Dear Broom Knight.

Chapter 663 The Water Veins Connected by Fate

After taking a closer look, Lowry frowned and said, "This is... the Crystal Palace I placed in the underground water system is sounding an alarm."

Someone might be trying to enter my territory from underground.

He stood up and glanced outside: "Cheska, see where the three little dragons are. Tell them to go back to the castle immediately, or to Bolanos!"

"Yes!" came Chesca's reply from outside the door.

"Deep water?" the Lord of Storms suddenly asked. "How deep?"

Travis remembered, after all, it was Luscania's doing... he had witnessed the girl working.

“It should be about two thousand meters,” he said slowly. “That’s where the cold spring here in Lowry comes from.”

"Cold Spring?" the Lord of Storms muttered, then suddenly laughed. "Could it be that it shares the same origin as that giant iceberg next door?"

Lowry was a little reluctant to say anything.

After all, he had a similar feeling after exploring that large iceberg.

Otherwise, he wouldn't have been able to teleport directly from his own territory to some spell node areas on the giant iceberg.

Rather than attributing the resonance distance of the magic array in his territory to be far, it's more accurate to say that the power of ice borrowed by the magic array and the power that formed the large iceberg originated from the same source.

However, Lowry's side is a branch that is less affected.

"The Ice Lord also played a part in the creation of the Great Iceberg, which was able to be separated from the Icefield Kingdom." The Storm Lord found it increasingly amusing, his tone filled with schadenfreude. "If he hadn't wanted to, who would have touched such a pure creation of ice!"
However, it was only because Rosalind, the embodiment of the Rain Goddess, had gained the attention of the Ice King, who, deeming the people of that country untrustworthy, wanted to leave himself a way out, that the handover was completed so easily.

Moreover, you cleverly handed over the reins here to Lowry.

"What does this have to do with me?" Lori asked, puzzled, as she fiddled with the crystal ball.

"Of course it's related!" the Lord of Storms replied with a grin. "No one dares to play any tricks about slaying demons and monsters in the areas you control."

The major temples and large adventure groups cannot defeat the people near the Great Iceberg; they are cultists.

Even your generosity makes it impossible for you to exploit ordinary adventurers.

Without sufficient benefits to share, it's impossible to send people on long journeys.

Real large-scale forces wouldn't do something like earning a meager living through hard work.

Otherwise, the adventurer camp next to your territory wouldn't be so easy to manage.

The Lord of Ice was quite pleased with this, so even though you kept stealing kills from his minions, he didn't care at all.

Lori looked up in surprise: "Your relationship has become so good that you can even say things like that?"

"Otherwise what can we do?" the Lord of Storms replied calmly. "An evil god must appear in our world."

Of the three, he's the only one I can still communicate with.

"Didn't you always think that rainwater still had a brain?" Lowry said sarcastically.

"Whether she has a brain or not doesn't affect the fact that she's already connected with Outer Gods, the kind of Outer Gods that want to overthrow our world, wipe out all the gods, and give the world a new creator."

Regardless of whether the other party was arrogant or talking nonsense, she must have listened to them.

She is the enemy.

There's no need to consider whether it's normal or not.

Lowry raised her head and slowly opened her mouth... but was interrupted by Travis, who suddenly stood up.

His Majesty the King asked anxiously, "Lorry! You still haven't told us what happened underground!"

I don't have that kind of understanding!
Please, be more explicit.

Lowry slapped the crystal ball with a displeased look: "The Lord of Ice must have been attacked in the cold spring beneath the great iceberg."

When they were working over there, pumping water from nearby veins, they ended up pumping water into my house.

You know I raise a lot of ice fish!

When the icy and water energies become disordered, it naturally affects them.

That alarm was a warning from Crystal Palace about fish mortality.

I had no choice! What could I do?

Travis hesitated for two seconds before saying, "I remember, your Crystal Palace could be moved under the Great Iceberg?"

"What do you want to do?" Lowry looked at him warily.

