Chapter 73
Night, July 6, X777
"Miss Leila, are you sure?"King Thomas of Fiore·E·Fiore, with a serious face, asked Leila in front of him in a deep voice
"Well, according to the teachings left by my ancestors, we, the descendants of Heartfilia, must open the Eclipse Gate on July 7, X777.………"Leila Heartfilia also said to King Thomas with a serious face:
"Yeah…………"King Thomas was silent for a while after hearing this, then nodded to Leila and continued:
"I understand. If Miss Leila needs any help from our royal family, we will definitely do our best to help Miss Leila."
"Thank you very much." Leila was relieved when she heard this and bowed slightly to Thomas.
"From now on, seal off the palace and prohibit anyone from entering or leaving. King Thomas said to the ministers waiting not far away.
"I understand."The minister left after hearing this.
"Miss Leila, I will take you to the Eclipse Gate now." King Thomas said to Leila, and then took Leila to the depths of the palace alone.
The reason why King Thomas dared to lead Leila alone was because the Heartfilia family, where Leila belonged, and their Fiore royal family had always had a relatively friendly relationship.
When the Heartfilia family developed in the Kingdom of Fiore, the royal family gave it a lot of help, and the Heartfilia family also paid huge taxes every year. The royal family was naturally very happy about this.
In contrast, Heartfilia would support the royal family in some policies or other places, and when necessary, Heartfilia would support the royal family. The Heartfilia family will also help the royal family.
The reason why the royal family gave a lot of help to the Heartfilia family when they were developing in Fiore was not because the Heartfilia family had a lot of money or had great development prospects. It was because the Heartfilia family had the twelve keys to the zodiac. With these keys in hand, the Heartfilia family had existed in the Kingdom of Fiore for hundreds of years and had maintained friendly relations with the royal family for hundreds of years.
Not only because of this, but also because every head of the Heartfilia family had extraordinary magical strength.
For example Take Leila Heartfilia, who is by King Thomas's side. Although she looks gentle and sometimes gives people a feeling of pity, her strength is definitely enough to become one of the Ten Holy Mages.
Her strength is also ranked among the top among all the previous heads of Heartfilia.
What's more, King Thomas and Leila are now good friends.
Because of these reasons, even when Leila suddenly visited the royal family today and proposed the idea of opening the Eclipse Gate, King Thomas agreed after a brief thought.
In the original book, after Leila's death, Heartfilia The Ya family can be said to have completely transformed from a magic family into a business family.
Jude, who married into the family, could not become the head of the Heartfilia family, and the next family member, Lucy Heartfilia, was still a little kid who knew nothing.
Therefore, the Heartfilia family and the royal family gradually became a business partnership. Especially when Jude increasingly developed the Heartfilia family into a business family, the originally friendly relationship gradually became dull under one contract after another.
Soon, King Thomas and Leila walked through one huge door after another, and finally stopped at the deepest part of the palace.
"This is………Solar Eclipse………"Leila looked at the huge door in front of her and was stunned for a moment.
"Yes, no matter what... Every time I see this door, I am shocked by it.………It is hard to imagine how people built such a magical door over four hundred years.…………"King Thomas said slowly that although he did not know the function of the door in front of him, from the history recorded by the royal family, the history of the door in front of him was even older than the history of their Kingdom of Fiore.
"By the way, Miss Leila, haven't you seen the Eclipse Gate?" Thomas turned his head and saw Leila's absent-minded expression, and asked subconsciously out of curiosity, but he immediately realized that his question was a stupid one. As soon as
King Thomas finished speaking, he instantly remembered that the Eclipse Gate in front of him had been here for more than four hundred years, and since the establishment of their Kingdom of Fiore, the door in front of him had always been deep in their palace.
In the entire palace, except for their successive kings and some particularly important ministers, no one knew of the existence of the door in front of them, let alone Leila.
Leila used to visit the royal family frequently, and entered the palace countless times, but she had never been here before.
"Well, I have seen it in the books left by my ancestors before, but because the books were damaged and re-copied, some of the content disappeared. I only know that the books said that this is a very mysterious door.………I thought it was just a little bigger than an ordinary door.………But I didn't expect it to be this big...…………"Leila was also shocked by the size of the Eclipse Gate.
"Is that so?………"King Thomas nodded in understanding, and then he suddenly remembered something. He asked Leila again:
"By the way, Miss Leila, do you know the exact time when the door will open?"
"Well, although the other information about the door is incomplete, the time of its opening has been completely preserved."Leila said with a serious face after hearing this
"When?" King Thomas was also curious and continued to ask
"00:00, July 7, X777…………"Leila said, looking down at the watch on her wrist, and then continued in a deep voice:
"Two hours later…………"
"Two hours later?…………"King Thomas murmured after hearing this, and then asked Leila:
"Does Leila need to eat something during this time?"
"Phew... In that case, please give me a cup of hot tea." Leila also suddenly breathed a sigh of relief for no apparent reason, then looked at King Thomas, smiled and said softly
""Well, I'll go and give the order right away." King Thomas nodded and left. After all, he and Leila were the only ones here, and the guards were waiting far away from the door.
After King Thomas left, Leila took out the Zodiac Key she now had.………
Holding the eleven zodiac keys in her hands, Leila's originally amiable and gentle face was now full of worry. She looked at the key that had not been found and whispered softly:
"Aquia………"