Chapter 121: Before the Throne
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The palatial throne hall echoed with the sound of the end of the scepter striking the ground, and then someone said, "Your Majesty has arrived." โ
In a solemn atmosphere, everyone, including Yuan Huang, knelt down on one knee and bowed their heads in waiting. Soon, the king entered the throne hall from the side.
The white-haired, loose-skinned, emaciated, but slightly muscular king, half a meter above the ground, flew in levitating, and landed gently in front of the throne, holding his cheek with one hand, looking down at everyone. It is said that he is only in his sixties, but he looks as old as he is eighty or ninety, except that his eyes are still domineering.
"Please keep your heads up." The minister on the side declared.
This King Majesty in front of Yuan Huang was the top impact mage in the entire continent, the only seventh order. It is not difficult to see that the king used to have a strong body before being consumed by mana, but now it is powerful enough to completely replace walking with levitation, and you can feel the unique aura of the king just by looking at it from a distance.
Yuan Huang was a little confused.
Since birth, he has always been rolling at the bottom of society, and he has never even been to the formal social occasions of the nobles, and the first step is to meet the king?
How could things suddenly turn out like this?
Wait, my mind is a little messy, let me figure it out - Sister Bed saved two villages in a row, and then followed the entire spaceship to the Northwest Commercial City, where the culprit of the Spiritual Sparrow Plague was located.
They were supposed to go to the commercial city to rescue civilians. With the "Drill Village" as the center point, the source of the disaster, the sparrows spread out in all directions. The "Public Security Village" on the west side and the "Fortress City" on the east side are leveled by Nishishangjue, while the "Architect Town" on the origin and south sides are leveled by Sister Bed. There is only one commercial city left in Nicorid. Although he knew that there was no disaster in the area through communication magic, he said that there was a sparrow, and the specific situation was still unclear with the low-end mage who was only one person in the army, so he could only go and see it with his own eyes just in case.
The northwestern commercial city was surrounded only by a huge wall, and Nikorid promptly withdrew all the civilians outside the city into the walls, without a single casualty.
Several sparrows that had traveled long distances were held back outside the walls of the mana-insulating city, and had gone dormant because they had not obtained new food. The two sides on the wall and under the wall confronted each other silently, and it was just like that.
Sister Bed took the Elite Spider to quickly kill more than a dozen spirit sparrows and save the hosts.
The spaceship is running around, and there is not much energy left.
The sparrows are all dead.
It stands to reason that everyone should be happy, and the matter is over. But it wasn't long before attendants from the royal city knocked on the door of the spaceship and shouted, "Your Majesty has an order, please come to the palace to meet you!"
"Huh?"
Yuan Huang was very confused when he heard it.
The five-person group was planning to hug their thighs, but when they heard that the king had summoned them, they immediately came to their senses, and used their strength to persuade Yuan Huang - "Go, go, it's not appropriate not to go!"
Yuan Huang didn't want to go. He was not an anti-governmentist, but he also liked the group of people who were high above.
"Sister bed, go ahead."
"The prosthetic robot is short of energy, and the battery cannot be easily replaced, and it takes a long time to fully charge."
All right.
The envoy of the royal city was still a high-level space mage, and when he saw Yuan Huang appear, he immediately opened a portal and respectfully saluted and invited him to enter.
What made Yuan Huang even more confused was that after teleporting, he went directly to the palace, and the surrounding atmosphere was heavily guarded. He didn't have to walk a few steps to reach the throne hall. What about the strict body search that was said? What about the staffs of collection? Is it really good to wear a mask like this?
Ahem......
Ahem!
After the nobles who knelt down beside him coughed vigorously for a long time, Yuan Huang realized that he was actually distracted in front of the king! The king has been questioning for a long time.
"I'm sorry Your Majesty, I wasn't listening." Yuan Huang bowed his head deeply and apologized.
Embarrassed, will you be beheaded? I'm afraid I won't be able to break out of the palace guards, and even if I do, I don't want to live in hiding in Tibet under the arrest of the whole continent.
Unexpectedly, the king just smiled kindly, and it didn't matter.
"After all, I'm from the heavenly realm, and I'm not familiar with cumbersome etiquette. I just asked you - are you still used to living in the Starfall Continent? โ
"Your Majesty Xie cares, and he is very used to it." Nonsense, Yuanhuang is a local, and no one is not used to it.
The king nodded, and said, "Then this is the end of the greetings, I have something to ask you about today's events." โ
The king looked at Nan Shangjue: "What is the situation in the south?" โ
"It's very slight, just after the teleportation station in the southern fortress city was opened at six o'clock this morning, a spirit sparrow appeared, and it was wiped out on the spot by the shock mages on duty, killing two and wounding seven. Immediately, in accordance with His Majesty's order, troops were sent to support the western fortress city. โ
"Good." "Can any of you explain why the sparrows have a convenient teleportation station and use the inefficient means of transportation as a horse-drawn carriage?" โ
There was silence for a while, only Yuan Huang raised his head and replied: "Opening the teleportation station requires the injection of mana from the space mages on duty, and everyone in the village is sucked by the spirit sparrow to absorb the vitality and mood power, resulting in the mana of the manpower of the manipulated mage on duty is meager, and it is impossible to teleport many people away." โ
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The king looked interested: "Oh? How do you know? โ
"Observed at the time of the engagement." Yuan Huang replied, "Although the people possessed by the sparrows seem to have undiminished strength and speed, they are actually already weak, and they are forcibly exerted at the scene of the fire under the manipulation of the sparrows, and the plus or minus is zero. But mana is different from muscle strength, and it can't be forcibly squeezed out. During the battle, I met several mages, but none of them cast magic. โ
Xi Shangjue suddenly interjected: "It's pure speculation. Or maybe the sparrows don't know how to cast magic. โ
โฆโฆ Yuan Huang was a little stunned when he heard this, thinking that he hadn't provoked this uncle, right? However, he immediately explained: "The sparrows will definitely use the host's magic, as evidenced by at least one of them using the teleportation station." Besides......" Yuan Huang glanced back at the chivalrous lord behind him, "this chivalrous lord who plays the village can testify. โ
The knight, who was saved by Sister Bed, was also summoned, and his name was Porta.
The king looked at Porta.
"Yes, Your Majesty. When I was rescued by Lord Yuhanbed, the mana in my whole body was almost sucked away, and it took me a long time to recover to a state that could fight. โ
The king nodded, seemed pleased, and said with a smile, "You are very observant. This is a compliment to Yuan Huang, "So, do you know who is the initiator of this spirit bird disaster?" โ
Know, but do you really have to identify it on the spot?
Want?
No?
Yuan Huang hesitated. If the intention is to save Sha'b's life, it is categorically unrecognizable here, otherwise Shar Pei will be handed over when the evidence is presented. But the source phoenix had decided a long time ago - whether Shar Pei was dead or alive.
Yuan Huang raised his hand, pointed to the kneeling Nikeyide in front of him, and said word by word: "It's him." โ
Quiescence.
Then a burst of laughter echoed through the throne hall.