Chapter 31: Choosing a Crossroads
Princess Tifia blinked. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info
"Yes, I remember that Countess Kalea recommended you to me in a letter. But it's a day before our appointment, and you're still coming in through the window. Then she saw the emblem bracelet on the young man's wrist, "Then tell me, Knight Finn, what happened outside this room?" ”
Fain looked at the princess Violet in a wheelchair, and was slightly stunned for a second or two when he heard what came out of her mouth, and was surprised by her psychological quality that she could maintain her composure at any time even if she had just experienced an assassination incident, and his mind was slightly relieved by this, thinking that this disabled princess was really still the same.
Then, under Ranna's unrelenting burning gaze, he walked over to Princess Tiphia's desk and motioned for Lilith to take out the Insight Crystal that had been seized from the Poppy Priestess.
The black-haired warlock girl immediately complied, took out a piece of the void pocket that Finn had given her from the inner bag of the black dress, and then took out the crystal ball that was as smooth as jade from the void pocket, and skillfully injected a small amount of magic into the sphere with the palm of her hand, and then reached out and handed the crystal ball that had been activated by her to Finn, and then put Finn's hand on the top of the desk and pushed it in front of Princess Tilphia.
Tifia cautiously observed the insight crystal in front of her for a second.
"What is this?" She wasn't in a hurry to immediately peek at the image that was gradually becoming clear in the crystal sphere, but first looked up at Finn and asked.
"A magic item named the Crystal of Insight." Finn didn't hide anything, and directly told Princess Tifia and Pan about the fact that he and Lilith had exterminated a group of demon herders in the grove outside the royal capital, but he lied a little about the fact that he knew in advance that there was a demon monastery there, saying that he and Lilith happened to find the traces of the cultists, and then found the place by mistake.
He briefly explained to Princess Tifia the purpose of the Insight Crystal and the Scout Guard, and then placed a Scout Guard who had grown into a small eyeball from his hand on the table, telling the Princess that the Scout Guard had been ripped out of the helmet of the puppet soldier he had shot in the head with his sword when he had retrieved the Fire Sword.
If nothing else, he surmised that the other puppet soldier in the office also had a scout guard with a small eyeball under his helmet.
As she spoke, the surface of the sphere of insight crystal finally reflected a clear picture before Princess Tiphia's eyes.
Tifia carefully picked up the crystal ball, her sea-blue eyes carefully observed what emerged from the sphere, and it didn't take long for her face to show a surprised expression as Finn expected, and then put down the crystal ball that she held in front of her with both hands, and her eyes fell back on the young paladin standing in front of the desk: "Knight Finn, you said that this insight crystal can only reflect the picture through the field of vision observed by the scout guards. ”
"That's right." Finn nodded calmly, already guessing what the princess was going to say next.
And Princess Tifia tried her best to maintain a calm voice, and the next words she said were indeed exactly the same as he guessed: "The pictures I saw in the crystal ball are divided into many scenes, each scene is changed every few seconds, and the number of these pictures is about eleven or twelve, all of which are made of an iron armor—"
"Puppet soldiers."
“……”
"Your Highness the Princess?"
"Knight Fein, why do you know that those ironclad guards are puppet soldiers?" Tifia's eyes sharpened, and the eyebrows that had just been stretched back furrowed were furrowed again.
Fein was stunned for a moment.
The young man forgot for a moment that the original experimental project of the Violet Kingdom to make a magic guide machine was secretly carried out in the hands of Princess Tifia, and when he saw that the princess's eyes changed, he suddenly realized that he had inadvertently said the wrong thing, so he quickly used his brain to make up a reason: "Because my hometown is in Faentan, Your Highness." My uncle is an Imperial Wizard Technician, and I've seen similar Wizard Golems in his lab room, but they are not as good as the two that attacked you, not only are they unable to move flexibly, but they don't even have a slightly decent weight-bearing capacity. ”
After speaking, Finn deliberately made his eyes meet the gaze of Princess Tifia straight to his own, trying to pretend that he was not talking nonsense, and he also hypnotized himself in his heart, telling himself that the aboriginal body named Finn Noe Ozelit was destroyed by his personality consciousness soul Although he had no original memory, when he first woke up in this life, he was indeed on the Moork Mountain Road to the Ork Military Fortress on the border of the Empire.
From this point of view, there is nothing wrong with the nonsense that I made up on the spot?
Not...... At least half should be fine.
Perhaps.
It is said that the eyes are the windows of the soul, and if a person is always avoiding the other person's eyes, it proves that the person is either introverted or has a ghost in his heart.
Finn and Princess Tifia stared at each other at their desks in the room for three seconds.
"I'll take your word for it." Her Royal Highness the Princess, who was in a wheelchair, did not completely remove her inner vigilance, but seemed to have spared the young paladin on this issue, "Continuing with what I have just said—every scene I have seen in your crystal ball is fed back from the perspective of a different puppet soldier, who wanders through the corridors and dormitories of this palace, while my guards and courtiers fall on the floor of the corridor and the beds of the dormitories, and they seem to be dead or fainting. ”
"What do you think this means?" Finn was glad that Tifia didn't hold on to her knowing that the puppet soldier was stalking her, and then focused her energy back on the analysis of the incident, asking the wheelchair princess in front of her.
Princess Tifia closed her eyes and thought for a moment.
"Those puppet soldiers have recon guards in their helmets." After two seconds, she opened her eyes with a solemn expression, "Then you said that the Insight Crystal and the accompanying Scout Guard were recovered from a priestess of the Shepherd. ”
"Your Highness, could it be?!" Ran Na, who was standing on the side, suddenly realized something.
The princess glanced sideways at her lady-in-waiting, and tapped her forehead: "The insight crystal in the hands of the Demon Shepherd can see those puppet soldiers, and those who have the ability to secretly send the puppet soldiers into the palace to assassinate me without me must have the ability to directly or indirectly control those puppets, and are familiar with the layout of the palace, so as to arrange the assassination plan against me." ”
"For such a person, do you think Your Highness has a suitable candidate among the close ministers around you?" Fein followed Tilfia's analysis.
Princess Tifia was stunned.
Half an hour later.
“…… Valberia. A cold light flashed in her eyes, her slender fingers unconsciously clasped the armrests on both sides of the wheelchair, and she gritted her teeth in her mind to think of a person who met these conditions.
Although he doesn't have the title of lord, he has a certain voice within the regency faction, and he is always in and out of his short staff on weekdays. (To be continued.) )