Otherworldly Apprentice Lich and Foot Knight

"Look at my face, do you think I believe what you say?" Zhou Lingke pointed at his face and stared at His Majesty the King.

"Believe it?" Frank said immediately in surprise, but Zhou Lingke immediately breathed out from his nostrils, and the king immediately froze, "I don't believe it..."

"Come on, you also said that you were going to tell me, so why are you still sticky for so long?"

"Teacher, am I thinking of how to explain it to you more clearly?" Frank scratched the back of his head, signaling Zhou Lingke to be calm, "Just a few days ago, the disturbance that happened while hunting was not an accident, it was Someone wants to attack you. And these people who want to attack you are not a group of people, but several waves of people. This matter is more complicated. At that time, the people who attacked you included Prince Zoe’s men, some and Ka The scum in Mangtan who Doss connected online, some people who oppose necromancers, and those who feel that their interests have been violated because of the mourning tower you built."

"..." Zhou Lingke was in a complicated mood. Although he knew that there were many people who didn't like him, but now that Frank mentioned them one by one, he realized that this was far beyond his imagination, "So I am so hated. "

"It's not so much hate, it's more fear." Frank's eyes lit up with joy, "Your power makes them fearful, they don't even dare to use assassination methods, but only dare to use that kind of cover" accident 'The murder of the coat."

Zhou Lingke took this as a compliment in front of him: "But what does this have to do with Xia En leaving?"

"Now that I am the king, I will treat those subjects who once belonged to Uncle Wang with a magnanimous attitude according to the teacher's teaching."

Regarding the matter of "teaching", Zhou Lingke did not shake his head to deny it. He did tell Frank a lot of stories when he was teaching him alchemy, and they were basically stories about the kings of China. He was also worried at the beginning whether this would happen It is misleading children, after all, these stories are stories after all.And whether the story of the eastern world can be applied to this world, no one can tell.For example, this time, he let go of those who had followed Prince Zoe, which indeed brought about a short period of stability in Mangtan's political situation, but after this period of time, those people were grateful for Frank's generosity and offered their loyalty to him. , or will wait for an opportunity to retaliate after lurking, no one can tell.You must know that Prince Zoe has a son. Since Prince Zoe has not been stamped with the coup d'état, this child is now the first heir to the throne.

"Don't trust me too much, and... have you ever thought about marrying a wife?"

Because of his own relationship, Zhou Lingke actually dislikes this kind of forced marriage by the elders.But in Frank's current situation, it is really safer for him to get married. Even if he has no heirs by then, his wife's order of succession will be ahead of his cousins.

"..." Frank was silent for a while, not angry, he knew that Zhou Lingke was concerned about him, in fact, Queen Sofia's suggestion that he could choose his own marriage was indeed a slipper to a certain extent, but he knew that in fact the old woman also With ulterior motives, "Teacher, what we are talking about now is not my business, right?" Frank is no longer naive in many things, but when it comes to emotional issues, he decided to be naive. He has to wait for a true love Appear.

Frank's change of subject made Zhou Lingke understand what he meant: "That's right! Why don't you say it quickly?"

"Okay, okay, I'll continue right away. In short, I have trustworthy people around me, but I'm not sure whether they can still be trusted in your matter, teacher."

"The order that Sean took away is about me? What is it?"

"Retrieve the central hub of the mourning tower."

"What happened to the comfort pagoda?!" Zhou Lingke was taken aback, "What central hub?"

"The comfort tower suddenly stopped working half a month ago, but the news has been blocked. Teacher, don't you even know what the central hub of your comfort tower is?"

"If it's broken, let me repair it. Crystal skull?" There are actually two centers in the comfort tower, one is the alchemy skull buried in the ground as the foundation and the transmission of magic power circulation, and the other is on the top of the tower. Basically equivalent to the Crystal Skull of the master computer.

"That's it. And..." Frank hesitated for a while, but finally decided to tell the truth, "Some people say that this crystal skull can comfort the restless souls in chaos, but it can also summon the resting souls back to the world. Let them fall into perpetual mania and restlessness."

"It's not someone who said this, but I said this myself when I was building the tower." Zhou Lingke nodded and shook his head again, "Because if I don't say it, someone will definitely guess it. Instead of letting them toss about it afterwards, it's better for me to make a decision first." Make it clear. However, there are still some people who don’t believe in evil... However, I have added insurance to the Crystal Skull, and if anyone wants to reverse the operation, the Crystal Skull will only be blown up.”

Frank was obviously relieved: "I should have asked you earlier."

"Who stole the Crystal Skull?"

"Although they don't admit it, they are probably members of the Hidden Eye Church."

"You sent Sean out to fight with the people from the church?"

"Sai Lun's legion is Mangtan's, which has the most noble children besides the Guards, and is also the second most trustworthy besides the Guards. If you want to fight the church, you can only use them." Mang Tan's Honored children refer to those who have been knighted for military exploits for several generations, and they will not be the more common knights of the fourth-level knights, but they must be first-class viscounts or the like.Such people are more loyal to the country than those at the bottom, and more pure than those at the top. They are the backbone of all aspects.

