Delusion Master

When the group returned to the ground, it was just in the evening, and the setting sun was falling into the sky. The sun was warm and soft, and did not bring too much stimulation to the eyes that had adapted to the darkness.

Sure enough, the dark elves didn't catch up again, and the city guard statue suffered enough to keep them busy for a while, and they might have to sacrifice a large number of slaves to ask for forgiveness from the dark gods.

Sirnuo was in a hurry to take the android back to Emerald City, where he had an alchemy laboratory that could reassemble Franken's corroded arm.Wei Lin and Bai Yuan also planned to go back to the city first, and figured out how to get to the northern border to meet Wang Yulun at the Holy See.

Luefeng was a little worried and repelled about entering the main human city that he had never been to, so he asked his friends for their opinions in a low voice.Ye Quan said: "Except for being self-righteous and being a part of the brain of a sperm, I am quite satisfied with other aspects of the human kingdom—especially diet."

Shirno was a little ashamed: "Some nobles... it's like this, if you are worried, you can live in my villa, which is just on the outskirts of the city."

Ye Quan laughed loudly, with the vigor and rebelliousness of a young man: "What I should worry about is those pig heads. I will tear them into pieces and feed every bone to the dogs."

"Maybe, we should accept the Lord Duke's kindness?" Lue Feng hesitated.

"Come here, grandson. It's agreed that grandpa will take care of you, so what are you worried about?" Farisland reached out to pinch the tip of Luefeng's ear teasingly.

Although the spirit body couldn't touch the real thing, the energy fluctuation caused still made the dark elf take two steps away unbearably, and muttered angrily: "My grandmother is really blind."

"Ye Quan has to go to the palace with us first, and return to Wryen. Luefeng asked Lord Duke to take care of it, that's the decision." Wei Lin finally made a decision.

He was about to leave when he suddenly turned his head and asked Xiernuo, "I remember you said you were looking for a dark elf girl named Deep Moon. Why didn't you mention her in the Underground City before?"

"Shenyue?" Luefeng leaned forward curiously, "I don't know you. Yequan, what about you?"

Yequan: "I've never heard of it."

Shirno smiled awkwardly: "The situation was urgent before, so I forgot... There are tens of thousands of people in the Azure City. It's normal that you haven't heard the name of a commoner girl."

"Is it your lover? Do you want to go back and help find it?" Ye Quan asked casually.

"...It's too dangerous, no need. Maybe we don't have a destiny." Shirno said.

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Bai Yuan recruited Yin Pegasus, who was grazing in the nearby forest, and drove the two of them and a little black bear back to the main city. It was already late at night when they arrived.

At this moment, Emerald City should be sleeping peacefully, only the star lights and the still noisy bars dotted with the joy of the night.Wei Lin looked down at the city below, only to find that several places were burning with flames, black smoke rising into the sky, residents splashing water to put out the fire, and guards rode back and forth shouting, directing disaster relief and maintaining order.

"What's going on, there's fire everywhere?" Wei Lin muttered suspiciously.

The silver pegasus flapped its wings and landed smoothly on the wide platform behind the temple, but the attendant who was usually in charge of taking care of the mount did not step forward to take over.

Bai Yuan said, "It seems that something happened in the city."

They walked down the steps, just in time to see a running low-ranking knight of the temple, and stopped him.

"Something has happened!" the knight said out of breath, without paying attention to saluting, "just a few hours ago, just after nightfall, a bright light suddenly appeared in the northern sky. Hey, twelve wings of light! The whole city heard the voice from the clouds, saying that the divine punishment was about to fall, because the Thunder family was tough and despised the gods, and this arrogant and ignorant city would pay the price for it. Then...the huge burning fireball fell down, and it caught fire everywhere, and the situation was exactly the same as the "Day of God's Retribution" written in the book!"

"Where is King Wrynn?" Bai Yuan asked, interrupting his eloquent description.

The knight was stunned for a moment: "In the palace... right? Prince Uther ordered the guards' mobilization order and the firefighting order, and I have also received the order, and I am about to set off." He bowed hastily and ran gone.

"Go to the palace and have a look." Bai Yuan pulled Wei Lin onto the horse again.

Although it was stipulated that foreign flying mounts were not allowed to enter the palace, they acted urgently. The two steered the silver pegasus to land on the grass beside the lake in the imperial garden, dismounted and went straight to the palace.

They were stopped in the corridor by a detachment of palace guards.The other party said with a straight face: "The king is seriously ill. Without Prince Uther's consent, no one is allowed to disturb the doctor's treatment!"

Bai Yuan showed the badge of the Light Crown Legion: "I have something very important, and I must see the king immediately."

"I'm sorry, Captain Bai, your reputation is heard by all of us. But no matter how important it is, it's not as important as the king's illness. We are also following orders, please understand." The chief guard said.

