Chapter 279: Extraneous Branches
"Hey, I heard you right, did I? The Knight Commander just said about the Endless Abyss, and he said that this sword was brought out of the Endless Abyss!"
"The Knight Commander is so powerful, he can actually kill the Abyss Commander in the Endless Abyss!
The knights let out an exclamation of amazement, and their gazes at the dark red magic sword became even more intense.
The prizes for the five knights were quickly distributed. Princess Lena immediately announced the Knights' next mission, or the content of the trial, which would be more appropriate.
"Recently, there has been a striking news circulating in the mercenary world: three adventurers have discovered the entrance to an ancient ruin deep in the Nord Forest in the southeastern part of the Morrowind Kingdom. But in the end, only one person escaped from the ruins with serious injuries, and he died before he could tell the exact location of the ruins. Although seventy or eighty adventurers searched for the entrance near the location where the survivors were found, none of them found anything. Your mission this time is to try to understand the hidden secrets and find the location of the ruins. I don't ask you to go into the depths of the ruins to find any treasures!
The deep concern in Lena's words warmed the hearts of the knights, and they only felt that it was a right thing to respect Princess Lena as the leader of the Knights.
"Also," Princess Lena continued, "you have traveled to the Nord Forest in the name of a freelance mercenary. It's best not to reveal your identity unless you have to!, and to be on the safe side, a good friend of mine will be with you to assist you. Count the time, she's almost there!"
"Friend, Princess Elina's temper, where is there a mage friend, or a woman?, wait, could it be ......?"
Luo Ning suddenly remembered a name, and followed Princess Lena in the direction of the gate, and it didn't take long to see a young mage in a dark green mage robe walking slowly. The sunlight poured down on her slender guest's figure, and the surface of her long wavy brown hair was gilded with a golden shimmer, which looked magnificent and divine, and looked extremely charming. And from the moment she appeared, the girl mage's translucent and crystalline eyes were firmly fixed on Luo Ning, and she refused to look away for a moment.
"Karen?"
Although there were already some speculations, Luo Ning's voice trembled with excitement when he suddenly saw Karen, whom he hadn't seen for a long time. Fortunately, most of the people around him were attracted to Karen's beauty and had no time to notice him. It's just that Princess Lena suddenly felt that it was not a taste after hearing his trill, and quietly turned her back and pinched her wrist with her fingernails, which restrained her complicated feelings.
"Ahem!" Princess Lena coughed lightly, recalling the attention of the generals, "I'll introduce you." This is Miss Karen Miller, a high-level wind magician who is currently studying at Morrowind's Magical Branch. She's also one of the survivors of this year's catastrophic hunt!"
Karen greeted graciously, "Hello everyone! I'm Karen Miller from Morrowind. Everyone can call me Karen!"
She saw that although the knights were standing upright, their eyes were still hot, and she couldn't help but laugh mischievously, "Oh, I forgot to tell you, Miss Miller is a close friend of Captain Campbell'......s knights!
Princess Lena was only halfway there, but the warning could not have been more obvious. The thirteen knights thought of Luo Ning's horror, as if someone had poured cold water on their heads, and suddenly sobered up a lot, and their gaze at Karen became much more restrained. But Karen was so shy by her that she hooked her head and stared at her feet, her face so red that she was about to drip water.
There was no word for a night, and early the next morning, the thirteen knights changed into the armor made by Luo Ning, and rode away from the Morrowind royal capital with Luo Ning. The fifteen people set off with a black cloak and rode in the bustling downtown with great fanfare, which looked particularly conspicuous and attracted a lot of attention.
In fact, Princess Lena didn't care that the whereabouts of the Violet Knights were known to Prince Logan. The latter certainly has the ability to govern the country, but it has the problem of being self-serving. Princess Lena knew very well that in the eyes of Prince Logan, her actions were at best childish nonsense.
"Your Highness Princess, our people have sent back the latest news, and it is about the ruins in the depths of the Nord Forest!"
In the Goddess's Palace, the magic bell appeared behind Princess Lena and placed a scroll on her desk. Princess Lena pulled open the scroll, her brow furrowed shortly after she saw it.
"Demigods, will they be in danger then?, anyway, they are only going to investigate the entrance to the ruins, and they will not actually enter the ruins. Even if there is an artifact in it, it has nothing to do with us!" Princess Lena put down the scroll and leaned back on the back of her chair: "Magic Bell, how many forces have rushed to the Nord Forest for that relic in the past few days, have you inquired clearly?"
Demon Bell bowed and said, "In addition to our people and Prince Logan's men, at least five lords and the forces of seven different mercenary groups have sent people over. The Nord Forest is now the center of the whirlpool. Princess, I'm a little unsure. ”
"Are you worried about that kid Ronin?" Princess Lena asked with a light smile as she hid the uneasiness in her eyes.
The demon spirit did not deny it, and lowered his head in silence.
The words were divided into two ends, and Luo Ning and his party traveled day and night, and three days later they had arrived at the hub city of Bourne, the central part of the empire. When the group entered the city, the twilight was deep, so Luo Ning made the decision and found a hotel to stay. When they had dinner and wanted to go upstairs to rest, there was a sudden noise in the street.
At first, Ronin didn't care, and he didn't want to meddle with things. But before he could walk up the stairs, the door of the hotel was slammed open. A middle-aged man with a bloodstained face and dirt rushed into the hotel. The man's black hair was messy, like a bird's nest, and his clothes were stained with dust and mud, giving off a disgusting stench. From the moment he stormed the hotel, the man had been waving his arms wildly, muttering indistinctly words that others could not understand, and he was a mentally deranged madman.
Luo Ning didn't want this crazy man to get close to Karen, so he took out his wand and wanted to blast him out, but at this moment, Karen suddenly let out an exclamation: "Hey, no!"
Seeing Karen's thoughtful expression, Luo Ning's heart moved, and he released a frost ray to freeze the madman in place, exposing only his head to the air, and then turned his head and asked, "Karen, what's going on? Can you understand what he's saying?"
Without waiting for Karen to answer, the door of the hotel was pushed open again, and this time it was a group of angry mercenaries entered. They saw the mad man frozen in a block of ice, and came up viciously and shouted, "Dog!