A subjugated princess will never die a vagabond

21. Conversation

As Alista's laughter gradually became brighter and bolder, Cloris let out a long sigh of relief, and finally kept her tongue.

"Tell me about that elf bastard," Alista continued without giving Cloris time to calm down, "You know everything."

Cloris's heart trembled, and hesitantly, like squeezing toothpaste, she recounted her encounter with Ilona bit by bit, trying to create a less annoying image for the arrogant elf, she added : "I heard from that explorer that Ilona is a great magister, so she should be very powerful... By the way, Arista, Ilona said that she is a believer in the stars, but she is not so trivial..."

"Star believers..." Alista murmured to herself.

Cloris knew that Arista had a crush on the Church of the Stars, and the woman didn't say anything bad when the other party taught her about the teachings about the stars.

"Although the Star Church is the mainstream religion of Tai Ruibi and Ban Sai, it has the right to preach in all countries in the world, and," Arista pondered for a moment, explained to Cloris, "the believers of the Stars do not use their faith to dominate any other religion." In the country, they established the Explorers' Guild and maintained relative neutrality. After the outbreak of the Void Calamity, the Church of the Stars did not persecute the scattered disciples..."

"So Ilona is a good person, right?" Cloris guessed that the tracker that Arista was talking about was sent by Ilona, ​​and she was very worried that the nun would kill the elf.

The paradox is that she is afraid that Ilona will be killed by Arista, and that Arista will be killed by Ilona.

"Hehe." Alista sneered, and then asked, "Is she the one who gave you your storage ring?"

"It's not..." Cloris told the whole story of what happened to her in Lizard Lane, only concealing the insignificant matter of 150 pounds.

"So have you ever thought that the person who is following you will see what you do?"

"No, it can't be..."

Cloris froze all over. At that time, the fire source crystal dust was dazzling, and she was very close to Mr. Vampire, and there were no other people around tens of meters. It should be difficult to see the phantom she released from a distance. .

However, even if the stalker didn't see her using extraordinary power, there is ironclad evidence that she robbed a dying person's banknotes. The soft and cute image that she only created for a few hours may have collapsed in Ilona's mind. come to the door...

"You know you're afraid?"

"Sorry……"

I've always been afraid, and I'm even more afraid of you, lululu.Cloris muttered in her heart, self-regulating the excitement just now.

Making a pitiful look, Cloris took off the ring and handed it to Alista: "Sister, this ring is for you..."

"At most a few cubes of gadgets, you put them away." Alista snorted, "Void and stars are good at creating and traveling through space. If you want to carry more things in the future, you can fit a related one." Companion skills."

"Hey, does Alista also have this companion skill?" Cloris asked insincerely, pretending to be ignorant.

After the questioning just now, Arista basically understood Cloris' temperament inside and out, and naturally understood the cunning and cunning hidden under those innocent eyes.

This can be regarded as a good quality for life in the lower world, provided that Cloris is not so arrogant as to treat everyone as a fool.

"You have to understand that the choice of every skill should form a system around your spiritual vein symbol, so as to maintain long-term stability and reduce negative effects," Arista gradually revealed a ferocious smile, "Whatever you get, you will get something Missing, untimely skills will only affect my killing efficiency."

very scary……

Maybe Alista can grow into this appearance, because of the curse brought by an accompanying skill.

Cloris is different, even if she is weaker, it doesn't matter. She prefers skills that can save her life, and doesn't like to blatantly conflict with others. More importantly, she maintains her beauty!

Beautiful women are indeed unlucky in troubled times, and usually can only be reduced to accessories of power struggles, but which woman would really want to be ugly?Therefore, Cloris' positioning of her extraordinary path is to keep going beautifully.

That night, the girl who couldn't wait asked the chef to remove the bubble puffer's air bag, and strengthen the phantom effect with solidified auxiliary magic.This supporting magic is the result of countless people's research and exploration. It can increase the strength of accompanying skills without bringing additional negative effects.

Companion skills are the same as spirit veins, which can be regarded as the built-in organs of extraordinary people. If this organ is compared to a normal arm, ordinary strengthening may only be tattooed on the surface of the skin, and the companion skills can be upgraded to a new level through complex rituals When it is used, it is equivalent to directly turning this arm into a sharp claw or a tentacle, while retaining the original effect and bringing powerful characteristics, it will also produce a negative effect similar to "rejection".

This is just a metaphor, and the actual situation will be much more complicated. At least all kinds of strange curses and backlashes are far beyond the comparison of "rejection".

After completing the auxiliary magic, "Phantom" has basically completed the transition from "first-level accident" to "second-level accident", a small step for skills, and a big step for Cloris.

