Chapter Twenty-Six: Boldness
The September morning of Alonitan is a beautiful song composed by the gods, and the heart of this atrium becomes more alive as the morning light passes through the Ascending Temple and the entire city.
On both sides of Shijian Avenue, the newborn morning sun is faintly sprinkled on the stepped flower beds or solemn and simple sculptures, and the long street looks elegant and simple, as if stepping into a long gallery.
Horse-drawn carriages of various styles shuttled back and forth like a colorful river, and a nondescript black carriage mixed in with the traffic, slowly passing over the wide volcanic avenue.
Inside the carriage, the feeling of the cool breeze on his face made Yalei feel very comfortable, and he couldn't help but squint his eyes, pull the curtain in front of the car window, and look at the surrounding streetscape.
The well-arranged buildings on both sides of the main road are like a hill stacked artificially, rising from low to high along a fixed distance, forming a beautiful three-dimensional picture, which is displayed in front of the eyes of passers-by.
"Perhaps, this is the so-called Shengshi Huazhang......
Yaree leaned his face sideways, his shoulders resting on the edge of the carriage's window, his eyes sliding over the beautiful windows, and he sighed to himself.
He was on his way to the palace, and Charlene did not accompany the black-haired knight because of his identity, but went home happily with various rare specialties on the Celtic Island.
Behind two rows of towering columns, the huge arched palace gate greets you, and the multi-arched gate casts patches of golden morning light, mixed with the black reflection of the buttresses, with an indescribable solemnity and coldness.
In the garrison area in the shadow of the round arch, there is a row of guarded guards. They are all covered in black plate armor, which looks heavy and mighty.
"Stop!" the guards of the guard area stepped forward steadily, stopping the approaching carriage:
"Show the pass. β
"Good work. β
Yalei took the token from his front breast pocket. It was handed to the nearest Kingsguard.
"It turned out to be you. β
The Royal Guard glanced at the token, bowed slightly, immediately took a step back, and waved the heavy knight's spear in his hand: "It's His Excellency the Celtic Governor who is debriefing, let go!"
The carriage slowed down and entered the palace gate, and Yalei got out of the car directly, carrying the prepared materials. followed a beautiful eunuch who had been waiting for a long time into the deep palace.
Unlike the Celtic palaces, the imperial courts did not have the air of luxury and luxury, and the buildings were still made of traditional volcanic rock. Green belts stretch deep into the palace on the clear main road. However, it is much taller and wider than the buildings of the Highland Palace, and the four prisms that take a dozen people to hug can be seen everywhere on both sides of the road, much like a miniature version of the obelisk.
"Please follow me. β
The eunuch turned and called out to the black-haired knight and walked into a corridor on the left.
β......β
The black-haired knight followed his back and looked forward. In front of you is a pencil-tipped white stone door. The relief stone door is half open. Inside is a wide flower path that leads into an open-air garden far away.
Isn't the debriefing supposed to go to the Senate, how could this eunuch seem to take himself to the inner court?
Yalei put his hand on his forehead, glanced around suspiciously, suppressed the doubts in his heart, and followed the other party into the passage of what appeared to be a garden.
The two of them walked briskly down the flower path, the entire branch road almost twenty feet wide, lined with exotic grasses that even the black-haired knight could not scream. The breeze blows slightly, and you can still faintly hear the crisp birdsong.
Walk through the flower path. Walk to the side of the open-air garden.
The garden is full of all kinds of flowers, red, yellow, and white, spiraling and covering the pillars, enveloping the garden in flowers of different colors.
A group of richly dressed girls were chattering in the garden, as if they were holding a salon like an art exhibition, and a graceful girl with a golden crown with her back to the two of them, was happily introducing an oil painting, looking very happy.
As the eunuch led Yalei past, the girls looked away from the painting, looked at them curiously, and whispered slightly.
Passing through the garden, there is another long cloister.
The black-haired knight was bored and almost yawned, but he didn't know how far he had walked, and finally came to a fifteen-foot-high stone arch.
"This is His Majesty Caesar's private reception room, you can go in and wait, and if you get bored, you can look at the books on the shelves. The eunuch gave a gentle command, turned around and prepared to leave.
"Please wait a minute, is His Majesty Caesar not here?" asked Yalei as he quickly stopped him.
