Chapter 345 The Prophet
Yes, these two women originally came to rob tombs...
Tomb robbing is a common activity in every country. After all, this job is quite lucrative. Many burial objects of high-ranking officials are priceless. Digging them out could make one rich overnight.
Most of the tombs of great figures are difficult to preserve intact, and the higher the quality of the tomb and the more solid it is built, the more difficult it is to preserve...
Because everyone can imagine that a tomb that is built very solidly is likely to contain valuable burial objects - otherwise why build it so solidly?
Therefore, most cemeteries have gravekeepers.
But being a gravekeeper is actually a high-risk job, especially being a gravekeeper in the King's Tomb...
King Ulric's tomb is of course guarded, and the standards are quite high. After all, this is the cemetery of two generations of Fierce Lion Kings - Ulric's father, the Mad King, is also buried here.
There are two squadrons with more than 200 soldiers guarding the cemetery on a daily basis. If nothing unexpected happens, ordinary tomb robbers will not be able to dig graves, let alone get close to the cemetery.
But unfortunately, a big accident happened in the town of Baranli a few days ago...
The continuous wars before had caused tens of thousands of refugees to flood into the town of Balanli. These refugees rioted a few days ago, looting and burning everywhere, causing great chaos.
Of course, the mob would also set their sights on the king's tomb. Thousands of people flocked to the cemetery and fought a bloody battle outside the cemetery, resulting in the annihilation of the troops guarding the cemetery.
Afterwards, the mob dug up the Mad King’s grave first - the Mad King’s tomb was larger and looked more valuable.
Perhaps the burial objects in the Mad King's tomb were relatively rich. In order to fight for the property, the mob started fighting after digging up the tomb, and thousands of people engaged in a large-scale group fight...
Before the fight was over, several regular troops from different countries arrived.
Although the number of regular troops was only one-tenth of that of the mob, these mobs had neither armor nor war horses, so they did not dare to confront head-on, and ended up scattering and fleeing in all directions.
Since the cemetery had been destroyed, several regular troops probably thought that the King's Tomb was completely destroyed. They chased the mobs away separately, and as a result, no one cared about the cemetery at all...
In addition, today is the Winter Festival, which is also the Goddess's blessing day. Everyone in the Fierce Lion Realm will pray to the Goddess on this day and usually do not go out.
So that night, there was no one in the cemetery at all.
The two women took the opportunity to come over and try to see if they could get anything valuable.
Although the Mad King's tomb is indeed empty, Ulric's tomb is still there.
However, the two women were obviously not professionals in this kind of civil engineering. They dug for a long time but failed to dig it open. Instead, they saw Li Ang floating in the lake...
"Your Majesty, this king's tomb seems quite simple... Do you think his burial objects are enough for you to raise an army?"
The female warrior asked as she dug.
"Stop talking, and start digging... Your Majesty Ulrich, I'm sorry, I was forced to do this, please forgive me..."
The queen was digging the soil and muttering something, quite politely...
She had probably never used a shovel before, so the way she used the shovel looked more like she was swinging a sword.
“Bang!”
After a long time, the sound of a shovel hitting wood was heard - the coffin was finally dug up.
"Quick, quick, quick, look... shovel the soil again..."
"Wait! Something is wrong. Why is the lid of the coffin not nailed shut?"
"Well...why don't you care whether it's nailed or not? Just look at what's inside..."
"Ah! How could it be!"
"Empty? How can it be empty...Are we late?!"
"That's not right...his grave has never been dug up...besides, there won't be anyone stealing the body...could it be..."
The two women were busy working, talking in low voices.
Behind them, the disheveled man lying on the ground moved slowly.
"Isn't this place clean? Hiss..."
The female warrior stood up straight, looked around, and then looked at the bright full moon in the sky.
On a full-moon night, the lake reflected the pale moonlight, the cemetery was messy, and the coffins were eerie.
A gust of cold wind blew by, and the branches and leaves of the surrounding trees shook, making a rustling sound.
