The Emperor's Daily Nitpicking

It's Old Rose Castle again!

What is there in there that time and time again things can always be implicated in it?

As a person who has wandered in this world for hundreds of years, Kevin is not ignorant of the place of Old Rose Castle - it used to be the location of a small city-state. When they lived there, the surroundings were not deserts. It is said that the once green fields were beautiful and apricot-colored wild roses abound.The whole castle is surrounded by wild roses, it is a very romantic place.

But that city-state didn't exist for a long time, and it was completely destroyed in less than 100 years.

There are many legends about the reasons for its demise, but the most widely spread one is that the sudden arrival of the mirage black wind plunged the unprepared city-state people into hallucinatory chaos, and the city-state was full of fire overnight. And people who were controlled by hallucinations to kill each other unconsciously. It is said that even the king was crucified in the castle, and his corpse was lying among the apricot rose bushes.

And along with the mirage and black wind, there is also the wind and sand all over the sky.

The rise of a city-state may take many years, but the disappearance of a city-state does not take long at all.

Soon, this place turned into a sea of ​​sand, and only the ruins of the old castle remained in the original city-state.

However, although most people know the existence of Old Rose Castle, except for a group of people who are born to like to explore, few people will actually go to the place where Rose Old Castle is located to see it with their own eyes. After all, they have to risk encountering mirages. The black wind and the danger of getting lost in the desert.

Occasionally, caravans passing through the mirage would turn to the old castle to take a look, but most of them would return disappointed, because there really was nothing left there.

Kevin, like most people, has never really been to Rose Old Castle.After all, he had no curiosity about the place.In a way, he disliked the desert, because it always gave people a sense of lifeless loneliness.It was probably under the influence of this feeling that he saw that dusk again in the hallucination caused by the mirage and black wind.

More importantly, even if he was curious, he didn't know the way at all.

This person is not so much insensitive to things like routes as he is too lazy to memorize them.He felt that it was necessary to know the road, and he could remember it very firmly after walking it once, such as the road to the tomb of God Phae.After all, I can't find my own grave anywhere, so it's really hard to justify.But for most of the rest of the places, he has never been bothered to admit them, and has always adhered to the principle of going wherever he goes.

This is probably a common problem of gods in the old days.

They live in different places, and they go out for wandering when they have nothing to do.

Yes, cloud travel.They never talked about visiting, because maybe they wanted to find the God of Dionysus, but they ended up with the God of Cupid.I said in advance that I often slap myself in the end, it is better not to decide the destination and go at will.

In short, if people like Kevin want to visit the Old Rose Castle, they will definitely not be able to come back in three to five or seven years.

But now, he felt he had to go.

Since there are things related to Phae in the Old Rose Castle, he has to go.The closer he was to the Old Rose Castle, the more he felt an emotion beating faintly in his heart, and the more he suspected that it had something to do with Melo.Even though the age of the gods has passed for too long, and even the tomb of the gods has been built for many years, he doubts that Mello has not completely disappeared.

If Melo really wants to do something, ordinary people can't stop it at all.

So he has to go.

"Which direction is the Old Rose Castle? We don't have any pointing tools on our bodies. We can only rely on you to find the way." Kevin's thoughts in his heart are rarely expressed on his face. Patting the pouch on his waist, he said, "We came in a hurry and only brought ourselves."

Wood hesitated for a moment: "We...we? Where are we?"

Oswald: "..."

Kevin let out an "ah", patted Sirius on the head, and explained casually: "Don't think it's not human, its IQ can still keep up. I usually barely count it as a human head."

Oswald: "..."

Wood suddenly realized, and no longer insisted on words, but took out a brass compass from his chest pocket.Wood opened the cover with a "click", and saw a delicate little pointer inside spinning crazily as if it had just been wound up.

"Although the pointer is still turning, I have a vague feeling that the Old Rose Castle is not far from us. If my intuition is correct——" Nick couldn't hold back his mouth anymore, and set up an awning beside him to watch Walked around, then raised his hand and pointed: "That direction."

Miraculously, most of the soldiers in the army also echoed: "Yes, I think it's there too."

A young soldier who was closer to Kevin murmured blankly, "I feel like I'm there too. It's strange. I never know the direction, and my intuition may be right."

A soldier next to him elbowed him and asked in a low voice, "Hey, do you feel a little anxious?"

Kevin didn't pay much attention to it at first, and kept staring at the pointer in Wood's hand, waiting for it to turn slower and slower, and gradually stop.Hearing the conversation between the two soldiers, however, he couldn't help but glance at them.

The two soldiers didn't pay attention, and they were still whispering head to head: "Are you anxious too? I thought it was the aftereffect caused by the hallucination just now, or I was too thirsty..."

