When Adney and the others returned to the Storm Shadow Inn, they had already heard about the farce that happened in the afternoon. Everyone who witnessed the battle between the Knight and Rosaleen's guards in the inn, and according to the Knight's wishful thinking, it was actually a one-sided crushing of the Rosaleen's guards. All the onlookers who witnessed the scene in the square expressed their delight. However, Adney still insisted that Brando had gotten himself into big trouble. She claimed that it was fortunate that she had led everyone away quickly in the afternoon. Otherwise, they might have been dragged into the center of the maelstrom.
The Knight laughed, and no one pointed out the fact that the one who had led everyone away in the afternoon was actually Quill.
But after the Golden Elf with the longbow on his back inspected the entire ruined inn, he came back to ask Adney if she wanted to continue looking for Brando and the rest. But the vice-captain of the Ra's Wings Knight was troubled.
"Umm, are you sure that the sword in his hand is really the Solar Sacred Sword?" Adney's face showed a troubled expression. After pondering for a long time, she asked hesitantly.
But the hesitation in her emerald green eyes was not because she was not sure if the sword in Brando's hand was real or not, but because she simply wanted to ask the others. To be precise, she wanted to ask Quill who was frowning. She could not make up her mind. What should she do next?
Quill looked at her and replied, "At that time, my Sacred Beetle Insignia was slightly hot. Captain's Sacred Beetle Insignia can't be a fake, right?"
"How could that be?" Adney chuckled. She took out a necklace from her bosom. The pendant of the necklace was a golden scarab, and the carvings of the scarab were painted with turquoise. It was very lifelike. "This was personally given to me by the Elder of the Holy Cathedral."
Quill wondered how Adney became the vice-captain of the Ra's Wings Knight. Perhaps it was because Adney was especially good at accounting that she was appointed as the captain of the expedition team for the same reason. Due to the annual drought in Lubic, many areas around the desert had almost lost their crops this year. The Holy Cathedral could no longer afford to support such an elite expedition team.
With that thought, Quill calmed down a little. If not for Adney's careful planning along the way, they would have suffered quite a bit even if they managed to reach Rosaleen. It was still unknown if the team would have been able to maintain itself.
All of this was caused by this disaster. In the central areas of the worlds such as Nine Phoenix and Vaunte, the effects of the Mana Tide had not yet begun to appear, but in the desert kingdoms in the peripheral areas, people had been struggling on the line of life and death for a long time. In order to survive, they had no choice but to search for this slim chance of survival and find a way to end this disaster.
Quill sighed and replied, "We have been in Rosaleen for a long time. Until now, we have been trying our luck. Now that we have a clue under the guidance of the Omniscient Eye, how can we give up so easily? Do we really have to return to Lubic, tell everyone that the plan has failed, and then let the Holy Cathedral lead the people to migrate to the north? "
Hearing this, the Knight silently showed a serious expression and did not speak. "How can that be?" Adney frowned, which was rare for her, and flatly rejected, "We cannot fail, or else …"
She clenched her fists. Lubic was a kingdom built on oases of various sizes in the desert. What kind of experience would it be to leave an oasis and migrate to the endless desert? While legends said that the north was a paradise, the truth was that no one had ever been there. Most of the time, migration meant death. Countless people would die on the way. That was not a set of data recorded on papyrus, but a living person.
Adney had seen towns and cities that were in dire straits due to food shortages. The entire city had lost all order in a short period of time, and the humans had turned into beasts. Strong youths — or rather, bandits and robbers — had become the masters of the fate of others. The elderly were killed, and women and children were turned into commodities … or even food.
She had also seen towns and cities that were forced to migrate due to the disappearance of oases. Entire tribes died on the way, and the entire southern part of Lubic seemed to be slowly but surely disappearing. Under the pressure of the calamity, the cultists took the opportunity to spread rumors that their one true god would save Lubic at the moment of the apocalypse. The people were bewitched by the cultists and caused chaos everywhere, making the already unstable kingdom even more difficult to move forward.
When Adney had become a knight, she had sworn that she would not allow such a tragedy to happen again under her own sword. Thus, she had managed to convince the elders of the Holy Cathedral to send out this expedition team with great difficulty. Few people knew that for this reason, she had not hesitated to sell the treasured sword that had been passed down in her family for generations to gather all the funds for this expedition team.
