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"Oh, this is really an unfortunate fact!" The Blood Duke echoed weakly, humming and trying to show the priest, "Look, I've been seriously injured, but I'm still here, just for you" .

The priest directly gave him a "I don't care about you" look.

But in the eyes of others, this is no different from flirting. The mage in black was a little unhappy. Fortunately, he sat next to the priest, near the water tower, and directly held the priest's hand, and then gently rubbed the slender five fingers .

The silver-haired priest was stunned for a moment, his palms were itchy from being scratched by him, and he felt a little helpless at the boring behavior of the two of them. After all, he didn't say anything, but patted the back of his hand to express comfort, and then took his hand back.

The corner of the mage's mouth curved into a slight arc.

Now it's the duke's turn to be upset.

Why!

Why did I just give you a look, and you took my little hand!

However, the priest apparently did not receive his brainwaves, and he was still seriously analyzing the matter with the Queen: "Although we suffered a heavy loss this time, we are not without gains. At least we know that monsters are tougher and stronger than humans. But they can also be injured, they can be killed, the only problem is that we don't know who they are possessed by, and if they are careful enough, they won't show any flaws at all."

The elf queen smiled wryly: "So those rebellious elves, I ordered people to lock them up alone, and I haven't figured out a way to deal with them until now, because I am worried that there will be monsters that have not been cleaned up."

"Then we can start to think about a serious question, what is the Achilles' heel of monsters." The Blood Duke finally said lazily. There are two mages, one on the left and one on the right, occupying both sides of the priest.

Monsters are the same as all races on the mainland. They will die if they are pierced by a weapon, they will be burned to death, and they will be drowned in water. But when they appear in the skin of humans or elves, you can't just go up and stab them with a knife. Try poking him to see if he will be forced to transform into a monster, right?

This is simply a headache.

Yannick could only turn his gaze to the mage: "Chris, do you have any good ideas?"

"No." The black-clothed mage said neatly and simply: "There is no magic or magic potion that can solve this problem."

The elf queen smiled wryly: "Is it possible that the rebels can only be imprisoned forever?"

Those elves cannot be killed. Although they have followed others to oppose the queen, to the elf queen and other clansmen, they are of the same clan after all, and the number of elves is already very small.But it can't be released, because no one knows what the consequences will be to the elves if one or two monsters pop up after they are released?

Therefore, as the person responsible for the future rise and fall of the elves, Her Majesty the Queen is really not easy.

The priest was full of sympathy, and suddenly he was very glad that he was just a bishop now. If he were the pope, he would probably be more worried than the queen. Not only how to rectify the corrupt Holy See, but also how to train the noble and glamorous people under him to do their own thing and fight against each other every day. A priest who is willing to stop is definitely enough to make him more miserable than the elf queen.

"Respected Your Excellency Hill, in view of the current situation of the elves, I hope that Illus can be temporarily entrusted to your care." The elf queen said.

After this chaos, the shortcomings of the elves' internal management were fully exposed. She needed time to rectify and clean up, and she would inevitably neglect the elves. Coupled with the possible existence of monsters, the previously peaceful elf territory became a place where crises lurked. If the elf can be temporarily sent to a safe place, she can also be relieved of her worries.

"Illus?" Yannick couldn't hide his surprise, "With all due respect, he is the next Elf King, and he means a lot to you, but I'm a priest, so I'm afraid it's not suitable."

"No, Lord Hill, please listen to me." The Elf Queen smiled, "If it was a few days ago, I would really be worried about handing Illus to you, but now, including me, all the elves We have all witnessed your noble character, and the elves are willing to sign a permanent friendship contract with you. Whether it is you now or you who will become the pope in the future, we are willing to fully cooperate with all your requests without compromising the interests of the elves. Including cooperation with the Holy See to deal with monsters together!"

The conditions she proposed were very tempting, but Yannick was very sober: "Your Majesty has too high expectations of me. To be honest, the position of Pope is too far away for me. Even if I sign a contract, I can only rely on my personal identity."

