"His Royal Highness Qiao Xiu, are you going to keep raising that frost elf like this?"
The Prophet sat in the back seat of the magic car, holding a small box in his hand.
All the leaves in the box are the leaves of the world tree of the Frost Elves. Even through the box, the Prophet can feel the huge vitality in it.
From Joshua's introduction, the Prophet learned that the leaf holding this World Tree has "the ability to connect to the magic net in any corner of the world."
This function makes the leaves of the World Tree an item that users of the magic web all over the world want to get, except for this function.
The leaves of the World Tree are also precious alchemical items. The Prophet can recite more than ten alchemy potions containing the formula of the World Tree leaves. These potions are extremely expensive on the market.
"Raising? Prophet, do you have any misunderstanding about my relationship with Taelin?" Joshua asked.
"Isn't it? Your Highness Joshua, you provide her with protection and food, and what you get is the tree of the world and these leaves. In my opinion, it is no different from the relationship between shepherds and sheep." The Prophet said.
"Well, I admit that what you said makes sense, but shepherds don't always pay their sheep to buy beautiful clothes, do they? And there are two days off every weekend." Joshua said, stepping on the brakes The magic car stopped on the side of the road. "And I prefer the relationship of friends to the relationship between nobles and servants."
"Friend... I thought that Her Royal Highness Sehiri's attitude towards the commoners was good enough, but I didn't expect that Your Highness Joshua would have no self-awareness of yourself as a prince." The Prophet said.
No self-consciousness as a prince? Qiao Xiu can't tell the Prophet that he is a three-good young man who grew up under that doctrine, right? The profession of prince is only a part-time job for Qiao Xiu. After coming to Nolan, Qiao Xiu almost forgot that he had a devil prince. identity.
"So Prophet, do you know my eldest sister Sehili... How do you want to change the demon world?" Joshua asked tentatively.
Qiao Xiu counted the time, the time for the fight for the kingship issued by the Lord of the Demon World was almost here, and Qiao Xiu had already withdrawn from this cruel competition. The only strong competitors at present were his eldest sister and eldest brother.
The victor is given the status of ruler, the power to completely change the demon world.
At present, Qiao Xiu is more inclined to remain neutral. After all, Qiao Xiu's understanding of his eldest sister only stays in the impression of a "cold monitor".
"A world that can understand each other." The Prophet recalled carefully what Cecily had told her "about ideals." "His Royal Highness Cecily said that the first step before mutual understanding is to let the other party recognize you, The current demon world is too weak and backward, so we will appear in Nolan."
"A world that understands each other...? What if the production level of the Demon World kept up with or even surpassed that of the human world?"
Joshua believed that as long as the Prophet brought her four apprentices with the knowledge they had learned in Nolan, it would take a while for the production level of the Demon World to keep up with Nolan's current progress.
"do not know."
The Prophet shook his head, this was beyond the scope of the task that Cecily had entrusted to her.
"At that time, I wanted to develop tourism in the Demon World." Qiao Xiu's eyes turned to the end of the street, and further ahead was Squirrel Street on the edge of Nolan.
It used to be the most despised street in Nolan, but now it has become a well-known tourist attraction.
"Tourism... industry? You plan to let humans go to the Demon World to have fun!"
The prophet understood the meaning of Qiao Xiu's so-called "tourism" based on his own knowledge. The idea of the third prince is really strange and incomprehensible.
"His Royal Highness Qiao Xiu, let me remind you that the Demon World is an extremely dangerous place in the human mind."
"Squirrel Street used to have the same impression among the people of Nolan. Humans' impression of the Demon World is gradually changing, isn't it? Maybe we can find an open space in the Demon World to build an amusement park or something."
"You… what?"
The Prophet suddenly began to miss the days when the spellcaster named Ciri was by Joshua's side. At least when Joshua said some words that the Prophet couldn't understand, she could always give the first one that the Prophet could understand. explain.