“Don’t… don’t talk nonsense…”
The 'queen' shuddered, her voice trembling: "Bury...bury that man. At least we got a handful of gold coins, so it wasn't a wasted trip..."
"Alas... maybe... maybe the goddess... won't allow us to obtain military funds in such an dishonorable way..."
The female warrior also began to tremble and rubbed her shoulders involuntarily, probably because she had goose bumps.
"Um... Your Majesty Ulrich, we really have no ill intentions... We will find someone to accompany you right away... I hope your soul will no longer be lonely, um, no longer lonely..."
The woman known as the Queen whispered with a trembling voice.
Apparently, she saw the inscription on the back of the tombstone when she was digging the grave.
The two women began to look around while hurriedly lifting the man and putting him into the coffin.
Then they lifted the lid of the coffin that was placed nearby.
But just as he was about to put the lid on the coffin, the man in the coffin suddenly sat up!
“Mom…” “Ahhh…”
The two women dropped the lid and ran away so fast that their screams echoed in the night.
“Cough cough cough…”
The man in the coffin coughed violently, and said as if talking to himself: "Ahem... Who the hell threw the Gate of the Abyss to the bottom of the lake? It's killing me!"
Of course, this man was Li Ang who had just returned from the void.
He had always had bad luck since arriving in the continent of Pendor, and this time his luck was particularly bad - he lost consciousness immediately after touching the three-dimensional projection of the planet.
But this is not actually a normal phenomenon. He lost consciousness mainly because he appeared under the water at that moment.
And it’s very deep underwater...
Without any buffer, the water pressure suddenly increased by who knows how many times, making him unconscious in an instant - this is the body's automatic protection. When fatal danger comes, the body will automatically shut down consciousness and be in a state of minimum consumption.
This automatic reaction of the human body is faster than the speed at which nerves transmit information to the brain. Li Ang fell into a coma before he could even see anything clearly.
Coma, an automatic protection mechanism, can often help people avoid fatal injuries.
But the problem was that Li Ang was unconscious in the water... He was lucky not to have drowned on the spot, but if no one had taken care of him, big problems would have definitely occurred.
After this, he had a long dream.
He dreamed that he was at the bottom of a very deep lake. There were fish swimming around in the lake, and at the deepest part of the lake, there were two black pages of a book - that was the Gate of the Abyss, which was the last code.
It seems to be true, wherever the code is, he will return there.
Li Ang had a strong feeling that the dream was his current state.
It feels like my soul is watching me.
Later, he dreamed that he slowly floated to the surface of the water and drifted along with the current.
I don’t know how long I drifted.
Until now.
"Wait...I thought I heard him coughing?"
The 'Queen' who was running wildly suddenly stopped and turned to look.
"Never mind... run, it must be a devil or a ghost..."
The female warrior was still in shock, swallowing her saliva and trying to stay away from this terrible place.
"No... He seems to be alive? Ghosts can't cough..."
The 'Queen' reacted and turned to walk towards Leon.
"Your Majesty... Your Majesty the Queen... Hey hey..."
The female warrior looked around in panic, stomped her feet and followed. It seemed that her loyalty to the queen finally overcame her fear of the unknown.
…
"Who are you... and what time is it?"
Asking names and time is the normal reaction of most people after waking up from a coma.
"My name is Bo Daisy... It's the night of Advent now - just look at the moon and you'll know. There's only one full moon a month..."
Bao Daisy felt that this sloppy man was probably still a little confused.
"No, I mean, what year is it?"
Li Ang shook his head, stretched out his hand and took a look. His fingernails were half the length of a finger and curled inwards into a sharp arc.
"In the year 357 of the Pendor calendar..."
Bao Daisi also shook her head and looked at the man in front of her with sympathy: "Alas, it seems that you have been drowning for too long. I guess you are sick... This is your money. Since you are not dead, take the money back to treat your illness."
She probably thought that Li Ang was not very smart.
"It took so long... Bao Daisi, I must thank you for saving me, otherwise I would have become disabled even if I didn't die... Although you originally only did it for money."
Li Ang did not take the gold coins. After washing his face with the lake water, he began to thank the "Queen" sincerely.