The elf queen smiled understandingly: "Of course, you are very considerate. The deep friendship between me and you has nothing to do with the Holy See. Even if the pope is coming here now, the elves will not treat him like you." generally."

This Her Majesty the Queen is really an outlier among the elves, she is so eloquent, and a few words can lift him up to be more noble than the Pope, Yannick blinked and said with a smile: "I want to establish a deep friendship with you It’s a great honor.”

The queen said: "Then take care of Illus..."

Yannick: "I am very happy, but since there will be many priests around me, and some of them I cannot guarantee their loyalty to me, so I hope this time will not be too long."

The queen stretched her face: "Of course, I won't make things difficult for you, at most half a month will be enough."

Even in an individual capacity, it is not a casual matter to make a contract with the elves.

Although the elves already knew Yannick's identity, and most of the things that the priests and his party helped the elves knew, but in order to raise Yannick's ally status further, the elf queen arranged a very grand ceremony - after refilling the water Next to the pool of sincerity, I swear to the gods, declaring that from now on, the whole elves will regard Yannick as the most sincere and steadfast friend, never betray, never betray, and are willing to do their best when Yannick needs it Help him.

Originally, if the elf queen swore in her personal capacity, Yannick couldn't blame her. After all, as the leader of the clan, she couldn't hand over the fate of the entire clan, but the queen's courage surprised him. To swear in the name of the entire elf clan, you must know that this kind of oath is bound by magic power, and you must never go back and forth like ordinary humans sign a written contract like ordinary humans.

Yannick was moved, and solemnly swore an oath with reference to the Queen's oath. While chanting the incantation, the magic power penetrated deeply into the soul in the form of a contract. The moment the light disappeared, it symbolized the establishment of the contract.

At this moment, even if the elves who control the appearance feel good for the beautiful priest in front of him because he participated in helping to suppress the rebellion, they would never expect that the scene they are witnessing now will go down in the annals of history forever and become an influential figure. An important part of the history of the continent.

After the contract was concluded, the Elf Queen kindly invited Yannick and the others to stay for a few more days, but Yannick had been wandering alone for a long time and could not stay any longer. Torment is insane.

For example, when eating in the morning, the two would argue over who should sit on the right hand side of the priest.

What, why the right hand side, you ask?Because there is a wall on the left, there are no seats.

For another example, when they were sleeping at night, the two would continue to argue over who could enter the priest's room and share the bed with him.

This kind of game usually ends with no winners or losers, because the priest does not allow anyone to sleep in the same room with him, no matter if it is a cat or a fly.

And the way these two people argued was not the childish bickering that others imagined, but a real fight.

This really opened Yannick's eyes.

He originally thought that Chris had said that he was not as good as Ans in terms of hands, and the gap between the two of them must be very far, but when the two got into a fight, Yannick realized that Chris was not at all inferior, okay?

If An Sisheng is superior to the unparalleled speed and strength of the blood race, then Chris's advantage lies in the skillful use of the two elemental magics of water and fire. Judging from the experience of hand-to-hand combat, Chris has at least reached the level of a magister or higher.

What concept is this?

Above the magister is the great magister, and above that, it is the Dharma sage!

This is clearly pretending to be a pig and eating a tiger!

Those people in the Garter Empire were blinded by something, and there was a great magister under their noses who didn't hug their thighs, and they still sneered all day long, saying that they were illegitimate children and autistic. Fortunately, Chris didn't bother to care about them. Or wipe out a large area with one shot.

Although Chris is proficient in magic potions, he can't pour potions on other people's heads when they are fighting, and he will lose one of his innate advantages. Violating the contract that the two of them made privately, the priest probably will never forgive him for the rest of his life, so he was a little more restrained when attacking, and the result of the fight can be imagined, either the vampire's clothes were burned, or the mage A few bloodstains were drawn on the neck, and it was common for two people to hang lottery, but it was difficult to tell the winner from the loser.

