Your Highness, please spare the concubine

Seeing her determination, Victoria sighed.

After unpacking the bag on her back, Victoria took out her sword and armor and put them on.

The silver-haired girl became that dazzling guardian knight again.

"In this case, let me go in and explore the way first. If there is any danger, you guys must take your Highness away!"

Several sergeants looked at each other, ignored Wei Lisi's order, and cupped their hands and said, "Yes, even if we die, we will leave with His Highness!"

Seeing this, Victoria nodded, drew out her sword, and carefully touched the burning village.

PS:

Monthly pass Monthly pass, want more monthly pass

Qingqing has been stabbed in the back, woo woo woo, so pitiful

Volume 160#Chapter [-] One Good News Two Bad News

The wind is blowing in the mountains and the leaves are rustling.

In this peaceful small mountain village, half of the sky that should have been dark after nightfall was now illuminated by fire.

And the temperature that would have dropped at night also began to feel hot as the flames burned.

Victoria clenched the long sword in her hand and walked towards the village in front of her step by step.

The houses are continuous and close together.

From the light of the fire, you can still see the yards of each household and the grains, corn and other vegetables drying outside the houses.

But now, everything is covered by the heat wave of the flames.

The wooden beams were ignited, and the roof tiles cracked slightly, and the flames licked from one end to the other.

Victoria kept looking around, alert.

But no moving figure was found.

As she approached, the smell of scorched meat and burnt protein in the air rushed towards her face along with the heat wave of the flame.

The silver-haired girl looked back, but couldn't find Wei Lisi and the others hiding in the field.

On the other side, the group of soldiers who were burying pots and cooking seemed to have noticed something unusual, and they all stopped their work.

Then stand on the side of the curb and look around.

But even if there is only a few hundred meters apart, the two sides can only see one figure.

On the contrary, the flame that gradually became a skyrocketing fire was particularly conspicuous.

Taking a deep breath, Victoria stepped onto the dirt road at the entrance of the village.

Bending slightly, ready to counterattack and fight at any time, Victoria took the lead in checking the first house on the way.

The flames here are still relatively small, only burning on one side of the wall.

Although she could still feel the astonishing heat wave, the silver-haired girl insisted on kicking open the courtyard door and walked in.

Always on the lookout for danger coming from around the corner, Victoria scouted the house in a few minutes.

There were two children's bodies in the main room, and the remains of a couple in the kitchen.

The death was very strange.

There were no obvious wounds on his body, not even blood.

There was a remnant of energy in the air that didn't seem like magic power, and Victoria could only vaguely feel it.

But it's not clear what.

Regardless of whether it was the two children or the couple, the expressions on their faces were terrified, distorted and sad.

It was as if he saw something terrible before he died.

There seemed to be some kind of demon in those widened eyes, which made Victoria dare not look at them at all.

After examining the remains, she withdrew.

By this time, the flames had spread to the roof.

Amidst the crackling sound of burning, the sound of planks breaking and some heavy objects falling and smashing could be heard not far away.

Victoria swung her sword violently behind her, the sharp light of the sword was like silver lightning.

While she shattered the flame behind her, a black cat appeared in her vision.

The other party was standing by the courtyard wall, beside the burning matches chopped by Victoria.

And the black cat's golden round pupils looked at her closely for a few seconds.

Then he jumped down and disappeared from outside the courtyard wall.

Victoria suddenly felt a little nervous, and then exited the courtyard door of this family and went to check other houses.

On the other side, Wei Lisi waited anxiously in the field, watching the small village gradually engulfed in fire.

Anxious.

"Nothing will happen to Victoria... If there is such a big fire, if someone is against her in the dark..."

Just when Wei Lisi was worried, the sergeants who stayed on the dirt road on the other side rushed over with full armor.

"Your Highness, do you want us to meet the Victorian knight?" a soldier asked.

Wei Lisi clenched her palms tightly and kept checking the atmosphere and environment around the small village with her eyes of reality.

