Chapter Twenty-Six: The Undercurrent Surges
The easternmost part of the turbulent Sea of Conquerors is connected to the continent of Valoran, the largest land plate in the Runeterras, and in the middle of the intersection between the two lies a beautiful city called Silversea City. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć Because the city is close to the sea and is the gold coast of the Sea of Conquerors, the maritime commerce here is very developed, the economy is prosperous, and it is a famous commercial center in the Demacian Empire and even the entire Runeterra. However, this once bustling city where merchants gathered has long since changed beyond recognition.
"Karn, how is the situation at the head of the city now?" The city lord of Silver Sea City, Klor, sat on his throne in the main hall of the City Lord's Mansion with a solemn face, looked at Karn who had just entered the hall and said. When Karn heard Klor's question, he lifted his eyelids that had not slept because of overwork, and then replied to Carol with a knightly salute, and then said with a heavy face: "Lord of the city, the situation is becoming more and more unoptimistic. This time, because of the alliance of the Fish-Man and Captain Plando of the Redbeard, they took advantage of the Fish-Man Clan's water advantage to sneak attack and occupy our West Coast dock from the beginning, so we lost the warships of the Silversea City Navy, so that we have been cowering in the Silversea City, and then they have been using the method of siege on all sides, with the absolute numerical superiority of our can no longer leave the Silversea City for half a step. Moreover, the strength of the red-bearded pirate Captain Planck, who was known as the plague of the sea, was unimaginably strong, and he didn't know where to get a giant magic cannon to attack our castle tower for 3 days, so although our castle tower in Silversea City was extremely strong, it should not be able to hold out tomorrow depending on the situation. Hearing Karn's words, City Lord Carroll's face suddenly became flustered, and his eyes pointed to Karn's flustered tone and said, "So, are there any news from the spies we sent out to ask for help in Delmar City?" Karn shook his head and said: "Although the spies sent out in the early stage have all gone out, there is basically no news, and after the back is surrounded, the spies can no longer be dispatched, the enemy's sense of smell is very keen, and going out basically means death." Hearing this, Carol stood up with a long sigh and said, "Hey, it's really eventful, my Yinhai City has worked hard for so many years, is it going to be ruined?" Looking at Karn, who was bowing his head and looking complicated, Carol's tone became firm, and he said to him, "Karn, are you ready?" Hearing Carol's inexplicable words suddenly uttered, Karn was stunned for a moment, and then immediately understood, so he patted the silver-white armor on his body that was already covered with dust and blood, and made a knightly salute very seriously, and at the same time shouted at Carol in a firm tone: "Karn James, the commander of the defense of the Silversea City of the Demacian Empire, swears to Leona, the goddess of the dawn of mercy and fraternity, that although Silversea City is now facing menopause, I will live and die with Silversea City, The glory of the great Demacian Empire will never be humiliated by the enemy. ā
Looking at Karn's resolute appearance, Carol patted him on the shoulder with a look of relief and said, "Karn leads you as a brave knight who I have admired for many years, and you have a strong heart that is righteous and fearless. Okay, then let's keep Silversea City until the last moment today, and see what those hateful fish-people and pirates are capable of. Carol's tone at this time sounded extremely sincere, which made Karn immediately moved, so his belief in desperately defending the city couldn't help but become much stronger, and said, "Then Lord of the city, the city wall cannot be lost, I need to go back now." Carol was even more pleased with Karn's attitude, and said with a gentle smile on his face: "Go ahead, be careful yourself, if the battle situation reaches a critical moment, you will immediately inform me, anyway, I am also a third-order warrior, even if I am old, I will maintain the glory of the Demacian Empire." "Yes, sir." Karn placed his hand on his right chest and re-bowed. Then he straightened the armor on his head, and walked towards the city wall with no nostalgia in his eyes.
