Chapter three hundred and sixty-ninth the distance it seeks VIII
A short spear was thrown from the hand of Barbartan, the King of Sand, like lightning, and passed through the chest of an alchemist. With a "click", the man and the spear were nailed to the tree, and the tail of the spear was still trembling slightly.
The remaining alchemists turned around and wanted to escape, but most of them also became dead souls under Ye Hua's arrows. "Leave a few alive." Fang Plover shouted at this time, but in fact, he did not need to remind him, the knights of the guard who had arrived were already there.
Joined the battlefield and captured a group of people.
On the battlefield, the defeat of the Alchemist side was determined. The Alchemist commander took a few steps back and turned around, but a long and narrow sword blade was already placed on his neck. He trembled slightly and looked along the blade, only to realize that
The sword holder was an indifferent young man, holding a sword in one hand and wearing an unexpected battle mage outfit.
But he soon understood why the other party was dressed like this. The young man swiped his left hand gently and skillfully threw out a bunch of spells, removing protection, lock-picking skills, force field hands, and then the magic furnace on his body automatically disengaged.
, flew out with a 'clatter', hit a piece of sandstone, and turned into a pile of scrap metal.
Then the young man spoke in a calm voice:
“Real food.”
The commander of the Alchemist was confused.
But I can probably tell that this is not a good thing.
Jita's spell is dissipating, the desert is turning back into a forest, and the forest is withering at a speed visible to the naked eye.
The battle soon settled down. Except for the dead, the knights of the Sand King carried every surviving alchemist to their side, forcing them to lower their heads and kneel down in a row. Most of them were arrogant before.
The fallen alchemist was trembling and pale at the moment.
Except for the commander of the prisoners in the box, he was relatively calm.
More knights of the guard came back.
Luo Hao, who protects Princess Afifah, is also among them.
The little princess ran over from a distance, found her father in the crowd, and plunged into her father's arms like a swallow throwing herself into the forest. The King of Sand held his little daughter tightly. What happened at that moment?
Plans and ambitions were lifted from this king like heavy burdens. He was just an ordinary father who only hoped to take care of his daughter for a long time.
Until they get their own happiness.
He gently stroked his daughter's hair with his rough hands. The tears in his eyes had already dried up on the day his lover passed away, but hot and sincere feelings were still flowing in his chest. It was a heavy and silent love.
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After a long time, he let go of his daughter, held her hand, and came to Fang Plover. The king looked at Fang Plover silently for a while, and then said: "It seems that Aleph has made an incredible friend."
Friends, but at least my vision is still the same as when I was young, thank you, young man..."
However, Fang Plover was indifferent, a bit unfazed. When Babartan saw this, he couldn't help but appreciate it even more.
As everyone knows, this guy is just unable to move because he used too much force before. There are twelve Energizers, including the one used to copy the operation, and there are eleven of them. Even though the Energizer is considered a low-level construct for him, it is still
Too much. After all, this is a main battle build, not a reconnaissance build like Clockwork Elf.
He didn't feel it when he was concentrating before, but after the tension of the battle passed, his head started to twitch, as if an awl had been pierced. He didn't show his teeth and was already very restrained.
Princess Afifah thanked him again in a low voice:
"Thank you, Captain Ed."
Fang Yu tried his best to smile: "We are friends, little princess."
This sentence made Afifah bite her lip and look at him with some gratitude.
The King of Sand also smiled.
After the little princess was silent for a while, she blushed again, went to find Luo Yu, and said softly: "Thank you, Luo Yu."
Luo Yu hurriedly nodded to the little princess at a distance. Because of the blue sky, he was already afraid of the little princess.
Soon a cry came from the crowd: "Miss Afifah has been found!"
Fang Plover looked over there.
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Luo Hao described before that Afifa was taken away by four alchemists.
And since no one escaped during this battle, the mystic lady was naturally intercepted by the knights. Fortunately, the alchemists did not jump over the wall in a hurry, but this does not mean that the mystic lady
The girl is in good condition, actually quite the opposite
She is in very bad condition.
When everyone discovered this girl, she had almost fallen into a coma, her eyes were closed tightly, and her whole body was frighteningly hot. She gritted her teeth and seemed to have no sense of everything around her. She only occasionally let out a painful groan.
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The little princess looked at the girl with the same name as herself, and was a little curious. But she didn't feel any ill feelings in her heart. Instead, she felt kindly that she had learned the ins and outs of the matter from her sister. Looking at this girl at the moment, she only felt strange.
Do you feel like this is what your mother looked like when she was a girl?
She stretched out her hand to test the other person's body temperature, but quickly pulled back:
"So hot."
Fang Lu also stretched out his hand to cover Afifa's forehead and couldn't help but frown. The other person's body temperature was so high that it was almost like he had a heat stroke. Even if he was lucky enough to survive like this, his brain would probably be burned out. He looked at it.
When he returned, the King of Sand was accompanied by his royal doctor. Babartan also reacted and summoned the knights to convey the order.
The latter were quickly summoned.
