"Your Majesty, are you serious?" Malthus said solemnly.

"Do you think I'm joking?"

"I just didn't expect you to change so quickly, considering that we were enemies not so long ago?"

"I didn't say we'll be friends from now on, right? As long as the interests are the same, even enemies can work together temporarily, as a demon, you should know this very well."

"Of course, it seems that your subordinates may have underestimated your wisdom before..."Malthus hesitated for a moment, but finally chose to answer with a smile, and his statement was tantamount to agreeing, I have to say that sometimes it is indeed much easier to deal with smart people.

"Flattery is avoided, let's talk about the next step when we have time, you and I both know the style of the fourth guy, since it has made a move, it will never give up, not to mention that the princess is still in its hands..."

"If it's this, maybe my subordinates can help."

Actually, I had already thought of this at the beginning, but the situation was urgent at the time, and I didn't bother to discuss it with you, and now... I'm afraid the other party has already taken precautions, right?"

"How do you know if you don't try something?"

Looking at Malthus's confident appearance, I couldn't help but feel a little moved, but there was a key question at the moment: "But we don't know where the princesses are being held?"

"Uh... Before Malthus could speak, Maria's voice had already come from the side, saying that he had just listened to Malthus's introduction to the demons, and actually forgot about her, and at this moment he turned his head to see that our "Iceberg Reaper" was standing on the guard who was dragged with her just now, and the staff of St. Andrew's was tightly pressed against the other party's throat.

"You're not going to forget that we still have a captive, are you?" Maria said as she glanced at the man on the ground.

"You don't want to know anything from me," the man said stiffly, but the sweat on his forehead had betrayed him.

"Are you sure?" Malthus and I looked at each other and smiled, and the face of the man on the ground was already green...

Briefly, after that, we "smoothly" asked a lot of information from the mouth of this captive, first of all, the purpose of the other party's trip, which is basically the same as our previous speculation, they were sent by the "conspiracy" to arrest me, and on the way to Valdés, I happened to meet the princess who was waiting for us in the forest, because Jack was there, so the other party knew that the princess and I were in a group, so they immediately took several of them as hostages, and in the end, only Anton escaped by chance, Originally, they wanted to ask about my whereabouts from the princess and others, but they couldn't open their mouths, and in the end, it was Jack who had the most ghosts, thinking that since the princess was here, then I would definitely find it, so in the end, everyone ambushed there and waited for the rabbit, if it wasn't for Maria's high vigilance at the time, if I didn't take Malthus with me at that time, then the final result is really unpredictable...

After asking about the situation, Malthus rushed directly to the place where they were holding the princess and the others, and the result was naturally conceivable, those people were not stupid, the other party had already fled after such a long time, and the three of us had to get together to discuss new countermeasures.

"Where do you think they're going?" I asked Malthus.

Malthus replied: "The four highnesses are very strict, and they will not dare to go back easily until they have completed their task. Besides, most of them also know that we want to save the hostages, so they should stay somewhere nearby and ask for news of us, right?"

I nodded and turned to ask the captive, "Do you have any hiding places around here?"

"No," the other shook his head.

"It's not good for you to lie, is it?" Malthus stood behind me and sneered, its face was now unrecognizable due to the relationship that had been sealed before, it felt like a pinched statue, and it made people's scalps tingle when they looked at it.

The one was obviously frightened by Malthus's "interrogation" before, and at this time he couldn't help but tremble, and hurriedly said: "I didn't lie, I really didn't lie, you must believe me."

Looking at his pitiful appearance, I couldn't help but feel a little unbearable, and turned to Malthus and said, "He should be telling the truth..."

"Your Majesty, you're too gullible to be gullible," Malthus shook his head with a wry smile when he heard this.

I smiled slightly, and didn't bother to argue with it, and suddenly a flash of inspiration flashed in my mind, remembering my previous experience as a mercenary, so I hurriedly turned to the guy and asked, "Then have you agreed before that where to meet in case you get separated?"

The man was stunned for a moment, then nodded, "Yes..."

When I heard this, I was overjoyed and hurriedly asked, "Where is that place?"

"Abandoned churches on the east side of New Yorktown..."

I didn't know much about the geography of this area, so I turned my head to look at Malthus, since it was able to set up a base near here, it must know the surrounding terrain very well, and sure enough, I saw the "Dream Demon King" nodding at me and said, "Southeast, less than twenty miles from here."

"Without further ado, we'll get over here."

"And what about him?" Maria asked, glancing at the captive,

"Bring it with you, maybe it will come in handy then..."

Maria nodded and pulled the captive up, while Malthus looked at me and sneered.

"What are you laughing at?" I wondered.

"It's nothing, I just want to remind Your Majesty that sometimes you can't do great things if you are too kind of a woman."

"If you have to kill innocents indiscriminately to do great things, I'd rather never be able to do it...", I couldn't help but reply coldly in the face of Malthus's reminder...

Until the end of the imperial era, the main inhabitants of the Far North are elves and demons, and humans rarely set foot in it, and then with the collapse of the empire, the inland areas fell into the chaotic Warring States Period, killing constantly, the Mohe people who originally lived in the Eastern Continent began to migrate north in order to escape the war, and human civilization officially entered the Far North, and New Yorktown was established in this context, and most of the residents here are still descendants of the Mohe people, even "New Yorktown" The name comes from their ancestors' hometown in the Eastern Continent, walking on the street you can clearly feel that the surrounding buildings are typical of the late imperial era style, because of the captive gentleman to lead the way, we found the abandoned church without much difficulty, according to legend, there was a bizarre fire here forty years ago, the fire burned for a day and a night, the entire area of the church was burned to the ground, including the bishop, dozens of people were burned alive on the spot, Since then, people have often heard the sound of wailing here in the middle of the night, and some people have said that they have seen a strange red light shining in the empty ruins in the middle of the night, in short, all kinds of terrifying legends are endless, so since then this church has been abandoned, and the locals are afraid to approach this place, Gragon they actually chose this place as the meeting place has to be said to be a very clever choice.

It was already morning when we arrived here, the bright sunshine brought a rare warmth in the far north, the residents of the town had begun to be busy with their lives, the whole atmosphere looked particularly peaceful, it was hard to imagine that a fierce battle was coming, perhaps because of those "legends", even at this time, there was still no one near the church, for fear of revealing our whereabouts, we did not dare to enter rashly, so we had to lurk in a forest on the side of the road first, and observe the movement inside from a distance.