People in the Middle Ages, draw cards to get promoted

Chapter 326
It was dusk when Lothar and his party returned to Constantinople.

They searched for Lienna in the underground palace again, but found nothing in the end—obviously, there would be no corpses left under the mouths of those rats.

Although Lienna is a wizard specializing in flames, her magic power is limited after all, and it is foreseeable that she will be overwhelmed by the endless swarm of rats.

So along the way, Anna's mood was very low.

Lothar didn't mean to comfort her either. The pain of losing a close friend can only be smoothed out by the power of time.

The outer city of Constantinople.

Although the rat plague was stopped in time, the trauma it caused to the city is still evident.

When Lothar and his party walked into the city gate, they saw the washerwoman with the child on her back the first time they came to Constantinople. Her attire hardly changed.

But now, she was sitting on the edge of the collapsed house with nothing behind her, staring straight ahead with dull eyes, muttering something.

Look around, there are not a few people like her.

They are like walking dead who have lost their souls, immersed in great grief.

Some men searched for buried belongings from the ruins with numb faces. The disaster has passed, and those who survived will still be alive after all.

"This is a warning from the Heavenly Father to us. When the final judgment comes, no one can escape the fate of being judged. At that time, the guilty will fall into hell, and the innocent will ascend to heaven."

A pitiful ascetic monk wearing a shabby robe and holding a cane shouted in the crowd: "Only the Eastern Expedition can make atonement."

"In the Levant, those evil, satanic tyrants Saladin are watching the Holy Land, and the cruel and violent Turkic barbarians wantonly plunder our Christian brothers. Go east, let the blood of those pagans stain the red cross !"

Lothar looked slightly dazed, but he didn't expect that in the headquarters of the Eastern Orthodox Church, he would also meet ascetic monks who preached the Crusades of the Catholic Church.

"Man is born sinful."

He chewed this passage in his mouth, with a hint of sarcasm on his face.

The Heavenly Father may really exist, but He certainly doesn't care whether the mortals really have any sins, just as He never cares about those priests who misinterpret the scriptures in their own name.

Relying on the name of Princess Anna in purple, Lothar and his party, escorted by the Varangian guards, walked unimpeded all the way to the inner city of Constantinople.

...

The purple dome of the Brahena Palace reflects gorgeous colors in the setting sun.

Anna's footsteps were a bit heavy, the filth on her clothes, and the lingering fatigue on her face all indicated that the trip was not going well.

"Anna, you're back!"

The Queen stood up to greet her.

"Ah."

Anna's interest is obviously not very high.

"What's the matter with this rat plague? What is the origin of that evil black wizard?"

On the way back, Anna communicated with Lagaia through the coat of arms, but she didn't tell the details.

"I'm not in the mood, let me take a shower first."

After running around in the underground palace for half a day, she felt that she was about to be marinated.

"I will go with you."

"Ok."

Anna came to the bathroom of the bedroom, soaked herself in the steamy pool, and listened to the empress beside her telling the loss caused by the disaster to the empire.

In the inner city, several big nobles were killed, and the small nobles, citizens, soldiers, and servants who were swallowed by the rats, add up to thousands of people.

In the outer city and the villages near Constantinople, the combined death toll may be in the tens of thousands.

Among them, the worst loss is the poor gathering area in the outer city, because the population here is the densest.

A considerable number of them are the family members or widows of mercenaries, who reproduced from generation to generation and settled here.

Many nearby villages also became dead zones overnight.

"Fortunately, you stopped this disaster in time, otherwise, the heart of the empire would have been stabbed heavily."

Speaking of this, the Queen still had some lingering fears.

Not long after the disaster broke out, Constantinople suffered such a heavy loss. It is conceivable that Anna was definitely not alarmist. This is a disaster more terrifying than the Great Plague of Justinian.

"Lienna didn't come back."

"If it wasn't for her, we wouldn't have discovered it so timely."

After Anna finished speaking, she buried her head in the water and didn't come out for a long time.

Lagaia sighed softly. She knew Lienna as a witch. From her point of view, this woman was a promiscuous woman. She once wanted Anna to draw a line with her, but she never thought that she was the one who saved Constantine. The great hero of the castle.

