Chapter sixty seven ten years on
Richard returned to the study and looked quietly at the entire Norland map, pondering the next strategy. When he went to Carlando, he had a great grudge against the Holy Tree Dynasty. Just look at the Holy Tree Dynasty willing to spend so much money, just to exchange for a few fragments of Midarren, you can see how important these fragments are to them. In the plan of the Holy Tree Dynasty, we can see that the Son of God is equally important. Now, at least the plans for the Son of God have been completely destroyed by Richard. How can the royal family of the Holy Tree Dynasty not be angry?
Richard's previous enemies, such as Schumpeter, Mensa, Joseph, and even the Castle of Wiling, were not a fraction of the Holy Tree Dynasty royal family and the Holy Light Church.
But facing such a huge enemy, Richard was no longer afraid, but in the depths of his strong hatred, he also felt unstoppable excitement. His eyes were always wandering on a border between the Holy Alliance and the Holy Tree Dynasty. The terrain here is complex, with many nobles, and large, medium and small families intertwined, making the politics of this area extremely complex. Today's allies are likely to be tomorrow's enemies. In this vast area of more than 100,000 square kilometers, the political territory is constantly changing, and it will be very different in several years. In recent years, most of the territory changes here have been with Ally. Jie is related to Duke Solam. Before becoming a partner with Richard, Alice had independently changed her title from a viscount to an earl. Now she and Richard are closely linked to Richard and have received continuous support from Richard. In more than a year, Richard has given Alice two thousand fully armed cavalry and armed her an additional 5,000 troops. Richard's own direct line Archmond infantry knights and more than 100 knights of construction can also be reinforced at any time. Logically speaking, Alice's strength has been increased by more than twice, but her progress is not much faster than before.
One reason is that the little nobles in this area are afraid of her sudden increase in strength, and many of them are united together. Even some past enemies temporarily put aside their disputes and unanimously deal with Alice. Another reason is that Alice is unwilling to show off her edge too much, so as not to cause a full-scale attack from the Holy Tree Dynasty, so she always controls the degree of war within the scope of regional conflicts.
Richard repeatedly weighed the gains and losses, and finally felt that it was too risky to launch a full-scale war against the nobles of the Holy Tree Dynasty. Now his rear is not stable, and many branches are only temporarily dependent on him. Once he encounters a major defeat in the war, Richard's title of New King Archmond will be shaken.
Finally, Richard sighed heavily, preparing to give up the war at this time. The war with the Holy Tree Dynasty was not much benefit if he won, but the consequences would be serious if he lost.
Just then, Richard suddenly raised his eyebrows slightly and said lightly: "Come out, why are you hiding?"
A figure appeared from the shadows and then floated into the study from the window. This was a man wrapped in a black robe. His face was completely shrouded in the darkness. He couldn't see what it looked like, but he had a rough and sharp aura, like a general who came out of thousands of troops, not like a killer sneaking in the darkness.
As soon as he entered the study, he quietly stepped across the line and stood between Richard and the weapon frame. Richard's extinction, sacred killing and the elf sword, and the Gemini of Destiny were placed on the weapon frame. The man's movement was very obvious in the meaning of hostility.
Richard looked at him, and his pupils suddenly ejaculated with a flame-like light. The man exclaimed, wrapped his black robe tightly, and a strange force field floated around him, blocking most of the power of Richard's insight. However, Richard still knew a lot of information, including his rough level of Douqi. The man's Douqi was between the Holy Land and the Legend, and the nature contained the power of time. This is one of the most obvious characteristics of the Eternal Dragon Templar Knight.
Richard already knew it, so he asked: "Is there anything you need to ask me for? If you want to do something unpleasant, I advise you to give up this idea and leave immediately. I am in a bad mood recently."
The man spoke, his voice hoarse and ugly: "Don't you ask who sent me here?"
Richard said lightly: "You won't say anything after asking. Even if my enemies sent you, it's nothing. They attacked me from the shadows just because they knew that there was no chance of winning in a head-on battle."
The man smiled and said, "You have strong confidence, but let me first see if your confidence has considerable strength to match."
