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Hill and Keech returned to the government affairs hall, gathered the four knights who were already ready to go, their coachman Kevin, and another attendant who was about to drive the waterwheel, and took their places.The knights rode on their respective horses, and Hill and Keech also boarded their own carriages, followed the church convoy, and marched towards the city gate to the west.

After closing the car door, Hill immediately raised his hand and pressed Kiki's head on his shoulder, whispering: "Relax, I don't plan to get out of the car, you can take a good rest."

"Yeah." Kiki closed his eyes obediently.

Hill also closed his eyes and rested his mind until the carriage left the city gate. Then he opened his eyes and observed the surrounding situation through the window.

The disaster victims here seem to have gotten used to the arrival of the priests, and they have already been waiting in the open space with pots and pans in their hands. Although the team is not as orderly as that in Shuori Square, it is barely orderly.

The convoy of the church quickly stopped in the open space. Dominic took the lead to walk in front of the crowd, took off the snow-white beads wrapped around his wrist, raised his head high, and chanted prayers loudly to the disaster victims in front of him.

Many victims hurriedly put down the earthen pots in their hands, put their hands together, and recited along with Dominic devoutly.But there are also some victims who are completely unmoved, just staring at the food and water brought by the priests.

After the prayer was finished, Dominic took a few steps back to make way for other priests and civilians who came with them to distribute food and water to the victims.

Hill quickly noticed that Keech's elder brother Xiu Qi was not involved. He and another priest broke away from their team and walked deeper into the camp under the leadership of a well-dressed disaster victim.

It didn't take long for Hill's curiosity to be satisfied.

Xiu Qi and the others quickly stopped at an open-air resting point, where there was a man with splints on both legs, and beside him was a woman holding a child.

Seeing Xiu Qi and the others coming, the woman seemed to show a grateful smile, but after talking to Xiu Qi and the others, she left the man with the child in her arms and walked towards the crowd waiting for the food distribution.

Xiu Qi squatted down and put his hand on the man's calf, which was bound with a splint.Soon, warm white light appeared in his palm, and then wrapped the man's legs.

"God...spell?" Hill made a sound in surprise.

"Maybe not." Keech's voice immediately appeared in Hill's ear.After the carriage stopped, Kiki put himself into another field of vision, monitoring the changes in the surrounding elements, and by the way, he also saw Xiuqi's every move.

"Based on your bloodline, I wouldn't be surprised even if he can use divine magic." Hill said half-jokingly.

"I've never seen a real magical technique, but I know Xiu Qi's trick very well. He just gathered some luminous elements into his hands—and they were some fire elements, not even light elements, and then Use our power to forcibly repair that person's body." Keech leaned on Hill's shoulder and pouted.

"Speaking of which, you really haven't told me what your strength is!" Hill habitually grabbed Kidge's right hand and played with it casually.

"You haven't asked!" Kiki's attention was still focused on Xiuqi, and his eyes continued to half-closed, observing the movement of the elements there, and he replied in a coping manner, "Actually, it's nothing. , but we can directly control the magic elements with our thoughts.”

"There are magic elements in the human body?" Hill asked curiously.

"Everything in the world is made of magic elements, but perhaps it would be more appropriate to remove the word magic in front of it." Kitsch replied, "In my opinion, the so-called magic is actually the unnatural control of various elements. , Tina agrees with this point of view."

"It turns out that my great magician Kiki still has the potential to become a philosopher." Hill smiled and grabbed Kiki's slender fingers, put them under his lips and kissed them gently.

At this time, another priest had also begun to treat a little girl who had suffered a head injury.

——This is the real magic!

Kiki immediately closed his eyes tightly, carefully feeling the rich light elements there.

Different from Xiu Qi's method of directly driving the human body to repair, this priest sends light elements into the wound, and with the injection of these light elements, the other elements in the wound are like a fire pile that has been supplied with firewood The same, full of vitality, actively and actively started self-healing.

At first glance, the effect of this is not much different from Xiuqi's ability, but after careful identification, it will be found that people who have been treated by Xiuqi will look weak, while those who have been treated by this priest will all look weak. radiant.

