Flying out of the hall, Oswald was talking with Kevin and the little lion class who was temporarily called in the afternoon, and the situation was serious.
"Is Your Majesty busy? I can go out and wait when I'm busy. It's important to deal with state affairs. This is just a trivial matter for me." Theo was dressed in rags, but he performed the royal ceremony, which was quite embarrassing. This person is good at everything, but he likes to be self-effacing too much. On the contrary, there is a sense of irony in his self-effacing words.
In any case, he is also the king of the majestic city-state. When he left the Golden Lion Kingdom, he brought a guard of a hundred people, but now there are only a few, and most of them are captured by the sand ghosts. The country will collapse. This is a trivial matter , then nothing can be called a big deal.
If you are really not in a hurry, it is impossible to skip the laundry reception and go straight to the point.
Oswald waved his hand and said, "Trivia."
In fact, it is not really trivial. After receiving a series of emergency reports from Peter in the morning, he felt that the situation was going to be chaotic. The city-state alliance that had been agreed before was completely disrupted by the Sand Ghost, and the plan to enclose the Northern Emerald Country in it also came to naught.
What's more, the sand ghost's attack was fast and ruthless. In just one day, almost all the kings of the city-states who returned were killed. This made Oswald feel that time was extremely tight.
He instinctively felt that the journey of the several armies that were scheduled to depart three days later would not be smooth, so he temporarily changed his mind and advanced all the plans. There are a large number of other troops dispatched to various places, and all the things that need to be prepared cannot be ready in half a day, so each of them was moved one or two days in advance. The two armies that were assigned to Rose Old Castle were advanced the most.
Oswald spent the whole afternoon preparing everything needed for the two armies to disguise themselves as caravans, and then completely changed the original plan, letting them walk along a hidden old road at the bottom of the Great Rift Valley before nightfall. Go ahead and go straight to Mirage.
Kevin, who was competing with Oswald in the morning to lead the team, suddenly changed his mind in the afternoon. Instead of continuing to grind for the position of team leader, he was very supportive of the emperor's move to send the two teams out in advance.
"Just in case." Both of them almost thought so.
After Wood and Nick set off with the two teams, Oswald asked Kevin to go to the barracks to lead the team before nightfall, and asked him to use the unique method of the giant beast race to send the information of the sand ghost raid back to the giant beast. The valley where the orcs live. Ben had just returned when King Theodore arrived at the palace.
Seeing that the emperor wanted to talk about business, Kevin planned to take Ben out of the hall, but Oswald raised his hand to stop him.
The emperor didn't explain anything, and didn't even turn his head to give him a glance, and Kevin understood what he meant. He simply led the team to sit down at the position below the emperor's right hand, leaning against the back of the chair and hugging his arms, the fingers of his left hand resting calmly on the handle of the short knife at his waist.
Facing outsiders, it is naturally impossible for the emperor to show any appearance of time urgency. So Theodore was given a seat and refreshments to relieve his hunger.
The king of Leiyin City was very self-conscious. After entering the palace, he sent the four personal guards he brought to wait outside the palace to avoid being abrupt. Although he sat down in his seat, he didn't take a sip of refreshment, obviously he didn't want to eat or drink.
"What's going on?" Oswald asked, "Although the rainy season ended early, it's still the time when the humidity is heaviest. Sand ghosts generally don't choose to leave the desert under such circumstances. How could it be so abnormal? ?”
Theodore shook his head with a look of misery: "I don't know why they left the desert so early. When our team walked along the pine forest road outside the border of the Northern Emerald Country towards Leiyin City, we didn't even I heard any rumors about the traces of sand ghosts. But when we took the road to the ice field at the end of the long pine forest road, we received a call for help from Kathro, a city of Paeda, followed by letter after letter of help, almost without a trace. stopped."
He tapped heavily on the armrest of the seat with his clenched fist, and sighed: "To be honest, when we first received help from Peida City, we planned to turn around to help, but when I received six or seven letters from After the distress letters from different people, I didn’t have the courage. At that time, I guessed that there would be sand ghosts ambushing outside Leiyin City, waiting for us to fall into the trap. So I ordered to return directly, hoping to come to ask you for help. "
"So you ran into a sand ghost halfway?" Oswald asked in a deep voice, frowning.
"Yes!" Theodore nodded, "The only good news is that what we encountered was not the entire army of sand ghosts in ambush, but the stragglers left behind when they attacked other countries. Didn't keep up with the big troops and was still clearing the way. But even