Char, the royal family of the Matan Empire, is located in the Imperial Palace Citadel in the center of the bustling capital, and a secret meeting is underway with all the members of the Matan Empire's cabinet and council.

In the center of the enclosed chamber, illuminated by the most primitive candles, is an intricately carved round stone table, which is surrounded by eight seats, representing the eight cabinet members.

Imperial King, Scholar, Generalissimo, Chancellor of the Exchequer, Knight Chief, King Guard, Imperial Officer, and Shadow Governor.

Every decision made about the state of the empire was made here after consultation, and it can be said that this small secret room was related to the fate of the entire empire, and the cabinet council of eight people was the eight people with the strongest power in the Matan Empire - of course, the eight people had different levels of power, His Majesty the King was the final decision-maker, and the others were only auxiliary duties.

However, at this moment, the Cabinet Council was convened, not because of any national event, but because of a person, a magician who did not even have a serious name, called Hammerhead.

Not long ago, the small city of Stan, a small city on the edge of the empire, where the magician is located, happened a big event that no one can say, this matter is explained from the surface, that is, a dark magician who was lured by the dark book killed the bishop of the church in Stan City in a frenzy, and then the genius girl of the empire, Dajins, united with the mysterious master of Stan City Iron Swordsman to solve the dark magician, and removed this major disaster for the church, and the first master of the empire, Bakhaz, also rushed directly into the church church of the church in Char, and asked Cardinal Osfrey for the reward for the steel swordsman......

And the truth behind this. Can't say.

But everyone here knows what's going on.

In accordance with the laws of the Empire, the Scholars announced that the Iron Swordsmen would be summoned to the Imperial Capital. Join the King's Guard, at the request of Boothor and Lord Eric. Hammerhead, a magician who is close to the Iron Swordsman, will also come to the Imperial Capital with him.

This was originally just a very simple matter, what if the church in Stan City was completely destroyed? In the eyes of these big people in the imperial capital, it was just a trivial matter, and it was impossible for the empire to really declare war on the church because of this, at most it would cause some diplomatic disputes.

But the point is, something unguessable happened to this hammerhead - the Imperial Knight Chief personally sent his right-hand man, the paladin Grayton, to Stan City to escort the hammerhead and the steel swordsman to the imperial capital, and the group encountered orcs when they passed through Quiles City, and the members of the council are not yet clear about the incident, but the result of this incident was shocking: the hammer actually gave a swordsman the power of oath!

This hammerhead. It turned out to be a royal family!

Well, there was a war in the empire fifty years ago, and this war that lasted for several years left some royal blood out, which is not a major matter, according to the laws of the empire, it is enough to directly give this hammerhead royal family the identity.

The destruction of the church in Stan, and the fact that the hammerhead is of royal blood, these two events were originally just small things.

But when you mix it up, it means a lot.

The destruction of the Church of Stan City looms with the shadow of this hammer in it, if the Empire recognizes his royal status. This seems to make the church very unhappy, and they may use it to cause trouble!

It is for this reason that Hammerhead's royal status has not been officially confirmed until now, and the focus of this cabinet meeting is also to discuss whether to give him the status of a royal family!

"For the stability of the empire. I suggest that this magician be removed from royalty, and that he should not even be present in the imperial capital, and that we should send the king's guards to kill him as soon as possible...... "The great bachelor known as the king's left hand." It was an old man who was already eighty years old, and his gray beard almost hung down to his chest. His voice was old and lifeless, and he leaned tightly against the stone chair, making it doubtful that he would pass out the next moment.

"His royal status has been confirmed. Wouldn't it be a disgrace to my imperial family to kill him?" The generalissimo of the king's right hand of the emperor, who was also eighty years old but in good spirits, retorted with a cold face, "This hammer head may be one of my nephews, and I absolutely can't bear his unexplained death!"

"It's for the sake of the stability of the Empire......," the scholar retorted with little strength.

