Throne Steps

Wiggins will definitely be unhappy if Noah is a peacemaker at the dinner.But Li Chen didn't come to see how the flagpole lost his temper. The next day, Li Chen took people to the temple under construction early in the morning.

A corner of the temple could be seen from the side of Zhuoya Qiuming. It seemed quite close, but it still took more than two hours to go up the mountain road.Fortunately, Li Chen's physical skills are not bad, and besides Akeye, most of the others are fighters, so even if he really can't walk, it's easy to carry one.

Climbing up the stairs along the mountain road, one stop at the final turning platform, the white building that can only be seen from a distance is impressively printed from the front.Most of the main works of the temple have been completed, and the simultaneous external body reliefs reveal a sense of holiness everywhere.Although it is only the size of an ordinary temple, it cannot even be fully extended due to objective reasons, but because the place where it stands is different, and the overall direction is inlaid with the majestic mountain, the temple naturally exaggerates the majesty of the mountain.In addition, standing between the mountains, except for the near front, the rest of the place is hard to see the true face, and it is quite mysterious.

There were two men standing at the entrance of the temple, both of them were men in light-colored robes. When they saw Li Chen and the others, they stepped forward to greet them.The man who walked ahead stopped five meters away from Akye, raised his hand and pressed his left chest and leaned forward to salute: "Your Excellency Clement."

Li Chen looked amused from behind Akeye. This guy is obviously the supervisor of "Black Swan", but now he knows that he salutes decently in front of outsiders. He must be a good example for the people on Saenz's side. He was fascinated by it.

Akye responded lukewarmly, and the man stood up straight and took a step back, introducing another person who came later: "This is the main person in charge of the supervision project sent by His Highness Saenz—Kandura. "

Candulla didn't have to salute the person in charge of the "Black Swan", but only nodded with Akye, and smiled at Li Chen: "You are here too, did you climb up by yourself?"

Candulla was originally a member of Saenz's bodyguard. The first time he saw Li Chen was when the child led Akye up the wall of Saenz's courtyard. One of the guards.Now, although he also thinks that Akeye is the person in charge of the "Black Swan", how can the personal guard not know Li Chen's position beside Saenz?Therefore, rather than saying that he came out together with the supervisor of the "Black Swan" to greet the "Black Swan" visitor, it would be better to say that he came to receive the infinitely close "Sarn Envoy".

The "Black Swans" have seen Saenz's "favor" Lichen's tricks before, so they are not surprised that the child is being talked to alone.Li Chen also took a few steps forward in a graceful manner: "You also know how good my morning exercise is. Didn't I rely on these real fighters to come up?"

"You have such a small body, I guess it's not enough." Candulla smiled, then turned to the supervisor of "Black Swan", "Go in?"

The other party agreed on behalf of the "Black Swan", so the group set off for the unfinished temple.

The exterior of the temple looks almost the same, but the interior is still under construction.The unfurnished space does not appear empty. Craftsmen, painters, sculptors and other interior decoration personnel are hanging on rope ladders, sitting on the top of herringbone ladders, or coming and going. Various tools can be seen everywhere.

A member of the "Black Swan" saw the thin paper blanket laid to protect the ground - there were already many mottled white paint marks on it - and looked at the clothes of the two supervisors, and couldn't help feeling: "This kind of You still wear light-colored robes in the environment, which is quite stylish."

Candura smiled and said nothing, and the supervisor of "Black Swan" glanced at his companion: "Welcome etiquette."

Under the guidance of two supervisors, the "Black Swans" visited most of the facilities in the temple, including the main hall, side halls, corridors, various rooms and even the newly completed fountain in the atrium.Li Chen was still trying to speak loudly in the vocal practice room of the chorus team. After a while, the "Black Swan" who was called out came back to report, and a movement could be faintly heard near the entrance of the temple.

Li Chen nodded in satisfaction, since he could vaguely hear what he was saying alone, then the singing of the entire chorus would surely be heard properly.The structure of the church usually puts the sound practice room somewhere inside, but the temple at the foot could not be built according to the conventional structure, so Li Chen simply suggested moving the sound practice room to a place outside.Applied properly, believers can easily become emotionally charged by background music—actually, the singing of a choir.

This is actually the same as Pure White's habit of building a light healing magic circle at the door, to fool believers...to soothe people's hearts.

Somewhere deep there is a room that other churches do not have.According to Li Chen's conception, the ceiling height of this room can be almost as high as the main hall, without any other furniture, only a circular three-step tower-like platform is set in the middle.There is a light opening on the ceiling, inlaid with special stained glass.As long as it is a certain time, the sunlight will pass through the glass to form a beam of light, printing colorful patterns on the circular platform.

This "specific time" will become a fixed time for Wiggins to meditate on the platform every day.

After checking the scene, Li Chen thought to himself, if such a mere formality and elegant props can't help to improve the image of Wiggins, then he is really at the end of his rope.

During the visit, other supervisors also came out to greet everyone, but they all hurried away after meeting each other.The temple will be completed ahead of schedule within the year, and they are really busy.When walking to the innermost part, even Candulla had to work on the engineering part he was in charge of.He whispered a few words with the supervisor of "Black Swan", and left after saying goodbye to everyone.

The supervisor of the "Black Swan" led everyone to the end of the corridor. The room at the end was relatively narrow. Even if the room itself was empty, several big men stood in it, showing a sense of crowding.The room itself has no lighting windows. If you don’t light the lamp stone, you can’t see the room with the door closed.

The "Black Swans" have excellent combat awareness, and they maintain a defensive formation when they walk, and it is even more impossible to close the door rashly now.The door was ajar, one person stayed in the corridor to observe the people coming and going, and the other person was at the door to respond at any time. The supervisor of "Black Swan" didn't care that he was suspected by his own people. He just chanted the unlocking spells of three defensive formations against the wall, and then touched a hidden groove on the wall that would be revealed by sliding to the left. As soon as the things inside were twisted, a flip door appeared on the wall, which turned [-] degrees counterclockwise silently.

