Chapter Twenty-Four—The Golem and the Plan
"Headmaster, did your elemental summons spot those elves?" After tracking the elven army's trail for more than three hours, Kaslan'er found Lu Ming, who was riding on a war horse and had been sending light elemental birds and shadow creatures to find the correct location of the elven army, and asked about the situation. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info
"They haven't discovered where the elves are now. However, quite a few things have been discovered. Shaking his head slightly, then Lu Ming stretched out his hand, pointed to the northwest direction, and said, "Over there, my elemental creatures have found a ruin, although they haven't found the elves, but there seems to be something there, which makes them feel frightened, it should be a golem made by ancient elves." ”
"Can we find the ruins before they do?" Hearing Lu Ming's words, Kaslan'er looked in that direction, and then said to his adjutant, "Go and tell the soldiers that we have found the ruins before the elves." We can ambush the elven army there! ”
"Yes!" The adjutant immediately went to convey Caslan'er's thoughts to the soldiers under Caslan'er's command.
Seeing this, Tourres, who was on the side, couldn't help but subconsciously glance at his adjutant Haimir, thinking about when she would be able to be obedient.
However, this is not possible.
After discovering the ruins, Lu Ming and the others came here with the army first, preparing to ambush the elven army here and give them a fatal surprise.
Therefore, all kinds of preparations are naturally indispensable, such as trenches, wooden walls, simple arrow towers, and all kinds of traps, all of which are prepared one by one with the unremitting efforts of the soldiers of the two principalities.
At the same time, Lu Ming and others also began to explore the ruins.
This is a large site of an ancient temple, and although most of the site is buried in the earth, judging from the exposed ruins, this ancient temple was also very solemn in the past.
With a wave of his walk, Lu Ming found a space that was not buried, but could lead to the temple where it was buried underground. It seemed to be a place where something was stored, protected by something like a magic array, so it wasn't completely buried like the rest of the place.
Taking out the torch, Lu Ming entered there without thinking.
Seeing this, Miral and Kate, as well as Caslan and Tourres, followed suit, intending to see what lay beneath the ruins of the temple.
Inside, they found a huge space filled with rows of humanoid statues made of stone, bronze, and special gemstones.
These people are exactly the same in terms of height and appearance, the only difference is the difference in the materials they are made of.
Lu Ming, Caslan'er, and Tourres didn't have much of an interest in these things, because they didn't have much interest in them. But these things are different for Miral and Kate, and when they see these humanoid statues, they seem to go crazy, and they hug the two statues at once, regardless of whether there is dust on them or not!
Reluctantly, he stepped forward, grabbed Miral and Kate, and pulled the two of them down from the humanoid statue, and then Lu Ming forcibly dragged them out.
looked at being dragged away by Lu Ming, but he was still shouting at those humanoid statues, "That's mine!" Those golems are mine! Miral and Kate, Touris shook his head a little helplessly.
Yes, those humanoid statues under the temple are the golems that the elven army is looking for, and judging from the golems in this huge room, there are at least more than five thousand golems sleeping in this ruins. And in the territory of the Duchy of Tartarus, there are more than 30 such ruins, that is to say, even if you count the accidents that cause the golems to be inexplicably damaged, the elves can at least get nearly 100,000 golems from these ruins, which is already an unimaginable terrorist army, and it is already an out-and-out bad news for the Duchy of Tartarus!
So before the elven army looking for the golem could find so many golems, Lu Ming and the others had to kill them first! Otherwise, just wait to be pressed and beaten!
Because they were too excited, Miral and Kate, who were thrown out of the room below the temple by Lu Ming, were able to enter it again and conduct a series of studies on the golem after making a series of assurances to Lu Ming.
It's no surprise that Miral likes to create and improve puppets, and would like the Golem, a prototype puppet that is much more powerful than the puppeteer. But what puzzled Lu Ming was why Kate, the princess of the elven race, was also interested in something like a golem?
