In the Name of the Queen

After a moment of astonishment, Christine quickly realized that this was the best arrangement.

She is an important figure related to the coming of miracles, and she will definitely be active in the Vaal city-state to the Hanseatic region.

Although the internal procedures of the Holy Palace have not been completed yet, the result of her permanent stay will not change.

Roland used the naming rights in exchange for three high-level temples, and Cardinal Yiga used her as the person who had been assigned here to top up the number, so that he only needed to send two more temples.

If you can't bargain, then you have to compromise on personnel arrangements. This adaptability is worthy of a cardinal.

Kristine reacted quickly and accepted the arrangement without any hesitation.

"As commanded."

Roland also reacted, but he would not object.

The Temple of Light has its own armed force, the Temple Warriors. The mid- to high-level officers who lead the Temple Warriors are called the Temple of Light, and those who command the Temple are the High-level Temples.

High-level templars are brave, fearless, proficient in various military skills, and are excellent generals.

As long as he still holds the title of Knight of Light, the loyalty of these people is unquestionable.

Roland really wanted to replace Christine, who was prejudiced against him, but Cardinal Yiga had already said it, and there was no need to make trouble over such a trivial matter.

After all, Christine is a young girl, and she will gain many enemies if she directly refutes her face.

Seeing that Roland didn't speak, Yiga thought he was questioning Christine's military ability, so he explained with a smile:

"Roland, Christine ranks second in the high-level temple. If she hadn't had a pleasant experience working with you, I would really be reluctant to let her go."

A pleasant working experience? You're right, it was so enjoyable.

Roland suppressed a smile.

Christine lowered her head and bit her lip.

After finalizing the details of the cooperation, Yiga awarded Roland the prepared Knight's Medal of Honor and engraved his title on the medal's surface.

This medal has a strange texture, and you can't tell what it is made of. The lower part is the symbol of the divine court, and the upper part is the relief sculpture of the goddess with open arms. It has a simple shape and a special simple beauty.

The cooperation was finalized, and Roland warmly invited the two distinguished guests to stay in the best guest room in the Governor's Mansion before returning to his room.

As soon as she walked into the door, she saw Lisa sitting there boredly, flipping through the recipes.

Seeing Roland come back, she stood up quickly and asked softly: "Did the distinguished guests tonight give rave reviews to my dishes?"

Roland couldn't help but smile and tease: "I know you are good at cooking, but you can't be so confident. What if the guests don't like it?"

"I know they like it."

Lisa said confidently: "I am not blindly confident. Just now I felt that the dishes were recognized by that important person, and I am getting closer and closer to a breakthrough."

Approval from important people?

That's right, Cardinal Yiga ranks very high in the Holy Court of Light and is a strong contender for the next pope. His position of power is higher than that of ordinary dukes, and he is indeed a heavyweight.

This extraordinary ability is quite useful.

To tell if you have a hidden weight person, just ask Lisa to cook a few dishes.

If you get more likes after eating, you are a heavyweight, if not, you are a minor player.

Roland smiled and teased: "From now on, important guests will have to trouble sister."

"No trouble, promotion requires experience." Lisa smiled happily.

After activating the miracle, Roland will definitely have more and more important guests, and she will get more and more opportunities.

"Cardinal Yiga is full of praise for your food. It seems that the level of important diners must be at least a cardinal or a duke."

"Eh? What cardinal? It's not him, I'm talking about Christine."

"Ah?" This time it was Roland's turn to be surprised.

Lisa took out a delicate booklet from her arms and opened it carefully.

"Here, you're on the first page."

The front page of the booklet shows a big picture of Roland giving a thumbs up and praising the dishes. The painting style is cute and somewhat cartoonish.

"The second page is Sif."

The portrait of Sif had a calm expression, and nothing could be seen. She just extended her tongue to lick the remaining sauce from the corners of her lips.

Although she never praised Lisa's cooking for being delicious, her body didn't lie and she approved of it.

Lisa sighed with some regret: "You are the only one who gives me a full five-star rating, Count Sif has a four-star rating, and that Miss Christine has a three-and-a-half star rating."

"Such a delicious dish only has four stars? That's outrageous. Let them change the rating."

As we all know, failure to give full marks means negative reviews, which Roland couldn't tolerate.

This is not a matter of face, but a matter of whether Lisa can be promoted as soon as possible.

Seeing that Roland was serious, Lisa quickly grabbed his sleeve and shook her head.

"That's not possible. Only inner approval can be considered a true evaluation, and affected evaluations do not count. Count Sif is easy to handle. Treating her to dinner will always satisfy her. Unfortunately, Christine is a candidate for the saint. She can The number of visits is limited.”

