The June sun is a bit blazing.

Large swarms of wild bees flutter in the golden sun, and skylarks flutter high in the sky.

Hesse stood in the shade with a cigar in his mouth, his hands behind his back, and quietly watched Joe striding as he strode along.

Joe stopped.

The Hydra guard beside him urged.

Joe turned his head and glared at him fiercely.

The Hydra guard shuddered, his pupils constricted and dilated, his mind dazed, and he took a few steps back in a daze, and froze in place.

"Oh, it's out." Hesse puffed two thick plumes of smoke from his nostrils, and a smile appeared on his rugged face.

It seems that he sensed that his tone just now was a little ...... Not respectful enough.

Hesse raised his face, and his tone became very solemn: "Joe, Leah made me ......"

Joe strode up to Hesse, stretched out his hand, and hugged him hard: "Ah, father, don't talk nonsense. Wait until this damn abyss is gone, and wait for the port of Tulum to return to calm...... Haha, I can't believe that we, the Vetu family, will have the territory of three provinces. ”

Joe let go of his hand and skillfully pulled out a cigar from Hesse's pocket, and the cigar shook in his hand, and a black flame came out of thin air and lit the cigarette butt.

Holding the cigar in his mouth, Joe took a puff of smoke: "The fiefdom of the three provinces is what we deserve...... Isn't it? We've done enough of it. ”

"However, you've seen it lately, and everyone is busy, busy killing monsters that can't be killed." Jo looked at Hesse very seriously: "So, you tell your mother that I haven't had time to visit her recently...... Wait until this time is over...... I heard that you are also helping in the west? ”

Qiao said in a deep voice: "Then, you must be careful. ”

Hesse pursed his lips and looked at Joe very seriously.

After looking at it for a while, he smiled and waved his hand: "Okay, it just so happens that Your Majesty also sent someone to call me, let's go see her together and see what is going on." ”

After a moment of silence, Hesse muttered, "Ah, Joe, you know, Leah and I thought you would always be so stupid...... We thought that you could always be like this, grow up in peace and stability, and then get married and have children......"

"We instinctively made some preparations, but we never thought that we could really use those preparatory means......"

"We didn't expect you to recover from the after-effects of that serious illness...... And, now, you're becoming ......"

Joe patted Hesse the shoulder.

Hesse took a puff of smoke, stood on tiptoe, and patted Joe's shoulder with some difficulty—Joe is now a lot taller and burlier than Hesse.

He smiled and shook his head: "If Miss can see what you look like now......"

He fell silent with Joe.

Then, side by side, the two walked down the boulevard towards the castle not far away, reinforced with reinforced concrete, which had become ugly in appearance.

In the hall on the first floor of the castle, Margrethe III sat on the throne with a straight face.

The nobles of various countries in gorgeous costumes, the generals of various countries in uniforms, all of them had a strong smell of blood and gunsmoke, and they looked tired, standing in groups of three or five in the hall, looking at Margaret III silently.

Jo and Hesse walked in, and Margrethe III looked at them, a soft look flashed on her gloomy face, and then she clapped her palms vigorously: "Well, then, all the men are here, gentlemen, a very bad news." ”

A burly bald man with a big bear skin wrapped in a big bear skin on a hot day, but no shirt inside, and a chest full of golden hair, wiped the sweat from his forehead, and said vaguely: "There is no good news these days...... I haven't had much rest in almost half a month......"

"The bad news? How bad could it be? The bald man, who was obviously from the Lucia royal family, cursed very roughly, and spread his hands helplessly: "Old grandmother, how bad news can it be?" ”

Margrethe III shook her head.

She held up a scroll in her hand, on which three blood-colored feathers were glued with fire paint.

Everyone's pupils suddenly shrank—this format of official documents is the style common to all countries on the continent of Medland. Three blood-colored feathers mean 100,000 urgent and extremely dangerous, representing the news in the official document, at least it is also related to the life and death of a big empire.

"Everyone knows that it has been almost a month since Des escaped."

Margrethe III said in a deep voice: "The Holy Inquisition of the Church has sent all its forces to pursue his whereabouts. ”

"But until now, we haven't been able to find him."

"But, after all, he left some clues, some, very bad signs."

Margrethe III swallowed a little hard, her fierce gaze slowly swept over everyone present, and then, she said the bad news that sent chills down everyone's body.

"In the last month, in the mountains west of the port of Tulun, thirty-two kingdoms and principalities, all the fetuses have ......"

"All fetuses, all miscarriages."

"According to reports from the clergy of various churches, all the fetuses in the wombs of those pregnant women have died of abortion, except for our fellow Terrans, and all domestic animals, including wild animals, have also died of abortion of their young in their wombs."

"All the poultry, their eggs, all rot and die."

"They surveyed the birds in the wild, and the eggs in their nests were rotting and smelly."

"The beasts are out of season...... But in the past month, not a single woman of the right age has been conceived in any of the thirty-two kingdoms and principalities. ”

Margrethe III's eyes were cold, and the temperature of the entire hall dropped a few points inexplicably.

"The abortion of fetuses, the abortion of domestic animals and wild beasts, the death and decay of the eggs of poultry and wild birds, are gradually spreading to other kingdoms and principalities in the mountains to the west."

"Some kingdoms, principalities, have begun to seal their borders."

"But it's not a plague, we all know, it's not a plague...... This is, the power of the evil gods. ”

"The power of Des."

"He's killing the new life, he's killing the life of those nations in the mountains of the West."

"At the same time, a heretical organization called the Church of the Dead is expanding wildly in the kingdoms where it has changed. Their doctrine is to make the people of those kingdoms commit suicide! ”

"They say that only by taking the initiative to meet the arrival of death can they enjoy eternity in the coming world of the dead."

Margrethe III said with a cold face: "Very absurd doctrine, but because of the vision created by the evil power of Des, millions of people in those kingdoms believed in them. ”

"For example, in the Principality of Tonglong, there is a small city with 30,000 people...... They collectively ...... He gave up his life. ”