Blood tax

Chapter 150

After Griffith, Fiona, Berthier, and others, as well as Lana, LS, and Mijo, all those who participated in the battle, received meritorious service awards and military medals respectively.Although the other Xiutorals did not receive such high honors as the Order of the Eagle with Silver Oak Leaves, the lord, the school and the Reserve Army Command all fully affirmed and rewarded their brave and outstanding performance.

"Hey--!"

The girl with different red and blue eyes looked at the solemn and glorious honor and award ceremony, sighed heavily, and looked at the charcoal sketch just completed in front of her with her chin resting on her chin.

"It's all due to the annoying intermediate-level spell theory project report, I didn't even have the chance to appear."

She came to the dinner dressed up beautifully, but the award has nothing to do with her.

"Ophelia, what's the matter?" Midian Maier, who was busy eating, asked, "Are you in a bad mood?"

"Hi everyone, I'm a new character who just debuted~" Ophelia muttered resentfully, picked up a charcoal pencil and marked the sketch with a title——

"Ophelia in Homewarts".

What an interesting name!Midianmai looked at the sketch carefully and appreciatively.

"This is?"

"This is Griffith, the eye-catching man of all armies, the majestic Lana group, and Fiona, who is as beautiful and brilliant as a saint..."

This is a vivid depiction of the battle. Lana, L.S. and Mijo are fighting the terrifying knights. Fiona holds up the battle flag to lead the army, and Griffith leads the team straight to the core of the rebel army in the thunder and wind.

What a breathtaking painting!Midian Maier exclaimed.only……

"Ophelia where are you?"

"Ophelia is at Homemonwatts! Rewriting the Intermediate Charms Theory project report, you idiot!"

……

The honor award ceremony was very brief, and the big shots left after quickly completing these matters.Galadia, Sonia, and Fiona quickly ate a few mouthfuls of dinner and then left with their parents. It seemed that they had other activities to attend.

Even the Homenworth Disciplinary Committee who made daily inspections left, and the hall was left to the students.

The elegant and decent dinner fell into chaos, and the students who were not supervised by the professors and the disciplinary committee began to run around.People from several grades were in a mess.

"Guys!" Ophelia pulled up her skirts and jumped onto the table, "Let's send our best wishes to Murat!"

"Congratulations, Murat!"

"yeah--!"

Everyone at the long table cheered, and even senior seniors came over to congratulate.

Thank you all thank you all.Griffith, who was still flustered, drank a large glass of light rum.

Wait a minute, my name is not Murat, are you making a mistake?

You are right.Lana grabbed Murat's arm and rubbed his head drunkenly.The Shutorals lifted up Murat with a silly smile, threw him into the air, and drove away.

"Congratulations, Murat!"

Mila and Kulala took out a bag of paper fireworks and put them everywhere.

Ah hello, isn't it me who is the main character? ?Griffith squeezed himself hard, and asked the only Nona who was still sitting beside her, "What's wrong with Murat?"

"Ah, what?" Nona was stunned for a moment, "Oh, that's right, Murat and Iseus's sister are engaged. You can't leave school now, let's celebrate briefly. The engagement ceremony will be back in Bayeran after the summer vacation. Do it again."

It turned out to be like this... Griffith took a deep look at her, and sat down obediently by the side.

Nona seemed petrified, she neither toasted nor ate, her shoulder-length black hair drooped, silently staring at the wine glass in front of her in a daze.

"You and Murat are in the same squadron, right?" Griffith stuffed a piece of meat into his mouth and asked without words.

"..."

"It all happened so suddenly, and I haven't heard Murat mention it." Griffith touched his nose and said, Miss Sutoral remained silent.

Everyone began to snatch the portrait of Murat's fiancé, and a torn one floated to Griffith.He glanced at it, she was a very lovely girl, pure and lovely, but she was only eleven or twelve years old.

"This is a minor! It's still a few years away!" Griffith yelled, "Mura, you thick eyebrows and big eyes, I didn't expect it to be..."

"Several years?" Nona raised her head in a "bass", and looked at Griffith seriously, "But isn't everything settled after getting engaged?"

"No, no, Comrade Nona, it's not surprising what happens after the engagement. You have to keep an eye on Murat and don't let him do something stupid."

"I, how can I? How can I interfere in his private affairs. "

Tsk, there are some people who obviously have serious thoughts in their hearts, but still want to find a high-sounding reason for themselves before acting.Griffith looked at Nona's hesitant eyes, and grinned twice.

"Nona, Nona," Griffith began to cheer her up, "In the past few years, Murat still has to pursue promotion and studies, experience battles and growth, can we guarantee that he will be smooth sailing or remain unchanged?"

"Well, it seems impossible."

"This is Murat, a good friend you get along with day and night! He may suddenly find that the fiancée is not suitable for him, or the fiancée thinks it is not suitable. Who can say what will happen in a few years. You know this person, Murat. What if he gets hurt and depressed? Someone needs to care about him and take care of him!" Griffith gave Nona a heavy shoulder, "As his true friend, can you just sit back and do nothing? "

"No!" Nona nodded emphatically, "You're right! I can't leave this idiot alone!"

