On the Seven Towers

Lagos is the main city of the Duchess Josefina. Located more than 200 kilometers south of the capital, it is known as a pearl on the southern plains. It is close to the waterway, connecting the southern city-states and the northern trade city of Suero, one in the south and one in the north, complementing each other. It is one of the most important transportation hubs in the Iberian Kingdom.

The owner of this place, Josefina, and her mother, the previous Duchess, both like literature, poetry and music. After more than 50 years of operation, they built concert halls, open-air theaters and theaters, adding a lot of humanistic atmosphere to this place. Slowly, this place has changed from a commercial capital to a cultural capital, and it is a place that many new nobles around are very yearning for.

But at this moment, the prosperity of Lagos in the past is no longer visible. The whole city is full of ruins and charred smoke marks. The Josefina Concert Hall, which the city is most proud of, has also become a pile of rubble. Most of these buildings were destroyed by the fire on the day the city was broken.

At that time, the resistance of Josefina's army was very tenacious. Serinda besieged the city for half a month before opening a gap in the wall. When she attacked the city, she promised her army that they could plunder for a day after breaking through the city wall. Unexpectedly, Josefina had the courage to die with the enemy. After the city was broken, she secretly sent people to set fire everywhere, and finally the whole city was engulfed in fire. Several troops that entered the city were caught in the sea of ​​fire and suffered heavy losses. Some teams were even wiped out.

Among these people, there were not only the team of berserker guards she relied on, but also the brave people she selected from the people who were dragged in. After a series of battles, these people already had some elite momentum. Just when she wanted to cultivate these people well, Josefina burned many of them to death.

What's worse is that the wealth and food in the city that she had been thinking about were also burned.

Serinda was furious, so after capturing the Duke's Palace and capturing Josefina, she personally chopped off her head.

Now this city of art has become a large barracks, and the original location of the concert hall has simply become a cesspool for dumping garbage and excrement. The remaining residents in the city were either incorporated into her team or turned into slaves, used as the target of her team's venting.

Josefina's mansion was far away from the fire source and was made of stone, so only half of it was burned by the fire, and the main buildings were still well preserved. Serinda, Li Jia, and a group of senior officers all lived in the Duke's Mansion.

Li Jia and Serinda lived alone in a small building in the Duke's Mansion. Although the building was small, it had five floors and was almost the highest point in the city. It turned out to be where Josefina's father lived. Her father liked astrology, so this place where people could live and watch the stars was built by the previous Duchess for her husband. Li Jia also liked this place very much. At least every night when he climbed the rooftop of this building and lay on the lounge chair where the Duke's father looked up at the stars, it was the only time he could temporarily forget the tragic situation of the city. At such a high place, the bloody smell and smoke that had not yet dissipated in the city could not be smelled for the time being. There would be no sight of those soldiers bullying slaves. The only drawback is that at this time of night, there are still sporadic sounds coming from afar. However, the area where the army is stationed in the Duke's mansion is still a little far away, and Li Jia can no longer distinguish whether it is a proud shout or a miserable plea.

Under the same starry sky, I don't know what Xiao Chen and his friends are doing now. I heard that they have recaptured Heimuguan, I heard that they have stabilized the basic situation of the newly occupied area, I heard that their realms have been improved, and there must be many legendary stories, right?

Li Jia looked at the clear and brilliant starry sky and suddenly felt very lonely. He felt like a puppy who strayed into a wolf pack. Although the wolves thought he was the same kind, he himself could never really understand their behavior and practices.

Wolves want to eat people, but he can never bite them.

Li Jia thought about it and his thoughts drifted farther and farther. Suddenly, he felt a cold little hand touching his cheek. He was very familiar with that hand. Its owner was his only comfort in this terrible and chaotic world. Even though they often couldn't understand each other, it couldn't change his attachment to her.

"Are you in a daze here again?" asked Serinda. Li Jia turned around and saw that she was wearing light armor, and she didn't even take off the sword at her waist. Her face was obviously tired. It seemed that she had just finished her military affairs. Every day, countless documents and intelligence were sent to Serinda. She handled these affairs with all her heart and soul, so she looked more and more haggard day by day.

"Serinda. You..." Before Li Jia could say anything to comfort her, Serinda put a finger on her lips.

"I know what you want to say, but there are some things I have to do. Don't say it, okay?" Serinda sat on the chair next to him, and the armor on her body made a slight sound. She half-lay down and looked up at the sky with Li Jia.

After a while, Serinda asked, "Have you felt better these days?"

"Huh? What?"

"It's about what we have been doing along the way. I still remember the expression on your face when I chopped off Josefina's head with a sword. It seemed as if you didn't recognize me."

"You think too much. I didn't..."

Selinda interrupted him: "Recently, I read some history books in between reviewing official documents. I saw that these books only used a few simple sentences to describe the rise and fall of many dynasties, many wars and battles. But the details of the time are unknown. Did Alan I indulge his soldiers when he captured a certain city? Where did the wizard of the Spirit Tower transform the ghost army? These questions are not recorded. Only the praise and praise of the historians are left in the book. Even if there are some criticisms, they are just a few simple sentences. It is said that Alan I likes to rob famous paintings? It is said that Emperor Luca likes elf beauties? No one cares about and records the things you worry about."

"Yes, I understand this truth, the winner is the king and the loser is the bandit."

"So, you are just a little uncomfortable, because the world has always been like this." Serinda leaned over and patted Li Jia's face.

"But I keep hearing that sound, that painful scream, do you understand?" Li Jia said, holding Serinda's hand, "Listen, someone is shouting again, the voice is so shrill."

Serinda's brows suddenly tightened, and she stood up from the chair, "What are they shouting?"

"Huh? It seems to be Miss Serinda, calling you!"