The soft female voice is like a gentle woman, apologizing to her child's friends for her child's adventures.

This is clearly the voice of the King of the Mountain. It seems that Theo is right, and in recent times, he is a mother who wants to raise a boy.

True dragons and goblins are really convenient creatures.

[It can be me]

Ian thought so, and then faced the real dragon's inquiry, and responded with rather strange words: "It depends on whether Your Majesty needs it or not]

【Not required】

The soft female voice smiled with a smile: [It was the efforts of the Huaiguang rescue team to rescue my child Xiou, there will be no second statement]

[Anyway, thank you.] 】

Turning his head sideways, the King of the Mountain looked to the other side - the Dragon-worshipping Cult, or the army of the mountain people had arrived, they had been staying by the side, waiting for Theo's awakening, but now that the King of the Mountain had arrived, they naturally rushed to the other side, kneeling down and bowing their heads, to meet the king.

Ian even saw a few familiar figures, in addition to Pansha, the heir of the Cliff Elder, and several others he had seen on the mountain people's side.

But now is not the time to say hello.

"King, we ......" led by Pansha swallowed his saliva before he dared to speak, but he was interrupted in the middle of speaking.

[It's not you, it's the Flying Flame Land that has a plot against us, they are plotting in secret, we can only deal with it]

Although the king of the mountain did not reprimand on the surface, but comforted, he did not let them get up either.

Although it was indeed a sneak attack, the response of the Bailong Sect was indeed not very good, especially until the end, it was Ian and the Huaiguang rescue team who rushed into the subspace labyrinth to rescue Theo, and they were first blocked by a group of phantom armies and demonic beasts, and then they were disturbed by the aftermath of the battle of the fourth-level powerhouse.

Without them, Ian and the others would definitely encounter more enemies, slowing down, which can't be said to be useless, but overall .......

It's time to spur the spur.

And at this moment, the Redemption Light and the Reflection Light will also take out the crystal prism that stores Theo's soul.

"Mom...... Mother ......"

Theo had already woken up when the King of the Mountain had just arrived, but the little dragon, who was a little afraid of his mother's scolding, didn't dare to show his face - but this time he couldn't show up, so the Redemption Light brought him out.

[I'll talk about it when I get home]

The King of the Mountain glared fiercely at Theo's soul crystal - if it were an ordinary person, he would definitely think that this meant 'I'll clean you up when I get home'.

But perhaps Ian was more familiar with dragons, or people with more awkward personalities, and he could only hear the meaning of 'go home and rest first, don't force yourself to talk to me now'.

It's a pity that Theo is obviously a dragon, but he doesn't know how to understand dragons as Ian.

He had clearly misunderstood the previous meaning, so he did not dare to say more after letting out a low whimper.

- The problem of the family of origin is indeed the main cause of 85% of the problems in this world, and the inability to understand each other accounts for the remaining 15%

Ian thought so.

Theo's soul crystal was retrieved by the Mountain King with the wind and swallowed into his mouth, and then the Mountain King also made the Dragon Worship team get up.

[You will go back with the Huaiguang rescue team and obey their command]

The true dragon gave such an order, and the team of the Dragon Worship Sect naturally obeyed.

After that, the King of the Mountain did not stay long.

He was very worried about whether Xio's soul had been poisoned by Flying Flame Land and other researchers in the Avak Laboratory, so he took off and left, ignoring the onlookers of the three fourth-level powerhouses, Grand Duke Thorrin, Mikael and Dean Moze, from beginning to end, and simply regarded them as nothing.

And these three fourth-level powerhouses, except for Mikael, don't want to make any extraneous branches, and have a good reason with this king of the mountain, why their partner Flying Flame Land would set up a trap to kidnap Xiou.

Although theoristically, it was Theo who took the initiative to attack the lair of the Grand Duke's Solin in the Westlands...... But who told you that the Flamelands are also causing trouble in the Baison Mountains? For the fourth energy level, don't expect to be reasonable, this kind of thing is not clear, you can only fight with your fists - and the Tianhong King of the Flying Flame Land has already withdrawn, why do they want to take over this beam for no reason?

