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Chapter 52
Another Rose Castle!ππΏ
What is there, so that things can always be implicated over and over again?ππΏ
As a person who has been wandering in the world for hundreds of years, Kevin is not ignorant of the place of Rose Old Castle - it used to be the seat of a small city-state. When they lived there, the surrounding area was not desert. It is said that The green fields used to be beautiful, rich in apricot-colored wild roses. The entire castle is surrounded by wild roses, which is a very romantic place.ππΏ
But that city-state did not exist for a long time, and it was completely destroyed in less than a hundred years before and after.ππΏ
There are many legends about the reason for its demise, but the most widely circulated one is that the sudden arrival of the black wind from the mirage caused the unprepared people of the city-state to fall into hallucinatory chaos, and the city-state was full of fires overnight. And the people who were controlled by the hallucination and slashed each other unconsciously. It is said that even the king was crucified in the castle, and his corpse was lying in the apricot rose bush.ππΏ
And with the arrival of the black wind of the mirage, there is also the wind and sand in the sky.ππΏ
The rise of a city-state may take many years, but the disappearance of a city-state does not take long at all.ππΏ
Soon, it turned into a sea of ββsand, and the original city-state was only left with the ruins of an old castle.ππΏ
However, although most people know the existence of the old rose castle, except for a group of people who like to explore, few people will actually go to the place where the old rose castle is located to see it with their own eyes. After all, they have to run into a mirage. The dangers of black winds and lost deserts.ππΏ
Occasionally, a caravan passing through the mirage will turn around and visit the old castle, but most of them will be disappointed, because there is really nothing left there.ππΏ
Kevin, like most people, has never actually been to Chateau de Rose. After all, he wasn't curious about that place. In a way, he didn't like the desert very much, because it always gave people a sense of lifeless loneliness. It was probably because of this feeling that he saw that dusk again in the hallucination caused by the black wind in the mirage.ππΏ
More importantly, even if he was curious, he didn't recognize the way at all.ππΏ
Rather than being insensitive to things like routes, this person is too lazy to remember. He feels the need to know the road, and he can remember it very firmly after walking it once, such as the road to Fae's tomb. After all, I can't find my own grave anywhere, and it's really hard to say. But in most of the remaining places, he was never too lazy to recognize it, and he always adhered to the principle of where he went, and he never wavered.ππΏ
This is probably a common problem of the old gods.ππΏ
They live in different places, and they go out for a walk when they have nothing to do.ππΏ
Yes, cloud travel. They never talk about visiting, because maybe they originally wanted to find the God of Bacchus, but they ended up with the God of Eros. I said in advance that I often slap my face in the end, it is better to go without a destination and go at will.ππΏ
In short, if a person like Kevin wants to visit the Old Rose Castle, he will definitely not be able to come back in 357 years.ππΏ
But now, he felt he had to go.ππΏ
Since there is something related to Fae in the Old Rose Castle, he has to go. The closer he got to Chateau de Rose, the more emotion he felt in his heart, and the more he suspected that it had something to do with Morley. Although the age of the gods is now long gone, and even the tomb of the gods has been built for an unknown number of years, he suspects that Morley has not completely disappeared.ππΏ
If Morley really wanted to do something, ordinary people couldn't stop it.ππΏ
So he has to go.ππΏ
"Which direction is the Rose Old Castle, we don't have any pointing tools on us, we can only rely on you to identify the way." Kevin's thoughts were rarely expressed on his face, he still leaned on Sirius's head and patted with one hand. He patted the pouch on his waist and said, "We came in a hurry and only brought ourselves."ππΏ
Wood hesitated for a moment. "We...we? Where are we?"ππΏ+2
Osved: ββ"..."ππΏ
Kevin said "Ah", patted Sirius on the head, and explained casually, "Don't look at him as not human, his IQ can still keep up, I usually count him as a head."ππΏ
Osved: ββ"..."ππΏ
Wood suddenly realized that he stopped fussing over words and took out a brass compass from his pocket close to his heart. Wood opened the cover with a "click", and saw a small delicate pointer inside spinning wildly as if it had just been wound up.ππΏ
"Although the pointer is still turning, I have a faint feeling that the Old Rose Castle is not far away from us. If my intuition is correct" Nick, who had broken his mouth, couldn't hold back any longer, and he set up a pergola next to him to watch. After a circle, he raised his hand and pointed, "That direction."ππΏ
Amazingly, most of the soldiers in the army also echoed: "Yes, I think it's over there too."ππΏ
A young soldier who was closer to Kevin even muttered blankly, "I feel like I'm there too. It's strange. I never know the direction, and my intuition is not accurate."ππΏ
A soldier next to him gave him an elbow and asked in a low voice, "Hey, do you feel a little anxious?"ππΏ
