Heart of the Castle

Chapter 575

At the end of the long day, the golden afterglow of the setting sun shines through the narrow strip windows, casting mottled light spots on the chlorite floor of the Greencastle meeting hall.In the huge fireplaces on both sides, the oak wood sawn into neat blocks was burning vigorously, making beeping bangs from time to time, and the warmth filled every corner of the meeting hall. Although the night outside the window was cold, the interior was as warm as spring .

However, the griffin lord Li Weiston felt a weird chill hit his heart.

The young Guardian of the Realm sat on a high-backed chair in the middle of the hall, behind him was a blue and white tapestry depicting a mighty image of a golden griffin.Several discussion tables were arranged on both sides of the seats, and behind four of them sat the important ministers of the Northern Territory who were present, including the Sky Knight Marquis Osiris, the first branch leader of the Griffin Knights, Flame Wheel Knight Wilps, The deputy archbishop of the Earth Temple, Beria, and the court chief, Bamilian.The old red-robed scholar Master Sugard sat on the right side of Li Wei in the advisory seat, with a scholar's necklace made of no less than ten kinds of precious metals and gemstones hanging on his chest-here is occasionally the position of Frederick's butler-if If he attends as a nonvoting delegate.

More than a dozen men, women and children stood respectfully at the bottom of the steps. They were all villagers from the small town of Morken. They were all dressed in simple and neat clothes. It could be seen that they had specially dressed for coming to the Green Castle to meet the Griffin Lord.

The faces of these villagers more or less carried expressions of lingering fear, only the burly middle-aged man standing in the front was the calmest. This man had a kind of resolute temperament unique to soldiers. Although he wasn't wearing knight armor, the bronze griffin badge pinned to his right chest already showed his identity.

This is a knight who belongs to the local guard of the Griffon Knights. Judging from his age, he should be the captain of the guard in the small town of Morken. This is also confirmed from his self-introduction just now.

"Gods, see what I have written down, the goddess who manipulates the power of fire, the angel with the sword of light and white wings, and the two frighteningly large green dragons that were defeated by them..." Bamilian, the head of the court, stopped the quill in his hand, shook his head repeatedly at the wet parchment, then raised his head with a faint smile on his face, "It sounds like a heroic epic, no I think you are quite qualified in this regard."

These joking and questioning words made the captain of the Morken Town Guard turn blue, "...My lords, I can swear before the great and brave Barud!" He paused every single word. Say loudly, "I swear by my honor as a knight that everything I just said is true!"

"Oh, please forgive me, I have no intention of questioning the oath made by a loyal knight." With a gentle smile on his face, Chief Bamilian nodded and apologized to the stern-faced captain of the guard, "However, I My dear knight, I am afraid you will have to admit that what you have just told bears some resemblance to the strange story of the old nurse putting her child to bed before the fire?"

Director Bamili Yang tried his best to make his tone more relaxed, and wanted to liven up the stagnant atmosphere in the conference hall, but it was obviously not very successful. The Griffin Lord didn't even move the corner of his mouth, and the other important officials were the same. Even he himself couldn't help but laugh.

No matter how many people contemptuously called Director Bamilian Yang a flatterer who stole high positions in private, he was still firmly among the important ministers of the kingdom, and he was an out-and-out big man.After being publicly apologized by such a big man, the anger burning in the captain of the guard immediately dissipated.

"You are right, Your Excellency Director Bamilian." He nodded his head and said with emphasis, "If I hadn't seen it with my own eyes, I would have regarded it as an absurd legend; or if I was the only one who saw it, I would have It was like I had a bizarre dream. But that scene... that scene was witnessed by the villagers of the entire Morken Town. Gods, there really was an evil dragon attacking the village, really. There are God's messengers walking in the world!"

"This is a miracle from the heavens, another miracle that happened in the territory of Lord Liviston, the patron of our lord and the lord of the griffin!" The vigorous voice of the deputy archbishop of the Earth Temple, Beria, made those The villagers nodded in response.

"Praise the ruler of the earth, thank him for his care!"

"Long live the Kingdom of Arthur, long live the Griffin Lord!"

After the noise subsided, Li Wei slowly stood up from his seat and looked around the hall. "Thank you to the loyal subjects of the Kingdom of Arthur for bringing us this very important information." He solemnly tapped his chest with his hands, causing the villagers below the steps to rush back to salute—the captain of the guard responded with a knight's chest salute, Some of the rest bowed deeply, while others simply knelt down.

Li Wei stopped, asked the villagers to stand up, and then continued to say to them, "The situation facing the Kingdom of Arthur is very serious. The reappearance of the giant dragon that has been extinct for hundreds of years is an extremely bad omen. To stabilize people’s hearts, I ask you to keep it secret and not to publicize what you have seen and heard this time. The kingdom will compensate you twice for your losses in this incident.”

