Chapter 478 Stranger and Consultant

When the stranger finally escaped from the Palace of Silver and Tin, he subconsciously looked back.

I saw that the entire palace was already burning... The rolling flames distorted the surrounding air, and the distorted heat waves visible to the naked eye were mixed with the hot air of sulfur and rushed towards my face. The steaming black smoke nearly covered the sky, mixing with the dark clouds in the sky.

Like a dark passage, descending from the sky to the palace of silver and tin...bringing doom and destruction.

Finally, it started to rain.

The earth is brimstone and fire, and the sky is clouds and rain.

Fortunately, people had already begun to evacuate and flee, so there was no crowding and a tragic stampede.

The end is near.

The stranger couldn't help but raise his mind.

He couldn't tell whether his mentor "Bruzwick" had escaped... let alone whether he was sure of controlling the Balrog.

And more importantly -

——Teammates! Why are you missing again?

The mentor from his own world line, the real Mr. Bruzwick who is now accompanying him to the promotion ceremony as a "consultant"... and his junior school girl, Aurora, codenamed "Grape", where are they now? ah!

The stranger felt confused.

He was still seriously investigating his identity just now and working hard to play this role. He originally planned to rest for a night and start looking for his companions the next day... But now, only a few hours have passed, and the situation has taken a turn for the worse and has completely fallen into an uncontrolled and unknown territory.

"What on earth is that, Master Nobel!"

A trembling voice came from under Stranger.

The young man also felt confused and frightened by the terrifying monster: "When the queen died, everything became so weird... Is this the Crown Lord's punishment for us!"

"——Don't stop, run!"

Feeling that the running knight kept slowing down and repeatedly looking back at the Palace of Silver and Tin, the Stranger loudly ordered the knight who was carrying him to escape: "That's the Balrog! The Balrog can continuously divide itself by devouring souls...

"And the most important thing is that the Balrog will emit violent explosions when it is defeated! The Glass Island is about to be destroyed, we must leave here!"

Stranger is now very pessimistic about the outcome of this promotion ceremony.

The necessary task of this ceremony requires him to safely evacuate the princess "Isabelle du Lac" to the Eternal Theocracy.

And now, he couldn't even find the princess anywhere.

He couldn't find his teammates, he couldn't find the princess, and he didn't know how to get to the Theocracy at all - he had never been to Avalon, let alone the Theocracy, and he didn't know the way at all.

Except that the capital of Avalon is called Glass Island, he doesn't even know the names of other cities, nor does he know where Glass Island is located in Avalon, let alone where the Theocracy is relative to Avalon.

Just very confused.

So Stranger planned to at least let himself survive first——

If Princess Isabel fails to arrive safely in the Theocracy within four days, the promotion ceremony will fail. But there is no penalty for failure itself, only death - so as long as you survive to the end safely, you have achieved your goal.

If possible, it would be best to find the "grapes" as well. The two of them will find a place to survive together.

At this moment, Stranger suddenly heard a shout of surprise. He couldn't help but shiver.

"Master Nobel! You escaped?!"

What greeted him was a handsome male bishop wearing a red robe.

The stranger didn't know whether he was familiar with the other party, so he could only pat the knight under him sadly and signal him to put him down first.

Regardless of whether he is the priest named "Fox"...in any case, it is good to be accompanied by a bishop. At least if he is injured, the other party can save his life.

"...Yes, I escaped," the stranger tried his best to show a sad expression, "but the other knights and ministers seemed to..."

"What happened in the palace," the bishop frowned, "Did the Star Antimony people directly attack the royal family?"

...It was obviously your own people who assassinated the Queen!

The stranger felt aggrieved and confused for a moment.

Because he really didn't know why the Star Antimony people dared to do such a thing to Avalon.

——Now in the real world, Star Antimony is in the middle of a war started by the Avalonians.

The gryphon legion from Avalon has become a nightmare for many Starbuck civilians - when the gryphons fly close to the ground, the sharp sound of breaking through the air, the rolling thunder and the roaring hurricane are heralded. A certain building or area will be destroyed by the thunderstorm.

And they have absolutely no countermeasures to this. The colossi could only fire symbolically, but they never succeeded in shooting down any griffon. Their speed is so fast that they cannot be locked.

