A week passed quickly, and the scouting team arrived at the time of departure.

Roland called Barov, Carter, and the iron axe to the castle, and told him that he was leaving the town for two days, and the affairs of the border town continued according to the usual plans and regulations.

Of course, this statement was unanimously opposed by the three, Carter hoped that he could perform the duties of the chief knight and guard the prince; the iron axe asked for a hundred troops to escort; Barov persuaded him to stay in the castle on the grounds that the decree issued by the city hall should be reviewed and sealed before it could be put into effect.In the end, he had to take out the lord's shelf and ask everyone to do his own orders.

“Your Highness, I don’t understand what is so important that you have to go in person?”Barov wondered.

“It is about the west...even the survival of the castle,” Roland said after a moment of silence.

“Can’t you... tell us the specific reason?”

"Not yet, but you will know one day."He shook his head, "Also, this trip is a confidential operation, and you must not disclose the information to anyone."

More than two hundred kilometers from the west, there may be a stronghold of the devils, who have destroyed the holy city of Takira, drove the resisters to the edge of the continent, and turned the barbaric land into a forbidden land that no one dared to step foot.

Fortunately, all kinds of movies to see more, it will be numb, but for them, I am afraid that such a fact can not be accepted.If the news leaks, it is more troublesome, and if it causes panic among the people, it may lead to a large number of people fleeing the western border.

Therefore, it is not the right time to declare the truth.

After the confession, Roland and the witch took a hot air balloon and lifted off from the vestibule of the castle and flew in the direction of the snowy mountains.

“Your Highness, if the church was really fighting the devil more than four hundred years ago, are they good or bad?”Ever since learning of the existence of the devil, Silvey has been troubled.

"Of course it's bad," answered Roland, before he could say, "have you ever seen a good man who hunted witches for no reason?"If we were really the devil's minions, the sisters knew that witches had nothing to do with the devil, and that demonic phages were nonsense."

And the other person was still staring straight at Roland, as if trying to hear his answer.

The latter thought for a while, "In the first place, is it not that the church is fighting the devil, and if they have made such a great sacrifice, why should they hide the news and destroy all the records of the past?"Propaganda of this matter is the best way to expand the believer.I am afraid that this question can only be known after finding more clues.In addition, good and bad are not so easy to distinguish, depending on which side you are on.”Roland smiled, “You’re really trying to ask, ‘I’m not going to stand on the church against the devil, right?’”

“I...” Hilvi opened his mouth, but did not deny it.

“The right to church and the king itself are incompatible, and even if there are no witches, I will not stand on the side of the church,” he said, “and besides, there are more of you around me.”

"I will say," said the Nightingale, with a proud laugh, "even if the church had fought against the devil before, they had lost, or had failed miserably."If your Highness does not know who will lose and who will win, why should you take the side of the loser?”

“I see,” she nodded softly, and the gloom seemed to fade a little.

In this way, when the dusk came, a group of people could dimly see the outline of the snow-capped mountains.

It was indeed huge, Roland thought, and even he had rarely seen such a mountain.There are no mountains around it, as if the earth suddenly leaped here without warning, leaving a way to heaven.The gray mountain wall occupies most of the view, and it will take several months to get around the foothills by land.

The campground is located at the top of a mountain near the sea, which makes it easy to observe the movement around, and away from the hidden forest, it can ensure that the beast can not easily get close to the camp.

After gnaw dry food, everyone began to set up tents, because of the limited load of hot air balloons, large tents can only carry one.So Roland carried forward the spirit of the high wind and bright festival, so that the witches could sleep in the tent, in the hanging basket, and Maisie sleeping on the tree - after becoming a bird, she could sleep even if she stood.

He found that his face was thin, and he could not sleep with the witches in a grand place, although Wendy and Soroya offered to let them go to the basket and change the tents of His Royal Highness the Prince's sleep, but they were rejected by him.

Only Hilvy had been looking at Roland with a watchful look during the arrangement of the accommodation, making the latter cry and laugh.

After arranging the vigil, everyone got into the tent.Due to the uneven bottom of the hanging basket, Roland was difficult to fall asleep for a while, and simply sat on a rock facing the sea and looked at the sea that was set against the bright moonlight.

At this moment, there was a small sound of footsteps behind him.

The prince turned back and found that the man was Anna.

In the past, when he went to school, whenever he went on a group trip, he always had expectations for such things as "something might happen", although most of the endings ended in delusion, but this still did not prevent him from looking forward to the next event.

But when this scene really came, Roland felt that his heart was beating faster.Pretending to be nothing, he picked up his eyebrows, “What’s wrong, can’t sleep?”

"No," Anna said bluntly, "I just want to be with you."

"Yes," he coughed twice, "thank you."

“Thank you for me,” Anna said with a smile.The silver moonlight sprinkled on her face, a faint glow; the murky blue eyes seemed to be deeper than the sea, "what you said to Silvey... although she did not thank her, I could see that she was much lighter in her mood."

“Are you happy for her?”

"No," she said, shaking her head, "I'm happy with my choice."

Roland staggered, “What...choice?”

Anna did not answer, but closed her eyes and kissed him on the face.A long time later, she whispered, “Good night, Your Highness.”

That’s “what happened?”, right?

Watching her return to the tent, Roland reached a lazy waist with satisfaction, intending to go back to the hanging basket to sleep, a pair of invisible hands held his face.There was nothing in front of him, but there was a soft touch on his face again, but this time, it was on the other side.“And me, Your Highness.Thank you for doing so much for the witch.”

(Unfinished.)