Chapter 125

Flillian's feelings as an elf sounded bizarre to humans.

Ash, who was listening to this, couldn't help but remind her:

"For you, eighty years may be just a little bit of time, but for human spirits, eighty years is long enough. This is the result of the joint efforts of three, four, or even five generations of kingdom residents."

"Although that's the case, other countries have basically not changed, but this country is developing at an unreasonable speed. It even feels to me... that the changes in the human kingdom in a thousand years are not as great as the changes in these eighty years."

Originally, she thought this should be a good thing. After all, everyone seemed to live and work in this country, and it was a good thing no matter how she thought about it.

It even made her want to stay and spend a few hundred years happily here. After all, magic is highly developed in this country, and there are many magic books here.

But in the war with the Empire, the Kingdom sent out the Great Demon Clan to directly bombard the Empire's city, causing the Empire's city to fall.....

Since the Great Demon Clan is also in this kingdom, Fulilian doesn't know whether this rapid change is good or bad, or whether this is a peace that actually hides some huge crisis?

Maybe it's all developed by the Demon Clan. After all, the magic of the Demon Clan...the Golden Country is better, but it has not been solved so far. In addition, there are many other things that humans cannot understand at all, and there is no theoretical basis.

Just like Master Volame said, just like the various magics in the illusory fairy tales, it is not impossible that special magic that can promote human development exists.

Unfortunately, after a while of distress, she didn't know what to say without evidence. After calming down, she looked at Ash again and smiled wickedly:

"You have a good relationship with the high-ranking officials of the kingdom. Let's not stay in the hotel today and go directly to the royal city. I wonder if you can arrange a guest room for important foreign guests for us, Lord Ash?"

"... Of course there is no problem with this." He hesitated for a moment, but still nodded and agreed.

The group walked through the stone-paved road and arrived at the foot of the royal city.

There is still a barrier outside the wall of the royal city. There are groups of guards at the entrance of the royal city. The magicians on the wall are always keeping a close eye on anyone who approaches this place.

But when the guards at the gate saw that it was Ash, they immediately made way for the three people, and even welcomed them in with a sense of welcome, and very considerately prepared a carriage for them.

"....You can enter the royal city directly like this, you are really an incredible person." When Fulilian boarded the carriage, she couldn't help but teasing: "Our Lord Ash is really a hidden talent~"

"......"

Ash ignored her, just leaned on the window with his hand, and cast his eyes out of the window. The scenery was so familiar that it couldn't be more familiar, and he completely ignored her questions.

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In fact, Fulilian, who was still very curious about his hidden attitude, felt a little bored with his attitude, and couldn't help but turn her head to look at Philen.

After a little thought, she still felt the need to say something, and reminded:

"Although you have been very polite since childhood, Fren, I have to remind you again that you must be very polite to nobles, especially the king. Even if you speak too loudly by accident, it will be regarded as rude, which is a capital crime in the Central Kingdoms."

"...I have heard you talk about this before. It seems that Lord Aize and Lord Xinmeier were directly pushed to the beheading platform because of this?"

"Yes, fortunately, the king was in a good mood in the end and let them go..." To this day, Flillian sighed when she thought of this, and unconsciously turned her eyes back to Ash, asking cautiously Said:

"The king of this country should have a good character, otherwise he wouldn't have built the country like this, right?"

"What's his character like...?"

This question, which could have been easily answered, unexpectedly stumped him. Ash covered his mouth and lowered his head to think for a long time before squeezing out three words: "...Not bad, right?"

"...You look like this isn't your first time here? Why don't you even know what the king is like?"

"Well... Actually..."

He didn't know how to explain it. He actually had no interest in the king at all. He didn't even know what the king of this generation was called, and he almost said that the other party was very obedient.

Although this sounds a little absurd, but...who would go out of their way to understand the puppets that have been controlled for generations? Are you bored?

"What's wrong? You don't really know the king's situation, do you?" His suspicious look made Fulilian even doubt for a moment whether this guy was bragging and pretending to know the king and the high-ranking officials of the kingdom. The kind of person who likes to brag.

But he was not a boaster. How could he get into the gate of the royal city if he boasted normally?

Because of this, she really didn't understand what was going on.

Ash also tried hard to think of a suitable reason. After a long time, he finally said: "Actually... I have always called the king by his nickname. I really can't remember his real name."

"...Nickname?"

