Struggling to survive in the hands of the male protagonist who also wears books

A few days later, at the gate of the Imperial Palace of the Phoenix Empire Eluo.

The travel-stained Crete held Feili in his arms, and galloped all the way from the city of Chuga where the teleportation circle was set up. He stopped urgently at the gate of the palace, jumped off the horse holding Feili, and then Want to rush to the palace.

"His Royal Highness, please wait a moment!" The guard at the door saw Crete coming back, his eyes lit up, and he stepped forward to stop him, "Your Majesty ordered that no strangers are allowed to enter the important part of the palace these days!"

Crete was stunned for a moment, and his voice sank: "Fili is my subordinate magician."

"This is His Majesty's oral order conveyed by His Highness Danyate, please don't embarrass Your Highness the Crown Prince!"

Crete knew that Danyat was trying to block the fact that Rafe II was critically ill, but he still felt slightly displeased.

At this moment, Feili broke away from his embrace and tugged at his sleeve: "Your Highness, it's important."

Critter pursed his lips, licked Fili's head, and said in a low voice, "I'm sorry, I'll go find you after I've dealt with this matter. You can go back to the courtyard first."

Seeing Philip's meek nod, Crete relaxed a little, and strode into the palace.

Seeing Kriter's leaving figure, Fili sighed inwardly, and said to the system: "Tong, how could Rafe II suddenly be critically ill? There is no such thing in the original book?"

It happened so suddenly that Crete hurried back to the country immediately, and left the matter of the mission to Earl Hayman; Philip also ignored his own awkwardness towards Crete, and obediently followed Crete. came back.

The system also didn't understand the situation: "I don't know either. Lefe II was always in good health before he was assassinated by the black phoenix. How could people with the blood of the phoenix be critically ill?"

"Did someone murder Leif II? Or did Lefe II call Crete back urgently under the guise of being critically ill? Does Queen Sophia's reminder have anything to do with this matter?"

Fili frowned as he walked back, and couldn't help but wonder the reason behind this sudden change.

Seeing his worried look, the system couldn't help but said: "You still said that all the troublesome things are left to Kriter. Are you just worrying about it now? Isn't it time to avoid him a few days ago?"

"...Cough, isn't this a business? I have nothing else to do now, so I just want to let my mind wander."

Fili explained in embarrassment, and quickly quickened his pace.

Sure enough, it's time to go back and discuss with Alan and the others...

—By the way, where is Alan?

Fili suddenly noticed this detail.With Alan's loyal and responsible attitude towards Crete, if such a big thing happened, even if they were not waiting for them at the gate of the city, they should be waiting for them at the gate of the palace, right?

Have you already entered the palace?

While thinking about it, Fei Li felt that something was wrong. Before he had time to think about it, he heard a familiar voice behind him: "Fei Li?"

Fili turned around and saw that the person who stopped him just now turned out to be Vera Tualante, his little friend who had been adventuring together before.

Vera was very happy to see Feili, and insisted on inviting Feili to a restaurant.After learning that Feili had already seen the succession ceremony of the Thunder Empire, Vera immediately became very curious and pestered Feili to listen to Feili's talk.

Fili was so entangled that he had no choice but to tell Vera carefully what he had seen and heard in the Thunder Empire.As soon as he finished talking dryly, he heard a rumbling sound in the distance.

"Hey, did you hear thunder just now?" Fili turned his head, looked out of the window of the restaurant, and frowned slightly, "It seems to be raining?"

"Is there?" Vera picked up the cup in front of her and took a sip, pouted and said unhappily, "The Succession Ceremony of the Thunder Empire sounds really interesting, I should have gone if I knew it of."

"Actually, it's just that the scene is more lively." Philip comforted her.

Vera pouted, and stopped worrying about this, and asked instead: "Then why did you come back all of a sudden? I heard that the mission has not returned from the Thunder Empire yet?"

Feili's face changed slightly, and he said vaguely, "Your Highness suddenly had something urgent, so he brought me back together."

Vera nodded and stopped talking.She fiddled with the exquisite silver spoon in the teacup with her fingers, paused for a while, and suddenly asked an irrelevant question: "Fili, do you still want to continue to be by Crete's side?"

Fili was taken aback: "What?"

"I mean, do you plan to leave Crete's command?"

Feili couldn't figure out what Vera meant, so he subconsciously replied, "I don't have any plans for now..."

"I think so." Vera nodded, crossed her hands, and looked into Fili's eyes solemnly, "I have something here that I want you to see, you have to be mentally prepared—Kriter is not like you It was as bright as I thought it would be.”

After speaking, Vera took out a black and white, thumb-sized bead from the interspatial ring, put it in Philip's hand, and said seriously: "Use your spiritual power to stimulate it."

Fili dubiously inserted his mental power into the bead, and then felt a shock of mental power, and a picture directly appeared in his mind.

The picture looks like night, as if looking at a familiar building from a high place; then the picture suddenly zooms in, and finally stops in front of a window of that building.

Through the window, one could see a person lying quietly on the bed, with a terrifyingly familiar face, it turned out to be Philip himself!

Then a person walked by, slowly approaching Fili on the bed, with an ambiguous smile on his handsome face that Fili had never seen before, it was Crete.

——Fili seemed to have anticipated something in his heart.

Sure enough, the next thing Crete started to undress, and then...

Fei Li struggled to get his mental power out of this scene, his whole face was flushed, and there was an expression on his face that he couldn't tell whether it was anger or embarrassment.

Vera carefully observed Feili's expression, and said sincerely: "It seems that you really don't know - Feili, can you bear such despicable things that Crete did to you? Come with me, even if you are his phoenix magician, there is a way to solve the shackles of the phoenix blood!"

