"Lord Li Ang, how did you come here? To be honest, I'm a little doubtful... does what happened here have anything to do with you?"
Emperor Marius squinted at Li Ang who suddenly appeared from the corner. His Majesty the Emperor obviously didn't understand the situation.
He knew that Li Ang had sent troops to deal with Snake Worship Cult, but he did not know that Snake Worship Cult's army had been killed by Li Ang alone - Emperor Marius had been held hostage by Kairos recently, so of course he could not receive any intelligence.
"His Majesty Marus, I really didn't expect that our first meeting would be under such circumstances. However, you shouldn't doubt a friend who has been providing selfless help... Moreover, if I were you, I would worry about my own life safety first. This matter is obviously aimed at you, Kairos is obviously just being deceived..."
Li Ang waved, and a large group of strong men emerged from the abandoned houses in the village and surrounded Kairos's guards.
"Li Ang... What are you going to do? Are you deliberately leading people to ambush here? What do you know?"
Seeing so many of Li Ang's subordinates suddenly appear, Kairos regained his composure. He got up from the ground and asked Li Ang with a frown.
The number of personal guards he brought into the village was not large, only a few dozen Shadow Centurion. Now these personal guards gradually gathered together back to back with some uneasiness.
"You're overthinking, I don't have the time to ambush you... I'm just not sure if there are any Snake Worship Cult people among your men - after all, what you said just now, your whole family has already taken refuge in Snake Worship Cult, so naturally I have to be careful... His Majesty Marus, do you want to come to my side first?"
Li Ang waved to Emperor Marius, signaling the kidnapped emperor to leave the dangerous spot.
Emperor Marius looked around, took a few steps back, exited the control of the Shadow Centurion around him, and moved towards Li Ang.
Several Shadow Centurion looked at each other, but no one moved.
Only Kairos took out the throwing spear he carried with him.
"Kairos... In this situation, are you still planning to commit regicide yourself? I smashed open this temple, but I guarantee that this place will look like this after I smashed it open. I didn't see anyone with snakeskin scales on their necks. And you should be able to see that my people don't dare to get stained with the blood on these corpses - the things here have nothing to do with me... I was just here to find my team members."
Li Ang said quickly, although he has more people in the village, he must try to avoid conflicts. Shadow Centurion next to Kairos is not easy to deal with.
"Regicide? I won't do such a stupid thing... but I can't let you take His Majesty away either..."
After Kairos took out the throwing spear, he did not look at Li Ang. Instead, he glanced around at his own men, probably assessing the combat effectiveness of both sides.
Seeing this, Kairos is not going to give up easily.
Sure enough, any father is very persistent when faced with something like saving his son.
"Have you never thought that the so-called priest is just deceiving you? Your son is not here..."
Li Ang looked at Kairos and shook his head. "If your son can still move - even if he can still move like a puppet, that guy will definitely let your son come forward to contact you... This situation can only mean..."
"No! Shut up!"
Kairos shouted with wide eyes, a trace of despair and madness on his face. "My son must still be alive...".
Probably only when his own son is in trouble would a big shot like Kairos change his temperament so drastically that it becomes difficult to communicate.
But after all, he still had some sense. Li Ang's troops were surrounding him. Of course, he did not attack anyone, but was just confronting Li Ang.
Being so frozen is obviously not an option. Ansen still doesn't know where he is. Li Ang still has to find a way to find his own medical officer, but he doesn't have time to waste here.
Just when the lord was about to use force to solve the problem, something strange happened.
"Sir, it... it moved!"
Kloze suddenly pointed at the altar with straight eyes, as if he had seen a ghost.
In fact, it was indeed a ghost - everyone turned around and saw that the dead man, whose chest and abdomen had been opened, and whose heart in his chest was not beating at all, actually started to move!
Li Ang now understood why Kairos was so insistent. Snake Worship Cult could actually revive people who had suffered such fatal injuries. So saving Kairos's son seemed not just empty talk.
I just don't know what the resurrected people will lose...