"Yes, His Majesty Caesar is in the Senate, and it is also his will for you to wait here for the time being. The little eunuch bowed his head in reply, and left quickly.
β......β
The black-haired knight looked at the other party's departing figure, and was puzzled for a while.
He simply pushed the door in, looked left and right, and saw that in the pale golden room, the walls were carved with fine and ornate thorn ornaments, and a huge floor-to-ceiling portrait was pasted on the wall opposite the doorβit was the figure of Eussius slashing the sky with a sword on the earth.
Rows of white wooden sofas are arranged in an arc in the middle of the reception hall, and on the right side there are two long bookshelves filled with gold-trimmed books.
The air is filled with the scent of mint leaves.
Seeing that there was no one inside, Yalei relaxed a lot, walked quickly to the bookshelf, took down a book casually, turned a few pages and found that it was a boring religious scripture, and then stuffed it back into its place.
"Let's have some interesting books. β
Yarley followed the markings on the bookshelf and looked from left to right, and a large, yellowed hardcover book fell into his eyes, which immediately caught his attention - the Phantom Hurricane Compendium.
Could this be some kind of vindictive secret tome?
The black-haired knight immediately removed the hardcover book and turned the first page, revealing a perspective of the human body marked with a large number of symbols.
"Huh?"
Yalei noticed that the annotations on the lower half of the body in perspective were extremely complex, especially the position of the legs, and the symbols and annotations were likely to have thousands of words.
"This is...... High-speed phantom?"
The black-haired knight carefully read the opening notes. Eyes lit up.
After learning the two highest level fighting spirits, Ya Lei's physical strength has not only become extraordinary, but even his vision is much higher than before. This is a general compendium of Phantom Hurricane vindictiveness. He only read the first page, and he had a faint sense of the mystery.
Especially the technique of the high-speed phantom on the first page, in the eyes of the black-haired knight, its depth is not inferior to the steel fighting qi at all, and it is definitely an extremely strong fighting qi.
Now that his Dou Qi has been cleared again, and he is anxious to find the next Dou Qi, the general outline of this Wind Power's Dou Qi appears in front of him. It's just a good thing to send a pillow for sleepiness.
Yalei immediately concentrated his mind, reading Chinese with hunger, and forgot where he was for a while.
......
Royal Palace, open-air gardens.
Little Princess Afra is like a peacock showing off her feathers. Showing off her works to the daughters of socialites in high society, when she proudly introduced the portrait of the saint she copied, she suddenly found her friends whispering.
"Quiet and quiet!"
Afra's small eyebrows were raised, and she patted the oil painting next to her vigorously. He snorted unhappily: "Don't desert." Is there anything more noteworthy here than my work?"
The voice in the open-air garden was much quieter all of a sudden, but it was still buzzing like a mosquito, and most of the ladies and daughters were familiar with her, plus the little princess's temper was not as bad as it seemed, they were not really afraid of her.
"Damn!"
Seeing that their focus was still not on their own paintings, the little princess stared at them with apricot eyes wide open, and asked a little angrily:
"What the hell are you talking about?"
"An adult in the governor's uniform walked by, looking so young. It's about the same size as us. A nobleman's daughter muttered quietly.
"Governor?!"
Afra blinked, revealing a fierce expression:
"You're talking nonsense! This is the Inner Court. How could a foreign minister be allowed to enter!"
"Your Royal Highness the Princess, I'm so wronged, I'm not talking nonsense!" The nobleman's daughter hurriedly shook her head as if she was something, and then stretched out her hand to the little friend beside her:
"I don't believe you ask them!"
"That's right, Leah didn't talk nonsense, there was really an adult who passed by, and he had noble black hair and looked so handsome. A waterfall curly-haired noblewoman held her face and said with a look of fascination:
"He must be a powerful knight. β
"Brunette...... Governor...... Inner Court ......"
Afra's expression was stunned, she lowered her head and muttered a few words, and suddenly raised her head with a happy face, turned around and ran away with her fluffy skirt, and suddenly crossed the garden railing:
"It must be him!"
......
When Aree read the phantom hurricane, the door of the palace behind him suddenly opened, and Alex, dressed in regular clothes, stepped into the reception hall. Seeing that he was reading a book with relish, he deliberately closed the door and snorted hard at the same time.
