Salvation equals death

Seven days later, Shengzong returned, and at the same time brought back a little boy who was about the same age as Vera.

Vera hugged the little ball, looked at the little boy in ragged clothes, then looked up at Shengzong, looked at the little boy, then looked up at Shengzong...

Vera's little ball fell to the ground, and she ran back to the church with her two lotus arms stretched out, shouting in a childlike voice as she ran, "Grandpa, grandpa, it's not good! Father, he's out picking up babies again." gone."

"Again?" Shengzong raised his eyebrows coldly, and with a stride of his long legs, he directly lifted Vera back, "Do you think it was a mistake for me to pick you back?"

"No, no." Vera shook her head almost like a rattle, raised her hands high above her thumbs, and said with a strong desire to survive, "My father is awesome! Awesome!"

The boy in ragged clothes and melancholy eyes was amused by Vera. His blond hair and blue eyes were as bright as the morning glow, but his appearance was as graceful and gorgeous as champagne roses.

Even though he was in such a mess, he was still amazingly good-looking, and the unresolved melancholy between his brows and eyes added to his charm. His naturally handsome features, red lips and white teeth, were luxurious and delicate.

Gold, silver, blue and green, those colors that represent life and light are all good in the eyes of human beings. This is undoubtedly another boy with a glorious appearance, which looks very similar to the holy sect.

The system is going to feel wronged for the host. This child looks like he was carved out of the same mold as the Holy Sect. If this person has his own, would he still like to adopt it?

"His name is 'Adrian', he is six years old this year, you should call him brother." Alex put Vera in front of the little boy, "This is my child, 'Vera', almost five years old Yes, it will be your sister from now on."

"Hi sister." Adrian greeted gently.

Vera looked left and right at the little boy, and responded softly, "Hi Ed."

Vera was born with a fondness for people with a glorious appearance. The Holy Father, Adrian, and Venorella who died that day were all human beings with a glorious appearance. This beauty from the light made her yearn for and favor her.

Vera is naive and ignorant, but Adrian has already tasted the warmth and coldness of human relationships at a young age. He likes Vera very much, so he really takes care of Vera like a younger sister.

Because of the first impression, Adrian always thought that Vera was a warm and lively little group, but after getting along with her, he realized that Vera was only like that when she was in front of the Holy Father.

Most of the time, this young girl just crouched on the steps of the church with her calves in her arms, quietly looking at the crowds with her black eyes as clear as a spring, with a kind of ethereal and helpless feeling.

Adrian didn't know what Vera was thinking. In fact, a five-year-old child, besides eating, drinking and having fun every day, what else do they need to use their little brains?

Adrian couldn't figure it out, and Shengzong had no intention of explaining the tragic past of another child to one child. After returning to the church, Shengzong resumed his previous daily routine. Except for daily classes, he devoted all his energy to education .

Adrian is different from Vera, he has a strong talent for magic, and his physical fitness is also very strong, so his daily classes are fully arranged, from swordsmanship to magic, from knowledge to strategy, he needs almost everything study.

As for Vera?Shengzong just handed her a few books on alchemy and magic patterns, and she could sit on the side without saying a word and read for a whole day, writing and drawing by herself.

The girl who was detained in a birdcage since she was a child is not active, and when she calms down, she looks like a delicate but lifeless doll.

At first Adrian wanted to find time to play with his sister, but he soon discovered that Vera was not an ordinary child at all.

She is very obedient, but rarely smiles; she likes physical contact, but she has no other hobbies; she eats and plays freely, rather than saying she is "unhappy", it is better to say that she does not understand the emotion of "happiness" at all.

But when Shengzong is around, she will be very lively, like a tired bird returning to its nest, and the children have to rely on, so all the soft and extravagant, fragile emotions that are regarded as useless can be expressed naturally.

Adrian has experienced a lot, and he is not an ordinary child, but he also finds a child like Vera very strange.

In addition to these, Adrian was also puzzled by Shengzong's attitude towards Vera. For Adrian, Shengzong usually stopped asking questions after arranging homework, because he knew that the child had a plan in mind.

But for Vera, teaching homework is extra. More often, the Holy One just holds a book and tells stories to the little doll who is nestled aside.

"Compared to you, the Holy Ancestor can't stop worrying about that child." The old priest said with emotion, but there was compassion in his eyes when he looked at the little girl.

"Why? I think Vera is very good." Wouldn't it be nice to be a girl who was brought up pampered and live happily ever after?Adrian thought puzzled.

"People who like her will spoil her, but those who love her will scold her. You are too young to understand." The priest touched Adrian's little head kindly, and after thinking about it, he couldn't help it. He pointed out, "That child's life is hard."

Yes, that child is suffering.

The girl who was pampered and raised has already been spoiled. She is a canary whose wings have been broken, and a young eagle who has been raised so that she has forgotten the sky. How can this not be sad?

Even now, she is nestled in the arms of the Holy Zong like a flightless bird. Her dependence and attachment are so clear, but when the Holy Zong is gone, how can she survive in this troubled world?

"The magic pattern is the crystallization of wisdom. If you pour magic power into the engraved magic pattern, you can make a rune stone, which can greatly increase your own strength and magic power. Therefore, the magic pattern is one of the three treasures of the world."

"Then what are the other two?" Vera asked naively, holding Shengzong's long silver hair on top of her nose.

"Magic pattern, holy key, and sage's stone." Shengzong didn't care, and pressed her wobbly little head to make her turn her gaze back to the book, explaining in a light tone, "Magic pattern is a creation of elements. The Holy Key is the highest masterpiece of alchemy, and the Philosopher's Stone is the pearl of faith. The Philosopher's Stone is the product of the beliefs of millions of people, but beliefs can be good or bad, so the Philosopher's Stone is the ultimate Born to be evil."