But after these experienced doctors made the diagnosis, they also frowned:
"I'm afraid it's the effect of some magic." Someone said.
"But there are no such conditions for healing in the Fantasy Sea."
Then someone suggested: "We still have to return to Questac as soon as possible before we can find a way to treat him."
But it would take at least a day and a night to get back to Questac from here.
Luo Hao interjected: "Is there no other way?"
The doctors all shook their heads.
When the King of Sand heard this, he turned around and came to the alchemists who were kneeling in a row, and took the scimitar from his attendant.
He looked at these people and said calmly: "I'll give you a chance to speak."
The nearest alchemist, after hearing this, his body was like shaking chaff, and he collapsed on the ground. Ten years ago, when they besieged that huge convoy, they also dealt with the unarmed women and children in this way, but at that time they were the ones holding swords.
Now, the hunter has become the prey
But before he could speak, or rather he didn't dare to speak, Babartan, the king of sand, was already impatient with waiting. He raised his knife and dropped it, and his head rolled down.
He chopped forward one by one. Each person only asked one question and had only one chance. As long as there was a slight hesitation, he would be chopped off with one knife. For a moment, heads were rolling, and the remaining alchemists wanted to struggle, but were killed by the people behind him.
The knights of the guard were pinned to the ground. When they had the flexibility to form, they were arrogant, but now, they were no more than a dead dog.
Most of the people were so frightened that they could not utter a sound, and some even became incontinent. The so-called dead soldiers were nothing more than that in the face of real death. The stench filled the hill for a while. Fang Plover gently covered Jita's eyes and looked at
Looking at this scene, I felt that King of Sand Babartan was not so much interrogating, but rather venting his anger.
But suddenly he understood that among these alchemists, there must be many people who participated in the attack ten years ago. This was a hatred that had been brewing for ten years. Instead of reducing it, it became deeper and deeper.
It was a man seeking revenge for his wife. He did not order all these people to be killed because it was for Afifah's sake.
Jita felt a pair of hands blocking her face and stood silently, her heart pounding, but she was also very quiet and motionless.
Babartan, the King of Sand, walked forward step by step, only passing one or two people in the middle. He got three or four useful answers. But they said they were useful, but in fact they didn't mean much. In the end, he held the drop
The bloody scimitar comes to the commander.
The latter raised his head and looked at the king without saying a word.
But the King of Sand did not kill him immediately. Instead, he took the initiative to speak for the first time: "Since you are the mastermind, I can give you one more chance to say a word."
After speaking, he didn't wait for the other party to answer, and took something from the hands of the attendant. It was just a silver cube, but when it fell in the eyes of the commander, it was enough to make his face change drastically, and the originally calm look on his face changed.
His expression also disappeared without a trace, replaced by an expression of horror.
His face changed several times, and finally settled on a pale white color. He opened his mouth slightly and squeezed out a few words almost tremblingly: "The Soul-Destroying Cube..."
Fang Yu had never heard of this name, but he had seen this cube before, probably in the hands of those mystics. Thinking of the scene at that time, he guessed the purpose of this thing. He looked at the alchemist whose face changed wildly.
The warlock commander thought that it was not because he was not afraid of death, but because he had a way out.
Once the road back was cut off, the original shape was revealed.
But from beginning to end, Babartan only looked at each other coldly, as if he were looking at a dead person. "Tell me, how did you end up here?"
Princess Afifah explained to Fang Plover:
"The Phantom Sea is erratic in the desert and has no fixed coordinates. Even if it is outside the valley, it is difficult to teleport into the valley."
"Even if you are a few meters away, sometimes it feels like a world away."
"Even we can only enter this place on foot, but these people can teleport in. This is no longer something that ordinary teleportation spells can do..."
Fang Yu listened silently. When he heard that the teleportation spell could not be reached, a thought suddenly came to his mind. Does it mean that the general teleportation spell cannot reach it, does it mean that it can be done under special circumstances? But thinking about it this way, does it mean that it can be reached from the beginning?
The direction is wrong. What if it is not teleportation?
But while I was thinking about it, new changes had occurred there.
After listening to Babartan's question, the commander's expression changed again, but he struggled and hesitated for a while, and finally did not speak.
Seeing the other party's appearance, Barbartan, the King of Sand, knew that he had lost his chance and would not get any useful information if he asked again. He turned around, handed the knife to the knight on the side, and gave the order lightly:
"Take them down and kill them all."
As soon as these words came out, those who had been lucky enough to survive immediately fell into a state of shock. As we all know, the desert king means what he says. If not, they would not easily believe what the other party said. But now, losing
The alchemists who had lost their last hope immediately burst into tears and even cursed.
But Babartan looked at these people without even frowning.
A king, of course, needs to keep his word. But a man with a heart for revenge does not need to be so particular. He made up his mind to kill these people from the beginning, not sparing any of them, and besides, he was relieved
After taking the title of King of Sand, he is not really a king anymore.
It's a pity that Seniman ran away. Under the circumstances, he didn't have time to use any Soul-Destroying Rubik's Cube.
