471 "Camelot"
Camelot.
This is the only city in Fairy Kingdom Britain that has been built like a fortress.
Unlike cities with other functions, which are run by clan chiefs or lords of the noble class, Camelot's steel exterior was created with battles and wars in mind, not only are there spear-like spikes everywhere, but they are also particularly heavy, giving people a sense of oppression at first impression.
Except for some special existences, the rest of the goblins in the goblin country are basically impatient with iron, and iron is almost poisonous to most of the goblins in the goblin country, for such goblins, Camelot with a steel shell is undoubtedly a castle of demon kings, no wonder it will be regarded as an evil city fortress by some goblins.
However, it is undeniable that this fortress is the capital of the Fairy Kingdom of Britain, the city where the Queen's palace is located.
It was at the very top of such a palace that a meeting was going on.
Two horse-headed goblins, clad in bronze armor and holding huge axes and spears, stood in front of a grand and luxurious throne, singing loudly to everyone in the hall in front of them.
"Get on your knees." "Worship."
"The patriarchs of the major clans and the ambassadors and officials of all parties gathered here, bow your heads." "The King of Frontiers."
"The king who built the kingdom of the fairies."
"Our supreme ruler, the supreme queen, is here, in front of you." "Ladies and gentlemen, applaud the king's presence."
With such a song, a figure appeared on the throne. "Boom!"
Almost at the same time, the elves in the Hall of the Throne knelt in unison.
They come from all major clans, some are goblins of the Wind Clan, some are goblins of the Earth Clan, and some are goblins of the Tooth Clan, which can be regarded as different styles.
But the goblins of the major clans with different styles were at this moment, and they all praised the figures on the throne with the most pious attitude.
"The Great Queen." "The Most High Queen."
"We are your most faithful servants, giving you all our lives."
Singing in unison intertwined in the throne room, allowing the sacred atmosphere to permeate the space with an eerie feeling.
The figure on the throne stared at this scene with a very cold and even contemptuous look in his eyes, as if the goblin under the throne who was offering prayers to him was not a living creature, but a bunch of tools, which made people dare not meet their eyes.
The supreme ruler of this country, the existence of obtaining the throne of the queen did not mean to let the elves kneeling under his command get up, and spoke directly.
"What is important, I can state it now."
Although the queen allowed this, the elves who knelt on the ground did not raise their heads to speak.
Because they know very well that on this occasion, it is not themselves and others who are qualified to speak.
He and others are only envoys and officials in charge of some trivial work, and they are not noble beings who can speak freely in front of the queen's jade throne.
On this occasion, the only people who were qualified to speak were the clan leaders of the four fairy clans who were gathering here in the form of magic projections, and the two fairy knights who only needed to kneel on one knee in front of the jade throne.
So a clerk who was standing at the Queen's side stepped out.
"In the order of the meeting, the Clan Leader of the Earth Clan, Lord Norwich, and Lord Springgan are invited to speak first."
Hearing this, one of the four magic projections moved. "Oh? Will I come first this time?"
The head of the Earth Clan, Lord of Norwich——— Springgan smiled pretendedly.
"As honorable as I am, the topic I want to mention was already mentioned at the last meeting, and that is the matter of calamity." In a very relaxed manner, Spriggan said, "Recently, there seem to be signs of the "calamity" gathering in Norwich, and according to the soldiers' reports, the Moores in the vicinity of Norwich
The frequency of Si's appearances has become higher and higher, which has to make people suspect that it will not be long before the "calamity" accumulated in Norwich will explode in one breath."
Saying this, the head of the Earth Clan, who was the lord of the port city of Norwich, looked around, and his attitude was still relaxed.
"Of course, even if I say that, you probably won't take Norwich's problem too seriously, right?"
As soon as this remark came out, one person immediately chimed in. "Isn't that a matter of course?"
This is an exceptionally crisp sound, it sounds like a little girl humming a ballad, very beautiful, and very innocent and cute.
The owner of the voice was one of the two fairy knights kneeling on one knee in front of the jade throne.
The man had a tall figure and long bright red hair, and was wearing the same court dress based on red, and at first glance he did not give the impression of a powerful knight, but rather a delicate princess who needed protection.
However, Her Royal Highness the Princess, who has such a lovely voice and a pitiful appearance, said extremely harshly.
"It's just a "calamity", and with my mother here, even if it's just a flick of my fingers, I can solve it, so why bring it up again and again in meetings?"
The princess-like girl covered her mouth and chuckled, and then said something that made most of the goblins present change color.
