Throne Steps

From the next day, congratulatory letters to Saenz came like a snowflake.In Li Chen's words, all parties sent congratulatory messages one after another.

This is still in the other courtyard. If it were Saenz’s private residence near the capital of the temple, the mailbox would have been flooded with congratulatory letters.

And the cronies who were drunk in the other courtyard last night finally got up one after another before lunch, and after a somewhat tasteless lunch, they began to sort the congratulatory letters into categories with a hangover feeling.

Because of the stamina of alcohol, everyone's movements are a bit slow, which is a bit funny compared to their usual capable appearance.Especially Li Chen, not only was he hangover, but he also couldn't sleep well in the middle of the night, and he was startled by the face that was almost close to him early in the morning, and he was doomed to be depressed at the moment.

By the way, it turns out that no matter how good-looking a face is, if you get too close, you will be more frightened than surprised.

"Li Chen, you can't drink." A confidant saw his laziness when he passed by his seat, and patted him on the shoulder earnestly, "Look at you, go to bed first at night, and wake up in the morning It's too late...you need to practice more."

Li Chen glanced at him, didn't speak, and said to himself that you should know that Saenz slept next to you last night, and you could be woken up by fright.

Fortunately, Saenz had amazing perseverance. Even if he drank too much, he insisted on getting up for morning exercises, so he left Li Chen's room very early.Li Chen was also exposed to the light, and had a peaceful but short return to sleep.

While everyone was recording who had written and who hadn't, the housekeeper gave refreshment tea to the drunks again, along with a few new letters.

One of them was directly addressed to Li Chen.

Li Chen took the envelope and turned it over, then stood up and went to the window away from the crowd to open the letter.The others just took a look and didn't pay much attention to his actions.After all, Li Chen is still the person in charge of Black Swan, so it is normal to have secrets.

Saenz, on the other hand, after Li Chen read the letter and took it back, asked directly: "Leaving?"

"Not for now, I just learned some interesting things."

In front of everyone, Li Chen approached Saenz and whispered in his ear, "When will you go to the palace to accept the king's order?"

"Is it necessary to ask this question quietly?" Saenz listened to Zhile, but still cooperated with Li Chen, and leaned into his ear to answer, "Tomorrow."

"Hmm...that's more than enough." Li Chen made some calculations, and then put the letter in Saenz's hands, "You can figure out the schedule yourself, but let's say first, I will go too."

Saenz didn't know what he was talking about, but he already had a faint premonition in his heart.He took the envelope, took a glance at the letter inside, and raised his eyebrows with interest.

The other cronies watched this scene, but couldn't come up to ask what was going on, it was really itchy.

On the third day, Saenz had an audience with the king and accepted the title of the head of the family.A simple celebration ceremony was held in the palace, but only some members of the royal family and a dozen courtiers who hadn't left the capital were present at that time. Compared with the real pure white succession ceremony, it can be said to be rather shabby.

However, the sealing order that Saenz got back made the cronies excited again.

At the end of the month, Lichen and Saenz split up.Li Chen returned to the Black Swan New Year's Eve, and Saenz returned to the capital of the temple.Saenz originally wanted to abduct Li Chen to go with him, and "promote" some people about Li Chen's "feat" in this voting, but when Li Chen thought about how many people would flock to Saen Si this New Year's Eve , immediately retreated.

I heard that even Lairelle will return to the capital of the temple for the New Year's Eve, so the pure white residence should be very lively.When Li Chen and Saenz parted, they were still talking cheaply: "You father and son, don't fight again."

Saenz didn't know whether to laugh or cry: "If you're so worried about this, why don't you come and see for yourself?"

Li Chen resolutely refused: "Farewell, so many people are tired just looking at it, my dear Highness, you can deal with it by yourself."

Saenz said with a smile: "Okay, keep in touch, the fleet will go to sea in February, and you are ready."

"Got it—" Li Chen dragged on a long tone, and whipped his hand with a horsewhip as if he was used to it a thousand times, "I'm leaving, goodbye."

"Goodbye." Saenz took a few steps back, "Best trip."

At the end of January, just when Li Chen thought he could take a breather and recharge his batteries for the next arrangements, a letter came that broke all the tranquility.

"Fjalal's boat has gone out to sea?!" Li Chen, who was lying crookedly on the sofa, straightened up and almost grabbed the letter paper that Fudsi handed over, "What's going on!"

"I still want to ask you." Fudexi brought a nearby chair and placed it next to Lichen's sofa, and then sat down, "Tell me honestly...do you have something with Menzel?" Hiding from me, from other black swans?"

