When Hao Ren came to the special reception room of Rudolph III, he saw two other people in the room besides the king, one of them was Grand Duke Rune, and the other was standing behind Rudolph III like a shadow, his whole body A mysterious woman shrouded in shadow: An.
The atmosphere in the room seemed a little strange—strange, not depressing or anything.
"Are you looking for me?" Hao Ren sat down in his seat and looked at Rudolph III curiously.
The king nodded: "There is some news from the southern front, you probably... will be interested."
"News from the south?" Hao Ren was taken aback. He was just about to say how the war frontline of such an indigenous kingdom could be related to himself, but he vaguely guessed something in an instant. Got a clue?"
The king didn't answer right away, but seemed to mention an unrelated matter: "Recently, a force composed of a huge number of monsters and sub-races has suddenly risen in the south, called the 'Beast Tide', they were originally in the Kingdom Appeared on the floating island outside the south, and then flew over the sea of Karnos by an unknown method, and headed north after landing in the southern forest. You should already know that a powerful chaotic storm broke out in the south of the mainland. But instead of being annihilated by Chaos, that wave of beasts absorbed almost all the surviving sub-race tribes in the Black Forest. A few days ago, they finally arrived at the Black Rook Fortress on the border, and fought against Chaos Frontier on the Great Wasteland. Fighting broke out—resulting in the rescue of Black Rook Hold, and the kingdom's southern gate held steady with the aid of this wave of beasts."
Hao Ren blinked: "So this wave of beasts..."
Grand Duke Luen nodded: "Their leader is a mysterious figure called 'Head Wolf', who should be female, with wolf characteristics, and seems to be very similar to the... 'Ancient Man' you described."
Hao Ren was a little curious: "Is there only so much information?"
Rudolf III spread his hands helplessly: "The storm is coming, the current boundary between order and chaos is affected by the original magic energy, and the transmission of information is very poor. The limited resources of the magic net are basically distributed to the frontline battle reports. The news of 'has just been delivered—if it weren't for the shocking beast tide, this information should be suppressed later."
"The wolf and the beast..." Hao Ren was already in a state of shock, and he couldn't help muttering, "That guy can play so big... You really can't just let go of raising a husky."
Rudolf III didn't hear clearly: "What did you say?"
"Ahem, it's nothing. I'm quite interested in that wolf. There's a good chance he's the one I'm looking for," Hao Ren hurriedly interrupted, "I just didn't expect her to go to a deserted island outside... I think Immediately set off to the south to confirm."
Rudolf III and Grand Duke Lun immediately exchanged glances when they heard this, and His Majesty the King showed a thoughtful expression.
"What? Why don't you let me go?" Hao Ren seemed to have expected this situation a long time ago, but his expression was quite calm, "I will help you as much as I can, and I also left you the original blood. It can be used to help other kingdoms ignite the Tower of Sunburn, and I think your biggest trouble has been solved in this way. Besides... I am not from your country, am I?"
"Of course you can leave, the royal family of Talos will not be unreasonable," Rudolf III immediately shook his head, "The kingdom already owes you a great favor, so naturally you won't raise any more unreasonable thoughts, but if you want to go to the southern border , I would like you to bring someone with you—it will be easy for you."
"who?"
"Dark," Rudolph III said, and just as he finished speaking, the tall, thin woman who had been standing silently behind him had already appeared in front of Hao Ren like a ghost. I didn't see it clearly, it seemed to be teleported, "I hope you can take her with you."
Hao Ren took a surprised look at the ghostly "King's Spy". At first, he thought that the old king asked him to bring Veronica - after all, the knight princess is also a general after all. It was quite normal to go to the front line of the border under the circumstances, but I didn't expect that what I wanted to escort was such a spy who theoretically shouldn't leave the king's side.
"Isn't she your spy? Are you leaving the capital at this juncture?"
"She has a mission," Rudolph III didn't mind explaining more to Hao Ren, the "ancient guardian", "you don't know, in the 'beast tide' in the southern border, there is actually a group of people from the holy land. The investigation team of the domain, please report that they seem to have encountered an accident while crossing the Sea of Karnos, and finally became a member of the beast tide after being sheltered by the wolf head. I hope you can take 'An' to meet them Confluence, after that, 'Dark' will know what to do."
Hao Ren was stunned: "Sanctuary? People from the Order Kingdom?"
