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The king frowned. "I said I don't want to add any more humans to the team... and do you know anything else besides sword dancing? I don't think so, right? What do you want me to do? Xiaobai, turn into a griffin and send the people back. We have to go explore the ruins tomorrow and we don't have time to take care of the children."
Oscar yelled, "I'm eighteen!"
Rosalie: "She's eighteen."
Wang: "Really? That's disrespectful. But we still have to go back. We don't need a little guy who can only dance with swords."
Elizabeth: "Rosalie suggested that Oscar stay on board and be responsible for training the sailors in swordsmanship. You didn't see that the two strongest sailors were easily killed by Oscar."
Wang raised his eyebrows. "It sounds like they are very good, but... are you sure the sailors didn't cheat?"
Oscar snorted contemptuously: "At worst, you can find a few more sailors and I will beat them to death for you to see!
"If you still don't believe me, then just select the ten strongest sailors and have them attack together! Our two defeated opponents said before that they have a few good friends and that they are good at working together as a group rather than fighting alone.
"Then let them come together. I want to see how capable they are!"
Wang: "Just hit ten? Let me ask you first, little brother Oscar, do you have voter blood?"
Occasionally, God will particularly favor a believer and bestow various blessings upon him.
Those who receive this blessing are called the elect.
Of course, after so many years of evolution, some professions that were not originally voters, such as pastors, are recognized as voters by ordinary people.
The "elect" have gained various abilities because of God's grace, and are generally very strong in combat, especially when it comes to religion.
Wang obviously suspected that the other party had the blessing of gods because of the other party's nonchalant request to fight ten people.
Oscar shook his head repeatedly: "No."
Wang: "Then how are you going to survive the siege of ten people?"
Oscar: “You have to give it a try.”
Wang was shocked: "I admit that you aroused my curiosity. I want to see how you fight. But ten people are too many. If you can beat five people, we will recognize your strength. Without further ado, let's prepare for the game."
Elizabeth: "Captain, please light up all the lights on deck."
Before he finished speaking, the king took out the shining Cyclops energy core staff.
In an instant, the entire deck was as bright as day.
Elizabeth: "Okay, I forgot about that. Now that the lighting problem is solved, what's next?"
King: "Let's start fighting. Who were the ones who were just defeated? From what the little prince said, these five people all said that they are better at playing as a team?"
At this time, a strong sailor stood up and said, "Yes, I did say that."
Wang: "You are one of them? What about your buddies?"
Before he could finish his words, four sailors appeared.
The king observed the five people carefully and asked, "Are you not related by blood?"
The five people looked at each other and saw that their hair was of different colors. The leader said to the king: "Of course we are not related by blood. Our bond is the result of so many years of sharing hardships."
Wang: "I see. Well, let's start the competition quickly. Your opponents are ready."
The five men nodded, walked up to Oscar and started to choose weapons. The leader counted on his fingers and said, "I heard that you bullied my two brothers badly?"
Oscar: "It wasn't that tragic. I just knocked their swords away."
The king raised his head, looked at the main mast that was being repaired, and asked, "You knocked the sailor's sword away. Did you cause the damage to the mast?"
"It's my fault." Wang looked in the direction of the voice and saw Marika emerging from the shadows.
Wang: "What did you do?"
Marika: "I picked up the little princess's sword, but I hadn't used the sword for too long and couldn't control the landing point. As a result, I hit the mast and pierced through it directly."
"Wait a minute!" Wang interrupted Marika loudly, "Why is there a little princess here? Who is this talking about?"
Marika looked at Oscar.
Wang Ye turned his head and followed her gaze, and finally his eyes fell on Oscar.
He hesitated for a few seconds and asked, "You...you, cut it?"
Elizabeth: “She didn’t have one in the first place.”
Wang understood immediately and clapped his hands vigorously, saying, “So it’s a woman dressed as a man. Speaking of which, when we lived in the Royal Library of Monrovia in Mino, Oscar came over early every morning and watched us check the information.
"At that time, I felt that this boy's shoulders were too narrow and his pelvis was too broad. He didn't look very masculine."
Marika raised an eyebrow. "You saw it then? Why didn't you say anything?"
King: "Make bold assumptions and verify them carefully. There is only one way to verify the identity: physical confirmation. But for a princess of an empire, such confirmation would definitely be considered an insult and would trigger hostility.
"So I just speculated, but didn't try to find clues or evidence. After all, this is actually an insignificant matter. We will leave Monrovia soon. It is basically meaningless to us whether one of the princes in Monrovia is a princess dressed as a man.
"After all, we don't want to kill some horrible monster that men can't kill, right?"
Rosalie: "Okay, we've talked so much, let's get started. Look, the sailors are waiting."
The king nodded, and moved to a position that could provide better lighting, raising the Cyclops energy staff in his hand.
