Alien Knights

Different from three years ago, today's Muxi City has less artistic atmosphere and more religious elements.

In the square, the giant dragon statue, which symbolizes the god of protection, replaced the original large fountain. Reliefs engraved with legends of gods replaced the original marble walls.

If you listen carefully, you can still hear the cheers and laughter from the crowd, but the singing of hymns floating in the sky brings the whole city a solemnity and solemnity that it has never had before.

The guards separated the crowded crowd from both sides, and made a way for the Holy King and his daughter to pass.

Holding Todd's arm tightly, Aurora suddenly pointed forward and asked the former: "Why are there so few people there?"

Todd looked in the direction of her finger.

At the other end of the square, the sentries in charge of security used wooden barricades to isolate an area. Compared with the turbulent crowd here, there were indeed no people in that area.

Looking over with eagle eyes, Todd quickly noticed something was wrong.

The square was intentionally divided into two areas, one area was full of human beings, and the other was filled with alien creatures from the crusaders.

If there are foreign tourists who don't know the restrictions and plan to enter another area, the soldiers in charge of guarding will stand up and politely ask them to leave.

Seeing this situation, Todd frowned and motioned the guards around him to move closer.

When the group came to the junction of the areas, they happened to meet a group of citizens of Muxi City, who gathered together and looked at the crusaders at the end of the square.

Among them, a man dressed as a businessman whispered to his companion, "Have you heard about Beate?"

The other nodded and said, "I heard that he committed suicide in prison in fear of crime."

"What I know is that the bard with the big mouth didn't commit suicide at all, but was secretly executed."

"real?!"

"It's true. His body was burned into a piece of coke. Who in the world would commit suicide and become like that?"

"He deserves it. Someone told him a long time ago. Compared with the alien races of the Crusaders, human beings can only be regarded as inferior creatures now. To provoke those elves is courting death!"

Hearing this, Todd frowned and looked at the guards beside him.

Most of these guards are human beings, but almost none of them showed disgust or confusion about these remarks. It seems that what these people said is the truth that has long been recognized by everyone.

Todd shook his head, grabbed Aurora's little hand, and led everyone out of the square.

Walking into the central commercial street next to Shenglong Square, Todd took Aurora, trying to find a suitable restaurant for lunch.

To his surprise, the restaurants on the commercial street also treated crusaders and human customers in different categories.

Some restaurants only accept alien races in the Crusaders, while others divide the store space into different areas, consciously separating alien race creatures and humans.

After some screening, Todd found a restaurant with regional dining.

Under the escort of the guards, the father and daughter picked an inner table in the human seating area, sat down and wanted to see the situation in the store.

There are leather rugs on the floor and swords and shields on the walls. This is a restaurant with a distinct northern decoration style. The owner of the shop may have been from Ulster or Connacht.

The owner seemed to be one of the many people who had been displaced by the genocide at Cu Chulainn to seek a livelihood in the South.

Except for a small part of the first floor of the restaurant, which is the staff and kitchen area, most of it is a human dining area, while the second floor only allows Crusader members to pass through.

Todd thinks about this kind of regional division, coupled with what he has seen and heard about the square before, feeling a little emotional and helpless.

Three years ago, under his leadership, the Crusaders entered the city and quelled the rebellion.

On that bloody night, and on the "Execution Day" that followed, tens of thousands of humans died at the hands of the Crusaders.

After the turmoil subsided, it took three days just to clean up the corpses in the city and clean up the mess.

After that, an unhealable gap remained between humans and the Crusader.

From the perspective of human beings, the crusaders are the servants of the gods, and they are the strong of will and strength. It is not surprising that such emotions of fear and admiration appear.

As for the crusaders, after witnessing the chaotic behavior of human beings, on the one hand, they despise the actions of this group, but on the other hand, they are afraid that they, who have undergone the transformation ceremony, will have any relationship with them again.

