"Returning triumphantly, everyone?" The Blue Saint Parsul welcomed them. Rego stood behind her in full armor, enveloped in a dull low pressure. The water fairy's poison forced the Silver Song Knights to activate the fire at all times, but even so, the pain was difficult to relieve. Uriel saw the scout knight Bogart drink a whole bucket of cold water, while the servants in the hall were fighting for every drop of liquid. He suspected they would soon be eating the melted candle alive.
Joey throws in a huddled transparent creature. It looks like an elf, with slender ears and bare fingers, but its mouth is full of canine teeth. The ice on its lower body clanked as it hit the ground. Kamaria Water Fairy. Uriel recognized it.
"Kill it to make soup," the instructor announced, "but it's best to do it as soon as possible."
"Where is Du Yilin?"
"Outside the door. She has another prisoner."
There were more than two people outside the door. Tower messenger Du Yilin climbed down from the saddle, and the three ragged prisoners were dragged on the ground. It was impossible for them to get up on their own anyway. These three people were different from the previous nightingales. One of them was Jayne Hesser, whom Uriel had met before, and the other two were completely strangers. But they are all mysterious creatures, and judging from the fire, they are all "original". Are these members of the Twilight Veil?
Bogart also recognized this one of the sons of Lord Mortus. He frowned at the female messenger: "The tower has no right to harm prisoners with noble titles."
"He hasn't inherited the territory yet."
"But he is one of the candidates."
Du Yilin glanced at him contemptuously. "No one prayed to Andrea, the Lady of the Lake, before she received the oracle. This bastard is the employer of Twilight Veil and plans to poison the wells across the city. He should be blamed for all the dead. Enter. I don’t care who you Silver Song Knights are willing to kneel to, and you’d better leave me alone.”
Uriel didn't like Jayne Hesser, but he still had value. "What happened? Why did he do this?"
"Because he feels that he is not capable of fighting for Mortus."
"I do not understand."
"Of course you don't understand, missionary, the thinking of this kind of person has always been difficult to understand. If I have to explain it, he believes in the principle of harming others without benefiting himself, and vents the anger of failure to every well in Mortus, as if this can make him It’s as if his competitors are holding back.”
The apprentice understood. "I hope he goes to hell when he dies." But his curses were as useless as his prayers. "Who are the other prisoners...?"
"A companion of the water goblin. They are the same as each other. Do you want to take over from Zoman? He is about to die of dehydration." Du Yilin drove the apprentice away.
Uriel took Bogart away because he looked like he was going to tear the two Twilight Veil prisoners apart. If left unchecked, the female messenger who was disposed of the loot would feel offended, and the apprentice did not want to see them fighting among themselves again.
Divine magic can indeed contain poison, which is the only reason why there are still living people in the hall. The wizard Zoman stumbled on the dining table and prayed, his voice weak, as if he was reading a eulogy for the dead. He was sweating profusely, his eyes were dull, and his face was red to his neck. Uriel quickly replaced him, and the golden sword cut off the spreading water columns, and they retracted as if frightened.
"I need water." Zorman said weakly. "The bugs are biting my blood vessels. I can't teach them to succeed."
"Joy can help you," Uriel told him. The mentor plus fire can probably save the drought within a few miles.
"He's back? Oh. You're back. How much longer are you going to have to endure? Damn the Water Goblin." He cursed and moved away.
Only then did Uriel have time to pay attention to the situation in the hall. The servants and guards were almost all mortals, a quarter of them dead from the terrible poison. Some people kept drinking water, and more people fought for the water source, even grabbing the wet soil that had just been watered into their mouths and sucking it. The apprentice saw a boy reaching for the thermometer and quickly dragged him aside with a divine chain. "Don't touch! It will make you die faster. Please wait a moment."
But the warning was followed by a struggle, and Uriel had to hang the boy on the wall. He knew that persuasion would not work - the dead man's body shriveled like repeatedly folded paper, leaving only an empty shell on the ground. No one could see this scene without being scared, including Uriel himself. Joey wants to kill the poisoned water fairy. Could this be the antidote?
He separated everyone who was still alive with a barrier and used "Holy Word Evocation" to create ice. Yet deaths still occur. This is how they died a thousand years ago, Uriel told himself. I tried my best.
Only when the mentor came to see the cook did Uriel stop and rest. "When did you find it?"
"When you're distracted."
"Seriously, Joey. Please stop making excuses."
