39 The Road Ahead

【Baide Empire Inde Main City Palace Meeting Room】

At this time, it was already evening, and the majestic and spacious palace of the main city of Inde was still resplendent with gold, as if colorful gems were inlaid in the castle to exude a charming brilliance. The interior of the palace room is spacious and bright, with a crystal chandelier carved with rare diamonds and precious platinum on top, which looks radiant and radiates a burst of light on a large long wooden table below. The wooden table seems to be made of a unique and precious wood, and the surface is painted with a layer of red wood lacquer, which looks round and smooth, and the light reflects on it, emitting bursts of golden light. The ground is all covered with delicate glass, its colors are brilliant and beautiful, and its quality is crystal clear and dazzling, as if immersed in the seven-color spectrum of the rainbow. Gig, Barton, Smith, and Siruf were sitting inside. In the center sits the empress of the Baird Empire, Jibrie, with a slightly old face round and fair, as if she usually pays attention to maintenance, a pair of clear and beautiful pupils under the eyebrows like a crescent moon, like two emerald green gems, wearing a velvet crown on her head, the flowers on the velvet crown look lifelike, the stamens are all inlaid with colorful gems on it, as if budding flowers, these are all carved from noble gold, giving people a sense of dignity and luxury.

"This time, the Exorcist Guild, the Wizards' Guild, and the Gendarmerie Corps have all suffered heavy casualties, many people have died in this battle, and many seriously injured patients have settled in other strongholds of the Exorcist Guild," Smith said slowly to everyone present with a gloomy face and a somewhat bitter old face.

"Can you tell us about the specific situation" Jipli frowned, her clear and charming pupils seemed to be gradually obscured by dark clouds in the clear sky, and she barely squeezed out a smile and said to Smith.

"The Magicians' Guild lost 10 percent of its troops, the Exorcist Guild lost 20 percent, and the Gendarmerie lost 30 percent. As the deputy commander of this project, I apologize very much, and ask the Empress to punish him," Smith gradually bent down and buried his head deeply, looking very polite, closed the notebook in his hand and handed it to Gibrie, waiting for Gibrie's fate.

"Your Majesty, I am the planner and commander-in-chief of this plan, all of this is caused by the negligence of my subordinates, please punish me, this matter has nothing to do with Lord Smith" Gig immediately stood up, bent down and buried his head deeply, and said with a slight apology.

"Alas, you don't have to put all the blame on yourself, this time it was all up to Gig to have the foresight to call in half of the forces of the major trade unions and gendarmerie regiments, and to minimize the losses, and if all the troops were mobilized, I am afraid the losses would be even more serious. The members of King's Wings are indeed too strong, and you can't be blamed entirely for these things" Gippley sighed deeply, looked at Gig and Smith with kind eyes, walked up, and helped the two to their feet.

"No, it's me who overestimated myself too much, thinking that my plan was seamless," Jig gritted his teeth, his guilty face showing helplessness and sadness, and said slowly.

"This plan is indeed perfect, every detail has been taken into account, one of the members of the King's Wings will use [Medium] and can quickly cross the terrain, so send the Wizards' Guild to set up runes so that King's Wings can use [Medium] to escape. Early in the morning, he expected that the King's Wings would go back to the Cave of Sorrow to plunder [Queen of Thorns - Medusa], and sent Dongmei and Nanxian to harass and block, and knew that the resistance might fail, and Waltz led the gendarmerie to set up checkpoints on the way to escape. On the other hand, Smith led the Exorcist Guild into the Endless Corridor to block the King's Wings, and Gig you had long expected that Master Smith would end in failure, so you sent Enrin and me to block it," Siruf explained slowly, his cold eyes revealing a hint of helplessness.

"There's one thing I don't understand, why he plundered Nia of the King's Wing," Barton's sharp gaze showed a hint of confusion, and said thoughtfully.

"This matter is a temporary decision, the original plan was to plunder [Queen of Thorns - Medusa] or [Undead Knight - Banz], and then lure the people of the King's Wings to the dark forest to annihilate in one fell swoop, but it is true that I underestimated the ability of the King's Wings, and I happened to meet Sean and Bane near the Endless Corridor, when we saw Bane holding Nia, I guessed that it might be with [Undead Knight-Banz] The battle was seriously injured, so we were forced to have no choice but to plunder the King's Wings, Nia as our hole card, so that the King's Wings fell into a trap," Gig explained slowly with a blank face.

"I see, Gipley, I met the culprit of the nightmare more than ten years ago in this battle [Holy Stone] You should know it all too well, I don't need to explain more," Barton took a deep breath, exhaled a trace of sadness and helplessness, and turned his head to Queen Gibrie and said coldly.

"What the hell are you talking about, Barton" Jipley frowned, her face distorted as if she had seen a ghost in a dark cave, and looked at Barton in surprise.

"My true identity is already known to everyone in the Seven Yao Society, but to my surprise, I actually met the demon from more than ten years ago, and it seems that everything is not over yet" Barton seemed to recall something from the past, and his sharp eyes revealed a trace of bitterness, and said slowly.