Because the riots brought about by the arrival of the true dragon quickly subsided. After announcing that they were under the jurisdiction of the Huaiguang Rescue Team, the team of the Worship Dragon Sect began to set up camp in the surrounding area in an orderly manner, and Pansha and the others pretended not to know Ian in addition to a grateful look.

Theoretically, the big names who should know know all about Ian's relationship with the Dragon-worshipping Sect, but it's better not to show flaws on the surface.

In addition, Pansha observes the attitude of the rescue team and the attitude of the king of the mountain, and thinks that the Huaiguang rescue team is the rescuer that Ian found.

Although it is a little subtly different, it is actually true, Pansha's ability to read words and colors is indeed quite powerful.

Moreover, without the Huaiguang Rescue Team, it would have taken a lot of effort for Ian to hide his identity.

It is also with this ability that although Pansha and Ian did not speak, they had a tacit understanding.

After Ian patted Adbert on the shoulder, said his name, and asked him to return to the team, the gray-haired, golden-eyed researcher was at a loss.

Then, Pansha, who reacted, strode forward, gave Adbert a big hug, and then said in a loud voice, "Welcome back, brother!" At that time, the gray-haired and golden-eyed deceased monarch was completely confused.

"Thank you, knight."

"No thanks, stranger."

During the time Ian and Pansha were on encrypted calls, Adalbert naturally blended into the ranks of the Cult of the Dragons.

At Ian's suggestion, Pansha personally took the researcher Death, who didn't dare to say a word, to the camp, as if they were close friends who had known each other for more than ten years, and the boy turned a blind eye to Adbert's eyes for help.

- Me, what am I going to do next?!

- You just stay there and wait for the Dragon Worship Sect to take you to Nanling, which is my hometown. Don't worry, I'll get back to you.

After this, Ian entered the stronghold with the Celestial Priests.

"I didn't expect to see you here."

Sister Reflectionlight was a little suspicious when she saw Ian. Once again, she felt a strange familiarity, but she couldn't catch it...... Her talent is extremely good, otherwise she would not be valued by the Ransom Mentor, and she will be brought out from around the Holy Mountain to cultivate.

But it's impossible to find common ground between the Knight of the Vale and Ian just by feeling - no jokes, not those special people, or Ian himself who has exposed the relevant flaws, his disguise is perfect for most people.

"After all, I'm a knight on patrol, and I always have to carry out tasks."

Ian replied with a smile, and Adalbert, who was still watching in this direction, widened his eyes again.

- Ian is still a Knight of the Watchman?! Even if the most dangerous place is the safest place, but it's too dangerous, right?

And how talented does it have to be to be a patrol knight and a laboratory, or a second-level sublimator?!

Ian noticed Adalbert's eyes, but didn't pay much attention.

- Surprised now? You'll be amazed at what you will have in the future!

Ian asked again about Sister Dragonman's condition—and the answer was rather surprising.

Since the incident in Lai'anling, Sister Yingguang has chosen to be stationed in Lai'anling, and is responsible for the security of Lai'an City and the surrounding area together with the mountain people, after all, Baron Lai'an is dead, all kinds of demonic beasts are still raging, and the biological warfare engaged in by the Flying Flame Land has only been partially contained, but it has not been completely quelled.

Without the second-level aristocratic force stationed there, it would be very difficult for ordinary people to deal with all kinds of ferocious demonic beast attacks.

Sister Yingguang actually felt very difficult to do alone, so after considering the decision of the Archbishop of Tianyan in Nauman City, because this incident was obviously exposed and resolved by the Huaiguang Church, then the Huaiguang Church will also be responsible for the safety of this place during the period when there is no lord in Ryan.

In other words, Sister Yingguang, and even the good partner of Huijian Ransom, are likely to be based on the Lai'an Collar!

"What the hell, they also know that I'm going to be a lord over there?"

It can't be a coincidence at all, Ian doesn't even have to think about it, he can know that this is the so-called 'witness' of the Huaiguang Church.

This is not to observe himself closely, Ian directly eats his sword

In addition to the acquaintance of the reflection light, Lübeck, who should be called the 'Red Blade' clergy now, also shook Ian's hand happily.

"Viscount Grant and Elder Pud will be happy."

