When Thales, filled with resentment, rode through the first city gate and returned to the Palace of Heroes under heavy protection, his mind was filled with countless doubts.
According to Aixida, there are only a few magic masters in the first place, but there are still many sects:
Led by b, the radicals who started the war were once the most powerful faction and the real "disaster" with numerous crimes: according to Asheida, they were a group of complete lunatics who destroyed both the world and themselves. However, this was really the case.
? Thales always felt that even the unreasonable Giza didn't seem to be such a crazy existence.
Represented by Aixida, a moderate person who refuses war: Aixida describes themselves as a group of pacifists who have nothing to do with the world. The world is scattered and scattered, but in Thales' view, for now, no matter what
Whether it is controlling the underground world of the Kingdom of Stars or chasing Thales, the Qi Magician is the most active magician who wants to change the status quo.
The two Confused Ones who consider themselves human beings and therefore confront the radicals: Asheida's attitude towards them is very strange. She neither hates nor recognizes them, but instead expresses compassion full of emotion. Where are those two people now? What is their situation?
Also, Thales felt his heart tightening when he thought of this:
Blood Thorn and Black Orchid.
The betrayers of magicians named Queen of Magic are shrouded in the most fog: why did they betray? How did they betray? Why does Esida hate them more than the Confused Ones who stand on the side of the world?
?What happens to them now?
Thales sighed, dismounted from his horse next to the stables of the Palace of Heroes, took out the book from the saddle, comforted the reluctant Jenny, and handed the reins to the groom.
Having just taken the "first lesson", when facing the world, his confusion increased instead of decreasing: the more he knew, the more questions he had.
While he was deep in thought, Huai Ya behind him poked the young prince and said in a cautious and alert tone: "Your Highness."
After regaining consciousness, Thales raised his head and saw something that made both Huaiya and Rolf quite uneasy.
It was a pale man, leaning against the stable with his arms folded, and a black-handled saber strapped to his back.
He raised his head towards the prince and his entourage, showing a sharp and unkind gaze. Including Lord Justin, the Grand Duke's personal guards and palace guards all nodded to him in greeting, exuding a dangerous aura that no strangers should enter.
Just like when Thales met him for the first time.
"It's already six o'clock," the man said coldly, "and I said five o'clock."
Thales rolled his eyes helplessly towards the setting sun.
"Shouldn't you be busy guarding the safety of Her Excellency the Grand Duchess?" The prince dusted himself off and said goodbye to Jenny. He once again looked at the beautiful girl who caused a commotion among others after being led into the stable:
"Why do you have time to see a foreign prince who has no power and has done nothing?"
"Lord Nicolai?"
The legendary commander Seri Nicolai, who was downgraded from the White Blade Guard to the Archduke's personal bodyguard, is already in his middle age. After the drastic changes six years ago, as the wrinkles around his eyes increased, this once most trusted personal bodyguard of the King of Nun became
Be more stable and reliable, and more cautious.
Huaiya turned his head anxiously, trying to find Ada, but after a few seconds, he turned around with a sigh and realized that the dwarf had probably abandoned the prince again and ran to the suburbs privately to fight.
The meteorite man snorted coldly.
"Perhaps others think you are inconspicuous. You usually just read books and play chess. At most, you skip class and play hide and seek." Nicolai looked at his target with an unpleasant look and said in a bad tone, "
but I know……"
The Meteorite lowered his arms and looked sharply:
"You are the most troublesome person in the Palace of Heroes."
Thales sighed helplessly, turned around and walked out of the stable, passing by Nicolai.
"Thank you for your appreciation, please forgive me first..."
At this moment, Thales's shoulders suddenly sank!
"Snapped!"
The prince turned his head, looked at the hand holding his shoulder, and frowned slightly.
Huaiya and Rolf reacted very quickly and took two steps forward. The squire put his hand on the single-edged sword, and the ghost of the wind drew out the two daggers at his waist.