"When it comes out, kill this damn thing... it has obviously become as powerful as Castro..."
Sigismund muttered and made several gestures with the big sword in his hand.
The monster in the altar has torn off the iron chains that bound its hands and feet - it pulled out several nails that nailed the iron chains to the four-pointed star platform, seemingly effortlessly, as if the nails were just embedded in tofu.
But the nail was half a foot long, and the four-pointed star platform was obviously not a rotten object, but a solid wood platform that looked very strong...
This naturally means inhuman power.
However, no one dared to go into the temple at this time. The pus and blood inside there must be Red Death, and no one wanted to be contaminated by it.
The monster that had sat up in the altar turned its head, and its eyes had completely turned into orange vertical pupils.
Then, the monster tried to step out of the bleeding pool - this movement seemed too big, and its intestines slipped out along the dissected abdominal cavity...
The monster seemed to be a little violent. It ripped out its own intestines and seemed to tear out some other internal organs. Then it stepped straight out of the blood pool, with black pus and blood dripping from all over its body.
In just a few steps, its originally dissected chest and abdomen turned into a large black void, but he was still 'alive' and walked steadily with bloody footsteps.
"Lord Li Ang... I beg you... don't hinder me, and... let him get out of here!"
Kairos also looked at the species that was probably no longer human beings coming down from the altar, and suddenly turned his head and said something to Li Ang.
"Kairos Are you crazy? Of course I don't want to deal with you, but that thing is different, that thing is obviously not human!"
Li Ang looked at Kairos as if he was mentally retarded. "Didn't you see that the internal organs of that thing were torn out by himself? Is it possible that you know this guy?"
Indeed, it would be outrageous to let it go after this situation...
"Of course I know it's not a human... I just think he doesn't seem to have his own consciousness, but it will definitely go to the person who controls it... Maybe by following him, we can find the priest of Snake Worship Cult! You can also find my Antonius!"
It seems that Kairos is rational after all, or in other words, he will try any method to find and save his son.
In fact, Li Ang also thinks that this method might work.
"We really need to figure this out... Lord Li Ang, or you can ignore this matter. I believe you have nothing to do with Snake Worship Cult... Let Kairos investigate this matter on his own."
Emperor Marius also nodded towards Li Ang.
Li Ang feels that His Majesty Emperor Marius is quite generous. Kairos just kidnapped him, but he actually dared not to stop Kairos and asked Kairos to investigate on his own.
But after hesitating for a moment, he still signaled to his men to get out of the way and watched the monster walk out step by step.
"Kairos, I still have to find my medical officer. I really don't have the time to care about things here. But there is something I have to tell you... I just buried tens of thousands of Snake Worship Cult's troops a few days ago... The Snake Worship Cult army that besieged Imperial Port before has been destroyed, and I guarantee that not a single one is left. Perhaps, the person you want to find has fled far away, and you may not be able to find him if you follow this thing."
Li Ang kindly reminds Kairos.
Kairos looked at Li Ang and nodded. "I must thank you for what you have done... In fact, I also heard about your selfless help to Bax a few days ago..."
After saying that, he turned to look at Emperor Marius: "Your Majesty, believe me, in fact, I never thought of murdering you. I just wanted to try the blood of the king that the priest mentioned... If I can find the priest this time, I will capture him and come back to you for the crime... And, Your Majesty, if you want to implement reforms, you should have cruelly killed me long ago..."
After saying that, Kairos led the troops and followed the monster slowly towards the outside of the village.
Emperor Marius watched Kairos slowly leave and sighed sadly.
"His Majesty Marus, you just let him leave like this?"
Li Ang looked at Emperor Marius with deep doubts in his eyes. Did he really let Kairos go like that?
"You... killed Snake Worship Cult's army of tens of thousands? Where are you?"
Emperor Marius did not answer. He turned around and looked at Li Ang several times. It seemed that he wanted to get to know the lord again.
"Near Fidne Village... Oh, by the way, in order to kill the Snake Worship Cult army, Governor Livius father and son used their bodies as bait. Unfortunately, they all died for the country. They died quite... heroically."
