Chapter 690: Meeting on a Narrow Road
After a moment's silence, Lanton opened the parchment, on which the next instruction was written.
'Open the box, take out the crystal ball, and someone will tell you where Paola is.'
Following the instructions on the parchment, Landon opened the magic-hating alloy box, took out a special communication crystal ball from it, and activated it.
The crystal ball flickered, and a picture suddenly appeared.
The background opposite is a dark secret room, and a mysterious man wearing a hood and with no clear identification features appears in the center of the picture.
"You are very fast. I thought it would take you at least half a day to get here."
Looking at Landon with cold eyes in front of the crystal ball, the figure spoke nonchalantly, his tone was strangely hoarse, and his voice was obviously distorted on purpose.
"I'm here as you requested. Now tell me where Paola is?"
Restraining the anger in his heart, Landon took a step forward and asked in a deep voice.
"Paola? Hehe..."
The figure smiled eerily.
"Give me that book and I'll tell you where she is. No tricks, you know what I mean."
"I promise you, but where can I go to exchange with you?"
Landon nodded and agreed without hesitation, while trying to ask some questions.
"You don't need to go anywhere. Just put the book in the center of the stone platform. When I confirm that the book is authentic, I will naturally return Paola to you."
"Wait, I need to make sure she's safe first!"
After the figure stated the terms of the exchange, Landon suddenly rolled his eyes and asked to confirm Paola's condition.
"Hmph... Of course."
The figure snapped his fingers, and the picture on one side of the crystal ball suddenly fluctuated, showing an image of a bedroom.
On the wooden four-poster bed in the center of the room, Princess Paola sat quietly at the head of the bed, seemingly trying to meditate.
"How do I know if you are deliberately using a picture that was once recorded to deceive me?"
Seeing this picture, Landon raised questions again.
"Humph, you have the last two minutes to consider. If you don't make a decision, she will be killed directly by my people."
However, the figure did not tangle with Landon, but issued an ultimatum with a sneer.
"I promise! Let Paola go now!"
As if he had completely admitted defeat, Landon reluctantly followed the instructions of the figure, took out a pornographic book from his arms, and placed it in the middle of the stone platform.
As he moved, a beam of teleporting light suddenly flashed across the stone platform.
But the next moment, nothing happened, and the book was still lying on the stone platform.
"Unfortunately, this book is a little special. It cannot be teleported, nor can it be placed in a space object."
Looking at the figure in the crystal ball who suddenly fell silent, Landon snorted coldly.
"interesting……"
On the other side of the crystal ball, Prince Altmer, who had hidden his identity, looked at the book without any reaction. He felt a little surprised, but his heart was also burning with excitement.
He did not doubt what Landon said. It was not surprising that a rare object of this level had some special features.
"Okay, bring the book and come meet me at Black Cross District 12, west of the central city of Black Feather King City. I will send a team to hand over the book to you. Give them the book and they will take you to Paola's location."
After temporarily determining the transaction address, Prince Ao Temo immediately ended the contact unilaterally.
Then, he took off his disguise, returned to the castle hall, and immediately contacted a seventh-level demonized knight commander who was guarding the castle.
"Sir Morris, please take my token and lead a team of Royal Capital guards to Black Cross District No. 12. A man will go there with a pornographic book.
When you see him, take the book away immediately, arrest him and bring him to me. If he dares to resist arrest, then shoot him on the spot! I suspect that man is colluding with foreign resistance organizations and intends to rebel! "
"Your will, Your Highness."
Morris was a middle-aged man wearing heavy armor with silver magic patterns. After receiving the secret order from Prince Altmer, he nodded seriously and immediately went to carry out the mission.
Watching the knight commander leave, a gloomy look appeared on Ao Temo's face.
“Hmph… let me entertain you, Lord White Crow!” . ….….On the other side, after ending the communication, Landon did not go to the handover location in the royal capital as Prince Altmer requested, but instead stared blankly at the crystal ball in his hand.
"Found it! The other party is not far from here. According to the map, it should be the Silver Gauze Light Manor near the Royal City. The location of the little girl should also be there."
After a moment, a slightly tired voice suddenly sounded from his spiritual space.
"Thanks to you this time, Lord Dark Raven."
Lanton thanked the Dark Crow gratefully. Once again, the Dark Crow helped him a lot.
In addition to helping Landon trace the other party's whereabouts, the fact that the book had not been teleported away before was also the work of Dark Crow.
The book could indeed not fit into the spatial item in his hand, but in fact it did not have the ability to be teleported. The failure of the teleportation array was entirely due to the Dark Crow acting in secret to interfere with the normal operation of the array's spatial fluctuation trajectory.
On the way to rescue people, Dark Crow and Landon had considered many possible situations in advance. They also expected that the enemy would use the teleportation array to take the book away.
He just deliberately talked about this and that to delay the contact time, and also to allow the Dark Crow to trace the other party's position more accurately.
From the very beginning, he had no intention of following the enemy's arrangements, but of saving people in his own way.
Coincidentally, in order to capture Landon without fail, Ao Temo transferred away the strongest professional guarding the Silver Light Manor. At present, only two sixth-level demonized knight deputy commanders are left to guard the manor.
Therefore, Prince Ao Temo, who originally planned to sit back and wait, remotely controlling the net, was shocked to find that Landon, who was supposed to go to Black Feather King City, had sneaked into his manor without him knowing when.
Moreover, the other party's concealment was extremely sophisticated. If he did not have an inexplicable sense of the "Yellow Book", he would probably not have noticed that the other party had touched Paola's room.
Realizing that he had been tricked, the angry prince sounded the alarm and urgently recalled the knight captain who had already arrived in the royal capital. At the same time, he ordered two sixth-level magic pattern knights to lead their men to capture Landon immediately.
At the same time, he immediately went to Paola's room to make sure everything was safe.
So, after using his trump card to quickly deal with the manor's guards, Lanton and Altmo met in Paola's bedroom.
"It is you, Ao Temo Hei Yu! You are so cruel that you can even do this to your own sister! You have nowhere to escape, let go of Paola now!"
Looking at Paola who was shaking her head at him in horror, and the blond young man who was holding her hostage, Landon immediately confirmed his identity, pointed the sword with a deep black aura of power at Altmer, and spoke with great anger.
"Escape? Why should I escape? I am just fulfilling my duty as a brother and preventing her from being deceived by those lowly commoners outside!"
With his left hand, he controlled Paola, who was bound by magic and unable to speak, and Altmer sneered. He brought the sharp crystal tip of the staff in his right hand slightly closer to the girl's fair neck.
"Now, I'll give you three counts to throw that book over here. One!"
"If you dare to hurt her, I will kill you!"
The shadow of a huge black beast appeared behind him, and Landon's aura locked onto Altmer. The strong sense of crisis made Altmer's heart sink.
(End of this chapter)
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