Headshot Wizard - Chapter 230

Chapter 230 The Oath Under the Iron Tree (Five Thousand Words!)

With the sound of the old voice, the crowd voluntarily separated into an open road.

Two columns of guards, armed with spears and shields, stood on both sides of the team with serious expressions.

An old man in a scarlet cloak walked towards the square in a stride.

There are ravine-like wrinkles on his face, but his eyes are full of energy, his footsteps are steady and strong, and he walked over step by step.

When everyone saw the old man’s appearance, the crowd couldn’t help but burst into cheers!

They couldn’t help waving their hands and feet, their eyes widening.

“Old City Lord!”

“It’s Lord City Lord!”

“The Lord of the City is cured!”

If it hadn’t been for the two columns of guards to forcibly maintain order on the scene, I’m afraid the overly excited crowd would have already rushed in front of the old man.

A smile appeared on the old man’s face, and he waved to the people of Baicheng on both sides.

As he passed the edge of the square, an old woman carrying a basket said hoarsely: “It’s been more than two years, you finally got out of that palace.”

The old man stood still, crossed the guards maintaining order, and embraced the old woman with one hand.

“I’m sorry, but I survived. This is a good thing, isn’t it?” the old man said loudly.

The old woman trembled and said with tears, “Of course, it’s a good thing.”

…

When the old man stepped on the high platform, the people present erupted with 10,000 times enthusiastic voices to celebrate the healthy return of their city lord.

On the other side, Lance and others gathered together. After Lance killed the magician, the Light Swordsman summoned by Lockhart also disappeared automatically.

Landry took Scarlett’s hand, and Valerie supported the nun. The two sisters cried with joy for the rest of their lives.

Scarlett wiped away her tears, pointed at the old man on the high platform, and said tenderly: “This old man gave me that book. He said I have talent.”

“Huh? So…” Lance glanced at the old man, but said a little strangely: “This old city lord is very old, but he doesn’t have any magic power on him. How could he see that the little guy has become a wizard? Talent?”

“When we kill the magician in the temple, this old man suddenly pops up, isn’t this old man too hypocritical?” Landry said contemptuously: “It is obvious that the people of this country and even those in power are very concerned about the temple. Dissatisfied. It’s just that they don’t have the power to fight against the mysterious power of the temple, so they have been dormant. We saved people out of good intentions. Who would have thought that they would become a bargaining chip in the hands of these abominable politicians.”

“Don’t be too arbitrary, Landry.” Dora said suddenly, “I can feel that this old city lord is not very human.”

At this moment, the old man on the high platform swept across the audience. Thousands of people in the entire square immediately calmed down.

They flushed with excitement. Every citizen of Baicheng will not easily forget the great achievements that the old city owner has made for Baicheng in his life.

“Everyone,” the old man said loudly, “I don’t know what the temple has done in these years. It’s just that time is devouring my body. Three years ago, my health began to deteriorate so much that I lay all day long. In the gloomy room, I don’t know the sky is dim. As a city lord, I have to admit one thing with shame: that is me and us, under the huge influence of Yueqin Temple, gradually losing control of this city. ”

“My children are gathered by the temple. Their short eyes cannot see the future of the city. They have done a lot of evil deeds in the city under the guise of me. This is my sin, the pain-losing loved ones, Being killed by unwarranted charges and so on-it is not something you should bear.”

“The souls of the innocent people who died because of this questioned me day and night in my nightmare, why are they so cowardly?”

“My heart told me that I should have stood up long ago.” The old man said excitedly, “But I didn’t!”

“I’m sorry for being so late. I don’t want to make excuses for myself, and I don’t expect you to forgive me for not doing anything. The mission on my back forces me to linger and bear the humiliation. And in this process, there are too many Kind and upright people have suffered. The only thing I can do is to pray for them and silently pray for the city. This is the behavior of a coward. But in order to complete that mission, I can only be silent, I can only wait.”

“Finally, I lived to wait until this day. Maybe you don’t understand the meaning of my words-but it doesn’t matter…”

The more the old man spoke, the more excited he became, and he even became a little incoherent.

His face flushed, and the skin on his face trembled: “Anyway, I now announce that I’m going to fucking Yueqin Temple!”

“Thirty years ago, I allowed the temple to be stationed in Baicheng because they came from the east with friendship and medicine that can cure the plague.”

“Now, I don’t allow any priest of Yueqin Temple to stay in my city and my territory! Because they have brought us endless oppression and cruelty!”

“The City Lord’s Guard follows the order! From now on, expel all the temple personnel! Before the first ray of the sun shines into Baicheng tomorrow, I don’t want to find anyone from the Yueqin Temple in my territory!”

Accompanied by the old man’s command, a tall knight suddenly appeared more and more, kneeling to take the command.

