"Oh! My dear Xue! You are finally back! If you don't come back today, I'm afraid I will drag Farah along to find you!"
As soon as Xue Hua got out of the car, Kane hurriedly greeted him, his words filled with sincere concern and relief.
"Don't worry, Mr. Kane, I'm very punctual!" Xue Hua laughed and walked forward with Kane.
The Mages' Association's carriage took them directly to the headquarters of the Lugaoyin Mages' Association - a five-story dome-shaped building.
The whole thing is white, and it is engraved with complex light blue patterns and large incomprehensible spells.
There are several smaller Arabic-style courtyard buildings surrounding the dome. Kane is leading Xue Hua into one of the buildings, where Farah, Drognan, and Farah's daughter Sothea are waiting for him.
"Xue, fortunately you came back before noon today, otherwise we might not be able to end today... Um, have you found the components of Horadric's staff?"
Kane was talking as he walked, and of course he couldn't help but ask the question that concerned him most in the end.
"Aren't you still worried about me doing the work? But isn't the end of the review tonight? Is Jie Hain acting like a monster again?"
Xue Hua laughed, but didn't just take out the cube. Although this was inside the Mages' Association, there was no guarantee that there would be spies planted by the King. The case of the King's Staff had just passed, and he didn't want to make the same mistake as Farah and the others.
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Kane also understood this, so although he was very happy to hear his answer, he did not let him take out the things right here, and just answered with a worried voice.
"His Majesty the King didn't cause us any trouble. There was something going on with the Parliament. Not long ago, they received a message from a legendary professional. This message was very vague, but it vaguely mentioned that it seemed to be Kurast.
There was something wrong at the harbor, so the council decided to send people to check it out, and also asked Lu Gaoyin to prepare for changes.
Therefore, the review of the Lu Gaoyin royal family was required to end early.
At noon today, we have to go to the palace to announce the review results."
"Kuraste? What's wrong? Is there any trouble?" Xue Hua raised his eyebrows, secretly sighing that these days are really troubled. The problems on Lu Gaoyin's side are still in a mess, but there is another problem in the harbor across the strait.
New question.
I just hope it's not a big problem.
"It is not known yet, but investigators from the Council have found that they cannot go directly to Kurast through the small station. The space there seems to be locked, and no means of teleportation can directly reach the seaport.
However, they are now preparing to pass directly from the rainforest area via the small station in Kejistan to have a look. There are legendary professionals in the investigation team, so I believe there will be a conclusion soon."
Kane shook his head, led Xue Hua to the courtyard door, and gently knocked on the door with his stick. The door was quickly opened by the waiter.
"Come on, let's solve the problem on our side first..."
He took the lead and walked in, while Xue Hua told the two sisters to go home and wait for him.
The two girls agreed obediently, and then left first under the leadership of the guards.
Xue Hua turned around and walked into the courtyard, and then saw three guardians sitting at a stone table deep in the courtyard looking at him with expectant eyes.
He walked quickly over, and as he passed the lawn in the courtyard, he felt as if his body had passed through a curtain of water. Then the scene in front of him changed drastically, from the stone tables and benches on the grass to a white hall.
The only thing that remains unchanged is the location of the three guardians and Kane.
"Come here, Xue, Mr. Kane told me that you found another component of the Horadric Staff. Is this true?"
Farah stood up from his position, teleported directly in front of him, grabbed his hand and asked in a voice full of urgency and expectation.
"I told Old Farah, don't do anything... I like women!"
Xue Hua's face twitched and he pulled his hand out of the old rabbit's hand, feeling goosebumps all over his body.
"Hahahahaha..."
Xue Hua's words made the other two guardians couldn't help laughing, and even Kane smiled helplessly and shook his head.
Farah took her hand back in embarrassment, turned back and glared at her daughter in embarrassment and yelled: "Why are you laughing? If I like men, then where did you come from?!"
"Who knows if I am your biological daughter... After all, I don't have a bad habit of grabbing hands of people of the same sex..."