"I don't need to answer your question." The instructor's eyes searched the hall. "You voluntarily obeyed my orders, missionary, not the other way around."
"Okay. What do you want?"
"Is this your magic?" He pointed at the magical barrier.
"They fight when they get together." Uriel told him what happened earlier. "As for the bugs on the corpse, I froze them together...oh." He realized that he had misread his mentor's direction. "Those? Before I left the temple, I learned the magic needed to survive in the wild." I can't just say that you taught me.
"What's your job?"
"I do not want to tell you."
Even in the days of the First Men, mysterious beings had the right to conceal their profession, lest their enemies learn of their weaknesses. However, most professional magic is highly identifiable and there is no need to keep it secret. Uriel used magic to pretend that he was a priest of the Mercury Temple, and it has not been revealed yet.
"I heard that it is difficult for priests to learn the magic of other professions." Joey said, "Didn't your instructor remind you to concentrate?"
Uriel blinked. "I believe he reminded me." This is not the point. The apprentice suddenly realized that Joey's first words were not true. Is he testing me? In the real world, Uriel had never hidden anything from his mentor, but in this dream, they could not be honest with each other. “However, he forgets that missionaries have skills that are in demand.”
"Increasing mystery reduces reliance on diet."
"Unless I become a member of the gods, I still have to drink water. My dietary dependence may be reduced, but I cannot get rid of it. You can never be too prepared. Wouldn't it come in handy now?" It's a pity that people thousands of years ago were unprepared. . "How on earth did you find the poisoner?"
Joey scratched his face with a sharp gaze, and Uriel certainly wouldn't meet his gaze. "Jayne Hesser betrayed him."
"They do still have a contract?"
"That's it." He was relieved not to have to explain the ins and outs. "Jayne provided the men with shelter and manpower and they intended to establish a stronghold."
"So what does Jayne Hesser plan to do?"
"Prevent his enemies from seeking help from secret societies. His brothers each control the wealth and army of the territory, and only he turns to mercenaries."
Bai Zhishi once told him that it is best to destroy useless knives, as discarding them will lead to trouble. Since he was removing Uriel's dropped dagger from the latter's throat, the apprentice was particularly impressed by these words. I'm afraid that in Jayne's eyes, the secret society is either driven by him or turned against him by his enemies. Therefore, Du Yilin's warning was ineffective, and it was impossible for her to kill the imperial nobles... Now he realized his mistake. The truly lethal weapon should be the tower messenger, not the secret society.
Unfortunately, it was too late, and handing over the members of "Twilight Veil" was no longer enough to quell the anger. Uriel suspected that Jayne Hesser did not know the true effect of the water fairy's poison, so he dared to use it in Mortus.
"Did the unfortunate guy tell you how to detoxify?"
"No need to say it," Joey replied, "I know that."
"What?"
The mentor had found the cook, and he walked across the bloody ground towards his target. "Are you deaf or stupid?" He pulled out his sword impatiently, and Uriel had to loosen the chain. "The water fairy itself is a good antidote to poison. By eating it, we can gain the ability to drive those bugs away and make them leave."
Uriel couldn't believe his ears: "You said eat it?" He remembered his mentor's order. Kill it and make soup. That was not a vent of anger, but a necessary step. "This...will this work? Who told you to do this?"
"my mother."
"...?"
Joey dragged the cook by his hand, whose limbs were stiff with pain. He stared at him until the poor man got up tremblingly and ran to find the soup-making utensils. It seems that what he said earlier was not just for his apprentices.
"She drank the same poison by mistake?"
"No." He replied while tapping the ice with his sword. "The exchange in Quartz City provides all kinds of slaves, and they can be resold as long as you pay. This is how my mother was picked up. The person who paid the bill was also involved. He followed the path of the water fairy, but could not find the poisoner. So he came to Evelyn with the last hope and wanted to buy one." He shrugged, "Unfortunately, there was no stock at the time, so he had to retreat. This time, they chose a slave of the same genus. To be honest, they sold her at a loss. The big goblin is a rare species. Who knew? They should hire a prince to be the appraiser. "
"He...he ate her?"
"Of course not. Water fairies will melt in the pot because they are elemental beings. This is not the case for other fairies." He suddenly straightened up and his face armor fell off with a thud. Uriel couldn't see his expression, but judging from his voice and tone, he didn't seem to be moved at all by the story.
"I'm sorry for asking you to tell me this," the apprentice said hesitantly.
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