"For the sake of the stability of the empire, we should unite the strength of every royal family, I heard that this hammer is very remarkable, and he will become the future pillar of the empire!" the generalissimo said in a strong voice.

"Generalissimo, you're right......" The scholar still said weakly, but suddenly, his godless eyes seemed to flash a fine light, "But the premise is that he can really rush to the imperial capital, I heard that he has offended several noble families, and now there is even a team of noble retainers blocking him!"

"It's the army of the Hightowers. ”

The Shadow Chief, who was sitting at the bottom of the seat, continued, a short, stocky and balding man, but wearing a gorgeous robe, and even touching his cheeks, looking a little weirdly bewitching, he fiddled with a small box in his hand, as if he didn't care, and continued to explain:

"The lost royal family killed five nobles in the city of Quells, four of them are not worth mentioning, but one of them is the young lady of the Frey family, called Dona, in addition, the young master of the Martell family Agoura also died in the city of Quills, I heard that he was punished by the church and died, but it seems that the Martell family has calculated this account on the hammerhead, the Frey family and the Martell family are about to move, and the Miss Doth of the Hightower family was insulted and hurried back to the imperial capital, her brother went to Angel City to stop the hammerhead and his party in order to maintain the honor of the family, but was killed by the hammerhead and his party, so the Hightower family sent their retainer army, there are tens of thousands of people, and they have probably arrived in Angel City at this moment. ”

The Shadow Master is in charge of the Empire's intelligence agencies, he was originally just a circus entertainer, and he was also a eunuch, but step by step he built an intelligence network that the Empire was eyed by, through which he became a member of the Imperial Cabinet Council, what happened to Hammerhead and others. He seemed to know very well, even at this moment, the army of the retainers of the Hightower family was intercepting the matter of Hammerhead and his party in Ingres. He also knew it clearly.

His intelligence obviously did not rely on the backward means of Red Eagle to pass on the book.

Shadow Boss's words. Everyone here was moved.

"An army of 10,000 retainers?" said the hot-tempered generalissimo coldly, "The Hightower family is too much, their retainers' army is completely composed of thieves and robbers, how dare he send so many people to intercept and kill my lost royal family?

At the top of the table was the king of the empire, who was now only sixty years old, and was actually the nephew of the generalissimo according to his seniority, but because of excessive work. He leaned back on the stone chair and seemed to be indifferent to the arguments of others, and when he heard the generalissimo's request, his face showed a contemplative look—the other members of the council were speculating in their hearts, and his majesty did not know whether he was really considering whether to send troops to support the matter, or whether he was thinking about what to eat for dinner......

"Ahem...... "Ahem," the scholar sounded weak, and rang out again, "before we appoint that hammerhead as royal." He was just a commoner, and even with the paladin Glayton who escorted him, they were not enough to send troops to the Empire, and they killed the children of the nobles. The nobility had a reason to mobilize an army of retainers to defend the honor of their family, which was also allowed by imperial law. ”

"There is no doubt about his royal status!" said the generalissimo in a furious voice, and even simply stood up from his chair.

"Oh. My dear Excellency the Generalissimo. The middle-aged man sitting next to the generalissimo hurriedly said that he was the finance minister of the empire. "The scholar is also for the sake of the stability of the empire, and the royal identity of that hammer head is really too involved. He may be a pillar who can serve the Empire, or maybe he is just a straw bale, and we should take a closer look. ”

"What do you say?" said the Generalissimo coldly, for the Scholar and the Chancellor of the Exchequer had always colluded in Parliament.

"I suggest that this hammerhead be put to the test to see if he is a pillar of the Empire. The Chancellor of the Exchequer smiled and said, "We can take the predicament of Ingres as his test, if he can break through the blockade of the army of the Hightower family, then he has passed the test, and we will naturally give him royal status, but if he can't pass the test, then he will just be a straw bale, and he will die, how about it?"

