Secret: Those years when I was a foreign aid for the Aurora Club

748

When the sun rose, Irena knocked on her brother's door.

After knocking three times and waiting for a moment, after a slight sound, the wooden door with gold edges inlaid on the corners and frame opened inwards. Her brother, Clovis Montemar, stepped out.

The eldest son of the Marquis's collar was a little disheveled, and his belt was not fastened. In addition to an aura of rush, his whole body smelled of laziness and a strange smell. In the second or two before the door was closed, there was more than one piece of women's clothing scattered on the floor and carpet between the cracks in the door.

Irena glanced around, accustomed to the normal way the men of the family spent banquets and good evenings.

After she looked away, she thought of something again and glanced at the closed door. After confirming that none of the men and women in the room had the spirituality to belong to the extraordinary, she felt relieved.

Although Clovis was exhausted all night, he was in good spirits. After all, he was young and an extraordinary person. Although his sister has arrived, he has not yet adjusted from the pleasant activities, so he said in a slightly casual tone:

"What is it, dear Irena?"

"Be careful of encountering a witch." Irena reminded her angrily.

Clovis touched his slightly stubbled chin and took this sentence as a compliment: "With your brother and my family background and charm, it's not surprising that a few witches will come over. Don't worry, you are here." , which extraordinary person with evil intentions dares to approach?"

"You are wrong. Apart from your money and connections, the only thing the witch is planning is your extraordinary characteristics."

After Irena retorted in a nonchalant manner, she took out a gilded letter from her sleeve, and the paint had been torn open:

"Our relatives in Loen have responded to the letter. Miss Hall has agreed to our invitation and will go to Intis soon. Brother, now that all travel and normal passenger transportation between the two countries have been stopped, what should we do? How can we arrange for Miss Hall to come over?"

"Agreed? Let me see quickly."

His eyes lit up, and he quickly took the letter from his sister's hand and couldn't wait to read it.

After reading, he smiled and without thinking, he immediately reached out and patted the door handle of the door behind him:

"It doesn't matter if the ships and trains are out of service. With that sealed artifact of yours, can't you create a simple passage to where you want to go? It's safe and hidden. Can't you just use that to pick up Miss Hall?" That’s it.”

It's a good thing he didn't say this. As soon as he said it, Irena's expression became a little complicated.

"You know too little about extraordinary things, brother."

She had no choice but to explain to her brother: "That sealed object can indeed allow me to go to other places, but the prerequisite must be an area where the 'spiritual world coordinates have been established'. If the coordinates are not established in advance, there is a high probability that it will occur. Deviations of varying scopes even sent me directly to the church of a foreign god.”

"According to your idea, I must take the sealed artifact to Miss Hall's home, and then use ritual magic to establish coordinates on a certain door in her home, and then open the door and return to my room. Isn't this more dangerous? Yet?"

"Is there such a request?" Clovis was stunned for a moment and nodded, "Then I really shouldn't suggest this."

"In addition to this - you also know that this sealed artifact originally belonged to the Abraham family, a high-sequence Beyonder who died in the rebellion of His Excellency the 'Saint of Secrets'. Every time the door is opened three times, the fourth time It will randomly teleport me to a dangerous place. If I can't survive there for more than ten minutes and open the door to come back, I won't be considered successful..."

Speaking of this, Irena glanced with a half-smile:

"In the past few times, I hired wild Beyonders to enter the door to help me offset the danger this time. If they can come back alive, everything they get from the door can be taken away. If they can't come out, I will give them The person whose name they left behind is compensated with some amount of money.”

"To be honest, it's a dangerous time again. Now the wild Extraordinaries in Intis have basically been recruited by the church. I can't hire anyone. Brother, if you are really confident in your charm, go outside. Catch a witch back for me."

Clovis smiled bitterly:

"Don't make things difficult for me. If I encounter a witch, she will either run away or I will die while you wait to rescue her."

Then, he cleared his throat, returned to business, and asked again:

"So, how can we get Miss Hall to come over?"

"A Sequence 5 has come to us. Whether this matter is big or small, I will find a solution." Irena did not stay on this topic for too long. The foreign Sequence 5 cannot be ignored. , but don’t take it too seriously, “By the way, there are two things I want to tell you. The first thing is that a branch of the Abraham family is preparing to return to Intis and is preparing to give priority to contacting the Church of the God of Mystery.”

"Abraham..."

What a nostalgic last name.

The Montemar family has never produced a demigod. Although it is a marquis family with a blood relationship with the royal family, because their ancestors failed in the competition for the throne, they have long been away from the political center, and even their surname is no longer Sauron.

Two hundred years ago, they belonged to a nameless aristocracy with neither extraordinary power nor real power. There is no comparison with the Abraham family, which although the title is not high enough, has more than one demigod, among whom Benjamin Abraham was even called the "Four Horsemen" by Russell Gustav.

