The wizard starts by trimming the donkey's hooves

Chapter 568 The True Form of the Goddess
"I think the first thing we need to do now is to stabilize the situation in the empire." Ryan said as he looked at the powerful men of the empire around him, his eyes passing over Elder Ivan, Reginald, Lambert and others.

"I suggest that the Imperial Guardians quickly form teams of varying sizes and head to various provinces. There is only one requirement: to quickly crush the cult's activities."

Ryan's words made many of the imperial guardians present nod their heads.

"My Lord Iron Throne, if we form a team, we are confident that we can solve most of the problems. But if the gods descend in an incarnation, except for His Majesty the likes of His Majesty Walkermas, we are afraid that..." At this time, an imperial guardian frowned and said.

"Don't worry. Most of the evil gods have already fallen and incarnated once again when they were in the floating city. Unless they don't want to revive as soon as possible, otherwise, they will not easily descend to incarnate in a short period of time."

Ryan waved his hand and said.

"Hiss~" Upon hearing the news, a group of imperial guardians opened their eyes slightly and looked at Ryan in surprise.

They didn't expect to hear such news.

Naturally, no one doubted the authenticity of this news. After all, these words came from the mouth of the first full moon wizard in a thousand years.

Moreover, everyone knew that it was highly likely that the fall of the incarnations of the gods was caused by the Iron Throne in front of them.

The originally solemn atmosphere in the conference room suddenly relaxed!
"That's great! If that's the case, I think there will be no problem in quickly stabilizing the situation in the empire." Walkmas laughed.

"By the way, what about the imperial capital?" Elder Ivan suddenly thought of it.

Ryan looked at Cologne Cathedral with deep eyes and said, "I will be stationed in the imperial capital."

"Also, if you really encounter the incarnation of a god descending, you can send a message immediately. As long as the province is very far from the imperial capital, I will arrive quickly."

Although his attack just now frightened the evil demon's clone and made it dare not expand recklessly anymore.

But after the other party digests and absorbs this wave, it will inevitably seek to infect more lives again.

What he could do now was, on the one hand, to keep giving the evil demon some eye drops to make it recover as slowly as possible, and on the other hand, to see if he could find the whereabouts of the second copy of the Key of Time from the information.

"Okay! Lord Iron Throne, Your Highness Menia, what are we waiting for? Let's act quickly." Sword Saint Lambert said with a smile.

"Yes!"

“It’s time to act.”

The Imperial Guardians all agreed.

The battle with the evil spirits was quite frustrating for most of them!
Because when facing evil spirits, if they are only a little bit weaker than them, they will worry about being infected after being injured, and thus be timid. The numerical advantage of the imperial guardians cannot be turned into an advantage in the situation, but when facing evil cults, it is completely different.

Three days in a row.

'Red Queen' Menia didn't have much chance to rest as she was constantly arranging a series of important events for the empire.

Since the evil spirit shrank, the area where the evil spirit has been lurking is roughly a semicircular area with a diameter of several miles centered on Cologne Cathedral.

Compared to the entire imperial capital of Tamriel, this area is neither big nor small, but it happens to cover most of the inner ring and the palace, and touches a part of the second ring area.

The areas of small nobles and wealthy merchants outside the Third Ring Road were not severely damaged. As for the outer trade areas and residential areas of the people within the Fourth and Fifth Ring Roads, there was almost no damage.

However, even so, the panicked people in the imperial capital did not dare to live in their own homes. Many left the imperial capital for other provinces, but most of the civilians stayed.

Because the people saw that the imperial high-ranking officials headed by the 'Red Queen' did not evacuate the imperial capital. More importantly, they also heard that a demigod was born in the empire!
This has greatly increased people's confidence.

Fortunately, there are large manors and fields on the outskirts of the imperial capital, which were originally used to supply the imperial capital with food, shelter and other supplies, and can accommodate most of the people.

As for the guardians of the empire, they had already formed teams according to the meeting arrangements three days ago and were heading to various provinces to provide support, wipe out the cult and restore the situation. Currently, the progress is going smoothly and the situation in the empire is gradually recovering.

On the outskirts of the imperial capital, Rose Manor.

The Rose Manor, which originally belonged to the Dragon royal family, has now become the temporary residence of Ryan and his family.

For Ryan, who has the ability of "shadow travel", as long as the distance is not too far, there will not be any big problem. Going to the camp or to Cologne Cathedral to suppress the evil spirit can be reached in an instant.

In the study on the second floor of the manor, Ryan was quickly flipping through the box of information he got from Cologne Cathedral.

