Vol 48 Chapter 35: :crown

It is not extravagant, but in the majestic palace, the King of Sand is standing on the steps in front of the throne. He wears the Soul Crown, shirtless, and the scales on his right arm show signs of unfolding. The most important thing is that he Holding the throat and neck of a mummified corpse in one hand, this mummy is the most trusted and respected subordinate of the King of Sand, his right minister, Kaja.
What outsiders don't know is that when the King of Sand first came to the desert country and was powerless and powerless, Kaja followed the King of Sand, and until today, he has no two hearts, but such a loyal subordinate was defeated by the King of Sand. Kill by hand.
In front of the door of the king's hall, because of hearing the mourning of the right minister, Kaga, the left minister, Peiwen, and dozens of guards, who rushed to the place, were watching what happened in the king's hall in astonishment at the moment. They don't know exactly what happened, but now they only see that their king killed the Minister of the Right Royal, Kaja.
In fact, compared to Minister Zuo Yu and dozens of guards, the King of Sand himself is also confused. His last memory is still tossing and turning in the bedroom last night, and then he ordered the guards to take the crown, and he Picking up the crown, what happened after that, the Sand King seems to remember, and it feels very vague.
But there is one thing that can't be faked, that is, the barrier that has made the King of Sand unable to enter the slightest for nearly a hundred years. At this moment, he even has the ability to break through. If he takes two more steps forward, he will be able to reach the strength of the betrayer. .
This made the King of Sand think that if his strength can continue to move forward at the current speed, it does not matter whether he maintains the power of his subordinates. From the very beginning, the King of Sand did not want to be a ruler. He wanted to With the huge amount of resources that the ruler can control, he has the opportunity to attack the "superpower".
According to the current speed of strengthening, there is really no need to go far. For example, continue to strengthen the desert army, and then provoke the relationship between the alliance and the northern empire, let the two go to war, and finally the fisherman benefits, ruling the desert, the alliance, and the land of winter. A large area, to complete all this, isn't it just to move towards the powerhouse, there is a faster way now.
Although he figured this out, the King of Sand was not ready to abandon his existing power immediately. He keenly discovered that his strength broke through the bottleneck that had stuck him for a hundred years, because he absorbed his confidant, the right minister, Kaja. Source vitality + source strength, the combination of the two is called Mingyuan.
In fact, as long as the creatures are powerful enough to have a source of life, it is just that once the source of life is pulled out, it will quickly drift away. There is an exception. It is so huge that it reaches an extremely exaggerated level. When killing these powerful alien beasts, after the huge amount of life source floats out, there is a chance to crystallize. This is the [life source] that can be preserved for a long time. Bai Niu needs this thing very much. To suppress old wounds in the body.
Because of this, [Life Sources] that can be preserved for a long time after crystallization are rare and expensive.
The King of Sand naturally knew what the source of life was. He thought that it was the crown that gave him the ability to devour and absorb the source of life from others. After roughly determining this, his eyes became calmer.
As for the guilt caused by personally killing his confidant who had followed him for many years, the King of Sand did have it, but it was only for a short time. It's just a subordinate for many years, and he doesn't care.
clap, clap~
The lower body of the Minister of the Right Imperial Palace, Kajia's dry and brittle lower body fell, and after falling to the ground, it shattered into powder. This scene was even more exciting. The Minister of the Left Imperial Palace and dozens of personal guards in front of the palace gate were more than a dozen meters away. Army, although each of them had blood on their hands, the one who died right now was the Minister of the Right Imperial Court, Kaja.
"Kaga, time can really change a lot of things."
The King of Sand's tone was somewhat lonely, and his eyes and demeanor made people feel that he was dejected and somewhat cold in the past.
"Peiwen," the King of Sand looked at the Minister of the Left, and he placed the dead body of the Minister of the Right, Kaja on the steps, with only half left in his hand, and continued: "Find a good place and bury Kaja, Don't be buried near the capital, I don't want to see him again."
After saying that, the King of Sand walked towards the side door on the side, his back was a bit lonely, the kind of lonely betrayal by the most trusted people.
Seeing this scene, the dozens of guards in the palace all guessed what was going on in their hearts. It must have been the right imperial minister, Kajia, who secretly joined the alliance or the Northern Empire. Inside the palace.
The guards did think so, but the Minister of the Left, Pei Wen, did not have the slightest idea. She knew a lot of things. In her opinion, in any case, Kaja had no reason to betray, which was unreasonable.
Even if Kaja really betrayed, the current Fengshuidu will never be as safe as it is now. There is only one possibility, that is, Kaja did not betray, but the king of sand he followed, I don't know why For some reason, he was actually killed, and it was because of this that the wailing just now seemed so hoarse and unwilling.