Almost all the words I got were [big fire], [energy residue], [bloody] and the like.

But there are no new discoveries, which means that Victoria is not fighting.

"Wait a little longer, after 5 minutes, if she still doesn't come out, we'll go in!"

5 minutes is not long, but at this time, it seems that every second is going very slowly.

Willis counted silently in her heart.

Finally, when the count reached 60, he rushed up with people.

But it just so happened that at the entrance of the village, they met Victoria, whose face was flushed by the heat wave, and who had returned from the investigation.

Seeing that the silver-haired girl was not injured, Wei Lisi couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.

She asked in a low voice, "How is it? Did you find anything?"

"Don't approach my highness, the armor on my body is a little hot... Be careful."

Taking a step back to avoid Willis approaching, Victoria put the sword back into the scabbard while brushing the silver hair behind her back with her hands.

"One good news that is not good news, and two bad news."

Victoria and Willis stepped aside, and said with worried expressions, "Which one would you like to know first, Your Highness?"

"Why are you still playing tricks? Let's tell the good news first." Wei Lisi asked curiously.

"The good news is that the perpetrator of the arson appears to have left and we should be out of danger."

"What about the two bad news?"

Victoria paused, with an unusually serious expression on her face.

"One piece of news is that everyone in this small village is dead, and I haven't found any survivors."

"Their death patterns were surprisingly consistent—there was no obvious trauma, no blood, or even resistance, and the expressions on their faces were distorted."

"It's like seeing some monster before dying."

"Uh, no, there seems to be a fight in one family. I can feel the remnants of magical energy inside, but it was dispersed a lot."

"The houses of that family were all destroyed. Someone should have fought the murderer."

"But when I went there, they were all buried by fire, and there were no useful clues at all."

Hearing this, Willis became pensive.

Half a minute later, she asked again: "Then there is another bad news? You don't mean to say that the Joe Graylane we are looking for is dead?"

Then there is no essential difference between this news and the first bad news.

It all represents the small village where the target lives, with no survivors.

Unexpectedly, Victoria shook her head with a secretive expression.

"Your Highness, what I want to say is not this...but..."

Victoria was hesitant to speak, and Wei Lisi was very strange to see the other people around her.

"It's not like you, Victoria. And is there worse news than the death of the man we're looking for?"

Willis was a little confused.

"Even if that's the case, we can still ask the Lord Louise about agriculture. You don't need to be so depressed."

Hearing this, Victoria gave her a helpless look.

"That's why I said—it's not this, can you listen to people well, Your Highness?"

"Then what is the bad news you speak of?"

"This... you should come with me, and you should be able to find out."

Victoria was so mysterious that Wei Lisi also began to get nervous.

Could anything worse have happened than the death of the person she was looking for?

The silver-haired girl led the way, Wei Lisi followed behind her, followed by the 20 nervous and vigilant sergeants.

On the way around the fire point in the small village, Wei Lisi was startled by a log that suddenly burst open.

Ten minutes later, at the point Victoria pointed out, Wei Lisi's eyes of reality started to work automatically this time.

"This is!!!??"

This time, even she couldn't calm down.

"It's really as you said... It's really bad news."

PS:

I slept too late last night, it was past 3 in the morning...

so sleepy now

Volume 161#Chapter 71 Believers of Evil Gods (140/[-])

On the Victoria continent, there are many empires and races.

Naturally, there are many religions that believe in gods.

In these religions, people serve their own gods, pious and fanatical.

And those who are recognized by the gods because of worshiping the gods, thus granting grace and gaining power...

called believers.

Believers are a power system completely different from magic and life energy.

Because their source of power is the gods.

So they don't need to practice hard, nor do they need particularly high talents.

As long as they are devout enough, they are loyal to the gods they believe in.

It is possible to be given power.

But that's not to say talent and hard work aren't important.

On the contrary, talent and acquired efforts also determine whether a believer can go far.

After all, your own quality determines the upper limit of the total amount that the gods can bestow on you and you can receive.