The people around them also reacted quickly: the Star People consciously formed a semicircle, blocking out the Northlanders who were also nervous.
"Let go of the prince."
Huaiya looked at it and warned with a solemn expression.
"Relax, relax," Thales breathed out before the situation got out of control and waved his subordinates to retreat: "Lord Nicolai always likes to joke with me."
The prince looked at the meteorite who was still holding his shoulders and raised his eyebrows: "Yeah."
Nicolai stared at him for five seconds before letting go of the boy in front of him.
The vigilant Huai Ya breathed a sigh of relief, and the tense atmosphere around him also relaxed.
But the moment Thales shrugged, the Fallen Starman suddenly stretched out his hand again.
"Snapped!"
Nicolai's movements were so fast and the trajectory was so weird that the prince couldn't react at all. He could only watch helplessly as the Faller's hand moved in and out, and forcefully snatched the book he had taken out from his left hand.
Palace’s thick brown book!
But at that moment, Thales was like a lion cub whose hair had exploded, and his expression changed drastically.
Like the most loyal partner, the sin of the Hell River originated from every inch of his body, surged up his left arm, and filled every joint from the shoulder, elbow, to wrist.
The moment the book left his hand, Thales' left arm quickly grabbed it with his backhand with sensitivity several times faster than usual!
"Boom!"
He held the spine of the book tightly!
The sin of the Hell River surged back again, filling his arm muscles, gradually increasing the strength of Thales's hand, not giving in even an inch.
The hands of the followers pressed their swords again: the tension in the air returned.
"Back off, Huaiya!" Thales said solemnly, stopping his subordinate from pulling out his weapon from his waist: "Lord Nicholas's joke is a bit big, that's all."
Damn it.
This guy... Thales stared at Nicolai:
He just wouldn't let me go.
The brown book stopped in mid-air. The Star Prince and the Fallen Star each grabbed one side of the book and were in a stalemate with each other.
"Oh, this is rare," Nicolai felt the increasing strength in his hands and could not hide the surprise in his eyes: "If you can also perform like this in daily swordsmanship practice..."
"I will be fucked even worse by you." Thales interrupted him coldly, refusing to let go of the book in his hand.
Nicolai raised the corner of his mouth.
"You know, I've always been very strange," said the meteorite man with a strange cold light in his eyes: "Won't you get bored playing chess with yourself in an empty box for three consecutive years?"
"There is no way," Thales said without any sign of weakness: "Who told you that you can't play chess, and the Grand Duchess's chess skills are terrible."
"Really," Nicolai sneered: "There must be people in the secret department who can play chess."
Thales clenched his back molars, secretly thinking that something was wrong.
"Perhaps you shouldn't be so rude to me," the prince sighed, and his trembling arms began to sore from the struggle: "Your Majesty the Grand Duchess..."
"Her Excellency the Grand Duchess must remember how her grandfather died!" Nicolai interrupted him faster than him, the expression on his face was reminiscent of the person who captured the object:
"Is not it."
Taylor was speechless for a moment.
The next moment, Nicolai pushed and pulled the book in his hand!
Thales had no way of grasping his opponent's sudden change of skill and strength. The speed and strength brought by the Hell River Sin were of no use. He could only stare blankly and watch Nicolai take away the book again.
.
"I didn't know you were still interested in the Knights Temple," Nicolai looked at the title on the cover, and then glanced at the ugly-faced Prince of the Stars with interest: "But..."
The Meteorite patted the spine of the book with one hand, and the book automatically opened to the page that the user opened most often, lying flat on Nicolai's calloused wide palm.
In the middle of the book pages, there is a piece of sky blue tissue paper.
Thales clenched his fists and breathed faster.
That is……
"Oh, that makes sense..." Nicolai narrowed his eyes, curled up the corners of his mouth, gently picked up the blue tissue paper, and looked at Thales' livid face with interest:
"A message? Is that why you want to play chess?"
That's an invitation.
