Chapter 363 The Beginning of Tragedy

"Uh...uh...uh..."

"Slow down...slow down...you kid..."

Helena patted her niece's back gently and shouted to slow down, but she took another plate of barley porridge from the trusted maid, sprinkled some salt and pepper into it, and then handed it to the girl who had just finished eating a piece. Bread in front of Karen.

"Thank you... uh - thank you, uncle!"

Karen wiped the crumbs from the corner of her mouth, and naturally wanted to flick them on the table, but when she thought about the people she met yesterday, many of them were reluctant to eat such a bread without soil or sawdust. There was even some bread with a little butter, and her eyelids sunk downwards, licking the crumbs off her hands like a puppy.

"You kid, you're so hungry..."

This obviously gave Helena some kind of illusion. She helped Karen tidy up her bangs with pity, her eyes passed over her niece's loose fishbone braid, and she quickly made up her mind.

"Go get me the comb."

She turned to the maid and ordered, then stood up and walked behind Karen to help her untie her braid. After the maid brought the wooden comb, she helped her comb it.

"Uh... Aunt, we don't need this, right?"

Karen leaned back in the chair and reached behind her head to grab the comb. She was really embarrassed to bother her aunt to help her comb her hair. After all, the last time such a scene occurred in her memory was when she was very young.

Of course Helena couldn't let her succeed. She took a step back, pointed her five fingers on the back of Kallen's head, and gently pushed forward——

"Have a good meal, and I'll help you style your hair...You silly boy can't stay here for long, right?"

As soon as Karen picked up the wooden spoon and stirred the mushy barley porridge twice, her movements froze in place.

She let go of her hand and stuck the wooden spoon on the barley porridge.

"Aunt...you know everything?"

"How could you not know?"

Helena's movements were very gentle, but there was still a trace of resentment in her words:

"Yesterday when it was getting dark, a knight came to inform you, saying that you slandered Tianming in public and committed crimes of robbery and blasphemy. Once we find you, we must stabilize you and then notify Tianming."

Karen was silent, holding the wooden spoon and stirring the barley porridge constantly, making the already mushy barley porridge even more viscous.

She was a little confused about what Aunt Helena meant. If she wanted to follow the instructions of destiny, there was no need to say it out loud. Could it be that Uncle Luca planned to do this, so Aunt Helena said this deliberately to remind herself?

But regardless of the fact, Karen's first reaction was only one word - run away!

"Gulu...Gululu..."

Before she could put this idea into practice, to be precise, as soon as her hands reached the edge of the table, her stomach let out an embarrassing wail.

She went out with Otto early in the morning yesterday. She originally planned to try to have lunch at an outside restaurant, but in the end she couldn't eat until now because of the indulgence issue.

After all, the Valkyrie is still a mortal. Although she has greater power, she will still starve to death if she doesn't eat. And it is precisely because the Valkyrie has stronger power that she needs more caloric support. In short, her appetite is greater, so she did wolf down a piece of bread just now, but if she wants to get rid of hunger, It's still a little bit boring.

Helena knocked Kallen's head helplessly, and her voice became softer:

"Okay, don't think too much. In the name of Kaslana, we will not abandon any of our compatriots."

"Thank you... thank you..."

Kallen took two quick breaths, her nose feeling a little sore.

But...she seemed to hear a vibrato in her aunt's voice just now?

She didn't think much about it at first. Instead, she stuffed a spoonful of barley porridge into her mouth and chewed it carefully. The taste was a bit bland.

"It's strange... I just saw my aunt adding a lot of salt and pepper... just now..."

"Crack!"

The wooden basin containing barley porridge was knocked over to the ground. Kallen stuck her throat with one hand and stood up with the other hand supporting the table. She suddenly began to hammer her abdomen frantically, as if she wanted to use this method to swallow the food she had just swallowed. Spit out all the stuff you put down...

But she was wrong. There was nothing wrong with the food. In a daze, she saw a golden feather appear in her sight, and then the surrounding black shadows rushed toward the feather like a tide. She soon lost sight of anything. I just felt like I had stumbled a few more steps, waving my arms aimlessly, but still unable to really grasp anything in the darkness...

She felt that all the strength in her body was draining away smoothly and quickly, like a drowning person. She could struggle but everything would go away with her. Her breathing was getting slower and slower, and her body temperature was getting lower and lower. The colder it gets...