"you do not say."

Seeing Nona's spirit improved, Griffith began to think again.He turned his eyes to the crowd and saw Isius standing aside, watching Murat messing around with everyone with a faint smile.

According to everyone's opinion, Iseus reached some kind of agreement with the boy soldier in Beit Manor, and no one knows the specific content.

From the appearance, Iseus put on a silver mask, his expression was deeply hidden, and his speech and handling became more sophisticated.He was already very smart, but suddenly his temperament matured a lot.

He's a suspect in the incredible House of Wonders incident.After observing for a period of time, Griffith basically ruled out the suspicion of Sonia, Fiona, Lana, and Murat. There was nothing unusual about them, and it was impossible for them to have such evil thoughts.The evil that everyone felt that day either came from the spirit world communicated by the sealed item or from Iseus, or a combination of the two.

However, as of now, Iseus has not brought any real danger to everyone. Without his action, those mutated young soldiers are likely to cause heavy casualties to Griffith's troops, and even cut off the shipping of the Beit River .

The marriage contract suddenly arranged by Iseus means that Murat is of great significance to him, and he will definitely act next.So, let Nona watch first, she has enough motivation to pay attention to Murat's actions, so as to detect the clues of Iseus.

……

"You found me a fool," Earl Lamor complained in the office arranged for him by Homeworthy, "he has some talent, but how dare he covet the consul's daughter? He has never heard of those horrors Is it the legend? Canaan has already started to kill him.

"I don't know if awarding the Order of the Silver Oak Leaf Knight Eagle can make those creatures addicted to magic have scruples."

Professor Heinz counterattacked unceremoniously: "I didn't arrange it, it was the oracle of Iluvash, no one knew it beforehand, so you complained to him!

"This world is messed up, do you want to be alone? The encounter between Griffith and the elf is probably arranged by some existence. You must see that their personalities and experiences complement each other. In the sense of mysticism, as long as time And the location is right, who can stop it?
"Furthermore, is this a bad thing?
"And who hasn't been young? Didn't you and the nun and the lady officer..."

"Stop!" Earl Lamor interrupted him immediately, looked around subconsciously, and whispered, "The other lady officer is a rumor."

The professor smiled and looked at the earl who was saying goodbye to the beautiful and thick blond hair: "Don't lie, I watched you graduate from the military academy and become an earl step by step."

The earl scratched his head with a rare expression, maybe he wanted to pull out a few more hairs to speed up the progress of history:

"It's not a good thing to meet your true love when you are too young, especially when you have nothing but youth. Everyone understands this truth now, but so what? The age to fall in love with someone completely is only those few years."

"En." The professor nodded.

The two were silent for a while, and the professor remembered something: "This autumn, I think it is possible to consider giving Griffith the right to independently command a small army, which is the army I told you about earlier. He will be a good commander, and the daily affairs can be handled by non-commissioned officers. We need to arrange this matter as soon as possible, and let Griffith be the clerk for the next meeting. Everyone is afraid of leaking secrets, and other people are not suitable."

"No, it's not good. He's only in the second grade this fall, and he still has studies," the earl said, rubbing his face, "I have to think again, who knows if he will do something stupid."

"Tsk~ Actually, I am not discussing with you. Griffith has potential in the fields of intelligence, command, staff and logistics. He is a bit stupid but very reliable. He is my ideal commander of the new experimental force. If you disagree, I will write to the Countess."

"What problem can you solve by writing to Elena?" the count asked in surprise.

The professor shook his head and said like an endorsement: "On a certain day in a certain year, the Earl told me that it is not a good thing to meet your true love when you are too young, especially when you have nothing but youth..."

……

Professor Heinz left the earl's office, hummed a ditty and returned to his own office, put on a serious expression, and rang the bell.

Soon, Griffith, who had been notified long ago, came over from the waiting room and respectfully saluted the past principal of the non-commissioned officer academy and today's professor.

"Report to me, don't let go of the details," said the professor.

Griffith reported the details of the Neopolis incident and the Verona battle at a very fast speed. Even the final stage of the Iloti tragedy was not concealed, only the bone ring was not mentioned.

The professor interrupted him from time to time to ask questions or to correct an unclear statement or two.

"A kind of cover, a very obvious cover," Heinz commented, "Most of the events you experienced are just cover for a deeper conspiracy, some are more subtle, but some are very crude, and the vernal equinox incident is the crude one. No matter Whether it is detected or not, the masterminds behind the scenes will subconsciously use this kind of cover-up, and you have to understand it with your heart."

Captain Heinz William Banner has been promoted to the regional command of the Guards and Shock Cavalry System, which is a military rank equivalent to the rank of brigadier general in ordinary troops.Although he is not an extraordinary person, Homonwatts still invited him to teach the professional courses of the Military Command Section and the military politics and strategy courses of the Minerva Academy, and popularized the theory of armored cavalry concentrated assault and vanguard fire group among future rulers .

