"The eldest prince will take you down, fortunately you will live up to your command."
As soon as Metternich finished speaking, he couldn't hold it back, his throat felt fishy again, and another mouthful of turbid blood spurted out of his mouth.
He quickly covered it with his hands, but bright red blood still overflowed from his fingers.
The eldest prince Quentin looked at Metternich, who was seriously injured in a clown costume, and a flash of joy flashed in his eyes. He has never underestimated his staff.
Disciple of "Gambler Sequence" Olatto K. Kant? Tsk tsk... It's hidden deep enough.
However, I have to die today.
Under such circumstances, the eldest prince should first care about the physical condition of his confidant. But Quentin didn't even continue to act today. He looked at Metternich and asked directly: "So, Master Cavo will not stop the establishment of the Glory City?"
Metternich nodded and said: "Yes. Even from now on, Master Cavo will never get involved in anything in Glory City..."
Quentin looked as usual, not expecting much.
A few months ago, he was really afraid that Cavo would object.
But now... .
Whether it can succeed or not, the overall situation has been decided. Even if Cavo disagrees, it will be delayed for a while at most.
It is easy to go from frugality to luxury, but it is difficult to go from luxury to frugality.
As a member of the Omar royal family, he naturally knows that power is the most tempting thing in the world.
The five major families in Glory City have reached a consensus of interests with Omar. After enjoying the supreme sense of superiority brought by the "king-level top nobles", it is absolutely impossible to return to the previous situation where their rights were restricted by cold "system laws". situation. At that time, even if it fails, the five major families will jointly request, so that Cavo will have to let go.
After all, the five major families are none other than the families of Kavo's relatives, friends, and disciples who sacrificed their lives for the entire city back then!
Does Cavo know everything they did in the city
Kavo has developed an almost perfect system, but he has turned a blind eye over the years, and the word "human favor" has not escaped him after all.
... ...
And at this moment, as if to confirm what Metternich had just said, the library with its pyramid peeled off suddenly flashed with magic lines and emitted a dazzling light.
Then I looked again and saw that the place where the library used to be was empty.
Master Cavo, willing to admit defeat, actually teleported the entire library directly out of the City of Glory and disappeared without a trace. Only a few high-level people know that the library is not only a magic tower, but also an incredible ancient artifact.
Seeing this, the eldest prince Quentin was also overjoyed.
He turned his eyes and then said with concern: "Mr. Metternich, you have done me a big favor."
"Your Highness is so complimentary."
Metternich waved his hand, the heavy clown makeup on his face could not hide his weakness. He seemed to know what was going to happen next, and there was relief on his face, but it was more like a sarcastic smile.
At this time, Quentin stopped pretending and sneered, "Since you have worked so hard, sir, I will give you a ride."
Metternich pretended to be surprised: "Your Highness, what do you mean..."
"hehe."
Quentin smiled and did nothing, because what he just said was already an order.
Before the laughter fell, a ripple suddenly arose in the air, a figure appeared out of thin air, and a cold dagger was already attached to the clown's neck. And his whole body froze, obviously imprisoned by magic.
Quentin looked at the restrained Metternich, smiled and said directly: "There has been a lot of top-secret news about you from the Blackwater Tower recently... A disciple of the 'Gambler Sequence' Olatto K. Kant? Tsk tsk, Mr. Metternich, you have hidden it deep enough. I also discovered that you are not only doing things for me, but also doing many little things... Although I don’t know what you want to do, my intuition tells me that you are like this The character makes me feel very dangerous... So, I’ll send you on your way.”
The winner always has the mentality of humiliating the losing party to satisfy his proud vanity. The eldest prince is no exception.
"Hehe...hehe...hehehe..."
Hearing this, Metternich slowly closed his eyes, not knowing what he was laughing at. The laughter sounded like self-deprecation, but more like mocking others.
He glanced at the eldest prince and said: "Your Highness Quentin, you are so impatient to kill me. Aren't you afraid that the throne will be unstable?"
"Then you don't have to worry."
After all, he was still the subordinate who was most effective in helping him ascend to the throne. A trace of regret flashed across Quentin's expression.
However, Ruthless did not waver at all. He said: "Do you have anything else to say? Since you have helped me a lot, I can consider your last words..."
After this sentence, Metternich seemed to be stimulated, and his personality changed instantly.
His expression, which was so gentle just a moment ago, suddenly turned ferocious.
His severed clown face split open to reveal a mouthful of blood stained red teeth. His smile was so creepy that he said: "Your Highness, since you have investigated so many things about me, have you found out that I am often in the Queen's Palace?" Spending more than two hours alone with the beautiful queen who is known as the 'Empire's Double Beauty'? Oh my, her majesty's skin is really supple... "
The meaning of these words is very humiliating, and it is almost vulgar to say, I am fooled.
