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"no!"

"agree!"

"agree!"

……

The other elders voted in favor.

At this time, no one mentioned taking into account the attitudes of other allied city-states.

"Albano," Agostino looked at Albano again and said, "You are the one with the most experience in war among us. I would like to appoint Albano as the commander of the defense of Fidei. Do you agree?"

The elders voted again, and this time there were only ten votes in favor.

However, Albano was successfully elected.

After arranging these things, Agostino, the elderly chief elder of Fife, finally couldn't withstand the shock of this unprecedented bad news, and fell down staggeringly.

Some people hurriedly supported Agostino, some patted Agostino's chest, and some shouted to find a doctor... It was a busy scene.

Outside the window, the body of the young man named Giannis was still swaying alone in the wind.

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Volume 136: Chapter 124 Chapter Second Wing

Viscount Lanwan's territory, Viscount's castle.

In the morning, Renee, who had just got up, was sitting in front of the dressing table in her pajamas and barefoot. Charlotte was also wearing only a nightgown, standing behind Renee and combing her maid's hair.

Renee looked at her young lady's clumsy appearance in the mirror and smiled helplessly: "Miss, breakfast time is almost over."

Most women in the better-off countries of Orlandi pay great attention to their hairstyles. In this country, women's hair is often seen as a symbol of their beauty and chastity. Noble girls like Charlotte who like to hang around with their hair down are usually seen as dissolute, frivolous, and indecent.

Fortunately, Charlotte has Renee as her personal maid. Renee only allows her daughter to have her hair down at home, but whenever she goes out to meet people, she will always do Charlotte's hair.

Even maids from aristocratic families like Renee must groom their hair beautifully every day for the sake of their master's dignity.

Sometimes Renee would braid part of her long hair into a few thin braids, and then tie up another part of the braids like a headband, which made her look lively and cute, as well as refreshing and capable.

Charlotte had seen Renee comb this hairstyle many times. She thought that with her intelligence and talent, she should be able to do it. So today, on a whim, she offered to help Renee comb her hair.

Renee refused at first, but Charlotte grabbed the comb and refused to let go. When Renee tried to snatch it away, Charlotte puffed up her cheeks, pouted her lips, and looked at Renee pitifully, with an expression as if she was about to cry.

Although she knew in her heart that Charlotte was just pretending to be pitiful, Renee still couldn't resist seeing her young lady like this, so she had to sit down in front of the dressing table and let Charlotte do what she wanted to her.

The results of it?

No surprises.

Renee had originally gotten up at daybreak, and now it was already noon, and Charlotte's work still had not taken shape.

Charlotte carefully loosened her grip, and the braid she had just tied up fell apart again. She stamped her feet in frustration, and a feeling of irritation surged in her heart: "What's going on? Why can't it work?"

"Otherwise, let me do it." Renee said when she saw that Charlotte looked a little angry.

"No, I'll try again!" Charlotte said stubbornly.

Charlotte held up her long flaxen hair again, revealing Renee's fair and delicate neck. Charlotte felt her stomach getting hot, and she couldn't help swallowing.

"Miss." Renee keenly noticed that something was wrong with Charlotte.

Charlotte hugged Renee from behind, rested her chin on Renee's neck and sniffed it gently, saying, "I want to take a bite."

Renee laughed, pointed to the bed, and said, "There's one ready over there, go bite her."

On the bed, the maid Linda was still sleeping soundly. Linda was delicate and frail, and had not yet awakened her extraordinary powers. She could not stand Charlotte's tossing and turning when she played a little too much on the bed. According to past experience, Linda would have to sleep until tonight before getting up. During this time, no matter what was done to her, the maid probably would not have the strength to resist.

"No," Charlotte refused to comply. For some reason, there seemed to be a scent on Renee's body that aroused her appetite. She clung to Renee's body, rubbing the soft peaks of her chest against Renee's back, begging, "Please let me take a bite..."

Renee's gaze fell behind Charlotte, where two wings of light appeared, one of which was looming and seemed to be taking shape.

Renee almost understood what was going on. She nodded and said, "Then you can bite it."

Charlotte bit Renee's neck, and the smell of blood quickly spread in her mouth. Charlotte sucked hard, and the taste of the same kind of blood on her tongue was unprecedentedly mellow and sweet, but this did not relieve the burning hunger in Charlotte's stomach.

Charlotte had an impulse in her heart, an impulse to bite off a piece of flesh from Renee and chew it and eat it. However, her rationality, which was already on the verge of being completely overwhelmed by her appetite, told Charlotte that it was wrong to let herself be overwhelmed by her animal instincts. Therefore, she tried her best to control the range of her movements to avoid causing too much wound to Renee.

