"The Great Prince, the crusade has failed!"

The messenger trembled and sent back the news of the crusade, and it was always the hardest thing to do to report bad news to his superiors.

Sure enough, the old king was furious when he heard this.

"Impossible, my eldest son is superior in strength, how can he lose to that monster?"

The old king did not believe it.

This competition for the throne was planned by him, and the best successor in his heart was originally the strongest prince, so the rules formulated were more biased towards the eldest prince.

But the old king was a man of great face, and he was afraid that people would say that he was partial—though he did.

It was not possible to give a chance to a few young sons at all, so the old king thought of a way.

The monster was active in the mountains and forests outside the city, so the old king asked people to set up a camp outside the city, and the four princes set off from the camp in order to fight the monster, and the eldest prince took the lead.

If the eldest prince fails, the second prince will go up, and the people behind him will each get more help than the previous one.

If the fourth prince has a chance to play, he can almost bring a team of 100 people to conquer monsters.

In case the four princes also fail, it will be the turn of the adventurers from outside, but not everyone can go, the royal family will only issue twenty warrants, first come, first served, and only those who get the warrants are eligible to inherit the throne after defeating the monsters.

In order to show that he did not let the eldest prince go first because he favored the eldest son, the old king also deliberately let people spread rumors in the city, describing the monster as very terrible.

But in fact, the old king did not think that the eldest prince would fail from the bottom of his heart.

Even if the eldest prince is really defeated, it can only mean that he is not the king's life, and it doesn't matter if the throne is handed over to a few younger sons.

In case the four sons are gone, don't worry. It's not up to him who this writ will be issued to? As long as you find twenty of your own people, pretend to be adventurers and take all twenty warrants first, and then all these people fail in the crusade, you can excuse yourself to say that this competition for the throne has stopped.

When the time comes, he will personally deal with the monster, the throne belongs to their family, and the prestige belongs to their family.

Thinking about it so much, the old king's original intention was to pass the throne to the eldest prince, and at this time, he heard that the eldest prince was unfavorable, so it was no wonder that he was in a hurry.

He glared at the messenger: "You say, why did the eldest prince fail?" ”

The messenger stammered and explained the reason: "The eldest prince said that he had seen the monster in the mountains. As you said, that monster is truly terrifying. It was huge, its head fit a house, and it could swallow three horses in one bite. He has eighteen legs on his body, and he walks on the ground in the mountains and forests, and his movements are extremely agile. The eldest prince fought with the monster for a while, but he was no match and could only flee back. ”

Old King: "Huh? ”

The old king looked stunned, he had seen that monster with his own eyes, and even the cannibalism was made up by him, where did he come from with a head like a house and eighteen legs?

At this time, the minister on the side proposed: "Your Majesty, there is such a dangerous monster outside the city, it is not appropriate to let the princes take risks." We should immediately cancel this contest for the throne and send our troops to encircle this monster. ”

"No way!" The old king refused without even thinking about it, originally he said that there was such a dangerous man-eating monster as an assessment of the throne competition, and now as soon as the eldest prince fails, he will cancel it, then some people will definitely say that he just wants to pass the throne to the eldest prince.

He wants to save face.

He ordered the messenger: "The assessment cannot be canceled, let the second prince prepare as soon as possible." By the way, you tell him that the monster may have one peony and one or two, although there is a gap in strength, but they are all the scourge of cannibalism, since the rules set in advance did not say which one to kill, then killing any one is considered to have completed the assessment, let him bring the monster's ears back, as proof. ”

The old king suspected that there might be two monsters in the mountains, and that the eldest prince had not encountered the one he had seen.

The old king asked the second prince to bring back the monster ears as proof, which means "you don't need to prove what monster you killed, just bring back something to prove that you killed the monster."

The second prince was wiser, and the old king felt that he should understand it.

As for whether there will be danger, since the eldest prince can't beat him, he can run, and the second brother with five guards should be fine.

For the sake of the old king's face, the messenger received an order to inform the second prince that he had set off.

Wren hung outside picking at the cracks in the wall for a long time, tired or not, but a little uncomfortable, and after eavesdropping on the conversation in the house, he decided to go outside the city to see the situation. Fire extinguished

A monster with a head the size of a house and eighteen legs, he was quite curious.

Wren followed the messenger to the outside of the city, pondered for a while, and then did not enter the camp, but took a detour and went straight into the mountains to see if he could find the monster first.

This mountain forest is as ordinary as the kingdom of Belohatan, and it doesn't even have a name. Trees are common species, no more than ten meters high, Wren turned around for a long time, not to mention any monsters, not even the larger beasts and animals, only occasionally heard a few bird calls.

"Is there really a monster in this forest that is the size of a house with a head?" The more Wren looked for it, the more he muttered in his heart.

After searching around again, I finally found a cave on the sunny side of a small hill, and pulled out a ...... Dog?

Maybe it's a dog, it looks a bit like a golden retriever, but it's very fierce, and it's still barking and gouging its paws when Wren pulls his neck.

The strength is quite big, far beyond ordinary dogs, and the barking is enough to bluff people, barely a monster, it is estimated that ordinary people will be frightened by this sound.

But looking at this somewhat cute "monster", compared to what they described, the gap is too big, right?

Looks like we'll have to keep looking.

Wren shoved the "monster" back into the cave and got up to go ahead and go to the monster described by the Great Prince.

However, this little thing was restless, and after landing on the ground, it kept barking at Wren.

"Roar!!

Wren gradually became playful, and he also learned to scare him by barking a few times, which was probably similar to teasing his pet dog.

I don't know why, when some dog or cat barks at him, Wren always likes to call back.

When the "little monster" was defeated in the duet and was so frightened that he retracted into the hole, Wren nodded in satisfaction.

"I'm still amazing~"

After howling a few more times at the little guy who was shivering in the hole, and finally making a winning face, Wren stood up and decided to continue looking for the real monster.

It's just that at this moment, a human voice came from behind him:

"Your Royal Highness, the voice of the monster is coming from the front!"

As soon as Wren turned around, he saw six people standing dozens of meters away......

The second prince was indeed very clever, and after the messenger brought the words of the old king, he immediately understood what his father meant.

With five trusted guards, he went into the forest.

Although the monster that the boss said was a little scary, but wealth was in danger, and the throne was in front of him, so he naturally wanted to try it. On the way, he also analyzed, the kind of monster that the boss said, the head is as big as a house, and there must be a lot of traces left in the places where he passes, so he can't avoid it.

The second prince led people to search in the mountains and forests for a while, and soon noticed the cries here, and after making sure that there were no signs of large monster activity nearby, the group rushed over with great energy.

Then I met Wren.

"It's the Armored Monster!" One of the guards recognized the iconic armor.

"He just looks like he came out of a hole!" Another guard exclaimed.

"And the roar......"

"The monster...... It's the armor monster who has changed! ”

"Run!"

In the blink of an eye, several people had already disappeared.

Wren, scratch your head.