122. Palace
The tide of golden slime value quickly receded, gradually changing the scene in front of Valentina's eyes. The bright sky and grass of Nali in the early morning also changed to the scene of an extremely wide cavern somewhere.
Before the statue of the plane tree made of steel, Valentina kept moving forward due to the inertia of the previous escape, but soon fell as her body gradually became heavier, and finally fell to the ground.
"Plop!"
"Miss Valentina!"
"Valentina!"
Around him, several words of anxious concern came at the same time, and the dexterous snow fox race Daer took the lead in running over, carefully checking Valentina's current condition.
But at this moment, many of the feathers on Valentina's body had strangely turned into inorganic stones, and it was these feathers that turned into stones that caused her weight to increase dramatically and she fell to the ground.
Seeing the strange situation on her, Dahl also seemed a little overwhelmed, so he hurriedly turned around and asked the troll elder Daliwuu, who was proficient in medical skills, to come over and check, and asked Valentina by the way,
"Are you alright, Miss Valentina?"
Valentina's eyes were a little dizzy, not just because of annoyance but also because of the feathers on her body that turned into stone, she slammed her fist on the ground fiercely, and said through gritted teeth,
"That damn Elizabeth!"
Dahl and Daliou, who had come to inspect it, glanced at each other, and then, Daliouu, who had inspected them, sighed and said to Valentina very seriously,
"You have gone to Nari, Miss Valentina, and you already know about Nari's current ambiguous relationship with the Satinia and the Turan family, and of course you should know their position, not to mention the fact that you have previously communicated with their queen. In this case, you still went to Nari in secret without us. IMHO, you are not just putting your own safety at risk, but the safety of the entire sycamore tree. ”
Daliou's hand stroked Valentina's petrified feathers, and one by one, the petrified feathers fell from Valentina's skin under the scent of herbs.
The pain that sounded like plucking hair made Valentina gasp, but it was probably certain that the petrification hadn't penetrated deep into her skin and was fine.
Seeing that the injury was not serious, Dahl sighed, and couldn't help but admonish Valentina, but it was more gentle than Daliwu's tone,
"Yes, Miss Valentina, now that you are the only phoenix in this world, your safety is the safety of the plane tree. If it weren't for Patriarch Barion discovering and informing us in time, we'd all be kept in the dark, even for your husband's sake, and we should think twice before we act. ”
Feeling the petrified feathers on her body fade little by little, the irritability and anger in Valentina's heart did not disappear, but became more and more vigorous in the words of persuasion and reproach from the two patriarchs.
She raised her eyes angrily, and just before Zhen Bing's divine light became more and more intense, behind the two patriarchs, Barion's immature and ethereal voice sounded inadvertently,
"Don't forget, you two, Valentina is only eighteen years old. When you were her age, you were a thousand times more unreasonable in my eyes than what she did. Daliwuu, when you were eighty years old, you secretly ran out of the tribe with Kokolia to have a private meeting, but you squatted in the wrong place, not only did Kokolia not see you, but you almost froze to death outside at night. Dahl, when you were younger, you set your parents' house on fire, and you were hung up and beaten by the previous patriarch for a night, you were twenty-five years old at that time, right? ”
The two patriarchs were slightly stunned, and then their old faces turned red at the same time.
When they claim to be elders, they forget that there is a Super Slime behind them who has lived longer than them and who doesn't know how high they are.
Valentina couldn't help but look up at King Slime, who was sitting in the shadows with a pacifier "Haw Haw" in his mouth.
And after saying this, Barion also patted his round belly with his fat hand, took out the wooden pacifier, and turned his fingers in his mouth, and said to them,
"She's young, both human and phoenix. She had grown up under the control of the Turan family for the first eighteen years, and when she got rid of the Turan family, she experienced another four and a half years of slumber, and when she woke up, she would become the leader of our plane tree. She's been doing well for the past few months, and honestly, if she resists going to see her husband today, I'll wonder if she's been taken away by some old fellow.
