Chapter 197: One Person Holds an Umbrella for Two People (Two in One)

The Imperial Capital Camelot, Black Lily District, Dark Night Garden.

The drizzle was pouring.

The showers in late summer were like this, coming in an instant and leaving silently.

In the dim lights under the rain curtain, a carriage stopped by the busy road, splashing small water.

Unlike the other carriages traveling on the street, this carriage had a matte black carriage, and on the outer edge of the carriage was a black eagle and sword and shield emblem.

The eight contracted families of the Foresta Empire used plants as their emblems, while the black eagle and sword and shield were exclusive to the imperial family.

The blonde girl jumped off the carriage lightly.

As soon as her toes stepped on the ground, a black umbrella immediately covered her head.

"I didn't expect you to be so romantic, Char."

Airola glanced at the black umbrella above her head and silently moved closer to the boy holding the umbrella.

For Char and Airola now, there are too many ways to avoid the rain more conveniently.

Even if necessary, it is not impossible to temporarily change the weather over the imperial capital with some effort.

There is a similar forbidden spell-level magic device in the black tower, named "celestial controller".

"There is a very popular limerick in my hometown, used to confess between men and women-"

"From now on, the mist and rain fall in Shengjing, one person holds an umbrella and two people walk."

"Shengjing, which means the capital... In the Foresta Empire, it is the imperial capital Camelot."

"In the imperial capital with drizzling rain, holding an umbrella with the person next to you, walking side by side, hand in hand, and walking towards the unknown and ethereal future together..."

"I have always wanted to try this feeling with you."

"Today, I finally got what I wanted. "

Shaya held an umbrella, looked at the misty scenery of the imperial capital in the rain, and spoke with a smile.

Ailora looked at Shaya with a little trance in her eyes.

She seemed to have returned to that snowy night in Ceylon that was obviously freezing cold, but it was warm in memory.

That night, she and the boy in front of her, leaning on each other with their body temperature, walked into the vast wind and snow together, with thick smoke and burning ruins rising into the sky behind them.

But Ailora quickly came back to her senses, with a little complicated color in her sky-blue eyes.

"Why don't I remember such a doggerel popular in Ceylon."

"Doggerel, as the name suggests, is a popular culture circulated among ordinary people. A young lady of the Winter Flower Family like you, Xiao Ai, naturally won't hear of it."

Shaya laughed: "Anyway, the meaning is right."

"You are still so good at these sweet words. "

Ailora sighed helplessly: "No wonder even Miss Sylvia and Her Majesty Isadella are attracted to you unconsciously." "And this one in the Shadow Council..." She looked at the dignified and magnificent building in front of her with resentment.

Dark Night Garden.

It is also the base of the Shadow Council in the imperial capital.

Because of Augustina's previous hidden move against Guderian in the astral realm, and the subsequent disputes between the royal family and the nobles in the imperial capital, the Dark Night Council did not hesitate to support the royal faction.

As the nobles who had previously occupied a large amount of resources were cleared one by one, the branch of the Shadow Council in the empire also received a large amount of resources like the White Tower, and further expanded and developed.

And here is also the destination of Xia Ya and Ailora's trip.

Although According to Char's explanation to Airola, he came to the base of the Shadow Council this time mainly to confirm intelligence and collect resources.

But Airola would not be fooled so easily.

The reason why Char came here was probably because of the Queen of the Night, Augustina.

As for the specific process and logical chain of inference? No need to infer.

It's nothing, just practice.

Char has too many criminal records, so many that Airola would not be surprised at all if Char suddenly had a relationship with a member of the opposite sex.

"When we first came to the Dark Night Garden, I felt that the Queen of the Night looked at you with a strange look."

"Now a year has passed, and my premonition has really come true."

Airola looked at Char deeply, with regret in her eyes.

