Throne Steps

Chapter 184 Seems to be an old friend

The sky is bright and the sun is shining, and the mountain breeze is gentle.

The five-yearly blessing grace is coming, and the people in the Ainuma Temple are getting busy.The clergy and believers carried all kinds of things back and forth, and the children in the choir class finished their lessons and sat in twos and threes in the atrium to practice.

In such an ordinary day, an extremely rare scene suddenly changed the warm atmosphere.

Riding boots lightly stepped on the marble, a uniform with black bottom and gold trim was added to the body, and a whole team of black swans turned out from the other end of the corridor.As always, they were either expressionless, cold-eyed, or cynical, but their usually restrained momentum was uncharacteristically full.Its evil spirit is like a black cloud pressing down on the city, making people almost suffocate; its hostility is like a sharp knife out of its sheath, forcing people's heart to beat violently.For a moment, it seemed that everyone was frozen, and could only watch the black swan flying proudly with its wings spread.

Coincidentally, a picture mentioned in all the black swan legends in the world appeared in people's minds - a dark team came holding the head.

Even the female officials and attendants in black-edged white dresses seemed to have lost their usual gentleness and amiability, and became solemn.

The team went straight to the three sitting on the edge of the atrium corridor.Except for these three people, everyone else hid far away, a little scared, and wanted to explore.

The only familiar face among the three of them——Yang Xiaoxiao, stared at Li Chen approaching in a daze. She didn't recover until Li Chen lowered his eyes and looked at her for two seconds.

"Ah, this, this is..." The girl immediately jumped up and introduced to the two sitting beside her, "A member of the Black Swan, Li Chen."

The two people who were just turning their heads to make a movement, actually stood up immediately when they heard the words.

"I'm Cui Lin, and I'm conveying greetings from His Majesty."

They lowered their heads slightly, lowered their eyes and spoke softly to Li Chen.Although the expression was not very respectful, it was already very respectful and polite.

They are tall and tall, even taller than Li Chen, but they don't look oppressive even in such a close place; their faces look quite ordinary, but Li Chen knows that this is definitely the result of the transformation potion.

He replied with standard etiquette: "Please also convey my greetings to Your Majesty."

No one behind the black swan knew who "Your Majesty" was referring to, but no one showed any doubts on their expressions.Li Chen then introduced the important members of Black Swan to the two guests: "This is one of the leaders of Black Swan, Clement."

Akye Clement used to walk on the blade, even though he has restrained a lot now, he still cannot escape the vicious eyes of the guests.They should be disgusted by this naked smell of blood, but their expressions did not reveal a trace, but there was a flash of strangeness in their eyes.

Li Chen pretended not to see it. He couldn't control the two guests. He turned his body in another direction and introduced: "This is the other person in charge of the Black Swan, Fudsi Borgia."

The eyes of the two guests swept across Fudexi's face, they were taken aback for a moment, and then scanned again carefully.

The person behind leaned close to Cui Lin's ear and whispered a few words.

Cui Lin's eyes flickered immediately, and he looked at Fudexi seriously again, and approached: "...'Borgia'?"

Li Chen was also taken aback.

Cui Lin said "Borgia", but he didn't say "Borgia".The pronunciation he spoke from the tip of his tongue was mellow and wonderful, strange but gorgeous, and Li Chen subconsciously guessed what language it was.

Yang Xiaoxiao understood, she looked at Fudexi suspiciously.

Fudexi also understood, but he pretended not to understand.

"'Borgia'!" Cui Lin didn't need an answer, his expression showed his certainty, and he took two steps towards Fudesi, "You are Borgia's...! We..."

Fudesi backed away, and replied in standard Raetia's common language: "You recognized the wrong person."

"Whether you admit your mistake or not, there is a way to confirm it." Cui Lin stretched out his hand, wanting to grab Fudexi's wrist involuntarily.Seeing the sudden light of the light magic, Li Chen realized that the guest who suddenly lost his etiquette was going to use a "sharp sword" to poke into Fudexi's "death spot", and immediately wanted to stop it.Faster than him is the iron fist of the female warrior Yulia!

Yulia's fist almost went straight for Cui Lin's wrist, Cui Lin had to dodge such an obvious attack.But his next step is to stay away from Yulia and point at Fudsi to cast light magic!

Li Chen's little Fang Jing and Khorkina's magic arrived at the same time, breaking up the little light magic.

lang lang lang——

The sound of Jinshi also sounded instantly, fighting spirit and magic power burst out.The fighting spirit of the Black Swan members is high, all weapons have been unsheathed, and soldiers are facing each other!

Li Chen raised his hand to signal Black Swan to pause first, and stand in front of Cui Lin, even though he couldn't survive Cui Lin's five rounds of attack.

But his momentum is not weak.

"Calm down, my dear guest." He turned his head and glanced at Fudsi, then turned back to Cui Lin.

"It seems that there is a story to tell, why don't you sit down and let the person who is loyal to Fudexi - me, listen to it?"

In the study room, only Lichen, Fudexi and two guests were sitting. A pot of scented tea was placed on the table, and light smoke rose from the teacup.

Furdhi sat on the side sofa, still wearing the black swan uniform, but his back was not completely straight.He leaned against the back of the chair, half-cast his eyes, his eyes were unfocused, and he didn't know what he was thinking.