"This issue will be discussed in the future. After all, this is based on the premise that the demon world is truly powerful, the kind of premise that makes humans feel fearful as a country, rather than arbitrarily starting wars like now."
Qiao Xiu stepped on the accelerator of the magic car, and while the prophet was chatting, the magic car had already driven to the entrance of the underground city.
…
Underground of Nolan, in the mines of the Frost Axe clan.
Pest hung upside down above the mine in the shape of a bat and looked at the wooden boxes stacked in the mine. The seals of the wooden boxes were marked with two labels, "Kliya Trading Company" and "Food".
This mine has been turned into a large grain storage warehouse at some point in time. In order to prevent some bugs and mice from stealing the grain, a barrier to "disperse weak creatures" has been set up around the mine.
At the end of the mine, there was a portal emitting a faint green light. Not long after Peste flew into the portal, a group of figures shrouded in pitch-black armor walked out of the portal.
When they stepped into the mine, their hands were always on the hilt of the sword, and killing intent began to overflow throughout the mine.
"Watcher, you let us steal the food the dwarves have stockpiled?"
After confirming that there were no other living creatures in the mine, the leading knight looked up at Peste, who was hanging upside down on the mine.
"Dwarf? No, General Faisley, the food here belongs to us, or the third prince, His Royal Highness Joshua Arnold. It was he who bought the food in Nolan to relieve the famine in the king's city. crisis.”
Under the bath of scarlet blood, Peste changed from a bat to a human form. She stood in front of the demon covered in armor and opened her hands to explain.
"Those cunning humans have no reason to sell food to the demons..." The general didn't seem to believe Pesto's words, but in the next second he suddenly drew his sword, because he felt a dangerous aura coming Approach here.
"Watcher! Are you sure this isn't a trap set by those cunning humans?!" He shouted loudly to Pester.
"Calm down! The humans here are a little different from what you think."
Pest tried to convince the general that he had gone too far, but the general named Faisley was unmoved.
"Prepare to fight!"
The gray magic condensed on the general's saber, and the knights in black armor who followed him also drew out their sabres and shields, blocking the general's front to form a defense against cavalry and the like. formation.
They were ready to fight in just a few seconds, even if it was a trap, he had to bring the food back to the Demon Realm!
Pester looked at the moment they were fully armed, and sighed slightly, which reminded her that the last time she came to Nolan, she was not much better than him.
After all, humans and demons have been enemies to each other for too long. For these demons on the front line, human cities are fortresses full of enemies.
Any creature here has the possibility of beheading him, so this general's nerves are so sensitive and vigilant.
When Pest told them in the Demon World that "our destination is Nolan, the city of humans", their faces showed expressions of preparation for death.
These knights held their breaths and listened to the sound of getting closer and closer to the end of the mine, and the strength of the long swords in their hands became stronger and stronger, as if the creatures that were approaching could swallow them in one bite. Monster like.
"If it was a trap, you wouldn't be standing there so safely."
A voice sounded at the end of the mine. When the general saw the figure slowly walking from the end of the mine, the magic power wrapped around the blade instantly dissipated.
He immediately stabbed the blade into the rocks on the ground, and then half-knelt on the ground.
The knights standing in front of him also instantly realized who the owner of the voice was, and they put down their weapons and made the same action.
"His Royal Highness Qiao Xiu, forgive me... rude."
"Don't mind, when any demon comes to Nolan, his nerves will be a little hypersensitive, so is the watcher next to you, Pester, shouting something like 'Your Highness, you are in a very dangerous situation right now'."
Joshua followed the prophet's guidance to the mine where the grain was stored, and Pest, who was standing beside him, could only silently listen to Joshua exposing his own dark history so openly.
"But Your Highness Qiao Xiu, you are now in a city full of humans. Those cunning humans are indeed very dangerous!"
Listening to the general's righteous warning, Qiao Xiu rubbed his eyebrows with a headache.