"you wanna die?"
Hearing this, Quentin's face turned livid.
No one saw these gossipy things, so he could lie to himself that that guy and his mother were discussing things in secret.
The sneer in the clown's mouth became more and more exaggerated, as if he was seeing a child's calculation, which was extremely ridiculous.
He looked at Quentin, not caring at all about the dagger on his neck, and said, "Um...actually, have you ever thought that all the information that can be found out is what I want to show you?"
After a pause, he continued to sneer: "Your father, who was the emperor, was much calmer than you. Do you know why he already knew that I was hanging out with the most beautiful woman in the palace, but he didn't do anything to me? What?"
"you... "
After saying this, Quentin's eyes trembled and he immediately fell into self-doubt.
But in the next moment, he immediately realized that the other party was probably trying to survive!
Such a smart person, who knows he will die without any doubt, is he trying to mess with my mind before I die
right! That must be it!
No matter whether his mother really has any ambivalent relationship with him, if he kills him, everything will disappear!
Quentin was able to stand out among the princes not only because he was the eldest son, but also because he was definitely not bad at thinking and strategizing.
Although Metternich's words did make him suspicious, it did not change his mind in the first place. He lightly shouted: "Kill!"
Give an order.
The palace assassin who held the dagger to Metternich's neck cut Metternich's throat without hesitation.
A high-level assassin's throat wipe will not give anyone the slightest chance of survival. With that knife, blood immediately surged out like a fountain, and the violent extraordinary power directly cut off everything that contained the fighting spirit.
However, what is surprising is that even though the clown's neck was cut, his voice did not stop.
"Since you know that I am the inheritor of the 'Gambler Sequence', have you ever heard of the 'Joker Card'? The meaning of the Joker Card is that gamblers will never expose their trump cards to others... If it is exposed, then He must have another trump card in his hand."
The assassin was also confused, because the person who said this was not the decapitated corpse in his arms that was rapidly losing its life, but the eldest prince Quentin opposite.
However, at this moment, that "Quentin" was like a magician changing his face, painting a black and white clown's face.
If you take a closer look at the facial features, you will see that it is none other than Metternich himself!
But... the person opposite was Metternich, so who was the person he killed
The palace assassin's heart skipped a beat, and he had a vague guess. Looking down again, I saw a head painted in a colorful clown costume on the body that collapsed on the ground. Who could it be if it wasn't the eldest prince Quentin
And the moment he killed Quenting, a ball of green fire erupted from the palace assassin's body, burning him completely in an instant. How could the personal bodyguard of the Omar royal family fail to protect the contract
This act of "eating the master" was naturally counterattacked by the contract.
The black and white clown looked at the corpse on the ground, smiled, and muttered in his heart: "Congratulations, you are also the first person to see my trump card, and my extraordinary ability 'Crooked Clown'! What a pity, if you sink Stay calm, you can still see more interesting dramas..."
At this time, several more Omar palace guards appeared on the surrounding streets, surrounding the clown. How could these guards of the eldest prince not be shocked when they saw their master dying in front of their eyes
The first thing they wanted to do was to catch the murderer.
Metternich raised his hands to indicate that he would not resist.
The bright clown who was still smiling had a teasing smile on his face, because he was holding two tokens in his hand.
One is the "Golden Griffin Order" representing the supreme power of Emperor Spuglin XV, and the other is the "Silver Griffin Order" representing the Queen.
With these two tokens, even if he killed the eldest prince with his own hands, the palace guards would not kill him immediately.
What's more, this... Although the eldest prince died because of him, he did not kill him on his own initiative.
The clown was still smiling happily, as if everything in front of him was a game field, "Everyone, you are not qualified to handle the matters here. I will not embarrass you, I will not resist, and I will cooperate with you to return to the Imperial Capital of Omar..."
The pale-faced guard leader looked at the two tokens in Metternich's hand, and obviously hesitated.
After a moment, he said: "Mr. Metternich, you'd better surrender as you said. Otherwise... we will kill you immediately!"
"as you wish."
The clown made a funny bow to several people, with a bloody and bright toothy smile on his face, "I'm just going to go back to the imperial capital to see the reactions of those two people..."
... ...
On the other hand.
The wasteland has become a paradise for zombies, and there are too many to kill. The hunters have hid back in the Mechanical City, and no one dares to wander outside.
Deep in the "Forest of Ashes", the giant flower bone is squirming, seeming to enjoy eating after sleeping for countless years.
At this time, in a dark and empty space.
"Arthur, put it out quickly, don't light the fire, use a cold light source! The tentacle monster just now may have been attracted by the heat..."
"Fix it up."