"Boom!"

She finally fell to the ground.

Helena watched helplessly as her niece struggled and circled around the table until she finally fell to the floor.

She took two steps back, and then two more steps. In this way, she continued to distance herself from Kallen, until her back pressed against the cold wall, and her body slowly slid down and sat on the ground.

"Ahhhhh——"

She covered her face hard and let out a sharp cry, but it did nothing but make herself feel better.

But wasn't she unable to do anything? She couldn't stop someone in her destiny from attacking the Kaslana family, nor could she stop her husband from reaching an agreement with an unidentified person to save the family.

She didn't even have the courage to secretly remind Kallen. Of course, even if she did, it would be useless. According to the discussion between her husband and the mysterious man, once Kallen came here, there would be no turning back.

"Da, da, da..."

The unchanging footsteps were so rhythmic that probably nothing could disturb them. Helena kept wiping away her tears, and finally her vision became clear for a moment. She saw the man who had conspired with her husband last night. He walked up to Kallen, put his arm around her waist, and easily carried the body on his shoulders.

Her lips opened and closed repeatedly, but she never had the courage to utter clear words.

She probably succeeded in attracting the man's attention. In her gradually blurry vision, she saw the man slightly leaning towards her and humming softly.

After that, she could only watch the man's back getting farther and farther away until he walked out of the restaurant.

"Pah--"

The mottled wooden door closed automatically behind Mikael, but his expression remained unchanged.

Luka Kaslana was standing in the hall in front of him. He looked at Kallen on Mikael's shoulder and opened his mouth several times to say something, but in the end, like his wife, he turned all his emotions into a long sigh.

"Have you notified Tianming?"

Mikael's pronunciation was intermittent, and there was almost no fluctuation in his tone. He turned a question sentence into a statement.

Luka wrapped his entire lower lip in his mouth and nodded heavily.

"How long will it take for the Valkyrie troops to arrive?"

"The carrier pigeons should be here soon. It will take at least half an hour to an hour for the Valkyrie troops to gather and arrive here."

Mikael nodded mechanically to show that he understood. Luca thought the nightmare was over, but unexpectedly, Mikael made a new request:

"First, when the Valkyrie troops arrive, you have to go to Klosten with them and ask to see Bishop Nicholas."

"Why!"

Luca stamped his feet excitedly.

"No, no, no! I don't want to go there! I would rather die than go to that damn place! I will never see that bishop!"

Mikael tilted his head, just away from Kallen's body, and then he coldly watched the middle-aged uncle in front of him stomping his feet like crazy and walking back and forth several times.

He seemed to have a deep fear of Klosten and Nicholas, even to the extent of PTSD. Mikael didn't know and didn't want to know where this mentality came from, because it was not difficult to guess--

After the failure of the Eastern Expedition, Tianming always had to find someone to take the responsibility (back the blame), although they could also report truthfully: "It's not that our army didn't work hard, but the Ming army has immortals!" But the Castle Council, who had not witnessed the battle, and even Nicholas would definitely sneer at this.

Besides, even if they believed it, what? How to explain it to the people?

Besides, is the truth really important?

No matter when and where, the truth has never been important, and only immature children who have not yet reached adulthood will repeatedly emphasize the importance of the truth, and what they get is nothing but the ridicule of people who think they are mature.

In short, Tianming just needs a scapegoat, just a target in front of the Apocalis family and the Castle Council to attract the people's resentment for the defeat.

And if it comes to targets, who is more suitable than the commander-in-chief of the army, Luca Kaslana, and the Kaslana family he represents behind him?

Ordinary people only know that their "invincible" army was defeated under the leadership of Luca Kaslana. As for the fact that almost all the main branches of the Kaslana family died on the battlefield, leaving only Kallen and a disabled William, who would care? For some people, what does the death of a few people in the Kaslana family have to do with them? And for others, their own family members also died in these five long years of fighting. Why should they understand the Kaslana family for this reason? Perhaps in their eyes, the Kaslana family did not command this battle well, so no matter how many people died in their family, they just deserved it!

And for the old guys in the Castle Council and Bishop Nicholas... empathy? What is that? The Kaslana family has suffered such a huge loss, and it is just a good time to pick up the knife and slaughter!

