As a descendant of the Sage, Barney's eyesight is naturally not bad, and at the same time, he has experienced the second camouflage war back then, and he still knows a little about the ability of the Sword of Hyera.

After seeing the black text in the air, he actually believed most of it in his heart.

But that wasn't enough to change his mind.

Fred is indeed a qualified general, but he is definitely not a qualified emperor, in that war, he is undoubtedly a loser, even his own brother George can't fight, how to deal with the shadow hidden in the depths of the empire.

"I can't give you the pendant."

"Why, you think that Fred can't help you with the Sword of Hyera? Would you rather believe in a monster than a hero who quelled the second camouflage war? ”

Ye Qiong didn't understand, the words were all said to this point, why did this guy still refuse to let go.

In his opinion, the greatest use of the pendant is nothing more than to call out the calamity boy.

These villagers must not have seen the Calamity Boy and have no friendship with him, so there should be no such thing as trust.

Then the answer to the reason why he chose to reject Ye Qiong's proposal is very simple.

They didn't think that the Demon Breakers, the Church, the Royal Legion, or even Fred the Great could save their lives, and only by letting the Calamity Boy take action would they have such a glimmer of life.

There was only one reason why they could be so convinced, and that was the prophecy of the High Priest Melissa.

"What did the High Priest say to you?"

"Stranger, I can't say the answer to this question."

With that, Chief Barney was already clearly able to detect the displeasure on the traitor's face, and in order to avoid further angering the daring fellow, he added:

"You can ask for anything other than the pendant."

Hush money?

After all, if the news of the Wishing Grass is exposed, it will not be particularly good news for the Sage Village.

From the current situation, it can be seen that the villagers of Sage Village are accumulating strength in order to protect themselves in the troubled times in the future, and time is what they need most.

Once the news of the Wishing Grass leaks, they will be greeted by endless searches, a situation that Barney does not want to see.

However, Ye Qiong didn't want to go down this step, so he replied without giving face:

"Aside from the pendant, what do you think is there here that attracts me?"

Barney was silent, got up and walked around the wooden house, as if thinking about something, and after a long time, he looked at the man and the sword in front of him.

"Please come with me."

With that, he walked to a room in the hut on his own.

Ye Qiong was also a little confused, and he didn't know what this old man wanted to do for a while.

Shouldn't he have smashed his cup after following in, and there were five hundred axes in the room?

Although he had doubts in his heart, he still followed, anyway, this is a reincarnation copy, what is there to panic about.

Besides, even if he has 500 sword and axe hands, he still has the power of angry ghosts and gods, and no matter how he is, he can come to a wave of self-explosion for one.

After entering, Ye Qiong realized that there was a secret passage hidden inside.

Village Chief Barney walked in the front, and he didn't know when an extra candle appeared in his hand.

The light was dim, but I could barely make out the steps below.

The two of them walked towards the depths of the secret passage with a sword.

In about a minute, it was already the end.

I only heard a crisp applause, and the originally dark secret room suddenly became extremely bright.

Ye Qiong looked at it, and he couldn't help but be shocked in his heart.

Boy.

There are hundreds of muskets in front of you, and in addition to this, there are boxes of ignition stones, which can cause violent explosions when exposed to fire.

Is Barney preparing these things to rebel?

No, it's just trying to protect yourself.

Ye Qiong walked in the secret room, and the things hidden in it were basically weapons with high lethality, but it was a pity that he couldn't use them now.

At the same time, these things are also under a secret spell, and if outsiders come into contact with these things, they will self-destruct.

Barney's intention, in addition to wanting to pay hush money, is not to warn with force.

Don't think that you have the ability to kill the Eye of the Sky and be unscrupulous, if you provoke us, we will be exposed to you in a matter of minutes.

With these combat power reserves, even if the villagers of the Sage Village were ordinary people, they were enough to fight against a fifth-order powerhouse, not to mention that Ye Qiong could clearly feel that these villagers were not ordinary people, and the flow of magic power in their bodies could not deceive people at all.

"If there's something eye-catching, you can just take it."

The village chief of Barney behaved very generously, obviously facing a traitor wanted by the Empire.

"I'm now more and more curious about what Melissa's prophecy is.

Besides, are you really so reassuring of me? Aren't you afraid I'll tell the empire about this news? ”

"No, you won't, I know what those guys in the empire have done to you, you and them can only be enemies."

"You never seem to have trusted the Empire."

Chief Barney shifted his gaze to Fred and gave him a deep look.

"It's a pity that the original winner was George, not Fred, and the current empire is not credible to us at all."

Probably because he was facing Calves, a traitor, Barney's words were quite straightforward.

Perhaps in his opinion, Calvis the traitor is more credible than the Empire, which is why he is willing to reveal his secrets to the other side.

However, this may not be the whole picture of the Sage Village, and this is only a part of what Barney is willing to show Calves to see.

Originally, Ye Qiong only came here to get the pendant, but now that he has seen it all the way, the secrets hidden here are probably even more interesting than he imagined.

As for Fred, he couldn't hold back after seeing everything in the secret room.

"Why are you so reluctant to trust the Demon Breakers, your approach is almost no different from rebellion."

He is the founder of the Demon Breaker Guardian, so he naturally knows the army of the Demon Breaker Army very well.

In principle, the Demon Breaker Army does not belong to any force, and will neither obey the orders of the royal family and nobles, nor the orders of the Pope of the Church, even if he is the founder, he cannot be easily mobilized, because those who can enter the Demon Breaking Army are basically people who have been blessed by the Holy Father.

Only in the event of an event such as a camouflage war that threatens the safety of everyone in the empire will it be attacked.

At the same time, there are only sixth-level existences that can serve as the leader of the Demon Breaking Army, and when they reach this realm, they can already be called demigods.

