Chapter 43 Royal Capital [VIP]
Neither party's body temperature was high, but the hand was almost sweating from being squeezed, which showed how much strength was used.
Luke's breathing became a little rapid, and under the gaze of the gray eyes, he loosened his numb fingers.
"Feel sorry."
When he sat up, his head was still dizzy.
Quill turned and walked to the table, and after a moment, handed over a cup of warm tea.
The fragrance of the scented tea had a certain calming effect. Luke managed to drink two sips and finally felt a little better.
The quill then spoke: "Fainting and fright are normal during the process of repairing the soul, don't worry."
When I heard about mending the soul, those intricate images instantly came back to my mind.
Luke lowered his eyes and stared at the unfolding petals in the cup, wanting to say something but not knowing where to start.
He hesitated, but finally told what happened when he was unconscious.
The quill just listened, it didn't speak.
The air was quiet for half a minute until Luke broke the silence: "You don't seem very surprised?"
The feather pen nodded: "I told you before, the shadow is just a carrier of my knowledge and some memories. Over the long years, I spread knowledge everywhere through the diary."
Lujia almost cheered for him, what a great achievement it is to have so many students all over the world.
"It's like a sophisticated instrument. Every time I recover a part of it, I can return to a different level of reserve. But when we first met..."
The feather pen paused for a moment, and I couldn't help being surprised at that moment.
"The shadow will directly pass on the faith practice method to you."
There is no such thing as a gift without reason in the world. It is highly likely that there was some intersection between them before.
The only connection between me and this world is those manuscripts.
"But I'm a little surprised that you're willing to talk about this."
In a certain sense, they are all extremely suspicious and prefer to keep important matters to themselves.
Luke: "Well, I have a mouth."
“…”
After exchanging a few words, Luke looked a little relieved, but he was actually in a mess.
He tried to make things as clear as possible.
That child must be the original body's childhood. The demons have a large collection of books, and the child is immersed in books every day, so it is not surprising that he happened to see a diary of Alex.
The problem is that anyone who has read the diary before, regardless of their race, has already paid the price for their greed.
Otherwise, if Feather Pen raises his hand now, there will be at least 100,000 dead warriors.
Could it be that the child just stopped when he saw that things were going well? No soul sacrifice is required to unlock the following content.
impossible.
Luke's eyes darkened. He had been studying so hard just to solve his physical problem, and there was no way he would let go of this opportunity.
Quill said that there was once a man who never suffered a loss in a transaction.
Could that person be me?
Luke suddenly took a deep breath. Unconsciously, he actually equated himself and his original body as the same person.
There were some things Luke refused to think about.
For example, how could it be such a coincidence that the person who traveled through time and the person who was traveled through looked exactly the same, and that I happened to be an orphan in modern times, and my memories before the age of ten were very vague.
Luke tried hard to recall, but ended up with a splitting headache.
...I don't want to work hard anymore.
"Forget it. From today on, I will supervise your struggle." Lujia stood up and slowed down, holding Quill's shoulders firmly: "Hurry up and recover all your knowledge and memory. Don't be lazy."
The same thing.
Go back to your old self, Alex!
Feather pen: “…”
Do you want to listen to what you are saying?
Coo. All Luke heard was his stomach saying it was hungry.
He lowered his head in confusion. A magician could not reach the state of Bigu fasting, but normally it didn't matter if he didn't eat for three to five days. How could he be so hungry that his stomach growled?
As if he had thought of something, Luke swallowed and asked, "How long have I been unconscious?"
Quill: "Today is the seventh day."
Luke took a breath to make sure he heard correctly.
Then the hunt is about to end!
"During the time you were unconscious, there were three assassinations by demon generals, two poisonings, and two plague attacks."
Lujia counted on his fingers and said, "I haven't been idle for a whole day."
Quill said calmly: "Assassination is not the main purpose. You suddenly seemed to have evaporated from the world. I guess you came to check the situation."
Lujia's expression was mysterious. It had only been less than a week, how could he have disappeared?
Feather Pen simply put it clearly: "If you don't cause trouble for three days, they will think you are dead."
"!!!"
What are you talking about!
After casting a simple cleansing spell, Luka went out to ask the club staff to bring him food. He had only taken a few bites when the Lord of Red Banyan City arrived.
Luke saw some surprise in his eyes.
"You don't think I'm dead, either?"