Failure was not an option.
At that thought, her expression softened. "I'm sorry, Quill. I know how you see me. Compared to Commander Taha, I'm more like a butler. As your captain, I may be a little incompetent. So, Quill, if you have any ideas, please let us know. I'll give you full authority. "
"Captain …"
"Captain, you don't have to say that." The Knight was shocked and hurriedly said so.
Quill looked at her silently and nodded. "Captain, our goal is to find the Emerald Heart and let it become one with the Sacred Sword. After that, the elders will open the Holy Cathedral and summon the Emerald Staff. The Staff of Nature gave Lubic everything, and I believe it can do the same today.
"In order to achieve this goal, we followed the Holy Cathedral's prophecy to the east, all the way to the land of Rosaleen. After all, the Emerald Heart had disappeared for thousands of years, and no one had ever seen its true appearance before. It would be very difficult to find it. This was something that we had all expected."
"But we've been here for so long, and apart from hearing that the Nine Phoenixes once had a Heart of the Jade Dragon, we haven't found any other clues. The last time the Heart of the Jade Dragon appeared was over two thousand years ago. Its significance to the Nine Phoenixes is no less than the Heart of the Jade Dragon to Rubic. Similarly, there are countless people from the Nine Phoenixes who are searching for its whereabouts, but to no avail.
Quill frowned as if this was his subconscious action. He slowly narrated to his companions. "Until today, we met a person who carried the Sacred Sun Sword."
He stopped.
After a while, he continued, "The Solar Holy Sword has nothing to do with the Nature's Scepter, but I've heard of a legend before. In the calendar of Saint Aida, every time the turn of the era, the Holy Relic will descend upon the world and even fall into the hands of a single person. When this happens, the Holy Relic will automatically combine and appear in different forms, opening the door to the future."
"Is there such a legend, Quill?" Adney could not help but interrupt in surprise.
"You know that I'm the gravekeeper of the Desert of Wisdom. I'm the guardian who buries the secrets. "
Adney glanced at him and nodded silently. She knew Quill's identity. If not for the fact that this expedition team shouldered the fate of saving the entire desert, as a member of the mausoleum keeper, Quill might not have taken a single step out of the Wisdom Desert in his entire life.
"And then?" Someone asked.
"Actually, Ra's Omniscient Eye is such a sacred item. It appeared in Lubic three thousand centuries ago, and witnessed the end of that era." Quill looked at the Knight and said quietly. "There are no longer any legends about that era, and the prophets only knew about it from the information left behind by the Omniscient Eye."
All the knights, including Adney, seemed to be stunned. They looked at Quill, unable to speak for a long time. In the legends of Lubic, Ra's Omniscient Eye was his divine artifact, a sacred item formed from one of his eyes. It integrated all the wisdom of the supreme ruler of Lubic — the Sun God, omniscient and omnipotent. It was said that it could see the past, present, and future, and even create an era.
People made it sound like a god, but in fact, very few people had actually seen it. Only some legends of distant origins mentioned that the Omniscient Eye was kept in the temple in the center of the Desert of Wisdom. And that was the absolute forbidden zone in the center of the desert. Any outsider who dared to set foot on this land would die at the hands of the mysterious gravekeepers. These gravekeepers were all sworn that once the hunt began, they would not stop until death.
In fact, in the minds of most of the people of Lubic, Ra's Omniscient Eye was not a physical existence, but more like a symbolic symbol. It was a symbol of the Sun God's existence in this world — similar to the feelings of the mortals of Wohnde toward the Azure Lance, the Azure Lance — the Holy Lance that created an era above the earth.
It was like a god, guarding this era of mortals. As for where it was, it had gone with the Azure Knights after the war of the fifth era ended. However, very few people knew where it was.
In contrast, the legendary sacred item of the Sun God, the equally magical Sacred Sun Sword, was more like a weapon that the Sun God had promised to mortals.
Adney opened her mouth slightly and said, "Quill, you said that sacred items will combine with each other and form different forms? Lord Ra's Omniscient Eye is just one of these forms? "
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