If you see the tragic end of the future of the Sage Village in Melissa's prophecy, you can go and seek the help of the Demon Breaker Army, an absolutely neutral force, why bother to make these small actions in private?

Obtain funds by secretly planting wishing grass.

And then through this illegal means to obtain gold coins to increase the combat power of the Sage Village, this practice is, to a certain extent, an absolute distrust of the Empire, they only believe in themselves.

Hearing this, Village Chief Barney looked coldly at the sword in front of him.

"Maybe the Fred the Great is really hidden in the Sword of Hyera, but what does that mean?

As the Dawning Sword Saint, he has still been defeated, what can he do with only the remnant soul left?

To put it bluntly, we don't believe in the Empire, we only believe in ourselves. ”

"Why?"

"There's no why, Fred failed, that's the reality, exactly what Melissa had predicted.

If the Dawn Sword Saint at that time did not realize the dark side hidden in the depths of the empire, the Apocalypse Empire would surely perish. ”

Chief Barney told a portion of the prophecy of High Priest Melissa.

The one who was most capable of saving the Apocalypse Empire at the beginning was the existence known as the Dawning Sword Saint, who was in the prime of life at the time, and even had the possibility of ascending to the seventh order to become a god.

It's a pity that he was defeated after all, and he was defeated by the dark side of the empire.

After recognizing this truth, the Sage Village chose to completely abandon the Apocalypse Empire and embarked on the path of surviving alone.

It may be selfish, but it's the only way Melissa can survive future crises.

Fred saw distrust in Barney's face, saw indifference, and what stinged him the most was the disappointment in Barney's eyes.

If the original Dawn Sword Saint had won, then where would there be so many things now.

With his abilities, investigating the dark side of the empire is not a problem at all.

The key problem is that Fred lost, so completely that he didn't even know who his real enemy was.

How can such a king be trusted by the village chief of Barney?

As a descendant of Melissa, the second experience of the war of disguise, Barney knows more than the average person, and he naturally knows that the depiction of Fred the Great in the history books is pure slander.

The king he knew, a paladin of great integrity, was able to give his life for the sake of the empire.

But isn't he still losing?

Even if Calvis said it was true, and Fred the Great's remnant soul was lodged in the Sword of Hyera, he had no intention of changing his mind.

Because after so many years, the king's temperament has still not changed.

He looked coldly at Calvis in front of him, can't he see such an obvious use? Why be led by the nose by such traitors?

This gaze naturally couldn't hide from Ye Qiong, he just replied with a polite smile.

Then he reminisced about the experience of floating above St. Can'er.

It's no wonder that when the evil gods were sacrificed, Makxin left this place of right and wrong with Fred without looking back.

It seems that the situation of the Apocalypse Empire is even more troublesome than imagined.

The current King George, Dingtian can only be regarded as the first boss of the novice village to go out, and there are other people who are really hidden behind the scenes.

Church of Ghosts?

He knew very well that the city of St. Kan'er would become a city known as the Magic City in a few hundred years.

And the main ones that rule the city are these three forces, the Church of Angry Ghosts, the Flesh and Blood, and the Burning Beast Society.

Mother Teresa denied that the Second Disguise War was started by the Church of Demons, but never said that the Church of Demons had no plans for the Apocalypse.

The second object of suspicion is the pretender.

The probability of this answer is even higher than that of the Church of Demons, after all, even Fred felt that something was wrong with the rebellion back then, and it was hard not to suspect that the empire was still completely infiltrated by the pretenders.

Whether there is a third force in addition, Ye Qiong doesn't know, but the above two forces alone are enough to make him big.

Fred wanted to say something and retorted, but found that the other party was not wrong.

If he had won as the Dawning Sword Saint in the first place, would things really have developed to this point?

If he had noticed it earlier, aware of George's wolf ambitions, and aware of the shadows hidden in the empire, would the result have been different?

But now it's too late.

The Dawning Sword Saint who was once at the peak of the sixth order has still lost, what can all the remnant souls do?

Calvis is only angry with the Empire, he only wants to destroy everything in the Empire, and will not follow him to the path of salvation, he knows this.

Do you want Miss Morgan to accompany him to save the already decaying empire?

No, he couldn't do such a selfish thing.

At the moment, he was the only one who could and was willing to save the Apocalypse Empire.

But can he really do it?

Even with the loss of his body, did he really do something that the Dawning Sword Saint couldn't do?

Fred fell into self-doubt.

In fact, the answer is obvious, there is no possibility of success at all, and saving the Apocalypse Empire is just wishful thinking from beginning to end.

But he is not willing to be like this, even if there is only a 1 in 10,000 chance, he is willing to do it.

Hyera's sword flew in front of Barney's chief.

"I know you're disappointed with what Fred did."

"No, I never expected anything from Mistress Melissa after I learned of his language."

"If you didn't look forward to it, then you should have moved out of the Apocalypse Empire a long time ago, why did you stay here?"

"I'm just following Mistress Melissa's prophecy."

"Is the prophecy necessarily correct?"

"At least for now, everything she prophesied has come true."

Hearing this, Ye Qiong was energetic.

"Really, did the prophecy predict that the Eye of the Sky would be killed by the Paladin Calves?"

He waited with interest for Barney's answer.

I saw the white-haired old man nod his head coldly, and then replied:

"It's also in the language of Master Melissa, and she's said it."

The black eyes of Village Chief Barney suddenly became extremely sharp.

"Calvis will become an angry ghost in the future.

Before that, he would befriend Fred the Great and betray the righteous king.

Originally, I was wondering where Fred the Great was, but now it seems that Mistress Melissa's prophecy was not wrong. ”

(End of chapter)