He is the "son of the curse", and of course people will be curious about his story.

Even Rock Eagle's head Otar and deputy head Kaga, who happened to know about Fudexi's situation, didn't know who he was before and why he carried such a shocking curse.

Li Chen never asked in detail, he wanted to wait for Fudexi to confess before he was ready. Although "Son of the Curse" sounds scary, after all, Li Chen is not only his "master", but also the only suspected "necromancer" who can treat him at present, and Fudexi seems to have nothing to worry about.

It's just that he didn't expect that his true origin would be suddenly revealed on such an ordinary day.

What was even more unexpected was that Fudexi actually hid a secret that was on the same level as the "Son of the Curse".

"Hey?! No, wait a minute..." Li Chen interrupted, "You mean, clansman?!"

He rarely opened his eyes wide, and his eyes turned back and forth on Cui Lin and Fu Dexi.He tried to find some commonalities between the two, but he didn't know if it was because the guests' transformation potions were too effective, or because Fudexi and them really had nothing in common... In short, Li Chen didn't see that they were of the same family.

I have seen the average situation in your territory, and I know all about Fudexi, there is a huge difference between the two, okay?Li Chen thought to himself.He looked at Fudexi, wanting to find an answer, but Fudexi remained in that posture, motionless.

When Fudexi didn't respond to Li Chen, Li Chen couldn't find anyone else to discuss with, so he could only continue to wonder.

"To be precise, they are not completely clan members." Cui Lin seemed to be answering for Li Chen, "Because the mother of 'Fodexi'...is a human being."

Hey, this is not a storybook novel... Li Chen felt that he had accidentally encountered the secret of another family, and there was always an inexplicable sense of tension in his heart.

And Fudexi finally spoke the first words since entering the study.

He said coldly, "I am human."

"You're not." Cui Lin looked at him and said calmly, "At least not all of them.

"You can never deny that your father is an elf."

At the same time, a city somewhere in the Raetia Alliance.

Because there are temples in this city that can hold ceremonies, Fuzhao Grace is getting closer, and more and more groups of people come here.The strong festive atmosphere makes everything look joyful. People come and go on the street, the shouts of vendors, the performances of buskers, and the chatting and laughing of passers-by are all mixed together lively.

Among the endless crowd, a man in a dark brown cloak stopped in front of a bookstall.

He looked a little strange, a little gloomy, and a little out of place with the surrounding atmosphere.But the stall owner has seen customers and passers-by with various personalities, and he still greeted him enthusiastically: "Good afternoon! I have all kinds of good-looking story books, novels, picture albums and anecdotes and legends here. Would you like to buy one at To relieve boredom on the road?"

The cloaked man didn't answer, he reached out and picked up one of them.Although the stall owner couldn't see his face, he glanced at his hand holding the book - there were many wrinkles and his complexion was not very shiny, he should be an elderly person.

"Oh, you really have a vision!" The stall owner put aside his guesses and continued to sell his book, "The one in your hand is the latest book, you have heard about the three books that suddenly appeared at the auction a while ago. Is it rare and rare? This book is about that!"

He said it mysteriously, but the cloaked man seemed to have never heard of it.He flipped the pages casually, clattering, and then stopped at a page with illustrations.

A tree-shaped ornament is drawn in the center of the picture. To be precise, it is drawn to float in mid-air.Other than that, it doesn't look like anything out of the ordinary.Perhaps in order to fill in the ordinaryness of the picture, the matching text next to it describes the tree in a hype, as if there is nothing in the sky and nothing on the earth.It's a pity that most of the rhetoric is too empty to make people imagine what this thing really looks like.

The man in the cloak suddenly laughed twice, his voice was low and hoarse, showing a hint of old age.

"Teacher, I have bought what you want."

A handsome man squeezed through the crowd and walked up to the cloaked man.He glanced at the book in the cloaked man's hand and asked, "Do you want to buy it?"

The man in the cloak finally opened his mouth. He handed the book to the young man and pointed to the picture: "Do you know whose work this is?"

His voice was really not very pleasant, but the book stall owner still pricked up his ears—could this man know the truth!

The man looked at it, shook his head and smiled bitterly: "I have been practicing with you, and I haven't paid attention to these news."

The man in the cloak smiled, turned and left, and said, "Get ready, we are going to participate in the Grace of Sunshine."

"Huh? Wait!" The man returned the book to the stall owner and smiled apologetically at him, then raised his legs to catch up with the cloak, "Participate in the Grace of Lighting? Is it held in this city?"

"No, go north, let's go to the 'Swan Tower'."

"'Swan Tower'... Do you mean the Ainuma Temple where the black swan is rumored to be stationed?" The man quickly followed behind the cloak, and it took a lot of work to avoid being left behind. "May I ask?" , why are you going there?"

The cloak smiled twice: "Going to see an old friend... maybe not one."

"Old friend?" The man has followed the cloak for so long, and he has never heard that the other party has friends, and it is the first time he heard that he is going to meet an "old friend".

"Yes... old man." The cloak paused, glanced sideways at the man who was following him, and his tone suddenly became a little meaningful, or strange.

"Maybe it's also your old friend, Aideren."

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