Chapter 898: Reporting the news
While Sol was busy recruiting people everywhere, Gorza, who had left the Principality of Kerma for several years, finally set foot on this familiar land again.
After receiving Yula's letter before Sigh, he decided to come back. However, on the way back, Gorza did not use witchcraft to speed up his journey, nor did he take a convenient and fast airship. Instead, he walked back slowly from the Far North alone, leaning on a wooden stick that reached his chest.
The tall Wall of Sighs blocked the cold current from the north, and the temperature in the Principality of Kerma began to rise sharply just as spring arrived.
And a man like Gorsa, who was covered in a large gray cloak, looked very out of place.
From time to time, passers-by on the roadside cast inquiring glances, but they would not come up to ask anything, and no one even commented on it.
Someone behaving strangely could be an eccentric, but they could also be a wizard.
Ordinary people don't want to have any contact with wizards unless it is necessary.
Golsa was walking alone on the road, it was more like a picnic than a journey.
He is not in a hurry, but there are many people who are anxious for him.
The day after Gorza entered the territory of Kerma, a group of soldiers greeted him on the road.
The leader was a first-level official wizard, and behind him was a gorgeous carriage pulled by four horses.
"Lord Gorza, Grand Duke Kira sent us to pick you up."
Gorza glanced at the wizard who greeted him and smiled, "Kira won't send a carriage to pick me up. Don't you know that I'm good at traveling?"
The wizard who greeted them said attentively, "Lord Kira knows that you are not in a good condition right now. You will be more comfortable in our carriage."
Those who fail to be promoted will have a period of weakness, and some people will even be seriously injured and on the verge of alienation. This period of weakness may last for several months, and some people may last for several years.
In the wizard's opinion, although Gorza did not look abnormal on the surface, his body must have been injured. So when he said that he was in a bad mood, he was still taking care of Gorza's dignity.
“No need,” Gorza waved his hand casually and continued to walk forward with his wooden stick, “You are not as fast as me.”
The wizard on the other side twitched his lips and thought, "If you didn't have magic skills, you would have to walk all the way. It would have taken us two months to reach the border of Kema. Would we have gone through so much trouble to pick him up?"
But this certainly cannot be said openly. The wizard remembered what someone told him before he set out, so he straightened his chest and said, "Lord Gorza, Grand Duke Kira asked me to remind you that some things are time-limited."
Gorsa suddenly raised his hand and pressed it on the other person's face, and the latter was immediately frightened and dared not even move.
Gorsa pressed down with a little force, and the latter's knees became weak, and he squatted down and finally sat on the ground.
At this time, Gorsa had already withdrawn his hand and wiped his palm on the cloak, as if he had touched something dirty.
He lowered his eyes and said, "Tell Youla that I will go, don't worry. If her news is really time-sensitive, she will come to me in person without waiting for me to come up. So... don't disturb me while I'm walking."
The wizard sitting on the ground was shaking constantly.
Before, Gorza had been restraining his magic and mental power. From the outside, he looked no different from an ordinary person. This made him, who had never faced a third-level wizard, a little too proud of himself, and he unconsciously began to imitate the expression of the boss who told him this sentence.
But he didn't dare let his mission end in failure.
Therefore, although he had no way to get up from the ground, he still asked with a trembling voice: "Golsada, sir, when will you go to the capital?"
Golsa stopped and half turned back to ask a question.
"Do you know why there's only one wizard in your group?"
The wizard lying on the ground was stunned.
"Because they are afraid of wasting it, haha..."
Gorsa chuckled and continued walking forward.
The wizard who was thrown behind thought blankly for a long time, until the soldiers behind him could no longer see Gorsa's figure and came to support him, he still didn't understand what "fear of waste" meant.
It was a soldier who reminded him in a low voice, "Maybe when Grand Duke Kira sent us out, he didn't think we could return alive."
The wizard who was helped up immediately glared at him.
The wizard couldn't understand it. If an ordinary soldier was used as cannon fodder, it would be normal, but he was an official wizard. There were not many official wizards even in the entire Principality of Kma!
How could Grand Duke Kira treat him as cannon fodder? !
Gorza ignored the wizards and soldiers left behind and continued to move forward.
He kept walking like this. When he felt tired, he sat on a big rock by the roadside to rest. When he felt sleepy, he jumped onto a small tree with new green buds and had a good sleep.
Along the way, he could eat whatever he wanted. If he wanted to eat, he could eat. If he didn't want to eat, he could just absorb the magic power around him to replenish his energy.
In this way, Gorsa staggered to a small village outside the royal city of Kema. As long as he crossed the moat, he would enter the royal city.
Most of the people in the small village are farmers, who are tilling the soil, and there are few people in the village.
Just as Golsa was about to run straight through the small village, a small brown branch suddenly emerged from the muddy country road.
It's like new buds sprouting in response to spring, but the growth speed is a little frighteningly fast.
The branches, which were originally not as thick as human fingers, grew to the thickness of a forearm and one meter high in just a few breaths. They then continued to branch and extend, becoming the shape of a small tree.
But this little tree is bare and has no spores, and it seems that it has no intention of sprouting or growing leaves.
Gorsa paused, then took a step forward, stretched out his hand, broke off a branch with a "click", and held it in front of his eyes for careful observation.
"Hmm, the upside-down tree. So... this is the root of the tree."
Gorsa put down the tree roots, and then found that the bare little tree in front of him was withering and disappearing at a faster speed.
Gorza certainly knew that the Inverted Tree was the treasure of Baidong College. Now that Baidong College has been destroyed, the remaining staff have basically gone their separate ways. The Inverted Tree is now sealed off at the old site of Baidong College.
"Could it be that the Upside-Down Tree woke up and started running around?"
You know, Baidong College is not close to here.
"If the tree really came here by itself, then it should have recovered to the third level." Gorza's mouth curled up slightly, and his expression finally changed a little. He stared at the small hole left on the ground due to the withering roots of the tree, and his eyes gradually lit up. "Finally, I saw something interesting!"
Gorza did not consider the possibility that it was another inverted tree. The probability of that being even lower than the probability that the inverted tree would uproot itself and run away.
Now, he had forgotten the invitation from Kira, or rather, Yula, and only wanted to see this inverted tree that could recover to the third level even without a keeper.
“There must be some interesting secret in it.” Just as Gorsa was about to reach his hand into the hole in the ground, a piece of parchment cut to the size of a thumb suddenly jumped out of the hole.
Gorza immediately changed his search to capture, and then he could see the words on the parchment clearly.
"Kira is being held captive by Yura."
(End of this chapter)
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