Future Combat Power (7)

Surrounded by the singing and dancing is a fat man.

Yet he was not what the children had accused him of being.

Admittedly, he was a small hill of fat, but his skin was very white, his eyebrows were light, his lips were thin, his head was like a big pear, his body was like a bowl, and when he smiled, his eyes would narrow into curved lines, and his smile had a creepy sense of compassion.

There is no Buddhism or similar religions in this world, but the Duke of the Eastern Territory is like a barefoot smiling Buddha.

Inger and Alex strolled to the corner of the banquet hall as soon as the door opened.

Inger noticed that although the women beside the Duke smiled more charmingly than each other, their hands were trembling slightly as they held the fruits and wine jugs, and their smiles concealed fears that they dared not show.

Alex set his sights on a knight.

She was a brown-haired female knight. She stood behind Pombo like a sculpture, turning a blind eye to Pombo's lewd activities. There was no emotion in her eyes. Unlike other fool noble knights who indulged in pleasure, she stood straight and did her duty conscientiously.

"Level 6... no, at least level 7." Alex whispered.

Inside, he is a battle-hardened 8th-level Paladin who has the ability to discern a knight's strength simply by his aura.

Inger frowned and looked carefully at the knight's appearance for a while, and felt that he looked familiar.

But he had difficulty remembering this person's appearance and name immediately.

At this time, the knights pushed the handsome boy through the crowd and came in front of the Duke.

"Your Excellency the Duke, I have fulfilled my mission."

Pombo Hughes was already drunk and a little confused at this moment, and the blush on his cheeks, which were covered with fat like snow, was particularly obvious.

"Oh! This Duke has been waiting for a long time! Little beauty! Come here!"

The boy's feet and hands were freed from their restraints, and he walked towards the Duke step by step.

However, when he was still ten steps away from the Duke, the knight behind Duke Pombo suddenly drew his sword and blocked it in front of him.

The surroundings were silent for a moment.

Duke Pombo shuddered and said with a smile: "Sir Knight, you are too cautious. A child like this..."

The female knight looked down from above and said indifferently, "Take off your clothes."

The boy looked at her quietly.

A few ambiguous whistles were heard nearby.

Pombo's smile deepened. "Knight Picher is finally going to enjoy himself? How about I give this child to you and you take him home and train him well?"

The lady knight Picher remained calm and said in a disrespectful tone: "No, thank you, Duke."

The boy took off his rough cloth upper body, revealing his innocent body. His pants were very short and thin, so the female knight did not force him too much and put away her sword as usual.

As the boy stepped onto the stairs, he slowly took off the bandage covering his face.

Pang Bo stopped waving his hand, and his eyes opened mostly, with greed and desire almost overflowing from his eye sockets.

The drunken knights, the servants and knights who were whistling frivolously, all held their breath at the same time.

They were mesmerized by the young man's beauty.

The boy's clothes were removed, and his misty blue hair was draped over his shoulders, tangled around his ankles, trailing on the ground, his whole body filled with an indescribable sense of purity.

"Come here, kid." Pang Bo stretched out his big palm-leaf fan-like hand to him, smiling like a kind old man, "What's your name?"

The young man stopped one step away from the Duke, under the piercing gaze of the female knight.

The young man opened his lips and said softly, "My name is Lan Lin."

You have to get closer to see the thin, translucent scales on the cheeks that reflect the light and give off a blue-purple glow.

Pang Bo was about to praise him with a nice name with a smile, but he saw Lan Lin open his mouth wide.

The lips that should have been small suddenly split into a huge arc.

It's not a mutation.

Any beautiful face will not be a beautiful picture if it tilts its head towards you and stretches its mouth and oral cavity to the extreme.

Pang Bo seemed to be frightened by something, his eyes widened to the point where bloodshot veins were bulging out.

"ah---------"

A strange sound wave hit everyone present.

The source of the sound waves was none other than the beautiful young man who looked harmless.

The two people closest to him were hit first.

The female knight lost consciousness for a second.

Duke Pombo suffered a concussion from the sound waves and rolled his eyes.

The boy picked up a spur snail from a plate nearby. It was a snail bone tip that had been shaved clean into a long thorn with all the secondary spines removed.

Very suitable for use as a murder weapon.

“Puff!” “Swoosh!” “Swoosh!”

