The Emperor's Daily Nitpicking

When Theodore entered the hall, the white eagle carrying the message had just flown out of the hall, and Oswald was talking with Kevin and the little lion class who was temporarily called in the afternoon, with a serious expression.

"Is Your Majesty busy? I can go out and wait when I'm busy. It's important to deal with state affairs. This is just a trivial matter for me." Theo was dressed in rags, but he performed the royal ceremony, which was quite embarrassing.This person is good at everything, but he likes to be self-effacing too much. On the contrary, there is a sense of irony in his self-effacing words.

In any case, he is also the king of the majestic city-state. When he left the Golden Lion Kingdom, he brought a guard of a hundred people, but now there are only a few, and most of them are captured by the sand ghosts. The country will collapse. This is a trivial matter , then nothing can be called a big deal.

If you are really not in a hurry, it is impossible to skip the laundry reception and go straight to the point.

Oswald waved his hand and said, "Trivia."

In fact, it is not really trivial.After receiving a series of emergency reports from Peter in the morning, he felt that the situation was going to be chaotic. The city-state alliance that had been agreed before was completely disrupted by the Sand Ghost, and the plan to enclose the Northern Emerald Country in it also came to naught.

What's more, the sand ghost's attack was fast and ruthless. In just one day, almost all the kings of several returning city-states were killed.This made Oswald feel that time was extremely tight.

He instinctively felt that the journey of the several armies that were scheduled to depart three days later would not be smooth, so he temporarily changed his mind and advanced all the plans.There are a large number of other troops dispatched to various places, and all the things that need to be prepared cannot be ready in half a day, so each of them was moved one or two days in advance.The two armies that were assigned to Rose Old Castle were advanced the most.

Oswald spent the whole afternoon preparing everything needed for the two armies to disguise themselves as caravans, and then completely changed the original plan, letting them walk along a hidden old road at the bottom of the Great Rift Valley before nightfall. Go ahead and go straight to Mirage.

Kevin, who was competing with Oswald in the morning to lead the team, suddenly changed his mind in the afternoon. Instead of continuing to grind for the position of team leader, he was very supportive of the emperor's move to send the two teams out in advance.

"Just in case." Both of them almost thought so.

After Wood and Nick set off with the two teams, Oswald asked Kevin to go to the barracks to lead the team before nightfall, and asked him to use the unique method of the giant beast race to send the information of the sand ghost raid back to the giant beast. The valley where the orcs live.Ben had just returned when King Theodore arrived at the palace.

Seeing that the emperor wanted to talk about business, Kevin planned to take Ben out of the hall, but Oswald raised his hand to stop him.

The emperor didn't say anything, and didn't even turn his head to give him a look, and Kevin understood what he meant.He simply led the team to sit down at the position below the emperor's right hand, leaning against the back of the chair and hugging his arms, the fingers of his left hand resting calmly on the handle of the short knife at his waist.

Facing outsiders, it is naturally impossible for the emperor to show any appearance of time urgency.So Theodore was given a seat and refreshments to relieve his hunger.

The king of Leiyin City was very self-conscious. After entering the palace, he sent the four personal guards he brought to wait outside the palace to avoid being abrupt.Although he sat down in his seat, he didn't take a sip of refreshment, obviously he didn't want to eat or drink.

"What's going on?" Oswald asked, "Although the rainy season ended early, it's still the time when the humidity is heaviest. Sand ghosts generally don't choose to leave the desert under such circumstances. How could it be so abnormal? ?”

Theodore shook his head with a look of misery: "I don't know why they left the desert so early. When our team walked along the pine forest road outside the border of the Northern Emerald Country towards Leiyin City, we didn't even I heard any rumors about the traces of sand ghosts. But when we took the road to the ice field at the end of the long pine forest road, we received a call for help from Kathro, a city of Paeda, followed by letter after letter of help, almost without a trace. stopped."

He tapped heavily on the armrest of the seat with his clenched fist, and sighed: "To be honest, when we first received help from Peida City, we planned to turn around to help, but when I received six or seven letters from After the distress letters from different people, I didn’t have the courage. At that time, I guessed that there would be sand ghosts ambushing outside Leiyin City, waiting for us to fall into the trap. So I ordered to return directly, hoping to come to ask you for help. "

"So you ran into a sand ghost halfway?" Oswald asked in a deep voice, frowning.

