Chapter Three Hundred and Sixty Sixth The Distant V
When the second brightest star in the autumn night rose in the night sky, Mahazar stood up from the sand.
The sand was still warm after the day and was slightly hot to the touch, but this was nothing to the sand thieves.
The movements of the King of Sand Bandits seemed to affect every sand bandit nearby, making them stand up one after another. No one spoke in the darkness, and the people's movements were silent and lonely. Only pairs of glowing eyes were left, staring into the distance.
Brightly lit direction.
"It's time."
Mahazar mounted his lizard.
The scimitar and the ring armor collided and clanged on the man's body, and his calloused hands felt the familiar feel of the reins and leather straps - fleeting glimpses of robbery and battle ran through every sand pirate's life, but there was no one anymore.
A time like this can awaken the ambition and bloodlust in these people's hearts.
The lights on the horizon were reflected in Malzahar's eyes, but they shone with a slight chill, like the eyes of a pair of sand wolves.
The wolf king is watching the prey silently.
The wolves began to move.
With the ground trembling slightly, one team after another passed through the sea of sand under the cold moon.
The monster running in the dark night is showing its ferocious and sharp fangs.
…
"It's time."
Achilles looked at the man with one missing eye, walked through the shadows and walked to him, and spoke to him.
Half of the man's face was like a stone sculpture, dull and expressionless, and the glass prosthetic eye lay motionless in the eye socket, shining with a cold luster. If Fang Plover was here, he would definitely recognize this person. This is the right person.
It's the 'Camel Toe' of the Gerbil Society, the intelligence chief placed by the eldest princess in Bein.
It's just that the last time he saw this person, he was still wearing a leather eyepatch, with only a small scar showing on the right side of his face, which was very different from his current image.
Some more heavily armed dead soldiers walked out of the shadows and surrounded this man.
"You're late," Achilles shouted out another name: "Heraman."
"Not early, not late, just right."
Helaman smiled and said: "The wolves in the desert have not yet come to look for food. Before that, everything is in time. Anyway, your princess didn't find anything. Oh no, it's us.
Your Highness the Princess."
Like a habitual action, he touched his dull prosthetic eye and lowered his voice: "Disaster is bound to come -"
But didn't get any response.
The man asked for trouble and smiled.
Achilles turned and walked forward. In the deep darkness ahead, there were only huge pillars standing silently, and a long palace corridor, empty and endless. As everyone passed through the palace corridor, the ethereal footsteps sounded like ghosts following behind, and the rustling echoed.
, people can't help but want to look back and see if there is really a pair of pale eyes staring at themselves there.
Helaman felt slightly uncomfortable, although he knew that the princess had already arranged everything and there would be no accidents on this road.
Although they were on opposite sides, he sometimes had to admire Her Royal Highness the Princess for her meticulous behavior - she had many ways to leave this place. Especially when the King of Sand was not around, this was just a card.
Shan Gong couldn't stop her at all.
If she didn't have a more profound plan, she might not even need 'them'.
Unfortunately--
Thinking of this, he couldn't help but look at Achilles in front of him, and asked in a tone that could irritate him deliberately: "Achilles, do you really not care?"
"What do you care about?"
"That princess, I heard that she is sincere towards you."
Helaman clicked his tongue twice: "The king of sand thieves will definitely not let go of this beautiful prey."
"so what?"
Achilles replied calmly: "Malzahar is nothing at all. The so-called King of Sand Thieves is just a pawn in this."
Heraman was startled for a moment, then smiled.
Indeed, in the eyes of those who have been planning for ten years, who is not like this?
He didn’t even know whether those people were humans or ghosts. He had been receiving funding from those unknowns ten years ago, and each mission and the people he met were different——
He had some vague guesses, but he couldn't be sure.
But as long as he can get revenge, what's the point?
…
A corner of the Kashan Palace is brightly lit.
The usually deserted courtyard is now unusually busy——
"Your Highness Princess, Mr. Feisan assured us that the Woodpecker Brotherhood will arrive at the critical moment."
"And if there is unrest in the city, both the Android and Marland Temples can send out the Templar Knights. Bishop Faris is still on the way. The followers of Lady Justice can be trusted."
"The Forbidden Army has secretly sneaked into the city and closely monitored several major gangs..."
"The defenders at each city gate have also been temporarily rotated..."
People came in and out from time to time, bringing news from outside the palace.
When a maid said this, she hesitated for a moment and then said: "According to Her Royal Highness the Princess's instructions, Mr. Achilles was not notified of all this."
Princess Rupert listened silently, until she heard the name, her eyes changed slightly. But she only nodded slightly to show that she understood.
Secher also expressed his position at the right time: "Your Royal Highness, the Oath Keepers clan is also ready."
"Thank you very much, Lord Secher." Princess Rupert replied.
"This is my duty. In the past, the late king took in our family despite all opinions. This kindness will never be forgotten by the Oath Keepers family." Sesher replied with some emotion: "Guarding this land is important to us.
It is equivalent to protecting my second homeland."
Princess Rupert glanced at the latter with some emotion.