After reading these materials intermittently over the past few days, Ryan has basically finished reading them.

Many of the records are not intentionally vague, but the recorders themselves are unclear about the whereabouts of the artifacts, and the information left behind is often various speculations and investigations.

In other words, Ryan needs to find the clues he needs among a large amount of not very relevant information.

".After defeating the evil demon and a group of evil gods, the goddess began to travel to various places to seal various powerful beasts."

"After that, it seems that no one has seen the goddess fighting with the divine weapon again."

Ryan closed a brown-covered diary and thought.

"Unlike the way the goblin princess Amora used the secondary key, the goddess did not use the secondary key to imprison the evil spirit's clone. So where did she put the secondary key?"

After summarizing the scattered records, Ryan vaguely grasped something.

"Wait, why is it a seal? And not a kill?"

"Logically speaking, these beasts are far more powerful than the goddess Matilda, and can even defeat evil demons and evil gods. Why should they be sealed?"

Suddenly, a flash of lightning flashed through Ryan's mind, tearing through the fog.

"If it were me, unless I was not strong enough to kill these giant beasts, there would be no need to choose to seal them with the help of a group of powerful believers."

"Not strong enough?"

"Then it is very likely that he is injured?"

"Yes, that should be the case! Although it may not necessarily be an injury, it is definitely impossible to exert his full strength."

"So, the Secondary Key of the Key of Time was used to suppress the injury?"

Ryan's eyes became brighter.

In other words, the second secondary key is most likely next to the sleeping goddess.

"Even. The one who sealed the giant beasts in various places was not the goddess herself, but her incarnation. This can perfectly explain all the unreasonable things."

"At least, that's a possibility."

Ryan stood up suddenly, raised his eyebrows, and said excitedly.

"In other words, the key time point is the period after the goddess's battle with the evil demons and the evil gods and before she started the sealed journey. Where did the goddess Matilda go?"

Ryan quickly came to the silver box and took out many ancient books, ancient diaries and old parchment scrolls, all of which recorded information about relevant time points.

"After the war of gods ended, the goddess took pity on the world and first placed a three-headed sea dragon with a devil's tail on the coast of Mayest County." Ryan held an old parchment scroll and read softly.

After a while, Ryan disappeared in the study in a flash.

When he appeared again, he was already in the air very far away from the imperial capital. After determining the direction again, Ryan's figure flashed for the second time and he arrived at the seaside of Mayest County.

Since absorbing the fifth fragment of the divine power, Ryan's mental power has further increased and his maximum travel distance has become longer.

The distance that would have taken a high-speed airship at least half a day to travel was reached in just two swishes.

Looking at the familiar coast in front of him, Ryan couldn't help but sigh. The two passages that originally led to the underground were now guarded by only a few imperial soldiers. Obviously, since the last time the magic tail three-headed sea dragon broke the seal and fought with Menia, the importance of this place has greatly decreased.

The next moment, Ryan arrived at the familiar underground hall.

There was no one inside the huge bronze forbidden door, but the remaining aura of the three-headed sea dragon with a demonic tail was still there and did not dissipate so quickly.

After looking around, Ryan turned around and fixed his eyes on the underground hall paved with light blue stone slabs.

I saw a surge of mental power, with him as the center, exploring towards the bottom of the hall.

"If it's really as I guessed, it should be not far from here, even..."

"It's probably right down there!"

The powerful mental force of the Full Moon Wizard level rushed down like a drill into the ground!

Fifty meters underground.

one hundred meters
Two hundred meters.
"Huh? No. Did I guess wrong?" Ryan frowned and thought to himself.

Three hundred meters.
"Found it!" Ryan's face lit up with joy!
The next second, his figure disappeared again and came deeper underground.

And in a secret room that no one had visited for probably tens of thousands of years, a tall and slender figure appeared at this moment.

The first thing that caught Ryan's eye was a rectangular stone platform in the center of the secret room, four huge luminous pearls, and a striking female body on the platform.

Although the other party was wearing a cockscomb-shaped helmet and a light blue simple battle armor, and her face could not be seen clearly, the towering bulge on the breastplate and the unique hem of the armor all indicated that the other party was a woman.

However, what attracted Ryan's attention more was the secondary key of the Key of Time held in his hands.

There is a hollow ring at the top and a vertical sword-like shape at the bottom. It is exactly the same as the secondary key he got from the goblin princess Amora.

In addition, Ryan also keenly noticed that at the bottom of the secondary key ring, the shiny gravel like fine sand was only about one tenth left.