"Because of me, the relationship with the church has deteriorated to the point of a fight?" Zhou Lingke frowned.

"The relationship between Mangtan and the church has never been good. Otherwise, why would Mangtan only have a small sect like the Hidden Eye to build a temple here?" Pride—Don’t underestimate Mang Tan, if the kings of other countries knew about Mang Tan’s relationship with the church, nine out of ten would be jealous of him.The one who is not jealous is probably a country where theocracy and kingship are unified, and he himself should be the Pope or Pope or something like that.

"Didn't you lie to me?"

"..."

"Why don't you talk?" This silence gave Zhou Lingke a bad feeling.

"Actually, apart from those public aspects, I asked Xia En to deliver the letter for me, and there are also private reasons."

"what?"

"I hope he can stand on an equal footing with you." In other words, he hopes to give Xia En as much military merit as possible.

Zhou Lingke smiled, patted Frank on the shoulder, and stood up: "I have to continue my research. Those things are done, and they will be of great help to you."

Two months later, a dense forest.

Xia En was resting against the root of a big tree. The leather armor on his body was ragged, and the sweat flowing from his forehead plowed out gullies on his muddy and blood-stained face.Beside him were four or five reckless soldiers who were in the same situation as him. Except for one who was squatting in the bushes a little far away to watch, the others were resting just like Xia En, either sitting or lying down.

"Let's go." Sean stood up and ordered while subconsciously touching a thing wrapped in rags around his waist. Here was a crystal tibia, which was part of the stolen crystal skull.As for the Crystal Skull as a whole, as long as it is a little bit more reliable, it will become a waste product. The Crystal Skull only refers to the appearance of this thing. Only Zhou Lingke knows what to do.

What Frank told Zhou Lingke was only the general situation, and the specific implementation here is actually more complicated.Mangtan's terrain surrounded by natural barriers left them with only one external passage, the Black Stone Fort—the secret underwater passage in Sopota Town, which had been bombed and collapsed.The other party stole the Crystal Skull, and no matter what, he finally got the Black Rock Fort.However, the sad thing is that Mang Tan is still unable to openly fight with the Church of the Hidden Eye.This also means that the other party's theft was carried out secretly, and their recovery must also be carried out secretly.

Therefore, the chasing troops marched towards Blackstone Fort under the name of escorting the magic crystal tribute.And the thief probably noticed something, the news from the spies was that the opponent's team suddenly accelerated their marching speed!The opponent accelerated, and of course they also accelerated, and even the magic spar was put behind.But when he was about to catch up, Xia En and his team were asked to stand by as a reserve team. Xia En knew that this was to protect him, and he felt a little awkward. After all, he was desperate, so he just waited to receive the reward alright.But he still didn't say much, and stayed where he was.

But unexpectedly, Xia En found another team.It turned out that the Crystal Skull had changed hands.But what he can do is to ask people to report the news, while trying to delay the time of the other team. Although he took advantage of the chaos to grab a crystal tibia, but in the end, the half of the team he brought also did not give up. Zhi has not found reinforcements, and is even now lost in the dense forest.All the dry food they carried was exhausted. Fortunately, there was no shortage of water in this place, but they couldn't live in case they found out. They have been in the dense forest for three days now, and everyone's physical strength is somewhat exhausted.

"Cuckoo!" The sentinel uttered a strange cry, and the people lying on the ground immediately turned over and stood up.The sentinel retreated, gestured to Xia En and the others, and they immediately turned around and ran away—after a few days of life and death fleeing, now including the newly joined Xia En, the tacit understanding among these few people is already excellent.

"Whoosh!" "Boom!" But the speed of the people who came this time was too fast. Two minutes later, the last demihuman tripped over a vine and fell to the ground. When he went to untie the vine, he found that it was nothing natural, it was a whip: "Run!" The dagger hidden in the man's cuff slipped out with a movement of his hand, but before his dagger touched the whip, more whips had already protruded from behind the trees, they were like living monsters, He strangled the soldier's hands, feet and head, and tightened with the whip!The soldier didn't even have time to utter a second cry before he was dragged into pieces.

"Girl in Pain! Let's go!" Everything happened in a lightning-fast time. Xia En and the others just turned around and saw their comrades were divided into corpses. Sean.

The image of the god enshrined in the Hidden Eye Church is a one-eyed woman in black. She is called the Dark Lady. The Pope of this church has to endure pain in life so that he can embrace a quiet and perfect death after death.And each church has a strongest military force that enjoys the grace of God according to their respective statements. The strongest military force of the Hidden Eye Church is a group of ascetic monks called Maidens of Pain.

Having lived in Mangtan for so long, these are common knowledge, and Xia En still knows them.But he never knew that the girl in pain was like this.With the sound of rustling footsteps, the murderer who just killed their comrades walked out of the darkness. Judging from their figures, they were all young girls, definitely not more than 17 years old, and everyone was wearing the same mourning clothes. In a black gauze skirt, wearing a black-headed roc, covering his eyes with a black eye patch, and waving a whip in his hand.

Xia En was pushed again, he gritted his teeth, and ran deeper into the jungle alone!