"What are you panicking about?" Luo Ling couldn't help but smile. She said, but her hands didn't stop. "Does your head still hurt?"
Seeing that she looked normal and had no reaction to his move, and didn't even say a word to mock him, Xiao Chen knew that there must be other people around, so he quickly sat up and said repeatedly: "It's okay, it's okay."
“I’m glad you’re okay. Your fall really scared a lot of people. … You don’t know how I felt when I met up with you and saw you being held in the arms of the golem, with a look of life or death in doubt.” Luo Ling reached out and straightened his clothes.
"I'm sorry, I made you worry." Xiao Chen looked around and found that he was sitting in a carriage. In addition to him and Luo Ling, there were four other people. One was Roger, who was always alert. He was playing with a dagger and staring at the other person sitting opposite him. It was Lorenzo, who was both his enemy and friend. When the latter saw Xiao Chen wake up, he looked at him with a smile and said, "Sir Xiao Chen, can you ask your loyal knight to put down the knife? Since we have started to cooperate, we should trust each other. Moreover, I have proved myself today. Whether it is the explosion you expected or the retreat that Sir Luo Ling needed, I have successfully completed the task, right?"
"Roger?" Xiao Chen looked at the knight.
"My lord, I don't regard Mr. Lorenzo as an enemy, I just regard him as an unstable person. I don't think he will betray me at this moment, but this person is always accompanied by various troubles. I am just ready to prevent trouble from happening at any time." Roger said slowly.
Lorenzo curled his lips and said, "Well, your Lord Xiao Chen has woken up. Please stop staring at me and let's focus on more meaningful things."
In addition to the two of them, there were two unsealed battle mages sitting in the carriage, and outside the carriage window there was a huge steel figure running, it was the golem Gama. Xiao Chen stretched his head out and looked back, and saw that there were several more carriages behind, with Ye Zi, Kalanda, Gabriel, Mei and other warriors sitting in the carriages, guarding each carriage.
"Sir Xiao Chen, I'm glad you woke up." The speaker was a high-level wizard from the Kingdom Magic Association. His name was Lil, and he was one of the first combat mages to be unsealed by Master Gordon.
"After I fell unconscious, you defeated Ature?" Xiao Chen asked.
"Yes. Master Gordon is right, that guy is just an actor in costume. We only lost a few undead warriors and killed him with magic. Those so-called masters are just idiots who inherited bloodlines. They are far inferior to masters like Master Gordon who have been fighting continuously."
"And then you met up with Lord Luo Ling?"
"After we came out, we followed Lord Glade and soon met Lord Luo Ling and several masters of the Tower of Shining Wings. Then they took us to the carriage that had been prepared long ago. Now we are on our way out of the city." Lil said.
"Has Liu Pengfei been rescued?" Xiao Chen asked Luo Ling.
"Dead, I don't want to talk about that idiot now." Luo Ling said unhappily.
"Well, what about Master Gordon and the others?" Xiao Chen asked.
Luo Ling said: "Master Gordon and Mage Lila will each sit in a carriage to lift the seals for other magicians. The more people who recover their strength, the greater our chances of escaping."
"Are there any enemies blocking the way?" Xiao Chen asked.
"Not yet. The masters under Laura's command have suffered great losses in the market and the palace dungeon. Unless she is as stupid as her military advisor, she will not send people here one by one to die. And by the time she can mobilize the team, we should have left the city. The only person we need to worry about now is only one person: the Thousand-foot Sword Saint Benegas." Luo Ling looked out the window. The Temple of Nature in the distance looked green and lush in the sun.
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Venegas was sitting on a chair, quietly watching the smoke and dust raised by the explosion in the capital. He was in a small independent building in the priests' residential area behind the Temple of Nature. The owner of the house, the chief priest of the capital, Roland, was sitting opposite him, raising the wine glass in his hand to greet him, and then drank it all.
"That's not how you drink rainbow wine." Venegas shook his head. "Or are you trying to get me drunk with this wine? Even if you sell your house, it won't be enough to buy the wine."
"Only a fool would think of getting a sword master drunk. But then again, is it really a good thing to stay sober all the time? Some things are seen too much, thought too much, and calculated too carefully. It's not a happy thing." Priest Roland filled his glass again. The colorful rainbow fruit wine looked very tempting in the crystal clear glass.
"I am a sword practitioner, and the sword is the most precise of all weapons. I am not a bunch of messy grass leaves or randomly blooming flowers. Once my sword has chosen a direction, I will chop it down without hesitation. If it fails once, I will chop it a second time until I hit my opponent." Benegas took a sip of the rainbow fruit wine, let the wine swirl on the tip of his tongue, and then swallowed it. "Ha, this may be the difference between a sword practitioner and a grass planter."
"A blind eagle mistakes a stone for a rabbit and will only crash into the mud. If you are chasing a meaningless goal, no matter how many times you try, it will only be a waste of time," said Roland.
"Roland, at our level, how could we not know what our goal is?" Venegas stroked the glass with his fingers, admiring the changing colors of the rainbow fruit wine in the sun. "You should understand that there are only two reasons why I am here to drink with you. First, it would be a waste not to drink the good wine of the Temple of Nature. Second, I am not interested in killing these guys one by one like a cat and mouse. It would be much easier for me to show up when they gather together."
"Saint Venegas, do you really want to participate in a child's game? What's the meaning of this to an existence like you? In my opinion, whether it's a princess or a queen, you are just a little girl playing house. You have already done the things that you can do, such as Saint Sasso's mission. You have left enough chapters on this stage, and now you should wait for the results." Roland said.
"No, the way you guys are behaving tells me that this should be the finale. I never like to miss the most important performances." Venegas stood up, drank the last sip of wine in his glass, and walked out step by step. "The break time is over, and now it's my turn to go on stage again."