"If you want to sneak into the palace from here, not only do you need to hide from the guards at the door, but in order to ensure the safety of the palace, a patrol will pass by every five minutes, and if they find out, we will die. King Bryden-Azuk grabbed the eager bard and said.

Although he didn't like the outsider, he didn't want to see him die for nothing—especially since there were only three of them, and with each one less, his sense of security would be a little less secure.

"But those guards don't leave for nothing, do they?" the bard glanced at the guards standing straight at the top of the city gate, and in his memory, the guards of the imperial capital were like this, and unless something happened, these people would never leave their posts without permission.

So he needs to create some surprises.

For example, if he runs out and yells now, these guards will definitely rush down the castle tower to chase him down immediately, and then Eric and King Brydon will be able to sneak into the royal city while the chaos is in chaos.

As for what happened after that, he hadn't thought about it yet.

Driven to a dead end by the guards due to exhaustion, or completely throwing off the guards at a certain corner and escaping, in short, life is like a game, the more uncertain it is, the more exciting it is. At that time, he was tired of the ordinary and boring journey of the imperial capital, so he resolutely embarked on a journey to find the lost civilization.

"So, that's your plan?" said Eric's expression.

"Uh-huh. The bard nodded.

Wrong.

He had thought that this bard was just a simple and courageous ordinary person, but now it seemed that his simplicity seemed to be a bit excessive, as if he did not know what fear was, even if he knew that there was only death ahead, he would meet it without hesitation, just as he had crossed the crocodile belt alone years ago and insisted on exploring the civilization of Theopharan.

The perilous crocodile belt is almost impassable for an unarmed bard.

With this in mind, Eric realizes a more profound question: how did an ordinary bard find out about Theophalan?

As far as he knew, the Chaos Cult had also spent a lot of energy searching for the Underground Kingdom, and Sindora had been hiding from him that the entire Underground Research Institute was the hub between the two.

"I was suddenly curious. Eric looked the bard in the eye, "Is there anything that scares you?"

Fear?

The bard fell into deep thought.

He remembered that when he was a child, the older children in the next neighborhood who threatened to beat him were terrible, and he used to hide at home for days and did not dare to go out. But now that he thought about it, it wasn't so terrifying, and he tried to imagine some horrific events—like Goeben hanging his head on the wall, or when the guards stabbed him through the body with their swords, but none of this made him feel creepy again, on the contrary, all he could feel was excitement.

So, the bard shook his head.

He thought that after years of life in the dungeon, he had nothing to fear.

"Why do you ask?"

"Nothing, I just have some admiration for your courage. Eric said.

"I dare say anyone who has been locked up in a dungeon for so many years will become as brave as I am. "The bard is quite proud.

Wrong.

Eric meditated in his mind.

The bard's fearlessness has nothing to do with his experience, but he had become "fearless" before he made up his mind to go to Theopharan. There are usually two ways to make a person brave, one is to give him courage and determination, and the other is to eliminate his fears.

The reason why an ordinary person can become so fearless overnight is that his emotion of 'fear' is swallowed up.

If his inference is true, then the bard was one of those who received the "calling" in the first place. It's just that the monster's power can't be passed on to him in the same way that it does with the exiles, but it still takes something out of the bard.

The instinct of fear.

Eric's previous description of the materials found at the bottom of the institution was too vague, they said that Theophalan's ancestor encountered a tentacle monster like a mountain, but this is really not a "characteristic", among the ancestor-level monsters, there is a monster named "Ukigaku" that also has a similar appearance, not only that, but many huge monsters that live in the deep sea also have similar physiques.

The ability to earthquake and petrify misjudged his judgment to a certain extent, so that he could not know what this monster was in the short term.

But it was from the discovery of the bard that he had an epiphany.

Earthquake and petrification are not the original power of this monster, in fact, these two abilities are not rare in the monster world, there are not a few monsters that can petrify monsters, but there are only three monsters that can devour other monsters and use their power for their own use.

One is said to live under the ocean, one hides at an altitude of 10,000 meters, and another lurks beneath the surface.

Eric suddenly thought of the answer.

Theophalan's ancestors desperately sealed the monster called Urusus the Devourer, and no one even dared to determine if it really existed, its existence stemmed from an extremely old legend, it was still in the era of alchemy, when Akarandu had not fallen, Horutia and the Byron Empire did not exist, and the church did not split in two, migrating to two different continents.

Over the years, Eric has spent a lot of manpower and money to find these ancient legends from all over the world, but most of them are fabricated by ill-intentioned individuals in order to earn the high bounty of the Musa consortium.

"What's wrong? I see your face doesn't seem to be good. The bard asked.

"It's nothing, I just thought of something...... Didn't you say you wanted to help us out of this situation? I think your plan is good, and I'm sure you'll be able to ask the guards to hunt us down. Eric stopped King Brydon with his eyes, who was trying to obstruct him.

If the bard is "devoured" once, he will be brought under control again when he approaches Urusus, and this time, Urussos' power will affect him in all respects.

"Really, you think so?"

The bard, who was unaware of the abnormality, was still smiling, and it was rare for someone to support him so strongly: "It's not me bragging, when I used to work in the tavern, people called me 'Scud', because when something happens, I run faster than anyone else, and no one can catch me!"

"'Scud'...... I remember, that this time, I hope you succeed. ”

"Wrap it up on me!"

The bard took a step out of their hiding place, threw the stone in his hand at the tower, and shouted, "Come and get me, you idiots!"