"Is that the Legion Commander? Your aura..." Reyes looked Sun Fei up and down in disbelief. When he realized it was indeed Sun Fei, a look of shock appeared in his eyes. He hadn't expected that in less than a day, this prodigy's strength had increased again. The aura emanating from Sun Fei was thick, long, and vast. Clearly, he was no longer at the Star Class level and had definitely advanced to the Moon Class.
This discovery shocked Reyes, but also left him somewhat disheartened.
Back then, during the Imperial Martial Combat Competition, I arrogantly boasted that I could crush [ One Sword ] and King of Chambord with one hand. Now it all seems like a joke. [ One Sword ], due to his discord with King of Chambord, chose to join another legion of the Empire, heading to the Eindhoven battlefield to accumulate military resources and wait for his rise to power before fighting again. Meanwhile, I, out of curiosity and a bit of admiration for King of Chambord, joined the [ Wolf Fang Legion ], thinking that I could work hard to catch up and one day surpass King of Chambord. Now it seems that the gap between the two is widening.
"Not bad, I've advanced to the Moon Class expert." Sun Fei smiled slightly, then skillfully channeled his aura.
Although Reyes is a bit arrogant, he is not a bad person at heart, and he is frank and resilient. In his battle with [ One Sword ], the [ Sorrows, Joys, Partings, and Reunions Sword Formation ] he used was a very sophisticated sword technique that could manipulate the emotions of others. If it were combined with profound Dou Qi qi, it would be absolutely terrifying. Even if it doesn't deserve the title of Mythical Class martial art, it is definitely a Legendary Class sword technique.
Sun Fei had also developed a fondness for talent. He had deliberately released his power just now to slightly intimidate and suppress the boy's arrogant personality. If the time was right, His Majesty the King wanted to recruit this exceptionally talented young expert into his own ranks, just as he had recruited Shevchenko.
After all, it's clear that Sun Fei alone cannot make Chambord City stand firm in this chaotic world.
"This castle is no simple matter. How is your search going?" Sun Fei glanced around and noticed that the soldiers inside had removed their armor and were only wearing thin cloth robes. He knew that the magnetic force of the [ Ancient Castle of Death ] was causing considerable trouble for the army. Star-Rank Warrior like Reyes could barely manage, but ordinary soldiers wearing armor would likely be magnetically attracted to the ground, making it extremely difficult for them to move.
Fires blazed everywhere inside the castle, and timber from some old buildings was dismantled and lit to serve as bonfires to ward off the harsh desert cold.
"Reporting to you, my lord, the castle has been basically cleared. Apart from skeletons, no living creatures were found; it's practically a dead city..." Reyes's expression became much more respectful as he reported, then suddenly remembered something, his face turning strange. "My lord, half an hour ago, two incredibly powerful experts suddenly appeared and stormed into the city. We were no match for them. Fortunately, these two didn't intend to harm anyone; they only seized the main hall to rest in, and... and they even insisted that Lady Xindi serve them food and water..."
"What? Is that so?" Sun Fei was shocked upon hearing this. Anyone who didn't enter the [ Castle of Death ] through the secret passage was definitely a Moon Class expert, and even people like Reyes and the Magic Princess Xindi were helpless against them. This was a serious problem. "What kind of experts were they?"
"A down-on-his-luck middle-aged magician and a little boy. That little boy was really cute, like a little angel, but his strength was terrifying. One look from him and I was paralyzed," Reyes said sullenly. It seemed this arrogant fellow had suffered a bit at the hands of the little boy. He paused, then rubbed his arm and said, "We couldn't contact you for a while, sir, so we could only wait here. Fortunately, you arrived in time."
"Yes, that was a mistake on my part; I didn't leave any way to contact you." Sun Fei nodded.
However, His Majesty was now basically certain that the two experts Reyes mentioned and the strange old man and young man that Shevchenko and Ribery encountered on their way back that night were the same two people. Sun Fei had already been curious about these two, but now that they had come to the castle and hadn't injured any soldiers, they seemed to be no more than vicious criminals. Sun Fei was even more eager to see these strange people.
"Come on, take me to see it." Sun Fei walked towards the main hall of the [ Ancient Castle of Death ].
"You old codger, didn't you say there was absolutely no one in this castle? How come there are people here, and thirty thousand at that?"
Amidst the crackling of burning firewood, a delicately carved little boy on a stone chair in the main hall suddenly appeared, his face covered in grease and bits of meat, munching on a roasted Jurassic Beast thigh while greasy and indignant.
