Chapter 184: The Emperor of the Wolves
The door to the corridor on the second floor of the Oak Temple opened, and Antonio's vigilant gaze swept the corridor outside, the firefly lamps hanging on the wooden walls shed a dim light on the wooden floor of the hallway, and the corridor was empty, except for the wolf howls outside the temple.
Antonio, barefoot and wearing only an armor-lined shirt, cautiously walked out the door, looked up at the ceiling overhead, and turned to walk in the direction of the staircase.
When he passed by Murphy's door, the door suddenly opened, and the knight leader subconsciously retreated into the shadows of the wall, only to see Murphy poke his head out of the door, the two glanced at each other, and the adventurer quickly drilled out of the room and closed the door.
"Did you hear that?" said Murphy, as he approached Antonio, in a low voice.
Antonio nodded silently and pointed to the top of his head, Murphy nodded knowingly, and the two of them tiptoed in the direction of the stairs.
When they came to the corridor on the third floor, they found that it was pitch black, completely different from the corridor on the second floor, and their eyes could not penetrate the darkness, so they were greatly affected, and after a brief hesitation, Antonio decided to boldly use the holy light to illuminate the road ahead.
He summoned a divine spear in his right hand, the light from the spearhead illuminating the way like a torch, and Murphy followed closely behind him, and the two of them cautiously walked down the corridor, listening to the movement in each room, but there was silence in these rooms, without any sound.
"This is the last one!" Antonio said, gesturing to the door next to him, turning back to Murphy.
"Go ahead and have a look!" Murphy said, pointing to the library door at the end of the hallway.
The two of them walked briskly through the corridor, and before they could get close to the door, they heard the faint roar of wild beasts coming from inside, and the two of them hurriedly stopped, and made individual gestures to each other, and when they listened again, the voice was gone.
"There must be something wrong inside!" Murphy said to Antonio, frowning.
Antonio cautiously came to the side of the door, Murphy dodged to the other side of the door, the two of them put their ears to the door, and faintly heard the sound of talking and the roar of the beast intertwining in the room, but they couldn't hear what the people inside were saying, only some muffled sounds.
"What now?" asked Murphy, looking at Antonio.
The knight commander listened to the situation inside, while secretly thinking about countermeasures, he didn't know whether he should rush in directly, after all, this is Rogge's teacher's home, if he rudely slammed the door and rushed in, in case of any misunderstanding, he was afraid that it would not end well in the future, but he felt unwilling to leave like this.
Just when he hesitated, the door was suddenly opened from the inside, the two were startled and hurriedly dodged back, Antonio raised the sacred spear in his hand and pointed at each other, but saw a red-haired girl covering her face with her hand, avoiding the dazzling light, and asked in surprise, "What's the matter?"
"Miss Grace?" The two couldn't help but be stunned for a moment when they saw this, Antonio hurriedly withdrew the spear in his hand, Grace then lowered his hand to look at them, and at this time a tall figure walked out from behind Grace, and when he saw the two, he couldn't help but laugh: "Two gentlemen, you were attracted by the sound just now, right?"
Antonio and Murphy looked at the Great Druid with some embarrassment and nodded slightly, Augustine tapped the ground lightly with the staff in his hand, and the firefly lights on the walls of the corridor and library lit up at the same time, and the surroundings became brightly lit.
"Come in, since we're here, let's meet together!" Augustine smiled and beckoned to the two, turned and walked in, Grace was still standing in the doorway, respectfully waiting for the two to enter, Antonio and Murphy glanced at each other, put away the sacred spear and followed.
After the four of them, Grace followed at the end to Rogge's bed in the center of the library, and Antonio and Murphy were surprised to see Rogge sitting on the edge of the bed, his feet on the ground, and a huge white wolf sitting in front of him.
Rogge's hand gently rubbed the head of the white wolf, who seemed to enjoy the caress, and occasionally let out a low roar in his throat, and when the voices of the two appeared, its keen gaze swept over the two of them, and suddenly turned its head to land a fierce light on them.
"Oh no, don't do that, it's a friend. Rogge pressed his hand against the white wolf who was about to get up, stroked the snow-white mane on its head, turned back to Antonio and Murphy and smiled: "You have come at the right time, come and meet 'Your Majesty'!"
"Your Majesty?" The two looked at the white giant wolf in front of Rogge in surprise, and Rogge nodded with a smile: "Yes, this is the king of all the wolves in the Sun and Moon Forest, and it rules all the wolves like the emperor. ”
Antonio and Murphy looked at the white wolf sitting on the ground with awe as tall as Rog beside him, its majestic posture exuded a majestic royal temperament, and a pair of eyes glowing with green light were alert and sharp, which was daunting.
"So, that sound just now, is that what it came from?" asked Antonio, looking back at the Great Druid beside him.
