Players’ NPC daddy.

After leaving a meaningful answer, the Pope disappeared completely. At the same time, lights began to light up around him. It seemed that the Pope's database took up all the energy consumption. After the database left, other equipment here resumed normal operation.

"Old guys are all the same."

Blaze leaned over and picked up the scribbles on the papers on the ground, collecting each one without any hesitation. In the end, he even had to make a big box using local materials to fill them all.

Although the Pope seemed to have answered every question and explained everything, Blaze thought about it carefully and realized that the Pope had said nothing, not even the location of the wreckage of the Ark.

But this cannot be blamed on the Pope. Merlin, the Ark AI, is truly powerful. A sentence stored in his memory can cause interference across thousands of years. He instinctively realized that as long as he tried to ask, the words left by Merlin would continue to further destroy the memory palace.

Therefore, if we want to determine the location of the wreckage of the Ark, we can only look for it in these manuscripts.

Fortunately, the habit of backup among scholars of the Age of Gods is a good habit most of the time. They back up the database and naturally also back up the paper materials. Moreover, they are very careful to use anti-corrosion and moisture-proof paper. Even now, the text on the handwritten manuscripts is not blurred.

However, this level of caution made Blaze feel a little creepy.

After Blazer packed up all the manuscripts, he looked for the exit. The area he entered was closed, so he found another passage. After walking along the passage for a while, he climbed out of the sewer.

Fortunately, the people who lived in the holy city in the past were devout believers who could only rely on faith and prayer to survive, so the sewers were very clean, as if they had never been used.

"Is this also part of your calculations?"

Blazer dusted himself off and found Anderson, asking him to mobilize all the forces he could, such as the Crusade and the strangers from the Freemasonry, to guard the border with the Eternal Kingdom.

He couldn't describe in detail what would happen, he could only tell Anderson to establish the most reliable defense.

After getting Anderson's assurance, Blaze repeated the same words to the three saints and Ryan who had arrived late, then he left with peace of mind and headed towards the goblin village.

After returning to the Goblin Village, Blaze placed boxes of manuscripts in front of Theresa. It was up to her, the original body, to sort out the Pope's manuscripts.

Considering that Merlin was able to influence the memory palace through a language after a thousand years, God knows whether the Pope has hidden something in these ghost drawings that will affect Chiron, so this job can only be done by Theresa, and Chiron cannot be asked for help.

So far, this is all Blazer can do, and all that's left is to wait.

He sat on the altar of the goblin village with his arms folded across his chest and a frown on his face.

[Ares' Howl] lasted as long as the Ark's wreckage had recovered its self-repairing ability, but until now the Eternal Kingdom had maintained a superficial calm.

This was not a good sign, indicating that Merlin had decided to act in secret.

If there is no giant towering into the sky breaking out of the ground, then it will transform into countless little ghosts crawling on the ground, covering the sky and the earth.

Chapter 1235: An Ordinary King's Extraordinary Day

York Dylan, the Lord of the Kingdom of Londinium, had his hands behind his back, looking at his own portrait with a melancholy face. The torches around him were swaying in the wind that came from nowhere, and the mood in the portrait also became uncertain.

Showing off one's success is the instinct of life, and the king's way of showing off is to hang his portrait in the most conspicuous place in the palace for people to worship.

Over time, every ancient kingdom would have a long corridor filled with portraits of past dynasties.

The characters in the painting are all tall and majestic.

Those painters are really in a difficult position, with a knife held at their necks, and they paint one person, but the result is a completely different person.

York, who did the same thing, would not condemn his ancestors. After all, no one wants their imperfections to be recorded forever. So even if someone pointed at the portrait and asked him, "Is this you?", he would shamelessly copy the words left by his ancestors, "What you see now is me when I was young."

Of course, he recently thought of a better excuse: "This is how my mother sees me. Although it is a bit embellished, are you questioning my mother's love for me?"

However, there is one imperfection that cannot be erased no matter what.

York couldn't take his eyes off the name on the portrait for a long time.

【Lord York Dylan】

The Kingdom of Londinium, now a vassal state of the Eternal Kingdom, was once a vassal state of the Eternal Kingdom.

This is an introduction to all the named city-state kingdoms within the territory of the Third Kingdom.

This introduction makes the Kingdom of Londinium look like a fence-sitter kingdom that jumps back and forth, but who knows that the Kingdom of Londinium was once a powerful force in the territory of the Third Kingdom, owning many cities and a large amount of territory, and even having an elite force of more than 100,000 people.

[Londinium], like other city-state kingdoms, attempts to unify the Third Kingdom region and become the true third largest kingdom to compete with the Supreme Holy Kingdom, which is in its heyday, and the Giant Kingdom Alliance, which is rising with unstoppable momentum.

However, an Eternal King suddenly appeared in the Third Kingdom, and in just twelve years, the red dragon's flag was planted all over most of the Third Kingdom's territory.

The Kingdom of Londinium, which has a long history, was early on filled with red dragon flags and became a part of the Eternal Kingdom. The king of the Kingdom of Londinium was even demoted from a king to a lord.