This frenzied situation until the priest finally couldn't bear it, and when he bid farewell to the Elf Queen, he also insisted on parting ways with the Blood Duke.

Anse was very hurt: "My dear, I have been with you all the way. I have seen the beautiful stream and the rich grass. Every night you have to listen to my meowing to fall asleep, but now you say you don't need it. Don’t you see my sincerity for you?”

The priest had a headache: "I can't get quiet where you are, so I can only choose to let one of them go first."

The Blood Duke was dissatisfied: "Then why am I leaving, I can turn into a cat, it's small and convenient to carry!"

The priest was expressionless: "Because your performance made me very dissatisfied before, I have every reason to suspect that before I encountered 'Julia's Blessing', you knew about it a long time ago, but you didn't stop it."

The Duke clutched his chest: "You are doubting my personality!"

Priest: "You are not human, thank you."

Blood Duke: "...Well, since you want me to go, I won't force you to stay. Why do I feel more and more reluctant to go against your wishes now!"

After he finished speaking, he took a deep look at the priest, and left without looking back.

Although the priest is still worried about being abducted to bed by him with "Julia's blessing" last time OOXX, even knowing that the other party's injured expression just now has a lot of water in it, but remembering that he was almost dug out by the monster before The heart was seriously injured and I couldn't bear it again.

He turned his head and asked the mage, "Do you think I was too cruel to him?"

Mage: "No. According to the book, treating the enemy should be as cruel as winter."

Priest: "..."

"Yeah, yip!" The little elf, who was held in the arms of the priest, waved his arms in agreement.

Then, don't think that there is no more.

After about half an hour, when they had stepped out of the elf territory and were about to head to a small village, they saw a handsome vampire lazily leaning against a tree with arms folded, waiting for them.

Priest: "..."

The Blood Duke raised a charming smile: "Oh, dear, don't get me wrong, I didn't say what I said, but I just thought of one thing that you might need to know, and I came here to tell you, this Mage Chris, in your mind A mage who is more honest and reliable than me, actually secretly hid a female tree seed of 'Julia's Blessing' that he wanted from the queen in his magic bag."

Priest: "..."

Mage: "..."

The Blood Duke continued to dismantle the stage: "Although that thing may not survive if it leaves the elf territory, but you know, his ability to make magic potions can be called a master in the human world. I just can't bear to see you being sold by him one day. Counting the money for him."

Priest: "..."

The mage's face was paralyzed: "Ah, I can explain it."

Priest: "..."

Mage: "I'm just for research, and I will never use it on you."

Priest: "..."

Master: "Besides, it may not necessarily survive."

Priest: "..."

Master: "Well, that's how it is."

Yannick was expressionless: "Okay, now, please, get out of my sight, no, Duke of Anse, I'm talking about you, please don't maintain your posture of pretending to be elegant, yes, you, all."

"Ah!" The elf baby, who was completely confused about the situation, applauded and expressed joy.

Taking care of the elf is not too difficult. After all, Yannick has experience. There are two kinds of food for elves, water and nectar. In his arms, he was basically obediently at his mercy.

However, there are a lot of people in the priesthood, like the priest Darwin, and Yannick can't rest assured about him. If there are rumors that the bishop of the Garter Empire is taking care of an elf baby, and the Holy See asks him for someone again, is he going to take Yi? Should Ruth hand it over? This is of course impossible.

So it is necessary to modify the elf.

The first step of remodeling, hair and eyes.

This is easy to handle. Thanks to the prevalence of magic in this world, all kinds of strange magic potions have also emerged. In order to satisfy the dressing preferences of the nobles, there are also potions that change hair color and eyes, although the price is relatively expensive.On the other hand, because the price is relatively expensive, most people will not play with this potion, and adults will not easily use this potion on children, so the elf's green hair and eyes still seem a bit abrupt up.

