[The Black Death that ravaged Europe was completely ended.]
[Otto and Kallen joined hands to gift the anti-Black Death vaccine to the people.]
[Most people couldn’t remember any noble identities, but they deeply remembered the appearances and names of Otto and Kallen.]
[The two of them became famous overnight.]
[At the same time, faint talks of the “Saint” and the “Platinum Bishop” began to circulate among the common people.]
[You must know that these two titles were not something to be spoken of casually, yet even so, they still began to spread.]
[From this, it could be seen how deep an impression Otto and Kallen’s act of distributing the vaccine left in the hearts of the people.]
[Hiding in the dark, you secretly watched the entire process of events.
Looking at that pair of peerless lovers standing in the sunlight, your mood was a little complex.]
[How should I put it?
It was like an old farmer seeing his crops grow up?]
[No, not quite like that.]
[Then what on earth was it?]
[This emotion was too complex for you to figure out clearly for a moment.]
[However, life is about rare moments of confusion, and there’s no need to puzzle every single thing out too clearly.]
[In later generations, historians who spent their lives studying the deeds of the “Immaculate Bishop” and the “Crimson Saint” looked back countless times at the origins and endings of this Black Death.]
[It was not about dredging up history from the sea of time, but rather portraying what truly happened in this period of history as a sacred narrative as much as possible.]
[They believed that only such a story could match the greatness of the bishop and the saint.]
[Regarding this, the bishop and the saint didn’t care at all.]
[Because the true history they experienced had long been taken away by someone who was never remembered yet shouldn’t be forgotten.]
[…]
[People truly living in this world all know that things never tend to move in the most ideal direction.]
[The anti-Black Death vaccine successfully ended the Black Death, allowing the vast majority of people who shouldn’t have died to survive.]
[At the same time, however, it also caused the ambition and greed of Schicksal’s Overseer, Otto’s biological father “Nikolas Apocalypse”, to gradually expand.]
[Schicksal, which he controlled, intervened in the politics of various European countries using the ridiculous excuse of fighting Honkai and “protecting” the masses.]
[The interests brought by the expansion of power further corrupted Nikolas’s already scanty conscience.] Follow the newest chapters on g.com.
[In the same year the Black Death was resolved, in order to gain more benefits, he ordered Schicksal to prepare and launch a large-scale invasion plan, the Crusade.]
[To ensure the smooth progress of the Crusade, Nikolas specially bestowed the Divine Key of Oath of Judah upon Schicksal’s strongest Valkyrie today, ordering her to set out with the Crusade army as a minimum-guarantee combat power.]
[Then, who was Schicksal’s strongest goddess today?]
[It was Kallen.]
[Upon learning the news of the entire Crusade, you didn’t say a thing.]
[There was nothing much left to say either; that old BYD bastard Nikolas already had a way to court death, and he didn’t have many days left to jump around.]
[What you cared about was the matter of Kallen participating in the Crusade.]
[An aggressive war was undoubtedly evil, no different from human experimentation.]
[First, as long as it was an aggressive war, it couldn’t avoid massacres; second, running into someone else’s territory to burn, kill, and loot was something only scumbags could do no matter what.]
[You could even impartially guess Schicksal’s subsequent moves after obtaining benefits through the aggressive war.]
[It was nothing more than altering history and flatly refusing to admit that such ugly behaviors as an aggressive war ever existed.]
[Those in higher positions could be shameless, but Kallen, the strongest combat power participating in the Crusade, would bear a stain regardless of whether the war was won or lost.]
[This was incomparably disgusting to you.]
[Moreover, the Crusade, the Crusade—didn’t conquering to the end mean Shenzhou?]
[It was just pretty… fucked up.]
[How unlucky can they be?
Otto and Kallen couldn’t bypass human experimentation for one, and couldn’t bypass the aggressive war for the other.]
[Could your bad luck have been transmitted to the two of them?]
[Thinking thus, you let out a slight sigh.]
[Otto and Kallen fell silent together.]
[They were both waiting for your answer.]
[They could have no way out, but you couldn’t have no way out.]
[This is what you must bear, and you have long since been prepared for it.]
[Though this body sways like a flickering candle in the wind, it can still illuminate a corner of the world.]
[At the end of the matter, you smiled lightly and told Kallen not to worry and just agree to the matter of the Eastern Expedition, and that you and Otto would go on the expedition together with her.]
[No matter what, you always have a way, just like how you always had a way before, is that not right?]
[The Schicksal troops, nominally on the Eastern Expedition, were united as one, clad in platinum military attire; wherever they went, they swept away tyrannical landlords and local magnates, and struck down ghosts and monsters, truly a righteous deed.]
[Later history called them an ideal army that carried out righteous deeds enlightened by the “Immaculate Bishop” and the “Crimson Saint”, and the people praised them as: the Platinum Retinue.]
[Their army had an exemplary style and clear discipline, and wherever they went, commoners lined the streets to welcome them and later saw them off for ten miles.]
[During this time, their fame spread far and wide, naturally drawing countless people of noble ideals and high integrity to lend their wholehearted assistance and travel together with them, making the army grow increasingly powerful.]
[As for that damned bishop Nikolas, he only received processed information, and still foolishly believed the situation was entirely in his favor.]
[Along the way, Kallen had seen commoners who smiled at her from the bottom of their hearts, and she had also seen the ugly faces of those she had defeated.]
[She could not tell whether this journey was right.]
[But…
many people were smiling, and she thought this definitely could not be wrong.]
[This thought persisted until she saw the prostrate commander-in-chief in the main tent and you sitting in the master seat studying a map.]
The brilliant orange lamplight illuminated Lucien in flickering shadows.
He smiled lightly as he looked at Kallen, who was staring blankly at him, and gracefully and amiably dismissed the silent commander kneeling before the master seat:
“Scram!”
As the words fell, the prostrate commander actually curled up his body and rolled out of the tent.
Seeing this, Kallen twitched the corner of her mouth, drew back her foot, and stepped aside to make way.
In a situation like this, even the most foolish person could see there was a problem.
Moreover, she was not completely…
was she not foolish?
“Everything we have done all the way here was achieved under your manipulation?” she asked thus.
Facing Kallen’s question, Lucien did not rush to answer.
Instead, with a light smile, he walked to her side, guided her to sit in the master seat, while he himself stood behind the master seat, and then said helplessly and earnestly:
“My good Lotus Jewel, you would not really think our expedition this time is playing house, would you?
“This is war, a war of aggression!
As for those soldiers outside, one counts as one; if you do not let them burn, kill, and loot, they will mutiny, let alone having the commander withstand the bishop’s pressure to do some righteous deed.”
Hearing this, Kallen’s already pretty and charming face, softened by the lamplight, turned even more rosy, looking quite alluring.
She had been solely focused on the joy of doing good deeds and truly had not thought much about such matters.