Naga's final struggle was so fierce and long that she almost broke free from the Mithril dagger - like a snake desperate to get rid of a fishhook, but the otherworldly spirit clung to her waist and hugged her in her arms like a close lover, her claws leaving deep scars on the backs of the black-haired spellcasters, and the lich knew that their bodies were bleeding a lot, but now that they were in the fast, murky water, no one would notice those shiny little secrets- Naga's body finally relaxed completely, but the black-haired caster didn't drop it in the rapids, he cast a spell that allowed him to walk on the water, but with some difficulty - if the water was calm, it would make the caster feel like he was walking on solid ground, but if the water was not calm enough or was in a state of rushing as it was now, then walking on it was like walking on quicksand or mirror-smooth ice.

The temple of the Lord of the Eastern Crown is located on the west side of the volcano, facing the sea, and as we have said, at the bottom of the complex is the trestle and the pillared hall, and above it is the outer court where the lord's son and his close friends, as well as the mages and knights he employs, and the outer court is separated by double walls, both to defend against enemies and to prevent the beautiful and young slave girls from being secretly coveted by impudent people, the temple of Talos is hidden in the depths of the inner court, and the lord has no fixed bedroom, he has one hundred and twenty rooms, connected by slender corridors, each room is richly decorated, brightly lit, and pre-arranged with three or four female slaves who are only wrapped in tulleEvery night the lord sat in a soft sedan chair carried by the eunuchs, and walked quietly through the deep corridors, choosing any of them as he pleased, and if there was a thief or a ranger intending to assassinate him, he would first have to find the latter among the hundred and twenty rooms.

It's hard to say if this worked as it should, but it is true that no lord has been killed in his own bedroom for hundreds of years. It's not that they'll die, even if there are no tough enemies, their sons will grow up, of course, the current lords don't have to think about that, everything was destroyed by the wrath of Talos, and the tsunami reached a height of a thousand feet, which was about the same height as the arrow towers on the twin walls, and they pushed open the delicate doors and windows, and pried the walls apart. Lifting the roof, countless gold and silver vessels, tapestries and ornaments, as well as eunuchs and slave girls, were crushed under the gray-blue tide - they had ravaged the human temple, roaring away with only ruins, corpses and sand, and things that should not have been there, such as the airship that had been hastily opened by the gnomes, the leather surface filled with the hot air was long gone, and the wooden hull was only half left, but miraculously remained largely intact. It collapsed silently above the first temple that the priests of Talos had built on the Dragonfire Islands, its hull skewed, dangling from the dwarfs whose hands and feet were wrapped in a few ropes of unknown use, dead in the boat. Their faces were pale, but the silk on their bodies was deep and shiny because they were soaked in water, and they swayed violently as the hurricane howled, looking like painted dolls hung one by one by some ill-temperamental child outside the window.

Probably the last thing missing here is the corpse. Human, fish, slave. The master's, from the inner court to the outer court, and from the outer court to the pillar hall, a person who was pressed under the half-cut stone pillar suddenly shouted softly, he is the second son of the lord, he and his brothers are wearing rune seals, although they can't teleport them out, but at least they can be guaranteed to the greatest extent not to be hurt by the giant wood and gravel wrapped in the tide, or drowned alive, but the power stored in the runes is also limited, especially the rune seals made by the caster are not so many, and some were swept away by the tide at the beginning, so whether they can be saved in the end depends on whether the god of fate is willing to throw them a smile that symbolizes life.

The second son endured all the time, he did not know whether this calamity was man-made or providential, and if it was man-made, then it was better not to be one of his brothers, otherwise his end might not be better than that Dada-the great eunuch beside his father walked by him alone and carried something three times before he could not help but cry for help.

"Where are you?" said the eunuch, lowering his knees, as the water receded and left about three inches of water in the room, and his knees were completely submerged in it, but the eunuch didn't seem to mind, his head was lower than his knees, and he could almost wash his face with the sea. His attitude was not subtle, even a little humble, not to the lord's son, but like to the lord, the second son's heart suddenly flashed a thought, blood rushed to his face with a thud, even the leg that was crushed under the stone pillar was not so painful.

"Where's my father?" he asked, trying not to make himself appear too anxious and nervous, "what about my dearest master?"

"He's dead. The eunuch said.

The second son didn't care about the rudeness of the eunuch at all, he would rather he be so presumptuous. In any case, if his father, the owner of the Eastern Crown, was still alive, then the eunuch would never fail to add an honorific to his answer just now: "What about my eldest brother?"

"Dead too. ”

The second son couldn't help but want to laugh: "What about my other brothers?"

"If it is your seven brothers," said the eunuch earnestly, "they are all dead." ”

"So I am the only son left of my father?" asked the second son, of course the brothers who had been reduced to slavery were not among them, they had all been castrated, and it was impossible for a eunuch to become a lord.

"Aren't you the only one left?" said the archeunuch, raising his upper body slightly and staring at the face of the second son—a little unpleasant to the surviving lord's son, but less annoyed at the thought that he would soon be able to send the old gelding to accompany his father.

"Are you sure?" the second son asked, the question that was the most important.

"I'm sure. The eunuch said this, dragging out the bag from behind, which was heavy, and when the second son wrung his eyebrows and tried to scold him, a bunch of unseemly heads rolled out of it, the first of which belonged to his eldest brother.

