Chapter 298 – Talks on board
Chapter 298 – Talks on the Boat
A few days later, a hidden message traveled from the desert north to the wasteland.
A strange large ship traveling on land.
Two men standing on the wind.
“Cadiz has planted the seal, you can notify the people inside.” One of the men said calmly.
“This time, the temporary change of plans, acting in haste, Cadiz has not returned so far …… Will the matter of the seal go wrong?” The other one was frowning.
The first one shook his head, “The blood on the new buds of the Lost Soul Flower is fresh, Cadiz could have been injured in the battle. Maybe he was hurt so badly that he didn’t make it back. However, it doesn’t matter even if he died out there. As long as the mission is completed, he’s useless.”
“What if he’s captured by the people from the Witch Tower? Will it leak out our plan?”
“Don’t worry. Before sending Cadiz out, his mentor had already left the imprint of the Lost Soul Flower inside his spirit. Even if someone tortures him severely, he won’t be able to recall anything about the Lost Soul Flower.”
“Luckily then, the ability of the Lost Soul Flower is still believable. It turns out that you guys were prepared to give him up before. Losing a third level apprentice for nothing doesn’t hurt you?”
The first man turned his head to look at the second man.
He had a short layer of beard on his face, but if someone looked closely, they would realize that those beards had been twisting in small increments.
The second man lowered his head at his look.
“Are you testing my resolve?” He clasped the second man’s head and pressed him down to himself, “I, Wilde, will always honor my word. Since I’ve already signed the agreement, I won’t regret it even if I have to trap the whole team of landwalkers in it.”
Wilde, the captain of the land rowboat, was also the only second-order official sorcerer in this organization.
Because of Wilde’s movements, the two men’s faces were close together.
This should have been a distance close enough to make even a man feel ambiguous, but in the next second, the whiskers on Wilde’s face suddenly twisted and lengthened, digging deep into the other person’s flesh.
Drops of blood coalesced and slid down from the latter’s face and neck, falling onto the rough wooden deck of the land ship.
And then it seeped in along the cracks.
The second man’s whole body was trembling, he wanted to speak, but his lips were already sewn shut by Wilde’s beard, and when he tried to open them, he could only reveal a mouth full of black silk.
The man stared with bloodshot eyes, desperately looking upwards, hoping that Wilde could see his intention to beg for mercy.
Wilde did not look back at the man, already covered in blood, as he stared flatly ahead at the rising sun at the end of the desert.
It was already like a sunset in his eyes.
Until the struggling movements of the man in his arms all began to weaken, Wilde released the other party.
“You remember, when this is accomplished, I will marry Kira and become the new king of Kemah. And whatever happens in Kemah in the future, you are not allowed to interfere.”
The loosened man flung himself to his knees, his hands trembling as he stroked his face as if he were touching a rough piece of sandpaper. Pain began to rise as the beard receded, causing the man’s words to break.
“Yes, yes, everything, everything according to, according to the tripartite agreement.”
Wilde nodded, “That’s good.”
“Then, then I’ll go back first, I need to get, get this message back as soon as possible.”
“Get lost.”
After the second man got off the boat with his ass in the air, Wilde still looked in the direction of the rising sun.
“Is that Saul really that important? I heard that Golza, who hardly ever leaves the Wizard’s Tower, once made a special trip to pick him up.” Another man stepped onto the deck.
Wilde didn’t turn around, “So we’re interested in that boy. But several attempts to send someone to reach him have failed. Golza seems intent on protecting him.”
The newcomer rubbed his fingertips together, “I have a destructive streak when it comes to people Gortha has his eye on.”
Wilde said lightly, “Aruba, you’d better not take any liberties. I wouldn’t be the angriest person to ruin the plan.”
The second prince of the Duchy of Knuckles was also the person they currently had the best hope of advancing to the second rank of official sorcerer. It was a pity that the promotion had unexpectedly failed a while ago and he had been injured instead. However, he also used the excuse of being in seclusion to recuperate from his injuries to secretly come to the land traveling boat by himself.
After all, there were some means of recuperating from injuries that were not good to perform openly and honestly within the country.
“I know, I don’t want to bear those people’s long suppressed anger for Golza. Haha, but I just wonder, if one day, Golza realizes that the apprentice he focused on cultivating has instead become a guillotine guillotine, I wonder if he will still be able to laugh at that time?”
“Golza’s real purpose for going out that time wasn’t to pick up an apprentice oh~”
Suddenly, a voice filled with laughter inserted itself into the two’s conversation.
“Who?” Aruba’s face changed and looked in the direction of the source of the voice.
Wilde, on the other hand, was still staring at the rising sun with a pale expression.
At that moment, a man with handsome silver hair and a frivolous expression slowly walked out from within the burning sun.
He was casually carrying a harp in his hand, looking as if it would slip from his fingertips at any moment.
Wilde’s eyes happened to be gazing in the direction where Kismet appeared, as if he hadn’t just been looking at the sunrise, but at the silver-haired man standing within the sun’s halo.
“Who are you?” Aruba hadn’t seen Kismet before, but he knew the two knew each other by looking at Wilde’s calm demeanor.
“Just an insignificant man.” Kismet landed on the deck and shook the harp in his hand at Aruba.
Aruba looked at the harp, and memories of his failed promotion suddenly flooded his mind.
That scene seemed to be related to the harp as well.
The musicians responsible for playing it at that time had all been executed by Aruba, but that only helped him vent his frustration a little.
The chagrin of the failed promotion had never fully subsided until now.
Looking at the attitude of the silver-haired man in front of him when he faced Wilde, Aruba guessed that the visitor was also a second-order sorcerer.
He threw away those unimportant memories in his mind and slightly corrected his tone.
“Are you also a guest entertained by the captain?”
Kismet leaned back, leaning on the railing and resting his harp on a raised piece of wood.
“I’m just here for the pleasure.”
“You just said that Gortha was out for another purpose, what exactly is it?” Wilde’s brow furrowed impatiently when he saw Kismet chatting with Aruba but not about the more intriguing topic he had just mentioned.
Kismet turned her head sideways and gently tickled the strings with her little thumb, making a “ting–” sound.
“He was actually on his way to meet an old friend. Saved his young apprentice on the way back.”
“Who did he meet?” Wilde was a little worried that the presence of Gortha’s old friend would interfere with their plans.
“A half-elf.”
Horrified!
Different levels of demeanor changes appeared on both Wilde and Aruba’s faces.
The atmosphere tensed up for a moment.
“Will that half-elf affect our plans?” Wilde continued to ask.
“It won’t oh.” Kismet raised her index finger and shook it, “You all know how hard it is for a half-elf to live peacefully in this world. She wouldn’t go out of her way for anyone. You all also know that every time a half-elf makes a move, it lowers her connection with this world. Once the connection weakens to a certain level, she will disappear like other elves.”
“Even if the half-elf won’t strike at will, how can you guarantee that her relationship with Golza won’t affect our plans?” Aruba pressed.
Kismet turned her head to the other side again, facing Aruba, and smiled, “Because that half-elf …… is also an old friend of mine~”
(End of chapter)