"I don't know how a person with an unpredictable origin like the Queen of the Night got involved with you, Char. "

"Could it be that the love words and methods you just said to me are actually the same ones you said to Silvia and Miss Augustina?"

Ahem——

Char coughed lightly.

This is really a bit difficult to answer.

You can't just say that you told the Queen of the Night who just broke out of her shell that you want to be her knight in the future, right?

And Xiao Ai's guess is really not wrong.

Char has not forgotten that the first time he and Silvia met, he played the famous scene of "If you jump, I will jump too" in Titanic.

I can only say that this version of intuition is too strong and needs to be weakened.

"Looking at the style of this carriage, you should also be Isadella's people, right?"

"Do you still need me to pay the fare?"

Facing Xiao Ai who was full of regrets, Char decisively chose to be cowardly.

He chatted with the coachman who sent them here without saying anything.

"How dare you, Your Majesty Char."

Although he held the responsibility of a carriage driver, he was actually a young officer wearing a Black Vulture uniform.

After hearing Xia Ya's question about him, he quickly bowed respectfully.

"According to the latest amendment order issued by Her Majesty the Queen, the military headquarters and command bureau of the empire are now also under the control of the Sword Bearer Organization."

"And as the supreme leader of the sword holders, you are also my immediate boss in terms of hierarchy."

"Oh." Xia Ya nodded: "Since I am your immediate boss, I just want to ask why there is always a carriage directly under the military department parked in front of my house."

"This is an order personally issued by Chief Diris, and it seems to be His Majesty's intention." The carriage driver thought for a while and replied in detail: "Ask me and several other military non-commissioned officers to be your escort. Keep you safe at all costs.”

"At the same time, conduct strict inspections on those who come in and out of your residence, especially women, and report to Chief Diris in real time to prevent cults and enemy spies from plotting against you."

My friends are chatting and laughing with the evil god. Do you need your little four ring to protect me?

Diris... Or rather, Her Majesty the Queen arranged such a group of guards for me, in fact, it is for the following sentence, "strictly investigate women entering and leaving the mansion, and report them in real time."

All I can say is that my second wife is indeed a queen known for her iron-blooded skills.

With this desire for control and mobility, I may be able to tolerate it.

Having said that, this guy really dared to answer.

Just like that, the two awkward succubi and the queen were sold out... Are you really not afraid of being scolded when you return to the military headquarters?

Xia Ya looked at the carriage driver with a hint of sympathy in his eyes: "What an honest child. What is your name?"

"Lulu, Lulu. Lamperuki."

"What a good name. You don't have a good friend named Suzaku, do you?"

After hearing Xia Ya's complaints, the carriage driver couldn't help being slightly startled: "I didn't expect His Majesty Xia Ya to even know this. I do have a companion in the military department codenamed Suzaku."

"Before being transferred to perform your escort mission, we worked together in the "Black Knights" under the military. It was the military's ace team, named in tribute to the legendary Black Knight Cain during the founding of the country. "

Xia Ya was silent for a long time: "Then your military department is really full of talents."

…

This is Char's second visit to the Dark Night Garden.

Because of the strange attitude shown by the Queen of the Night when she first visited, and Char has always been a master of risk aversion, he has always been extremely cautious about this kind of unexplained attitude, so since he discovered that After the strange incident, Char tried his best to avoid dealing with the Shadow Council.

But now that the misunderstanding has been resolved and the reason for the strange attitude has been found out, Xia Ya's arrival this time naturally feels a lot more confident.

Even if Ogutina really wants to liquidate her own abduction and trafficking of underage dragons and ride on her shame, Char will at least have the ability to protect herself now.

The person who greeted him was still the person in charge of the Dark Night Garden from before.

However, his strength has improved somewhat, and he has been promoted from the peak of the fifth ring to the sixth ring.

"It's an honor to meet you, Your Majesty Xia Ya."

The person in charge bowed respectfully: "According to the leader's instructions, your authority in the Dark Night Parliament is now equal to that of the leader himself."

