The safety of Lolita and Feida is paramount. Although this was in the territory of Kaman, the two offended the capricious and dishonest Desic royal family, and Xiao Mu's opinion was that unless they lived in the Duke's castle, there was no better choice than to go to Setie's envoy ship.

Xiao Mu's careful thinking, of course, can't hide from Kester. Kerst knocked on the table, "Hey, you're a duke, what's the point of bringing two young girls home without a name or a point, I don't remember your family's house rules." ”

Lolita also stood up and bowed, "Thank you for your kindness." Obviously, it's not appropriate to live in the Duke's Castle, so I'd better follow Master Setty. ”

When they were ready to leave at once, Kerst found that his little maid, Liana, had fallen asleep against the edge of the table. Thinking about it, I had been playing for a day during the day, and after returning to the hotel, I also had a "fight" with the bald man, and I was excited for a long time to come to the Royal Capital Academy and listened to a large number of adventure stories, at this time Lena was already tired and fell asleep, and I didn't know what I dreamed of, blinked a few times, and muttered something.

Helplessly, Koster said to little Mununu, "This maid of my family will trouble you, help me send me back to the manor." ”

"No problem", Xiao Mu patted his chest, "Wrap it on me." ”

Still uneasy, Koster admonished, "Don't do anything out of the ordinary." He glared at Xiao Mu, and then at Lianna.

Xiao Mu was angry, picked up the compass on the table and threw it at Kester, "What kind of person am I in your Kester heart!?"

Chestter stopped Xiao Mu with a smile, "Just kidding, kidding." Don't make a fuss, don't make a fuss, go now, and Lena will be handed over to you. ”

The group left the Royal Capital Academy, and Xiao Mu asked the academy guys to arrange two carriages, and took advantage of the darkness to send a few people to the dock area, where they got on a medium-sized sailboat, and at the top of the sailboat, a white flag was painted with a golden book coupon.

In the dark night, not far from the medium-sized sailing ship, the sailboat of the Desik Legation flying the black Steppenwolf flag also docked quietly on the shore. Tomorrow, the Desik envoy will leave Kaman and return to White Rock City with the coffin of Prince Kuigang and the corpses of the two dark mages.

In fact, General Jin is also very distressed, and the death of Prince Kuigang is bound to offend Prince Ferdinand and the forces behind him again. General Jin, who was in the cabin, silently picked up the rose cigarette on the table, and suddenly found that this was the last cigarette in the cigarette case.

General Jin drove all the guards around him out of the cabin, and hid in the cabin alone to smoke, spitting smoke rings one by one, the flame of the cigarette butts flashed and extinguished in the dark cabin, and the slight fragrance of roses spread all over the cabin. Little did he know that the person he was looking for was on another ship next door, less than 200 grams. And his thoughts had already drifted back to Desik's court.

The Desiks, originally a barbarian tribe in the northern part of the continent, lived by chasing and hunting wild beasts in the ice and snow, and sometimes took advantage of the days when the long sea was not frozen to catch some marine fish.

The cold weather and difficult living conditions have created the hard-working quality of the Desik people, and also gave them a strong body. In the era of the Magic Empire, the strong Desic people were considered the best slaves by the nobles of the Magic Empire, and countless Desic freedmen were captured by the nobles of the Magic Empire to work as coolies, and a large number of people died under the false prosperity of the Magic Empire.

The suffering Desiks immediately raised their hands in defiance when they found out that civil strife broke out in the Magic Empire. And the Desik royal family was the family of the chief of the barbarian tribe back then. After the war, the chieftains who led the victory of the war proclaimed themselves emperors and established the Desik Empire, which stretched from the Long Sea to the east, the Morro River to the south, and the Grand Canyon to the west.

Emperor De Sik called himself the "Emperor of Germany", and correspondingly, the Emperor of San Jose was called the "Emperor of Men", which was even more high-profile.

Although it is not a high-profile title, it may be due to the persistence of the Devil since ancient times (Note 1) and the experience of being abused by the Magic Empire, after the establishment of the Desik Empire, whether it is foreign wars or political trade, there are two words from head to toe, "tough".

Especially in recent decades, the Desik royal family does not know what nerves they have made, provoking the internal affairs of other countries everywhere, and creating some friction with the border guards in San Jose when there is nothing to do, especially the hardliners in the country, led by the Grand Duke Edward, are advocating war in the Kaiser's ears every day.

General King, as the southern general of Desik, discovered this bad sign very early. However, by the time he took a closer look at the issue, De Sick's militant ideology in the country had already been recognized by many people.

Originally, Prince Ferdinand, the crown prince of Desik, was a man of great ambition and talent, and he was made the crown prince very early, except for greed, lust and enjoyment, he had no idea about governing the country and the army. In this case, General Kim one day turned his gaze to Crown Prince Ferdinand.