It was because the king surrendered quickly, otherwise he would have been a prisoner or a civilian.

But as fate would have it, the Eternal Kingdom lasted less than a few years before the Holy Grail led to the loss of the royal city. The costly and laborious search for the Holy Grail rapidly disintegrated the Eternal Kingdom's nearly unified currency and economic system.

York really envied that ancestor, who pretended to be a grandson for several years and not only enjoyed the economic benefits brought by the Eternal Kingdom, but the Eternal Kingdom also destroyed itself. When the Kingdom of Dillenium regained its independence, it was not affected by the collapse of the Eternal Kingdom at all, and even became stronger.

He was so similar to that ancestor. They lived a good life, but the Eternal Kingdom popped up again like a ghost. The difference was that he surrendered much faster than his ancestor.

What’s even more different is that this “Lord” is probably embedded behind his name and will be printed on every subsequent portrait.

No kingdom is eternal unless that kingdom has an eternal king, and that eternal king has countless powerful followers.

The strangers who used to look down on him and even spit at him now gathered enthusiastically around the ruler of the Eternal Kingdom, the Eternal Queen.

The same thing happened in Arcadia. As soon as the female lord, no, now it should be said that the queen, came to power, people from other places were reborn as Arcadians, and the fertility rate soared.

I heard that the royal family of the Giant Kingdom has also decided that the second princess, Farasha, will be the next in line.

Despicable, so despicable!

York just hated it, with plain jealousy, because he knew that even if he became a woman, he would still be a little shabby.

"Ugh……"

York sighed deeply and walked slowly along the long King's Corridor. The king in the portrait looked at him with great majesty, as if blaming him for letting the king retreat to become a lord. He felt ashamed of his ancestors.

His response was to raise his middle finger, a gesture brought by the stranger. Although he didn't know what it meant, he felt much more relieved at the moment.

In order to make him feel better, he raised the middle finger of his other hand, and sure enough, he felt much better.

As he walked, York stopped in front of a portrait of the king.

It was the king of the Eternal Kingdom. He pressed the king's name with his middle finger, and the name sank in. The portrait also retreated, and a deep corridor appeared. Torches lit up, illuminating the way forward for him.

York walked down the corridor.

Guess what's hidden under the portrait of a king who surrendered so quickly? What else could it be? Of course, something to rebel against.

But his ancestor was extremely courageous. What he wanted was not an ordinary rebellion, but a rebellion with justification.

York took the torch from the wall and held it forward, and a blood-red color appeared.

That was the [Red Dragon Cloak]. Countless [Red Dragon Cloaks], piled together like a sea of ​​blood, or like an evil dragon hidden in the darkness.

His ancestors were brave enough. Not long after the loss of Camelot, they immediately collected a large number of red dragon flags, restored them into cloaks and hoarded them. Their purpose was also very obvious.

【Camelot Orthodoxy】

York chuckled, raised the torch and approached the cloaks.

In the past, this might have been a treasure, and it is still a treasure now, but this is no longer the era where the kingdom can act recklessly.

The existence called Stranger will punish all arrogant people equally. If the news of the cloak leaks out, there will be only two results.

A slap in the face, the stranger will issue a theft notice to steal all these cloaks.

One is fatal, directly representing the Eternal Kingdom to kill the rebels, and then take away all the cloaks.

Of course, if you are unlucky, both situations may happen. That is, the stranger sends out a warning of the theft, and then other strangers find out and kill you directly, or vice versa, when you are attacked by strangers, a strange thief stranger comes to steal things.

York chose the third option, burn it and pretend nothing happened.

At the moment York handed the torch in his hand to the Red Dragon Cloaks, a cold wind blew, and all the torches began to shake. The sound of footsteps like water drops came from the deep corridor.

If it was the spirit of his ancestor appearing to punish him, his unfilial descendant, York would use his cross knuckles to mercilessly liberate the ancestor.

York turned slowly, and the torch in his hand, as well as the flames around him, surged towards the direction of the footsteps.

It seems like being attracted, and also like kneeling down.

"Who are you?"

Chapter 1236 The Combination of Machinery and Flesh

Pieces of exquisite hand-painted paper were stacked together according to a certain rule, gradually piecing together something.

Blaze had seen similar scenes before, but that was when foreigners were cooking, and that was how they handled the slices of meat, and it was pleasing to the eye, or perhaps it was just a human appreciation for orderly arrangements.

But compared to Blaze's appreciation, Theresa's expression gradually became more solemn. In this cryptic symbol unique to the scholars of the Age of Gods, which only the writer can understand, a very shocking secret appeared.

boom--

Theresa kicked the door open and waved the paper in her hand.

"This guy plans to build a new Titan evil god out of flesh and blood and the wreckage of the Ark!"

Without waiting for others to react, Theresa began to pace around like a madman with the hand-painted paper in her hand, not knowing whether she was talking to herself or explaining something.

"In the Age of Gods, we developed countless countermeasures to the sudden appearance of the Titans. One of them was to build a giant mechanical god to fight the Titans. But even the technology of the Age of Gods could not create a giant mechanical god that could rival the Titans. So another solution came up at that time, which was to transform those giant beasts that were already very large, and then let those mechanical beasts merge into an even larger beast."