At this moment, a male human and a female elf walked in at the gate of the restaurant. This special pair of partners caused a burst of exclamation from the people.

For Twilight City, where the Jacqueline and Beate incident just happened, humans and elves walking together is an extremely eye-catching scene in itself.

The female elf in a red gown with her long hair curled up, facing the gazes of everyone on the first floor, whispered to the people around her, "Randall, I don't know if this is a good idea?"

Randall shrugged: "Barbara, you were the one who said you wanted to come here to eat "Cream Mochka Soup"..."

"I know, but in the past, those two guys followed, but now it's just you and me, and everything looks a little weird."

The waitress at the restaurant walked up to the two of them and asked hesitantly, "Do you want to eat?"

Randall said, "Is there a quieter place?"

The waitress summoned up her courage and asked, "Are you sitting separately?"

Barbara shook her head and said, "I sat with him."

As soon as this remark came out, there was a louder cry from the crowd.

"Is that man crazy?!"

"Does he want to be the second Beatt?"

"Brother! Well done! I support you!"

The noise on the first floor of the restaurant attracted the attention of the second floor.

A tauren shaman led a tauren warrior and walked down the stairs.

When he saw Randall and Barbara standing together, the tauren warrior opened his eyes and asked loudly, "What's going on?"

Randall pulled Barbara behind him and said with a smile, "Brother, calm down."

The Tauren stared at his red eyes: "Brother?! You human being who knows nothing about the sky and the earth! Who do you think you are talking to?!"

The tauren shaman grabbed the warrior around him, pointed at Randall's chest and said slowly: "He is indeed a member of the Crusaders."

Everyone looked intently, and there was a round black dragon badge hanging on Randall's chest.

"He is the only human in the crusader..." the tauren shaman said with a smile: "Our gods accepted him personally."

The Tauren warrior stood still for a long while before he said, "But, why? Why would the supreme dragon god accept a human being?"

The shaman turned back and walked to the second floor, leaving a soft sentence: "Who can guess God's intention?"

Watching the tauren return to the second floor, the entire restaurant was silent.

Randall asked Barbara with a wry smile, "Do you still want to stay for dinner?"

The latter looked at the strange eyes cast by his surroundings, and growled irritably, "Forget it! Go back!"

Aurora, who witnessed the whole incident from beginning to end, asked Todd while eating the cake on the plate with a fork, "Father, what are they doing? Why can't everyone sit together and eat?"

Todd lowered the brim of Aurora's hat to cover her dragon horns: "Because everyone has fear in their hearts, fear of a future they don't understand, fear of a past that they can't get rid of..."

Aurora said with a bitter face, "Father, I don't understand."

"You are still young, so you don't need to understand this." Todd patted the top of Aurora's head: "After you finish eating these, let's go to other places to see."

Aurora nodded happily, and refocused on the food in front of her.

The sun was setting slowly, and the father and daughter, who had spent a day in the city, returned to the palace in a carriage.

Aurora was holding a lot of snacks and toys in her arms, her face was full of happiness and joy.

Todd looked at Aurora and said, "Are you happy?"

"Well! Happy!"

Todd stared at the dragon horns on Aurora's head, and suddenly asked, "Tell Dad, do you usually feel uncomfortable or sick?"

"Uncomfortable? Sick?"

There was a trace of worry in Todd's expression: "I just found out what's wrong with my body?"

Aurora touched her nose with her small hand and nodded vigorously: "I can become like my father!"

"Become me?" Todd watched Aurora holding her breath, and suddenly had a bad feeling in his heart: "Could you be...?"

Suddenly, Aurora's body began to grow rapidly, and red scales began to grow on her body, and a pair of huge dragon wings spread out from behind, directly breaking through the roof of the carriage.

Watching the five-meter-long red dragon jump out of the shattered carriage and flap its wings clumsily in mid-air, Todd covered his forehead with his hands and sighed heavily.