The left and right minister Peiwen's eyes looked around. There was no trace of battle in the palace. If Kaga was a traitor, after being seen by the king of sand, at least he would jump over the wall. There is no diffuse energy in the air, which shows that the life and death of the former is decided in a very short time.
Suddenly, the Minister of the Left, Pei Wen remembered the anger of the King of Sand when he saw the black crown last night, and ordered the quartermaster who presented the crown to be cut down, but the order was changed shortly after it was issued, and the quartermaster was imprisoned. Go to the dungeon in St. Sandcastle.
Just now, the Minister of the Left, Pei Wen, saw with his own eyes that the King of Sand was wearing the black crown presented by the quartermaster yesterday. King, something went wrong.
The Minister Zuo Yu, who was wearing a silver metal mask, narrowed her eyes. She had decided to leave the desert country immediately, go to the Alliance, find her close friend Yin Mian in the Antlers Organization, and seek shelter for a period of time.
Minister Zuo Yu, who made this decision, walked out of the palace. She subconsciously glanced at the side hall door on the side. With just one glance, she saw a tall and burly figure standing in the dark in the dim corridor connected to the side hall door. , those eyes that were completely pitch-black, so dark that it was creepy, were staring at her, which made Minister Zuo's scalp numb instantly, and she subconsciously accelerated her pace.
"Pevin."
The King of Sand in the dark corridor opened his mouth, which stopped the fast-paced Minister of the Left, Pei Wen, cold sweat soaked into her underwear, and death was like the breath of a giant beast, blowing behind her, blowing up Her smooth hair.
"You step back first, I have something important to discuss with Peiwen."
The King of Sand stood in the dark side corridor and opened his mouth. Hearing this order, the guards quickly exited the palace, and the leader of the guards, Sowa, slowly closed the door of the palace. When it was very narrow, the captain of the guard, Sova, saw that with his back to the King of Sand and his left minister facing him, he gradually closed his eyes under the silver mask.
The door of the palace slammed shut, Peiwen closed her eyes and took a deep breath. Her arms were stretched out to the sides, and two arm blades of the same style as the silver face popped out from the upper side of her cuffs.
Peiwen turned around to face the King of Sand, and suddenly found that he had not seen him for a night. The King of Sand had changed so much. The height of the other party was at least 3.5 meters. Without the slightest white under his eyes, his short, burgundy and sturdy hair also turned into long jet-black hair scattered behind his back. The long hair was so dark that it seemed that every strand had life.
At this moment, the king of sand wearing the soul crown, in addition to the previous sense of oppression, also added a demon, like a mind falling into the abyss... a mad king!
"Wang, I have worked hard for you for so long, and now I don't ask for anything in return, just let me go."
The Minister of the Left, Pewen, spoke in an almost pleading tone.
"Peiwen, what are you talking about? You are my most beloved and trusted subordinate. If it wasn't for the woman I already love, you must be my princess."
The King of Sand grinned as he spoke, revealing his white teeth, and his dark eyes seemed to be looking at the bait that had fallen into the trap.
The next second, the King of Sand appeared in front of the left minister, Pei Wen.
puff!
The blade of Peiwen's right arm pierced into the King of Sand's chest, but she felt that the stab was not right, too strong. She looked closely and found that only the tip of the arm blade pierced into the flesh, less than a minute. Centimeters deep, her full blow only caused skin trauma to the Sand King.
Peiwen's arm blade failed to seriously injure the Sand King, but the Sand King's big hand had grabbed Peiwen's head from the side. The Sand King, who was over 3.5 meters tall, was the size of a palm, so he could easily hold the Peiwen with one hand. Wen's head clenched the silver mask she was wearing, and what was even more terrifying was that she felt that her whole body became extremely relaxed, and she was also rapidly weakening.
"In this world, except for the shadow of the abyss, no one can kill me, not the glow, nor the abyss-breeding creature called Silves who calls himself the leader of the abyss."
While the King of Sand was speaking, Minister of the Left, Pei Wen, had dried up, turned into gravel and fell on the ground, leaving only a silver mask, which was held by the King of Sand in his hand.
"Silver antlers."
The King of Sand exerted force in his hand, and while squeezing the silver mask in his hand flat, the metal mask turned into a mass of residue as if it had been chewed.
The King of Sand felt at this moment that he was 100% compatible with this original sin. He completely possessed this original sin called Soul Crown. He was not controlled by its will, but he was using this original sin.
"Sova."
