Chapter 688 My King! (Thanks to 'GrayFFF' for the reward!)
This arena has been built for hundreds of years and its function is actually similar to that of a gladiatorial arena.
Many times, humans, beasts, and demons were arranged to fight inside for the spectators of the City of Hope to watch.
This place is only used as an arena when large-scale competitions are held.
The appearance of this arena is naturally not much different from the Colosseum in Lindong City, except that there are many more inscriptions on the walls and magic circles are arranged.
Soon, Alice and her team of about a hundred people arrived at the entrance of the arena.
When dozens of elves appeared at the entrance of the arena, they immediately attracted the attention of everyone present.
The reputation of the elves' handsome men and women was far-reaching, and everyone was not disappointed when they saw them.
Especially today, most of the people who came to the arena to watch the game were men. When they saw the dozens of elf girls, their eyes were filled with naked passion.
The elves have nearly perfect looks, and their value on the black market is as high as over 100,000 gold coins, which instinctively arouses the possessive desire of some people.
More importantly, there is a legend circulating in the Holy Alliance that the elves have a lifespan of a thousand years, and as long as humans have intimacy with them, they can continuously gain the secret of longevity from them!
Although no one has proven whether this is true or not, the rumor has been imprinted in everyone's mind due to the spread of word of mouth. This factor is also one of the reasons why an elf can be sold for more than 100,000 gold coins.
Faced with the crowd's gaze, these young elves were clearly a little uncomfortable.
In their previous cognition, humans were synonymous with cunning, cruel, and evil, and would secretly kidnap them.
Therefore, now that they are surrounded by so many humans, these young elves who are not very worldly-wise are naturally a little scared.
Fortunately, there were more than fifty Rose Knights guarding them, which made them feel much safer.
It was at this moment that Alice finally got down from the stopped carriage!
Wow!
"So beautiful, is this the Elf Queen?"
"Oh my god, how can there be such a beautiful woman!"
As Alice appeared, everyone present turned their eyes to her and exclaimed in surprise.
"Let's go!"
Alice naturally ignored the crowd. She spoke to the team with a cold look on her face, and then entered the entrance of the arena under the protection of Nadine and others.
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"Your Majesty the Elf Queen, what a coincidence!"
When Alice arrived at the third floor of the arena, many city lords had already arrived.
These city lords all looked at Alice with awe when they saw her. After all, Alice was not only a queen, but also had a beauty that they rarely saw in their lives.
Just as Alice was about to walk past the human area and head to the seat assigned to the elves, Hulton stood up and walked to Alice's side, greeting her in a familiar manner.
"Hello, Duke of Hulton!"
Although she parted with Hulton on bad terms that day, Alice still answered Hulton's words reluctantly because she wanted the Holy Alliance to recognize Stormwind's identity.
However, Hulton took the initiative to greet Alice not to apologize, but because he was still thinking about the wine.
Immediately, Hulton said, "Your Majesty the Elf Queen, I wonder what you think about that matter? If you are willing to agree to my request, I, Hulton, can promise you that the human race in the sacred forest will definitely be recognized by the alliance!"
"I'm sorry, Duke Hulton, we can't agree to your conditions. If you can really help Stormwind City gain the recognition of the Holy Alliance, we can promise to provide the Golden Shield Family with 100 pots of magic wine and 500 pots of ordinary wine every month for a period of one year!"
Alice didn't expect that Hulton was still planning this, but since they could still talk, Alice temporarily suppressed her anger and offered the price she could pay.
"Your Majesty, I'm afraid you haven't understood clearly yet. You are not qualified to negotiate with me! You can only choose to accept or reject!"
After hearing Alice's conditions, Hulton sneered and mocked.
"Then please ask Duke Hulton to go back!"
After saying that, Alice's face turned cold, and she continued to walk forward without even saying no, no longer paying any attention to Hulton.
When Houston saw Alice turn around and leave without giving him any face in public, his expression changed immediately and he spoke to Alice in a sarcastic tone.
"Your Majesty, I am telling you now, if you reject my condition today, then don't even think about expecting the Holy Alliance Parliament to pass this matter."
"Anyone who agrees to this is against our Golden Shield Family!"
Hulton said this last sentence very loudly, and his move was truly vicious.
There are the other eleven holy cities at the top of the alliance. No one in the remaining ones is willing to offend the Golden Shield Family.
If Alice didn't have the support of other top holy cities, then this matter would really be out of the question.