"Besides, isn't it just a gathering place for a bunch of artisan elves? That kind of place wouldn't be good if it were destroyed, would it? I want to see that kind of scene!"
Such words made many goblin officials lower their heads in order to hide their disgust for this girl.
"You can't say that, Fairy Knight Tristan." Springgan shrugged his shoulders and said, "The Earth Clan is still very useful in Britain, right? If Norwich is destroyed, there will probably only be two or three big cats and kittens left in the Earth Clan, and when the time comes, there should be problems with the operation of Britain, right?"
For Springgan's remarks, Fairy Knight's girl ——— Tristan was unimpressed.
"Isn't it just a clan? What if it's all gone?" Tristan sneered, "It's not that the Fairy Country has never disappeared, and one more Earth Clan is just painless for this Britain with a mother."
The atmosphere in the throne room suddenly took a turn for the worse and became extremely bad.
Just as Spriggan was silent, one of the remaining three magic projections made a rough sound.
"Shut up, little girl."
This gruff voice, if Rigor and Artoria were here, would have been able to hear who its owner was.
It was the head of the Tooth Clan, Woodworth.
"Our goblin clan is the sword in the hands of His Majesty, how can a little girl of unknown origin like you criticize casually."
It could be heard from the tone of these words that Woodworth was in a bad mood and his attitude was much worse than ever.
"Old thing, you don't have the right to speak, do you?" Tristan said with a bored face: "They are all people who are about to retire, and they still talk about swords and guns all day long, didn't they just say that they were lords and patriarchs a while ago, and they are no longer just berserkers who go to the front line to fight casually, so they have to learn to be a gentleman?"
"How long has it been since you got back to your original form?"
"Oh, a dog is really a dog, even if you become a clan leader and a nobleman, it's still not decent at all."
Hearing this, Woodworth's tone became even rougher.
"What did you say?" Woodworth exclaimed, "Damn little girl! You—"
Before he could finish his sentence, someone suddenly spoke and interrupted Woodworth. "That's enough, Woodworth."
It was the fairy knight who was kneeling on one knee beside Tristan.
Although this fairy knight is also a woman, she is completely different from Tristan, who is like a weak girl, not only is she extremely strong, but she is also very thickly dressed
The solid armor, with chains wrapped around various parts of his body, and the aura emanating from his body was not inferior even compared to Woodworth.
"Gawain!"
Woodworth glared at the fairy knight.
Fairy Knight——— Gawain didn't respond to Woodworth's roar, but glanced at him coldly.
"Tristan is the daughter of His Majesty, even if she doesn't speak properly, as the head of the Tooth Clan, a brave man who has guarded the fairy country of Britain for a thousand years, you shouldn't be like her." Gawain said in a cold but powerful voice, "Even if you don't think about yourself, you have to think about me and others who are members of the same clan as you, and we don't want to be lowered because of the clan leader's temper."
Hearing this, Woodworth didn't have time to retort out loud, and a delicate and mature voice came out from a magic projection beside him.
"Gawain is right."
When this delicate and mature voice sounded, Woodworth unexpectedly calmed down. "Aurora ....."
The name Woodworth calls out is the same as him, the head of a leprechaun clan.
"Ahh
The Clan Leader of the Wind Clan——— Aurora spoke to Woodworth in a very cordial tone.
"I understand your feelings, but as Gawain said, you are no longer just a warrior, but the head of a clan, and you must not only think about yourself, but also about your clan?"
These words seemed to persuade the impulsive and irritable Woodworth to succeed.
"You're right, Aurora." Woodworth said thoughtfully, "I'm no longer the warrior of the Tooth Clan who can only fight on the front line, I should know more about etiquette."
"Huh." When Tristan heard this, he wanted to make a sarcastic statement, but he didn't have the opportunity. Because, the clan chief in the last magic projection finally spoke.
"Can you stop arguing like this endlessly? I'm not here to hear you arguing!"
The tone of the voice sounded more bored than bored.
"Unlike you, I have a lot of things to do every day, whether it's researching the latest trends and introducing them, negotiating with various stores, and distributing business, all of which need to be done by myself, but even then I still sacrifice precious time to attend meetings. In this case, could you please say something useful?"
The patriarch of the Winged Clan, ——— Muryon, expressed his thoughts openly in front of everyone in the audience, regardless of the fact that this was in front of the queen.
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The goblins fell silent in unison. This is an unusual situation.
Whether it is the short-tempered Woodworth or the ill-tempered Tristan, they dare to lose their temper or speak ill of each other when facing others, but when they hear the patriarch of the Winged Clan speak, they have an atmosphere that they dare not attack, which is very strange.