Bai Yuan frowned and thought for a while, then said: "Whose order? Uther? According to which law did he order a son not to visit his seriously ill father? What's more, this person is the son of Queen Xue Jiali, The blood of the founder families of the two dynasties 'Thunder' and 'Karoling' flows!"

The head of the guard was extremely distressed, and struggled: "But the order of His Royal Highness..."

"This is also His Royal Highness." Wei Lin cut the knife coolly, "After Wu Ruien recovers, he will hate you to death if he knows that you offended his eldest son. His younger son will not be there for you at that time." Plead for mercy, offend my father."

The chief guard hesitated again and again, and finally stepped aside and said, "None of us has seen you tonight." His guards nodded.

"Don't worry, I transformed into a bird and flew in." Bai Yuan took Wei Lin's hand and strode towards the gate of the palace with big strides, his cloak billowing dark blue waves behind him.

The dormitory was filled with a strong smell of medicine, gauze curtains hung around the bed, and Wu Ruien's figure lying on the bed could be vaguely seen.Physicians gathered around the table to discuss prescriptions in low voices, and the maids with basins and towels in their hands walked back and forth in the hall in a hurry.

Uther was wearing a long, tight-fitting leather jacket with wide breasts and a soft armor vest, and was pacing up and down by the bed, restless.

It wasn't until Bai Yuan and Wei Lin walked to the middle of the dormitory that he suddenly found them, and his face darkened: "How did you get in! Who let you in!"

Bai Yuan said: "It's not important. How is Your Majesty?"

Uther subconsciously turned his head to glance at the silhouette of Wrynn on the veil, then turned back and said, "Your Majesty will be fine with the care of me and the doctors, and you can go out. Without my permission, you are not allowed to go out." Enter the palace without permission!"

Wei Lin smiled mockingly: "The old king is still alive, so you can't wait to give orders."

"Who are you, and in what capacity do you say such things, are you the concubine of the cavalry commander?" Uther shouted loudly with a livid face, "Come on, drive them out!"

"Shut up, Uther...cough cough cough..." A weak and hoarse voice came from behind the gauze curtain, and the sentence was cut into fragments by continuous violent coughing, "Let them come here..."

Uther gritted his teeth resentfully, stepped forward and lifted the gauze curtain.

Bai Yuan and Wei Lin took a few steps forward, and saw Wryen's appearance clearly at this moment - his face and hands were covered with large and small dark brown spots, like diseased and dead bark.Only one day after the last meeting, he was so thin that he lost his shape, his face was gloomy and haggard, his eye sockets were sunken, his eyes almost lost the previous expression, he was completely an ordinary old man who was exhausted.

"You all come here..." He trembled and wanted to sit up, but the maid hurriedly supported him, and put two big down pillows on his back.

Uther and Bai Yuan half-kneeled in front of the bed, the king stretched out his withered hands and held the backs of the two sons' hands respectively.

"Listen to me, children." Wrynn took a deep breath and spoke more fluently, as if he had been inspired to unleash hidden energy, and it seemed to be a flashback, "I knew there would be today, In the past few years, the Holy See has moved away from Lingkong City, repeatedly meddling in the political affairs of the principalities and fiefdoms, embezzling land and property, even arbitrarily adjudicating nobles without going through the royal family and the upper house, and spreading rumors among the people, saying that Pope Wang Yulun He is the son of god, the king of kings, endowed with supreme power by god, and will rule all races on the mixed spirit continent.

"As the king of the human kingdom and the protector of Fei Leng Cui, in order not to trigger wars and cause casualties to my people, I have endured it all the time. But now, he is so unscrupulous that he wants to forcibly take away Austin's Thunder Shield. He even set fire to the city and cursed me.

"Children, our family and our kingdom are on the verge of destruction. I have been contacting the lords of other races, white elves, dwarves, orcs, and the plateau Sade tribe... hoping to form a coalition to resist the Holy See But it is not easy to twist such complex and intertwined forces with conflicting interests into a single rope! Within a race, between two brothers, even if they are intriguing, they cannot be united, let alone the many forces in the entire continent!"

Wrynn stared at the two young men in front of him, with a stern expression on his face: "So I, Wrynn Thunder, ask my two sons to swear an oath before my dying bed—love each other and protect this kingdom together , not to hurt each other for the rest of your life. You swear now, swear with your family's honor and your mother's tomb!"

Bai Yuan was expressionless.

Uther squeezed his father's hand tightly. "Father!" he called with the most affectionate name in his childhood, "you will survive, we have the best doctors, and alchemists who are proficient in potions. When you recover, I will gather the army and attack the Holy See ..."

Wrynn closed his eyes in disappointment and helplessness, then opened them quickly, and asked Bai Yuan, "What about you?"