Although she is the Queen Regent of the Eastern Empire, she still felt a deep sense of powerlessness when faced with this "natural disaster".

When she was young, she also had the idea of ​​learning witchcraft with Anna, but the high threshold of the wizarding world blocked most people who were interested in this world.

Dusk bursts.

Jeanne is directing the remaining veterans to clean up the ruins of the collapsed houses and fill the holes drilled by the rats.

Tomorrow, perhaps, masons and stonemasons will have to be called in to see under the manor that the holes dug by the rats have not damaged the foundations of the house.

Hear footsteps outside.

She hurried up to meet him, and when she saw that Lothar and his party were intact, she breathed a sigh of relief: "What's going on?"

Lothar gave a brief account, and then sent someone to prepare bath water.

The experience in the underground palace, the pungent stench, and the countless rat swarms, thinking about it now, still feels like being in hell.

"Sorry my lord, I shouldn't have acted alone."

Jeanna's face was full of apology.

"I didn't expect such a coincidence."

"It's okay, it's not your fault, it happened too urgently. I have already asked Anna to prepare a communication emblem for each of you, and this kind of thing will not happen again in the future."

Although the communication coat of arms is precious, Lothar has helped Anna a lot this time, and the friendship between the two has deepened. When Lothar mentioned this trivial matter, she agreed.

"Oh, by the way, Anna also said that Her Majesty the Empress will summon me tomorrow and give me some rewards. I want to ask for all the gold coins to upgrade you."

This incident was considered a warning to Lothar.

If you just want to be alone, he and his subordinates are actually strong enough at this stage, as long as they don't face those old antiques that have accumulated over the years, they can handle it.

But once it gets involved in some major events, the extraordinary power under his hands is not enough.

He estimated that as long as Rangna was raised to the full level of the elite stage, she should be comparable to a powerful wizard like Anna who stepped half a foot into the threshold of legend.

Moreover, although the system's subordinate ability is not as extensive as that of a wizard like Anna, its combat effectiveness in certain aspects will only be stronger than that of a wizard.

In addition, Lothar now has another elite item in hand, which is the combat record of the "Wolf Clan Civil War". From a personal emotional point of view, he is definitely more willing to advance for Wisdom.

But from the effect point of view, Celinina's combat power is stronger. These few battles are all thanks to her decisive blow. It is in the best interests of the moment to give her priority in promotion.

What's more, the wolf clan's civil war was originally related to Celinina, which not only gave her the possibility to win more help for herself in the combat record, but also helped a lot in deepening the relationship between the two.

He is still hesitant now, and plans to have a good talk with Celinina later.

"Thank you sir."

Jeanna's apology deepened.

Lothar waved his hand: "The two of us don't have to be so polite, I'll take a bath first, you don't know how dirty the underground palace is, I suspect that the abscesses on those mice were soaked in sewage of."

He took off his smelly shirt and threw it to Jeanna, then hurried to the bathroom.

Bathtub and hot water are ready.

He buried himself in the bathtub, and scrubbed his body with a piece of soap made of oil and spices. The useful soap was actually invented long ago, but it was expensive, and it was exclusive to the nobles.

In the adjacent bathroom, Fringilla's laughter could still be faintly heard.

He rested his head on the edge of the bathtub to relax his tired body, especially his brain. The side effects of drinking "Blue Moon" started to wake up, and he exhausted his mental power twice in a row. Marrow exhaustion.

At this moment, he suddenly heard a burst of furtive footsteps.

Just as he was about to ask, he found a soft hand covering his mouth.

"Shh, be quiet!"

Lothar turned his head, and in the mist, he saw Jeanna's nervous face: "Don't let the neighbors hear you."

"What are you doing here, I'm taking a shower right now?"

Lothar was a little surprised, and asked in a low voice.

"I... rub your back."

She reached out and took the soap in Lothar's hand.

There was a blush on her face that she never had before.

Only then did Lothar realize that it was close at hand.

Looking down, there is a strong belly with clearly visible mermaid lines and two long, strong legs.

He swallowed subconsciously, and whispered, "Why aren't you wearing clothes?!"

(End of this chapter)