Chapter 504 The Answer to Life and Death

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"Really, no reason is needed..."

After hearing Anthony's words, Letty Orr's light blue eyes widened at first, and then darkened bit by bit. She gritted her teeth, her eyelashes and messy bangs casting a heavy shadow on her forehead.

"It's not because the highlands are dangerous or because I'm being violated. It's just because I need to take action against other countries and other people..." Audrey whispered to herself. As she spoke, she raised her head and looked directly at the other person. With dark eyes, he asked solemnly, "Then, respected Archbishop of the Northern Continent, may I ask, after once again occupying the highlands as a colony, will the lives of the people of Loen become better?"

"Can homeless people find jobs?"

“Can poor children get subsidies to study?”

"Those unemployed people, those workers in the East End who can't find jobs, those disabled soldiers who the country cannot support, those poor patients who are sick and can only wait to die... Will their lives and sufferings be improved by getting a colony? "

Halfway through these words, Audrey suddenly felt the fingers on her shoulders tighten.

She endured the looming pain and persisted in speaking out her doubts.

If this could really be done... No, it's obviously not possible! Even if we seize the entire Southern Continent as a colony, civilians will still be civilians, and the poor will still be poor! They will not improve their lives just because they get the colony, because they were like this before... However, there will still be some people, or even a large number of people, who will get new job opportunities and a new life, right?

Saint Anthony showed the virtue of tolerance and patience. After listening to Letty Orr's questioning, he sighed with emotion:

"You are a kind lady, doctor, and your virtues are enough to give you a good reputation in any city."

I hear too much of that stuff. Audrey thought silently.

She has too many good names: Backlund's most dazzling gem, the earl's treasure, golden beauty, pure girl, diamond-like character and soul, the most considerate friend... these are all Ao Dai It's a title that Li doesn't care much about now, but can't abandon. These names have been surrounding her in different ways since she can remember, often emphasizing her beauty rather than herself.

Of course Audrey likes to be praised, everyone likes to be praised.

But such words are repeated so much, as if "Audrey Hall" is more like a beautiful piece of art to be admired and admired than a living person with her own hobbies.

Even those highly praised benevolent and beautiful characters are often just personality masks that Audrey uses to deal with others - they are all extremely illusory things. When Audrey really needed money, these reputations that could lead to a book could not even be exchanged for a copper penny.

After becoming more and more sophisticated on the road of "audience", Audrey increasingly felt that the praise was single and empty. Sometimes she couldn't figure out what those people saw in her and what they were praising, so she took these repeated words as feedback for her own digestion of the potion.

Ah, right.

Now, her work of art has to travel across the ocean to Intis to save its life.

If it weren't for her high enough rank and good luck in establishing friendships with members of the Church of the Creator, she might have gotten a fiancé there. At that time, regardless of age, family property and title, she will marry him and leave a descendant for the Hall family.

Even Earl Hall, who is enlightened and dotes on his daughter, will not allow her to resist on such a major matter.

Artworks cannot resist, nor are they qualified to resist.

In just a few seconds, this series of thoughts flew through Audrey's mind. After becoming an audience, examining themselves has almost become an indispensable behavior for her and Susie every once in a while.

Therefore, while Audrey was having her own thoughts, Saint Anthony spoke again:

"If I say that Highlands and the resources of the Republic can save the entire Loen, even if I say so, a smart person like you won't believe it."

...Is this the first time I have received recognition from the enemy? Audrey felt a little subtle.

So, do you want to admit that this attack is a move that is beneficial to Loen?

Do you want to admit that this is a legitimate act to save the country?

Do we have to admit that even such a massacre-like attack soaked in blood and tears is indeed an indispensable medicine to save the people?

"However, because you are very smart, you should be able to see that...even if you cannot save everyone, you can still give tens of thousands, or even one hundred thousand or two hundred thousand people a new job and a new livelihood. As long as With some land and resources, they can survive.”

"..." Audrey was silent for a moment and said in a strange tone, "Land?"

If it comes to other things, Audrey may not necessarily understand it, but land?

Due to various reasons, the Kingdom of Loen is just at the time when the members of the aristocratic class are changing! The status of the landed aristocracy is threatened, and the new type of asset aristocrats can obtain titles by donating and purchasing land... When telling Audrey this, the Archbishop really chose the wrong topic!