When Russell was crowned emperor, those relatives of the former emperor who had escaped by changing their surnames even had to salute the Abrahams.

Later, the Abraham family declined rapidly after the death of the demigod and Russell, and was once again dispersed to various countries in the Northern Continent incognito. The branch that stayed in Intis did not end well.

Decades ago, two traitors killed some of its members and took away many sealed items, leaving it almost in ruins.

As one of the families who had made trouble for Abraham, and thinking that the current Church of the Creator and the former Aurora Society still preserved the extraordinary characteristics and sealed objects stolen from the Abraham family, and reused the "Saint of Secrets", Clovis decided to I don’t think the Abraham family’s current choice is surprising at all.

At the same time, he didn't care at all whether the Abraham family would retaliate against them, he just nodded calmly:

"I know, is there anything I need to pay attention to?"

"Nothing, I just want you to restrain the others and not conflict with the Abraham family."

Irena took the letter away from Clovis, folded it again and put it away, and told a real bombshell:

"The church is discussing something recently. Maybe you don't know it yet, but the parliament should receive the news soon."

"Church, I mean two churches. You know, the Church of the Mysterious God has always been very interested in improving people's livelihood and social system."

Irena stopped talking and remained silent for two seconds, looking at her brother.

Clovis looked at his sister's expression and asked tentatively: "...are we going to make some system improvements? For example, re-write the law?"

"No, it's much bigger than that..."

Seeing that her brother really couldn't guess, Irena could only sigh: "The Church of the Mysterious God proposed that in order to further liberate the means of production and productivity, they are prepared to take this opportunity to completely abolish nobility and titles throughout the country, and to eliminate the privileged class from the law. "

"Abolish the title?!" Clovis could hardly control his voice. He said in shock, "This, this! How is this possible?! Has the church agreed? Without the nobles, who will restrain the common people and who will provide support to the church? Donate regularly!”

"Sorry brother, the Lord allowed it."

"There have been nobles since the Fourth Age. We have inherited the blood of great beings and are born noble. How can we associate with common people?! The wealth we have accumulated from generation to generation! The status and popularity we have accumulated from generation to generation are just handed over to us. other people?!"

Irena closed her eyes and shook her head:

"The Lord's oracle - 'Whether you are humble or noble, you are all my followers'. So since they are all high and low, why should there be distinctions between high and low? Therefore, we accepted the proposal of the Mystic Church. "

"This, how is this possible?!"

"Don't you accept it?"

She looked sharply at Clovis, waiting for the heir's answer.

Clovis was suddenly startled by her eyes and lost his voice.

"Ah...ah——"

Her brother's mouth opened wide, showing an expression of shock and even horror, and his chest heaved violently. There were some slight shouts coming from the door behind him, and it seemed that the women who heard his shouts were awakened.

Clovis didn't pay any attention to those voices. He stared at his sister's golden eyes, and saw only light and calmness in them. There was no gratitude for the cultivation of his family, and no openness to his relatives.

But he suddenly realized something, and suddenly figured everything out.

After the tsunami, the total population of Intis dropped sharply to more than one million people, and the survival rate of nobles protected by Beyonders and the church was higher.

The population proportion of nobles has rapidly increased several times, but they cannot provide anchors and value several times!

By completely abolishing the nobility and title system and taking away their wealth, the church is showing kindness to the common people and attracting more believers!

"-Praise the Lord, praise this, this, great decision."

Clovis immediately made a positive cross on his chest, and cold sweat rolled down one by one, but he had restored his normal thinking ability and spoke fluently: "I am willing to follow the footsteps of God! I am willing to donate I donated one-tenth of my family property to the church, and donated the family's two villas and estates on the outskirts of Trier, as well as part of the bank's shares... As long as this is what God desires, I have no complaints!"

"Only one tenth?"

Clovis choked, and the cold sweat rolled down his forehead faster. He knew that now was the time to cut off his tail and survive, but he had already promised the church a property worth nearly one million gold louis at one time, and he really could not offer more.

Irena also understood his thoughts and sighed:

"One tenth is a lot. You are safe, brother."

She took out the perfume-scented handkerchief from her pocket, handed it to Clovis, and asked him to wipe the cold sweat on his forehead. Then she also made a cross on her chest and said softly: "Don't tell others about this, brother. , the formal bill will be announced in parliament a week later.”

Irena took half a step closer, passing the handkerchief, and whispered in her brother's ear:

"Now that you are on our side, remember to temporarily put down your status as a noble and go for a walk in the city... do some things that priests and missionaries should do... remember to go to the church to pray and donate, and go there more often , and also go and send some military expenses to War Red..."

"When the time comes, you may have the opportunity to eliminate those nobles who are unwilling to give up their titles."

