Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation When Hao Ren set off from White City with a silent, eccentric follower to find the whereabouts of the husky, the high-ranking monk Calaxus was shrouded in a solemn and depressing atmosphere in the southern part of the kingdom.
He and the alpha stood on the towering wall of Fort Raven. The high-ranking monk's face was gloomy.
He had become like this since the last time he went to the dungeon to see the smoke monster, which had inexplicably fallen into a weakened state.
Lily had never seen this incompetent counselor before. (Is it a bit inappropriate to call a high-ranking monk that?) Even when he led a large group of air crash survivors to board a hot air balloon and then fell into the Black Forest with a group of beasts, this taciturn uncle had never shown such a look. Looking at his expression now, it was as if the world was falling apart.
Or rather, the world was falling apart.
"What the hell is going on?" Lily asked curiously. "Is what the smoked meat said scary?"
"It is the Shadow of Nightmares. Well, the smoked meat is the same." Calaxus gave up correcting the alpha's stubbornness. He sighed. "What it said is a secret that only the high-ranking priests and a few scholars know. This secret coming from the mouth of a monster … it's creepy."
"What secret?" Lily flicked her ears. "Is Lockmarton about to crawl out? Or the warden's betrayal? "
Calaxus' heart could not help but race when the alpha said these terrible words so casually. Fortunately, the high-ranking monk had been with the alpha for a long time. He took a few deep breaths and quietly looked at the alpha for a while.
After a long time, he decided to tell her some limited things. Firstly, the alpha wolf was just an 'ignorant girl' who came from the Wilderness. There was no need to hide too many secrets in front of her. Secondly, the alpha wolf had a powerful Light of Order. This light reminded him of the legend of the Son of God. Such a natural favored child of Order was qualified to listen to certain things. Finally … Anyway, the alpha wolf had already heard some things from the Shadow of Nightmares. There was no harm in saying more at this time.
"Everyone knows that the ancient evil giant Lockmarton is dead, and the Chaos that remains in the world is just his echo. But in fact, what he left behind is not just an echo." The high-ranking monk's face turned blue. "In the depths of the Sea of Carnos, there is a forgotten abyss. Lockmarton's evil thoughts wander in the abyss, and the ancient wardens guard the entrance of the abyss day and night to prevent the spirit of the evil giant from returning to the real world and reassembling his body. Alpha, this is all I can tell you. The more detailed information … is already related to the Sanctuary's top secret. "
Lily nodded and didn't seem to mind.
"Alpha?" The high-ranking cultivator looked at Lily curiously. "You … don't you think this is a very scary thing? If what the monster said is true, then the trouble in our world will be … "
"It's okay, it's okay." Lily waved her hand. "You know, I think I'm going to find Mr. Landlord! Mr. Landlord is super powerful. He can blow up Lockmarton and all his ancestors at will. So as long as we can find Mr. Landlord, the problem will be solved. "
The high-ranking monk looked at the happy alpha, dumbfounded. He felt that the alpha did not understand what he was talking about.
He sighed helplessly, feeling like a fool trying to explain such a complicated problem to the alpha.
He thought of the "monster" in the dungeon again.
A supposedly disorderly and evil monster of Chaos had taken the initiative to communicate with people and spit out the secret logically and methodically. It was shocking. Calaxus immediately asked about the origin of the monster, but the monster did not speak again. It seemed that it was extremely afraid of mentioning its real name and origin.
All of this made him have a lot of conjectures, and none of them were good.
"Uncle, what are you thinking about?" Lily looked curiously at the high-ranking monk who was silent. "Are you hungry?"
"I am thinking whether to return to Sanctum immediately or continue our mission," Calaxus told the truth. He rarely hid anything from the alpha. "I am very concerned about what the monster said. I am afraid that there will be a disaster in Sanctum that could turn the world upside down. But our mission is equally important. This mission is closely related to the survival of Sanctum, and the survival of Sanctum is the survival of the world."
"By the way, you haven't told me what your mission is," Lily said, staring at Calaxus. "We have been adventuring together for so long, but you only say that you are an investigation team. That's not very kind of you. Don't try to fool me with those fake things. I'm telling you, I'm not stupid! "
Calaxus opened his mouth, and finally, as if he had made up his mind, he nodded slightly.
