She Chooses To Destroy the World

The war in the North Land is nearing its end, and there is no need for Alice to go back. When the banquet celebrating all the success has been successfully completed, Alice has returned to her daily life. According to the timetable, in a few days, she will accompany the duchess from Faerun to the Yunqi Castle.

But considering that Cecilian will always be with her in a human form, this kind of daily life may...not be that ordinary.

Cecilian now looks like a human being, but he doesn't seem to intend to deliberately understand the minutiae of human life. So sometimes, something surprising happens.

For example, when they just returned to Faerun, the Duchess’ butler prepared a comfortable room for Circillian in Faerun’s mansion. But Cecilian said that he only needs to live with Alice.

Alice covered Cecilian's mouth and said to the housekeeper who had her eyes widened:

"He's saying that he only needs to live next door to me."

The housekeeper raised her eyebrows and listened to this opinion. As for what she thought of the relationship between the two of them... Alice was not very clear, and she didn't want to know.

Cecilian did not deliberately conceal his identity, but he would not talk about it at everybody. Therefore, before he stood at the gate of the city and created a thunderstorm, most people still regarded him as a human being. But after that, the situation has changed a bit.

Not many people witnessed the incident with their own eyes, and they were basically soldiers guarding the city. However, such miracles had spread throughout the city before the Duchess ordered the prohibition of spreading. Cecilian's identity also spread like wildfire. After that, many people in Philadelphia have quietly changed their beliefs.

As for the change of the Duchess herself, not many people know that for political reasons, the Temple of Light under the command of West Felix is ​​still preserved. After all, West Felix has to rely on the temple to maintain a good relationship with the capital. . When Alice is not on duty, she sometimes passes by. Although the building still exists, it is tall and majestic, and the stained glass windows always show light, but Alice always feels that there is a little more twilight and lifelessness in it. It's very different.

This change is not only related to the Duchess and the people in Philadelphia, but also has a lot to do with the people in nearby villages.

She has only been there once since the Duchess gave Alice the village of Ronald near Philadelphia. But as the owner of the village, Alice sometimes receives letters from the village chief and money from him. In a recent letter, the village chief talked about the changes in the village, saying that after Alice paid to rebuild the ancient altar of the Faun, the income of the village has increased significantly, and the herdsmen are more inclined to go directly to the pasture. The altar on the side held various ceremonies, even the most solemn ceremony, do not consider going to Faerun’s Temple of Light. People from nearby villages met and followed suit.

This is probably one of the reasons for the decline of the Temple of Light.

In addition to this matter, the village chief’s letter mentioned a more important thing. He said that recently the tax officer of the Duchess went to the village to recover the taxes owed for many years and listed a surprising number.

Most of these taxes were generated before Alice obtained the land. The Reynolds who was defeated by Alice in Ronald Village seemed to have never paid taxes to the Duchess. Although the owner of the land has been changed, the taxes that have not been paid will not disappear out of thin air. Alice not only has to pay taxes, but also has to add a large late fee. In short, it will take about a year or two to collect all the money. So during this time, the village probably couldn't send her money.

In recent years, Alice ran around and made a lot of money, and did not live on the land in Ronald Village. But seeing the letter from the village chief, Alice couldn't help but smile.

At the beginning, Her Royal Highness used these lands as a bargaining chip and invited her to West Felix, which really made a good deal.

These trivial things will probably never end. Now that Alice has returned to West Felix, the most important thing for her is the daily work of the knight, that is, the guardian of the duchess and the swordsmanship lesson of Miss Miranda.

Considering that Miss Miranda will always live with the Duchess from now on, Alice originally thought that the swordsmanship class would continue. But in fact, this course had to end a few days later, because after Miss Miranda became the heir of the Duchess, she had to learn to deal with government affairs with the Duchess. As a personal guard, Alice was also required to stay in the Duchess’ study at this time and learn to work as a secretary.

This is really not Alice's expertise, but looking at Miss Miranda's frown when she is doing homework... Alice still feels very lucky, after all, the secretary's job is much simpler after all.