"Huh? This is it!"

As Ryan got closer, he was shocked by the scene before him.

Under the protection of the faint colorful halo, through the gaps in the goddess's armor skirt, one can actually see the traces of evil spirit.

"Is this... infected by evil spirit?"

Ryan looked shocked, but after checking again and again, he was sure that if the person in front of him was the true body of Matilda, the goddess of monsoon and ocean, then she should have been infected by the evil spirit before she fell asleep.

"Even with the power of a true god, it is impossible to drive away the evil spirits?"

Ryan frowned and became more and more afraid of the evil demon.

Goddess Matilda was a true god from ten thousand years ago. Logically speaking, she was a higher being than his current full moon wizard level.

"But fortunately, because of the secondary key of the Key of Time, the evil spirit's erosion has not been completely completed."

Ryan could see that at the seam of the ancient armor's neck, the skin on the goddess Matilda's neck was white and shiny, and extremely normal, without any sign of being infected by evil spirits.

In other words, the other party's body should only be partially infected by the evil spirit.

"I see. It's not that I don't want to, but that I can't."

"That's why the goddess will use a gentler method like sealing to deal with those giant beasts later."

"At that time, the Divine Body and the Key of Time were used to fight the invasion of evil spirits, so it is likely that they could only use projection, or at most incarnation, to respond to the believers' requests."

After a brief thought, Ryan basically figured out the general outline of the matter.

This is basically consistent with his previous speculation.

Of course, many major events happened during the ten thousand years, such as the kingdom war, the establishment of the Dragun Empire, etc. Ryan still didn't know them very clearly, but these were not the main threads. At least, they had little to do with the sub-key of the Key of Time.

"According to the goblin princess Amora, the two secondary keys can reveal the whereabouts of the real artifact, the Key of Time."

"However, the secondary key currently in the goddess's hand is related to the other party's suppression of the evil demon, so it must not be taken away." Ryan focused his eyes on the secondary key in the hands of the goddess Matilda and thought.

He is not a man who will do anything to achieve his goal.

"What if I put the duplicate key on the other party's duplicate key? Can I achieve the same effect?" Ryan suddenly thought of a method.

at the same time.

In the suburbs of the imperial capital, in the Rose Manor.

"Look up at the sky, Sister Lagre, over there." Sister Mint pointed at the sky and shouted to Lagre who was standing beside her.

Lagre, who was talking to Ryan's mother Emma, ​​couldn't help but look up and look into the distance when she heard Mint's exclamation.

"Is this a floating city?" The next second, La Grey's beautiful eyes widened and she exclaimed.

Everyone in the manor also looked up at the wonderful sight in the distant sky!
In the distance, I saw a huge hemisphere with a flat surface facing upwards, slowly approaching the imperial capital of Tamriel, towed by dozens of huge airships.

There is also a huge black dragon as big as a large airship on the side, which seems to be guarding it.

This astonishing momentum naturally caused a commotion among the people and nobles in the imperial capital below.

At the temporary camp where Red Queen Menia was located, the Imperial Guardians immediately led two teams of Griffin Knights to meet the huge airship fleet in the sky.

In the floating city.

The main power area on the negative fourth floor.

A group of metal wizards were busy under the unified command of Hiram, moving in and out like diligent worker bees.

"Your Majesty Hiram, regarding the power supply of the floating city, are you sure that Lord Ryan of the Iron Throne has a way to solve it?" The beautiful and plump parliamentarian Trena asked Hiram who was directing the repair work on the side.

She is the head of the federal delegation on this trip.

Originally, she would not have set out to come to the empire like this.

The Federation's previous plan was to arrange an airship in advance to deliver a batch of food and supplies, and it had never thought of transporting the floating city to the Empire.

This is because Hiram, the director of the Federal Mechanical Research Institute, insisted that the repair work must be assisted by the Iron Throne in order to be successful and complete, and to allow the floating city to form combat effectiveness as soon as possible.

In addition, the Federal Parliament learned that the temporarily sealed evil spirits could break the seal at any time, and only Lord Ryan of the Iron Throne could suppress the evil spirits.

After repeated discussions, the Federation agreed to Hiram's suggestion.

"Of course, Senator Trena, Lord Ryan has mentioned this to me before." Hiram nodded affirmatively.

"In addition, the floating city requires a large amount of rare metals. Our Federation's reserves are insufficient, but the Empire's Cyrodiil Plateau has always had rich mineral reserves."

"The current situation requires the concerted efforts of both countries to enable the floating city to become combat-ready as soon as possible."

(End of this chapter)