Chapter 2319 Tia’s Meeting Gift
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After arriving in Lugaoin, I didn't immediately rush to the Horadric tribe. Although I was a fool, I was not so stupid that I forgot the most important things about the people around me.
Princess Sanwu, although her father was pushed off the throne of the king by his precious daughter, he did not die, he was just under house arrest, and as he became as fat as a pig over the years... what is his name, King Aziz? It should be him.
As King Aziz's position became increasingly stable, and the most important thing was that his cooperative attitude was supported by the alliance, he felt that no one could threaten the throne of the king. Coupled with the relationship between Princess Sanwu and me, he Princess Sanwu’s father is no longer so afraid. He has basically let her play in the past two years. Except that he cannot leave the Western Kingdom, he will not be stopped wherever he goes. He has good food, drink, and shelter. He is worthy of being his predecessor. As a professional pig farmer, he is an expert.
Although the former King of the Western Kingdom, Jie Hein, cannot leave the Western Kingdom, his daughter can go to him. It is only a matter of a long-distance teleportation array from Rogge Camp to Lugaoin, which is much better than going to Vilas. His hometown of Vitas Village is even more convenient, so he can't be considered alone all his life, and can even be said to be enjoying his old age, although he is not that old.
Princess Sanwu came with me all the way, or I brought Princess Sanwu here, just because I wanted to see Jie Hein when I passed by Lu Gaoyin. The important thing is that I went to see him and give King Aziz a statement. , this elder has always doted on his arrogant little maid. Don't neglect her father, otherwise you will follow in the footsteps and go home to raise pigs.
When I met Jehein, I must have not seen him for several years. Compared with previous years, this guy's complexion seemed to have improved a lot. He used to be thin and thin when he was the king, but now his body has begun to gain weight. , developed horizontally, and there were more than a dozen servants and maids around him. King Aziz found several concubines for him. The life he lived in that small life was already earlier than mine, and he was living a life of hanging around and waiting to die without shame. Such a happy life makes me envious and jealous, wishing I could replace it.
Time is the most magical medicine. After more than ten years of wasted time, Jiehein has long lost his ambition to trample the Alliance under his feet. It cannot be said that his idea is wrong. After all, the Western Kingdom is an independent kingdom, and the Alliance is in it. , there is actually nothing wrong with listening to him on his territory, the only fault is that the situation is different.
Under the oppression of the Hell clan, the alliance needs a highly unified and united environment in order to concentrate its efforts on dealing with the enemy. How can it tolerate Jiehai's internal divisions? Therefore, it is said that the times can make heroes and also make them fall. Jiehai The mistake was that his vision and ambition were not proportional, and he overestimated himself.
During this meeting, Jehein seemed to have long forgotten the culprit that caused his downfall. There was no grudge in his heart, only respect and even some fawning. He knew who he trusted to live such a life now. Fortunately, King Aziz was timid and cautious. If he hadn't been protected by someone, he would have been stabbed by a guard [accidentally] long before he fell.
This kind of Jehein makes me very unhappy. Although the ambitious, arrogant, and disdainful Jehein I met for the first time was annoying, but in comparison, I still feel that he was the same as before. He is more handsome, but now he has completely transformed into an ordinary snobbish nobleman. If I have to describe it, compared with him now, he is a living version of Leonardo in the Dark Continent, which is unbearable to look at.
But fortunately, his love for his own daughter, Princess Sanwu, could be seen to be from the heart and not artificial, even if it was this precious daughter who conspired to push him down from the throne of the king.
After staying in Jiehein for more than an hour and chatting about some innocuous topics, I thought that even if King Aziz had turned into a crayfish, he would have already gotten the information and knew how to behave, so I patted him Jehain, who was about to leave, lost his ambition, and completely degenerated into a nobleman who was greedy for enjoyment, probably also felt that facing me, Alexander, he was very hypocritical. After a few words of apology, he sent me out with a smile. You think I don’t know that you are secretly sending glances at your daughter behind my back!
After leaving, I let out a long breath. Sure enough, an upright and friendly savior like me is not suitable for dealing with ordinary moth nobles. I am more comfortable with Lars, Malag, and Rickenhans.
Princess Sanwu was walking behind, and suddenly took two steps forward and took my hand.
I turned around and looked into her pair of emotionless, bright yellow, clear, pure, big and beautiful eyes.
The maid, who was as delicate as a doll princess, opened her lips slightly. After a while, she whispered the word "sorry" in an expressionless voice.
She was probably also embarrassed that her father had changed from little Leonardo to old Leonardo.
