The next day, when Lin Ze came out of his residence and headed to the cafeteria, he found that many guardians along the way were secretly looking at him, whispering, and casting curious and shocked looks.
"It seems that what happened yesterday has spread."
Lin Ze thought to himself, turning a blind eye to the sights around him, and walked towards the cafeteria with a natural expression.
After ordering the meal and just sitting down at his seat, he heard the sound of footsteps. When he looked up, it was sunlight.
"Can I sit here?"
Lin Ze made a casual gesture.
Yaoguang smiled, sat down and said: "The story of our Guardian team directly killing the disaster beast alone has spread. Now the entire White Palace is discussing our team, especially you, a great hero, whose reputation has already been
Spread throughout the White House."
After a pause, he lowered his voice and said happily, "There was a captain meeting in the palace yesterday, probably to discuss this matter. Our awards will probably come out soon. With your merits, you can at least be promoted to deputy.
At the team level, maybe..."
Yao Guang didn't finish the second half of his sentence, but Lin Ze understood what he meant. The White House had been thinking about forming a new team of guardians for a long time, but they had never found a suitable leader. But now it's different.
While he was talking, Lin Ze suddenly felt the nameplate in his pocket vibrate slightly, and his heart suddenly moved. He took it out and saw that it was indeed a message from Luo, asking him to gather at the gate of the palace.
"It's the captain's message, right?" Yaoguang asked with a smile, "It seems that the award has been decided. I would like to congratulate you in advance."
"Thank you." Lin Ze nodded, got up and walked outside without any delay. After looking around, he strode toward the towering pure white palace in the distance.
Since entering this dungeon, he has never been to the palace in the center of the White Palace, and has not even gotten close. After all, it is a place that only the Guardian Captain can enter.
Not long after, Lin Ze arrived at the square in front of the palace. From a long distance away, he saw Luo Na's handsome figure standing in front of the palace gate, with two burly gatekeepers in thick silver-white armor behind him.
"Captain." Lin Ze greeted.
"Let's talk after we go in." Luo Yan was concise and to the point. He nodded slightly towards Lin Ze and took the lead towards the door.
Lin Ze quickly followed.
The two passed through the palace gate and passed through the spacious white corridor and the central square. Along the way, Lin Ze saw many fully armed armored guards. Without exception, they stood motionless in every corner like statues, exuding a solemn and solemn look.
breath.
"They are pure white guards, puppet beings created by the king. They are responsible for guarding the safety of this palace. Each one has the strength of a deputy team level."
As if he noticed Lin Ze's gaze, Luo, who was walking side by side with him, suddenly explained.
Deputy team level? That is, the middle to high level of hero level.
Lin Ze was slightly frightened. He saw no less than a hundred pure white guards along the way. If so many hero-level combat powers were used to deal with the dark descendants, they would probably be as effective as any team of guardians.
"Is there any restrictions? For example, you can't leave the palace?"
Lin Ze thought it was very possible. He came back to his senses and continued to observe his surroundings. At the same time, he asked casually: "Where are we going?"
"Go to the central hall and meet the king."
As soon as these words came out, Lin Ze's expression couldn't help but move.
After coming to the dungeon for so many days, are we finally going to meet the biggest boss in the world?
While thinking, the two of them had arrived in front of a heavy white door. Standing at the door was an armored guard that was much larger than the pure white guards they had seen before. The two golden lights under its mask swept toward Luo.
He and Lin Ze stared at each other for a while, then slowly stood up, stretched out their hands to press on the door, and rumbled the heavy door open to a gap that could only accommodate the two of them.
"Let's go in."
Luo Dang walked in first. Lin Ze glanced at the giant pure white guard and followed him into the door.
Boom!
As the two people walked in, the giant door behind them also closed again.
Lin Ze looked around. Behind the door was an extremely spacious and bright hall, almost as big as two football fields. It was still pure white and full of three-dimensionality. In front of the surrounding walls stood huge stone pillars that were thick enough for several people to hug.
Surrounding the entire palace hall, the layout of the entire hall is simple yet grand.
In the center of the hall, two figures were already standing, but they were the other two captains, Ming Ke and Yue Hu.
