Wearing black silk for a foreign woman

"Coo, coo, coo~" The pigeon stared at Lind and made a cooing sound.

"Coo, coo, coo~" Lind stared into the pigeon's eyes and imitated the pigeon's call.

The pigeon tilted its head, its little black eyes filled with confusion and surprise.

"Do you want to talk to me?" Linde smiled at the pigeon. "Sorry, I haven't learned the pigeon language, so I don't understand what you are saying."

"Coo, coo, coo~" The pigeon seemed to understand that the two sides could not communicate with each other verbally. It called a few times, flapped its wings, and then began to express itself with body language.

First, she posed in coquettish poses, then twisted her waist, followed by touching her head, then stretching her legs, and then using her two pairs of wings to draw exaggerated circles on her pectoralis major muscles, and finally made a motion similar to putting her hands together.

Ranna looked at the pigeon's body movements in amazement. Are the pigeons on Ivozhen Island so intelligent?

"Sir, what is it gesturing?" Ranna looked at Linde in confusion.

"There's a nun with a thin waist, animal ears, long legs and big breasts who wants it to come to me." Lind translated with a frown on his face.

"...your concubine?" Ran Na thought about it and soon remembered the fox beastman shaman who was not very beautiful but very attractive and made people want to fight.

"She is not my concubine, thank you." Lin De said with a frown, and added after thinking for a moment. "At least not for the time being..."

Seeing that Lind understood what he meant, the pigeon immediately flapped its wings and flew towards the island.

"Follow the pigeon, it will lead us to the meeting point." Linde ordered.

"Yes, sir!" Ranna immediately took the order, steered the rudder, and sailed in the direction where the pigeon flew.

How come this pigeon is so humane? Linde looked at the pigeon being guided in mid-air, with a lot of questions in his mind. Was it because Fran fucked it too much?

Under the guidance of the pigeons, everyone soon saw several beastmen hiding in the dark in the forest on the coast. After howling at them a few times, they turned around and went back to the forest to report.

Soon, the beastmen and other humans who were waiting to join the group ran out from the forest where they were hiding.

Since they didn't know if there were any reefs here, the transport ship couldn't go directly to the shore and had to launch small boats. Since there were only two small boats on the grain transport ship, it took several trips back and forth.

The first people to board the ship were Fran and Schnee. As soon as the little white ferret got on the ship, it flew towards Lind and gave him a fierce hug. Then it was attracted by the shaking deck and ran around on the deck, feeling very curious.

"Schnee! Don't run around! Be careful you'll get seasick!" Lind shouted to Schnee hurriedly.

"Your Highness, you really are like Schnee's father." Fran teased Lind upon seeing this.

Linde's eyes widened immediately, and he glared at Fran angrily. What do you mean!?

"You'll have to solve it by yourself from now on." Linde said with a cold face.

"I'm very sorry, Your Highness, I was wrong." Fran immediately admitted her mistake and begged for mercy from Lind in a standard tiger landing style. Although she was a weakling and could not keep up with the fighting power of the Son of God, there is a saying that scars are healed and the pain is forgotten, not to mention that this is a painful and happy thing.

"It won't happen again." Linde rolled his eyes.

"Was the battle plan successful?" Fran immediately got up, her expression changing faster than turning pages of a book.

"Of course." Lind said as a matter of course, and then looked at Ranna who was standing at the helm. "Ranna's plan was a great success."

"I was just fulfilling my duty as a lord and subject." Ranna said modestly. "The plan was able to succeed thanks to your bravery, especially yours truly. If you hadn't held back the Holy Grail Knight, my plan wouldn't have succeeded."

"It sounds like...something happened?" Fran raised her eyebrows.

"I guess so." Lind nodded. "Are all the people here? If so, let's go! Destination: Dundalk!"

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Jiyang IX is very angry now, very angry.

He announced in front of everyone that all the beastmen in the surrounding area had been cleared out, but then more beastmen appeared and destroyed the village in the east.

