Chapter Twenty-Four: The Flame Behind the Throne
Back in the cave, George found a slightly hidden place to transform Xuanwu into a small house, and then he asked Millie to accompany Mona, who had not yet woken up, to go inside and rest early.
By the way, he left a Shikigami White Tiger, so that if there is danger, he can quickly go to the outside world, and there is a hidden place in the outside world, where he summoned Shikigami White Tiger early in the morning.
George walked over to the human-faced tree and stood still.
The human-faced tree slowly opened his eyes and said, "Can you start killing me?" ”
Hearing the words of the human-faced tree, George smiled and said, "You are the first time I have met someone who is always begging others to kill him. ”
"People? Can I still be a human being like this? If you become a life changer, you will eventually turn into a magic tree with no self-awareness. ”
The Human-faced Tree showed a pleading expression again, and he said to George, "Kill me, I don't want to be that kind of monster." ”
"Alright, alright, then I'll give you a ride!"
George walked slowly around the Human-faced Tree, and with each step, a card flew out of his hand and landed on the ground, and after walking a circle, the cards also formed a circle around the Human-Faced Tree.
"Can you make up a chair?" George asked suddenly.
"Okay, what are you going to do?"
"Of course, the chair is for sitting, you can make it up quickly, I have set up a formation around you, and if you are satisfied with my formation, I will immediately launch a formation to destroy you."
After George finished speaking, he was embarrassed, how did he feel like a cruel villain in a movie.
"Okay......"
On the ground, countless roots of trees of different thicknesses snaked and swam, and in a short time they gathered into a chair.
Looking at the chair, George shook his head and said, "No, no, your chair is too simple, make it bigger for me, like a king's ......throne."
At George's request, the Human-Face Tree continued to stretch out its roots to modify the "chair", and eventually, the "chair" became a huge "throne".
George looked at the throne in front of him that was squeezed and twisted by the roots of the tree, and nodded in satisfaction.
He slashed his arms and slashed out the blade, and the pure white blade instantly slashed towards the bottom of the throne, and the edge of the bottom of the throne and the place where the root of the human-faced tree connected were all cut off by the pure white blade.
George walked up to the throne and lifted the great root throne with a single stroke of his arms.
"It's pretty heavy!"
George took a few steps forward holding the root throne before putting it down, and then sat down.
On the throne, George kept flicking the fingers of one hand on the armrest, and after a while he said to the human-faced tree not far behind him, "Are you ready?" ”
"Thank you." With a smile on his face, the human-faced tree slowly closed his eyes.
George's hand was still playing on the armrest, and he reached out his other hand and tapped it lightly at the center of his brow, as a red light flashed in his eyes.
Suddenly, the circle of cards at the bottom of the human face tree lit up with a crimson light.
The cards glowing with crimson light disappeared in an instant, and were replaced by a circle surrounded by a red light circle surrounding the human face tree, the style of the circle was very simple, and some characters with iron and silver hooks could be vaguely seen on it.
"Fire!"
As George whispered the word, crimson light erupted from those arrays, and then flames burst out, covering the entire human-faced tree.
Surrounded by the circle and flames, the human-faced tree was engulfed in flames, and he did not show any expression of pain or shout. Some were just the sound of the trees crackling under the flames, which was the soundtrack of his death towards the place of his hope.
Burning leaves and sparks flutter in the air with the flickering light of the fire.
George, who was sitting on the throne, raised a hand, and a cigarette instantly appeared in his hand, caught between his fingers.
A burning leaf fluttered by, lighting the cigarette he was holding.
George slowly put the cigarette to his mouth, took a shallow puff, and spit it out for a long time.
By this time, the circle had disappeared, the fire had become small, and the body of the human-faced tree had been burned to charcoal, and only some of the branches were still sporadic with fire.
There was a scent of carbon in the air, not inferior to the sandalwood that George had smelled before.
George extinguished the cigarette butt and began to think about what to do with the young boys and girls who were still unconscious, and according to the human face tree, these boys and girls had no original memories and could not recover.
If you want to help them......
There are so many people, how can he be busy alone, having Millie and Mona around him is enough for him to drink a pot, if he takes all these twenty or so people, he will really become a mobile children's shelter.
Even if you want to take these people with you, when they wake up, will you send them to a nearby town? These people were originally captured by the Empire, and if they were sent back, wouldn't it still be given to the Empire? Doing so is simply taking off your pants and farting.
Besides, it seems that tomorrow the empire will come to receive some kind of life force, these people are completely hopeless trouble, and the empire will not harm their lives anyway.
"Forget it, the empire can do whatever it wants, as long as it doesn't get in my way."
George felt that it was still an hour or two before dawn outside, and he lay down on his throne, put his hat over his eyes, closed his eyes and rested.
The charcoal-burned human-faced tree emitted a refreshing scent, and George soon fell asleep.
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There is no difference between day and night in the cave, at this time there is already a blue sky and white clouds outside, and the sun is shining, but inside the cave is still the light of various colored stones.
On the main road, a group of dozens of people all rode high-headed horses towards the direction of the cave.
At the head of the group was a man in black metal armor, his long black hair rising in the wind, and his deep black eyes showed a hint of exhaustion.
He is the captain of this team of Crow Protectors, Baron Talion Joestar, known as the Iron Will.
He is one of the most powerful owners of the Apocalypse in the Fokine Empire, and one of the most loyal subordinates to the Black Prince.
"Talion, I'm about to get to the supply point that Count Oro is in charge of, so I can finally get some rest."
Said a woman on a horse beside Talion, her long fiery red hair covering half of her face, and the oncoming wind could not blow her hair up, even on a galloping horse.
Hearing the woman's words, the expression on Talion's face relaxed slightly, and he spoke: "Yes, the battles with the parting people have been too frequent recently, not only those magic users in the team can't stand it, but even you and I are tired enough to fight with the power of the apocalypse. It's time for us to take a good rest, and after the supplies are finished, let's take those newborns back to the imperial capital, maybe we can still catch up with Old Sam's wedding. ”
"Old Sam is getting married?"
"Yes, I also heard from the soldier who delivered the news not long ago, and I heard that His Royal Highness the Prince is also going to attend this wedding."
"Then why can the prince of the two wedding in the future also come to attend?"
"Ahem~ Azhuo! Don't say this in the military. As he spoke, Tarion looked back.
"You provoked this, why can you say it, I can't say it."
"Okay, it's all my fault, let's discuss this issue in private, you see the front, the cave mentioned in the news is about to arrive, let's slow down."
"Humph!"
Yazhuo lowered the speed of his mount with an unhappy expression, and the people who followed behind also slowly reduced their speed.