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"What? You want to say, I'm sick?"
"No, I mean that you need to prepare for the battle with the three Saints later."
“Hahahaha——” Jarvis raised his hands high, an intoxicated look on his face, “I am a believer in God, and I am blessed by God. I…”
Andre didn't want to listen to his nonsense anymore, so he turned around and walked out of the church.
What on earth did this idiot do to himself?!
Gritting his teeth, he quickly walked to the gate and looked around for his carriage. Then he remembered that he had ordered the butler to go back first, so he had to walk towards the palace with a gloomy face.
At this moment, the irritation in his heart was simply indescribable.
Come to the church again the day before the blood sacrifice formation is activated. If he still looks like a madman... idiot!
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The top floor of the hotel.
Blois and Pestoya entered the room side by side.
"There are still nineteen days until the ban is lifted. Is it in time?" Pestoya took out a bird's-eye view of the royal capital and spread it out on the table.
"Very easy." Blois took out red wine from the wine cabinet and drank from the crystal glass as usual. "All the magic nodes are arranged. Let's go wake up the king."
The two of them also planned several blood sacrifice arrays in their own territory and collected some life energy.
It's not too much, but it's enough to replenish the king's magic power and wake him up briefly.
Pestoya took the crystal cup and asked, "Are the city lords downstairs all well behaved?"
"The soldiers of the Griffin Legion report that they have learned about the blood sacrifice array."
"What?!" Pestoya raised her glass and was about to take a sip of the wine, but immediately put it down, "Who leaked the secret?!"
"More than that, they also knew that it was the two of us who were planning it."
With her mouth wide open in astonishment, Pestoya said in disbelief: "How is it possible?!
The only person who knew that we had set up a blood sacrifice array in the capital was the king. Even Mr. Potter was kept in the dark. Where did they get it from…"
"Don't be nervous." Bulova smiled, raised his hand and pressed it in front of him a few times, "I'm also curious about what you asked.
According to the guards' reports, after the city lords received the news, no one raised any questions.
Well... five people went to Andre to inform him, but they didn't suspect anyone of spreading rumors, they just showed their loyalty."
Seeing how calm he was, Pestoya asked in confusion, "You don't seem to be worried at all when your secret is revealed?"
"What are you worried about?
"What if they knew? Can they escape?"
After being reminded of this, Pestoya came back to her senses.
Yeah, where can they escape to?
The king placed the borders between the kingdom and neighboring countries within their territories and also granted them special privileges. The two grand dukes were autonomous and the lords of their respective cities did not need to report to the capital.
The core purpose of all these seemingly unrelated points is actually to prevent the city lord from escaping.
Thinking of this, she relaxed: "The four city lords of the royal capital are all guarded by the Griffin Corps, they really have no way to escape.
That is...will exposing our guys hinder the plan?"
"If he had this ability, he wouldn't just notify the city lord."
Blois placed the empty crystal glass on the table: "The king has been planning for a thousand years and has anticipated all kinds of accidents. I guess there are still the king's forces on guard in places we can't see.
We don’t need to worry about him, we just need to do our job well.”
Hearing this, Pestoya said no more and turned her attention back to the bird's-eye view of the royal capital to see which magic nodes were still vacant.
Blois also came to help.
Soon, the two of them identified the magic nodes they would each deal with, put away the maps, and rushed to a place in the royal capital.
More than ten days later, the capital suddenly became quiet.
Andre no longer made things difficult for the city lords. He went to the conference hall every day and sat there staring at the five city lords all day.
The second prince did sneak into the hotel secretly, wanting to find Zhang Mu to ask him something, but he was not in the hotel, so he came back empty-handed.
Since he was already here, he might as well find Danielson and learn about Zhang Mu's plan from him.
After thinking for a while, the second prince said "Let him do it" and left alone.
As for the two grand dukes, they were busy concentrating on their work, and after more than ten days of hard work, they finally completed the arrangement of all the magic nodes.
Next, they just have to wait for the ban to be lifted so that they can open the blood sacrifice formation as they wish.
Of course, they are not the only ones waiting.
Chapter 276 It's not me who lifted the ban
It's another early morning.