"Why are you apologizing?" I turned around and faced her, placing my hands on her shoulders with heavy hope.
"If you're sorry, could you write less of those books?"
Princess Sanwu shook her head decisively.
"Then can you be better behaved in the future and stop kicking me all the time?"
Princess Sanwu shook her head decisively again.
"Then can you please stop cooking unpalatable dishes? No matter what the circumstances, this should be no problem, right?"
Princess Sanwu shook her head decisively again and again.
"Then apologizing is useless, idiot." After rubbing her big, soft bun hat a few times, I rolled my eyes and turned around to leave.
"It's just a formality. It's the fault of the stupid master who takes it seriously." Princess Sanwu quickly stepped forward to follow, raising her hand to pat the deformed bun hat that I rubbed, and said coldly.
"You guy, you've really eaten your fill and wiped your mouth. You turned your back on me and refused to recognize anyone. Why did I find a maid like you?"
"It's too late to regret now."
"Is there really no way to return it? This store owner, can't you be more accommodating?"
"There is no other way, because the stupid master has rented this maid for ten thousand years. According to the rules of the store, he can only return it for one year at most."
"Do I have to endure nine thousand nine hundred and ninety-nine years of your princess kicking and torture?!"
"Don't worry, I will write you at least ninety-nine thousand nine hundred and ninety copies of the Beast Duke series as compensation."
"I don't feel at ease at all, bastard. Rather, this is the main reason why I want to return it!"
"The master is so arrogant, he obviously likes to watch it."
"Tsundere, your sister, you are Tsundere, and all the roundworms in your belly are Tsundere!"
I didn't quarrel with the mistress all the way, and returned to Lu Gaoyin's teleportation array in the blink of an eye. Beiya and her party had been waiting for a long time, and she was not interested in accompanying me to meet Princess Sanwu's father.
"too slow."
"You're too slow to go to Horadric first?"
"My Highness wants to see idiot Wu being stabbed to death by the Horadric eyes all the way. Just thinking about it makes me so excited that I can't close my mouth."
"..." This stupid girl has such vicious intentions.
Unlike going to the Elf King City where you need to pass through many intermediate stations, from the Lugaoin teleportation station to the Horadric tribe, you can go directly to the Horadric tribe in one stop. We will be sent to you in one second. In one second, we set foot on the teleportation array again, and then we were sent away by white light. Arrive at the Horadric Teleport Station.
A dazzling sun fell in my eyes, making me squint involuntarily. The Horadric tribe, which is located deep in the desert, is undoubtedly hotter than Lu Gaoyin, which is built on the edge of the desert, adjacent to the misty forest and the Twin Seas. The sun is even more dazzling.
Looking up, the sun looks like a brazier and is as big as a millstone. You can vaguely see the blazing white flames burning on the edge of the sun, giving people a feeling of heat like a furnace.
But after leaving the teleportation station, I found that this was not the case at all. Although the sun was shining brightly above my head, the air around me was unexpectedly cool, giving people the feeling that the sky and the ground seemed to be divided into two worlds. Come, you can look at each other, but they don't interfere with each other. You heat yours and I cool mine.
The reason why we have this kind of enjoyment of the two worlds of ice and fire is entirely due to the Horadric tribe setting up a magic circle in their territory that can lower the temperature. As for what magic circle it is and what principle it is based on, I am a magic idiot. I didn't know anything about it, so I just thought of it as a giant air conditioner that could cool down the entire Horadric clan.
Thanks to this "air conditioner", the Horadric tribe, who are living in the desert and should be hot enough to fry eggs on the ground, have become a good place with warm spring and cool summer, with a blazing white sun as big as a millstone above their heads. , it gives people an alternative feeling of being in another world, and is deeply loved by everyone.
More than ten years have passed since the Horadric tribe was rescued in the first world. The millennium of siege has left them impoverished. Even Dia, the princess, was wearing animal skins and linen at the time and could not hold any of them. They only had decent clothes, and their usual staple food was sandworms, scorpions, tree bark, etc. You can imagine how miserable their lives were.
It is precisely because they have tasted poverty that the Horadric people particularly cherish this opportunity. They use their brains and the advantages of their own clan. Through negotiations with the alliance, they not only open their own Horadric ancient tombs and turn them into a training ground for adventurers. , even the adventurer's task of clearing the Western Kingdom has changed from killing four of the six major bosses in the Lugoin area to defeating the projection of Duriel.