"You shouldn't address Her Majesty by her first name! You should say 'Your Majesty'! You are offending a Queen!"
The female warrior beside her shouted in dissatisfaction.
"Oh? Queen? But you don't look like that... You look more like technicians doing another kind of business - if I'm not mistaken, this seems to be the coffin that I buried for King Ulrich with my own hands..."
Leon looked at the two women, then at Ulrich's grave.
The scene was a bit awkward.
"You buried it yourself? Who are you?"
The female warrior looked at Leon with some caution, her hand on the hilt of the sword at her waist.
"My name is Li Ang... Duke of Changhe Town."
Li Ang looked at the female warrior and said, "Do you have any scissors or a knife? I need to take care of myself..."
"Duke Leon? I've heard of you!"
Bao Daisi shouted in surprise, then sighed: "Hey... I have no choice. If there is another way, I will not desecrate the king's tomb."
Bodice is truly a queen.
She was from Phicavia - she briefly ruled the Kingdom of Phicavia.
Vikavia is an island country with a total population of only 50,000 to 60,000 people, located southwest of the Pendor continent.
It was a country where women's rights were supreme.
The class status of Vicavia from low to high is as follows: men, eunuch slaves, eunuch warriors, female civilians, female warriors, female nobles...
Yes, uncastrated men had a status lower than slaves in Phicavia, and were simply props for women to play with - basically, bedding.
The women there actually marry other women - in this feminist society, most women treat their best friends as their lovers.
As for reproduction, they basically get pregnant randomly while playing with bedding…
As for those who were made to be bedridden, after their physical functions declined, they would be "upgraded" to become eunuch slaves, and then do daily chores, such as farming or doing hard labor.
Ten years ago, after traveling around the world, Bodaisy returned to Vikavia and took over the throne of queen.
She felt that the entire country could no longer maintain this state. Since the founding of Phicavia, the goddess Phicavia had never descended again, and this society without the concept of family had caused various brutal tragedies to occur continuously in the country.
At the same time, if men are about to be castrated, most of them will resist, and even if they do not resist, they will be disloyal to the country.
Riots and clashes occur frequently, and high-pressure supervision must be maintained at all times.
But the already few female soldiers had to resist foreign enemies while also supervising the country, which was really stretched.
Moreover, most men were castrated, which meant that many civilian women had no chance to have children, and the country's population as a whole could not grow.
In order to maintain the domestic situation, the women of Ficcavia had no intention of creating new things, so there has been almost no development in Ficcavia for more than a hundred years.
If it weren't for the fact that Pendor and Amara were both in chaos and the other countries had no intention of dealing with them, I'm afraid they would have been destroyed long ago...
Ten years ago, Bao Daisi saw muskets in the Barkley continent and heard about the war in Mettenheim. The population of Mettenheim was similar to that of Phicavia, but it was a country that produced many strong men. Bao Daisi knew that the overall combat effectiveness of the people of Mettenheim was much stronger than that of Phicavia.
Since Mettenheim had been beaten like that, Bodais felt that if things continued like this, Ficavia would most likely be conquered by the Barclay Empire.
It's impossible to rely on the goddess Vikavia to make a comeback every time, right?
Therefore, feeling deeply in crisis, Bodaisy planned to reform. She tried to make Vicaria progress a little bit towards gender equality - she planned to grant noble status to some outstanding men, so as to absorb some men from other countries into Vicaria, and let some of these outstanding men gradually become the backbone of Vicaria.
But such reforms will undoubtedly irritate the nerves of most female nobles who are accustomed to the supremacy of women.
So, Bodaisy's power was taken away by her sister.
Her sister Eleanor led most of the female nobles in launching an "uprising" and regarded Bodice as a "sinner who betrayed her faith."
The unfinished reform died in the womb, and Bao Daisi herself had no choice but to flee to the continent of Pendor with her best friend.
She wanted to take back the throne that belonged to her, so she came to Pendor to seek help.
Bodes originally came ashore from the Howling Bay in Firdsvain, but the status of women in that place was not high and no one liked her.