"Who?"
The black-haired knight turned to look nervously, but what caught his eyes was a familiar face.
"Who do you think I am?"
His Majesty the Vice Emperor strode over to the sofa and looked at him with a smile.
"Alex!"
Yalei picked up the book and turned around, looked at the other party in a white regular suit, and asked suspiciously:
"Why are you here?"
β......β
Alex didn't know what to say for a while, and when he noticed the black-haired knight's suspicious expression, he rolled his eyes, intending to scare the other party, so he said loudly:
"How dare you peek at the books here!"
"Peeking?"
The black-haired knight closed the book in his hand and said loudly without showing weakness:
"You don't know yet, His Majesty Caesar allows you to read here, look at your stupid appearance of knowing nothing, the level should not be high, go and go, while staying. β
"You!"
His Majesty the Vice Emperor glared, and deliberately said with an angry face: "You dare to talk to me like this!"
"Huh?"
Yalei was suddenly unhappy, stuffed the book back into the bookshelf, and said to each other: "The level is not high, the management is quite wide, this is the reception hall, what are you doing when you come in?"
"It's all up to me, what do you think I'm doing here?" Alex raised his head and hinted at him with a serious face.
β......β
The black-haired knight stared at his face for two seconds, then showed a look of sudden realization:
"I see. β
"What do you know?" His Majesty the Vice Emperor frowned, feeling that the other party's reaction was wrong.
"No wonder you've been hiding your identity in the first place, it turned out to be your eunuch!" Areh laughed and walked up to Alex and patted him on the shoulder:
"It doesn't matter, I don't discriminate against people with physical disabilities. β
"You!"
His Majesty the Vice Emperor glared again, and said angrily and funny:
"How bold you are to speak to me like that. β
"What kind of shelf, people who don't know still think you're the emperor. β
The black-haired knight sat on the sofa in front of him, and hooked his hand at the other party: "Your Majesty won't come over for a while, I haven't seen you for so long, let's sit down and have a good talk." β
I was the emperor!
Alex opened his mouth to shout like this, but on second thought, it was too detrimental to his majesty. He was struggling, and when he saw that the other party looked like a master and called him to sit down, he suddenly became angry:
"You're still sitting!"
"Don't be afraid, I won't tell you. Yalei rubbed hard twice on the sofa and said with a comfortable face:
"Oh! that's what the court feels like. β
Is this stupid-looking second thing really the Earl of the Blue Knight who smashed the conspiracy of the Freedom Alliance, defeated the Highland Kingdom with inferior forces, and brought it under the rule of the Empire?
His Majesty the Vice Emperor was so angry that he wanted to immediately call someone to drag him out and beat him, but thinking of the scene when the two met, his heart softened again.
Forget it, this guy was also stupid and went to the wrong door at the beginning, so he saved himself by the way...... Perhaps, this is the so-called great wisdom and foolishness...... As a wise king, I must make him feel my forgiving heart like the sea!
"Ahem, ahem. β
Alex coughed a few times, suggestively rolled up his sleeves, and sat down in front of him in a very oppressive position:
"What were you reading before I came?"
"The general outline of the Phantom Hurricane's fighting spirit, I'm very interested in it. Arei replied disappreciatively.
"Why are you looking at that thing?" asked His Majesty the Vice Emperor curiously.
"Secrecy, all in all, I'm interested in all kinds of Douqi Secret Archives right now. β
"Yes......"
Alex's eyes flashed slightly, realizing that this was another good opportunity to hint at the other party, so he said with a smile: "I've been reading this Dou Qi Secret Book for a long time, if you don't understand anything, you can ask me." β
"You?"
The black-haired knight narrowed his eyes, glanced at his muscular body, and then at his calloused hands, and couldn't help laughing:
"Poof, haha, just like you, still watching the secret book of the Hurricane Phantom, can you not be so serious and funny. β
"If I say I've seen it, I've seen it!"
His Majesty the Vice Emperor saw his little bit of broken dignity from his eyes, and patted his armrest angrily: "If you don't believe it, come and give it a try, you and I don't have to be vindictive, see how I clean you up!" (To be continued.) )