Thousand-Faced Dragon

Chapter 49: A Hundred Years of Shadow
While Rean's knight squad was fighting hard in the underground cave, the ground of Glowing City was also busy.

There are no real secrets in the aristocratic circle.

In other words, as long as you have channels and connections, any secret can become an interesting story.

There are too many connections, in-laws, spies, and informants among them. As long as a scandal occurs in a family, someone will help spread it, and the whole circle will know about it the next day.

In fact, everyone is living with scandals. It just depends on whether you are powerful enough and whether there is anyone to take advantage of you.

"I didn't expect it to be Viscount Luen. His family has a very good reputation."

Rean is fishing with the blood of heroes, but the people behind Rean are also using Rean, the small fish, to catch big fish.

At this time, outside the residence of Viscount Hilda, the city's Deputy Minister of Finance, it was surrounded by city guards. They even dragged crossbows and blocked key areas.

People passing by pointed and talked, but no one dared to interfere.

After all, the knights standing in the inner circle can walk sideways in the Glowing City.

Black armor and a white lion helmet, a brown griffin guarding the crown on the shield, griffin claws representing killing on the shoulders, and the city's griffin head emblem on the cloak.

They are high-ranking knights known as the "Glow Guards".

The Glowing Guards are the personal guards of the city lord, the Earl, and can be regarded as private soldiers. But in the eyes of the city residents, they can also be regarded as the cornerstone of the stability of Glowing City.

Each of the Glowing Guards is a great knight of at least the fifth rank, with a reliable background and rich experience in battle, able to lead the legion into battle alone.

And this time, there were four people involved in the blockade of the Viscount's house!
".What on earth did he do wrong that caused the city lord, Earl Huiguang, and the royal family to take action together?"

The sharp-eyed ones, however, paid more attention to the men in black on the surrounding rooftops.

They were masked and wearing black tights, with no obvious identification on their bodies.

Now appearing in the sunlight, it has an additional white lion logo on its waist.

This is the royal emblem. Anyone who dares to wear it during the day can only be a royal spy.

"Bang."

When a carriage with the same white lion emblem stopped at the door of the Viscount's mansion, even the people who were discussing it avoided looking at it, not daring to look directly at it.

"The royal family is here!!" Now, everyone is actually more excited.

There are only two members of the royal family in the current kingdom, and neither the princess nor the queen is theoretically in this city.

When did they come here?

The carriage door opened, and the person who got out surprised and disappointed the onlookers.

The good news was that the enchanting curves dancing in the rhythm of a snake's pace were the most dazzling pearl flower in this city, Sallyman Sudar. The disappointment was that the one who came down was not a royal lion girl.

The incredibly charming Viscount Sudal got off the carriage with the swaying steps of a predator and walked into the Viscount's mansion, but no one dared to look at him directly.

After all, although she was jokingly called the royal dog snake, she was still a veritable noble of the city, and no ordinary noble would dare to offend her.

The fact that she appeared here, getting off the royal carriage, was a royal statement. This was not the first or second time that she had served as the princess's agent.

"This time, the situation is too serious. No one can save Viscount Luen Hilda."

The snake woman walked into the sealed Viscount's mansion, from which the sounds of fighting and explosions could be heard continuously.

As an agent, Sallyman had just arrived at the front line when she saw that the battle was already coming to an end.

A "human beast" at least three meters tall was roaring madly, but was firmly restrained by a spear-wielding Glow Guard, while another Glow Guard was holding a shield to support him.

A little further away, a team of crossbowmen were shooting continuously. The crossbow arrows with a strange woody fragrance kept piercing the monster's body, but the wounds caused did not bleed.

However, this wound is much more terrible than bleeding.

"The flesh has turned into wood?" The injured part of the monster turned into wood.

This strange scene made Sallyman a little confused. Is this the immortal beast that Her Royal Highness the Princess mentioned?
A little further away, there is a human-animal statue that has completely turned into wood.

He still had some rags from his finery hanging from his body, but they had become prickly. Could he have been a member of the nobility? Was he the son of Viscount Luen?
"Is this Viscount Luen?" Sallyman pointed at the already violent monster and asked.

She received information that the Viscount seemed to be the seller behind the "serial killer".

Because of greed, he sold out the killer Maria for the blood of the hero and the reward, but in the process exposed himself.

If it was an ordinary case, no one would hold a noble viscount accountable for such a small matter. However, this time the princess personally inquired about it and even visited the city lord to ask for the Glow Guards.

"No, the statue lying over there is it." The Glow Guard was quite friendly towards Her Royal Highness the Princess's confidant.

"Then this one..." Sallyman pointed at the monster that had half of its body turned to wood but was still full of energy.

"Old Viscount Hildar, Viscount Luen's grandfather. He was said to have been dead for over forty years, but we found him in a secret room. So, he should be over 130 years old this year."

"Well, he's still going strong despite his old age." Sallyman sighed as she watched the monster beating up the Glowing Guards and even trying to break through.

