Lu Mingfei, become the King of Elden!

Chapter 132 Night of Conspiracy and Dead Root

"You said you brought the blind girl?"

The leader of the Hall of the Round Table, Sir Gideon Ofnir, the Master of Wisdom, looked up from behind his desk piled high with books and parchment, and said in a detached tone:
"It doesn't matter. Take them if you want, there are already enough weak people here anyway."

Lu Mingfei was slightly taken aback. He hadn't expected Bai Zhi to be so easy to talk to. He had already prepared himself for a long argument.

Immediately afterwards, without raising his head, Sir Hundred-Mindedness's voice remained as calm as ever:
"Lord Edgar of Moen, a descendant of the Knights of the Lost Land and a vassal of Grek, is stubbornly guarding the legendary greatsword in the city and refusing to leave—a truly pathetic stubbornness."

Lu Mingfei's eyelids twitched.

Good heavens! This incredibly resourceful guy really figured it out long ago!

"Do you know who started the rebellion?"

Bai Zhi didn't even look up:

"The water there is very murky. My advice to you is to mind your own business."

Lu Mingfei seemed to be deep in thought:
"So you won't let Neferi go."

He leaned forward slightly, placed his hand on Baizhi's desk, and asked, word by word:

"I'll be frank with you. Is that place related to the Maniac Fire?"

Bai Zhi finally stopped writing, raised his helmet covered in ear patterns, and his sharp eyes peered through the visor, making Lu Mingfei feel extremely uncomfortable.

"Neferi has other missions to complete; this is none of your business. As for Madfire..."

He said calmly:

“The Sobbing Peninsula has long been marked by the presence of the Mad Fire, where the Mad Fire believers, rejected by the Golden Tree, settled in settlements. The rebellion may or may not be related to it.”

"Isn't that obvious?"

Lu Mingfei gradually lost patience, muttered something under his breath, then turned around and waved his hand:
"I'll be going now if there's nothing else."

“That blind woman,” Bai Zhi suddenly spoke up, “don’t blame me for not warning you, she’s not simple.”

Before Lu Mingfei could react, Bai Zhi had already buried himself in his books again, like a pensive statue, ignoring Lu Mingfei's questions.

Lu Mingfei had no choice but to give up on his idea of ​​prying the secret out of him, shrugged, and walked out of the house.

Lu Mingfei has already gotten a lot of information from Bai Zhi today, and his gains are substantial. Since Bai Zhi is unwilling to say more, then he shouldn't blame him for finding someone else to gather information from.

"The Sobbing Peninsula?"

The faded one, clad in bright silver armor, paused, repeating to himself.

Lu Mingfei nodded.

Diaros shook his head:

"I've never been there. By the way, have you seen a girl named Lenia? She's my attendant, but she's very capricious and often disappears in the blink of an eye."

If you see anyone, could you please tell me?

"It's easy to talk about."

Lu Mingfei readily agreed and then turned to find his next target.

“The Sobbing Peninsula? I’m sorry, sir, I’ve never heard of anything there.”

This is Colin.

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This is Eunha.

Lu Mingfei walked around, and finally, only the cold-blooded man resting at the round table in the hall remained, "Hunter of Death" D. He scratched his head.

To be honest, D isn't a difficult person to talk to, but he's always very quiet and exudes a cold aura that makes people not want to get close to him.

However, just as Lu Mingfei walked up to D, before he could even speak, D had already raised his head first.

“You carry the aura of death.”

He said.

"Death and Birth?"

Lu Mingfei was stunned, not understanding what he was saying.

The man named D, dressed in bizarre armor with a face on his chest, slowly spoke:
"Have you been near anything related to 'boats' or dead roots?"

"Oh!"

Lu Mingfei suddenly realized.

On his way from Stormhills to Galid, past the Bridge of the Saints, he did indeed pass a place called Watercaller Village, where he encountered a monster resembling a ghost ship and many ghost skeleton soldiers.

But that thing...
At first, Lu Mingfei wanted to test the quality of the ashes. It turned out that the three white wolves that were summoned were indeed quite loyal and cute, but a bit dim-witted, lacking any sense and completely unable to keep up with the erratic ghost ship.

In the end, Lu Mingfei killed that thing with a few breaths of dragon flame and his greatsword, and then a strange black object was exposed.

“I did kill a monster that looked like a ship,” Lu Mingfei asked. “What? Is there a problem?”

D nodded slightly.

"It seems I guessed right, you do indeed have the ability to eradicate the root of all evil."

Dead root?

He frowned slightly.

It seems there is such a thing.

He slowly sank his consciousness into the space, rummaged through a pile of junk, locked onto the item, and then pretended to reach into his pocket to take it out.

"The origin of the Deathborn. On the night of the conspiracy, after the stolen Death Rune caused the first death of the demigod, it turned into Death Roots, which sprouted in various places in the borderlands through the roots of the great tree underground."

This is a dead root.

All I can say is that, despite Lu Mingfei's seemingly superhuman ability to "describe items," this was the first time he had ever seen something as incomprehensible as Deadroot.

What do you mean by "Deadborn Ones," "Night of Conspiracy," and "First Demigods"? I'm not a local, so who knows what these terms mean?
Since he had just caught someone who seemed to know the truth, Lu Mingfei simply threw all the questions at him.

D was a little stunned by Lu Mingfei's barrage of questions.

He looked at Lu Mingfei with an expression as if he were looking at an idiot:
"You didn't know these things?"

“I really don’t know,” Lu Mingfei looked at D sincerely, blinking his big eyes. “You can ask around in the Round Table Hall; everyone knows I’m illiterate.”

D was somewhat speechless. But those who possessed the ability to hunt "ships" and remove dead roots were truly rare, and D was eager to train someone to take over his work, so he had no choice but to accept it reluctantly.

"On the night of the conspiracy, a group of highly skilled assassins secretly entered the royal city and killed the unsuspecting demigod, 'Gold' Godwin, using special methods. Afterwards, the border region was completely thrown into chaos, with multiple wars breaking out. We, the Faded Ones, were able to be recalled to the border region."

D said slowly:
"This is common sense that every faded person knows."

Lu Mingfei couldn't help but roll his eyes inwardly. Common sense? So what if I, Lu, am lacking in common sense? I'm even beyond your common sense!
D didn't even look at Lu Mingfei's expression, and continued speaking to himself:
"Are you interested in the power of beasts? If you are willing to hunt the Deadborn and remove the roots of death, I will recommend you to the 'Beast Priest' Gulang."

I have other plans, and Gulang probably wants to find a new helper. What do you think?

(End of this chapter)