Blue Sword

The blizzard on the summit gradually subsided.

As the flow of time was restored, the girls gradually regained their mobility.

But no one moved.

Sidrifa, who was closest to the bronze dragon, had already fallen to her knees in the snow, and she threw the North Wind Ax aside.

After a while, she suddenly clenched her fist hard and hit the ground.

Bits of snow flew everywhere.

Eleanor released the spear that had gathered her will, silently raised her head, and stared at the closed wormhole high in the sky with her blue eyes.

Have a good trip, leader.

And...you must come back.

She looked at the sky above her head and murmured silently, tears streaming down her cheeks.

Then he received a heavy punch in the face.

Sidrifa knocked Eleanor to the ground, turned over and sat on her body, and hammered down with her fists like rain. Eleanor just raised her arms to protect her cheeks and let her beat her without saying a word.

"Stop fighting!" Nora and Mia rushed forward, holding the furious Sidrifa to the left and right, and dragged her away from Eleanor.

"Why!" Hidrifa's face was also full of tears, with a look of resentment, despair, and helplessness, and she screamed hysterically at Eleanor:

"Why are you stopping me!!!"

Eleanor did not answer, but stood up holding her red and swollen cheeks, spitting the blood in her mouth into the snow next to her.

"Stop fighting." Little Mia said helplessly from the side, "The leader will reprimand you when he comes back later..."

Then Hidrifa turned her head and stared at her, her eyes filled with violence and ferocity as if she wanted to tear her into pieces alive.

"He...may never come back." Medea stepped forward, held down Mia's shoulders, and said expressionlessly.

At least for a short time, it won't be possible.

"Ha, what do you mean?" Xiao Mia still didn't understand.

"Literally." Sidrifa also broke away from the two people's support and stood up straight silently, her chest still heaving rapidly, breathing heavily, and looking at Eleanor with cold eyes.

Nora ran to Eleanor's side and used the law of evolution to treat her injured cheek. The knight girl looked down at the ground sadly, letting Nora caress the side of her face without saying a word.

"Now he's back." Medea pulled the gloomy-looking Sidrifa, took a deep breath, and looked at the other girls present:

"Are you satisfied?"

She looked at Eleanor who was helping Aske, then at Mi'er who was secretly taking action, and then at Theodora who didn't take action during the whole process.

"Are you satisfied?" Medea asked again.

"Medea..." Nora spoke slowly.

"Nora." Medea said coldly, "Congratulations, you succeeded."

"We're all losers now."

No one answered her.

In other words, at this moment when everyone's differences have become so obvious that they are almost in opposition, any unnecessary words are just a waste of time.

"Let's go." Medea looked at Hidrifa.

Hidliefa nodded numbly.

"Wait!" The two girls walked away, and little Mia quickly ran to them, "Where are you going?"

However, Medea just glanced at her lightly, and disappeared into the air at the same time as Sidrifa.

To be precise, he hid his existence in everyone's consciousness.

"Let them go." Mi'er said behind her. "After Ask leaves, they will definitely not be able to stay."

"What do you mean?" Little Mia was lost, as if she still didn't understand, or refused to believe what the girls said, and said with a smile, "No way? Haha, you don't really think that Aske is gone and never comes back, do you? ?”

Still no one answered her question.

"Nora!" Mia ran to Nora, raised her little face full of hope, and asked pleadingly, "Nora! Asik will come back, right... I mean, it's impossible! He There's no way they could just leave us here, right?"

Nora was silent, just touched her head, showing a somewhat sad expression.

"But, but..." Seeing her acquiescing to this matter, little Mia's face turned even paler. Just like when I learned that I had been abandoned by the Thieves Guild, I felt as if my whole body suddenly fell from a warm environment into an ice cave, and I couldn't even feel the sensation of my body for a while.

"It shouldn't be..." she said in disbelief, her voice beginning to sob, "Oh, why..."