Thales said silently, holding back the anxiety in his heart and reaching out to stop his subordinates from moving.
"That's just a meaningless sentence," the prince said calmly: "You know..."
Nicolai interrupted him with a chuckle.
"Then let's take a look..." In front of the prince, Nicolai threw away the thin piece of paper with a confident smile and read out the words on it:
"fall from the sky……"
But as soon as Nicolai pronounced the first syllable, his pale face changed slightly.
He raised his head suddenly and shifted his gaze from the tissue paper back to Thales.
Thales blinked.
"Is this some kind of joke?"
The Fallen Star said coldly: "Little Prince."
He turned the cardboard in his hand, and the sky blue tissue paper was spread out in front of Thales.
Wyatt and Rolf both leaned their heads forward.
The thin paper in Nicolai's hand had only one neat line of common language written in standard patterned script:
Rolf whistled and pulled his head back.
Huaiya mumbled something, holding back his smile and not looking at Nicolai's expression.
"Look, I said a meaningless sentence," Thales rubbed his head awkwardly, using this action to relieve the pain caused by the Sin of the Hell River: "You have to read it yourself."
Nicolai stared into the prince's eyes, his eyes burning.
His deputy, Lord Justin, frowned slightly and stepped forward to remind: "Boss, the sky is dark."
The Fallen Starman then closed his mouth in dissatisfaction and snorted from his nose.
Nicolai, who had a bad expression, crumpled the tissue paper in his hand into a ball and threw the book back to Thales:
"Little prince, you'd better be careful for me."
"Let's use a new word next time," Thales caught the book and pretended to blow the dust on it: "I'm used to it."
"No."
"What I mean is," Nicolai's eyes turned cold and he said with deep meaning: "Be careful."
At that moment, Thales's pupils shrank.
"What do you mean?" the prince said calmly.
From Nicolai's words, Thales smelled something unusual.
"That's what it means literally."
Nicolai tore up the tissue paper in his hand coldly: "Longxiao City has not been peaceful recently."
"And you are the most interesting bargaining chip in Longxiao City."
While tearing the tissue paper in his hand, the meteorite man slowly stepped forward and approached Thales' face with great pressure. His tone became more and more scary: "Of course, if you and the hand behind you want to do something,
What……"
Thales frowned.
At this moment.
"enough!"
This was a clear and loud female voice, slightly childish, that sounded out of thin air in the open space outside the stable.
Thales let out a breath, and in response, Nicolette snorted in displeasure.
Huaiya relaxed his expression, turned around, and made a "saved" gesture to Rolf.
There were sounds of footsteps outside the stable.
A blond girl wearing a dark brown dress came to the stables surrounded by the Grand Duke's guards on both sides. An old but dignified old nobleman accompanied her with strong steps, and the old-fashioned Ms. Jinx walked
He took two maids and followed behind them.
Beside the stables, both the Grand Duke's personal guards and the palace guards all stepped aside and bowed respectfully.
"Lord Nicolai," the girl who suddenly arrived continued to speak with her bright voice, like the cry of a lark, which made people feel that the sunset was about to rise again: "Prince Thales is our distinguished guest and also the leader of Longxiao City.
An ally, he represents the friendship between the Bright Star Family and the Star Kingdom."
"And you should behave in a manner and manner consistent with the honor of the Northlanders, my captain of the bodyguard."
The girl looked straight at Nicolai, who was confronting Thales. Her expression was calm, but there was an inexplicable sense of indifference:
"After all, we fought alongside him."
The Fallen Star took a gentle breath, glanced at the prince, then took a step back and bowed slightly to the girl.
"Of course," Nikolai said coldly, "As you wish."
"Her Excellency the Grand Duchess."
Thales shrugged, turned around, and showed a friendly smile to the girl who came to his rescue.
I don't know when, the sloppy little cunning boy he met six years ago has turned into a beautiful fifteen-year-old girl.
