The target Vest is the ultimate boss

Saltidu was surrounded by continuous rain, and leaden gray mist shrouded eighty rusty bell towers, large and small.

The strong wind blew open the long windows of the holy courtyard, and some rain fell on the slightly dusty carpet.

The priest Hall on duty tonight heard the movement and stepped forward with Bingzhu.

He closed the window, put in the lock pin, looked into the yard, pulled out the lock pin again, and dragged out a fluffy pillow from the window.

A black shadow jumped into the hall from the bushes outside the window.

This is a red-gold red panda.It raised its tail and walked to Hall, shook its fur that was wet by the rain, nestled on the pillow, buried its head in its tail, and began to sleep.

Hall looked down at it, knelt down and rubbed its neck, smiled, turned around and took a plate of sliced ​​apples from the cabinet, and put it in front of it.

The bear visited the sanctuary for the first time this spring.

At that time, there was only Hall in the holy courtyard.He heard the sound and saw a golden-eyed bear cub pawing at the window with its furry paws outside the window. Feeling resigned for a moment, he opened the window and let it in.

What he didn't expect was that since that time, the little panda seems to have regarded this place as its second nest, and came here every three days.

One day when the weather was fine, Hall went to the market and bought a goose down pillow, so that the little panda could squint its eyes and sleep lazily on sunny days.

Fortunately, Hall was the only person on duty these days, and this bear would not be driven out by other priests who found it.

A few years ago, there would never be fewer people staying in the Holy Court at this time.Crowds of believers will kneel and sit under the vault at midnight to recite the scriptures silently; the proud paladins of the Platinum Seat and the apprentice knights of the Royal Academy patrol the surrounding area with holy swords on their backs; Floor tiles, lest any corner be stained with dust.

But these solemn occasions all disappeared within a few years.

Not long ago, the imperial palace withdrew most of the expenditures for the Guangming Holy Academy, and the Holy Academy had to send most of the priests to the local church.

Hall was usually favored by the bishop, and he was spared just now.

He sighed, and suddenly heard the door being knocked.

Hall opened the door, and saw a gray-haired boy standing at the door.

The boy wrapped himself in a raincoat and shivered in the cold wind.He was dressed very thinly, and his lips were bloodless.

"Please come in, the rain outside will not stop until tomorrow." Hall stepped aside.

"Thank you, thank you."

The young man didn't seem to expect that the priest in the holy courtyard would be so talkative, so he hurried through the door and took off his hood.

He has red eyes with drooping corners, giving him the look of a newly frightened rabbit.

"Aren't you from the imperial capital?"

Hall closed the door, and he saw the red panda holding the cushion in its mouth and dragging it behind a curtain.

Little ones never like to be disturbed while sleeping, and neither does he.

The boy nodded and clasped his hands in front of his chest: "I came from Beihai Zelin, and I came here to seek direction from the great God of Light. My name is Toby Alder, sir."

Hall thought the surname sounded familiar.

He quickly remembered where this familiarity came from.The brave Navia who brought them a new era had the surname Alder before he became the principal of the Imperial Academy.

But after that, maybe there were too many people who changed their surname to "Alder", and that brave man also changed his name.

Hall shook his head, throwing the strangeness in his heart to the back of his head.

"It's rare to see people who still believe in the God of Light." He smiled and turned around, "I'll see if there is any unburned firewood in the yard. I guess you need a hot bath and some bread. "

Toby grabbed his wrist.

"I'm not here to cheat!" the boy stammered. "Please take me to the statue of Prouvel."

Hall was stunned at first, then laughed.

"My God, Prouvel has been dead for hundreds of years, don't you know, sir?"

Toby Alder was shocked when he heard the news.

The boy's cheeks paled for a while.He rubbed his cold palms and murmured "what to do".

He took a deep breath: "Then only you can save me, my lord! I want to tell you one thing, you must not be afraid."

Hall nodded.

"Actually—" he lowered his voice solemnly, "I'm a rabbit demon."

Hall: "..."

The young man scratched his ears angrily: "Why are you laughing? I saw it, my lord, you don't have to hide it! I'm not joking! Do you want me to show you?"