However, this is only appearance.From Keech's point of view, Xiuqi's treatment is thorough enough to heal the wounded.The reason why the people treated by him are weak is that when the body is prompted to repair itself, the idle elements of other parts of the body are forcibly used, so as to meet the supply of various elements needed in the repair process, making the repaired Those who suffer from it appear drained and have impaired energy.

The reason why the person who was treated by another priest seemed to be in better spirits was that his treatment did not consume the injured person's own physical energy, nor did it involve other places besides the wound.He just provided energy to those damaged elemental structures at the wound through light elements, so that the elements there could use these energies to complete self-repair and structural reorganization.But precisely because of this, when the light elements are exhausted, the elements that have lost their energy source will not and cannot continue to complete the remaining work, and the wound will stop healing, and there may even be the possibility of cracking and recurrence.

In addition, Keech was even more surprised to find that the process of casting magic and magic is completely different, and it is not just another form of light magic as claimed by some magicians.

Keech couldn't see the magic elements that the priest was driving when he used the real magic, and those summoned light elements seemed to come out of his body out of thin air. Appeared too abruptly.

And this greatly violates the first law of magic - the conservation of elements - the point of view that any magic cannot be created out of nothing.

Keech couldn't help raising his free left hand, trying to summon those non-existing light elements in the air like the priest.

But soon, Keech discovered to his dismay, that he couldn't.

"What's wrong?" Hill asked puzzled, noticing Keech's expression.

"I can't use magic." Keech replied depressingly.

"Isn't this normal?" Hill laughed, "You're a magician!"

Keech pouted, still upset.This is the second time he has discovered that he is not omnipotent. The last time he failed to snatch the wind element from Amir.

No, the real first setback might have been his failure to control Xiu Qi's body.

"Okay, dear, think about me, I can't even cast magic, and I can't become a powerful knight like Joey!" Hill held Kiki in his arms and comforted him softly, "If I feel depressed because of it, so shouldn't I kill myself for the rest of my life?"

"But you're smart, smarter than anyone I know," Keech pouted.

"Yeah, I recognize your praise." Hill said with a smile, "And this can't just explain that everyone has their own talents, but no one can do everything?"

"... That's true." Keech thought of Moriarty. He could disappear and predict the future, but he also couldn't use magic.

Thinking of this, Kiki's mood suddenly became much happier.

The priests of the church did not stay in the camp of the victims for too long. After all the food was distributed and the water was gradually consumed, Dominique preached the teachings of the Holy See to the victims again—the belief in light, Then he sorted out the items, pulled the flatbed cart with only empty baskets and barrels left, and returned to Yani City.

On the way back, Keech received a communication from Amir, informing him that arrangements had been made for Yasha, and that Emperor De Rossi would arrive at the Magic Association at noon tomorrow, where he would have lunch with Great Magician Floyd. Then use the magic mirror there to have an interview with Prince Siris.

"Well, I will prepare the magic mirror here tomorrow morning." Kiki said, and then couldn't help asking, "How is Tina?"

"Very good, I'm having a great time at the ruins." Amir asked suspiciously, "It's so rare that you think of greeting her?"

"...Don't you think it's strange that she hasn't contacted me after such a big thing happened?"

"What's so strange, she doesn't know at all, and of course she doesn't worry about it."

"what?"

"The earthquake was not felt where she was, and we didn't tell her about it." Amir said indifferently, "By the way, if she contacted you recently, you can just say that you are with Hill, Don't slip up, tell her about the earthquake."

--why?

Keech was very puzzled, but still complied and turned off the communicator.

"Is it okay not to tell Tina?" Hill, who had been listening in, interjected.He really hoped that Tina could come over and use her magic weapon to provide them with more help.

"She doesn't ask, she doesn't tell," Keech replied.

"What if she asked?"

"...Let's talk about it then." Keech sighed, he really can't lie, and he doesn't like to lie.

