Chapter 347 Doubt

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"How is it?" Roland put down the pen in his hand, and looked up at Nightingale who quietly appeared in the office.

"She fell asleep, she just ate a bowl of oatmeal, her appetite is not bad," she walked to the table, and sat back in her old position, "Now Sylvie is watching her."

"Well, that's good."

"Do you believe what she said?" Nightingale asked.

"Anyway, God's Stone of Retaliation has been removed. When you ask again tomorrow, you can tell whether she is lying, but..." Roland paused for a moment, "I think most of what she said is true."

"Why?" she asked curiously.

"Have you noticed that a person four hundred years ago used the same script and language as us?" the prince propped his chin and said, "It stands to reason that two regions are separated by an impenetrable mountain range. The situation is almost impossible - unless the two places themselves belong to the same origin, and they come and go very closely."

"But she calls the Four Kingdoms the Wilderness."

"This is the key... I don't know what it was like four hundred years ago. Maybe it's just a few villages scattered here, and there are some criminals who were exiled here by the world of witches. It is also recorded in the kingdom's history books that the ages at which major cities were founded Generally between 200 and 300 years, and astrologers emerged from that era." He said with great interest, "I have always been curious, why astrologers who generally have no achievements and no research results can compete with alchemists And called "sages", now I probably understand-the Federation led the surviving people to escape to this marginal area, and at the same time brought their language and civilization. These people blended in with the natives and helped them establish their regimes, fortresses and cities. "

"It's as if you saw it with your own eyes." Nightingale smiled and shook her head.

"Only in this way can we explain why we speak the same language as her," Roland said earnestly, "because we belong to the same origin. And in the past four hundred years, civilization has been rebuilding without any development."

"Okay," she spread her hands, "Anyway, I'll know the answer tomorrow. If you guess wrong... just give me an extra "luxury lunch." "

The so-called luxury lunch is actually a combination of corn chowder, grilled chicken legs and ice cream bread, which is only made once a week in the kitchen.

"Did you guess wrong?"

"You can do whatever you want," Nightingale said with her head tilted and her eyes half-closed. Her cheeks and smooth neck formed a perfect curve, which looked extraordinarily attractive. If you have a perfect appearance, no matter what you do, you are seducing others. Now Roland has finally verified the correctness of this sentence.

"I wrote it down," he coughed twice, turning his attention back to the paper.

Since Agatha had just woken up, Roland couldn't force the other party to answer all the questions accurately and meticulously. He basically followed her train of thought and asked wherever he thought of, so the information he got was very confusing. What he is doing now is to rearrange the information in Agatha's words and find out the key points to be understood next.

Undoubtedly, the most immediate problem lies with the devil.

Why did the war with the devil start, and why they have subsided now? This information is very important to Border Town. There has never been a war for no reason, and what the devil does does not seem to be an invasion for resources and expansion: they do not occupy wild lands, nor do they take humans captive, it looks like a war purely for killing Behavior.

Roland also noticed that the other party mentioned the term "Battle of God's Will". Could it be that the two sides started a life-and-death war under the instigation of the gods? But at that time, the church didn't even have a shadow, and naturally there was no only god they claimed. This point was not explained, and he still couldn't feel at ease.

At the same time, he still needs to figure out the food, clothing, housing and transportation of the Holy City civilization as soon as possible—or what their economic base is like. These details can help him measure the development level of the civilization and indirectly judge the strength of the devil. .

As for the Federation, Roland didn't care too much about it. The scarcity of witches and the instability of their abilities already meant that the combat ability of this organization would not be very high. Historical experience has repeatedly emphasized that before there is a generation gap, all-out war is about consumption, and scarce high-tech weapons cannot restore the overall disadvantage.

The second point is the magic stone.

Combined with what Tilly said, the magical properties of this stone can greatly compensate for the weakness of unstable abilities, allowing witches to exert powers that do not belong to them, and allowing auxiliary witches to go on the battlefield—although in Roland's eyes, this It's completely putting the cart before the horse, he can't wait to turn all the battle witches into auxiliary forms and put them into endless production work.

However, the strange thing is that the union with many witches did not use this method to fight the devil, but chose to create the God's Punishment Army, which is really incredible. Does the magic stone have any unknown shortcomings, or is it extremely difficult to produce?

Fortunately, Agatha is a member of the Quest Society. This organization is similar to the current alchemy workshop, gathering a group of talented witches, specializing in the research of magic stones and magic power. Roland vaguely felt that there should be great potential to be tapped.

The final question is the Church.

He circled this column. Obviously, he couldn't get an answer from Agatha about the organization's establishment and development experience. What can be inferred from a few words at present is that the church was established after the defeat of the witches. They obtained the secrets of the union and covered up everything about the witches, rendering them as the incarnation of the devil. If the people of the Four Great Kingdoms are regarded as the descendants of the aborigines, then the church is a veritable outsider. In addition, the aborigines themselves have no civilization at all, so it is not surprising that they are deceived by fabricated histories and oracles.

Is it only because the witch class used to oppress ordinary people that the escaped refugees regard witches as their enemies, so that they wantonly hunt and kill witches on this continent? Roland frowned, which sounded reasonable, but... always felt something was wrong.

There are quite a few holy warriors and superhumans in the federation, even superhumans... Even if they hold God's Stone of Retaliation, it is impossible for them to defeat such an opponent, right?

Wanting to completely wipe out a force that is much stronger than oneself cannot be achieved by hatred alone. There is obviously a key piece of information missing in the intelligence.

"That witch doesn't seem to like you very much." Nightingale said suddenly.

"After all, I live in a world where witches are masters." Roland laughed. "In her eyes, I'm afraid I'm no different from the weeds on the side of the road."

"You don't hate her?"

"Why should she, she is just a poor person abandoned by the times," he shook his head, "sleeping in an ice coffin for more than four hundred years, and when she woke up, she found that the world was completely different. Fear will definitely make her build a heart wall to defend herself. After she accepts all this, she should slowly change her concept."

"It really looks like your answer," Nightingale smiled, "Don't worry, I won't let her offend you in the slightest."

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