It has to be said that Toby's movements of grabbing both ears are indeed very similar to the gray rabbit Hall saw in the meat rabbit farm.

Hall knew how to appease these immature boys.

In the past, there were many children who played in front of the Guangming Holy Court.And Hall was their favorite priest.

"I didn't laugh at you, I just thought of happy things." Hall suppressed his smile, pressed the boy's shoulders, trying to calm him down, "We have a cute little thing here, and you feel like it."

As if to confirm this statement, the red-golden bear came out of nowhere, walked up to Toby slowly, and grabbed the boy's legs.

"It seems to like you very much. Regardless of its small size, the red panda is a beast, and generally not very close to humans." Hall held a candle and stepped into the corridor, "Please come here, we will talk as we walk."

Toby almost sat down in fright when he felt the pair of claws wrap around his knees.

In a trance, he found that there seemed to be a force supporting him.

He lowered his head and looked at the little panda.Those golden eyes startled him.

It was a feeling of familiarity engraved in the bone marrow.

Toby bent down, lifted it carefully, held it in his arms, and hurriedly followed Hall.

"I am a rabbit demon, not a human being." He insisted on arguing.

The back garden of the holy courtyard is quiet and deserted, and the raindrops dissolve the fragrance of rosemary into the mist.

Due to successive years of war, the bishops of Guangming Holy Academy were summoned to the palace to discuss arrangements for sending priests to the front line.

For now, Hall is its sole gatekeeper.

Toby hugged the bear and followed Hall.

The more he looked at it, the more frightened he felt.

In Toby Alder's impression, hundreds of years ago—or even tens of thousands of years ago, the Holy House of Light was the most sacred place in the Thrall Empire, and even the most powerful nobleman had to be devout Come here.

But now, the courtyard is full of crumbling wall bricks, and the ashy shadows of the bushes are messily painted on the stone table.

Toby gulped, looking back at Hall's background.

He said: "Maybe you won't believe it, but I am indeed a rabbit demon. A few years ago when I was still eating Hongyuan fruit in Relin, I suddenly heard the voice of another rabbit talking in my head. Then, Miraculously, I have the wisdom of human beings, as well as the memory of some ancestors.

"It was very impressed with two names, one being 'Toby' and the other being 'Alder'."

That's right.Toby Alder looked down at the bear that was rubbing against his arms.

Toby was impressed with it.

His ancestors must have seen this bear.

Hall put the candle lamp on the railing, put on his raincoat and walked out of the promenade, crossed a winding gravel road in the backyard, stepped into the pavilion full of hay, and took out some firewood.

The sacred water in the sacred pool in the holy courtyard has long been expropriated by the imperial palace, leaving them with only some negligible compensation.

He took off the raincoat and hung it back on the wooden hook in the corridor.

"Oh! That's just too strange."

"Your tone is like listening to a child lie!" Toby stomped angrily.

Hall gave him a surprised look.

Indeed, this trick is most useful to children.

"I'll say it again, I didn't lie! My ancestor was a gray rabbit from the imperial capital. It ran away from the slaughterhouse when it was a child and fled to the holy courtyard. A good-looking priest saw it and adopted it. gone."

"Then do you still remember the house number of the priest's residence?" Hall asked with a smile, "The priests who work in the Holy Academy will all live in the imperial capital."

"This... how can a rabbit remember such things?!" The young man was suddenly at a loss for words, "A rabbit only knows how to eat and drink. You can't take this as evidence that I'm lying!"

Hall nodded knowingly.

He took the boy to the back kitchen of the church, took out a few paper packages from the cabinet, and handed them to Toby.

Toby opened the paper bag.

He discovered that it was actually two pieces of carrot bread.

The teenager looked at Hall, moved to tears.This look made him look more like a poor rabbit who had been starving for days.

He broke off a piece of bread and gave it to the little panda in his arms, before he gnawed it himself.

