Chapter 503 – Intervention 2
Chapter 503 – Intervention 2
Accompanied by a loud scuffling sound, the heavy door made of cedar wood was slowly pushed open, two guards stood on the left and right in front of the two door panels carved with complicated and exquisite patterns, the light from the outside shot into the originally dark treasure room, and the floor paved with precious speckled stone instantly illuminated a path glittering with a golden yellow light.
A man led four attendants along the golden-colored road and slowly entered the treasure room.
The man was tall, wearing a gorgeous velvet robe, his long curly brown hair naturally falling down his back, his eyes were bright and deep, and a heroic spirit appeared between his brows, now he had a serious expression on his face as he solemnly followed the light into the depths of the treasure room.
“It’s too dark,” the man waved his hand to the guards following him, “Light a few candles.”
The two guards at the very back of the room immediately stepped to the left and right, respectively, and by the afterglow coming from the door, each lit a row of candles that had been placed there long ago.
The entire treasure room suddenly brightened up and revealed its true appearance.
Pieces of valuable utensils, boxes of ancient currency, all kinds of weapons and armor that seem to be from the handwriting of masters, filled up a large room, and the walls around the room were also covered with valuable paintings.
But the man on these casually pick up a piece of valuable treasures have not the slightest interest, he straight along the axis of the treasure room continue to walk, until he came to the end of the wall.
Before that wall, there was a rectangular table about 2 meters long and 1 meter wide, on top of the table was an object, covered very tightly with a red silk cloth.
The man stretched out his right hand to pull up a corner of the silk cloth slowly lifted, a deterrent cold light burst out, the original silk cloth is below the gold-colored sword rack, a simple and ancient shape of the long sword quietly placed in the above.
The man gripped the hilt of the sword and lifted the ancient long sword in front of his eyes.
“My ancestors used this sword to establish the current Duchy of Eton.”
The man, or Grand Duke Etteot Cabre, the ruler of the Duchy of Eton, said so to himself.
“Now, I will once again use it to defend the people of Eton.”
He gripped his longsword and swung it in front of him, and a stream of light appeared in mid-air.
“Holy Sword – Silonimus, grant us your power once again.”
Suddenly, a familiar voice sounded behind him.
“Your Majesty, has the situation reached such a dangerous point?”
The voice was gentle and soft, yet it carried a worry that was hard to hide.
Archduke Cabrera turned back to look at his beautiful wife, Archduchess Helen, once known as the famous pearl of Horned Bay.
He frowned and asked, “Helen, what brings you here?”
His wife replied, “I know you haven’t been sleeping, so I haven’t been sleeping either. I saw you get up just now, so I followed you here.”
“Alas!” Cabrera sighed, “I’m sorry to have worried you.”
Helen came to his heels, “What are you talking about, you are my husband, how can I be calm if you have something on your mind.” Cabrera waved his hand to beckon the squire and inserted the ancient longsword into the scabbard the squire held in his hand.
The young Grand Duke said apprehensively, “The armies of the Church are already looming over Hydra, and I estimate that it will take no more than a week for them to appear beneath Hydra’s walls.”
Helen asked suspiciously, “Won’t our army be mobilized back from the Horned Bay Alliance soon?”
Her husband always looked confident in front of his wife in order to keep her from worrying, and if it wasn’t for the fact that a certain trusted figure had told her the real situation today as well as the fact that she had seen with her own eyes the massive crowds of people who had left the city to take refuge during her micro-vacation, she wouldn’t have known that the situation had taken a drastic turn to the present point.
Alas, men ah.
Cabrera very helplessly spread his hands and said, “It will take time for them to come back, Gareth wrote to say that the Horned Bay alliance would not allow them to leave at first, would not provide them with the supplies they needed on the way back, and in the end, it was only after Gareth found a way to raise a batch of supplies on his own that he was able to leave.”
The original powerful crusade against the Church and the inland countries of the Protestant coalition, because the Protectorate of the Northern Neutral countries do not speak of martial virtue “armed lending” is about to fall apart.
“Your Majesty!” Helen had tears in the corner of her eyes, and the anxiety shown by her husband who had completely dropped his disguise made her very distressed, “If it’s not possible, then don’t fight with the Church, we don’t care about the Protestants or the old sects, let’s just let Eaton quietly abide by neutrality.”
“Oh dear, you’re so naive.” Cabrera said, “The destruction of neutral countries such as Yebu can be just around the corner, the church is capable of doing anything in order to exterminate the [heretics] on the coast as soon as possible.”
Of course, Eton’s national power was incomparable to that of small countries such as Jeb, so it wasn’t impossible for Eton to carry out the so-called armed neutrality, but the Archduke had other reasons why he couldn’t carry out neutrality.
“Taking a step back, even if the church accepts Eton’s neutrality, what about you and Fanny? The Church has long had their eyes on you two sisters, and that time in Nisborough, Fanny’s true condition has long been grasped by them. If the Church’s condition for allowing Eaton’s neutrality is for me to hand over you and Fanny, do you think I can agree to such a condition?”
Helen and her sister Fanny, as spell casters, are thorns in the church’s side, the initial reason for the outbreak of this war was the huge differences between the church and the coastal countries in this aspect of hunting witches, when the differences were not obvious or just appeared, the church was still able to take into account that they belonged to the ruling class of a country’s reasons for choosing to hold back, but now it has changed, and has already torn its face to formally start a fight the church would never turn a blind eye to a witch who has such status and influence, but now it has changed. But now it has changed, the church that has already torn its face and officially started a fight will definitely not turn a blind eye to a witch with such status and influence.
“Your Majesty.” Her husband’s words moved Helen to tears, and she instantly burst into tears.
“Don’t worry Helen, with me here, no one can do anything to you and Fanny.”
Cabrera patted his chest, once again displaying the same confident look he had before in front of his wife.
The Archduke raised the long sword named “Silonimus” and said, “The power of my ancestors will protect me, and I will use it to kill all enemies who dare to come against me.”
But then he turned to me and said, “But you must promise me that you will take Fanny and leave Hydra for a time and head south, I have already chosen a guard for you, and you will wait until Hydra becomes safe ……”
“No!” Before the Archduke could finish his sentence, Helen covered her husband’s mouth and refused categorically.
“Fanny you can send away, but I must stay by your side.”
Archduke Cabre still has to persuade bitterly, “Alas, you should not be so impulsive ……”
“Don’t worry!” Helen looked into her husband’s eyes and said in as light a tone as she could manage:
“There are people who can help us through this.”
(End of chapter)