"you!"
Alice couldn't suppress her anger and turned around to look at Houston. This was already a naked threat.
"Duke Hulton, if you continue to disrespect the Queen of our Elven Tribe, don't blame me for being merciless with my sword. And you can just wait for the war with our Elven Tribe!"
At this moment, Olde finally stood in front of Alice. Although he had let Alice go to the holy city bases to discuss things on her own in the past few days, it was to allow Alice to grow.
But under the spotlight of all people, if Queen Alice were criticized, it would be a loss of face for the elves.
"Haha! Starting a war, what a joke! You elves only have millions of people, but my Golden Shield family can destroy you. If you hadn't been hiding in the sacred forest, you would have perished long ago!"
Although Hulton was sure that he was no match for Alder because he felt the awe-inspiring aura from him, he was not afraid of Alder because he had the golden shield on him.
This is the City of Hope, and Olde is not Edward. The Golden Shield family has more than a dozen allies. If Olde dares to take action, then the Golden Shield family’s allies will take action.
This Olde will face the siege of more than a dozen powerful human beings.
"Start a war! Who wants to start a war? Haha! Are we the beastmen too late?"
Just when Houston was being arrogant, another group of people came to the entrance of the third-floor platform. They were the beastman delegation.
Although Prince Dosalon of the Orcish delegation had not yet arrived, his voice had already reached here.
When Olde saw the orcs coming, he immediately frowned.
Although the human race is hateful, the friction between them and the elves is only because the black-hearted adventurers of the human race often secretly kidnap the elves.
However, the orcs, as neighbors, often come into conflict with the elves over chassis issues.
The Sacred Forest has been the back garden of the elves since ancient times, and the elves believe in the goddess of life.
Therefore, the sacred forest was not destroyed by the existence of the elves. On the contrary, it became more luxuriant because of the existence of the elves. It was simply a paradise for all kinds of animals and plants.
Such a situation naturally led to the covetousness of the populous beastmen, and the two sides have had countless frictions of varying sizes over the past two hundred years.
However, due to the restraint of the humans, the orcs did not dare to attack the sacred forest with all their strength. And although the elves were in decline, their fighting power in the jungle could not be slaughtered at will.
Therefore, the two sides have a long-standing grudge, and the hatred between the elves and the orcs is even deeper than that between the elves and the humans.
"So you are the elves! I heard that you found your queen. No wonder you came to the City of Hope to participate in the competition! You are also preparing to go to war with the human race!"
With a forced smile, Dosalon walked closer to both sides and looked at Aldor, because Aldor was the strongest elf present.
As for the Elf Queen, her strength is at most equivalent to that of the White Flag's peak knight, which is not even worthy of his attention!
Having said that, Dosalon changed the subject and continued.
"I heard that the gold coins brought by the elves this time don't seem to be enough. More than 400 of the 500-plus team live in the courtyard of the outer city. Although the elven queen lives in the inner city, it seems to be just a small manor, which is where the small families of your human race live!"
"To be honest, as our neighbors, if you elves don't have enough gold coins, you can ask us beastmen, and we promise to lend them to you!"
"If I really can't pay it back then, I can just use the sacred forest to pay off the debt!"
"Haha, Dosalon, it's not that they didn't bring enough gold coins, it's probably that they didn't have that much gold coins to begin with!"
Everyone could hear the sarcasm in Dosalon's words. Since both sides were targeting the elves, Hulton cooperated very well and squeezed the elves together.
However, what outsiders don’t know is that today’s incident was actually something that Hulton and Dosalon had secretly discussed and agreed upon.
The reason why Dosalon appeared at this time was to add fuel to the fire and force the elven prince to take action.
I heard that the newly returned elven prince was very powerful, and that the orcs' plans against the elves were hindered.
Moreover, as the elven prince becomes stronger and stronger, and the elves have a queen, once their queen grows up, it will be difficult for the beastmen to take over the sacred forest.
In this way, the two sides sang the same tune, belittling and provoking Olde in front of hundreds of upper-class people from the Holy Alliance. They believed that Olde would never be able to tolerate it.
As expected, just as Hulton and Dosalon had expected, Olde's face was gloomy, and he slowly drew out the long sword in his hand.
As long as he draws out this sword, Aldor will either defeat more than a dozen lords of the holy city plus Dosalon at the same time, or die on the spot.
The lords of the holy city who were watching the incident naturally would not meddle in other people's business. Instead, they would watch the show leisurely to see how powerful the elven prince was in combat.
