"Dead? Just like that? And even the last relics were confiscated by the High Court?"
"What do you do for a living? How can you have the nerve to come back when you have lost your command?"
"What? We lost more than 200 people? Who will pay for the gold coins? You?"
The roar echoed continuously in the hall, and the old man on the throne glared angrily. The brocade robe with golden patterns shook slightly with his body, and the scepter studded with magic crystals hit the ground.
"Sir...Sir, although the process was a bit beyond expectations, the result is good. At least it did not lose the face of our crystal castle."
The commander forced out a smile that was uglier than crying, and then said. He thought that the other party was a magician, and he also broke into the Thunder Depression.
Although it is true that the command power was deprived, Coco is also within reason. Where is the High Court? It is the home of Grand Duke Grylls.
"Exceeded expectations? Didn't lose face? Is your brain broken? How many gold coins is face worth! I don't care how many people died, let alone who gets the credit. I just want to know who will fill the gap in the pension of the dead!" The old man was so angry that he threw the jeweled wine glass in his hand to the ground. The wool carpet in the hall was instantly damp. When everyone saw this situation, no one dared to make any more excuses.
On the first day of the Maixiang Month, the gates of the crystal castle, one of the four main cities of the Principality of Cisse, were tightly closed. Because the capture of the defecting magician ended in failure, no one dared to provoke the angry castle owner. p>
Juan, the owner of the Crystal Castle, was born in an ancient noble family and is the current head of the family. As a marquis, he first followed the old Grand Duke more than thirty years ago, and then chose to support Grylls.
If there is a course in this world where "nobles choose sides", then Juan is definitely the top student among them, and his weapons are still among the best.
Although he is well-known as the "Knight of Rotten Teeth" in the Principality of Cisse, his sense of power is more talked about by the world than his strength as a high-level warrior.
If we say that the lord of Newk City, Iron Tree Knight Christo, is the hammer that confronts King Ogu head-on. If we say that the lord of Pama City, Butter Knight Frank, is the guardian of the Magic Research Institute.
The owner of the crystal castle, Knight Juan of Rotten Tooth, is the material distribution officer of the entire Principality of Xisai, and is also the treasury guard that no one dares to offend.
The Juan family has guarded the Crystal Castle for generations. Not only has it won the trust of all previous Grand Dukes, it also maintains an astonishing record of making no mistakes for thousands of years.
Therefore, Juan also has another name, "the stingiest person in the ancient continent". This kind of meanness is not directed at anyone, because in Juan's eyes, everyone is a devil.
Having dealt with money all year round, he naturally developed the character of a miser. Driven by this character, Juan not only did not give alms or increase the remuneration of officials for many years, but often withheld gold coins under various pretexts.
Even according to rumors, Juan's only heir was tortured to the point of running to the High Court. The so-called "pocket money" was only a thousand gold coins a year, and he was forced to die in exchange for it.
As the sun set, the crystal castle was somehow covered with an orange-red tulle. There was no one in the hall. To be precise, there was not a single fly except Juan.
Crystal Castle is the smallest of all the main cities in the Augu continent, but it has the largest number of troops invested in it. Not only is it guarded by two magisters all year round, but there are also three Glory Knights hidden in the shadows.
Here, the rapier of the Cisse cavalry has never been inserted into the leather sheath, the war horses are ready for use 24 hours a day, and the "Wild Ass Crossbow" has its string buckles tightened.
"Are you a miser? They are a bunch of trash who don't know the heights of the world, a bunch of chicks who have never experienced the baptism of war." Juan stood up slowly, and his original angry expression was no longer there.
Juan stood in the center of the hall and saw a semi-liquid lump that looked like vomit falling from his sleeves to the ground. Then the lump squirmed like a living thing and rubbed against Juan's skin like a pet.
Boots.
Juan lowered his head, smiled slightly, and threw a few pieces of magic crystal to the other party. In an instant, the thing seemed to be stimulated and wrapped up the magic crystal and swallowed it up.
If anyone were present, they would be shocked by Juan's crazy behavior. Those pieces of magic crystal are the raw stones used to make crystal coins, and their value is enough to be exchanged for tens of thousands of gold coins.
The magic crystal was finally completely digested, and the vomit began to expand continuously. After a moment, the entire hall seemed to have turned into a germ chamber, and it no longer looked like before.
The slime mold contract beast is the partner of Juan, the owner of Crystal Castle, and has accompanied him for more than fifty years. This contract beast is very similar to the self-destructing vine of King Fernando of Ogu, and both belong to the plant species.
But on the contrary, the slime mold contract beast has no attack power, or in other words, no ability to take the initiative.
To put it bluntly, it is a magical creature that can grow fruiting bodies like a fungus and produce spores to carry out the owner's orders.
It has two forms, one is the "creeper". It covers its body in a specific space, and anyone who enters the blanket will be poisoned and die.
The second is "mimicry". It can change its shape at will, and can even house ten people like a wonderful house. But in this state, it will completely lose its ability to attack, which is also its fatal weakness.
Juan smiled and stamped his feet. After the hall was covered by miasma, he walked into the secret room. As a master, he is naturally not afraid of these things, but if someone breaks in now, I believe they will be poisoned instantly.<
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It's like when people wear socks, are they worried about dirtying their feet or dirtying their shoes? Loyal people will not sneak into the hall, and those who die can only be classified as spies.
Juan walked down step by step, and his slime mold contract beast continued to expand the area of the fungus carpet. Finally, Juan stood outside a huge iron door and raised his hand to touch the keyhole.
There is no key to the crystal castle because all the keys have been destroyed by Juan, and there is no need for the key to exist. Under the influence of the ability of "mimicry", Juan's contracted beast itself is the key.
The semi-liquid continued to condense in his hand, and a strange key suddenly took shape after a moment. The harsh sound of gear friction echoed in his ears, and a dazzling light illuminated the basement.
Crystal coins, pure crystal coins, mountains of crystal coins. There is nothing else in the entire basement, but it is filled with millions of crystal coins.
This is the greatest significance of the existence of the crystal castle, and it is also the wealth of Cisse that the Juan family has guarded for generations. War is bloody in the eyes of ordinary people, but in the eyes of those in power, it has become a costly game.
No money means fewer cavalry in the principality, and less cavalry in the principality means a weakening of strength, and weakening of strength is an inducement to the failure of the war.
"It's not enough, it's still far away! Ten years, Cisse still needs ten years, otherwise the declaration of war with King Augu will definitely end in failure."
Juan shook his head, turned around and returned to the main hall. The basement mechanism slowly turned again, and the slime mold contract beast also retracted into his sleeves.
Juan sat alone in the jewel-encrusted chair, looking at the sunset outside the window and saying nothing. He didn't care about being called a "miser" by the world, he only wanted to see Cisse's two-headed dragon flag with his own eyes in the future.