"We came to Ansu Continent, nominally to investigate the changes of Chaos on this continent and to explain to the Kingdom of Taros the reason for the withdrawal of Sanctum troops. But in fact, we are going to the southern border of Ansu Continent to look for a 'light' in the wilderness."
"A light?" Lily blinked. "Why do you religious people talk so cryptically? Who can understand what you are saying?"
"It's hard to explain," Calaxus said with a smile. "Because this is the mission that His Holiness the Pope has given us. We don't know what the true body of the light is. We only know that its approximate location is in the middle of the wilderness, where there should be a temple called Cassouin. Few people in the secular world have heard of this temple, but it was one of the most important strongholds of Sanctum in Ansu Continent a long time ago. The destination of our investigation team is there. "
"Oh," Lily said with a thoughtful look on her face.
At this moment, she saw Duke Ulysses, the owner of Fort Raven, out of the corner of her eye, walked up the wall and came straight to her.
"Hey, General!" Lily waved at Ulysses. "Taking a walk?"
Duke Ulysses' footsteps were obviously shaky, but he calmly came up to Lily and said casually, "Is the alpha wolf observing the movement in the forest?"
"I'm enjoying the breeze," Lily said frankly. "And chatting with Calaxus."
"Oh, ahem … It's good to be blown by the wind." As an old noble, Ulysses was not used to talking to the alpha. He often choked on his words. "Alpha, I came to you because I have something to discuss with you."
"Oh, go ahead."
"My soldiers have recently observed that your army is entering the Black Forest in batches. They have cut down the trees there, and a large number of abhumans are clearing the open space and camping on the east and west sides of the wilderness. I shouldn't ask about the movements of your army, but I'm curious. What are they doing?"
"Building a city, of course," Lily replied casually.
Ulysses was dumbfounded. "Build … Build a city?"
"That's right," Lily wagged her tail proudly (but her tail was covered by the wolf skin cloak, so it could not be seen from the outside), "If we want to live here for a long time, how can we not build a city?"
Ulysses was speechless. He had never seen such a thing in his life. A large group of beasts suddenly ran to the border of an orderly kingdom to build a city. The straight-line distance between the city and Fort Raven was almost face to face.
As the general of Fort Raven, his first reaction was to feel that something was wrong. But soon he found that he had no good reason to stop it.
The southern border of Taros ended at Fort Raven. Before the attack of the Chaos, there were strongholds and even villages of Taros in the wilderness outside the fort, but it was more for the purpose of warning the invasion of the Chaos. When the war began, the kingdom had publicly abandoned a large area south of Fort Raven.
It was an unclaimed land, and anyone could occupy it as long as he could survive the tide of Chaos.
So even if the beasts built a city there, even if they intended to put the city wall directly in front of Fort Raven, they did not encroach on an inch of the kingdom's land. Morally speaking, they had the freedom.
From another perspective, it was now the period of the War of Chaos, and the wilderness was the front line of the war between Chaos and Order. The Taros people had done their best to hold this line of defense, and of course, they had no spare power to recover the lost land. In this case, the abhumans building a city in the wilderness was actually helping the Taros people to strengthen the defense line and expand the territory of the forces of Order. Although Ulysses was reluctant to admit it, he also knew that Fort Raven was entirely relying on the shelter of the Beast Tide to stand tall.
If the abhumans could build a strong enough kingdom in the south of the wilderness, though it was still too early to think about it, then the southern border of the Kingdom of Taros might even become a land of peace. It would no longer be bordered by the Chaos.
Of course, the premise was that the beasts and Taros did not break out in a war.
After thinking about it, Duke Ulysses finally found that at least at this stage, it was not a bad thing for the abhumans to build a city on the great wasteland. Given the current war situation, he did not have the time to think about those things that were too long-term.
He realized that all he cared about was the fact that "magical beasts actually knew how to build a city" …
How could a group of beasts, recognized as barbaric creatures, build a city?
What was the alpha thinking?
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