After sending away a group of professionals, the musketeer captain signaled the others to put away their guns.
He came to the Grand Duke and glanced at the man in black who was holding the horse for the Grand Duke.
"Grand Duke, why don't you send this one away together?"
Archduke James glared at him angrily and said dissatisfied: "What, you still want to interfere with my affairs?"
"This kid has a good eye. He knows that the Grand Duke likes to hear people call me Grand Duke James. I like him and keep him by my side. You have nothing to do with it!"
"Okay, you are no longer needed here. You can take people back! Next, my personal guard will take over here and protect my safety."
"This...is, Grand Duke."
Faced with the intimidating look in the Archduke's eyes, the Musketeer Captain swallowed back the words that came to his lips.
He is not one of those idiots outside. He worked as a servant for the Grand Duke in his early years and knows the Grand Duke's temperament.
Otherwise, the Grand Duke would not directly name him as his companion.
He is not the only musketeer captain in the musketeers.
"You brat, you're quite obedient. Work hard and I'll promote you to captain in a few days!"
I go!
When you say that, I become energetic!
The Musketeer Captain looked back at the Archduke excitedly, and received indeed a look of contempt from the Archduke.
The musketeer captain scratched his head with a smile and ran away with his men.
When all the outsiders left and only the man in black and the Grand Duke were left, the man in black fell to his knees.
"Subordinates, please see the Grand Duke."
"Get up. What's going on? Why are you hurt?"
"My subordinate is incompetent and was injured by the old man from the Magic Guild."
"What! Damn old guy, if he had known I would let Fisli shoot him!"
Feisili is the golden knight just now. He has good archery skills. It is said that he practiced archery for a while with a ranger who passed by the village when he was young.
Unfortunately, the ranger later left, and Feisili, who had no guidance, distinguished himself in the army with his good archery skills. He was appreciated by his superiors, who then recruited him as his son-in-law and passed on the fighting spirit passed down from his family to him.
Fisli has now embarked on the path of a knight, but his archery skills are even better than ordinary hunters.
It's more than enough to sneak attack a mage.
"Don't worry, Grand Duke. We are not at a loss. Although the old man concealed himself well, as an assassin, I still saw that he was shot and injured at the time. It was just that the distance was a bit far, so I couldn't see where he was injured."
"Oh? It seems that your talent is quite good. In this way, while you are recuperating, I will give you a holiday and you can go to the palace to study. I will say hello to the queen, and she will arrange for someone to guide you."
"Thank you Grand Duke for the reward."
"Okay, don't thank me. Tell me, what happened here? What are your three men looking for at the bottom of the lake?"
The man in black scratched his head in embarrassment and replied: "Actually, I don't know what happened. Because when I arrived here, I only saw the ending. As for my subordinates, they were helping others at the bottom of the lake. Master Zola is trying to salvage something. I don’t know exactly what it is. But something that attracts Master Zola’s attention must be something very precious!”
"Huh? Zola is here? Why didn't I know."
The man in black thought for a while and decided to take the Duke to have a look.
"Well, Your Majesty Duke, please dismount and follow me. By the way, be prepared and don't be surprised when the time comes."
The Duke smiled, dismounted, and followed.
"Why, you are just like the fools outside, thinking that this Grand Duke only pretends to be pretentious and is a pustule!"
"I don't dare to do that. The Grand Duke's wisdom is beyond the reach of outsiders."
"You're just a flatterer, but I like it."
"Hehe. No, I only speak from my heart."
"It's over, it's over."
The two of them have no airs of superiority and inferiority at all, and they are just like friends.
After walking more than ten meters into the forest, the Grand Duke suddenly stopped and looked at the scene in front of him in surprise.
I saw a huge ice block standing between two or three frozen trees.
In the ice, a ferocious spider monster was frozen inside.
"This is—the monster that escaped last night?"
For some reason, the Grand Duke's first reaction was to think of the monster that caused uproar in the city last night but suddenly disappeared.
"The Duke is wise! He really has a unique discernment. His subordinates also studied it for a long time before deducing that it was the monster."
The Grand Duke did not respond to the flattery of the man in black, but relaxed and walked forward.
Not afraid of the low temperature released by the solid ice, he leaned in front of the ice and carefully observed the monster inside.
"It's strange, since it was Zola who took action, how come there are so many injuries on it. This is not in line with Zola's aesthetics at all."
"Grand Duke, you misunderstood. This monster was not injured by Master Zola. When I arrived, I happened to see Master Zola standing on the tree by the lake, looking at the whirlpool that appeared in the lake."
"And in the whirlpool, this injured monster is using spider silk to wrap around the trees on the shore and escape from the lake."
"As soon as it came ashore, it was frozen by Master Zola's sword. Then Master Zola fought it into the three forests and hid it. Then he jumped into the whirlpool and brought out two seriously injured and unconscious people from the bottom of the lake... people."
"Huh? What are you hesitating about?"
"My subordinate feels that the title may be a bit wrong, because I feel that one of the people rescued by Lord Zola may not be a human being."
"Oh? Is there such a thing? But since it's Zola's decision, we don't have to worry about it."