The current Grand Duchess of Longxiao City, Thelma Walton, amazed Thales who met him day and night.
The girl blinked a pair of green eyes that were brighter than before, and her nose turned up in a cute arc, which made people want to reach out and pinch it gently. Her lips were slightly thick, but they had a special texture, bright and clean.
Her cheeks showed a healthy reddish color, which highlighted the two strands of platinum hair hanging down from her chest.
The only thing about her body that ruined this sense of brightness was probably the pair of big and thick black-rimmed glasses on her face.
"Good night, my respected and noble Grand Duchess of Longxiao City, the beautiful and elegant Ms. Selma," Thales smiled easily. He raised his right hand to Selma, lightly pressed his left chest, and said
Elegant, decent, and a bow that no one can fault, "Lord Nicolai was just joking with me, please don't criticize him too harshly."
The girl Thelma looked at him quietly, with no emotion in her eyes.
"But I still appreciate your concern, and I will keep this gratitude in my heart." The prince raised his lips to the best arc as mentioned by Lady Jinx, and nodded gently: "I hope you have a good day today, madam.
."
"And you two, Earl Lisban and Ms. Jinx." Thales raised his eyebrows and looked at Lisban with a serious face and Jinx with a calm face and returned the greetings to him.
Finally, Thelma frowned slightly, pursed her slightly raised lips, which made her even cuter, and slowly stepped forward, looking straight at Thales.
The girl walked up to Thales, pouted, stretched out her hands, and elegantly lifted the hem of her skirt, revealing a pair of small deerskin boots and a pair of gracefully curved calves under her skirt.
Thales straightened up, and he couldn't help but notice: the girl's once dirty little hands had become white and smooth, and hung lightly around her waist. Under the well-tailored dress, her neck looked slender.
Her waist is straight and her slightly sizable breasts are firmly tied in a tight-fitting shirt, exuding youthful vitality.
However, just when Thales thought that the Grand Duchess was holding up her skirt and bowing in return...
"Boom!"
Thales screamed in pain, took two steps back, and bumped into the stable behind him.
He bent over in pain and rubbed the leg bone where he had been kicked.
Behind the girl, Earl Lisban and Ms. Jinx both frowned, while a pair of maids covered their mouths and exclaimed. Nicolai scratched his neck and shook his head slightly.
Thelma snorted coldly and took back the kicked boots. She shook her hands and threw off her skirt angrily. Following the playful movements of the Grand Duchess, the jeweled headdress on her plump forehead shone brightly in the sunset, even the ones on her sleeves.
The Dragon Spear emblem in the clouds also seems to have a hint of color out of thin air.
Prince Xingchen, who had been kicked inexplicably, raised his head with an expression of disbelief.
"Hey," Thales, feeling the pain in his legs and feeling bitter, protested dissatisfied: "Why?"
Thelma walked up to Thales. She was slightly taller than Thales and stared at Xingchen's guest with an unhappy look on her face.
Wyatt and Rolf looked at each other, and wisely took a step back, choosing to abandon their duties and abandon their prince.
"From the Kingdom of Stars, respected, noble, handsome..." The cold-faced girl especially emphasized the last two words: "Prince Thales! His Highness Thales!"
Thales sighed.
"If you talk to me in this tone again," the Grand Duchess glanced at the big black horse behind him who was chewing grass and watching the show leisurely, and threatened angrily with her clear and bright voice.
:
"Then don't live in the courtyard anymore, come to the stables, and sleep with your favorite Jenny!"
Thelma snorted, turned around abruptly, stomped her moccasin boots so loudly that it could be heard twenty meters away, and left angrily.
The girl's long hair fluttered across Thales's face, sending out waves of fragrance.
But the unlucky prince had no energy to care about these small beauties. He raised his head with an aggrieved look and looked at the indifferent Earl of Lisban.
Ms. Jinx and the two maids hurriedly followed the Grand Duchess, the former even frowning and staring at Thales as if it was his fault.
