Alien Knights

Huggins slowly stood up, picked up the torch on the ground, and lit it again. Only then did he realize that Marcos' figure had already retreated into the darkness.

After taking two steps towards the elevator, Huggins suddenly heard Myris's voice ringing again.

"Don't come any closer, my old friend, this is not the place you should be."

Huggins rubbed his sore waist and said in disbelief: "Myris, why are you here?"

"Destiny, fortune, any word you and I can think of."

Huggins used the faint light of the fire to look at the two figures, one large and one small, on the elevator platform.

The big figure is three meters tall and looks as strong as a hill. It must be that "Marcos"; the small figure is stooped and thin, looking like a mummy wearing clothes. It's really that An old monk?

With a lot of questions in his mind, Huggins asked loudly: "Myris, where have you been all these years?"

Mellis seemed not to intend to answer this question: "My old friend, tell me, what do you think of death?"

"Uh? What?"

"If the end of life is not the final end, but the starting point of the pursuit of truth, will you choose to embrace it?"

"Wait a minute, what on earth are you talking about?"

"I once pursued happiness and wealth, and later I hoped to obtain peace of soul in the name of God... But in the end, I found that everything was a mistake called life."

Huggins raised his hand and made a stop motion: "Myris, my old friend, to be honest, you scared me a little."

Miles was silent for a moment.

He then said to Huggins: "I shouldn't be saying this to you, you're not ready."

Huggins said: "Myris, I don't know what you have experienced? But, you can trust me and go back with me."

"Go back?" Mairis's voice became much hoarse: "You can't go back a long time ago."

Huggins still refused to give up: "Let's go back to Twilight City. His Majesty has been looking for you...I mean, Todd has been looking for you. You still remember him, right?"

"Todd..."

Miles fell silent again.

Just when Huggins thought that the other party had left, Mairis' voice sounded again: "Soon, Taylor City will be engulfed by the black plague."

"The light of life will flow into the sea of ​​death, human beings will no longer have selfish desires, there will no longer be internal strife, and the road to truth will soon be opened."

Huggins was stunned: "Black plague?"

Myris said to Huggins: "If you are not ready to give up life and embrace death, then get out of here... However, no one can escape this ultimate fate."

Realizing that Mairis's voice was getting farther and farther away, Huggins shouted anxiously: "Don't leave!"

Mairis slowly walked away, leaving only the last vague words, which still echoed in Huggins' ears.

"Tell...Todd...I'm...sorry..."

Soul image ends.

Todd opened his eyes and looked into the void after the image disappeared, and was silent for a long time.

Huggins whispered: "Your Majesty?"

Todd seemed a little unable to believe it all: "Is that really Miles?"

Huggins nodded: "Your Majesty, I am also surprised. I have not heard from Miles for many years. He seemed to be... missing before."

Todd rubbed his temples, looked at the blurry shadows in the image, and recalled the encounter with Miles in the Southern Empire.

The alien who was the first to lend a helping hand to him in this different world, the first teacher to teach him, first he went to the Southern Empire, and now he appears in Taylor City?

Why?

Huggins said to Todd: "Your Majesty, I need to remind you of something."

"What?"

"Meilis called out a person's name just now, do you still remember it?"

Todd recalled the soul image he had just seen.

"Marcos?"

Huggins nodded: "Yes, it's Marcos."

Todd asked, "Who is Marcos?"

Huggins sighed faintly: "I didn't react at first, but then I remembered who it was."

"When you first arrived at San Cidro Monastery, there was a small organization headed by Melis that sheltered alien species - the Mutual Aid Society."

"Its members include several aliens from around the San Sidro Monastery, including Myris, me, the Raglans, Little Jerry, Edgar, and the black sheep Karin..."

Todd nodded while listening: "I have seen all these people."

Huggins continued: "There is still one person left, whom you may not have seen, Marcos. He went to handle matters out of town at the time and did not return to San Sidro Monastery."

Todd asked Huggins: "What happened to this man named Marcos?"

"died."

"died?"

Huggins touched his chin and said uncertainly: "In other words, he should be dead."

"What's the meaning?"

"I heard what happened next from Alfonso. He was still a member of the alien bounty team at the time and met Marcos during a hunt. After a battle, Alfonso cut off Marcos's arm. head and used it to claim the bounty.”

Todd was a little surprised: "Marcos was killed by Alfonso?"

"Yes, Marcos' head was later stored in the dungeon of the Inquisition in Silver Ring City. In other words, it was kept as a trophy."

Todd paused for a moment, and then said: "So there is such a story."

"Your Majesty, it's too early to lament now. What happens next will be even more bizarre."

"Um?"

"After the Death of the Silver Ring, I once searched for the records of the Inquisition, hoping to take out Marcos's head and bury this old friend. But what surprised me was that shortly after Marcos' death, his The head was stolen.”

"Not only that, Alfonso also told me that he collected Marcos' body and buried it, but when he went to see it later, the grave had been dug up and the body had been taken away."

The expression on Todd's face became more and more solemn: "Both the head and body were stolen? Who could have done it?"

Huggins looked at the reflection and said slowly: "I never thought about this before, but after meeting Miles, I suddenly guessed the answer."

Todd frowned and asked: "You mean, all this was done by Melis? But why did he do this?"

"Your Majesty, there is a rumor that you may not know...Marcos is actually the illegitimate son of Miles, but because the latter is a monk, this relationship has been kept secret."

Is Marcos the illegitimate son of Miles?

Like a key piece of the puzzle, Todd finally had a complete guess about the entire incident.