The Black Scepter

Today, even more, the red ticket is random, and I have to go for a whole day and take a photo of the graduation photo before the graduation tomorrow. The day after tomorrow should be explosive.

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The Byzantine Empire ushered in a snow that has not been seen in many years.

It stands to reason that the pleasant climate of Constantine is next to the sea, and the typical Mediterranean climate makes it mild and rainy in winter, but the strangeness of the snow that has not been seen for many years has excited many children who have not seen snow in their lifetime. Abnormalities also make many people frown.

Outside St. Paul’s Theological Seminary, the students were praying collectively. The news that the empire was about to launch a small-scale war has spread throughout the country. The most thing priests and monks do today is to set foot on the battlefield next spring. The soldiers prayed, and the heavy snow seemed to confirm something in the dark, so the orders and announcements issued by the Patriarch Lord were unprecedented, making people feel that this war has an unusual meaning.

Jeanne seemed to have lost the habit of looking at the door habitually.

He will not come.

In my heart, Joan had lost her black robe. She reached out and brushed the snowflakes on her shoulders. After praying, she suddenly remembered something, and finally turned her head to look at the gate of the seminary.

This time, she saw a familiar figure.

The gray cloth, even in the snow, is still thin without a thick cloak. Under the hood pulled up, you can vaguely see the old and kind face.

Aquinas beckoned towards Jeanne, who was standing in the church square, in front of St. Pamel College.

The little girl froze for a moment, covered her mouth, and held back some tears with excitement. She ran over as soon as she started walking, but when she saw the old man make a gesture, she quickly slowed down her movement, but she couldn't stop the tears. Slipped on the back of the hand.

I haven’t seen Aquinas in a few months. Jeanne, who lived in her first independent life, really missed the gentle and wise old man. She stopped in front of Aquinas, stretched her hands to wipe her eyes, and tried to smile but said Speechless.

"What have you learned here for so long?"

Aquina reached out and took off her hood, smiling and looking at Joan, whose face was red because of the cold.

Jeanne shook her head at the corner of her eyes and said softly, "Not much."

"That's enough." The old man nodded, satisfied, and then said softly: "To become a qualified shepherd, not only need to understand where the road is, but also know that fences are sometimes borders, sometimes obstacles."

Jeanne, wearing a Byzantine black priest's robe, nodded seriously, then hesitantly wanted to say something, but found that the old man looked at himself a little narrowly, and suddenly knew that his careful thought was seen through, and his face became red. stand up.

"He has traveled a long distance and may not be back for a long time."

Aquinas said softly.

"how long?"

"Maybe wait until you stand on Pierce Peak overlooking the Parish."

Aquinas blinked, Pierce Peak, and the Parish of Prague. When these things are connected, they can only point to one answer-the bishop of the territory of Prague, the largest parish of Byzantium.

Jeanne dumbfounded, I don’t know what Aquinas’s words meant, but just blinked and asked, "Is he going a long way?"

"I believe you can come."

"Yep!"

Jeanne nodded, with a little relief, and did not talk too much with the old man. This old man who seemed to be busy with many things left the gate of the seminary and did not step into the academy from beginning to end.

Jeanne did not invite the old man to go to rest, but Aquinas shook her head lightly and refused, without explaining the reason.

...

Constantine seemed calm in the most recent month, but the upper-class aristocracy never lacked heavyweight news for talks.

One news is that the daughter of Prince Hades completed the education directly from Cauchy Cavalier College, and then entered the second echelon of the Knights who was originally prepared for the missing heir of the Windsor family. Without any nonsense, he directly threw a set of standard equipment to his biological daughter, and he didn't care anymore, not even a superfluous servant.

Another news is that the Duke of Windsor's palace has recovered from the silence of the past since it received a woman in black robe. The duke who had locked himself in the mansion for several days seems to have recovered his previous calmness. All day long for the upcoming war to and fro between the palace and the military department, without being affected in any way.

As for who the black-robed woman was, some people verified that the news was a common magic teacher working at Tarrens College, and the result was naturally that Windsor became a laughing stock-whenever it was, just find a magician Do you want to solve the problem?

Anyway, everyone is already a purple iris and no one is waiting to die.

But no one knows what the magician Della and the last mysterious Aquina had discussed in the Duke’s Palace of Windsor. The only news that the nobles had learned from that day was the strength of the Inquisition's censorship of the border here. It seems to increase a little.

The winter Byzantine is slightly bleak, and it seems to herald the coming of a period of turmoil in the empire.