The King of Sand opened his mouth, and the captain of the guard, Sova, who was waiting outside the door, pushed in. Although the captain of the guard, Sova, noticed the sand on the ground and the metal ball that seemed to be chewed, he didn't immediately think of it. It is the remains of the left minister Perwin.
"Go and find the man who presented the crown, his name is..."
"Caesar, my lord, that quartermaster's name is Caesar, and he has served as a quartermaster under you for more than ten years."
Guard Captain Sova respectfully reminded.
"Well, go and find him, wait, you look up to see this king, has there been any change between this king and before?"
The King of Sand, who was sitting on the throne at random, opened his mouth. Hearing this, the captain of the guard, Sova, raised his head tremblingly.
The captain of the guard, Sowa, who was kneeling on one knee, looked up at the King of Huisha carefully. His real thought was: 'King, you have even changed your hairstyle. Do you think there is any change? ’
"Wang, I didn't notice any changes, I just feel that you are... stronger."
The captain of the guard, Sova, had long noticed that something was wrong, so naturally he followed the meaning of the King of Sand.
"Well, fine, let's go down."
The King of Sand was quite satisfied, and the answer from his subordinates made him even more certain that it was he who controlled the crown, not the crown controlling him. The blank period of memory from last night to the present was probably his adaptation period with the Soul Crown. .
The King of Sand's IQ plummeted? Of course not, the current situation of the King of Sand is very normal. This is the terrible thing about the Soul Crown. This crown has never been forcibly controlled by the bearer, but the bearer mistakenly believes that he controls the crown, and then subconsciously Some unreasonable places are rationalized in their own minds.
For example, the memory gap of the King of Sand from midnight last night to this morning. In the past, the King of Sand would immediately be alert, but now he is wearing the Soul Crown, so naturally, he rationalized this matter on his own.
"Come on."
The King of Sand ordered a dozen guards to enter the palace and accompany him to a more spacious training hall. This meant that his strength had improved, so let these guards besiege him to test his strength.
An hour later, when the captain of the guard, Sova, and Caesar pushed open the door of the training hall, he saw that the ground was full of gravel and empty armor, or weapons with damaged marks were scattered on the ground.
Seeing this scene, Captain Sova's heart choked, but he knelt down on one knee with a calm expression, and said, "King, someone brought it."
"very good."
The King of Sand opened his dark eyes and looked at Caesar, who was a bit treacherous and wretched in temperament. For some reason, compared to the last time he met, he obviously felt that Caesar was a little more pleasing to the eye, especially when he thought of the soul crown that the other party brought him. He looked even better at Caesar.
"You are very good. From now on, you will serve as Zuo Yu."
The King of Sand immediately promoted Caesar from quartermaster to left minister.
"Thank you king."
Caesar beamed with joy, the Minister of the Left of the Desert Country, but in charge of finances, which was much better than the quartermaster position.
"As for you, Sova."
The King of Sand looked at the captain of the guard Sowa, his gaze was as if he was looking at a delicacy with the effect of a complete supplement.
"Don't let this king down."
The King of Sand spoke meaningfully to the captain of the guard, Sova. Obviously, he was not ready to kill the captain of the guard, but kept it for the time being.
"Yes, yes, I will swear allegiance to the king to the death."
"Well, your family has already received the mansion in the back city, where the living conditions are better."
Hearing this, the head of the guard, Sowa, almost exploded. His plan was to leave the palace this time with his parents, his wife, and a pair of children to escape the desert country. Right now, he dared not When he escaped, he was really not afraid of death, but he was extremely afraid that his family would suffer misfortune.
"Thank you for your kindness."
Guard Captain Sova changed from kneeling on one knee to kneeling on both knees, with his forehead pressed against the ground.
"Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!"
The King of Sand laughed uncharacteristically, his long hair crawling on the throne as if alive.
‘Mad King! ’
The captain of the personal guard, Sowa, who was kneeling on the ground, thought of this word with gnashing teeth in his heart. At this time, it is perfectly appropriate to use the mad king to describe the king of sand.
"King, this minister knows a few talents who are good at treasure hunting, and I want to win them over."
Caesar smiled and rubbed his hands. Hearing this, the King of Sand was very interested. Caesar introduced these talents in detail, and suddenly said at the end:
"By the way, look at my memory, there is also a therapeutic talent, and this minister also wants to recommend it."
"You can do it yourself."
The King of Sand opened his mouth without raising his eyes. Caesar nodded repeatedly to thank the King of Sand for his trust. In fact, the talent in treasure hunting was only used to attract attention. The real purpose was the last sentence, recommending a healing talent.