Roland was about to remind Lisa that there were many opportunities for Christine to taste delicious food, but Lisa's eyes lit up.

"Roland, come with me to find fresh ingredients!"

"Now?" Roland reached out to touch his pocket watch and almost took out the gold pocket watch. He then remembered that it was a gift from Sif and quickly took out Lisa's silver pocket watch from another pocket.

The hands of the pocket watch pointed exactly at ten o'clock.

In an era without electricity, it was already late at night.

Even if there is nightlife, it is in the palace, not in the wild.

But Lisa didn't care about that.

“Some ingredients are only active at night!”

When faced with topics in the professional field, Roland decisively chose to shut up.

Since Sister Lisa wants to go, even if the ingredients are on the surface of the blue moon, he has to.

She also had to be told how difficult it would be to land on the moon.

Fortunately, the ingredients are just on the outskirts of the city, only a few dozen miles away.

Roland didn't want to spoil her fun, so he put on his clothes, asked the attendant to bring the horse, and set off with Lisa at night.

The physical fitness of extraordinary people is far superior to that of ordinary people. They can also see at night, but not very clearly.

When traveling at night in this era, you don’t have to worry about bumping into people.

After about an hour of wild driving, we finally reached our destination.

"The Coriander Coriander found last time is around here, let's go." Under the moonlight, Lisa's smile shone like a gem filled with moonlight.

She is very happy.

Although Roland almost touched the wrong pocket watch just now and her heart stopped, he finally got it right.

Roland had a hundred reasons to refuse.

For example, he is too busy at work, has too many chores, has to deal with Earl Sif, and is tired from entertaining important guests, etc.

If you don't want to go, there are plenty of reasons.

But Roland came.

No reason is needed for companionship, only for rejection.

Lisa is rarely willful, she just feels it coming and wants to get some fresh ingredients tonight.

Asking is a woman’s sixth sense.

Roland knew Lisa, so he didn't ask, he just did.

After leaving the horse in the valley, Lisa led Roland into the valley.

Just after walking into the valley, Lisa's expression changed slightly.

The scene here was completely different from the place she remembered.

"Going the wrong way?" Roland noticed Lisa's strangeness and asked softly.

"I remember the location is right here, and the entrance of the valley is exactly the same. How could it be possible?" Lisa murmured.

"Don't be impatient. Think about it. Are there any obvious signs?"

"Yes, I carved words on the tallest pine tree."

Roland secretly complained, who said that foreigners are of high quality and don’t carve random words on trees? Please come out and take a few steps.

Since there was a mark, it was good. The two came to the tallest tree and found the mark.

"Lisa's personal vegetable garden."

Seeing this line of fine print, Roland smiled and teased: "So you like this place. I'll ask Sif to make you a royal knight later. This place will be your fief. No, it's a vegetable garden."

It is indeed a bit romantic to travel dozens of miles to dig wild vegetables in a quiet night.

It would be better if the tree was a pine tree.

Lisa grabbed Roland's hand suddenly, her voice trembling fiercely, "Roland, I'm so scared, this is not a pine tree!"

"I know, this is the Golden Ginkgo. There were many of them in the Third Age, but they have long been extinct."

Roland stopped abruptly mid-sentence.

He also felt something was wrong.

The words carved on the pine trees were transferred to the golden ginkgo trees that had been extinct for an unknown number of years. In addition, the valley was still full of flowers and plants in the middle of winter. It was strange no matter how you thought about it.

Lisa was so frightened that her whole body trembled, and Roland also felt a little guilty.

He pretended to be calm and comforted Lisa, "The world is a big place and there are many strange things. Don't panic. But it's too late today. Let's just pick a few wild vegetables and go."

If you don't leave empty-handed, it's not fishing. Of course you can't go back empty-handed, it's too unlucky.

At Roland's insistence, Lisa randomly picked a few unknown wild vegetables. Not daring to stay any longer, Lisa grabbed Roland and left quickly.

After leaving the valley, the two of them whipped their horse whips hard and returned to Hansa without looking back.

The heavily guarded Governor's Mansion could not bring Lisa any sense of security, and her hands were trembling all the time.

Roland sent her back to the room, looked at her state and asked worriedly: "Sister, do you want me to stay with you for a while?"

Lisa hesitated for a moment and nodded.

She is timid and will tremble with fear every thunderstorm night.

At this time, Roland would stay in her room, tell her random stories, and then leave after she fell asleep.