It is conceivable that in this way, in order to clear the Lugaoin area, every adventurer has to go to the Horadric Tomb to cause trouble for Duriel, regardless of whether he wants to or not. To go to the Horadric Tomb, he must First come to the Horadric tribe through the teleportation array, take a rest here, and then explore the ancient tombs, sort out the maze, and familiarize yourself with the strength of the monsters.
After going back and forth like this, even the best adventure team would have to spend nearly half a year from arriving at the Horadric clan for the first time, to going deep into the desert, exploring the ancient tombs, and finally finding Duriel's lair and completing the mission.
If you ask about the most generous group of people in the world and the most willing to spend money, people may first think of the nobles, but times have changed. The correct answer should be adventurers. They are the biggest consumers on the entire continent. , in other words, it’s the uncle, it’s God.
Such a group of uncles are rushing towards the Horadric tribe. If the Horadric people don't know how to seize the opportunity and watch their own territory become a transit point for adventurers, leaving as soon as they come and leaving when they return, that would be too out. .
The Horadrics are obviously not a group of people who only know how to study hard and practice magic. They also have business talents and know how to attract adventurers to stay here instead of treating this place as a temporary supply point. Adventurers and merchants naturally come in droves. With merchants, life becomes more convenient, which in turn attracts nobles and commoners. This is a virtuous cycle.
However, the Horadik tribe in the desert is too hot. Even the Lugoin people, who are known to be the most heat-resistant, cannot bear the heat. This is not possible, so the magic circle that makes the Horadik tribe cool came into being. This This is something that only the Horadric clan, known as the Magic Hair clan, can do.
The hottest places have become cooler, adventurers have come, and merchants have come. The Horadric tribe has been developing with rapid changes. In recent years, King Aziz saw that something was wrong. How could the nobles of Lu Gaoyin not be connected? They all went to the Horadric tribe to build a villa for vacation and stayed there?
King Aziz, who noticed this phenomenon, was very wealthy at the time, but even if he gave this fat pig a hundred courages, he would not dare to mess with the Horadric tribe. What should he do? It's just competition, wouldn't it be great if I also built a magic circle in Lu Gaoyin that can make people cool? Money? This king has more money.
Unfortunately, although the idea is good, the reality is cruel. Such a magic circle cannot be supported by money and gems. What is the most expensive thing in the 21st century? Those are talents and technology. Without the technology and foundation of the Horadric clan, Fatty Pig Aziz would not be able to get back such a magic circle even if he cut off all his fat and sold it.
Fortunately, Lu Gaoyin still occupies the right time and place. The city of wealth and the reputation of the Gem Kingdom have not been ruined because of this. It is just a piece of fat cut off by the Horadric clan, which is not to the point of breaking the muscles and bones. Therefore, Ah King Zi could only hide in his small treasury and weep secretly, while he cursed a few villains of the Horadric tribe.
When I came to the Horadric tribe, the first thing I felt was the two worlds of ice and fire in the sky and the ground. At the second time, I was completely overwhelmed by the prosperous scene in front of me.
When was the last time you came to the Horadric tribe? It should have been the time when you rescued Benzina, right? If you think about it, it has been three or four years. At this time, time is flowing through your fingertips in the blink of an eye, and you can't catch it even if you want to.
That time I came, I had already seen the prosperous scene of the Horadric tribe, but there were still many shortcomings. To put it simply, it was like a development zone. But now, three or four years later, this place has become completely mature. At a glance, , it even makes me have the illusion that I am still in Lugaoin and have not been transported to the Horadric clan.
However, it is a newly built prosperous city after all. Compared with the old seniors like Lu Gaoyin who had obtained the city of gems 100,000 years ago, the Horadric tribe obviously lacks the accumulation of time, and there is a sense of brand-newness everywhere. The vigorous smell, only the central magic tower in the center of the city, suddenly raised the level of this new nobleman, as if the nouveau riche put on a long-standing and priceless heirloom necklace and stopped at the banquet. , immediately suppressed a group of old nobles, and no one dared to despise its existence.
Horadric Tribe... No, Horadric City should be used to describe it now. In addition, it also has an advantage over Lugoin. Because of the existence of the air-conditioning magic circle, the temperature here It is suitable, and the water flow will not be easily evaporated. In other words, it is suitable for plant growth. After several years of growth, it has become a green city. The Arabian-style buildings are paired with green trees. It is unexpectedly suitable. From high altitude From the looks of it, this is a magical oasis in the desert, a miraculous and gorgeous treasure.