"Don't forget, that's her husband, and the person closest to her, and in a way, although we are loyal to Valentina, in terms of closeness, I'm afraid none of us here can be called her 'family'. You have a happy family, do you ask her to give up the opportunity to see her husband whom she has not met for a long time? Of course, we are all thinking about her and the safety of the sycamore tree, but we must not overdo it. ”
At this point, the remaining unspoken admonitions of the two patriarchs were not easy to speak, and they looked at each other, and had to apologize to Valentina and show their unintention.
And Valentina just glanced at Barion, who was sitting not far away, like a hill, and the anger in her heart that was insulted by Elizabeth finally stopped coming up, and retreated little by little.
"No, I should apologize. It was I who left on my own before I had a full grasp of Nari's situation, and I thought that if I entered secretly, Elizabeth would be a human being."
Soon, Valentina told the whole story to the patriarchs present. Including the reason for her going, she used some "Phoenix Secret Method" to disguise her appearance (in fact, it was the chaotic power of Momoko's life, but Valentina did not reveal the specifics), and everything that happened halfway.
"Didn't I choose to come back with you in the end? Well, then other than that, it sounds like there must be some mystery in the body of that empress Elizabeth, and even the phoenix with the sword of the phoenix king is not an opponent. ”
Barrien touched his chin and wisely bypassed the emotional matters between their husband and wife, but only picked out the key elements and analyzed them.
Well, although Valentina didn't say the specific process of what Elizabeth did in front of her at that time, the several patriarchs present still vaguely noticed a little bit of green on her phoenix's head, and it was no wonder that she looked so angry when she first came back.
Hearing Barion's words, Valentina frowned and carefully recalled the scene.
In addition to the lingering replay of Elizabeth kissing Fisher, she soon discovered that Elizabeth's eyes changed every time her strange abilities were activated.
She blinked and said thoughtfully,
"It's the eyesElizabeth's eyes are wrong, and most of the strange sensations she has in her body come from her eyes, and the golden sword. The power of that eye is very strong, but her physical body should be far inferior to mine, only stronger than ordinary people, otherwise Fisher, who was only an average person in physical fitness at that time, would not have pushed her away, and she obviously couldn't catch up with us when I took Fisher. ”
"Is it just a pair of eyes? A pair of relics can compete with the bloodline of the phoenix? Is this it?"
Patriarch Dahl muttered in disbelief, his words in disbelief, while Barion smiled and said,
"In this way, Valentina's trip is not completely fruitless. My clan has been unable to infiltrate Nari to obtain information in the past few years, and Valentina went to directly get the key information of the Empress of the Golden Palace, it seems that the ability of our entire clan to obtain information is not as good as yours, but the price is a little bigger, and her husband stays in Nari. ”
As soon as she mentioned this, Valentina was angry, especially since Fisher took the initiative to stay in Nari at the end!!
What does that mean?
Why did she do that kind of thing to you at that time, and choose not a wife but an old woman's ex?
Did she really think that old woman was better than herself?
No, no, no, it can't be, it must be as he said, he was there to save his teacher's granddaughter and Emhat, that's why
In short, there is absolutely no way that Fisher will stay in Nari because of that Elizabeth, absolutely!
“.”
In the end, Valentina took a deep breath, trying her best to control herself and calm down, she slowly stood up and said solemnly to several patriarchs,
"Guys, this time it's me who is wrong, I am impulsive. I did miss my husband too much, because I knew you wouldn't agree to have a conflict with Nari right now, skipping the northern state of Sardinia and the Turan family to interfere in Nari's affairs. But after that, I'll immediately get to work on the affairs of the Satinia and the Turanian family. ”
"Well, Miss Valentina can understand. But I also want to correct the two patriarchs, I am afraid that you still had illusions about Nari, even if they had already interfered in the affairs of our northern borders, and wanted to maintain respect with them and the western continent. Now, not only are they interfering more and more in the issue of the northern border, but even Phoenix's husband has stayed there, which is really an insult to the plane tree. I still hope that the two of you will think twice about your relationship with Nari, especially since you two don't forget, we still have one of their Golden Palace orthodox bloodlines on our hands. ”
Barryn's words were obvious enough, and as the patriarch of the slime, the most powerful of the six clans, he had always been steadfast in standing with Valentina on the issue of taking sides, but he had a completely different feeling from the descendants of the other six clans.