The Lord of Red Banyan City only said: "The newspaper headlines haven't updated your news for almost a week."
I can't think of any other possibility except bad news.
Luke put down his knife and fork.
Thank you, but no news does not mean an obituary.
"I asked my friends in the capital to find out, and it is basically certain that you are the winner this time."
The Lord of Hongrong City spoke out a fact that has not been fully digested until now.
He has a lot of things to do every day, so he must have other important things to do here. "It is expected that the Blood Demon Guard will come to pick you up and take you to the capital tomorrow night."
The results of the hunt will be officially announced by the Demon King in the royal capital. Not only Luke, but all the participating crown princes must be present.
The Blood Demon Guards are the most trusted and powerful team under the Demon King.
When the devil was on his pilgrimage, this team followed him. This was the scene that Luke saw before he was struck to death by lightning: flaming hell horses, fallen witches, and evil undead spirits were all dancing wildly in the sky.
Different from the well-trained and obedient troops, the Blood Demon Guards are lawless. They like to abuse prisoners of war and attack all forces that are against the Demon King.
"Be more careful." The Lord of Red Banyan City looked at Lujia with some sympathy.
Outsiders cannot enter the royal capital without permission, and there is no external teleportation array in the main city. This means that after being teleported to the city closest to the royal capital, the outsiders will have to spend some time alone with the Blood Demon Guards.
"I will. It's been a while since I last saw my dear father."
The last time we met was not a very pleasant one, I don’t know how this time will end.
The corners of Luke's mouth were curled, but his eyes were full of sarcasm.
The night passed quickly, and the next day, the Blood Demon Guards actually arrived much earlier than the Lord of Red Banyan City had expected.
Luke went to find Berlani first, thanked him for his help during this period, and said the old saying: "See you in the newspaper."
Just as he was about to give some instructions, Berlani said: "..."
With a sharp and narrow glance, Berlani did not see the figure of Quill Pen. "Where is your personal bodyguard?"
He placed emphasis on the bodyguard.
Blaney was not confident enough to let Luke go to the Holy City alone. He had long discovered that the scent of the quill was difficult to capture. When the quill exploded, Luke was not worried about the other party's safety at all, which showed that he was subconsciously convinced that he had the ability to deal with powerful crises.
This time it was Luke's turn to be silent.
It's right next to my body.
"We will meet in the royal city," he said.
Only then was Blaney satisfied.
Early in the morning, there were not many people walking on the streets.
When Lu Jia arrived, he found that the face of the Lord of Hongrong City was more serious than usual. There were several other high-ranking officials of Hongrong City standing around him, and the captain of the guard who brought him there also looked a little unnatural.
Just as he was thinking about the reason, an impatient voice came: "Why is it taking so long?"
The sound was not made by a human, but by a very majestic horse.
The horse's tail is made up of countless protruding blood vessels, and the flow of molten liquid can be seen inside the entangled interior.
The giant horse, more than three meters tall, looks at people with disdain. It is directly under the command of the Demon King, and even the prince has to give it some face when seeing it. When treating an unfavored prince, its tail will be raised to the sky.
The Lord of Hongrong City sighed and said, "Only one Blood Demon Guard came."
I thought that after Iliad demonstrated his own value, the devil might treat him differently, but the reality is cruel.
In previous years, the favorites to win the championship were escorted by at least two teams of Blood Demon Guards and entered the capital in glory.
Just one Blood Demon Guard, unprecedented.
Luke walked up to the Flame Hell Horse and the scene looked very bleak.
When he raised his head, he smiled, revealing a row of small white teeth.
Without any warning, Luke raised his palm and slapped the horse's butt hard:
"You dare to be so arrogant alone?!"
I thought I would have to endure some humiliation along the way, but who knew a Blood Demon Guard would come.
One horse.
Then just let him do whatever he wants.
The butt was burning and the Flame Hell Horse was completely frozen.
It took a long while before it realized that it was actually being flattered by a bastard!
The most terrifying thing about the Hell Horse is its flame. The entire spraying process only takes a few tenths of a second. As the scorching breath is about to erupt, Luka is even faster. He had already started casting the spell when he swung his hand.
Truth, launch!
The recent results of practicing the shrinking spell have been very good. The ball of light compressed by faith rushed straight towards the Flame Hell Horse, but stopped just when it reached its target. The horse's hooves retreated more than several thousand meters.
The aftereffects of this move still remained, and Luke's cheeks turned a little pale.
