016 Kuigang's identity
In the capital of the Kaman king, Kuigang's coffin was temporarily rested next to the council chamber of the Duke's castle. Originally, the Adventurer's Guild was in charge of collecting the burial, but who knew that the arrival of the Desik Mission had disrupted all plans.
No one could have imagined that this ordinary Desik Wasteland warrior who came from Manning City with the adventure team actually had an unusual identity, he was from the Desik royal family. Kuigang's grandfather was the current Emperor of Desik, William IV (Note 1), and his father was Prince Ferdinand, the current crown prince of Desik. He was the youngest son of Prince Ferdinand, and since he was a child, he showed great talent for martial arts, and before he was twenty, he became an elite warrior of the wasteland, and was deeply loved by the emperor.
In Desik, Kuigang leads a secret elite unit dedicated to pursuing secrets that Desik's royal family cares about, such as dark magic events. These things are not known to the public, but they need elite soldiers to solve them, so Kui Gang, who is from the royal family, is the best person in charge of this secret force.
In fact, the Desik Empire has always had a tradition of royal children serving in the army to lead elite troops. It's just that these things are rarely known to the outside world. Moreover, the elite troops specialize in handling secret events, and even if there is a death, the Desik royal family has never spread the word.
When the Adventurers' Guild invited countries to discuss countermeasures against the recent dark magic incident, in addition to sending a diplomatic mission, Kuigang also brought some people to follow. General Kim, the southern general of the Desik Empire, was sent as an official ambassador to deal with the matter, and he was in charge of communicating with the countries on the surface.
At that time, after the Adventurers' Guild asked for a special investigation team, Kui Gang handed General Kim a piece of parchment and volunteered to go. General Jin saw that the chief hunter of the Adventurers' Guild, Green, was personally leading the team, and he didn't think much about it at the time, thinking that Kuigang, as an elite wasteland warrior, should be able to deal with all complicated situations, but he didn't expect that the accident would happen like this.
General Jin sat down solemnly in the council chamber of Duke Carman's castle, and behind him were four guards as tall as a hill, also naked, wearing only half of a wolfskin jacket, with knotted muscles and muscles, all four of them holding the scimitar at their waists, with a sinister face. They were waiting for Duke Carman to come forward and give a reasonable explanation. The identity of the little prince of Kui Gang is very noble, and General Jin has already examined Kui Gang's body just now.
Kaman, on the other hand, gave the body great respect, it should have been a high-level mortuary who dressed him up carefully, and Kui Gang, who was lying in the coffin, had a calm face, but his face was pale and his lips were bloodless. Kui Gang, dressed in a gorgeous burial suit, lay there motionless, his hands folded on his chest, holding his pocket scimitar.
General Jin tore the clothes on Kui Gang's chest, turned his body sideways, and a shocking wound came into General Jin's eyes, on the body under the gorgeous clothes, a large black hole, several thick black veins like spider webs spread out around the wound, all over the front chest and back, and there was a faint sour rancid smell that had not dissipated when smelled carefully.
"Hmph, dark magic weapon!" General Jin said silently in his heart.
Next door to the council hall, Princess Mu, Xiao Mu, the affairs officer, and the chief elder of the Adventurer's Guild were anxiously discussing. Just now I asked the palace servants to tell General Jin that Princess Mu needed to change her clothes to buy some time, and the four of them gathered here to think about how to explain to General Jin for a while.
The matter between countries is so delicate, no matter how the explanation is actually very pale, after all, a royal family died in the capital of the Principality of Kaman, and the Principality of Kaman must be to blame, especially when the other party is the most powerful empire on the mainland. The festive atmosphere of the "Double Day Festival" is lost in this situation.
The prestige or murderous reputation of the Desik Empire is too strong on the mainland. This time, the four wasteland warriors actually entered the council hall with weapons in a solemn manner, and the Kaman side didn't even know whether to stop them. And General Kim, who is officially the general of the south of Desik, makes people feel extremely depressed.
The Desik Empire, with five generals in the country, is responsible for leading the armies to deal with threats from all directions. Among them, the Northern General is responsible for guarding the border of the northern mountains of Desik, and the Eastern General is the general of the Navy, responsible for commanding the Eastern Navy. The Western generals guarded the Grand Canyon and were responsible for maintaining military pressure on the Nine Nation Business Alliance. And the Southern General, is the top priority, and his army is facing the border troops of the San Jose Empire, a great power in the south. There is also a central general, who is responsible for guarding the royal family of Desik.
This time things are actually very weird, it stands to reason that it is indeed more common for the Desiks with big brains (Note 2) to send generals as ambassadors, but it is generally the Western generals who send envoys to the Western Nine Nations Business Alliance, and it is incomprehensible that this southern general came to send envoys.
If you don't understand, you don't understand, the chief officer who commands Desik's elite border army is sitting in Duke Carman's castle at this moment, and an invisible aura is suppressing the people nearby.