Although Qiao Xiu has been in Nolan for such a long time, the impression of the demons has changed to a certain extent, but the impression of the demons has not changed at all.
Some demons are hostile to humans, while others are fearful.
But Joshua didn't have the time to go, like the apprentices who taught Pest and the Prophet, and let the general understand that it's impossible for human beings to have good people.
Judging from the content of their sister's text messages, they were only here to carry supplies and prepare for the upcoming war, not to go to Nolan for a day trip.
"I don't know, what is your name?" Joshua pointed to the general and asked.
The general took off the helmet on his head, and his long jet-black hair poured down. It was hard to imagine that this heavily armed knight would look as feminine as a girl.
"Faisley Arnorrod, I belong to the Second Legion under your brother." He made a brief self-introduction.
"The supplies you need are here."
Qiao Xiu patted the wooden boxes that were piled up in the mountains. The surface of the wooden boxes was inscribed with inscriptions that could prevent the food from spoiling. There was no problem in keeping the food here for one to two years.
"What's the matter with telling me 'the war is about to start' while moving in?"
The general Faisley quickly instructed his knights to quickly send these wooden boxes to the other side of the portal, while he was still half-kneeling on the ground and explained to Joshua the whole story of the war.
"At this time of the year, the snow and ice on the periphery of the fortress will melt, and those human troops will attack... In the past few years, we have resisted the attacks of the human beings, but this year, due to the large-scale 'ashing' of the fields inside the demon world The reason for this is that the supply of the fortress is nearly exhausted, and Her Royal Highness Cecily gave us advice, that is to ask for your help." He paused for a while, then glanced at the knights behind him who were carrying wooden boxes and then Say.
"When I learned from the watcher Pester that I was going to the world of humans to get supplies, I was ready to fight humans and plunder their food, but I didn't expect everything to go so smoothly, I... I'm curious about Joshua How did you do it, Your Highness?"
It turns out that this "war" is a daily occurrence every year? No wonder the Prophet and his elder sister were so calm.
But if the frontier fortress of the demon world is breached, it will definitely turn into a full-scale war.
"Just brush Nolan's reputation to be friendly," Joshua said.
"Sound... hope?"
General Faisley raised his head in confusion. He noticed that the prophet stood beside Joshua. The prophet who has been serving the second princess is a famous wise man in the devil world.
He hoped that the Prophet could answer Qiao Xiu's words a little bit, but the Prophet could only shake his head to show that he didn't understand either.
"These are not important, come... take these and pass them on to my eldest brother Nogus, there is a letter in it, he will understand after reading it." Joshua handed over the two wooden boxes In this general, there were one hundred original spar stones carrying the core of the magic net, and one hundred leaves of the World Tree.
Since Tailin's World Tree grew up, more than ten pieces of hair were collected every day, and Qiao Xiu could consider opening a "mobile WIFI store" or something.
"His Royal Highness, Joshua." General Faisley took the box with a solemn expression, then looked up at Joshua and asked, "Is this the relic you entrusted?"
"Relic?"
Qiao Xiu said why he suddenly felt that the surrounding atmosphere became a little tragic.
"You chose to stay in the extremely dangerous city of Nolan for the sake of the people of the demon world. Your brother was disappointed because you gave up the campaign for the kingship, but for such a tragic..."
"Stop your brainstorming!"
Qiao Xiu always had a feeling that he would be put into a coffin sprinkled with flowers in the next second and then carried back to the Demon Realm for a thick burial.
"Listen to Faisley! Now as long as our demons don't commit any crimes in Nolan, they will not be hostile to humans! Now the demons can walk freely on the streets of Nolan!"
"I can't understand what you mean, Your Highness Qiao Xiu."
Since the birth of this Chaos Demon, he has grown up in the battle with humans. Perhaps in his eyes, humans are also an extremely cruel race.
"Okay..." Qiao Xiu packed the three original spar and stuffed it to him. "Although I don't think it is useful, you can look at the content when you have time. Just don't activate these original spar with chaotic magic."