As a result, Kate told Lu Ming that she was the youngest daughter of the Elven Empress, and because it was impossible to compete with her sisters for the inheritance of the throne, she had little relationship with the royal teachers who were willing to teach her anything, and she could only learn by herself in the royal library after she could read and write. At that time, she fell in love with the Golem because of a book about the Golem, and wanted to find an opportunity to study the Golem in the future, so she lost her temper just now because of the Golem.
For some reason, Lu Ming approved Miral and Kate's request to study the Golem, but for Kate to play some tricks, he only gave Miral and Kate three Golems each for research, and the rest he asked him and the magicians of the Yugsotus Cavalry Regiment under the command of Raman Rath to work together to create a space magic carriage and put away all the remaining golems, so as not to make things out of Kate's brain.
But because he approved Miral and Kate's request to study the Golem, Henes and some other magicians in the team began to ask him as well.
There was no way, Lu Ming had to agree to them in the end. Fortunately, these people only add up to six people, and it doesn't take many golems to send them away.
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Before nightfall, the armies of Erepos and Tartarus turned the ruins into their own camp, making simple walls out of wood and carving fireproofs and a magic circle to make them stronger to defend against elven attacks.
However, when the sun set and the moon rose, they didn't see any shadow of the elves.
Many people speculated that the elves were not familiar with the terrain on Tartarus's side, so they got lost and didn't come here.
However, their army of more than 60,000 to 70,000 happened to be stationed here in the largest ancient ruins in this area, and no matter how good the army of the elven clan was, they would come here. So now they just have to wait for them to come.
Sitting by the campfire next to his carriage, Lu Ming watched Miral and Kate study the golems while roasting the meat, and gave a little advice from time to time, so that they could study the golems correctly without destroying these precious ancient treasures.
"I didn't expect that Lu Ming, you are already a viscount, and you still barbecue meat by yourself!" At this time, Touris walked over, sat nearly a meter away from Lu Ming's right, and said with some surprise.
"It's just a little habit." Lu Ming didn't say much, just roasted the meat by himself.
However, Toures did not intend to let him go, and after only a moment, he asked him, "What is your plan and that of my brother and Lothric?" Listening to what you said a few days ago, it seems that the Grand Dukes have also joined your plan! What is this for? ”
"Finally can't help it?" Glancing at Touris slightly, Lu Ming smiled slightly.
"What, don't you want to tell me?" Touris frowned slightly, and asked a little angrily.
"That's not it, it's just that I want you to keep it a secret." After removing the meat from the flames of the bonfire and cutting off a piece with a dagger, Lu Ming handed the roast meat to Touris and smiled.
As a result, Touris took a slight bite of the barbecue, and then said to Lu Ming: "Don't worry, I will keep it secret." ”
Hearing this, Lu Ming began to say slowly while re-roasting another piece of meat: "Our plan was formulated by us and the royal family when the Grand Dukes were in the imperial capital. The leaders were Lothric and I, as well as Winsland, Caslan's sister. Because we know that the Alpha Empire has ill intentions towards our kingdom of Mirakaisa, the three of us often study solutions that can solve this problem once and for all. ”
"In the end, when we studied the map of the Alpha Empire, we found that the area bordering our Mirakaisa Kingdom was actually cut off by the Dragon's Back Mountains! The only places connected to the rest of the world are mostly valleys, and only the plain of Azetus can travel unimpeded to the interior of the Alpha Empire and the area bordering Mirakaiza. And if we take this area, build a high wall, block the plain of Ezertus, and build fortresses in those valleys, we can block the army of the Alpha Empire from the interior, and save our kingdom of Mirakesa from another full-scale war with the Alpha Empire, and we can also get almost two principalities of land! ”
Hearing this, Touris couldn't help but be surprised, and couldn't help but say, "The land of the two principalities?!" ”
