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Chapter 127: The Apprentice King
Wang: "Okay, then we'll come pick up the repaired robe tomorrow at noon."
After saying that, he turned and was about to run. Jenny shouted, "Wait a minute! This robe is a trophy from the lich. I'm afraid... afraid that the lich's minions will come to take it back. Can you please stay here and not leave? I have a house for humans here."
Everyone looked at each other.
Xiaobai: "Do you dwarves usually eat meat?"
She probably meant that she could stay if she ate the meat.
Jenny: "Of course I'll eat meat! I'm also preparing the dwarven mushroom soup tonight. Look at you, Flint, you came back on such a coincidence!"
Flint sighed. "Yes, I must admit, your broth is pretty good."
Xiaobai's eyes immediately lit up, and he turned his head to look at Wang eagerly.
Wang touched Xiaobai's head - this time Xiaobai obediently lowered his ears, as if saying "I let you touch it, let me taste the dwarf soup."
Wang: "Okay, you can stay overnight. The Lich's disciples shouldn't dare to attack the team that just killed their teacher."
At this moment, Nini and Xiaobai suddenly turned their heads - the advantage of having two members with good ears in the team is that they can be alert in advance as long as there are any "visitors" who make any noise.
Nini: "Cavalry, about 40 of them."
Xiaobai: "The horse's hooves are very light, so it probably doesn't have a full set of warhorse armor."
King: "Light cavalry? In the Dwarf District? Hmm... maybe a prince or Bernard himself has come. Rosalie should have arrived at the palace by now. I guess Rosalie reported our plan, so Bernard sent someone to keep us."
The team members looked at the king together.
Flint: "I'm almost used to your fast-paced mind, almost."
Wang: “That may not be true.”
As soon as he finished speaking, the horse team outside had arrived at the door.
Then the king saw Emperor Bernal's armor through the window of Jenny's store.
Flint: "Look!"
Nini: "Teacher is indeed a wizard who specializes in prophecy. It's amazing."
Wang: "No, it's just logical reasoning."
As everyone was talking, Bernal pushed open the door, and the music box version of the doorbell, which was said to be made by Flint, rang.
The emperor was attracted by the sound of the doorbell, and then his head hit the door frame hard.
"Ow!"
"His Majesty!"
Jenny was horrified. "There is a door for humans! It's on the other side! Your Majesty, please forgive me. I, I will raise this door tomorrow!"
Bernal waved his hand.
The king saw Rosalie and his third brother following behind Bernard. When their eyes met, Rosalie shook her head slightly.
So the king couldn't help but frown: It seems that the emperor doesn't want to let go of the team that can fight against the lich - if you put yourself in his shoes, this approach is understandable.
At this time, Wang noticed that Rosalie was lip-reading something that sounded like: "My dad is crazy."
Crazy? At this point?
The emperor had no idea that his daughter was flirting with the king. He walked into the shop with a sullen face and looked at the torn robe in Jenny's hand.
"This is the lich's robe. You can ask the court tailor to repair it. We have magical tailors."
Flint: "Jenny's craftsmanship is definitely better than those tailors in the palace who are paid by the emperor, and I have to admit that she is talented in this area. Just leave it to her."
The emperor glanced at Flint and said, "You are the priest who helped the wizard defeat the lich. My advisors asked you why you didn't use the power of God?"
Flint: "My god is Cailin. His gifts are not very effective against liches. Rather, this guy might want to see how we kill this lich that is much more powerful than us."
Wang: "We were able to kill the lich this time because he still retained a little of his curiosity. He took the initiative to remove the invisibility spell just to ask me how I was 'immune' to the mighty power of the mountain.
"Besides, he was too careless. He didn't have any defensive spells on him when he came to us. It's understandable. Under normal circumstances, we can't threaten it at all. Even if we break it, when his zombie dragon falls on the wall and drives us away, he will have time to reassemble his body and go back."
Bernal frowned. "From what you participants said, was the situation very dangerous at that time? We might have to defend the city under the threat of a nine-ring lich in the future?"
Wang: "Yes, he has three nine-ring spells every day. Even if he only has three meteor explosions every day, you can't stand it."
Once the orcs' siege camp is completed, giant catapults will attack the city outside the city. As long as there are enough of them and they throw incendiary objects, the killing effect is actually similar to that of a meteor explosion.
Of course, the fireball ejected by the meteor explosion has a diameter of 0.6 meters, which is still larger than the stone bullet fired by the giant catapult.
Bernal: "The whole of Monrovia should thank you."
Wang: "You're welcome. Let's think about what to do when the lich returns in a few months. Such a powerful lich must have some preparations to revive quickly. Moreover, he has established his own organization. If the members of the organization help to revive, he will come back faster."
Bernard: "We have already requested assistance from the Union of Arcane Law. There is also the headquarters of the Order of Lancelot in the city. We will not be attacked next time. The Pope will lead the Knights to personally destroy the evil lich."
Wang turned to the rest of the team and said, "See, I told you not to worry. Let's just go on our way."
"Did you say not to worry? You clearly said that we should run our own way and let them fend for themselves." Xiaobai pointed out sharply.
Bernal stepped forward: "What do I need to do to make you stay?"
Wang asked a seemingly unrelated question in return: "How long do you think this siege will last?"
Bernal looked at him puzzledly, as if he had never expected to be asked this question.
