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Lani lowered her eyes slightly, half-concealing her clear, light gray eyes, and wrapped her arms around her arched, shapely thighs.
She seemed to be thinking about something and was no longer sleepy.
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The next day, noon.
The barracks behind Blackrock Fortress.
Arthur had just finished physical training for the Blackrock Legion soldiers.
At this time.
The butler, Leon, appeared with a flustered expression and approached him hurriedly.
Seeing this, Arthur wiped the sweat from his body and asked the approaching butler, Leon, first:
"Butler Leon, what's wrong?"
"Young Master, Miss Lani fell ill this morning. Would you like to go and visit her?"
"Ok!"
Upon hearing this, Arthur immediately stopped wiping, frowned, and spoke with a serious expression:
"What illness does Miss Lani have? Where is she now?"
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A shift in perspective.
Arrived at Lani's house.
Arthur slowly pushed open her bedroom door.
"who is it?"
Hearing the door open, Lani, who was lying in bed, let out a weak cry.
“It’s me, Arthur.”
Arthur responded softly, then strode to Lani's bedside, pulled out a chair, and sat down.
Lani turned her head slightly, and upon seeing who it was, a forced smile appeared on her pale face.
"Hehe! Oh, it's Little Lion. What brings you here to see me?"
Despite her poor health and weakness, the girl still displayed a playful demeanor.
Arthur responded to the girl with a slightly bitter smile:
"Butler Leon told me that you didn't go to Blackrock Castle this morning, which is unusual for you."
He then visited you to inquire about your condition, and upon discovering that you were ill, he went to fetch a doctor for you.
After he returned to Blackrock Castle after consulting the doctor, he told me about it.
So, I came.
"Hehe! I'm fine."
In front of Arthur, Lani tried her best to speak in a nonchalant tone:
"The doctor just left. He said I probably have a weakness caused by seasonal colds in the North."
I've taken my medication, and I should be back to normal in a few days.
"It must be because you've been staying in the harsh climates of Rinfeng Village and Hanwu Village for too long."
Upon hearing the diagnosis, Arthur immediately clenched his fist and deduced the cause of the illness.
Subsequently.
He bowed his head to Lani, his tone sincere:
"I'm sorry, Miss Lani, I didn't pay attention to your health."
"Oh, little lion, don't feel too bad about it."
Lani glanced away, seemingly displeased with Arthur's serious expression.
Say it.
Lani gazed absently out the window at the peaceful town.
After a moment of silence.
Lani blinked and spoke without turning around:
"Little Lion, please don't tell my Grandpa Lawson about this, okay?"
"This...?"
Upon hearing Lani's request, Arthur scratched his head:
"Butler Leon told me that the moment he returned to Blackrock Fortress, he used his mount, the Tier 3 Frost Raven King, to send a message to Mr. Lawson, who was far away in Frostwind Village."
Upon hearing this established fact, Lani instantly turned her head and stared at Arthur:
"what!"
Chapter 89 The Crimson Sign
A shift in perspective.
Arrive at the large forging workshop located between Rinfeng Village and Hanwu Village.
"what!"
Lawson, a level-two runesmith and Thunder Badger Knight, immediately became serious after receiving the message from the third-tier Frost Raven King.
Without further ado, let's head back to Frostraven Town!
This was his first thought after learning that Lani was sick.
Think about this.
He returned to his forge and found a box locked with three keys.
He then quickly and skillfully opened the box.
When the box was opened, what was revealed inside was—a strangely shaped bracelet.
The outer ring is jet black, as if it were made of some kind of rough, obsidian-like rock.
However, its inner circle is completely different; it is purely transparent and colorless, as if it were made of some kind of smooth and rounded jade.
At the same time, the bracelet does not appear to be a closed circle, with a clearly visible seam at the break.
Between the tiny cracks at the break, a wisp of silvery-white light slowly swirled.
This was an item he had recently obtained in exchange for a strange dagger made of ore after entrusting Arthur to go to Fengpu Territory to find the alchemist Merlin.
After obtaining the bracelet, Lawson used his own lightning aura to unleash the true essence hidden beneath its strange appearance.
This bracelet contains something of utmost importance to him—the witch's heart's blood.
Or rather, this is something of utmost importance to Lani.
Thinking this, Lawson took it out of the box, wrapped it in a handkerchief, and put it in his pocket.
Next.
He summoned a horse and set off from the large forge.
Lawson headed south toward Frostraven Town in Blackrock Territory.
At this moment.
He had only one thought in his mind:
Lani, you absolutely cannot get hurt!
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The perspective returns to Frostraven Town in Blackrock Territory.
Arrive at the servants' quarters within the lord's manor.
In a clean room here.
Another girl, Vivi, also fell ill.
She lay weakly on the bed, her usually cool face now showing a listless expression.
Her childhood sweetheart, Lancelot, was by her side.
"Weiwei, are you alright?"
Lancelot and Vivi lived in two adjacent rooms.
This was an arrangement specially made by the butler Leon for the two childhood sweethearts who had fled from the eastern border of the Kingdom of Grey.
this morning.
When Lancelot got up and passed by Vivi's room, he was surprised to find Vivi in an unusual state.
She was burning up, her face was pale, and she kept muttering indistinct words.
Seeing this, Lancelot guessed that Vivi was having another nightmare.
So he immediately woke her up.
When Weiwei woke up, just as he had expected, she showed extreme panic.
Upon seeing Lancelot beside her, she immediately grabbed his sleeve tightly, as if afraid he would leave her at any moment.
Then, she raised her voice and clearly uttered the words she had just murmured in her sleep:
"Dad is dead, Mom is dead;"
My uncle is dead, my aunt is dead.
Everyone was killed.
Lance, I'm so scared.
The girl's nightmares were related to the suffering they had experienced a few months earlier.
They were not born in the North, but in a small town in the East.
They originally lived a life free from worries about food and clothing.
But one day, a bandit gang, suspected to be from a neighboring country, invaded their town, burning, killing, looting, and committing brutal atrocities against all innocent civilians.
They were orphans who were fortunate enough to escape the disaster thanks to the joint protection of both sets of parents.
From then on, they lived a life of displacement and were even sold into slavery.
Until they arrived at Blackrock Territory, where they met Arthur, who redeemed their lives.
However, although life is gradually settling down now.
But the memory of that horrific massacre in my hometown is etched deep in my heart, indelible and inescapable.
These past two months of settling down in Blackrock Territory have been quite an experience, let alone for Vivi, a delicate young girl.
Even Lancelot, who was never afraid of a pack of wolves, was often haunted by nightmares stemming from the massacre in his hometown.
Therefore, Lancelot could understand Vivi's panic.
So he took the initiative to sit on the edge of the bed and move closer to the girl.
He used the warmth of his body to soothe her uneasy thoughts.
She was only sixteen years old and should not have had to endure such a horrific man-made disaster.
Lancelot felt Vivi trembling in his arms and thought to himself.
gradually.
After Vivi calmed down.
Lancelot then began to notice the abnormality in her body.
He touched Weiwei's forehead and realized that she might have caught a cold and had a fever.