"Farming, right? Yes, before industrialization, people cultivated the land and were self-sufficient. Then the Food Act was enacted and a large number of people poured into the city, but..." After she finished speaking to herself, her beautiful eyebrows suddenly Just screwed together:

"Land, Loen has a lot of land! The church, merchants and nobles hold a lot of land! They use the land as hunting grounds, graze sheep on it, build manors and golf courses, or do nothing just to show their status... these lands It is deserted on the outskirts of Backlund! You can still farm there! Archbishop Anthony, since you want the people to obtain land and jobs, why not start with the local resources of Loen, and why not seize the abandoned and idle land from the nobles! Why not build a factory on church land!”

"Is it because you don't want to?"

She was shocked by what she said and what she thought:

"Or is it because of something else?... Isn't the behavior of you and Luen just like sitting on a pile of gold, but saying that you have no money to provide disaster relief?"

At this moment, after saying these words, Audrey suddenly got the answer.

The scale in her heart - the scale that originally held "Rune" on the left and "Highland" on the right. The scale that had long been shaky and tilted left and right suddenly collapsed at this moment and disappeared. Without a trace.

There is no longer any need to worry about gains and losses, and there is no need to think about who should be helped.

Audrey understood.

Time passed in an instant, and she got the answer.

She got the answer she had been looking for so far, and she finally saw through the entanglements and difficulties she had been facing.

She understood everything.

At this moment, she suddenly felt extremely painful, extremely sad and sad - she wished she had been sent away by Tawfiq just dozens of minutes ago, so that she would not have seen, heard and figured out all this.

In this way, Anthony Stevenson is still a respectable and amiable archbishop in her heart. In this way, in her heart, the church, gods and nobles are still the same as before. Although they have shortcomings, they are still indispensable to society. The impression of a missing part.

——She did not flinch in the face of divine punishment, but at this moment she truly had thoughts of regret.

"Ahhhhh..."

Letty Orr let out a sob, but she couldn't cry.

"...I'm so sad, I'm so sad..."

"We are obviously so rich, we can obviously support ourselves, and we obviously don't need to hurt others or rob others!!"

Probably because of staying with the members of the Indulgence Sect for a long time, Audrey instinctively chose to roar as a way to vent and shock when her mind and concept were about to collapse.

"You don't even need to give up all your property! If you don't want to lose it, you can even just rent out the idle and abandoned land!"

"But what are you doing...you chose war...you chose massacre!!"

"what is this?!"

"Tell me! Why on earth is this!"

After the roaring questioning, there was silence in the darkness.

Tawfik did not answer. His soul was soaked in hatred and blood, and he had long taken war as a matter of course. Even though he was once a perfect victim, now he has become a perpetrator and has no answers.

But Anthony just stood there quietly, looking at the doctor who questioned him with a look of pity and regret, without saying a word.

Audrey was a little stunned. The spiritual power burned with her restless mood, burning her eyes into bright gold.

Then, she covered her face, slowly bent down, and let out a roaring cry:

"I'm in so much pain, I'm in so much pain, dad, mom, I'm in so much pain..."

"...I want to go home..."

Tawfik's lips moved, as if he wanted to say something, but in the end he remained silent.

The moment she showed her fragile and collapsed side, Anthony's eyes suddenly became dark. His figure melted into the darkness, wandering around like night fog, and a sense of crisis came from all directions.

There was almost no time to react, and the back of Tawfik's neck felt cold.

Huge wolf claws that were several meters long appeared silently from the darkness, directly pressing his entire neck and head to the ground. Another sharp claw with cold brilliance pierced his body, nailing him to the ground and violently crushing his internal organs, bones and flesh.

Taufik spat out a mouthful of flesh and blood, his eyes instantly became bloodshot, his body turned into a puppet, and the crushed flesh, flesh and bones turned into sawdust and fell from the window. Taufik was penetrated and struggled hard against the demon wolf's claws for several times, revealing the dried blood under his robe and his body that had been injured in the previous brief confrontation.

With his body bent and turned into a "puppet", his eyes were blood red, as if he had completely forgotten the pain. The aura of hatred and anger affected everyone present, but the gap of one sequence only made Saint Anthony's claws shake a few times. Not descending into chaos.

The Requiem sounded again in the dark space, as if the Sequence 3 saint was mocking them with his ease.