The hand rises, penetrates, and then pulls out, a series of actions completed in one go.

The bone spur pierced through the ear and was pulled out with blood and white brain matter.

“Squeak, squeak, squeak, squeak!”

The boy threw away the snail, jumped onto Pombo's shoulder, grabbed the big pear-shaped head with both hands, twisted it hard, pulled it, pinched the ears, and the head was in his hands.

The blood spurting out of his neck splashed all over his body and onto the faces of several girls around him.

And all this was done in three blinks of an eye.

The young man raised his head, raised the corners of his mouth towards the female knight, and smiled as wide as he could. He looked like a devil.

When the female knight came to her senses, Pombo was already dead.

She lifted the hilt of the saber at her waist with her thumb and pressed it down again.

She gave the boy a cold look, turned and ran away.

Looking at the half of Picher's face that turned back as he ran away, Inger suddenly remembered this man.

Before returning, Alex had never played the Eastern Territory dungeon as a child.

This female knight had appeared in the comics before. She was a knight who later followed the queen and sacrificed for her. She only showed half of her ordinary face in the later large-scale camera parade. She had no name and no chance to appear, so he felt familiar with her but couldn't remember her for a while.

It is estimated that she was ordered by the Queen to protect Duke Pombo, but Pombo is dead and there is no need for her to stay.

However, I didn't expect that the Queen would also get involved in the Eastern Territory.

Inger leaned over to Alex's ear and said, "That female knight is the queen's."

Alex's eyes flashed and he nodded to indicate that he understood.

Both decided not to chase after him. They couldn't win and there was no need.

Piher was the only fighter in the entire banquet hall. After seeing the blood all over the ground, the other knights were still in a dream state and were horrified and unwilling to face the reality.

"Am I dreaming? What's wrong with the Duke... Your Excellency the Duke..."

“Ahhhhhhhh! You’re looking for death!”

There were also people who raised their swords crookedly, but before they took a few steps, they were tripped by a wine bottle on the ground and fell flat on their faces.

The boy threw his head to the ground, picked up his body with blood gushing from his neck, and raised his right hand high.

The sound of increasingly violent waves could be heard in the lord's castle.

“Boom! Boom!”

The glass shattered all over the floor.

The water column like a water torrent instantly broke through the blue glass, and the twisted waves formed branches that seemed to have life and rushed towards the boy.

The ground was splashed with sea water, but the water column that rushed up did not disperse. It continued to rotate and hung in the boy's hand.

It seemed as if the ocean water obeyed the boy.

The young man held Duke Pombo's body in his left hand, jumped up, and dived into the rising waves.

The curved water column formed a channel, in which the boy swam happily like a nimble sea fish.

The water column receded and fell back into the sea from the thousand-foot-high sea cliff castle, and the boy's figure disappeared as well.

There is still a big difference between reading comics and seeing reality. Inger was a little shocked and asked, "Is this the Strange One?"

Alex held Inger's wrist and said, "Let's go now. Go get what you need first, and then quickly inform Xuelin and the others. Things are going to change."

Inger came to his senses and quickly deployed the teleportation array. Since Michaelica had pointed out the direction before, he was able to locate it immediately.

Before leaving, they saw the girls who had been trembling beside the Duke prop up their trembling legs, stand up, kick the skull a few times, spit a few times, straighten their clothes, and walk out of the room openly with blood stains left behind with every step. No one dared to stop them.

***

This is an underground warehouse hidden deep in the woods. The dilapidated warehouse on the ground is a decoy.

Alex knocked out the guard at the door in no time and tied him up.

Opening the cellar lid and descending the gloomy stairs, they peeked into the sinister storage room.

Unlike the wand master Luo Sheng's workshop, the most astonishing things here are the jars of strange organs.

There are not only magical creatures, but also different human races.

Hands born with six fingers, fiery red eyes, pure gold hair, pupils of different colors, the spine of a dwarf, the leg bones of a giant, skin of different colors...

The emergence of these things has proven a lot.

Alex only took a few steps when intense anger rose in his eyes. He gritted his teeth and gripped the sword, trying hard not to destroy the place.

Inger's face turned pale and he felt like his stomach was acting up again. He wanted to vomit, so he raised his hands and began to explore with difficulty.

