Chapter 40: Wreck

Morningstar stood up quietly and glanced at the maskless face in the mirror. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info

Without the allure of the silver mask, the face was hardened by shallow scars, but still, flawless.

"The Chancellor of the Exchequer is waiting for an audience, Your Majesty. ”

"I'm going to kill him. The king of the world turned and walked towards the door, "The quack." ”

The Admiral was also with him awaiting an audience. ”

The anger magically disappeared from the king of the world, and she calmly stopped in front of the door, turning to face the morning star: "What about the royal merchant who bought pearls for me?"

He was outside waiting for an audience. ”

Morningstar opened the door beside the King of the World, followed her out of the locker room, and into the side hall of the Summer Palace.

"Where's the pearl that Francis had for me?"

The Holy See's army did not stop on the islands, and when they were convinced that it was an island, Francis soon set out westward. ”

The King of the World showed a sneer: "So he completely forgot the pearl that promised me." And then what?"

"The Crusaders landed on a land full of rainforest, and they were in great trouble, at least for a short time, unable to offer qualified pearls. ”

"It's a pity. ”

The King of the World stood up and walked towards the side door, where the Secretary of the Navy and the Chancellor of the Exchequer were waiting for her in the back.

"Give the treasurer the pearl you found. ”

Morningstar left this sentence, and then followed the king of the world into the darkness.

......

Francis lay under a huge leaf and watched a black spider crawl past him, sweating profusely.

It's a rainforest with steaming steam, water vapor reaching to the zenith, clouds almost never dissipating, ready for torrential rain.

A slippery piece of decay beneath Francis's palm.

He cautiously looked up, searching the green for the deadliest part.

Of the forty soldiers who followed Francis into the rainforest, he was the only one alive.

A drop of water fell on Francis's neck, and he almost couldn't help but jump.

The drop of water, with a lukewarm coldness, seeped into the depths of Francis's soul almost instantly, and he was so accustomed to the scorching heat of the rainforest that it was so cold that he almost lost his mind.

This doesn't make sense.

There is not a drop of water in the rainforest, not a single plant can escape the sweltering heat, and that kind of cold should not exist at all.

Francis knew that it was the natives with bad intentions.

They draw water from the source of the river, and the spring water from the ground has the only trace of coolness in the rainforest.

Francis did not know if the barbarians above him had already discovered him.

The native may have been holding a spear to Francis' heart, but it was also possible that he was still staring around the treetops, looking for him.

This is important enough to make the difference between life and death.

Francis struggled to make mental trade-offs, but finally decided to stay put.

That could have caused him to die quietly, like the vanished forty soldiers, and Francis knew that very well.

But what he didn't know was that he was indeed not far from death.

An indigenous warrior is holding an obsidian spear hanging from a branch above Francis' head, ready to bestow a merciful death on him.

But in the next moment, perhaps science saw Francis, and the killing intent in the hearts of the indigenous warriors was erased.

He saw the silver-white armor on Francis's back.

It was the reflection of the metal that exposed Francis's place, but now, this armor saved him.

The native warrior reached for his blowgun from behind his waist and aimed at Francis's exposed skin outside his armor.

The rainforest fell silent, and Francis smiled in the calm she hadn't seen for a long time.

......

The sailors did not go on land.

They were the generals of this army, but none of them were involved in the war with Francis.

The first mate stood anxiously on the ship, waiting anxiously, a day and a night had passed since Francis had agreed to return.

The devout around him waited quietly, continuing with patience that never seemed to fade, but for an army that had lost its commander, it would not last long.

Looking inland from the coast, the sea of green trees stretched endlessly, and the crusaders could not even guess where Francis was.

But soon, they stopped waiting.

The war began.

The army set off from its camp by the sea and began its march towards the rainforest.

......

"If the fighting had not spread, or if the indigenous people had been suppressed, we would still have been able to get basic security on our journey......

Magellan raised his right hand to stop the Hawkman from continuing. He knew that Wen had lost his mind because of excessive expectations, otherwise he would have been prepared to do something because of this clumsy lie.

"The Holy See is the most stubborn of all the organizations that claim ownership of the Eagle's Nest. ”

The eagle man sighed: "If the war goes down...... By the time we can reach our destination safely, I'm afraid the nest has already fallen into the wrong hands. The Holy See's greed for the Eagle's Nest has never changed. ”

"I'm just advising you not to take any chances, it's your plan to find the Eagle's Nest, and I don't have any opinion on that. ”

"Is there a way to ......?"

"Nope. ”

Magellan cruelly ended the conversation and walked out of the eagleman's room.

"You really don't have any idea about the Eagle's Nest?"

Arthur was waiting for him at the corner of the stairs.

"No one can resist the temptation of that thing. ”

The Eagle's Nest is the beginning of the age of steam, the projection of the ultimate dream of man flying into the sky, but beyond these symbolic meanings of nothingness, it contains priceless lost treasures.

Twenty years ago, the Miracle Ship that Bretania spent ten years building, the Dreadnought-class airship that could fly without relying on the essence, was finally completed on the top floor of the tower in the Ruidu Steam District. Emperor Ludwig, despite the opposition of his courtiers, got on the airship and ordered it to take off, and then the airship had a series of accidents.

The Emperor was rescued unsurprisingly, but the Eagle's Nest was badly damaged and revealed a flaw in its design, much to everyone's dismay.

But Lutwig did not lose hope, he was already fascinated by the possession of the most powerful airship in the world, and the emperor not only spent a lot of money on craftsmen to repair the wrecked airship, but even began to arrange for the royal treasurer to move his personal treasures to the flying castle.

The great king finally got his wish, and the airship took off again, spewing a huge mist like white clouds, and the people who witnessed the scene unanimously called it the "Eagle's Nest" and looked forward to the beginning of a great voyage.

But everyone was disappointed, including Lutwig.

After an accident, the eagle's nest disappeared.