Fili stared at the black and white bead, his mind was in a mess.

Why does Vera have images of Crete and him...?

Who did Vera tell?

Could it be that countless people already know about Crete and him?

Thinking about it, Fili suddenly felt angry.

It's all Crete's fault!

It was Crete who did such nasty things to him and ruined his good image in his heart!And let Vera and others know about it!

Why doesn't this kind of man who can't control himself just die?Vera was right, anyway, Kriter was sorry for her first, so it would be fine to leave him, right?

You don’t have to be by his side to complete the mission, it’s better to say that if Crete dies, you don’t need to—

and many more!

Fili was startled.

Why do I have such dangerous thoughts? !

Even when he just learned that Crete's so-called "infused with the blood of the phoenix" was... a few days ago, he never thought of harming Crete!

Fili subconsciously covered his eyes to calm himself down in the dark.However, the complicated thoughts quickly engulfed him, and all kinds of miscellaneous thoughts rushed in, mixed with a lot of malice and resentment, which made him breathless.

At this moment, he felt a slight coolness in his chest, traveling along his heart all the way, flooding into his brain and instantly dispelling all the messy thoughts, making him suddenly clear!

"Host? Host! Your soul was unstable just now! What's wrong with you?"

The system's cry in his heart made him instantly realize what happened just now.

It's spiritual magic again!

what happened?Didn't the spiritual magic that I used before have been shattered when I broke through the middle level?

When did he fall into spiritual magic again?

Fili still covered his eyes, a few guesses flashed in his mind, and the blood in his body gradually cooled down.

When he raised his head again, Vera saw a pair of eyes full of confusion.

"Vera...thank you for your kindness..." Fili whispered, "I can't accept this fact, I'm a little messed up now, can you let me go back and think about it?"

Vera hesitated for a moment, but nodded, put away the bead, and comforted him: "Then think about it carefully, and come here tomorrow to find me, I will wait for you here."

She stood up, hesitated for a moment, put her hand on Feili's shoulder, stared into Feili's eyes, and said sincerely: "Remember, don't punish yourself with the wrong things done by others, okay?"

After Vera said goodbye and left, Fili sat there, frozen like a statue.

The system hesitated for a while before asking cautiously, "The host...does he suspect Vera?"

Fili lowered his eyes, and involuntarily stretched out his hand to grab his chest—the one who saved him from the spiritual magic just now was the hero "Crimson Eagle" who was sent to him by Eric in the Thunder Empire 300 years ago. ” A small statuette carved from the prototype of Husk.

If I hadn't accepted Eric's gift before, or hadn't placed it close to me because I liked the statuette, would I have agreed to Vera's terms with full of resentment and become Crete's enemy?

"I don't want to be so suspicious of my friend, but..." Fili bit his lower lip, and asked the system in his heart, "Did you see the picture in the bead just now?"

"I see. From the analysis of the background, it seems to be the town of Vaegia that we passed on our adventure trip to the Evernight Tundra... But it doesn't make sense. There should be no magic that can record video in this world?"

"That's right, even the recording function is something that the alchemists of the Thunder Empire have just researched." Fili paused, and then slowly expressed his guess, "The picture just now doesn't seem to be completely The flat-screen video, but, I feel a little bit like something someone saw with their own eyes... At the bottom of the screen, there seems to be something floating like a skirt, have you seen it?"

The system recalled: "Well, it seems there is."

"That bead is in my hand, which makes me feel weirdly disgusted... It's like, it's like holding an eyeball in my hand, do you know what I mean?"

The system's voice trembled in fright, and it was difficult to speak: "You, you, you, you mean, the picture just now was released from a person's eyeball?"

Feili himself also found it very scary, so he asked the system for verification: "In this world's magic, is there such a thing as eliciting memories from the human body?"

"Judging from the setting of the original book, there is no such magic in the current mainstream faction."

Fili was silent for a while, realizing the implication of the system: "What about non-mainstream ones?"

The system voice became a little more serious: "In non-mainstream magic, human body magic experiments focus on the analysis and research of different organs of the human body, and use human body tissues as magic materials. The brain and eyeballs are also one of them."

Philip remembered that in the "Red Rose Rebellion" that Crete told everyone in the Aurora Mountains, the beauty of the empire 300 years ago, Krisina, was probably doing human magic experiments.

Could it be that Vera, as the disciple of the president of the Magicians Association, is also secretly conducting human magic experiments?

"If it is indeed a human body magic experiment..." the system suddenly asked, "Whose eyeball could it be?"

Fili had an answer to this question in his heart, but he would rather guess the answer wrong.

The female warrior who has always been inseparable from Vera, but has never appeared since the end of the last adventure...

Lacey!

Apart from Lacey, Feli couldn't think of anyone who could spy on them in the Vaegia town at that time without being noticed by Crete, and who would tell Vera such a secret.

It stands to reason that even if it was a magic experiment on the human body, Vera wouldn't start with her close friends.But Fili still felt that the eyeball just now was dug out from Lacey's face.

This incident caused him great fear—what kind of person is Vera?Is it because I guessed completely wrong and misunderstood this somewhat unruly but cheerful and honest little girl, or does Vera have another face under the mask of the spoiled young lady?

Did I actually stray into a parallel world completely different from the original book, or did Vera in the original book wear a mask all the time?

If it is the latter, what is the purpose of Vera coming to him today?Get yourself out of Crete so that what can you do with yourself?

Or, Vera is not targeting herself, but...

Suddenly, the system's horrified scream sounded in Feili's heart, interrupting his thinking:

"Host! Something happened to 0378 and its host!"