The remaining bubble puffer fish was soaked in ice oil by the chef, waiting to make soup for the children the next day.

As for what Cloris told Ilona, ​​what must be fresh and delicious?

The Falyals are not that delicate yet.

As expected, Alista gave her the dagger. The purple stone ring was said to be a containment ring of several cubic meters, but the nun was not sure how to untie the restriction on it, and was worried that it would be damaged, so she asked Cloris to wait for Voy We'll fix it when Dee comes back.

In addition, Alista took all the money, and Cloris once again lamented that she was full of foresight and did not shake out the 150 pounds—not even ten pounds.

If she kindly handed over dozens of pounds to subsidize the reformatory, it would definitely arouse Alista's suspicion.After that questioning, or "teaching", Cloris' ability to resist pressure has improved to a higher level, and at the same time, she has become more vigilant.

……

Elizabeth Hotel.

The Tairibi Kingdom Army and Servant Army stationed in Fal Yar had already been defeated, and were placed in a prisoner camp by the Kingdom of Farland to take care of them.The treatment of elf sergeants is slightly better, but certainly not as good as when they were arrogant and domineering. As for the servants...

Those soldiers with big headscarves bombed the camp in the first round of shelling, and some fled to death. Some wandered around Faljar. Only more than 300 servants were captured by the kingdom of Farland, and then thrown into the devil's cave for mining.

It can be said that if these servants were not vulnerable and broke the formation of elves, the airport might be able to guard for half an hour longer.

At the same time, the Kingdom of Farland has cleared all the important places in Faljar, and concentrated and imprisoned the elf lords who were officials in the Grand Hotel.

Everyone was in a state of panic, except for a young silver-haired elf who was still enjoying dinner proudly.

Opposite her sat an older-looking red-haired woman, and in every corner of the restaurant stood neatly dressed French soldiers.

The smell of gunpowder in the conversation is not strong, but the unhappiness of the confrontation is hard to hide after all——

"I will choose another day to go deep into the lower realm. If your people are so rude, I don't mind dismantling your fleet."

"But that will delay your itinerary after all, won't it? Natural disasters are approaching, heavy fog and floating ruins are about to change the course of the mist layer. Miss Cavendish needs to maintain a perfect state to go deep into the lower realm, and we have no intention of causing trouble... I'm just worried that Miss Cavendish will do something not so wonderful before she leaves."

22. Omen

The conversation between the two women ended with a clink of milk tea and red wine. The red-haired woman was not worried about Ilona's devastating blow to the fleet. A great magister would only show strategic destructive power after adequate preparation. And the silver-haired elves whose target is the sea of ​​chaos will obviously not prepare too many destructive spells, and the equipment and materials they carry will be more inclined to explore.

Moreover, the Star Church does not participate in the disputes among the nations, nor will it explicitly support which country.The Kingdom of Farland raided the Kingdom of Teribi in order to compete for the initiative for the next hundred years. When the fog changes the waterway and geographical pattern, whoever takes the initiative will be able to grab more relics and resources.

The theocracy behind the Kingdom of Teribi is the Church of Mechanism and the Church of Soul; while the Church of the Earth and Dawn, which split from the Church of the Sun, cooperate with the Kingdom of Farland.

Therefore, the only doubt that the red-haired woman had was her status as a nobleman of the Kingdom of Ilona Teribi.

After some conversations, the two sides reached a consensus. Compromise would really make Ilona feel uncomfortable, so the red-haired woman sold another favor—the safety of all the elves in the Elizabeth Hotel.

Instead of using Ilona's compatriots to threaten, but to credit the group of elves for being safe and sound - as long as the group of elves know that the reason why they can still enjoy such favorable treatment is all thanks to Ilona. Lorna can "mediate" from it.

In order to cultivate the sense of crisis and gratitude of this group of elves, the red-haired woman also picked a few irritable models and put them in the water prison to kill others, to set off the difficulty of Ilona's mediation.

The silver-haired elf is not a stubborn woman, nor is she stubborn when she needs to be flexible.Form is better than people, since the other party is willing to transfer these favors, she has no choice but to follow the trend.Ilona appeased the elf bureaucrats and their families in the hotel one by one, and asked the French army to improve the environment of the prisoner camp, which was regarded as some insignificant contributions made by the Cavendish family to their compatriots.

However, it is better to spend less time in muddy water, so the next day, Ilona planned to leave Faljar by airship and go to the depths of the world, so as not to be involved in the subsequent tug-of-war between the two countries.But before that, she had to go somewhere.

Penitentiary for the Poor.

