Working Prophet.

Chapter 75 The Female Lord Who Goes Astray

Anton always thought that this pre-war meeting was just for gathering numbers. He was not from the Arias family, nor did he hold any important positions in the castle. He was just a teacher sent by the Silvermoon Church to enlighten children from noble families.

The reason why he was able to attend the audience must be because the Arias family looked at the face of the Silver Moon Church, so Anton was also very conscious. Up to now, he has not participated in any discussions, nor expressed his position, and even said a word. never said.

So he never expected that he would be the focus of this pre-war meeting, until he found that all eyes in the hall were on him, and many people looked at him with a look of expectation in their eyes.

The common language teacher couldn't help but panicked, and stammered, "But...but the church doesn't have an army either."

"Of course we know this, but given the relationship between the Silver Moon Church and the major families in the western region, if they are willing to come forward, they must be able to persuade them to send troops." Lucio said full of hope.

"This..." Anton was in a dilemma, and finally decided to tell the truth, "I'm just a teacher, and people in the church speak lightly. Of course, I don't want to watch those lizardmen and their evil gods burn, kill, loot, and mutilate this land. Believers of the goddess defile the brilliance of the goddess, so I can write to the church, but I can’t guarantee whether the church is willing to help, or how much it can help.”

"Just ask the goddess to send down an oracle." Someone whispered, "So many believers have died, including nobles..."

Anton blushed, but he still tried to explain, "The goddess has her own arrangements, and she can't keep watching the things on the ground on the holy mountain. All we can do is pray with our hearts."

That is to say, Miss Rabbit is offline at the moment, otherwise she would definitely jump up from her seat, and it would be useless to pray loudly, because she had prayed for a long time for the election, but she almost lost in the end.

If it wasn't for meeting Li Yu and Saturday behind him, it would be Blanca and his mother Vanessa who would be sitting here with a headache.

And everyone present is not a fool. Hearing what Anton said, he knew that the Silver Moon Church probably couldn't have too much hope.

In fact, with the current time, it is still enough for everyone in the hall to evacuate and run to the nearest Black Rock City, but no one has mentioned this until now.

Most of the people present were members of the Arias family, or old people who had served the Arias family for many years, and they all knew what this castle meant to the Arias family.

As long as it hasn't fallen for a day, even if the entire green field is turned into scorched earth, this land still belongs to them, and their descendants will still fulfill the sacred oath made by their ancestors to the Figuerola family.

But if they abandon the city and flee, even if those lizardmen are finally driven away, their return road may not be so smooth.

However, Ona still picked two children from the Arias family and sent them to Black Rock City just in case.

Seeing that everyone had nothing to say, the meeting came to an end.

After that, the big guys went to work on their own things, gathering refugees, gathering refugees, sending letters asking for help, counting supplies, and counting supplies. As for Alfred, he went to the top of the city and patrolled the city defense.

When the first ray of morning light fell on the rabbit banner above the castle, Ilea finally regained some energy.

After running away in the middle of the night, with violent emotional fluctuations, and not having a drop of water, the girl also looks a little weak.

But with the help of the maid, they climbed up the city wall together.

With previous experience, Miss Rabbit is now more and more familiar with throwing coins, and with a wave of her big hand, she added a gold coin buff to the soldiers and villagers defending the city.

As for the pain of bleeding, that is all later.

If she lost Teacup Castle, let alone money, she would have no face to meet the ancestors of the Arias family after her death.

Speaking of ancestors, the girl thought of her ancestors hanging around her neck.

I don't know if it's because she didn't serve the ancient spirits as hard as she did in the past, and she angered her ancestors, which is why such a terrible disaster happened.

But Ilea thought again, even if the ancestors were dissatisfied with their unworthy descendants, there was no reason to put them to death. Besides, the ancestors of the Arias family should not be able to control those lizardmen in the swamp. .

From this point of view, it is more likely that the evil gods behind those lizardmen are playing tricks.

What to do, I don't know if Goddess Yinyue has noticed that her followers are in urgent need of her help.

Miss Rabbit felt that it should be enough, otherwise she had acquiesced to Li Yu to secretly preach to the four children earlier, and she was planning to transfer her uncle's benefice to Li Yu.

So now who else can save her and save the people living on this land?
The girl walked down from the city wall with a heavy heart, and came to the open space in front of the stone castle, but she stopped suddenly when she passed a cedar tree.

The accompanying maid watched with some doubts as the head of the Arias family pulled out the ruby ​​dagger from his waist.

After a moment of hesitation, he rowed it towards the fir tree in front of him.

Miss Rabbit tried to carve sandy beaches, palm trees, deck chairs and parasols into the bark from memory.

Because she remembered someone had told her it was a ritual to communicate with a great being.

Even though the girl wasn't even a believer in it, the patterns carved by her seemed plausible.

However, after she took back the knife, she still put her hands together and prayed devoutly under the old tree.

The accompanying maid seemed to have thought of something, her complexion changed slightly, and she took two steps back quietly, not knowing whether she wanted to distance herself from the weird pattern on the tree or from the female lord who was falling into paganism.

Fortunately, at this time, the castle was still accepting refugees from all directions, and there was chaos everywhere, and no one paid attention to the small episode that happened here.

Even Ilea herself is trying her luck everywhere with the attitude of treating a dead horse as a living horse doctor, and she doesn't really believe in Saturday's ability.

After all, the great existence that Li Yu talked about couldn't even keep his spokesperson in the world, and it seemed that he couldn't help her keep the castle.

Thinking of Li Yu, Miss Rabbit's eyes, which were already swollen from crying, started to hurt again.

Afraid of being seen crying, he quickly lowered his head.

At this time, the lord must lead by example and not show any weakness, otherwise it will be even more difficult to maintain the morale of the people below.

Ilea understood this truth. She wiped away the tears from the corners of her eyes as quickly as possible. Alfred was worried about defending the city, and she couldn't help much except boost morale.

So the girl decided to devote herself to resettling refugees and making arrows.

In the twinkling of an eye, it came to dusk, and the sun sank to the west, sinking into the horizon a little bit.

The villagers in several villages near Teacup Castle were either taken into the castle, or fled in the direction of Black Rock City.

In the end, nearly 500 people were collected in the castle, most of them were old and young women and children.

This is not what the old knight expected, because the first choice for those who run fast must be Black Rock City, which is undoubtedly safer. Most of the people who will hide in the castle are not so convenient in their legs and feet, and they are worried that they will be caught up and killed by those lizardmen halfway. of.

Fortunately, these people were also accompanied by relatives, so Alfred selected 120 young and strong people to help defend the city.

In this way, the security of the castle has been strengthened again.

Seeing that the sky was about to completely darken, the old knight ordered to take back all the cavalry who were in charge of guarding outside, and closed the city gate.

The important people in the castle were all gathered on the city wall at the moment, all of them looked solemn and stretched their necks to look west.

Many people's feet were about to cramp, and they didn't see the legendary army of lizardmen.

Some of them even took chances, guessing whether those lizardmen would be satisfied after looting a few knight fiefs, and then turned back to the swamp.

But soon, their dreams were broken by the cruel reality.

I saw a group of small black dots running towards here from the place where the sun set. As they got closer and closer, the people on the city wall could gradually see their appearance clearly.

Just like in the records, they have ugly heads and long mouths with fangs growing on the top of their heads. Everyone, regardless of gender, is bare to the upper body, holding a variety of crude weapons in their hands.

Some were made by themselves, some were snatched on the way, and there were even some farm tools among them.

And in the middle of the line, four burly lizardmen were carrying a seat made of the bones of unknown animals.

There was also a figure on that seat.

(End of this chapter)