He was a big man now, too, with a large office and a host of servants at Homenworth, and commented with the pride of a wise man and the wisdom of an elder:
"Just take the events of Neopolis,
"The activated ancestor's call activates dangerous extraordinary characteristics, even ancient existences. Once revived, they will devour life and spiritual energy to replenish their energy.

"People in the parliament always want to avoid the fact that mortals can also be used as a source of energy. Some of those ancient existences have ways to extract the vitality of the residents of a city. The parliamentarians are obviously using another way to extract, some I'm ashamed to admit it. The Deathrattle Cult did not succeed in Neopolis, and they will definitely act again.

"As for the little girl you mentioned who sacrificed everyone a long time ago but has no memory, what's her name, Krista, well, if it wasn't because of your fantasies of springing up like a wild cat, then the answer is very simple. There are some The powerful existence erased the memory about her, which could be done through sealed items or some spells, and then physically destroyed some documents.

"And you, maybe because you left the front line earlier, you are not wiped clean like others. If those existences find out that there is such an omission like you, sooner or later they will find ways to kill you.

"I'm just putting forward some hypotheses. Don't take my words as the only truth. You know, you, a little wild cat in heat who can't control yourself, dare to entangle with the daughter of the Canaan consul, don't you think you can still Can't marry her? Don't bow your head, you little bastard has 1 reasons to be killed, and you can count on your ability to live to this day."

Griffith didn't dare to refute a word, but only hew and hawed.

"Where did I go?"

"Erasure the existence of Krista."

"Well, erase her existence," Teacher Heinz laughed, "You and the people around you are a bunch of idiots, if I find out that my first love..."

"I don't have that kind of relationship with her!"

"Shut up! If I knew that my comrade-in-arms was wiped out of existence, and she was a nun from the Church of the Holy Light, I would be able to guess who did it with my toes."

"Cultists, enemies of the Holy Light?" Griffith asked.

"Really? The gods are here, the gold coins are here, why are my students all idiots," the district commander said with a faint smile, "Is that so? Remember, little idiot, look for it among those who can profit from crimes Criminals. Go to the source of the incident to find the flow of benefits."

He took out a file from the file and threw it over: "You will be assigned a task soon, and your opinion will be asked on the surface, but in fact, you don't have to go if you don't want to. You should hurry up and make some preparations. Look now, after reading it, you will be ready." Give me.

"Ruiwen, the place of residence of your little first love, I know, I know, the place of residence of your little comrade-in-arms. The remnants of the cultists who made trouble in Neopolis Island before are said to be laying out evil plans everywhere, one of which is Raven, the official Extraordinary squads, and even a powerful Extraordinary commando have been secretly assembled.

"You go too. I know it's dangerous, but it's not dangerous if you want to get ahead in the mysterious world. Besides, you probably won't be able to dodge it."

"Yes, teacher." Griffith took the order loudly.

"Use your brain, use your brain! Don't think about girls and girls every day, you wild cat in heat! Before performing the mission, go to the library to learn about Raven's geography and church situation, and then carefully study the information related to the mission. I don't understand. Just ask me," Heinz scolded, waving his fist like a boxer, "You fought well in the battle in Verona, this is what a commander should look like, use your brain and hands, maneuver, Break through! Use your strengths to attack their weaknesses, put pressure on the enemy, keep putting pressure on them, make them overwhelmed, let them have no time to take the planned steps, force them to make mistakes, and then seize the node and strike with all strength!
"The clues of Neopolis and Revan converged. If this is just a coincidence, I will eat the report on this table. Get lost!"

"Yes, teacher, leave." Griffith immediately left after reading the document.

His teacher seemed to think of something again, and yelled at the students who were about to escape from behind the desk: "You are already entangled with the elves, so serve Miss Sonia well and don't have any plans for her, otherwise the Earl Must have chopped off your head!
"Chop off your head!"

……

The next day back at Homemonwarts was a whole day of oddities.

Ever since Griffith had this silver oakleaf knight eagle badge on his collar, everything seemed to be different.The Aaron who made him quite afraid cast him a scrutinizing gaze, and he didn't know what he was thinking.

The aristocratic girls in the Minerva Court who had never had any contact with him would clumsily knock over the water glass on him, or accidentally meet him in a deserted corner.Then, after chatting a few words naturally, the girls with sweet smiles asked him to have afternoon tea or discuss topics with him according to etiquette.

Griffith was extremely nervous, afraid that Galadia would see it, but he didn't know how to refuse the ladies' invitation.What was even more shocking was that he had already returned to Homonwatts, and Miss Elf acted as if she didn't know him, and didn't say a word to him.

At night, Griffith couldn't bear it anymore, so he went to block her in the corridor during the evening study break.

Galadia walked towards him, as if she hadn't seen it, walked over proudly like an elf.

"Galadia." Griffith called softly.

Before he could take any action, Miss Elf rushed out with a whoosh, jumped into the corner stairs and disappeared.

　No more updates today.The last few chapters are both daily and important transitions. Readers can look back at these chapters in the future.

　　
　
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