"Later, I met a hunter—a half-elf with an arrow on his back, that bastard! Fortunately, the young master ran fast and jumped off the cliff before he shot me. It happened to be the territory of the mermaid." Standing behind the firewood-burning Hall, he hesitated and sighed, "In hundreds of years, I didn't expect them to expand their territory to such a vast place. It's amazing."

"Your history teacher must be very responsible."

Hall recalled the history he had read in missionary school.

Hundreds of years ago, the mermaid tribe was a dispensable member of the Alliance of Light, and they were not even eligible to participate in the talks.

It's completely different today.

With their unique advantage in singing, the weak mermaids have expanded their territory to almost every sea area.The impressions of the Mermaids by the various races in the mainland are no longer the finale of underground auctions, but the overlord of the sea with a trident in hand and a mouth full of sharp teeth.

All sailors and pirates must make the sign of the sign of the cross when they go out, and silently recite Sinbad in their hearts.

It is said that it is precisely because Sinbad's soul sheltered this weak race that they turned adversity into brave warriors.

"At that time, my head hit a rock, and I fainted. Unexpectedly, the mermaid soldiers passing by thought I was a spy sent by the half-orcs during the war, so they put me in the prison, and planned to choose a time to boil me Alright." Toby gritted his teeth, "I told them that I'm neither a half-orc nor a human, but a rabbit. But those stupid mermaids won't believe me!"

Believe you are a ghost.

Hall thought silently in his heart.

"The mermaid tribe has a rule that the death penalty must be brought before the owner of the sea of ​​the mermaid city before execution. He Rili, a few soldiers picked a day to bring me to their lord and sharpened their knives. Cunning mermaids, I knew they wanted to eat rabbit meat!

"The woman on the throne laughed when she saw me. She had me released—she's a good person up to this point. But she explained in Common Tongue, 'He's not in the army by any means. People. Such a short, stupid, milk-like bastard can neither obtain confidential information nor harm any members of the fish tribe.'

"I was so angry that my hands and feet were cold and my whole body was shaking. I wanted to rush up to bite her, but was pinned down by her guards. I said, 'I was sent by Prouvel to assassinate you! You are a mermaid tyrant'!

"She still didn't believe it, but when I said my name was Toby Alder, the self-righteous Queen of Mermaid City was so surprised that she almost broke her teeth. She asked me if I was the incarnation of the gods who came to the mainland. Because, Apart from her ancestors, only a half-elf and a warrior who sells wine in the imperial capital know this name."

Hall threw all the firewood into the furnace. Hearing the boy's murmurs of complaints, he suddenly became in a good mood.

He was very interested in the story Toby made up, turned his head and asked, "Then how did you answer her?"

"I said, I'm not a god, but a rabbit sent by God to assassinate her. The owner of Mermaid City suddenly became very disappointed. But she still felt that I must have a connection with someone she knew, and asked me some questions."

"for example?"

"Like—recognize a bear that goes mad after the slightest bit of booze..."

Toby subconsciously looked at the little panda who was biting the bread in his arms.

The bear looks normal.

But according to the rabbit's natural intuition about the surrounding environment, he thought it was just putting on a show.

treacherous!

Toby secretly stamped the word on its furry head.

"After she finished asking me, she became happy again, this moody mermaid! She arranged for me to live in the palace, and exchanged memories of my ancestors with me every day. Every time she asked something new, she would happily flap her tail, The hurricane she rolled up almost blows me to the surface of the sea every time. She said that if she has time, she must float to the surface of the sea, like her great-great-great-great-great-great-great-grandmother, who traveled to every corner of the world ..."

Recalling this, Toby Alder's face became terrified.

"Later, a few days later...she actually told me that she had taken a fancy to me and thought I was the right person to have sex with her! I was so scared that I ran out!"

He lowered his head, with horror remaining in his eyes, obviously thinking of something bad.

Hall observed the young man calmly, and asked, "So, you ran to the capital of Saar?"

"No," Toby shook his head embarrassingly, "I got lost and ran to the palace of the Kingdom of Ewell."

"Your physical strength is really good." Hall said sincerely.

"I think so too! After all, my ancestors were rabbits who could jump from the imperial capital to Beihai Relin with just a pair of rabbit legs!" He proudly puffed out his chest.