There was room for explanation for the harassment of one or two beastmen, such as the escaped fish in the cleanup, but the beastmen who destroyed an entire village camp could not be explained by the lone beastmen who escaped the cleanup. The only explanation was that they were not completely cleaned out.

This was simply a slap in the face of Jiyang IX, so the furious Jiyang IX personally led most of the troops to the east to personally wipe out the overlooked beastman tribe.

As a result, when they were halfway there and had not yet reached their destination, a piece of bad news reached Jiyang IX.

"What did you say!?" Ji Yang IX looked in shock at the light cavalry in front of him who were chasing him at full speed from the city of Vickro.

"The situation is completely true, Master Ji, Ji, Ji Yang IX." The light cavalry said breathlessly. "All our ships have been hijacked!"

Chapter 382 Now is the time

With a heart full of rage, Ji Yang IX led almost two-thirds of his troops to the village in the east, with the purpose of completely annihilating the beastman tribe that dared to embarrass him, leaving no one alive.

As a result, before they reached their destination, King Jiyang IX's anger took a 180-degree turn. A knight who had stayed in the city of Vickro rode a fast horse and caught up with King Jiyang IX and his party halfway.

In order to catch up with the team as quickly as possible, the knight went into battle lightly, without even a piece of armor on his body, only the most basic leather armor, and his only weapon was a knight's sword. Even so, the knight was exhausted and the horse was exhausted.

If they ran any further, the horse might be killed. For the Bartolan Knights, who valued horses very much, killing their horses was something they tried their best to avoid, but the situation was urgent and they could not care less.

When Ji Yang IX learned what had happened from the other party, his first reaction was disbelief.

"Impossible! Absolutely impossible!" Jiyang IX shouted angrily. "Isn't our ship parked safely at the port? How could it be hijacked?!"

"I swear to you on my honor as a knight! What I said is the truth!" The knight knelt on one knee and put his right fist on his chest. "Our ship was indeed hijacked!"

"You!" When people hear about an unexpected situation that is far beyond their imagination, their first reaction is almost always to refuse to believe and deny. The same is true for Guiyang IX. He even wanted to draw his sword and kill the knight who came to report it.

However, Fred, the eldest brother of the Holy Grail Knights, reacted immediately. Before Guillon IX's sword was about to be unsheathed, he immediately pressed down the sword, stopping the impulsive young knight from pointing the weapon at his colleagues.

"Please calm down, my lord." Fred held down Jiyang IX's hand and looked into his eyes. "At times like this, you should learn to control your anger instead of letting it control you."

"Dark gods are always looking for loopholes in our hearts." Fred emphasized at the end.

"...You are teaching me a lesson, Senior Fred." After being reminded, or taught a lesson by Fred, Ji Yang IX regained some of his composure and realized how impulsive and irrational his behavior just now was.

"You will become the Duke of Aquitaine in the future." Fred reminded him again, then released his hand that was holding the hilt of Guillon IX's sword.

"Thank you for your teachings, senior. I will keep them in mind." Jiyang IX nodded humbly. Even though he was the heir to the Duke, he had to show enough respect to the Holy Grail Knights. Especially since Jiyang IX was striving to become a Holy Grail Knight, Fred was like his ancestor. It was normal for him to accept the teachings of his ancestors.

"I apologize for my misbehavior just now." King Jiyang IX said to the knight in front of him. "Tell me in detail what happened in Vicro."

"Yes!" The knight nodded vigorously, and then reported what had happened to Jiyang IX.

Soon, the knight reported everything that happened in the city of Vickro to Jiyang IX and Fred who was beside Jiyang IX.

"All troops! Stop attacking the beastmen! Set off and return immediately!" After listening to the knight's report of the entire situation, King Jiyang IX ordered the entire army to return without any hesitation. Compared to the ship being hijacked, the beastmen looting the village camp was a completely insignificant matter.