"Father!"
Although Alice didn't know that Hulton was in collusion with the beastmen, she knew that if her father really took action, it might be dangerous. She immediately stepped forward, grabbed Olde's arm, and spoke anxiously.
It was not until this moment that Alice regretted that she was too impatient and took things for granted.
She shouldn't have been so anxious to lead her people out of the sacred forest. Weakness is the original sin of this world.
And she also viewed the Holy Continent in the context of Eurasia, which was totally wrong.
…
"Duke Edward is here!"
"Wow! That one behind him must be the God of Death!"
"The God of Death is coming! How dare he come! Isn't he afraid that the city lords will cause trouble for him?"
"Now the God of Death has become Miss Adela's guardian knight. Who dares to touch him openly?"
"That's right. Putting aside this identity, even if the God of Death saved the heirs of the city lords that night, the city lords should still politely thank him when they see him!"
"Hey, Miss Adela from the Sky City is holding the arm of the God of Death. Could it be that the two of them..."
"Maybe it's true. Anyway, there is no rule in the Holy Continent that says that guardian knights and their guardians can't get married!"
"Yes, I remember that several books recorded that several princesses married their guardian knights!"
"That's true. If the God of Killer wasn't so cruel, he would be quite handsome. He is indeed a perfect match for Miss Adela!"
"Eh! Now that you put it that way, it's true. This God of Death and Miss Adela are a perfect match!"
As the exclamations were heard, everyone's attention temporarily shifted away from Houston and the others.
Because Edward and the God of Death had arrived, many city lords had to pay attention.
Ever since the day the God of Killer fell unconscious and was carried away, they have never seen him again. They only know that the God of Killer has become Adela's guardian knight, and Edward is personally responsible for the coronation ceremony of the guardian knight!
At this time, Edward, who was walking in front, finally walked out of the stairs and came to the platform on the third floor of the arena.
"Duke Edward!"
"Duke Edward!"
As Edward walked forward, the city lords greeted him one by one, and Edward responded in a friendly manner.
Just after Edward took a few steps, he suddenly realized that something was wrong ahead and immediately asked.
"What's going on?"
Edward naturally asked the several lords of the holy city around him.
He had just cut off two of Hulton's fingers the day before, and had no intention of speaking to him.
"Hulton had an argument with the elven queen, then the elven prince intervened, and finally Hulton and the orc Dosalon came together to squeeze..."
After a while, a city lord smiled and recounted the matter to Edward.
Edward frowned slightly after hearing this, glanced ahead, and immediately said: "Your Majesty the Elf Queen, this is the City of Hope, you'd better not argue with them!"
Edward naturally had no control over Hulton, but he knew without thinking that Hulton must be plotting something, such as the wine.
So although his words sounded like a warning to Alice, he was actually telling Alice that she would get no benefit by doing so.
Having said this, Edward had done his best and naturally would not say anything more.
"Father!"
After hearing what Edward said, Alice immediately pulled her father's hand again. She was really worried that her father would be in danger.
"Yes, this is the City of Hope. You'd better go back to the Sacred Forest! Otherwise, even the Queen will be captured and made a slave..."
clang!
These words were said by Hulton, which was really a slap in the face. He actually said in front of the elves that the elven queen was captured and made into a slave.
If Olde and the others can still tolerate this today, then the elves will really become a laughing stock of the entire continent in the future!
As the clanging sounds continued, Olde, Hulton and Dosalon all drew their weapons.
Even more than a dozen lords of the Holy City had come up to Hulton's rear. They were all allies of the Golden Shield Family and had already received Hulton's notification.
Just like that, Olde was instantly surrounded by more than a dozen strong men.
With a sneer on his face, Hulton prepared to attack Olde first.
"Alas, this stand is still a bit tiring to put on the third floor. Thank you so much, Adela!"
With Adela's help, Gervis finally climbed the three-story stairs.
"God of Death! Thank you so much for saving my heir that day! If you have time, please come to our Holy City of Sophis as a guest! We will definitely give you a warm welcome!"
"Kill God! Thank you very much..."
However, just as Houston was about to take action, greetings came from behind him.
At this time, Gervis, whose body had not yet fully recovered, walked out of the corridor exit with the help of Adela!
When the lords of the holy city saw Gervis, they all greeted him with a smile, just like they had greeted Edward before.