Hall suppressed a laugh.

"Your hot bath is ready, young master."

"Wait, I haven't finished my story!" Toby suddenly became angry, "After Prouvelle disappeared, only you will listen to my story, you can't leave me, my lord!"

"You can talk while taking a bath," Hall came over and touched the head of the little panda in his arms, "I guess you are tired too."

The little panda accepted his touch with satisfaction and let out a comfortable cry.

Hall took out the key from the grocery room, searched for a long time, and finally found a tattered duck puppet among the ashes of the classics.

He used a cleaning spell to remove the stain from the doll, put it in the tub, and pushed it in the boy's direction.

Toby rested his head on the side of the barrel and let out a sigh of satisfaction.

Even if Hall plots against him and wants to boil rabbits in warm water, he is willing to die in this bucket of hot rabbit soup!

Dwarves are another race in the League of Light where women are in power.

After Queen Sarah succeeded in seizing power, she has always used female offspring as the heir, and it is still the same today.

"Actually, I didn't walk to Ewell's palace alone. I was blocked from the gate of Zechekenman City at the beginning, because I was a rabbit and didn't even have a pass token."

Hall sat on a chair by the tub, took out a parchment, and put on his crystal glasses.

He looked down at the classics and said with a smile, "You don't need to emphasize so many times, I believe you."

Toby smothered his head below the surface of the water, and after a while, let out a snort.

"So, I found a carriage, stuck it under the carriage, and sneaked into the city. But I was unlucky, the destination of the carriage was not Zechekenman City at all. After it entered the city from the east gate, it continued non-stop The land is out from the west! You must know that there is hardly a good road in Zechekenman City, and the whole city is full of gears! What does a rabbit have to be bumped under a carriage?!

"When they finally stopped, I lost my way again. There was wilderness in all directions, and I couldn't find my way back. I could only follow them. When they were resting at night, I sneaked out from under the carriage and picked some wild fruits. It was a full stomach. It was even the rainy season in those days, and there was mud everywhere! Didn’t Prouvel know that even rabbits love beauty? Oh! Sorry, I forgot, that god died a long time ago!”

Hall couldn't help laughing.

Toby was talking about his sadness when he suddenly heard Hall's laughter. He was so angry that he threw a splash of water, but Hall sat far away from him, and he didn't even get wet on the corner of his clothes.

The young man snorted and sneered: "The worst is yet to come, my lord! The team I followed, by coincidence, were the spies sent by the orcs to spy on the dwarf kingdom! They pretended to be merchants and wanted to Nails were planted around the capital, but somehow the wind leaked out. One night, when I got back under the carriage, I heard a cry of killing—as you can see, I was arrested again.”

Hall: "Poor Toby!"

"I was put in the same room as the orcs, and although they were beaten black and blue, I was a little scared because the orcs are carnivores. When the jailer came to deliver the food, I told him that I was wronged. These dwarves are smarter than mermaids, at least they can see that there is an essential difference between my appearance and that of the half-orcs, and they reasonably reported to their Queen for me.

"The queen is conscientious and has to meet several spies and informers every day. This is probably a virtue passed down from her ancestors. She is a woman who is not easy to speak. The first time she saw me, she asked me 'what is my name? Who, where do they live'.

"When I said that my name was 'Toby Alder', she also jumped out of the chair with a slam like a chicken blood, her eyes widened in horror—she Said, 'You, you are His Royal Highness Son?'”

The boy squeezed his cheeks, imitating the Queen's terrified tone vividly.

Hall curled his lips and continued: "You must tell her like this—'No, I'm just a rabbit'."

Toby nodded proudly.

"After that, the queen suddenly lost interest. She said something to herself, and asked the servants to let me go, and gave me a wooden sign, asking me to take it back to the Holy Court of Light of the Human Empire. Go tell my deeds with my god."

Hall frowned and murmured: "The queen knew the news of Prouvelle's disappearance. Which god did she say it was? Wait, what did you say? A token?!"

Only then did the boy realize what he had overlooked, and he slapped his head: "I forgot! It's in my jacket pocket, you can find it for me."

