Unknown Temple, Ruins.

The old complex is distributed along the stream and is located in an oasis of the first waterfall. Surrounded by mountains and dense forests, it looks like an abandoned city that is gradually weathering. Its walls differ from ordinary masonry walls, made entirely of tough timber, with a large number of towers that look like a cliff lined with pillars.

At its lowest level, the complex is a naturally formed river valley with green meadows that continue into the heart of the valley. There is a lush forest ring and a nondescript fortress-like building in the midst of the dense green leaves.

Where the broken golden river turns, the watchtowers surrounding the river valley are faintly recognizable. The water is clear, and the water passes through the turf on both sides of the river, and is carried downstream to the temple of Nut with the gentle breeze in the valley. But at this time, the temple of Nut was already in ruins, and the entire temple was blown to pieces from the inside out, forming a crater-shaped blackened radiation belt.

Since yesterday evening, this long-hidden temple has been taken over by the Corona Knights directly under the royal court.

The Corona Knights, who received the order, sealed off the ruins, dressed in semi-enclosed light armor, armed with halberds, helmets, and skirts woven with armor, and their knees, legs and shins.

The Corona Knight is highly disciplined, and the uniform silver-white cloak is connected together, and when viewed from above, it seems that a long silver-white snake swims slowly between the dense forests.

Female officer Basha rode on a stout chocobo, and her black-armored guards followed the coronadian knight in formation, and as far as the eye could see, two thin columns of heavy infantry crossed the entire river valley. Black-and-white queues loom along the rolling meadows, and flags fly in the thousands.

Wearing blue and white uniforms and white feather headdresses, search parties made their way through the buildings, and compared to the army, they were largely unarmed and were only responsible for collecting items and checking for signs remaining in the complex.

“......”

Bazaar rode the tame chocobo and scurried down the slope of the ground, soon crossing the green ring and reaching the hidden fortress.

"Your Excellency, Commander!"

The knights of the corona, who were guarding the gates of the fortress, immediately bowed down to her and saluted.

"I want to see Your Majesty. ”

As she spoke, she jumped off the chocobo, handed over her mount to her men, and walked straight to the fortress gates.

"Please come in. ”

The guards had already received the order to let them go, and they did not stop them, and kindly presented an old-fashioned lantern:

"There's torches in there, but it's still dim, and you might need that. ”

"Thanks, there's no need. ”

Basha glanced at the black hole in the hallway in front of her, didn't take the lantern, and quickened her pace into the inside of the fortress.

......

Upon entering the corridor, there was a dark and dead silence all around, except for the torches peeling and burning, and the flickering light reflected the deep ravines and shadows on the walls. After passing through several sealed bronze composite doors, the female officer climbed up a rattan ladder to the top of the fortress under the guidance of several insiders.

"Your Majesty. ”

She stopped behind the half-hidden carved gate and called softly.

"Don't be formal, just come in. ”

"Yes. ”

Bazaar pushed open the door to the room, and saw the queen lazily half-lying through a notebook on a red gold-embroidered platform under the oak wall carved with the statue of the god Nut.

"According to the traces left by the march, they went all the way west and had been gone for more than two days. She reported back on what she had just gotten into her hands.

"To the west?"

Eru Lomei stopped flipping through her notes, lowered her thick eyelashes, and raised them again, looking at the female officer with beautiful silver eyes:

"No, it can't go west. ”

"But judging from the traces left by the baggage...... They did go west. ”

"On the face of it, it is. ”

The queen closed the notebook in her hand and said with a chuckle:

"These are accounts left by one of Ozmandis's subordinates, and they show that there is an annual expenditure for the maintenance of five sailing ships. I think this is a way back for him. ”

"But there is also the sea to the west. Bazaar explained with some confusion.

“......”

Hearing this, Eru Lomme got up, walked to the window, opened the lace curtains, looked at the silent ruins of the temple outside, turned her back to the female officer and asked:

"Do you know what kind of tree this is?"

“......”

Bazaar walked to the window in confusion, glanced down at the green forest below, and immediately saw the species of trees:

"Your Majesty, this is the Salo Fruit Tree. ”

"It's the rainy season, and the sarro fruit isn't fully ripe yet, right?"

"Yes. ”

"Then why is there not a single unripe salo fruit in the green forest belt below?"

"...... Got sundecked out early?"

When the female officer asked rhetorically, she already felt that her IQ was not enough.

"Yes, he had dried up the unripe sarro fruit in advance. ”

Elu Lomei leaned one elbow against the edge of the window, holding her cheeks and looking into the distance, and there seemed to be a light in her eyes: "Whatever the reason, I must have fled with these fruits." ”

"Yes!"

When Basha heard this, she seemed to remember something, and suddenly became energetic, and immediately said, "We did find scattered raw salo fruits in the west. ”

"Then it's even more impossible to go west!"

The queen shook her head, and with a thin white finger, drew a topographical map on the edge of the window:

"The west side is close to the Mediterranean, and there are abundant products, and there are supplies along the way. If you want to eat salo fruit, you can buy it for money, so why bother to bring your own fruit. ”

“......”

The female officer fell silent.

"Carrying raw fruit means that the saro fruit is an important material for them. ”

Ailu Luomei's eyes flashed slightly, her fingertips tapped lightly on the white porcelain on the edge of the bed, and said thoughtfully:

"As far as I know, the biggest effect of saroberry is to prevent scurvy. Even if he does not hesitate to expose his whereabouts, he must bring these saro fruits, which means that the place he really wants to go must be a barren place with a lack of material replenishment. ”

"The wind-swept land of the East!"

Basha had a flash of inspiration and blurted out.

"That's probably it. ”

The queen narrowed her eyes, letting her hair flutter with the night breeze, and her voice gradually became colder:

"I'm afraid the traces left in the west are also true, but they should only be to the extent that the lizard has broken its tail. You chase after you with a team of 1,000 men, and if you resist, you will be summarily executed. ”

"Yes!"

After Basha received the order, she immediately withdrew.

......

At dawn, the Corona Knights rode across the river on traveling birds, lighting clusters of bonfires with long-handled tinder that reflected in the river like a string of pearls flowing through the water. Soon after, the bonfires began to spread, converging node by node, and soon ignited the entire ruins.

The purple-red flames reflected half of the oasis, forming a dazzling purple spot in the dark night sky.

“......”

Standing at the top of the oasis in a military uniform, Eru Lomme rode a solar horse, smiling silently as she looked at the ruins below that were filled with flames and smoke rising in the embers.

After pacifying the invaders, he took Ozymandis's lair for me, Ivan, you are really my good brother.