As the sun rose, the golden sunlight dispelled the darkness that enveloped the sky and spread across the capital.
In the family with arable land, the male owner got up early, picked up the farm tools and his half-grown children and hurried to the suburbs, just like he had done countless times in the past.
The peasant women living in the suburbs also got up early, carrying bamboo baskets and going in groups of three or five, chatting about trivial matters in the village while going to the early market in the royal capital.
They met at the city gate, one going in and the other going out.
Those who come in are excited, looking forward to a big fight with the vendors, and those who leave are full of joy, looking forward to the wheat growing more abundantly overnight.
The two sides intersect and together create a prosperous scene in front of the city gate.
Logically, that should be the case.
But today is a little different.
They still passed each other in front of the door, but there was no joy in their hearts.
Everyone, including the guards guarding the city gates, had heavy expressions on their faces, as if a great disaster was about to happen.
There are two reasons for this.
First, all the Lake Ziming people living in the royal capital discovered that a large number of troops suddenly arrived around them.
There were a lot of people, more than they had ever seen in their entire lives.
The legions did not march into the royal capital, but instead each chose a piece of land to set up camp without interfering with other people's business.
Just because a legion is coming, people may be nervous, but they are not panic-stricken.
The real key lies in number two.
Bishop Jarvis, who is in charge of the Royal City Church, publicly announced a few days ago that the ban on the use of force in human settlements will be lifted in the near future.
As soon as the news came out, the people who reacted most violently were not the civilians, but on the contrary, all professionals, regardless of their strength.
Why them? The reason is not complicated - fear.
Professionals have long been accustomed to the safety of the city.
No matter what kind of big shot you offend in the wild of the maze, as long as you enter the city, your life will be guaranteed.
Moreover, treasures can be traded within the city without any worries, as there is no need to worry about others relying on their strength to rob them.
And why are those magic families that are superior to the adventure group also afraid?
They should be at the top of the food chain.
In fact, it is the same reason, worrying about being robbed.
The weak magic family is afraid of being robbed by the powerful magic family.
The powerful magic families are worried that they will be divided up by magic families that are slightly weaker than themselves.
This group of professionals gathered outside the church and jointly requested the church to withdraw its decision, and even sent a letter to the Holy Mountain.
When Shengshan received the news, he was also confused - we didn't give any orders?
So he immediately used the long-distance teleportation array and sent people to the Royal Capital Church to question Jarvis.
When the messenger arrived, the professionals outside the church were very excited and made way for a wide aisle to see him off into the church.
However, half an hour later, the messenger came out with a sullen face, walked through the crowd without saying a word, and went straight back to the holy mountain.
Everyone was stunned.
The scene was silent for a long time before someone finally came to their senses.
They understood that the facts could not be reversed, and the most important thing now was to prepare for "the near future".
The crowd suddenly dispersed.
Zhang Mu, who was watching the fun from the sidelines, saw that everyone had dispersed, so he just patted his butt and went back to the hotel.
Instead of going to his own room, he went into Mih's room.
I looked around but couldn't see anyone. I didn't know what the two of them were busy with.
Zhang Mu didn't just sit there and wait, so he went to the "world" to see how Domit and Joffrey were progressing.
Open the light door and walk in, first to the laboratory.
Joffrey was still the same, standing in front of the table, looking down at something.
Walking silently behind him, Zhang Mu leaned forward and saw the design drawing of the magic sniper rifle spread out on the table.
Pat him on the shoulder and say hello.
Joffrey was used to the lord's elusiveness, so he was not scared and turned around to greet him.
He waved his hand to indicate that there was no need for formalities, and then asked whether the latest model of the magic sniper rifle had been successfully developed.
Joffrey gave him good news.
The second generation has been put into production. After the unremitting efforts of the military factory workers day and night, the sniper rifles produced are sufficient to arm a team and initially form combat effectiveness.
However, the second-generation magic sniper rifle, as the most advanced model at present, has a distorted skill tree and is not well-rounded.
In accordance with Zhang Mu's requirement of "pursuing ultimate lethality at all costs", Joffrey abandoned most of the functions that magic weapons should have.