Dear Broom Knight.

Chapter 723 The Hope Brought by Armes

Lowry, by utilizing these intelligent nodes that could even communicate with each other, had perfected his territory's magic array, giving it almost all the capabilities of a national magic array.

Previously, he could at most teleport the palace to the Great Ice Mountain.

Now, however, they can directly jump into such deep and distant dimensional spaces, and even jump back again.

If it weren't for the effectiveness of this magic array, it would be normal to be able to leave but not return.

Not to mention the main castle, which Lori has transformed into something comparable to a star fortress!

That's a powerful magic array that can absorb the power of the stars using a complex outer city wall formation, and obtain enough energy to support itself!
Only mages of level 16 or above can barely complete the basic construction, and most magic arrays can only be created in the starry sky... After all, only mages of level 20 or above can understand some of the mysteries within.

Although Travis didn't understand it very well, he at least knew the level requirements.

The reason Arslan dared to make trouble on his own was because he planned to move near the dragon's nest.

There are some ruined fortresses belonging to the former unfortunate mages.

Al-Saran could bypass the initial awkward period by simply placing his slightly constructed inner fortresses on the ground within these dilapidated fortresses and using the usable portions of their outer walls as energy sources.

Moreover, he doesn't need to worry about any safety issues.

After all, even after the world reopens, the greatest trouble and danger in the starry sky will still be dragons.

Even if new interstellar bandits emerge, they won't venture near the dragon's nest.

No white dragon, no dragon would refrain from attacking upon seeing them.

Interstellar bandits have no one they can trust. They always carry their wallets and treasures with them when they go out, otherwise they'll be left with nothing after a robbery.

Even if they have dimensional space, they will only carry the key with them.

Ordinary people might not be able to crack the key, but dragons... their experience is too rich, and almost no password can stop them.

Dragons are naturally very eager to make money without offending any powerful figures.

Therefore, although Travis admired Lowry's clever and skillful maneuvers, as a knight, he could only admire them.

Even if there were some reasonably trustworthy nature mages in the palace, Travis certainly wouldn't bother with such troublesome matters if he couldn't understand their communication with the plants like Lori did, and couldn't have simple, brief conversations with the magical plants.

Luscania... even when she hears a long string of dragon magic, she has to shrink back and slowly search her memory to find out what it means!

Can we really expect her to memorize the fluctuations that make the magical plants speak?
The existence of a common language is truly a fig leaf for these lazy dragons.

No wonder every dragon has inherited memories, but... even someone like Luscania can reign supreme in White Dragon Valley.

Even if Travis trusts Al-Saran, he will not entrust everything to him.

He didn't intend to do it himself, but the people he arranged for him to go there had to be able to both cooperate with and check and balance Al-Saran.

Therefore, he couldn't possibly ask Lowry for help.

As for whether Lowry would be willing... Travis was confident that he still had some good things that could tempt the boy.

That kid, Lori, is skilled in air magic, loves natural creatures, and is very interested in exquisite, beautiful, gorgeous, and noble alchemical artifacts.

So, as long as the money is enough and there's no bad intention, Lowry will definitely be fine if he goes out to work occasionally.

But Lowry has another problem: he doesn't really like controlling the overall situation on someone else's turf.

With Al-Saran around, he promised he wouldn't overthink it and would follow Al-Saran's arrangements.

Travis understood the principle of not letting strangers interfere with family members.

Even without Travis, the mentor and apprentice would never have gotten together.

He certainly wouldn't show any wariness of Alzalan in front of Lowry.

Not to mention, this was just in case; Al-Saran himself was perfectly fine!
If you tell Lowry these things, the kid will just think he's paranoid and full of pointless drivel.

Travis sometimes felt that what he was doing was pointless.

However, his past experiences have shaped him into the Travis we know today, and he cannot be changed simply because a child doesn't understand.

He didn't really want to change it.

It's not like there's no other way; he could have easily taken a detour.

Besides, it's Al-Saran who's in a difficult position; what does it have to do with him, the investor?
He only wanted a portion of that fortress to belong to him.

Travis was never the kind of person who would demand that his men follow him to the death.

His old friends are all getting on in years.

By the time the handover with the people promoted by Leon is complete, many of them will probably be too old to move.

He couldn't care less about those whose lives were cut short by fate, but now he hoped for a place where these people could wait for his divine kingdom to open.