Bai Yuan said calmly: "Complete the task and leave here."

Wrynn stared at him, as if recognizing the true meaning revealed in the slightest expression, and finally nodded: "You are more sensible than Uther, he is too restless...but in time, he will mature. "

Bai Yuan twitched the corner of his mouth to show his irony and agreement with the king's words.

Uther was still thinking about the emotional inclination in his father's words. Wrynn grabbed his hand and pressed it on the back of Bai Yuan's: "One of you will be the next king, and the other will be the hero and guardian of this country." By."

Uther's eyes lit up: This is to announce the successor... who is it, is it me?

Bai Yuan still had that indifferent and sharp expression, he pulled out his hand, and saluted the young man beside him as a knight: "I am loyal to you, my majesty—" He raised his face and smiled mockingly at Uther: " Of course, after you truly become His Majesty."

Uther breathed a sigh of relief, both relieved and annoyed, and at the same time showing a hint of compassion, holding Bai Yuan's arm with sincerity: "Glory to you, my knight."

Wei Lin was not far behind them, with a half-smile expression on his face: He is my knight, you silly white sweet prince.

Wrynn finally showed a satisfied expression, and after coughing heart-piercingly for a while, he asked Bai Yuan, "Did the dark elf bring it?"

Bai Yuan said: "I was almost taken away by the destruction warlock, but fortunately he was rescued safely. We saw the phantom of the soul of the ranger Night Quan in him."

"Okay!" Wrynn patted the quilt, "We now have the legacy of five Holy Spirit apostles, and the only opponents are the Fire Stealer and the Wing of Light. The balance of fate is tilted towards our side, but we can't Take it lightly."

Bai Yuan said in an interface: "If you can solve the Pope's problem with a team that is unexpected, instead of launching a large-scale war with a large number of troops, it is the best choice."

Uther was about to refute that "a knight must not be afraid of battle, and victory cannot be avoided without sacrifice", but Wrynn nodded in agreement: "Launching an all-out war is the last resort. If we gather the power of the five apostles of the Holy Spirit, we can defeat Wang Yulun." , I will hand them all over to you. But this approach is very dangerous for this team, go deep into the tiger's den and decapitate the enemy, can you, my son?"

Bai Yuan said without hesitation: "Yes."

Wrynn thought for a long time.

During this period, Uther couldn't help but show his eyes to his brother who had "surrendered": Think again, think of a safer way?

Bai Yuan pretended not to see the other person's eyes.Uther felt a little resentful again.

Wrynn finally spoke: "Well, may Austin and the ancestors bless you, my son. You are the hero of the mixed spirit kingdom, and the pride of Shijiali and me."

Bai Yuan turned his head and twitched the corner of his mouth ironically.

Wei Lin stepped forward and said, "Have you assigned your rights and responsibilities? Let's do our own thing. But before that, we need the Thunder Shield, Mei Li's remains, and a teleporter that can lead to the northern border." formation."

Perhaps out of love for the house, the king didn't care about his impolite attitude, and replied: "You can get the first two immediately. The last one, I have completely closed the northern node of the transmission network of the mixed spirit kingdom. Before, it will not be opened again."

Wei Lin sneered: "Then shall we ride a horse or take a flying beast? The latter can save a lot of time and time. It will take ten days and a half months to almost enter the northern border. I hope His Majesty will be very happy." Wait patiently for our arrival."

Wrynn looked at him without disobedience, like a father-in-law who owed his son looking at his son's beloved thorny daughter-in-law, feeling troubled that he couldn't do what he wanted.

He had no choice but to answer tolerantly: "But I can use the five space mages in the palace to jointly open the void portal and send you there..."

As he spoke, Wrynn's head gradually drooped down, drooping on his chest and stopped moving.

Uther was startled, jumped over to check his breath, and said with a sigh of relief, "Fall asleep."

The doctor came over and said, "Your Majesty has talked too much, is too tired, and needs to rest."

"Will he get better?" Uther asked.

The doctor said: "We will try our best."

Uther glanced at the dying old man on the bed, then turned to Bai Yuan and said, "Come out, I have something to tell you."

The three walked out of the palace gate and came to the entrance of the garden.

Uther kept pulling the holly leaves in his hands, and said, "Was your allegiance sincere, my brother?"

Bai Yuan said lightly: "Of course."

Uther sized him up like he was looking into an unfathomable deep pool. He really couldn't see why, and finally he could only sigh: "I hope I can trust you. After I ascend the throne, I will try my best to reject all opinions. Marry for you."

Wei Lin laughed: "It's more than trying to defy all opinions. It's shocking. You will be declared a 'blasphemous king' by the Holy See, Uther."

"Therefore, the Holy See is not needed in the Hunling Continent." Uther drew his sword out of its sheath, and chopped off the unlucky tree with one blow.