Elden: Ring of Calamity

Chapter 9 Conspiracy
"Based on what you've seen in the past half a day, what kind of person do you think he is?" Lucia guided patiently.

"Well," Guerrell thought for a while, "I'm a little timid, but my nature is very kind, and my speech and behavior can be called modest and cautious. In short, it's much better than that Karen consul who doesn't know how to be polite."

"If you leave aside the 'cowardly' you added to your subjective assumptions," Lucia smiled lightly, "you are basically right—whether it is his etiquette in dealing with people, or his thoughtful arrangements for the camp, and later The various details exposed in the chat can be used as proof."

"However, such a 'kind, humble, cautious and thoughtful' person did not try to persuade his superiors to come out to pick him up, and even told us that this kind of impolite and arrogant reception was completely the result of the consul Isn't it contradictory to the result of going one's own way?"

He rubbed the handle of the dragon scale knife at his waist with his palm, and pondered: "If I am as proud, impatient, and irritable as many young dragons, and show an attitude of not allowing others to offend my honor and dignity, he will probably Correspondingly, he added more guidance, hints, and even drew a line through appropriate misery, waiting for an opportunity to incite. But after meeting me in person and testing my reaction a little, he wisely gave up this idea, Prepare to exit as quickly as possible to avoid further exposure to my attention."

Guerrell was also awakened at this moment, but Lucia's words sounded wrong, which made her seriously suspect that the statement about "many young dragons" was connoting her.

"So, from that point on until just now, His Highness has turned against the guest, and has been testing him in various ways?"

"Yes and no," Lucia said, "Although we haven't been together for a long time, I found that he is very similar to me. We all believe in our instincts—just like he found out through his intuition that he was incapable of using me. His intentions were already determined when he was invited to accompany him, and it was only a further verification afterwards."

"But there's one more thing I don't understand." Guerrell wondered, "He should have sensed His Highness' intentions to tempt. If so, why didn't he continue to cover up when His Highness asked about his family affairs?"

"Did you also think I was tempting back then?" Lucia showed a helpless smile.

"Ah?" Guerrell felt that the rhythm he had just caught up with was far away from him again, "Isn't it?"

"Emotions between human beings are sometimes such weird things. I tried him a hundred times, and he concealed it very well a hundred times, but when I accidentally asked a question, I just poked him. Something unwilling to hide under a mask."

He glanced at the girl next to him out of the corner of his eye. Although the girl was over two hundred years old, Guerrell still seemed to him as a man who had established a cognition of the world from a higher dimension in advance in two lifetimes. A simple and naive child.

"I can tell that what he did in Rodel is true. On this point, it is not possible or necessary for him to deceive us. When we get to the capital, we can verify it clearly if we want to," Lucia lowered her eyes. Said, "If it is only used as a reason to save him once, this is enough."

"Obviously I am not a human being, what do I know about the emotions between human beings!" Guerrell secretly slandered, but he did not sing an opposing tune, but made a look of deep thinking, and nodded slightly after a long time: "Is that so? "

Anyway, although she hated most of the decisions this guy had made since breaking out of his shell, this time, she had no reason to object.

At the same time, more than ten miles away from the Sky City camp, Clivell, who was supposed to return to Karen, made a big circle after confirming that no one was following him, and sneaked to a secret place in the north of the city through the gradually thickening night. in the woods.

Looking around, he put his finger to his lips and blew the secret signal that had been agreed upon.

After the three beeps, the branches and leaves of a big tree not far away swayed, and a vigorous and nimble black shadow jumped down along the trunk, and flew in front of Clivell's horse in a few steps.Through the moonlight shining in the forest, one could see that it was a rather ferocious human face.

A deep knife scar slanted from his left forehead to his right lip, and the sutured scar was as terrifying as a twisted centipede. In addition, the faint coldness in those iron-gray eyes and the broad shoulders The Kaidan long knife on his back all reveals that this person is a difficult and ruthless character.

"Looking at your distraught look, the other party really didn't agree?" The man sneered.

"Isn't this expected?" Clivell replied equally unceremoniously, "What I didn't expect was that His Highness is so old that he doesn't look like a young man. As a child who can be manipulated at will, he will definitely get his head broken in his hands."

"Oh?" the man said with great interest, "I never imagined that a demigod who had just been born could make you give such a high evaluation, so in your opinion, that little dragon is better than Rodel and Kalia. How is Your Highness?"

"I don't want to answer such meaningless questions." Clivell said coldly, "We don't have much time, so it's best to get straight to the point."

The man shrugged his shoulders, but he didn't continue to pester him, and said: "We have made all the preparations here. More than half of the sub-human tribes in the south of Gemir have sent the most elite fighters. In addition, there are [-] adult The trolls are always on call. Kruger let me tell you, as long as you can expose Hector and his guards more than fifteen miles from Karen, we will have enough time to strangle them all."

"More than half?" Clivell couldn't help being shocked by the opponent's mobilization ability, and after thinking for a while, he said, "I'll emphasize again, all the equipment and supplies in Hectorov's army this time belong to you, and I will add extra Supplement a batch of food and medicine, but we must never make an idea of ​​the farms outside the city, otherwise nothing will be discussed.”

"I know, I know" the man raised his hands helplessly and said, "You have said it many times, you know who Kruger is, and even if someone has other ideas, can you still be manipulated by us with your skill?" ?”

"Just understand." Clivell said lightly.

"Since this is the case, I will secretly control the sentry cavalry used by Hector to investigate the military situation, and pass on the false information we need at the right time. Tomorrow at noon, wait until the ancient dragon envoy is away from Karen City, Hector And his troops will pass right through the Sunset Pass, and I'll be there to make sure everything goes according to plan—you'll have 35 minutes from the time the front army passes the pass to end the fight."

"Very good." After getting the final arrangement from Clivell, the man showed a ferocious smile, "We will not let you down."

(End of this chapter)