Renee also saw from the mirror that Charlotte's eyes were almost the same as those of a hungry carnivore, but she did not waver. She still sat there quietly, allowing Charlotte to bite and suck on her fatal neck.

About half a day later, as the second wing gradually solidified, Charlotte gradually regained her sanity.

"I'm sorry, Renee..."

Charlotte said apologetically to the maid.

Although Charlotte tried her best to control herself, she still caused Renee a lot of pain. Because the wounds she bit were not fatal, they often stopped bleeding while she sucked them, and Charlotte couldn't help but bite again. This process was repeated countless times, but Renee never complained.

"I'm fine. The wound will heal soon."

Renee accompanied the exhausted Charlotte to lie on the golden carpet - this golden carpet was also one of the gifts sent by Lena. It was said that it was spun from the fur of a virgin fox like Coco.

Charlotte knew that what Renee said was not false. For a three-winged swordsman, this level of recovery ability was the most basic.

"Miss, what exactly are the two-wing abilities you awakened?" Leni asked curiously.

Speaking of this, Charlotte's face darkened: "Lilith translated this ability as 'predation', but I think it should be translated as 'cannibalism'."

"Miss, do you want to eat people?" asked Renee.

"Yeah," Charlotte nodded and said frankly, "I was really craving for Renee's meat just now."

"But this can't be considered an extraordinary ability at all. I think this should just be the condition for triggering the ability." Leni said doubtfully, "Miss, don't you have any other discoveries now?"

Some extraordinary factions require certain conditions to be met before powerful abilities can be activated. For example, the Kanoba faction that Celine practices requires sufficient courage and fighting will to obtain all-round benefits. Renee thinks that Charlotte's two-wing ability should be the same. The ability itself can only be triggered if the cost of "cannibalism" is met.

"No, I just feel very tired." Charlotte shook her head. She frowned and thought for a while, then said, "According to the records on the Lujan Obelisk translated by Lilith, the ability of 'predation' should be the ability to absorb the vitality of food to enhance myself. However, this incomplete record is too vague. It doesn't clearly explain what 'vitality' is and what counts as 'enhancement'. Besides, I don't feel anything other than tired."

Renee thought about it and proposed a possibility: "Miss, the reason you don't feel any stronger may be because you didn't really eat me."

Renee said it very seriously, but Charlotte suddenly showed a sly smile: "Maybe eating only blood is useless, I can eat something else."

"Hmm?" Renee looked puzzled.

Charlotte leaned close to Renee's ear and whispered a few words.

Renee's cheeks flushed slightly, and she flicked her young lady's forehead unhappily from behind: "Young lady, if you want to eat, go find Linda. I don't have time to fool around with you."

After saying that, Renee pushed Charlotte away and got up to change her clothes.

Although Charlotte did not leave her bedroom until almost noon, most of the maids in the castle were used to it. After all, this young lady had a history of not leaving her bedroom for several days in a row.

The chef brought from the Green Plains Principality prepared a sumptuous lunch for Charlotte. Charlotte tasted the delicious food she loved in the past, but her brows could not help but frown again. She found that although she could eat normally, no matter how much chicken, duck, fish and meat she ate, there was always a faint lingering hunger in her stomach, as if she had to eat certain specific foods to eliminate this hunger.

Do I have to resort to cannibalism?

Although Charlotte had been mentally prepared for various risks when she chose this ancient supernatural faction that no one practiced in the current era, the negative impact is still as small as possible, and having to eat humans is a huge negative impact.

Moreover, Charlotte's intuition told her that "eating people" might not be the right answer.

This ancient supernatural faction was carved on an obelisk in the ruins of Luyang City. The obelisk stood in a very conspicuous building complex in the ruins. According to Lilith's speculation, it should be an ancient "education park" or something like that.

How could a supernatural faction that had to feed on its own kind so blatantly carve itself into a relatively prosperous part of the city?

Isn't that encouraging cannibalism?

The ancient people a hundred thousand years ago couldn't have been that bold and unrestrained, right?

Therefore, Charlotte felt that there must be other solutions to the abnormalities in her body, but she just hadn't figured it out yet.

Unfortunately, Lilith is not around.

Charlotte suddenly missed Lilith. If she were by her side, she would definitely be able to give her some valuable advice.

Unfortunately, the 1.3-meter-tall man has been on an expedition to the Sokya Peninsula for four or five months, and no news has been sent back so far. This makes Charlotte miss him and feel worried.

While Charlotte was eating lunch and thinking about her own problems, Cecilia walked into the restaurant with a stack of documents.

"Cecilia, it's not good for your health to work while eating," Charlotte complained.