If it is the sage's stone condensed by the beliefs of all peoples, it is naturally the most holy thing; but if it is the resentment of thousands of people before they die, it is the most evil thing.

Vera vaguely remembered that in order to kill vampires, the Holy See in this world sacrificed the lives of tens of millions of people and condensed them into thirteen Philosopher's Stones, which finally caused an irreparable catastrophe.

"The Holy Key is a weapon made with the Philosopher's Stone as its core. Alchemy confines the powerful but easily out-of-control Philosopher's Stone in precious metals, so the Holy Key is also called the 'body'. The Holy Key may not be able to exert [-]% of the power of the Philosopher's Stone, but it can make the Philosopher's Stone gentle and controllable, so that it will not be violent-injured. The appearance of the Holy Key is also the first time humans have cracked And control the 'power of God'."

Alex lowered his eyes slightly, and there were some deeper things he didn't say, the so-called thing that condenses the belief of all people - isn't it God?

"Great Sage" is the highest title given to warlocks by humans, and it is also recognized as the existence closest to gods. It is self-evident what the energy sealed in the Philosopher's Stone represents.

On the one hand, they use faith as a weapon to trap foolish people, making them willingly endure the suffering in life in exchange for peace after death; on the other hand, they keep spying on the power of the gods, turning the respect of the people into taboo gems.

What steps can human beings take to achieve their status as the world's hegemon?

Alex thought indifferently, he didn't intend to hide those dirty and filthy things from his children, on the contrary, his children should know these things better than anyone else.

Alex once asked Vera what she wanted to be when she grew up.Growing up in the country of roses and becoming a little princess as sweet as a macaron?Or do you want to play recorder poetry every day, enjoy the moon and beautiful roses?

But Vera said she wanted to be him.

"I heard the nun sister say that children are the continuation of their parents' lives." The little child played with his fingers and replied innocently but without hesitation, "Father, can you give me your name?"

The child's small soft palms are covering his face, and his quiet and dusty eyes are very similar to him when he was young - those eyes are like those of a cub, purely ignorant, with no regard for the world Emotions other than curiosity.

At first, Alex didn't intend to save the child.

There are many human beings taken captive by the blood race, but not all of them are worth saving—the blood race has gorgeous appearance, immortal lifespan, and powerful inhuman strength. Those are the things that many human beings yearn for and are greedy for.Not to mention a child who was raised as a canary since he was a child, even some people in the Holy See proposed to succumb to the blood race, just to obtain eternal youth and an endless life.

The things they tried their best to protect, in the eyes of some people, are stubborn and ignorant of good and evil.

But the kid said he wanted to be him.

What's so good about being him?Like the foolish him who burned himself desperately for his beliefs, and finally ended up being smashed to pieces one day, does she think this is noble and bright?

not like this.

——Pure kindness can't protect her, so why should she burn like him for this world full of devils?

"I'm an orphan, a pariah who came out of the lowest slum." Alex said casually, "The poor don't have a surname, and the name is chosen randomly. What do you want my name for?"

"Because 'Vera Alex, you can tell that I am my father's child when you hear it." Vera put Alex's hand in a snow-white glove on his head, and said obediently, "I want my father's name." !"

Adrian, who was eavesdropping on the sidelines, couldn't help but burst out laughing, but was glanced at by the cold Holy One, and had to cough lightly, pressing down the corners of his raised lips, and holding the book solemnly .

"Whatever you want." Shengzong was noncommittal to Vera's nondescript name, as if a child's request for his name was like wanting candy on the street, "Continue to say, your current homework is mainly to learn how to draw magic patterns. "

"Magic patterns are the foundation of summoning elements, the five orthodox elements, the five mutated elements, two categories of light and dark, and the subordinate magic patterns that belong to the taboo time and space—"

"There are a total of more than 16 attached magic patterns, and they are still increasing rapidly. Changing any stroke of the magic pattern may affect the effectiveness and attributes of the magic pattern."

Alex didn't notice the round eyes of the girl in his arms widened, and he just said to himself: "The production method of the Holy Key and the Philosopher's Stone needs to be based on a high degree of control over the magic pattern prohibition, isn't it? The field you can touch right now. With the increase of the magic pattern, even if you have no magic talent, you can temporarily become a warlock with the help of the magic pattern, which is very necessary... Vera, what are you doing?"

Alex lowered his head, and the chubby little ball in his arms took off the shoe and sock on one foot, tearing off the white and tender toes, without noticing that the shoe had fallen on Alex's robe that stretched to the ground.

"Vera only has ten fingers." Xiaotuanzi also tried to break his other leg, "How much is 16, father?"

"It's the stars in the sky and your hair." Alex closed the book, picked up the shoes and put them on Xiaotuanzi, and then released the little girl, "Go and play, you haven't learned this yet, remember when you look back." Do your homework."

Apart from literacy and numeracy, Vera's current homework is to write and draw according to the magic pattern. It's not clear what the drawn magic pattern is for, but it can somewhat allow her to practice the strokes of drawing.

Alex left the church, and soon, the vivid expression on Vera's face gradually subsided, and a smile appeared on the corner of her mouth that she didn't know whether to say it was dull or ignorant, and she was so angry that she looked like a fictional mask.

"Villa." Adrian couldn't help calling her, trying to erase the empty mask on her face, "If you don't want to laugh, stop laughing, no one is forcing you to be happy, understand?"

"Why don't you smile?" Vera scratched her head blankly, "Vera is not happy, but others will be happy when they see Vera smiling, so Vera should be smiling, right?"

The world is so big, and gravity always pulls us to the ground, so it is always more difficult to lift the corners of the mouth than to droop the corners of the mouth.

Very tired.

But if you don't make others happy, Vera has no meaning to exist. That... the real "father" said to Vera.