The Star Knight

When Opal opened his eyes again, he felt indescribably comfortable, and the fatigue of days was swept away.

This was the fourth day he had come to the Grip of Light, and when he opened the door to go out, two guards immediately stood at attention and saluted.

Opal waved his hand to signal that he shouldn't be too restrained, but after thinking about it, they were soldiers in the first place, so they didn't know what to say.

He rubbed his growling stomach, it was eleven o'clock in the morning, and he happened to go to the cafeteria to eat, and he ate two meals together.Civilian officers noticed him as they walked through the hall and bowed slightly to him.

Opal was a little uncomfortable. They didn't care much about their actions before, so Corolin planned to keep him... He entered the cafeteria, and Allen came over quickly and said, "Why are you still here?" here?"

Opal raised his head and said, "What's wrong? I just woke up."

Allen said, "Hurry up to the Hanging Garden, Your Majesty has been waiting for you for a long time."

Opal said: "But I haven't eaten yet..."

Allen said: "Don't eat here, pack up your things and live upstairs, you don't need to live on this floor anymore."

"Allen." Another officer outside asked.

"I forgot about it." Allen urged Opal to stand up, and said, "Is Your Majesty urging?"

The officer said: "He is talking to Lord Yirang, and there should be half an hour before lunch."

Feeling relieved, Allen quickly took Opal over there, watched him pack his things, and then took him up to more than seven hundred floors.

There is an oval-shaped living area here, with a palace standing in the center, and there are only a few small robots that shuttle back and forth from time to time to clean the garden. Alan said: "You will live here in the future, and you can choose the room you want. If you need someone, you Just go to the entrance of the lifting platform and press a button, and orderlies will come up to listen to your orders."

Opal stepped onto the terrace and looked around. This was the place where he had been here that night to talk to Cologne. The plants in the Garden Palace were lush and green, and there was a transparent energy veil outside.

"There are no orderlies here?" Opal was a little incredulous.

"No." Allen said, "Your Majesty doesn't need guards, and he doesn't want too many people to stay here, but you are not within this range, you can walk around as you please."

Opal said: "He doesn't have a son... or is it a relative?"

Alan shook his head, thought for a while, and said: "His personal guards also had... permission to enter and exit here before, but only access permission. You are the first person to live in the [-]th floor besides His Majesty." . Please cherish this opportunity."

Opal nodded, and Allen left outside the garden.

Who is Coroline receiving?He should not be here.

When will Rector contact himself?Opal was in a complicated mood. He walked to the side of the palace along the road in the center of the fountain, and looked around. There was a huge information hall inside. When he walked in, he found that the walls of the circular hall were full of storage compartments. From the floor all the way to the ceiling.

There were several light-screen reading machines in front of the table, and a library robot came to help. Opal waved his hand and said, "No help is needed."

He walked through the library. So far, all the doors here are open, and the road is unimpeded. There is an armory, and there is a wide platform outside the armory, which is supposed to be used for martial arts.

The circular corridor protrudes from the hall on the east side, forming a transparent air corridor. Opal walks in the spotless transparent pipe, as if walking through the sky at a height of [-] meters in the grip of light.

There was also a metal plate on the ground in front of the aisle, on which four wheels were mounted.

Opal knew it was called a skateboard, and knew how to play it. They had made it with wood on the B-11 star and Oman before. I didn't expect Corolin to like to play this.

He stepped on the metal plate, stepped on the ground a few times, and carried a bag on one shoulder. His slender figure passed through the transparent pipe with a whoosh, stepped on the edge of the metal plate, and kicked it up. It felt really good !

Does anyone still play this retro stuff?Opal inspected the metal plate curiously, and found a line of unfamiliar text written on it, which he couldn't understand... Now they all use jet flying boards.

[This is an antique from the ancient earth. 】Colorin's voice sounded directly in Opal's mind: 【Opal, your boots are too dirty, remember to wipe them clean after stepping on them. ] Opal looked around in embarrassment, and replied: [Okay...Okay, Your Majesty, where are you? 】Colorin: 【I still have something to do, are you hungry?Wait until you're not hungry. ] Opal nodded, wiped the skateboard clean and put it away, and noticed a line of dusty footprints where he walked, a household robot came out to clean it, and immediately sat down and took off his boots and socks in an indescribable depression , leaving the hallway barefoot.

