Chapter 44: The Aristocrats
"There was also a group of gargoyles, hiding on both sides of the road behind the Baby Pack. Niya took off the black square scarf covering her face, squinted, raised her eyebrows, crooked the corner of her mouth on the left side, smiled sarcastically at Wang Xu, and then put on the square scarf again, and added in a low voice: "That team of gargoyles is a fifth-order gargoyle, much more powerful than the eight fourth-order gargoyles outside the Flower Gate on the other side." β
"No," Wang Xu frowned deeply, the center of his eyebrows, twisted into a small "Chuan" character, after indifferently glancing at Niya's sarcastic smile, Wang Xu raised his right hand, pulled his chin twice, and after pulling off two invisible whiskers, he asked Niya softly: "How many fifth-order gargoyles are there?"
"Two hundred. Niya replied softly.
Niya replied very easily, but in Wang Xu's ears, she felt as if she had been smothered on her head by a huge brick, and in an instant, she felt that her heart was beating rapidly, a Venus was shining in front of her, and the road ahead was miserable.
"How far is it from here to the Shura Temple, is this road that long?" After slowing down for a while, after Wang Xu's heartbeat rate returned to normal, he took a deep breath of hot air filled with the smell of sulfur and asked Niya in a low voice, "Apart from the gargoyle, what else is behind?"
"Hehe," Niya smiled softly, and after stretching her arms high, she replied easily, "This road is called the Pious Path, and it is a Shinto path that leads to the Shura Temple, and it is about a kilometer long." β
Flicking the slightly scattered bangs on her forehead and arranging her waist-length silver hair, Niya looked up at Wang Xu who was sitting on the rosewood Taishi chair, and continued: "The path of piety is divided into three defense points, including the demon infant team hidden in the smoke and dust in front, the gargoyles on both sides of the road in the back, and then a group of skeleton fighters wandering around, this team has about five hundred skeleton fighters, divided into five teams to patrol outside the Shura Temple. β
After listening to Niya's description of the enemy on the path of piety, Wang Xu's hanging heart was slightly relieved, it stands to reason that the army of five hundred skeleton fighters should be the strongest part of the enemy's troops, but after testing the lethality of the undead creatures on the undead creatures, Wang Xu found that no matter how strong the undead creatures are, as long as they encounter the misty incense, they are like paper paste, and they can be easily pierced.
Although he already had a way to deal with the skeleton fighter and the demon baby team, however, Wang Xu still didn't dare to take it lightly, the team of two hundred fifth-order gargoyles was also terrifying enough, recalled, about two hours ago, when the gate of flowers on the other side was not opened, only eight fourth-order gargoyles relied on their sonic attacks, crippled half of the knight team, and in front of them, it was two hundred fifth-order gargoyles, if they sent out a sonic attack together, then the remaining forty knights, it is estimated that there will not be a few leftγ
Looking at Wang Xu, whose face was becoming more and more solemn, Niya habitually teased Wang Xu again: "What's the matter, I'm scared, in this case, why did you refuse the invitation of that little girl of the human race just now?"
"Huh. After hearing that Niya started to talk about life again, Wang Xu shook his head and smiled slightly, and then, after sighing helplessly, he suddenly thought that since Niya was already her slave, it was impossible to sell herself again, and she liked to talk about life so much, so let's talk about life with her for a while, so that you can also relax your nervous emotions.
"What's wrong?" Looking at Wang Xu's weird smiling face, Niya was slightly angry, pouted, and asked Wang Xu in a low voice, "Is my question funny?"
"It's not funny, it's just ......" Wang Xu pursed his lips, squinted at Niya, and didn't finish his sentence.
"Just what?" said Niya, who had squinted at him.
"It's just that your idea is too simple. Wang Xu leaned on the armrest on the left side of the rosewood Taishi chair, his left elbow rested on the armrest on the left side of the Taishi chair, his left palm dragged his head, tilted his head to look at Niya, with an expression of looking at a child.
"It's too simple, what do you mean?" Niya pursed her lips, flashed her pale green eyes, and looked at Wang Xu with a slight frown.
"Do you know what a nobleman is?" Wang Xu did not answer Niya's question, but asked her a new question.
"Yes," Niya tilted her head and asked Wang Xu softly, "Does this have anything to do with the simplicity of my thoughts?"
"Yes," Wang Xu smiled faintly, sat up straight, crossed Erlang's legs, and asked Niya in a low voice, "Then what do you say is a nobleman?"
"Aren't the nobles the ones who hold the privileges?" said Nya after a moment's thought, and whispered in reply to the king.
"That's right," the king applauded Nya applaudedly, and then went on to ask her, "then tell me where the privileges of the nobility come from?"
"This ...... I do not know. Niya looked down and thought for a while, then shook her head slightly, and then, looking up at Wang Xu, asked in a low voice, "Do you know where the privileges of the nobles come from?"
