Chapter 910: Ventilation
Chapter 897 Ventilation
Aero immediately looked over at him cross-eyed, the probing in his gaze almost stabbing Leah like a knife.
Leah clenched her fists uneasily and looked at Aero like a bunny.
Aero looked at Leah steadily for a few seconds before his face regained its composure, “Let’s go inside and talk.”
And so the two figures disappeared into the firelight together.
When they reappeared, they were back in the chambers they had just been in.
Aello sat sashaying on his throne, one hand resting on his chin as he looked down at Leah, who stood below him.
“This is my palace, you don’t have to stammer and slur your words.”
As far as Leah could perceive, there were only the two of them in the room.
Although there was no way for Leah to know if there was someone watching from the shadows, Leah believed that Emperor Blackflame would be responsible for the secrecy of this place.
If the other party still chose to convey the information she had told her to the rest of the Judgment Court under these circumstances, then Leah could only admit it.
Aello’s palm against her chin moved to her brow bone, and a cold look struck her, “So you took the initiative to stir up this matter in order to persuade me to look at the big picture and put up with Frim this time?”
Her teeth kept chattering, even her voice was a little incoherent, “No, can’t endure. If you endure it once, then, there will be a next time. He already sees the Court of Judgment as a private property, and even sees the Court of Judgment as more important than Nefertiti.”
So Leah took a deep breath, then told all she knew.
Aello had thought about Stuart being trapped in the Lost Cloisters.
“Lord Stuart is in the deepest part of the Court of Judgment. You know where that place is, but pardon me, I cannot say.”
Leah tilted her head, “I know you won’t, you value the Black Inferno Empire and your people more than anyone.”
As she spoke, the chill was dropping and finally disappearing, and Leah’s voice stopped shivering.
So the anger ended up just spinning around in Aello’s chest before returning to the depths of consciousness that no one knew existed.
Leah knew she had succeeded, “For when the Black Tide comes in three years, the Court of Judgment will be able to put the most effort into fending it off.”
An unspeakable rage burned up from the bottom of her heart. But the fourth-ranked sorcerer, who was extremely good at harnessing black flames, was equally good at harnessing her own anger.
Aello wasn’t angry about it; Leah had practically exposed the answer to him.
Leah’s limbs were trembling gently, as if she had been stripped naked and thrown into the cold sea water.
Without even changing his movements for a second, Aello asked Leah directly, “What are you informing me of this for?”
“Lost Cloisters ……” The information that Leah couldn’t specify, he could just say it.
“So ecumenical? But when you told me about Stuart, aren’t you afraid that it will make me break up with Flimsy, causing the Judgment Court to fall apart, and in the end, you won’t be able to organize an effective fight against the Black Tide?”
Only it wasn’t extinguished, just waiting for a fuel wood to start the fire again.
He was higher, but he knew what kind of thing to do when.
Aello leaned back gently, “Tell me, what do you want to do?”
He wasn’t provoked into resistance by Leah’s words, in Aello’s opinion, whether it was his compromise with Frim or arguing with Frim to the point of triggering an earthquake, it all boiled down to making this continent of Nephrite hold out against the encroaching Black Tide.
If Leah proposed to him to directly break with Flim and the two parties fought, he would never agree. Instead, he might directly hand Leah over to Frim to deal with as a result. This seemingly unsympathetic scene was also all for the sake of the stability of the Judgment Court.
Without the Verdict Court, relying on his strength alone, he would not be able to protect Black Flame at all.
However, Leah’s next words were not to provoke the relationship between the two.
“Your Majesty Elloe, we all recognize that in the heart of Court Master Frim, protecting the continent of Nephrite and fending off the Black Tide comes first. It’s just that with the passage of time, there are many things that occupy his mind. We just hope that Lord Frim can return to purity and focus on resisting the Black Tide’s encroachment on Nefret.”
“It seems the forces behind you are not small.” Aello let out a light laugh, “Don’t talk about these falsehoods, tell me, what do you want me to do this time when you come to persuade me, or just persuade me not to do anything.”
Leah caressed her chest and bowed in curtsy, “I’m sorry, Your Majesty Aello, I only came here today to convey our philosophy to you, and I do not intend to use this opportunity to exchange your promises. We are well aware that even if you promise today, you will surely break it in the coming days, once we find out that we have done something detrimental to Nefertiti. We just hope that when you are required to make a choice in the future, you will consider what is best for Nefertiti, rather than worrying about human relationships and entangled interests.”
“Finished? That’s all?” Aello was a little less convinced.
Leah remained bowed, raising her head just slightly, “Finished, that’s all.”
No sooner had her words left her mouth, however, than out of the corner of her eye she suddenly saw a flash of black fire that ended in a violent crash and a fierce explosion.
At the deafening sound of the explosion, Leah almost thought she had been turned into charcoal in the flames. But when she regained a little bit of consciousness, she found herself lying on the ground of the small garden, with searing pain coming from all over her body, almost forcing her to faint again.
She was a little stunned for a moment, not expecting Emperor Aello to do this.
In the bottom of her heart, she was somewhat chagrined and aggravated that she had not been able to properly complete the task that Lord Sol had given her after all.
She struggled to get up from the ground, there was still some skin tissue that had been stripped away in the act of getting up.
It hurt, but Leah didn’t dare to perform sorcery in Emperor Arrow’s small garden, it might anger her opponent again.
She limped outside, her flesh and blood clinging to her clothes as she cast the second penal code.
In order not to faint again, she reflected on what she had done wrong as she walked, and when Leah finally stepped out of the small garden, two familiar figures rushed over to her.
These were the two wizards who had traveled with Leah, and they were holding Leah on the left and the right, with shock in their eyes.
They asked about the other one, and Leah told them with difficulty that the man had turned to ash.
One of the older wizards shook his head and said, “I’ve told you not to take the initiative to bother His Majesty Aello, you young people, that’s ……”
He didn’t say the latter words, but Leah also knew that the other party thought that he and the already dead wizard had relied on the identity of the Judgment Court’s wizard to go and communicate with Ai Luo, and had behaved in a careless manner, and deserved to be cleaned up by the other party like this.
Listening to the sorcerer’s chanting from the side, Leah suddenly realized why Emperor Aello attacked himself in the end!
The sorcerer who directly entered the garden before was precisely instigated by Leah to take the initiative to offend Emperor Aello. Leah, on the other hand, wanted to take the opportunity to apologize and speak to Aello.
But this was still a bit abrupt, and Leah returning intact might be suspected of having said something to Aello that caused him not to teach her a lesson.
And now, Aello’s last blow nearly roasted her to a crisp as well, so that any communication there might have been between the two became an offense to a fourth-ranked sorcerer, and she was taught a direct lesson that nearly killed her.
Soon, the three walked out of Emperor Aello’s chambers, one sorcerer still chattering as if he was afraid of being relieved of his wrath, while the other sorcerer directly began to help Leah with her burns.
Leah could only let out a bitter smile in the face of the mind-numbing accusations, “I know, I really do.”
(End of chapter)