Black Fire Palace.
Garen sat on his own Palace Master's throne, carefully playing with the Green Vine Sphere in his hand.
This little thing was like a small animal, crawling from his left hand to his left shoulder. After he grabbed it and put it on the back of his hand, it persevered and continued to climb up his left shoulder.
Garon casually grabbed it again and again, watching it climb up.
Ivycius stood behind the throne, holding his sword with both hands, quietly leaning against a black pillar. Watching Garon play with the Green Vine Sphere in boredom.
"The second Great Aristocratic Assembly is about to begin, you're not going?"
Garon smiled.
"How was the first one? I didn't hear anything interesting happened. "
Ivycius closed his eyes to rest.
"It's just some boring stuff."
Garon carefully sensed the Green Vine Sphere and said casually. "There are all kinds of people participating in this Great Aristocratic Assembly, any mid-level aristocrat or above is allowed. With so many people talking, what good ideas can they come up with? "
Most of the aristocrats were mid-level aristocrats, these people were the backbone of various departments and units, and also the main members of the aristocratic class. They liked to compete, loved vanity, and clung to power. At a time like this, most of the arguments would probably be about dividing up the land and resources of the Kingdom.
Garon didn't need to go to imagine what the scene would be like.
"It's different this time, it's about deciding the true situation of the Kingdom." Ivycius said calmly.
"We've taken over the palace, who would dare say anything?" Garon said lazily, "Forget it, I'll just go and see what those old guys have to say."
He had gotten enough, the Royal Treasury was still under his control, there was a steady flow of weapons, equipment, resources, and treasures.
But he didn't see the most important thing. That was the Secret Treasure!
What made Garon suspicious was that he couldn't find a single Secret Treasure in the entire Royal Treasury. This didn't make sense.
The only possibility was that the Royal Family definitely had another secret Treasury. This was where the real Secret Treasure was kept.
"I won't be going. I'm at a critical moment right now," Ivycius said from behind.
Garon did not care about him. Although Ivycius had been transformed into a dragon demon by him, if he were to forcefully control him, he might lose his potential to advance.
Walking out of the palace and on the way to the parliament, Black Fire Guards walked out from the corners of the Black Fire Palace.
These guards seemed to have walked out of the dense bushes and walked out of the shadows.
Garon walked past the flowers in the garden. Instantly, countless green plants grew crazily, entangling with each other and quickly condensing into the shape of a human. Very soon, his entire body seemed to bear fruit, forming pieces of hard black heavy armor.
In less than a few minutes, the plants in the bushes grew into a brand new Black Fire Guard, following closely behind Garon.
Garon held the Green Vine Sphere in his hand. He already completely understood the origin of the Black Fire Guards.
That was, the Green Vine Sphere was a child body formed through the assembly of plants. They needed a plant called the Verde Flower, and by growing the roots of this plant, they could condense the Black Fire Guards.
The Black Fire Guards were completely covered in armor and could not be seen inside. Therefore, no one knew that the inside of their armor was not a human, but an assembly of plants.
The Green Vine Sphere could only produce a fixed number of two hundred Black Fire Guards. Among them, there were four form three, the so-called four guards. The rest were all form two. Their weakness was that their individual strength was slightly weak. Their strength was that they did not fear death at all times, and their self-destruction was powerful.
Garon had almost used up all the Verde Flowers in the Black Fire Palace to barely replenish the number of Black Fire Guards.
At the same time, he also asked his servants to plant more Verde Flowers. With special methods, a Verde Flower only needed two months to bloom and grow vines all over the ground. And to form a Black Fire Guard, only ten flowers were needed.
Other than the Black Fire Guards that were sent out, Garon had recreated more than a hundred Black Fire Guards in the Black Fire Palace. They were sent to various parts of the palace to assist the Silver Palace's guards in defense.
The Silver Palace's Royal Guards were not the Royal Guards that were announced to the outside world. Instead, they were real internal guards made up entirely of totem users.
Royal Guards like his cousin Hathaway were only peripheral members. They did not have the right to be involved in major matters.
*****
The Kingdom's Trade Area
The Royal Theatre
This huge black building, the size of a football field, stood in the east of the Kingdom. It looked like a huge ship, with Kovitan's black and red flag in front of it.
The square outside the theatre was already filled with a dense crowd.
There were three areas that were especially eye-catching.
Three groups of people dressed in military uniforms stood together. Their uniforms were white, black, and dark blue respectively. They were the three major armies of the Kingdom, the Dawn Eagles, the Third Heavy Armor Regiment, and the Dark Blue Flag.
These three major armies were the main forces in charge of defending the West Farm's defensive line. Now that their people had returned to the Kingdom, their intentions were quite interesting.
The rest of the empty space was filled with nobles from various places.
Carriages arrived one after another. Occasionally, a totem beast like a giant bird would slowly descend.
When Garon arrived with the Black Fire Guards, it was already afternoon and the sky was dark.
Four monsters with very long legs appeared in front of the theatre. On their backs, there were four bright braziers.