Kevin didn't pay much attention to it at first, and kept staring at the pointer in Wood's hand, waiting for it to turn slower and slower, and gradually stop. However, when he heard the conversation between the two soldiers, he couldn't help but glance at them.ππΏ
The two soldiers didn't pay attention, they were still whispering to each other in a low voice: "Are you anxious too? I thought it was a sequelae caused by the hallucination just now, or maybe I was too thirsty..."ππΏ
"What anxiety?" Kevin suddenly came over and asked, his tone was very casual, as if the commander was casually concerned about the young soldier's life in the barracks.ππΏ
But the two soldiers habitually followed their heels together and said solemnly: "No, Your Excellency. We just want to go to the Old Rose Fort as soon as possible." Added a sentence: "After all, the earlier the investigation is completed, the easier it is to feel at ease."ππΏ
Kevin stared at them and glanced at the other soldiers. He was about to ask a few more questions when Wood called out, "Your Excellency! The point is fixed!"ππΏ
"Oh? Where to go?" Kevin put aside the matter here for a while, strode to Wood's side, took the compass in his hand and glanced at it. And Wood has already taken out a roll of the map he was carrying, and determined the position according to the direction set by the compass.ππΏ
After a while, he raised his hand and pointed, "Go over there."ππΏ
Coincidentally, he was pointing in the exact same direction that Nick and most of the soldiers who spoke were intuitive.ππΏ
The direction was certain, and everyone didn't hesitate at all. In a blink of an eye, they got on the horse vulture, and Kevin turned over on Sirius's back without a word.ππΏ
Nick glanced in his direction and shouted: "Your horse is not on the reins? It's easy to be thrown off if you run too fast! Wait, we have spares, so you better put them on."ππΏ
Kevin rubbed the furry neck of Sirius and said, "No way, if it dares to throw me off, I'll cook wolf meat and eat it later."ππΏ
Osved: ββ"..."ππΏ
Nick pulled out a set of bridle buckles, and was about to continue to persuade, but found that the huge and mighty Sirius walked arrogantly in front of him.ππΏ
Nick: "..."ππΏ
To be honest, being stared at by the transparent eyes of such a beast is really not a comfortable experience, no matter how daring people are, they will feel a sense of shuddering fear. Nick stiffened his wrists and didn't dare to make a big move.ππΏ
Sirius stared at him coldly for a moment, then bit off the reins from his hand, turned his head and threw it to Kevin on his back, the meaning was very obvious: put it on me!ππΏ
Nick: "..."ππΏ
Kevin: "..."ππΏ
Both of them were stunned. The former was frightened and almost thought his hand was going to enter the mouth of Sirius; the latter was surprised. He didn't want to take the reins, but he actually felt that whether it was a purebred Sirius or a purebred Osved, there is one thing in common between the two, that is, born proud. Putting a rope around the neck of this creature is a little too immoral.ππΏ
Unexpectedly, his conscience has found a rare one, and the other party has not yet appreciated it.ππΏ
Osved threw the reins to him and carried him to a place a little further away, and said in a low voice, "Honestly put it on."ππΏ
Kevin also replied in a voice that only he could hear: "Are you sure? The emperor is on the reins? You are very interesting..."ππΏ
"What a mess! Don't talk nonsense!" Osved said angrily: "You will suffer if you fall."ππΏ
Kevin held the reins for a while, and uncharacteristically did not continue to tease, but turned the reins over Osved, avoiding the neck that would make him uncomfortable.ππΏ
He finished the set without a word, grabbed the reins with one hand, patted Sirius' face and said, "Okay, let's go."ππΏ
"I'll clear the way, you'll follow," Kevin said nonchalantly to Wood and Nick.ππΏ
"Eh?"ππΏ
Before waiting for their questions to come out, Sirius fluttered his wings.ππΏ
Kevin Sirius lowered his body in the huge strong wind lifted by his wings.ππΏ
Wood and the others appreciated the difference in speed, quickly grabbed the horse vulture's stomach, and galloped away.ππΏ
Because he has to take care of the large troops behind, Osved has been controlling the speed, but Kevin will occasionally urge him twice, so that he doesn't care about the others and moves forward at full speed.ππΏ
"Why do you sound like you're trying to throw them away on purpose?" Osved finally couldn't help asking.ππΏ
Kevin pondered for a moment and said, "There's something wrong with Old Rose Castle, I want to take a look first."ππΏ
When the Priest House first mentioned the Rose Old Castle, Kevin didn't think that it was a bait, but he always thought that this bait was only aimed at a certain group of people, such as him, such as Osved representing Golden Lion Country. But now, he feels that this bait has a wide range, and even ordinary soldiers seem to be affected by it and are led to go there.ππΏ
This is why?ππΏ
In the dusty sky, the vision is not very clear, even if they are condescending in the air, the range of vision is very limited.ππΏ
But after flying for a long time, Kevin still saw the outline of a tall tower in the distance through the wind and smoke.ππΏ
If I'm not mistaken... the old rose castle is almost here.ππΏ
However, after Kevin swept around, his eyebrows knitted tightly, because he saw the outline of the old rose castle, and there was a dark mass at the foot. Looking at it again, found that it was clearly a dense group of people!ππΏ