The female devils I saved came to my door

Relying on Charles's false mediation and inducement, the nobles of the Principality of Beztain, under strong pressure, easily agreed to the conditions, collected a lot of grain, gold and silver, and gave them to Love as compensation. Na, in exchange for the occupied land.

Lovna, on the other hand, was able to legitimately withdraw from the army and return to Great Black Sund with the supplies and compensation she captured.

The first expansion war of the Ipoli Empire ended, and Queen Lovna returned with a great victory.

116. The Shire revisits his hometown

"When Lovna told me her experience, I was actually quite surprised. I didn't expect that immature little girl to achieve such a career now.

“But I chose to help Luovna, not just because of her.

"Years of war have made Great Hessende, a remote area surrounded by swamps, dense forests and mountains, a unique place for the development of separatist forces. Not only those countries in the west, but also the Holy See and even St. Ann IV, Can't reach here.

"At that time, I was probably also interested in doing something with this remote force located on the edge of the mainland."

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Ciel's idea is to let Lovna give up as soon as possible and not be fooled by the temporary victory and fall into a long-lasting quagmire.

Lovna also accepted this suggestion.Her soldiers had no intention of staying and garrisoning in a foreign country.Seeing that they had received such a generous amount of compensation materials, and that the loot was so large that it would be difficult to transport it away, they were very satisfied.

This expedition was considered a great victory.

This mighty army of the Ipoli Empire returned to their hometown along the hidden road in the swamp, carrying stretchers, pushing carts, and pulling cargo boxes.

The unwilling but helpless Beztan nobles could only stand angrily at the border and look at these barbarians loaded with goods with resentment.They looked at the troops at the rear, but in the end they didn't dare to say anything and could only let them leave one by one.

Charles no longer cared about these useless nobles. He also followed this team and followed them to the country he had been away from for a long time.

On the way back, he felt the blood connection again, as if there were several blood relatives beside him who were watching him silently.

Lovna rode silently, accompanying Charles.

The soldiers along the way shouted long live to her, and she agreed perfunctorily, but her thoughts were all on Ciel.

She looked at the teacher's profile and felt a little overwhelmed: after so many years, the past companionship, confession, parting... those past events have become too far away.The secrets I have to protect now and the responsibilities I shoulder are increasing. Even if I want to say something to the teacher now, I can't be so candid about it.

The two of them had a tacit understanding and didn't say much.

But anyway, they returned to Ipoli and were reunited where they first met.

Yiboli is the place where Charles once promised Lovna that he would return within one or two years.But in the end, after more than ten years, he set foot on this damp and cold land again.

After confirming that he entered Ipoli territory, Ciel still felt a little strange.

First there are roads.The rugged dirt roads that were once solely paved by pedestrians and vehicles have been carefully smoothed and widened, paved with fine sand, and road signs and awnings have been installed at key intersections.

The towns and cities along the way have all been renovated, and the dilapidated shacks have been renovated. The newly built canals are filled with filtered clear water. The fields in the villages and towns have also been neatly demarcated and the boundaries are clear. There are no animals or humans on the road. of feces.Even the serfs' dwellings had windows and chimneys.

Several larger cities in Ipoli have also been renovated.After the uneven city wall was knocked down, a new wall with towers and urns was rebuilt.Older urban areas were also renovated, and schools, hospitals and new churches were even built within the city.

The funds to rebuild this small country were undoubtedly obtained by Lovna.

When Ciel followed Lovna into the city, cheering residents lined both sides of the road.

The soldiers threw the captured gold coins on the streets, and all the residents cheered Lovna's name loudly to celebrate the victory.

Children crowded around the red-haired saint's horse, eager to touch her outstretched palm and receive her praise;

The priests on the roadside held up their classics and used all kinds of exaggerated poems and metaphors to praise the victorious heroine;

In the palace, the kings from all the countries in Great Hessen have also made preparations and set up a sumptuous banquet to welcome the victorious guardian.

Seeing Lovna who was so high-spirited at this time, Charles was really in a trance for a moment.He had only listened to Lovna describe her experience before, and he had no accurate idea. Now that he had truly seen her fame in her hometown and the changes in Ipoli, he, as a teacher, was truly shocked.

Today's Ipoli Palace is no longer the wooden three-story building it was before, but a rather elegant high-rise red brick building.

Amidst the loud military music, he followed Lovna into the main hall on the first floor of the palace, and saw many acquaintances he had known before:

The local priest who used to interact with him is now so old that he can't even open his eyes. He needs to rely on his apprentice to push his wheelchair in order to attend the celebration.After he learned that Ciel had also returned to his hometown, he was so happy that he almost couldn't breathe, and frightened the people around him;

Lovna's mother no longer has to be a peasant woman in that small shabby house. She is the most noble person in the whole of Ipoli and even the Great Hessen.But she still wore old clothes from the past, saying it was her habit.After seeing Charles, she was also extremely surprised and wanted to pull him to ask something, but Lovna pushed him away with a blushing face;

King Nolen is now a fat-bellied old man with a white beard, just like his father back then.When he saw Lovna, he would also show a fawning smile to this somewhat raw daughter in fear, and it was obvious that he was just a puppet;

And Hilna’s mother.This woman used to be a well-dressed, old-fashioned lady, but now, she was just an old woman with a bad memory, and Charles didn't even recognize her.But after seeing Ciel, she was obviously very excited. She could not forget her daughter who was far away in Glory City. She pestered Ciel and kept asking about Sirna's current situation, praying for him to give some news about her daughter.