The entourage reported the situation to Ilona. The little guy seemed to have a secret, which indirectly accelerated the death of the middle-aged explorer. This was completely inconsistent with her soft performance yesterday, so the silver-haired elf was also curious, whether the little devil really had something to say Half-elf sister.

If you are lying to her...

Thinking of the possible results, Ilona was inevitably sad and disappointed.

She left the Elizabeth Hotel without any hindrance, walked along the forest path to the place guided by her followers, and then saw the three-story stone and brick building.

At the first glance, Ilona felt inexplicably gloomy. The texture of the gray-black brick wall seemed to be rubbed on the skin of a creature. The abstract and distorted atmosphere made the lonely building look like some kind of creature. The bait exposed on the ground will be bitten off as long as the prey approaches.

This feeling further stifled one's breathing, and the subconscious suppression made Ilona feel like she was stepping on the mud, and she might fall into it at any time.

It's just that when she activated her eyes of insight, she didn't notice any obvious abnormalities—this sign itself meant that it was unusual.

So Ilona flicked her hand in front of her to call out an astrolabe, and superimposed many elements such as age, coordinates, and omens with the star positions, and used them as symbols to deduce.

According to the philosophy of the Church of the Stars, everything in the world can find its corresponding astrology in the boundless void. Believers can borrow great power from the stars, and at the same time, beware of curses from some unknown stars.

Ilona confirmed the general astrology according to her omen, followed the rotation of the star chart, and finally, a dark vortex with a shining halo appeared on the astrolabe.

black hole.This is a very important intention in astrological divination, and it can be interpreted in many directions. In the past 200 years, the black hole that devours light is usually pointed to the void.

"Void..."

The Church of the Stars and the Church of Knowledge are the two forces that least reject the Void. In the past when the Void Temple led the Holy See, the relationship between the stars and the knowledge and the Void can even be called close.

But this does not mean that Ilona is willing to have something to do with the void.

A smiling and amiable reflection flashed in the silver-haired elf's mind. Based on the current situation, she reintroduced an ordinary star and strengthened her own impression of Cloris.

The black hole soon became only a small dot, and the star map grew bigger and bigger. The original galaxy seemed unable to withstand the huge computing power. In the end, when the bright stars turned into thousands of bubbles and lost all laws and traces, the Milky Way Dissipated, leaving nothing on the astrolabe.

Ilona's face sank like water, and at the same time, her eyes were full of incomprehension and surprise.

Why is there such a situation with the divination combination of Cloris and the reformatory?

For a while, Ilona couldn't judge whether the divination was invalid, or whether it really touched the unknown.But if it is a mystery that even she can't get any results, contacting the unknown of that kind of personality will often cause extremely terrible backlash.

And now, nothing happened.

This makes Ilona lean more towards the former.

She once again divined the girl alone, but the result was quite ordinary—Clores would encounter some setbacks in the next period of time, but U0402-20 Serpentis is the star that Ilona used to symbolize new green and new life , Gnus T-800 is fixed as a guide, which also means that Cloris will usher in a certain degree of positive transformation under the leadership of the nobleman, and the No. 14 sleepy wolf star represents the sting in the transformation process. Hidden or vassal, but it’s hard to say exactly what, vassal does not completely mean becoming a slave or a follower, working for the boss, apprenticeship, and even debt relations... can all be explained by the image of the trapped wolf star.

Generally, it is a very common content. Many ordinary people will have such divination results that go down, flat, and then up. Of course, if it is ups and downs, it is not a big deal.

Ilona didn't see any additional supernatural or mysterious symbols on it, which was rather ordinary compared to the previous abnormalities.

and……

Maybe it was Ilona herself who led Cloris to the new green?

Apart from herself, Ilona couldn't think of anyone else who could change the miserable living environment of the other party.Did the divination imply that he took Cloris out of the lower realm?

But Ilona's goal is the sea of ​​chaos, and this trip may take a few years or even ten years. For the lifespan of the Falyals, it is enough to make the sun go to sunset, and the new green and new life are pure nonsense.

With all kinds of speculations, finally, even if the correctional center clearly points to the void, Ilona does not intend to stay out of it——

Even if there is mud under your feet.

23. Inside the Correctional Facility

If there is any force that penetrates the world more widely, apart from the destroyed Void Temple, it must be the Church of the Stars.The Church of the Stars explored the unknown with a neutral attitude, and created the behemoth of the Explorers' Guild. In terms of absolute strength, the Church of the Stars and the loose Explorers' Guild may not be in the top three of the orthodox faith, but anyone who covets the ruins of the lower world With the influence of resources and resources, it is inevitable to cooperate with the Star Church.

