Chapter 45 How long has it been since you experienced a battle, father?
In the middle of the night, in Pedrol's mansion, continuous explosions and roars came from the outside world. Ivana, who was leaning against the corner at the moment, seemed to have never heard of it. The cowhide ropes cut by sharp wooden thorns were scattered beside her. Her white jade fingers trembled slightly, flipping through the yellowed diary in her hand.
[Sacred calendar 708, November, Pedrol has a new baby, looks small, white and tender, the name is... Ivana? Am I an older brother? ]
[It's another day of training. As the eldest son of Pedro, I have to work harder. Are you watching me practice sword? Ivana? Then I need to work harder...]
[Dual practice, I really miss... the way I picked up the sword back then, this time I'm in charge of being the teacher...]
[Ten tricks, save some face for you...but don't cry if you lose, right? So cute, Ivana…]
[Thirty-seven strokes, it's only been four months, no, I must have not used all my strength, let's be more serious next time...]
[I lost, I actually lost, how is this possible? In front of you, it's really embarrassing. As a big brother, I have to work hard to win it back next time...]
[Ivana, why can you always easily learn skills that I can't master? Is it because I haven't worked hard enough? ]
[Sacred calendar 722, July, the first knight assessment... If you can pass, you can become a priest, right? The Pedrol family can also improve...]
[FAIL...FAIL...FAIL! ]
[The second knight selection, the third round, is this my limit? ]
[From morning to night, in addition to training or training, it is meaningless, I am afraid I will never pass the knight assessment...]
[Father, why are you looking at me with that expectant gaze? Why don't you want to give up on me? ]
[This look again, are you hating me? Ivana? I can understand your feelings, a useless person snatches the opportunity that belongs to you... If it were you, you would definitely be able to do it, my sister...]
[Maybe everything will be alright without me... Ivana, I'll give you everything you want, that's the only way...]
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The brown-haired girl flipped through the diary page after page. Through the cold words, she learned about the elder brother who made her so envious, who was expected by her father, but who couldn't do anything well...
She once resented such injustice. All her hard work and proud swordsmanship were just tools to attract the attention of the Duke of Nordland's son in her father's eyes.
If I have the chance, I will definitely pass the knight assessment, I will definitely be able to revive the Pedrol family, and I will definitely let my father see me clearly...
So for the elder brother who has all the resources of the family and can receive formal knight guidance at any time, but fails again and again... Ivana hates it very much, even hates it...
[So cute, Ivana...]
Fingered across the crumpled paper, looking at the pages of text on it, the girl's body couldn't help but tremble, and the crystal tears fell across the cheeks and kept falling on the paper...
"I'm sorry... I'm sorry..." Ivana murmured to herself, her mind went blank, but the tears in her eyes couldn't stop, her heart was full of strong regret... Ivana had never hated herself so much.
She thought she had already forgotten how to cry, that is obviously a privilege only for those who attract attention...
Outside the mansion, continuous flames leapt up, but the room fell into a deathly silence, only the suppressed, intermittent sobbing sound echoed non-stop.
It wasn't until the door of the room was slammed open that the girl turned her head in a daze.
Baron Pedrol, who rushed into the door, looked around at the messy scene in the room. After seeing Ivana who was "frightened and only dared to hide in the corner and cry silently", he suddenly became angry and asked angrily.
"Do you know how much trouble the outside world has caused, Ivana, why are you sitting here alone? Where is Lott? Where is he now?"
While speaking, another explosion sounded from outside the mansion.
"Did something happen outside?" Ivana held the diary wet with tears in her arms, lowered her head and asked.
"Those damned wizards are raging in Harbor Town, blowing up the whole pier with a terrible witchcraft, Reverend Adrian is dead, Reverend Danny is dead, and Sir Sirk, even Archbishop Anrioke I couldn't escape..." Baron Pedrol said in panic.
Before, in order to brush up his resume, he also proposed to participate in this witch hunt in front of the Archbishop of Nordland. Now he thought that if Anrioke nodded, he would have died in the harbor pier by now.
Hearing the unattainable names being sentenced to death one after another, the brown-haired girl was shocked, and couldn't help but think of the words that echoed in her ears before Lott left.
"It's so small, Ivana..."
Becoming a wizard, is this your choice? elder brother?
It is rumored that as long as you sacrifice your soul to the devil, you can become a wizard with forbidden power, but as a price, that person will often change his personality drastically, and his soul will gradually fall into the abyss...
And this is all for myself.
"Where's your brother? You haven't answered me yet, where is Lott? We have to leave here immediately!" Baron Pedrol asked loudly, pinching the girl's wrist.
"Dead!" Ivana whispered, she knew very well that if the information about her brother becoming a wizard was revealed, the entire Pedrol family would be destroyed immediately.
Baron Pedrol paused for a moment, with an extremely terrifying expression on his face.
"You better not play tricks on me, Ivana!"
"I tell you, even if your brother is really dead, the baron will never be your turn! Never imagine what you can't get!"
Baron Pedrol said extremely annoyed, no matter what the situation, he would never let an outsider take over the Pedrol family, no matter how good he is!
"In this case, I'm leaving..." Ivana broke free from the big hands that restrained her, put the diary in her arms, turned and walked out of the room without hesitation.
"Stop! Tell me clearly!" Baron Pedrol did not expect that Ivana, who never dared to resist on weekdays, would dare to disobey herself in this way. A strong anger suddenly surged into her heart, and her waist The long sword was pulled out from its sheath, and it was drawn towards Ivana fiercely.
铛~
The long sword with sheath came out of his hand, whirled and landed on the ground, making a low and muffled sound.
Baron Pedrol's body was frozen in place, and an extremely sharp three-finger long wooden thorn was already lying across his neck.
"How long has it been since you have experienced a battle, father?" Ivana looked at Pedrol with a complicated expression, and asked.
Baron Pedrol broke out in a cold sweat and sat down on the ground. Only then did he realize that Ivana's swordsmanship was far superior to what he knew, and she had even surpassed herself completely.
Ivana dropped the wooden thorn in her hand, and stepped out of the room without looking back.
"Where are you going, Ivana? Where's Lotte? Tell me where he is?" Baron Pedrol came back to his senses and roared loudly.
"My brother is dead, you should be killed by me...Father." Iweena said softly. "And I'm leaving Harbor Town to see the world..."
(end of this chapter)