Sothea just curled her lips and said one word, which made Farah's angry forehead veins pop out. She almost wanted to grab her staff and discuss "the way father and daughter get along" with this lawless female lunatic.
Fortunately, Kane came out to save the siege in the end. It seemed that he had always been responsible for the rescue. Drognan would just follow and watch the fun and laugh...
"Farah, stop making trouble, we don't have much time.
Xue, please take out what you found first and show it to us. Is it a snake pattern?"
Kane stopped between Farah and his daughter, who were fighting like cocks, and quickly began to change the subject.
"It's not a serpentine pattern, it's a Horadric cube."
Xue Hua nodded, and then took out the metal cube engraved with golden patterns and mysterious spells from the inventory.
"The Horadric Cube!" Kane exclaimed, rushing in front of Xue Hua at a speed comparable to that of a legendary assassin, staring obsessively at the cube suspended in Xue Hua's palm.
"Um... Why don't you take it over and take a look?" Xue Hua saw that the other two old mages had the same trend as Kane, and he immediately shouted that something was wrong. He didn't want to be surrounded by a group of old monks and look like a monkey.
Although it wasn't him they were looking at.
"Ah... I'm sorry, I'm sorry, please put it on the table first and let me appreciate it... After all, this sacred object has been missing for a long time..."
Kane was stunned for a moment, then raised his head sheepishly and smiled at Xue Hua, and then suggested that he put the cube on the table so that they could observe it more conveniently.
Xue Hua walked to the table and carefully moved the block suspended in his palm to the table - this was not easy to do, because this thing was like an anti-gravity device. Do not put it in the inventory.
Inside, you can't even hold it with your hands.
The three old mages quickly surrounded the table. Each one stretched out his hand while I blew my breath and observed, and from time to time they whispered to each other.
Sothea also came over and stared at the slowly rotating cubes floating in the air on the table with wide eyes, seeming to find it magical.
Of course, as a paladin, she was just watching the fun. Like Xue Hua, she had no idea what these people were doing.
About half an hour later, when Xue Hua was sitting boredly on a chair aside, grabbing some fruit and gnawing at it, Kane, who had been observing with his waist bent, suddenly straightened up, and then uttered a sentence:
Xue Hua almost choked to death on the fruit.
"That's right! This is the real Horadric Cube!"
"Pfft!! Cough cough cough...no...cough cough...I'm not saying, Mr. Kane, what do you mean? It's okay if I eat too much, I'll tease you with a fake cube
Are you having fun?"
"No, no, no, Xue, don't get me wrong. I definitely didn't mean that. It's just that this sacred object has been missing for too long. I really didn't expect that one day I would be able to see it with my own eyes...
"
Kane smiled awkwardly and hurriedly explained.
"It's been missing for too long? Wait...disappeared? Wasn't it separated and hidden by the Horadric mages along with the other two components of the Horadric Staff?"
Xue Hua finally noticed what Kane had been saying repeatedly: what does "missing" mean "for too long"?
Wasn't this thing deliberately hidden?
"No, Xue, the ancient documents do record that the cube was scattered in a secret place in the desert together with the other two components, but the fact is that the Horadric Cube was actually used when the staff was almost destroyed.
It had already disappeared during the theft incident.
The Horadrim wizards believed that the wizard who stole the staff had stolen it, but they had never been able to recover it.
That's why they finally decided to divide the remaining Horadric Staff into two parts and hide it. This greatly reduced the chance for the mage who stole the cube to get the complete Horadric Staff and reopen Talasha.
The risk of the tomb..."
Kane gently rubbed his eyes and slowly opened his mouth to tell Xue Hua this unknown secret past.
"The Horadric Cube was stolen? What did that guy do with the cube? Don't you just need a staff to open the cemetery door?"
"It is true that to open the ancient tomb of Tarasha, you only need the Horadric Staff as a key, but to open the portal of the mysterious sanctuary, you need to rely on the power of the Horadric Cube..."
Kane walked to Xue Hua and slowly sat on the chair next to him.
"While there is still some time, let me, an old man, tell you about the relationship between the mysterious sanctuary and Tarasha's ancient tomb..."