As he spoke, the man had an extra light-free short sword in his hand, which seemed to be slow and steady and stabbed towards Richard. As soon as the short sword came out, a large golden pattern suddenly lit up on the originally gray sword edge. It was the man's fighting spirit attached to the sword, which had already shown a realistic effect. Richard felt a little nervous. The fighting spirit that could be substantial was either extremely strong or had special power. Such a powerful person in the holy realm was one level higher than the ordinary holy realm. Even among those who were called strong people on the battlefield of the desperate domain, there were also a few who could not reach the realm of the substantial Dou Qi.
Richard didn't have a sword, but he stretched out his right hand.
His right hand was covered in blood, and there was a little red light on the tip of his index finger. With Richard's wave of his hand, a half-meter-long blood-colored edge appeared in front of his fingertips, and he silently hit the dagger.
The short sword was covered with blood in an instant, and then it shattered. There was only one sword hilt left in the man's hand. The man was stunned for a moment, keeping the stab in front of the sword, looking at Richard, then looking at the hilt in his hand, and then looking at Richard again. After repeated this several times, he let out a long breath and said, "What a powerful destructive power, this is your real name ability."
Richard slowly lowered his right hand and inserted his blood-lit right hand into his pocket. He did not answer the man's question, but said: "Now you can tell me what you are going to do. I don't think my enemies can differentiate from the high-level knights of the Eternal Dragon Hall."
The man smiled and said, "You are very smart. Fanlin asked me to come here. Let me bring you a message."
He raised his hands and a time hourglass appeared in his hand. But unlike all the hourglass that Richard had seen, the hourglass was actually lilac black. The time hourglass was silently broken, and the purple black sprinkled spread out, covering the entire study. Richard suddenly felt a strange feeling, just like when he was offering sacrifices in the Eternal Dragon Palace, so he knew that the study was actually in another time and space.
Fanlin's figure appeared in the study. She looked at Richard and said, "Richard, I can only talk to you in this way, because what I want to say next cannot be said. You must remember every word I say, because I can only say it once. Liusha gave me this thing before leaving, saying that it was discovered in your exclusive plane. I studied it for a long time before I parsed out a few rules from it, but it was enough to make me indeed that it was the mark of doomsday."
"The Seal of Doomsday." Richard remembered that after he got the thing from the statue of the Highland God of War, Liusha once said that it was probably the Seal of Doomsday, but she did not explain what the Seal of Doomsday was, but she just took the thing over and said she wanted to study it.
"In the deepest part of time and plane, there is a mysterious race. Some call them robbers, and some call them reapers. No matter what the name is, they are proven to be related to the destruction of countless planes. Once they appear, they will invade the target plane in a complete manner and conquer the entire plane in a short time. Then that plane will be dragged into darkness, breaking away from the divine power range of the dragon of eternity and time, and becoming part of the dark area. After millions of years, no one knows where they come from and where they go, and even whether they are the same race is unclear. What we can confirm is that once a plane becomes their target, some doomsday marks will appear in that plane. Doomsday marks are not all the same, but they are prophecies and harbingers. Because their appearance indicates complete destruction, these things are called doomsday marks in the Eternal Dragon Hall."
Fanlin continued: "The marks of doomsday are diverse, which can be a piece of jewelry, a weapon, a work of art, or even a person or something else. Once they appear, they mean that the harvester will appear."
Richard was shocked: "My Faro will be destroyed."
Fanlin nodded and said, "What can't be sure of now is time."
This was news that shocked Richard, and he immediately asked: "Is there no way to deal with them?"
"The Reapers are difficult to defeat, because so far there is very little information about them. They have the ability to influence and cut off the plane channels. Once they appear in a certain plane on a large scale, that plane will completely lose contact with the outside world, and will be dragged and moved to the dark area, just like what I just showed you. The only good news is that they will destroy only one plane at a time. When a plane is destroyed, they will completely disappear until the next Doomsday Mark appears."
Richard was silent, a race that could move planes, which was definitely not something he could defeat.
"Then how much time do I have?" Richard asked.
"By my standards, it's short, but by your standards, it should be long, and you still have at least ten years."
"Ten years... are not enough." Richard grabbed his hair hard, suddenly became a little irritable, and said, "How could this happen? Why is it Faro."
"This is... your destiny, just like flowing sand, she is destined to go to the dark area."
"Fate." Richard suddenly sneered.
When Fanlin saw this, she just sighed: "Richard, the power behind fate is not something we can resist."
Richard did not answer, but said softly: "Ten years have been a long time."
Chapter completed!