Seeing Lin Ze and Luo coming in, Ming Ke nodded towards them and said nothing, while Yuehu said with a smile: "You are here, I have been waiting for a long time."
After all, she didn't rush forward to hug Luo like usual, but instead seemed a little reserved and restrained.
Lin Ze quickly understood the reason. He looked up and saw a towering and majestic figure sitting on a throne on a high platform in the deepest part of the palace, watching them quietly.
The person on the throne was wearing a white robe and a mask on his face. Although he was motionless, his whole body exuded a sense of majesty that could not be ignored. Just by looking at it, Lin Ze felt a strong sense of oppression coming towards him.
Come on, my whole body's breathing can't help but be stagnant.
What's even more surprising is that there is a small and exquisite white dragon about twenty centimeters tall lying next to the throne.
The reason why he was sure that it was a dragon was because Lin Ze felt the power of the dragon from the opponent. Otherwise, he would never have thought that such a creature the size of a basketball could be a dragon.
The dragon was like a white dragon that had been shrunk countless times. It was squatting motionless on the ground with its eyes closed. If it weren't for the slight rise and fall of its chest and the faint dragon power exuding from its body, Lin Ze would have probably killed it.
As a statue.
At this moment, Luo suddenly took a step forward, knelt down on one knee in front of the high platform, lowered his head, and remained motionless in this posture.
Lin Ze turned to look at Yuehu, who shrugged his shoulders and whispered: "It doesn't matter, Wang doesn't like too many vulgar etiquette, and never asks us to salute, but Luo insists on doing so every time we meet.
, you can do whatever you want."
Hearing this, Lin Ze couldn't help but raise his eyebrows. He turned around and looked at Wang Qi carefully on the throne. After a moment, a flash of doubt appeared on his face.
I always feel like this king seems a little weird.
It has been more than half a minute since they all came in, but there was no reaction from the other party at all, and even their movements remained unchanged. Could it be that they fell asleep?
After remaining on one knee for a while, Luo stood up, turned around to look at Ming Ke and Yue Hu, and said calmly: "I've brought Lin Ze here, let's start now."
Ming Ke and Yue Hu nodded. The latter looked at Lin Ze and smiled: "I was shocked when I first heard that a team killed a disaster beast. I didn't expect you to be so powerful. In this way,
White Palace can also reorganize a fourth team of guardians."
Lin Ze's heart moved, and then he heard Luo continue: "After the three of us discussed and decided, you will be appointed as the captain of the fourth guardian team from now on, and we will help you form a guardian team in the future."
"Are you willing to take on this role?"
"Of course." Lin Ze replied without hesitation. In order to eliminate the disaster beast and clear the dungeon, the first thing he had to do was to become the captain. Isn't this the reason why he has been working hard to earn merit over the past month?
But he didn't expect that by accidentally killing a disaster beast, he would achieve his goal of becoming the captain of the Guardians ahead of schedule. It must be said that it was a surprise.
Of course he wouldn't refuse if he could become the captain.
Hearing this, Yuehu clapped his hands happily: "Now we have another companion. From now on, we no longer need to passively guard, but can take the initiative to kill the disaster beasts."
Luo nodded. Although her expression could not be seen clearly through the mask, she could feel that she was also quite happy.
"But before that, I want to know some information about the king." Lin Ze suddenly said.
Luo seemed not surprised by Lin Ze's request. He nodded slightly and said, "Well, that's right. Since you are already the captain, you have the right to know all this."
After saying this, Luo pondered for a moment, seeming to organize his words, and then slowly said: "How much do you know about the coming of darkness?"
Lin Ze was stunned for a moment, thought for a moment and replied: "About hundreds of years ago, the white sky suddenly cracked, and disaster beasts appeared from the cracks, bringing countless dark descendants, and started a war on this land.
The white world began to be eroded by darkness, and seven satellite cities fell one after another. The guardian team suffered heavy losses, with only three remaining... That's roughly it."
Lin Ze heard all this from Zhou. He originally thought it was the background of this copy world, but now listening to Luo's meaning, it seems that this is not the case.