Valentina is grateful for this, so she also knows that she must be patient and rational in her next actions.
She had lost her previous confrontation with Elizabeth, she had lost in carelessness and impulsiveness, and she had to avoid making the same mistake again.
From the point of view of the Sycamore Tree, Nari has become the biggest stumbling block in their path to restoring their status in the North; And on a private level, Valentina had to snatch Fisher back from Elizabeth.
"Have you calmed down, Miscellaneous Fish?"
Just as the two patriarchs were discussing the direction of the plane tree next with Barion, Valentina's voice, which had been quiet for the time being, sounded again.
Valentina heard the blame hidden in Momo's carelessness, so she apologized in her heart first,
"I'm sorry, Momo, I was impulsive earlier."
Knowing that mistakes can be corrected, and good is great. But I still can't understand the brain circuits of you miscellaneous fish, you are so angry, and the humans with the power of Pandora are also afraid because of your husband, otherwise I think we could have been planted there at that time. ”
"I'm sorry."
"Well, forget it, love is something like that that always brings me bad luck, and it's the same for you and your husband. Compared to this, I seem to have a little bit of an eyebrow about the power of Pandora in that human empress."
"Really?"
"Well, Pandora died in the chaos that broke out in the Ideal Country, but now, in the body of the human empress, Pandora's power has reappeared, and I felt a very familiar smell there before, I didn't distinguish it at the time, and now that I think about it, I think that thing is very much like a relic of my mother's World Tree teardrops, but that relic should have been exiled to the Sanctuary to be refined into a wise book by Gabriel's fellow."
"Books of wisdom? You mean book Sir Emhart? ”
And Gabriel's dead ghost kid by the same name, that should be it. But there should have been only one teardrop in the World Tree, so I don't know why there were two teardrop relics, but it doesn't matter. All you need to know is that the angelic relics cast by the teardrops will give birth to the consciousness of the self. And unlike the wasted ugly monster that Gabriel forged, the human empress had a holy relic that was very powerful."
"That is."
"Hehe, in other words, in the head of the current human empress, lives a top-level holy relic that may have all the power of Pandora, is self-aware, and doesn't know why to help her. And it seems that the human empress does not know this deeply enough. Well, at the same time, it's still helping that human rob your dead ghost husband. ”
“.”
Valentina was silent for a moment, then her expression became cold, and then she gritted her teeth and said inwardly,
"I'm not going to let her get away with it,"
"Well, and Pandora and Lemuel were supposed to die 10,000 years ago in the Ideal Kingdom where chaos broke out, and now they have appeared strangely, and I have to suspect that it has something to do with chaos. So, while I don't care if she robs your man or not, I'll still help you fight against that trash fish relic. ”
But after hearing Tao Gong say this, Valentina blinked and said innocently,
I thought that even if that holy relic had nothing to do with chaos, Tao Gong would help me."
"Wake up, if that's the case, why should I help you pull your hair with that human empress? It's all about chaos, you can't talk about it yourself, isn't that your pure dish? Vegetables are more practiced, you know, miscellaneous fish? ”
“.”
Tao Gong said so with a phoenix injury.
At this moment, Fisher knew nothing about the conversation within the junction and the storm brewing for a new round of fighting.
When he came to his senses, he opened his eyes and felt that it was pitch black, not because it was night or that he was locked up in some dark place, but simply because his eyes were covered with something similar to an eyepatch, obscuring his vision.
He struggled a little, and soon found that his limbs seemed to be tied, and that he himself was lying on a soft bed with a very good smell.
“.”
In the darkness, the touch of the bedding, ropes and muscles around him reminded him that he didn't seem to be wearing any clothes at the moment.
At this moment, Fisher couldn't help but feel some remorse.
Of course, he didn't regret being caught by Elizabeth, or rather, from the moment he let go of Valentina's hand, he knew that it was inevitable that he would be caught by Elizabeth and brought back to the Golden Palace.
And he did not regret that he had opened the blessing, which made it impossible to use supernatural power and be unable to resist in front of Elizabeth.
Alicia has the gaze of the god of life chaos, and when he comes into contact with her, if he does not use the method of eating her, once the source of life chaos in her body discovers Fisher's arrival, it is possible to turn her into a pedestal and deepen the erosion of Alicia, and it is obviously impossible for him to regret not eating Alicia.