The knight shouted, and two teams of knights quickly left the square. Outside the palace on the mountain, another squadron of knights quickly followed, and the leading knights gathered into a torrent and rushed to the temple on the mountainside.

A loud cheer erupted in the square.

“Damn the temple, finally gone!” The young man who had been crying and crying loudly cheered.

Others also celebrated each other, and the atmosphere in the square gradually changed from grief to surprise, and from surprise to surprise.

However, there are also voices of opposition in the crowd: “Are we just burying our faith like this?”

“The temple teaches us to distinguish between right and wrong, and to guide us in the way we are going astray. We cannot fall.”

“The great Yueqin goddess will be furious because of this. Then what should Baicheng do to resist the anger of the gods?”

Those are some radical religious elements, most of them are young people.

The square suddenly became quiet, and everyone looked at the old man on the high platform.

Looking at the confused young people, the old city lord said slowly: “We have not buried our faith. The faith of the people of Baicheng has always been based on the firm will of the most basic human virtues such as integrity, kindness, justice, and compassion. It’s not the shrine’s distorted and superstitious worship. In this world, except your mother, no one can teach you to distinguish between good and evil, and neither can God. When we’re lost, we look for our own direction instead of relying on other people’s guidance.”

“We have been saying that when you are judging a person, don’t suffer too much outside interference. Your heart will tell you whether this person is good or bad, good or evil.”

“So, as the great wizard said, Baicheng doesn’t need a temple.”

Everyone’s eyes were immediately attracted to the place where the old man’s finger pointed. Lance stood there with a humble smile and nodded gently.

“wizard?”

“Are these people the legendary wizards who can travel through time and space and are as great as gods?”

“It is said that our white city was also built by a great wizard.”

“These wizards are really powerful, and even Lockhart, who has the blessing of the gods, is not their opponent.”

Amidst the hustle and bustle of the crowd, all kinds of discussions came. These mortals had a great affection for Lance, who killed the priest Lockhart, because of their aversion to the temple. When they saw Scarlett next to Lance, this kind of affection rose a bit.

The old man’s gaze crossed Lance and fell on Dora.

His deep eyes suddenly became extremely complicated.

The atmosphere in the square gradually calmed down.

Suddenly, the old man walked to the high platform without warning and came in front of a group of people.

“What does this old man want to do?” Landry frowned. Although the old man’s speech was full of voice, this guy was a preconceived person. Once he determined that the old town lord was acting, he would not change his impression.

Everyone held their breath, they looked at the old city lord curiously.

The old man walked step by step, ignoring the others, always falling on Dora.

He stopped five steps away from Dora, and tremblingly took out a book from his arms.

In the next second, the breathing of the five people, especially Dora, suddenly became hurried.

I saw the book in the hands of the old man, it was the [Book of Revelation] with a silver cover!

It was almost exactly the same as the one in Dora’s hand.

“You…” Dora was speechless in surprise.

She hesitated for a moment, and in the old man’s encouraging eyes, she also took out her own book of enlightenment.

In an instant, the two books immediately resonated unspeakably.

The faint silver brilliance seemed to be rippling ripples, centered on the two books of revelation, rippling in circles.

The old man smiled slightly and let go of his hand.

The book of revelation in his hand suddenly flew up into the air, turning into a thin pamphlet on one side, and suddenly blending into the book of revelation in Dora’s hand.

The next second, the silver light mastered.

The two books are combined into one, and the thickness is slightly increased.

“This is… the second volume?”

Dora opened the book with difficulty, and some words that had never been seen before appeared one by one.

At this moment, the old man suddenly knelt down.

Everyone was shocked, and immediately he raised his head with tears in his eyes:

“Eighty years… Eighty years…”

“I finally waited for you, Miss Dora.”

“My mission has finally come to an end.”

The old man cried bitterly, and Dora was completely embarrassed.

When she realized that she wanted to help the old man up, she found that the old man’s body became stiff and turned to the side.

Everyone was shocked, Lance rushed up and checked for a while.

He took a look at the place where the old man had been covering with his right hand, and saw that there was a deep bone scar on the right side of his lower abdomen.

A lot of blood poured out from inside. The old man’s right hand was already covered with blood.

“He has been covering such a wound and speaking on stage?”

Landry, who had been watching the old man displeased his eyes, also showed a look of surprise.

Lance looked up: “Dora!”

The latter reacted immediately, took out a white healing stone and handed it over.

There was a mess in the square.

The crowd’s anxious shouts, and the knights’ orders to maintain order were mixed together, as if the entire Baicheng was experiencing an unprecedented earthquake.

…

In the middle of the night, after a day of chaos, most of the people in Baicheng have fallen asleep physically and mentally.

A few knights are still working non-stop, and they will detain those who voluntarily leave the temple for later review. The rest were deported unceremoniously. Although the guardian knights of the temple were showing off in the city, they suddenly lost their power and prestige in front of the more elite city guards, and they could only flee away with their tails in sullen form.

