Chapter 6: The Oracle One
What happened on the Mitchell Magic Tower has a profound impact on the human race, and even the situation in the entire Dawn Continent, and it has spread to various places in a very short period of time, and the reactions of all parties who have received the news are different, but there is one place where people do not care about this world-renowned event for the time being.
Three days ago, some strangely shaped footprints were found on the edge of the Malkan Desert, at first there were only one or two strings, but now there are more and more footprints, and in addition to this, there are black figures looming in the yellow sand.
Everyone realizes that something is going to happen, maybe in a day or two.
Whether it was the Holy Knights of the Temple or the mage squad of the Wizards Guild, everyone's faces became solemn, the warriors were wiping their weapons repeatedly, and the legal professionals were adjusting their mental states to ensure that both mana and divine power were replenished.
The temple is led by the head of the Second Knights, Lodge, who is in charge of the town's armed forces, he is only fifty-one years old this year, with a thick beard, and was originally Clowell's deputy, who stepped down due to injury, and took the initiative to apply for transfer to Oglage after the Second Holy Knights were taken over by him, Lodge was calm and outstanding in martial arts, and he has performed quite well in recent years, so he was named by the Pope to deal with things in the Malkan Desert.
Rocky brought 19,000 people this time, almost all the elites of the Second Holy Knights, and in addition to this, he also applied for the support of two additional groups of priest teams, all of whom were masters, including six bishops and two archbishops.
Such a lineup is enough to win a medium-sized country.
Flo was quite disdainful of Rocky's caution, he was the only one who was the most relaxed in the whole Gold Rush Town, the tavern in the town was closed two days ago, and he also took people there to make a fuss, and tonight he planned to hold a banquet in the place where he lived, for which he also specially found a few dancers from the neighboring town, but the carriage in which those dancers were riding was detained by the joint team responsible for the guard patrol, Flo came to Rocky this afternoon to let the latter go.
He rushed into a small building in the northwest of the town with two escorts, which was originally an inn in the town, and after the evacuation of the town's personnel, Rocky converted it into a temporary command room.
Lodge was studying the map of the Malkan Desert with several captains in the house, and when he looked up at Flo, a look of disgust flashed in the eyes of several captains, but they covered it up well, and immediately stopped talking and saluted the former.
Flo didn't bother to pay attention to them, didn't even look at them, and said directly, "Captain Rocky, who is so bold that he dares to detain my person?"
The head of the Second Holy Knights frowned, he didn't like the guy in front of him, although Flo was also from the military, but he had been doing civilian work, and he had no merit but was promoted very quickly, until he made a big mistake a few years ago and was transferred to Ogreene, where he caught up with the prisoner riot and was taken hostage, according to eyewitnesses, he was very unbearable at the time, begging for mercy in pain, which can be called ugly, but less than half a year later, he was transferred back to Santa Massa, not down but up, and became the Pope's personal bodyguard, this time as a deputy and Lodge was sent to Gold Rush Townγ
Many people suspect that Flo has a very hard background, but Rocky, as an absolute high-level in the military, knows a little more about things, Flo's background is not special, although his parents are clergy, but they are only the lowest clergy, and the reason why the church indulges him so much is because of his own reasons.
Flo is an extremely rare oracle, this is a rarer existence than fanatics, there are only two oracles among the hundreds of thousands of clergy in the entire church, and the other oracle is more than one hundred and twenty years old this year, not only can not walk, but even the eyes are blind, and the oracles can be received less and less.
Flo's importance to the church is self-evident, this is the reason why he can always be so arrogant, even if Rocky doesn't like him, but he also needs to maintain a minimum of respect for him, the head of the Second Holy Knights said, "People are detained by those magicians, you don't have to worry, I'll help you after the battle meeting." β
"Combat meeting? Flo disagreed, "I didn't make it clear before, there won't be any danger this time, those monsters are just borrowing, their target is not here." β
A captain said dissatisfied, "You said no, no, those monsters crawled out of the abyss, the creatures in the abyss only have the killing instinct, they don't have any reason at all, and they won't obey anyone's orders, this matter has been proven by countless people, if those things rush out of the desert and start attacking nearby towns, do you know how many civilian casualties will be caused, it will definitely be a catastrophe." β
Flo snorted coldly, "Who are you, are you qualified to speak here?"
The captain was furious when he heard this, and he was already holding back his anger when the battle meeting was interrupted, and now Flo dared to look at no one like this, his temper was instantly ignited, and he couldn't help but scold, "What kind of thing are you, when is this time, you only know how to eat, drink and have fun every day, and I don't know why Your Majesty sent such a waste." β
Rocky knew that he was going to suffer as soon as he heard it, so he pulled down his face and said in a deep voice, "Michelle, don't criticize Your Majesty." β
Flo smiled, "Michelle, I remember, I will tell Your Majesty the truth about what you said today." After saying that, he turned his head to look at Rocky again, "Captain Rocky, those dancers are going to trouble you to send you to my residence before sunset." With that, Flo swaggered out of the command room with the two guards.
Leaving behind the captains in the room who dared to be angry and did not dare to speak.
On the other side of town, the Wizards' Guild is making its final preparations.
The Elder Magister of Milford, one of the nine council members, arrived in the town two days ago, and with him came a floating turret, which cost 100,000 gold coins a day just to activate this war machine, in addition to batch after batch of magic cannonballs, arrays and large magic guides that were continuously sent to Gold Rush Town.
The Wizards' Guild didn't fully believe the Temple's claims and was already up and running.
There was no magic tower in the town, the tallest building was a granary, and the Archmage of Milford stood on it with his hands behind his back, quietly looking out at the desert in the distance, and at the moment there was only rolling yellow sand as far as the eye could see.
However, the magic sentry a hundred miles away had already sounded the alarm.
On the sand dunes, which everyone could not see, there was a blood-colored crack, and on the other side of the crack was the abyssal world that everyone talked about.
Monster after monster crawled out of the blood-colored crack for nearly a year now, so the density of monsters near the crack reached a terrifying level.
Unlike usual, the monsters didn't run around, most of them gathered quietly around the cracks, looking up at the sky, as if waiting for something.
(End of chapter)