"That's right, just as the wolves began to howl in the moon, we and the lone wolf—by the way, I forgot to tell you, its name is also the lone wolf, because it is unique in the Sun and Moon Forest—and we and it were at the window over there, answering the howls of the wolves like kings who inspect the people. ”
Augustine smiled and glanced at the surprised expressions on their faces, only to hear Rogge on the other side laugh: "That's right, my nickname actually comes from it, because I think I am very similar to it in the human realm." ”
Hearing Rogge's words, the white giant wolf suddenly raised his head and let out a long howl that shocked his heart, and the wolves outside the Oak Temple heard its howl and immediately responded, and the wolf howls echoed in front of the heavens and the earth, even if they were in the three-story library far from the ground, the sound was still in their ears.
"In a few hours, the day will be dawn, and the wolves will return to their territory. Augustine turned and walked to the window, and the lone wolf turned away from Rog, followed the great druid to the window, stood upright and propped himself on the windowsill with his front paws, and looked out the window like a king at the wolves who were "long live the mountain."
Antonio, Murphy, and Grace walked to the other windows and watched the wolves retreat in all directions in an orderly manner, while Rogge sat on the edge of the bed, his eyes not looking in the direction of the window, and his head bowed silently, as if in deep thought.
At this moment, a black bird flew in from the window, and the red light flashed into a little loli in black, Lilith fell from the sky and pounced on the white wolf, holding it and laughing and kissing it, Antonio and Murphy looked back and found that the lone wolf's eyes suddenly softened.
"You little madman, where did you go to play, I thought you were going to miss the meeting with His Majesty the lone wolf!" Rogge, who was sitting on the edge of the bed away from the window, looked back at Lilith who was holding the lone wolf and said with a smile.
"Didn't I come back, and I didn't miss it!" Little Lori snorted unconvinced, rubbing her little face on the white hair of the lone wolf, and the lone wolf rolled over from the ground, carrying Lilith on his back, and rushed out of the library like the wind, leaving a series of little Lori's laughter in the corridor.
"I'm afraid I'm going to wake up Catherine and Tully!" Rog said with a helpless smile and shook his head.
"I'm afraid they are not asleep," said Augustine, smiling, closing the window, "and a man who has never experienced such a thing cannot sleep on a night full of wolf howls, and is not that the two gentlemen?
"With all that said, you're just making excuses for the Mad Minx, that's how you're spoiled!" Rog shrugged his shoulders and laughed as he got up from the side of the bed.
Augustine smiled without saying a word, walked up to Antonio and Murphy and said, "Okay, it's not too early, the two gentlemen should go back to rest, don't you still have to go to Moon Studios early tomorrow morning?"
The two of them even claimed that it was, Augustin told Grace to go to rest too, and everyone said goodnight to Rogge, and left the library together, Augustine said goodbye to the three of them in the hallway, and walked up the stairs to the hall, where he found the lone wolf running wildly on the grass with Lilith outside the temple.
He squatted on the grass and talked to the lone wolf and the little loli for a while, and then Lilith jumped off the lone wolf's back and kissed it on the head a few times, and the lone wolf licked Lilith's cheek with his tongue, turned back to Augustine and let out a long howl as a goodbye, and then turned and ran into the forest.
When it came to the edge of the barrier, it suddenly turned its head and looked at the window of Antonio's room on the trunk of the large oak tree, and the knight chief stood quietly by the window, looking at the white figure of the lone wolf in the night, and heard it let out a long wolf howl, and the figure turned and disappeared into the forest.
When the dawn light illuminated the Sun and Moon Forest, everyone in the Oak Sanctuary woke up early—except for Lilith, who had been playing all night—and had breakfast together in the hall on the first floor, and then set off again for the Elven King Moon Studios.
As they were about to leave, Augustine approached Rogge with Grace in a pink silk dress and asked him to take Grace with him, to Rogge's surprise at first, but Augustine told him that it was Grace's will.
"She wants to be with you, she likes your team, and I think this kid should be with you, and she'll help you. Augustine said earnestly to Rogge.
Rog agreed with his teacher's advice and took Grace on the road with him, along with Jim the Treant and Monica the Flower Spirit, and the group left the Oak Sanctuary and bypassed the sun-drenched Lake of the Virgin before arriving outside Moonshadow City in the early afternoon of the next day.
Rog left Jim and Monica outside the city, and entered the city with Antonio and the others, and went straight to the elven palace to meet the eldest princess and regent Eva, but the captain of the elven guard in the palace told them that the eldest princess was not in the palace.
"Your Highness has already instructed that if you return to Moon Shadow City, you will be given food and lodging first, and she will soon return to the palace to meet you. The captain of the guard said respectfully to the people.
"How many guards did the eldest princess bring?" asked Rogge.
"It's just her. The captain of the guard replied.
"At such a time, the eldest princess is still going out alone?" Rogge listened to his words, and couldn't help frowning and asked, "This is very dangerous, what if His Majesty's murderer takes her as a target? Where did she go?"
"This shouldn't have been told to you," the captain of the guard hesitated for a moment, then lowered his voice and said, "Eldest princess, she went to the Holy Land......"