"You mean your identity, so does Gig know it" Jibrie looked at Barton in surprise, Barton shook his head slightly, and Gipple pursed her lips and didn't continue.

"Your Majesty, I already know Patton's true identity, but as the leader of the Seven Dawn Society, why didn't you tell me such an important thing in the morning" Gig frowned, watching Jibrie's strange behavior, and then came back to his senses and said.

"My brother asked me to do this, maybe he has his own difficulties, but please forgive me for my unintentional mistakes" Jipley's face was a little bitter, she looked at Barton, sighed, and explained slowly.

"I didn't mean that, as the leader of the Seven Dawn Society, I just wanted to know what Her Majesty thought, that's all," Gig hurriedly explained, looking at Jibrie's somewhat embarrassed look.

"What the hell is that," Smith said thoughtfully, frowning as if he was thinking about something.

"[Holy Stone] is a strange substance that exists in every Horcrux, and the more advanced the Horcrux, the more such substance will be. However, the [Holy Stones] that exist in each Horcrux are extremely rare. Back then, the Resel Empire secretly conducted experiments, using [Alchemy] to disassemble each Horcrux, and then fused the decomposed [Holy Stone]" Patton's grim face was slightly bitter, as if he recalled some painful past, and said slowly.

"I see, could it be that you sneaked into the Rysel Empire for more than ten years, and it was because of the [Holy Stone]" Smith's surprised face showed a hint of unease, and then regained his calm face and said slowly.

Indeed, this substance has transcended the actions of nature and law and social ethics, and to put it simply, it is simply beyond the ultimate of anything on the continent of Arthur. The most terrifying thing is that the King's Wings Sain was created by the [Holy Stone], you can imagine how terrifying this is" Barton said coldly with an expressionless face.

"What are you talking about, then does this matter have anything to do with the Rysel Empire" Smith's hollow pain did not shine in the slightest, and bursts of fear penetrated his entire body, like bursts of biting and cold coldness from the icebergs of the extreme north.

"I don't think I have any connection to the Resel Empire, which also searched for Seon more than a decade ago, but found nothing, and then disappeared. But more than ten years have passed, and this matter seems to be starting to surface again, and I think that except for our Elder Empire who knows about this incident, other countries may not know about it," Barton said with a hint of seriousness in his sharp eyes.

"However, this battle involves a huge scale, and other countries must have paid attention to it," Ji Puli's originally peaceful face became cold and serious, revealing a hint of worry and uneasiness, and said thoughtfully.

"I think so, that's what we're here for, although it is not yet known what the purpose of Sein's plundering of the Four Poles is, but other countries should have begun to pay close attention to the Elder Empire, where should we go in the future" A trace of worry and unease appeared on Gigger's cold face, and he stared at the Empress Jibrie with a determined gaze, waiting for the Empress's answer.

"The enemy is in the shadows now, and we are in the light, so it's not appropriate to reveal our identity," Gippley explained, holding her chin in her hand, as if thinking about something.

"The subordinate means that the King's Wings will definitely plunder the four poles of the Jin Kingdom or the Resel Empire, and the Jin Kingdom and the four poles of the Resel Empire should still be in a safe state, and we may have been closely watched by other countries now, so we now choose to cooperate with other countries or act alone"

"Why are you so sure that the King's Wings have not plundered the Jin Kingdom and the four poles of the Resel Empire," Smith's cloudy pupils gradually appeared a glimmer of brilliance, as if the cloudy sky was gradually covered by clearness, and said in surprise.

"Because Seon said something before leaving, we will meet again, so I dare to conclude that the target of the King's Wings is not only the [Undead Knight-Banz] and [Queen of Thorns-Medusa] of the Baide Empire, but also the [Mountain Divine Beast-Gluttony] of the Jin Kingdom and the [Biochemical Demon-Zack] of the Resel Empire must not have been plundered by the King's Wings now" Jige's serious face gradually sharpened.

"That is to say, it will not be long before the King's Wings will once again act to plunder the four poles of the Jin Kingdom or the Resel Empire, and now there is only one road in front of us, a road full of thorns, and once you set foot on this path, there is no turning back. So do you think you should cooperate with other countries or go it alone" Jipley's cold gaze showed a hint of helplessness and antiquation, staring at Jig.

"For now, cooperating with other countries will only limit our actions, so it is better to choose to act alone, so that we can hide and bring an invisible sense of oppression to the King's Wings" Gig stared at Jibri with a firm gaze, looking without the slightest fear, exuding a burst of domineering momentum.

"Do you have any plans, then?" said Gypley, looking at Gig, with a hint of anticipation in her tone.

"I already have a clear goal, and I don't have a plan yet. Now we can only wait for the King's Wings to choose the Jin Kingdom or the Resel Empire, but this time, I will definitely give the King's Wings a fatal blow, and the King's Wings I will definitely finish you off with my own hands" Jige's cold face looked extremely firm, and he said viciously.