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The temperature in Hera City has dropped a lot after entering the winter. Pedestrians on the street are wrapped in thick cloaks. When the cold wind blows, they seem to be reluctant to look up, squinting their eyes and breathing in their hands, just thinking of going home Facing the warm fireplace.

However, in the gloomy slave market of Dongcheng District, the figure of a teenager seemed to suddenly break the silence brought by the cold.

Off-white clothes, leather buttons and leather boots are dark brown, the face can not be seen under the hood pulled up, only a slightly stubble chin can be seen, an arrow-like object hangs on the back, a waist Short-handled swords, like a mercenary or a bounty hunter.

It's just that the fold cat lying lazily on his shoulders made the supposedly serious atmosphere look funny. The gray striped cat sometimes covered the teenager's vision with his tail. The latter did not reach out and just looked away. Scanning the slaves who were imprisoned and trembling around, he went straight to the registration place in the arena and gently tapped on the dirty and not wide table in the chapter.

The napping manager raised his head, his expression froze for a moment, and then handed out a token with a passionate attitude that was the opposite of the first time he faced Murphy, and then personally led the way to the competition Field road.

Murphy never took out a silver coin from beginning to end.

"Last time."

Looking at the dark sky and disappearing into the field of vision, Murphy's face stepping into the passage seemed to be too mature compared to a month ago.

After the match that smashed half of the Tekken Arena’s rice bowls, Murphy killed all the enemies in the next three games, and he almost didn’t do it himself—because this is just what he called Sphinx The cat is already enough to kill any enemy in seconds.

One of the arena pillars in the arena was killed and the other was taken away by direct abduction. As the person in charge, Fabre really wanted to let the hidden assassin kill him directly when he handed thousands of gold coins to Murphys at the end of the game, but in the end from the lord After the adult got the news, Fabre put on a professional smile and brought out an agreement to ask Murphys if he agreed to cooperate with the Tekken Arena.

The conditions of cooperation are three games, and 10% of the gambling profit belongs to Murphys. After three games, everything is even.

Murphy agreed to this agreement without much hesitation-to stay in the field and meet in the future, he did not expect that he would almost accidentally go bankrupt in the arena, although not so serious, but in a foreign country without help It is not a wise move to establish an arena with a strong backstage as its enemy at the time, so after subsequently participating in the two arenas arranged in the arena in accordance with the agreement, Murphys took advantage of Sphinx for the competition The market has earned more than 100,000 gold coins.

Among them, the first match was the "Vase" Yalong, which had been raised in the three-headed arena for a long time, but had never appeared in actual combat-this failed and non-aggressive Angel Yalong belongs to the Yalong category The monster in the character is really not suitable for fierce competition. It is a chicken-ribbed character and it is not useful. So it can only be used to deal with this kind of negotiated "exhibition game", and the consequences are naturally sphinx. Bloody anatomy.

The second time was a whole knighthood-yes, it was a fortified knighthood with a population of forty-five people. It was a captive of the border battle of the sacred Gabriel Empire. Although its strength is not strong, it is enough. Let those who watch the arena games know what a real knight charge ~www.readwn.com~ but their end is caused by three "Elemental Cutting Circles" that expanded to ten meters in diameter in Murphys A large area of ​​quicksand became a snack for Sphinx.

Today, Murphy ushered in his last battle in the arena, and is also the "final chapter" of the cumulative action of capital-if according to the agreement, after the game, Murphy may get more than 20,000 gold coins Although it is not good to hear that he still counts his life as earning money, he has indeed received enough benefits comparable to his risk.

After a series of simple procedures, Murphy once again stood in the center of the arena.

Today, he has become the target of the entire Hera city nobles want to watch the game-because of Murphy's incredible deeds and his nearly invincible cooperation with Sphinx, this increasingly larger The **** effect of curiosity has caused today's market to soar over 70,000 gold coins before the enemy appears!

Only when the cage on the opposite side opened and slowly walked out of the pale guys, Murphy's eyes narrowed suddenly.

Bloodlines.

This kind of guy who should have been burned to death in the sacred Gabriel empire has become the drama used to attract eyeballs in the arena.

Or, the misfortune of religion?

Sphynx, who smelled the dark species, jumped off Murphy's shoulder. The bell hung on his neck, but he didn't even ring it during the violent movement, but it continued. The movement was stopped by Murphy's footsteps.

Murphy was in front of Sphinx, and one person slowly pulled out the Naples dagger, striding towards the three unlucky long-lived species of the sacred Gabriel Empire in front of him.

"I think we have something to talk about before the war."