This is undoubtedly the worst news, not because of the old noble's level of depravity, these things have long had no bottom line, but because.
".Have they been in contact with the 'beast' for a long time? At least for decades." This means that the forces and organizations related to it have been lurking in this city for a long time.

Sallyman sighed. Sometimes the more you know, the more troubled you become.

She subconsciously touched the crystal necklace on her chest, thinking of the man who had already rushed out. She was afraid he would face a very formidable opponent. "I hope everything goes well for them."

Time passed quickly, and when Sallyman hurried back to the carriage, only a few people saw the shining golden hair that flashed through the open door.

I'm afraid that news will soon come out that the princess has not only come to this city, but is even on the front line of this incident.

"Are all the deaths over?" Daniya closed the book, put down the coffee cup, and hoped to get good answers one by one.

"Yes, but a lot of the information has been destroyed. And when I went in, he had gone completely crazy, so there was nothing I could dig up."

"As expected. If they were truly easy to deal with, these rats in the gutter wouldn't be considered the world's poison."

Delia sighed and took the books and notes handed to her by Sallyman. These were the information she had just searched for.

The knowledge about beasts was specifically requested by her, and it can only be kept by her personally.

When the Horned King awakens, the sky and the sea will turn upside down, and all life will be bathed in the light of His love.

Yes, you got it right, this is the thing.

When that day really comes and everyone dies, she will never be able to understand what these lunatics are thinking.

But what she saw next made her furious.

[Those who are poured with holy water will merge into the horn of life. If they have horns, their horns will swell. If they are hornless, all life will gather at the tail vertebrae, forming the small horn of life (tail), ready for harvest.]

[The little horn is the pure embodiment of the power of the king. If it is placed in the mother's womb, it can give birth to a king's cub.]

[Horn disciple, that is, the lucky ones who successfully inhabit the young beasts nurtured by Little Horn. With current technology, the success rate is less than 10%, and those who fail will transform into mad beasts unable to return to rationality. They must be executed as soon as possible.]

[Horn disciples can replenish their vitality by constantly 'eating' the small horns. Our lifespan has no end.]

Next, there are quite a lot of experimental records about the production of mass-produced Horned Insurgency, how many people were used to produce several Horned Insurgency, how much it cost to execute escaped experimental subjects and traitors, etc.

After a quick glance, Danya knew that the problem was definitely not with Viscount Hildar's family. This had become a system and an organizational standard.

Behind this, there is at least one supply chain.

".It started in the Old Kingdom. It wasn't that Viscount Luen became a Horn Apprentice, but that only Horn Apprentices were qualified to become Viscount Luen."

At this moment, even though she was a princess, Dainiya still felt a chill down her spine.

This Beast Cult has probably been parasitic in the kingdom for a long time, waiting for the time when the monster below will revive.

It has only recently started to become active, and the time is simply approaching.

"An evil person who plans on a century-long scale."

At this time, Daniya also remembered the knight team.

Can these few people alone really fight against this level of darkness?
I'm afraid that the serial killer labeled as Experiment No. 113 is not as easy to deal with as he seems.

"Sallyman, you go too, and deliver the intelligence and this." Among these research materials, there is the information needed for combat. The transformation that No. 113 has undergone is quite outrageous.

As she spoke, the princess took off one of her belongings and handed it directly to Sallyman.

If that man is truly a successor recognized by the Heroic Soul, then he should be able to use it.
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"We need intelligence."

The post-war summary is always painful, because when looking back at the past, there are always too many stupid choices.

Although the man-beast was powerful, it was not so powerful that it could almost send the entire team to heaven.

"Sorry, I was impatient." Li En was the first to reflect and apologize.

If Rean had known that the monster would become sober after being attacked by the dragon claws, he would not have attacked so aggressively.

If I had known that it could be strengthened by its own blood, it wouldn't be so passive.

If he had another chance, Rean was confident that he could do much better than before. But life is only once, so there is no reason to be so thankful.

"I actually relaxed on the battlefield."

This is what Rean regrets the most and cannot forgive. After confirming the lethality of the dragon claws to him, he actually relaxed on the battlefield!
If he had remained highly alert, he might have been able to avoid the other person's bear hug, and he would not have been almost bitten to death.

"After this, I will never let my guard down on the battlefield."

It's cool to explode before death. But being pushed to this extent is a big problem in itself.

He doesn't admire any heroes who become stronger before dying. That kind of thing will fail sooner or later.

You can win the bet once, twice, or ten times, but if you fail just once, you’re done.

Rather than charging into desperate situations on the battlefield, Rean hopes to win with a stable advantage with sufficient intelligence support.

He was thinking and calculating how to fight such a monster so as to win at the lowest cost.

The way this monster and the little beast walked together has confirmed the previous speculation.

"Maria not only has helpers, but she even has an organization behind her. These things can't be dealt with by just two people. We must be prepared to face multiple monsters like this. Who knows, there might be even stronger ones."

(End of this chapter)