But he took the initiative to walk towards the horse.
This approach made the Flame Hellhorse dare not act rashly.
The two sides were soon at a very close distance. It was obvious that a breath of fire could burn a person into a skeleton, but the Flame Hell Horse did not move for a long time.
Three seconds ago, it was locked by a terrifying aura.
Looking down, he saw a feather pen stained with blood poking at the location of his cardiopulmonary tube.
Lujia had already thought of an excuse: "The dragon tribe gave it to me for self-defense."
“Remember, without a team, you will be beaten to death.”
Flame Hell Horse: “!”
This is totally different from what I imagined!
Shouldn't the neglected prince have followed him in fear and trepidation, all the way to the capital?
Not only did it think so, but the surrounding high-level officials and demon generals also thought so.
The confused look didn't last long, and it turned into astonishment. Luke stepped on the vortex of wind, used the force to jump onto the horse, and then whistled.
"Fly! My horse~"
The flaming hellhorse twisted its body wildly.
Luke whispered: "Want to try the explosion again?"
The pen on the other side easily cut the skin.
Under the dual threat of the explosion and the feather pen, the Flame Hellhorse's struggles gradually became less intense.
"Just wait." It seemed to be struggling, but it had actually secretly sent a message to its own kind, preparing to wait until the capital came back with a hundred times more force to fight back.
The horse stepped on the flames, like a meteor across the daytime sky.
Because of the previous explosion, many figures now appeared on the originally deserted streets.
"Look! The flaming hell horse!"
"There seems to be a demon up there."
The thin figure could have been ignored, but the demons living in the central city all had a high level of magic and sharp eyesight, so they saw the figure above at a glance.
Although they couldn't see the face clearly, they had already guessed it roughly.
"It's His Highness Iliad." The hunt is about to end, and the crown prince will be taken to the capital.
A child excitedly looked up at the sky, tugging at his parent's sleeve and shouting, "Ahhh, so awesome! I want to be as awesome as Your Highness in the future!"
High in the sky, Lujia was responsible for the safety of life: "I will randomly select a city to borrow the teleportation array later."
Of course, the Flame Hellhorse would not listen to his commands and even tried to throw the other party off the sky several times.
"My good grandmother tampered with the teleportation array and sent more than a hundred assassins to self-destruct. What, you want to make a barbecue?"
Princess Mary is notorious for her madness, so the Flame Hell Horse weighs the pros and cons and chooses to follow his heart.
While arranging the route, Luka's gaze downward froze for a moment.
The wind is howling and the sun is rising.
Since ancient times, it is easiest to develop ambitions when looking down on a territory.
A strong idea suddenly came to Lujia. He wanted to walk freely on this land one day, no longer threatened by any force, and have his name praised under the starry sky.
…
The same ambition has also been growing in the hearts of other crown princes for a long time, having been growing for more than ten years.
Over the past decade or so, the crown princes had been summoned to the capital more than once, but never had they been more irritated than now.
The Third Prince is in a relatively good mood.
"Fortunately, I agreed to make a deal with Alec to exchange wealth."
At least this hunting trip wasn't too bad.
Thinking of Alicia who was still immersed in her grandmother's stories, and Alec who had lost both his wife and his army, he felt happy again.
The Fourth Prince who was traveling with him was about to say something, but the strong demonic energy made the rest of his words stuck in his throat.
Bursts of bone-chilling laughter floated from behind, the wheels of the car rolled over the ground, the sound was heavy and hard, and two different waves of sound began to intertwine.
They turned around one after another, and a precious carriage with an extraordinary aura came towards them.
The car body is entirely forged with rare magic stones, which is very expensive, and the family totem is engraved on the side.
“There are actually a hundred fallen witches escorting them.” Among the Blood Demon Guards, fallen witches have the highest status.
Such standards far exceed the treatment of ordinary crown princes.
The Third Prince recognized at a glance that this was the totem of the Alec family.
Even for Alec, isn't this treatment a bit exaggerated?
Suddenly, he moved his ears and heard a faint cough in the carriage.
The Third Prince's expression changed and he lowered his voice and said a few words to the Fourth Prince.
"What? You said Prince Notting is here?"
The Third Prince made a gesture to keep quiet.
Prince Nottingham, Alec's biological father, was seriously injured in a battle many years ago and has not recovered yet. Beneath his seemingly polite appearance, he is a demon with a gloomy temperament.
