No strange things are allowed to evolve!

The king thought about it carefully and couldn't help but nod, his goodwill towards Jiang Shu increasing: "That makes sense, the brave warrior is indeed very thoughtful."

He was even more radical than the other three.

For a fleeting moment, he even considered adopting Jiang Shu as his godson and becoming the retired emperor himself.

To betroth the princess to the other party, making him a prince consort or something like that...

To be honest, my daughter is not good enough for him; it's just unfair to him.

After finalizing the plan and confirming that there were no loopholes that could allow competitors to exploit, Jiang Shu finally breathed a sigh of relief.

In this way, no one but himself would know where the King of Warcraft would appear.

Even if the other party is highly skilled in the hatchery, has a lot of information, and has a master key, so what? I can block the keyhole and put on a new lock. How will you deal with that?

Jiang Shu smiled to himself, thinking to himself that this was the confidence that power gave him.

Thus, with each of them making their own plans, time passed steadily day by day.

Until, a frigid cold that could freeze everything, appeared without warning somewhere in the kingdom during the sweltering summer...

Sick note

I caught a cold by accident and spent the whole day in bed. I was thinking of writing again in the evening when I felt better, but I didn't feel any better. It took me half an hour to write a few hundred words. I kept getting stuck in my thoughts while writing. I thought about it and decided not to force myself to write anymore, because if I'm not in a good state, the content I write won't be good either. So I had to take my first day off this month and get some rest.

The seasons are changing, so please take good care of your health. See you tomorrow, love you all!

Chapter 243 The Wanted Match Seller

At first, no one noticed anything was wrong; they just felt that the temperature had dropped a bit, just like when the seasons changed.

First, a light rain suddenly fell, and then the air, which had been sweltering a few days ago, cooled down a bit and became slightly damp, making many people feel much more comfortable.

Although the coolness gradually turned into chill over time, no one paid any attention.

As if sensing something, from a certain moment on, this silent probing finally stopped being concealed.

Overnight, the land was frozen over for thousands of miles.

The extreme cold transformed a vast area into a purgatory where life could hardly survive.

When the news reached the capital, Jiang Shu had just gotten up and was having breakfast while being served by a maid.

But by this time, a full day had actually passed since the incident occurred.

Even though the "Temporary Task Force Against the King of Monsters," which consists of Jiang Shu, the King, Duke Bailey, and the Grand Master—an organization that can be said to be omnipotent in the kingdom with eyes and ears all over the world—still took some time to transmit information due to the great distance between the two places, which meant that the transmission of information could only be done by carrier pigeons.

As promised at the beginning, even though the anomaly was extremely exaggerated, and the entire area where it occurred had become a world of ice and snow, with many civilians and monster hunters becoming refugees, this matter was still unknown to anyone except these refugees and those who were engaged in rescue efforts.

The refugees were successfully placed in a safe location, but were temporarily placed under control, thus completely blocking information.

Not only Jiang Shu's rival Jiangbei, but even the people and the duke in the city closest to the site of the anomaly were completely unaware of it, treating it as just another ordinary day in their lives.

The message came from the King, and Duke Bailey, the Grand Master, soon followed and arrived at Jiang Shu's residence.

"It's time to set off." The king was fully prepared, dressed in armor, with a magnificent sword at his waist, like a general about to head to the battlefield.

He seemed extremely impatient, as if he couldn't wait a moment longer.

This is understandable, after all, his daughter had been missing for so many days, and as her father, he had long been unable to suppress his urge to rescue her. However, since he did not know where she was before, and the other party was the King of Warcraft, he had to make preparations first.

Now that everything is ready, he can no longer remain calm.

Duke Bailey and the Grand Master were dressed the same.

They were all fully prepared and ready to leave at any time. Of the four, only Jiang Shu was still wearing his pajamas and had not finished eating his breakfast.

It has a sense of longing for the people and not being able to sleep.

"You're going too?" Jiang Shu asked in surprise. "That's not appropriate. You're the king; you should be staying in the rear."

"Of course!" The king nodded, his face filled with sorrow and anger. "My little princess must have been terrified these past few days, waiting for me to descend from the heavens and save her from this predicament. How could I bear to disappoint her?"

“Hmm…” Jiang Shu remained silent.

In fact, the princess was not frightened, nor was she waiting for him to appear all the time.

