The middle-aged man's whip-wielding arm froze in the air.

……demon.

He thought so, but couldn't say a word.

Another force controlled his tongue, his eyes rolled, and he saw the silver-haired knight behind the demon.

Why would the messenger of God protect a demon?

When the man stopped for no reason, Luke hurriedly rushed over, and picked up the little boy.

He stared at the man closely, and said coldly: "What God cannot forgive is the crime of adultery. It is you who should be punished, not an innocent child born into this world."

"—you are not fit to be a husband and a father."

Under his scolding, the church fell into silence for a moment.

Believers realized that what Luke said was true,? But these words should not be pointed out by an outsider.As a military fortress that has been invaded by foreigners for a long time, the people of Fort Lobito are very xenophobic and hostile to strangers.

As an outsider,? Grabbing people in church? Not a friendly start.

The priest said in a deep voice, "Who are you? Why do you interfere with our practice?"

Luke's thoughts turned.

The lord of Fort Lobito is dead. He should find the second person in charge of the city and negotiate with him instead of having a direct conflict with a group of people who are hostile to him.

"I'm the kid's elder brother." He replied cautiously. "I've lived abroad all year round. I heard that there was a plague in the city. I came back to visit because I was worried about my family."

"That man is not worthy to be his father. I will take him away."

Luke's heart hangs, he doesn't know if his excuse can be cooperated.

The little boy he rescued from the iron whip didn't say a word, just nestled in his arms obediently, his body trembling constantly, like clinging to the last straw.

The strange thing is that the middle-aged man was full of anger, but didn't say a word... It seems that Lance did something to him?

Luke thanked Lance in his heart.

He didn't stay long anymore, and left the church with Lance in his arms before everyone thought about the flaws.

It was only when there was no one there that Luke expressed his doubts just now.

"Lance, what happened just now? I told him to stop, but he actually stopped... Did you feel it? There seems to be a strange power fluctuation."

He touched his lips through the mask, and carefully recalled the feeling just now.

"Is that what I did?"

Succubus power?

"No." Lance said firmly.

After quickly denying it, he realized that his voice was too stiff.

Concern is chaos.

That is indeed the power from Luke's words—the ability that "Luke" in the dream used to revive Aphra.

Lance concealed his emotions indiscriminately, showing his usual gentle smile.

"That's what I did, Your Highness."

Lance was afraid of His Royal Highness discovering his power.

He was afraid that His Highness would use this power in this plague...and pay a terrible price for it.

Luke was just thinking on a whim, and he didn't doubt it any more after hearing the words.

After questioning, he found out that the child he had rescued was called Xilian, and he lived in Fort Lobito with his parents and a half-sister.

Hillian is one of the descendants of many brave frontier residents. He has an independent personality. After leaving the church, he never gave way to Luke.

"I'm not afraid of Dad at all. I was just shocked just now." Xilian's face was pale, and he waved his fist with frostbite. "I bit the tooth mark on his hand yesterday!"

"Okay, the little hero of Fort Lobito." Luke teased him with great interest, "Work hard to grow taller, and I will give you the title of knight when you grow taller."

"Can you grant me the title of knight? Isn't it only the king who can be knighted?" Xilian asked with his head raised.

"Knows a lot." Luke was surprised, "Do you know who else everyone listens to here besides the lord?"

"Master Gray, he is a friend of the lord." Cillian pointed in one direction, "He lives there, I can take you there."

Luke carried him onto the horse, turned himself over and sat behind him, and walked towards the place indicated by Xilian.

Lance's eyes fell on Luke's arm holding Cillian, but he didn't speak.Xilian asked innocently: "Are you really my brother? Then, do you know where my mother and sister have gone?"

"You got separated?" Luke asked.

"They have been stuck in bed for the past few days and refused to get out. This morning, Dad moved away Mom and sister, threw them into the fire and burned them."

Shirley recalled with lingering fear the experience of being beaten with a fire stick, "That...that must be very painful."

He was too young to understand the meaning of death.

Luke was a little worried.

"It doesn't hurt." He touched the child's head and said softly, "They just went to a beautiful world full of flowers without cold."

Lance looked sideways.

He had never seen such a gentle side of His Highness.

Such priceless tenderness was given to a child who had never met.

……envious.

On the other side, Luke asked the child, "Have you ever touched your mother and sister?"

"Huh? Of course." Cillian said unpreparedly, "Papa is too cold to touch them. I'll have to feed them."

Luke looked at Lance.

Lance didn't stop him from touching the child - which shows that Cillian is healthy.

Therefore, the plague does not necessarily spread as long as there is physical contact, and there may be other unknown conditions.

While Luke was thinking, he heard Lance say, "Your Highness, let me carry him."

Why?Luke was puzzled.Isn't it already confirmed that Xilian is not infected with the plague?

He thought Lance was just worrying.

"It's okay, I'm wearing thick clothes, so I won't touch anything," Luke raised his eyebrows, "Besides, even if I get sick, wouldn't there be you?"

Lance smiled.

Fifteen minutes later, they met the "Lord Gray" in the desolate garden of a mansion.