The palace is very clean, the carpet is warm and refreshing, and the feeling of stepping on the ground with bare feet is very comfortable. Opal has a vague feeling of returning home. In the past, he would only take off his military boots when he returned to the spaceship. Walk on the carpet, unrestrained and free.

He opened the rooms one by one and looked at them. They were all tidy. No one had ever lived in them. Each room was spacious and bright. The bed was big and comfortable, and the window screen fluttered slightly in the wind.

Like Lie Xing's, Opal likes this retro pattern very much.Compared with the cold sleeping cabins on many technological planets, this kind of soft big bed makes people feel more intimate.

He put away his simple luggage, and continued to open the door to look at the room. With so many rooms, is it a waste to live alone?

The door on the opposite side opened as soon as it was pushed, and there seemed to be people living in this room, a shirt was thrown on the bed, and a pair of black metal boat shoes was thrown in the corner.

Is this Coraline's room? !

Opal walked around inside and saw some simple knick-knacks on the table. There was an iron box filled with small stones, which seemed to be picked up from the garden.

Next to the iron box is a small robot - a bit similar to E7, and also like the navigation robot in the Temple of the Stars.

The only difference is that its camera is circular, which seems to have been abandoned for a long time.

Coronne made it herself?Opal picked it up and looked at it. There was no serial number, and the small square robot shell was covered with rust. After searching for a long time, there was only one manual switch.

Opal opened it, looked at the display panel on its chest, and asked, "Hi, what's your name?"

The little robot turned on the light with a beep, beep beep, and fell down with a bang. Opal was startled for fear of breaking it. However, the little robot was so fast that it rushed to the wall with a whistling sound, and hit it again. The camera on its head It fell down with a clatter.

"Wait!" Opal hurriedly went to pick up the camera, thinking that there was something wrong, and when he looked back, the little robot had already rushed out of the room.

"Hey! I said wait!" Opal said, "Stop! Command, wait!"

The little robot bumped back and forth in front of the corridor like crazy, and Opal thought frantically that it was over!He rolled and crawled to chase after it, but the little robot was so fast that it shot out of the corridor in the blink of an eye, and Opal rushed to catch it.

The little robot beeped and circled in the center of the hall.

"I don't quite agree with some ideas of your chamber of commerce." Corolin's voice sounded.

Opal swooped and rolled in the middle of the hall, and appeared in embarrassment in front of Corolin and another middle-aged man. The two chatting in the hall stopped talking at the same time, watching a series of actions of Opal.

"I... I was unintentional!" Opal said hastily.

He almost caught the little robot, but it ran too fast, and rushed out of his arms in an instant.

Corinne said, "This is my apprentice, Your Excellency."

Cologne stretched out his left hand to caress it, and the switch on the back of the little robot jumped and stopped in the middle of the hall.

"This is Lord Iran of the Poons Chamber of Commerce."

The middle-aged man bowed slightly to Opal, Opal nodded and said, "Hello."

He was so embarrassed that he picked up the little robot, and Coroline said, "You can do whatever you want, Opal."

Opal stood aside, staring at Coron.

In the center of the hall was a throne-like high-backed chair, and Coroline was sitting on the throne, squinting his eyes.

Today he is wearing a black robe, his hair is slightly longer than Raymond's, his eyes are like beautiful deep obsidian, his collar is open, revealing his toned chest.

Like Opal, he didn't wear shoes. He wore a black gold anklet on his bare and clean ankles. His elbows rested on the armrest of the throne, his fingers rested on each other, half of his body was sunk in the shadows, as if he was thinking or daze.

"Your Majesty." Lord Yirang said, "Sybil and Long have always been at odds with me, and Poons Chamber of Commerce is no longer the same as before."

Corollin said: "You want me to put pressure on the empire. Now I tell you clearly that I can't do it. My goal is not the empire. You can only find other ways to solve it yourself."

Lord Yirang didn't speak, and Coroline said: "But I can send you some people as your guards on the way to trade. I think the guards of the Meteor King can serve as a bargaining chip in your hands."

Lord Yirang still seemed to be thinking about it.

Corollin said: "That's it. I promise you that this matter will be resolved within five years, and it's time to put it on the agenda. There will be a time later, my lord."