A passage appeared behind the wall, lit by a magic lamp all the way down. The "Black Swan" left two people in the corridor and the door to continue monitoring, while the rest followed the supervisor all the way down.

The supervisor is a magician, and he almost kept chanting various unlocking spells along the way.With the help of the light from the lamp stone, Li Chen noticed that the walls on both sides of the stairs were uneven, and there were many traps.

Everyone soon arrived at a slightly spacious platform, where two other supervisors of "Black Swan" were also waiting.Everyone greeted each other, and then the supervisors began to report the current progress of the project to Akye.

This is a side project of excavating a secret passage down the mountain. After the passage is completed, it cannot be used for non-emergency situations.After all, in order to highlight the height of the temple here, it is extremely cold, and only one way up and down was built on the bright side.Although the terrain is easy to defend and difficult to attack, a single passage is definitely a major security problem.Saenz knew the circumstances under which this channel might be used, so he directly transferred some fighters who had lost their combat energy sources from his secret prison to work as laborers. Except for the necessary guards, the rest were completely handed over to the "Black Swan".Even on Saenz's side, there are only four supervisors who know this road, let alone Wiggins, who don't even have a supervisor, and they don't know this passage at all.

As for the fate of these workers, Li Chen made a decision when confirming the cost of personnel. Regardless of whether Saenz agrees or not at that time, this group of people can only be the same as the miners in the Lone Wolf Mine back then.

Anyway, Saenz is willing to call out, which means that these people are useless in the secret prison, right?

But the supervisor on the other side of Saenz has been loyal to Saenz, so he is not afraid that they will violate Saenz; the supervisor on his side has not yet found a suitable person to watch over him.Both Fudexi and Akye have abolished the source, even if a talented person signs a loyalty contract with them, there is still the possibility of breaking free.But whether to let them conclude a contract with him or with someone from Saenz, Li Chen was still undecided for a while.

Li Chen is thinking here, and the work on Akye's side has been confirmed.The big man turned his head to look at Li Chen, seeing that he seemed to be distracted, so he asked, "Do you have anything to say?"

Li Chen stopped thinking, turned his eyes around the three supervisors, and said, "It's nothing else, you four are going to sign a contract of loyalty."

As soon as the overseers received the project for the secret passage, they guessed that it would happen sooner or later.But now that they have entered the "Black Swan", they have never wavered, so they just replied to Li Chen's words: "To whom?"

The situation of Fudexi and Akye is well known to everyone, and it is generally recognized that they are not suitable objects for signing a pledge of allegiance.

And Li Chen is the "mascot" sent by Saenz, and he has a bit of talent, which is quite in line with the objective conditions.Although the supervisor present asked who the target was, most of them already believed that the target would be Li Chen.

But Li Chen hasn't made a decision yet, so he can only answer: "We'll talk about it when the time comes."

The supervisors laughed and said, "Why, it's not you anymore?"

Li Chen also chuckled: "My talent is only a little bit. I'm afraid I won't be able to drag it out."

This was said as a joke, but in fact, it directly pointed out the feeling of worrying about the other party's betrayal.Li Chen's own talent is indeed not very good, and it is not difficult to surpass him.If the talents of these supervisors are much higher than his, and at the same time they attack the loyalty contract, there is a chance of tearing up the contract.Of course, even if such an extreme premise occurs, generally speaking, the success rate is not high.But Lichen also lied to three people who had already pledged their allegiance. When the time comes, there will be seven of them, and four of them are obviously stronger than him. This feeling of being uncontrollable is really unreliable.

Even Saenz, who is extremely difficult to surpass, has never directly signed a loyalty contract with more than thirty people.These were just the beginning of his influence in the early years, so he had to do it as a last resort.Now even if someone needs to take an oath, they seldom sign a contract directly with Saenz, but turn to Saenz's confidantes to implement it.

Of course, apart from Li Chen, no one really rushed forward without saying hello.

Now that Li Chen expressed his concerns so bluntly, the supervisors had nothing to say for a while.It's not a good thing to say, but it's true, and it would be foolish to answer "you have to trust us" at this time.

Akye, who was silent on the side, moved.He approached Li Chen one step at a time, leaned over to pick up the child, Li Chen suddenly lost his balance and had to put his arms around his neck.

"Why?" Li Chen didn't think there was anything surprising, Akeye has always done things with evidence, so just ask.

Akeye moved his neck to let him hug him: "Your feet are floating."

Even after getting the answer, Li Chen was still a little puzzled.When he used to do morning exercises so much that he was exhausted and paralyzed, Akye would at most just stand by the side, and rarely help directly.The child's hand rubbed against Akye's neck inadvertently, and suddenly he had a flash of inspiration, but he nodded as if accepting the answer.

Probably because I heard the words of fear of betrayal, and I will not make trouble when expressing it.But Akeye is quite redundant, his battle energy source has been crippled, and he can't even reach the prerequisite of surpassing Li Chen's talent.

Several "Black Swan" members watched Akye deliberately let Li Chen's hand to his neck, and the corners of their mouths twitched.No matter how low a child's talent is, it would take a matter of minutes to kill Akye in this posture, and Akye's way of expressing "not betraying" can be regarded as unique.

They couldn't guess that the person in charge had actually pledged his allegiance to Li Chen, and they only thought that Lord Clement was showing his loyalty to His Royal Highness Saenz by showing Li Chen.

It turns out that Li Chen came to beat their minds for Saenz?

I have to say that human beings are also quite troublesome, and it is easy to think too much.