But while they were talking, a servant came in from outside, lowered his head and said:
"Your Highness, Mr. Achilles has arrived."
The hall suddenly became quiet.
Secher, Sylvester and Alyssa could not help but look at each other, but none of them spoke.
Aleph was staring at the pile of information on the table, and suddenly felt that he, the future King of Sand, was not worthy of his name. Not to mention compared with an old minister like Sesher, even with his nominal half-father.
Compared with my mother's 'sister', she is also far behind.
In fact, in the eyes of the outside world, this eldest princess is the best candidate to take over as the King of Sand, but his father chose him in the end - he still doesn't know exactly why. Is it true that, as the outside rumors say, his father and himself
There was a gap between the 'eldest sisters', but now it seems that they don't look alike.
Feeling that the atmosphere around him was strangely quiet, Aleph was startled and raised his head. When he saw the servant in front of him, he seemed to have realized something.
He pondered for a moment, then suddenly said: "Rupert, what do you plan to do with 'that person'?"
What to do with ‘that person’?
The eldest princess fell silent.
No one spoke for a while. Everyone around her at this moment - neither Aleph nor Secher, could make a decision for her. And further away, Alyssa, Sylvide and others
, and even had no right to speak - but Tianlan's eyes sparkled, obviously very curious about this.
After a long time, Her Royal Highness the Princess replied softly: "Let me ask him personally."
Aleph opened his mouth.
He wanted to say that this might not be safe, but after thinking about it, he couldn't say such a thing.
He knows far more than the average person, so he naturally understands how difficult the decision the other party has to make at this moment will be.
…
What surprised Achilles slightly.
The meeting place was not in the main hall as agreed.
Because when the servant led them through the courtyard, he saw the girl under the snow-white plain flowers.
The other party was dressed in a rich dress and was breathtakingly beautiful. It was not the first time for Cameltoe to see this princess, but he was fascinated for a moment. However, he quickly reacted and hurriedly lowered his head.
Outside the Forbidden Palace, once it falls into their hands, the Princess may be nothing.
But here, he didn't dare to make any mistakes.
However, Achilles quickly came to his senses from the emotions and scenes in front of him and felt a little surprised:
"Your Highness, has there been any change in the plan?"
Princess Rupert turned back, looked at him, and then shook her head slightly.
Achilles breathed a sigh of relief: "Then please, Princess, change into casual clothes as soon as possible. If you are later, you may miss the time."
But Princess Rupert lowered her long eyelashes and asked, "Does Achilles think I look bad like this?"
"No," Achilles was slightly startled: "It's just..."
He could already vaguely feel that there was something a little strange about today's eldest princess.
Although the other party has always been very affectionate towards him, Her Royal Highness the Princess is a person who can distinguish between business and emotions, and will never act like a girl at such a critical moment.
The eldest princess raised her eyelids and looked at him with bright eyes: "Achilles, who is behind you?"
Achilles looked back and said a little surprised: "It's Cameltoe and the others. Your Highness, didn't you summon them?"
"Of course I know Mr. Cameltoe, but the person behind you is a sand bandit, right?"
There was a slight commotion in the crowd.
Cameltoe's face changed and he quickly replied: "Your Highness, they are indeed sand pirates. But don't you know who my subordinates are, Princess? They are just desperadoes... Of course there are princesses."
Your Highness’s support, but you have to eat on weekdays…”
"Besides these people, where can I go to find people? I can't go to the knights under Numan. Isn't it clear to the princess what kind of temper the governor is?"
"Don't be excited, Mr. Cameltoe," Princess Rupert soothed: "Before leaving Cassian Palace, I just want to make sure that I don't mean to blame you."
Helaman breathed a sigh of relief and thought that fortunately he was not impulsive.
He replied confidently: "You can ask, Your Highness Princess."
But Achilles on the side felt slightly that something was wrong.
It was at this time that Princess Rupert's next words were like a thunderbolt, falling above the heads of the two of them.
"Well, a little thing happened earlier. Seineman rebelled, and he reported to us that you two were the people he placed beside me——"
Achilles suddenly trembled and blurted out subconsciously: "This is impossible!"
But he immediately saw Her Royal Highness the Princess looking at him with extremely disappointed eyes.
He immediately realized that he had been deceived and wanted to change his story, but it was too late.
Her Royal Highness the Princess looked at him with a faint look and said: "Achilles, I only give you one chance to come back to me, right now..."
Achilles froze in place.
But there was a roar beside him: "You stinking bitch of the Penelope family!"
Heraman immediately drew his musket from his waist, pointed it at the opponent, and shouted to his companions: "...Don't listen to her nonsense, kill her now, we still have a chance!"
As soon as he finished speaking, he pulled the trigger.
But before the flames could spray out from the barrel of the gun, a loud noise came from a corner of the courtyard in the distance, and a flash of fire flashed. Heraman felt a huge force hit his arm, and his whole body was stunned.
He flew away and fell to the ground.
