When Hao Ren set off from Baicheng to find the whereabouts of the husky spirit with a silent and weird "slave", in the southern part of the kingdom, an unusually serious and depressing atmosphere was hanging over the high-ranking monk Calassius.
He stood with the alpha wolf on the towering walls of Black Rook Hold, the face of the senior monk was clouded.
It's been like this since the last time he went to the dungeon to see the soot monster who was inexplicably weakened.
Lily has never seen herself as a dog-headed military strategist (is it a bit bad to always call a high-ranking monk like that?) would show such a serious and even nervous look, even if he led a large group of air crash survivors to board the World of Warcraft. When the balloon fell into the black forest with a group of monsters, this taciturn uncle had never had such an expression before. Judging from his current expression, it seemed that the sky was about to collapse.
Or in other words, the world has fallen apart.
"What's the matter?" Lily asked curiously, "Is what that smoked big meat said yesterday terrible?"
"It's the stuff of nightmares... forget about the smoked meat," Karasius sighed as he gave up his stubborn notion of correcting the wolf, "what it said was something that only high-ranking priests and very few scholars can understand." Known secrets, this secret from a monster mouth... creepy."
"What's the secret?" Lily shook her ears, "Then why is Lochmarton crawling out soon? Or is it the warden's betrayal?"
These terrible words were said lightly by the wolf, and even Calassius couldn't help but feel his heart skip a beat, but fortunately, it didn't take a day or two to get in touch with the wolf. Taking a few deep breaths, he quietly looked at the wolf for a while.
After a long time, he decided to tell the other party some things in a limited way. First, the wolf is just an "ignorant girl" who walked out of a barren land. There is no need to keep some secrets too much in front of her. Second, the wolf has an incomparably powerful spirit of order. Light, this light reminded him of legends like the Son of God, such a natural darling of order is qualified to listen to certain things, and finally... Anyway, the wolf has heard some things from the mouth of the nightmare shadow Well, it doesn't hurt to say more at this time.
"Everyone knows that the ancient evil giant Lochmarton is dead, and the chaos that remains in the world today is just its echo, but in fact... what remains of it is only an echo," the senior monk turned blue, "In Karl In the depths of the Sea of Noth, there is an Abyss of Forgotten. Lochmarton's evil thoughts wander in that abyss, and the ancient warden guards the entrance of the abyss, preventing the spirit of the evil giant from returning to the real world day and night, and reorganizing the flesh. Body. Wolf, that's all I can tell you, more details... that already involves the top secret of the sanctuary."
Lily snorted, seemingly not paying much attention.
"Wolf?" The senior monk looked at Lily curiously, "Don't you... don't you think this is a terrible thing? If what the monster said is true, then the trouble in our world will be..."
"It's okay, it's okay," Lily waved her hands, "You know, I think I'm going to find the landlord! The landlord is super powerful, he can blow up that Loch Marton and his eight generations of ancestors casually." It's broken—so as long as we can find the landlord, the problem will be solved~~"
The high-ranking monk stared dumbfounded at the happy-faced lady wolf, feeling that the lady in front of him probably didn't understand what he was talking about at all.
He sighed feebly, feeling like an idiot for explaining such complicated issues to the jumping wolf.
He thought of the "monster" in the dungeon again.
A chaotic monster that was supposed to be disorderly and evil actually took the initiative to communicate with people, and even uttered that secret logically and clearly. But the monster didn't speak again, as if it was extremely afraid of mentioning its real name and origin.
All this made him have many conjectures, and none of them were good.
"Uncle, what are you thinking?" Lily looked curiously at the silent senior monk, "Are you hungry?"
"I'm thinking whether to return to the sanctuary immediately or continue our mission," Karasius told the truth, and he has seldom concealed anything from the wolf. "The monster's words make me very concerned. A catastrophe capable of overturning the world is about to occur, but our mission is equally important... This mission is also closely related to the survival of the sanctuary, and the survival of the sanctuary is the survival of the world."
"By the way, you haven't said what your mission is yet." Lily stared straight at Calassius, "It's been a long time since you've been on an adventure together, and you all only say that you are some kind of investigation team. Be kind. Don't fool me with those vain things! Let me tell you, I'm not stupid!"