After he said this, Fulilian doubted her ears even more.

At least she had never heard of anyone daring to call the king of a country by his nickname... except the king's parents, but even if it was the king's parents, they would not call their son, who had become a monarch, by his nickname, right?

This made her a little suspicious, whether this guy was joking, or deliberately not saying his real name, just teasing her.

"Even if you are playing tricks on me, you should use some logic. Is it normal to call the king by his nickname? Are you going to just say a nickname to fool people? Do you think we won't ask?... Although we really won't ask!"

For the sake of her own safety, she really won't ask, which made Fulilian stare at him suspiciously, and tentatively asked: "Then when you see the king later, do you dare to say his nickname?"

"What if I call it? What will you do?" He asked subconsciously.

"Whatever you say, I'll do it..."

"——Stop playing around! This is a capital crime, right?" Philen, who could listen quietly, was really anxious now. He quickly grabbed him and shook his head vigorously, staring at Fulilian angrily, and scolded with an angry voice:

"Lady Fulilian, too! What are you talking about? There should be a limit to joking! Even if the relationship is good, what if such words are spread out? It will kill people!"

"...That's right, sorry..."

Flilian didn't know whether she really admitted her mistake or was simply intimidated by Philen's pressure, so she bowed her head silently and admitted her mistake.

But Ash didn't say much, just with a little distress, and was glad that Yubel took the task of the Magic Association to the Empire first, otherwise... there would be a lot more troubles.

But now he can only think about how to operate later.

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When they arrived at the castle, which was the royal palace and had an extra wall built around it, a group of people got off the carriage and stepped onto the wide drawbridge outside the wall. When they just stepped into the outer gate of the royal palace...

Flillian seemed to notice something, and suddenly looked back, then took a few steps back, and then stepped in again, repeating this several times.

This strange behavior made Philen wonder:

"Lord Fulilian? What are you doing?"

"... There is not only a defensive barrier here, but also a one-way barrier. The outside world cannot perceive the situation inside, and can't even see the people inside clearly."

Flilian returned to the door again, and cast her eyes on Philen who was inside, wondering: "How many secrets are there here? Why does the palace need to set up a one-way barrier separately?"

"Don't tell me that you have never encountered such a barrier when you went to other palaces?"

"But that was done by the king in order to have sex in broad daylight on the top of the city... But this is a wise king, right?"

The well-informed Fulilian has heard about the various hobbies of human nobles. As a king... he must be one of the perverts among the nobles.

It is not strange that a one-way barrier exists, but generally only strange kings will use it, which is very strange.

Because generally, even if a country that deliberately creates such a barrier does not regress, its development will definitely stagnate, which is completely different from the overall spiritual outlook of the country.

But before she could discuss it with Philen, Philen didn't know what he was thinking, his face flushed, and he took a step back unconsciously, very reluctant to step into the palace.

This made Fulilian speechless, and she turned to look at Ash, hoping to get an explanation from this insider.

".... What do you want me to say? How can I understand the king's interests? Other intentions?" Ash spread his hands and simply evaded the question.

"If it's not used for strange things, then there must be a lot of secrets in it... What's going on in this country?"

Just entering the capital, she has encountered quite a lot of shocks. At this moment, the doubts and questions that are about to overflow make Fulilian feel uncomfortable if she doesn't reveal them.

Therefore, she kept staring at Ash, feeling angry that if he didn't say something, she wouldn't let him go.

But at this time... a man got off a carriage that stopped not far away.

The man took out a large wooden box from the carriage and walked towards the entrance of the royal city, unconsciously attracting Fulilian's attention.

Because the person carrying the goods was a tall, mature woman with a gentle and beautiful look, who looked about 30 years old.

A woman wearing a black cloak and a hood The woman had a goddess pendant on her chest.

But this woman who looked like a noble lady was surprisingly strong. She lifted a wooden box as tall as a person with one hand, and it seemed quite easy.

The other party didn't pay attention to Furlian, but looked at Ash with a surprised expression, immediately put down the goods and knelt on one knee:

"Lord Ash, it's my honor to see you again at this time."

"Luisa... you're pretty fast." It was Ash who arranged for her to recycle the Zanze statue. I didn't expect to meet her here, and I felt a little interesting.

"Yes, yours is an order, and naturally it is my mission." The woman called Louisa smiled and put her hand on her chest, and bowed her head deeply.