Captain: "Longswords... Never mind, I don't know how you're going to engage in longswords in this situation. Start!"
The five sailors immediately spread out and surrounded Oscar from all directions.
The next moment, with a clang, something flew out and stabbed into the wooden deck of the spacecraft with a duang.
Then there was another clang, and the second sword flew away.
One of the five sailors shouted, "Attack together! Don't attack alone! This guy is much stronger than us ordinary people!"
The five men stopped attacking one by one and began to approach in unison.
The sailor whose sword was knocked away picked up any handy weapon on the deck and prepared to use it to launch an attack.
"Stop!" Wang shouted.
Everyone stopped the offensive and defensive battle that had just begun.
Wang looked Oscar over carefully and even walked up to him and squeezed her arm.
The girl's face flushed instantly.
The dwarf on the side started to make fun of him: "You are going to make up for the lack of verification in Minos and come up with irrefutable evidence that she is a girl, right?"
Wang: "No, I'm trying to confirm whether this girl has used the Tamsen Transfiguration."
Tamsen Transfiguration, this spell was invented by the planeswalker Tamsen. The function of this spell is to allow mages to gain melee combat capabilities like experienced warriors.
After carefully checking, Wang said, "It turns out to be a real skill. I couldn't tell at all."
Elizabeth: "So? What's your decision?"
Wang: "A swordsmanship coach, to improve the sailors' swordsmanship... This is great. After all, there is no extra payment, just one more mouth to feed, very profitable. I have no objection. Let's not talk about this. Tomorrow we are going to explore a large ruins, which may have been occupied by the cult."
Elizabeth frowned. "Being occupied by the cult? Isn't that very dangerous? The cult is a powerful entity that can easily send out a seventh-ring wizard, and our highest is only the fourth ring."
The king nodded: "Yes! So I recruited several hundred lizardmen warriors."
Elizabeth:?
Chapter 159: A Quick Move
After a day's rest, morning came again and the rescue team prepared to set off for the ruins.
Flint looked at the "basket" made of ropes and nets by the sailors and loudly expressed his dissatisfaction: "Where is our dignity when we are thrown into this?"
King: "Be content. The flying ability of the griffin that Xiaobai transformed into is higher than that of the normal griffin. Otherwise, you wouldn't even be able to sit on the rope net."
Xiaobai is a strong man who can carry a group of people by turning into a white-headed sea eagle. Normal white-headed sea eagles don't have this "cargo" ability. But there is a problem that Xiaobai can't solve, that is, she can't make the griffin's back wider, and it is impossible to squeeze the entire rescue team.
So the workaround was to let the barbarian and the dwarf, the two guys who took up space, hang in the rope net.
The dwarf began to display his characteristics as a talkative old soldier and began to show off the dwarven national curse.
The king was completely unmoved and kindly reminded him, "By the way, take off your armor later. It's almost as heavy as you. When the enemy lands, you can put it back on."
Flint: "Carlisle Newman's dermatitis! If I didn't know you well enough, you'd just wait for me to leave the team!"
After saying that, he swiftly took off his armor - I don't know if it was intentionally designed to be easy to put on and take off, but this armor felt particularly quick to take off.
Wang: "Thank you. Okay, Xiaobai, you turn into a griffin! Flint, get into the net!"
As Xiaobai turned into a griffin, Flint went into the net swearing. As the barbarian went in, he soothed him, "If you feel uncomfortable being caught in the net, you can stretch your legs out of the mesh. Maybe that will help..."
Flint: "This is going to be a pain in the ass!! My armor is off!"
Barbarian: "Oh."
Xiaobai completed his transformation at this time and let out a long roar towards the sky.
The king began to cast a spell: "Giant Transformation!"
The next moment, Xiaobai's body swelled up a size, so that more people could sit on the saddle.
Marika: "Your Highness, please go first. Do you need me to carry you up?"
Elizabeth assessed the height of the enlarged griffin, gave up her efforts, and said to Marika, "Thank you for your help."
"You're welcome." Marika picked up Elizabeth and placed her on the griffin saddle.
Wang turned to Nini and said, "I'm counting on you too."
Elizabeth: "Why not? Why don't you just crawl up yourself? Where's your dignity as a man?"
"I am a weak and feeble mage," Wang showed his thick skin, "I have no physical dignity to defend. Come, Nini, carry me up!"
"Good teacher."
Nini picked up the wizard and put him on the saddle, in front of Elizabeth.
Elizabeth pinched the king's waist hard.
Wang didn't care at all. He turned to Nini and said, "How are you two elves going to solve this problem?"
Nini pulled the griffin's "stirrup" with her hand: "This is enough for me."
"Really? We might have to fly for a long time."
Nini: "Don't worry, I can even hang on the tree and close my eyes to rest for eight hours."