Wizard From Afar

The dim fire light beats on the cold fence, half-concealed, making the silhouette behind the iron fence look fuzzy.

"Crunch..."

A small voice, but in the deadly grave-like cell where the needle can be heard, the slightest voice will be infinite by its only listener Zoom in, no less than deafening thunder.

The closed eyes slowly opened, revealing bloodshot eyeballs; perhaps because of staying in the dark for too long, even the beating firelight seemed so dazzling and blind to the fire. The silhouette of the back.

It can only be vaguely distinguished that it is a silhouette of a red pupil sitting on a chair.

Just like myself, looking at myself.

The consciousness that had been silent for too long and too long began to move with the eyes that were staring at the other side.

"Brandon... Desalion?"

"Rodria Azores."

Brandon sat holding his shoulders With Erlang's legs tilted on the chair, he stared at the little Prince who looked like a dream elf behind the cell.

"We... met?"

Mute, faint voice, like whispering.

"No." Brandon shook his head:

"This is the first time we have met."

"But we know each other?"

"Yes, it's a very familiar one."

As the voice fell, the pupils of the fairy Prince slightly dilated, as if lost in some kind of confusion.

Brandon stared at him, staring at the dying, dying silhouette; as if it was not Rodria Azores, but him...Brandon Desalion...he Own.

In all fairness, the two really have too many similarities, so many Brandon wondered if it was a coincidence.

They are all the second sons in the family, they are all placed infinitely high hopes but not taken very seriously. The excluded one has a brother full of ambitions and great ambitions, and all have an extraordinary , Omnipotent, omnipotent, people don’t know what they’re doing...

After the Battle of Broken Boundary Mountain, Brandon learned the whole thing in detail from Loren—— After finally figuring out what Xiong Yingwang wanted to do, the whole person was shocked.

Intimidate Evil God, kill the Holy Cross, and finally replace it...

This ambition has completely exceeded Brandon's understanding!

While shocked, Brandon also began to realize that his omnipotent father was probably planning a similar terrifying, arrogant and wild ambition plan.

"...In the chess game, we are outside the chessboard, but we are confined to sixty-four black and white squares, manipulating thirty-two pieces to compete for victory.

We don’t need to care about the idea of ​​chess pieces, they will never replace us, let alone become our enemies; even if a war chess is promoted, it doesn’t mean anything; even if the king chess is captured, it is impossible to cause anything to us. Hurt.

So...the sense of substitution? That is the child's idea-to compete on the chessboard, you must not limit your thinking to the chessboard, but should go beyond the chessboard..."

Yes, Eckhart Desalion, the Twelfth generation emperor of the empire, in the eyes of everyone, advocating ruling through the arches, maintaining the balance of power and balance of power in the empire, his arrogance, ambition...

Compared to Old Ancestor Eckhart I who had the same given name and family name, Brandon the "Sage", Charlotte the "Queen of the Dragon"...all must be terrifying!

Of course, these are not the most critical.

Loren·Torino …If it weren’t for Loren, without him, the self who had been ransacked by the Azores would have already been consigned to eternal damnation.

Stay in the prison of all black, no daylight, the one who loses his soul and even his mind...It should be oneself.

The expressionless little elf Prince opened his eyes slightly, confused as if he was constantly thinking about the impression in his mind.

Brandon was a little disappointed and sighed-when Dalton told himself that this guy was delirious, he had hoped that the other person had pretended it.

Helplessly, he got up from the chair, turned his head and prepared to leave.

But at the moment when he stepped out, Brandon, who was in a complicated mood, withdrew his steps and looked back towards Rodria Azores, who was still confused.

"You..."

"No, you are not allowed to speak, shut up." With an unquestionable tone, Brandon's words echoed in the cell.

He stared at the desolate silhouette, as if staring at himself in another world without Loren.

"You know, I didn’t intend to kill you right away, although I didn’t intend to let you go...but if there was no such an accident, I should let you Live for a few more years.