In an instant, everyone looked at this side, and one of them, Raman Rath, simply walked over and asked the two of them, "What are you talking about?" Why is Miss Tourres so excited? ”
took Raman Rasi's hand and let her sit beside him, and then Lu Ming smiled and said, "It's nothing, we're just talking about the two island groups found on the sea on the side of the Duchy of Lalaye." Combined, those two places are just enough to be two small principalities. Now the royal family is thinking about who to give the reward there. ”
Hearing this, Raman Rath couldn't help but say: "I have also heard about this, and I heard that the royal family is still considering whether to include it in the territory of the kingdom as two new principalities. ”
Seeing that Lu Ming changed the subject, Touris knew that Lu Ming didn't want Raman Rath to know about the plan, so Touris also continued this new topic and said: "However, if it can really be included in the territory of Mirakesa as a new principality, maybe Raman Rath can get one of the principalities!" ”
"Huh!" Raman Rath was stunned for a moment when she heard this, then shook her hand and said, "How is this possible, Her Majesty the Empress still wants to use these two new principalities to win over his own people, how can it be given to me." Besides, let me run to that kind of place, I can't swim, and I'll probably drown in a few days. Also, I don't want to leave my husband! ”
Looking at the Raman who hugged his arm as he spoke, but his eyes flashed with longing, Lu Ming smiled a little helplessly.
In the beginning, Ramanlath was very scruples about territory or something, because she was afraid that the empress would attack her. But like any other royal family, ambition also exists in the heart of Ramanrath. As she left the imperial capital and led Yugosotus for more and more time, she became more and more eager to get a piece of territory of her own so that she could show her talents.
But the fear of imperial power made her dare not show it, and she could only think about it in her heart.
Heness, who may have been attracted by the topic of island groups and was studying the Golem not far away, and was competing with Miral to see who could find the way to activate the Golem faster, suddenly stopped researching, walked over, sat next to Raman Lasi, and asked Lu Ming: "That, is it true what you said about the new principality?" ”
"It's true!" Raman Lass nodded slightly and said, "This is what the Grand Duke said when he was chatting with us a few days ago. It is said that if those two island groups were to be included in the kingdom as new principalities, one of the two new Grand Dukes would be chosen from among the members of the royal family! ”
As soon as she heard this, Hernes immediately became interested, grabbed Raman Rath's hand, and asked, "Is this really what the royal family intends to do!?" ”
"It seems like that!"
Seeing that the two members of the royal family, Raman Lasi and Henes, were chatting hotly about this kind of thing, Lu Ming smiled helplessly, and roasted the meat by himself, no matter what they were talking about.
And Touris also chatted with Lamanrath and Henes because the new Duchiate had many vacant titles with territories.
In the end, after Lu Ming roasted meat for them and himself, he took his share of Miral and Kate, came to the two of them, and had dinner with the two of them.
Gulping down on the barbecue, Miral looked at the golems that he and the others couldn't activate, and meditated. Kate on the side was not much different, biting on the barbecue while thinking about how she should activate these golems.
Because of the fire in their hearts, neither of them had any intention of asking Lu Ming's opinion, and Lu Ming didn't want to say anything, so after they finished dinner, they didn't come up with any way.
But then, out of curiosity, Kaslanel stood behind a magician who was still studying the golem and trying to find a way to activate it, and watched as the magician jumped up and down and fiddled with the golem.
Suddenly, Kaslan'er noticed that there was a line on the Golem's forehead, and several of the letters were blocked by everything, so she stepped forward and hung up those things with a dagger, and then the Golem was activated!
Seeing that the magician was devastated by Kaslan'er's easy activation of the golem, Lu Ming couldn't help but laugh.
At this time, Miral and the others knew that Lu Ming had known about the words on the Golem's forehead from the beginning, and had been watching the jokes of his own people, so they couldn't help but glare at Lu Ming, and learned Kaslan'er's method to get rid of the words on the Golem's forehead, so as to activate the Golem.