Lord Highlander

  Chapter 539 528. Reason

To the north of San Carlos Province, across the vast burning plain, the northernmost end is the endless Ziqing Mountains. This mountain range spans San Carlos Province and Sloit Province, and the westernmost end is closely connected with the eastern foothills of the Pai Plateau. Together, the dangerous peaks deep in the mountains are surrounded by poisonous swamps all year round.

It is said that the Ziqing Mountains were transformed from the spine of a certain great demon in ancient times. It is said that this ancient great demon was beheaded by the angel of fate Yzril during the Eternal Battle. When his body was on the verge of destruction, his The body triggered a huge space storm. In order to prevent the plane from collapsing caused by the ancient great demon, Destiny used divine power to seal the remnant of the great demon, forcibly quelling the space storm.

Time has changed, and after tens of thousands of years, the remnant body of the ancient great demon has turned into a Ziqing mountain range. There are space cracks swimming around in the Ziqing mountain range, and the demonic energy diluted in the mountain range continues to demonize all kinds of Beasts caused the mountain range to be rampant with monsters. Even the most elite Royal Constructed Knights of the Grimm Empire did not dare to enter the Ziqing Mountains easily.

  This mountain range is like a fishbone, piercing deeply from the eastern foothills of the Pai Plateau into the northern part of the Green Empire.

   At the same time, it also became the natural boundary between the provinces of San Carlos and Sluit.

  After the failure of the operation, the rebel army in Sloit Province was forced to hide in the Ziqing Mountains under the pursuit of the constructed knights of the North Wind Legion. They have been moving around in the mountains on the edge of the Ziqing Mountains. The environment here is dangerous. The west of the Ziqing Mountains borders the Pai Plateau. Many villages are mixed with orcs and humans. Therefore, it is not uncommon for humans to have orc blood in the mountain villages.

  In order to maintain their combat effectiveness, the rebel army continued to absorb some young mountain people from the mountains to join the rebel army.

Even so, the rebel army is constantly reducing its personnel in the Ziqing Mountains, where the living environment is very harsh. Some veterans of the rebel army have died one after another. The leader of the rebel army, Hande, has always wanted to reverse this predicament. Unfortunately, in such a harsh environment, even survival seems so difficult, and other aspects are even more difficult to solve.

  The rebel army will inevitably compete with some high-level monsters entrenched in the mountains for living space. In recent years, the rebel army has migrated thousands of kilometers along the edge of the Ziqing Mountains, and they still cannot escape the monsters in the deep mountains.

It was under such circumstances that the top management of Dark Moon Gate approached the northern rebels. The president of Dark Moon Gate offered Hande an undeniable condition, if the rebels were willing to help Dark Moon Gate If the door finds a red dragon treasure in the Pagolos Mountains, then the Dark Moon Gate will gather the power of six great magicians to create a temporary portal to other small planes, allowing all rebels to leave Roland mainland.

For this reason, Hande, the leader of the Northern Rebel Army, agreed to send nearly 500 cavalry to Bena Province to cooperate with the magicians of the Dark Moon Gate to obtain all the clues to the Red Dragon Treasure. The province has found the descendants of the great hero Bradbury. His descendants actually settled in the city of Bena, and they have become old nobles who have always had an ancient inheritance.

   It's just that the Bradbury family hasn't had any great figures in the past two hundred years, so this old family has gradually declined and will soon be silent in the dust of history.

The magician of the Dark Moon Gate led the northern rebel knights to sack the Bradbury family in the city of Benar, and obtained the most precious treasure of the Bradbury family from the oldest showroom of the family—a red star that recorded Dragon Treasure's magic crystal.

   In addition, a fragment of a magic sheepskin map was snatched from the current heir of the Bradbury family.

On the second day after the Bradbury family was looted, a traitor team appeared among the rebel knights. They took away the fragment of the map overnight, and this traitor team consisted of 22 rebels. At that time, they were divided into eleven double teams and fled in all directions from Bena City.

One of the rebel escape duo chose the escape route from Bena City to Hailansa City, then passed through the barren land of Hailanza City, and left Bena Province along the Pagros Mountains. They were caught by Suldak when they were passing through the barren land.