Gervis rescued their heir that day, so whether it was out of genuine gratitude or just for show, they had to express it. After all, it was just a few polite words. Those who could become city lords were all shrewd people, and no one would be stingy with such courtesy.
However, no one knows Gervis's real name, so they can only call him the God of Death.
"Okay, thank you for the invitation, city lords!"
"Thank you so much! I'll definitely visit next time!"
In response to the enthusiastic greetings from the city lords, Gervis responded politely.
As the saying goes, a sedan chair is carried by everyone. You praise me and I praise you, and everyone can save face!
It was because of the appearance of Gervis that Hulton did not take action immediately. Instead, after hearing the word "God of Killer", he looked behind him with a resentful look.
He launched a sneak attack when Gervis was injured that day, but failed to kill him. Instead, Edward cut off two of his fingers.
This story of stealing a chicken but losing the rice has spread throughout the streets and alleys of the City of Hope due to the spread of the news by someone with ulterior motives.
If time passes, the news may even spread throughout the entire Holy Alliance. Now, as the lord of the top holy city, he has really lost face.
So even on the eve of the war, he couldn't help but turn his head and glare at Gervis with resentment.
Naturally, Gervis also sensed his extremely resentful look.
Before the smile completely disappeared, he looked towards Houston.
"You bastard, I will chop you up and feed you to the dogs sooner or later!"
Gervis immediately set his eyes on Hulton, looked at Hulton with a sneer on his face, and cursed in a low voice.
After cursing, Gervis saw that Hulton was holding an unsheathed sword in his hand, and there were many people around him. It was obvious that he was preparing to fight someone.
So, Gervis looked ahead of the city lords out of curiosity.
Through the gaps between the dozen or so lords of the Holy City, Gervis immediately saw Aldo.
"It turns out to be an elf, and a middle-aged elf with a bad temper! I hope I can chop off Hulton's other hand later!"
When Gervis saw that it was the elf with a bad temper, he silently prayed in his heart that he would chop off Hulton's other hand as well, so that Hulton could no longer hold the two-handed sword.
Just when Gervis was about to look away, he suddenly saw another beautiful face through the gap.
When he saw that peerless face, Gervis was stunned for a moment. In his quick glance, he seemed to see Alice!
"Alice..."
Gervis was in disbelief at the moment, and shouted out tentatively with a trembling voice.
Because he couldn't believe that he could see his cheap wife here, and he was afraid that all this was just an illusion!
Because Olde was taller than Alice, he saw Gervis out of the corner of his eye the moment Hulton turned his head.
However, he and Gervis had only met once, and now that a life-and-death battle was about to break out, he naturally would not pay much attention to a human dude.
But what he didn't expect was that the next moment, the heir of the Sky City, who was so weak that he needed his wife's support to walk, actually called out his daughter's name.
"Ah? Father!"
When Alice heard the voice, she thought it was Olde calling her because she didn't notice Gervis, so she answered immediately.
But when Alice looked up, she saw that Olde didn't even look at her, nor did he speak!
“Alice!”
The trance lasted only for a moment, and in just a moment, Gervis finally confirmed that it was not an illusion, but that he really saw Alice!
He immediately used all his strength and roared forward.
Gervis' roar shocked everyone, and everyone felt puzzled.
Why is this killer going crazy?
Even the city lords who had been surrounding Olde couldn't help but turn their heads slightly to look behind them.
"Grevith, what's wrong?"
Adela held Gervis' arm tightly, a little worried about him!
Gervis's roar finally made Alice realize that it was not her father who was calling her, but someone else.
So Alice slowly turned her gaze forward!
In an instant, Alice saw the man she had been thinking about day and night, the man who had already lived in her heart.
"G...Grevis?"
Looking at Gervis with Adela holding his arm, Alice's eyes became moist and it felt unreal, so she called out tentatively!
"It's me!"
Gervis smiled and nodded!
"My king!"
When Alice heard the words "It's me", tears immediately welled up in her eyes. She shouted "My King" in surprise and joy, and then her whole body went limp.
Fortunately, Anna behind her was quick-witted and grabbed Alice, so Alice did not fall.
Seeing Alice almost fall, Gervis was nervous for a moment, but he relaxed after she was hugged by the maid Anna.
After relaxing, Gervis shifted his gaze to the group of people surrounding Alice!
"Hulton! It was you who wanted to bully my wife today, wasn't it?"
"Fuck you, Hulton! I'm going to chop you up today!"