Li Chen didn't have time to answer him.When he sat down, Li Chen stood up holding the letter paper.Hanging in the study was a map covering the entire Rhaetian continent and all known sea areas. Li Chen stood in front of it, holding a pair of letters, his expression becoming more serious.

He picked up a wooden stick like a pointer next to him, and pointed to a certain sea area on the map: "The coordinates and directions in the letter are here, right?"

Fordhi nodded: "Yes."

"This is interesting..." Li Chen stood in front of the map, folded his arms and looked at the place he just pointed out, "Who leaked the news, or did he have his own channel to know..."

Fudexi sat at the back and looked at his back: "Since the secret has been leaked, can you tell me by the way?"

Li Chen turned around and threw the wooden stick back to the original place: "I didn't intend to hide it from you, but the source of this news is a bit wrong."

Fudexi thought for a second: "...Necromancer?"

Li Chen walked back and smiled without saying a word, which was a tacit agreement.

"I just knew... generally only you and Menzel know about things, they all come from him, and I don't know what's the point of you pretending to hide it." Fudexi raised his eyebrows, "Tell me, What's up?"

Li Chen didn't return to Fu Dexi's side, but sat down at the desk, took out a piece of paper and a pen and started writing.He also used his pen to swipe towards Fu Dexi in the air: "Aren't you good at guessing? Go on."

"You know, it's really annoying that you keep asking leading questions all the time. It makes me look like that kid Dominic." Fudexi complained, but he didn't bother to argue with Li Chen, and then agreed Li Chen's question, "So... is 'Dragon'?"

"My God, you didn't even have a 'because', just skipped to 'so' and gave a conclusion, what kind of logical way of thinking is this?" Li Chen put a period at the end of a sentence, and then looked at Fudexi Nodding slightly, "But congratulations, you got the answer right."

"It's really a 'dragon'?" Even if this legendary creature was involved, the half-elf Fudexi didn't seem too excited, "What the hell is going on? He sent a message saying that the dragon is on a certain island, You were going to go out to look for it, but now you were preempted by the pure white color that failed the competition?"

"Tsk tsk, my half-elf, listen to your tone, doesn't it look like a tabloid is talking about those hearsay news?" Li Chen shook his head, "Yes, not right."

"How to say?"

"I received a letter from him a few years ago, saying that there might be news of a 'dragon' in a certain sea area recently. You know, although we have been played around by him all the time, we still found something in the place he named, So I asked Pure White for support—after all, we are going to go to sea this time." Li Chen paused the writing action, and said while twirling the pen holder with his fingers, "According to the arrangement, we are going to set off in February. .”

Fudexi frowned slightly: "But now his brother took the lead?"

"Not necessarily." Li Chen replied, "It depends on the information this time. If it is like the islands in the Northeast Sea before, and only finds some suspected dragon footprints, it will definitely be preempted. However, this kind of The information is actually useless. Unless he is willing to spend a lot of manpower and material resources to find a way to dig up all the nearby islands and try his luck to see if there will be a keel buried under it."

Fudexi looked "what nonsense are you talking about?": "It is said that the dragon's tomb is protected by the magical power of the dragon clan, so it is not so easy to find."

"Indeed, so even if you dig all over, there is still likely to be nothing, so no one will really dig it stupidly." Li Chen smiled, "However, just like the necromancer sent me and Menzel last time The news in hand is the same, this time, there may really be something on those islands."

Fu Dexi asked suspiciously: "I don't quite understand... Do you want to say that useless things will definitely be discovered first; really useful things will not be so easy to detect?"

"Yes." Li Chen said with a smile, "Do you still remember the last time I took people to the west of the North Peak of the Samir Mountains, how did those people describe what I did to you after they came back?"

Fudexi paused for two seconds: "You mean, there may be a magic circle that needs to be unlocked at this destination?!"

"I don't dare to guarantee the magic circle, but if it is really some information he wants me to see, he will definitely not put it in broad daylight." Li Chen replied, "From this point of view, everyone It would be good for His Highness to explore the way for us first, and save a lot of effort for the later generations."

Fudexi raised his eyebrows: "How do you know that he has no one who can untie it?"

Li Chen smiled meaningfully: "He'd better have it." Then it must be someone who came out of the necromancer, and was used every minute to observe the movements of the pure white color.

Fudexi didn't know what kind of medicine was sold in his gourd, and asked again: "If you say that, it is very likely that your quasi-head of the family deliberately released the news, just to lure others to pave the way for him."

"You are quite right." Li Chen continued to lower his head to write the letter, "So I want to ask him, did he give everyone a 'little surprise', or there was a loophole in the transmission of information. "

If it's the former, then everyone's happy.

If it's the latter... Then Saenz probably won't have time to take care of the dragon's affairs, right?