Chapter 656: The Big Boss's Confession
Although the Skull and Bones Society has always been a cancer parasitic in the root system of the Empire, to be honest, this ancient organization and the Imperial Family have actually maintained a complex relationship of mutual checks and balances, and even symbiosis and co-prosperity.
It stands to reason that the Skull and Bones Society should be an important insurance institution to restrain the imperial power, for example, when a certain emperor begins to go berserk and do some ridiculous and crazy things, harming the fundamental interests of the empire, the highest association of nobles, the skeleton will come forward to stop, restrain or even depose the emperor, and then re-elect a pleasing one from among the huge royal family members to replace him.
And that seems to be the case now......
The empire is troubled internally and externally, the Duchy of Cool Bear is openly in rebellion, and the countries on the mainland are eyeing each other, but the most important thing is that the current emperor, His Majesty the "Fear of Emperor" Durontar, seems to meet all the elements of the so-called "faint monarch". It's time for the Skull Society to "turn the tide".
Although if it is carefully reckoned, Durontal is not only murderous, too strict and violent towards the aristocratic class, and leaves no room for it, that is, he is more absurd and debauched in his private life, and has done some things that even the most shameless nobles dare not show off publicly. In addition, although Durontar is not a good emperor who is wise and wise, at least in terms of administration, he has really not done a few "bad deeds" that can make people talk about it and bring disaster to the country and the people.
The rebellion of the Principality of Cool Bear is a historical legacy that cannot be easily reconciled, and a full-scale civil war is only a matter of time. And the hostility of the mainland countries towards the empire has never disappeared one day, and both sides are always trying to destroy and annex each other. And the overall decline of the empire's national power is not entirely the responsibility of him, the emperor, but the corruption and degeneration of the aristocratic circle is more like a direct factor.
However, Goron, who had seen His Majesty the Emperor with his own eyes, knew that these were just illusions at all, and they were misguided by what His Majesty had left to the world that could not be wronged. The real Durontal is not the rumored bloodthirsty demon with a big waist and a round waist, tyrannical and brainless, but a middle-aged Sven who looks sick but has the temperament of a philosopher. And he's not the rumored primitive sex beast with only a female or male brain, at least not in that area.
There is only one rumor about Durontar that is true, he is a madman, a madman in every way. But it's not the kind of madman who does things without a brain and only relies on instinct, but a super madman with a clear mind, a clear purpose, a firm will, and a persistent belief that wants to destroy this country and even the world.
Whether it's the Skull and Bones Guild or the Great Tyrant, both sides are actually bastards. Whether the little ogre wants it or not, he has been deeply involved in this political game, being an unhappy pawn. Looking at it now, the Emperor of Terror is still an ally for the time being, but he can't help at all, and the Skull and Bones Society has officially become Golon's number one enemy, which can be said to be endless. For the current little ogre, it has become a top priority to learn as much as possible about each other's secrets and find a way to know the weakness and even the dead hole of this damn organization.
In fact, as early as when exploring the Macedonian underground palace, there were many questions in Golon's heart, mainly about some strange and irrational aspects of the structure of this underground palace. Although not an expert in architecture, the little ogre has recently explored many places such as ancient labyrinths of prehistoric ruins, and is very sensitive to the unusual aspects of these buildings.
Now that the mysterious interference has been lifted, after the exploration of the second supernatural power, Goron was finally able to determine that this Macedonian bunker was in the periphery of the incomparably large prehistoric ruins that seemed to occupy the entire underground world of the Dota Continent. It is likely that it is a large base built specifically to explore the ruins.
It's just that the progress of the skeleton's exploration of the ruins, for some reason, is far less rapid than the progress of the Brahadley family, and it is basically only in the stage of exploring the periphery and trying to open the entrance. Although in the eye of the little ogre's supernatural powers, they were very close to the entrance to the ruins.
The automatic defense mechanism of this relic is so powerful that even the Skull and Bones Guild can't get started, but for the little ogre, not only is he already familiar with this place, but even the good brother has hacked into some of the ruins' defense system not long ago. Maybe it's because of these reasons, or because the sixth supernatural power of the other world is too magical, giving the little ogre the ability to shuttle through matter, in short, in the "eyes" of these self-help defense mechanisms, the little ogre does not belong to the category that needs to be excluded and expelled.
Almost without hindrance, Goron led the two women into the ruins without any hindrance.
However, the place they entered this time was obviously very different from the last time the Brahadley family had opened the entrance, and after passing through the outer wall of the ruins of astonishing thickness, they appeared directly in a strange place. At the foot of the foot is a smooth and flat crystal floating island with an area of about tens of thousands of square meters, and beyond the floating island, it is like an aurora, and like a sea of clouds like colorful smoke.