"However, due to the Titan's terrifying ability to create minions, mining ore and refining metals became extremely difficult. The Mechanical Titan and the Ark Project had to choose between them, and the Mechanical Titan was eventually abandoned."

"But the Ark contains all the technological blueprints of the Age of Gods, including the transformation plan."

"Isn't that bad?" Blaze held the cake in his hand, not knowing whether he should eat it or not. Of course, he didn't know whether Theresa could hear him in her current state.

"That's right, even if he's my backup, I still have to curse him for researching this kind of thing behind my back!"

"No, no, no, you misunderstood." Seeing that Theresa pointed the finger at the Pope, Blaze immediately waved his hand to correct her.

"It was Merlin who wanted to create the Mechanical Titan as a new body. He designed the Mechanical Titan based on Adam Destroyer. The Pope was the one who tried to dismantle it after discovering it. However, it seems that during the process of research, he was fascinated by the perfection of Adam Destroyer and became a loyal believer."

“Really?” Theresa paused, her expression relaxing. “Then there’s nothing to be afraid of. That survivor from the Age of Gods who calls himself Merlin will never be able to complete this plan.”

"He doesn't have enough authority to transform the wreckage of the Ark, nor does he have the combat capability to hunt for a behemoth that meets the requirements on his own. And looking at the date marked on this plan, I guess he was planning to complete the Mechanical Giant God Project to fight against the Titan Evil God. Now that the Titan Evil God is dead, he has no reason to continue the plan."

Blazer could only shake his head slightly in response. He counted on his fingers the insults to the God of FLAG in Theresa's words.

"Yeah, unless he's not a human from the Age of Gods, but an Ark AI that can control the entire Ark wreckage."

"Ark AI?" Theresa was stunned. Even her eyes, which were flowing with numbers, stopped and returned to emerald green. Then her expression changed drastically and she supported herself on the table with her hands to avoid falling down.

"Merlin, how could it be Merlin? It was obviously... that guy, what did that guy say in his memory palace?!"

Blaze knew that the Ark AI was the creation of Theresa's lover, Maria, so he was so excited.

Perhaps in Theresa's memory, Merlin is still the Ark AI that protects humanity, but judging from the plan disassembled and analyzed by the Pope, he probably underwent a huge change a long time ago.

"The Pope said that Merlin was trying to escape from the container, trying to gain freedom, and this huge body was prepared for him."

"How could it be?" Theresa sat on the chair with a pale expression, her hands slowly clenched, and the hand-drawn paper wrinkled into a ball.

Blaze left the room without disturbing Theresa, leaving her alone for a while.

The most important thing right now is to know what the war in the Eternal Kingdom will be about. There must be an important connection between the flames, black smoke and the giants.

If the giants are the result, then the war represented by the flames and black smoke is the solution process. So what they have to find now is the problem: how did this war start, who started it, and where will it start? The only way to find the answer is to look for the smell of gunpowder in a large amount of intelligence.

The Goblin Village has developed very quickly and is now a prosperous town. One of the proofs of its prosperity is that it is well-informed. Although the majority of the residents here are still Goblins, Goblin merchants have traveled all over the world.

It will take some time to spread to all six sides, but it is still possible to travel around the world.

This was originally very difficult to do. It has been common knowledge accumulated over thousands of years that goblins are disgusting low-level monsters. Anyone's first reaction when seeing a goblin is to frown and look at it with disgust. It is impossible to break through this prejudice without decades of effort and sacrifice.

The Goblin Merchants are now accepted so quickly thanks to the help of foreigners.

Strangers are very receptive. When they see a goblin dressed as a wandering merchant, their first reaction is to go up and talk to him. Then they act like they have hit the jackpot and buy out all the goblin merchant's goods.

This is a successful step, but it is a big step. In addition to being receptive, foreigners also like to show off.

After they bought the items from the Goblin Merchants, they either showed them off in front of other foreigners or sold them at a higher price.

What’s frustrating is that the same potion can be sold at a higher price just by being packaged in a goblin-style bottle.

This situation made the goblin merchants who grew up listening to Hebi's teachings reflect bitterly and ask the goblin pharmacists to add more effects.

After listening to Kullene's teachings, they knew that the strangers had no intentions, but the vendors did. If the efficacy of the medicine was simply enhanced, these vendors would sell fake medicine and then pour ordinary potions into the goblin potion bottles, so the enhanced efficacy was made into a hidden effect.

As time went by, the reputation of the goblin merchants became well-known. Many goblin merchants even had the right to enter and leave the town, so they had the opportunity to obtain more intelligence.

However, obtaining this information is somewhat... unfair.

Except for strangers, most people still regard Goblin Merchants as ordinary and low-level monsters, so sometimes they will unscrupulously say some unpleasant words and secrets in front of Goblin Merchants.

Chapter 1237 Red Dragon Rebels

A goblin merchant shared his experiences. He was active in the city-state of Chester within the territory of the Eternal Kingdom, and his main sales were the [Hunting Amulets] and [Forest Life Potion] made by the goblin shamans.