During this time, the Four Heavenly Kings treated her to good food and drink. Moreover, as Jiang Shu's strength improved, they were able to roam freely in this magical beast world, and from time to time they could capture some magical beasts with superior appearances to use as toys for the princess.

Elves, dragons, elf dragons and such.

So the princess wasn't actually that unhappy. Although she was nominally in the enemy camp, she was actually quite enjoying herself and had forgotten all about returning home.

Of course, despite their kindness to the princess, she still did not suspect their identities.

Because of the changes in her relationship with the Four Heavenly Kings, the bonds between them, and how she went from being a captive to becoming their beloved, the whole process was scripted, and the reasons were not only reasonable but also very smooth.

In short, the princess is like Guo Xiang in her youth. Although she encounters people who are considered bad by the world, they are all very kind to her and show her great favor.

Seeing Jiang Shu's silence, Duke Bailey and the Grand Commander assumed that Jiang Shu was worried about the King's safety, or to put it bluntly, that he would hold them back, so they spoke up on behalf of the King:

"Don't worry, His Majesty the King is not that weak. Although he is not a monster hunter now, he is not the king yet. When he was just a prince, he also often fought against monsters. His martial arts skills are not low and he can protect himself."

"And the king won't go deep inside. He just wants to make sure the princess is safe as soon as she's rescued, that's all."

The king echoed, "Yes, just as you said. If you can deal with the Beast King, then everything will be fine. If you can't, then it's all meaningless. Whether I'm on the scene or sitting in the rear, it makes no difference. It will destroy the entire kingdom sooner or later, won't it?"

Seeing that the three had misunderstood, Jiang Shu did not offer any explanation.

Anyway, he didn't object to everyone going with him, because there was indeed one last scene about the princess that needed to be concluded in front of everyone.

So he simply nodded, seemingly reluctantly saying, "Well... okay."

"Then you'd better get ready quickly. We need to set off immediately. The Great Sage said that after the strange phenomenon appears, the King of Monsters will also appear soon. We'll spend a lot of time on the road, so we can't afford to delay." Seeing that Jiang Shu agreed, the King urged him on.

Jiang Shu knew the importance of the matter, and even though she hadn't eaten much breakfast, she had the head maid bring her the equipment and changed into it in front of everyone.

It was a set of scarlet armor, and the weapon was a powerful two-handed sword.

Just as agreed, it was taken out by the king from the royal treasury. According to the great sage, this is the only set of peerless demonic weapons ever forged using the King of Demonic Beasts as its material.

Because resentment is full of randomness and uncertainty, it may not possess the magical beast that can be used to forge equipment. In addition, this set of magical weapons still contains that terrible resentment, and is considered to be weapons and armor that humans absolutely cannot use. For many reasons, there is no other set of equipment in the world that was forged by the King of Monsters.

This set, known as the "King of Blood," is the only one of its kind in the world, defying categorization by level and existing above the highest level.

In fact, this equipment truly lives up to its infamous reputation. Even after so much time has passed, it still seems to be alive, full of malevolence.

When Jiang Shu first wore it after reaching the maximum level of 99, he immediately felt an overwhelming surge of violent emotion within him, making him want to kill everyone else present at the time.

Although if the Heart of the Wilderness is used, this negative impact is negligible.

But out of curiosity about the King of Warcraft and wanting to experience what resentment was all about, Jiang Shu initially turned off the firewall. As a result, he almost lost his way. Although he managed to suppress it in the end, he was covered in cold sweat when he came to his senses.

The great sage cheered with joy, seemingly relieved: "As expected of a hero, he actually did it!"

His reaction startled everyone except Jiang Shu, because it was clear from his words that he was initially unsure whether Jiang Shu could overcome her resentment.

In other words, he was gambling with Jiang Shu's and everyone else's lives.

Although they won the bet in the end, it still left everyone feeling a bit scared. The king immediately reprimanded him, saying how could he do such a thing, arranging it without being sure if Jiang Shu could use the magic weapons?

But the great sage disagreed and asked indignantly, if the so-called hero can't even control this little bit of resentment, how can he be expected to deal with the strongest monster king in history whose resentment is a thousand times more terrifying than this?

Everyone was speechless, unable to find any reason to refute it.

Somehow, after being passed through by Jiang Shu, the demonic weapon seemed to lose all its evil nature. Although its attributes remained the same, the awe-inspiring feeling it gave off disappeared.