The third prince, Audi Myhrvold, said behind him: "The siege can last from three months to six months. It is even possible that it can last for a year."
Wang: "Look! We have an evil cult to fight. My teacher said we only have five years at most. At most, understand? If we stay in your city and help defend the city, then the time to save the world will be reduced by one-fifth - at least one-fifth.
"If the evil cult moves quickly, the crisis may come in four or even three years."
Bernal: "But you have found the headquarters of the cult, right?"
"That's just our assumed headquarters, it could also be a regional training center. Once there, we'll have to follow the next clue all the way. And once we get to Yisongzuo, we'll have to look for people and investigate.
"No, I don't think we can complete our mission of saving the world by reaching Isonzo."
Xiaobai was shocked: "You just told the dwarves that after fighting in Yisongzuo, they would go back to eat Bafeng! Not Huhu!"
Although all team members knew what her expression meant, it really sounded like there was a food called "Bafeng".
Wang: "I just expressed a possibility. There are many possibilities. In short, Your Majesty the Human Emperor of Monrovia, we must leave. We must leave for the sake of the world. We must leave tomorrow night."
He said "I'm leaving" three times in a row to emphasize the importance of the matter.
Perhaps it was the three repetitions that really made Bernard realize the king's firm stance on this matter. The emperor suddenly became very depressed: "I... have been having nightmares recently. I dreamed that the city was broken, the bloodline of Melward was slaughtered, and the whole of Minos was burned to the ground..."
The king said: "No, the city wall should not be burned down. Even if all the buildings in the city are burned down, even the stones, the city wall will still stand. Your dream is not accurate."
Everyone was silent.
Many of the knights brought by the emperor showed expressions that said, "I want to scold this idiot, but he can kill the Nine-Ring Lich, so I dare not act rashly."
A powerful idiot is such a headache.
But the idiot immediately said, "Your Majesty, I can see that the nightmare has tortured you and made you very haggard. I think it is possible that the orc shaman is guiding the spirits to interfere with your dreams, making your dreams show the side you are most worried about."
The emperor was stunned. "What? But I asked the Pope to diagnose me, and he found no trace of witchcraft or evil magic on me."
Wang: "It's not a spell, it's a spirit. Shamans can control different kinds of spirits. The number of spirits that can affect dreams is relatively small, but they do exist. I saw it in my house - in the wizard tower."
Bernal: "How do we stop this influence?"
Wang: "A mental barrier will do."
Everyone was silent.
Bernal: "What is a mind barrier?"
Wang: "Nine-ring spells... Oh, I forgot. This plane is not like our Mage Tower. Nine-ring spells are everywhere, legends are worse than dogs, and planeswalkers can play eight mahjong tables."
Prince Audi: "What is a Planeswalker?"
Rosalie: "What is Mahjong?"
King: "Planewalkers are beings who have gained eternity through ascension and can freely leave or enter a certain plane's time stream. Mahjong is a four-player tabletop game that was imported from the plane I just mentioned - oh, that plane I told the dwarves about before."
Everyone fell silent again.
Bernal suddenly said, "You can just conquer a certain - er, plane, right?"
King: "Why are we conquering planes? There's no point!"
Bernal was shocked: "Conquest is meaningless?"
The king asked back, "Isn't it? If you need precious spellcasting materials from a certain plane, you just need to go get them. No one can stop the planeswalker anyway. Wouldn't it be better to use the huge energy needed to conquer the plane to study the truth of the world?"
The deafening speech made the scene even quieter than before.
Seeing that no one was talking, Wang continued, "As I understand it, you want to conquer the world mainly to satisfy the highest level of self-actualization in the hierarchy of needs.
“After all, people who can think of this must have their first four needs met: physiological needs, safety needs, and love and belonging needs.
“The fourth level of respect needs is likely to be met, so what’s left is self-actualization.
"In order to satisfy this need, many goals will be thought of, such as conquering the world or spreading martial arts throughout the country."
Flint said, "Stop, stop. You are using too many words that we don't understand. Let me explain to Your Majesty. Your Majesty, these people care about different things than us mortals.
"They even forbid the sharing of technology with people like us in order to ensure that every plane has a place to observe."
Wang: "Yes, that will cause each plane to become more and more similar, because we have already screened the technology, and only the valuable technology will be passed down by the Mage Tower, and the others are just 'archives'."
Flint: "See! So even though the wizard is now in this world, in front of you and me, he is still a spectator. He came to this world to complete the task assigned by his teacher."
Wang: "No. I feel like I have developed a bond with you, even if it's only a tiny one. If this bond is defined as 1..."
Nini: "Teacher, you are doing quantitative analysis again!"
"Oh, right! You have to feel it with your heart, right? You can't analyze it quantitatively, you can't analyze it!" Wang nodded and gave Nini a thumbs up, "Well done."
The Emperor and Prince of Monrovia looked at this scene in bewilderment.
The princess said: "Father, you know it, right? You gave me an impossible task."
Bernal sighed and asked, "Okay, to answer the previous question, besides the Mind Barrier, a nine-ring spell that we can't find anyone to cast right now, is there any other way to deal with this nightmare?"
"Yes!" the king answered without hesitation, "Spirit hates unnatural things, such as the dwarven furnace. You will definitely sleep well if you sleep in the place with the most furnaces in the city."
Bernal was silent for a few seconds and then asked, "Really?"