"Charles, I'm very tired today," the Grand Duchess's clear voice sounded, respectful and polite, which was in sharp contrast to her behavior just now: "Let's talk about it tomorrow. I'll leave the rest to you."
The regent of Longxiao City, Earl Lisban, who was also dressed in formal attire, sighed and nodded gently at the girl's back: "Of course, my lady."
The Fallen Star shook his head in disdain and followed the Grand Duchess.
Thelma's footsteps faded away.
"Today's political hearing," Thales straightened up, exhaled dissatisfiedly, and said to Lisban: "Who provoked her again?"
"No one," the regent shook his head without changing his expression, but then he nodded ambivalently and his expression sank:
"Everyone."
Thales showed a puzzled expression and said dissatisfiedly: "Then do I deserve to be that unlucky target?"
Earl Charles Lisban, the regent of Longxiao City who is over 60 years old, probably didn’t like Thales very much from the first moment he saw him. But this time, the Earl surprisingly shook his head and apologized to him.
.
"On behalf of the lady, I apologize for her behavior. Her behavior just now was indeed inappropriate, Prince Thales," Regent Lisban said solemnly: "When the time is right, I will advise her."
"Believe me, this is not her normal state."
Thales, who suffered for no reason, rolled his eyes.
"Then I'll take my leave first, Prince Thales," Regent Lisban looked at the Grand Duchess's back and said slowly, "Please convey my gratitude to Lord Putilai."
Thales nodded helplessly.
Accompanied by his attendants, the regent turned and left.
Thales looked at Lisban's retreating back, and his heart sank slightly.
nobody?
Everyone?
Lisban's statement... What happened at the political hearing?
Coupled with Nicolai's warning just now that "Longxiao City will not be peaceful" and his inexplicable search...
Also, Putilai also came to Longxiao City at this time.
The thoughtful Thales raised his head, feeling slightly uneasy.
He needed to find Putilai as soon as possible and listen to the Lord's report.
The big black horse stuck its head out of the fence and naughtily touched the prince's cheek.
"As expected," Thales put aside the complicated thoughts in his heart. He hugged Jenny's head and sighed, "You are better, Jenny."
At this time, Ada, who had disappeared for a long time, popped out of nowhere.
She held two dead rabbits in each hand, and in front of the stunned Wyatt and Rolf, she said happily: "Hey, little Thales, it doesn't matter, we don't want to eat that little brat's dinner, we can just open the fire ourselves..."
"
The prince turned to her seriously.
"Ada," Thales changed his expression. He put on a vicious expression and snorted to the elf: "If you fall behind again and run to fight..."
"...Don't live in the courtyard."
"Move here and sleep with Jenny!"
Ada froze on the spot.
At this moment, the dissatisfied roar of the Grand Duchess came again from the distance:
"Tiles!"
"What are you still dawdling about!"
“Do you want to have dinner or not?”
Thales took a deep breath and pulled his face back from "aggrieved prince" to "happy young man".
Dinner.
Of course I do.
But I don't want to eat with some pissed off little lioness.
The young prince had no choice but to look up to the sky and sigh, muttering to himself "How cute he was when he was little" and shouting listlessly "Here he is, he's here".
Thales turned around without hesitation and strode away in the direction of Selma.
Ada, who looked confused, looked at each other in confusion with Wyatt and Rolf.
Jenny in the stable snorted, lowered her head and continued to enjoy her feast.
"What's wrong with these two little brats?" Ada under the cloak looked at Jenny and shook the rabbit in her hand.
"You know," Huaiya sighed and touched his nose:
"It's great to be young."
In the distance, Earl Lisban stopped. He slowly turned his head and glanced in the direction of the stables.
Yes, you are being used as a target to vent your anger by Her Excellency the Grand Duchess, Prince Thales.
However.
She will only regard you as a "target".
This is where the problem lies.
With a deep look in his eyes, Regent Lisban turned and left.