Chapter 299 Confirmation
Chapter 299 Confirmation
The captain of the Land Rover looked at Kismet and asked the question he had been trying to figure out.
“This protracted agreement, I know what I want, what they want, what Knuckles wants, but I’ve never been clear on what you want.”
“You guys don’t have to be nervous, I don’t need any resources, I want nothing more than a great story, and you know music without ups and downs is bad music.”
Wilde didn’t take his words lightly.
“Although the Land Rowboat only operates in the Western Continent, it has also carried travelers from all over the world, and I have heard your name in their mouths, and it has always been accompanied by death.”
Kismet tilted his head, revealing a helpless look, “That can’t be helped, probably because I’m always accompanied by parting and loneliness, that’s the main theme of my destiny.”
Aruba looked at Kismet in front of him, the corner of his eyebrow twitched, he always felt that this person spoke strangely.
He decided to change the subject, “What did Gortha want with that half-elf?”
“How would I know about such things? Anyway it wouldn’t be a rendezvous with a lover.”
Wilde looked at Kismet, not really believing this guy’s words.
Sure enough, Kismet added, “But ever since he met that half-elf, he went from majoring in the light attribute to majoring in the dark attribute then.”
Wilde narrowed his eyes, “You mean that that half-elf is related to Golza’s plan to resurrect Yura?”
Aruba clenched his fists, “Then wouldn’t she be much more important than that little apprentice or whatever? Can we control that half-elf?”
As soon as Aruba’s words left his mouth, he saw Kismet and Wilde give him a complicated look at the same time.
Wilde directly skipped over Aruba’s question, “Can we pull that half-elf over?”
Kismet shrugged, “You may not be able to pay the price.”
“The big price is naturally paid by those who benefit the most.” Wilde laughed, his face full of stubble shaking along with his muscles, “Didn’t you show up specially today to help us pull the strings?”
Kismet wiped the strings and smiled down, “I was just passing through.”
……
After Kismet left, Wilde pondered over the news he had just gotten about the half-elves.
Aruba, who had just not dared to speak more, stepped forward and lowered his voice, “Is this Kismet …… reliable? Could he be someone from over there?”
Wilde shook his head, “No, he also contributed a lot when the three-way agreement could be reached.”
“Didn’t you say he doesn’t want anything? Then what does he figure?”
“Don’t know. Rumor has it that the places where this guy appears are always accompanied by mass deaths, and I’m guessing that all of his moves might be for the sake of advancing to the Third Order Sorcerer.”
“Third Order?” Aruba suddenly felt a bitter taste in his mouth.
All the ambition and complacency he had as a teenager had been smoothed out in the hardships of advancing to the third rank over and over again.
The people of the kingdom were proud of him, unaware that Aruba would always be unconsciously anxious when he looked at these true geniuses around him.
Especially this time when he had inexplicably failed to advance in rank, he was devastated.
Running from Knuckles to the Land Rowing Boat, in addition to healing his wounds, he also had the intention of coming out for a break.
Especially since he had always had nightmares every night since his injury.
He dreamed that he had been playing the zither so much that his fingers were bleeding and his skin detached, but he just couldn’t stop.
In the end, he looked down and realized that what he was playing was not a zither, but clearly one of his own ribs!
Anxiety came back to Aruba’s face, and he hastily excused himself from Wilde and left the deck, perhaps to find some woman to vent on again.
Wilde disdainfully glanced at Aruba’s back, nose out of breath, a light grunt.
After a few more moments, he burst out, “Do you see the color of Kismet’s mood?”
A suspected chameleon-like jelly-textured creature suddenly appeared on Wilde’s shoulder.
It was now fluorescent green, with only one eye dribbling straight ahead.
After hearing Wilde’s question, it didn’t make any sound, but only twisted its head and stared straight into Wilde’s eyes.
Without saying a word, Wilde inserted one hand into the eye socket and gouged out his own eyeball, tossing the eyeball, which was connected to the blood vessels and fascia, casually into the bizarre creature’s wide-open waiting mouth.
That was his companion goblin.
Wilde had named it Fluorescent Dragon.
It was a grand name, but it was just a pity that the fluorescent dragon was just a weak little goblin with odd tastes and a bit of special powers.