Just when Caesar was talking to the King of Sand, in the farm manor more than ten kilometers away, there were all kinds of freshly cooked food on the table in the banquet hall. The four of them were eating happily. Even the red-eyed girl who always cared about etiquette and kept her ladylike temperament chewed extremely fast, and Veronica, who was full of vitality, had already started, and she was going crazy with hunger.
According to the coordinates received by Yinmian, they came all the way from the north, not to mention people on the road, not even seeing a few animals, and the high physical exertion of rushing at full speed, only to starve Veronica into this state.
"Look, you're hungry, eat slowly, and where's the Beast Rider?"
Baja opened his mouth, and Veronica, who was holding a leg of lamb, looked suspiciously, and asked, "What beast knight?"
Hearing this, Baja was puzzled, but he waved his wings and let Veronica continue to cook.
Su Xiao broke away from the state of meditation, opened his eyes, and he naturally heard the conversation just now, especially the phrase 'what beast knight' said by Veronica, which was too suspicious.
At the moment, the platinum bishop and the high priest are not there, and they are going to investigate the situation on the holy sand castle. The ghost prophet looks like he has not heard anything.
What is really puzzling is that after Veronica said 'what beast knight', Dre and Silverface around the dining table all cast suspicious eyes, as if they didn't know why Baja said the beast knight, they were there. Never heard of this person before.
The red-eyed girl was equally puzzled. It felt like she didn't remember having a beast knight.
The current situation is not that the Beast Knight was killed by the enemy, or something else, but that other than Su Xiao, Boubo Wang, Amu, and Baha, no one else remembers the existence of the Beast Knight at all.
Su Xiao thought that this should be a follow-up to the "Land of Falling Fire" mission, because he passed the Sun Trial, arrived at the Temple of the Sun, and saw the stone tablet, which led to this situation.
The reason why Su Xiao determined this was because of the recording function of the shelter. Before, he and the psalm went deep into the land of falling fire. When he spent a day in the shelter, a scorpion came outside and spawned outside the shelter. The sun knight in heavy armor smashed all the scorpion eggs that climbed outside the shelter with a scepter, and made a gesture of praising the sun before leaving. The tall figure in armor really looked like a beast knight.
Right now, the Beast Knight suddenly disappeared. Su Xiao couldn't figure out why. It wasn't because he skipped too many links in the quest related to the Land of Fire. He didn't take the quest at all. are replaced by straight kicks.
Why didn't everyone else remember the Beast Knight, but Su Xiao himself, Boubo Wang, Eminem, and Baja all remembered it. Su Xiao was sure that this was because of the notarization of Samsara Paradise, the kind of power that made everyone forget the Beast Knight. It is very high, but it is not higher than the notary of Reincarnation Paradise, and there is also a hymn notarized by Paradise. She has not acted with the team before, and she has never been impressed by the Beast Knight.
After weighing the pros and cons, Su Xiao decided not to mind his own business. As long as he can be sure, Bishop Platinum is a credible collaborator. break.
Su Xiao had a conclusion in his heart, and the hymn next to him was a little flustered, because she had just received a few reminders suddenly.
[Hint: You have joined the Desert Country camp. 】
[You have been promoted to the therapist of the Sand King. 】
[Because the alliance and the desert country are semi-enemy camps, you cannot be in two camps at the same time, you have forcibly withdrawn from the alliance camp and become a camp traitor. 】
[Warning: The enemy unit within 10 meters of you, Kukulin Baiye, is the president of the Alliance Twilight Lunatic Asylum (high-level alliance). This unit is highly hostile to you. After eliminating it, you can gain a huge amount of faction reputation. 】
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Seeing these prompts, Sheng Shi's eyes became more and more dignified. If she had other abilities, she could sneak into the enemy and inflict heavy damage on the enemy at the critical moment. The problem is that she has just been promoted to the ninth rank, and the combat ability has not yet improved, only the treatment The ability to reach the middle and upper echelons of the ninth rank, allowing her to sneak into the enemy's rear as a nanny, no matter how you look at it, it doesn't seem like part of the plan.
If it wasn't part of the plan, Sheng Shi thought, she should have been caught in the enemy's trap, and the hunters who are in the same room now, she seems to be unable to beat.
"Bai Ye, you say, what if there are traitors among us?"
"Death."
"What if that person somehow became a traitor?"
As the hymn spoke, the expression on his face was already a bit exciting.
"…"
Su Xiao turned his head to look at the hymn next to him, and after a moment of silence, he said, "Caesar let you successfully join the desert country camp?"
"You... arranged it?"
"right."
"I am a Healer, what do I do when I join the enemy faction?!"
"When I fought the King of Sand to the death, you helped him heal."
"what?!"