Baron Kyle Gray is a gentle man in his 30s, with no wrinkles on his face, but a stooped figure, as if he has aged a teenager in a few days.

Luke took off his beak mask, revealing his blond hair that belonged exclusively to the royal family.

Unexpectedly, he gained the trust of Baron Gray very easily, and the Baron seemed to have no prejudice against him.

"As your Highness has seen, people here are in panic, and many people have escaped a few days ago." Gray said wearily.

"Where did they all flee to?"

"Go further north." Gray said, "Because we have received news that the southern lord has closed the city gate and does not welcome us."

Going further north...that is, Erli City, the territory of Xia Zuo's parents, Earl Cecil and his wife.

Luke frowned.

The population in the north is sparse, and facing the spread of the plague is an advantage.But if the city is crowded together, the plague will spread from ten to ten... that will be a devastating disaster.

"The top priority is to appease the people." Luke said, "Announce that the king's special envoy has arrived at Fort Lobito and is doing his best to deal with the plague. The relief supplies are already on the way and will arrive three days after us."

In fact, as early as when Luke had speculated about the cause of Aphra's death, he secretly prepared for the possible plague in the future.

He ordered people to make a large number of beak masks and waxed clothes, which are now in use. A small part was left in the holy capital for emergency treatment, and most of them were transported north by his personal guards.

Baron Gray's heart was shaken, and he bowed deeply to Luke: "Thank you, Your Highness, for coming to rescue us. How can I introduce you to the public?"

"You don't need to mention my name, just say I'm an earl." Luke joked himself with a smile, "If you heard that it was the notorious little prince who came to relieve the disaster, it's too late to run—"

"Your Highness is joking." A smile flickered across Gray's eyes, and he twitched the corners of his mouth, which turned into a sigh.

"Is there any way for His Highness to help those civilians who are infected with the plague and stay here waiting to die?"

Luke put on the mask again: "I haven't seen any sick living people here. Take me to see them."

Led by Baron Gray, they came to a closed room in the mansion.

Inside, the flames were burning in the fireplace, and there were two dying patients lying there.

"They are the servants of my mansion, and they are also one of the earliest patients. They are very lucky to have survived until now...but they can't last long."

It has been seven or eight days since the first onset of the disease.

"They are well taken care of." Luke praised Baron Gray with respect, "You are a responsible master."

Then he looked at Lance expectantly.

He hopes that Lance can use the cure to make them out of pain.

Lance engraved His Highness's expectant eyes in his heart, and put his fingers on the forehead of a servant.

The silver-haired knight looked serious, and he worked very hard to mobilize his holy power, trying to use a healing technique, and his whole body even emitted a faint golden light.

— but the miracle did not happen.

"Sorry, Your Highness." Lance lowered his eyelashes.

He pursed his thin lips tightly, blaming himself for failing to fulfill His Highness's wish.

Luke patted the back of his hand reassuringly.

This can only be said to be within his expectations.

Luke had no hope that the cold-natured Lance would learn to heal others as soon as he came into contact with patients in the epidemic area.

The purpose of his trip is to take Lance to experience the warmth and coldness of the world on the basis of slowing down the spread of the epidemic.

Learn to sympathize with others, learn to empathize with others' pain... and finally rely on his holy power to heal the plague in the north.

"Sorry, we don't have a better method other than isolation for the time being - but I don't think it will be too long." Luke said to Baron Gray confidently: "We will definitely find ways to cure these patients."

"It is enough for Your Highness to have this kind of heart." Baron Gray smiled wryly.

There have been several epidemics of plague in history. Which time did not wait for the scythe of death to satiate, leaving a deserted land, and then the plague would naturally subside?

So he didn't expect His Royal Highness to do anything.

Unless a miracle happens.

Gray asked dejectedly: "Your Highness, what kind of disease is this? Is this really, as the priest said, a punishment from God for human arrogance?"

Luke's face remained unchanged, but his heart was surging.

According to Lance's inference, the plague was caused by a certain god.But he cannot tell the truth to the lord, nor can he tell the truth to those people.

Such as Fu Tuoxian and Qiaoqiong! —Even if it is not the punishment from the God of Light, ordinary people will fall into a huge panic, and the self-mutilation behavior of the "flaggers" will intensify.

"It's just a strange disease." Luke smiled easily, "Trust me, I will solve everything."

When parting, Baron Gray talked about the origin of his affection for Luke.

"Master Xiazuo Cecil once mentioned His Highness to me when he came to Lobito Castle as a guest. Master Cecil is a gentleman, and he has a lot of praise for His Highness. I trust his judgment."

Just as Luke was about to answer, a little cold fell on his face and nose.

Snowing.

Looking at the gray and gloomy sky, he thought of the garden full of flowers all year round in his mansion in the holy capital.

Luke never imagined that in the midsummer of June in the holy capital, snowflakes would fall in the north, the cold wind would howl, and the child's fingers would be covered with chilblains.

His coming-of-age ceremony seems to have really started after he stepped into the north.

Someone put a warm animal skin coat on him.