Da da da.
The witches suddenly stopped their strange smiles, and the two princes stopped talking at the same time, just in time to see a flaming hell horse falling from the sky and galloping past them.
The hell horse is actually ridden!
The noise seemed to startle Alec as well, and he opened the window to check.
For a moment, Alec's eyes widened.
There were no reins, but the quill pen played the best role of a rein, and if there was any disobedience, it would directly poke the aorta.
The thick and overly long mane of the Flame Hell Horse covered its threatening weapon. Anyone who looked could only see Luka lowering his body and riding the horse majestically.
The Royal Capital is the same as the Stone City. Flying is prohibited within 10,000 meters and one can only travel by land.
The Flame Hellhorse had been ridden all the way, even to a city, using a teleportation array amid countless astonished gazes. Now it was numb.
Luke's demonic whispers could be heard from time to time: "My demon domain, my horse."
The Flame Hell Horse was so angry that its lungs were about to explode.
It has sensed the presence of its own kind and is lying in ambush nearby, ready to repay the enemy a hundredfold later.
Just as I was thinking about it, I suddenly felt a sharp pain in my butt.
Luka took out an arrow he had used before from his storage ring at some point and stabbed it to the side with force.
The Flame Hell Horse has very strong defense, but unfortunately the power of faith is specifically designed to counter hellfire. When an arrow wrapped in the power of faith pierces into it, the pain stimulates the Hell Horse to react most instinctively, and it runs wildly like a storm.
Animals often have stronger cohesion, and the group that was still in ambush immediately rushed out upon seeing this.
Royal capital.
The guard was proudly checking the identities of the outsiders one by one when he suddenly felt a terrifying earthquake.
A demon standing in the long queue at the back suddenly showed a horrified expression: "What is that?"
His body dodged quickly before his mind could react.
"Oh my God!" More and more demons noticed the horrifying scene and made way.
The royal relatives and nobles who had just joined the queue in front also saw the situation behind them and their faces changed drastically.
A thousand meters away, the young man took the lead, leading tens of thousands of flaming hell horses, and galloped towards the city gate.
The entire city gate was shaking along with the ground.
When riding a horse against the wind, the horse's mane stands upside down, or more precisely, it stands up because of anger.
Luke regretted not asking the pharmacist for a strong laxative, otherwise he would definitely have left a vivid impression in the capital.
"The human race has broken in?"
The demons in the queue instinctively came up with this idea, but quickly rejected it.
This is the royal capital, and it is even less likely that the Flame Hellhorse will become the vanguard of the human race.
Suddenly someone remembered something: "Today is the day when the crown prince comes to the city. Could it be some prince..."
Before he finished speaking, he saw the black-haired boy already arrived at the city gate.
It was Iliad!
After wiping their eyes to make sure they were not seeing things, the demons were stunned. Is it so cool?
Finally reaching the destination, the hell horse roared: "You are dead."
"Really?" Luke was not nervous at all and dismounted calmly under the glare.
After saying these harsh words, he suddenly broke into a run and rushed towards the nearby safe zone.
The Blood Demon Guards are directly under the command of the Demon King. Before the hunt is over, they are of course bound by the rules and cannot attack him unless he makes a move first.
Thousands of hell horses surrounded him, probably in an attempt to block him outside the royal city, thus preventing him from entering the city.
By then, I will become a laughing stock in the entire capital.
The Hellfire Horse swung its molten tail in protest, and behind Luke there was a sea of fire.
He just waved his hand gently, without looking back, and recited the famous line: "I waved my sleeves, without taking away a cloud."
The roar became even more terrifying, and for a moment the "background wall" became even redder.
Luke: "See, I am a real noble."
The feather pen temporarily hidden in the sleeve: "..."
Luke entered the city first, and the crown prince behind him was in trouble. A large number of fire hell horses blocked the door. This race has strong combat power, but their IQ is much lower.
They feel embarrassed and want to make amends but haven't decided what to do.
At the city gate, traffic was severely congested.
Even the prince's animal carriage couldn't get in.
The author has something to say:
Excerpt from Luke's diary:
There was a road in the world, but once I walked on it, there is no road anymore.
Alex: ...
Luke left a hundred small red envelopes for everyone queuing to enter the capital~
Forgive me for overestimating my speed. I will only be able to write about the father-son relationship of "Beauty, Kindness and Beauty" tomorrow, and then change the map in three or four days.
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