Charles was a little embarrassed when she asked "why Sirna never came back." He could only explain it by saying "the journey is far away, there are wars everywhere, and the Holy See is busy with affairs."

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The current situation of things changing and people changing makes Ciel deeply moved.

The banquet held in the palace to welcome Lovna's triumph was of course not only attended by people from Ipoli, but also representatives from other countries who had sworn allegiance to Lovna and concluded an alliance, and some were even the king himself.

These representatives were obviously attracted by the "knight who returned from Glory City" and "the former teacher of Saint Lovna" Charles. They all came forward one after another, chatted with him diligently, and asked various questions about him. It’s a question that doesn’t really come to mind.

Charles absently dealt with these old tricksters and watched Lovna standing in the middle of the crowd, telling people about her experience in the expedition to Beztan.

She was radiant at this moment, and everyone was staring at her, as if she was the absolute center.

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During the banquet, Ciel could always feel that those people with blood ties to him seemed to be watching him silently.

At the end of the banquet, Lovna wiped the sweat from her forehead, smoothed her somewhat messy long hair, and looked at Charles uneasily.But her teacher didn't criticize or praise her, she just nodded silently.

It took a while for Charles to speak: "Lovna, can I stay in the cabin I used to live in tonight? If it hasn't been demolished."

"Of course we still have it there... Teacher, you can stay anytime you want."

As she said this, she took Ciel and left the palace under the cover of night, and left the capital through the back door.

Lovna did not call any guards, and rode the horse alone to escort the teacher through the suburbs of the city to the hut facing the river.

Since Charles has been away for a long time, Ipoly has also experienced a lot in these years, and it is no longer the time when he could stay up all night.For the sake of safety, the hut was surrounded by a thick wall under Lovna's order. The wall was also covered with rusty iron nails, which made people feel a little uncomfortable.

But when the heavy door of the wall was pushed open, the house behind the door remained unchanged.

"Has anyone lived here?" Charles asked casually.

"Uh... I'm the only one who has lived here." Lovna felt guilty.

Charles didn't ask any more questions.

After opening the door, Charles could see that the furnishings of the room had hardly changed at all, and it seemed as if someone had always lived in it: the bedding on the bedside was fluffy and soft, the tables and chairs were neatly arranged, and even the books on the bookshelf were empty. Gathering dust.

This is really rare. After all, Ipoli has experienced many bandit invasions, large-scale population migration, reconstruction... many places have been changed beyond recognition, and it is rare for a place to remain unchanged.

"Thank you, I'll sleep here first." Charles nodded: "I haven't been back for a long time, so it's time for me to have a good rest. I hope to stay here for a while, and I have nothing to do now anyway."

"Well, good night, teacher."

After saying goodbye, Lovna breathed a sigh of relief.She watched the teacher put down his heavy sword and lay tiredly on the bed. She resisted the urge to stay with Ciel, slowly moved her steps and left here: "I'm going back to the city first."

Standing alone in the suburbs, thinking about the teacher who had returned to her former home, and looking at herself who had completely changed now, Lovna truly felt the change of time.

Three children from the Netherworld appeared beside her at this time, and one of them quietly pulled the corner of Lovna's clothes.

"Sister Lovna, is that our father?"

The three of them have been following Charles all the way, using invisibility spells to hide his aura, and secretly following behind Charles. They are all curious about this strange but familiar father.

"Yes, that is Charles, my teacher, your father." Lovna said in a very complicated tone: "Our most important person."

"Can't we meet him?" A girl said regretfully: "Can't we really let our father see us?"

Lovna shook her head: "No, Teacher Charles is a knight of the Holy See after all. After all, you are also the creation of that devil... If he knows this, I am afraid there will be no good results."

The three children were a little frustrated, but they were also very excited, because they all felt that their father was more calm and reliable than they thought, and they couldn't wait to share this experience with the other children.

"If Sharlanna had not left, she would have been able to see her father. What a pity!"

"If Sharlana hadn't left, Sister Lovna wouldn't have sent troops to Beztan, and we wouldn't have met our father."

"But where is Sharlanna now? She has been gone for several months, and there are three brothers and sisters who went to find her. Why haven't they come back yet?"

Lovna was also very worried.After Sharlanna left, she immediately sent her three more mature siblings: Umons, Huiltan, and Galdia to find her.But it has been several months, and not only has Sharlanna not been found, but there has been no news from these three children.

But she is not a magician after all. She can't find these children who are good at Nether magic, and she is not willing to let the remaining children take risks.