As he grew older, Roland also realized that it was not appropriate to stay in a girl's room at night, and she was the only one left to mature during a thunderstorm night.

Hearing the familiar yet unfamiliar words "stay" again after several years, Lisa's eyes seemed a bit blurry as if she had lived in another world.

She said softly: "Okay, you can leave early later and don't let others see you."

After all, Roland is the empress's rumored boyfriend. If rumors of a triangular relationship spread again, will everyone lose face?

The strategy she formulated for Roland was to capture Sif's castle first.

As for her.

When had her door been closed to Roland?

Roland smiled and sat down on Lisa's bedside, and asked softly: "It's been a long time since I told you, what story do you want to hear, sister?"

""Oh my God, the Queen is pregnant, who did it?"

"I'm not pregnant yet." Roland was a little speechless. This matter couldn't be settled, right?

"Then please work harder and make up a paragraph to make me happy." Lisa covered half of her face with the quilt and looked at Roland secretly.

Can this kind of thing really make you happy?

It was too difficult to make up stories, so Roland simply told the story of his trip to the city-state of Vaal.

I won’t go into details about the night battle with werewolves and the ambush of Robert, so as not to worry my sister.

Using Spring and Autumn style of writing, all dangers were turned into stories, and Roland kept telling stories.

His voice was like a warm hand soothing Lisa's panicked heart.

Drowsiness came over her and she fell asleep.

Roland quietly left Lisa's room and returned to his dormitory.

He flipped through various classics, trying to find records of golden ginkgo, but there were no useful clues.

The last record of the Golden Ginkgo was that it preceded the elves in the late Third Age.

The extinction of golden ginkgo is just the beginning. The once prosperous ginkgo began to become extinct in large areas.

Autumn came, and after hundreds of ginkgo trees covering the land were completely extinct, the elves felt the cold of winter.

Ninety-five years later, the elves were destroyed by divine punishment.

Ninety-five years is just a moment compared to the long Third Era, and it is not too long for the elves whose lifespans start from a thousand years.

It can even be considered that the extinction of the elves and the golden ginkgo is the same thing.

Plants wither, flowers wither, and the elves end.

The golden ginkgo is the first leaf taken away from the big tree in autumn, and the elves are the big trees that wither after the leaves fall.

If the golden ginkgo can be revived, does it mean that the elves can come back?

Roland thought of the elf Sif and felt that it was unlikely.

The golden ginkgo was naturally extinct, and the elves died in the divine punishment war.

Unlike the Magic Empire.

The Magic Empire won a tragic victory, so it was lucky enough to leave the fire. The elves, who lost the protection of the sea of ​​flowers and various plants, were wiped out in the wasteland.

The elves were destroyed unjustly.

As long as there is a forest around, even without a sea of ​​flowers, they can defeat the God's Punishment Army.

But they are not wronged.

After being the world's ruler for so many years, their lifestyle is not much different from the beginning of the era.

It is said that creatures such as ginkgo trees and Chinese sturgeons that have evolved little in billions of years are living fossils, but the elves have a much higher living fossil index than them.

It would be unreasonable for the elves, a race that does not strive for progress, not to become extinct.

Even if the ginkgo, metasequoia, and Davidia involucrata plants of the past all revived and the sea of ​​flowers bloomed again, there is no reason for the elves to come back.

As a [Inheritor], Roland has mastered the vast classics and knowledge of the elves, but the content he has mastered is less than one thousandth of the elves' heyday.

This is a race that has been filled with knowledge but has lost its wisdom.

They can't come back.

But Roland still has a thought in his heart.

The elves can't come back, but it doesn't mean that individual elves can't be resurrected.

If possible, he wants to take the elf Sif out of the dream and let her meet the human Sif.

Although the human Sif is weak and has a erratic mind, she is improving very fast.

In time, Sif will definitely surpass the dream elf of the same name.

Roland fell asleep.

He came to the dream flower sea, but did not see the elf Sif, so he had to fall asleep on his own.

He was indeed a little tired recently, and he needed a deep sleep like death.

At dawn, he stood up energetically and prepared to go to the nameless valley again.

Even if there are any monsters, they have to stay quiet in broad daylight.

Just as Roland was about to go and come back early, a piercing scream that was enough to kill monsters came from next door.

Roland was frightened and shivered violently, and his face changed instantly.

It was Lisa!

He rushed to the next door like lightning, and was stunned when he saw Lisa shivering in the quilt.

There were a few wild vegetables scattered on the ground, which were dug last night.

The roots of the wild vegetables were flowing with juice.

Not green, but red.

The smell of blood was overwhelming, and the wild vegetables were bleeding.