Of course, it wasn't out of fear, or scruples, otherwise Tristan wouldn't have turned his face away, and Woodworth wouldn't have cast a fierce gaze in Muryon's direction.
But they still chose to shut up, obviously thinking of something, and no longer making a fuss.
"Oh, you're bothering me a lot." In the end, it was Spriggan who spoke.
"It's all because of the issue I raised, if you don't want to pay attention to it, then let's expose this issue, anyway, it's still a while before the "calamity" breaks out, and we can't change anything at the moment, right?" Spriggan said nonchalantly, "Unless Your Majesty is willing to do it, that's another matter."
The eyes of all the goblins suddenly gathered on the throne.
There, the queen had been silent, quietly witnessing all the conversations, all the controversy, as if she didn't care about any of them, still indifferent
Appearance.
"Norwich's situation is a priority for the time being." After a while, the queen spoke faintly.
"Since the calamity has not erupted, let's observe for a while, and if necessary, I will take action."
With that, the queen turned to Woodworth.
"How's the search for the Children of Prophecy going?"
This obvious reversal proves that the queen no longer cares about the "calamity". The goblins also revealed this topic with great interest.
The next second, however, they were drawn to Woodworth's words.
"Fortunately, Your Majesty." Woodworth said, "The search for the Children of Prophecy has finally progressed."
All the demon masters present reacted to this sentence. Including the Queen.
Including Fairy Riders.
Naturally, including the clan leaders of those goblin clans.
"There's progress?" Spriggan was surprised, "Hasn't there been any progress in this matter all along?"
"Yes." Aurora was also very surprised, and said, "I thought the prophecy of the Mirror Clan was just nonsense."
"It's interesting." Mu Ruien also came to his senses at once, and said with a smile: "Since there is progress, then it proves that the prophecy of the Mirror Clan is not false, right?"
The goblin officials were in an uproar, obviously surprised and surprised.
"Humph!" Tristan was extremely unhappy and said, "What son of prophecy? It's stupid! How could anyone threaten Mother?"
Gawain didn't say anything, kneeling there with his head down, not knowing what he was thinking. As for the throne, the queen's indifferent expression finally changed somewhat.
「..... Report on, Woodworth." The queen coldly ordered. "Yes!"
Woodworth bowed his head, which had been so noble in the past, and spoke respectfully.
"In accordance with His Majesty's orders, the subordinate led the execution team composed of warriors of the Tooth Clan, and has been collecting and searching for all information and clues related to the Prophecy Child in the Fairy Kingdom of Britain."
"Before this, this mission had not been going very smoothly, and my subordinates also had the idea that the prophecy of the Mirror Clan was nothing more than a lie."
"But just recently, my subordinates received information from a village called Tintajel, and they claimed that the Children of Prophecy had appeared in their village."
With that, Woodworth clenched his fists on the other side of the magic projection, suppressing his anger.
"After receiving the news, my subordinates immediately went to Tintagel with their execution squad, only to find that it had been reduced to a sea of fire."
"And before we reached Tintagal, the man appeared." "Child of Prophecy."
Woodworth didn't hold back after all, and gritted his teeth.
"He claimed to be a lowly human, but he showed overwhelming power to slay the Tooth Clan goblins of the execution squad in an instant."
"He, like Your Majesty, is able to use a technique called magic, and it's strong enough to have an effect on the elite of my Tooth Clan."
"I...... I didn't hold back, and I personally went down to fight him, wanting to remove a harm for His Majesty, but he escaped."
Woodworth's words caused the goblins to whisper in secret.
Obviously, for the elite goblin who can kill the Tooth Clan in an instant, who uses magic like the queen, and can escape in the hands of Woodworth, they also have the idea of "Is this man really the Child of Prophecy?" of shaking.
If they knew that Woodworth didn't say anything about the fact that the other party was able to suppress him for a short time, then they might not only be shaken, but shocked.
It was also because of this that Tristan spoke out dismissively.
"Isn't it magic? I will too!"
Tristan muttered like this, not only did not get the admiration of the goblins, but let them
His eyes turned contemptuous.
The clan chiefs of the other clans also spoke one after another.
"To be able to escape from Woodworth's grasp, and to use magic, is indeed worthy of the power of a savior."
Springagan squinted. "Human..... Is it?"
Aurora thought for herself.
"When you say that, I want to meet that person." Muirion snickered.
Then, Gawain spoke up as well.
"So you let people go, huh? No wonder I'm more irritable than usual today." Gawain raised his head, looked at the queen on the jade throne, and said, "Do you need me to attack? Your Majesty."
The goblins fell silent.