed to be unfamiliar with the word, and she said with a little stumbling, "I just want to know, "freedom" is really so important for a person?"
Murphy looked at the knight in front of him, silent for a while, and shook his head: "There is a book that says: "Everyone has eyes, but it does not mean that they can see the world. Most people don’t look, but they only hear others say. Yes, so their world will always be what others say.'"
Silence Na, the faint blue light shimmering behind that faceplate is slightly dim.
Murphy continued: "The world is different, in your eyes, in my eyes, and in her eyes."
"I don't understand this." Jeana shook her head. "I seem to be curious about many things, and she told me that'freedom' is the goal everyone pursues."
"Curiosity is not wrong, but you must have your own judgment." Murphy pointed to himself. "I just said that it is true."
Jeanna seemed to seldom say so much. She was silent for a while, and seemed not to discuss the issue anymore. Then she whispered suddenly: "I seem to...touch the limit of this armor."
"What do you mean?"
Murphy didn't respond, he frowned, "This armor can't hold your soul?"
"I can't control the growth of my soul. This armor seems to have been unable to completely contain my soul... Andariel said that I will eventually dissipate again because there is no "container"."
Jeanna raised her head, "Although I don't have too many attachments to this world, I still feel the fear in my heart-the fear of the dissipation of the soul."
"She is threatening you."
Suddenly, Murphy became a little sullen—the few words of Andariel made Na feel terrified...this is definitely not a good thing.
"No, I can feel that she is telling the truth, although she has her own purpose." Jeana laid her two-handed sword over her leg armor and rubbed her finger gently against the blade. "But I can't help it, no. What?"
Inexplicably, Murphy suddenly felt the hopelessness that had never been seen from this knight-this silent emotion made him even dare not look directly at Jeana's faceplate...
"There will be a way." Murphy took a deep breath, squeezed his fists, and then slowly loosened. "There must be a way."
Watching Murphy bow his head and whisper to himself, Jeanna suddenly had a mood swing that she had never had before.
She didn't even know why.
...
The next day, Murphy appeared early in front of the gate of the dean of the "Phoenix" Magic Academy in Buttigia.
No one invited this dangerous and sensitive guy to come to the highest school of Balice’s magic. His uninvited one was also accepted and welcomed by Carlo. The door was opened, and he was hit by William in West Sellin. The dean of the flight, Carlo Mai, stepped forward and greeted Murphy with a wizard's gift.
Everything that followed was very ceremonial. The two didn’t talk too much, and ended in less than an hour. They left
Phoenix
, and Murphy rushed to the
Frost
Academy nonstop, and also got the dean. The welcome-and only the "Rock Dragon" where Dean Gardin is located did not allow Murphy to enter. The two deans of the three major magical academies had a brief exchange of views with Murphy.
the reason? Naturally is the amazing background behind Della, the mentor of Murphys-although the dean does not "fell" Murphys for noble exchanges, he understands that as a member of the Golden Compass Council, he must protect the "Rules" Council Some of the most basic etiquette and "face".
Murphys is not stupid, so while his "protected" identity is not outdated, he quickly took advantage of the resources in his hands-after talking to two dean masters who are more than i-level, Murphys has benefited greatly. The first is that "Phoenix" provided Murphy with some books on the soul for research, and there are also two key documents for the construction of the space boundary, which can basically be regarded as an indefinite lease-the talkative Carlo seems to understand Some other things behind Murphy's identity also provided Murphy with a valuable robe, saying that he was an apprentice to Sunderland's goal in Lampard as his apprentice.
In contrast, "Frost" is a bit colder. Valders, who is also a member of the Golden Compass Council, gave a rare version of the book of the Magic Array. After a few words, he ended the conversation.
Rao is so, Murphy is also quite fruitful. On the fifth day of Balice, the royal family once again ordered Murphy to negotiate a second round of negotiations. This time, His Majesty Hasselblad did not communicate with Murphy again. Unnecessary confrontation, straightforward agreement to allow Murphys to continue to develop in East Ballice, and stated that a considerable number of troops can be sent to fight possible wars, but at the cost of Lampard’s tax within ten years Raise 30%, and when the kingdom has a mission, Lampard needs to obey.
For Murphy, who has been blackmailed all the way, Lampard's tax increase for ten years has been completely unaffordable.
In general, the royal family was completely in a disadvantaged position in the negotiations, and the final intention reached also showed the softness of the Mocledy family-they did not hold Hegel and Hessel, and Murphy understood It was not important that he was unsuccessful to Varian's "showing good" success, and nodded in agreement to this brief and secret negotiation.
"The empire does not need the huge profits brought by the war, but the stability and well-being of the people's lives," His Majesty Hasu said sullenly before Murphys left. "If the empire cannot maintain stability because of you, then Once, I will not make such a regression."