"You little brat, watch your mouth..." The down-on-his-luck middle-aged mage, whose appetite was even worse than the little boy's, chugdled wine and chewed voraciously. Hearing this, he cursed angrily, then rubbed his greasy hair with his greasy hands, and said in surprise, "Tsk tsk tsk, this is truly beyond my expectations. I never imagined that an army could enter the castle. This is the first time in thousands of years... Tsk tsk tsk, little girl, tell grandpa, how did so many of you manage to get around the insurmountable barrier formed by the Death Sands and the [ Berserk Gold-Devouring Ant ] and get in here?"
The last sentence was addressed to Xindi, the Magic Princess, who was roasting meat by a steel bar over a campfire in the distance.
"If our senior can come in, then naturally we can too. What's so strange about that? My Lord Alexander is omnipotent; of course, he can't be stumped." Although she was being forced by two monsters to serve wine and roast meat, the Magic Princess remained incredibly calm.
A radiant smile graced her delicate and beautiful face. She sat on a stone chair beside the campfire, one arm around her knee, turning the steel bar on the grill to roast a cleaned and skinned piglet until it was golden brown, crispy, and juicy. She hummed an unknown song with complete relaxation, her voice as clear and melodious as a nightingale's song. Her expression was one of utter ease and comfort, showing no sign of being a prisoner.
Seeing this, the little boy Arthur whistled excitedly and grinned, "Hey, hey, old man, see? This Chick isn't afraid of you at all." Then he whistled at the Magic Princess Xindi and leered, " Chick, you're very beautiful, even more beautiful than Saint Beijinsai of the Marseille Diocese back then. I wonder if I have the honor of inviting you to the rooftop to look at the moon later..."
He has the face of a complete pervert.
But when this lecherous expression appears on the face of a little boy who is only eight or nine years old and looks as pure and lovely as an angel, the scene becomes incredibly bizarre, and even a little funny.
Enraged, the middle-aged magician threw a piece of bone he had just finished gnawing at, which hit the little boy Arthur on the head. With a crack, Arthur was covered in white bone fragments, but the little boy's forehead was completely unharmed. He seemed not to have heard anything and just looked at Xindi with a pair of eyes that could melt anyone's heart.
"Pfft." The Magic Princess smiled brightly, covering her mouth as she chuckled, "Little brother, no, you're too small."
Those words deflated the little guy like a punctured balloon, instantly limp. He angrily bit off a few more pieces of meat, glared at the middle-aged magician, and roared, "It's all your fault, you old geezer! You're disgusting, you pervert! Why did you give me a child's body like this...?"
"You little beast, I remember you were quite pleased with this body back then. Just think about it, pretending to be an innocent and cute child, how many beautiful women have you taken advantage of over the past hundred years? Those foolish women overflowing with maternal instinct, which one of them didn't rush to hold you in their arms when they saw you?" The middle-aged magician roared in anger.
"Pah! This is all your prank! You're such a pervert! What's the point of just having a little fun? I want to grow up and become a man!" The little boy was about to go crazy.
Magic Princess Xindi shook her head, a smile on her face as she watched the old man and the young man goofing around. She was startled, but the tension she felt at the beginning had dissipated. Although these two were unfathomably powerful and had strange tempers, they didn't seem to be bad people. Their bickering only highlighted the deep affection between this strange pair that was hard for ordinary people to understand.
Just now, a single sentence uttered by the middle-aged, down-on-his-luck magician caused Xindi's face to flush slightly.
There was no other reason than that when she first saw the little boy named Arthur, she had an urge to hug him and pinch his cheeks. The little boy was just too cute; his clear, expressive eyes, like mountain spring water, were enough to captivate any woman... But she never imagined that such a face would hide such lewd intentions. It was truly... truly unspeakable for Xindi.
However, she also felt that the two people in front of her were very real, incredibly free-spirited, and did things their own way, which was enviable, just like she envied King of Chambord for his unbridled and unrestrained killing. Unfortunately, this kind of authenticity and freedom was something that she, burdened with heavy shackles, could never envy.
"Hehe, little beauty, I already know even if you don't tell me. There must be some secret passage in this castle that you discovered and used to get in." Just as Xindi was lost in thought, the two strange men finished their banter, and the down-on-his-luck middle-aged mage turned to look at Xindi, Earth Inquiry a half-smile. Of course, there was another possibility: this army might have been Teleport in through some kind of magical Teleport. However, he had noticed that there were no spatial magic element fluctuations in the city, and the spatial Teleport array was incredibly profound, something a small country like the Zenit Empire couldn't possibly possess.
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