On the way to Reed Flute City, when Yannick passed through these towns in a carriage, he asked the coachman to stop at the door of the shop, and left the elf in the car temporarily, while he got out of the car to buy.

But after learning about the hair color potion and the potion that changes the color of the eyes, the priest began to regret that he didn't let Chris hand over the potion before driving him away, because these potions are too expensive!

This is actually not surprising, there are a few small towns on the way to Reed Die City where Ai Fuli and the others are located, and the population is quite large, but because Reed Die City has become the front line, the prices of these places have also skyrocketed, and people are panicking. Look, a small bottle of potion that changes hair color costs two gold coins, why don't they grab it!

Of course, the shopkeeper also had something to say about this: "Dear guest, if you come a little later, we will close the shop, the current situation is really unstable, I am really worried when the undead army will attack, two gold coins? It’s not expensive anymore! Don’t you want it? Then I’ll take it away!”

In the end, the priest had no choice but to buy two bottles of medicine at the price of five gold coins. He returned to the carriage, faced the heartless face of the elf, and sighed: "The elf should be quite rich. You should ask your Majesty for more gold coins when you leave!"

"Ah!" The elf agreed with a toothless smile.

The hair and eyes are settled, and the second step is the ears.

This is a bit difficult. The human world has different views on elves, but they have always been excluded from the mainstream. There is no other reason, but because of the superiority in their bones.The Holy See regards vampires as their enemies and drives them to extermination, but ordinary humans hold vampires in awe with fear, also because the vampires have power beyond them.

Worshiping the strong is the nature of all races, so naturally, if there is no demand, there will be no market. No one will invent a potion that makes the ears pointy and pretends to be an elf. Just kidding, if the Holy See takes it away as an elf, you will cry There is no place to cry.

The elf's ears became a slight headache for Yannick, but the clever priest quickly solved the problem.

So when the priests who were honed to death in the Reed Flute City finally greeted their bishop with tears in their eyes, they suddenly found that there was an extra one in the arms of the handsome bishop wearing plush clothes. A little doll in a hat with rabbit ears, with one or two locks of soft hair of the same color as the bishop protruding from under the hat.

Everyone was stunned.

Bart first expressed what they wanted to ask but didn't dare to ask: "Your Excellency Hill, have you given birth to a child so soon?"

"..." Yannick twitched the corners of his mouth. Although he intended to make others misunderstand that the elf was related to him, he never expected that Bart would ask so directly. "Do you think I have the ability to give birth to a child within half a month and grow up to this size?"

Bart scratched his head, also embarrassed by his recklessness. "He's so cute, what's his name?"

That's not the point!Priest Darwin, who had lost a full two catties, pushed him away angrily, and looked up at the silver-haired bishop hopefully: "Your Excellency Hill, can we leave Reed Flute City? This is really not a place for people to stay!"

"Isn't it a place for people to stay?" Yannick raised his eyebrows, watching the soldiers and civilians coming and going in a hurry, "Then what are they?"

"It's really hard here!" Priest Darwin complained bitterly, "Where have you been for the past half month? Did you hide and enjoy it on purpose? You laughed while watching us suffer!"

"Darwin, you are so rude!" Avery sullenly said, "Does His Excellency need to report to us where he is going?"

Priest Darwin waved his hands with a sullen face, "No, no, what I mean is, I know you want us to experience the cruelty of war, but we've been here for almost half a month now, no matter how hard we try, it's enough! "

Yannick's eyes swept over everyone, from the tanned Avery, to the still expressionless but weather-stained Augustine, to Bart and Baker who had obviously exercised and their muscles became stronger, and finally, the little girl with a smile on his face. Eyes looked expectantly at his priest Darwin.

He finally smiled slowly: "I'm very satisfied with your performance. Now, finish the work at hand, and then let's leave Reed Flute City together. The next stop will be the Charlemagne Empire."

Before anyone else could respond, Priest Darwin cheered first.