The winter sky always looks a little dark, the solitary bird is flying south, and there are two calls from time to time in the sky.

Luoshuang City, located in Haibei Province, is in the southernmost part of the Sistine Empire.

This is a clean town, and just like its name, it is in a state of frost and snow all the year round.

In this desolate winter day, it is even more cold.

On the outskirts of Luoshuang City, where the principle town is located, there is a building of a large scale, and it is difficult to say what style it is.

It seems like the result of the collision between Eastern and Western cultures. The design of the courtyard is Gothic style, and there is a statue of the Goddess of Morning Embrace. The several main buildings in the center seem to be out of tune with this era, like the legendary temple in the Lost Era.

A young boy of about seventeen or eighteen years old, with a strong body, sitting on the courtyard wall, looking at the lonely bird in the sky, the cold wind blowing on his cheeks and his splendid short golden hair, it seems that his brows are stained with a hint of frost.

If you look closely, you will find that the young man's face and the part covered under the collar have inconspicuous dark blue. He was dazed for a while and sighed. .

Other teenagers passing by saw him sitting on the wall, and said hello, "The tail of the crane, why are you still in a daze? Do you want to continue to be beaten in the afternoon?"

Hearing the words of his peers, the boy looked a little unnatural, jumped off the courtyard wall, jumped to the other side, and left in despair.

His name is Clement Oral, the second son of the Oral family.

The Oral family, whose ancestors once had a duke, was not hereditary, but the descendants were still able to live up to their expectations. In this generation, the current patriarch also has the title of a marquis in the empire, and controls real power, and is considered a popular figure.

If Clement was born, he could be regarded as the young master of a big family, but he did not enjoy the feasting in the royal capital. Instead, he was sent to Luoshuang City when he was seven years old, and came to this damned place.

This building in the outer suburbs is not as simple as it looks to outsiders. Although it is a little dilapidated, every brick and tile has a history of thousands of years. It has always been the place where Morning Embrace Church secretly cultivates talents.

Unlike those seminaries, the children sent here will receive the best training since childhood, from fighting to learning the knowledge of the dark side, as for theology and general subjects, it has become the most secondary.

This is the place to protect the inheritance. There are only a few similar places in the Sistine Empire.

Anyone who knows the guardian heritage site knows that at least a quarter of the Sistine Empire's super night watchmen have stayed in these places, and they are the cradle of the Morning Embrace Church to cultivate top night watchmen.

Children who are sent to such a place are often given high hopes by the family, hoping that there will be a person in the family who truly controls the power, who can consolidate the power of the family.

But Clement doesn't think this is a good place, because life is too hard, it's even more difficult than the life of the ascetic mentioned in the scriptures.

And he also knows a secret here, the so-called guardian of the inheritance, the real purpose is not to cultivate a powerful night watchman, but to cultivate a more important existence - the guardian.

Within the various systems of Morning Embrace Church, anyone who wants to contact the night side will learn the corresponding knowledge and understand the characteristics of the night watchmen. Most people who study hard will know that some night watchmen are very special.

That is the transcendence. The transcenders are born with strong mental resistance. After awakening, they have good strength, and they enter the country quickly. Many people eventually become super night watchmen, and there is even the case of the director of the Inquisition. , he became an envoy.

But the Transcendent is familiar to everyone, but there is another special existence that few people know about, or even if they have heard it, they only think that it is a legend.

The guardian, known as the one who will come in every era, who is favored by the goddess of the morning embrace, the one chosen by heaven.

Legend has it that as long as the guardian can grow normally, when he is an adult, he can directly accommodate the supernatural origin and become the top combat power of the Church of Morning Embrace.

Not only that, the guardian's unreasonable talent, or the talent bestowed by the goddess, can allow him to integrate into the strange origin almost without limit, and reach the god-envoy level at the fastest speed.

The director of the Inquisition has already created a speed record from entry to becoming a god-level powerhouse, but the legendary guardians are much faster, and even if they reach the god-level level, their strength growth rate will not change. slow.

