Chapter 636: Hei Peng's Trail
Sekaria didn't believe Cerus's explanation that she was only here for revenge. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info
Of course, Sekaria didn't know about the relationship between Cerus and her biological parents, and Cerus's feelings for the Nolan clan, and she didn't have any doubts about it, but this was not the main reason why Cercaria didn't believe it.
The reason why Sekaria really felt that Chelus had been hiding something all along was actually after the incident in Solan Holy City three years ago, when Cerus and Greywind Nanoha came back from the Warcraft Forest together and confessed to her what had happened.
Since the truth about the war between the surrogate and the ancient gods and demons was told not to be told by Nien and York, although the matter was told to Sekaria and them in the same way, the deep-seated reason for this was not explained in detail, but only used some vague descriptions to confuse the past.
Grey Wind wasn't interested in anything other than Cheruth's personal safety, and Nanoha didn't seem to know how to use the word "suspicion" on Cheruth, so Cheruth's ambiguous words didn't make the two of them feel anything wrong, but Sekaria was different. After listening to Cheruth's explanation, Sekaria was clearly aware that when describing the cause and effect behind the events in the Holy City, Cheruth seemed to be hiding something very important and deliberately ignoring the in-depth explanation of some things.
Although curious, because the incident had just ended, and Cerus was also in the grief of losing their biological parents just after recognizing them, and the confusion caused by the first complete understanding of the general causal truth of her coming to this world from Nien and York, so taking care of Cerus's mood at that time, Sekaria did not ask more about these things, and after that, because the events of the Holy City seemed to be completely in the past, it became more and more difficult to find the time to ask, considering that the matter had already passed anyway, there was no point in digging into them, so those doubts were finally retracted by Sekaria and hidden in her heart.
However, now, the Ice Demon Dragon in the Moon Valley and the Four Holy Sects in the Eastern Continent, the sudden emergence of a series of events such as chaos monsters and demons in their extraordinary life have once again appeared in their extraordinary routines, naturally, Sekaria quickly retrieved all the things that Cheruth had told her about the events in the Holy City three years ago, as well as the things that Cheruth had deliberately concealed, all of them from her memory.
There were already many suspicions, and when she was in the Valley of the Moon, Cheruth just went out and didn't know where to go for a while, and suddenly learned a set of tricks to be able to drill into the baptism of the moon and the guardian law contained in it, and then she had been staying with them all the time, but suddenly she was very confident that the Duchy of Skagen was likely to be the current hiding place of the mastermind, these things made Sekaria further confirm that Cheruth must have something to hide from everyone.
Even with Sekaria's intelligence, her guesses about what Cheruth was hiding were almost inseparable from the truth:
In her opinion, Cheruth must be related to a force hidden in the deepest shadows of the continent, and is the guardian of the continent's order like the dragon clan and the two elven clans, and secretly should be a member or relational of such a secret force. Because of this, Cheruth has the same enthusiasm for dealing with chaos as the dragons and the two elven races, and always has access to some information and information of unknown origin but very useful.
I have to say that a certain blue-haired princess's brain hole is indeed big enough, but it is also accurate enough, if she tells her these speculations, maybe Cherus will directly tell her all the truth after being shocked for a while-isn't it, if you say that the strongest and most compelling order guardian organization in the mainland, although there are only three substitutes and only two people are actually in office now, they are definitely more qualified to be called the real guardian of order than any dragon elf.
It's a pity that although there was such a speculation, Sekaria later vetoed her own conjecture, not to mention whether there is really such a force on the mainland, even if Cheruth really joined such an organization, at least it is impossible to hide Gray Wind so perfectly, after all, Gray Wind is the sister who took care of Cerus from childhood to adulthood, and if others don't say it, how can she not know the interpersonal relationship between Cherus from childhood to adulthood.
In any case, Sekaria firmly believed in the fact that Cerus was indeed hiding something, and out of her understanding of Cherus's tendency to be overprotective of her companions, and to like to resist as hard as possible when there were any difficult and dangerous things and responsibilities, it was natural to wonder if Cerus was now trying to get involved in any trouble.
But even so, she didn't want to be too tough to ask Cerus to cause the burden of the other party, and today she came out to play and took the initiative to provoke the conversation and ask such a question, Sekaria did have a tentative meaning, and seeing that Cerus did seem to be quite embarrassed to answer her question, although she was a little disappointed, Sekaria also decisively gave up the topic.
Since Chelus didn't want to say it, or didn't want to explain it now, she wouldn't ask any more questions. For her, who had already made a vow to protect Chelus in the baptism of the moon, no matter what Chelus wanted to do, she just had to follow Chelus's side closely and protect everything about her, and that would be enough. Since she still hasn't figured out what makes Cheruth so worried lately, it would be nice for her to make her laugh a few more times like she did just now, so that she won't lose her most precious smile at any time, right?
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In the following period of time, there was still not much real news about Hei Peng, the original leader of the Four Holy Sects, that had been conveyed from the Phoenix Royal Court to the Dragon Clan and the White Elf Clan.
The White Elves continue to calmly see the various cultures of the human kingdom in the Eastern Continent in this temporary town, the dragons continue to transform into human forms and persistently want to develop a relationship with the beautiful and pure White Elf girls, Gray Wind and Nanoha continue their practice, and Sekaria and Chelus continue to play together every day, or teach each other traditional magic theories and rune magic theories based on magic runes to improve their respective skills in spell casting and control.
