"Did you really get it?"
Haku asked. Seeing Brando's strange expression, she had a seventy to eighty percent guess in her heart.
"That Shard is the main reason I'm heading to the Kirrlutz Empire's Eastern Metz region, or else the Black Orb alone wouldn't be enough to make me move. I'm not safe anywhere outside of Madara, the spies of the Unifying Guild are everywhere."
After confirming this, the woman's voice calmed down and explained.
After listening to her words, Brando understood. He grasped the crack of the glacier firmly and climbed back to his previous position. At the same time, he calmed himself down from the previous shock.
It had to be said that under the stimulation of this woman, he seemed to have regained the sharpness that originally belonged to the game. After carefully analyzing the pros and cons, he asked: "You want to get this fragment from me?"
Haku hurriedly said: "No, it's an exchange. I can pay you a satisfactory price. Anyway, you are not interested in the Relic of Eternity."
But now Brando's thoughts had changed.
He shook his head and said: "It's impossible for anyone not to be interested in the Relic of Eternity. I only said this before because I'm different from you, Miss Tiamas. You can take away things that don't belong to you by any means, but I can't, because I don't think there's anything more important in this world than upholding principles. And in fact, I want to remind you that the Relic of Eternity doesn't belong to you, and it hasn't been engraved with a person's name. "
Haku closed her mouth. Of course, she thought this was a kind of bargaining, because it was her own nature: "You mean to say that you want me to raise the price. It doesn't matter, I don't care. You can ask for anything you want."
These words made Brando raise his eyebrows. He really couldn't stand this woman's logic and finally couldn't help but mock: "Then give you to me —"
A chill rose from Brando's back.
"You're playing with fire," Haku's voice suddenly became a few degrees colder: "That's impossible. I'm the princess of the Empire, not Lei Feng. Other than that —"
"That's why, don't make promises that you can't keep. Besides, what you said before is not quite the same as what you are saying now; I have not forgotten poor M. de Villefort, and perhaps you would have considered his feelings before making your statement? "
"Damn it, shut up!" Bai was infuriated. "I don't want to talk about this. If you want to make a deal with me, don't try to provoke me. Don't think that I have to get that fragment from you."
But Brando didn't care about this threat at all. He calmly replied, "That's exactly what I wanted to say, Ms. Tiamas."
There was a long period of silence between the two of them.
Brando was overjoyed when he saw an ice crevice that was wide enough for one person to pass through. Climbing in such a place was much easier than climbing on a glacier. He subconsciously increased his speed.
Not long after he sped up, a bright light appeared above the ice crevice. The light shone down from the ice, forming a long, magnificent tunnel that stretched for about a few miles. Seeing this, Brando knew that they were very close to the ground. The light could only come from the ice sheet, which meant that the ice was quite thin in this place.
But Hao Ren's silence finally made Haku unable to hold on. "What's your condition?" She had to take the initiative to speak. Her voice was a little hoarse, as if it was not coming from the same person.
She seemed to be suffering. Thousands of years of searching for the Relic of Eternity had almost become an obsession for her, and this idea even made her a little paranoid and crazy.
"Of course," Bai Leng said coldly, "except for that one condition."
"Which one?" Brando sneered.
"You know, you bastard!"
Brando shook his head, knowing that he had finally taken back the initiative. It was not difficult, and it was not because he was smarter than Haku, but because he knew that he had the absolute initiative in this conversation.
Haku could not do anything to him, and even needed his help. If she could not take the lead in the conversation, then he would be a failure.
Previously, he did not argue with Haku because she was Metisha's sister, but the main reason was that there was no conflict of interest between the two of them.
But now, it was different.
Brando knew very well that if he could not take the initiative in the next conversation, some of his ideas could not be realized.
As for the fragments, he was also determined to get them.
"You still don't quite understand what I mean, Miss Tiamas." He took the initiative to remind Haku, "I'm telling you this not because I want to insult you, but because I want to tell you that our positions in this transaction are equal. Of course, I have more resources, and it's you who want to get something from me. I can choose not to accept your proposal, so don't take everything for granted."
