At this moment, neither the truth about the strange cardinal behind nor Alagina Fisher who was hiding behind it and watching him quietly was known. He just looked at the anxious Emhard in front of him with a serious expression and the people beside him who lowered their heads.

Alicia.

It could be seen that Alicia actually knew nothing about what happened in her sleep last night. She seemed completely unconscious at the time, but this was not the first time she had seen a reaction similar to Emhart's.

When she was still with Haytham, the expressions of the maids next to her after she woke up and the commotion beside the bed would let her know that she was not peaceful last night, and their expressions were similar to Emhard's at the moment.

How wonderful.

She thought she was used to it, but now she couldn't help but recall the pain of hurting her grandfather, so she couldn't help but lower her head, feeling a little sad and remorseful.

But Fisher just looked at her petite body, then took a step back to let the way to the palace and said,

"Come in first and calm down."

The first sentence was said to Alicia, and the second sentence was said to Emhart.

Just after he finished speaking, he belatedly remembered that Alicia couldn't see him yet, so he asked Emhart to bring her in first.

"Okay, okay, let's all calm down. What is this, a cardinal? Why is there such a big cardinal here? What's the use?"

As soon as Emhard came in, his attention was attracted by the cardinal floating in mid-air. He got closer and looked around before asking.

Fisher glanced at Emhardt. This thing was probably the object that Elizabeth was looking through. If Emhardt said something dangerous, he would suffer disaster and be torn alive by the prosthetic eye.

Say a few more words about other ladies and even Fisher will explode.

"This may be Cardinal Elizabeth. She is working in the vestibule. Maybe she is looking at me with this thing."

"Really? It doesn't look anything like it."

Emhard squinted his eyes and looked at the dull-looking cardinal in front of him for a long time, but in his heart he didn't feel that this was Elizabeth's cardinal. Instead, he felt that the blue moonstone light flowing on the cardinal's body had a bit of green in it.

.

The more he looked at it, the more Emhart felt that this thing was completely different from the cardinal who had just sent them here. He turned his head to look at Fisher and asked,

"Is it possible that it is simply broken? I have been walking around the Golden Palace for the past two nights. I found that these cardinals are all controlled by devices in the same area. Once they are controlled too much, it is easy to lose control.

and scrapped ones. There are a lot of spare and faulty cardinals placed in the junk pile outside. Compared with before, they are far behind."

"Well, that's true"

Fisher still remembered that the Cardinal seemed to have such a thing as a "network". Not only was it the model built by Mikhail and Michael that could instantly connect the sanctuary and the ground, but also the Cardinal who later became the Society of Creation.

It can achieve remote control, but only Nali's one can't do it, and I don't know why.

Nali should have obtained the technology from the fallen sanctuary. Logically speaking, it should be in the same line as the most brilliant technology of the angels. Why is it that in terms of "network", it is not as good as the prototype when it was just created?

Woolen cloth.

Fisher didn't know the reason, but Alagina, who was hiding behind the Cardinal, knew that from "David" in the sanctuary in the spirit world, she learned that the network function between David and the Cardinal had been there a long time ago.

It was shut down for some unknown reason, resulting in it not being able to instantly connect to any cardinal as before.

Most of the cardinals created now can only be controlled by short-distance direct control. It is no longer possible to use network links to instantly transmit instructions and control thousands of cardinals thousands of miles away like before.

However, after Alagina's research, this "turned off" function can actually be turned on again.

The Nali people did not fully understand the working principle of the Cardinal. They did not know the functions of many parts in the Cardinal. They just knew how to use it, so they copied the machine tools obtained in the Sea of ​​Storms to manufacture them. Therefore, they belong to the Internet.

The components are intact and just need to be re-linked and opened.

This is also the method Aragina envisioned to defeat Cardinal Nalli's army. She wanted to directly control them and use the enemy's power for her own use.

It's a pity that the process of opening the network link is very difficult. It can be seen that those extinct angels put a lot of effort into closing it. I don't know what happened to this function.

Anyway, it took Aragina a long time to crack one of the cardinals of the Golden Palace, and she just used it to find Fisher.

However, Elizabeth's cardinal is not Fisher's main concern yet. What he is really worried about now is the problem of Alicia in front of him.

He turned to look at Emhard and asked him,

"What happened last night? Is it serious?"

"Not only is it very serious, you don't know how terrifying it is to watch her transform from a human girl into a hateful monster, and then watch her shrink little by little and transform back into a little girl again!?"