Xiao Mu secretly whispered to his sister and said, "Sister, you said that if we kill this southern general at this time, will it make the Desik Empire suffer a little more." Princess Mu rolled her eyes at Xiao Mu and glared at Xiao Mu fiercely, "You are here, you are not allowed to go anywhere." Your Excellency, Chief Officer, you and I will come. ”
Princess Mu walked into the council hall and came to General Jin, without giving a salute, Officer Kaman hurriedly stepped forward and bowed slightly, "Dear General Jin, this is the regent of our country, Princess Mu, His Royal Highness is also the chief heir of Duke Kaman." ”
"Your Highness the Princess. This is the southern general of the Desik Empire, General Kim. ”
Princess Mu nodded slightly, which was regarded as a greeting, and General Jin didn't get up and looked at Princess Mu playfully.
The ** smell between the two sides was very strong, and without saying anything more, Princess Mu sat down, and the affairs officer and the chief elder of the Adventurer Guild sat on the left and right.
General Jin was silent for a while, and silently put away the evil aura on his body. I saw him wave his hand, and the four samurai behind him actually turned around and walked out of the council hall. "Guys, I don't really have a problem with your Kaman Duchy. Kui Gang did die in Kaman, and it stands to reason that I am right to ask for guilt on behalf of the Desik Empire. However, there is little point in doing so. ”
The opening sentence of General Jin made Princess Mu secretly shocked, and she said in her heart What this General Jin meant, she couldn't understand it at all, so she had to listen to it for the time being.
General Jin at the table continued: "You also know that I am the southern general of Desik, and I have always had no dealings with your Shang Alliance. This time, I'm going to represent Desik on behalf of the Business Alliance, and I'm afraid it will be difficult for you all to understand. However, please understand that this is our Desik's internal affairs. What I've said next, I'll only say once, out of this room, I'm not going to admit it. Princess Mu, I have a lot of sincerity. ”
Princess Mu was even more confused when she heard this, and glanced at the affairs officer, and found that the old and serious affairs officer also had a puzzled look in disbelief.
General Jin's words continued, "In the past few years, the military pressure of our Desik Empire in all directions has gradually increased, and the Nine Nations Business Alliance should have sensed our Desik's intentions. However, there is actually an opposition in the country, and although I myself am a Southern general, I do not support the war. War is only a continuation of politics, and what can be obtained from the negotiating table does not exactly need to be done by dead people. Therefore, through the influence of Prince Kuigang, I won the opportunity to send an envoy to the Shang Alliance, hoping to ease the relationship between De Sik and the Shang Alliance. However, it backfired, because of the misfortune of Prince Kuigang, I am afraid that I will not be able to control the follow-up. ”
Xiao Mu next door has been secretly listening to the conversation in the conference hall. The room he was in was a purpose-built secret room, with copper pipes buried in the walls for eavesdropping. Xiao Mu, who was left here by his sister, secretly eavesdropped on the negotiations between the two sides, and as a result, General Jin's words were completely listened to by Xiao Mu.
The smart Xiao Mu immediately reacted, the Desik Empire tried in vain to provoke a war, but it was not monolithic at home.
"Of course, the cause of Kui Gang's death is actually very clear, I have examined the corpse just now, and I also trust the elders of the Adventurer's Guild. Well, we can all agree that dark magic is the culprit, and now that they have all been ambushed, there is no need to continue to pursue them. Everyone also knows the attitude of our Desik Empire towards dark magic, and Kuigang died a well-deserved death. I want to be able to bring back the dark mage's corpse back to China to confess, what do you think?"
Princess Mu was silent for a while and nodded slightly.
Seeing that an agreement was reached, everyone present breathed a sigh of relief, and the atmosphere of the venue was no longer so depressing.
General Jin suddenly untied the wolfskin jacket from his waist and solemnly put on the upper body part, it turned out that the upper body part of the wolfskin jacket was extremely luxurious, and the dark black streamer was shining. General Jin, who was dressed, made a formal salute to Princess Mu for the first time, "Then don't bother, I still have to go to support the coffin of Prince Kuigang." ”
Seeing that the matter was easily resolved, the chief elder of the Adventurer's Guild breathed a sigh of relief, after all, the matter was organized by the Adventurer's Guild, seeing that the Desik Empire was no longer pursuing it, the chief elder hurriedly gave a salute and left the castle, and he had to hurry to inform the Manning Guild.
Princess Mu sat on the chair, looked at the departing chief elder and Xiao Mu who had just walked into the room, and rubbed her forehead, "You heard everything, Xiao Mu?"
"I hear you. Xiao Mu nodded.
"Do you understand?" asked Princess Mu.
"Understood!"
"Princess, the rain is coming. The clerk interjected.
"Yes, the mountain rain is coming, and the continent is uneven. Desik's heart, everyone knows, this General Jin represents another force in Desik's country, and he doesn't know what the future will be. Princess Mu looked very weak, "You all go, I want to be quiet." ”
Xiao Mu and the affairs officer left, and in the empty meeting hall, Princess Mu stared at the oil painting on the wall quietly, and silently thought in her heart, "Ancestors, ancestors, please protect my motherland." ”
Note 1: De Sick and San Jose are called empires, and the leader of the empire is the emperor. Emperors are named after generations, and Emperor William was the fourth emperor named William in the Desik Empire, so he was named William IV. Most of the merchant countries are kings, dukes, etc.
Note 2: Big brains are often used by mainlanders to describe the Desik people. The ancestors of the Desikhs are the remnants of the union between the people of the Northern Wastelands and some civilians of the Magic Empire, and the Desiks have always been known for their rough nerves, violent tempers, and straightforwardness.