42. Chapter 42
When Theodore entered the hall, the White Eagle who was sending the message had just flew out of the hall, while Osvid and Kevin were talking about something by the Little Lion Class who was called over temporarily in the afternoon, with a serious expression.
"Your Majesty is busy? I can go out and wait. It's important to deal with state affairs. This is just a trivial matter." Theo was dressed in rags, but he performed royal courtesy, which made him look a bit sad. This man is good at everything, but he likes to be humble too much. After being humble, he feels a sense of irony in his words.
No matter what, he is also a dignified city-state king. When he left the Golden Lion Kingdom, he brought a hundred people with a guard team, but now there are only a few left. Most of them were captured by sand ghosts and the country was destroyed. This is called a small matter, and nothing can be called a big matter.
If there is no hurry, it is impossible to even avoid changing the clothes and reception, so it is straight to the point.
Osvid waved his hand and said, "Tribble."
In fact, it is not a real trivial matter. After receiving Peter's repeated emergency reports in the morning, he felt that the situation was going to be chaotic. The city-confederate alliance reached before the agreement was completely disbanded by the Sand Ghost, and the plan to surround the Northern Jade Circle became a bubble.
More importantly, the attack of the sand ghost was fast and fierce. In just one day, almost all the kings of the city-states who returned were suffering. This made Osvid feel that time was particularly urgent.
He felt that the journey of the armies that had been scheduled to set off in three days would not be smooth, so he changed his mind and advanced the plan. The other armies assigned to various places were large in number, and the things that needed to be prepared could not be fully prepared in half a day, so each one went one day or two days in advance. The two armies arranged to go to the old Rose Fort were the most advanced.
Osvid spent the whole afternoon preparing everything needed for the two armies as caravans, and then completely changed the original plan so that they could set out first along a hidden old road at the bottom of the Great Rift before nightfall, and had already headed directly to the Mirage Sea.
Kevin, who was still competing with Osvid to lead the team in the morning, suddenly changed his mind in the afternoon. Not only did he not continue to be the leader, he also supported the emperor's move to send these two teams out in advance.
"Just in case." Almost all of them thought so.
After Wood and Nick set out with two teams, Osvid asked Kevin to go to the military camp to bring the squad over before nightfall, and asked him to use the unique method of the giant orcs to transmit the information of the sand ghost raid back to the valley where the giant orcs stayed. When King Theodor arrived at the temple, Ban just came back.
Originally, seeing the emperor going to talk about the matter, Kevin planned to take his ban out of the hall, but Osvid raised his hand and stopped him.
The emperor did not say anything, and did not even look back and gave him a look. Kevin understood what he meant. He simply led the squad to sit down at the bottom of the emperor's right hand, leaned against the back of the chair and hugged his arm, and his fingers hanging down with his left hand were just restlessly on the hilt of the short knife around his waist.
Facing outsiders, the emperor naturally could not show any time urgency. So Theodore was arranged to sit and have a hungry refreshment, so he could breathe a little.
The king of Leiyin City was very conscious. After entering the hall, he sent the four personal guards he brought to the hall to wait outside the hall to avoid abruptness. Although others sat down in their seats, they did not touch a single tea, and they obviously had no intention of eating and drinking.
"What's going on?" asked Osvid, "Although the rainy season ends early, it's still the most humid time. Sand ghosts generally don't choose to leave the desert in this situation. How could it be so abnormal?"
Theodore shook his head with a miserable look: "I don't know why they left the desert so early. When our team walked along the long pine forest road outside the border of the Northern Emerald Kingdom towards Leiyin City, we had not even heard of any rumors about the traces of sand ghosts. But when we took the road to the end of the long pine forest road to the Iceland Fork, we received a call for help from Casro, the city of Peda, and then one letter after another, almost never stopped."
He clenched his fist and knocked heavily on the armrest of the seat, sighing: "To be honest, when we first received a request for help from Peida City, we planned to turn our heads to support it, but when I received six or seven letters of help from different people, I lost the courage. At that time, I guessed that there would be a sand ghost lying outside Leiyin City, waiting for us to fall into the trap. So I ordered to return directly, hoping to come over and ask for help like you."
"So you met the sand ghost halfway?" Osvid frowned and asked in a deep voice.