"Of course," Wang Xu smiled, took a deep breath, and said to Niya, "Okay, I won't play dumb riddles with you, I'll tell you about the nobles." β
Wang Xu got up, moved his rosewood Taishi chair closer to Niya, sat on it, and then, drawing closer to Niya, said to her in a very small voice: "The source of the privileges of the nobles is, first, from the king, in exchange for the means, including the establishment of military merits, the purchase of wealth, or marriage with the royal family, etc., the second is to rely on their own strong strength, step by step, and the original king obtained the royal power in this way; and the third is to rely on the merits of the ancestors, inherited it. β
After a pause, Wang Xu continued to explain to Niya: "When the nobles have certain privileges, they also have a corresponding crisis, the greater the power, the greater the crisis, if you are a nobleman, then the nobles of the lower rank than you want to kill you and replace you, the nobles of the same rank as you also want to kill you and take your power for themselves, and the nobles of the higher rank than you want to kill you even more, because they are afraid that you will take them instead." β
"Hehe," Wang Xu smiled lightly and continued: "So, no matter when, no matter where, the nobles are thinking about how to keep their power, and at the same time, they are also thinking about how to kill other nobles, so the nobles have to constantly improve their strength and expand their own power, strength is their own various abilities, and power is the number of talents they encompass, especially the number of elite-level talents." β
"That little girl is a human nobleman, isn't she?" asked Nya suddenly.
"That's right," Wang Xu patted the volcanic ash that had accumulated on his shoulder, and then continued: "Then you can understand why she seduced me, there is nothing about love, only interests, her main purpose is to buy me, because I am still a somewhat useful talent, and it is worth her to sacrifice herself." β
"Hmm. Nia nodded slightly, her eyes sinking into deep thought.
"Okay, that's all for gossip, let's talk about the crisis we're about to face. Wang Xu patted the light gray volcanic ash accumulated on his black pants, and then asked Niya in a low voice, "How much do you know about the Shura Temple?"
"I don't know much, but I know a little. Niya looked up at Wang Xu, blinked a few times in fear, and explained to Wang Xu: "Thousands of years ago, the demon king Zagu came here, and then, established his palace here, that is, this Shura Temple, later, we were defeated and retreated to the abyss, and the demon king Zagu was also forcibly sent back to the fourth layer of the abyss by the angels. β
After a pause and a little more sorting out the silver hair on her head, Niya continued: "After thousands of years, our strength began to recover, and many demons like me, born in the abyss layer, came to the Loren world, and found this place, treating it as a holy place. β
"Actually, there were many, many demons who came here at the beginning, but for some reason, all of a sudden, they disappeared somewhere in the Shura Temple, and that place was sealed before I had even been there, and later, most of the entire area of the Shura Temple was sealed, and I only went to a small part of the temple. β
After playing with her silver hair for a while, and looking at her white fingers for a while, Nia continued: "Later, the Grand Commander Tirou took over here, and the troops who guarded the path of piety were his men, of course, I was also his subordinate, but now ......"
Nia didn't go on, and she didn't have any other stories to tell.
"So," Wang Xu's brows furrowed again, he looked up at the deep pit cliff with no top in sight, and then looked sideways at the pious path not far away, looked down and thought for a while, and said in a low voice as if talking to himself: "In addition to the demon babies, gargoyles, and skeleton fighters on the pious path, there may be more terrifying demons in the Shura Temple!"
"That's right," Niya pursed her lips and whispered to Wang Xu, "Although I don't know what is in the sealed area of the Shura Temple, I do feel the existence of a terrible power, and I feel that it is an existence that I cannot resist. β
Suddenly, Wang Xu thought of an extremely terrible thing, he looked down at Niya violently, his eyebrows wrinkled a small mountain, and his mouth opened and closed for a long time, and finally, he asked Niya in a low voice: "It can't be the Great Demon King Zagu hiding inside, right?"
"Huh?" Listening to Wang Xu's speculation, Niya was also shocked into a cold sweat, she looked up at Wang Xu violently, her eyes widened vigorously, the corners of her eyes were about to be cracked, and her mouth was half long, and she didn't close it for a long time.
After about thirty seconds, Niya replied inarticulately, "Probably not, I heard from Tieru that he hasn't built a teleportation array yet, and the Demon King Zagu can't come here for the time being." β
"Oh," Wang Xu exhaled heavily, instantly feeling relieved, and his body felt a lot more relaxed, and his whole body instantly collapsed on the rosewood Taishi chair, "Fortunately, he didn't come, if he came, unless I took refuge in him, I wouldn't have any other way." β
"However," at this time, Niya did not relax her nervousness like Wang Xu, but said to him in a more panicked manner: "I heard that the Demon King Zagu has a ......."