The generalissimo opened his eyes and wanted to split, what kind of test is this, 10,000 blocking ghosts can pass it!

The Chancellor of the Exchequer is just using the excuse to prevent him from sending troops to support, right?

The Generalissimo was so angry that he almost wanted to flip the table, but before he could break out, there was a sudden "chirp, chirp" sound from the box in the shadow manager's hand.

Everyone looked at the Shadow Boss.

The Shadow Manager was also slightly stunned, and carefully opened the box in his hand.

Inside the box is a colorful spider.

This spider is a kind of demonic beast, the name is the Shadow Demon Spider, it is a ninth-order demonic beast, but the reason why this demonic beast is a ninth-order demonic beast is not because of its strength, but because it has a unique ability - it can communicate remotely through its own cobwebs.

Its cobwebs are not cobwebs in the ordinary sense, but a kind of magic web condensed by magic, no matter how far away this cobweb, their slight vibration, the Shadow Spider can feel it, the Shadow Master has its own chess pieces in every town and village in the Matan Empire, and these chess pieces are transmitting information to the Shadow Master through the cobwebs all the time.

The Shadow Master's intelligence network is built on this Shadow Spider.

"Tweet, tweet......"

The Shadow Spider whispered a few times into the Shadow Chief's ear, and after a few moments, the Shadow Wizard closed the box, and he looked at the many members of the Council with a strange smile on his face:

"I just got the news that Hammerhead and his companions have slaughtered Ingres, and more than half of the retainers of the Hightower family have been killed or wounded, and their leader, the beast rider who had been captured and killed by Lord Bakahaz, was directly killed. ”

Member of Council: "......"

The Chancellor of the Exchequer, who had previously proposed a hammer-headed test, was shocked and seemed unable to believe the information, and the scholar's old face was even more dumbfounded, as if he was really about to return to the West......

Even the generalissimo and the knight chief, who originally had some affection for the hammerhead group. At this moment, they all showed extremely surprised expressions.

More than half of the retainers of the Hightower family were killed or wounded...... That's an army of 10,000 men!

"It seems that this hammerhead is indeed the pillar of our Matan Empire!"

His Majesty, who had been absent-minded from the beginning, suddenly brightened his eyes. He got up from his position and moved his waist: "That's it." From now on, the identity of the hammerhead's royal family is officially confirmed, and no one has any objections, right?"

The members of the council were silent.

The scholar seemed to want to say something, but he couldn't.

"Well, Knight Chief, go and appoint the Hammerhead as royalty, and if anyone stands in the way, kill him directly!" His Majesty proclaimed cheerfully, "and this meeting is over, and you are starving to death, Dorne." Go and tell the kitchen to prepare me a big meal. ”

"Yes, Your Majesty. The chief of the king's guard hurriedly said respectfully.

The members of the Cabinet Council, led by the king, left the chamber one after another.

The Shadow Steward's identity is the most humble, and he has a humble posture until everyone has left before slowly walking out of the secret room.

And outside the back room, he saw the Chancellor of the Exchequer waiting for him.

"Oh, Lord Petyr, are you waiting for me?" asked the Shadow Master with a hurried and humble smile.

"Varys, you should know my relationship with the Freys, and you should know my attitude towards the Hammerheads. Chancellor of the Exchequer Petyr looked at the Shadow Master with a smirk. "You just chose that time in the council to say this, and I want to know what kind of intentions you have. ”

"Mistress Petyr, you have wronged me. Shadow Master Varys said with a wicked look on his face, "The message Spider gave me was timely. It has nothing to do with me, a poor man. ”

"Hmph!" Petyr looked at Varys coldly.

Varys suddenly looked around a little sneakily, and then suddenly approached Petyr and said, "My lord, I didn't announce all the news just now. ”

"What do you mean?" said Petyr. Somewhat strangely looked at Varys.

