Mysterious journey

Royal Capital Black Fire Palace

Garen sat on his palace lord's throne, carefully playing with the green vine ball in his hand.

The little thing crawled from his left hand to his left shoulder like a small animal. After he grabbed it and put it on the back of his hand, it began to crawl up to the left shoulder perseveringly.

Garen casually grabbed it again and again, watching it climb up.

Ephesus stood behind the throne, holding a sword in both hands and leaning quietly against a black column. Watching Garen playing with the green vine ball in boredom.

"The second Grand Council of Nobles is about to begin, you won't go?"

Garen smiled.

"How was it the first time? I didn't hear anything funny happened."

Ephesus closed her eyes and rested.

"Just boring stuff."

Garen felt the green vine ball carefully and said casually. "The people participating in this Grand Council of Nobles include everyone, including middle-class nobles or above. There are so many people talking, what good ideas can they come up with?"

The largest number of nobles are the middle-level nobles. These people are the backbone of various departments and units, and are also the main members of the noble class. They like to compare, love vanity, and cling to power. At this time, the most noisy thing is probably the carving up of the imperial capital's territory and resources.

Even if Garen hadn't been there, he could still imagine what the scene was like.

"What's different this time is that it determines the real situation of the imperial capital." Ephesus said lightly.

"We occupy the palace, who dares to say anything?" Garen said lazily, "Forget it, let's go and see what those old guys have to say."

He has finally harvested enough. The Wang family's treasure house is still under his control, and a large number of weapons, equipment, resources and treasures are constantly being moved out of it.

But the most crucial thing was not seen at all. That is the secret treasure!

What made Garen suspicious was that not a single secret treasure was found in the entire Wang family treasury. This doesn't make sense.

The only possibility is that the royal family must have another secret treasure house. This is where the secret treasures are truly stored.

"I won't go, I'm at a critical moment now." Ephesus said from behind.

Garen didn't care about him. Although Ephesus was transformed into a dragon demon by him, if he forcibly controlled the opponent at will, he might lose his potential to advance.

On the way out of the palace and towards the House of Representatives, black fire heavy guards emerged from the corners around the Black Fire Palace.

These guards seemed to emerge from the dense tufts of tangled grass, emerging from the shadows.

Garen walked through the flowers in the garden, and suddenly countless green plants grew wildly, entangled and entangled, and quickly condensed into a human shape. His whole body quickly formed pieces of hard black heavy armor as if it were fruiting.

In less than a few minutes, the plants in the flowers grew into a brand new Black Fire Guard, following Garen's footsteps.

Garen holds the green vine ball in his hand, and he has completely understood the origin of the formation of the Black Fire Heavy Guard.

That is, the daughter body formed by the collection of plants through the green vine ball. They need a plant called Verdeflower, and the roots of this plant are used to condense the Blackfire Guard.

The entire body of the Black Fire Guards is covered in armor and cannot be seen inside, so no one knows that the inside of their armor is not a human being, but a collection of plants.

The green vine ball can only generate a fixed number of two hundred black fire guards, of which four are type three, the so-called four guards, and the rest are all type two. The disadvantage is that the individual strength is a bit weak, but the advantage is that it is not afraid of life and death anytime and anywhere, and its self-destruction is powerful.

Garen almost exhausted all the Verde flowers in the Black Fire Palace before barely replenishing the number of all Black Fire Guards.

He also asked his servants to plant more Verde flowers again, using special means to promote their growth. It only took two months for a Verde flower to bloom and grow vines all over the place. Only ten plants are needed to form a Black Fire Guard.

In addition to the Black Fire Guards sent out, there were more than a hundred Black Fire Guards re-created by Garen in the Black Fire Palace. They were divided into various parts of the palace and assisted with the guards of the Silver Palace.

The royal guards of Silver Palace are not the royal guards announced to the outside world, but the real internal guards composed entirely of totem masters.

Royal guards like cousin Hathaway are only peripheral members and have no qualifications to get involved in real events.

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Imperial City Trade Zone

Royal Coliseum

This huge black building, as big as a football field, stands in the east of the imperial capital. It looks like a giant ship, with the black and red flag of Cowaitan standing in front.

The square outside the theater was already filled with dense crowds.

Three areas are particularly eye-catching.

Three groups of people in military uniforms stood together. Their military uniforms were white, black, and dark blue. It is the three major legions under the empire, the Dawn Eagle, the Third Heavy Armor Regiment, and the last Dark Blue Banner.

These three armies are the main forces responsible for defending the Sinonfa defense line. Now that their people have returned to the imperial capital, their intentions are quite interesting.

The rest of the space is filled with nobles of all sizes.

Carriages kept arriving one after another, and occasionally a totem beast such as a giant bird landed slowly.

When Garen arrived with the Black Fire Guards, it was already afternoon and the sky was dark.

A monster with four heads and very long legs appeared in front of the theater, with four bright braziers set up on its back.

These four monsters look like black buffaloes, but compared with ordinary buffaloes, their four legs are too tall. It is more than ten meters high. It looks extremely weird.

