Knight and Wand

Chapter 144 The Miracle of Aphrodite

After the war, Longka continued to build fortifications.

Having temporarily escaped the crisis, with plenty of time and support from the Thorn Flower Family, Old Brian worked intensively to reinforce the simple wooden camp.

Soldiers and craftsmen built a second wall outside the single-layer wooden wall surrounding the village and filled the space between the inside and the outside with rammed earth.

Once completed in the future, this place will truly become a defensible earth and stone fortress that will no longer be afraid of fire.

If we become wealthy in the future, we can even completely replace the wooden walls with stone walls, making it a real castle.

At that time, when the enemy attacked again, the soldiers would not have to take huge risks and casualties by forming a battle line outside to fight the enemy. They only needed to hold the walls of Longka and wait for reinforcements.

Of course, that is still a relatively distant future. Right now, Longka is just beginning to transform from a small village into an earthen fortress.

After a brief meeting and a detailed discussion with Baron Elliver, Leon escorted the lord out of Longka without stopping.

After all, this place is still under construction, the facilities are incomplete, and the food and fodder reserves are far from enough to supply the troops accompanying Elliver. The amount of food and fodder required by those war horses every day is an astonishing amount.

Standing outside the drawbridge gate, I watched a large group of cavalry troops leave and rush to Sir Marcello's Wachter Castle.

The cavalrymen of the Farolis family were in a hurry to get on with their journey. The iron hooves of hundreds of war horses rumbled across the fields, which was very shocking to watch.

It's very shocking.

Even though it was just "only" two hundred light and heavy cavalry and their spare pack horses.

Compared with the war entertainment works I have seen in my previous life, which often involved "tens of thousands" of cavalry fighting, this is completely not worth mentioning.

It seems to sound as "ridiculous" as a fight in the village.

But in fact, standing on the scene and seeing with his own eyes the armored cavalrymen galloping on their horses in dense crowds, Leon had already swallowed that idea back into his stomach.

Now that he has been leading the army for some time, he can estimate the size of the soldiers. But if there was such a cavalry unit passing by in front of him when he had just traveled through time, even if someone told him that there were thousands of cavalry in front of him, he would not be able to tell the truth without flying into the sky.

The scene I witnessed with my own eyes was completely different from the scene I had only imagined on paper and in my mind in the past.

"It's really troublesome for me to act out this show with you in front of Elifer. Remember to keep your word and give me more time to get some fresh air." Canis, who was standing by, complained to Leon with his elbows around his chest.

"That's provided I don't run into any trouble and my magic power is sufficient." Leon glanced at the young master of the Wolf family who had become one of his "Heroic Cards".

This sounds like raising a dog and taking it for a walk at regular times.

Leon shook his head, thinking that Canis should really learn from the ancestor of the Thorn Flower Family. Garron slept in the cards every day, and the family had no problem with that.
Hmm? Well, it seems that even if Garron has an objection, he does not have enough magic power to summon the ancient guard every day.

The battle of Longka really drained all of Corvis's magic power. Half a month had passed, and his own little wizard had not yet recovered. He couldn't consume it like that again in a short period of time.

He turned around and took Canis back to the Longka Castle, found a secluded room, and Leon stopped supplying magic power and deactivated the Neti card.

The burly young master of the Wolf family immediately turned into light particles and condensed into a card again.
Of course, he couldn't tell Elifer the truth about Canis' current condition, so he temporarily used the excuse that he saved Canis' life, who was almost stabbed to death, and received the other party's gratitude, to explain Canis's cooperation at the moment.

Although Baron Elliver was surprised that he could persuade the eldest son of his arch-enemy to help the Thorn Flower Family clarify the dispute, he could not guess the truth.

After all, something like the Neti card, which can make the dead so vivid and complete, keeping their consciousness and rationality, as if they were given a second life, is really beyond ordinary people's cognition.

When it comes to resurrection, the horrific state of the undead that blasphemes their souls and is half-dead is generally considered a spell, while true resurrection is pure myth.

That is to say, after long-term contact with souls like Leon and Miss Lola, he has become immune to such things, otherwise he would not be able to remain so calm.

Moreover, this magic, which is like a miracle, does not require the person casting the spell to pay any price except for maintaining the magic power of the spirit body.