Soon, Jiyang IX led all his troops and rushed back to the city of Vicro without stopping, and arrived at his loyal Vicro before dark.

"Lord George!" King Jiyang IX came to the dock as soon as possible, and George who stayed behind was also here. "What's the situation!?"

"Lord Guiyang IX..." George sat on a wooden barrel, his clothes still wet and not completely dry. "You can see for yourself."

As he spoke, George pointed dejectedly at the dock. The four ships that were originally docked there were all gone.

The lone cable on the wooden pile was the only proof that the ships had ever existed. Even though he knew what had happened, after seeing it, Ji Yang IX still felt a surge of blood and almost fainted.

"George, why didn't you stop the enemy?" Fred questioned his brother with a cold face.

"I'm so sorry, brother, I didn't stop them." George said guiltily.

"Did you try your best?"

"Of course I tried my best," George responded.

"But your efforts failed to stop the enemy!" said Guiyang IX angrily. "The Holy Grail on your emblem would be ashamed of you!"

According to the tradition of Batoran, when a knight becomes a Holy Grail Knight, he has the right to add the Holy Grail pattern to his emblem. In addition, no family or individual has the right to use the Holy Grail pattern, otherwise it will be considered blasphemy and will be personally punished and judged by the king.

George lowered his head in shame at Guillon IX's accusation, because it was also true that he did not stop the enemy.

"How many enemies are there?" Fred asked.

"Twenty-two people," George replied. "They are the group of refugees who claim to have returned from the village in the east. They are beastmen."

"Beastmen!" Jiyang IX was stunned, and then roared angrily: "These filthy and blasphemous creatures! They can't defeat us head-on! So they resort to these despicable means! They have no morals at all!"

"Only twenty-two people? All the boats were taken away?" Fred remained calm and found something suspicious.

"Yes, there were only twenty-two people. They only drove away one of the ships. The other three ships were cut by their cables and anchors, and then drifted away with the current."

"The Beastmen actually have such wisdom?" Fred also showed a shocked expression.

"And, brother, do you remember Kong Nan Hunter?"

"Remember, Kong Nan who never fell off his horse. He was a respectable warrior. What happened to him?"

"Among those beastmen, there is his son."

“…So that’s why he has never gotten married?” Like his younger brother, the older brother had the same misunderstanding.

"I don't care whether I will never fall off a horse or be ridden by a horse! No matter who he is! I will make him pay the price!" Jiyang IX shouted hysterically, and then walked towards Cardo who was checking something on the shore. "Master! I need the guidance of the Lady of the Lake!"

"...The goddess of the lake will give guidance to believers at the right time." Cardo said loudly after pondering for a moment.

"Now is the right time." Ji Yang IX said a little madly, with a flash of red in his eyes.

Chapter 383: Guidance from the Fairy in the Lake

The words of Jiyang IX attracted a lot of attention. All the knights who heard Jiyang IX's words were surprised.

King Jiyang IX actually spoke to the messenger of the Lady of the Lake in such a commanding tone!

God is supreme and omnipotent. Believers can pray to God and ask Him for strength. God will indeed respond to believers' prayers or requests, but believers can never ask God to do anything.

In this world, there are many gods and many believers. Different believers have slightly different attitudes and perceptions towards the gods they believe in. But no matter which religion, believers are not allowed to actively ask gods or their messengers to do anything.

Don't ask what God can do for you, but ask yourself what you can do for God. This is what almost all religious organizations require of their believers.

It feels like PUA...

In short, in Batoran, no knight would take the initiative to ask the Lady of the Lake or her messenger to do anything, because it was a great disrespect. Even the kings of Batoran in all generations did so. But at this time, Jiyang IX broke the rules.

The knights realized the problem in Jiyang IX's words, but they had no intention of correcting him because of the difference in status. Among the knights present, the only two who were qualified to teach Jiyang IX a lesson were the Morgan brothers. In fact, the younger brother of the two brothers had already frowned, ready to point out Jiyang IX's mistakes.