There were fewer magical objects here, and the Tears of the Phoenix soon fell into his hands.

An irregular transparent gem is embedded in the necklace, half of the gem is clear and the other half is turbid. The turbid half is stained with a light red color, like mist and smoke, while the clear half is like thick blood entering the water and instantly accumulating, all solidified in this gem.

This is the Tears of the Phoenix.

The chain, studded with expensive, useless gems, looked tacky in comparison.

Inger took the Phoenix Tear, threw away the chain, and said to Alex, "Let's go. I think Xuelin and the others will deal with the things here properly."

Alex stared at the things in the room, motionless.

He couldn't describe the anger and sadness that built up in his chest.

The innocent lives he wanted to protect so much were killed quietly and tragically at the hands of his compatriots.

He had seen brutal demons before, and he also knew that some humans were even worse than beasts.

But this kind of death was not like dying on the battlefield. He could imagine that many people might have their organs removed alive, and the pain and despair they endured before death was beyond his imagination.

He murmured, "...It's a good way for him to die..."

When Inger heard this, goosebumps broke out all over his body.

After a few seconds, Alex's aura suddenly calmed down. He put the sword back into the scabbard, turned around and said, "Let's go."

***

They found Xuelin at a garrison base of the East China Sea Border Guard.

"Good death!" Xuelin stomped the halberd to the ground happily.

Michaelica was also there. She said, "We actually tried several times in secret, but because of the presence of the Knight Picher, we were unsuccessful. How did the child do it?"

Inger answered her: "That child is a strange one."

Michaelica's eyes widened.

Xuelin's eyes lit up: "I really want to recruit him."

Alex said to Xuelin: "The most urgent task now is to lead the troops to control the situation in the lord's castle, otherwise this matter will soon spread."

Xuelin nodded solemnly, then turned to Michaelica, who had already started packing her luggage without her mentioning.

"Sister, I'm going to the capital to meet Her Royal Highness the Crown Princess."

Inger and Alex looked at each other.

They are all of the same idea.

The sisters were very smart and quick-witted; they had already found what they wanted to do without being reminded.

Alex said, "You are just trying to delay the process now. You will definitely be able to wait until the day when the eldest sister pushes for the amendment of the inheritance law. You are truly suitable for this position."

Michaelica raised her chest and said, "Instead of waiting, we need to be the driving force."

Xuelin smiled and said, "Your Highness the Ninth Prince, I really don't know how to thank you. If you need help in the future, just ask and we sisters will definitely help you."

Inger noted that she was talking about the sisters here, not the Hughes family.

Alex smiled back: "That's enough. I want you to do only one thing from beginning to end. Guard the East China Sea border and be ready to stand up to protect humanity at any time."

Xuelin was stunned by these words. She felt that there was something behind his words, but she didn't know where to start. However, she could fully sense his seriousness from Alex's expression, so she just nodded and said, "This is exactly our responsibility."

Only Inger knew that Alex was never limited to the struggle for power, he only cared about the survival of mankind.

***

They returned to the village along the float's route to inquire about the girl named Lulu.

"Who are you? Why should I tell you?" The aunt lifted her hair and glanced at them warily.

"Sister, I'm a little embarrassed to say this," Alex said a few words in aunt's ear with a blushing face.

After hearing this, the aunt's eyes changed instantly. She glanced up and down at Inger, who was standing aside to recover his strength, and then looked at Alex's smiling face.

With her many years of experience in meeting countless people, she could tell that this young man had a strong body and a fine frame. If he shaved his beard, he would definitely be a handsome young man. His shy look showed that he was an honest man.

The aunt patted Alex's chest and said with a smile: "Your young master is very good to you."

She waved her strong arms. "She lives here. Come with me."

Inger walked up to Alex and asked suspiciously, "What did you say to this lady?"

Alex said seriously, "I said you took me out for a trip, but I fell in love with that brave girl on the street at first sight, so you took the initiative to take me to propose to her."

“…”

For a moment, Inger didn't know where to start complaining.

"Don't tell me you're serious, okay?"

Could it be that the official couple that we didn’t see in the first part will appear in the second part?

Alex asked in confusion: "Of course it's fake?"

"I thought you wouldn't lie."

"How could it not be?"

“………”

[…Please don’t act so proudly and take lying for granted, okay? Our male protagonist?]