"Yes!" Theodore nodded, "The only thing we are grateful for is that we are not meeting the entire team of sand ghosts that ambushed. They should be the scattered soldiers who were left behind when attacking other countries. I don't know if they didn't keep up with the large army or were cleaning up the back roads. But even the scattered soldiers are enough for us to drink a pot, just as your Majesty, you see-"
He opened his arms, showed off his blood-stained clothes, and pointed to the four personal guards waiting outside the hall, saying, "If they hadn't been protecting me and running for life, I might not have been able to sit here. Nearly a hundred guards beside me, and now there are only these four, and the others are almost wiped out. The people I took back are the same..."
Theodore's throat was hoarse and he couldn't continue to say anything.
Osvid kept frowning and listening, looking at him with a deep look, and the ostentatious moment fell at the door of the hall. After theodore said this, his face became depressed, as if he was immersed in the disaster he had been in front of before.
"You--" Osvid looked up and was about to speak, but he felt that it was darker in front of him. His heart suddenly hopped a few times, and his ears were buzzing, and the sound continued.
"What do you plan to ask me to help?" He forced himself to endure these discomforts, and finished the second half of the sentence in a calm tone that was exactly the same as usual, and then waited for the discomfort to pass.
It sounds like he naturally interrupted the sentence.
Kevin, who was sitting on the verge of action, sensitively noticed something strange, probably because he had too much contact with Osvid on weekdays, and he was too familiar with the emperor's tone and way of speaking.
He did not turn to see Osvid immediately, but glanced at him in a calm state.
It was not until Osvid finished speaking that he naturally turned his attention to him.
Taking advantage of the stall that Theodore didn't pay attention, he frowned slightly at Osvid and asked with his eyes. Unexpectedly, Osvid was still half-squinted and his eyes were heavily cast in the direction of Theodore.
Kevin suddenly realized: his eyes turned black again.
This situation had happened three times in the afternoon. The medical officer was invited to see him in the middle. There was no other conclusion except for the short-term deficiency caused by staying up all night last night, being too focused and exhausted.
If this situation happened to others, it would be understandable, but if it happened to Osvid, both himself and Kevin felt something was wrong. After all, after staying up all night, several elderly ministers had no reaction. He, a person who was in the past, was actually in deficit? How could it be?!
But this day, the affairs were complicated, so they couldn't think about it anymore.
But Kevin felt a little storm in his heart. I guess Osvid's thoughts were the same as him, so he kept him and his father when Theodore entered the hall.
And ten black and gold cavalry who also remained in the hall were standing on both sides of the hall.
After Osvid asked that, Theodore replied: "The sand ghost is too rampant, and because of its special physique, it is too difficult to deal with, and it is too dangerous. Please send troops to support Leiyin City, so that we can regain the initiative and rescue the people. This is a bit too much. I cannot be so shameless. I just hope that Your Majesty can provide me with a convenience, and use the secret passage of the Golden Lion Kingdom to allow me to go back to Leiyin City from another road."
"Secret Pass?" Osvid looked puzzled.
"I know this is inappropriate, but I have to do it." Theodore said with an unspeakable embarrassment, "There are many rumors about your country's secret passages. It is said that you can bypass the righteous paths leading to the desert, cross the Kra Long River in the shortest time, and even lead to the direction of the ice field..."
Osvid sneered and interrupted him, "When will this rumor be taken seriously? If there is a secret passage that can lead to the ice field, I can just send troops over and cover the old thing Sapir. Is it possible?"
"But..." Theodore looked like he was gritting his teeth and wanted to fight for it again, but looked at Osvid and sighed, "Okay, can your Majesty do me a little favor?"
"What's the busy?" Osvid asked, and a white eagle rushed in from the door of the hall and fell head-on at Osvid's hand, which showed how fast it was flying.
Osvid raised his hand and signaled to wait, and pulled out the note from the roll on the white eagle's feet. Most of the messages given to him by the Imperial City Cavalry Army were collected inside and outside the Imperial City. He always felt something was wrong in his heart, so he sent an urgent letter to the Chitie Army who was farther away in the morning. It seemed that he had received an echo now.
He unfolded a small scroll of paper and saw a sentence written in scribbled handwriting: Peida City, Leiyin City, Kaman City and a group of small city-states were all attacked, and none of the kings were spared.
Osvid's fingers tightened while holding the roll of paper.
The moment he saw the contents of the paper, Theodore spoke again as he said before: "I hope that your Majesty, you... will have a very happy life in the future!"
While he spoke, his tone changed several times in the blink of an eye, hoarse and unpleasant. The four guards waiting outside the hall took off their skin at that moment and turned into crazy sand and swept into the inside.
Chapter completed!