Clovis looked at his sister's face in surprise, but Irena just shook her head, whispered a prayer for him, and then prepared to leave.

"...I will expand the factory and provide more jobs. Well, I will find another opportunity this week to participate in engineering construction."

An ugly smile appeared on Clovis's pale face. His hands tightly grasped his sister's sleeves, and his words were erratic and rapid. No one understands the terror and ruthlessness of gods better than those who have personally experienced the war between gods. Before life, Title, status, and wealth are nothing.

He knew that his first reaction when he heard the news just now was definitely unqualified.

If he was suddenly informed like this, he might be directly judged as impious and disloyal... Clovis felt scared just thinking about it, and said in a tone of grasping at straws:

"Irena, my dear, you are the real wealth and the real guarantee of our family..."

749

It's getting daylight.

The "divineer" and the "thief" each had their own guilty consciences. From the thrilling night just now until the sun rose again for more than an hour, no one said anything.

During the third hour of silence, Klein broke the awkward atmosphere:

"You shouldn't have said that."

It's useless to pray that God doesn't hear. Now both of our lives may be like candles in the wind.

Amon chuckled twice and laughed dryly: "No, dear Mr. Fool, you shouldn't mention things related to the true Creator."

Don’t you forget to harm me at this time?

Klein was momentarily surprised by how confident the other person was as a clone, and he also sneered:

"The great 'Angel of Time', the respected 'God of Mischief', and the 'current holder of Origin Castle', if you don't forcibly parasitize me, don't take me outside the Moon City, and take the initiative to chat with me, I How can I have this opportunity to talk to you about things related to the true Creator? By the way, your clothes are really unique, are they the style you like?"

Alas, Amon's Moon City-style animal skin equipment became Amon's standard pointed soft hat and wizard robe.

He adjusted his monocle and seemed to regard arguing with Klein as a simple and effortless entertainment activity: "I said, it was your ancient secrets that made me interested, so I asked you more questions. But you don’t have to answer me, right?”

Klein couldn't hold himself any longer:

"Does your dad know that you would rather argue than admit that you just didn't do it right?"

Amon paused for a second and said nothing. Klein has observed him until now and found that only when the ancient sun god is mentioned, Amon will have some relatively human reactions. Otherwise, Klein's impression of him will only be "annoying".

"...Of course He knows, otherwise how could the title 'God of Mischief' be spread among believers?"

Amon said seemingly unintentionally.

The atmosphere suddenly became heavy, and Klein stopped talking. He can tease and even provoke Amon without any burden, but it is difficult to evaluate Amon when he talks about the ancient sun god. It can be said that even Klein does not know what kind of attitude he should have towards the ancient sun god - he is a true fellow countryman, a complete fellow countryman, but the only person Klein knows and is familiar with is the true Creator.

The ancient sun god seemed to be just a distant shadow, like a big figure he had never met but was familiar with in the history books.

"Actually, I have also thought about the possibility you mentioned."

Amon changed the topic, probably because he didn't want to repeatedly mention the scars from the past - he would always show a human-like emotion at such times, but Klein couldn't completely believe it, after all, he too The God of Deception—he just thought about it and said:

"But to be honest, I don't understand the difference and I can't think of a reason why He would do it."

"Because I was born a mythical creature."

"I really wanted to understand my father's thoughts and understand the thoughts of human beings, but I tried, but I just couldn't do it, so I stopped doing it."

For the ancient sun god, being gradually covered by the will of "God" is a thing as terrifying as death, but for Amon, his will is divinity, the instinct of the path, and the nature of the "Lord of Mysteries" There is a certain similarity, but can't we understand the kind of consciousness-level death that humans fear?

Klein frowned and couldn't believe it. He couldn't believe that the mythical creature had no fear of death at all.

He decided to forget what Amon said for the time being.

But Amon asked him again:

"So, what you said is really the truth about 'Redemption Rose'?"

Klein thought for a while, thought again, and nodded silently.

Amon stopped talking and moved forward with concentration.

As he spoke, he and Amon had walked far away, crossing many ruins and the skeletons of incredible large beasts. Only the corpses and severely weathered stone buildings were left, showing the bustle that this place once had.

Outside the city-state was a desolate wilderness whose edges could not be seen even under the lightning.

"Well, I wanted to take you somewhere."

Klein didn't speak. Amon felt that it was boring, so he changed the subject again: "That is an interesting place, but you mentioned that guy, and I don't dare to take you there now."

"Where?" Klein asked curiously.

Amon opened his mouth and showed a smile:

"It was an ancient ruin, a wonderful building. It probably came from a civilization a long time ago. I wanted to find some history, but I didn't dare to get close. It was also the place where my father appeared in the legend, and where that guy is now s position."

"My father called it Chernobyl."

TBC

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God: You are all my sheep. There are only those I like and those I don’t like among the sheep. There is no distinction between them.