Chapter Seventy-Four: The Meeting of Fates [I.]

The elven station of the Lion Crusader City, in a rolling hill in the southwest corner of the city, the elves have planted lush vegetation around the hills and built buildings and paved roads according to the general context of the elven forest, except for a small number of guards in the elder station in the core area, the entire elven station is a trade area, and some healing medicines, magic scrolls, equipment blessed with natural magic, etc., produced by the elves can be exchanged here. At the same time, some elven bards who traveled around would regularly collect and sort out what they had seen and heard here, and select the useful information to write into words, so that the elves could have a general understanding of the changes in the entire Noah's continent.

The first time he came to the elven station of the Lion Crusader City, looking at the elven warriors who kept walking by, Cohen smiled and nodded, looking at the sincere smile on the other party's cheeks and meticulous return salute, Cohen had the illusion of returning to the Elven Forest.

"Please stay, this is the forbidden area of the station, please come back!" Cohen walked down the avenue to the end, when a majestic voice suddenly sounded. Cohen froze, and saw an elven guard in brown leather armor in front of him raising his sheathed sword to his chest.

Cohen hurriedly stopped, saluted the elven guard, and said, "Hello, I'm Cohen, the messenger sent by the elven patriarch Abigaia Carter, and I have an urgent matter to see Elder Bolt, please let me know!" After speaking, he took out the handwritten letter and messenger token of the elf patriarch from the ring and handed them to the guard.

The elven guard looked at Cohen carefully, just took the messenger token and examined it carefully, and then said: "My name is Carey, you wait here, I will take the messenger token to Elder Bolt for you to see, and the patriarch's handwritten letter is for you to keep!" After speaking, he withdrew his long sword and whistled towards the dense forest, and after a while, another guard dressed in the same dress jumped out of the bushes, glanced at Cohen, and stood there quietly without speaking.

"Bob, I'm going to meet Elder Bolt, and you stand guard for me first!" Carey finished speaking, regardless of whether Bob answered or not, and disappeared without a trot. Seeing that Carey was gone, Bob suddenly took out a bottle of rye wine from his arms and shook it in front of Cohen's eyes, made a grimace, and said with a smile: "Fortunately, I wasn't discovered by Carey, that guy's temper is as hard as a stone, and he called him to replace me just now when I raised the flask, but fortunately I wasn't discovered." After saying that, he looked left and right for a while, and made sure that Carey had really gone away, and Bob raised the flask and took a sip of pleasure. Cohen looked at Bob with black lines on his face, and remembered Rachel for no reason, and said in his heart that if this elven guard named Bob met Rachel, he would definitely be familiar at first sight.

"Hey, little one, what's the urgency of your coming to the station in the middle of the night, why is it that Carey is running like a fire to find Bolt, this old antique?" Bob burped loudly, wiped the foam from the corner of his mouth with satisfaction, and suddenly asked Cohen.

Cohen scratched his head, he really didn't know how to answer Bob's question, after all, the patriarch couldn't talk nonsense. Just when Cohen was embarrassed and didn't know how to answer, Bob suddenly patted Cohen on the shoulder, and Ha Luha laughed: "Don't say it if it's inconvenient, it's better to have more than one thing, let's drink!" After speaking, he picked up the flask and handed it to Cohen.

"I can't drink for a while, why don't I give you a good jug of wine?" Cohen said, pulling out a pot of Delamy Tears from the ring and respectfully handing it to Bob. Smelling the rich and mellow smell of wine wafting from the wine jug, Bob suddenly felt that the wine worms in his stomach kept jumping up and down, and immediately snatched the wine from Cohen's hand regardless of 3721, and raised his head and took a big sip.

"Good wine!!" Bob burst into tears, a fiery sensation like a flame in his body desperately rampaged, as if he wanted to break through the shackles of his body and burst out, but when this blazing feeling gradually disappeared, the slightest chill through his heart came out of nowhere, as if a warm blood turned into a soft finger, which made people want to stop.

Bob immediately pressed Cohen with one hand and said hurriedly: "Tell me, what is this wine called, what does it mean for you to let me drink such a mellow wine, and drink other wine in the future!" After speaking, he threw another pot of rye wine in his arms into the grass, and squatted on the ground with the bottle of Dramy Tears and sighed.

"This guy is more like an alcoholic than Rachel, I didn't expect that the elven race, which has always been known for its gentleness, also has a powerful drunkard!" Cohen laughed happily. "I swear to Sanjara Weis, the goddess of the earth, that without this wine, my days would be absolutely gloomy. ”

Cohen walked up to Bob, put his arm on his shoulder, and said with a smile: "This wine is called Tears of Dramy, it is sold in the Holy See's 'Sijiuju', you can entrust the merchant to help you bring some over, and I have the last bottle for you here." Cohen took a bottle of wine from the ring and handed it to Bob.