She was getting more and more comfortable doing things like this. One day, when she was sorting out new information, she saw Etienne's name.

Her body couldn't stop shaking, suddenly remembering what she had heard when she was still in the Northland.

She immediately picked up the information and read it carefully.

The information obtained by the Duchess was much more detailed than the information Alice had previously received in the Northland.

Etienne was not accused of killing people in public, and His Majesty seemed to have approved his statement that "the high priest has been replaced". Not only did he not punish him, but he was also promoted to high priest. When someone raised an objection to this, His Majesty the King declared that it came from the will of the God of Light. As for Damian's similarity to the high priest, His Majesty claimed that it was because the imposter used some sorcery. The secrets of the royal twins were finally guarded, and they were not known.

This matter is not entirely without doubt, but in the capital, as long as there is no intervention by the high priest, the words of His Majesty the King will always be unconditionally obeyed. So Etienne put on the drape of the high priest and became the youngest priest of light in the history of the country, and the sword that killed Damian was placed in the royal temple. , As a sacred object of the coming of the God of Light.

It's hard for Alice to tell exactly what kind of mood she had when she read the information in its entirety.

Damian and her can at best be regarded as a mutually exploiting relationship, and they are not friends. Damian's death is nothing particularly worthy of mourning for her. But the news that Etienne became the High Priest of the Light from now on made Alice a little dazed.

Thinking about it carefully, this is something that will happen sooner or later. His rapid promotion within a few years, his blond hair, and His Majesty's favor for him all indicate that he will sit in this position sooner or later. It's just that Alice has never thought carefully about what attitude she should look at Etienne when this day really comes.

The situation is completely different now when they first met, and even very different from when they met again in the king's capital.

An ordinary priest can rely on a little mercy to shelter a child who chooses to become a heresy; an ordinary deputy priest of the temple can pretend not to hear the failure of a seventeen-year-old mercenary.

But a high priest who speaks on behalf of the God of Light and the first believer of the God of Doom are destined to stand on opposite sides, and there is absolutely no possibility of reconciliation. From the moment he accepted the position to become the High Priest of the God of Light, the good relationship between Alice and the priest has probably come to an end. They are destined to stand on two very different sides.

The cake he once gave her was a rare touch of color in her childhood, a little joy in pain; those two gold coins gave her the opportunity to become Roma’s apprentice; that enchanted chain mail, until now she still often Wear it on the body.

And she is going to be his enemy now.

This incident kept Alice in a daze all day, and when she finally finished her work and came out of the duchess' study, she saw Circillian waiting for her at the door.

The two looked at each other, and Alice knew that he probably already knew why she was upset.

At this time, Alice felt that she needed a hug.

She leaped over and hugged him.

Circelian's body temperature calmed Alice's chaotic mood a bit. However, thinking of the person in front of him could be regarded as the root cause of the situation in front of him, and Alice didn't know how to treat it.

Cecilian did not comfort her, but asked gently in her ear:

"You know, as long as you want to change the world, some things are destined to happen. When that day really comes... can you really make up your mind?"

Cecilian's tone was soft, as if to say that it didn't matter if he gave up. But Alice didn't want to give up just yet.

On the day of the final battle, if Etienne is really standing opposite her, she must make a decision. If the situation permits, she will save his life as much as possible, but if it really gets there...

Alice closed her eyes.

"It's okay." She finally said so.

Cecilian knew in what mood she said this.

He hugged her tightly.

Although talking about such a thing now, that day is actually very far away. Alice originally thought that after this, she would not hear about Etienne again for a long time. After all, after Alice saw this information, in a few days, she would follow the Duchess to the Castle of Yunji.

According to the usual habit, the Duchess will not deal with too much government affairs in the Yunqi Castle, and Alice will also be engaged in training, and probably will not stay in the Duchess' study often. But what Alice did not expect was that just the day before she was about to go to the castle of Yunqi, new information about Etienne appeared at the desk of the duke:

He declared war on the South in the name of the High Priest of the God of Light.