He sensed that Ian had perfectly controlled the strength of the first energy level through the secret method of the Dragon Worship Sect. I couldn't help but praise, "It's no surprise that next year you will be able to advance to the second energy level, surpassing me and Elder Pude...... When I first met you, you were so young, but I didn't expect that eight or nine years later, you would have to go higher than us. ”

Truth be told, Ian also remembers the first time he met Lübeck, and it was also the first time he officially met Viscount Grant - the vengeful red-haired mountaineer looked like a ghost, and his gloomy and depressing temperament was even more intimate.

But now? Today's Red Blade has a resolute expression, a strong and powerful body, and the expression in his green eyes is no longer a little gloomy, but similar to Huijian, a kind of dignified justice from the heart.

Not to mention the mannerisms...... Changed to the previous Lübeck, definitely what a 'good boy, you have become such a bull X, I think when you were a little old, I really can't imagine that you kid is today! 'Where can this kind of market-like mercenary cliché be as civil as it is now?'

That's why he couldn't help but sigh in his heart.

——Huaiguang Church...... It's really turning ghosts into people.

Although he may be suspected of some relatively forbidden methods, after seeing the Dead King and the Dead River Forces, as well as the various operations that the Spiritual Calamity Path himself will carry out in the future, Ian will no longer feel afraid of the methods of the Huaiguang Church.

At most, it's just the death of a new life, what is there to fear? Not crazy at all, it can even be said to be gentle.

The teenager had been living in Tyra for sixteen years, and this was .jpg of the changes that had taken place in his brain

After greeting his acquaintances, Ian tried to use the Patrol Knights' internal communication system to contact Birch Inkwind, Tress and the others...... The result is a busy tone.

This is not surprising, after all, when Mikael and the King of Tianhong fought, the scene was too chaotic, everyone was looking for a place to take refuge, and now the battle has not been over for long, and the King of the Mountain has descended, and things are coming one after another, and no one can relax.

In that case, Ian was not in a hurry, he simply stayed in the stronghold of the Huaiguang Church and prepared to rest for a while.

After such a fierce subspace exploration battle, he was really a little tired...... The power load of the Dead Monarch is quite large, if it weren't for the fact that his true strength is a double second energy level and an extreme domain, like the first energy level like Adbert, there may be many sequelae.

Ian wanted to send Adbert to the Huaiguang Church at the beginning, just to ask the Huaiguang Church to help see if there were any sequelae that needed to be solved, money was not a problem, and a researcher of Adalbert's level was really rare in the world.

As for now...... It is nothing more than one more formality, so that the Bailong Sect can be sent to the Huaiguang Church.

Unbeknownst to him, Adambert had been booked to a medical facility for recuperation, and Ian had recorded the incident in a memo, and then lay down on the blanket prepared by the rescue team, looking at the texture of the wood on the ceiling, and slowly closed his eyes.

He needed a real break to relieve the mental exhaustion caused by the many prophetic signs.

Relieve the anxiety of being overly excited and anxious because you see where the future is going.

Before that, though.

Once again, Ian heard his inner voice.

【King? 】

It came from the depths of his heart, resided in Ian's body, and recognized his dead king...... The voices of the revenants.

"What's wrong?"

Ian's figure appeared in his own spirit world, and in front of him was a shadowy cluster of white revenants, the souls surrounding the boy, and he did not feel fear, but felt a burst of warmth.

With the completion of revenge and the fulfillment of Ian's promise to the Dead Souls, they have come to see Ian as their own king, so they have always stayed in his body, always serving the 'Dead King'.

It's a contract.

【King】

A woman's hazy voice emerged, it was the former carpenter woman, her voice was a little hurried, but it became soothed under the deliberate suppression: [You have fulfilled our wish...... While the real culprits Archduke Thorin, the Flying Flame Lands, and the Gnostic House didn't pay the price we wanted, we also knew ...... None of this is realistic]

【Us...... I don't understand, the Prison of Stars, or some other disaster. It's too far away for us to understand these things......]

[You killed Viscount Avak, killed the presiding officer of this laboratory, and it was enough - so now, it's our turn to grant your wish]

O king...... We...... In other words, we, the souls of those who still have our own selves, want to know]

[We want to know what you really want]

At this moment, the group of spirits stared at Ian.

The resentment in the hearts of these souls who died in the Avak Lab has calmed down a lot...... They hadn't even thought of seeking revenge on Grand Duke Thorin from the beginning, because that was impossible, and thinking about it would seem like a waste of their resentment.