These four monsters looked like black water buffaloes. Only, compared to normal water buffaloes, their four legs were too tall. They were at least ten meters tall. They looked extremely strange.
"Whose totem beast is that?" Garon asked the white-haired noble lady who was leading the way curiously.
"Palace Master, that is the original owner of the theatre, Earl Eli's ornamental mutated beast. It is not a totem. "The white-haired young lady replied softly.
"Oh? Mutated beast? "Garon felt that the mutation was affecting the lives of the entire world more and more.
A group of people walked onto the square. The nobles who were originally chatting all stopped talking and walked towards them.
Some of them bowed, some had vigilant looks in their eyes, and some had curious looks on their faces. But they all opened up a path for them to pass through.
Garon walked through the crowd with the four Black Fire Guards following behind him. The Black Fire Palace Master's black cloak fluttered behind him, making crisp flapping sounds.
In front of the theatre's arched white door, Veska and the two Grand Dukes were chatting in three.
"The Black Fire Palace Master has arrived!!"
The herald shouted loudly.
The three of them instantly stopped talking and looked towards Garon.
Veska was expressionless. The slightly chubby Grand Duke Cody looked indifferent. He only nodded at Garon.
Only Grand Duke Benoc, this tall and skinny white-haired old man, smiled at Garon in a friendly manner.
Garon returned the smile.
There were no guards around the three of them. A small space was immediately cleared out.
As Garon walked over with the Black Fire Guards, he suddenly stopped in his tracks.
An extremely strong pushing force was coming from the front. This pushing force was so strong that even Garon's Nine-Headed Dragon, who was known for his strength, stopped in his tracks.
A look of surprise appeared on his face as he scanned his surroundings.
No one was within ten meters of the three of them. It was as if there was an invisible and terrifying force field isolating a certain area around the three of them.
The noble leading the way had already stopped in his tracks respectfully, standing on the right with his head lowered.
"The area in front is not something we can enter. Palace Master, please enter on your own."
"Interesting."
Garon licked his lips. The red light dragon shadow flashed on his face.
Bam!
He took a forceful step forward, and as if embedded, forced his way into the force field the three of them had gathered.
The three-dot mark between his brows became even redder.
Garon took two steps forward, and as if he was not stopped at all, he walked straight towards the three of them.
The surrounding force field instantly dispersed, as if acknowledging that his strength qualified him to enter their circle.
The four Black Fire Guards were unable to enter, and could only wait outside.
"Welcome." Benoc, as the number one fighter in the Kingdom in name, was mysterious and unfathomable. He took the lead in showing a friendly attitude towards Garon.
"Grand Duke Benoc, I've heard of your name from Prynne a long time ago. Nice to meet you, I am Garon, Garon Trejons." Garon pressed one hand to his chest, and made a junior's salute.
"Not bad, not bad!" Benoc nodded and smiled. "Let me introduce. This is Cody, Grand Duke Cody. "He patted the short and fat old man beside him. It seemed like the two of them were close, which was why they were so casual.
"As for Veska on the other side, I'm sure you've met him a long time ago."
"Of course." Garon looked at Veska. The latter nodded slightly, and did not say anything else.
"Since everyone is here, then let us begin." Benoc clapped his hands, and said a few words to the herald beside him. "Let's go, everyone go in."
He was the first to turn and walk into the theater.
"The second meeting of the Great Conference of Nobles officially begins!!"
Following the herald's shout, Garon and the other two walked into the theater. Following closely behind were the normal upper-level nobles. There were sixteen of them in total, and half of them were relatives of the two Grand Dukes. The rest were representatives of the forces of the Emperor's Academy, as well as ministers of some important organizations, such as the minister of military affairs, the minister of agriculture, the minister of finance, and so on. These people still had the right to speak when Alric was alive, but at a critical time like this, without enough power, they could only be of the same level as Garon and the others.
Then there were large groups of middle-level nobles. These people were representatives of various large and small families. Some of them took advantage of the chaos to occupy a certain amount of territory and benefits, and needed the Great Conference to clear their names. Once they succeeded, these properties would truly be their family's properties.
Others were victims, and wanted to rely on the Great Conference's power to redress their grievances.
There were also people who came to observe the situation, to decide their next direction and faction. There were also people with various intentions.
When the middle-level nobles walked in, the empty theater instantly became much livelier, buzzing as if there were countless flies flying around.
At the very top of the theater, someone had already moved a row of seats. There were eight seats in total. They faced the hundreds of seats below, high up. Around them were guards in dark golden armor.
Garen, however, was paying attention to something else.
In the four corners of the black ceiling of the theater, there were four pitch-black bat gargoyles.
The four gargoyles had blood-red eyes, quietly curled up in the four corners. They looked like ordinary decorative sculptures, but in reality, there was a mysterious fluctuation in the air.
Garon retracted his gaze, and just happened to see Grand Duke Benoc smile at him.
This tall and thin old man's skin was pale, his nose high, and there was a cross-shaped scar on his forehead. When he smiled, it was slightly sinister.
Clearly, he could tell that Garon had discovered the setup here.
He was the one who proposed the Great Conference, so naturally, he was the one who set up these traps.
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