Not long after Hailansa sent knights to pick up the two rebels, on the way to **** them back to Hailansa, the two rebels were rushed to the gate of the dark moon in Hailansa. Deng killed them, but the great magician Golden did not retrieve the map fragments from them. Therefore, Magician Golden is planning to go to Wall Village to investigate the clues of the map fragments.

However, the great magician's investigation method was a bit rough. He summoned a squadron of rebel cavalry to rush into Wall Village with him, but encountered Suldak and his security team. Magician Golden seriously underestimated Without Suldak's personal strength, the entire rebel cavalry squadron and Golden magician fell in the village of Vol.

  In addition to the map fragments, Darkmoon Gate also lost a great magician, and lost a precious magic crystal from the great magician.

  Suddenly, the highest speaker of the Dark Moon Gate in Bena Province died. This news needs to be conveyed to the Dark Moon Gate headquarters, and the Dark Moon Gate headquarters will resend a magician in charge of the matter.

As a senior investigator of the intelligence department of the rebel army, Ludwig needs to learn as much information as possible about Wall Village and Baron Suldak before the new head of the Dark Moon Gate arrives. An adventurous party, and infiltrated the village of Wall.

  …

  The above is all the information Succubus Aphrodite learned from Ludwig. The 'hypnosis' of the Succubus family made the rebel intelligence officer spit out all the information he knew.

Suldak sat on the chair and listened to Aphrodite tell all the information that he had heard, so he realized how hot the magic crystal was. out.

The half-elf leaned against the window and sat on the wide window sill. She thought about it seriously before she said: "The so-called treasure of the red dragon must be related to the sword of Quel Sela hidden in Mount Pagros. Could it be that the hero buried his epic long sword and those red dragon treasures in the mountains after he slayed the dragon?"

  Suldak touched the handle of the blood red crescent in his hand, shook his head and said:

   "I don't think this is possible... If there is such a treasure, maybe the Bradbury family won't decline so quickly, and what's the use of burying the treasure in the mountains?"

  He thought that it might not be long before a great magician of the same level as Magician Golden would come to Wall Village again, and he felt a little headache.

  Golden magician was killed with the help of Earl Fonak, but it is impossible to ask Earl Fonak for help every time the magician from the Dark Moon Gate comes to Wall Village.

Suldak rubbed his forehead and said: "Now is not the time to talk about the treasure of the Red Dragon, what we need to discuss now is how to solve the big trouble in hand, we can't just sit and wait for death in Wall Village, waiting for them to come to the door again and again , maybe next time the ones who will come to you will be as strong as the two Golden magicians."

  Indigenous warrior Andrew said: "Then what should we do? We can't move away!"

The succubus Aphrodite, who was lying on the wicker chair, supported her body with one hand, sat up from the wicker chair, and said to Suldak: "Otherwise, find a chance to hand over the magic crystal...it's useless anyway .”

   At the beginning, it was Aphrodite who was unwilling to hand over the magic crystal, so she kept this hot potato in her hands.

Suldak frowned. He didn't want to get a bad reputation for hiding things. Once this kind of thing spread, it would be a stain on his life, so he said: "After so long, I have to find a reason. The handing over of two rebels last time almost turned the city of Hailansa upside down, once the news of the magic crystal is made public, I don’t know what kind of storm it will cause..."

   This was his last concern.

"I want to go to Bena City and return this magic crystal to the Bradbury family. It can be regarded as returning it to its original owner." Suldak decided to send the magic crystal back to Bena City, and said : "I'm just a little worried that when I'm not around, things that you can't handle will happen in the village."

Sitting opposite Suldak, the succubus Aphrodite said casually: "If you only worry about this matter, then there is no need! Because of the magic contract of equal symbiosis, as long as I stay in Wall Village, no matter where you go , I have a way to summon you back, and whether you are in danger or I am in danger, we will all feel it, you only need to step through the void gate to come to me .”

   "...Aphrodite, I always feel that there is something wrong with this magic contract." Suldak still has a bit of a grudge about the original magic contract.