Then, this set of magical weapons was brought to Jiang Shu's residence, and became an item that ordinary people like the maid, who are not even monster hunters, can now touch.

After Jiang Shu put on his equipment, the four of them, without stopping for a moment, took the carefully selected elites and set off together for the location of the strange phenomenon.

at the same time.

In the frigid inferno, a monster hunter shivers amidst the snow-covered landscape.

Instead of leaving with the soldiers to safety when they arrived to help the survivors, he ran headlong into the depths of purgatory the moment he saw them.

Unlike the other refugees, he was a wanted criminal who had committed numerous crimes and had fled here from elsewhere.

Although this sudden natural disaster was extremely terrifying and bizarre, compared to being taken away by soldiers, discovering that one was a wanted criminal, and then being sent to the gallows, at least staying here for the time being offered a chance of survival.

But this biting cold was just too unbearable.

Even though he was wrapped in several layers of cashmere blankets and had a campfire lit in the cave, he still felt very cold.

"Damn it, what's going on?"

He kept complaining.

They weren't just complaining about the weather, but also about the sudden influx of soldiers.

After the soldiers who had been searching left, he was actually planning to leave as well. But as he slowly made his way to the outer perimeter and could almost see the sunlight beyond the thick fog in the distance, he suddenly discovered that this place, which was originally a desolate place, was now guarded by many soldiers.

If he goes out rashly, he will definitely be discovered immediately.

Helpless, he had no choice but to retreat again.

"Could it be that some wealthy sage conducted some terrible experiment here, causing this disaster, which is why this place has been sealed off?"

After the thought popped into his head, he sighed repeatedly in despair.

If that's the case, then I really don't know when I'll be able to leave.

This also caused him to feel frustrated and violent.

He was an extremely emotionally unstable person to begin with, otherwise he wouldn't have done so many things that angered both heaven and man.

Killing was commonplace for him.

At this moment, he was facing an unprecedented predicament, so countless negative emotions were constantly growing in his heart, putting him on the verge of exploding and collapsing at any moment.

This gave some being in the darkness a very tempting opportunity.

"What an excellent container."

The wanted criminal was startled: "Who? Who's speaking?"

But there has been no response for a long time.

Just when the wanted criminal thought he was hallucinating from being frozen,

Sudden.

He felt something wriggling against his skin inside his cashmere blanket.

This strange feeling startled him.

Ignoring the cold, he quickly threw off the blanket and was horrified to discover that a dark, mud-like substance was devouring his body like a leech.

His lower body was completely covered, but because the extreme cold had made his legs almost numb, he only noticed the substance covering his upper body.

"What the hell?!"

He screamed and reached out to touch the mass, trying to pull it off his body.

But to his surprise, not only did he fail to get rid of them, but the moment his palm touched them, they traveled up his arm and rushed towards his head at an even faster speed.

The whole process was extremely fast; almost in the blink of an eye, he was completely covered by the black substance, and he was powerless to resist.

He screamed desperately until the substances rushed into his body through his open mouth, completely silencing him.

Although he didn't know what it was, he knew he was about to die.

but.

As time passed, he not only did not die or lose consciousness, but he also felt that all the discomfort he had felt before had disappeared. In its place was an unprecedented, explosive power that he, as a monster hunter, had never felt before.

He didn't know how powerful the force within him was at this moment; he only knew that if he encountered that magical beast that had caused him trouble last time, he could easily tear it to shreds.

"Is that so?"

After regaining his senses, he stood up from the campfire, looked down at the new black bone armor on his body, and felt an incredible yet exhilarating sense of wonder at this gift from nature:

"Is this what those soldiers were guarding against, this strange weather?"

Although he was still conscious, the presence of resentment caused various negative emotions that he had previously needed to suppress to be released and erupt almost simultaneously.

Then, a thought arose in his mind that he had never dared to even consider before—

He wanted to slaughter all the soldiers outside.

Because all the suffering I had just endured was thanks to them.

Of course, he wouldn't let go of the distant enemies either, nor would he let go of the cities that had forced him here and had issued warrants for his arrest.

Upon further reflection, it was because the kingdom's laws were unkind to him; he had only committed a minor offense, yet he was to be executed. Therefore, the kingdom's nobles, ministers, and even the king all deserved to die.

A pair of tattered wings pierced through his spine and grew out of his skin, but he seemed to feel no pain whatsoever, his face only showing an excited, sinister grin.