He no longer looked at the ugliness of these people, turned around, and walked towards Fang Pliong and his group:
"These people must have cast a spell on Afifah."
"The only way right now is to bring her back to Questac."
"Young man, I heard that you brought a boat over," Babartan looked at Fang Plover: "Can I ask you to do me one more favor? Is the boat repairable?"
Fang Yu thought about it silently, and this was actually the only way he could think of. The ship was still in good condition when it landed, but it just needed to be repaired. With the help of the King of Sand, maybe he could give it a try. I thought.
At this, he nodded.
But he paused and suddenly said: "Your Majesty, besides this matter, I'm afraid we have another trouble."
"how?"
Babartan looked at him a little surprised.
Fang Plover frowned and looked in one direction, then turned back and said, "Questac may be in danger."
"You mean the Sand Pirates?"
"Senemann was aware of His Majesty's plan early on, and almost allowed him to succeed. Moreover, they also placed manpower around the eldest princess, although the insider may have been solved over there."
Fang Yu paused for a moment: "But Her Royal Highness the Princess has long since noticed that the blind follower has a connection with the King of Sand Thieves, and it is unlikely that the other party will remain indifferent knowing that Questak's defenses are weak."
"But young man, you also said it," Babartan pondered for a moment and then asked: "You have found the inside information. Without the inside information, Rupert should be able to deal with a mere king of sand thieves.
.As the royal capital of Istania, even if it is empty of troops, it will never be captured by a group of rabble."
"If it's a frontal attack, it won't happen. But how many nobles, princes, Aleph, and Her Royal Highness the Princess are in the city? As long as one or two of them have evil intentions, the situation will be in danger. More importantly..."
"What is it?"
"What if someone is 'teleported' into Questac?"
"Questak has an anti-teleportation barrier" but Babartan suddenly got stuck.
The king turned around with a changed expression and glanced at the corpses of the alchemists on the hill.
Just like before, the corpses of these people also did not disappear into light and remained in that place. As for the commander, there was a faint black light on his body, but soon it was absorbed and disappeared by the silver Rubik's Cube in the hands of the knights.
Fang Piao didn't look too good. After all, Sylvide and his party were still in the city, as well as Aleph and the others. He just hoped that he was just making a guess, and maybe the blind followers put all their energy in this direction.
The fallen alchemist will not be thrown into that battle.
After all, they are just a group of sand pirates, and it doesn't matter whether they live or die according to the blind god Descartes' plan.
But things went counterproductive.
Soon, Luo Hao sent back the news.
The fat man from the military had a gloomy face and came back from a distance with a communication crystal. He looked at everyone first, and after a moment of silence, he said: "The communication with Questac seems to be different.
It was interrupted...but it probably wasn't due to the previous dust storm, because our communications here were not affected at all..."
But how could Hao Duanduan’s communication be interrupted?
Obviously there is only one possibility left.
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The firelight on the horizon is reflected in Princess Rupert's eyes.
The maid who sent back the news looked a little pale and chattered below:
"Okay, it seems that the Chosen Ones attacked the south gate..."
"...Your Highness Princess, no one expected that they would suddenly join the battle. They appeared from behind the Forbidden Army. There were hundreds of them. Because they were unprepared, the south gate fell almost immediately..."
"The sand bandits also took the opportunity to attack..."
"Return, return, and the King of Sand Thieves..."
When she said the words "King of Sand Thieves", the maid's voice almost started to tremble.
There was a moment of silence in the hall, and the eyes of many courtiers fell on Alyssa and her party. Some people immediately asked with plausibility to invite the chosen ones out of the hall, on the grounds that these people were no longer trustworthy.
But Secher naturally couldn't agree. It's just that the right minister who presided over the overall situation couldn't personally go out and convince the other party's opinions at this time. So the two sides were divided into two groups and started arguing in the court. However, Alyssa and Tang Xin and their entourage
People just watched this scene quietly and had no intention of participating.
Finally, the eldest princess turned around, glanced coldly at the person who spoke first, and said:
"Tie him up and take him down"
The princes and ministers who were speaking plausibly were immediately dumbfounded.
But it turned out that what the princess said was more effective than Aleph here. As soon as she finished speaking, a group of knights immediately came out and dragged her from the hall regardless of the latter's objections.
Go down. For a moment, everyone in the hall looked at each other, but no one spoke.
Aleph smiled bitterly, shook his head, and then said: "Okay, Miss Sylvide and the others are our absolute allies, and people outside will never have anything to do with them."
Secher glanced at the two of them appreciatively, and then added:
"It has not yet been investigated clearly outside whether it was the Holy Chosen who launched the attack. They and we are bound by the Stargate Declaration. You should know it."
Only then did all the ministers become quiet.
However, someone still asked: "The sand bandits have invaded the outer city, what should we do now?"
"There is also the inner city," the eldest princess replied softly. She paused for a moment before adding: "Father, they should return soon, as long as we can hold on until then."
But can we really persist until then?
The ministers couldn't help but look at each other, no one knew what was going on.