The vigorously growing plants and eye-catching greenery make this place more livable than Lugaoyin. Inside the city, if you don't look carefully, you won't even realize that you are in a desert city. No wonder those nobles, Even civilian families with a little bit of money want to make a home in the Horadric tribe. I seem to see King Aziz weeping. The piece of flesh cut off by the Horadric tribe is not small. If it weren’t for Hera The Dick tribe lacks transportation, the biggest factor. In another hundred years, they may be able to replace Lu Gaoyin's title.
My eyes were attracted by the bustling surroundings all the way. I was like Grandma Liu walking into the Grand View Garden. My eyes were a little bit exhausted. This behavior naturally earned Beiya a lot of contempt, but don't think that I don't know. The girl was also secretly observing, comparing the now vibrant Horadric City with the Elf King City, and then felt proud of it.
As I walked, I soon discovered a very, very important problem.
Where is Tia's home...?
After a long period of contemplation, even the stupid Beiya seemed to see my predicament: "You guys, are you lost again?" "Who...who said that?" I quickly denied, and why? Using [again] makes it seem like I get lost all the time.
"I'm just... right, it's just that Horadric City has changed too much, I'm just confirming the direction."
"Then you're lost." Beya gave me a merciless roll of the eyes, took a few steps forward, and proudly raised her breasts, which could not be seen rising at all.
"Idiot Wu Shan, go aside and look at His Highness."
"You?" I was deeply suspicious.
"Of course it's me. Compared to Wu, the useless idiot, I have visited the Horadric tribe more than once in the past few years. Although I was shocked by its development speed every time, I still remember it at least. Where is Tia’s home.”
"Yes, yes, then let's ask Beiya, who can be of some use." I was listless and dejected. This time, I was outdone by Beiya.
This girl rarely found a great victory in me. She was leading the way, strutting like a proud mother duck, just like the four great talents in the south of the Yangtze River. I didn't want to be regarded as a duckling by passers-by, so He wittily stepped aside, leaving Beya alone to watch.
About half an hour later, the arrogant girl Beiya finally stopped in front of a gate. At the door, two mysterious mages, shrouded in black robes, blocked our way.
"The former stays, the area ahead is prohibited for ordinary people." A deep young female voice came from a tall black-robed mage. The other one looked very unprofessional, standing motionless and looking at What should I say about the way I looked at you? You look very unhappy, bastard, I see you are unhappy too!
"Hey, it was obvious when I came last time..." Beiya was startled by the mage guard blocking the way. She muttered and lost her bearings for a moment, but remembering Arturia's instructions before saying goodbye, she quickly She reacted, coughed hard a few times, looked calm, and exuded the noble temperament of an elf princess with every move she made.
"Go and inform your Princess Tia that her destined enemy Beja is here."
"I'm sorry, you turned out to be Princess Tia's destined enemy, so I can't let you in." The black-robed mage who made a deep female voice tightened his hold on the mage's long stick and stood in front of him as a warning. attitude.
"But... damn, okay, I know, just tell her that her old friend Beiya is here, that's all right!" The silly and adorable Beiya girl was forced into a blind corner and immediately His true colors were revealed, he put on the unreasonable posture of a princess and pointed at the other party and ordered.
"I say Tia, you know that this girl is very stupid, so stop teasing her."
I, who had been snickering from behind and watching this interesting scene, finally felt a pity for Beiya at this time. The poor girl was being teased and she didn't even know it.
So, I took a few steps forward and pushed Beya aside, who was still in a daze. I opened my arms and hugged the tall black-robed mage in front of me.
"Hey, hey, you know you can't hide it from Fanfan." The black-robed mage's voice suddenly changed, becoming crisp, sweet, and youthful, as if it had gathered all the energy in the world, making the listener involuntarily become cheerful and enthusiastic.
Then, she made a small jump, instantly reducing the distance between us to zero, and threw herself into my arms. The black robe and hat on her head also slipped off, and her black hair poured down, like a The night sky is as bright as the Milky Way.
Another black-robed mage seemed to be unable to bear such clumsy drama. When Dia made a move to throw himself into his arms, he immediately took off the black-robed hat on his head. Who is Ben Zina?
"You...you you you...you..." Seeing Tia showing her true face in my arms, Beya pointed at her, opened her mouth wide, and was speechless in surprise.
"Why, Bea doesn't recognize me anymore. I'm your old friend Tia." The little girl Tia in her arms winked mischievously at her old friend.
"You... you guy... you bastard, a mere little girl, how dare you... dare to tease His Highness like this, I... I'm not done with you!" Beiya's face gradually turned red and angry, and finally the volcano He exploded and roared angrily.
"Don't be angry, don't be angry, no matter what, how about I give up Fanfan's arms to you?"
"I don't want that kind of thing!"
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