Chapter Fifty-Eight: The City Lord
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Bright lights lit up, illuminating the faces of the adventurers.
But even so, everyone's faces looked a little gloomy, as if they had just experienced something terrible.
It was an opulent office, with a red wool carpet embroidered with family crests and a valuable art vase aside, which looked golden everywhere in contrast to the expressions of the adventurers in the house.
Sitting behind the desk was a brown-haired man, about forty years old, dressed neatly and rigorously in a green aristocratic attire, with his hands arched on the table, his eyes closed, lost in thought.
Not long ago, a message came from the Adventurers' Association that the B-class adventurer team, the Emerald Crest, had requested an urgent meeting with the city lord, and the city lord Kador became nervous when he heard the news.
Recently, the number of monsters invading the border city has increased, and the soldiers guarding the town are unable to resist, so as the lord of the city, he has to add a request to the adventurers' association to defeat him.
At the same time, in order to investigate the reason for the increase in monsters, he specially commissioned the jade crest who is good at exploration to enter the abyss labyrinth near the town to investigate, and now a week has passed, he is worried about whether something will happen to the group of adventurers, but he didn't expect them to have returned to the town.
He instructed his subordinates to take the adventurers to his office, and then listened to the reports of the four in full.
After hearing this, the city lord Kador sighed repeatedly, and then rubbed his temples in anguish.
"Pele, let me ask you again, is what you say true?"
"Lord Castle, we know this may sound like nonsense, but it's really our own experience, and all of us in our team are willing to take their lives for it. ”
As an elven archer, Pell looked at the city lord seriously, and the world knew that elves claimed to be a noble race, and they did not disdain to lie, let alone easily guarantee their lives.
However, what adventurers have reported is bizarre.
There are three main points.
First, the abyssal labyrinth has indeed undergone a mutation, with lower-level monsters appearing in the upper layer, and even a maze keeper named Sphinx has appeared. In the past, adventurers have explored the Abyss Labyrinth one after another, and if they were A-class adventurers, they could reach the depth of the fourth layer at most, but now even the first layer of the Labyrinth has become extremely difficult, and if other adventurers want to explore the Abyss Labyrinth in the future, it is tantamount to sending them to death.
Second, after investigation, the monsters who left the labyrinth seemed to be attracted by a certain scent, and the origin of that fragrance was this border town, which was the real reason why the border city was invaded by a steady stream of monsters. If you want to solve the problem of monsters, you must find the source of the so-called scent hidden in the town. However, for now, they are at a loss for the so-called scent, and I am afraid that they will have to ask for more powerful assistance.
Finally, the third point.
The reason why the four adventurers are trapped in the labyrinth and finally get out of it is because they are saved by a talking magic book.
That's right, nothing else, but a magic book that claims to be called Honor.
Coming from the bottom of the abyssal labyrinth, he suppressed many powerful demonic beasts along the way with incomparably powerful power, and finally escorted the four adventurers out of the town.
Although the book was not malicious, and even claimed to have come to make friends with adventurers, the world was sinister, especially for intelligent monsters, and it was not an exaggeration to tell any lies.
After much thought, Pell and the others decided to report this matter to the city lord.
"When we parted, the Master of the Magic Book was about to enter the city at night, and now I'm just afraid of ......"
"Why didn't you report this sooner!"
The man who was the lord of the castle slammed the table, and it was obvious that he was annoyed more than angry.
"If he's already in town, it's too late to say anything. ”
"We ...... We can't help it, we stay by his side, and we don't have a chance to pass on the message. The Warlock's Beda muttered quietly, she didn't look very happy.
Indeed, as the castle lord said, if the demonic beasts with malicious intentions were allowed to blend into the town, I am afraid that there will be victims tomorrow morning, and at that time, what they are adventurers will do is tantamount to luring wolves into the house and killing everyone in order to save their lives, no matter how you look at it, it is a selfish act.
"Oops, it looks like everyone is nerve-wracking, how about you calm down a bit? ”
In the midst of that stalemate, a slightly voluptuous male voice broke the silence.
There were six people in the office of the city lord Kador, four adventurers, the city lord himself, and another man in his twenties.
It was a knight, though he was a knight, but he was actually dressed in a bright red dress that made people feel a little fancy, and the only thing that proved his identity was the sword pinned to his waist - a sword that could only be obtained at the knight's coronation, engraved with the knight's mark unique to the kingdom.
The knight had a delicate rose pinned to his chest, and a pale pink lip gloss on his lips, and those who knew knew who he was, but those who didn't know thought he had come to a nobleman's dinner.
But this man with strange behavior is the eleventh man in the eleventh rank of the twelve paladins of the kingdom.
- Rose Knight Demea.
That's what the people of the kingdom called this man.
Although the character is not very good, it is an irrefutable fact that it has overwhelming strength.
And this man is the rescuer invited by the border city lord Kador from the royal capital.
"Lord Dimea, how can I not be anxious at this time, it is a major matter related to the people of this border city. ”
"But, ......," the flamboyant knight stretched out his index finger to block the middle-aged man's lips.
"Isn't that bad?"
"If the book you're talking about really wants to stir up trouble right under my Demea's nose, then there will never be a second victim after the first victim. ”
The knight of the rose stretched out his tongue and licked his lips charmingly: "Because, as long as he dares to appear, I will eat him and wipe him clean, no matter what kind of monster it is." ”
"Uh......"
Everyone present looked at Di Meiya's movements with a black line, and no one dared to respond to his words, partly because the knight with the highest rank in the kingdom did have a certain credibility in saying this, and the other reason was that everyone really didn't know how to talk to this kind of man.
"It's rude. ”
There was a knock on the door outside the office, and then the door opened, and the deacon of the house entered.
"Leo, are you back, how is the matter with the young lady?" asked the lord of the city, Cador, when he saw the deacon.
"Miss Rezeta has returned, and is now resting in her room. ”
"Yes, yes, take me there!"
"Hey, Lord Kador, we haven't settled our business here, are you going to leave us like this?"
"That's all right, you can do it yourself, really, what is more important in this world than my daughter!"
After saying that, Kador slammed the door and left with the deacon.