Lord Yirang backed out, Corolin pondered for a moment, stretched out a hand, and beckoned to Opal.

As Opal walked over, Corolin's eyes first stayed on the little robot in his hand, and then moved to his eyes, with a questioning look in his eyes.

"I'm sorry, Your Majesty." Opal said, "I'm a little curious."

Corolin took the camera and the little robot and said, "I'll see if it's broken."

Opal knelt on one knee beside the throne, resting his elbow on the armrest of the chair, watching Coroline overhaul.

"Where did you get this?" Opal asked. "Weird little robot."

Corolin put the camera back on the little robot and said, "A pioneer in exploring high-dimensional space, the navigator on the Wheel of Time gave it to Nolan, and Nolan gave it to me."

Opal said again: "I won't break it, I... I think this may be very important to you, I'm really sorry, Your Majesty."

Corolin glanced at Opal and said, "I don't often open it either. Its commemorative significance is greater than its practical effect."

"Can you repair spaceships and assemble robots?" Opal asked.

Corolin handed the little robot to Opal and said, "Take it to my room."

Opal went to put it back in its original place, and when it came out, lunch had already been set. There were two seats next to the small dining table, and Cologne was sitting in the sun, pointing to another chair, signaling him to sit.

The robot sets lunch and pours two glasses of wine. On the plate are fresh local dishes, including fried fish steaks, shrimp and meat steaks, and fruits as accompaniments.

"I don't have any special requirements for food." Opal said with a smile.

"Me neither. What do you eat on the Sphinx?" Corinne said, "I remember Queen Perrin entertaining me with desert fish."

"That's what the nobles eat." Opal searched the customs of the Sphinx in his mind, and answered him with a smile: "It's good to have dry bread and a little bacon."

Corolin raised the glass, and Opal followed suit.

Coroline: "I wish you a long life."

Opal: "I wish you a long life."

Opal still has a vague sense of unreality until now—it seems that yesterday it was at home, and when it woke up, it was eating at the same table with Corolin, the king of meteorites. think about things.

What was he thinking about?Opal wanted to find something to say, and he didn't know his mood. When he was thinking about how to start the topic, Corolin opened his mouth first and said, "What do you think of this place?"

"You're beautiful." Opal said, "To be honest, it's not the same as the outside world's evaluation of you."

Corolin said with a rare smile: "I have never cared much about what others think of me."

Opal nodded and asked, "Why did you suddenly think of building this place? I mean...you told me yesterday that you used to be a Star Knight. What is a Star Knight?"

Corollin said: "The Star Knights are a group of people who inherited the civilization of the Sekeria Temple. In the eyes of many people, they are like me, an omnipotent existence."

Opal nodded slowly and looked at Corolin. He was dressed in a black robe, with no extra accessories except black gold anklets. He was handsome and masculine, with a solemn and restrained majesty of a king.

Corollin said: "It was the teacher who trained me to be a Star Knight, and his name is Rector. I once thought that one day, I would invite my teacher to the Grip of Light, chat with him, and say Take our original ideals and beliefs, have a cup of tea, and let him appreciate the world I created."

Opal said, "Is he still there?"

Cologne nodded and said: "Yes, but his only thought is to kill me, hatred and disappointment, and self-blame blinded his heart. He lived longer than me, and the years have made his thinking fall into a rut, and he can no longer be rational look at what I do.”

Opal didn't dare to ask any more questions, the two of them had dinner and walked in the garden.

"Opal, I want to ask you one thing first." Cologne said in a deep voice: "Are you willing to enter the empire I created with my own hands, inherit my beliefs, and become my apprentice? I will put all my skills I will teach you everything, I think, you have already had a preliminary concept in the past few days."

"Yes." Opal said, "I am very willing, Your Majesty."

Corolin stopped and stared at him seriously, his eyes seemed to look into the deepest part of Opal's soul, Opal's heart was beating wildly, and for a moment he suspected that he could see through the memory laid down by Legerson Barrier, to pull out the real him completely, and give him another sword.

No...he doesn't have this ability, Opal thinks of Aurora Falcon in the inner memory world, Aurora Falcon is also an undercover agent, although Rector didn't go into too much detail, since Aurora Falcon has been hidden from him, it proves that Corolin can't Break through Ledgerson's barrier.

"Your purpose is very simple." Corolin said, "To be honest, I'm not very satisfied with you."