Murphy didn't give any promises or replies. The young man just smiled and turned away as if he was good.
In the evening of the same day, Murphys’ team returned straight to East Ballice, and even Hegel and Heysel did not expect that the young magistrate would actually fight the royal family and achieve such terrible results. Inwardly lamented his young and promising.
However, Murphy was very worried and unsatisfied. He turned page by page in the carriage looking at high-authority books about space transmission and soul, and he slept all night.
But in the palace, another conversation was profound.
"In order to retreat, it is not the first time the Mocledy family has done this."
Heto never showed up during the meeting between His Majesty the Emperor and Murphy. He looked at the parchment in his hand. Is the scourge really safe?"
"Hegel and Heisel exerted pressure on me invisibly. The generals of the Northern Department were not playing tricks. To be honest, I also considered myself moving a stone and smashing my feet. Two guys who should have been dealt with," Hasselblad still admitted his own missteps as usual, "But the Empire will not be hit by Lampard's territory, and the nautical road has just opened. I believe this The huge potential is enough to recover the wealth and economy lost from him."
"Of course, when the right time comes, I will let him know what kind of decision a mature ruler will make."
"You mean, the royal family will have a fight with this guy sooner or later?"
"Whoever has a war with him will not be limited to the Mocledy royal family. I believe that the existence of a threat to him on this continent will come to the door sooner or later, and let the public make the decision to the public. After a generation of time to disintegrate the Glass family, what can a young Mao child do?"
His Majesty Hasselblad narrowed his eyes and continued: "Then, the meeting place of the Round Table Knights Council is in Balice, which is not simply a coincidence."
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West Sellin.
Within a month of the lord’s departure, one team after another came from Sibalice. It seems logical that although East Balice and Sibalice had trade, they were not. Frequently, because the slightly barren East Barrich is scarce, self-sufficient and okay, "trade surplus" is an unimaginable concept, so when these seeming caravan guys appeared in West Sellin At the time, Sunderland, who lives in the city, did not understand what this meant.
However, he soon discovered that most of these teams came to enrich the resources of the post-war city-transporting a cart of food, armaments, cloth and other materials to the Earl’s Court without asking for rewards. Understand who did it.
Sunderland fully accepted the materials brought by these teams. It is even more incredible that there are three more than 100 knights and a sufficient number of war horses. Finally, the Murphys wagon appeared. It was the number of one car. Unimaginable grain and grass.
This is the result of the blackmail by Murphys along the way. It is like the elf slavery team that has not opened for three years and has eaten for three years. The harvest of Murphys has made the Lampard territory almost immediately breathe from the wounds of the war. Out of breath.
However, after returning to the territory, he did not have any relaxed expression. After Hegel restarted the order of the territory, Murphy directly led Heysel and Jeanna into Arantis, while Andariel was He ordered to stay in the Earl's Court underground, not to move around.
"I have never known why His Majesty Hasselt valued you so much, and even would rather promise you harsh conditions rather than tearing his face," Heysel opened his eyes wide when he first entered Arantis and said he was not Gao Ming's opinion, "This underground city has made your territory more than the sum of the three big lords of East Ballice, which is incredible!"
"The territorial area can't explain any problem, if I can, I'd rather not have this extra territory."
Murphys took Heisel and Jeana to fall on the first underground world by gravity. After nearly a month of reconstruction and construction, a team of thousands of people has changed most of the appearance of the entire underground world— — First, the brightly lit aboriginal building complex has become a habitable residential area, and part of the city has become the unique red glow of the furnace-more than 500 powerful blacksmiths are here almost day and night Stopping, beating and beating, a stunning weapon for the territories’ creators, and after Murphy’s blackmail, the area was clearly expanded again, at least thousands of blacksmiths were to build the territory in the future The cavalry regiment and infantry regiment armament have made a strong productivity guarantee.
In the area under construction, three lumber yards occupying different locations on the edge of the city have been established. In the corner, the night elf Krenze leads the members of the ethnic group who are willing to come to make long bows here for Murphy. Sri Lanka created a long-range weapon with an amazing range.
Murphy first inspected a circle, and arranged in his heart the other three teams to live in, and then exchanged some opinions with Krenze-the night elf brought a few good news, one It is the night elves that more and more people choose to come to live in the first layer of the world, which means that the amount of longbows will be made more and more. In addition, he learned that the Brest family has been directly The decision made after the genocide: the night elves are willing to teach their ancestral archery as a reward for the disappearance of their "enemies".
Murpheus agrees with this, but apparently Krenze still has something to say, which seems to be inexplicable. Murphy expresses his understanding. After all, the night elf race is difficult to completely treat humans after being closed for too long. Open your heart and exchange something.