Ilona, ​​who hadn't traveled thousands of miles, already knew the cultural landscapes of many places from thousands of books, so when she saw a child digging a pile of dirt in front of the reformatory, she let out a little surprise.

Those children were thin and smudged with dirty mud and smoke, but they looked healthy and their spirits were relatively lively.The slave trade is prevalent in Teribi, and the policy of suppressing dwarves and goblins in the country is implemented. Some intermarried upper realm half-elves are not much better than their lower realm counterparts in terms of status. Ilona knows that there will be countless dwarves in the factory every year Regarding the tragedies of dwarves, goblins, and orc slaves, the glory of Teribi was also built on the skinny corpses of countless child laborers. Therefore, you can see such smiling faces without too much worry and fear on the faces of the "untouchables" in the lower world— —Especially in this colony under the jurisdiction of the Kingdom of Teribi—it is still not easy.

Although Ilona was surprised, she still did not relax her vigilance.If I was born more than 200 years ago, seeing the disciples of the void can bring smiles to the children in such a harsh environment, I might shout long live the void, but now, every move of those lunatics and evildoers may hide a conspiracy .

"Wow, sister, big sister!"

When Ilona approached, a child immediately exclaimed with starry eyes and danced around her: "Excuse me, is there anything I can...can I help you?"

A few children are relatively shy, and those who can maintain relative freedom outside the hospital are usually young children between the ages of three and five.Once they are over six years old, they will take on some light jobs like peeling black hemp, and when they are older, they will help farmers and chefs. .If a baby is adopted by the reformatory, the older child will also have to take care of it. Cloris often changes Xia Xia's homemade diapers.When she was twelve or thirteen years old, Arista would find jobs for the little ones, and after that, she would have autonomy in life and death.

"What are you doing?" Ilona asked, frowning.

"Putting earthworms, the chef said that these worms have high nutritional value, um, do you know what nutrition is?" A little boy with sunken eye sockets and only one eyeball left opened his hands, seeing that Ilona hadn't answered. , he continued, "If you don't know, you can ask me. The chef said that nutrition is something that can improve the health of the body. It allows me to have two eyes like everyone else!"

"Okay, Eddie," behind, a pretty girl with black hair and black pupils clapped her hands, "Nutrition won't give you another eye," she walked over and hung a necklace of colored stones connected by twine. On the little guy's neck, "But Cloris can give you other fun things, go ahead and play, this is Arista's guest."

Patting the children's shoulders, Cloris drove these well-behaved little guys away.She then raised a small face towards Ilona and said with a smile: "Big sister, are you here to visit Cloris?"

Ilona suddenly felt that the girl in front of her was different from the one she knew yesterday, but when she saw the same smiling face as before, it was hard for her to understand exactly what was different.

"Alista is...?"

"It's the dean of our reformatory."

"You know I'm coming?"

"Don't sister Ilona know?"

Cloris asked back with a smile, and then invited Ilona to enter the reformatory.

The door frame is covered with ancient and rough reliefs, covered with moss and creepers, and two clusters of dim lights hang on the porch, providing negligible light.

Approaching the "natural disaster" and the cold season, the days of Faljar are getting shorter and shorter. Even at noon, it looks gloomy and gloomy.

But at this moment, Ilona's dark feelings brought by all weathers are not as profound as that of the door leading to the deep.

Ilona did a simple divination for herself, and after confirming that there was no clear danger, she followed Cloris into this ominous place with strong curiosity.

The ventilation in the building is not very good, so the air is always filled with turbid, damp, and bitter smell and smell. Ilona sniffed it and felt a little sick. She smelled a scent and asked: "Are you here?" Such a dirty pigsty stewed bubble puffer fish?"

"Sister Ilona's sense of smell is as sensitive as a dog's!" Cloris applauded immediately.

But after hearing the compliment, Ilona didn't feel the joy of being flattered like yesterday, but... felt weird?

When the two of them reached the second floor, a little guy with pink hair and pointed ears ran over with a stack of books at the corner. When he saw Cloris, he greeted happily: "Cloris!" I just noticed Ilona, ​​"Hey, you also have pointed ears! Are you a half-elf bastard like Xia Xia? Or an elf bastard?"

"!!!" Cloris' originally leisurely expression suddenly became horrified.

In fact, Alista only scolded the half-elf bastard when Xia Xia made a mistake with Cloris the only time. Since the two-year-old was not as tall as a bench, the nun didn't give any punishment.Although Xia Xia occasionally mentioned this term unintentionally, Cloris was afraid of hurting the little guy's heart, so she didn't correct it in time.Even when Xia Xia mentioned her father, Cloris didn't go into the argument of how hateful the elves are and how it has anything to do with the word "bastard".