Nearly ten days passed, and just when Selman and the two White Elf elders were already a little impatient, and were about to discuss whether not only the Phoenix Royal Court's side, but also the request for assistance from Hei Peng's side should be sent to the power of the shadow princes who were not under the jurisdiction of the other royal courts in the Eastern Continent (after such a long time, no shadow could be found, which means that it was very likely that Hei Peng had escaped from the territory of the eight southeastern counties), suddenly this morning, the political officials sent from the nearby Phoenix Royal Court had already settled in the county town that began to take charge of government affairs, a summons that was quickly delivered by the whip made the dragon clan, the white elf clan and the four of them Qiruth very surprised.
In the vicinity of the Bone Swamp, a famous demonic beast gathering area between the boundary of the eight southeastern counties and the southern continent, the inspection scouts sent by Wang Tingjun finally found clues about Heipeng. According to the description of the villagers in an inconspicuous small village there, just about half a month ago, not long after the Wulin Mountain was conquered, a strange middle-aged man came to the village, and the appearance of that man was almost exactly the same as the magic portrait of Heipeng drawn by the scout based on the memories of the elders of the Four Holy Sects.
The scout immediately brought the news back to the nearby county, because Heipeng was not an ordinary fugitive but a seventh-order powerhouse, if he wanted to capture him for sure, of course, he needed not only an army, but also a seventh-order powerhouse of the same magnitude, so the ruling officials of the county city did not hesitate, and immediately reported the news to the commander of the Wang Tingjun and the national teacher, and then the latter immediately informed the dragon clan and the white elf of the news.
Although it was the result of an unannounced visit, the only direct evidence was the villagers' testimony based on Heipeng's magic portrait, but this was already the most reliable information obtained by the royal court in a large-scale search in the eight southeastern counties during this time. There was no need to hesitate too much, Selman and the two White Elf elders immediately replied to the commander of the Wang Tingjun and the national teacher, explaining that they would immediately set off for the small border village, and invited the chief marshal and the national teacher to accompany them.
Although Hei Peng is said to be only a seventh-order mid-level fighting hero, and on their side there is a luxurious lineup of seventh-order high-level Selman, two seventh-order mid-level white elf elders, and two other seventh-order low-level dragons, no matter how you look at it, there should be no possibility for Hei Peng to escape safely from their encirclement, but after all, the person was found by Wang Tingjun's side, and now it really doesn't feel appropriate for them to go directly and throw the Phoenix Royal Court aside.
What's more, the comparison of strength on paper is just empty talk after all, and the uncertainty of the seventh-order powerhouse who has comprehended the power of a specific law is indeed not to be underestimated, in order to prevent anything else from really letting Heipeng slip away, so one more person in a siege is one more insurance. Although the commander and the national teacher are human beings, they are both seventh-order powerhouses, and if they go together, they will definitely be able to help a lot in the battle.
The commander-in-chief and the national teacher received the reply, and did not hesitate to agree to go together, and now the officials sent by the royal court to govern and rectify the government affairs of the eight southeastern counties have taken up their posts in various places and have begun to preliminarily promulgate and consolidate the administrative rule of the Phoenix Royal Court, and there is no longer a need to be the commander-in-chief of the army and the national teacher who has no actual authority in the field of government affairs to go to the throne, and the two have recently been in a state of idleness in the camp and have nothing to do。
So in the afternoon of the same day, the commander-in-chief and the national teacher came to the town where the Chelus and their temporary residence during this time, and then, the two white elf elders, the four of Chelus, the commander-in-chief and the national teacher, and a small group of white elf masters whose strength had reached the sixth order or above, respectively flew in the direction of the small village near the bone-burying swamp on the bodies of more than a dozen dragons.
This is also because of the lack of ado, because of the fear that the time will drag on for too long and the news will be revealed, or that the man suspected of being a black peng will move away temporarily, these usually arrogant dragons can be regarded as an exceptional dedication, and under the persuasion and example of Selman, the white elf master and the commander and the national teacher were allowed to sit on their backs in the form of dragons, and it took the fastest afternoon to rush to the small village where the scout reported.
But what made them angry was that they had been so cautious and efficient, but in the end they were still a step too late.
By the time they arrived at the reported village, the man suspected to be Heipeng was long gone, and the elite scout team that had been monitoring his movements had all died silently at the secret surveillance point around the man's residence.
What's even more speechless is that because the man usually doesn't communicate much with the villagers, and these scouts are too cautious when choosing a surveillance location and choose some hidden corners that ordinary people don't pay attention to, so the villagers can't ask when the man left, and when those scouts died in those corners that no one usually notices. The only thing that can be called a harvest may be the fact that the identity of the man can be determined to be the fleeing Heipeng.
However, although no one was caught, it was a good thing to confirm that Heipeng was still on the border of the eight southeastern counties. Since this small village is so remote that there is no inn, everyone directly settled in the simple treehouse that the two White Elf elders spawned near the village with life magic, and then several dragons returned to their original camp with the commander, the national teacher, and a white elf elder, preparing to completely place the focus of the carpet search on the surrounding territory centered on this small village.
Of course, in addition to these inhabited places, since the geographical location of this place is exactly the junction of the eight southeastern counties and the Bone Swamp in the east, the possibility that the original sect leader Hei Peng sneaked into the Bone Swamp area in order to avoid tracking is not small. Although the Bone Swamp is the second most dangerous place on the continent to the Warcraft Forest, the truly dangerous and powerful Warcraft are all gathered in the depths of the Swamp, if it is only the periphery of the swamp, it is not difficult to find a safe refuge there that Wang Tingjun's search center cannot do with the strength of Hei Peng's seventh-order strength.