Cecilia rolled her eyes. "If I didn't want to disturb your interest, I should have come to your bedroom to find you in the morning."

Having said that, Cecilia sat down opposite Charlotte without any hesitation and reported her work to her, mainly about two things.

"The first thing is that Jonathan Hackman sent someone to return the compensation agreement he signed with Carmela and Batan..." Cecilia pushed two thick documents in front of Charlotte.

Charlotte flipped through a few pages and said, "Is Dorukocha the only one who didn't agree to give us war reparations?"

"It seems so at the moment," Cecilia nodded. "Next, Mr. Jonathan will go to the two city-states of Sudaman and Kororo. They should not refuse to compensate us for our...losses."

After spending a long time with Charlotte, Cecilia felt that her moral bottom line was constantly lowering. In the past, she would never have been able to so openly ask Sudaman and Kororo, two small city-states that had not even sent a single soldier, to compensate for the losses.

Now, Cecilia not only said it, but she felt that she was justified in saying it.

Charlotte pondered for a moment and said, "Then the only problem that needs to be solved is Dorukocha."

"How do you plan to solve the problem of Dorukocha?" Cecilia asked.

"I have already told Jonathan in Dorukocha that he will send troops, so of course he will send troops again," said Charlotte.

"We have to go to war again?" Cecilia felt painful when she thought of the high cost of Charlotte's war.

"No," Charlotte shook her head, "Sending troops does not necessarily mean fighting a war."

Cecilia blinked, a little confused, but Charlotte didn't seem to want to explain further, so she had to continue: "The second thing is that little Sasini released all the prisoners of the Ambratu citizen militia, about two thousand, including four hundred extraordinary people..."

Sokya Peninsula, Ambratu County.

The solid cobblestone roads, the ancient city walls, everything in front of him felt so familiar to Avery, a former militiaman from Ambratu.

At the end of last year, under the persuasion of John Rice, Avery followed Antanas to the expedition to Little Sassenia. That expedition became the beginning of all nightmares.

Countless comrades died on the battlefield, in hard labor, or under the torture of the little Sassenians...

In the end, Avery even heard that his own mother city, the city-state of Ambratu, no longer existed and had become the current Ambratu County under the rule of Viscount Lanwan.

However, Avery didn't care much whether it was the city-state of Ambulatu or the County of Ambulatu. The only thought in his mind was to go home.

Avery walked briskly along the familiar road and trotted all the way to his doorstep.

The door of the house was ajar but not locked. Avery pushed it open impatiently and shouted, "Winna, I'm back! Winna!"

A moment later, a young woman in an apron ran out of the house and stared at Avery who had just entered the door. She stood there in a daze, her face full of disbelief. This young woman was Avery's wife, Edwina.

"Wina, my dear wife, I'm back." Avery opened his arms and said to his wife with a smile.

However, Edwina did not throw herself into his arms and cry as Avery had imagined, but remained there in a daze.

At first, Avery thought his wife was too excited to react.

However, a moment later, a tall and strong man came out of the room, stood next to Edwina, and glared at Avery.

Avery frowned and asked, "Who are you? Why are you in my house?"

"Your home?" The tall and strong man pushed Avery in front of him and shouted angrily, "This is my home! Winna is my wife! Get out of here!"

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In 413 BC, the Athenian army suffered a disastrous defeat in Sicily. Rumors spread back to Athens earlier than the battle report. An Athenian barber learned the news of the Athenian army's defeat from a sea merchant and immediately reported it to the Athenian law enforcement officers. However, the Athenians were unwilling to believe the defeat of the Athenian army and thought that the barber had fabricated false news, so they sentenced the barber to wheel punishment, that is, tying people to wheels and whipping them, crushing them to death.

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Volume 137: Chapter Reward plus update! ! ! !

I deeply realized that I can't be so lazy and lie down anymore. I have to stand up! I must add more chapters!

Although some of my friends in the book club may no longer trust me, thinking that I can only work hard for half an hour every month, I have seriously thought about it before going to bed last night, and I really want to work hard this time! I must update more chapters this month.

Let's set up a reward here:

From today on, one chapter will be added for every 10,000 rewards, one chapter will be added for every 1,000 recommendations, one chapter will be added for every 100 monthly tickets, and one chapter will be added for every 100 razor blades!

Settlement will be made once a day, that is, the bounty result on the 1st will be settled on the 2nd, and will be announced after the settlement.

I'm not sure what the appropriate reward is, so I copied the rules I saw from other authors. However, they offer 2,000 words per chapter, while I offer 4,000 words per chapter, so this reward standard is still relatively cost-effective... If there are any problems later, I'll adjust it.