Opal said: "What... what? I don't understand."

Corolin was meditating with his hands behind his back, walking along the icy path, the black gold anklet made a delicate sound on his ankle.

"Your form of belief is the most special I've ever seen." Cologne said: "Abyss, what does the abyss symbolize? In fact, you know very well in your heart that you can only look at it, and you can't even chase it... Maybe it symbolizes something. The kind that can never be obtained..."

Opal: "Feelings, goals."

Corolin glanced at Opal and walked to the side of the palace.

"When I was an apprentice." Corollin said, "I also touched the field of belief with this kind of pure awe. Although it is fundamentally different from your mentality, in the final analysis, it is the same thing. .”

Opal always felt that every sentence of Corolin's words was very complicated, and he had no time to think about it, nor did he allow him to think too much, so he had to understand it according to the superficial meaning, and asked: "When you were an apprentice...you are also the same as me now. Is it the same? To your teacher... well I mean..."

Corollin said: "To be exact, it's not the same. Back then, I had the idea of ​​respecting my teacher, and for his praise and affirmation, I worked hard to do everything, because he gave me the soul. I unconsciously imitate his every move and learn that he guards all important things in the universe, which is the source of my belief for the first time.”

Opal vaguely sensed something, and then understood everything in an instant!

He stared at Cologne in a daze, and quickly analyzed what he said in the internal memory world. Corollin thought that Opal fell in love with him!

He once overlapped Raymond's image with Corolin's image before separating them, but his crazy miss, attachment and love for Raymond were all left in the external memory world. Corolin must have read about him more than once. in his heart—to read his love for himself.

That is to say, his admiration has been clearly seen in Corolin's eyes.

How did he interpret this feeling?Is it admiration for him?Or instant love at first sight?

No wonder he said that his purpose is very simple. Corolin must have thought that Opal wanted to be by his side all the time because he fell in love with him, persistently learning the power of faith for him, and becoming a star knight... In the end In the end, Legerson had arranged all of this.

But doesn't he have the slightest affection for Corolin due to the misplaced image?Even Opal himself is a bit confused. Raymond is his clone. Corolin created a completely identical self from personality to behavior pattern many years ago. So now seeing the main body, can it be understood as Opal and Raymond have been separated for thousands of years, and they are still the same person when they meet again, but everything is different from before.

If we were separated from Raymond for 1000 or 1 years, would he still be him when we met again?

Opal was completely confused.

He followed behind Corolin, realizing that he was thinking too much. He didn't know when Corolin would read his heart, and he didn't notice it, but if there was a long silence, the other party would You will definitely find something wrong.

"Isn't it better to be simple?" Opal said.

Cologne stepped on the skateboard and slowly slid through the transparent glass corridor in the sky, saying: "Your persistence is different from mine. This kind of belief will always be questioned by myself. It can last for hundreds of years. Thousands of years of stability will one day be replaced by other ideas."

"Opal, I don't want you to take my beliefs as your own. You must have your own ideas and goals."

Opal chased after him, and the two walked through the corridor on the west side. Opal asked again: "Your Majesty, what is your belief?"

Corolin glanced at him, and Opal was a little nervous uncomfortably.

He sat down in the middle of the corridor, motioned Opal to sit opposite him, and the two sat cross-legged.

"Let us follow Star Knight Nolan to find the origin of this world until the day when the universe collapses, are you willing?" Cologne looked into Opal's eyes and said in a deep voice.

Opal nodded and said, "Yes, I am willing."

Corollin said: "If you betray me, I will end your life with my own hands. You must ensure that every word you say now is worthy of your soul. From now on, you must be loyal to me and not be influenced by others." Influenced and shaken by belief."

"What you have come into contact with before this moment, any hostile thoughts and prejudices against me are invalid. When I say these words, I forgive your past." Cologne looked into Opal's eyes , The palm of his hand lightly passed in front of him: "Whether we were enemies or close friends in the past, all the past is wiped out, the past is no longer important, you have a future that you can control yourself."

Opal was secretly startled, but he had no time to think. He stared at Corolin's palm. At this moment, he could no longer have the slightest thought of confronting him, and replied seriously: "Yes."

They were sitting at a height of [-] meters above the ground, and Cologne said: "Today I will teach you the first lesson of being a star knight, faith, and faith."