Chapter 911:
Chapter 898: Report
While Saul was busy pulling people in everywhere, Golza, who had left the Kemah Duchy for a few years, finally set foot on this familiar land once again.
After receiving Yura’s letter before sighing, he decided to make a trip back, only on the way back, Golza didn’t use sorcery to catch up, nor did he take the convenient and fast airship, but instead, he was alone, leaning on a wooden staff that was up to the height of his chest, and slowly and leisurely walked back from the far north.
The tall Wall of Sighs blocked the cold currents from the north, and the Duchy of Kemah had only just entered spring when the temperature began to rise steeply.
And a person like Golza, whose entire body was covered in a wide gray cloak, stood out.
From time to time, there were pedestrians on the side of the road casting exploratory gazes, but they wouldn’t come up to ask anything, and no one even talked about it.
People with strange demeanor could be eccentric in character, but they could also be a sorcerer.
Ordinary people simply didn’t want to cross paths with witches if they didn’t have to.
Golza was just walking alone on the road, it was more like an outing when he said he was in a hurry.
He wasn’t in a hurry, there were people who were in a hurry for him.
The day after Gortha entered Khema territory, a group of soldiers met him on the road.
When Golza’s hand pressed downward with a little force, the latter’s knees went weak and squatted directly after him, eventually even sitting on the ground.
Gortha stood still and half-turned around to ask a question.
He lowered his eyes, “Tell Yura I’ll be there, and not to hurry. If her news is really current, then she won’t have to wait for me above, she’ll come to me herself. So …… don’t disturb me on my walk.”
The body of the sorcerer sitting on the ground shook.
But he also didn’t dare to let his mission end in failure just like that.
Those who failed in their promotion would have a period of weakness, and some would even go straight into a state of serious injury on the verge of alienation. This period of weakness could last for a few months, while others would last for a few years.
Golza suddenly raised his hand and pressed it on the other party’s face, and the latter was immediately too frightened to even move.
By this time, Golza had already withdrawn his hand and wiped his palm on his cloak, as if he had touched something dirty.
But this was certainly not something that could be said explicitly. The sorcerer remembered what someone had told him before he set out, so he puffed out his chest slightly and said, “Lord Golza, Archduke Kira asked me to remind you that some things have a statute of limitations.”
The person in the lead was a first-rank official sorcerer, and a magnificent carriage pulled by four steeds was parked behind him.
The opposite sorcerer’s mouth twitched, thinking, “If you didn’t have sorcery to not use, and had to use your feet to hurry, and had traveled for two months before just reaching the Kemah border, do we need to go through so much trouble to pick up someone?”
“Lord Golza, Archduke Kira sent us to pick you up.”
In the sorcerer’s opinion, Golza’s body must have been traumatized even though he couldn’t see any abnormality on the surface. So he was still taking care of Golza’s dignity when he said that the other party was in a bad mood.
Previously, Golza had been restraining his magic power and spiritual power, and from the outside, he looked no different from an ordinary person, which made him, who had never faced a third-ranked sorcerer directly, a little complacent, and actually unconsciously began to imitate the look of his superior who had told him these words.
The greeting sorcerer hurriedly said attentively, “Lord Kira knows that your body …… is probably not in a good mood right now, and riding in our carriage can be more comfortable.”
Therefore, even though there was still no way to get up from the ground, he still asked with a trembling voice, “Golza Da, my lord, when are you, when are you going to the state capital?”
“No need,” Golza waved his hand casually and continued to walk forward on his wooden staff, “You are not as fast as I am.”
Gortha glanced at the greeting wizard and smiled, “Kira wouldn’t send a wagon to pick me up. Don’t ye know I’m good at hurrying?”
“Do you know why there is only one wizard in your party?”
The wizard on the ground froze.
“Because they’re afraid of wasting it, heh ……” Gortha left a soft chuckle and lifted his steps to continue on his way.
The sorcerer who was left behind thought blankly for half a day, until the soldiers behind him lost sight of Golza’s figure and came over to help him did not understand what was meant by “afraid of wasting”.
Still, one of the soldiers reminded him in a low voice, “Maybe when Archduke Kira sent us out, he didn’t think we would make it back alive.”
The sorcerer who was helped up immediately glared at him.
The sorcerer couldn’t understand, if it was an ordinary soldier being pushed out as cannon fodder, that was normal, but he was a formal sorcerer, and even the entire Kemah Duchy didn’t have many formal sorcerers!
How could Archduke Kira treat him as cannon fodder as well?
Golza didn’t care anymore about the sorcerers and soldiers that were left behind and continued to move forward.
He just kept walking like this. When he felt tired, he sat on a big rock by the roadside to rest, and when he felt sleepy, he jumped on a small tree with new green shoots to sleep peacefully as well.
Along the way, he even ate as much as he wanted, eating when he wanted to, and if he didn’t want to eat, he would just absorb the magic power around him to replenish his energy.
In this way, Golza wandered to a small village outside of King Kemah’s city, as long as you cross the moat, even if you enter the boundaries of the king’s city.
The people in the small village are mostly farmers, they are turning over the soil, but there are not many people inside the village.
Just as Golza was about to run straight through the hamlet, a small brown branch suddenly emerged from the muddy countryside path.
It was like a new bud sprouting in response to spring, only the growth rate was a little too fast to be scary.
The original branch that was not as thick as a human finger grew to be small-arm thick and one meter tall in a few breaths, then continued to fork and extend into the shape of a small tree.
It was just that this small tree was bare, and there were no buds, as if it didn’t intend to sprout and grow leaves at all.
Golza footsteps, then step forward, reach out and “click” directly broke a branch down, and raised to the eye to observe carefully.
“Well, the upside down tree. So …… this is a tree root.”
Golza put down the root, and then realized that the small bare tree in front of him had actually withered and disappeared at a much faster speed.
Golza of course knew that the Inverted Tree was the treasure of the Baidong Academy, and now that the Baidong Academy had been destroyed, the only remaining personnel had basically gone their own ways. And the Inverted Tree was self-enclosed in the old site of Baidong Academy.
“Could it be that the Inverted Tree woke up from its sleep and started running around?”
It was important to realize that Baidong Academy was not close to this side.
“If it’s really that tree running around on its own, then it should have already recovered to the third rank.” The corners of Golza’s mouth curled up slightly, the expression on his face finally changing slightly as he stared at the small hole left in the ground due to the withering of the tree’s roots, his eyes gradually glowing, “Finally, we’ve seen something interesting!”
Golza hadn’t considered the possibility of it being another Inverted Tree, that probability was even lower than the probability of the Inverted Tree itself lifting its roots and pulling its legs out.
Right now, he had forgotten about the invitation from Kira, or rather Yura, and was bent on seeing this Inverted Tree that had managed to recover to the third rank without its keeper.
“There must be interesting secrets in it.” Just as Golza was about to put his hand into the cavern in the ground, a piece of parchment cut down to the size of his thumb suddenly jumped out of the opening.
Golza immediately changed his probing to grasping, and then he read the words on the parchment.
“Kira is being held captive by Yura.”
(End of chapter)