Encyclopedia of Feanor Continent

So Palos indulged in desire without any suspense. He had endless love to vent in his heart. He wanted to hug the mage tightly, but he was afraid of strangling him. He wanted to kiss his whole body, but there was only one. Open your mouth.

When he dropped the kiss on Avondel's calf, the mage stretched his arms and pulled something out of the knapsack he had left beside the bed.

Palos thought he was going to take lubricating ointment, but Evandel took out the hairpin bought at the market that day.

Just seeing that thing, Palos felt his lower body tightened, and the thing stood up tremblingly, he put his legs together, trying to hide this embarrassing reaction, but Evandel had seen it clearly, the mage gracefully He said with a smirk, "This gift should have been given to you a long time ago, but it has been delayed until now. I didn't expect you to be so impatient. I'm really sorry for making you wait so long."

Palos' face was flushed and he couldn't say a word. Evandel carefully put the metal hairpin on the candle and baked it, then handed it to him: "Since you want it so much, put it in by yourself Bar."

Palos looked at each other in disbelief, Evandel said gently with an attitude of "I'm doing this for your own good", "Look at this thing, it's hard and pointed, I'm afraid I can't handle it well The strength will hurt you, and it's very troublesome to hurt that kind of place, right, so do it yourself, be good."

Palos was ashamed and embarrassed, but he finally gritted his teeth and accepted the hairpin resignedly.

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Evandel stretched his waist, stretched his body lazily on the sheets, and the afternoon sun slanted in through the wide-open window, coating his skin with a layer of soft gold.

Palos was afraid that he would be cold, so he stretched out his hand to help him pull the blanket. The temperature of the two blended together in the same bed. He stroked the smooth skin of the mage with the back of his finger, full of indescribable joy and tenderness.

They are not sleepy, but they don't want to get up, they just want to lie on the bed and waste this rare peaceful time. If possible, Palos really hopes that time can stay in this happy moment forever.

If it were a year ago, the pure and upright Palos would never have thought that he would be in bed with a male mage, and he would be in the company of dark elf assassins, succubus, and lich, and robbed him from the alleys of the holy city of Mikalan. A full-fledged member of the Mages Guild, dragged to the vault beneath the cathedral and stripped of flesh with evil magic.

But now that he thought back on what he had done, he didn't think there was anything wrong with it.

"What are you thinking about?" Evandel stretched out his fingertips and rubbed his Adam's apple, asking boredly.

"I'm wondering if I'm too depraved, as if I've violated almost all the commandments of the Knights Templar."

Evandel smiled: "Why don't you go to the Pope to repent every time we finish, and let the Holy Light wash away your sins?"

"...I'm not talking about that," Palos said. "Let's just talk about Welburke. He's not a good guy. He murdered you again, and he deserves to die. But take him from an alley, and use magic to take his body away." Giving the bones to the Lich, and then destroying the corpses, I don’t think this has anything to do with justice.”

"This is not a just thing in the first place. It's just revenge for wrongs, and revenge for revenge." Evandel smiled understandingly. People can't help but think more when they are particularly idle and peaceful. Some don’t, “Stop demanding yourself by the standard of a moral model, admit that you and I are just ordinary people, and life will be much easier. Like me, I have never concealed that I am a selfish, vengeful, unscrupulous person.”

"Why do you say that about yourself?" Palos raised his face and looked at him, "You are obviously a very good person."

"You think this way because I don't have much chance to show my vicious side in front of you. In fact, I am that kind of person, but don't wait until one day you find out my true face and start to be disappointed." Evandel said, " Now if there is any revenge, I usually report it on the spot. Even if I can’t report it on the spot, such as Wel Burke and Rafaqi, I haven’t made them happy for too long, but I used to be a person with little self-preservation ability When he was a magic apprentice, he used much more insidious means than this."

"Like what?"

"I told you, there are always some wretched old men who miss me in the academy. My mentor was one of them. I couldn't confront him head-on, so I added a small amount of alum to his experimental materials. It caused him to...jump when he was doing the experiment!" The mage simulated an explosion with his hand, "The old man struggled on the bed for three days before he died. The mages tried many ways to save him, but they only made him suffer more. His whole face and lungs are almost corroded, it’s no wonder that he was saved, and no one knows that I did it.”

Palos was dumbfounded.

Evandel looked at him in shock: "What? Are you frightened by my insidiousness?"

"...No, isn't your mentor a woman? You've always told me that." Palos said dumbfounded.

"The later mentor was a woman. After that wretched old man died, his apprentices were assigned to other mentors."

Palos faintly felt that something was wrong, he sat up and said seriously: "...Evandel, I have something very strange to tell you."

"Huh?" Evandel looked at Palos's suddenly serious expression inexplicably, "What's wrong?"

Just as Palos was about to speak, there was a sudden knock on the door, and someone said outside the door: "Sorry for the interruption, the Knights Templar sent back a message saying that they have found the whereabouts of the demons. The Pope asked me to inform you immediately."

"Wait a minute!" Evandel swept away the languid posture just now, and immediately sat up and began to get dressed, and Palos also quickly endured the discomfort in his body and put on his pants.