Carol stared for a long time along Karn's vanishing place, his eyes filled with complexity. Finally, as if he had made up his mind, he bit his lips and turned back to a being in the shadows and whispered, "Curris, are you ready?" Hearing his order, an old man dressed in a butler's clothes turned around in the dark part of the room, and he saw this old man say to Carol with a blank face, "My lord, everything is ready." Carol nodded and said, "Well, that's good, let's evacuate immediately, and go to Zu'an immediately after we get out." Listening to Carol's words, the old man couldn't help but hesitate a little: "Then my lord, do we really don't care about this Silver Sea City at all?" When Carol heard this, he immediately glared at the old man full of anger, but after a while, the anger seemed to dissipate again, and he only turned into a heavy sigh: "Curris, you must know that it is not that I want to leave this place, but that those fish-people and pirates outside forced me. They suddenly joined forces to attack my Silver Sea City this time, they must have known the news that I have this artifact in my hands, and judging from the appearance of the leader of the Fish-Man Clan, they will definitely not stop if they don't get the artifact in my hand. And because of the existence of the artifact, I didn't dare to really ask for help from Delmar City. So as a last resort, it was only natural for me to get out of this dangerous place. Speaking of this, Carol's expression became a little excited, and he saw that his eyes were full of greedy green light and continued: "You don't know the legend of this artifact, as long as I have it, I can increase my strength, and more importantly, as long as I understand it, I can also comprehend the true meaning of void magic." When the time comes, with my strength, I will definitely be able to re-establish the glory of Zu'an, and even more beautiful than being the lord of a city like now. Listening to Carol's words full of desire, a sneer suddenly flashed on the butler Curlisbourne's expressionless face, but it was fleeting. just said softly: "Then adults, without further ado, let's take our ladies and young masters and retreat immediately." Carol nodded and said, "Well, okay then, let's go." After the two of them finished speaking, they disappeared together into the darkness of the room.
In the basement of Carol's room, there is a huge secret room, and the two Carols who left the city lord's room appeared here at this time. Carol glanced solemnly at his wife and children in the secret room at this time, and when he found that none of them were missing, he asked his wife, "Have you collected all the money?" At this time, his wife took out a blue ring from her arms with a coquettish smile on her face and said to Carol: "Husband, you can rest assured, all the movable property in our family is already here." Hearing this, Carol nodded slightly and said, "Well, that's good, so that we can do something in a chaotic place like Zu'an."
When everything was ready, Carol took out a teleportation scroll from his ring without hesitation, and said to the people around him: "This group teleportation scroll was given to me by my old friend Victor of Zaum, and the destination of our escape this time is also to go to Zaum to get his assistance. Okay, without further ado, let's go. ā
When he had said all the things he had to say, Carol finally opened the teleportation scroll in his hand. As soon as the teleportation scroll was opened, it was magically burned by a black flame that appeared out of nowhere, but Carol was used to this, and he waited quietly for the teleportation scroll to burn itself for about half an hour before finally losing it. However, after the scroll burned out, a black spatial door had already appeared in the place where the scroll was originally burned. Seeing that the portal had been completely formed, Carol suddenly looked at his family members with a happy face: "Hurry up!" Bento broke into the portal first, and when he entered, his family members walked in one by one, but the last person left was the butler named Curris.
I saw that he was looking at the deep and mysterious virtual portal at this time, and a sneer appeared on his expressionless face. At the same time, he whispered to himself: "Carol, Carol, you will pay for your greed and fear of death, hahahahaha, but this place in Yinhai City is indeed dangerous, forget it, I still go to Zu'an first, but I can escape from there." Thoughtful, Curris finally made up of his plan, so he straightened his face and walked towards the portal, eventually disappearing into the chamber as well. At this time, the portal seemed to have all its magic power consumed, and soon after Curris entered, it shrank smaller and smaller, and finally turned into a point of light, never to disappear again.
The empty secret room fell silent from then on, but it didn't take long for a black shadow to appear at the location of the door of the secret room, and there seemed to be darkness around it all the time, making people unable to see his figure at all, which looked very strange. At this time, the two eyes of the black shadow that were only exposed outside had been staring at the place where the teleportation array had disappeared, and at the same time, a strange voice came out of his mouth and said to himself: "In this place, it seems that the breath of the Central Asian hourglass, the artifact that our clan lost in this continent back then. Well, it's strange, but according to my current ability, I guess I am not the opponent of those who have him, okay, but there is no hurry, anyway, the time is not ripe yet, now let's go back and continue to improve my strength. After muttering to himself, the dark shadow even stuck out his tongue and licked his lips, as if something delicious was waiting for it. Then it turned into a black shadow again, and disappeared again in the blink of an eye like a gust of wind.