The hymn was confused, very confused, she tasted this sentence carefully, and after confirming that she heard it correctly, she looked at Su Xiao in confusion.
"At that time, you will know that you are the protagonist of that deadly battle."
Baja had a somewhat mysterious opening, which made the hymn even more puzzled. At this moment, the prophet of the ghost tribe who was sleeping on the bench sat up. He sat there, staring blankly ahead.
At the same time, on the top floor of Saint Sand Castle, the King of Sand stood in front of an altar. On the altar was a trough bed that looked a bit like a coffin. Inside was a famous desert beauty, but she was sleeping. The king's concubine, a powerful fortune teller.
The King of Sand cut through his palm, and with his hand, pressed the crystal ball on the front of the trough bed. In the next instant, the light was shining brightly, and the brows and eyes of the beauty in the trough bed trembled. After a few seconds, he opened his eyes.
"I'm in a bit of trouble and need your divination for me."
The King of Sand helped the princess sitting on the trough bed. After the princess had just woken up, she immediately noticed the huge change in the King of Sand and the crown on the other's head.
At the same time, on the outskirts of Fengshuidu, inside the farm estate.
The ghost prophet, who sat on the bench for a while, said, "Destroy the law, promise me again, you will kill the king of sand."
"Either I die, or he dies."
Su Xiao spoke in a gentle tone, without making any promises, and even his tone was a little flat, but this flat tone made the ghost prophet feel credible. He has seen too many promises, and even made a poisonous oath, but he didn't do anything. people.
"Well, you are responsible for killing the King of Sand, and I am responsible for getting rid of the strongest fortune-teller in the world."
The hand of the Prophet of the Ghost Race spread out, spatial fluctuations appeared, and a ten-centimeter-high crystal bottle fell into his hands.
The prophet of the ghost clan unplugged the bottle, raised his head and drank the liquid abyss energy in the bottle. He knew that he had little time, so he immediately cut off his beard and pulled out a strand of hair from it. This is the country of the desert. The princess' hair.
"King of Sand, this is exactly like when you took my wife away."
The Prophet of the Ghost Race laughed. His body was dry and skinny in a short period of time, like a ghost. The fingers of his hands were crossed, and he tightly clamped the strand of hair between his palms.
Snapped!
The ghost prophet splattered blood all over his body. In fact, he is not only a divination, but also a very dreaded causal system. This is why the ghost prophet believes that Su Xiao can kill the king of sand. As a causal ghost prophet, It has been noticed that the causal system ability is of no use to Su Xiao.
At the same time, on the top floor of the holy sand castle, the newly awakened princess, after absorbing the original vitality of other people within 1 km of the surrounding except the sand king, her eyes became smart, and she immediately raised her hand to grab the sand king's head on the crown.
Snapped!
Blood and minced meat were splashed all over the place, the princess was shattered in front of the king of sand, and his face was covered with blood and minced meat. This scene, and his ability to smash the ghost prophet's wife at first, splashed the ghost tribe. The Prophet is full of similarities, and he can only say that if it is not necessary, don't mess with the causal system.
Why didn't the king of sand cut the grass and root? In fact, there is no such possibility. The King of Sand does not remember such an unknown person at all.
Even with the strength of the King of Sand, he was stunned by the sight in front of him. He wiped the flesh and blood on his face, looked at the blood on his hands, and quickly calmed down. The princess whom he had loved so dearly could not touch his heart, not to mention that he was about to become a mad king now.
The King of Sand picked up the wet towel and wiped the blood on his face. He came to the window and overlooked the hundreds of guards in the backyard of the Holy Sand Castle. He no longer needed these minions who had done a lot of dirty work for him. , in front of the window, with long black hair fluttering, the King of Sand grinned, and the smile was creepy.
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tick, tick
Black blood dripped down the fingertips of the ghost prophet, and he had fallen into a drowsy state. As he was dying, the ghost prophet took out an envelope from his arms with trembling hands, handed it to Su Xiao, and gave the weak said:
"Be sure to let that arrogant guy pay the price."
"Well, definitely."
Hearing Su Xiao's assurance, the eyes of the ghost prophets were completely dim.
Su Xiao lit a cigarette and asked Eminem, Dre, and Yinmian to bury the ghost prophet. There are many flower fields nearby, which can be regarded as a good place to sleep.
[Hint: The hunting list has been changed. 】
After receiving this prompt, Su Xiaoku showed the "Hunting List · Blood Pact", and immediately saw that the original "Defection (King of Sand) · Power of Time and Space with a Bounty of 800 ounces" had disappeared, but became :
"Mad King · Bounty 1300 ounces of the power of time and space."