"It's true that the Hammerheads have broken through the siege of the Hightower family's retainers, but they are not safe now. Because of the dangers that awaited them far more dangerous than the army of the Hightower family's retainers, they had strayed into the Grimm Forest. I can't even ......peep into that place," Varys said with a sly smile, "The most important thing is that my lordship, Your Excellency the Knight Chief will take His Majesty's order to announce the royal status of the Hammerhead, even if the Hammerhead is lucky enough to leave the Grimm Forest, it will always take some time for His Excellency the Knight Chief to receive the Hammerhead, and you still have a lot to do during this time, don't you?"

......

"Hey, fat man, do you know the way?" Ye Chui stopped the magic car and looked at the forest in front of him in surprise.

After leaving Angel City, because the teleportation circle outside the city had been destroyed, Ye Trai and his party had to drive away, Grayton claimed that he was very familiar with the road conditions, so Ye Trai had been driving according to Grayton's instructions, but now ...... He found himself in a dense forest that he felt very bad, and he said with some solemnity, "Why do I think something is wrong here?"

"Don't worry, I've walked this road no less than three times, and I can't make a mistake. Grayton was sitting in the back seat of the car munching on a chicken leg, and said confidently, "After leaving Angel City, you can see Jon Avenue after walking south for two hours, and you can come to Marty City by going straight on Jon Avenue, you can't go wrong!"

Hearing the fat man's words, Ye Chui, Debbie, Vivien, and Ephia all turned their heads to look at Grayton, and the eyes of the four of them seemed to be about to erupt with fire.

Grayton shivered: "What do you think I'm doing? Am I wrong?"

"Fatty, you said the city of Angels and walked south for two hours...... Are these two hours your two hours on horseback?" Debbie said, clenching her little fists.

Grayton nodded, "yes......"

"But we're driving now!several times faster than your fat horse!" Debbie growled in exasperation.

Grayton finally realized that something was wrong, and his eyes hurriedly surveyed the scene outside: "So how long have we been on the road?"

"At least an hour and a half!"

“......”

Ye Chui understood that he had been cheated by this unreliable fat man, and he turned his head to look at Grayton: "After we left Angel City, we walked about three hundred kilometers south, what is this place? We seem to have entered a forest." ”

Grayton looked so frightened that he couldn't say a word.

"Damn, damn fatty, hurry up and answer!" Debbie urged impatiently.

Grayton swallowed: "Three hundred kilometers south of Angel City...... If I'm not mistaken, it's Greenwood!"

The name Greenforest was obviously very unfamiliar to the people north of the Warm Water River, but Efia felt that the name seemed a little unpleasant, and she asked with some surprise, "Greenforest ...... What is it?"

"Green's Forest...... It's a forest of death cursed by the elven race!"

Grayton's fat face turned pale with fright, and he looked at the dark forest outside the car window in horror and said slightly: "This forest was originally the residence of an elven race, and their names still appear in some poetic allusions to the Matan Empire, the Grimm elves, it is said that there is a magical potion plant growing here, and legend has it that it is the secret that the elves can have immortal life, which attracts the greedy human race, two thousand years ago, a powerful mercenary army attacked here and killed all the elves here!" But before the Elven Emperor of the Elves of Grimm died, he cursed the forest, and any foreigner who stepped into it would die under the evil spirits of the elves...... For 2,000 years, this place has been a forbidden land, a veritable forest of death!"

At this moment, there was a sudden "pop", and something fell on the roof of the magic car...... (To be continued.) )

PS:Ps:The plot of the breakout is finally over.,A big chapter of five thousand words,Mainly about the members of the Imperial Cabinet.,Petyr, Varys,Anyone who has watched Game of Thrones should know these two people.,The image and personality are roughly the same as those on TV.,In order not to make everyone feel bored,Deliberately left a next plot.,Green's Forest,Elves are about to appear in this plot~~~~~ for the sake of 5,000 words of sincerity,Ask for monthly tickets and recommended votes~~~~