The only consolation to the eccentrics is that guardians tend not to live very long, and few live past fifty.

"Clement, you're late again, stretch out your hand."

Clement sauntered to the playground behind the courtyard and heard reprimands.

Standing in front of him was an old man of the yellow race, with no hair and an orange-yellow cloth.

The old man's face is old, his body is thin, and his eyes are piercing. He doesn't have the kindness of an ordinary old man.

Clayman stretched out his hands obediently, and Master Yideng took out a white ruler and hit it on Clayman's already swollen hand, causing him to breathe cold air in pain, and his brain was no longer chaotic.

"After the class is over, go for another 20 miles and come back before dinner, otherwise you won't have to eat dinner."

Master Yideng retracted the ruler and asked Clement to stand in the team.

On the playground, there are more than 20 teenagers and girls, and there are more teenagers, but the girls are also difficult to distinguish here, because they all have short hair, wrapped around their chests, and they have a capable atmosphere under the years of practice. , the skin is not much better in this bitter cold place.

Among this group of people, Clement's background is not the highest. The **** his left, who is only a little lower than him, is said to be from a duke's family, and his grades are also in the top three among the children.

As for himself, just as those classmates just said, he belongs to the tail of the crane here.

Clement wasn't really untalented, he just didn't care much about what he did, because he hated this place from the bottom of his heart, and he wasn't interested in being a night watchman.

Because he is the abandoned son of the family, from the moment he was sent here, his status was basically declared, a shadow puppet.

He knows more secrets than ordinary people, so he suffers inwardly.

His sister...is a true guardian.

When he was seven years old, a big man from Morning Embrace Church visited his family and took his sister away. In the same year, he came to this ruined place.

Because the existence of the guardian is very dangerous, whether it is for those strange and mysterious items, or for the Church of Evernight, they are eager to obliterate the existence of the guardian, especially the latter.

Clement didn't understand it when he was a child, but he also learned politics here. He learned very well in the culture class. He gradually understood that the church needed a shield as the first goal under the curtain.

He was sent to protect the inheritance, not because the church and family were optimistic about his talent, but came out to stop his sister from dying.

Since he understood this when he was twelve years old, he has stopped working hard, because no matter how hard he works and how well he gets here, no one from the family will come to see him.

He had been removed, perhaps by default as a dead man.

As for his sister, who now holds a high position in the Holy See, it is said that she will be elected the only saint of the Morning Embrace Church this year.

Living in the capital, living a comfortable life, being sought after by thousands of people, and favored by his parents, but he, Clement, has nothing.

Some are just physical torture now.

"Hu-hu-hu-"

Thoughts were racing in Clement's mind, and the gasping in his mouth was getting louder and louder. At the end of the afternoon fighting class, he was still the worst performer, and he still had to run twenty miles in twenty minutes.

The young people who study here have never been exposed to the origin of weirdness, but they have only strengthened their bodies through constant tempering. Therefore, this distance and time limit are not something that can be done easily, even though they are already stronger than most imperial soldiers. .

Clement is not an outstanding player among his classmates. This time limit is an impossible task for him, but he still has to run, otherwise it will always be aimed at his own master Yideng, and it will definitely be even more harsh.

By that time, I won't be able to eat dinner, and maybe I won't even be able to sleep.

Running along the river bank in the suburbs, Clement suddenly saw a luxurious carriage coming towards him in the distance.

He didn't care about it at first, but the next moment he saw the family emblem stamped on the curtain of the carriage, and his heart trembled.

I saw a silver unicorn on the big red curtain, which was the family emblem of their Oral family.

Is someone at home?

For some reason, Clemence temporarily forgot the horror of Master Yideng and stopped.

And the carriage also stopped under the control of the driver wearing the Paladin armor. In the wilderness, the cold wind blew on the face of the young man, and it was silent for a long time.

The knight got off the carriage and stood as straight as a javelin, as if he had been ordered by the people in the carriage.

