Mysterious journey

After passing through many black stone palaces, Garen, surrounded by a group of people, quickly came to a remote side palace.

The side hall is separated from the main hall by a small cemetery-like open space, with a few tombstones scattered sparsely on it. The ground is not paved with stone bricks, but only yellow-black soil.

From time to time there is the sound of rustling insects burrowing in the soil.

When Garen and others walked into the open space, the soil on the ground instantly stirred up, and countless black and yellow earthworm-like insects burst out of the soil. They had earthworm-like bodies, but with a ferocious head. The serrated mouthparts poked their heads out from the soil, as if they smelled some delicious food, and they crawled towards Garen and his group at extremely fast speeds.

"Close!" Master Kelian quickly carved a spell symbol with one hand. The symbol was extremely complex and fleeting in the air.

The earthworms and insects on the surrounding ground suddenly all stopped, their bodies froze, and they all burrowed back into the soil and disappeared.

"These are the special aphids I raised for the defense system. Don't look at how weak they are individually. Their greatest advantage is their numbers. When encountering the totem master's invasion, they will leap up and spread densely on the surface of the totem light, biting and absorbing the totem. light, and only pure physical attacks can eliminate these little guys." Master Kelian explained as he walked.

Garen nodded and saw the lingering fear and fear in the eyes and faces of the others. It was estimated that these people had suffered from this kind of bug.

A group of five or six people crossed the open space and walked into the side hall. The main hall was dark and empty.

Hiss.

Suddenly, countless black airflows gathered in the center of the hall. These airflows flew around and then quickly condensed to form a human figure with a blurred face.

The human form was completely black and bowed slightly towards the crowd.

"Nine snake system, at your service." The voice is the sweetest and gentle female voice.

Garen stepped forward and looked around the blurry figure carefully.

The human form is like the condensed form of countless mist. It has no physical form and does not move shyly as Garen looks at it. Just stood there quietly.

Garen got closer to observe, stretched out his hand, and gently touched the humanoid's face. It was cold and devoid of any substance, just like reaching into a ball of moist cold air.

"This is just a physical appearance of the Nine Snakes system. It has no function except communication." Master Kelian explained behind him. He walked to a wall in the side hall and patted it gently.

"Are the preparations complete? Prepare to hand over core control."

"Everything is ready." Nine Snakes replied softly.

After a while, Garen walked out of the side hall, crossed the open space, and walked towards his bedroom.

After dinner, he didn't care about anything in the palace. He handed over the fourth and fifth levels of the Black Water True Skill to the Nine Snakes system as merit exchange items, but the merit required was relatively high.

After dinner, he found Mohuang, who had already talked to the owner of Kongqin Island, and simply arranged for Mohuang and others to be guest elders in the palace. Garen directly took Lala and walked out of the palace.

The six-horse carriage outside the palace has been prepared. The coachman and the escort are all decorated in a very luxurious and gorgeous way. It is like a gorgeous carriage made of black crystal and ruby.

The cart is pulled by six unicorn-like black mutated horses. They are strong, can fly, and can dive when necessary.

Garen and Lala got on the carriage, took off from the palace area, and flew straight towards the outside of the royal capital.

To the southwest of the royal capital, and within the absolute protection area, a mountain peak there was won over by Garen and assigned to the Darsu La School led by Teacher Aining. He was going on this trip to see the situation of the Dasu La School.

The six one-horned horses in the carriage had black air wings on their backs. They flapped again and again, using huge force to pull the carriage and fly easily into the sky.

There were more than a dozen Kurosawa Guards escorting him around, also riding black unicorn horses.

The team was so eye-catching in the sky above the royal capital that all the birds and mounts had to give way to the mountain wall.

Garen was sitting in the carriage with his eyes closed, and suddenly a man's voice came from outside.

"When did Lord Garon come back? Why didn't you inform everyone so that you could have a welcome banquet?"

This voice is very familiar. It is the Grand Duke of Cody, the old guy at the same level as the Grand Duke of White Nok. When he besieged Shenyun, he was injured under the Distortion Pearl. He did not expect to recover so quickly. .

Opening the curtain, a golden carriage pulled by three bluebirds also floated in the air in front of the carriage. Duke Cody's chubby round face appeared at the entrance of the carriage, looking over here with a smile.

"It turns out to be Grand Duke Cody. I wonder why you stopped my car?" Gallon asked calmly.

"The king's capital is divided. Sir Garen is coming back this time. You must take good care of your disobedient subordinates, otherwise you may cause big trouble if you are not careful." Cody narrowed his eyes and smiled.

"A big disaster? What kind of disaster can happen in the royal capital?" Garen still looked at the other party calmly, "Or is Duke Cody trying to warn me?"

"How do you understand that that's what you mean? I'll put it here first." Cody lowered the curtain, and the carriage turned a corner and flew towards the Duke's Mansion in the distance.

Garen had a mocking look on his face, and suddenly he opened his mouth and blew out a breath of black air.

The black air flew out, getting bigger and lighter, turning into a black wind in the blink of an eye, blowing towards Duke Cody's car.

The three-headed bluebird driving the car suddenly screamed and panicked. Cody in the car suddenly snorted, and the entire car suddenly glowed with a layer of faint golden light, blocking out the dark wind.

"Master Gallon Palace, what do you mean?!" he yelled in the carriage.

"It's nothing interesting. I just saw how cute your pet is and wanted to say hello."

