Since Duhan Olves, the first lion of the South, built this black fortress on the wilderness between the fertile land and the wild forest, the towering walls and strong gates have been guarding this country unswervingly. , its gates were once opened for kings, for envoys from other kingdoms of order, and for monks from church states, but today, it welcomes the most special group of "visitors" in its history.
Black Rook Fortress is about to open its gates to welcome a group of brutish creatures from the barren land—subraces, monsters, savage creatures that are no different from wild beasts in the eyes of humans, and now they have become the guests that this glorious fortress must open its doors to welcome.
The battle on the wasteland is over. Thick smoke is coming out of the gradually burning fire pit, and the dust drifted by the wind is blown away. The whole land seems to be shrouded in a layer of mist, and the bloody smell lingers. This disgusting smell will probably not dissipate until the next snowfall. The warriors of the tribe of beasts are cleaning up the corpses of their tribesmen, while their leaders are already preparing to go to the castle of humans. According to the chief wolf, it is an "epoch-making diplomatic activity".
Standing on the city wall, Philip saw the dark crowd of monsters rushing around in a chaotic manner, but in the chaos, a wide open space had been vacated, and more than a dozen forest demon wolves walked in like pioneers. In front, two blue-gray giant monsters with loincloths on their heads carried a battle flag decorated with animal bones, followed closely behind. Tribal totems of unknown meaning were crookedly painted on the battle flags, and behind them were demon apes, dwarf monsters A brigade of demons, gnolls and goblins. Walking in the very center of the team is an extremely huge ancient earth-moving dragon, which is the most eye-catching guy in the entire team: the four-meter-high and nearly ten-meter-long earth-walking dragon is covered with a rocky elemental carapace, and the edge of the carapace Spikes indicate that this ground dragon has lived for at least 170 years. The word “太古” in the Archaic Earth-walking Dragon does not refer to its age, but the name of this Earth-walking dragon group. Scholars believe that this kind of Earth-walking dragon belongs to all the Earth-walking dragon races and lizard sub-species in the barren land. The common ancestor of all species, so it was named "immemorial", and a 170-year-old ground dragon is already a terrifying savage giant: this shows that it has even survived chaos once. The tide has obtained many unimaginable powers from the baptism of primitive magic energy.
But this fearsome savage behemoth is really just a mount.
Philip saw that a stone seat was installed on the back of the ground dragon. The seat was covered with animal skins and straw mats, and a human-looking figure in wolf fur was sitting on it. Then, due to the angle, he couldn't see the face of the man in wolf fur, but could only see a very obvious light around the man.
Of course, he didn't connect that figure with the legendary "wolf". No one with normal logic would have thought in advance that the "wolf" in charge of the beast tide was a little girl. He just thought it was a wolf. Most of the envoys sent were people from the sanctuary: in the battle just now, he had already seen with his own eyes a group of powerful-looking priests and humans in the beast tide, although he didn't know how these humans got mixed up with the monsters , but he guessed that these sanctuary people were probably the reason why the beast tide came to help humans.
Perhaps the monsters chose a group of Sanctuary people to serve as their ambassadors or translators, or maybe the Sanctuary people were behind this wave of beasts. This is the guess of many ordinary soldiers on the city wall.
Philip raised his head and continued to search for the big wolf with three heads among the vast number of monsters, but he didn't know that the real wolf had already entered the city under his nose.
Lily sat on her throne—she liked the stone so much that she asked her staff to polish the stone and install it on Leviathan's body. Leviathan was the name she gave to the ground dragon under the ass, and the latter was quite satisfied with it. The wolf lady entered the city so happily, left the wild forest, and came to the human territory, she had a feeling of returning to the world.
Lily looked curiously at this exotic Black Rook Fortress all the way, while those black-armored knights who came out of the castle walked in front to lead this special "envoy". Ulysses, the leader of the Black Blade Legion, sent his most stable knights out to meet the team, and he himself led his staff to make all preparations for the reception on the Black Feather Square on the upper level of the fortress.
Probably ready for everything.
Well, he himself doesn't know if he is ready or not.
The great Duke Ulysses has never received such an "envoy" in his life, and the majestic and calm southern lion in the past also looked at a loss at this time. He has asked his staff and advisors more than once about sub-races. Customs and habits, and the answers he got were all kinds of—he wanted to throw those idiots who were boastful on weekdays and couldn't even make up a lie under the city wall at critical moments.