General Kim tried to use his influence to quell the war trend in the country by befriending the crown prince. However, two years ago, on Ferdinand's return from his mission to San Jose, the prince was stabbed by an assassin under the care of his own army, and Ferdinand suffered severe injuries to an important part. Although he knew that the alleged assassin was not accurate, General Kim, who knew Prince Ferdinand's personality, quickly figured out why, but Prince Ferdinand was indeed attacked, and the crucial follow-up manhunt was fruitless, so the attempt to befriend the prince had to be terminated.

In the past two years, the war trend of Desik has become more and more obvious, and people on the mainland have been called "the heart of Desik, known to passers-by", and the pacifist faction represented by General Kim is still making unremitting efforts.

However, Prince Kuigang, Prince Ferdinand's beloved youngest son, died in the territory of the Nine Nations Business Alliance for no apparent reason, and Prince Ferdinand suffered that serious trauma two years ago, which made things worse, and General Jin didn't know if the size of the Principality of Kaman could withstand De Sik's wrath. Perhaps, when the time comes, the Nine Nations Business Alliance will be both prosperous and lossy, and it will inevitably have a big battle with Desik at that time, which will be terrible.

Therefore, in Duke Carman's castle, General King insisted on taking the corpses of the two dark mages, hoping that Prince Ferdinand's anger would be temporarily diverted.

Manning City, the general meeting of the Adventurers' Guild. As an international organization with a wide spread across the continent, the Adventurer's Guild has its own set of information systems. Therefore, shortly after the vicious dark mage incident in Carman City, the full report of the Carman Chapter was on the table of the Presbyterian General Council of Adventurers (Note 2). Several senior elders, as well as Chief Hunter Green, were shocked after carefully reading the report of the Kaman Chapter.

Green tugged at his hair in anguish, frustrated that he had let the two dark mages go away in the Sunset Mountains.

The Chief Elder of the Council of Elders was silent for a long time, then said bitterly, "It seems that the efforts to reduce the demonization that have been achieved since the end of the First Continental War have been extremely undermined over the years. Everyone here probably knows why the other party chose the Principality of Kaman. ”

Several elders around nodded one after another, and Green said, "It must have something to do with Grand Doctor Kaman." ”

"Yes," the Chief Elder sighed, Grand Physician Carman had left behind a magical manuscript, which was probably the easiest place to obtain magical materials outside of the San Jose Great Library. After all, the Principality of Kaman is a small country, and its guards are relatively weak. If it hadn't been broken on the street, I guess they had a good chance of success this time.

Green is still a little puzzled, but not many people should know about the existence of this manuscript, and there are no more than ten people in the whole continent, except for the inside of the Principality of Kaman, of course.

"That's what I'm worried about," the Chief Elder continued, "You know, the dark magic forces have grown rapidly over the years, and we've dealt with a lot of dark magic events lately, and there are strong connections between many of them. I suspect that within the Empires, there is a unified organization of dark magic, and the people in this organization are likely to be in high positions in their respective countries. ”

The Elder's words were deafening, but by no means alarmist. Green felt like his heart was pounding. The historical research of the Magic Empire has shown that studying magic will not lead to good results, and it is really incomprehensible why these people still have such a strong need for magic.

"Even, I sometimes suspect that there are their people between us!" the Chief Elder's last words seemed a little dejected, and at this time, he was like a helpless ordinary old man.

"No", "No", several people around said one after another, the chief elder didn't say anything, waved his hand, and the room fell into silence again.

"Oh, magic, the source of all evil, which stirs out the darkest desires and greed in the heart. After a long time, the Chief Elder left the last words behind and got up to leave the room.

In the middle of nowhere, in a deep castle room, a man in black stood quietly at a table full of lamps in the shape of a pentagram with a special instrument in the middle.

The instrument resembles a circular metal basin, and there is a strange blue liquid in the basin, and the calm liquid surface suddenly whirls, circle by circle, and then slowly calms down. When the liquid level calmed down, a line of golden text gradually appeared on the original blue liquid: "The task is complete, and you can start the next step." ”

The man in black watched the golden words gradually emerge, and then gradually disappeared in a short time, and secretly breathed a sigh of relief. "Great. The man in black muttered, waved out all the lights in the room, and then put on his hood and walked out of the room. Outside, on a gentle slope not far away, a towering castle stands majestically under the night sky.

Note 1: In the ancient era, the traditional era division of the continent refers to the history before the Magic Empire as the Ancient Era, the period of the Magic Empire as the First Era, and after the end of the First Continental War, it is called the Second Era.

In fact, there are very few records of antiquity.

Note 2: The organizational form of the Adventurer's Guild is the Adventurer's General Association + Adventurer's Clubs in various places. The General Council is led by a Council of Elders, leading a paramilitary force known as the Senior Hunters, led by the Chief Hunter. Local chapters are organized with reference to the general association. The Chief Elders of the General Assembly are *****.