"Whose totem beast is that?" Garen asked a white-haired aristocratic woman who was leading the way with some curiosity.

"Back to the palace master, that is the ornamental mutant beast of the original owner of the theater, Earl Islay. It is not a totem." The white-haired young woman replied in a low voice.

"Oh? Mutant beast?" Garen felt that mutation was increasingly affecting the life of the entire world.

The group of people walked onto the square, and the nobles who were still talking around them all stopped talking and moved towards this direction.

Some of them bent down to salute, some showed vigilance in their eyes, and some showed curiosity. But they all gave way to a passable road.

Garen walked among the crowd, followed by four Black Fire heavy guards. Behind him, the black cloak of the Black Fire Palace Master kept flying, making a snapping sound.

In front of the arched white door of the theater, Vesga and the two grand dukes were chatting.

"The Lord of Black Fire Palace has arrived!!"

shouted the herald.

The three people immediately stopped talking and looked towards Garen.

Vesga's face was expressionless, and the somewhat fat Grand Duke Cody looked indifferent and just nodded to Garen.

Only Grand Duke Bainock, a tall, thin, white-haired old man, smiled at Garen in a friendly manner.

Garen smiled back.

There were no guards around the three of them, leaving a small area of ​​the field vacant.

When Garen walked over with the Black Fire Guards, his footsteps suddenly stopped.

An extremely powerful thrust was coming from the front. This thrust was so powerful that even the Nine-headed Dragon, known for Garen's strength, paused slightly.

There was a look of surprise on his face, and he glanced around.

No one was within ten meters of the three of them. It was as if there was an invisible terrifying force field isolating a certain range around the three of them.

The nobleman leading the way had stopped respectfully and stood on the right side with his head bowed.

"The area in front is not accessible to us. Please enter by yourself, Palace Master."

"interesting."

Garen licked his lips. The red light on his face flashed.

Bang!

He stepped forward forcefully and squeezed into the force field where the three people gathered, as if inlaid.

The three-point mark between his eyebrows became increasingly red.

Garen took two steps and walked directly towards the three of them as if there was no obstruction.

The surrounding force field suddenly spread out in all directions, acknowledging that his strength qualified him to enter their circle.

The four Blackfire heavy guards were unable to enter and could only wait outside.

"Welcome." As the nominally strongest man in the imperial capital, Bai Nok was mysterious and unpredictable, and took the lead in showing a friendly attitude towards Garen.

"Grand Duke Bai Nock, I have heard of your reputation from Bai Lan a long time ago. When we meet for the first time, I am Garon, Garon Terry Jones." Garon pressed his chest with one hand and made a junior salute.

"Not bad, not bad!" White Nok nodded and smiled, "Let me introduce you. This is Cody, the Grand Duke of Cody." He patted the short and fat old man beside him. It seemed that the two of them were relatively close, so they were like this. casual.

"As for Vesga on the other side, you must have seen it before."

"That's natural." Garen looked at Vesga. The latter nodded lightly and said nothing more.

"Now that everyone is here, let's get started." Bainock clapped his hands and gave a few instructions to the herald on the side. "Let's go, everyone go in."

He was the first to turn around and walk into the theater.

"The second meeting of the Grand Council of Nobles has officially begun!!"

Following the herald's shout, the three Gallons entered the theater, followed closely by ordinary superior nobles, a total of sixteen people, half of whom were relatives of the two grand dukes. The rest are representatives of forces from the Imperial College, as well as ministers from some important institutions, such as the Minister of Military Affairs, the Minister of Agriculture, the Minister of Finance, etc. These people still had the right to speak when Avic was alive, but at such a critical moment, without sufficient strength, they could only become the first level of Bigalon and others.

Then there are the large groups of middle-level nobles. These people are representatives of various large and small families. Some of them took advantage of the chaos to occupy certain territories and interests. They need the big council to rectify their names. Once they succeed, these industries will really be theirs in the future. It's the family's business.

Others are victims and want to rely on the power of the Grand Council to redress their grievances.

Others came here to observe the situation and decide the next direction and camp. There are others with various intentions.

When the mid-level nobles walked in, the entire empty theater suddenly became more lively, buzzing like countless flies flying around.

At the top of the theater, someone has already moved a row of seats. Eight locations in total. Directly facing hundreds of seats below, high above. Guards in dark gold armor were guarding the surroundings.

Garen noticed something else at this time.

At the four corners of the black ceiling of the theater, there are four black stone sculptures of bat gargoyles.

The four gargoyles with blood-red eyes huddled quietly at the corners. They looked like ordinary decorative sculptures, but in fact there was a mysterious fluctuation in the air.

Garen looked away, but just in time to see the Duke of Whitenock smiling at him.

This tall and thin old man has white skin, a tall nose, a cross scar on his forehead, and a slightly ferocious smile.

Obviously he also saw that Garen had discovered the arrangement here.

It was he who proposed this grand council, and naturally he also set up these arrangements.