Aphrodite smiled sweetly, and said to Suldak: "What's wrong? I think it's okay. If you learn to summon the magic circle, you can call me at any time no matter where you are. We are equal Yes!"

  Hearing what the succubus Aphrodite said, Suldak suddenly felt that he really had nothing to say.

At noon, the ogre Gullitum went to the security station again, and found that Suldak had no intention of executing Ludwig, so he ran back to the Beigou pasture. The water and grass are luxuriant, besides the gazelle in Woer Village, they also attracted a group of wild camels from the desert, but the wild camels were nocturnal and hard to find. He wanted to stay in the Beigou pasture for a while. Catch a wild camel and try it.

  …

  Ludwig was still waiting for the Baron Suldak in the Wall Village Sheriff's Office to come forward in person and interrogate him.

He also wanted to reveal some insignificant information, maybe tell a little about the situation of the Dark Moon Gate, as long as it doesn’t harm the rebels, it’s probably fine to say something, it’s best to get freedom in exchange, if you can’t get freedom back, It's also possible to get them to be kind to themselves.

   But he waited in the dungeon for three consecutive days, and found that the other party didn't want to ask him at all. Apart from two meals a day, there were almost no people in the dungeon.

  Ludwig gradually became irritable, and he lost weight again in just a few days.

   Occasionally, there will be bursts of heart-piercing howls in the dungeon...

  …

  Suldak decided to send the magic crystal back to the Bradbury family in Bena City.

The next day, he rode Gu Bolai's war horse to Hailansa City. He first went to the airport terminal to buy an airship ticket. This time he was lucky, and there happened to be a magical airship that was going to Bena City the next night. , Suldak currently has a noble status, so it is easy to buy a ticket, and it still has a ticket for a separate room on the deck.

   Then he settled down at the Garden Plaza Hotel, still living in the attic on the top floor.

Karl has been out on missions for the past few days. He failed to find Karl at the guard camp the next morning, so he asked for a two-month long vacation with Captain Sauron, saying that he was about to go to Bena City and might be there Staying for a week is considered a round-trip sailing schedule, and it will take about a month and a half to stay in Bena City.

  Captain Sauron didn't ask about Suldak's detailed situation, but just used a quill pen to swipe a few strokes on the parchment to sign his name, and Suldak's vacation was officially valid.

  Then Captain Sauron took out another piece of magic parchment, and carefully wrote down a line on it, "Baron Suldak is my capable subordinate. This time I am going to handle private affairs in Bena City. Please take care of me!" ’ Afterwards, he took out a private seal from the drawer, and carefully covered this line of writing.

Captain Sauron tore it into a note, folded it up and handed it to Suldak, and told him: "If you encounter difficult troubles in Bena City, take this note to visit the fifth Earl Sauron of Thirteenth Street."

  Suldak did not expect that Captain Sauron would give him such a precious note, and bid farewell to Captain Sauron with a face of emotion.

  The city of Hailansa is very lively these days. There are lights and festoons everywhere, and some colorful flags are hung on the roofs of various high-rise buildings.

   I learned from Mrs. Coen, the proprietress of the hotel, that the daughter of the Christie family is going to hold a wedding. Marquis Bernard Christie invited many nobles and celebrities to Hailansa City to attend the wedding of his daughter...

Speaking of this, Mrs. Cohen, the proprietress, seemed to have a good topic, and began to talk endlessly about how many nobles and celebrities will be invited to the wedding. The castle of the Christie family will hold a grand ball for a week. and so on.

   It is said that on the day of the wedding, all workshops and shops in Hailansa City will be closed.

Only then did Suldak remember the red-haired Miss Daxi. He didn't expect to get married so soon. The last time we met was at the gate of Hailansa City Hall, and her fiancé even greeted him. with.

   Calculating the time, it seems that I will not be able to catch up with the wedding.

   But it looks like I haven't received the invitation yet...

  Suldak was in the room on the top floor of the hotel, pushed open the glass window on the attic, and looked at the majestic castle at the highest point of the mountain city from afar.

  (end of this chapter)