He continued, "You are Metisha's sister, the princess of the Silver Elves, but unfortunately, you are a human. Your identity does not have any binding force on me, so in terms of position, we are also equal, do you understand?"
Haku was silent, but Brando knew that her silence was actually a tacit agreement.
However, he did not take the initiative to speak, but instead, he sped up and climbed to the surface. The bottom of the glacier was getting brighter, and the surrounding ice layer had changed from the previous blue to the current light blue, and was gradually evolving into a colorless and transparent direction.
After a while, Haku's voice sounded again, and she still asked in a hoarse voice, "What do you want?"
Although the question was almost exactly the same as before, the meaning behind it was completely different. This Silver Elf Queen was no idiot. Her several hundred years of experience had proven this point. Perhaps she was a little stubborn, but she definitely wasn't stupid.
She knew that Brando was not talking to her about principles and equality, but about his own conditions. These words only meant one thing, and that was that if she wanted to get that thing, she had to follow his wishes.
Her question was actually already a compromise.
Brando nodded.
"Let's talk about the fragments again. You said that Tuman brought them out from a place called Osopal," he asked, "Is this a legend, or is it true?"
"It is true."
"You heard it from Villefort, do you have any other evidence to prove it?"
"When I was hiding in All for One, I found some information that can confirm this. Tuman had been to this place before, but as to whether it was by chance or because of Odin's instructions, I don't know. "
Brando was silent, and although the speed of his hands and feet did not slow down at all, and he was still climbing rapidly to the surface, he had already believed Haku's words in his heart.
In history, there was a place called Osopal in the Wilderness of the Four Territories, where the Miirnas, the Silver Folk, and the humans had a great battle, and Tuman was said to have died in that battle. The place where Osopal used to be was the area of today's Land of Dusk, but like the final battlefield, people could no longer find the ancient battlefield.
Such things were not uncommon in Wohnde. Many places in Wohnde were between the physical world and the world of laws, such as Himilud's throne and the Lache of Wa where they were now. They themselves were a kind of law, or the manifestation of God's kingdom on the ground, and may never appear again for some reason.
However, Brando remembered that Tuman had once given him a treasure map, and that treasure map was buried deep in his mind, and he could only vaguely remember some details. Tuman had said that when his strength reached a certain level, he would be able to understand what was described on the treasure map, but now that he was already a supreme existence, he still knew little about the treasure map.
When Braggs was sorting out the relics of Andina's father, he had obtained a hand-drawn map from the relics and letters left behind by him. At that time, he found that the map was similar to the treasure map left by Tuman in his memory, and the ciphertext on the map was marked with the name Osopal.
These clues happened to coincide with what Haku had said.
When Haku mentioned Villefort before, Brando felt that the name was somewhat familiar. He vaguely remembered that when Andina was talking about her family, she had mentioned this name, and it seemed that he was from the generation of her grandfather's father.
And Andina did indeed move from Randner to Braggs when her father's generation fell. Of course, although it could be a coincidence or someone with the same name, after all, the name Villefort was considered common in Erouine, and it was not a rare or uncommon name.
But the name Villefort was closely related to Seifer's Heart, the Relic of Eternal Indestructibility, and the name Osopal. It was obviously not a coincidence that such a map was found in Andina's father's relics.
Besides, Brando also remembered another thing. When he found Borg Nesson's corpse in the forbidden orchard, one of the fragments was found next to the corpse.
All the evidence pointed to one truth, and that was that Villefort was very likely Andina's ancestor. One of the children of Haku's deceased wife was Andina's grandfather.
Andina was a descendant of the Seifer Royal Family?
A possibility that made Brando feel a little cold flashed through his mind. He suddenly remembered why the necklace that Chiara gave him looked so familiar.
… …
You've already exceeded your reading limit for today. If you want to read more, please log in.
Login
Select text and click 'Report' to let us know about any bad translation.