She could only pray silently, hoping that Sharlanna's child would return to her safely.

117.Children in desperate situation

Teacher Charles suddenly returned to her side, which caught Lovna off guard.

Although she still misses Ciel, she is no longer young and has gained considerable status. She has become a leader supported by dozens of countries and has seven children who must be kept secret and protected... The most important thing is that Ciel I'm already married to the woman named Katrin, and Hilna is obsessed with Charles.

Faced with this fact, Lovna had to hide her love no matter what, pretending that she had completely let go and let go of everything.

Therefore, she could only bury a lot of what she wanted to say in her heart and look at Charles silently.

As for Charles himself, he did not just stay in the city of Ipoli these days, enjoying the banquets and celebrations after the victory.

He conducted a weeks-long investigation around the Great Hessend, wandering around various states, meeting with serfs, yeoman farmers, knights who supported Lovna, nobles dissatisfied with Lovna, landowners with ambiguous attitudes, and garrison troops in various places. Soldiers and freelancers... chatted and asked questions one by one.

His original intention was to have a comprehensive understanding of Lovna's current rule and to have a clear idea of ​​what his student was doing in Great Black Sund.

As a result, he not only got a lot of useful information, but also some other interesting rumors.

For example, Lovna once received the help of seven "angels in child form" and summoned a lot of strange beasts. She became famous in the battle of Ipoli City and killed gangsters several times her size. .

This story is talked about by everyone, and everyone says that this is the reason why Lord Luovna received the favor of Heavenly Father, and that God sent his angels to help his devout believers rule the world.

Of course Ciel knew this was nonsense.

Heavenly Father does not care about mortal life or death.For thousands of years, this old man has never cared about mortals. He has always been in the kingdom of heaven and ignored the changes in the mortal world. How could he care about the life and death of the residents of a small country.

From the description, the so-called divine beasts should be creatures summoned using Netherworld magic.Those who helped Lovna should be seven ghost magicians in the form of children.It's possible that the child Ciel encountered was one of them.

He is now getting closer to the truth he wants to find out.

When he asked Luovna what was going on, Luovna could only hesitantly claim that she didn't know.

Even a fool could tell she was lying.

Lovna's rise in the Great Blacksend region, the seven child angels who guarded her, the summoned creatures of the netherworld magic, the girl riding a unicorn who looked similar to Char... According to these scattered facts, Char I already have some guesses in my mind.

He could tell that Lovna had something to hide, so he didn't press the other party too forcefully. He just patted the student on the shoulder and reminded her to think about it before giving him an answer.

What he has now is time.

Therefore, in the increasingly lively and prosperous Ipoli, he still stayed in his hut, writing and drawing on manuscript paper, just like he did more than ten years ago.

----------Xiaerlanna's experience----------

After encountering Monro and being chased by the sword master for several months, Sharlanna did not dare to return to her hometown in the east. She could only find a secluded cave in the mountains east of Beztan. , carefully avoided.

The clammy caves are crawling with bugs and covered with putrid fungi and lichens.She burned the cave with the summoned flames, created a slightly drier hiding place, and curled up in the cave with difficulty in a slightly more comfortable position.

She had not slept well for several days and nights.That Juggernaut was like a monster. No matter where she hid, how she hid, or how exquisite the concealment spell she used, he would always appear suddenly when he was careless, waving that terrifying sword with no expression on his face. heavy sword, ready to harvest her life.

And those creatures from the underworld summoned by Sharlanna were powerless to fight back against this terrifying opponent.

Under his terrifying slashes, Sharlanna could only run away.

Therefore, she hurriedly plunged into the mountains, relying on sour fruits and dry wild animals for food, barely surviving for more than a month.

Fortunately, Monroe didn't show up again at this time.

Finally having a chance to breathe, Sharlana could finally calm down and think about it.

She was very confused and didn't understand why the sword master named Monroe suddenly came to her.

According to Sister Lovna, this sword master is Ciel's mentor. He has a distinguished status and should be far away from the Holy See.How did he find him?Could it be that he sensed her aura from the underworld and knew that she was a creature of the devil, so he decided to kill her no matter what?

No matter what the reason was, in short, she did not dare to use ghost magic anymore.

The sword master seemed to be able to sense the fluctuations in the power of the nether world, and quietly came behind her like a poisonous snake searching for prey, ready to deliver a fatal blow at any time.

While she was thinking intensely, Sharlana suddenly heard the sound of soft footsteps coming from outside the cave.

Her heart couldn't help but tighten, and her body curled up, not even daring to breathe.

"Sharlanna? Sharlanna?" What came from outside the cave entrance was not the murderous intention brought by the terrifying sword master, but a familiar call.

"Is this here?" Someone asked again, full of doubts: "This is obviously a deserted cave."

"I can sense it clearly. Sister is right here..."

The familiar voice made Sharlana slightly startled. She raised her head and carefully poked her head out of the hole.When she saw clearly the three figures standing outside the cave, her hanging heart finally relaxed.

It's Chaldea, Huiltan, and Umons.

It's her siblings.