This has nothing to do with benevolence-when you live, the empire will still remember such a terrifying enemy, which can effectively gather the hearts of most people and make them remember that it is I led them to win this war. It was me... that ended the enemy who wanted to destroy the empire.

This is very important to me, and even more important to the empire; because the idea of ​​an ordinary person is too simple. A common terrifying enemy can solve many problems.

But because their ideas are too simple, they can’t understand the terrifying war between the Holy Cross and the Black Cross, and can’t understand that either side has won, this What kind of result and end the world will fall into... In their view, these may have nothing to do with them.

Of course, it really has nothing to do with most of them-when you have difficulty even living , How can you care if the black cross or the holy cross is enshrined in the church?

You won’t, because you don’t understand, don’t understand...just like you and me, you may not know until now, How terrifying your father Xiong Yingwang’s ambition is, it’s like I don’t understand it now.

This is the similarity between you and me, and it’s another reason why I let you survive. …We two really look alike.

I believe that behind your nonsense and madness, there must be your difficulties and unspeakable reasons, because those people don’t look down on you and despise you. I just can’t understand you, or can’t keep up with your thoughts.

But I am different. I have a few friends who can keep up with my ideas and have close relationships. This is the gap between you and me.

hehe...Do you know what the most interesting thing is? It's not that I suddenly discovered how terrifying father's arrangement is, but I discovered that his arrangement... actually fits my mind best.

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Yes, although I have repeatedly said that I want to fight against father’s plan and do different things, to become a unique and unmatched Brandon, but in fact...

I know very well that I want to watch Loren go to death alone.

He always has goals in doing things, but he rarely has any ambitions...no no no, you can’t say that. It should be that he sometimes seems to win just to win, or even to win for others, and rarely does anything for himself.

He doesn't seem to care about what he can get, he just cares about the process of the game...then Left support, right clumsy, turn peril into Safety, the process of carefully finding the only way to victory.

When your thoughts and goals are known, you have to listen to what others say... This is what he said. The converse means that as long as others don’t know your goals, you can fight without Invincible.

Loren... he guessed what I really thought or what... I wanted to hide, so he decided to fight alone.

Think about it from another angle. Maybe it’s because if I quit, he can end the war according to his own ideas... Defeat the hero who is trying to capture the world of the devil, and he deserves control of this world. .

This is as it should be by rights...right?

So even if I know that this kind of thinking is dark, negative, and extreme, but...sometimes I still can't help but feel like that, Loren Torino... really a terrifying guy.

Is it unexpected or reasonable? This guy always gives me new surprises whenever I think I know his ambitions and ideas.

wizard advisor, empire viscount, lord of Byrne... and later aid Boye, destroy the centaur, suppress the dwarves, suppress Arles, just like the southern overlord of the empire, and fight against the sky palace.

But I can feel that he doesn't care about these; in other words, every goal is just for a certain purpose and cannot be called "ambition".

The wizard advisor is to avoid the night watchman’s harassment of himself and the people around him;

The Viscount of the Empire gives him the opportunity to fight for the right to speak for the wizard group in Imperial Capital;

The Lord of Byrne is to protect his beloved Charlotte.

Fantastic, I have been with him for so many years but in fact...Loren Torino, I still don’t know anything about him.

But I know one thing very well, Loren Torino...is my friend.

He is the first friend who can understand me, trust me, and will not abandon me even after being used by me; I have hurt him, cheated him, and almost let him send it more than once. He died, but he didn't care about the predecessors.

Yes, I know that he actually used me more than once, cheated me, even threatened me overtly and secretly, but...what does that matter?

We are friends, we know each other's bottom line very well.

He will not embarrass me, and I will not embarrass him too much.

I know that Peter Fasa has always been alive, and I even know that he is in the barracks now, protected by the people of Byrne and my leader of the night watch.

