Mozo was not anxious about this and just waited with his hands behind his back.
Although the Queen did not speak, the crisp sound of her tapping the armrest conveyed a message very well:
Our time is precious, so don't waste it!
When the old man heard the Queen tapping the armrest gently, he immediately lowered his head even more.
Immediately, he changed his posture from kneeling on one knee to prostrating himself, and after kowtowing, he suddenly said:
"Your Majesties, please save our dynasty!"
These words stunned both Mozo and the Queen.
The Queen was thinking, didn’t the Victorian Dynasty disappear in the Age of Gods? How can you ask me to save it
Mozo's breathing almost stopped.
Is there really something wrong with the world in the painting? !
Then Victoria also got into trouble? !
262 Ingres, the Lord of Painting
The biggest reason why the Victorian Dynasty is called the least like a dynasty is that as a dynasty, the territory controlled by the Victorian Dynasty was too small.
It was so small that such a great dynasty only had one city as its territory.
But even so, the Victorian dynasty was still a dynasty.
Because Queen Victoria is here, the Lord of Painted Shadows is also here.
So no matter how small the territory of the Victorian dynasty was, it was still a dynasty.
The only reason that led to this was that Mozo met a girl in that small field.
Mozo remembered that it was a green field of moderate size located on the hillside.
Why was he there then
Mozo didn't remember much, but he seemed to have stayed somewhere in order to draw a picture.
That's how he met Victoria, who was still a young girl.
To his shame, Mozo couldn't even remember how they met.
But Mozo always remembered everything after he met Victoria, and the first words she said to him:
"Have you been away from your hometown for a long time? You must be eager to go home now?"
The girl in a white gauze dress suddenly appeared beside the painter. She looked at the colorful painting on the painting board in front of the painter and said so.
It was these words that made the painter's heart tremble for a moment.
The painter stopped what he was doing, turned to the girl and asked with a smile:
"Why do you say that?"
The girl said to the painter and his painting in an increasingly strange tone:
"Because your paintings look so sad!"
The painter was stunned for a long time by the girl's matter-of-fact answer, and then he smiled reluctantly:
"Why do you say that? This painting is clearly perfect from the composition to the use of colors."
Before the painter could finish, the girl interrupted him, shaking her head:
"I don't understand composition and coloring, but this painting is full of homesickness and sadness! Look, you don't care about people in your painting, even the birds in the sky are all alone."
"Besides, we don't have people wearing this kind of clothes or birds that look like this here. They must have come from far, far away. It must be that you are missing your hometown!"
It was a very amateurish and even tough statement. But it was this extremely amateurish and self-familiar girl who saw through the sadness hidden in the painter's brilliant colors.
What surprised the painter even more was that after the girl revealed his true feelings at the moment, she actually took out a few candy cubes from her dress.
He stuffed it into the painter's palm without any explanation.
"Hey, please have some candy. I have never left my hometown, but when I was a kid, when my parents were away for a long time, I would have a piece of candy."
"If your mouth is sweet, your heart will also be sweet!"
The painter looked at the sugar cube in his hand and fell into a brief silence. Then he put it away and looked at the girl and said:
"My name is Angel, and what about you, a girl with a heart as beautiful as your face?"
The girl couldn't help blushing at the painter's straightforward praise, but she also said:
"My name is Victoria!"
This was the first meeting between Ingres, the Lord of Painting and Shadows, and Queen Victoria.
There were no earth-shattering events, nor any legendary deeds that were passed down through the ages.
There is only a poor homeless traveler and a pure girl who is willing to warm the traveler's lonely heart.
Mozo's memories were not very deep when he heard Her Majesty the Queen stand up and ask:
"I'm not sure what happened to you, but the Victoria Dynasty ended in the Age of Gods, right? In that case, why do you want us to save a dynasty that has already perished?"
"Or are you not completely lost in history, but hiding in some unknown place? And now your hometown is about to face a catastrophic disaster, so you are seeking our help?"
The two survivors of the old times did not refute the Queen's reasoning, and the old man nodded and said:
"As you have deduced, our dynasty has long been erased from history, but we, the people who belonged to the dynasty, have been hiding until now with the last gift from our dynasty."
"And now, our hometown is about to collapse. Your Majesties, we beg the great Loran Dynasty to lend us a helping hand."
The Queen walked to Mozo's side, exchanged glances with him, and then continued to ask:
"Tell me in detail. What happened to you that made you come to us for help?"
The old man coughed violently a few times before continuing:
"It's the orcs. Those terrible orcs attacked our city. They wanted to plunder our treasures and destroy our city. We were powerless to resist these terrible beasts."
"So after we broke through the siege, we rushed all the way to Luolan, hoping to get help from the two great majesties."
"Orcs?"
The Queen's voice rose slightly by two degrees, because since the fall of the Mong Dynasty, the orcs have been scattered around the world in the form of large and small tribes.
And because of the exclusion and suppression by various countries, the power of the orcs is not only far less than before, but it has been a long time since we have heard of the orcs doing anything.