At the same moment, Audrey suddenly raised her head and let out a sharp "dragon roar" from her throat!

The "dragon roar" spread out like a sound wave, temporarily interrupting the requiem. Scales continued to appear on her body, and her legs and arms were alienated. Just when Taufik barely escaped from the wolf's claws, she suddenly He rushed forward and blocked the attack from another direction with the body of this doll.

The demon wolf has eight limbs.

Even though St. Anthony used two wolf claws to suppress Tawfik, he still had four limbs that could move normally!

Almost the moment Audrey saw the cold, blade-like claws protruding dangerously from the darkness, she took the initiative to run into him.

The chest cavity of her doll's body and everything inside were suddenly destroyed. Then, a claw appeared in front of her eyes from the darkness. The curved claw was like a sickle, and it easily cut off Letty Orr. neck.

Audrey didn't have any time to react. When she realized what had happened, her head had fallen to the ground and she saw her headless body hanging on the fingertips of the giant demon wolf, gradually shrinking and turning back into a rag doll.

it hurts.

She thought, but it didn't seem to hurt that much...

The reverse summoning ritual that Richard left in her puppet body was activated due to the severe damage to the body. Audrey's vision quickly became blurred, and her mind began to be withdrawn from this body - Letty Orr died. She's leaving.

Audrey "lyed" on the ground. She rolled her eyes and looked at Tawfik. Her lips trembled twice with great effort:

"……sorry……"

I'm sorry, I didn't finally see it all until today.

I'm sorry for appearing here as a doctor without authorization, defrauding you of your trust, and now leaving so many patients with you without authorization...

It's too late, it's too late...

She thought vaguely, as if she heard a roar or a cry. But Audrey's consciousness has become hazy, as if she is really dead, and she can no longer react to anything in the outside world.

The moment her consciousness completely darkened, her dilated pupils caught the light.

Its daybreak? Has the seal been lifted? Did he escape?

Mr. Tawfik? She thought she had spoken, but in fact her head fell there and her eyes had already been closed.

Therefore, she did not see the black figure fall in front of Saint Anthony, his body already in tatters. But there was a relaxed smile on his face, and the brows that seemed to never open were stretched, as if he was immersed in a beautiful dream.

He will never be angry again.

…

Backlund, Queens, Earl Hall's home.

Audrey, who was wearing a white gauze nightgown, suddenly opened her eyes. She scratched the air a few times with her hands and her eyes widened.

Seeing Audrey's body react, Susie, who was walking around anxiously, immediately rushed forward, put her front paws on the edge of the bed, and wagged her tail with concern:

"Audrey!"

"Audrey! You are finally back!"

"Why did you go so long this time? Did you encounter any danger? Come on, dinner is ready. Your mother will come over soon to invite you to have dinner together!... Audrey? Are you listening? ?"

Audrey stared blankly at her ceiling, then turned her head and stared blankly at Susie. Her eyes made Susie feel uncontrollably frightened and uneasy, and her tail drooped.

"Audrey?"

It asked in a low voice: "What's wrong with you? Are you encountering a very troublesome patient..."

"..."

"I'm fine." After a moment of silence, Audrey sat up from the soft bed.

She looked at her bed, her clothes, her room, and Susie inch by inch. Although she had only been away for a few hours, she felt like she had already lived a lifetime. She had never been so unfamiliar with her room.

Oh, it's time for dinner. Mother will be here soon?

She immediately got out of bed and walked to the full-length mirror in the room, using the crimson moonlight shining through the curtains to examine herself carefully:

Those emerald green gem-like eyes seemed to glow on their own, radiant and clear, allowing people to clearly see every detail.

But in the depths of these eyes, anger, despair, and sadness surged. The emotions of countless people still seemed to resonate with her, making it impossible for her to forget those hellish scenes.

Audrey closed her eyes, and when she opened them again, all the abnormalities had disappeared.

Then, the corners of her mouth turned up little by little, her cheeks highlighted a shallow depression, her eyebrows were slightly curved, and her eyes turned slightly to reveal a standard smile belonging to Audrey Hall:

"really not bad!"

"I'm back, I'm back... alive."

She has completely digested the "Dream Walker" potion.

TBC

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Those lives, those happy processes, easy exchanges and desperate endings - all ended like a dream.