It took a while for them to open the door, and a priest stood outside with low brows, completely ignoring the two of them living in the same room and the noise inside just now, and took them to see the Pope without distraction.

Palos knew that Evandel had a blood feud with that demon, and he was always very concerned about the news of the demon, so he could only temporarily put aside his little things and follow Avandel to see the Pope.

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"We also just received a note from the carrier pigeon from the Temple of Ethir. The time when the demons appeared should be one to two hours ago. The demons didn't seem to want to be our enemies. They only said a paragraph The words disappeared, and the mages sent there did not find any traces of magic, just like what you encountered last time."

Evandel asked eagerly, "What did he say?"

The Pope looked at a priest next to him, who opened a small note and said: "The original words are as follows: 'Don't attack, time is running out, tell your rulers these words, I am the demon clan General Alfred, I know that your world is about to come to an end, the sun will disappear from the sky, only we can make the sun reappear, I can't stay too long, I will come again.' After saying this, he said Disappeared."

The Pope sighed and said, "I didn't expect that there is a connection between the invasion of the demons and the prophecy of 'Eternal Night is Coming'. Things seem to have become more complicated."

Evandel was not concerned about this: "Is that demon general Alfred the same demon we saw last time?"

The Pope shook his head: "I don't know. The contents brought back by the carrier pigeons are limited. The specific information can only be asked after the Knights Templar over there have withdrawn."

"Let me go there." Evandel said, "Since he said 'he will come again', if the location where he appears next time is still near that, I will meet him personally."

The Pope nodded: "Okay, I will arrange it for you."

"What about you?" Evandel asked.

"I will contact various countries and forces and ask them to send envoys to discuss how to deal with this matter."

"Will they listen?" Evandel expressed doubts. After all, the church's influence today is indeed not as good as it was back then.

"I think they will. After all, the omens have already appeared. Don't you think spring is coming very late this year?" said the pope. Wearing cotton clothes, it is unusual for the poor and beggars to spend the night in church shelters against the cold."

Evandel shook his head: "I've been traveling around and haven't noticed this."

"That's right. After all, the difference in cold and heat between the north and the south is greater than that caused by the seasons, but I think those kings who pay attention to agriculture and people's livelihood should have realized that the climate has become colder and colder these years. Frosts have been especially severe, and many countries have not yet been able to start spring planting because the ground is frozen as hard as rock, and in this case they will heed my warning."

Evandel asked again: "Is Captain Darius in the Temple of Athir now?"

"Yes, Kent is here too." The pope glanced at Palos, then at the frowning mage, and reminded, "You have different positions and views on some things, but when dealing with demons and protecting world peace, On one point, everyone’s interests are the same. I hope you can put aside your personal grievances for the time being and don’t conflict with him. For now, no one can replace Darius’ influence in the Knights Templar, and he can’t have an accident. Otherwise, the Knights Templar will inevitably fall into chaos."

"Understood, I will try my best." Evandel agreed with some reluctance.

"I will help you suppress the matter of Wel Burke." Kent said again, "By the way, before you go to the Temple of Ethir, you should go to the Mage Academy. Do you still remember the huge planetarium in the academy? Right? Just now I received the news that they once again detected a very unusual change, and the time coincided with the time when the demons appeared again. Every time there was news of the demons before, there was a change with the astrology The time coincides, but the instructors in the academy have been studying for so long and can’t tell why, and the people from the Mage Association can’t see anything. You are more knowledgeable than them, maybe you can find something different content."

"Okay, I'll go and have a look." Evandel nodded.

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What Palos wants to ask and what he wants to say has not been uttered. Evandel obviously doesn't have the time and energy to care about such strange but insignificant things as "coincidences in dreams". Get ready to go out first, take Palos with you, and walk into the Master Academy again after many years.

The mage academy was surrounded by a high prison-like wall, and it was built on a small island in the middle of a lake, which prevented mage apprentices from escaping from the academy by taking risks to the greatest extent.After checking the special approval letter given to them by the Pope, the Templars on duty at the ferry took the two of them to the island in a small boat.

At the gate of the "prison", the guards checked the approval documents again, and then called a Templar to guide them, and at the same time monitor them not to do strange things here.

Palos has vaguely felt that something is wrong since he landed on the island. Only the group of Knights Templar who were assigned as the guards of the Mage Tower can set foot on this island. He is very sure that he has never been to this place. , just like other children who grew up in the holy city of Mikalan, looked at the towers and roofs behind the walls with curiosity from a distance by the lake.

But now he feels that the scenery in the high wall and the structure of the buildings are inexplicably familiar.

After going through several familiar scenes, he finally came to a very definite conclusion—he had seen all this in a dream.

He has had many dreams about the young Avondel and the Mage Academy, and these dreams have become more and more frequent recently. Although the content in them is some trivial and discontinuous fragments, the scenes are always repeated.

He thought that these were all fabricated in his own mind, but now it seems that not only the scene he dreamed is real, but even the trivial things in his dream may be Avondel's real experience.

……why?