If Gervis couldn't guess what was going on when he saw the pointed ears of Alice among her golden hair, the golden crown on her head, and the bad-tempered elf surrounded by Houston and others, he would not be worthy of being a time traveler.
At that moment, Gervis took out the Crimson Moon from the space ring without saying a word, shouted with gritted teeth, and walked quickly towards Houston step by step.
Adela was shocked instantly, and hurriedly held Gervis' arm and trotted forward with him.
"Grevith, what's wrong with you?"
Adela didn't know why Gervis was like this, and asked anxiously while jogging.
Gervis had no time to answer Adela now, as she was chewing a fruit that increased her strength by fifty times.
However, the 50-fold increase in strength had not yet taken effect, and he was unable to shake off Adela.
Otherwise, if I move forward so fast, I might fall flat on my face!
"What's going on!"
Edward naturally also noticed the changes in the field. He stood up suddenly in surprise, and then chased after Gervis with his fighting spirit.
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“This…what’s going on?”
"I don't know! The God of Killing should know the Elf Queen..."
"What did the elven queen just shout? Did she shout 'my king'?"
"It seems so, but she is the queen herself..."
In an instant, all the onlookers were stunned and didn't know what had happened today.
Not to mention them, even Hulton was stunned. He was only preparing to deal with the elves, but this god of death actually wanted to get involved and rushed towards him with gritted teeth as if he wanted to eat him.
However, Houston was naturally not afraid of Gervis. After being scolded by Gervis, he naturally couldn't help but said immediately.
"God of Death, do you really think I'm afraid of you because Edward is protecting me?"
"Fuck you, then don't run away later!"
At this time, the black kiwi fruit that increased the strength by fifty times has been eaten, and the next one is the damage immunity fruit!
A moment later, the damage immunity fruit was also swallowed, and at this time Gervis also felt the strength returning to his body.
So Gervis turned his head and gently pushed Adela's hand away.
"I have something important to do now! Be good!"
After saying that, Gervis gave another gentle push, pushing Adela directly towards Edward who was rushing towards her.
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"kill!"
"Critical strike with one sword!"
After pushing Adela away, with a roar from Gervis, he quickly attacked Hulton, and the scarlet man with a flashing cold light slashed towards Hulton with endless murderous intent.
Wow!
Seeing this scene, everyone was stunned.
The God of Death, who looked so sick just a moment ago and seemed like he could be blown down by a gust of wind and needed Adela's support to walk, was now full of health.
That kind of momentum cannot be released without the strength of the peak Black Flag.
"Kill God, you are looking for death!"
When Houston saw Gervis coming to kill him, he naturally would not stand there in a daze. He was immediately filled with murderous intent and raised his sword to slash at Gervis in an instant.
Ding ding dong!
The field was suddenly filled with the ear-piercing sound of iron clashing, and both sides were shining with a flash of spiritual light and had a terrifying aura.
Seeing the two men holding their swords with murderous intent, the dozen or so city lords who were originally surrounding them looked at each other, not knowing what to do.
If it was to kill the elven prince, they would naturally have no choice but to do it, since Hulton had promised them a lot of benefits anyway.
However, they were unable to take action against this God of Killing, because their heirs had all been saved by this God of Killing. At this moment, no one wanted to become the second shameless city lord to be reviled by the common people in public.
What's more, even if they wanted to take action, they would have to get past Edward and others.
At this time, Edward, Johnson and others were watching this side eagerly from more than ten meters away.
Puff! Puff!
Just when they didn't know what to do, they suddenly heard two "puff" sounds coming from the field, probably someone was hit by a knife.
And with these two puff sounds, the two intertwined figures finally separated.
When everyone looked closely at the situation, they discovered that it was Hulton who took the initiative to retreat from the attack circle of the God of Death.
"How is this possible!?"
Everyone found it unbelievable. Although this God of Death had the strength of the peak of Black Flag, he was definitely not as strong as Hulton. So why was Hulton trying to avoid the God of Death?
But the next moment, everyone knew the reason.
After knowing the reason, everyone was even more confused!
"Look, there's a sword wound on Hulton's arm!"
Wow!
"Really! There was a lot of blood. How could this happen?"
"It seems that the killer's clothes were also cut under his ribs, but there was no blood!"
At this moment, Houston, who had the upper hand in everyone's eyes, was actually injured, and the wound on his arm was constantly oozing blood.
However, the killer did not have any injuries, except for a big tear in his clothes.
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