The second son opened his mouth, and he noticed that the section of the head was very flat (after the blood had been washed away by the sea), and he looked at the eunuch, but found that he could not make out the look of strangeness in that face. He wanted to plead, but his throat seemed to be blocked by his tongue, and he couldn't make a sound, and the eunuch grabbed him by the hair, and the dagger pierced the neck of the second son, and after severing the artery and trachea, he continued downward, cutting off the cervical vertebrae, and then turning his wrist to cut off his head.

A tiny bug flew out from behind the second son, and the eunuch caught it. Stuff it into the pendant on the chest, this little worm is the creature of the red robe, used to find blood relatives, the more direct the more accurate, the warlock often uses it to cut the grass and eradicate the roots to ensure that their enemies do not resurge, the eunuch does not have the power and identity to have it, but the lord has, like those rune seals used to protect against all kinds of damage.

The pillars and trestles are gone, and the thousands of wooden piles that were originally fixed in the shallow sea are long gone. Attached to the people tied to it, Ji'er and Dada sat on their knees in the sea with a sluggish expression, completely unaware of how they had escaped from this catastrophe.

"It's the Great Eunuch. Dada affirmed: "It was he who caught me, and I remember seeing his face." ”

And he held on to Ji'er firmly. Perhaps that's why Ji'er and he survived.

"Shall we escape?" asked Ji'er, neither she nor Dada knew what happened after the second tsunami, but in their minds. The lord should survive, with so many rune jewels on his body and spellcasters who can fly and teleport by his side.

"No one has to run away. The eunuch said behind them, and the two of them jumped up violently: "I'm glad you are still full of energy," the eunuch smiled and said, "The rest of the matter is quite laborious." ”

Ji'er and Dada stared at him defensively, if there were soldiers with the eunuch, they would flee without looking back, and if they were caught, only death awaited them, and it was quite painful and miserable.

The eunuch didn't explain too much, he took out the bag from behind him, and poured all the contents on the ground, the heads of several adult males occupied a lot of volume, but a few of them were partially broken, but they could still be recognized, the lord was the most defective, but there was also a Ji'er who had been with the lord for several years, even if only the wrinkles under the eyes or the nose were left, she could recognize it.

Dada counted his head, "All the ......," he said in a dry voice, and the eunuch immediately added to him, "The lord, and the lord's sons, are almost all here." ”

"Is that you?"

"How is that possible?" the eunuch smiled, "I'm just a eunuch. But I've been prepared, look, there's a saying that opportunities are always reserved for those who are prepared, and I seized this opportunity. ”

"Xizhi, or Nanzhi......" Ji'er said.

"I'm not that stupid," the eunuch interrupted her unceremoniously, "I want to live, and live comfortably, if the lord of another island rules the Eastern Crown, won't he have his own eunuch?"

Ji'er wanted to say that the eunuch was favored by the lord, but no one knew better than her how terrible it was to be in the hands of someone else's life and freedom, so she wisely kept silent.

"Maybe the lord thinks he's nice to me," said the eunuch, "and if he dies, the new lord who takes over will kill me directly, and my life is tied to him so to speak, just like the other eunuchs, although we were both brothers and were both emasculated by that fellow, but they and I just want to live - but there are always many ways to live, and if there is a better way to live, we don't mind changing masters." ”

"You chose...... My master?" Dada asked, "but he is a spellcaster, and he is only a disciple of Beavis, the son of the lord, and not a son, if you want to send him to the position of lord, the lords of the Dragonfire Islands may object." ”

"It's not him," the eunuch said calmly, "he's not from the Dragonfire Islands, never has been, he's leaving, I know very well," he showed a strange and pleasant look: "I chose, Dada, it's you." ”

Dada thought for a moment that he was hallucinating: "Wait!" he cried, "You should know that I am a eunuch?"

"Ah......" said the chief eunuch calmly, "so what," he rummaged through the pile of skulls and picked out Amos's head, and carried it close to Dada's face, whose face was miraculously intact, and it was two identical faces: "Is there anyone who can, or can examine the body of a lord? You have the same face as Amos, no, you are Amos, and it's time for him to repay you," he said, crushing Amos's face into the sand, grinding it into a bloody blur in a few moments. "You, our new lord, long live Amos!—I'm sure the lord of the side island will be glad to hear that too. ”

"He's the one you're working with. Dada, or Amos, said.

"He's a good object," said the eunuch with a smile, his smile never more genuine, "he is very kind and gentle-natured, but he is also quick and cautious when it comes to making decisions," and he is extremely sharp and sharp, he has only met the eunuch once, but when they met the second time they almost reached a preliminary agreement, and it was only a few months before the plan to put everyone (including the priests of Talos) into use, "what do you think?" He's a good guy, Amos, a kind man, and the elves around him are followers of Sulun, and a former paladin...... Flo's priests and thieves may be negligible, but they don't quite look like evil people either. ”

"And his soldiers. ”

The eunuch nodded: "Quite a brave and strong soldier," he said, "and the old master is dead, the new lord should be established, Amos, those soldiers and mages will obey your orders, originally all they wanted was gold coins, as for the hand in their hands, they did not care." ”

"The gods are above...... "The new Amos muttered, "I can't believe you, and my ......"

"Your nephew ......," said the eunuch happily.

"The abyss is below," said Amos...... You guys are crazy. ”

"But we succeeded, didn't we?" the eunuch clapped his hands like a child, but he stood up and kicked the lord out of the head. (To be continued.) )