"What anxiety?" Kevin suddenly came over and asked, his tone was very casual, as if the commander casually cared about the life of the young soldiers in the barracks.

But the two soldiers still moved their heels together habitually, and said solemnly: "No, Your Excellency Commander. We just want to go to the Old Rose Castle earlier." After thinking about it, they felt that these words were a bit nonsense, so they again Added a sentence: "After all, the sooner the investigation is done, the earlier the peace of mind."

Kevin stared at them, then quickly scanned the other soldiers, and was about to ask a few more questions, when Wood shouted: "Your Excellency! The pointing is fixed!"

"Oh? Where are you going?" Kevin put aside the things here for now, strode over to Wood, and took a look at the compass in his hand.And Wood has already taken out a roll of maps that he was carrying, and determined the location according to the direction set by the compass.

After a while, he raised his hand and pointed, "Go over there."

Coincidentally, he pointed in exactly the same direction as Nick and most of the soldiers who spoke up intuitively.

The direction was fixed, and everyone didn't hesitate at all, and they got on the vulture in a blink of an eye, and Kevin turned on the back of Sirius without saying a word.

Nick glanced in his direction and shouted: "Your Excellency, your horse is not put on the rein? It's easy to be thrown off if you run too fast! Wait, we have a spare, you should put on the rein."

Kevin rubbed Sirius' furry neck and said, "It's over, if it dares to shake me off, I'll cook wolf meat later."

Oswald: "..."

Nick pulled out a set of reins, and was about to continue persuading, but found that huge and mighty Sirius walking in front of him with a haughty face.

Nick: "..."

To be honest, being stared at by the transparent eyeballs of this ferocious beast is really not a comfortable experience, no matter how courageous people are, they will feel a sense of shuddering fear.Nick froze his wrists and didn't dare to make a big move.

Sirius looked at him coldly for a moment, then bit off the rein harness in his hand, turned his head and threw it to Kevin on his back, the meaning was very obvious: Put it on for me!

Nick: "..."

Kevin: "..."

Both of them were stunned. The former was frightened and almost thought that his hand was about to enter the mouth of Sirius; Oswald, there is one thing in common between the two, that is, they are born proud.Putting a rope around the neck of such a creature is just a little bit wicked.

Unexpectedly, he had a rare discovery of conscience, and the other party didn't appreciate it.

Oswald threw the reins to him and carried him to a place a little farther away, and said in a low voice, "Put it on honestly."

Kevin also replied in a voice that only he could hear: "Are you sure? The majestic emperor puts on the reins? Are you very interesting..."

"What a mess! Don't talk nonsense!" Oswald said angrily, "You will suffer if you fall."

Kevin held the rein in a daze for a while, and uncharacteristically did not continue to tease, but turned the rein over Oswald's body, avoiding the neck that would strangle him uncomfortable.

He finished the set without saying a word, grabbed the rein with one hand, patted Sirius on the face and said, "Okay, let's go."

"I'll clear the way, and you guys will follow." Kevin said to Wood and Nick incredulously.

"Eh?"

Before they could ask their questions, Sirius flapped his wings.

Kevin Sirius lowered his body in the huge wind blown by his wings, and the speed of one man and one beast was extremely fast, and soon flew far ahead.

Wood and the others realized the difference in speed, quickly grabbed the Vulture's belly, and galloped away.

Because he had to take care of the large troops behind, Oswald kept controlling the speed, but Kevin would occasionally urge him twice to let him go forward at full speed regardless of other things.

"Why do you sound like you are trying to shake them off on purpose?" Oswald finally couldn't help asking.

Kevin pondered for a moment and said, "There's something wrong with Old Rose Castle, I want to take a look first."

When the Priestly Academy first mentioned the Old Rose Castle, Kevin didn't think it was a bait, but he always thought that this bait was only aimed at a certain group of people, such as him, such as Oswald who represented the Golden Lion Kingdom.But now, he felt that the bait affected a wide range, and even ordinary soldiers seemed to be affected by it, being led there.

This is why?

In the sky full of sand and dust, the vision is not very clear, even if they are condescending in the sky, the range of vision is very limited.

But after flying for a long time, Kevin still saw the outline of a tall tower in the distance through the wind and smoke.

If I'm not mistaken... the Old Rose Castle is almost here.

However, after Kevin scanned around, his brows frowned tightly, because he saw a dark mass at the foot of the outline of the Old Rose Castle. At first glance, it looked like a shadow cast by the old castle, but the wind and sand were smaller. Looking at it again, I found that it was clearly a dense crowd of people!