The dead soldiers behind him just woke up from a dream and drew their weapons one after another, but the guards of the Wang family had already swarmed in from the four corners of the courtyard. These dead soldiers had no ability to die, but they were outnumbered by soldiers several times his own.
Under the siege of the guard knights, there was no way to fight back.
In just a moment, more than a dozen dead soldiers had become dead souls under the halberd.
Heraman's life or death was unknown. Only Achilles fled to a corner of the courtyard, but there was only a cliff facing the lakeshore below. He knew in his heart that he could not die in this place, and his plan had been exposed. With the meticulousness of this great princess,
, there will definitely be arrangements at the resurrection point.
But just as he was about to jump, another flash of fire flashed out from the direction of the previous shot in the courtyard, a gunshot rang out, and the lead bullet hit the alchemist right behind him. He staggered and crashed into the decorative flower pot in front of him.
Then, along with the broken rubble, it rolled down to the cliff below.
Princess Rupert just watched this scene silently, her expression unchanged.
But the lip he was biting was already bleeding.
After a while, she turned back and thanked Sylvide who walked out of the flowers.
"Thank you for the rescue, Miss Sylvide."
The ship officer lady put away her silver gun and smiled slightly.
But he didn't speak.
On the other hand, Alyssa looked at this scene and sighed a little. What a good couple, but in the end it ended miserably. That Mr. Achilles might still have a chance to be resurrected, but after experiencing such a thing, the outcome was actually doomed.
Already.
In order to divert the current disturbing atmosphere, she asked softly:
"The matter here is over. Have all arrangements been made for all the princesses in the city?"
The eldest princess nodded slightly.
"But since the Sand Bandits can't enter the city, I'm afraid they won't give up."
"My father has deployed nearly half of the troops. Now Questak's defenses are empty. Once the sand bandits know the situation in the city, they will definitely launch a strong attack."
Of course Miss Nightingale knew this would happen.
But in his opinion, it was okay. What kind of fighting power could the bandits have? They might be able to take advantage of some regular troops by swarming them in large numbers in the field. However, such a technical thing as siege was obviously not something they could do well.
Even if it were the King of Sand Thieves himself, I'm afraid it would be the same.
"Just get through tonight and you'll be fine," she replied.
The eldest princess nodded, but her face didn't necessarily look that good.
Alyssa didn't think much when she saw this scene. She just thought that the other party would naturally be a little depressed after experiencing such a thing.
…
Fang Plover looked at the two armies fighting under the moonlight.
Under the clear light of the cold moon, the shouts of killing almost shook the entire valley, and the armies with flags of different colors were intertwined with each other, like two giant beasts biting each other.
Both giant beasts have long been scarred, but one of them has obviously been defeated, retreating little by little, losing its foothold. It represents the snow-white tide of Istania, which is washing away the motley army of sand pirates.
, it seems that in just a short moment, the situation on the battlefield will be finalized.
Victory is almost within reach——
The original plan of the Sand King Babartan was to wipe out the main force of the blind followers in the Illusion Sea. Although he accidentally fell into Seniman's plot during the summoning ceremony, now because of the addition of Fang Plover and his party, the people in the hall are
After the situation in the battle was broken, the army that had been ambushing outside was a feast prepared for these invading sand bandits.
Others only knew that the King of the Sand, Babartan, ignored everyone's objections and mobilized most of his troops to the north to prevent the harassment of the sand bandits, which left the door wide open in other directions. But in private, Numan had already received instructions and rearranged these few troops.
Waiting at the garrison of the imperial army were these sand thieves who were unaware and dived into their pockets.
Even Seinemann was kept in the dark about this matter, and only a few of the ministers knew about it, let alone these invaders.
Therefore, when the two armies of knights came out of the valley on one side, the outcome on the battlefield had already been decided.
But this was the first time Fang Plover saw the King of Sand like this.
Babartan led a group of knights to charge on the battlefield. No matter where the opponent was, Governor Bein always followed him.
The two of them seemed unstoppable.
This is probably where the legendary name of the Sand King comes from.
He seemed to realize that the other party's legendary reputation actually came from the war thirteen years ago. And the subsequent war with the slave owners and the old princes and nobles who resisted the rule of Penelope's royal family.
But after Istania returned to peace, few people remembered all this.
The king seems to have aged, but he still exists.
"Is father going to win?" Princess Afifah asked softly beside him.
Fang Yu looked at the battlefield that was already like wind and clouds, and nodded slightly.
He is not good at such scenes. He should leave it to professionals to lead troops in battles. After rescuing the Sand King from the hall, everything is already doomed, although there may still be some twists and turns.
, and the whereabouts of another Miss Afifa are still unknown.
But the biggest crisis has finally been resolved.
All that's left seems to be cleaning up the mess.
After this experience, the blind follower must be seriously injured.
On the side, Afifa almost mumbled his thanks and said, "Thank you, Captain Ed."
She could barely hold back her tears. She didn't expect that the person she hated the most would save her father in the end.
Fang Yu was about to answer when he suddenly heard a rustling sound coming from the communication crystal:
"Ed, I found something that seems to be related to Miss Afifah. You'd better come and take a look."