I really don't know why the Dead Sea Dragon, who is like the god of the underworld, would allow the birth of such a great magic that breaks the taboos of life and death.

When Leon first saw the Neti card, he only thought it was a special spell to summon the undead. But now that he has really started to learn magic knowledge for a while, he thinks that the spell created by Ms. Aphrodite is really extraordinary.

Leon caught the card that floated over and looked at the "portrait" of the young master of the Wolf family.

In the picture, Canis roared and swung his sword, splitting the enemy's flag-bearer in half with his flag. The background was a bloody battlefield. It was unknown where it was, but it should not be Longka, because the enemies fighting around Canis were all well-armored Kantadar knights.

As for the back of the card, it was not the running wolf emblem that Leon had expected when he first turned it over, but the black dragon emblem that symbolized the Kingdom of Orland.

Just like the back of the card of Garron, the Sun Guard, is not the thorn flower emblem of the Faroris family, but the white flame sun wheel.

Leon was not surprised by the emblems on the "front" and "back" of the crystal card. The reason why it became like this was certainly not because Ms. Aphrodite had any strange sense of ritual.

According to Miss Lola, this kind of creation, whether it is to summon a soul or magic, must locate the traces of its existence in the world, so there will be a picture where the "container" leaves a strong memory in the world.

The pattern on the back, in magic, is the source and symbol of the various connections between the object and the world when it is locked by the Neti card.

Thinking about it this way, the scene on Kanis's card was probably the most glorious moment in his short life.

After putting away the magic cards, Leon left the house and strolled along the village road, intending to find Olivia to practice swordplay and stretch his body.

Of course, it is real sword practice.

While greeting the patrolling soldiers and passing through the west gate of Lonka, Leon saw the boy Lohak discussing something with old Brian on the arrow tower, pointing at the Lonka city defense under construction below.

"Uncle Brian, look at these places. What if we arrange four crossbows in a cross pattern? Why is it not appropriate? I see that the top of Rolandar City is arranged like that."

Leon could hear the excitement in the loud voice from a distance, and he understood the other party's eagerness very well.

Longka is the fiefdom of Lohak, and this originally small village is about to be upgraded to the prototype of a castle. As a military household, how can Lohak not be excited?

That guy might not care about the value of the territory changes. He probably just thinks that owning a fortress is particularly impressive and majestic.

Well, Leon felt the same way. In his previous life, as an ordinary person, he felt proud when he bought a set of water-breaking mud boxes. Perhaps it was the territorial consciousness buried deep in the hearts of males. He just didn't know when he could build a fortress in Selva. Anyway, without the actual need like Longka, he really didn't want to spend money. In his plan, after Longka's matter was over, he would build a mansion in Selva to accommodate all the people around him. It was already a rare and luxurious idea.

When they returned to the big house, Olivia was nowhere to be seen. Azerien was holding some documents and was about to go out. Leon greeted his companions.

Azerien responded, but after thinking about it, he suddenly stopped at the door and planned to check the warehouse.

"Leon, do you have anything else to do? Do you have time to chat?"

Hearing this, Leon turned around and nodded, pulled out a chair and sat down: “Okay? What’s the matter?”

Azerien looked at the guards outside the door and ordered them to guard the gate of the courtyard. Then the noble son closed the door of the house and ran to close every window in the hall.

"What's wrong? So mysterious?" Leon asked him.

After sealing the hall, Azerien pulled over a chair with a serious face and sat down in front of Leon.

"Was Canis really assassinated that night?" The noble son asked in the calmest tone possible, suppressing his uncontrollable excitement.

In Longka, the only people who knew that Canis was assassinated were the six guards including Leon, Olivia, Zabron, and the three Longka soldiers who were guarding the prison and now lived and ate with the guards, and Azerien in front of him. Even Lohak didn't know about it yet.

Almost at the moment when the partner opened his mouth.

Leon understood the true meaning of the other party's question.

Because a few days ago, after successfully summoning Kanis, a relatively ordinary mortal dead, he had thought about this question.

That is why Leon now describes Ms. Aphrodite's magic as a "miracle" in his mind.

Nodding slightly, Leon acknowledged the other party's guess: "I know what you want to say. That's it. I resurrected Canis in another form, so don't worry, I will try my best to help you. The same goes for Lohak's family, but don't tell him yet. I'm afraid of giving him too much hope and fantasy. If he fails in the future, the blow will be even more unbearable for him."