"It's roughly true, but part of it is not true." Luo said unhurriedly, "First of all, the disaster beast did not come from the sky, but was born in our world, or in other words, it was born from our world.
Transformed from the world’s creatures.”
Lin Ze's eyes flashed with doubts, but he did not interrupt Luo's story, but continued to listen attentively.
"In fact, this world is indeed suffering from the erosion of darkness. They come from outside the sky and are eroding the land, the sky and the cities all the time. Occasionally, a small number of darkness will materialize and form beasts to attack humans, and these will
The original Darkin."
"Only the king in the whole world can purify the darkness. At first, the erosion of darkness was not serious, and the dark descendants produced were not strong enough. They were no match for the guardians. However, as time went by, more and more darkness invaded.
As for the king, he was gradually unable to purify everything. In order to prevent the world from being corroded, the king had no choice but to let his guardian beast absorb the excess darkness."
Hearing this, Lin Ze's expression suddenly changed, and he suddenly turned his head to look at the small white dragon next to the throne.
Noticing his movements, Luo nodded and said, "Yes, that's one of the king's guardian beasts."
"The king has seven guardian beasts in total. In addition to the pure white dragon currently guarding his side, the other six have absorbed too much darkness and subsequently turned into disaster beasts."
The rare smile disappeared from Yuehu's pretty face, and she sighed softly: "There is nothing we can do about it. The guardian beasts themselves do not have the ability to purify darkness, but in order to protect this world, they have to continue to absorb darkness.
If the degree of darkness erosion does not become more and more serious after that, they will not twist and degenerate into disaster beasts."
The three captains were silent for a while, and after a moment Luo continued: "After that, the disaster beasts that were corrupted by the guardian beasts destroyed seven satellite cities. In order to stop them, the king led us guardians to start a war with the disaster beasts, and the result was six
Two of the head plague beasts died, and the remaining four were seriously injured. They had to hide in the satellite city, absorbing the darkness to regain their strength, and at the same time creating new dark descendants to expand their territory."
"After this battle, the guardians also suffered heavy losses, with only three teams left. The king was seriously injured as a result, and fell into a deep sleep not long after returning to the palace. Although the current king can still support the operation of the Aries Palace,
Create new guardians, but they no longer hear our prayers."
"In order to avoid causing panic, only the captains know these things. The other guardians do not know the truth."
"Then how can we revive Wang?" Lin Ze asked.
"Now all the darkness has been absorbed by the disaster beasts. In fact, the king has not been corroded anymore. The reason why he is still sleeping is just to recover from the injuries he suffered before. Once he recovers, he will wake up. We just need to wait.
Can."
Lin Ze suddenly realized, then frowned and asked: "In this case, if we eliminate all the disaster beasts, wouldn't the dark erosion be transferred to the king again?"
"You are right." Luo nodded slightly, "So we decided to leave a disaster beast and let it occupy the satellite city and help us absorb the darkness. As long as we regularly consume its power and clean up the dark descendants to prevent it from growing stronger.
However, this can also prevent the previous situation from happening again. This is the only way we can think of to solve the dark erosion."
"Indeed." Lin Ze pondered and nodded gently.
If all the disaster beasts are eliminated, it will only lead to a recurrence of the disaster. But leaving one disaster beast is different. Although doing so will inevitably lead to an endless war, as long as you do it well, you can control the war to a minimum.
Within a certain range.
What's more, the continued low-intensity war is also a good thing for the White Palace. It can maintain the fighting power of the guardians so that they will not be unable to fight against the darkness when the degree of erosion increases again in the future.
"These are all the truth about the coming of darkness."
After a period of silence, patiently waiting for Lin Ze to digest what he just said, Luo continued, "After that battle, the guardians lost the ability to take the initiative to kill disaster beasts, but it is different now. As long as I assist you, the fourth
Once a team of guardians is established, we can reorganize an army to deal with the disaster beasts."
"I see."
Lin Ze pursed his lips and nodded.
Now it seems that in order to pass the level, it is not necessary to eliminate all the disaster beasts, but only one is left. In this way, as long as he kills two more disaster beasts, he should be able to pass the assessment copy.