The villagers nodded and swore to the Griffon Lord that they would keep their mouths shut.Levi Stern smiled approvingly, and then raised his right hand, "This is the end of the audience, now please go down to eat and have a good rest." He then called the name of the head maid of Greencastle, "Ms. Martha, please To arrange the food and lodging of these villagers."

"I'm listening to your orders, Master Levi." The former adventurer, Miss Martha, is no longer that down-and-out female thief. She is dressed in a decent long skirt of a maidservant, with elegant and polite movements and plump cheeks. She looked like a high-ranking maid from a wealthy family, but the long dagger with a sheath tied to the outside of her thigh vaguely revealed a bit of her former toughness.

Seeing the residents of Morken Town filing out, Li Wei's expression became heavy. Then he slowly sat back in his seat, sighed softly, and then glanced at the important officials who stayed in the meeting hall.

"This is really unbelievable, Lord Li Wei. Could it be that those villagers had a collective hallucination? Or a prank made by a magician who is proficient in illusion?" Bamilian, the chief of the palace, said tentatively.

Li Wei named Flaming Wheel Knight, "Master Wilps, what do you think of this matter?"

Wilps had been listening attentively just now, and the expression on his clear face was as determined as a stone carving. Occasionally, there was a slight surprise, but it was fleeting, almost like an illusion.Hearing Li Wei call his name, he suddenly stood up from his seat, his demeanor carried the decisive and neat feeling of belonging to a soldier.

"Lord Li Wei, I think that although the villagers' narratives are absurd and may contain a lot of exaggeration, they are definitely not lying." Wilps replied affirmatively, and then turned his gaze to the court chief Bamilian. "My lord, the white-winged angel named Robinson Rist, from the description of the villagers, completely matches the bard that I and Mr. Li Wei walked with for a while. The name and image are exactly the same, I don't know. I think it's a coincidence made up out of thin air. As for the magician's illusion..."

"The powerful magic that can make thousands of people hallucinate together may require at least a legendary magician to cast it." Belia, the deputy chief bishop of the Earth Temple, continued in a deep voice. "There is no legendary magician in the Kingdom of Arthur. In fact, there is only one in all the human kingdoms. The President of the Wizards Guild, His Excellency Albus Lorenzo. If His Excellency Lorenzo suddenly cast such a powerful Is it more absurd to try to tease all the villagers in a small town in the north than a giant dragon attacking and then being forced back by two angels?"

The sky knight Marquis Osiris couldn't help nodding his head in affirmation, "It is very possible that this matter is true. Didn't the big crow scouts report the whereabouts of the green dragon some time ago? However, the dragon did not attack Green Castle , and did not appear in other places, could the reason be that they were forced to retreat by the two angels?"

Li Wei shook his head in disbelief, "Rist is actually an angel with two white wings? My merciful father, since a bard can be an angel with white wings, then pious Babu Could Mr. Lupa be another..." Li Wei seemed to suddenly think of something extremely unsuitable, his mouth was tightly pursed into a line, and his young face was wrinkled.

"Please rest assured, Lord Levi." Wilpus said with a smile, "Even if you put Mr. Babrupa into the devil's cauldron and boil for a whole day, he will at most become a shrunken man." A dead fat man of water will definitely not turn into a beautiful angel with fiery red hair and light wings."

Everyone burst into laughter, and even Marquis Osiris couldn't help showing a smile on his indifferent and handsome face, "Master Wilps, I advise you to go to the temple of God of War Barud to repent tonight." With a smile on the corner of his mouth, the elf reminded him solemnly, "Otherwise, that beautiful angel with fiery red hair will come to have a friendly exchange with you because of this blasphemous idea."

"A beautiful angel with fiery red hair?" Along with the clang of steel boots, Sir Rodriguez in black armor walked into the meeting hall, "It's really a remarkable ability, Mr. Marquis Osiris, this ability belongs to The blood of the elven royal family, or the special skills of the sky knight?"

These emotional words made the Marquis of Osiris feel a little inexplicable, and the elf frowned his fine eyebrows, "Sir Rodriguez, what do you mean? What a remarkable ability?"

"It is to be able to see the supernatural powers outside the castle directly from the meeting hall."

"When did I have this ability?" Marquis Osiris' expression became even more inexplicable.

"Ah, that's just a coincidence, just a coincidence." Sir Rodriguez's voice was full of surprise, and there seemed to be a faint taste of joking, "Master Levi, what good thing did you do a while ago? A beautiful young girl with long fiery red hair came to the gates of Greencastle and asked to see you, saying that you once planted an indelible kiss on her forehead."

(End of this chapter)