The goblin named Fluorescent Dragon Companion Goblin swallowed Wilde’s freshly baked eye into its stomach and chewed it without chewing. Wilde then watched as his left eye rose and fell inside the translucent body of the fluorescent dragon, gradually coloring the fluorescent green into maroon.
It was like a swamp filled with rotting and moldy corpses.
Satisfied, the fluorescent dragon finally stopped glaring at Wilde’s other eye and opened its mouth wide with a high-pitched chirp.
“Quack-“
The sound could only be heard by Wilde himself.
“He’s excited?” Wilde stroked his bearded chin, which fell obediently in his hands, “Every time I see Kismet get excited, it’s accompanied by a large amount of deaths …… Could it be that this time, the Scarlet Town Curse has something to do with him as well?”
……
Since being ambushed by Cadiz of the Land Row, Saul had closed the gates of the Black Castle tightly and gathered the Devil’s Vine from the forest back to the castle.
The dark green vines broke free from the ground and wrapped around the black castle like an anaconda wrapping around a long, thin man.
The Black Castle wailed silently in the perpetually shadowy forest, and whenever someone passed by at the bottom of the hill, they felt palpitations and dizziness.
This made the horrifying legend of the Black Castle spread across the desert city once again.
Such an appearance of full alert naturally drew the attention of the allies as well.
Thus, after only two days, Brie once again came to the door.
This time he didn’t drive a carriage, but rode a tall brown warhorse and galloped all the way to Black Castle.
Unfortunately, when he arrived in front of the Black Castle’s main gate and identified himself, all he got was the echo of rustling leaves and the cold wind swirling in front of the door.
“Lord Saul?” Brie controlled the warhorse underneath him to make it less tense and once again called out to the temporary owner of the Black Castle.
It was a long time before he heard the gates of the Black Keep open.
Brie breathed a sigh of relief and hurriedly dismounted his horse and stepped onto the steps of the porch.
But when he saw the inside of the gate, the cold air he had just exhaled was heated back up again.
“Sol? I saw signs of battle in the woods, are you alright?”
Behind the gate of the Black Castle, there was not Saul’s figure, but dark green vines that were as dense as a swarm of pythons.
Saul was letting the devil vines seal the gate completely!
“Seeing that I’m fine, is Lord Brie a little disappointed?”
Behind the tangled and twisted vines, Saul’s somewhat hoarse voice came out.
Brie’s face was solemn, “Saul, with regards to me, you can just say whatever questions you have. I don’t know what has happened to you, but as the liaison between the Kemah Duchy and the Sorcerer’s Tower, I will be responsible for all my actions. I also hope that you can give me a chance to explain. If you are really unsure, I can help you inform the other wizards in the kingdom, or even Archduke Kira.”
The interior of the gate was quiet for a moment.
Brie added, “Or I can directly notify the wizard tower.”
Saul’s hoarse voice sounded again, “No need, the new owner of the Black Castle will come over soon, and I won’t see or say anything to anyone until then. You go.”
Brie was helpless, he knew that Saul might be suspecting him now, but if the other party refused to communicate, he would have no chance to clarify for himself.
He took a step back and retreated to the bottom of the steps.
“I know. But I hope you will give me a chance to explain myself when the new master of the Black Fortress arrives. We each represent the Sorcerer’s Tower and the Duchy of Kemah, and I hope that the relationship between us will not be affected by a misunderstanding between us, which would instead give favor to the true enemy.”
Saul did not respond, even as the doors of the Black Castle closed with a bang.
Brie took a worried step back and turned around, ready to leave.
However, just as he turned around, Brie’s lips suddenly curved upwards a few degrees as a fallen leaf was swept across the corner of his lips wrapped in the wind.
But as the leaf flew by, the curve at the corner of his mouth disappeared.
“OK.” Brie thought to himself, “The mark has been planted, so we can begin the next step.”
At the same time, Saul inside the Black Castle turned around and revealed an interested smile.
“Confirmed,” Saul thought to himself, “Brie and Cadence are in cahoots, just waiting for their next move.”
The two men each turned their backs on the gates of the Black Fortress and stepped in different directions.
Fourth shift, grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr~
(End of chapter)