Due to the loss of the backbone of Lockhart, Yueqin Temple does not have a second magician in the branch of Baicheng, so the work of the knights is going very smoothly.

Less than midnight, all the temple personnel were cleared out of the city. They will be driven east by the knights without rest until they cross the cold mountain pass in the northeast.

There is the only entrance to the entire Sovaha and the outside world. The [Country of Storms] where the headquarters of the Yueqin Temple is located is on the other side of the Hanshan Pass.

On the third floor of the Santo’s Palace, on a protruding platform. The high moon hung in the sky, and the two figures were leaning against the railing, with their backs facing each other.

“It’s hard to imagine that people who are as optimistic and cheerful as you can sometimes cannot fall asleep.”

Lance leaned against the railing, feeling the strong mountain breeze, and said softly.

Dora on one side is wearing a long white dress and holding a goblet with one-third of the red wine in it.

She smiled: “I’m also surprised that a wizard like Mr. Lance who has always been calm and determined will wander idly in the middle of the night.”

“Calm and resolute? Actually, what you are thinking about is [cold and rigid], right?” Lance smiled self-deprecatingly, but he did not continue to dwell on this topic:

“How is Mr. Lawrence?”

Dora replied: “There is no life-threatening. But still a little weak. After all, he is an ordinary person. After being hit by his own son with a dagger, it is not easy to support it for so long after a simple dressing.”

“Speaking of which, Mr. Lawrence’s experience is really embarrassing… I heard that he only has these three children?” Lance sighed.

“Yeah.” Dora thought for a while, and said, “The eldest son and eldest daughter fled immediately after Lockhart was killed by you. They should have fled to the country of storm where the temple is. As for the younger son, it is because He failed to assassinate the city lord and was detained.”

“The three children conspired to kill their old father. This kind of drama is really miserable.” Lance shrugged.

“In fact, it is not the case. Just now, Lawrence told me many things while he was awake.” Dora smiled helplessly: “He told me that the three children were actually not his own.”

“Uh… none of them?” Lance was a little surprised.

“It’s true.” Dora said with a wry smile: “These three children were born of affair with some of Lawrence’s wives and other people in the city. The eldest son should be Lockhart’s, and the other two, He doesn’t know it himself.”

“This…this is too sad, right? Is it possible that he guessed wrong? One of them is his own?” Lance didn’t know how to describe it.

“In fact, Lawrence is 130 years old this year.” Dora said: “A hundred years ago, he followed my grandfather across the ocean. When he came to this land, he was only 30 years old.”

“My grandfather asked him to take a secret medicine that can greatly extend his lifespan. However, the price of this secret medicine is total loss of fertility. So, you understand.”

“That’s it.” Lance suddenly realized.

He cast his gaze under the platform, the old tree deeply rooted in front of the palace gate.

“Mr. Lawrence back then, did you swear to your grandfather under this iron tree?” Lance stared at the old iron tree, slightly surprised.

“The result is eighty years. Human obsession, sometimes when I think of it, it is really moving.”

“Sometimes, only by obsessing with certain things can you feel the value of your existence.” Dora sighed softly, “My grandfather gave him Quinn’s surname under that iron tree. So strict In fact, I am not the last person in the Quinn family.”

“Congratulations.” Lance changed his position and leaned against the railing. “Any news from your grandpa?”

“There are some. But not complete. Lawrence told me that my grandfather had entered the Sivare Castle in the west of Sowaha alone, with the golden sword. The text that appeared on the book of revelation was encrypted. Only a second-level wizard can interpret it.” Dora frowned and said, “I guess, there may be some dangerous things in the castle, and only a second-level wizard can deal with it.”

“There is no second-level wizard between us. What are you going to do?” Lance asked.

“It will be there soon.” Dora smiled mysteriously: “My grandpa left me something.”

After that, she drank the wine in the glass in one gulp and turned to leave.

As she passed Lance, she stopped slightly: “By the way, tomorrow night, Lawrence will prepare a sumptuous dinner for us; of course, for us, the focus is on things after the dinner. Please believe me, that is. What every wizard dreams of.”

“Then I’ll wait and see.” Lance shrugged.

Dora’s footsteps moved from near to far, and gradually from far to near.

Lance was a little surprised, but instead of turning around, he asked in a low voice: “What’s the matter?”

Suddenly, a layer of soft skin pressed against his back. His body temperature rose slightly.

“Nothing, just a hug before going to bed.” The girl’s voice was slightly sly.

“From another motivation, I am also looking for an answer.”

“If you say that your voice can become hoarse because of falsehood, you might feel that you are deceiving yourself… but a real hug will not deceive me.”

“Thank you, Lance.”

“Thank you……”

“Mr. Hooded Man.”