However, Travis knew very well that since they were not mages and the land had been opened up, the knights living in the cramped environment of the Star Fortress would definitely feel very uncomfortable.

Lowry's garden-style fortress is much more suitable for these people to stay for a long time!

Ah~ There's always a way out, isn't there?

Armies jumped out on his own.

The old Armes would never have caught his eye or been remembered. The reason he remembers Ezra so vividly is because that guy was too cocky.

Although members of the royal family have gained so many benefits because of his existence, they will at most support him as king, but will not wholeheartedly follow him.

However, after Travis angered his foolish father to the point of death several years earlier, and after he killed his own brother on the spot, Travis never expected to gain the loyalty of any member of the royal family.

Even though he later acted very gently and reasonably, his past actions still made those so-called smart people keep their distance from him.

After all, in their world with its many rules, patricide is a serious crime!
As this rule has been in place for a long time, some strange effects have naturally emerged... In most people's eyes, if a relative is bad, they can choose to stay away; if a relative breaks the law, even if they don't want to help cover it up, they can't take the initiative to report it.

Of course, this doesn't mean that plotting, framing, or even assassination in secret is forbidden; rather, it means that such things cannot be done openly.

Regardless of the circumstances, Travis still ascended the throne by stepping on his brother's blood.

Although Travis had good reason to kill those fools, and the laws and the gods approved of his choice, many people would certainly be unhappy about it.

There are certainly many such people within the royal family.

Of course, there are definitely people who think he is right.

But Travis had no interest in playing the game of sifting through the sands of time, nor did he want to waste his time trying to figure out if any of the royal family members who were friendly to him had ulterior motives.

As long as everything is done according to the rules, no one will be treated specially by him.

As for helpers... if he insists on finding someone from the royal family, he still has his own children!
Whether it's useful or not is another matter, but at least these guys would never deny Travis's legitimacy to the throne.

After all, no matter how many schemes they have, if Travis's ascension to the throne is illegitimate, they will have even less of a chance.

However, Travis didn't intend to use them.

He was too lazy to balance the relationships between so many people, so the simplest solution was to use none of them.

If they truly have the ability, these children can certainly forge their own path in a respectable way, after all, news travels very fast in the capital.

The noble families would also assess the background of these princes and princesses, and might even cooperate with their actions to some extent.

It's not that I'm afraid of them, but rather that I'm investing in the future king as a subject.

Those who truly don't want to get involved in royal infighting will naturally ignore them.

For example, Montes, who married Agris without hesitation, is a typical example of someone who ignores princes.

Because he had no labels on him, he could simply slap a prince in the face without causing any further trouble.

But if Montes is in league with the other princes, things will inevitably get complicated.

Of course, if he were really that stupid, Yagris wouldn't have chosen to cooperate with him.

Politically, Montes doesn't actually have any major problems.

He just has bad luck.

Among a group of qualified nobles from the mainland, they chose the problematic one for a marriage alliance.

However, things are different now.

Although Almes will always be Almes, who will really treat him as a member of the royal family and give him orders?

No one dared to mess with Ezra anymore.

Then he had no worries at all that Armes and Arsalan would have problems working together.

As for whether Armies will agree... well, he can't possibly refuse.

He knew the temperament of Ezra and his wife.

Even if Pearl is willing to keep her current identity as a facade, she will definitely only ever look the same as before.

That kind of face can't possibly appear forever.

It's even quite possible that they'll simply stay at the entrance to the River Styx, acting as a guide or something similar.

After all, Pearl doesn't have any special abilities.

During the period before Almes could establish his divine kingdom, if Ezra and his wife truly lived to the end of their lives, they would never have temporarily resided in Pearl's divine kingdom.

While the Styx city isn't entirely uninhabitable, a city of the dead like that is truly utterly devoid of any enjoyment.

They say you can eat and drink just like people on Earth... but who would really like that kind of fake life?

There were simply no other options.

It's impossible for Almes to send his parents to live in someone else's star fortress.

Even if it's Lowry's, it won't work.

Ezra, no, I should say Serena, would never agree to that.

But what about the key? There's a fortress that he, Armies, helped build.

Besides Alzalan, another factor that could influence this fortress is Travis, a colleague who would inevitably be with Armes for many years.

If their divine roles do not conflict, Travis and Armies will certainly choose to cooperate with each other.

(End of this chapter)