Violet Orchestra

"You said that we still have an advantage that has been ignored. What is that?" Elaine asked Eros early in the morning when he decided to implement the plan, "I still don't think Hayden Woods can't stop my blow, and you It’s time to tell me this advantage and give me some confidence.”

"Don't be afraid, you have this ability." Warlock patted him on the shoulder, "I will always cast spells to assist you, but Hayden Woods has noticed me, after he and I formally meet, you can only It's up to me. That curse took up one spell grid of Hayden Woods, and as long as Violet survives, he will always lose one spell grid. I have the advantage of one spell grid, and you have it too."

"... a spell?"

Eros nodded solemnly.

"That's why I said Violet must not die. I didn't say it when he asked me why I helped him that day, because I felt sorry for him..."

Elaine laughed: "You should say, he still thinks that you helped him because of me, and he has always been very uneasy."

Because of poor sleep quality, Violet has been sleeping very late recently. Elaine also gave him Eros's new and improved tranquilizing potion yesterday. If there is no accident, he will sleep until evening today.And if all went well, they might be done by evening.

"Actually, they're right, I'm really risking your life." Eros leaned against the wall and smoked, and turned his head to look at him, "It's just that you have been foolishly believing that I am really helping you— —Hey, seriously, you don't hold grudges against me, do you?"

"Why?" Elaine shook her head.

In his opinion, Eros has done enough. Without his help, maybe they would not even be able to come up with this plan now.Even if the other party has his own selfishness when helping him, he should not ignore the benefits he gets as a result, this is a fact.

"To be honest, if you weren't Figo's student, I probably wouldn't choose you." Warlock smiled, "I have some old friends with him...but it turns out that he has a good eye for selecting students, and you are indeed a suitable candidate." candidate."

Elaine looked at him suspiciously, waiting for his next words.

"For some reason, I can't confront Hayden Woods directly, so I need someone to complete the assassination task for me. This person can't be someone Hayden Woods has seen before, nor can he just find someone on the side of the road. He must be strong, and must be persistent and tenacious, determined to kill a god - such a person is too difficult to find, so that I have only seen you for many years."

Elaine was silent for a moment, but she asked another question: "Actually, you have suspected Hayden Woods a long time ago, right?"

"It's just a suspicion. I haven't been able to connect the clues, and I can't do anything about him." Noticing the confusion in his eyes, Eros shrugged, "I can't attack a god without a reason, and I'm just a Priest, you have neither the ability nor the position to do so, do you think so?"

Knowing that he still had something to say, Elaine didn't intend to force him to tell him everything in one breath. Anyway, Eros had already told him what he wanted to know, so it was meaningless to continue asking at this time.He looked up at the sky and reminded: "It's getting late, get ready to go."

According to the news sent back two days ago, Hayden Woods has returned to the Onelia area, and should now stay in the Old Mettlen area.After the fall of Mettlen, the city has not been rebuilt on the ruins, but Hayden Woods seems to like it very much, often hang around in that area, and let the believers build a temple on the ruins of Mettlen, dedicated to him .

"Fortunately, Glacis was not buried in Metlen." After hearing about this, Ventus didn't seem surprised, but heaved a sigh of relief, "That guy probably didn't know, I quietly buried her in the ice. Thorn City, there is only an empty coffin in Maitland's tomb."

Otherwise, it sounds too pathetic to be accompanied by the murderer's temple after death.

"In any case, knowing his whereabouts will make it easier for us to carry out the plan." Eros sent letters to people to spread the news, while preparing all kinds of weird spell-casting materials, and made a list for Ventus, "Help Do me a favor, I've got these by tomorrow."

The consul glanced at his list, and didn't even reach out to pick it up. He said with a blank expression, "Even if I search the entire Icethorn City, I can't find all the materials on it for you."

Eros was easy to talk, and he quickly scratched out more than half of it with a pen, then rolled up the parchment and stuffed it into his arms: "Then these will be fine."

At first Ventus thought he was preparing spell-casting materials for himself, but on the planned day, Eros gave him all the prepared materials and asked him to stay in Icethorn City to take care of Violet .

"……how about you?"

"Didn't I say it a long time ago, I'm in charge of keeping Hayden Woods in check." Eros changed into clothes that are easy to move, stood in front of the window, stretched his limbs, and inserted a few daggers into his boots, looking like he was going to The assassin who performed the assassination mission, "You just need to protect Violet with Petra, and leave the rest to us."