As for the thousands of years of bond between Apokalis and the Kaslana family... As for how much sacrifice the Kaslana family has made for the establishment and existence of the destiny... The adult world will not consider these.

It is conceivable that in the previous few months, Luca would have been tortured in all aspects and all the time as soon as he entered Klosten: as soon as he entered the city, he would be greeted warmly by ordinary people from all walks of life, and when he walked into the headquarters of the Mandate of Heaven, every old man who smiled at him looked kind, but who knew that they were holding knives and forks behind their backs, waiting for him to knock him out and then divide up the Kaslana family?

Kallen, who had just returned to Klosten from Shenzhou, would not know these things, Otto was completely unpredictable, and the innocent Eleanor could not understand them.

So they all underestimated the seriousness of the situation. Only Luca knew that the consequences of Kallen's willful behavior were actually a slight increase in the strength of the Kaslana family, which was already forced to the brink of the declaration.

Now, the entire Kaslana family bent backwards, and the heels of their feet were also in the air.

If there is no external intervention, falling into the bottomless abyss is an outcome that can be easily predicted.

The reason why Luka Kaslana is willing to reach a certain consensus with Mikael is just because...

He rushed towards Mikael, but halfway through he recalled the humiliating history of being killed five times by this man with one look last night, so he stopped his forward movement at the last moment and stopped just meters away. Half a foot in front of Kyle.

Well... that's right, the most important reason why he reached a consensus with Mikael... at least one thing that cannot be ignored is that he really can't beat the man in front of him. Such a disparity in strength, coupled with the other party's suggestions It was a condition that he could accept and even exceeded expectations. It was not surprising that a consensus was reached.

But now it seems that he has been cheated... maybe he can't be considered cheated, because what the other party promised was a blank check.

He was angry and lowered his voice unconsciously:

"You...you said it! As long as we do as you say, nothing will happen to the Kaslana family and Kallen can survive!"

"Yes, that's right."

Mikael spread his free left hand and shrugged.

"I don't think there is any problem. I also said that the premise that nothing will happen to the Kaslana family is that you do what I say, so are there any problems?"

"No...no...then I'll go to Klosten...I'll find Nicholas. What should I say and what should I do?"

"What else can you do? Submit yourself, be a coward, beg for mercy, and just want to continue the Kaslana family. Otherwise, what else do you want to do?"

"this……"

Luca's face was extremely distorted, and he felt that he had been severely deceived - wouldn't he have done these extremely humiliating things if Mikael didn't tell him!

The reason why he was willing to do what Mikael said was because he didn't want to be so humiliated!

Luca took a deep breath. Fortunately... fortunately, the only thing that could comfort him was that the man in front of him promised another half:

Let Karen live.

"Then...what should Kallen do?"

Luka rubbed the muscles on his face and asked tentatively.

"Prepare a bedroom for me, and then give me half an hour. Then you just need to wait for the Valkyrie troops to arrive, take Kallen away, and then follow you to Klosten."

"Ah...this, this..."

"What's wrong?"

"May I ask, do you want that...bedroom...for half an hour...that..."

Mikael bit the corner of his mouth and snorted coldly, not bothering to explain.

Luka realized that he might have guessed something wrong, but at this time there was nothing he could do except give two awkward smiles in return.

He waved to the maid standing outside the far door and gave a few simple instructions. Then, under the unkind eyes of the maid, Mikael carried Kallen all the way to a more remote bedroom.

As soon as Mikael stepped in, the maid slammed the door from behind, without even lighting a candle for Mikael.

But it didn't matter, Mikael snapped his fingers, and the room was suddenly filled with candlelight, so bright that people couldn't open their eyes.

He threw Kallen on the bed and waved his hand to summon a phase portal from his side. Mebius stepped through it almost as soon as the space rift opened.

She looked at Mikael, who had a normal expression, and then at Kallen, who was lying unconscious on the bed, and asked curiously:

"What are you going to do with Kevin's descendants? Are you going to take him back to the Paradise of the Past, discuss cooking skills with Mei, and improve each other?"

"I'm not that bored."

Mikael closed his eyes tiredly.

"This time it's really going to start."

"ha?"

"The beginning of tragedy."

"Speak humanly!"

Mikael didn't speak again. In his clenched right hand, a flesh sprout appeared out of thin air and quickly grew into a human form.