"Mia." Theodora also stepped forward and whispered, "Ask is gone, you should accept this fact."

Little Mia ignored her, but her shoulders twitched slightly, and tears slid down her delicate cheeks.

"Mi'er?" Theodora turned her head and asked.

Mi'er also sighed, stepped forward and hugged the sobbing little Mia.

"Then, let's go too." Nora nodded to Theodora, and then said goodbye to everyone.

"Wait a minute!" Seeing that the two girls were about to leave, little Mia suddenly broke away from Mi'er's arms and shouted to Nora and Eleanor, "You guys!"

"Are you... also leaving?" she asked, holding back her sobs.

Seeing the always optimistic little Mia become like this, Nora felt a little guilty and intolerable for a moment, but she soon calmed down and whispered:

"Otherwise? Little Mia... Asik has left."

"But the Cangqing Sword is still here!" Xiao Mia shouted in disbelief, "We, aren't we on the same team? Aren't we all mercenaries of the Cangqing Sword?"

"Little Mia, we didn't join the Cang Qing Sword because we liked being mercenaries." Nora could only sigh and decided to talk to little Mia completely, "We stayed in the team because of Asker. "

"After all, most of the so-called Cang Qing Sword Mercenary Group is not united by the team itself. Now that Asik is gone, what's the point of us continuing to stay?"

She supported Eleanor and continued walking down the mountain: "Goodbye, Mia. If you have time in the future, you can come to Solomon City to find me."

"You are... betraying!" Little Mia shouted desperately towards their backs with uncontrollable crying, "You have betrayed the Cangqing Sword! If, if Asker knew about this when he came back, , will definitely be very, very angry!”

"Mia." Mi'er pulled her arm and signaled her to stop venting like this.

"Why is this happening..." Until the figures of Nora and Eleanor disappeared behind the snow slope, little Mia sat slumped in the snow, pressing her face hard with both hands, and uncontrollable tears flowed from her fingers. Time flowed down, "Why..."

Mi'er sighed helplessly and looked at Theodora beside her.

Theodora was also comforting Paige, who was kneeling in the snow. The vampire girl didn't speak the whole time. In other words, since Ask disappeared into the wormhole above her head, she had completely fallen into a frozen state that refused to accept reality. She just knelt down in the snow blankly, as if her mind was completely intact. It's like it's broken into pieces.

"When do you plan to leave?" Mi'er asked.

"I'll stay a little longer and then go," Theodora said.

After all, there is an empire waiting for her to govern.

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In Solomon City, Lateran Palace, the believers in the square had exploded, forcing even the Pope to come out and give a speech to appease the restless people.

Because the hour hand of Giotto's clock has jumped to 10 o'clock in one breath, and is still oscillating back and forth counterclockwise in 15-minute increments - several elderly believers have already suffered heart attacks and died in the square. The floor tiles are on.

Back in the conference room of the Lateran Palace, the cardinals were also silent.

The analysis of the reason for the sudden rotation of the hour hand has also come out: just a few hours ago on Mont Blanc, Asker left this world, and the Blue Sword mercenary group with nine demigods suddenly disintegrated.

This was certainly part of Raphael's calculations. In other words, since the Holy See, Zondrilic, and the Bronze Dragon reached a secret agreement, the countdown to the disintegration of the Blue Sword has begun.

However, few cardinals felt pleased when looking at the dial of Giotto's clock.

If there were nine organized R4s in the past that were potentially unparalleled threats to the Holy See, then now there are eight R4s that are scattered, disrupted, and hostile to each other.

Although the threat to the Holy See has been greatly reduced, the harm of chaos to the entire civilized world has increased. This is why the hour hand of Giotto's Bell rotates.

The cardinals were still silent, secretly planning the next strategy of the Holy See and how to deal with the future saint, one of the R4s who was about to return. Suddenly, they heard His Majesty Pope Innocent sigh:

"...A new era has arrived."