"Hey, why is there a low-level hunter here?"
"Probably the kind of guy who wants money rather than his life, and wants to gamble his luck, so he ventures deep into the forest..."
"Lord Kidd, should we take him away?"
"Well, bring it with you. If the alchemy puppet explores the path, many magic mechanisms will not be triggered. It would be better to have a living person..."
"..."
Ren didn't know how long he had been unconscious.
But he felt that his condition was very bad, as if all the bones in his body were broken.
Beside him, Bazel has also disappeared.
Then after looking at the prompts from "Zhi Nao", he remembered what happened before.
Renn only remembered that the "floor" of the forest stood up, and the terrifying barbs blocked their way out. Then he smelled an inexplicable "aroma", and he passed out, and his body continued to fall.
I think the "scent" should be the gas emitted by a huge "piranha flower" when it hunts its prey.
"Then... I should be in the belly of that giant flower now? Is it food waiting to be digested?"
A picture suddenly popped up in Renn's mind, which was an insect trapped in a "flytrap" with nowhere to escape and could only wait to be digested.
Because active perception is lost after coma, the brain only records some passive information. He knew that at this moment he was probably 10,000 meters deep underground...
Because of the continuous explosion of demonic energy in the black pit, he didn't fall into pieces directly. He fell like a falling leaf, causing injuries all over his body.
Fortunately, after falling into coma, the intelligent brain controlled the automatic operation of the [Divine Healing Technique] and healed most of the injuries. Otherwise, an ordinary second-level extraordinary would have died ten thousand times due to that kind of injury.
Just a minute ago, a high-level mage cast [Awakening Technique] on him, and he woke up.
... ...
Just when Ren's brain was functioning again and he was just recalling what happened, the mage who released the spell for him also noticed that he was awake.
"Boy, when you wake up, don't act stupid and go explore the road ahead!"
When Ren heard this, his face suddenly twitched.
Looking again, the light blue magic light source in the hands of those people illuminated the surrounding environment.
This looks a bit like an "unfinished building" from the previous life. There are some frame structures and pillars everywhere, and there are traces of erosion by time everywhere. Not far away, there is a bottomless black pit. The location they were in was like a tunnel on a rock wall, with bluestone floor tiles under their feet. When they looked up, they could see a stone lamp holder on the wall.
And obviously these are traces of human construction.
"Did I fall into the 'Temple of Morogos'?"
Renn immediately thought of something in his mind.
He had long known that there was a temple under the pit, but he did not expect such a large-scale complex of buildings. Just by looking at a corner, one can guess that this might have been a prosperous underground city in the past.
But obviously, he was not the only one lucky enough to survive.
... ...
"Boy!"
Seeing Ren in a daze, the red-robed mage opposite shouted coldly again.
Ren's face twitched and his thoughts were brought back to reality.
Looking at the attire, you can see the red-robed mage from Glory City. And the man next to the magic lamp in the corner, although half of his face was wearing a gas mask, he could still recognize it from the robe. This man was the patriarch of the Miller family, one of the "five major families" in Glory City. The lord of the city, Kidd Miller.
There were eight people in total, all of them were archmages wearing red robes.
In other words, everyone present was at least a fourth-level professional.
Everyone's eyes were full of indifference, and they didn't even look at Ren.
Although the noble mages are surprised that there is a low-level extraordinary here, no one is interested in exploring the origin of a low-level extraordinary.
This kind of low-level extraordinary has only one function in their eyes, and that is to "find paths."
And if they get out alive, such people will naturally be silenced for the sake of the image of Glory City.
At this time, the dark red robe of Kidd City Lord stood up and said: "Okay, now the repairs are completed. Let's continue exploring..."
"Yes, Lord City Lord."
The other seven red-robed mages also stood up.
"Boy, move forward."
Then, even if Ren was reluctant, he was forcefully stuffed with a bunch of fluorescent stones to help these mage masters explore the way ahead.
"Remember not to make any noise, not to run around, and not to make unnecessary movements... Wherever we tell you to go, you will go. Otherwise, even if we don't kill you, you will definitely die if you attract monsters... "
In the airtight underground palace where sunlight cannot reach, it seems that the last fig leaf of human nature has been torn away, and there is no need to hide it at all.
This group of highly respected red-robed archmages told Renn directly about their status as "pathfinding tool men" without any tact.
"..."
As soon as Lane regained consciousness, he was forced to open his business.
He didn't argue. A group of archmages who had torn apart their hypocrisy had no room for negotiation.
Then, as he walked, he discovered that this underground palace did not seem to be completely unknown to him.
Because... This temple is a building from the Munkel civilization era. Whether it is the reliefs on the walls or anything else, they are all "Muncher's ancient language".
By chance, Ren knew him quite well.