Noggs was delayed for a while due to motion sickness, but in the end he found three horses and rushed to the embassy of the Land of Frost in the center of Nolan with his squires and the man in blue.
When Noggs pushed open the door of the embassy's chamber, the entire chamber fell into an eerie silence.
There are several generals from the fortress in the council chamber. They can be said to be old opponents of Noggs... They can also be described as enemies.
Noggs glanced at the generals, and he also recognized the opponents who had fought on the battlefield.
Qiao Xiu immediately stood up from where he was sitting and went directly to the two long tables in the center of the council hall.
Sheier also stood up from where he was sitting and walked to the other side of the long table step by step.
A sturdy general followed behind Sheier. Joshua judged from the text message he had just chatted with Sheier, that this general was the Marshal Amter that Sheier trusted most.
"Brother."
Qiao Xiu had never participated in the war between the Demon World and the Kingdom of Frost, nor had he personally experienced that cruel battlefield.
Therefore, Qiao Xiu's identity in this negotiation meeting is only a "bridge for communication between the two sides" after all.
"Shair, ruler of the Land of Frost?"
Noggs glanced at the nobles sitting behind Sheil, many of them looked at him with hatred, but when Noggs looked at the new king, her eyes But nothing changed.
"I am Sheil Leonid, the seventy-second ruler of the Land of Frost. I greet you... Nogus Arnorrod, the prince of the Demon World," Sheir said.
"My brother told me that you want to end the war in the Frost Plains?" Noggs put his hands on the long table in front of him, staring straight at the young king.
"We have written the contract of armistice on this parchment."
Marshal Armt beside Sheil handed a heavy sheepskin scroll to a servant, and the servant took the scroll and came to Noggs and offered it with both hands.
Noggs opened the sheepskin scroll in front of everyone. The scroll was so long that the bottom half fell directly on the long table after Noggs picked it up.
In this era when paper has been invented for an unknown number of years, the people of the Land of Frost still insist on using parchment scrolls to write important contracts.
"I can see your sincerity, the new king of the Land of Frost." After spending more than ten minutes reading each clause carefully, Noggs closed the parchment scroll again and said, "But you all start from scratch. At the end, you are trying to cover up your mistakes, and you are the ones who started this war in the first place."
This sentence of Noggs caused an uproar among the nobles of the Land of Frost. The Marshal Amt next to Sheier took up the position of the king's spokesman after he signaled to Sheier.
"Your Majesty Nogus." Marshal Amut said in a very serious tone, "It was the demons who first shredded the space on the border of the Frost Plain, and then sent people to attack our soldiers on the plain! We will attack the invaders. Compromise has shown enough sincerity."
"My father never..."
Qiao Xiu silently observed the confrontation between the two sides. Although Qiao Xiu's ability to see people is not very good, it can be seen from the performance of Noggs and Marshal Armt.
They were both telling the truth, neither of them looked like they were lying.
Joshua then contacted the Inquisition of Heresy with frequent activities in the Frost Plain, plus the existence of the Crusaders in the army that first crusades the Demon Realm, and... Heluria said that sentence.
"That..." When Joe Xiu was about to stand up and intervene in their conversation, the spellcaster who had been following Noggs was one step ahead of Joe Xiu.
"Everyone."
The caster came to the center of the long table and stopped the confrontation with a peaceful voice.
He took off his hood to reveal his aged appearance.
All eyes in the council hall were focused on the old man, and Qiao Xiu noticed that his cheeks were covered with various inscriptions. These inscriptions existed on the old man's cheeks in the form of tattoos and spread all the way down. .
"Sage of Giso Rio!"
Suddenly an elderly Frostland noble recognized the caster.
"Gisorio... the man in blue?"
Qiao Xiu has been very close to the sages of the Council of Sages recently, and the man in purple still misses the man in blue who has been absent from the council of sages for many years, so Qiao Xiu heard the name of the sage.
"I didn't expect that after I left Nolan for so many years, someone would still remember me." A relieved look appeared on his face.
"Teacher, how dare I forget you."
The nobleman who looked older than the man in blue said in a respectful tone.
"The man in blue, what do you want to say?"
Joshua wanted to tell both parties what he knew, which might ease the smell of gunpowder in the meeting.
But the sage stepped forward and snatched Qiao Xiu's opportunity to speak.
"You must be Joshua Arnorrod, the demon who brought miracles to the world, I walked on the streets of Nolan as if I came to another world, although I really want to ask you about the changes in Nolan, But now, can you guys listen to one thing from me?"
The blue-clothed man looked at Noggs and Marshal Armet, left and right.
"Please." Marshal Armt knew that it was pointless to continue arguing with Noggs.
Noggs was holding his arm, tacitly acknowledging the intervention of the man in blue.
"Many years ago, I found some mutations in the ruins under Nolan, and books that recorded the gray fog and the coming of the end."
The man in blue took out a strange crystal and put it on the table. Qiao Xiu knew this crystal... Its dark gray color was exactly the same as the glass ball held by the old man in the Heresy Inquisition in the consciousness space!
"I left Nolan with the man in black, and investigated the source of the gray fog in the ruins around the world, and finally learned that they came from a terrifying creature, or... a god, and what the Heresy Inquisition of the Holy Kingdom believes in is This god."
"But what does this have to do with the Land of Frost's invasion of the Demon Realm?" Noggs interrupted his tirade.
"Those believers in the Inquisition of Heresy are trying to let their gods come to this world. One of the conditions required for the coming is the soul of life, the soul of a lot of life!"
The man in blue held up the crystal, which was only the size of a pinky thumb. If you looked closely, there seemed to be a wail in the crystal.
"A lot of... how much?" Qiao Xiu was basically certain that the resentful spirits inside came from there.
"Sacrificing the lives of all citizens in a city may not be enough." The man in blue gave a terrible answer.
"battlefield."
Sheier's icy voice penetrated into the hearts of everyone present at this moment.
"The centuries-long war between the Kingdom of Frost and the Demon World, and the death of the Crusaders in the Kingdom of the Holy Cult... and the history of the Kingdom of Frost, the citizens of the cities were slaughtered by demons." Tell the tragic past of this war.
"Massacre? Soldiers of the Demon Race never set foot in your country!"
Noggs immediately understood something when he heard this.
"The war in the Frost Plains was just a conspiracy from beginning to end." The man in blue said in a low voice, "The soldiers who died on the battlefield...the souls will be imprisoned by those cultists and become such things."
The man in blue showed the crystal in his hand to everyone present.