Hall dropped the book, almost staggered and ran over to search for the boy's clothes.

The priest let out a long sigh when he saw this token from the palace of Evel.

"You should have brought it out sooner. It is the most convincing evidence."

"Why?" Toby was dissatisfied, "I think I have enough ability to convince you, and the God of Light is dead, why should I bring it out?"

Hall pulled up the corners of his mouth and smiled, put the token back into the boy's pocket, and walked out of the room with the book in his hands.

The corridor was as quiet as a cave in a valley.

At the corner of the candle lamp, a shadow is walking leisurely.

The red panda is coated with a layer of gold by the warm candlelight, and its eyes are as bright as the enlightened stars.

When it looked up, Hall thought for a moment that a god was watching him gently.

He knelt down and let the red panda's fur brush against his palm.

Maybe it was because the time he stayed here was too unsatisfactory, and he always had hallucinations recently.

Hall came to the missionary school with the expectations of his family. As a young man, he wanted to get ahead, and he succeeded.

As one of the most outstanding pastors of the same class, he is ready to dedicate his life to the light.

But fate played a big joke on him.Due to unwarranted incidents, the reputation of the Guangming Holy Academy in the Saar Empire has been declining. If there is a slight mistake, the royal family seizes the opportunity to deprive them of their final dignity and become people's after-dinner talk.

Every day in Guangming Holy Court, he lived very depressed.

What he couldn't tell the boy was that this must be the happiest and most lively day he had spent in the past ten years.

The time of Guangming Holy Court is always rigid.His colleagues hid all their emotions in that red belt.Hall thought, maybe, even the most terrifying interrogation room.It is impossible to get a little bit of something that does not belong to believers from their mouths.

Does magic bring happiness to people?

Yes, Prouvel said.But magic did not save him, nor did it save the continent.

The magic family relies on their blood to rule the mainland. Whether it is peace or war, they are surrounded by their songs, and all directions are starved bones covered by garbage.

Up to now, the Holy Court of Light has also lost the protection of Prouvelle, and the priest is no longer an angel who saves lives and heals the wounded in people's eyes, but a pawn for the powerful to check and balance the battlefield.

...Perhaps, it was the same even during the reign of Pope Navia?

Even a boy who claimed to be transformed from a rabbit demon, who couldn't find any magical fluctuations in his body, brought him far more laughter than the light element.

There is no magic in this world that can save anyone, not even the gods themselves.

Hall stared at the rainy and foggy sky in a daze, and a knock on the door interrupted his thoughts.

When he came back to his senses, he found that the little panda had slipped away again.

Hall got up, came to the main hall, and opened the door.Standing at the door was a tall, handsome man in a dark raincoat.

"I'm sorry, did you see a bear passing by the door?" The man smiled helplessly, "I pissed him off, he always likes to run away from home recently. But he is very attached to this place, maybe he will run to the Holy Court."

Before Hall asked, he heard the call from the little guy again.

A cloud of red gold passed beside him.

The man reached out his hands tacitly, and happened to hug the little panda.

Immediately, he was hit on the face and swept by the furry tail.

Seeing this, Hall knew that the little panda was very familiar with the unknown visitor, and he was relieved.

He knew that this little guy was just a beautiful passer-by in his life.

Although a little disappointed, he knew that parting was an inevitable result.

Hall was thinking like this, and after locking the door, he suddenly thought of something, turned around suddenly, and pushed the door open against the strong wind.

He saw a huge monster hovering in the gray sky.Thunder and lightning passed by it, illuminating the shining scales like the Milky Way.

That is the mount of the legendary Lord of Darkness, the most powerful dark horned dragon Arnold!

At the first sight of it, the well-informed Hall remembered its original name.

On the swaying earth, facing the terrifying dark creatures, the priests of the Holy Academy of Light clasped their hands together, with tears in their eyes, and knelt down tremblingly.

It's not that he abandoned his faith in his desire to survive, but that he was lucky enough to see two people riding on the back of the dark horned dragon amidst the roar of the storm.

That was their savior and his bride, the Miraculous Pope Sid Navia!