At the same time, the merchant ship captains who came off the floating island were watching the floating city take off again on the shore.
A captain muttered: "As long as this thing flies in the sky, it will naturally emphasize its dominance. After all, it floats above everyone's head. Hell, a ruler will want this thing in the future."
Another captain joked: "Then the same effect can be achieved with a dwarf airship."
However, no one responded to his ridicule.
But someone looked at the partially dismantled Star Chaser - Rosalie was originally going to dismantle the Star Chaser entirely and use it to build a house on the floating island, but as soon as she started, she was attacked by someone riding a strange Yang stone statue. The work came to a halt when the Catalans raided the area.
"I said, why don't we search this Star Chaser first?"
This is a statement that is in line with the behavior of these "businessmen".
However, this time this statement met with unanimous opposition:
"You're crazy!"
“Do you want to dock in Monrovia again in the future?”
"I still owe a large amount of money to the Monrovia Official Chamber of Commerce. If you want to do it, you can do it. I will not participate."
"Hmph, I'm different. I'm going to trade the coveted person's head for some benefits."
**
Two and a half hours later, the dwarf airship of the rescue team reunited with the floating island that took off again.
The rescue team and peripheral members once again met at the control center on the third underground floor of the floating island.
After understanding the situation, Rosalie sighed: "It turns out that the situation is so dangerous. I apologize for my previous thoughts: I once thought that with the king here, saving the world was just an outing."
Elizabeth: "That's true when his right eyelid isn't twitching."
Xiaobai: "If Flint was here, he would definitely jump out and complain at this time that all legendary adventures are actually dancing on the edge of a knife. Right, big man."
Gotrick glanced at Xiaobai and didn't answer, just silently sharpening his battle ax.
The king suddenly noticed a chip on the tomahawk and asked, "Do you need a blacksmith to help you repair the tomahawk?"
Gotrick: "Anything is fine."
Xiaobai blinked and pulled up Wang's clothes: "Why don't you knock me on the head? I feel like I was wrong this time."
Wang gave Xiaobai a head slap, then turned to ask Rosalie: "Is your sister okay?"
"It's not bad. After all, there is a healing scroll. But as you know, using healing spells to bring her back from the brink of death is very taxing on the body. She fell asleep and died, and she probably won't be able to get up for a few days."
Wang: "There should be a longer rest after that. But today we have to get things done. Destroy the portal, cut off the Catalans' reinforcements, and then work with the undead army to completely destroy the remnants of the cult and the Catalan invasion. Or, in the end, we have to send the lich back to the west."
Rosalie: "Sounds pretty busy."
"It's just very busy."
Rosalie asked again: "Then can we contact the Grand Duchy of Frank? You see that we have common interests with them now, right?"
Wang thought for a while and nodded: "Okay. Let Xiaobai take you to negotiate with them, and Nini will be your bodyguard."
Elizabeth: "I can also negotiate, I'm a princess too!"
Wang looked at her and changed his words: "Okay, you two will ride Xiaobai together, and Marika will protect you both."
Marika: "I can't guarantee that I can rescue Her Royal Highness Rosalie if we are really in danger."
Wang: "I believe there is no difference for you between saving two people and saving one person."
Marika: "Flattery doesn't work for me."
She said this, but did not mention the matter of leaving Rosalie behind.
Xiaobai turned into a griffin and moved his hooves on the ground, urging the three of them to hurry up.
After a while, the three of them mounted the griffin and took off.
Wang: "The remaining question is, how long will it take for the floating island to float to Qianshui City? Before that, who knows how many reinforcements the Order will come. I'm not afraid of more reinforcements from the Catalan Legion. I'm just afraid that the Order will come again." A ninth-level spellcaster.”
As he spoke, the king looked at Liguang: "Elzam and I have no fighting power. If there are nine-ring spellcasters, I'm afraid I'll have to rely on you, Master Liguang, to deal with them."
Liguang clasped his hands together: "The poor monk's Qihai has been exhausted. If the cult continues to send nine-ring spellcasters, then I can only risk my life to replace it."
Wang: "Please."
Liguang: "But if the cult doesn't send any nine-ring spellcasters today, the poor monk can have a good showdown with him tomorrow."
Wang: "Tomorrow, our props and Erzam's magic will be restored. Even if we encounter a ninth-level magician again, we can find a way. Especially Erzam, he is also a ninth-level spellcaster."
Wang paused and continued: "In other words, the remaining time today is the most dangerous. If the cult is determined to make a desperate move and the leader comes with the remaining masters, the situation will be very, very dangerous. My right eyelid twitched. , it should be because of this.”
Li Guang: "The key point is that you don't know yet whether the cult will seize this opportunity, and you have no way to exert any influence. It's like drawing lots. You don't know what you will catch."
"Yes." Wang nodded solemnly, "My teacher would call this situation a 'roll of fate'. The result depends on how many dice that bastard called fate throws."
Li Guang: "Besides good luck, there is nothing to rely on."
Wang: "The key is that my right eyelid twitched, and my good luck also deserted me."
Liguang was very calm: "Then face the gift of fate."
"Ah, the gift of facing fate."
As soon as Wang finished speaking, his left eyelid twitched.