Now she actually heard the survivors of the old times telling her that orcs attacked their city
How long ago was the last time orcs attacked a human city
It seems like it happened about six or seven hundred years ago
"Yes, Your Majesty, it was the orcs who attacked our city."
After confirming that they were indeed orcs, the Queen continued to ask:
"Why did the orcs attack you?"
The old man paused and said:
"Those beasts thought that our city contained those lost extraordinary properties, and they wanted to take them for themselves, so they attacked our city without any explanation! But we were completely unaware of this!"
There are countless people in this world who are obsessed with the extraordinary qualities that disappeared along with the Victorian dynasty, so if someone finds the gathering place of the remnants of the Victorian dynasty.
Then it is very likely that they will attack the other party without any explanation.
But the Queen saw more. She raised her head and said:
"You have to know that you are here for help, so I don't want you to hide anything."
After hearing these words, the old man's back was immediately soaked with sweat.
"I, I, I didn't mean to hide it, I just haven't figured out how to start. Anyway, let me answer your Majesties. We have identified that the weapons used by those beasts came from the Duze Dynasty!"
263 The world in the painting is ruined
The weapons used by the orcs actually came from the Duze Dynasty? !
How did the Lord of Light get involved here again
After hearing this, Mozo and the Queen both remembered an important piece of information that the nobles of the old seven nations had told them—in addition to cooperating with Andal, the King of Light also had close contacts with the old survivors of the Mong Dynasty.
However, at that time, Mozo and the Queen both agreed with the nobleman's guess—they should be planning to attack the Victory Church.
After all, the Mongol dynasty was defeated by the Victory Church.
Whether the old remnants of the Mong Dynasty want to restore their country or seek revenge, they cannot bypass the Victory Church.
As it turns out, it seems that the other party is not targeting the Victory Church
The Queen thought for a moment and then said to the old man:
"Tell me everything you know."
The old man smiled bitterly and said:
"To answer your Majesty, that's all I know. We are just the remnants of the old times hiding in the shadows of the past. All we know is that the other side is orcs and they have weapons from the Duze Dynasty."
"As for how many orcs there are and how many of them are high-sequence, we really have no idea. The only thing we can say is that there are a lot of them."
Such an answer made the Queen and Mozo frown slightly.
After taking a look at the queen, Mozo asked the old man his doubts:
"Where are you hiding? From the Age of Gods to now, so many people have wanted to find the Victoria Dynasty but have not been able to find any trace. Why did the orcs suddenly find you?"
The old man hesitated for a moment before saying:
"We are in the ruins of the Royal City. During the great war in the Age of Gods, the Royal City was dragged into the abyss, but it was not destroyed. It was even fortunately preserved deep underground."
"That's how our ancestors were able to survive and multiply in the underground ruins. As for how the orcs found us, we still don't know."
There are fragments of descriptions of that war in the ancient books and folk legends of the major churches. There is also a corresponding description of what they said:
The sky was completely plunged into darkness under the cover of the huge wings, and the earth was torn apart by the anger of the ancients, and the painters' eternal utopia also fell into the abyss. It was the battlefield and cemetery of the gods.
All the bystanders died because of their lowly status. The only thing people could know and see was the abyss that was restored and closed by an unknown force.
The other party's words were undoubtedly reasonable based on the legend, but for the Queen and other "latecomers", there was a fatal problem:
"You said you were hiding in the underground ruins of Victoria's capital?"
"Yes, your majesty."
"But from what I know, the later generations almost saw purgatory while digging at the ruins of Victoria Capital in order to pursue those lost supernatural properties."
The extraordinary characteristics of almost an entire path naturally have a fatal attraction for extraordinary people.
Therefore, the exploration of the Victorian Dynasty has been extremely enthusiastic for quite some time. For this reason, many forces have vigorously excavated the ruins of the Victorian capital.
But just as the Queen said, the earth veins were almost dug through, but the real ruins of the royal capital were not found.
This doesn't match what they said.
But Mozo knew that this was the right thing to do, because the abyss that swallowed up the capital of Victoria was not caused by the war.
Instead, he drew it directly on the ground with one stroke, and that was not an abyss, it was actually a space crack that he used to transfer the royal capital.
As for where the royal capital was moved to, that was something Mozo didn't know either, because only when he didn't know would he be truly safe!
The only thing Mozo knew was that the king must have been moved deep underground. But where exactly he was underground, God knew.
But it still wasn't right.
Because the royal capital that was moved away by Mozo at that time, Mozo remembered that it had already been an empty city!
All the people followed Victoria to seek refuge in the world in the painting!
He moved the capital just to protect this utopia in the eyes of painters.
Even if Victoria finally left the world in the painting with her people and moved back to the capital, why are the two of you so destitute and can't even find the same path
The Victorian dynasty was indeed not a big dynasty, but what Victoria brought into the world of painting was the entire dynasty!
Almost an entire artist path and a large number of extraordinary attributes in three other paths might not have made you rich, but why can't you two even match the paths
But what surprised Mozo even more was that after the old man heard the queen say that someone had excavated their capital ruins so deeply, he said in astonishment: