Seeing Grace looking a little sad, Mark quickly comforted her in a gentle tone: "Please accept my condolences. May your parents' knowledge be recorded by the All-Seeing Eye."
At this moment, the ring on Mark's right little finger suddenly flashed red light, but went out in the next second.
Winky came up to Charles and put her mouth close to his ear and said, "He's lying. He sent his lizardmen to do those things."
Charles looked at Mark who was still whispering and comforting Grace, and felt it was ridiculous for a moment.
Looking at Grace beside him, Charles decided to help with this matter. Since she was one of his crew members, as the captain, he must stand up for her.
When I was in the center of the earth before, to be honest, I really owed Grace a favor.
"Governor Mark, can I ask you some questions?" Charles suddenly said.
"When I first arrived, I was attacked by some monsters. They had green scales on their faces and bodies, tails behind them, and forked tongues. How much do you know about them?"
Mark, who seemed very shocked, quickly replied: "Oh!? Were you also attacked by them? These bastards are really looking for death. They actually dared to provoke Governor Charles! I believe their end will be miserable."
Charles looked at him calmly, "You haven't answered my question directly yet. What are they?"
"Lizardmen! They are a bunch of lizardmen!"
Mark came close to Charles and explained with a serious expression: "These monsters can disguise themselves as humans and hide on various islands. They kill humans in secret and use their transformation ability to replace them silently."
"Governor Charles, you may not know much about this because you are in the North Sea. These beasts are a big nuisance in the West Sea. Many people die every year because of them. There are even places where entire islands are occupied by them!"
"Is that so?" Charles turned his head and looked at Grace who was in grief. He said slowly, "Then can you tell me why these monsters obey your command? And why did you order them to kill the parents of my crew members?"
Hearing this, Mark and Grace's hearts trembled slightly. Mark was the first to react. He quickly shook his head and denied it firmly.
"Governor Charles, how is this possible? How can I command them? They are monsters!!"
"Haha, is that so?" Charles instantly exerted force on all his muscles and rushed out like a cheetah. Mark was about to retreat, but was tightly entangled by the transparent tentacles extending from the ground.
The black spikes instantly scratched Mark's cheek. Charles dug his nails into the wound and pushed hard, revealing the green scales underneath. Mark was also a lizard man!
Tentacles continued to extend from the ground and wrapped around Mark tightly.
But as soon as Charles finished his move, he was surrounded by people. A group of wizards in robes formed a circle and pointed sternly at his staffs of different sizes.
There are still people outside rushing in. The assassination of the governor is no trivial matter.
"Governor Charles, please let Mark go. No matter if he is a lizard man or something else, this is a private matter of our West Sea." An old man with a white beard spoke first.
Looking at the old man, Grace shouted in shock: "Mentor!"
Looking at the somewhat chaotic environment in front of him, Charles raised one hand, and a black thorn instantly pierced out from the center of the mechanical arm and hovered one centimeter above Mark's lizard eyes. "Tell me, what's the matter with Grace's parents?"
Seeing that Charles didn't even look at them, the mages around him suddenly showed anger on their faces. They felt insulted.
However, the person in front of them was Charles from Hope Island, and they did not dare to act rashly no matter how humiliating it was.
If anything unexpected happened to Charles on this island, the navy of Hope Island would probably flatten the entire island.
Seeing that the wizards couldn't save him, Mark answered Charles' question without any hesitation.
"Who is Avery?" Charles looked at the other mages around him.
"It's him! The old man who just spoke to you, the entire Lighthouse Island belongs to his wizard family! I'm just an agent!!"
Hearing this, Grace looked at her mentor in the distance and took a step back in disbelief. "Mentor, is what he said true? Did you really kill my parents?"
"Of course not! Didn't you see that this guy has been replaced by a lizard man? Grace, please persuade Governor Charles to hand him over to me. Maybe we can get the real Mark's location from him!"
At this time, Shanshan, who felt that the noise was not loud enough, suddenly stood up.
"Not necessarily. Because of my mother's genes, I can read other people's memories. In your heart, you are actually complaining about Grace, complaining about why this woman came back alive when she was clearly going to die."
Tears flowed down the folded scars on Grace's face. Her fists were clenched and trembling slightly. Her expression of extreme pain looked like she was howling, but no sound came out.
The magic mentor who taught him turned out to be the murderer of his father!
Avery did not explain anything to Grace. He knew that the breaking point did not lie with this apprentice. The old man looked at Charles with a serious expression.
"Governor Charles, this is a private matter between me and my apprentice. How about you leave first? I will definitely give you a satisfactory answer."
"Forget it. I'm afraid of trouble."
Charles' heart moved slightly, and seven tentacles with electric arcs rose from the ground like flowers, trying to wrap Avery.
The old man obviously sensed something was wrong. As he gently waved his staff, an obscure spell rang out and his body gradually became transparent.
With another wave of the staff, he floated up and got rid of Charles' tentacles on the ground.
A special spell sounded from his mouth, but halfway through the chant, a tentacle stretched out from his face and inserted directly into the depths of his throat.
"Crack, crack, crack~" accompanied by the sound of metal friction, the spear hook transformed from Charles' prosthesis shot into the old man's chest.
"Puff!" A red flower blooms in the air
As the chains contracted, Avery's body was thrown in front of Grace. Then Charles walked to Mark's side, gently touched his neck, and a green head rolled down.
Looking at the two corpses in front of them, the hall fell silent, and the other people who gradually gathered around looked at Charles with anger in their eyes.
"Want to fight me?" Charles asked lightly, but no one dared to answer.
They cannot afford to offend the other party in terms of strength or power. The other party is the hero who saved the Earth Sea and the overlord of the entire North Sea.
"You're welcome." Charles said this to Grace who was standing there in a daze, then turned to look at Shan Shan. "Let's go, let's go back when we've had enough fun."
The surrounding environment changed rapidly, and just two seconds later, they were back to Hope Island again.
Shanshan came to Charles with his hands behind his back and looked at him with interest. "You see, absolute strength is still very useful. If we were not strong enough just now, it would not be so easy."
Charles didn't expect his daughter to suddenly say this to him. He thought for a few seconds and nodded in agreement.
"You are right. Absolutely powerful strength can indeed solve many problems, but this is not the same as what your mother wants."
(End of this chapter)