Sure enough, Bob burst into tears and laughed when he heard Cohen's words, and the monkey hurriedly snatched another bottle of wine and stuffed it into his waist bag, and said with a smile: "I made this friend of yours, so if you encounter any trouble in the elf station in the future, you can come to me directly!" Cohen nodded, and was about to say something when Carey's figure suddenly appeared in front of him. "Cohen, Elder Bolt is invited!" After saying that, he bowed respectfully to Cohen and made a gesture of invitation. Cohen nodded, said goodbye to Bob Carey, and walked straight to the avenue in the forest.

After seeing Cohen's figure disappear, Carey turned to look at Bob seriously and said, "Drinking again?"

Bob shook his head as fast as a windmill and said, "The goddess of the earth is above, and I haven't drunk a drop of water until now!"

"Pay attention to your body!" Carey sighed, knowing that no matter how much he said about this old drunkard, he raised his hand and pointed to the cabin in the dense forest and continued, "You go over there and rest for a while, drink less!" Bob nodded, and walked slowly towards the hut. Carey looked at Bobber's floating footsteps and muttered to himself, "The undefeated war king that Elder Bolt said is this drunken Bob, I can't believe it!" After speaking, he shook his head and returned to the sentry.

At this time, Cohen walked along the avenue to a small two-story building, which was surrounded by transplanted exotic plants, countless animals foraging and running, and birds flying from time to time pierced the silence of the night sky. In the open space in front of the small building, an elemental crystal lamp illuminated a dim light, and under the lamp, an old man with a pipe in his mouth lay comfortably on a rattan chair, tearing some bread crumbs from a plate beside him from time to time and feeding the animals around him.

"Elder Bolt!" Cohen's slight voice startled the animals around him, and disappeared in an instant.

The old man looked at the animals fleeing in all directions, sighed and stood up, beckoned to Cohen, and said, "Come here, I was scared away by Kaili just now, and now you are scared away again, and the bread I made with my own hands is wasted like this, it seems that my plan to live in peace is completely frustrated!" Cohen scratched his head in embarrassment and walked to the old man's side, looking at the old man's slightly angry expression, he really didn't know where to start.

The old man seemed to know what Cohen was thinking, patted Cohen's arm kindly, and said with a smile: "I don't blame you, I just blame myself for being too pretty! Sit down, I heard that Patriarch Carter has a letter for you to bring to me?"

Cohen hurriedly took out the letter and handed it to the old man, but the old man took the letter but patted his head and said: "To be old is to forget, to forget to introduce yourself, I am Abigaia Bolt, the elder of the elven station, welcome to you, Cohen!" the old man said as he tore open the letter and read it carefully.

After a while, Elder Bolt finished reading the letter, folded the letter and stuffed it into the envelope with a serious expression, looked at Cohen and said, "I didn't expect that this group of madmen of the subhuman race actually developed a poison that surpasses the green devouring, and tomorrow I will meet with Anasta Constantine XI and tell His Majesty the king the meaning of the patriarch word for word." After speaking, the old man took out the life from the table and poured a glass of water for Cohen, and continued: "Tell me about the situation in the Elven Forest, I haven't been back for a long time. ”

Cohen respectfully took the cup, took a sip of water, and after sorting out his thoughts a little, he went through the recent events of the elf race, especially the war with the sub-human race, the response measures of the people after the discovery of the poison, and so on. After listening to Cohen's description, Bolt's brow was slowly furrowed, and he kept walking around the open space with his pipe in his mouth, and when he was distraught and wanted to take a puff to soothe his mood, he found that the fire in the pipe had been extinguished for a long time.

Bolt took out the flint from his arms and lit his pipe, and took a hard puff of the tobacco brought by the Elven Forest, when the familiar smell of smoke mixed with the aroma of tobacco slowly flowed through his lungs and was exhaled, the irritability in Bolt's heart was finally soothed a little.

"Troubled times are coming, who will save the lives of his clansmen?" Bolt suddenly sighed as he looked at the starry sky.

Hearing Bolt's emotion, Cohen was also full of thoughts, but he knew that he couldn't answer this question, let alone solve it, after all, his strength was like a drop in the ocean, how ethereal. But at this moment, Cohen's mind was thinking of another question, watching Bolt slowly sit back on the rattan chair, Cohen walked up to him and asked cautiously: "Elder Bolt, is something happening in the current Lion War Crusader City?"

Bolt glanced thoughtfully at Cohen and asked, "Why do you ask this?"

Cohen took a sip of water and said with a smile: "It's nothing, it's just that when I entered the city today, I felt that there were guards everywhere, and I always felt that there was a particularly strong killing intent near the city gate, but I couldn't see any clues when I looked closely." ”

Bolt sighed, put down the pipe in his hand and sat down again, and said: "In the past two years, there has been a lot of trouble in the royal city, first of all, the king's health has deteriorated, causing the two princes to kill innocents indiscriminately in order to compete for the crown prince, and in the past few days, I heard that the fourth prince Elvis was driven out of the royal city by his two elder brothers and disappeared. ”

"So messy?" Cohen looked at Bolt with a surprised expression, but his heart was to sort out what Elvis and Camille had said from beginning to end.

Bolt nodded, sighed, and said, "If there is one word to describe the current Lion Warrior Crusader City, it is rot!