Calassius opened his mouth, and finally nodded slightly as if he had made up his mind.
"We came to Anzu Continent nominally to investigate the chaotic changes on this continent and explain to the Talos Kingdom the reason for the withdrawal of the Sanctuary, but in fact we went to the barren wilderness to find 'One light'."
"A ray of light?" Lily blinked, "Why do you talk so religiously, who can understand you when you talk like that?"
"It's hard to explain," Calassius smiled nonchalantly, "because that's the mission entrusted to us by the Pope, and we don't know what the real body of the light is, we only know its approximate location in In the middle of the barren wilderness, there should be a temple called 'Kasuan'. Few people in the secular world should have heard the name of this temple, but it was a sanctuary set in Ansu a long time ago. One of the most important strongholds on the mainland. The destination of our investigation team is there."
Lily let out a long "oh", showing a thoughtful expression.
And at this moment, out of the corner of her eye, she saw the owner of Black Rook Fortress, Duke Ulysses, walking up the city wall and walking straight towards this side.
"Hey, General!" Lily greeted Ulysses with a wave of her hand, "Walk for a walk?"
Duke Ulysses's footsteps were obviously staggered, but in the end he came to Lily calmly and said casually, "Is the wolf observing the movement in the forest?"
"I'm blowing the air," Lilit said honestly, "I'm chatting with Calassius by the way."
"Oh, cough cough... the blowing is good, the blowing can make people sober," Ulysses, as an old nobleman, is not quite used to the rhythm of talking with straightforward creatures like wolves, so he often gets choked up like this, so he He simply gave up the plan to exchange pleasantries, "Boss, I came to see you for something."
"Oh, you said."
"My soldiers have recently observed that your army is entering the Black Forest in batches. They have cut down the trees there in large numbers, and there are also a large number of sub-races clearing open spaces and camping on the east and west sides of the Great Wasteland... I shouldn't have asked Your legion is moving, but I'm curious, what are they doing?"
Lily replied casually, "Of course it's fortification."
Ulysses was stunned for a moment: "Build... build a city?"
"That's right," Lily swung her tail proudly (but the tail was covered by a wolf fur cloak so it couldn't be seen from the outside), "If you want to live here for a long time, how can you do it without building a city?"
Ulysses felt so full of words that he couldn't speak. He had never seen such a thing in his life-a large group of mighty monsters suddenly ran to the border of a country of order to build a city. The fort is almost face to face!
As the general of Black Rook Fortress, his first reaction was to feel that this matter was inappropriate, but soon he found that he had no good reason to prevent this matter—
The southern border of Talos ends at Black Rook Fortress. Although there were Talos strongholds and even villages on the wilderness outside the fortress before Chaos came, they were more for warning of Chaos invasion. After the war started, the large area south of Black Rook Hold had actually been publicly abandoned by the kingdom.
There is no man's land, and anyone can take over the mountain as king—as long as he can survive the tide of chaos.
Therefore, even if the monsters built a city there, even if they planned to put the city wall directly on the face of Black Rook Fortress, they did not occupy an inch of the kingdom's land. Morally, they have this freedom.
From another perspective, it is now the period of Chaos War, and the Great Wasteland is the front line of the war between Chaos and Order. The Talos have tried their best to defend this line of defense, and of course they have no spare power to go outside to regain lost ground. In this case, the sub-races Building a city on the wasteland is actually helping the Talos thicken their defenses and expand the territory of the forces of order. Although he is unwilling to admit it, Ulysses also knows that the current Black Rook Fortress is actually completely relying on the protection of the beast tide to stand upright. here.
And if the sub-races can establish a sufficiently powerful country in the south of the Great Wasteland (although it is still a bit early to think about this now), then the southern border of the Talos Kingdom may even become a place of peace from now on—it will no longer be related to Chaos borders.
Of course, the premise is that there will be no war between those monsters and Talos.
After much deliberation, Duke Ulysses finally discovered that at least at the current stage, it is not a bad thing for the sub-races to build cities on the wilderness, and with the current war situation, he has no room to consider those too long-term problems. matter.
He realized that what he cared about was actually "the monsters can build castles"...
A good group of monsters, recognized as barbaric creatures, how to say that building a city is building a city...
What is this wolf thinking? (to be continued~^~)