In addition, the rebel mages in Narcissus Territory also caused huge losses.

The army must expend life and exert all its strength to barely stop the advance of the mage phalanx.

Coupled with the Theocracy's bias, the beheading tactic could not be effective. They haven't been able to counterattack Avalon itself.

As a result, Xing Antimony was dragged into the quagmire of war without being ready for war at all.

"It's all Minister Drost's fault!!"

The Stranger lashed out at Minister Drost for daring to assassinate the Queen—his disgust was undoubtedly genuine.

——Now that Avalon will attack Star Antimony, tracing back to the origin, it seems that it is also because of the trouble caused by this fat pig named Drost!

...However, Stranger is now vaguely aware of the difference between this world line deduced by the Lord of Scale Feather and his own world line.

At present, there are three main differences -

The first is that after Meg's death, there was no new great arbiter "Ligeia" - Ligeia was suspected by Star Antimony's intelligence department to be a silver dragon that turned into a human. It was suspected that Meg had a relationship with someone when she was young. A child born to a giant dragon.

More importantly, Aiwass in this world did not become famous and became a minister, but became a bishop. Neither did Miss Aleister, whose true identity was said to be "Lady Bayard" during the empire. Appear.

Furthermore, Queen Sophia did not die in the winter of 1898, but lived until the autumn of 1899. Queen Isabel, who was more forceful, never succeeded to the throne.

It was the differences in these three points that led the world to another possibility that was extremely unfamiliar and completely different to him——

Star Antimony actually declared war on Avalon! And there seems to be a real chance...

At this time, the Theocracy did not have time to send guards, and Isabel did not have the help of Aiwass. Now that the Palace of Silver and Tin has been destroyed, there is chaos in the rear...

According to Stranger's understanding of Xing Antimony, the next step is probably a surprise attack by the front troops.

After listening to the stranger's detailed attacks, narrations and deductions mixed with sincere feelings, the unknown bishop frowned: "This is actually like this... Are you sure that Her Royal Highness the Princess is okay?"

"Anyway, I saw Ms. Shafiya running away with Her Highness the Princess."

The stranger replied simply: "I won't know after that."

He didn't say how he saw it - anyway, he did see it.

But just saying that Isabel escaped doesn't seem to explain the whole story clearly.

"But where can Her Royal Highness go..."

The bishop fell into deep thought.

"I have an idea, but I'm not sure if it's right," the bishop said suddenly. "She may have gone to Moriarty Manor."

Hearing this, Stranger's heart moved.

——How do you know that Princess Isabel is related to Aiwass?

"Are you a fox?"

he asked tentatively.

"What?"

Mr. Bishop was a little puzzled by this nonsense. He just shook his head and explained: "My name is not Fox. I am Samuel Mathers, and the young Bishop Moriarty is my student. .

"He has a little friendship with Princess Isabel. If the princess would go anywhere, I think it would be there."

...They do have a "kind of friendship."

The stranger thought.

He had never heard of Samuel Mathers.

But he knew that in another history, this "Queen Isabel" and "Miss Aleister" fought for men very fiercely, and their methods were quite vicious - they drove Lady Bayard out of Ava. Takashi never came back after that.

"You come with me."

Bishop Mathers grabbed Nobel, and then looked at the young knight: "You too, come with me - we need to gather the little strength we have at the moment. Send Her Royal Highness to a safe place first.

"Whether it is the destruction of the Palace of Silver and Tin or the fall of the Glass Island. As long as the princess is still alive, there is still hope for everything... With such a big fire, I estimate that Prince John has died. So as long as the princess dies, Du Lac The blood was completely cut off.

"What's your name, young man?"

Having said this, Bishop Mathers asked the young man: "I haven't seen you in the Round Table Hall... You are not an arbitrator, right?"

What?

The stranger was shocked.

He thought the other party was a fourth-level arbitrator, but it turned out not to be the case at all?

No wonder the other party looked so timid and couldn't run fast even with only himself on his back without any armor. Moreover, he did not appear in the middle of the Palace of Silver and Tin and was killed immediately like those knights. Instead, he was on the edge of the palace like himself... so he was able to escape the first wave of impact...

"...That's right."

The young man nodded sadly: "My name is Allen Carter. This time I was invited by my father to attend the engagement party... but my father..."