Birkins took the initiative to assume the dangerous role of attracting Hayden Woods' attention. He set off earlier before dawn, and they must arrive at the pre-arranged location within the agreed time. After all, no one can guarantee that there will be no accidents. .And once an accident does happen, they have to find their own way.

Before leaving the city hall, Warlock looked back at Ventus, took out a handful of things from his pocket and threw them to him: "Here, eat one if you're nervous."

Ventus reached out to catch it reflexively, and after seeing what he threw over, he didn't know what expression to show.

"Don't you like it? I think it's delicious." Eros touched his empty pocket, expressing his helplessness, "I don't care if you want other flavors, see you later."

Then he turned over and jumped out of the window, like a gray bird, disappeared behind the wall.

After he left, the mage looked down at the few mints in his hand, put them in the storage bag on his waist, and decided to see if Violet had woken up.

Birkins left Icethorn City under the cover of night.

His destination was the ruins of Old Mettlen, also the temple of Hayden Woods.Since Eros's people failed to get close to the temple, he had to pretend to be Hayden Woods' believers to sneak in, and then "accidentally" exposed his flaws to attract the other party to follow him to the pre-arranged ambush location.

This is not a safe mission, and it can even be said to be as dangerous as Elaine who was responsible for assassinating Hayden Woods. It's Petra.

In contrast, he is of course a more suitable candidate.

Although there is no mention of his hometown in Eros's guess, since Ventus's map is an old version 30 years ago, it can be clearly seen that Kevlat, like Metteren, also came from Europe. A point on the route extending from Nerlia to Mount Trillance.

He didn't take the initiative to bring up this matter, but he had his own plan in mind - if Hayden Woods could be resolved smoothly, he planned to go back to Kevlat to have a look.Even if there are only ruins left in his hometown, he should still be able to find some clues to confirm his conjecture.

Thinking of this, Birkins turned over the last mountain, and the temple standing on the ruins appeared in front of him.

It is a tower-shaped building, which is different from the temples that people usually recognize. It is slender and slender. The outer wall is made of unknown materials. There is a little old yellow in the gray and white, which looks a little weird.He put on his hood and blended in among the similarly dressed worshipers - since Violet had disguised him for him the day before, it was not too much effort - and when he got close enough to the temple, a subtle smell like sly The little snake slid into his nasal cavity.

He thought he might already understand how the strangely colored exterior wall came about.

The temple has a long-standing and corrupt atmosphere, because the furnishings inside are directly moved from other temples, and the paint on the outer walls is the ashes of human beings.

The entire city of Mettlen sank into the ground as early as 30 years ago. Only a small part of the residents in the city escaped, and the rest were buried in the ground. It is not even necessary to go deep to find human bones in this land. dig.But what good does Hayden Woods do for him?The god of the land painting his temple with human ashes would not contribute to his great deeds in any case, but would discredit him. Birkins really couldn't figure out why he would do this.

He mixed among the silent believers, walking at the end of the line, observing the environment inside the temple while paying attention to the movements of the believers.This group of people did not know where they came from, and each of them covered half of their faces with cloaks, as if they didn't want others to see their faces.The people of Eros said that they would gather in this temple on this day of every month, but because there was no way to guarantee that they would not be discovered, they never dared to sneak in like him.

But it didn't take much effort for Birkins to sneak in. He just knocked down the guy who was walking at the end, took the opponent's cloak and put it on, and sneaked into the team.The unlucky guy who was replaced by him was a middle-aged man with a similar height to him. Because of the cover of the cloak, Birkins was confident that he would not be found in a short time, and this group of people did not communicate at all, and there was no possibility of being exposed. Sex is lower than he thought.

They walked into the depths of the temple in a single file, went up the spiral staircase, and stopped when Birkins estimated that they had reached halfway to the tower.

To be precise, it was a person walking at the front of the line who suddenly stopped and stopped other believers at the stairs leading to a higher floor.

"Please take out the tokens and let me check them one by one."

Birkins didn't move. Seeing that the people in front of him started to dig out their pockets, he also pretended to grope around his body.

He didn't even know what the so-called "token" was, let alone take it out to check - the opportunity to show his flaws came too fast, and he didn't have time to guard against it.