At first he thought it was an illusion, but his left eyelid clearly and clearly jumped again.
He suddenly felt his scalp numb, and a wave of ecstasy seized him: "My left eyelid jumped! It's over! The crisis is over!"
Li Guang: "Really?"
Wang: "Really, as long as the left eyelid twitches, there will be no more danger in the future. Maybe at that moment, the cult made some decision."
**
Five minutes ago, thousands of miles away in Thebes, the royal capital of Catalonia, a royal meeting was taking place.
The Prime Minister of the Empire, Imotepu, was making an impassioned speech: "Your Majesty! Even if you are a national advisor, you cannot dispatch the empire's troops so wantonly! The empire's legions are not private soldiers of the religious order!"
State Counselor Caseplan took a step forward: "I have never regarded the Imperial Legion as the private soldiers of the Religion, but that is the floating city! It was through the excavation of the ruins of the One-Eyed Empire that the Religion discovered the true god Ragnola. Only then did we acquire those technologies! Those technologies are now the cornerstone of Catalan!
"Before the cult shared its technology with you, you could only afford one-fifth of the current standing army! Each legion only had a mere two thousand people!
"If we can seize the floating city, which is also a legacy of the Cyclops Empire, the technology of the Order will definitely be further improved, and Catalonia will be even more glorious and dazzling! Your Majesty! By then, your majesty will reach Monrovia in the north and Monrovia in the east. To Ordas, and even further east to Wormer!”
Caseplan continued to speak, but the prime minister interrupted him: "That's enough! Stop feeding your majesty the ecstasy! Just because your majesty has now pushed you to the position of the state religion, Lancelot, Typhon and others The Church of the Righteous God is quite critical, and there are even rumors that it will withdraw its priests and paladins from the legion!
"Especially Typhon's paladin order. There is no longer a Typhon paladin in the imperial army, and they also refuse to provide guarantee services to the imperial officers!"
The paladins of Typhon often act as middlemen in transactions. Everyone will hand over the money and goods used in the transaction to the paladins of Typhon for safekeeping. The paladins will complete the transaction after both parties have fulfilled their agreed obligations.
If the paladins of Typhon refuse to provide guarantee services, many things will be impossible. Those who are rejected by Typhon's paladins will be regarded as unreliable by everyone and will never be trusted.
Caseplan frowned: "That's prejudice! The ultimate goal of my cult is to bring ultimate equality to the world. Typhon is known as..."
"Stop your talk, I don't want to argue with you!" The prime minister interrupted again, "In short, the imperial army will not send another person to your portal! Who knows whether those soldiers were killed by you? A living sacrifice! I know all the dirty things your order has done! Lancelot’s Paladins have always suspected that you kidnapped those few Paladins who opposed you!”
Caseplan: "That's slander. They have no evidence! Moreover, the missing people are all powerful paladins who are immune to all diseases and will not be charmed. My order does not have the strength to make such paladins disappear silently." !
"Maybe these paladins actually broke their oaths and became fallen warriors! Isn't it because of this possibility that Cardinal Lancelot did not publicly accuse the order? I can confront him!"
At this time, Emperor Yossis IX spoke: "My dear, please don't hurt your harmony."
State Preceptor Kaseplan took a deep breath and saluted the emperor: "Yes."
The imperial prime minister did not restrain himself at all: "Your Majesty, the two legions have already smashed in! Even for a big country like Monrovia or Cosania, it will be very difficult to destroy these two legions without mobilization. Now The national advisor didn't tell us the situation at all. He asked for more legions to enter the portal while speaking vaguely. I can't accept it!
"Didn't the cult say that all its masters have nine-ring strength? Then send a few more masters there. The rescue team can only have four rings at most. What kind of disturbance can it cause? In theory, a nine-ring master should be able to deal with them!"
Caseplan said with a straight face: "The masters of the Order have their own tasks."
"What mission is better than a floating city that can fly?" Imote Puzai asked instead, "You just said a lot of words emphasizing the importance of this floating city! Do you want to eat it back now?"
Kaseplan, who shot himself in the foot, looked ugly.
He stared at Imotepu: "Okay, Prime Minister, this is not the first time you have ruined our religious order!"
Imotepu said to King Yossis IX: "Your Majesty! Listen! The powerful minister under your command has threatened me! I am the prime minister of the empire! Now I doubt whether he still sees you as the emperor!
"Yes, the Salvation Team said that the ultimate goal of the cult is to destroy the world. Since the world is about to be destroyed, naturally you, the emperor, are not in their eyes!"
"Imotep!" Kaseplan shouted angrily, "Are you going to believe the words of the Salvation Team? Can't you see the changes that the Order has made in Catalan over the years?"
Imotepu: "Yes, the desert has turned into an oasis, and the cultivated land area has tripled! Of course I saw it! But at what cost? I have nightmares every day, dreaming about these cheap and tempting gifts, In the end, we Catalan will fall into an irreversible situation!"
Caseplan: "That's your imagination!"
Imotepu: "But there are all bad rumors about the sect among the people! Your Majesty, you are aware of this!"
At this time Yossis IX stood up.
The two people in the dispute immediately stopped and bowed their heads to Yossis.
"I am tired," Yossis said, "I will withdraw from the court."
(End of chapter)