"Any specifications of secret information, historical files, and even extraordinary materials stored in the Shadow Council...even the seventeen holy relics owned by the entire Shadow Council, except for those currently being used by the leader himself, can be used by you at will. assigned.”

"If you are willing, there is no problem in selling the Dark Night Garden directly and turning it into money."

"The leader's order?"

Xia Ya was slightly startled.

"Does Ogutina know I'm coming?"

"It's not convenient for her to see me now?"

"Um."

The person in charge nodded respectfully: "The leader closed his retreat a few days ago, and the place where he practices retreat is not known to anyone."

"However, your authority within the Shadow Council was actually adjusted a long time ago."

"According to our internal classification standards, your data confidentiality level and permissions are "Prometheus" level, which is beyond the "Dead Angel" level. "

It seemed that he was afraid that Xia Ya wouldn't understand this special vocabulary, so the person in charge specially added a few words.

"'Prometheus' is a hidden level within our Shadow Council, also known as the 'Fire Thief' level. "

"This is the highest level of authority and authority, superior to all the leaders and senior leaders of the Shadow Council strongholds. Before you, only the leader himself was at this level."

Prometheus——

Also, the fire thief.

Xia Ya's eyes moved slightly.

It is naturally impossible for him not to know the connotation of these two words.

In other words, these two baseless words originally came from him.

After all, not long ago, he personally told Hathaway in "Char's Flying House" the story of Prometheus who stole fire for the world but was imprisoned on a cliff.

And relying on the mental power that is now shining in the sea, Xia Ya naturally remembers clearly that when he told this story, Ye Bian lay on top of his head and listened.

If the previous ones were just speculations caused by coincidence, then the exposure of the two hidden words "Prometheus" and "Fire Thief" in the Dark Night Council at this moment can completely confirm Char's previous speculation.

Ogutina is Ye.

But——

"Shut up..."

Char pondered this word.

As a pure-blooded dragon of the night, a congenital mythical species, it stands to reason that there should be no so-called bottleneck for Ye.

"Are you really in seclusion..."

"Or do you simply don't want to face your own dark history... Don't want to face me, a pretentious beastmaster who wants to become a dragon knight?"

Char whispered to himself.

However, no matter what, at least with the assistance of the Shadow Council, Char's purpose of this trip has been achieved.

Although he originally had the support of the Empire and the White Tower, these two are different from the Shadow Council.

The Empire itself has been weak for a long time, and it has only recently swept away the decline. It is just the time to rebuild everything, and naturally there is no surplus food in the treasury.

The White Tower is, after all, only a force for teaching and educating people, and its inheritance is only five hundred years long. Although it has accumulated a lot of wealth, it still lacks in holy relics because it lacks top-level powerful people of legendary rank.

The Shadow Council is the king of the gray world of the Western Continent and the largest arms dealer and intelligence dealer...

After thousands of years of inheritance, the intelligence and holy relics accumulated inside can be described as massive.

And what Char has to face in the First Epoch is the old sun god of the Glorious Era.

That is not an existence that can be killed by simply throwing money... Compared with pure Rhine gold coins, holy relics and intelligence are more effective preparations.

And what he has to do next is naturally only one thing -

"Xiao Ai, we may not be able to return to the Garden of Eden in the next few months. I am afraid that such a gentle place will wear down my will."

The gentle night last night was also the last indulgence that Char left for himself.

Although he always admits that he is lustful, he never fails to distinguish between priorities.

The blonde girl nodded and held Char's hand: "Yes."

"Then, let's get started."

Char smiled.

"Bring the best sword in the village, recruit the best and most powerful teammates, complete the tedious ring-running task, and get all the special items that restrain you."

"Take great pains to prepare all the strategies and intelligence."

"Then, after everything is prepared to the best of the best and there is nothing left to go forward-"

"Push open the door to the top floor of the magic tower."