Gallon chuckled, and the car passed by Cody, and soon disappeared into the sky in the distance.

At this moment, the three blue birds driven by Cody screamed and began to melt and dissolve at the same time. In just a moment, they melted into three groups of black liquid like candles, and then quickly evaporated, turning into countless black gases that rose up and disappeared. .

Only Cody maintained the golden light, holding the car tightly and suspended it in the sky.

In the car, Cody's round face was full of gloom.

"Type five.! Unexpected"

He murmured, and the little girl in the red dress sat on the right side next to him, her white legs swinging back and forth under the seat.

"You can't beat him." The little girl's childish voice sounded in the car.

"We're in some trouble, why don't you go out and hide?" Cody looked at the little girl, his strange tone seemed to be communicating with a master of the same level.

"It doesn't matter." The little girl shook her head, "Just be careful."

Cody nodded and said no more.

"The people in Kurosawa Palace are getting more and more arrogant. Sure enough, there are just as many subordinates as there are palace masters. It seems that we have to join forces with the people over there."

"Join forces? Do you want to open absolute asylum?" the little girl asked curiously from the side.

Cody didn't answer, just looked gloomy.

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At night, on a slightly lower mountain peak near the royal capital, large swaths of bright lights were clearly visible in the attic fortresses that covered the peak, illuminating the entire peak into a white field.

Inside a newly built white manor at the top.

In the wide hall, the milky-white stone walls are engraved with different image patterns of three creatures: giant white bear, black cheetah, and fanged tiger. These three biological totems are the three core branch totems of the Darsu La School. The patterns on the wall have many different branching directions. Some giant white bears have wings on their backs, some have a thick and long tentacle on their right arm, and some have four eyes. The same goes for black cheetahs and fanged tigers. Many different branching directions.

The hall was brightly lit, and a piano band was playing slowly by the wall. The soothing music filled the entire hall softly, and even spread to the darkness outside along with the fluttering curtains.

There is also a rectangular table placed on the right side of the hall, with fruit plates and other food on it for guests to enjoy.

The guests attending the party are all gorgeously dressed, the men are well-dressed, and the women's skirts are swaying. However, no matter what status the guests come to, the key to attending this banquet is either to see the Master of Kurosawa Palace who has become famous in recent years, or to come here. Communicate with each other and build a large enough network.

Garen was standing with several gray-haired old men at this time. He was playing with a delicate crystal cup in one hand while listening carefully to the old men's whispers. He was wearing a black and red suit, with a slender figure, blond hair shawl, and skin as perfect as jade that the women present were secretly envious of.

This world originally only had tuxedos, but Garen decisively cut off the tail of the tuxedo and modified it to become the suit style on Earth, and he suddenly felt more accustomed to it.

He listened carefully to the teacher Aining's low voice with a focused expression. The people around him were all the top elders of the Darsu La school, as well as the leaders of the elementary school who were good friends with Darsu La, as well as the leaders of civil forces and higher-level nobles from the royal capital who came over to attend the banquet. Except for a few people, the rest were all elderly, at least over forty years old.

Garen stood among them and looked a little eye-catching. The high-level officials on their side stood together, and most of the rest were elite students from the school and high-ranking nobles from the capital.

The high-level big shots stand together, and the juniors and juniors stand in a circle, clearly distinguishing each other. Only occasionally when the big shots communicate, will they take the opportunity to call their children and nephews to introduce them to others.

Although the young people formed their own small circles, they still secretly glanced at the superior circle with Garen as the core with envious eyes from time to time.

"Three years have passed in the blink of an eye. Looking back on everything that has happened in the past few years, it still feels like a dream." Aining drank the fragrant wine, with a trace of complexity and sadness in his eyes.

"Teacher always likes to sigh. Now that the school is rebuilt and completely unified, isn't that your biggest wish?" Garen said softly.

"People are always greedy. Maybe it's because their biggest wishes and goals have been completed that they feel empty in their hearts." Aining shook his head and laughed at himself, "You are now at the height of your power, even if you are one of the top experts in the entire East Continent. Being able to teach you back then was really my greatest pride."

"You're too complimentary." Garen smiled, "I still have a lot of things I don't understand that I need to ask you for advice."

"Don't talk nonsense, you have already surpassed me. In the final analysis, I only played some role in the most basic stage. The real achievements are all achieved by you." Aining waved his hand.

"Presumably Lord Jialong Palace should have shown strong talent when he was in the basics, right?" An old man from the school next to him asked with a smile.

"Speaking of which, perhaps only Brother Ening knows best what the former palace master was like."

Several old men nearby echoed the question.

Aining just randomly selected a few stories about Gallon's deeds, and even now he still feels amazed.

Garen showed an amazing talent in the art form at the beginning. Unfortunately, he was talented, but he did not want to take the art path, but specialized in totem evolution. As for using magic to fight, that method is completely unsuitable for Garen.

This made Ening feel very sorry for a while. When he mentioned this, he chatted with several old men about trivial matters from that year with great interest.

Garen listened quietly on the side, smiling slightly from time to time.

After listening for a while, he excused himself to go to the bathroom and left alone to the night balcony outside the hall. He stood in front of the guardrail of the semicircular balcony and looked down from a distance. The lights of the towns and villages under the mountain were like clusters of stars in the night sky. The evening breeze blew on my face, cooling it with a faint fragrance.

Garen sniffed gently, and the fragrance seemed to come from a very far away place. It was vague and vague, and he didn't know what kind of plant was blooming.