He just didn't expect Valentina to suddenly appear here, or rather, he should have thought a long time ago, he came here through Kerken, who had a relationship with the slime, and there was no way that Valentina of the Sycamore Tree didn't know his whereabouts.
He just didn't expect that the silly girl would really come to Nari to see him and take him away, and he regretted not preparing the ring for her, and gave up leaving with her at the last minute.
It's a dilemma, isn't it?
If he had chosen to go with Valentina at that time, he would have regretted that he had not stopped Elizabeth's heart-rending crying in the Sycamore Tree.
And now, he has chosen to solve Elizabeth's problem, and regrets not preparing the ring for Valentina in advance.
However, Alicia and Emhart are still here, and he still needs to solve the puzzle of the Arcana, and if he goes to the north, he will lose this opportunity.
On the other hand, he really didn't want to disappoint Elizabeth anymore and avoid facing her problems again.
At first, he ran away from the problem of her bullying a schoolgirl; Later, he evaded the question of her slaughtering her relatives to steal power.
Now, this problem has gradually become so serious that Pandora's power has begun to appear in her, and if she escapes, what will she want to make this problem look like before she is willing to give up?
Thinking of this, even though Fisher was bound, his heart gradually calmed down.
He calmly felt the strength of the noose on his body, trying to struggle while contemplating where he was now.
Is it still in the city of Chitel?
Still is
"Boom! Boom! Boom! ”
At this moment, several consecutive bells rang outside.
The ringing of the bell immediately awakened Fisher's memories and reminded him that it seemed to be the morning bell of the Golden Palace of St. Nari, which was used to announce the time of the Golden Palace, and was a symbol of the life in the Golden Palace in the form of time to announce the outside world.
Generally speaking, the bell is struck four times a day, the first time at seven o'clock in the morning, which is also the beginning of the day at the Golden Palace. The Empress should have woken up, had breakfast, and was ready to begin her business and business.
The second time was at ten o'clock, when the morning's work was almost over, the meeting with the ministers was over, and after a short pause, lunch and lunch break could be reached.
The third time was at two o'clock in the afternoon, which was the beginning of other matters and work in the afternoon.
The fourth time is at 5 p.m., when the afternoon work is over and it is time for dinner and dinner.
So what time should it be?
As Fisher pondered, he suddenly heard a rush of footsteps from outside the room, followed by the sudden opening of the door and the sound of a breeze blowing from outside.
He swallowed a mouthful of saliva, and before he could react, he felt a soft body pounce on him, hugging him tightly and hugging him.
On his body, Elizabeth's burning breath and sweet kisses kept falling, making him feel numb all over.
"Are you awake, Fisher, I'm going to work in the morning, you should miss me a lot, it's okay, I'm back, hmm"
Elizabeth seemed to have just finished her morning's business, and hurried back from the vestibule, no, before the bell of the morning was over, she trotted all the way back to the backyard where she lived, and pounced on Fisher's body, kissing him as if she were drawing energy.
At this moment, how Fisher wished he was a corpse without feelings, so that he could pretend that he was not awake
However, it is possible that he may have been treated by Elizabeth before when he did not regain consciousness I don't know how many times?
"Elizabeth, we're already at the Golden Palace?"
But after enduring it for a while, he couldn't help but take the initiative to open his mouth, indicating that he was still awake, and you should restrain yourself.
Who knew that when she heard Fisher's voice, not only did she not relent, but she also put her face closer to his heart more excitedly, and between the slight sucking and exhaling, her excited, uncontrollable voice also sounded,
"Ah, you're really not lying, no one can find out about you except me. Great, in this way, you will always belong to me alone, and you will never be able to leave. Just stay here, stay in the Golden Palace, okay? ”
“.”
Fisher opened his mouth, but the moment he opened his mouth to be silent, he was about to be kissed and demanded by a hungry Elizabeth, and there was no gap to speak of
Maybe four and a half years slipped away in an instant or made him ignore something, and at this moment, these ignored facts are finally reminded.
He had now been captured by a desperately hungry Elizabeth and locked up in her golden palace.
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