"Hmm, so you guys offended an Earth Knight?"
Eleazar, sitting in the pool, frowned, then looked a little pained as he looked back and cried out in pain.
"Don't get it, you can't peel it off!"
Behind them, the witch and the warlock each raised a foot to stomp, grabbing the armor with both hands, their bodies leaning back, pulling back as hard as they could, their two faces suffocating in red.
Although the cursed armor was broken open by the girls with brute force, pulling out patches of black filaments wherever it connected to their flesh, this was simply useless.
"It's a curse, the armor is just the form it manifests itself in, you will be reborn even if you destroy it!" Eleazar's head filled with pain.
Hearing him say this, the two women then let go of their hands angrily.
"POW!!!"
The torn armor popped back like a leather strap and closed heavily on his back, causing Eleazar to grimace again in pain.
Evelea whipped her head around, "Aren't you good at lifting curses, now here's your chance to show it."
Fina gave her a blank look, "It's a cursed object that even holy light can't completely purify..."
Watching the two toss and turn as they had before, Eleazar was suddenly overwhelmed with peace of mind, wanting nothing more than for this moment to last forever.
But he knew that this wish would have to be worked on for a long time before it would come true...
...
"Look darling, isn't the sunrise beautiful on this side of Rouen!"
Three elongated backs leaning against each other on the cliffs of the island.
Eleazar looked out silently at the lush green continent in the distance.
A country covered by jungle for 90% of its area, with almost no industrialization, even the ships on the sea are old wooden boats with sails raised, which is very primitive.
Savagery, ignorance, and adventure are the only remaining impressions of this place from the outside world.
The farriers who were stranded in this place for various reasons lost the scent of those civilizations after only a few generations of reproduction.
Eleazar looked at the two men around him.
"If it's an Earth Knight from a place like this, you may have offended an entire nation..."
"I don't care about them."
After learning that he could only stay here for a month at the most and would have to go back, both women no longer wanted to care about all the strife and only wanted to leave more beautiful memories in this rare time.
Eleazar, seated in the center, craned his head, sniffed the wine over his left shoulder, then turned to the other side, sniffed the blood-covered body and the half-armor, pieced together from bone fragments, placed to one side of the golem's horn helmet, and asked curiously:
"What, did you go and become a general?"
Evelea grabbed the hand that was making a mess and shoved it into her breast armor.
"Hmph, I'm the commander of a 2,000-man army now!"
Fina said absently as she grabbed her other hand and looked up and down at the black mark on the back of his hand:
"Charmed to be nothing more than cannon fodder, and having been away for so long, I'm guessing they'll mutiny when they get back."
She took out her soul crystal and grabbed another struggling rabbit with her spell hand, preparing to transfer this
Eleazar took her hand back and whispered:
"Don't worry about it, let the acolytes sort it out when we get back to the church."
"You need to stop using soul crystals, the Shadow Council is out looking for us ..."
Fina looked up in sudden surprise, her hands subconsciously clasping back tightly.
"Did you meet them?"
"Well, countless Shadow Warriors..."
Eleazar looked down and kissed the back of that hand lightly and said, "But don't you worry, it's just some unimportant assassination."
Fina, however, shook her head very nervously.
"No, you must not underestimate the resolve of the council..."
She took Eleazar's hand in a firm grip, "The Council just doesn't want to waste too much energy continuing to engage in pointless exertion with the Church."
"They never thought they had failed, at least, that's what the man thought as far as my father could remember."
Evelea looked at the two curiously and asked, "What the hell do those guys want?"
Carrying out that kind of large-scale transcendental material farming, this kind of thing could only be done by that terrifying power, but they had stockpiled so much material without any ceremonial movements coming out, this kind of unknown plotting looked extraordinarily terrifying.
It was as if, at any moment, the world was going to be turned upside down by would they one day. Evelea very much didn't want to get involved with that ancient power, but her own man of destiny was already involved, so she could only face it with her head.
Eleazar was equally unaware of what those in Parliament were preparing.
Of the three, perhaps only Fina, who had read a great deal of Soul Crystal's memories, knew the crisis they were about to face.
She stood up and looked around, then a red light released from her chest and opened the space crystal.
It was Eleazar's first time in her stash, aka, the other half of that Council Elder's collection.
It's not too far from that lab of your own.
Fina stood on her tiptoes and took something down from the material rack.
"You take this to your place, and when the next council people come back, you hand it over, and they'll probably leave you alone."
The two then looked over curiously.
It was a key lying in a wooden box as if it had been fashioned out of starry crystal, its ghostly black body strewn with dots of starlight.
Eleazar sensed in it an unmistakable force of the Void, yet different from the disintegrating nature of the Mother River.
He asked hesitantly, "This... It's your mythological ritual material, isn't it?"
Fina said quietly, "Well, the Star Key, while it can be used as ritual fodder for a Warlock's fifth stage, that would be very wasteful, and its real purpose is to be used to open hyperspace portals, any..."
"This is probably what they want back."
She closed the box and handed it out.
Eleazar holds the box, thoughtfully wondering what he's thinking.
Evelina asked curiously, "Are they trying to open some kind of portal if that's what it does?"
Fina gave her a faint look, "Do you know where Transcendence came from?"
The witch shook her head stupidly.
Eleazar raised his head and said, "What I have read in the Church's canon is that we humans are not native to this world, our ancestors once lived in a high-dimensional world that was rich in materials and had a highly developed civilization, there were all kinds of transcendent races living there, the human race was on the verge of being slaughtered because of a failed battle, the Church's God and Pope opened a portal and transferred the fleeing humans all over..."
Fina nodded undeniably and said, "It means pretty much the same thing, a group of losers who escaped from the Otherworld and brought the Transcendence with them, changing the world beyond recognition."
"An organization led by warlocks, who carried over the most information, were not willing to be excommunicated just like that, so they began to study the knowledge of those transcendent species like crazy and managed to reproduce the vast majority of mythological creatures, but these actions were contrary to the idea of the Church to start a new life, so... The Dark Ages of You Die and I Live were officially unveiled."
"At a later stage, the Council no longer wanted to waste its power with the recalcitrant Church, so it chose to lurk and move all transcendental experiments into the shadows."
"They've always wanted to go back, and have been preparing for that to this day."