But it’s okay, as long as I don’t let him appear in front of me, I can accept it; and when I really can’t help but want to kill him, Loren...he also knows how to stop me, let That person will always be impossible for me to find.

That's enough.

Looking at father with my own eyes, my brother died of unfavorable fate. I know very well that the so-called emperor is not the one who really controls everything; what's more, even if you really own the whole world, what can you do, spend endless money, and dominate the power? What can be done? Life can’t come and death can’t be taken, as for immortality...

To put it bluntly, I think it’s more like a curse.

I once had such an opportunity to meet myself when I was young, so I understand very well...my world is not the systems, power and money, but people.

When the last person who left you a deep impression in your memory leaves you, your world will die.

When the people I love, the people I hate, the close relatives and the alienated people...When they all die, my world will die with them.

Loren, Fitronay, Sky Palace...Imperial Capital, where there is my entire world, if they are destroyed, my world will be destroyed.

I, want to guard my world.

I want to fight for the people I love, people who hate, people who hate people who like people, people who want to get rid of people, people who want to destroy people who want to protect... I will fight for them .

As an emperor, if I want to do this, I have to pay the corresponding price-I not only have to give those who are about to die for me a reason to die, but also satisfy some of their ideas .

These ideas can be actual...money, land, status and privileges, or they can be imaginary...titles, honors, or certain wishes.

Only in this way, they will fight and die contentedly; this is very important to them and also very important to me.

So you understand, I need to save my friends, so I need to satisfy those people's ideas.

And what they want most now is not money, title and land, but you.

To be more precise, it should be Rodria Azores, the last Azores spirit, the head of Xiong Yingwang's heir.

Seeing your head fall to the ground, the corpse separated, rolling in the muddy pool of blood, it can stimulate their morale.

In all fairness, there is no personal enmity between you and me, I didn’t intend to embarrass you; in fact...I still want to make friends with you, after all, I can meet a similar personality The guy, it's such a rare opportunity.

But I have no choice, so I can only say sorry.

Can you hear me, I'm apologizing to you, you shouldn't be completely deaf, right?

Uh, can't you hear me? Then use your eyes to see, I know you are not blind yet.

Come, open your eyes and look, look here, look a little bit more clearly, what's this?

Huh...you can't even see it?

……"

With a little disappointment, Brandon withdrew his hand from the cage and let out a long sigh.

"Your Majesty . "

The expressionless Edward whispered softly, not knowing when he appeared behind him.

"Are you all ready?" "

Brandon did not replied.

"The first batch has already set off on the 3rd day after Loren's departure, and the second batch has been assembled on standby and can go out at any time. "

"How many are there? "

"Two thousand people. "

"A little bit missing, right? "

"Considering the goal of this battle, the significance is also the battle loss of each Legion. This number is enough, and it is meaningless if it is too many. "

"That's right. "

Brandon shrugged after thinking about it, and acknowledged the decision.

"So when will you start, are you ready for everything?" "

"All arrangements have been made. The Duke of Elman and the princes are responsible for the affairs of the barracks. Byrne has the Crimson Castle female count. The imperial affairs are temporarily entrusted to the Imperial Family and the princes. The Imperial Cabinet..."

"There are still people from the Celestial Vault in the camp? "

"Uh...there are Leopold Metternich, the former imperial minister, and the Church trial Magistrate, and the imperial family collaborator Lena de Salion-you know, Therefore, the Secretary of State Severin Desalion is her guardian, so..."

"Her husband is Isaac, and I know who she is. Brandon waved his hand lazily, sighed: "Um...Lina Dessalion counts as Sister Fitronay, hehe...If I die in the Imperial Capital, there will be another queen in the empire. "

"Your Majesty! "

"Just kidding. Brandon shrugged and twitched his lips to Edward who made a fuss about nothing: "Let's go, it's time to go. "

"Oh, bring him on and call me during the execution, even if..." As he walked out, Brandon pointed to the little elf Prince who had fainted behind him:

"Even if we bid farewell to the past! "