""

Fisher imagined it for a moment, and it seemed indeed quite terrifying, but the Alicia in front of him still looked so normal, and it didn't look like she could undergo such a change at all.

"Did she dream about something last night?"

"Fischer asked you, did you dream of anything last night?"

Emhard transformed into a repeater and repeated this to Alicia, who couldn't see Fisher.

"Dream? Me"

She pursed her lips and tried her best to recall everything she saw last night, but the more she recalled it, the paler her face turned.

After that, she shook her head and said with some discomfort,

"I must have dreamed something, but now it's very vague and I don't remember much. I just remember someone speaking in my ear, saying that it was too late and I had to find another apostle waiting to become the pedestal. Come quickly.

What's more, and that existence seems to feel that you, big brother, have already been in contact with me, so it keeps urging me to become that pedestal."

"Allies, I understand.

It is known that the chaos linked to Alicia is one of the alien gods that invaded this world, so the allies he mentioned are probably also alien gods.

According to the information Renee told Fisher, the four levels of chaos, including life, are about the same, and she knows Lamastia and the others, so the allies referred to here may be one of the other three chaos.

one?

In other words, in addition to Alicia, who was chosen as the base by Life Chaos, there may be other "apostles" chosen by other gods as the base?

"That, big brother"

That is to say, while Fisher was thinking, Alicia, who had her head lowered, couldn't help pinching her skirt, mumbling for several seconds before speaking again,

"Otherwise, you'd better eat me. I'm really scared. I'm afraid that I will turn into a monster like that existence in the dream. Then instead of doing that, it's better for me to be like this, as a human being.

As grandpa’s granddaughter, I will die.”

Looking at Alicia in front of him, Fisher actually still recalled the notebook that Haytham left for him, recording his entry into the spirit world when he was young.

At the end of the notebook that recounted many of his legendary stories, Hailsham actually left a lot of words to Fisher, his only disciple.

There is a paragraph about the left-behind granddaughter Alicia.

How could someone as smart as Haytham fail to discover Valerie's hostility towards her, and that this hostility was born entirely out of concern for his safety? Therefore, Haytham had already expected that Alicia would fall behind after his death.

into an isolated and helpless situation.

Hailsham said, I'm afraid she won't be like an innocent child, asking you for death sensibly, but I hope you can refuse her, take care of her, and give her hope of living.

Haytham said that when he took her out of the flesh and blood monster named "Anna", he saw the pure and beautiful soul in her and the unparalleled magical talent in her, so he left her behind.

around.

But in the past five years, Hailsham has not fulfilled his original intention of adopting this child. He has not taught her any magic. Instead, he has just raised her as an ordinary girl.

To be honest, after her granddaughter got married and started a new family in Shivali, her only disciple was wanted all over the world, and her old friend was busy assisting the newly appointed queen, this legendary magician who had entered his old age felt lonely.

Only then did we realize that by this time, many things were actually no longer important.

He has reached the limit of human beings, achieving the ultimate in character, status, and advanced skills that he is proud of, but he still cannot escape the uncertainty of fate, leaving nothing behind in his old age.

Therefore, he gave up the purpose that he originally valued and immersed himself wholeheartedly in the process of accompanying a young life to grow.

Hailsham's love for Alicia and Alicia's respect for Hailsham seemed to be deeply felt by Fisher only at this moment.

He glanced in the direction of Alicia, and Alicia seemed to notice that a transparent shadow suddenly appeared in that direction, and she knew that her eldest brother was in that direction.

It seems that I can see my big brother more clearly.

Although, just a little bit.

Fisher took a deep breath and was about to say something when Alicia's words suddenly came to his mind again, and at this moment, inspiration came to him again.

"Instead of that, it would be better for me to die as I am now, as a person and as my grandpa's granddaughter."

as a person

Humanity

Wait a moment!

Fisher suddenly realized a problem.

First of all, both he and Erwind had read the Life Completion Manual, and were stuck in front of the gate called "Treasure", which is in front of the "Third Mountain".

Before exploring what this so-called treasure is, Fisher seemed to suddenly discover a problem, that is: whether it is him or Erwind, the essence of the ability to use life to complete the manual is actually to change one's own body into a

A form that can be "easily changed".

This means that neither Erwind nor Fisher can actually be considered "human" after using the power of the Life Completion Manual.

Erwind is a monster wearing a beak mask and walking in human form; and Fisher, although he has always considered himself a human being, this world is not idealistic after all, and he actually has nothing to do with Erwind.

The essential difference is just different on the inner level.

However, Alicia is not like this.
To be continued...