A white, jade-like hand stretched out from the curtain and slowly lifted it up. The girl stepped out gracefully, refusing the knight's support. For a time, the originally dark sky seemed to be even darker because she looked pale.

The girl's long golden hair like seaweed spread out over her shoulders. Wearing a pure white off-shoulder dress, her beautiful collarbone is looming, and the dress material is as white as transparent, slightly reflective, like an angel's wings, but it is not exposed at all.

The hem of the skirt is an arc from low to high, and it is elegantly slightly puffed up, revealing the girl's pair of jade-like white and slender legs. The corners of the skirt are dotted with diamonds, like countless beautiful morning dew.

On her forehead, she wears an ornament that represents sunlight. The fine white gold chain makes her curly hair look pure and beautiful. A sun diamond hangs between her eyebrows. She is very beautiful and dazzling. Amazing.

And the girl's eyes are as calm as the sea, and she has not been robbed of the slightest brilliance by the diamonds between her eyebrows. She is as beautiful as a goddess born in the world, mysterious and pure, making people want to hold all the beautiful things in the world in her. At the foot, just for Bo she smiled lightly.

Clement was a little restrained for a while, he was still wearing a rag with patches, and because he was too tired after being punished yesterday, he went to bed without washing at all.

Damn, obviously he is also a nobleman, but he is ashamed in front of the people in front of him.

No, this is our family's car. Could it be that after so many years, the family finally remembered me softly and wanted to pick me up, and the beautiful girl in front of me was my fiancee?

"Clement, you've grown up."

However, the girl opened her mouth at the next moment, which made Clemens a little stunned.

"Sister...sister?"

He asked uncertainly, is this his older sister Irina Olar, the freckled nuisance when she was a child?

The beautiful blonde girl nodded, expressionless, "It seems that your memory is still so poor. From the skeleton of a person, you should be able to judge what I will look like when I grow up, just like I can recognize you at a glance."

Clemence felt a little panicked. Fortunately, he didn't ask what he was thinking about, otherwise it was really...

He calmed down, and just wanted to ask why his sister came to Luoshuang City, and wanted to ask if it had something to do with him, but the voice of Master Yideng came from afar.

"Clement, you've missed dinnertime."

When Clement turned his head, he saw that Master Yideng was walking strangely in the wilderness. He crossed a distance of one mile in a few steps and came to him.

"Your Highness, do you have any instructions for coming here?"

Master Yideng folded his hands towards the blond girl and saluted.

"Just passing by and want to borrow a book from the collection here."

Irina returned the salute, her voice flat.

"So, please come with me."

Master Yideng said, glanced at Clement, "Keep running, you are still four miles away."

After all, Irina boarded the carriage again, without looking at her own younger brother, Master Yideng led the way, and drove towards the ancient building in the wilderness, leaving only Clement in the wind.

He stood for a moment, feeling cold in his body, and ran up against the cold wind.

What, I think too much.

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The Royal Capital~lightnovelpub.net~ The residence of Duke Uesugi, in that oak-white castle.

Someone finally got up slowly, Lu Chen looked at the sky outside, it was almost noon, and I had to say that he rarely slept in bed, and it was extremely rare to get up at this hour.

But this can't be blamed on him, it can only be blamed on the youngest daughter of the Duke Uesugi.

Yesterday he was more than just a wanderer returning home, it was heaven.

After saying goodbye to Eriyi, he opened the window and jumped back to his own mansion while the people at Duke Uesugi's mansion were not paying attention.

He was obviously here to find the wife he was married to, how could he act like he was having an affair?

He and Hui Liyi made an appointment to "meet by chance" at the morning support church, and the detailed business will be discussed in the library. At this point, before Hui Liyi got up and showed up, the servants of the Duke's mansion knocked on the door and asked for instructions several times. Yes, I am afraid that my young lady is sick.

If he doesn't leave, the old duke will probably kill him to visit his daughter.