Moreover, the local Dawn Knights regarded her as a heretic. As long as she was not a believer of the goddess of justice, the Dawn Knights would regard her as a heretic. Moreover, Ficavia was a famous castration kingdom...
So, Bao Daisi headed east, intending to try her luck in Sarleon City.
She heard that the current King of Sarleon, Amy Thornad, was a queen, and she thought she might be able to get help from the queen.
But after arriving in Sarleon, she realized that the Sarleon Kingdom was facing difficulties and was mired in the quagmire of war.
Moreover, Queen Amy had already organized Sarleon City to start the citywide migration.
Moving the capital was obviously to avoid war.
Under such circumstances, it was impossible to expect support from the Sarleon Kingdom. They had moved their capital to avoid war, so it was impossible for them to send troops to help others fight. Therefore, Bo Daisi had to find a way to raise money and recruit troops.
So she set her sights on the cemeteries in the town of Ballanly.
"Okay... As expected, since ancient times, most people who plotted to restore their country would dig up graves and rob tombs... Bao Daisi, I can help you form an army to restore your country, as a reward for saving me."
Li Ang thought about it and made a promise to Bao Daisi.
"Really? ...But how did you end up like this?"
Bao Daisi's eyes lit up, but after looking at Li Ang's current appearance, she was a little hesitant.
"The Duke can also drown..."
Li Ang sighed: "But you have to send me back to the territory first. I am injured and a little dazed now."
He was indeed a little dazed now, because it was as if he could see himself now - as if he had God's vision, he could 'see' himself talking to Bao Daisi, and he could 'see' the surrounding environment.
The kind with no blind spots.
"Where are you going?"
Bao Daisy didn't ask any more questions. She was more concerned about where to get the money.
"Changhe Town... Wait, let's get out of here quickly, the army is coming!"
Leon frowned, looked to the side and back of Bao Daisi, then waved to the two women to leave quickly.
Bao Daisi turned around and saw nothing, but she did not object because she should leave here immediately. After all, this was a cemetery...
The two women helped Leon leave the cemetery. Just as they reached the outside of the town of Balanli, they saw an army of hundreds of people heading straight for the cemetery in the distance.
According to the time, when Leon gave the reminder, the army was still at least several miles away from the cemetery!
"How do you know an army is coming? Are you a prophet?"
There was something wrong with the way Bao Daisi looked at Li Ang. She was a little doubtful now, was the person she saved a human or a ghost?
"Depend on my feeling... I have a very good sense... Otherwise, why do you think I became a duke at such a young age? There is another troop ahead, two or three miles away from us. Let's go to the side of the road to avoid them..."
Li Ang didn't want Bao Daisi to know about his abnormal condition.
Moreover, he felt that his abnormality was a good thing. This God's perspective could help him avoid many dangers and seize the initiative in war.
Leon felt that this ability might have something to do with the God of Creation or the Void - Althea said that he would lose all his memories of the temple after leaving it, but Leon still remembered it clearly and had not forgotten anything.
Moreover, he thought only a few days had passed in the void, but now it has been more than a year, which means that he has spent a full year in that void!
Li Ang did have a strange feeling now. He felt that the so-called chaotic void was not empty.
Maybe it is full of magic, or the power of faith, or the power of soul - whatever you call it.
That should be a special kind of energy, so he didn't feel hungry at all, and even until now he didn't feel hungry or weak.
Although he had little strength due to the injuries from being struck by lightning, his spirit was unusually strong.
This God-like ability does not mean that one can really see everything, but rather that one can be aware of the movements around one, as if one's spirit can cover an area of several miles.
It was actually a very uncomfortable feeling - his mind would feel very irritated because he could sense every movement, but at the same time he had first-person vision, and his mind was a bit confused.
Perhaps this is the power of a prophet.
Li Ang closed his eyes and felt a little more comfortable.
Then, he suddenly realized that Madigan, the prophet Madigan, cut off his ears and covered his eyes after becoming a prophet...
Is this to hide his identity as a Noldor elf, or is it because... Madigan also has the same ability as himself?
