Unable to shirk Leoric's invitation, Todd sat in front of the chessboard and looked at the chess pieces in front of him. What he thought was the situation in the Holy Acropolis, and he didn't know how to place the pieces for a while.

Leoric looked at the opponent, slowly put down the chess pieces in his hand, and slowly said, "My boy, I want to thank you."

Todd looked up in surprise: "Thank me?"

Leoric sighed: "Since the day my daughter got married, I have never spoken to her again. But this morning, Mary suddenly came to me and said that she wanted to see someone... that person is you. "

Todd suddenly started to explain the relationship between the two: "I and her..."

Leoric reached out his hand to stop him, and said with a smile: "I don't want to know what happened between you. What I know is that Mary is in the Holy Acropolis and has a trusted friend. That's enough. NS."

Hearing what the other party said, Todd gave up his intention to explain and fell silent instead.

Leoric raised his head and looked at the blue sky, threw the chess pieces in his hand into the chessboard, and stood up with difficulty: "It's rare to have such a good weather. It's too wasteful to play chess. Take a walk with me, an old guy. Bar."

Only after taking the first step, the aging joints and weak muscles made Leoric's legs soft and almost fell to the ground.

Todd sprinted forward quickly, reaching out his hand to help him, but unexpectedly Leoric pushed his hand away and whispered, "Don't touch me! I can go!"

The murderous aura possessed by the long-term sand-soaked place and the majesty manifested in the upper position made Todd look at Leoric for an instant, as if he really saw a fierce beast that was chosen and devoured in a trance.

Seeing the astonishment on Todd's face, Leoric shook his head helplessly and said in a low voice: "Sorry, the vigilance regardless of occasion has already destroyed my manners. Please forgive me for the unintentional mistake of this old man."

Leoric walked tremblingly, recalling, saying: "When I was young, I used to travel to the south. I rode a horse, all the way to the southernmost part of the parish, and stepped onto an endless prairie. A group of lions was seen there."

"There is a lion king in the group of lions. He is majestic and imposing. He dominates the most beautiful territory on that grassland. There, it has the right to enjoy food first, choose a spouse first, and control the life and death of all creatures. "Leoric crouched, stretched out his wrinkled hands, and gently stroked the blooming flowers in spring: "But the lion king will be old one day after all. His teeth fell off one by one, and his claws It started to become dull, and even his roar with pride became hoarse and weak."

Todd listened to the old king with thoughts.

"The lion king’s sons began to challenge authority time and time again. They snatched food from their father’s mouth and disobeyed everything their father asked. Weak and eager to move, they found the Lion King’s sons, and began to plan how to embezzle the land and food. Finally, one day, the Lion King fell to the ground under the bite of his sons and accomplices. Less than a day’s work, Its corpse was swallowed by a vulture, and its bones slowly sank into the ground. No animal remembers that there was once such a lion king who smashed the grassland."

Leoric stopped in front of a sculpture, looked at the majestic and majestic king sculpture in front of him, and said with emotion, "Child, do you remember what I said to you last time? Aging is the most terrifying thing in the world. The horror of things does not lie in the pain and torture of the body, but lies in the fact that you watch everything and lose it bit by bit in front of you, but you have no power to fight back."

Leoric turned around and looked straight into Todd's eyes: "The Holy Acropolis is a huge killing field. Intrigue, conspiracy, and deceit, have already turned this city into a hell. But. There is only one exception, she is my daughter Mary..."

Leoric took a step towards Todd: "I have isolated Mary from this filthy world since she was born. I forbid her to enter the war of power, and forcibly keep her away from those treacherous people with ulterior motives. When she was still young, she married her to a rich place as soon as possible, in order to let him leave here as soon as possible."

"But she doesn't understand my pains." A painful look flashed in Leoric's eyes: "She thought I had imprisoned her freedom, set her life without authorization, and pushed her into the fire pit. ...But she never understood what I meant..."

"That child has only trusted two people since childhood, one is my sister Tania, and the other is my wife Jima. But both of them have passed away. I thought she would never be there anymore in this world. Someone to rely on...until she came to me this morning and told me about your existence."

Todd wondered in his heart, what did Mary say to her father this morning to make this old king trust herself so much?

Leoric took out a small brooch from his arms and put it in Todd's hand, lowered his voice, and solemnly said: "This brooch is a talisman for avoiding disaster and protecting life. I am now Give it to you. Remember! A week later, the Holy Acropolis will hold a successor election ceremony. When you attend the ceremony, you must wear this amulet!"

Todd lowered his head and glanced at the brooch in his hand. Both the style and the weight were the same as Mary's.

Leoric waved his hand: "Child, go, and may Heavenly Father bless you and me."

With the sound of the heavy iron gate turning, Todd walked out of the backyard and looked back at the cold castle in the sun when an inexplicable coolness passed through his body.

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Soul space, research institute meeting room.

Rachel turned the 3D modeling drawing of the holy Acropolis brooch and watched it for a long time without saying a word.

"How about it, have you seen this kind of thing?" Todd asked puzzledly while drinking the iced Coke in his hand.

Rachel looked at Todd and asked, "You mean, after Mary removes this brooch from her chest, you can connect with her soul?"

"Yes."

Todd called out the last segment of the meeting between himself and Leoric, and when he heard the other person mentioning words such as "avoid disaster", "amulet", "must wear" and so on, he said in a puzzled way: "It sounds, The role of this brooch, in addition to isolating the ability to contact, can also play a protective role."

Richel took a closer look, and finally gave an answer: "This may be a rare material in the Presbyterian Confinement-Magic Magnetic Crystal~lightnovelpub.net~ Todd rubbed it. Rubbing his eyebrows: "Magic...what the hell? Can you explain it? "

Rachel said with some uncertainty: "I don't know this substance too well. Generally, only the high-ranking ranks of the Dispute Legion have the right to use it. It is mainly used to imprison powerful alien species, and is generally used when arresting or escorting prisoners. ."

Todd looked at the brooch in the 3D model and asked, "Do you know how this item works?"

Richel shook his head: "I only know that this kind of object has a strong magnetic field, which can interfere with the release of the abilities in the heterogeneous body. I am afraid I don't know anything else."

Todd frowned, "How much is this substance in the Presbyterian Church?"

"You want to ask, has the magic magnet crystals been mass-produced, right?" Rachel smiled and shook his head: "This kind of thing is very precious. Every time a Legion soldier uses it, he needs to ask the elder for it. Because the magic Only the elders know where the magnetic crystals are stored..."

Todd heard Rachel's voice getting lower and lower, and couldn't help asking strangely: "What's the matter?"

Rachel raised his head, the expression on his face was never before, and even with a bit of panic: "Among the three elders, Clarence is dead, and the remaining two elders, one is in the holy city of the east, We are dealing with a difficult task with the head of the Dispute Legion. Naturally, it is impossible to take out the magic magnet crystals from the headquarters. Then, the source of these magic magnets can only be the remaining elder..."

"The remaining elder?"

"Eleanor." When Rachel said the name, Todd noticed her body trembling constantly.

"We call her the "mother god" again."

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