By the way it feels, the crystal floating island seems to be moving smoothly at an alarming speed, but the destination is unknown.
Although he couldn't help himself just now, with the strength of the top dark walker in the Black Lake, he still knew that he was being taken by the little ogre and sneaked all the way to the underground. But how did I come to this weird floating island.
"Where is this?" Seeing that he was suddenly in an incredible space, Black Lake temporarily forgot about his awkward relationship with Goron and asked out loud. Although the big boss Cassandra seems to be quite calm, looking around, her big eyes that keep flashing still reveal that her mind is not calm.
"Here...... It may be the origin of this world, a far older origin than the twelve magic emperors and the gods of the heavenly realm. Goron pondered for a moment and said, "If my inference is correct, the entire Dota Continent is only a small part of this prehistoric relic exposed to the surface. And the first creatures on the continent also ran out of this. ”
"This, how is this possible?" murmured in the mouth of the black lake, her eyes instinctively fell on the little man in front of her, although for various reasons, she was very reluctant now, no, it should be said that she did not dare to stand in front of the little ogre, but now this situation of "forced to do" and "nowhere to escape" made her unable to continue to escape. But because of this, it made her deeply feel the reliability and warmth of this big boy again, no, this man. When life and death aside, she found that she didn't want to leave him half a step more and more.
But......
The black elf girl's gaze couldn't help but look at the big boss Cassandra, and then sighed faintly.
The sound made by the black lake is very small, so small that it is not an ordinary person, even a war king-level powerhouse may not be aware of it, but maybe it is the intuitive effect of women, and the big boss of the old street with his back to the black elf still keenly noticed the strangeness of the girl behind him. She shook her head with a wry smile, then exchanged eyes with the black elves. Two women, four eyes as if they could speak.
The silent communication between the two women also attracted Golon's attention, and at the same time reminded her of her "betrayal", and a layer of gloom suddenly appeared on her delicate and beautiful face.
"Is there anything you want to say to me?" said Goron, grimacing his face and trying to keep his tone as calm as possible, "As you know, my true race is ogre, not a race that is used to beating around the bush, especially since I don't like to play with my own family. ”
The word "family" pierced the hearts of the two girls again, and the big boss finally showed an expression of letting go of everything, and said to the little ogre: "Although I know you don't mean that, but being called 'family' by you again, I really feel like I have no place to be ashamed." ”
"It's up to me to decide if you're still my family, and all I have to do now is what happened in the Black City, in the Haunted Gold Mine?"
"Well, I had arranged for you to be informed of everything in another way...... Forget it, that's it......" The big boss sorted out his thoughts and said: "I think you should know something about the matter, the black city is developing very fast in the hands of our 'Big Three', but the problem is also here, we are developing too fast, so fast that even our Big Three did not expect it, and in the end we couldn't help ourselves." Now that I think about it, although the arms trade, the street of joy, the intelligence trafficking, the slave trade...... These are very profitable transactions, but the speed of development is still too abnormal, but unfortunately at that time, although I was faintly uneasy, I was still blinded by the interests under my nose, and I didn't notice the hidden crisis......"
Goron is not stupid, as soon as the big boss opened his mouth, he made him realize that the key to this was not the slave trader Cameron he thought at the beginning: "You mean, the black city we created was calculated by someone or force from the beginning?"
"That's right...... Cassandra continued with a wry smile on her face, "These are all things that I noticed after the fact, maybe not from the very beginning, but definitely before the rapid development of our black city, those eyes noticed us, our every move, our every step of development, pioneering, and even adventuring, was under their control, and they even secretly helped us." It's just for the purpose of raising 'livestock'. It's ridiculous that Cameron's dead fat man is completely used, but he himself still thinks that everything is under control. ”
"Is it the Crystal Lake?" said in a deep voice, the entire continent has this kind of strength, and also has this kind of leisure, paying attention to a dark guild quietly established in a remote area, I am afraid that the only people who will do this kind of thing are the Crystal Lake magicians known as the "Seeds of Trouble".
And the little ogre has a very bad feeling, maybe it was not only the Black City Chamber of Commerce that was monitored from the beginning, but also his Golon.
Cassandra nodded, "Yes, it's them, and they're interested in the Haunted Gold Mine...... No, no, I made a mistake!" The big boss seemed to suddenly think of something, and suddenly said: "It was we who were wrong from the beginning, not because they were eyeing us that they noticed the haunted gold mine, but because they had been thinking about the haunted gold mine, so they noticed us!"