“I don’t believe you don’t want to see what this mastermind looks like!” Travis said seriously, his expression grave. “Although Baron Watson did indeed go astray, the path was only slightly off, and he could have returned to the main road at any time… The reason he wasn’t strictly forbidden from doing so is naturally because it wasn’t considered a major mistake.”

The enemy of my enemy is not necessarily my friend, and may even be my enemy, but we can certainly lend each other a hand.

Especially when dealing with the same enemy, there's no need for communication; they can act in perfect unison. Therefore, Baron Watson could have genuinely integrated his family into the King's Army.

Travis actually wishes there were more families like that.

Every Watson is a spy planted by the royal family on the border... In order not to jeopardize their own future, they will keep a close eye on the border lords' actions.

His King's Army was actually composed of Watsons of all sizes, and many of them could be considered unruly.

But who cares?
As long as you don't cross the line, success is the most important thing.

By doing this, the mastermind not only harmed Baron Lowry, but also took away one of their best recruits from the North.

There are many powerful families, but ordinary noble families are more likely to produce children like Lori who choose a free life and are unlikely to wholeheartedly suffer in the King's army.

It's not that Yagris and the others are bad, but people who have a way out are actually not easy to control.

Travis is actually very concerned about the Watson family.

He allowed the valiant Evelyn Costa to take the rest of the Watsons away so that other similar families would see the sincerity of the Northern Royal Family... The Royal Family would never exterminate anyone who had ever contributed to the country.

Otherwise, how could a king allow his people to leave him?

This is the departure of nearly a hundred professionals, and this is a family that is very interested in having children!
They represent not just their own numbers, but an endless future.

The Northern Awakening Array produces only a few hundred people a year, and even fewer become professionals.

Travis hated the mastermind behind it all so much it hurt his teeth.

He could have actually chosen the path of Leon back then.

Unfortunately, he had already married and had children before that.

His eldest son and daughter, though he considered them quite good, were not seen as suitable successors by outsiders.

In particular, the throne after him must not be passed to someone who is easily swayed.

Unfortunately, the eldest son chose such a wife... Perhaps in his heart, this was for his own safety and for the harmony of the family, so he chose to take a step back.

However, he put Travis in an awkward position.

He didn't even have a chance to protect his son's rights before being forced to marry and have children to balance the panic among the nobles caused by his sudden rise to power.

At that time, even if he was very confident in his abilities, he still needed the cooperation of the military and the nobles to defeat the invasion of foreign enemies.

Travis now occasionally looks back on the past and even feels a touch of relief.

Fortunately, the chaos caused by those people's unwillingness to accept defeat made Travis realize that possessing the White Dragon did not mean he was invincible.

To make him die a horrible death, all you need are a few idiots.

But he certainly wouldn't be grateful to those foolish brothers, much less let the throne fall into the hands of their descendants.

At that time, he was originally planning to arrange a marriage between his son and a powerful nobleman... If the nobleman was willing to offer a daughter with exceptional talent, he was even willing to let his son back down.

Anyway, he has a long enough lifespan to live to see this young couple, or their child, give birth to a suitable heir.

Isn't that Leon?

Unfortunately, his most beloved son didn't give him that chance at all.

Therefore, Travis had no choice but to abandon this path and choose to do things his own way.

As a king, he must have a suitable, preferably large, family.

After all, many of the great knights chose to live independently and were too lazy to leave behind descendants.

And those monks, almost all of them regarded their families as a burden.

Therefore, any royal family would rather spend money to support those seemingly useless collateral descendants in order to let the people know the benefits of a large family.

Travis loved money so much that he didn't hesitate to fill the palace treasury and let his children multiply!
It's all for the continuation of the nation!

Therefore, the loss of a family like Watson's truly pained him.

But unfortunately, there's nothing he can do.

Even slapping the mastermind behind the scenes depends on whether the gods are willing.

He certainly wanted to see the other person's current miserable state, and perhaps, incidentally, slap them a couple of times to vent his anger.

Most importantly, whenever Lowry moves, the avatar of the Lord of Storms will definitely move as well.

Even if they go there, it shouldn't cause any misunderstandings.

So, rather than asking Lowry, Travis was actually testing the Storm Lord's opinion.

(End of this chapter)