But Fred stopped George, the older brother grabbed his younger brother's shoulders and shook his head gently at him.

"I need the guidance of the Lady of the Lake, now, immediately, and immediately." Jiyang IX excitedly ordered Cardo. "I came here under her guidance, and her devout followers need her guidance now!"

The tone of Jiyang IX was not polite at all, but a commanding tone. No one in Batoran dared to speak to the messenger of the Lady of the Lake in this way.

Cardo was not angry at Jiyang IX's rude questioning. Instead, he looked at the flash of red in Jiyang IX's eyes, with the corners of his mouth slightly raised.

Because of the angle, only Cardo could see the strangeness in Jiyang IX's eyes. The red flashed by, like the reflection of the fire, but Cardo knew very well that it was not the reflection of the fire.

"If you insist..." Cardo stood up and dusted off his robe. "Please follow me, we will find a lake."

"!" The knights were all stunned, and then they all reacted, and followed Cardo with surprise and excitement.

Cardo rode on his rainbow unicorn, Guillon IX rode on his BMW, and the Morgan brothers rode on their mixed-blood horses and followed Cardo. Before leaving, the elder Morgan brother ordered the remaining knights to clean up the battlefield, maintain order, and especially protect the remaining food.

Passing through the dirty and garbage-like civilian residential area, a group of four horses ran into the forest outside the city and soon arrived at a lake.

The lake was not very big, and it would be more appropriate to call it a pool rather than a lake. After arriving at the destination, Cardo was the first to dismount and walked to the edge of the pool.

The other three dismounted one after another and followed Cardo, with expressions of admiration and longing on their faces.

"We're here," Cardo said. "Please wait a moment."

After saying that, Cardo took out the stack of cards from his pocket, pulled out a card and held it in his hand.

Guiyang IX once curiously asked what that deck of cards was, to which Cardo replied that it was his holy weapon, and then he didn't say anything more.

Jiyang IX once wanted to borrow it to have a look, but was politely but firmly rejected by Cardo. Not only that, every time Cardo used it, he would specially adjust the position to prevent anyone from peeking at the pattern on the card from any angle. Others could only see the magical gradient color on the back of the card.

Holding the card in his hand, Cardo murmured something that no one else could hear. Soon, a blue and green light appeared on the surface of the pool in front of him.

A tall, beautiful female figure with long golden hair, emerald green eyes, a grass wreath on her head, and a white dress emerged from the water. Although she came out of the water, there was not a single stain on her body.

The three knights present all held their breath involuntarily, and the two Holy Grail Knights even knelt on one knee on the ground and lowered their noble heads.

The reason is simple, because the figure that appeared is the fairy of the lake, the incarnation of the goddess of the lake.

Jiyang IX did not kneel, but focused on the beautiful figure of the fairy in the lake, especially her bare feet. The fairy in the lake stood on the lake as if she was standing on flat ground.

Looking at the beautiful pair of bare feet, Ji Yang IX swallowed subconsciously.

"Who is calling me?" The fairy of the lake spoke, her voice was elegant and beautiful, like a cheerful lark in the depths of the forest.

"It's me, the respected Lady of the Lake, the agent of the Lady of the Lake." Cardo saluted the Lady of the Lake. "I am a lost believer of the Lady of the Lake, entrusted by King Jiyang IX, and I want to get guidance from the Lady of the Lake."

"Is it you?" The fairy in the lake nodded and looked directly at Ji Yang IX.

"That's right!" Guillon IX took a step forward, knelt on one knee excitedly, and looked up at the beautiful face of the Fairy of the Lake with excitement. "I am one of the Twelve Holy Knights of Bartolan, a descendant of Armand of Aquitaine. Following the guidance of the Lady of the Lake, I am completing my Holy Grail Trial!"