This statement made Fulilian suspicious... Her eyes unconsciously fell on the sword she revealed when she half-knelt on the ground:

"You are a nun, right... Nuns do not regard the teachings of the goddess as their mission, but regard the orders of others as their mission? And... If I remember correctly, it should be the family heirloom sword of Count Tah?"

"Lord Ash, who is this person...?" Louisa did not answer Fulilian's question, but looked at Ash intently.

"Don't worry about her, just continue your work."

"I understand, then I'm sorry."

After hearing this, Louisa naturally ignored Fulilian and walked towards the inside of the palace.

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Suddenly, Louisa passed by, and soon disappeared from everyone's sight carrying the life-size figurine.

But Fulilian's eyes followed her back all the time, and she couldn't help but say, "I shouldn't have seen it wrong... That is indeed the family heirloom sword of Count Tah."

"So what?"

"If I remember correctly, the year before the crusade against the Demon King, when we passed by the earldom of the small country on the peninsula further north, Count Tah once forced us to find the sword back. If we couldn't find it, he would put us all in prison until we compromised."

"That's really an unreasonable noble... But in reality, although not as barbaric as the central countries, many nobles in the northern countries are also quite unreasonable, and they will arbitrarily convict people." Speaking of this, Ash was also quite emotional: "Obviously You just sealed the Corrupted Sage two years ago, and you didn't even mention your contribution. "

"Don't change the subject, what I want to say is... the reason why the sword is easily lost is that there are always demons sneaking into the barrier, and the reason why the demons do this is because it originally belonged to a famous demon, which means..."

"So only the demons should understand the true value of it, right? Only the demons would go to the lord's mansion to steal the sword, right?"

"That's right, so... is that person a demon?"

Finally unable to hold back, Fulilian still told the truth directly, staring at his eyes, as if wanting to see if he was lying.

But Ash just smiled helplessly: "What's the difference between yes and no, can you still kill people in the royal city?"

"She is a demon."

"But it is a capital crime to mess around in the royal city of any country." For this girl who was stubborn about her demon identity, Ash just shook his head helplessly: "You should understand this truth, so you didn't do it, right?"

"I understand, but a country that allows demons to mess around is very dangerous, and..." Thinking of things about this country, Fulilian couldn't help frowning:

"This country not only cooperates with the big demons, but also allows ordinary demons to come and go, and even drives monsters as tools of war. It's just sitting on the crater of a volcano. Other countries are fine, and I don't want to care, but such a highly developed country is destroyed like this... Even I feel sorry for it."

"In fact, you don't have to care so much. At least nothing has happened for so many years, right?"

"......." Fulilian didn't say anything, just stared at him.

Seeing that she had many questions, Ash couldn't help but feel a little troubled. After a moment of contemplation, he said:

"Anyway...you should go to the annex to rest first."

"...annex?" When Philen heard this word, he couldn't help but look a little curious, and even put aside his doubts about things he didn't intend to talk about in detail for the time being, and asked with a little expectation that he couldn't hide: "Isn't it for entertaining VIPs? Can we go too?"

"Of course." Ash nodded lightly with a smile, and then waved his hand to call two maids: "Take them to the annex and entertain them according to the standards of foreign envoys."

"Yes, Lord Ash."

The two maids had no questions and quickly stepped forward to lead the two away.

Fulilian was still thinking about something, but Philen looked back at him from time to time, and wanted to ask him to come together, but he just said that he had something to deal with first and asked her to have fun in the annex.

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In the palace

Aura, a pink-haired girl who is not tall but has a proud bust and looks surprisingly good, has a queen-like feel but gives people the atmosphere of a bad girl. She lies bored in a rocking chair, just looking at the ceiling and rocking from time to time.

Although she is in the study where Ash works, her posture looks... basically no different from a useless person.

Ash just took a look and couldn't help but want to leave the room to avoid being entangled by this guy who almost had the word bored written on his face.

When thinking about the next problem to be faced, he still rubbed his swollen temples, thinking about why his sister would be such a guy, and walked forward with a smile:

"Aura, why don't you get up quickly and see who is here!"

"This voice... Ash?"

"Yes, it's your dear brother who has come back to see you!"

"Stop bragging, idiot." Aura finally moved and sat up, looking at him with dissatisfaction: "You still remember to come back?"

"There was a war, wasn't there?"