In fact, not long ago, the envoys of the monster group came here just after the battle was over—it was not the inexplicable words of the terrifying black dragon lying on the tower, but a more formal letter from the envoy: The night owl in the Black Forest sent greetings from the wolf, and made an appointment with the wolf to enter the city. However, the short letter did not stipulate any specific etiquette procedures, so Duke Ulysses could only choose to arrange the meeting in the way that the human kingdom receives foreign envoys.
"My lord, is it really appropriate to let those... sub-races enter the city like this?" An aide said a little uneasy behind the duke, "The gate of the fortress is open, and there are countless barbaric races entrenched outside us. It feels really sharp." Teeth and claws in the throat..."
"So what if you don't open the door?" Ulysses didn't even bother to look back at his staff, "They have the ability to open the door by themselves, to see that black dragon, that flaming python, and those elemental lords—they don't even have to We open the door, and they can literally pull the entire castle out of the ground."
"...this is truly the darkest day in Black Rook Hold."
"Don't say such frustrating words," Ulysses straightened up, he had already seen the head of the giant ground dragon appearing at the end of the ramp in the square, "They helped us repel chaos, from this point, It is an honorable act to open the gates of Black Rook Hold at this moment."
While talking, the wolf's bodyguards had already arrived at the square.
The people of order in this world and the husky spirit from another world finally completed a historic meeting.
Duke Ulysses raised his head vigorously, and his body was stretched straight. Although the ancient dragon in front of him was several times taller than him, he still maintained the majesty of a nobleman and soldier of a kingdom here without flinching. He was dressed in black armor and His leather cloak makes him look extraordinarily heroic.
Then he saw the Taikoo Dixinglong measure its body slightly, a ray of light jumped twice on its body, and then a girl wearing a wolf fur cloak jumped down from the rock armor.
The girl stared at the southern guard with her golden eyes.
"Are you the leader here?" Lily was the first to speak, and she didn't feel the awkwardness of the atmosphere at all. Seeing that the other party was silent, she took the initiative to break the silence.
Ulysses was still thinking about when the wolf would appear, and he woke up immediately when he heard this, and immediately showed a calm momentum: "I am the governor of the southern border of the Talos Kingdom, the current patriarch of the Olves family, Yuli Grand Duke Sith Orvis, leader of the Black Blade Legion, general guarding the Black Rook Fortress—here to welcome the awe-inspiring alpha wolf, the master of monsters from forests and mountains."
"Ah, your name is so long, it looks like the landlord's business card." Lily blinked in surprise, then pointed at herself, "I'm a wolf."
Ulysses: "...Huh?"
"I'm a wolf," Lily continued pointing at herself, "By the way, how do you know me? It stands to reason that this is our first contact with you humans, right?"
To say that Ulysses deserves to be the Governor of the Southern Territory, even though he was stunned by the truth about the "wolf" in front of him, he still answered the question reflexively: "The deeds of the wolf and the herd have spread throughout the kingdom. Our astrologers and occultists knew that a new star was rising in the south half a month ago. But none of us thought that the wolf would be..."
Lily stared: "What's wrong with me?"
"Ahem, it's nothing, it's nothing," Ulysses coughed dryly, "The wolf is as awesome as the rumors say. But I'm a little curious, are you... a human?"
Lily's answer was particularly sincere: "I'm not human."
Then, before the human general who talked a lot in front of her continued to ask questions, she waved her hand vigorously: "Hey, don't say so much, I'm hungry from the tossing all the way-I should have let Orduza inform me before." Are you ready for dinner? When are we going to have dinner?"
Ulysses had a subtle expression on his face, but he nodded, "Of course, we have prepared according to the black dragon's instructions. However, no one here knows what the braised pork ribs are, so we can only follow the mountain stew method." …”
Lily's eyes lit up as soon as she heard the stewed meat: "All right, all right, hurry up!"
After a while, the husky girl was a little dazed looking at the three large iron pots emitting aroma.
"Meat is a good thing..." For the first time in my life, our lady wolf felt that she might not be able to finish a meal, "but it seems a bit much... why is it three pots?"
Ulysses and his staff looked around, none of them knowing what to say.
There is only one thought in the governor's mind: "...who in the world found out that the wolf has three heads?" (to be continued~^~)