"Yes!" Theodore nodded, "The only good news is that what we encountered was not the entire army of sand ghosts in ambush, but the stragglers left behind when they attacked other countries. Not keeping up with the large army is still clearing the way. But even the stragglers are enough for us to drink a pot, as you can see, Your Majesty-"

He opened his arms, showed off his blood-stained rags, pointed to the four personal guards waiting outside the hall, and said, "If it wasn't for them desperately protecting me to escape, I might not be able to sit here There are nearly a hundred guards around me, and now there are only these four left, and the others are almost wiped out. The people I brought back are also the same..."

Theodore's throat was hoarse, and he couldn't speak any more.

Oswald listened with a frown all the time, looking at him with heavy eyes, and his peripheral vision just fell on the entrance of the hall.After Theodore said this, his face became gloomy, as if he was immersed in the catastrophe that was coming before.

"You——" Oswald raised his head and was about to speak, but felt that his eyes were dark again, his heart suddenly beat a few times, his ears were buzzing, and the ringing continued.

"How do you want me to help?" He forcibly endured the discomfort, finished the second half of the sentence in the same calm tone as usual, and then restrained himself and waited for the discomfort to pass.

It sounded as if he had interrupted the sentence naturally.

Kevin, who was sitting at the bottom, was sensitively aware of the strangeness, probably because he had too much contact with Oswald on weekdays, and he was too familiar with the emperor's tone and way of speaking.

He didn't turn his head to look at Oswald immediately, but glanced at it from the corner of his eye with a calm look.

It wasn't until Oswald finished speaking that he naturally cast his gaze over it.

Taking advantage of Theodore's inattention, he frowned slightly at Oswald, and asked with his eyes.Unexpectedly, Oswald still squinted his eyes half-closed, and cast his eyes heavily in Theodore's direction.

Kevin suddenly understood: his eyes were dark again.

This situation has happened three times in the afternoon, and the medical officer was invited to see it halfway. Apart from staying up all night last night, the energy was too concentrated, and the short-term deficiency caused by exhaustion, there is no other conclusion. .

It would be understandable if this happened to other people, but when it happened to Oswald, both he and Kevin felt that something was wrong.After all, he also stayed up all night, and several elderly ministers have not responded yet. He, who was in his prime, was actually at a disadvantage?How can it be? !

But this day was so complicated that they couldn't spare the time to think about it.

It's just that Kevin faintly felt that a storm was about to come.Presumably Oswald thought the same as him, so when Theodore entered the hall, he and Ben stayed.

Also staying in the hall, there are ten Wujin iron cavalry standing on both sides of the hall.

After Oswald asked that sentence, Theodore replied: "The sand ghost is too rampant, and because of its special physique, it is too difficult to deal with and too dangerous. Please send troops to support Leiyin City, let us regain It's too much to take the initiative to rescue the people. I can't be so shameless. I just hope that His Majesty can provide me with a convenience, using the secret road of the Golden Lion Kingdom, so that I can go back to Leiyin City by another road .”

"Secret way?" Oswald looked puzzled.

"I know this is very inappropriate, but it's a last resort." Theodore said with an unspeakable embarrassment, "There are many rumors about the secret roads of your country, and there are rumors that you can bypass those few roads leading to the desert. The right way, cross the Kela River in the shortest time, and even lead to the direction of the ice field..."

Oswald sneered and interrupted his words: "When will this rumor be taken seriously? If there is a secret passage leading to the ice field, I can send troops directly to outflank that old Sapir. is it possible?"

"But..." Theodore looked stubborn and wanted to fight again, but he glanced at Oswald and sighed again: "Okay, then can your majesty do me a little favor?"

"What's the matter?" As soon as Oswald asked, a white eagle rushed in from the entrance of the hall, and fell on Oswald's hand, showing how fast it flew.

Oswald raised his hand to indicate to wait a moment, and pulled out the note from the roll on the white eagle's foot.Most of the news that the Imperial City Patrol Army gave him before was collected inside and outside the Imperial City. He always felt that something was wrong, so he sent an urgent letter to the Red Iron Army that was farther away in the morning. Echoed.

He unfolded a small scroll, and saw a sentence written in cursive handwriting: Peida City, Leiyin City, Kaman City and a thousand other small city-states were all attacked, and the king was not spared.

Oswald's fingers holding the scroll tightened suddenly.

The moment he saw the contents of the scroll, Theodore followed his previous words and said, "I hope, Your Majesty, that your life as a captive will be very pleasant in the future!"

While he was speaking, his tone changed several times in the blink of an eye, hoarse and unpleasant.The four guards waiting outside the hall instantly shed their skin and turned into wild sand and swept inside.