"That's right," Rudolph III smiled, "Speaking of which, you should also be a member of the Sanctuary people—every temple is the stronghold of the Sanctuary people in the secular country, although there are ordinary people in their positions. , but the warrior leaders and high-ranking priests of the temple have always been held by people from the sanctuary, and those sanctuary investigation teams that were in trouble are your compatriots... although they are compatriots after a thousand years."
Hao Ren was a little embarrassed at the time: Of course he knew what Rudolph III said. The common sense about the sanctuary and the temples is well known in the secular continent, and he knew that there was even a large-scale It is a very large temple, but a month ago there was turmoil within the Order State, the sanctuary warriors were fully evacuated in various secular countries, and the monks and knights in the temple also left. The temple has now been temporarily closed.
This also avoided the trouble of letting him, a fake "temple guard", deal with those genuine sanctuary people.
However, it now appears that the trouble can only be delayed, but it cannot be avoided: he will eventually meet those people from the Church in the south.
However, the embarrassed expression only lasted for a moment, and Hao Ren quickly calmed down: He didn't shy away from contacting people in the sanctuary, because he knew it would happen sooner or later, even in his original plan, he had to go to the sanctuary to observe Fan thought.
There should be answers about the origins of Chaos and the evil giant Lochmarton.
However, Rudolph III read other messages from Hao Ren's momentary change of expression: "Are you planning to return to the sanctuary? Um... yes, now that the sanctuary has suffered a change, you should go back."
Hao Ren just laughed, but didn't answer the question directly.
Let's wait until the South.
It is a long journey from Baicheng to the southern border, and there are many mountains and forests in the middle. Originally, Rudolf III planned to arrange an airship for Hao Ren and An, accompanied by a lot of knights and guards. Miscellaneous soldiers, but Hao Ren finally knew the whereabouts of his husky at this time, and he was eager to find the dog, so he felt that this arrangement was too troublesome. That artifact Big Dipper set a direction to start the charge mode.
Therefore, after confessing that he had a better way to travel, he politely declined His Majesty's kindness, and then left the secret room with An. He was going to go back immediately to pack his things and try to set off today.
After Hao Ren left, only Rudolph III and Grand Duke Rune were left in the secret room.
"Is it really good to let 'An' just leave like this?" After a while of silence, Grand Duke Lun looked into Rudolph III's eyes and said, "She has served the royal family for three centuries, since the first king built the city on the Great Plains. Today, she is the asylum of this country, and now she leaves suddenly, which will cause us a lot of trouble."
"She's not from Talos," Rudolf III leaned back on the chair, and at this moment he seemed to be twenty years older, "You and I both know that she doesn't even belong to human beings, and no one knows her real name, and no one knows Her race and her origins, she has a secret, she may have chosen to stay in this land because of this secret, but now she has decided to leave, it may also be because of this secret."
Grand Duke Luen was silent, and he shook his head after a long time: "Uncontrollable factors."
"More and more things are uncontrollable," His Majesty the King sighed, "This world is undergoing unprecedented changes, which no king has ever faced before. In this situation, we cannot act with common sense .”
"Because of this, you choose to let 'Dark' do things? This is not like your previous style."
"So what if you don't let me go? You don't understand 'An'," Rudolf III shook his head with a smile, "Miss Luen, 'An' is not just an inner court knight and spy, she is much more powerful than you imagined, she wants Leave, no one in Talos can stop her—in fact, we should be glad that she at least chose to come to discuss with me."
"What about the Guardian?" Grand Duke Rune frowned, "Chaos is rampant now, as long as the Guardian stays in White City, we will have an extra barrier, but if he leaves..."
"I have received a secret letter from the Witch King and the Desert King. I just received it this morning," Rudolph III interrupted Grand Duke Rune, the king's expression was quite serious, "There is very little information they can pass on. , only a few words, but they mentioned the light beams in the direction of Talos observed in the night sky a few days ago, and the changes in the sunburnt towers in various countries-the nature of the 'explosion' a few days ago is probably beyond your imagination , I'm sure that 'Hao Ren' is definitely not a sanctuary person, let alone an ancient guardian."
Grand Duke Lun's poker face finally changed: "Then he is..."
"I have no way of guessing, but I know that the smartest thing to do is to stay out of his way." (To be continued~^~)