Mount and Blade

Speaking of Hanks... I didn't see him early this morning. I don't know if he was slacking off at Edward's place. Maybe he thought the capital was boring and bumped into the bad thing last night. He had already returned to the "Fire Dragon's Lair". "Really?"

Gurenberg thought thornily, unaware of the coming danger.

Benedicut opened the curtains on the carriage window. After leaving Norudkahuati, her mood relaxed a lot. What she saw in her white eyes was full of the power of nature. Light green lines.

If we were to describe the world in the eyes of a miko, it would probably be a child's oil pen drawing with various lines and colors on a dark canvas.

The lines of fruits, the lines of animals, and the lines with vitality and consciousness are filled with fireworks of various inner colors.

"Wind" brings the elves' whispers and guidance.

Foreshadow...dragon...

Danger...hurry...hurry...

Benedicut's expression became serious, completely different from usual, and she turned to look at Gurenberg. He said softly: "The time has come to divine your future."

Gulenberudo was stunned for a moment, then nodded, "Okay, I'll bother you then."

Now that she has said so, it is hard for Gurenberg to refuse. After all, just last night the miko said "that time has not yet come."

So as the horses' hooves raised dust, the two rushed to the temple located in the "Fire Suppression Palace", and the time happened to be noon.

After explaining the situation to the older miko, the two came to the temple's sacrifice site.

Sculptures of gods are centered around a fountain.

The old witch used a recipe that had been passed down for thousands of years to prepare the hallucinogenic soup used in the ceremony - it was a hallucinogen mixed with several different mushroom extracts.

Gulenberudo took off his armor and sat upright, kneeling opposite Benedicut. At this time, both of them were located in the center of the fountain, half-body wrapped in warm spring water.

Under the gaze of Gulumberudo's golden pupils, Benedicut took the medicine required for the ritual. After just a moment, the world in her eyes entered another realm. Only in this state can she visit a space that does not belong to this material realm.

"Ah..." Benedicut entered a trance, and then prepared to listen to the oracle——

That kind of medicine can allow her spirit to reach a deeper realm, get closer to the "Heaven's Plain" where the gods are, and hear the voices of the gods more clearly.

Gurenberg, who received the divination, knelt in the pool, bent his waist and back as low as possible, and kowtowed to Benedicut.

Benedicut stood up from the center of the pool and danced as her consciousness descended. It was a trance dance passed down from generation to generation by witches. If a shrine maiden in a trance state can approach her physical limit, her soul will be able to leave her body more easily.

Through the witches' sensual shouts and swaying dance steps, the three goddesses create people's destiny. Benedicut relied on the power of the youngest of the three goddesses, who was in charge of the future, to see the other side of time.

"Ah...ah...ah...ah...!" As Benedicut murmured a unique melody, her consciousness touched a corner of something huge in this world. The end of the law of cause and effect. The inevitable waves of fate.

Gurung Berudo's future. A fierce battle. Behelet's roar.

And the whiteness at the center of it all is—

A dazzling white eagle, so dazzling that Benedicut could not look directly at it.

"——!"

"Ah!" Benedicut let out a shrill scream and fell down.

"!" The scream made Gulenberudo suddenly come back to his senses, and he picked up the fallen Benedicut.

"Are you okay?" Gulenberudo looked at Benedicut who couldn't open his eyes with worry.

"I'm fine... I just accidentally stared into the future for too long."

Gulenberudo gently placed Benedicut on a soft place with a straw mat next to the pool, frowning. "Then what did you see? Does it have anything to do with me?" There was a hint of urgency in his voice.

Benedicut slowly opened her eyes, her eyes full of horror. "I saw a big war. You were in it, surrounded by the atmosphere of darkness and death. And that light eagle, it is like the core of destiny, but I don't know whether it represents destruction or hope."

"...Light Eagle?" Gulumberudo pondered strangely for a moment. He remembered that the symbol of the King's Hall was the eagle. "No matter what the future holds, the Light Eagle..."

"If it brings danger to Grant, I will definitely subdue it."

Benedicut sat up and held Gulenberudo's hand. "You must not be impulsive. The power emitted by the white eagle is beyond imagination. Maybe this is just one of many branches of fate, and there is still the possibility of change."

"...I saw that in the future you will follow the fate of that light eagle."

"Well..." Gulumberudo seemed to be thinking deeply, "If this is really my destiny, then I will personally explore the truth behind this light eagle to see whether it is good or bad."

Benedict sighed, "You are always so stubborn. The destiny we face cannot be easily changed or resisted."

"Most of the time, it's best to just go with the flow, otherwise the situation may get even worse when the time comes."

Gulumberudo's usually rigid face relaxed a bit, revealing a relaxed smile, "But isn't divination just for seeking good fortune and avoiding misfortune?"

"Well... that's true."

"However, it seems that the time when you followed the Light Eagle was much longer than now." Benettikut was relieved that Gurenbeldo still existed in the distant future.

"And the closer..." Benettikut closed her eyes and thought carefully, but the more things were about to happen in front of her, the more painful it was to recall. The invisible "lines" seemed to be woven into an invisible net blocking her memories.

"The burning "Dragon's Nest"..."

"......!" "And the real dragon, Edward's dark flame...!"

The more she recalled, the tighter the invisible lines became, and Benettikut's soul was squeezed and shrunk by them like a drop of water, and she felt a splitting headache.

"... Enough!"

Looking at Benettikut's painful appearance, Gurenbeldo interrupted her.

In any case, he was still alive in the distant future. He did not become the king of Grant, but followed someone, and that was enough.

"There's nothing to be afraid of. Something will happen in the Fire Dragon's Lair, right? I will complete the mission as I did in the past, and then come back safely."

Benedict Kut slowly opened his eyes, his eyes full of worry, "...This time, the events in the Fire Dragon's Lair are far from comparable to the past. It seems that there is a metaphor that even you may encounter an accident."

"...What's more, I can only see the general trajectory of the future." The witch's expression was gloomy, and she couldn't see the details of those events. Because those delicate "threads" with malice and strong negative will blocked and blinded those futures.

That is the law of cause and effect with strong luck. Once the fate chosen by them is bound by the "thread", even if there are tens of millions of futures, it will be forcibly changed to a specific location.

And once Benetti Kut wanted to explore the fate entangled by the threads called the law of cause and effect, the scarlet threads seemed to appear like countless heads, whispering and screaming at Benetti Kut.

"Sacrifice... sacrifice..."

Benedict was stunned for a moment, and an unspeakable fear filled her heart.

Grunberudo patted her shoulder gently when she saw this, "Don't worry."

"By the way, that Beihei..." Just when Benidikou was about to ask Gurunberudo.

At this moment, several anxious footsteps came from outside the temple. From the sound, the armor was neat, and the leader's footsteps were lighter than others. It seemed to be Shikel.

"Gurunberudo." Shikel came to the sacrifice site with several soldiers.

"We are ready to send troops. The whole army is on standby at the "Fire Dragon's Nest." Shikel calmed down her panting state in a few steps, and the female thousand-man leader said solemnly.

"What's going on?" Gurunberudo asked when he saw Shikel so anxious.

"An urgent message flew from the royal city, and the teleportation eagle brought the commission for the rescue operation."