Hearing Leon's promise, Azerien's lips trembled slightly, and his handsome eyebrows turned red.

The noble boy reached out and grasped his companion's arms, opened his mouth, and was excited for a moment, but didn't know what words of gratitude to say.

At this moment, it seems that everything I say seems so pale.

Seeing that his good brother's demeanor was no longer as gentle as usual, Leon remembered that the usually calm son of the noble in front of him was a little younger than himself. He would not turn seventeen until the second half of the year, and was still just a sixteen-year-old boy.

"Alas, I didn't tell you because I was afraid that you would place too much hope on this power. It's not that easy to use this magic to bring back the dead."

Leon explained: "First of all, it would be best if we could find the remains of your relatives, but after so long, the hope is very slim. If we really can't find the remains, we can only try to use the relics that best represent the traces of their existence when they were alive."

Azerien took a deep breath, taking his partner's words to heart, and nodded vigorously.

"Secondly, to perform that kind of magic, you need a lot of special materials. I have a list. Let's go back and study where we can collect and buy those things."

After saying that, Leon sighed and gave the other party a final shot of prevention.

"Also, whether you understand it or not, I want to make it clear to you in advance that this magic is far from omnipotent. It was originally used to summon a great magician who was prominent in history."

Leon didn't explain in detail what he learned about Aphrodite's attempt to revive Laura. He just gave a brief introduction and continued:
"Whether magic can be successful may have a lot to do with the subject's identity before death and the obsession of the dead soul itself.
Therefore, even for a powerful knight like Canis who had a certain reputation and died with hatred, the possibility of failure of this spell was still very high. It is possible that I was successful this time just because of pure luck.

As a noble of the Holy Land City, if your father had enough reputation, he should have a certain chance. If he died bravely in battle and left enough reputation among other people, the chance would be even greater.

But your other relatives, as well as ordinary people like me and Lohak's parents, even if you are fully prepared to cast a spell, it will probably be difficult to find their souls in the Dead Sea, that is, the underworld."

Azerien listened silently, looked at his companion with burning eyes and said, "Leon, whether it succeeds or not, I will not blame you in the slightest. You are willing to use this miraculous power to help me and give me a one in ten thousand chance to save my family. I have already given you nothing to repay you for."

"We have all relied on each other's help to get to where we are today. It would be very sad if we were to thank each other again." Leon patted his brother on the shoulder and said, "Let's first resolve the dispute with the Gunnar family, and then we will find a way to go back to Rolandar."

"Yeah." Azerien slowly calmed down: "Go back to Rolandal!"

After leaving the big house, Leon walked around Longcane before he learned where the girl had gone from the patrolling soldiers.

He left the village wall along the west gate and walked to the river bank on the north side of the Longkasipo Arrow Tower, and finally saw Olivia and Corvis.

The blond boy sat under the shade of a tree with his legs hugged to take a rest. The little griffin stumbled and frolicked around his feet, flapping its furry little wings and crawling around the boy's boots. The vast world outside, which far exceeded the space of the bedroom, not only did not scare the griffin cub, but made the little guy extremely excited.

Not far ahead of Corvis's vision, Olivia, wearing a corset, was riding a horse, holding a long-bladed lance that looked like a horse spear, and running around in circles past two rows of upright wooden stakes, training her "immature" horseback martial arts.

Of course, this definition of immaturity is how Olivia evaluates herself.

According to the girl, she had just gotten used to wielding weapons on horseback, and had not yet fully learned how to use the horse to help her fight.

Leon could probably understand what his lover wanted to say, but unfortunately, he was just learning from the girl and had just mastered some "skills", which was far from the realm of "Tao" that the other party was trying to explore.

Walking under the tree, he sat silently next to Corvis, hugged his knees, and admired the heroic posture of the Golden Lion Knight with the young man.

As he watched, his heart was filled with happiness and pride.

Look, aren't you envious? My wife.

But as he watched, perhaps because of his conversation with Azerien, he couldn't help but think of Olivia's biological parents.

He certainly couldn't get the body and belongings of his lover's father, the previous King of Orland.

But if I remember correctly, Uncle Brian said that Olivia's mother's body seemed to be buried in a secluded cemetery in Selva.

Olivia.

Would she want to resurrect her mother and see her again?
(End of this chapter)