"Later, Master Zola probably discovered his subordinate and recognized his origin, so he asked his subordinates to help salvage the things from the bottom of the lake and keep it secret."
"Yeah, yeah, Zola asked you to keep it a secret, and you still tell me, aren't you afraid that she will settle a score with you?"
"Sir, please stop making fun of me. Since Zola-sama knows my identity, he will definitely know that I want to report the results of the investigation to you. How could he care about this with me?"
"So, Zola's purpose is to save people. As for the monster, it's just to help me."
"Ah? What do you mean, Grand Duke?"
"Haha, you are still too young. Stand back and stay away. Be careful of hurting you. This monster is not dead!"
"What!"
"Don't worry, since Zola didn't kill it on the spot, it means that this thing is not something she can handle immediately, or in other words, she can't handle it in a short time. So, she left it to me!"
Now, the man in black was excited.
"Grand Duke, are you going to do it yourself?"
"Yeah, I haven't been active for a long time, and I don't know if my skills have deteriorated."
Hearing this, the man in black was so excited that his eyes became wet.
Oh my God, the Grand Duke actually wanted to do it in front of him!
He was actually lucky enough to see the Grand Duke’s swordsmanship!
No one knew that the grand duke in front of them, who seemed to have no heart and was full of anger, was a ninth-level golden swordsman! It's only half a step away from the holy level!
Because anyone who has seen the Grand Duke’s swordsmanship is either his confidant or a dead person!
As a direct subordinate of the Grand Duke, the man in black has only heard rumors about the Grand Duke. Now that the Grand Duke wants to demonstrate his swordsmanship in front of him, doesn't it mean that he has been regarded as a confidant by the Grand Duke!
How could he not be excited!
"What are you doing standing there stupidly? I asked you to stand far away and not hear me!"
"Ah ah ah, yes, yes. Please stay away from me."
The man in black retreated to the edge of the forest and stood still.
The Grand Duke curled his lips, a little dissatisfied.
"This distance affects my performance a bit. Forget it, no matter how far it is, you can't see me."
The Grand Duke slowly drew out the foil sword from his waist.
This is a small thin sword. This kind of sword is generally used by nobles for entertainment or for decoration.
After all, not every noble is a professional, but that does not prevent them from having a heart that pretends to be strong.
The sword on the Grand Duke is naturally not a decoration, although most people think it is.
The Grand Duke, holding a foil sword, exuded a depressing aura.
Even the man in black who was more than ten meters away felt difficulty breathing.
The Grand Duke calmed down and concentrated on the monster in front of him.
"Even if you are frozen, you are still exuding rich flame energy. It seems that you have amazing power hidden in your body. No wonder Zola wants to freeze you!"
"However, you can't be a monster if it's frozen."
"Enter Foil James!"
"Sword Dance·Dazzling Flowers!"
The foil sword in Archduke James' hand turned into streaks of white light, shrouding the ice.
"Ding Ding Dang" sounded crispy, and the figure of Dagong disappeared on the ground and appeared around the ice.
I saw a figure of the Duke appearing to the left, right, front, and even above the ice.
The foil sword in the Grand Duke's hand turned into countless rays of light and fell on the ice.
"Huh! I'm exhausted. I'm old and useless. I can't stand even a little exercise."
As the Grand Duke's figure appeared directly in front of the ice again, the man in black suddenly felt that the pressure on his body disappeared and his breathing became easier.
"Wonderful, the Grand Duke's swordsmanship is really..."
"do not come!"
The Grand Duke stopped the man in black who wanted to step forward.
The man in black was stunned, wondering why the Grand Duke suddenly changed his face.
"Let's go!" the Grand Duke's voice sounded in my ears.
The man in black's eyes were dazzled when the Grand Duke appeared beside him, grabbed his shoulders and led him towards the lake.
"Boom! Boom!"
There was a loud noise, accompanied by bright firelight, and a wave of heat hit his face.
"thump!"
The Grand Duke led the man in black and jumped into the lake and plunged into the bottom of the lake.
Phew~
A heat wave passed over the lake and almost reached the other side of the lake.
"Zizzi!"
A layer of water on the lake surface was evaporated by the heat, and the water dropped sharply.
After a while, the Grand Duke climbed onto the table with a dark face, carrying the man in black who had drank enough water.
In the distance, three embarrassed figures wearing black clothes and masks climbed up from the river.
They swam from the bottom of the lake to the river because they were salvaging something.
When the explosion occurred, although the heat wave did not affect them, the vibration made their ears ring and their brains swell.
"I didn't expect it! I was careless!"
The Grand Duke looked at the entire forest that had been razed to the ground and the lake whose water level had dropped by more than half.
Originally a small lake of a few hundred meters, due to the explosion, it directly turned into a large lake of over a thousand meters.
But if you want to fill up the lake, I'm afraid the river will have to pay attention to it for a long time!
"No! My private army!"
Suddenly, the Archduke let out a scream of grief.
He remembered that his private army was nearby to defend him when the explosion occurred, and he was afraid that he would suffer heavy losses this time!
That's his private army! It was completely a private army he built with his own money!
Except for Feisili who left, I'm afraid everyone else will suffer!
I'm afraid not many people can survive such an explosion!
"Zola! Your mother cheated on me!"