Besides, their direct enemies are all Gnostic, and the souls of those who regard Flam and Grand Duke Thorin as enemies are all with Adalbert.

So, they were now satisfied that the Avak lab had completely collapsed, Grand Duke Thorin had not completed his plan, and everyone in the Gnostics Institute had been killed by Ian.

Now it's time for them to fulfill their vows.

- They hope that their existence can help.

Such sincere emotions that no one can ignore.

"He's going to pay the price. Grand Duke Thorin is also waiting for the day when he will pay the price, and I will be his retribution. ”

Ian looked around at the souls and felt this sincerity.

He was silent for a moment, then said softly, "As for my true wishes...... Actually, I've said it a long time ago, haven't I? ”

In the face of these souls who have pinned their existence on themselves, the boy has no need to lie.

So, Ian raised his head and stared at the high dome of his soul space: "I just want a world that is always strange, always fresh, and always has room to move forward...... It may be a bit embarrassing to say, but to put it bluntly, I'm a person who is very afraid of having an 'end'. ”

"Obviously, I didn't finish the bowl, and I panicked when I saw that there was nothing in the pot. If you haven't finished a book yet, you can feel scared when you notice that there aren't many pages left. ”

"A planet is so big, let alone the whole of Terra, I haven't even traveled through the Empire, but I'm desperate because of the Prison Star Prison five light years away...... Sometimes, I wonder what am I worried about? ”

"What am I afraid of? Why am I in such a hurry? Why should I be so desperate to get a chance to travel to a distant land? ”

Closing his eyes and feeling the gaze of the spirits, Ian exhaled deeply and said calmly, "No. Actually, I didn't fight hard at all. ”

"I just do what I want to do, it's not called hard work, I don't really think about it from start to finish, because for me, that's what my life is all about. Do you ask why you eat brown bread? Because there is only black bread, and there are no stars in this world, I can only go to it. ”

"Souls, I don't ask you to understand me, for I am an anomalous person, and I am not an ordinary person who can be understood by you, but a madman who can be called insane...... I just thought, if you want to go to the heavens, you don't need any reason, you don't need any emotion, just like you don't need to be so excited to look up at the stars. ”

When he said this, Ian even laughed: "Because the stars are there, why do I need reasons and feelings to look up at the stars?" This question is also too silly. ”

"Since there are no stars in the sky, I'm going to take it back."

[We don't understand...... Monarch]

The revenants replied blankly, "But we want to understand, King. We can understand the sincerity of this feeling......]

【Us...... I want to understand you]

"Thank you."

Ian smiled and reached out to touch the spirits.

It's cold, but it's not scary.

Touching his 'people', he said seriously: "Of course you don't understand. It's not your fault, it's mine. ”

"There are still many people in this world who are suffering, they are distressed about tomorrow's breakfast, for their children's future, for the next year's harvest. Don't talk about the end of mankind after a thousand years, don't talk about the high sky and starry sky on the far side, and the starry heavenly prison...... They can't even predict how the world will change in a few years, how can they care about such a thing, how can they understand? ”

"It's like you, you're all trying to live, but you're dying inexplicably because of the conflict between the Empire and the Flamelands...... Dead dazed, dead at a loss. ”

"In such a world, no one wants to look up at the sky, because the sun is dazzling, because there is a job in hand, because there is money to support the family, because tomorrow is uncertain, because going to the sky, it is indeed a boring thing."

After a pause, the young man said, "It's not romantic at all, it's a long emptiness, an endless nothingness." ”

"You're right, you're living a down-to-earth life. Why do you have to know me? ”

Saying this, Ian seemed to be saying to the souls, and also to himself, "There are many things that Inaga II is in a hurry about, and there are many things that he has done wrong...... But there is only one thing that I think is true. ”

His tone gradually became firm: "We must let the people learn knowledge...... Let you live a happy and carefree life. ”

"In this way, you will become alchemists, you will become stargazers, you will become sublimators, you will become ...... A person who can think about what will happen in a hundred years and a thousand years will become a person who is so bored that he can look at the stars. ”

"O my people...... Only you are happy. ”

"In order to become a person who can understand the desires of my heart."