Luke looked back and said to Lance, "Let's go."

Set off deep into the epidemic area, go to the territory of Count Cecil and his wife, and set off to witness more cruel death and disaster.

A little boy named Cillian went on the road with them.

Luke had left Cillian in the care of Lord Gray's servants, but the boy slipped out and ran after the horse.

"I will follow the king to the stars and seas! Drive! Rilian knight!" he shouted as he ran - and finally fell.

Silian probably guessed Luke's identity from the conversation of the servants.

Seeing the little boy who fell down, Luke had no choice but to rein in his horse and turn around.

"I'll send him back."

"It's better to take him with you, Your Highness." Lance said, "His relatives are gone, and he has turned against his father. If he stays here, he will have no place to live and will be criticized by others."

Luke was puzzled: "You wanted me to stay away from him just now, why now...?"

He thought for a while, "Forget it, it's fine to take it with you."

The more Lance gets in touch with ordinary people, the more he can empathize with ordinary people.

"I'll go back and inform Baron Gray so they won't worry." Luke instructed, "Take care of the child."

"Yes, Your Highness."

After Luke left, Lance looked down at Cillian.

Staring at those green eyes, Cillian involuntarily rubbed back, like a wolf cub touching a wolf king, even though the wolf king had no intention of attacking, and... had something to ask of him.

"Your father always beat you, and your mother and sister also suffered from it." Lance said lightly, "Do you want to have the power to resist him?"

"I think." Xilian looked firmly, "If you are a knight, stop your father from beating your mother and sister, maybe they will come back."

"You envy me, and I envy you too." Lance said, "Then let's make an exchange, shall we?"

A little angel emerged in his hand.

When Luke came back, Cillian and Lance turned back at the same time.

Their movements and expressions were so consistent that Luke had the illusion for a moment that Cillian was a shrunken version of Lance.

The little boy touched his face exploratoryly, showing the same sunny smile as Xilian had before.

"It seems that you get along well." Luke said.

"Yes, Your Highness." The two spoke in unison again, strangely synchronized.

Luke turned suspicious eyes between the two of them, and said to Lance: "If the emperor is so quiet, I thought Xilian demon got on his body."

"Your Highness is joking," Lance said.

Five minutes ago, Lance distributed part of the holy power to Xilian, and through the connection between God and believers, he attached his divine consciousness to this young body.

The small tentacles of the spiritual consciousness adhered to the body, controlled the child's actions, and climbed deeper...to obtain his feelings.

This is a depth that Lance has never reached when controlling other believers before.

Because he wanted to be like Xilian and experience the feeling of being tenderly cared for by His Highness.

The child's body was weak, and once Lance's consciousness was connected to Cillian's sensory nerves, the pain from all over his body swept over Lance.

While enduring the sharp pain, he manipulated the two bodies, almost revealing his flaws.

After a short period of confusion, Lance gradually adapted to the little boy's body.

"Your Highness, I want to ride a horse with you." He acted like a child to Luke brazenly.

"Okay." Luke indulged.

When he picked up Xilian, the little boy wrinkled his face in pain, and felt a pain in his waist and abdomen when he was touched.

"Your Highness, I hurt." He said curiously.

Luke lifted his clothes and found a swollen bruise on his left side.

"How is this going?"

Lance searched Cillian's memory and replied, "Father kicked here two days ago."

Seeing Luke frowning, he said again: "It's okay, Your Highness, it will heal itself in a week."

Seeing the little boy obediently enduring the pain, not wanting him to be distressed but comforting him instead, Luke couldn't help but think of Lance.

"Are there any other pains on your body?" Luke asked with concern.

Lance felt it carefully, covered the child's stomach, and frowned.

"My stomach hurts here." He described, "It feels like it is tightening a little bit, eating my internal organs..."

Luke was startled when he heard this, and looked at Lance for help.

Lance shook his head slowly as if he had just come out of a daze, indicating that he didn't know what kind of illness it was.

Luke was in a hurry, when he suddenly heard a roaring "gulu gulu", the lingering sound was long and endless.

...from the belly of a boy.

It took Luke a while to realize that the "pain" the boy was describing was "hunger."

In the ignorant and embarrassed expression of the little boy, Luke couldn't hold back his laugh, and turned his face away to fetch food from the horse, his shoulders shaking as he laughed.

Unbeknownst to Luke, behind him, a blush slowly appeared on the cold face of the silver-haired paladin.

The author has something to say: Lance: It’s embarrassing, it’s so hard to be a human being (blush) However, if I can possess all the people His Highness comes into contact with, then I can monopolize my Highness.

感谢在2021-07-09?12:04:53~2021-07-10?13:11:31期间为我投出霸王票或灌溉营养液的小天使哦~

Thanks to the little angels who threw mines: Minglai, Little Sun-, 1 piece of cute cheese;

感谢灌溉营养液的小天使:但是,我拒绝?42瓶;秋沐聆心、星间氚行?20瓶;炽天使、纵使花时常病酒?10瓶;李白、蒙卡明菲?5瓶;1551591?3瓶;小巴鱼、斯文?1瓶;

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