After returning to Shuori Square, Dominic invited Hill to sit in the church.

Hill politely declined, and took Keech straight back to the government affairs hall, but instead of going to see Prince Siris directly, he went to his room, took out a pen and paper, and while his memory was still clear, put himself in the camp of the victims. I recorded as much as possible what I saw and heard, picked out the key points, and re-transcribed them on a piece of parchment.

Then, Hill sent Keech back to his room to continue to rest, and went to Sirius' office alone to report to him what he had seen and felt.

Seres listened intently to Hill's report, and when he learned that he could have an interview with Emperor De Rossi tomorrow afternoon, he showed undisguised joy.

But then, Sirius sighed helplessly, "It's a pity, Father, it is impossible to dismiss the governor of Tampa in any case, so it will be difficult for us to prevent him from intervening in the distribution of relief supplies— —Miss Hill, do you have any good solutions, for example, ask Magician Kiki to help?"

--help?You want Keech to assassinate Tampa!

Hilton felt a chill in his heart, and his smile turned cold, "Your Highness, neither I nor Magician Kiki can do anything about this matter."

"Really?" Sirius raised his eyebrows, "Miss Hill, why don't you talk to Magician Kiki before you give me an answer?"

"I will." Hill's smile became more and more indifferent, "But please believe, Your Highness, that the answer I can give you will not be changed just because of one negotiation."

After finishing talking with Sirius, Hill went to the kitchen and took the dinner back to Keech's room.

"Is there nothing to do?" Kiki couldn't help asking as he watched Hill laying the plates there leisurely like a maid.

"Of course there is nothing to do." Hill smiled and put the last plate of barbecue on the table, "Just enjoy it when you can rest, so that you will have more energy to do things tomorrow, right?"

"You don't smile naturally enough," Keech said with a curled lip.Although Hill always has a smile on his face, after getting along for a long time, Keech has gradually learned to recognize his true emotions from various smiles-for example, now, Hill obviously has something on his mind.

"Okay." Hill sighed helplessly, put away his smile, and sat opposite Kiki, "Prince Siris wants you to do something for him, but I refused."

"What's the matter?" Keech asked.

"He hopes you can kill the Governor of Tampa." Hill said indifferently, "Even if the Magic Association provides assistance and Duke Grant is willing to send troops, Tampa is also an obstacle and stumbling block for Prince Siris to implement the decree and rule the whole province. To avoid that, we either force him to change his position or ... make him disappear."

"It's easy, I can do it." Kitsch blinked.

"You can't do it." Hill shook his head, "Tampa is the uncle of Prince Kesley, the uncle of Queen Hathaway, and a direct member of the Tampa family. It's easy to kill him, but the consequences of doing so are terrible." It's far from what you and I can afford—if it weren't for the fear of the forces behind him, Prince Sirius would have already done it himself."

"I can do it silently, without leaving a trace." Keech shrugged.

"There is nothing in this world that can leave no trace." Hill shook his head again.

"Moriarty left no trace, did he?" Keech said stubbornly.

"But everyone knows, or thinks, that Marquis Lucifer is the mastermind behind those assassinations, and this is actually worse than leaving evidence." Hill grabbed Kidge's hands, staring at His eyes said word by word in more straightforward words, "This matter really can't be done, Keech, it looks just, but in fact it only serves the interests of Prince Siris alone. Some future One day, when he doesn't need you and me anymore, he can reveal this matter to the Tampa family as a bargaining chip, and sell us to appease their hatred in exchange for their allegiance."

"...He will do this?" Kiqi asked in a daze.

"Trust me, he will." Hill nodded seriously.

"Then you...why do you still try your best to help him?" Kiki lowered his eyelids, recalling the scene of Sirius killing Filian without changing his expression.

"Because it's in my interest to help him." Hill sighed. "I don't trust him, but I need him like he needs me and Joey."

"What if he doesn't need you anymore?"

"All I can do is to prevent such a situation from happening." Hill said lightly, "Or, before that situation comes, gain a power that even the royal family cannot shake—just like the Duke of Grant.