When he said this, he clenched his fists tightly: "After the accident, I have been hiding nearby. I wanted to escape, but I couldn't find a chance..."

Hearing this, the Stranger understood - obviously, his father was one of the knights who was killed.

He had no idea what was going to happen. Otherwise, he would not be able to bring his son to this dangerous bloody banquet.

"Aaron Carter...I've heard of you, Aaron."

Bishop Mathers patted him on the shoulder: "Come with us."

On the other side, "Sherlock" slowly opened his eyes. There was a flash of dark blue fire in his pupils.

He was currently being held in Aiwass's arms, waking up from the shock of running fast.

Seeing the light rising into the sky from a distance through the gap in Aiwass's shoulder, he immediately knew what had happened.

Carl exploded.

That good-for-nothing Drost... How long did you delay me...

"Advisor" said coldly in his heart.

Being injured or tortured was nothing to him. For a seeker of the Twilight Path, pain was just an illusion. What really annoyed him was that he was locked up there and couldn't be released. He had to play the role of Sherlock and Minister Droste, which made him lose initiative and waste a lot of time.

If he hadn't been rescued by Aiwass, he would have been burned to death by the Balrog that popped out after Carl's death.

... I hope that "another self" can deal with the trouble left by Carl.

The reason why the two of them always travel together is because the consultant has a way to deal with the out-of-control Balrog.

But he doesn't have time to take care of things over there now.

Now, the consultant's necessary task is also to "help Princess Isabel arrive safely in the Church."

But the consultant does not intend to cooperate with others.

——Because his cognition is deeper than others... He knows the plot style of each pillar god.

This is the promotion ceremony created by the Lord of Scales and Feathers.

The theme of the Lord of Scales and Feathers is adaptation and survival, so as long as you survive, you have the opportunity to complete the promotion.

In other words, it is not decisive who completes the necessary task at all - unlike other rituals, the necessary task of the Lord of Scales and Feathers can even be left unfinished!

[When someone completes the necessary task or the ritual time ends, the ritual will be settled immediately; the three people with the lowest points at the time of settlement will be eliminated]

This is the rule described by Acropolis.

... I hope those two idiots can react and not let it go in one ear and out the other. It is best to realize that this promotion ceremony is different from the past... Otherwise, I must give them an extra 500 lines of essays and 300 lines of repentance when I go back.

The consultant thought.

The consultant's goal this time is to help his two students pass the promotion ceremony. Even if he successfully escorts the princess to the Church with the two children, it is possible that someone will have fewer points than those who did not escort the princess because they did not complete enough tasks.

On the other hand... the advantage of those who choose to escort the princess is that they can "decide when to end the promotion ceremony at any time." But because they do not know the points of others at this time, this is still risky. And even if the princess is sent away quickly, they will not have enough points because they have completed too few tasks, and they will not be able to obtain excellent path characteristics.

So the consultant planned to take another route.

- Kill Isabel secretly.

As long as Isabel died, everyone was doomed to fail to complete the necessary tasks. They could only wait until the end of the ceremony time to force the settlement... and those who didn't know Isabel's death would definitely try to search for Isabel.

This matter delayed time and distracted attention, and the time for others to do tasks and score points was definitely much less than that of the three of them.

If at least three people could be eliminated based on this matter... it would ensure that no one was eliminated and the three of them would occupy the top. Killing people still has advantages, at least there will be no deductions for unconsciously helping others complete tasks.

"Are you awake, Sherlock?"

The voice of Aiwas sounded.

The consultant paused and asked in a weak voice: "Where am I...Moriarty?"

"On the way to my house."

Evans replied helplessly: "Ms. Shafiya's transmission distance is a bit short...I fell out in the middle."

"Because I didn't have enough time to prepare! He was about to explode suddenly, and I couldn't lock it accurately..."

Shafiya said angrily behind Aiwas: "It's not far anyway, just a few steps. Go back and see if Her Highness Isabel is safe...I'm a little worried that the man in black will attack Her Highness the Princess. After all, he didn't show up when we fought just now."

-Is Isabel originally with Aiwas?

The consultant's heart moved.

"Rest first, Sherlock. Don't think."

Evans whispered: "I'll treat you when I get back."

So the consultant nodded slightly and closed his eyes silently.