Li Ang thought about it carefully and changed an adjective for Livius's miserable death.
"I know very well what kind of person Livius is. I am afraid that the word "heroic" cannot be applied to him...Count Li Ang, I understand that there will definitely be a price to pay to get rid of Snake Worship Cult. If the price the empire pays is just Livius and his son, then I should actually thank you more... Are you interested in the northern governor of the empire?"
As expected, Emperor Marius and Justus are wearing the same pants, and even the rhetoric to win over them is exactly the same...
"Forget it, Your Majesty... I just 'captured' Calundru Castle not long ago, and I will threaten Bacchus Empire when Calundru Castle has thousands of soldiers... If you appoint me as governor, you can't explain it to your people... Let's go, I will send you to Erudition City, where General Clerion is... By the way, I hope our next meeting can be more formal..."
Li Ang shook his head and called his subordinates to leave.
"No need to send me away... In fact, there are people escorting me all the time. I am very happy that an expert like you didn't even notice them... Sura!"
Emperor Marius smiled and shook his head, turned his head and shouted behind him.
From several dark corners, several people wearing wolf head helmets stood out at the same time. "Your Majesty, the shadow wolves have followed..."
Li Ang's eyes widened. These guys were hiding so secretly. They brought hundreds of people with them, but no one could detect them!
No wonder he let Governor Kairos leave so easily. It turned out that he sent someone to follow him...
Likewise, it's no wonder that his previous behavior didn't look like that of a hostage. It turns out that Emperor Marius has such a secret force following him all the time - it's really hard to tell who is the kidnapped person...
"This is General Sura, the Shadow Wolf from the Ash Descendants Empire. Count Li Ang, we are friends now, so I will let you see him... but when we are enemies, he may always hide in the dark, so be careful."
Emperor Marius introduced Sura to Li Ang, but General Sura obviously did not intend to show up. He nodded from a distance, and then retreated to the dark place again.
"Your Majesty is really good at it... By the way, I once saw some spies called 'venomous snakes' under Governor Justus. Do they have anything to do with General Sura's people?"
Li Ang shook his head with some emotion, Bacchus Empire's spies are really complete in variety and variety, and they are indeed more fancy than kingdoms like Lion and Raven.
"Those are some espionage officers trained by Shadow Wolf Pack. They were originally intended to deal with Snake Worship Cult and needed someone to work as undercover agents in Snake Worship Cult - so they were called 'venomous snakes'. This nickname would prevent them from being exposed in Snake Worship Cult..."
Emperor Marius answered seriously and seemed to be giving sincere advice to Li Ang: "Like the Shadow Wolves, they are warriors who walk in the darkness. Maybe you should also build such a team... If you don't want to be killed by Lion King or other kings..."
"I am a loyal and brave minister of the Lionheart Kingdom. How could I be killed by my own king... Ha, Your Majesty, since someone is protecting you, I will take my leave..."
Li Ang shook his head and turned around to leave.
Emperor Marius is obviously very difficult to deal with, and General Sura's Shadow Wolf Pack is indeed very dangerous - in a head-on battle, one of his own Silver Hands may be able to defeat both of them, but Shadow Wolf Pack is obviously specialized in traveling in darkness, and probably only Risadiran can deal with them.
The lord felt that he had better find Ansen quickly, then go back to Calundru Castle to stay, and let Risadiran quickly form a shadow army walking in the secret place.
At this moment, Ansen is actually less than twenty miles away from the lord.
There is a reason why Li Ang didn't find him - Ansen At this time, in Lake Sava, on a boat.
It was an inland river boat, a purely oar-powered wooden boat commonly used by fishermen. It was only about ten meters long and more than one meter wide.
There were two other people on the boat with Ansen, a man and a woman.
The man was unconscious, his whole body was swollen, and his face was covered with blue scaly spots.
The woman wore a worn leather armor and held a spear in her hand, testing the depth of the lake.