But when he had just left the area where the night elves lived, Heisel, who had always been by the side of Murphy, was surprised and said: "Boy, I really didn't expect there are elves here...you know, in the north, those ice and snow can still be The guys who hit the target 400 meters away are almost extinct!"
"Have you ever seen an elf?"
Although Murphy had heard from Elendal that the elves lived in the north, he did not expect that the northern noble had actually seen it—but Hegel never said a word about it.
"Only a few times, about ten years ago, a group of elves passed through the area where we lived. The tribe had a conflict with them, but ended in defeat. Our warriors were shot into a sieve without even having time to come. Fortunately, they It’s not been too long..." Heysel narrowed his eyes to recall the details that had happened, but his answer also confirmed the fact that Hegel did not know about it, because the Glass family had been there for more than two decades. It fell apart, and Hegel had arrived in Ballice ten years ago.
Without asking much, Murphy took Heisel to a house that had been built and turned his head and said, "I, as the "rugman" chief consul, cancelled the hired infantry instructor if you If you refuse, I will not have any opinion, but just dismiss you as a deputy head of the Cavalry Regiment after being deprived by the royal family to arrange a more suitable identity for you."
What does the silly Heisel want? Once he used his own efforts to gain recognition from others, and proved that he was not stupid, but the facts told him ruthlessly that he was not suitable for embarking on the path of pursuing power, so after being cut to death by his subordinate knight Heisel has completely understood what he needs now.
"I just want to ask one question." Heisel hesitated, seeming to organize the language, "If one day, you really fight with the royal family, can you let go of the brothers who are also from the north?"
"I have no problem letting them go, but the only question I need is...whether the royal family will let them go."
Murphy responded meaningfully.
Heisel was also a little silent, his own experience might be the encounter of the brothers.
"I will find a way to do it." Murphy sighed and promised.
Hessell nodded, realizing that he seemed to owe this young man more and more, and replied: "I won't say more about other things. I don't have any questions about the instructor."
"Here is your work area. In the next time, the territory will select the strongest soldiers to come here to receive your training. The power is in your hands. Let them reach their potential limits." Murphy then pointed to himself , "Of course, don't forget to guide me."
Hesser nodded, his expression serious.
Finally, let Na follow Murphy to the converted Clemens family castle. All the internal repairs here have been completed, and the renovated building is completely suitable for the night watchman to take root here.
When I arrived at the study room where Prince William had stayed, Murphy looked around. There was no gloomy feeling in the underground castle. Lighted candles and various solid wood furniture and warm-colored carpets were no less than the Byzantine Ducal Palace. Let’s be luxurious without losing the atmosphere. It’s just that the original books on the bookshelf have been decaying in the long years, and now it is a book of magical theory that Murphys brought in.
Staying in this room, which may be the main office area of ​​Murphys, for a moment, he directly started the next work-"Jeana, can you take off your helmet?"
Murphy found a record about the state of the soul from the words and words in the book. At this moment, Jeanna is in the "condensed state" of the soul, that is, between the "spirit and soul" of the positive and the "ghost" of the dead creature.
Jeanna hesitated for a moment, and finally reached out and took off the helmet at the request of Murphys. Behind the slow movement, a long blue hair shone like a waterfall, and her face was translucent blue. It is exactly the same as what Murphys remembers, but it is as vague as a layer of gauze.
It's just that her eyes are no longer as pale and dull as before, but it seems that she has never used this face to show people. She rarely lowered her head and seemed a little ashamed.
Murphy suddenly felt a little tight in his heart-because all this was caused by his negligence.
He reached out and wanted to touch her long hair in Jean Na's amazed eyes, but her fingers passed straight through and she couldn't touch anything.
"Why can't I touch your soul, but you can support this armor?"
Murphy pursed his lips~EbookFREE.me~ asked in a low voice.
"All I can support is this armor-it can be controlled by the soul, and no other armor can do this." Then, letting Na reach out and take off the gloves of the Kel'ja's armor, long and slender The same translucent palm reached Murphy, but passed across his chest.
"In a sense, this armor is my other pair", but it has been endowed with some other abilities-such as devouring weak souls." Jeanna began to cooperate with Murphy's help. The intention was to voluntarily say a lot of words that were not known to outsiders, "and without it, I can only be a ghost in the eyes of others. I can do nothing but burn soul energy."
"But in that case, won't the soul be damaged?"
Murphy frowned, "If the armor can't hold you, why don't you just take it off?"
"It's a shackle, and I can't leave this armor completely." Jeana pointed to her chest. "Its designers didn't seem to intend to let any soul that entered this armor leave."
"No." Murphy shook his head and resolutely replied: "Since it is artificial, there must be a way to change it."